UN official’s ‘ill-famed statement’ a violation of sovereignty
National Organizer of the National Freedom Front (NFF), Piyasiri Wijenayaka stated that no Sri Lankan citizen had asked UN Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson or anyone else to probe into the “dark, closed chapter of the terror-stricken of LTTE Tamil terrorists.”
Issuing a letter to the Office of the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN, released to the media Mr. Piyasiri Wikenayaka made the declaration on behalf of the NFF, in response to a statement made by the UN Special Rapporteur, Ben Emmerson.
The letter has elaborated that the mass media had reported that Emmerson, in a media conference held in Colombo on July 14, had stated that Sri Lanka had failed to comply with the promises made to the UN Human Rights Commission in 2015 and 2016, to the effect of investigating into the human rights violations during the LTTE Tamil terrorism.
He stated that the party “vehemently” condemned Emerson’s statement with “due despise”, on the grounds that it was “an interference to the internal affairs of a sovereign country and a hypocritical utterance of a representative of the neo-imperialists.”
And, further pointed out that besides Russia, Sri Lanka was the only country that had succeeded in defeating “a barbarous terrorist group” that claimed uncountable lives in a protracted war for thirty years.
Emmerson has very conveniently neglected the true human rights violations being continually practised all over the world and even in their own countries by their masters; i.e. USA and Britain and their allies, he said.
He then questioned as to why Emmerson and his superiors kept quiet on killings of suspects of recent terrorist attacks in USA, Britain, Germany and other western counties.
If those killings were reasonable and justifiable as the suspects appeared to be terrorists, why then, is Sri Lanka an exception? he pressed.
“The obvious naked truth”, he said, was that Sri Lanka was being singled out and targeted as it was a small country that was not part of the Western Hemisphere and not inhabited by fair-skinned human beings.
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