RETRIBUTION AT NICE
Posted on July 16th, 2016
Malin Abeyatunge
All Sri Lankans once the victims of brutal Tamil terrorism for almost 30 years day in and day out totally condemn the brutal terrorist attack on innocent Parisians who were enjoying a National Day (Bastille Day) celebrations in NICE killing 84 people and maiming hundreds of others. This is the third terrorist attack over the last two years alleged to be another massacre by ISIS. Our deepest sympathies are with the families of the victims of this inhuman dastardly act.
It’s suffice to remind at this moment the UK and French Governments when they sent their Foreign Ministers Bernard Kuschner (French) and David Milliband (UK) to Sri Lanka at the height of the war against the LTTE terrorist outfit requesting then President Rajapaksa of the Sri Lankan Government to stop the war against the terrorists to save Prabhakaran and his LTTE brutalists ,would have had to face terrorism on their soil someday. Thanks for ex President Mahinda Rajapaksa who shoved them off through the back door asking them to mind their own back yards first without interfering in our country’s affairs. Ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa who did not budge an inch from his stand but continued the war on LTTE until the LTTE was annihilated conclusively and saved Sri Lankans from this deadly terrorist group. Unfortunately he became a pariah for the western world including France for not listening to them. The French Government has already declared war against the ISIS terrorist outfit having experienced three terrorist incidents during the last two years and last one being the attack this week at NICE. (I think Sri Lanka should send some emissaries to France requesting to stop any intended war against ISIS in the same way French former FM Bernard Kuschner asked our ex-President to stop the war against LTTE, the most brutal terrorist outfit in the world.
The whole world is now in unison with condemning this brutal attack and we have no qualms for that as we too condemn any terrorist act by any group in any part of the world.
In fact, over the last thirty years, Paris became the International Money laundering center for LTTE once led by LTTE Lawrence Thilagar. There are still LTTE cells operating in Paris unhindered. As I remember right, one council allowed the LTTE cells in Paris to build a statue of LTTE terrorist leader Prabhakaran. It was so happened or not, I do not know.
Let the present French Government open their eyes at least now and treat all terrorists alike whether it’s ISIS, Alqueda or LTTE without any double standards and stop harboring them. Bernard Kuschner former French Foreign Mister should be shameful of his own dastardly act to save LTTE terrorist group by asking Ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa to stop the war against LTTE.
Let me also mention that former London Mayor Ken Livingstone allowed LTTE (Once most brutal terrorist group in the world) allowed prestigious venue like Trafalgar Square to celebrate Tamil Day on May 18 , the day the LTTE was conclusively defeated by the then Government lead by ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa. This is what Ken Livingstone alleged to have told;
QuoteI want to work with the British Tamil forum and every year we can give Trafalgar Square to the Tamil community of London to organise an event like this,” Livingstone is quoted as saying at a Tamils for Labour meeting organised by the separatist pro-LTTE groups in East London. Unquote
The step taken by Ken was obediently followed by the subsequent Mayor Of London Boris Johnson providing prestigious venues for LTTE rallies. He is now the new UK Foreign Minister. I hope he will at least now do the right thing by not molly coddling the LTTE activists in dubious names and fronts now living in UK and continue their terrorist agenda unhindered.
The Paris attack may be by Muslim terrorists, but world should not forget that there are other terrorist outfits as well and treat TERORISTS AS TERRORISTS WITHOUT ANY DOUBLE STANDARD.
Malin Abeyatunge
17/7/2016
July 16th, 2016 at 5:00 pm
http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=148771
The UN tourism chief wants people to visit France to defy Terrorists.
When terrorism was rampant in Sri Lanka, The first thing all these foreign organizations and governments did was to issue travel advisories against visiting this country. Obviously, no such advisories when the victims are White. Just an observation.
July 17th, 2016 at 5:16 am
This is only a small part payment for what France did to Libiya and its people.
July 17th, 2016 at 5:17 pm
We speak of DOUBLE STANDARDS and HYPOCRISY by those self-appointed champions of HUMAN RIGHTS and DEMOCRACY waging Neocolonialists wars and crusades worldwide using the most descructive of weapons that do not differentiate between terrorist and civilian, man or beast!
It is ONLY MIGHT that gives these HYPOCRITES the RIGHT to DICTATE rules and punishment to the victims!
