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By Charles. S . Perera

No ! the Minority Communities in the conflict Zones in Sri Lanka will not suffer in the hands of the Sri Lanka Security Forces the same fate as, Apaches, Blackfoots, Cherokees, Cheyennes, Lakotas, and Pueblo Indians

Do these foreign humanitarians really love and care so much about the Tamil people caught in the conflict zones. They are like the messengers of God who came to warn Lot of the Gods vengeance on the cities of sin - Sodom and Gomorra.

These modern human rights messengers fall from no where, the latest to fall is a Minority Rights Group's Director Mark Lattimer, he is worried that there is now going to be a greater void in the monitoring and reporting of human rights abuses in the conflict zone, and he pleads for international human rights monitors as an evermore crucial need. As much as the messengers of God to Sodom and Gomorra ,did not know what was in store for Lot, his wife and two daughters after they left Sodom and Gomorra, the modern messengers, will not know what is going to happen to the minority Tamils in the greater void in the conflict zones.

These messengers of bad tidings have failed to realise, that Sri Lanka is neither Sodom nor Gomorra and, that the Government is quite capable of looking after its citizens whether they are of the minority communities or of the majority community. They also do not know of the history of Sri Lanka, because there was a history of it, before terrorism, and according to that history nothing had been wanting in the respect of human rights of the minorities, and deducing from that past history, there is not going to be such bad tidings in store for the minorities after terrorism.

The course of the history of Sri Lanka continues to flow, and terrorism is an incident –a cruel incident of that history. When that period is over, Sri Lanka will revert back to what it was, and will learn to live together with the minority communities, with even a greater respect for them, because the minorities and the majority in Sri Lanka are bound together with greater historical bonds, than any the modern human rights mongers are capable of providing, through their crucial human rights monitoring, and ulterior motives they have, to benefit from the suffering of others.

One wonders why these great human right activists, the world over, are gathering in force to Sri Lanka falling over each other as if to participate in a festival of Woodstock in the North of Sri Lanka. They seem to spend sleepless nights worrying about the out come of the Sri Lankan minorities, when there are innumerable numbers of civilians, men, women and children suffering because of American and British bombardments in Iraq, and Afghanistan. They should really be worrying about them and their out come, as it is really their problem. created by their own people. There isn't so much of suffering in North and East of Sri Lanka because of the military action against the terrorists.

The suffering of the people caught up in the areas controlled by the terrorists has not been caused by the Government Security Forces, but by the Terrorists, who keep the people as a human shield to protect themselves. It is the Tamil people who are caught up in the terrorist controlled areas that had given information to the Government forces for precise targeted bombing, to avoid haphazard killing of the civilians. That itself shows to any one who is not stupid, that the Tamil people in these terrorist controlled areas are not all together against the Government Security Forces, but expect them to come and free them from the grip of the terrorist..

The Government is quite aware that military action causes immense difficulty and suffering to the civilians in the areas controlled by the terrorists, but the Government Forces are not carrying on a military aggression against civilians, and do their best to avoid greater damage to civilian population within the conflict Zones, but unfortunately military action can not always be controlled to avoid danger to non combatants. .

Sri Lanka is not attempting an ethnic cleansing in the North. The minority communities of Sri Lanka, such as the Tamils, Muslims, Burghers and the others, will not suffer the same fate as the Apaches, Blackfoots, Cherokees, Cheyennes, Lakotas, and Pueblo tribes, once suffered in their own land.

The Government of Sri Lanka needs no one's advice to look after its own people. Mahinda Rajapakse has proved himself a great President , and even India and America may consult him for practical advice on disaster management.

All countries in the world have gone through initial traumas of progressive development, in which thousand of human lives whether it is those of conquerors setting up a homeland or those of the original occupiers of the land, in the process of they being chased out. Sri Lanka did not have that initial trauma in the process of its decolonization.

The terrorism and its elimination is the first traumatic experience Sri Lanka is faced with. In this effort of elimination of terrorists who are unfortunately a part and parcel of the Nation, Sri Lanka is going through the same experience the other countries like USA, Australia, Canada, Agentina, or South Africa went through in their effort to create a homeland for themselves, chasing out the aborigines from their lands.

Therefore, the human right activists of all shades, the Amnesty International, USA, Canada, and Great Britain etc. should be cautious in accusing Sri Lanka Government for violation of human rights, when it had been practiced by those who claim to be defenders of human rights with impunity.

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