America teaches to "Protect
their own", while we betray our own
By Silence is Shameful
In an interview with the Times of London (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article4873489.ece)
Sergeant Thavone Phavivong of the 3rd Brigade states:"It can
be hard when you see injured civilians, but we’re taught that our
first priority is our soldiers. And with all the people around, it’s
not easy to make a positive identification of hostiles"
Isn't this an amusing situation? Here we have the West screaming at
Sri Lanka to "protect" civilians while they show totally disregard
to civilians facing extinction in two wars (one of which was completely
unjustified).
The article goes on to say:
"Since March 2003, more than 4,100 US soldiers have been killed
and over 30,000 wounded in a war the army simply wasn’t prepared
for. Suicide bombs, IEDs and snipers wrought havoc in regiments that
were ill equipped for urban warfare. Civilians suffered too, as troops
with little understanding of local languages and culture sometimes adopted
heavy-handed tactics."
As always their dead are mentioned first along with the horrors and
heroism of their soldiers, with a mere footnote for civilians massacred
by them. The same can be seen whenever Vietnam is mentioned, where once
again US Military causalities come first and the innocent 3 million
Vietnamese and 1 million Cambodians and Laotians who were burnt alive
with napalm, had chemical weapons dropped on them wiping out tens of
thousands every week and causing birth defects in new borns, which is
present to this day, is nicely glossed over (so called "heavy-handed
tactics") along with the destruction done to agricultural zones.
One of the worlds best paddy fields was turned to ash. Of course this
should come as no surprise, in the Wests attempts to subjugate various
indigenous peoples of foreign lands they resort to "heavy-handed
tactics", where the effects are felt for decades if not centuries.
The Western "free media" has no problem with any of this.
No tears for the civilians killed by them, the destruction of livelihoods
and agriculture. What we see is strong support and backing, plus encouragement
and positive spin to boost morale on all fronts for the wars they are
engaged in.
Compare this to their reporting on Sri Lanka, and the reporting by Sri
Lanka’s fiction writers who consider themselves "journalists".
Foreign and local media not only demonise our soldiers and military
but the Sinhala people as well and this demonisation is used as justification
for all the atrocities committed against the Sinhalese.
To top it off, there is the "outrage" over General Sarath
Fonseka's recent statements. If a General, Commander and even politician
in a Western country said what Sarath Fonseka said then they would be
proclaimed heros and have statues built for them. But when Sarath Fonseka
says what we all know and hold in our minds and our hearts it is "evil".
I for one am proud of Sarath Fonseka, I am proud of the fact that he
has a back bone to speak the hard truth, I am proud of his determination
and courage to do what has to be done to safe guard our nation. It is
unfortunate to see attempts to silence him and remove him using ridiculous
concepts from the West such as "political correctness" spilling
into Sri Lanka, naturally spread by their NGOs, which is another way
of controlling our thought and actions via "guilt".
What happened to "freedom of speech"? Are only Tamils entitled
to this? Is Sarath Fonseka and our soldiers not entitled to it, considering
the unimaginable sacrifices they make every day to ensure all the people
of Sri Lanka can express their rights and freedoms? The very NGOs (read
traitors) who scream at Sarath Fonseka using their right to freedom
of speech to castigate him (and the Sinhala people) can only do so because
Sarath Fonseka is protecting their freedom to do it, yet he is not allowed
to express the very rights he and his men fight for.
Interestingly it is these very same NGOs who openly support the enemies
of State, that tried to justify the assassination attempt on Sarath
Fonseka because he's "just the Army Commander", so deserves
to die, even during a so called "ceasefire".
According to them and their paymasters, the truth, the shocking hard
truth (i.e. the historical facts of this Island) has to be varnished
and buried and never spoken because it "hurts Tamil feelings".
Why must the Sinhala people be denied their freedoms of speech, expression
and right of self determination NOT to hand over 40% of their nation
to a violent (largely imported) minority drunk on the concept of self-superiority
because they were given unjustified privileges during Colonial times
under foreign rulers?
Do we not have the right to self-determination in our only country?
Do we not have legitimate grievances and aspirations to be answered
and fulfilled in our only country? Do we not have the right to live
in security without fear as dignified people who can express themselves
and desires openly, take pride in their history, culture and heroes
of our times?
Silence of the masses only confirms the answer: "no we do not"
and emphasises the cowardice on our part. Our silence only betrays the
hard work and sacrifices of Sarath Fonseka today and ALL our soldiers
over the last two and a half millennia. We cannot allow their scarifies
be for nothing by abandoning our culture, history, philosophy and values
to alien entities because they say we should do so just to be on their
good side.
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