UNP QUESTIONS GOVT’S RESPONSE IF LLRC IS REJECTED BY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
The government needs to explain what action it will take, if the international community rejects the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), says Lakshman Kiriella, UNP MP.
At a media briefing held yesterday the United National Party commented on the powers vested in the LLRC.
“When we consider the powers vested in the LLRC, it is clear that they have no power. The commission does not have the authority to look into matters pertaining to human rights, disappearances and what happened during the final stages of the conflict.
“The international community cannot be deceived. Recently the United States Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs said that the LLRC was an eyewash. Furthermore yesterday the United States Senate adopted a resolution for an international inquiry to be conducted against Sri Lanka.
“I believe that the government will respond to the question about what action they will take if this Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission is rejected by the international community,” said Kiriella.
Source: News First
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Typical of UNP they are unpatriotic. They are just not anti-UPFA, they are mostly anti-SL.
Who are the so-called International Community? It does not mean all the countries in the world. It does not mean all the nations of the world. It merely means USA, EU, Canada, Australia, Norway and Japan. It simply means the imperial West. This is a term coined by the ever crafty and evil USA.
What right have they to reject the report of the LLRC? Who are they to look down upon such a Report and belittle it even before it is published? What right have they to elect themselves as judge and jury over other countries who are not the imperial West, the so-called ‘inernational community’?
No LLRC was appointed to investigate and report on the barbarous atrocities committed and being committed by USA, Britain and Norway against Iraq and Afghanistan. They have committed and are committing gross human rights violations and war crimes in these countries but UNSC is totally silent. He is a puppet of USA. He is in yankee pocket. Is the UNSG in fear of assassination by the CIA of USA if he incurs their wrath by denouncing USA, Britain and Norway for crimes against humanity? He may not have forgotten how a former UNSG, Dag Hammersjoeld, was assassinated by USA, for denouncing USA and not being its puppet. USA has escaped being brought before the ICC for war crimes committed in Vietnam by USA. Yet these hypocrites, USA and Britain, continue to support terrorist LTTE against SL by repeating the lies, distortions and propaganda of the diaspora LTTE. They allow the diaspora LTTE to continue to have bases in Britain, USA, Norway and EU to raise funds for terrorists activities in SL, for their vested interests.
If not for our powerful friends China and Russia, the yankees and Britain would have invaded SL also as they did Iraq and Afghanistan, and are currently preparing to invade Lybia, to ensure the flow of oil to the imperial West. SL has no oil at the moment but is of strategic value to USA, to dominate SE Asia and the Indian Ocean. Why don’t they do something useful for once such as, totally destroy the Somali pirates?
Mr Kiriella’s qestion does not merit an answer.
The UPFA Government has capable leaders of the calibre of DM Jayaratne, GL Peries, Mahinda Samarasinghe, Sajin Vaas, Namal Rajapaksa, Douglas Devananda, Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan etc, etc; the list is endless.
The UPFA Government established the LLRC and its terms of reference as part of a strategy to achieve reconcilliation following the conclusion of the 3 decade old war.
As part of this strategy, I am sure the UPFA cabinet identified key risks in implementing this strategy and measures to mitigate these risks. The UPFA Cabinet is not obliged to publish its risk identification and mitigation mechanisms.
Has the UP undertaken a risk analysis of the events leading to the implementation of its reform program? What will it resort to, if its current crop of leaders are voted out of office and the party taken over by the reformists group? Will Mr Kiriella share the risk management measures developed by the current UNP leadership with the general public? In the alternative, does the UNP purely rely on “what will happen, will happen” philosophy? Or does the UNP rely on approaches such as disrupting potential leadership aspirants’ election meetings to discredit the challengers?
UNP and Kiriella must know by now that the LRRP is for we Sri lankans and not for the International Community. If they don’t want to accept it will be their problem not ours. We fought the war in our own and we can look after the rest too. If they want to help that is fine and if they don’t want that is also fine (like what happened to European Union’s GSP+, who cares any more about GSP+? EU can now stick the GSP+ up their ass).
UNP is as usual sucking up to the international community and not their mother land. Anything for westeners is good for UNP. It is the time to be Sri lankans rather than being western suckers.