July 18th, 2016 at 2:53 am
Sri Lanka should tell the US that Sri Lanka cannot abide by the UNHRC resolution. The Sri Lankan Army did not commit any war crimes. It is the LTTE terrorists who committed war crimes throughout 26 years of war. No country with an ounce of self respect will place their army in harms way to be tried by a court domestic or hybrid of war crimes the army did not commit in anyway. If individual soldiers committed any crimes, a complaint can be placed in a court of law in Sri Lanka. Why is there a need for special judicial procedures? This government is a puppet of the US, EU, UK, Norway, Sweden, Canada and India and is so subservient to US interests that it is ready to try its own armed forces for crimes that the armed forces did not commit. All the while, the LTTE terrorists who committed war crimes are being shown as totally innocent. Using the ploy of wanting a new constitution which almost all Sri Lankans don’t want, this treacherous government is trying to create a separate state in the guise of a federal state as the TNA separatist terrorists and the US, EU, UK, Norway, Sweden, Canada and India wants. Sri Lanka should tell the US that Sri Lanka cannot abide by the UNHRC resolution. The worst that the US, UK, EU, Sweden, Norway and India can do is impose sanctions on Sri Lanka. So what? Sri Lanka can trade with all the countries of Asia and the rest of the world even if the US, UK, EU, Norway, Sweden and India imposes sanctions. Sri Lanka can grow rice, we have jack fruit, bananas, bread fruit and plenty of water too. So we will not starve just because the US, UK, EU, Sweden, Norway and India imposes sanctions. Also since we can trade with the powerful economies of Asia which includes the Middle East, South East Asia, South Asia, the Far East and Central Asia as well as the rest of the world, actually, we may be OK economically too despite any sanctions imposed by the US, EU, UK, Norway, Sweden, Canada and India. However by avoiding implementing the unjust UNHRC resolution, Sri Lanka will safeguard its independence and freedom which is the most important thing for the next thousands of years as we have safeguarded our independence and freedom for at least the last 2600 years and avoid the creation of a separate state or eelam in the guise of a federal state. So Sri Lanka must very urgently tell the US that we will not abide by the unjust UNHRC resolution but carry out our own domestic process of reconciliation as we see fit. Let the imperialist US impose sanctions. Nothing much will happen to our economy since we can trade with the powerful economies of Asia and the rest of the world instead but Sri Lanka would have preserved its independence and freedom for the next thousands of years and avoid the partition of the country and the creation of a separate state which will be Sri Lanka’s end.
July 18th, 2016 at 2:55 am
Not only this, the treacherous Ranil, Sirisena, CBK, Mangala, idiotic UNPers, those INGOs working for thousands of dollars and even the JVP are trying to dismember the country via constitutional changes. We patriotic Sri Lankans should demand a strong central government, no more powers to provincial councils, no merger between provinces, ideally abolition of the 13th amendment to the constitution and absolute safeguarding of the sovereignty of the country.
The army did not commit any war crimes. it is the LTTE who committed war crimes. However, it is high time that Sri Lanka rejected the US imperialists UNHRC resolution and state at the UNHRC to leave Sri Lanka alone to get on with reconciliation as Sri Lanka sees fit.
Actually Sri Lanka today being accused of committing war crimes by the US, UK, EU, Norway, Sweden, Canada, India etc. is very similar to the way Saddam Hussein and Iraq was accused of possessing non existent WMDs. Although Iraq did everything possible to show the US, UK, EU, Norway, Sweden, Canada etc. that it did not possess WMD it was bombed anyway, regime change brought about since Iraq has massive amounts of oil which the US, UK, EU, Norway, Sweden, Canada companies wanted to extract at cheap rates by bringing on a puppet regime. A similar scenario is unfolding in Sri Lanka since Sri Lanka is located at a strategic location, the US wanting to establish a naval/air base at Trincomalee, the US wanting to establish further US army, navy, air force bases in the island, mineral resources, marine resources, control of the Indian ocean sea routes etc. For this, the separatist, terroristic Tamils who are subservient to the US are who the US is favouring to help them with this task. This is why the US favours eelam. All patriotic Sri Lankans should therefore tell the government to withdraw from carrying out the US resolution and to tell the US to leave Sri Lanka alone.
July 18th, 2016 at 2:57 am
Sri Lanka needs a strong central government in the form of the executive presidency. It is the executive presidency which is keeping the unitary state together since provincial councils have now been provided powers. Therefore if the executive presidency is abolished, the provincial councils will become more powerful and the separatist terroristic TNA will try to break away using threats the North and the East. the PR system is the fairest system which means each vote counts. It is a very democratic system. We do not need any changes to the constitution. These changes to the constitution are only suggested to bring on stealthily a federal or a separate state by falsely labelling it as ‘unitary’ to hoodwink the idiotic Sinhala Buddhists. We do not need any changes to the constitution which is what the separatist terrorists of the TNA, US, UK, EU, Norway, Sweden and Canada wants to dismember this country. Also it is the executive presidential system which can easily carry out programmes to develop the country since otherwise there will be endless wranglings within the cabinet and in parliament about what path to follow for development to happen. A well meaning executive president can easily implement a reasonable and suitable programme to take the country forward. Another main reason to keep the executive presidency as it is to counter the separatist threat since a strong executive president can stop any treacherous activities which goes against the independence, freedom, sovereignty, unitary status etc. of the country since the executive president is elected directly by the people’s vote and is answerable to all the people of the country as a result. So for all these reasons, there is no need whatsoever to change the constitution. However the provincial councils should not be given any more powers, there should not be any merger between provinces, ideally the 13th amendment to the constitution should be abolished and there should be a strong central government if Sri Lanka is to move forward as a country and since it is a small country.