International community patience on Sri Lanka could wear thin: US
Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal. (File photo)
The U.S. has warned Sri Lanka that the patience of the international community could wear thin if the Rajapaksa Government does not take steps to address the issue of human rights, accountability and reconciliation process.
“The United States and all of our friends across the international community have underscored the need for Sri Lanka to make progress on issues of reconciliation, on issues of accountability and on issues of human rights — ongoing concerns about the political space and human rights in the country,” Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal told reporters.
“We are committed to working with our friends in Sri Lanka to see that progress,” Ms. Biswal said in response to a question, adding that the US would like to see Sri Lanka address these issues through its own processes.
“We hope that that can in fact be the case. I think that the patience of the international community if real progress is not seen, particularly on issues of accountability, that patience will start to wear thin. And so we urge our friends in Sri Lanka to use the opportunity to show some concrete steps that their own, you know, processes have yielded,” Ms. Biswal said.
“Through the LLRC (Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission), there are a set of recommendations. I think that those are exactly the points that we’d like to see progress on, and we’ve encouraged them to do that,” the top US official said.
(Courtesy: The Hindu)
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This is devastating news.
An Indian woman on Navi Pillai-Silva has crept into the US administration. This woman hates the Sinhala Buddhist land of Sri Lanka. The old guy sitting behind her is a prominent LTT rump funds collector in Washington DC.
This threat should be nipped in the bud. There’s a vacancy for a Ambassador for SL in Washington. And the best candidate for that post is Ven Galgoda Atthe Gnanasara Thera of the BBS.
Who do they mean by ‘International Community’? This is not the world community of nations of the UN, as one would have thought. It is really a term coined by USA to refer to themselves, the imperial West, pretending to mean the whole world. They are misleading the world. This is why USA, the leader of the imperial West, who tries to dominate the world and rob the small nations of their valuable natural assets, rides rough shod over the rest of the world except the countries of the imperial West (the so-called international community). The world community of nations (not the so-called international community) do not agree with the views of USA and the imperial West and their actions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria.
USA and the imperial West have become a ‘law unto themselves’. They impose so-called ‘human rights laws’ which they do not observe themselves. USA, Britain and France are blatantly guilty of utter human rights abuse, torture and war crimes since the end of WW2, but there is no one to arrest their Presidents and leaders and bring them to justice before the ICC and War Crimes Court in the Hague. They are having a laugh at the true community of world nations, especially small nations like SL who they are accusing of human rights abuse and war crimes, to punish SL for not obeying their imperial command not to destroy the LTTE, who they supported latently. Their hidden agenda was to use LTTE to break up India into smaller autonomous States to prevent India from becoming a World Power with nuclear arsenal.
USA and the imperial West know quite well that SL has a right to totally destroy the LTTE terrorists in their own country and that no war crime was committed in destroying them. Perhaps 40,000 hard core LTTE were eliminated totally in the final confrontation. The diaspora Tamils, the TNA and Tamil Nadu are bitter about this. They accuse SL President and army of war crimes for actually destroying the LTTE. They know very well that the LTTE were the ones who committed war crimes by holding the Tamil citizens more than 300,000 as human shield and killed some of them as they fled to their saviour the SL army across Nandri Kadal lake, along with the SL army soldiers as they fought to save the Tamil citizens. SL army soldiers therefore sacrificed their lives and limbs to save their fellow citizens, the Tamil hostages. Perhaps bout 8000 dies in this final battle involving SL soldiers and Tamil hostages.
USA and the imperial West watched the final battle scenes through their sophisticated satellites. So they know the truth. The truth will win ultimately. USA and the imperial West countries are the most corrupt nations in the world.
Somebody go and tell her the ‘International Community’ is well and truly represented in the UN general Council and to go there and get the mandate for their proposal before hypocritical, power hungry, pathetic women like this one and Susan Rice go barking around.