Fight for withdrawal of UNHRC resolution
(Courtesy The Island)
This relates to The Island of 7th Feb, article captioned “UK urged again to bring closure UN Resolution, Lord Naseby reminds UK govt. of US pullout from Geneva body”.
Lord Naseby further states addressing the House of Commons “My Lords, it is my privilege to introduce this debate this evening. In doing so, I declare an interest in that I started The All Party Parliamentary Group on Sri Lanka in 1975 and had the privilege of being made its Honorary President four years ago”. He continues “I have done a great deal of Research. Nearly three years ago I made a request under the Freedom of Information Act and secured the publication of Colonel Gash’s dispatches to the United Kingdom. I have 40 pages of them here and some of which have been totally redacted, and I shall quote from one this evening”. He concludes “I submit that Her Majesty’s Government should show some leadership, bring closure to the UN Resolution and in doing so make it quite clear that there were not 40,000 civilians killed- and if it helps, I will give all the evidence I have to my noble friend on the Front Bench, so that he can be totally convinced that that is indeed the case”.
In The Island of 8th February captioned “UK demands full implementation of Geneva Resolution on Lanka” by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon and says “US pullout from Geneva body irrelevant”.
How can it be irrelevant? the US pulled out of the UNHRC and the US Ambassador Nicky Hayley condemned it as “A CESSPOOL OF POLITICAL BIAS AND AS A HYPOCRITICAL AND SELF SERVING BODY”.
In an earlier letter of 19th Jan., I suggested that “Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was deprived of his effort to get a General Election, could now devote his efforts to get this damning UNHRC Resolution withdrawn by the sponsors”. He cannot get a better ally than Lord Naseby, who has enough evidence to establish that our security forces never killed 40,000 civilians.
I remember seeing in TV news during the war, that our courageous young men, attached to TV companies, taking pictures of young and old men and women carrying little children escaping from the LTTE, most of them pregnant and hardly able to walk, being assisted by our women security forces personnel to carry these little infants, and our men soldiers carrying old women and offering their own rations of water and food to these escapees!
The parliamentary opposition instead of shouting about Drug Menace, new constitutions, etc., which are well planned diversions to avoid holding elections, could use their positions and time to saving the reputation of our valiant security forces, who succeeded in destroying the most ruthless terrorists which the sponsors of this resolution warned could not be destroyed, and visited in hoards, to persuade then President Mahinda Rajapaksa to stop the war!
Why I have written about this subject several times is because as long as this damning resolution exists, it will be impossible to bring about the reconciliation with all communities, which we all communities want but is being used as the beggars wound (Hingannage thuvale vagey)!
P. S. Mahawatte
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