The UN’s plan for making white people feel better

By Kath Noble

Last week I felt like I had been transported back in time. We were back in those awful first six months of 2009, when I was by turns horrified at the plight of the people caught up in the fighting in the Vanni and disgusted with the way in which the international community was responding.

Of course, we all wanted to stop the war. I hate violence. But as I argued then and continue to believe, at that point, the only way the war was going to stop was with the defeat of the LTTE. Prabhakaran would not give up on Eelam. He was going to continue his vicious campaign against the Sri Lankan state and all its communities until he was caught or killed. Our task, therefore, was to minimise the damage. We had to try to ensure that it was done with as little death and destruction as possible.


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Miliband's campaign: Blind to the truth and bedding falsehoods

by Saratha RAJENDRAN

     Historians give credit to the British for creating most of the internal conflicts in countries which were under British colonial rule (Ex: Rhodesia, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka).


    A most apparent case study would be the British Labour Party's decision to move from the Tories' policy of humanitarian relief in Yugoslavia to threaten, then actual, aggression against the Serbs. By rewarding each separatist group in turn, it achieved NATO's covert objective of Balkan fragmentation.


  Having said that, why would the same Labour Party's David Miliband be interested in interfering with a national issue in Sri Lanka soil? The latest exhibition of impunity unfolds as the former British Foreign Minister appears in yet another Channel-4 outcry of "possible war crimes". "Incompetent neo-imperial meddler", is how Sri Lanka regards Miliband who has always fallen short of responsible statesmanship on his convictions, backed by purely biases lacking in facts.

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Balachandran, marketable product

Why was Channel 4 silent when hundreds of children were butchered by the LTTE?:

by a Special Correspondent 

A death of a child, no doubt is a reason to mourn. Especially when he or she is brutally killed, it is a grave crime which has to be dealt with severely. The disturbing image of a bullet-ridden body of a boy telecast in the latest controversial Channel 4 video has caused a certain amount of anxiety to many.

In the video - Sri Lanka's killing fields: war crimes unpunished - a 12-year-old boy with five bullet holes in his chest can be seen and the presenter, Jon Snow says that the boy is Balachandran Prabhakaran, youngest son of LTTE leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran. The director is Callum Macrae, a former reporter at Channel 4, now turned director. For many, who have viewed Channel 4's previous videos, this is heart-rending as a body of a teenage boy is shown. The video 'accuses' the Security Forces of executing the boy with five others, who were identified as 'bodyguards' of the teenager.


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Mrs. Clinton, Leave Sri Lanka Alone

The civil war in Sri Lanka was both brutal and a human tragedy. The United Nations estimated that the death toll from the Tamil Tigers’ long secession struggle might exceed 100,000. The Tigers were brutal in their tactics. Their kidnapping and exploitation of young Tamils was not unlike that perpetrated by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda. Like radical Islamists, the Tamil Tigers exploited a culture of martyrdom to promote suicide bombing. Like Hezbollah, the Tamil Tigers received technical assistance from North Korea (making Condoleezza Rice’s recommendation to remove North Korea from the state sponsor of terror list indefensible).

In May 2009, the Sri Lankan army did what hundreds of diplomats and UN pronouncements over more than a quarter century had failed to do: They defeated the Tamil Tigers and finally liberated Sri Lanka from the nightmare of terrorism and insurgency. No civil war is pretty, and the conclusion of Sri Lanka’s bloody struggle was no different. Britain’s Channel 4, for example, has acquired footage purporting to show the execution of the 12-year-old son of the rebel leader son of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tamil Tigers’ leader. If he was executed, that was wrong. But given Prabhakaran’s use of children and his glorification of suicide bombing, it would be unfair to ask any Sri Lankan soldier to risk life and limb to take prisoners. Had the Tamil Tigers cared an iota for the Geneva Conventions, perhaps it would be different, but if they eschewed the Conventions in life, then they should not seek their recompense in death.
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