Rajiva Wijesinha

“ Thus I was not surprised to see, on the day that Human Rights Watch delivered its diatribe, another attack by the Coalition against Child Soldiers, in which the glamorous Charu Latha Hogg features prominently. She was responsible for the first salvo against Sri Lanka in 2007, when there was an attempt to carry a resolution against Sri Lanka at the Human Rights Council, and when the opposition in Sri Lanka knew what the UN High Commissioner was going to suggest long before she did herself.
Tracing connections between individuals and the agendas they push is fascinating. ”

“ It is bizarre that now the West, having used brutal methods in the past (though I assured the BBC that I was glad they had won the Second World War) , gets on its high horse with others, while also suggesting that they can treat foreigners wickedly, but everyone else has to be roundly condemned whatever they do. It is also bizarre that they believe that they and they alone are the saviours of the human race.
Thus the Czar of the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect, Gareth Evans, claims credit now for Sri Lanka not being a ‘classic R2P case’. ”

“ With the media, one need not assume villainy, it is more likely to be simply the need to sensationalize, criticism going down much better than praise, given the vagaries of human nature. With Gareth Evans it was obviously a desire to continue to seem important, as was obvious when he rather hopefully declared that the SLMM was useless, evidently to suggest that an old experienced worthy like himself would do a much better job. But I fear that with Human Rights Watch there is a distinct agenda of disruption and destabilization. ”