No Independent Election Monitors Invited-Sri Lanka Foreign Minister
April 3rd, 2008
Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama this morning confirmed to the Liberal Democratic Party Shadow Foreign Secretary Edward Davey MP that no independent election monitors have been invited to oversee the credibility and legitimacy of the Eastern ‘elections’ that the Government of Sri Lanka is planning to conduct during the month of May 2008.
Mr. Davey, we understand has said ‘credibility and legitimacy of any election depended on the presence of observers-be they from the EU or the Commonwealth’.
Mr. Bogollagama apparently agreed to take that message back to Colombo.
It is also worth noting that the Party in Government, which the Foreign Minister represents is contesting these ‘elections’ jointly with an armed paramilitary group called the Tamil Makkal Viduthali Pulikal (TMVP) which is widely blamed for various killings, abductions and human rights violations. Tamil National Alliance (TNA) which currently holds the majority of the Tamil constituencies (22 seats) in the Sri Lankan Parliament is boycotting the so called ‘elections’.
At a separate event two days ago at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, Mr. Bogollagama was asked by Richard Beeston, Foreign Editor of The Times, why the authorities were not allowing foreign correspondents to travel to Sri Lanka, if as the minister had insisted Colombo wanted to engage with the international community and hold free and transparent elections. The minister had stated that apart from two districts, Mullaitivu and Kilinochi, foreign media were allowed to visit other areas of Sri Lanka. Mr. Beeston said that this was not the experience of The Times, which had had several visas applications blocked by the authorities. Other Western media had reported similar experiences.
Sri Lankan Foreign Minister has also told Mr. Davey that the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) that was signed by the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2002 was flawed and that it favoured the LTTE.
Many distinguished persons and foreign governments have said that if the internationally sponsored CFA was flawed in any form, then a responsible government would re-negotiate the agreement rather than unilaterally abrogating from it. The Government of Sri Lanka was condemned by various Governments such as the US, UK, European Union and UN Secretary General for abrogating from the CFA unilaterally, in January 2008. On 04/01/2008 UK Foreign Minister responsible for Africa, Asia and the United Nations Lord Malloch Brown commenting on the unilateral abrogation of the CFA by the Government of Sri Lanka said that ‘There can be no military solution to the conflict. It is vital now that the Government lives up to its commitment to address the grievances of Tamil people’
[This is the text of a press release issued by the British Tamils Forum on Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama’s visit to Britain]
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1. Devinda Fernando | April 4th, 2008 at 4:07 am
I wonder if Mano Ganesan will continue on his righteous Quest for Human Rights in the form of International Community interventions (a.k.a - help the LTTE get the GoSL off their backs). ???
Or better yet, will he even bother to take this Human Rights matter up within the Sri Lankan justice system now that the International Avenue has been closed off?
I think not. He never tried much locally because locally sorting out these issues would not assist his agenda. The UN will not intervene, so Now Mano Ganesan should as a Man of his Word and such a self professed Crusader for Human Rights explore the possibility of Crusading for Human Rights in Sri Lanka but we all know that the UN intervention to help the LTTE was his ulterior motive.
2. Devinda Fernando | April 4th, 2008 at 4:12 am
*** It is vital now that the Government lives up to its commitment to address the grievances of Tamil people’ ***
Lord Malloch-Brown is an Idiot and a Bloated Gasbag. When we do defeat the LTTE militarily I wonder if he will be ready to apologize for his lunatic assertions.
And as for Tamil Grievances? Why dont the Tamil Diaspora who were so willing to give money to the LTTE to Help their Tamil brothers and Sisters to fight for their Delusional Pipe Dream Fantasy now go to the East and donate some money to the development of the Tamil People there?
3. aratai | April 4th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Comment by Devinda ….#2
Why dont the Tamil Diaspora who were so willing to give money to the LTTE to Help their Tamil brothers and Sisters to fight for their Delusional Pipe Dream Fantasy now go to the East and donate some money to the development of the Tamil People there?
Finally you agreed.
This is what Tamils were saying all along, to leave them alone, so they can look after themselves.
4. lower | April 6th, 2008 at 8:53 am
It is great to read a government prepared Human Rights (HR) report. I have read similar reports by HR business groups like Amnesty International (AI-UK based) and Human Rights Watch (HRW-USA based). Their activities and outcomes reflect who pays them.
In the case of democratic regimes it reflects the views of people in power, lobbyists and who fund them and propel them to power. This definitely applies to most of western countries.
There is no set definition of HR and of course its application is relative to the person who writes and who reads it.
In your report you have looked at an event without examining the reasons and causes that lead to the event.
