BY SUPPORTING A US PROPOSAL AGAINST SRI LANKA NEW DELHI FAILED TO PROJECT INDIA AS A RESPECTED REGIONAL POWER SAYS PIONEER
Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana
By supporting a US presented human rights resolution against Sri Lanka Manmohan Singh led New Delhi government has missed an opportunity to project India as a respected regional power charged The Pioneer.
In a popular column that reflects the newspaper’s editorial policy signed by Sandhya Jain the independent daily said this move of the Indian government “ has upset the nation as a whole and betrayed Sri Lanka, with which we share a deep civilisational continuum.”
The column called the director of the policy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh an expedient politician. The country will have to pay heavily for his expediency, it further warned.
The strongly worded column by India’s second oldest newspaper also said. “In recent years, the UN and its affiliated bodies have functioned increasingly as tools of Western imperialism. Sadly, New Delhi has fallen in line like a client state, failing to serve our national interests or to stand by traditional allies. Our pusillanimity in the case of Iran is a case in point; the Sri Lanka vote compounds our shame.”
Entitled, “India commits a terrible folly” the following is the full text of the column The Pioneer published:
“By supporting the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at UNHRC, India has missed an opportunity to project itself as a respected regional power.
“In an extremely myopic manoeuvre aimed at pleasing the world gendarme, India has aborted all chances of rising as a regionally respected power by supporting the US-led resolution to censure Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council for alleged war crimes against civilians in the climax to its prolonged war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2009. Though driven by Tamil Nadu’s competitive regional politics, the move has upset the nation as a whole and betrayed Sri Lanka, with which we share a deep civilisational continuum.
“In recent years, the UN and its affiliated bodies have functioned increasingly as tools of Western imperialism. Sadly, New Delhi has fallen in line like a client state, failing to serve our national interests or to stand by traditional allies. Our pusillanimity in the case of Iran is a case in point; the Sri Lanka vote compounds our shame.
“Nehruvian secularism has led us to this pass by negating our civilisational paradigm, making us lose sense of our history, geography, and culture, which determined our understanding of ourselves and our relations with the neighbourhood. Even after Pakistan was created by literally amputating the motherland on two flanks, Indian leaders have failed to understand how the West uses minorities to interfere in the internal affairs of non-Western countries, or to fragment them by upholding the right of minorities to secede.
“Despite being supposedly secular (that is, not a formal theocracy like some Islamic nations), the West has actively encouraged demographic change (Christian conversions) to promote secession. That is how East Timor was carved out of Indonesia. Many (Christian) secessionist movements are being sponsored worldwide, as in India’s North-East, and the failed Tamil insurgency of Sri Lanka. Had it succeeded, Tamil Nadu was slated to unite with it. Is New Delhi ready for such an eventuality?
“By disrespecting our civilisational unity and strengths (which never meant India become a Hindu theocracy as alleged by those serving a Western worldview for selfish reasons), we have allowed the West to continue to (mis)use religion to pervert our sovereignty, and now also our foreign policy.
“The LTTE is not an ethnic ‘Tamil Hindu movement’ versus the Sinhala Buddhist majority of Sri Lanka, as insinuated. It is a Christian guerrilla movement funded and nurtured by the West, with the purpose of carving out an independent state in the North and East of Sri Lanka. India’s Tamil Nadu was also to secede and join the ‘Tamil Eelam’. Vellupillai Prabhakaran was chosen for this task in 1976; he launched a full-scale civil war from 1983 to 2009, when he was finally defeated and the LTTE decimated.
“The extent of funding is obvious from the fact that the Tigers had a well-armed militia, even an air force, and an ability to hit high-value targets, such as Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa (1993) and former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi (1991). At the grassroots level in Sri Lanka, the LTTE did not enjoy the loyalty of Tamil Hindus and systematically murdered all rival Tamil leaders and at least 8,000 Tamils whom it considered traitors to its cause.
“The assassination of religious notables throws some light on the true nature of the conflict. Six high-ranking Buddhist monks were murdered by the LTTE; five Christian priests were killed by the Lanka Army and the sixth by the EPRLF. In no other category of victims — Ministers, MPs, provincial councillors, military or police officers, and so on — do we get such an explicit divide. Little wonder that Sri Lankan writers insist that the LTTE was striving, under Western tutelage, to transform the island’s Tamil population’s identity into a Dravidian Christian identity.
“Sri Lankan analysts say that the UNHRC resolution was the West’s revenge for Colombo’s refusal to let Prabhakaran be rescued from the war zone in April-May 2009. So, when Colombo’s 2011 Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission failed to ‘credibly investigate’ allegations of war crimes against civilians, America-European Union took the UNHRC route to force Sri Lanka to allow Western agents into the country to monitor the implementation of the LLRC report.
