AMENESTY INTERNATIONAL RENAMED AS JOKE INTERNATIONAL

Upasiri de Silva

The Daily Telegraph of Friday, May 25th 2007, published and distributed by the Nationwide News Pty Ltd. in Sydney Australia in its Editorial strongly condemn the Amnesty International, for their false reporting and accusing Australian Prime Minister Mr. John Howard.

This is what the Editor Mr. David Penberthy has to say about the AI.

“AUSTRALIA OFFENDED

On the basis of the outrageous claims made in its annual report, Amnesty International should be rebranded as Joke International. Placing Prime Minister John Howard alongside Zimbabwean dictator Rober Mugabe as a proponent of “fear politics’ should be the final nail in the coffin for this poisonous organization.

Only the most deluded and fanatical of anti- Western ideologies would equate the Australian Government extensive, impressive and (but not least) expensive record of humanitarian aid with the Zimbabwean murderer bloody legacy.

Irene Khan, the head of Amnesty International, based her comparison on the Government’s recently announced plan to send a small number of undocumented aspiring refugees to the US for processing and receive similar aspirant arriving in US waters for processing here.

A more intelligent assessor would have looked at the manner, in which Australia manages its humanitarian refugee program, currently catering to 13,000 people annually, including a large group of separatist political activists from Papua who came with banners and a co-ordinated media campaign but without essential identity papers to establish a base for their anti- Indonesian campaign in Australia.

Sending such “refugees” to safe haven removed from their target – our largest and most important neighbors makes political sense, but such domestic niceties escape Amnesty International.

Their directors should think harder about their ideological inclinations before rushing to such offensive ludicrous comparison.”

NOTE: The group of refugees included 58 Sri Lankan Tamils now station in a remote Island without any legal status to claim that they are in the Australian soil.

I hope this editorial clearly indicates the double standards of Amnesty International and how a small country like Sri lanka can escape their vicious attacks.