|
U.S.
led coalition forces kills children in Iraq-a mistake?
Jay Deshabandu Via e-mail
Air strikes on an Al-Qaeda compound in Iraq by the U.S. lead coalition
forces had killed at least seven children today, June 18,2007, according
to CNN reports. The coalition forces made a statement saying that the
children were inside the compound and they had no clue about the children
living inside the compound before they carried out the strike. Apparently,
the Al-Qaeda may have used children as human shields.
Now if a same thing happened due to a mistake by Sri-Lankan forces,
there would be a lot of hue and cry calling for UN interference by feral
forces to condemn our government. The human rights groups have double
standards for human rights. I could not find any human right watch dog
barking against this violation on international media yet.
Now that the west has violated human rights, even on mistakes, they
should impose their own rules -travel restrictions on themselves!
In recent news, there was a report that a Sri-Lankan woman was tortured,
dragged, raped and was kicked by her employer family in Bahrain in the
Middle East. She had sought a shelter in an association for abused women.
But it was not clear if an investigation was launched by the authorities
in Bahrain. What a shame!Our women rights defenders are silent on this!
They shout only for political gains and they do not shout at oil or
weapon- rich nations!
In my opinion, the human rights watch dogs are functioning mainly to
protect the western interests around the globe and in some sense these
groups are created and controlled by the western governments only to
protect their narrow interests!
How come the democratic nations like Sri-Lanka are insisted to bow down
to terrorism by way of cutting aids under the pretext of inflated human
rights records demanding that we negotiate with the terrorists while
only the west who are weapons-rich can claim to reserve the right to
fight terrorism? Poor nations also have the God given right to protect
its people from terrorists!
Every citizen in Sri-Lanka should feel responsible for saving our country
from the terrorists, and only together we will be able to defeat the
terrorism and at the same establish a United Sri-Lanka!
And what a shame on Ranil Wickramasinghe, the opposition leader who
seems to be against on everything that government is doing. It seems
like he has a personal grudge on presidents’ brothers! But he must
love our land enough to forget the personal grudges and work with the
president to save the nation from the terrorists! No peace loving person
should support terrorism for any reason!
|
|
|
Disclaimer: The comments contained
within this website are personal reflection only and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the LankaWeb. LankaWeb.com offers the contents
of this website without charge, but does not necessarily endorse the
views and opinions expressed within. Neither the LankaWeb nor the individual
authors of any material on this Web site accept responsibility for any
loss or damage, however caused (including through negligence), which
you may directly or indirectly suffer arising out of your use of or
reliance on information contained on or accessed through this Web site.
All views and opinions presented in this article are solely those of
the surfer and do not necessarily represent those of LankaWeb.com. .
BACK TO LATEST
NEWS
DISCLAIMER
|
