India’s support for US resolution would backfire: Swamy
The Janata Party leader today said India should not join human rights groups at a UN meeting in passing a “one sided” resolution condemning Sri Lanka for alleged human rights violations during its war against the LTTE.
India’s participation in the resolution would make it vulnerable to similar resolutions over Kashmir or Manipur; Swamy said and suggested that it should urge Sri Lanka to devolve power so as to meet the legitimate aspirations of Lankan Tamils.
“The Indian Government should not succumb to the machinations of human rights groups in the UN Human Rights Commission’s meeting in Geneva by supporting an ill-advised resolution condemning Sri Lanka for alleged human rights excesses in its war against the LTTE terrorists,” Swamy said in a statement.
He also said the proposed resolution completely ignored the excesses committed by the LTTE.
“The resolution is one sided and appears to have deliberately suppressed the horrendous human rights excesses committed by the LTTE over the last 20 years,” the Janata Party chief said. “Support for such an adventurous resolution will make India vulnerable to future resolutions on Kashmir and Manipur for which extremist forces are already active in seeking to discredit the Indian government,” he added.
Swamy suggested that the Indian Government with the help of US and China should urge Sri Lanka to decentralise power to meet the legitimate aspirations of the Tamils.
“India may seek to bring a compromise resolution after consultation with the US and China to urge the Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa to devolve power by constitutional amendment to meet the legitimate aspirations of the Tamil citizens of Sri Lanka,” Swamy said.
PTI
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It is true. India’s support for resolution will seriously damage the kingship between two countries in long-term. US is not a friend of India at all but an enemy and competitor in product market.
If India supports, it would be also damaging the peace in south Asian region.
Basnayaka
Not only the back-fires but the head, front also will be fired one day if india supports westerns who invaded india also in the past.!
For more than 2000 years India had been our enemy and still is our enemy, though it pretends to be a friend. India treats SL as its colony. In the past, South India rulers invaded SL to pillage, ravage and colonise SL, in the N & E. Our Kings managed to resist and drive the Indian marauders away.
Indira Gandhi treated SL with contempt. She was devious. She signed agreement to take back 300,000 Indian Tamils (brought by British in colonial times)while SL were to grant citizenship for more than 600,000 Indian Tamils. IG went back on her deal. SL ended up granting SL citizenship to all the Indian Tamils and grant them free healthcare, education and other benefits. India did nt even pay compensation for it. IG then gave refuge to VP and his band of LTTE terrorists in S India. They were trained, funded and armed by RAW to inflict on SL most horrendous terrorist atrocities, which destroyed our infra-structure, set-back our economy from developing and killed about 80,000 SL civilians in acts of LTTE naked genocide.
Her son, Rajiv Gandhi, carried on her policy towards SL. RG was friendly with VP. He gifted him with a pearl-handled pistol on their first meeting and cntinued to fund, train and arm the LTTE. It was a hostile act. When our heroic army surrounded VP and the LTTE in Vadamarachchi, Rajiv ordered JR to release VP and the LTTE immediately. He also dropped dry rations to LTTE by invading SL airspace. The IPKF was then sent to establish peace. SL govt was forced to implement 13th ammendment to the Constitution devised by India, by which Provinces were established and the govt de-centralised. It meant more expenses to SL. India offered us loans which tied us to them in trade agreements which were in their favour. India shipped us shoddy goods and out-of-date goods. IPKF ended-up fighting LTTE and lost. VP had his rtevenge by assassinating Rajiv Gandhi.
India wanted revenge. When Humanitarian Operation was started by GOSL to rescue the SL Tamils, held hostage as a human shield by LTTE, India remained neutral, because it wanted VP and the LTTE destroyed for killing Rajiv and for killoing thousands of IPKF troops by LTTE. India did us no favour. In fact we did India a favour. Hence we do not owe India anything. But India owes us much as compensation for engendering LTTE and releasing it on us to commit genocide and destroy our economy. If we had lost the Humanitarian Operation, LTTE would have today controlled much of SL and even exported its terrorism to India to win autonomy to Tamil Nadu.
India pretends to be our friend. Let us see whether it takes sides with US, in voting on the side of US sanction against SL in the UNHRC at Geneva. India has stood against US unilateral sanction against Iran, as it imports $14 billion oil from Iran on favourable terms and has large trade agreements with Iran. India does not want to jeopardise this. Along with China, it defied US sanction against Iran saying it does not accept unilateral sanctions but only sanctions passed by UN. However, in the case of SL, India has double standards. Even if India abstains from voting against SL, it is a hostile act, when our friendly countries voted in favour of SL. Hence why cannot India also act in friendly manner towards SL? This shows India is our enemy and treats us with conmtempt as if SL is an Indian colony.
Who is India to dictate to us to agree to TNA and diaspora Tamils request to grant all their so-called ‘Tamil aspirations’? Tamils are just another community along with Sinhalese and Muslims and other minorities. They too have aspirations. So let us be ONE COUNTRY ONE NATION with common goals and not separate special ‘aspirations’ for SL Tamils only, when the majority of ordinary Tamils in N & E do not agree to TNA objectives.
India or US has no right to force any country in the world to change their constitution to devole or revolve power, according to their wishes. Only Sri lankans will decide what is suitable for Sri lanka and that is why Sri lankans have a democratic government put in place by the people.
Even if US is full of technolgical advances etc, it’s political wisdom is so poor. US is standing on it’s tail and does not know what it really is. US is making debacle after debacle and proving to the world that Americans are the biggest (I mean obiese – fat) fools in the whole universe. US is acting like a rich but stupid thug on the road. Thug normally wins in short term using it’s power and weapons but never gets admired from the majority. That is how US is being seen by the world.
Dear Manjula,
USA is not only the worst thug in the world but also the worst bully and terrorist nation in the world. That is why it destroyed Vietnam and killed nearly a million Vietnamese civilians with its napalm bombs and ‘agent orange’ etc to “prevent spread of communism” in the world, destroyed and killed millions of innocent civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, in order to grab their oil for the West, on the pretext of “regime change” on the side of the rebels, who were organised, funded, armed and trained by USA and its CIA. USA and its leaders have committed gross war crimes and crimes against humanity in the last 60 years against these countries alone. Neither UN nor UNHRC nor any other country is able to stop USA and its NATO allies from riding rough shod all over the small nations, because US bully, thug and terrorist nation is militarily and economically most powerful nation in the world today. No one dares to stand-up against it to decry its bully-boy tactics. Russia and China can only watch feebly on the side-lines. USA is strengthening itself more and more militarily. It seizes small nations which are of strategic value to it to continue to dominate the world. US army is given a free-hand by the Whitehouse in its domination of Afghanistan. That is why US troops daily shoots innocent Afghan civilians and even burn the holy Koran. USA, though a Christian country, has no sense of morality. How long is the world to suffer this bullying, thuggery and terrorism of USA? We can only pray and hope for some natural diaster to happen to USA to destroy it from within, to bring it to its knees.