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Former US diplomats write to SL President
[ TamilNet ] - [ Jan 23, 2009 12:40:08 GMT ]
Six former US ambassadors served in Colombo since 1989 have written a letter in their personal capacity to Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa, expressing their deep concern about internal threats destabilizing ‘democracy’ in Sri Lanka. They were particularly upset over the assassination of the Editor of Sunday Leader, Mr. Lasantha Wickrematunge. "The civilized world has to appreciate these diplomats voicing for a bold, sane and humane journalist," said a political commentator based in Colombo, adding however that their letter is an "open confession of the reactionary premises taken by them and by their government in the last two decades," which in fact externally contributed to the destruction of the substance of democracy in the island, retaining only a brittle shell that is crumbling now. [ full story ]
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Sinna from United Kingdom on Jan 23, 2009 13:43:52 GMT
These Diplomats are very diplomatic
&have expressed their concern in
indirect way.
I do believe at least one of these
Ambassadors must have gone through the
1983 riots(under direct order of JR
Jeyawardena) almost all the Tamil
Businessmen lost their loved ones and
belongings and burned alive by
Singhalese thugs,burned down Jaffna
library.Again during the drafting of
this letter these 5 former Ambassadors
have not highlighted at least one of
the previous riots because diplomatic
way of expressing their concern.If
Ambassadors really wants to show their
objection for the Genocide on
Tamils,they should instruct Robert
Blake(US Diplomats) to stop aid with
immediate effect not by hide and seek.
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Ranasinghe from Sri Lanka on Jan 23, 2009 14:12:47 GMT
Good on you diplomats. But too little,
too late for Sri Lanka. But better
late than never. I have a photo in my
house in which I stand shoulder to
shoulder laughing with my tamil,
muslim and burger friends during the
1970's. Once I dreamt of a united Sri
Lanka where all the communities are
equal. But, I now know many in my
community don't know the meaning of
equality and treating the other ethnic
groups with respect. In this back
ground, it is better to part ways and
be good friendly neighbours than
killing the minorities all the time.
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Thanabal from Sweden on Jan 23, 2009 15:23:58 GMT
Jeffry Lunatic is one of them and he
was partly responsible for the Current
carnage in the Island. These Nutty Ex-
diplomats needs something to write
about after their office means, they
have done something wrong in their
Period(s).
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Balenz from United Kingdom on Jan 24, 2009 10:23:46 GMT
Where then is the justice for the long
suffering eelam tamils? The comments of
such Bush diplomats have only helped to
cause the deaths and homelessness of
millions of people around the world. To
say that MR and his gang have some
respectablity is very deplorable. I hope
that Obama's remade US gets rid of the
likes of these people soon. In the name
of democracy these people have helped
vile leaders to do atrocities.
I hope Obama succeds in saving the world.
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Sundar from Australia on Jan 24, 2009 11:55:49 GMT
These ex diplomats when in power do
the utmost evil designs or devilish
STATECRAFT by providing overt & covert
military and diplomatic support to the
Genocidal puppet regimes they support
in their own evil empire expansion
plans or geo political manoeuvres in
the targeted countries. These
targeted nations are invariably poor
developing nations that became
independent from these same European
colonial powers or their strategic
allies. So, no wonder these ex
colonial Masters of the Universe are
well versed in their infamous Divide
and Rule tactics and know exactly well
their ex subjects historical feuds
such as religious and cultural
differences and use it to the hilt to
maximise their geo political goals. A
paradigm shift must happen and these
god fathers of Genocidal regimes
should be held accountable and should
be tried for war crimes and crime
against humanity along with their
leaders. The world hotspots are
gasping for an answer.
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Mithrar from Australia on Jan 24, 2009 12:55:15 GMT
To these hypocrites I will quote a
documents that they would be very
familiar with.When in the course of
human events, it becomes necessary for
one people to dissolve the political
bands which have connected them with
another, and to assume among the
powers of the earth, the separate and
equal station to which the Laws of
Nature and of Nature's God entitle
them, a decent respect to the opinions
of mankind requires that they should
declare the causes which impel them to
the separation.
2.1 We hold these truths to be self-
evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable
rights, contd
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Mithrar from Australia on Jan 24, 2009 12:58:34 GMT
That to secure these rights,
governments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed. That whenever
any form of government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the
right of the people to alter or
abolish it, and to institute new
government, laying its foundation on
such principles and organizing its
powers in such form, as to them shall
seem most likely to effect their
safety and happiness.
2.3 Prudence, indeed, will dictate
that governments long established
should not be changed for light and
transient causes; and accordingly all
experience hath shown, that mankind
are more disposed to suffer, while
evils are sufferable, than to right
themselves by abolishing the forms to
which they are accustomed.
2.4 But when a long train of abuses
and usurpations, pursuing invariably
the same object evinces a design to
reduce them under absolute despotism,
it is their right, it is their duty,
to throw off such government, and to
provide new guards for their future
security.
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Thambiraja from Canada on Jan 24, 2009 16:43:21 GMT
They were the 'sleeping partners' of
this genocide program.Now they
got 'enlightenment'suddenly, as they
are going closer to their grave! What a
miserable US Diplomacy???
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MS from United Kingdom on Jan 24, 2009 19:14:01 GMT
These 'merchants of death' and of
genocide of Tamils have suddenly come
to because of the death of the Chief
Editor, however fantastic. Don't they
have a sense of poportionality and
reason? What were they doing when
racism, reliogionism and racial
violence were being practiced by
governments. Living in Colombo they
knew only about life in the capital
and enjoyed the good life that they
mourn about. If they had helped
intervene on the side of good
governance and the 'rule of law' by
the State as the recent State
Department has done things may have
been very different rather than
peddling militarism, geopolitical
interests instead of sucking up to
racist tendencies of governments.
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Kalainagar from United Kingdom on Jan 24, 2009 21:10:41 GMT
well said Thanabal from Sweden I was
going to post the exact comment had i
not read yours.
These X deplomats wanted to be at some
high post under president Obama's
administration so they wanted to be in
his good side of the books specially
this jeffery guy so they have to say
something nothing to loose have they?
look at their timing; like these
things are only happening in
Sorrylanka recently and naver before.
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Rajiv from Sri Lanka on Jan 24, 2009 22:14:10 GMT
Ranasingha,If your generation was so
nice and kind to each other my
generation wouldn't be in this mess in
the first place.On the contrary things
are much better now.Can you remember so
much of airtime given to Tamil language
programs in mass media?Or "We are all
equal brothers and sisters of Sri Lanka"
being chanted like a mantra?This is the
problem with you and other commentators
of your age.You think time has stood
still since '70s and fail to appreciate
the radical shift in policy and public
attitude.A lot of water has passed under
the bridge since the '70s.What didn't
work for you can still work for us
because the circumstances are different.
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