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No Investigation on war crimes against Sri Lanka – Dr. Swamy

No Investigation on war crimes against Sri Lanka – Dr. Swamy

Posted by admin On August 21, 2014 0 Comment

Investigation on war crimes against Sri Lanka was unbalanced and intrusive and this was not acceptable to India. “We will not accept any inquiry against Sri Lanka from any quarter. No genocide has taken place in Sri Lanka,” Dr. Subramanian Swamy declared.

Chairman of the BJP Committee on Strategic Action and BJP’s National Executive Committee Member Subramanium Swamy said, “While India respected the UN Charter but India will not support in any issue of the UN Charter, including in matters of human rights, an intrusive probe into the conduct of a duly elected democratic government.”

“India’s foreign policy is very clear and will not agree to any foreign power interfering Sri Lanka’s internal matters, nor will it intervene in any such regional context either. India’s ‘national interests’ are the most prioritized and India will not come forward to help one particular ethnic group alone,” Dr. Subramanian Swamy stressed.

Dr. Swamy yesterday said Sri Lanka’s victory over LTTE Tamil terrorism helped ensure the security of India and globally too. “Not only that Sri Lankans have started to live in normalcy without fear but a major national security goal of India was also achieved as a collateral gain by Sri Lanka’s victory over the LTTE,” he said. He further pointed out that what took place in Sri Lanka was not an ethnic struggle but a linguistic struggle with Tamil terrorism.

Spelling out his views on, ‘India – Sri Lanka Relations’ before a packed audience in Colombo, Dr. Subramanian Swamy underlined that in Sri Lanka there does not exist a ‘an ethnic’ problem but a ‘linguistic’ one.

Speaking on the final day of the Fourth Defence Seminar organized by the Sri Lanka Army, Dr. Subramanian also said his Government has made it clear that it was committed to improve ties between the two neighbors — India and Sri Lanka. While he addressing sessions in the ‘Defence Seminar – 2014’ at Colombo Galadari Hotel, said, that the Indian foreign policy is best served with close relations with neighbors and India does not have any dispute with Sri Lanka and therefore will not endorse any foreign intervention in Sri Lankan affairs.

“As a constituent of the BJP we have given several proposals on our foreign policy to the Indian Government, the first is that our foreign policy should be based on national interests and not on narrow local interests in which he referred to Tamilnadu local government who propagate the LTTE Tamil terrorism and separatism, a relationship that is best served with all our neighbors,” he said.

Speaking about anti-Sri Lankan politicians in India, he said those who proposed strict action against Sri Lanka have been eliminated at the Indian elections. “You need not be apprehensive about hot heads in Sri Lanka and in Tamil Nadu. We Indians are with you Sri Lankans to ensure that violent evil forces of the past do not rear their ugly and violent heads again. “

said that he has never been able to understand the attitude of the Tamil people who adopted former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka as a candidate at the last Presidential election while leveling baseless allegations that the army committed genocide in Sri Lanka. Hereffered to pro-LTTE terrorists Tamil political party TNA who made a alliance for he last presidential election,”I have never been able to understand the Tamil attitude in Sri Lanka particularly in the North.

The Tamils who kept on telling me that that the army committed genocide have selected the Commander of Army as their candidate,” he said.

Dr. Subramanian Swamy queried as to how the Commander of the Army was not aware of a genocide if it had been perpetrated. “How is it possible that the Commander of Sri Lanka Army knew nothing about the human rights atrocities carried out by the Sri Lankan army and President Rajapaksa would alone be responsible for them. Had there been a genocide how could they dare to vote for the rival of President Rajapaksa during the elections? Dr Subramanian Swami further questioned.

Dr. Swamy added that no genocide had taken place in Sri Lanka during the conflict and even the UN has not said that Sri Lanka has committed genocide. “It is a group of people with vested interests based in London who are trying to propagate this ideology,” he said.

Dr. Subramanian Swamy said that Rajiv Gandhi himself has told him that the decision taken by late Mrs Indira Gandhi, the former Prime-Minister of India to give training to LTTE terrorist cadres, was a historic blunder.

He further added that Jaffna people and intellectuals with whom he maintains close relations admitted to the colossal infrastructure and development taking place in their areas. “During my recent visits, many northern mothers said that the people now know what time their children would return home safely after schools and a trust of that degree has now evolved in those areas.”

Responding to allegations that Sri Lanka is very much intimate with China, Dr. Subramanian Swamy pointed out that it was India’s mistake earlier and such vacuum left by India was filled by China’s offer of assistance.

“President Rajapaksa first invited India to commence harbor construction in Hambantota, but due to Tamil Nadu compulsions, India did not take part in it. Now, China has built a massive harbor for Sri Lanka with all modern facilities.”

Similarly, Dr Subramanian Swamy stressed the need to give more teeth to the SAARC and ASEAN as umbrella organizations unifying all countries in the Asian Region for better economic prospects in the future. Dr. Swamy said, President Rajapaksa after his election in 2005 took a bold decision to ‘fight to the finish’ after several attempts to bring them into negotiations failed.

In reply to a question from the participants, Dr. Subramanian Swamy pointed out that the President Rajapaksa through the elections and provincial councils have given all what they asked for. In the case of Police powers being devolved, even in India there are states where Police power has not been devolved.

The Narendra Modi government in Delhi will, I discern from available authoritative documents, approach the Indo- Sri Lanka Relations within the following new framework:

India will regard all its SAARC neighbours, including Sri Lanka, as of priority concern in bilateral relations, with due regard for their special sensitivities and internal issues.

India will not try to fetter the sovereignty of any neighboring state in its dealings with its internal problems and in its international relations.

India will not support in any issue of the UN Charter, including in matters of human rights, an intrusive probe into the conduct of a duly elected democratic government.

India will always place its own national interest above any of its internal provincial, linguistic, or religious demands in framing its foreign policy.