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With UN appellation, they come with their coloured glasses, distinctly biased.

By Charles Perera

The International Community including the UN System do not seem to lack artists. The latest to appear on the stage is Manfred Nowak the UN expert on Torture. He paints Sri Lanka as a den of torture. Louis Arbour had already painted it as a cave with people whose human rights have been taken away. Each of them wears coloured glasses, and through them they see Sri Lanka in the colour of their glasses. They are prepared that way, if they happen to see some thing different or unusual, they take them all together painted in that particular colour in which they see them.

Therefore, you cannot help them sending out reports according to the colour of the glass through which they had been seeing things. It is different with Chilcott, Holmes and Blake, because they all wear glasses of the same colour, which is opaque black. They see nothing, therefore what they say is what they have been trained to say, parrots trained to talk.

But when you use the appellation UN, what is expected is not to see things through coloured glasses. The actors with UN appellation are expected to see the reality, sifting through what they have been made to understand by those who had seen things through coloured glasses. But unfortunately, they borrow the glasses from those who relate things, and looking through those glasses, they do not see the reality they are expected to see. Therefore all these UN "missionaries" see distorted scenes and cry high and low that what they had seen were the "reality".

What is strange is that the UN representatives who had come to Sri Lanka were all from the International Community. There were Canadians, Americans, British, and Italians, and some Indians married to Americans or British. This is a strange thing about the UN System. In the Organisations of the UN System all key posts are occupied by Westerners. The head of the UNO is mere puppets in the hands of the USA and the International Community. The International Community has scant respect to what UN stands for. USA did not wait for the final decision by the UN Security Council before it declared war on Iraq. Kofi Annan, and now Ban Ki Moon are not independent as such , acting as nominees of the USA.

The UN Charter declares Noble Resolutions, but the individuals who put into practice these noble resolutions are individuals with prejudices and bias against every thing which is out side their European Culture. One has to be inside it to know how racism works within the system. It is done in such a subtle way, so that no one can accuse them of racism. In one such Organisation a staff member from an African State wanted an appointment to see his Director who was an Irishman. Having had no reply for his request for number of weeks, he went to the Director's Office and having verified from his Secretary that he was alone in the Office, knocked on the door of the Director and went in. The director was busy reading and the Staff Member wished him a good day. The Director apparently looked at him from behind his large table without acknowledging his salutation. The Staff Member said that he had asked him for an appointment, some time back and would like to know when he could come and see him. The Director straightened his back and looking hard at him and said, that he was not his Village Chief, to come and see him when ever he wants, and asked him to await his turn.

The Chiefs of Human Resources in these Organisations are often reluctant to promote General Service Grade Personnel to next higher post, if it is a professional post, more so if the General Service Grade Officer is a coloured person. In a recent case in one of these Organisations, the General Service Grade Officer who had been working on the same post for several years applied for the professional grade post which became vacant, which was the grade to which the person was eligible. But the officer was just overlooked and a complete outsider without any experience in the work of the section, who was occupying a temporary post else where was appointed. The General Service Officer was asked to show him the work.

These are instances to show the mind set of the individuals who carry out Administration of these Noble UN Institutions. What can we expect from these people with UN appellations coming to small countries like ours, with their bias and prejudices. This specialist on torture must have read Blake, Chilcott, Abour and the rest before coming to Sri Lanka, and with his torture painted glasses saw torture every where, and he is not different from those who preceded him ?

It is time that the government of Sri Lanka say stop to these interfering meddlers coming with their distinguished UN titles. They cannot evaluate a political situation in a country without knowing its history and the culture, because, every social or political situation arises from its historical and cultural background.

In this difficult time when the International Community is doing its best to have Sri Lanka ethnically divided, all political parties who love the country for what it is, should bury their political differences and rally round the government, to face the International Community and tell them to get lost as we are able to settle our own problems.

Lakshman Kiriella of UNP is an ugly frog deep down in a well, and understands next to nothing about political ramifications the International Community is trying create in Sri Lanka. It is the likes of him and his leader Ranil that the International Community would like to use to create a situation unfavourable to the government, to fulfil their manoeuvre to break up the country.

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