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Moon barking up the wrong tree
Tuesday, 16 March 2010 - 9:24 AM SL Time
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The UN is behaving like a jackal at the beck and call of the West bent on removing from its path strong leaders of the global south, who refuse to fall in line. UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon seems to be having sleepless nights trying to figure out how to fix Sri Lanka`s political and military top brass, who crushed the LTTE`s military muscle once and for all, for having committed the crime of ruffling the feathers of the US and its allies, which made an abortive attempt to save Prabhakaran and his confederates early last year.
Doesn`t Moon have anything else to do? Day in day out, he has something to say against Sri Lanka obviously at the behest of the western governments that are being swayed by the overseas LTTE sympathisers who command block votes and wield tremendous lobbying power. He is snapping at Sri Lanka`s heels relentlessly in a bid to appease his white masters. He could not be unaware of the trouble his predecessor who fell from grace got into. Perhaps, it is not criticism that Moon deserves but sympathy. The poor man is singing for his supper.
It is intriguing that the UN, which is so ferocious in dealing with a democratically elected government of a member State, chose to handle the LTTE with kid gloves in spite of its crimes against civilians including low intensity genocide. Yesterday, we revealed how the LTTE had thrown thousands of children into the Vanni battle as cannon fodder.
Long before the eelam war IV broke out, the outfit had earned notoriety the world over as a terrorist group that abducted children and forcibly recruited them into fighting units. The UN bracketed the LTTE with the Lord`s Resistance Army and several other terrorist groups on its List of Shame for crimes against children but surprisingly stopped short of taking tough action against the terrorists concerned.
The UN also took the abduction by the LTTE of its employees and their families lying down. How would it have reacted if the Sri Lankan military had even tapped one of them? The UNHRC would have called a special session!
Prabhakaran took the UNICEF for a right royal ride by offering to have a partnership with it to rehabilitate child combatants. Gullible UN panjandrums in Colombo fell for his wiles only to have egg on their face. We warned the UNICEF against that harebrained scheme but in vain.
Towards the end of the war, the UNICEF launched a very expensive advertising campaign against child recruitment apparently in the mistaken belief that raising public awareness was the way to save child soldiers. We pointed out in these columns that it was a colossal waste of funds and the child recruitment would be a thing of the past once the LTTE was crushed. And today, children are going back to school in the North and the East without fear of being abducted by child recruiters on the way.
Instead of thanking Sri Lanka for having blazed a trail in the civilised world`s war on terror and liberated children from the clutches of terrorists, the UN is mourning the dead terrorists responsible for tens of thousands of killings and various other crimes. It looks as if the LTTE rump had subcontracted its campaign to revive terrorism in Sri Lanka to the UN.
What would have happened if Sri Lanka had given in to pressure from the US, the UN and others and let go of the LTTE leaders trapped in the Vanni last May? They would have got a new lease of life and continued to recruit thousands more children among other things. In other words, it was at the expense of the hapless children and other civilians that those western governments tried to throw a lifeline to the LTTE leaders with a view to furthering their sinister interests. They are still backing overseas LTTE sympathisers openly. And it is they who need to be probed and not Sri Lanka, which put an end to terrorism.
Moon is barking up the wrong tree!
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noworries
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 16 Mar 2010 12:26:22 GMT Report for Abuse
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| A plea to readers, please forward this excellent editorial to your local MP, Congressman or Senator. I've just done that, and my MP has replied to me in the past, and once raised a question with David Miliband as a result of my email. They need to be informed of the other side of the story by us, the silent majority. |
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 16 Mar 2010 14:49:36 GMT Report for Abuse
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He is snapping at Sri Lanka's heels relentlessly in a bid to appease his white masters.
LMFAO :-))))) |
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 16 Mar 2010 16:02:52 GMT Report for Abuse
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Moon barking up the wrong tree
Not only that, he is chasing his own tail.
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18 Mar 2010 02:33:24 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Hi Noworries, Point well taken. Thanks! I shall do my part today. |
kiwikanga
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 18 Mar 2010 03:22:06 GMT Report for Abuse
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forward this excellent editorial to your local MP
Excellent idea for those living in countries such as the UK US Canada etc etc where quite a few politicians are nosy pokers in matters concerning Sri Lanka.
In this part of the world politicians are the least interested in Sri Lanka or the tamils or what they want and interestingly some even do not know where Sri Lanka is!! Even when it comes to Sri Lanka and it's cricket only a few are interested as rugby is the passion here!!
Edited By - kiwikanga - 18 Mar 2010 03:25:08 GMT |
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