British Duplicity in Sri Lanka
I find it rather queer that their HC will pontificate in Colombo now without even a mea culpa first for their own actions in Iraq and in N.Ireland.
U2, the very popular Irish Rock Group led by world peace activist Bono wrote a song called “Sunday Bloody Sunday” referring to an atrocity by the British Government against Irish civilians. Bloody Sunday occurred on January 30, 1972 in Londonderry. It was a massive civil rights march organized by the Northern Irish Catholics to protest the oppressive British policy of internment. Catholics were growing sick of their homes being raided and the random arrests happening everyday.
British army paratroopers fired live rounds indiscriminately into a crowd of unarmed innocent Catholic protestors. Thirteen were shot dead. All were unarmed, the majority were college students. Two months later a report was released by the British government which exonerated any troops from any illegal actions saying that they were justified in their actions.
For over 80 years the British government committed and justified the excesses they committed in N.Ireland. If the LAnkan HC to Britain at that time(when there was peace in SL and there was no war against terrorism, no suicide bombs, and no excesses in SL) were to have condemned the Brits in a forum in London he would have been declared person-non-grata and sent packing on the next avaiable BOAC flight back to Colombo!! That is how the nation whose Ambassador has taken it upon so arrogantly to berate Lankans act! They is how they are still acting in areas they occupy in their illegal invasion of Iraq.
Has any of the British educated English speaking, Scotch drinking Colombo elite Political pundits who wax eloquently in International forums on the tragedy and human right excesses and the horrific acts of terrorism and excesses by different factions in Sri Lanka ever gone to Britain to challenge them about their long history of abductions, torture and incarceration of innocent Irish Catholics? Or do we just roll over and say “yes massah” every time a Western Diplomat keeps berating colored folks? Does anyone have the guts to challenge the hypocrisy of western nations ? It all depends on who controls the purse strings and the media doesn’t it?
What is happening in SL is a tragedy that can only be overcome by a meeting of minds to offer a decent settlement that will satisfy the economic, social and political aspirations of Sri Lankan Tamil people who are first and foremost Sri Lankans and should be seen as such by all. A root cause of the war is poverty and inequitous economic development policies.
Some sort of autonomy and decentralized decision making on the allocation of resources will not be a threat to Sri Lanka's unitary state. Sri Lankas have lived and let lived with each other side by side with Mosques, Temples, Kovils and Churches in very close proximity for centuries. Most peace loving Lankans are extrelemy tolerant and compassionate and that is what is needed now the most to help protect every peaceful citizen while combatting the world's most effective, single minded and deadly disciplined separatist terrorist group. We don't have to go on for nearly 80 years like the British did to come to our senses.
The British government which is headed by the official head of the Anglican Faith, never heeded the following Biblical passages when they fought the IRA rebels. "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." (Matthew 5:9)
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." (James 1:27)
U2, the very popular Irish Rock Group led by world peace activist Bono wrote a song called “Sunday Bloody Sunday” referring to an atrocity by the British Government against Irish civilians. Bloody Sunday occurred on January 30, 1972 in Londonderry. It was a massive civil rights march organized by the Northern Irish Catholics to protest the oppressive British policy of internment. Catholics were growing sick of their homes being raided and the random arrests happening everyday.
British army paratroopers fired live rounds indiscriminately into a crowd of unarmed innocent Catholic protestors. Thirteen were shot dead. All were unarmed, the majority were college students. Two months later a report was released by the British government which exonerated any troops from any illegal actions saying that they were justified in their actions.
For over 80 years the British government committed and justified the excesses they committed in N.Ireland. If the LAnkan HC to Britain at that time(when there was peace in SL and there was no war against terrorism, no suicide bombs, and no excesses in SL) were to have condemned the Brits in a forum in London he would have been declared person-non-grata and sent packing on the next avaiable BOAC flight back to Colombo!! That is how the nation whose Ambassador has taken it upon so arrogantly to berate Lankans act! They is how they are still acting in areas they occupy in their illegal invasion of Iraq.
Has any of the British educated English speaking, Scotch drinking Colombo elite Political pundits who wax eloquently in International forums on the tragedy and human right excesses and the horrific acts of terrorism and excesses by different factions in Sri Lanka ever gone to Britain to challenge them about their long history of abductions, torture and incarceration of innocent Irish Catholics? Or do we just roll over and say “yes massah” every time a Western Diplomat keeps berating colored folks? Does anyone have the guts to challenge the hypocrisy of western nations ? It all depends on who controls the purse strings and the media doesn’t it?
What is happening in SL is a tragedy that can only be overcome by a meeting of minds to offer a decent settlement that will satisfy the economic, social and political aspirations of Sri Lankan Tamil people who are first and foremost Sri Lankans and should be seen as such by all. A root cause of the war is poverty and inequitous economic development policies.
Some sort of autonomy and decentralized decision making on the allocation of resources will not be a threat to Sri Lanka's unitary state. Sri Lankas have lived and let lived with each other side by side with Mosques, Temples, Kovils and Churches in very close proximity for centuries. Most peace loving Lankans are extrelemy tolerant and compassionate and that is what is needed now the most to help protect every peaceful citizen while combatting the world's most effective, single minded and deadly disciplined separatist terrorist group. We don't have to go on for nearly 80 years like the British did to come to our senses.
The British government which is headed by the official head of the Anglican Faith, never heeded the following Biblical passages when they fought the IRA rebels. "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." (Matthew 5:9)
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." (James 1:27)
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