Comments for US, other donors reject military solution: Envoy at http://www.sibernews.com , comment 0 to 1 out of 1 comments http://www.sibernews.com Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:42:57 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.sibernews.com/news/sri-lanka/-200709219696/#pc_7023 The US Ambassador Robert Blake words that the way forward for the Sri Lankan government lies in a negotiated settlement that will meet the aspirations of all of Sri Lanka’s communities: Tamils, Muslims and Sinhalese. We don’t need an US representative to say this. The revival of the CFA, the negotiated settlement and power devolution package and such matters had been said by everyone all the time. It is only the Singhalese governments and their leaderships do not listen or commit to these moves to end the crisis. It must also be mentioned that the US has all along been supporting the government in their atrocities and crimes against the Tamil people. Even recently, the US and the EU were trying to bail out Sri Lanka out of its human rights violations brought about by the UN human rights monitoring commission and every human rights organization around the globe. Now the US representative is singing a different tune. The APRC will never be able to provide any concrete proposals. Looking at the catastrophic calamity, ruins and destruction the government had brought upon the Tamils and their homeland scotched to the ground, one wonders whether the current leadership (even the former Sri Lankan President does not think so) has any credibility to run the government. The Tamils will never place any trust on such a government to bring an end to the conflict or whether it will come up with a just solution to address the aspirations of the Tamils or for that matter they will be free from threats, intimidation, harassment, death threats and blackmail and be accorded their freedom and the power to determine their lives. Sri Lanka is a failed state and it never had leaders who are statesmen in stature and due to their Singhalese nationalism will never provide a just solution to the ethnic crisis. If as Mr Blake says that the US as a friend of Sri Lanka and a Co-Chair, stands ready to assist in any way they can then the only way forward is for the international community and the UN to put more pressure, stop all forms of military and other aids and slap sanctions on the government if a just and successful outcome of the conflict is to come by. - Jay Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:11:43 +0100