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Britain's moment of shameDecember 2, 2010, 12:00 pm

That the United Kingdom is a state sponsoring terrorism is only too well known as it harbours terrorists of all kinds who do not pose a threat to it, including the LTTE and lets them raise funds for wars in other countries like Sri Lanka. But, as we saw on Wednesday, Britain has now been reduced to a puppet state manipulated by terror backers on whose support some British political parties and politicians are dependent to win elections! A US diplomatic cable exposed by Wikileaks has revealed that David Miliband, while he was British foreign secretary, focused on Sri Lanka's war to win votes of LTTE sympathisers in the UK.
Today, Britain, which used to boast of being 'the land of free speech', has come to such a pass that there is no democratic space even for a visiting Head of State to make a speech at a leading academic institution. The British government made a public display of its impotence, when the Oxford Union was compelled on Wednesday to cancel President Mahinda Rajapaksa's address citing security reasons.
An attempt is being made in some quarters to make the cancellation of President Rajapaksa's address out to be a comedown for him and his government. Nothing could be further from the truth. He has incurred the wrath of terror backers because he effectively neutralised the LTTE at home militarily. He did so not for his own sake; the whole country has benefited from the defeat of terrorism. . Terror strikes on civilian targets have ceased and people are moving about freely without fear of being blown to bits. On the other hand, it was not President Rajapaksa who did chicken out; it was the British government that has been left with egg on its face for giving in to terrorist sympathisers. Tamil people are now living without fear of their children being forcibly conscripted. They do not have to pay protection money to terroristsPresident Rajapaksa was man enough to go to London in spite of threats from LTTE backers to have him arrested there.
President Rajapaksa may not have been able to make his scheduled speech but he managed to deliver a strong message––loud and clear––to the world by going all the way to Britain and being denied the promised opportunity to make his speech: Sri Lanka is safer than Britain, which has sadly become a prisoner of powerful terror lobbies capable of making British politicians dance to their tune!
It is not President Rajapaksa who should feel insulted by the Oxford incident but the weak-kneed British government leaders who buckled under threats and pressure from terror backers. They also made a mockery of the British law by allowing LTTE sympathisers to display in public places the flag of the LTTE, which is a banned terrorist group in the UK. This is the kind of respect the British government has for the law of the land!
What a shame!