Moon’s loon report – A fatal blow on UN’s credibility

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Moon’s loon report – A fatal blow on UN’s credibility
by Sanjaya Somasiri
We, ordinary citizens of Sri Lanka have heard about United Nations Organization to be the world’s greatest organization committed for the world peace. The Secretary General of that Organization is also given an equal importance. The schools in this country taught us so, and it is still being taught to their current students. We all have tried to memories the name of the UN Secretary General at least once in our school days, and we did it with a great respect. But, the name Ban Ki-moon is quite an exception.
We have heard Mr. Moon’s name only twice in relation to our country. Once he wanted to send some of his “experts” to Sri Lanka to dig some graves it seemed. Now, he says he has a report with some loony allegations against our country. Why do you hate us so much? - is the question that runs in my mind and in many others’ here as well. The question prompts us to contemplate over the recent role of Mr. Moon and the organization he heads have been playing in the current international scene.
Let us turn back and see the sequence of events that took place in the last couple of years in our country. We, Sri Lankans were under the clutches of the most brutal kind of terrorism that the world has ever witnessed. There were regular village massacres, bomb blasts in busses and trains, suicide blasts … for about 25 years. Almost all our economic nerve centres were attacked the by the terrorists. We were simply the pray waiting for the predator. Where were those Ban Ki-moons, his Experts and all other worthies talking about human rights during that time? We did not see even a shadow of those human rights experts wanting to conduct an investigation over crimes committed against our nation.
Yes, we occasionally heard very brief texts of condemnation from Moon and his paymasters following major attacks on civilians, but not without the usual advice for the government to give into the demands of the terrorist outfit ASAP. The western media “heroes” here, were happily reporting all such bloodsheds, but were always careful to omit the word “terrorists” in their stories. For them, all attacks on us were something we deserve and justifiable. There were all sorts of Human Right watches, Amnesties, and similar puppets who thrive in “human rights industry” here. They were always silent about terrorist attacks, but burst feverishly against Sri Lanka, if ever the government hit hard on the terrorist outfit.
On the other hand, the terrorist outfit that we were fighting with was given all the freedom they need in the western world. They raised money even through extortions and intimidation and bought weapons, even aircraft, did propaganda and built a multi million dollar business network that can be envied by any multi national. They broke all the norms of humanity in their operations. They were the first to introduce suicide bombers to the world. They maintained a “baby brigade”, with child solders aging even 10 years. Other international terrorist organizations just had to follow what LTTE developed to the world of terrorism. After 30 years of its creation the LTTE became the world’s most sophisticated terrorist organization with its own ground, sea and air wings.
On our part, we almost tried everything to come into terms with this insane organization. We had number of ceasefires and peace talks but always suffered grave losses as the terrorists turned their backs showing their true colours. The last one we had in 2002, with Norwegians fully taking side with the terrorists, was too much for our nerves as a nation. For three years we had tried to talk peace with LTTE keeping our forces to barracks while the terrorists continued with their killing spree. We lost hundreds of soldiers and civilians. We even had our foreign minister assassinated by the terrorists. No Moon was there to shine over us during that time.
It should be understood by Mr. Moon and others who are upset with us for winning a war against terrorists that it was not our President that made the decision to go for war. We are a sovereign nation and that sovereignty lies with us, the people of Sri Lanka. At the 2005 presidential election people exercised this sovereignty and chose between two distinct alternatives for their gravest problem. They chose boldness instead of pusillanimity. President Mahinda Rajapaksa clearly articulated his stance over terrorism and how he would end the decade old suffering of our nation. People chose him, and he simply lived up to his promise. Hence, it was the public of this country that chose to end the terrorism for good.
This is what we want Mr. Moon and his Western paymasters to understand about our country. It is not just government propaganda that the people in this country come to street protesting your moves against our nation. We know by heart that you are wrong and we are pretty sure that you know that too. It is out of sheer hypocrisy on your part that you point finger at our nation for committing “war crimes”. Just go in front of a mirror Mr. Moon, you will know what a sorry figure you have become.
In your official web page, you say that you are resolved to set the highest ethical standards under your leadership. Also, you say that you are so inspired by the visions of the founders of UNO and will try to achieve them. Just be honest to yourself and look at what is going on in the world around you, Mr. Moon. See what has happened to Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Libya. Your paymasters want those countries to be killing fields and they ensured that it happened. What could you do about it? Did you ever wanted to appoint a panel why the US could not found weapons of mass destructions in Iraq after causing havoc in the poor country? It is clear to anyone in the whole world that no other time in the history UNO has been so helpless and defunct than the present.
Today, we are living in a world where world’s greatest war criminals try to preach the value of human rights to the world. We know Mr. Moon that your pay masters are rather happy to see a Sri Lanka in war than in peace. Or else, why on earth you wanted to publish a report with some crazy allegation against our country? How would you expect to help our reconciliation process by hurting healing wounds of a nation? We do not want to comment on the content on your report much, because, you can find the same trite allegations on pro LTTE websites. They have been there even before the so called “final stage of the war” started. You have wasted your time by appointing a panel “expert” to re write them for you.
Being ordinary citizens of this country, we are not experts in international affairs, but we have heard that you have violated all UN norms by making this report against us. We thank our friends Russia and China for taking a bold stance against this blunt hypocrisy shown against a small but sovereign member of the UNO. Their presence in UNO signals lesser privileged nations like us that there is still meaning for being a member in this once respectful organization.
But, for you, Mr. Ban-ki Moon, we are sure that you will accompany your report to the history as the UN’s greatest embarrassment. Or else, you will be known to the world as the person who killed the UNO’s credibility.
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