Rajiva Wijesinha

“ The number of civilians in safe area is thought to be between 70,000 to 100,000 individuals.
You may well wonder, Mr President, why the UN did not share this figure with even the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who claimed over two weeks later that 'According to UN estimates, a total of 150,000 to 180,000 civilians remain trapped in an ever shrinking area', but we have grown so used to incompetence and a lack of coordination amongst our undoubted superiors that we no longer suspect forked tongues, but have learnt simply to grin and bear it. ”

“ That particular NGO however is active in work amongst the displaced who did manage to escape, having swept up much UN and other funding, in the new game of three administrators for most tranches of assistance, with concomitant multiple overheads, so that our poor citizens do not benefit as much as the generous taxpayers in rich countries think they do. ”

“ The source then of the funds for its regular excursions to Geneva should either be suspicious or the object of suspicion.
Mr President, NGOs who have committed to practical work are in the camps amongst the displaced, along with UN agencies. The allegations of sexual violence, of a lack of process to link families, of the presence of other armed Tamil groups, are nonsense, and would certainly have been brought to our attention by UN agencies had they even been conceivable. ”