“New Delhi reportedly supported Colombo’s mission to decimate the LTTE and V Prabhakaran after President Mahinda Rajapaksa promised to change Sri Lanka’s unitary form of Government and devolve real power to the Tamil-majority Northern and Eastern Provinces. When he failed to redress genuine Tamil concerns in the past three years, New Delhi decided to vote against Colombo in Geneva. However, security experts feel India should have taken up the issue of Tamil rehabilitation bilaterally with Colombo.
“Indian citizens feel that, having espoused the cause of Lankan Tamils, New Delhi should move the UNHRC on atrocities against Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Even Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari’s sister has lamented the abduction and forced conversion of Hindu girls in that country, and a fledgling group of intellectuals has begun to interrogate Pakistan’s barren civilisational landscape owing to the eclipse of its Hindu roots.
“Colombo’s disappointment with New Delhi for supporting the resolution has been heightened by the final vote count — 24 in favour, 15 against, and eight abstentions. This means that an Indian vote against, or even abstention, would have stale-mated the Western quest to embarrass an Asian neighbour. Sri Lanka was firmly supported by Asian countries like China, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Maldives, as also by Russia, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
“New Delhi departed from an established convention of not voting on nation-specific resolutions because of its inability to stand up to pressure from Washington, DC and the political parties in Chennai. Instead of buckling to DMK’s threats to withdraw its Ministers from the ruling coalition, the Prime Minister would have done well to sacrifice the Government rather than the nation’s principled position. The plea that India persuaded the resolution-sponsor to make two changes in the draft to make it “non-intrusive” and contribute to political reconciliation process in Sri Lanka has not washed with Colombo. Experts anticipate some kind of retaliation in the form of more contracts for China which strongly opposed the interference in the domestic affairs of UNHRC’s member-nations.
“Now, strategic experts fear that, by supporting a country-specific resolution against a friendly nation, India will find itself friendless if and when faced with similar resolutions for alleged human rights violations in Kashmir or missionary-backed insurgents in other parts of the country. The nation could pay a heavy price for Mr Manmohan Singh’s political expediency.” (EOM)
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YES INDIA YOU WILL BE PAYING FOR THIS MISERY IN HEAVY PRICE
I am glad the independent Indian daily, ‘The Pioneer’, has strongly criticised MMS for his cowardliness in not resisting the pressure of USA. India has therefore abandoned its status in SE Asia as the most powerful nation. It has failed to live up to noble Hindu and Buddhist priciples of India. It stabbed SL in the back after at first it had promised in the Lok Sabha to stand-by SL. According to the view of Dr Subramaniam Rao, the real power behind MMS is Sonya Gandhi, the Italian wife of Rajiv Gandhi, Antonia Maino. Sonia has made India a slave of USA politics. She was instructed by USA to pressure MMS to vote against SL on the side of USA.
I hope Hon President take a strong stand against India for being the only country in SE Asia to vote against SL. Our trade with India should be downgraded in favour of more trade with China for quality goods, unlike the Indian rubbish dumped in SL at exhorbitant prices. We must also sign urgent Defence Pacts with China and Russia to help arm our country and come to our aid against armed intervention by India, USA and NATO allies, on one pretext or another.
This’s what i said before that, those who voted against SL will have definitly to regret later..!
India could become a “father” while we called “brother”, if india involved itself with SL instead going behind US.!
Does india need an invitation with flowers on a dish to come & see here what’s going on, if it so “worrying” about Tamils..? Had not guts to do so.? india became a regional child by being not prudent enough to recognize a simple situation & very outcomes of it..!
But we know that “Pioneers” are also in india who wise enough to understand things as they are like this. And still won’t treat india like that with harmful emotions.
Then you “Pioneers” well understand & aware of the shit rubbish dirty fish like “Gods Myth” throwing westerns as a “Bait” to trap the Bloody Fool folk in our countries.!
It’s very true that most who involve at Christian Church in srilanka are those tamils as you said. Westerns use them to get done what westerns want by spreading them like a “Religious Virus”.!
Fortunatly many Sinhala people are wise enough to understand this “CHRISTIAN RELIGION VIRUS” though indians affected by this Virus in masses.
Only the “Chaps” like Nicolas Dais have been slaved since birth to Christian Religion Virus which is an “Uncurable” sickness. They never get understand where they heading & unwittingly reach the Hell themselves while Betraying other people to evil west.!