Rajiva Wijesinha

“ The clear conclusion then is that a politically motivated lobby, willing shamelessly to make up stories (such as the claim that Sri Lankan soldiers killed by terrorist action were amongst several hundreds who had disappeared) , anticipated a grand attack on Sri Lanka, supported not only by the LTTE and its front organizations, not only by the current leadership of the UNP as it abandons federalism in its desperate search for allies to catapult it back to power, but also by the international community. ”

“ Such a description of countries like China and India and Japan, who were enormously supportive of Sri Lanka, along with a plethora of nations from the Americas and the Middle East and Africa and Europe too, only emphasizes the myopic world in which some Sri Lankan critics of the government live.
I mentioned Europe last because, in the minds of both terrorists and morally if never financially bankrupt Sri Lanka politicians, it was Europe that was to lead the charge against Sri Lanka. There were confident assertions that the European Union would present a resolution against Sri Lanka. ”

“ Amazingly, one international NGO that has been closely associated with the LTTE came into the open during the plenary debate on Ms Coomaraswamy’s statement and claimed that the ‘accepted international law age is 15’. This was followed a few days later by what seemed another front NGO complaining about racism in Sri Lanka, which allowed the Sri Lankan delegation to point out that the worst racism in the country was on the part of the LTTE, which had engaged in the only known instance of ethnic cleansing, in 1990, when it drove out Muslims from the north. ”