Another documentary ahead of Geneva human rights session
Those responsible for ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ will telecast another documentary in the first week of March to coincide with United Nations Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva.
UK based Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow, who had presented ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ is also involved in the second project.
Government sources told The Sunday Island that the move was expected in the wake of the LTTE rump going flat out against Sri Lanka in the run-up to the forthcoming Geneva sessions, where the US would support a resolution targeting Sri Lanka.
America’s Ambassador in war-time Sri Lanka, Robert O. Blake, now an Assistant Secretary at the State Department in Washington, last week told President Mahinda Rajapaksa of the US decision after meeting with the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).
The US and human rights watchdogs, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Global Crisis Group are citing ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ as evidence of war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan military.
Sources alleged that for those expecting to raise quick cash, Sri Lanka bashing seemed to be the easiest thing to do. They pointed out that the Canadian branch of the Amnesty International recently received 50,000 Canadian dollars from LTTE front, the Canadian Tamil Congress in return for its role in the ongoing anti-Sri Lanka campaign.
Asked whether the government was concerned about the US threat, sources said that the UN Human Rights Council was a grouping of 47 countries, which couldn’t be easily manipulated.
“The failure of the US to prevent UNHRC passing resolutions targeting Israel over war crime allegations is a case in point. Similar resolutions were also passed at the UN, though US strongly stood by the Jewish state.” They said that the handing of the controversial UN commissioned Goldstone report, which dealt with atrocities committed by the Israelis during Dec 2008 –Jan 2009 Gaza and the US response to it revealed the absurdity of US position on so-called accountability issues in Sri Lanka.
Those shedding crocodile tears for the LTTE should move the UNHRC to inquire into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. In the wake of revelations made by whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks on the basis of US military and diplomatic cables, the UN couldn’t ignore the need to investigate abuses committed by Western forces, they added.
Courtesy: The Island
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Navi Pillay and Ban ki-Moon are puppets of US Whitehouse. They will never arraign US leaders before the Hague for gross war crimes, crimes against humanity etc because they know who their paymaster is. They dare not go against USA, because they know what the CIA is capable of doing to them, if they defy US imperialism. It is easy to make allegations against SL before UNHRC, UNSC and UNGA, based on concocted lies provided by the diaspora Tamils, because US supports such a move eversince SL had dared to defy US order not to destroy LTTE in 2009. SL is not in US good books now. USA has decided to bring about a regime change in SL in the near future, as it did in Libya and is doing in Syria now. USA does so by training, funding and supplying arms to core groups of insurgents to whip up bloody revolution, to tople the existing government, on false allegations. In the process, they even kill innocent citizens caught in the middle by ruthless bombing and artillery fire, and blame it on the government, to accuse the government falsely of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The real war crminals are, however, in the Whitehouse and Pentagon enjoying life, safe from punishment, because USA is the most powerful nation on earth and no one dare touch them. Only Divine punishment will eventually catch-up with them one day for the evil they have done in so many countries, to grab their mineral resources and for strategic reasons on secret US agenda.
Nicholas Dias,
Your article is hundred percent correct. Several times I have wrote to several websites the same as you mentioned. We are a small country in the indian ocean and US always trying their best to keep us under their feet. But it will never workout. The day will come for US to pay their price. I hope Iran will teach something for them. we will wait.
Dayaratne Bandara.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
yes not all the time US can run this dirty game they will learner lessons near in the future, they are the most dangers terrorist in the world, US running around the world to save there draying economy and to keep there power barking at other small state saying those bull shit crime.
Administrator,
You are acting like a coward totally deleting my postings here and elsewhere even without editing if so required. This clearly shows that you are not balanced to carry out the function of Administrator.
At least be honest and say whether this is a pro regime web site or not in order that we do not waste our time blogging here.