1 Take Kenya! Who controls the economy of Kenya and who provide funds for politics? The answer lies in the fact that as soon as the election results were announced, the Kenyans of all tribes attacked Indians. They fled to their Hindu temples and not a single Indian died or got hurt. The army opened fire on the poor shanty mobs killing hundreds of them. Your report only looks at what ensued
More than two thirds of the economy in Kenya is in Indian hands.
2 Look in Uganda! In Uganda a number of villagers are killed and wounded by the army, because they opposed the deforestation of the virgin forests around their village. It was for a large sugar plantation development by Indian interests. You missed it!
These villagers have no HR. The global climate changers are in meditation or are waiting for their change.
Well who controls most of the economy of Uganda?
3 Troubles in Sri Lanka! In Sri Lanka, a poor government is fighting Tamil Terrorists who have access to more funds than the government. If they are short of change they can borrow from the Third Eye of India (India’s CIA, sometimes known as Research and Analysis Wing RAW, the most secretive intelligence organisation in the world. They managed to keep it a secret from the rest of the world for years the detonation of Indian non violent nuclear bomb). The Third Eye owes a lot to the Tamil Terrorist for things like blowing up of Rajiv Gandhi for his non Hindu acts in his personal life. In your report you failed to mention that Sri Lankan Forces are trying to wipe out the Tamil Terrorists like the US is engaged in far places. The west says Muslim Terrorists in particular suicide bombers are rewarded with virgins in heaven when they go to heaven. Tamil terrorist are given refuge in most western countries and they bring their own virgins later. If you are so concerned about HR you should check your and other western countries immigration records for disappearing Tamil terrorists appearing as refugees, asylum seekers, students and professionals.
Almost four fifth of the economy of Sri Lanka is controlled by Indians.
4 Growing pains in China! China is trying to improve its lot with its type of one party democracy compared to two party democracies of US, UK, and other countries. As I am writing this China’s sovereignty has been challenged and Third Eye must be enjoying the fruits of their toil. They just want Tibetans in Dharmasala to leave India.
China will never want a Taiwan on its head. A Taiwan made by Indians.
5 Burma has its own HR problems. Remember that just before the independence three fourth of its arable land was owned by Indians.
The leader behind the unrest is an Indian known as Panjabi man, an Indian.
In cases of Burma and China the timing, secretiveness and instantaneousness of the events clearly leads to the Third Eye.
6 Pakistan’s HR roots, in one respect, like that of Burma are in the west. Bhutto and have personal connections to UK like of Burma. Why and who let Bhuttos to return to Pakistan.
7 Invisible India! Your HR radar has missed India. First, are there any Indians working for you as administrative or information technology employees? Secondly I pray this will not fall into their hands.
In India one third of High Caste Indians have perfect Human Rights. The low castes two third are not humans and the question of HR does not arise. The low caste in India includes Low caste Hindus, Muslims, Christians and other religious and ethnic minorities.
Christians are burned alive and please use heat sensitive vision equipment next time when you are looking for HR in India.
Indians use non violent aggression and oppression to keep their victims in submission. This method is more than five thousands of years old. The victims’ wounds are not visible. They suffer from birth to death. The only escape is death. The salvation is in next life.
The British used Indians to keep its subjects under control. Of course Indians did as I explained before. This is the first time in human history a conqueror used a parasite to bleed its subjects.
You have not experienced this in the Americas. You are lucky.
You missed Fiji! There are no physical injuries. The native Fijians are like Zombies and they have no rights whatsoever. The county is run by India and its agents.
The USA can do a lot to alleviate the suffering of all these people in the former British Empire. Today it is the Indian Empire that the sun never set.
Take Fiji, a country in the Pacific Ocean and a militarily important location for the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Fiji is in the hands of the Third Eye.
Third eye has managed to brainwash the Fijians to accept their will. In fact Fijians are victims of Indian brainwashing. They have no escape and they are not aware of their plight.
Fijian soldiers played a great role during the Second World War. They were the most feared by the Japanese.
West has never recognised their feats and has not paid their dues.
You can do a lot to repay them and help them prosper.
First is to help them repatriate the Indians back to their mother lands, now parts of India..
Second is to help them to develop themselves
Today villagers of the global village are concerned about the extinction of flora and fauna. But they are not concerned about the disappearance of distinctive cultures of human groups.
They disappear due to the exploitation by more powerful groups.
There are plenty of Indians in India and we can save the Fijians by repatriating the Indians back to India. Same applies to other countries like Ceylon (in Sri Lanka the Tamils are Indians, There are 120 millions of them in India), Uganda, Kenya, and KwaZulu province of South Africa.
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