Comments for Colombo under pressure! at http://www.sibernews.com , comment 0 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.sibernews.com Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:39:11 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.sibernews.com/news/featured-article/-200706278920/#pc_6453 Pressure on Colombo is not heavy enough. International Community continues to demonstrate genocidal hypocrisy in persecuting and punishing victims of their ethnic cleansing. A case in point is the recent arrest of two in the UK. - Neil Armstrong Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:38:18 +0100 http://www.sibernews.com/news/featured-article/-200706278920/#pc_6452 Another milestone achieved by the Rajapakse government - The UN Security Council has listed Srilanka along with Sudan and Lebanon (countries with a worst track record on HR abuses) in respect of human rights violations. The present leadership lacks political maturity; it doesn't have a vision and most of all it has lost its direction. The former president Kumaratunga in her address on Women's rights in Brussels have even labelled it as a foolish government.(Surprising, this is the same government she endorsed before leaving the government) Such a government cannot be expected to conduct a fair and just investigation nor will it be able to to find a political solution to the ethnic problem. Punishing the government committing crimes is great and a right thing to do but for that reason the UN should not punish the people who are affected and suffering by the state crimes). The UN Security Council while being mindful of the atrocities and HR violations of the government and its failure to bring the conflict to a just end should not forget the sufferings and plight of the affected people who are devastated by the evil crimes perpetrated by the Srilankan military and the police. In the face of government's destruction of their livelyhood, aid in the form of food, drinking water, medicines and housing are very necessary to these people. The UN body every other country and organization involved giving aid must ensure that the aid reaches the affected. The only thing is that whatever aid to be given must NOT be given to the government or its agencies. The tsunami aid and meant for the tamil community never reached them. In fact, any form of aid given to the government and its agencies to alleviate the sufferings of the affected so far, never served the purposes for which they were intended. So, the UN or the donor countries and the international bodies must ensure that the aid must be channelled through genuine international aid agencies and not through the government. - Jay Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:58:02 +0100