Learn Lesson and Respond Concretely: ‘LLRC’ for Tamils on US resolution
[TamilNet, Thursday, 07 March 2013, 20:08 GMT]
The draft resolution based on Sri Lanka's LLRC tabled at the 22nd
Session of the UNHRC, by the USA that architected the genocidal war
against Eezham Tamils, should be an eye-opening lesson to all Tamils in
the world in learning with confirmation the dismissive attitude of the
USA towards the annihilation-facing nation of Eezham Tamils. The
attitude of New Delhi, seeing Sri Lanka an enemy of humanity as a friend
of India, and its interest in seeing Washington and Colombo directly
engaging with each other are already known. Tamil activists teamed
between the two powers for ages, believing that one or both would come
to the rescue, and were showing a mirage to the common folk now and
then, should learn the lesson at least now and respond concretely in
addressing the ultimate adversaries.
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The empty resolution tabled by the USA may be watered down further, but
Tamils have to carefully peruse the draft to understand the attitude,
course adopted and consequences.
The big noise made by the
crisis-watch outfits and media in the West, followed by articulations in
India, served only for the two powers to pressure Colombo to get their
benefits. This procedure will continue year after year as a ritual,
without bringing anything to the affected Eezham Tamils.
The
recent articulations were only engineered to deceive Tamils from getting
at the neck of the ultimate detractors of the Tamil cause.
Tamils
have to carefully note that media in the service of the two powers have
already started orchestrating on the ‘virtues’ of the resolution to
silence any mass opposition and uprising.
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Two
demands were highlighted from the Tamil side: One was to approach the
national question as a national question and come out with solutions
appropriate to the genocide-facing Eezham Tamils, and the other was
international investigations on the war crimes.
Both were not only rejected but also countered in the draft resolution.
Despite
all exposure of the war crimes, the US resolution doesn’t welcome
independent international investigation on the war crimes. The
resolution comes out with a specific contrast: it ‘welcomes’ OHCHR’s
cooperation with Colombo, but only ‘notes’ Ms. Navi Pillai’s call for
international investigation. The contrast implies that international
investigation is not welcomed by the USA.
In the entire draft
resolution there is not even a single phrase of recognition of the crux
of the crisis, for which a struggle was made in the last six decades,
politically and militarily and against which the USA architected the
genocidal war. This is a total distortion of truth and abetment of the
international liars to Colombo’s lies on the genocide it carries out.
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The
draft resolution begins with LLRC implementation. The ultimate aim of
the LLRC recommendations in achieving the annihilation of the nation of
Eezham Tamils and its territoriality in the island is well known.
The
draft speaks of implementing “constructive recommendations” and this
time the USA has come out specifying what are those ‘constructive’ ones:
Other
than the meaningless rhetorical reiteration on the need of local
investigations, reforms and guarantees to freedoms, the draft specifies
demilitarization of only the ‘North of Sri Lanka’ ostensibly forgetting
the East, implying that the East has gone for ever to Eezham Tamils.
The
draft also specifies implementing “impartial land dispute resolution
mechanisms.” Does it mean that the land of Eezham Tamils should be
distributed to every one ‘impartially’ and then the Tamils to be either
assimilated or chased away as it happened in the Padaviya region? Does
it show ways and means for genocidal Colombo and encourages it to
accelerate further the structural genocide?
The draft talking on
the “devolution of [non-descript] powers to the provinces,” without
recognising the land of the nation of Eezham Tamils and when carried out
after the implementation of structural genocide, is meaningless to the
struggle waged by Eezham Tamils for decades. It concedes ultimate
victory to the genocidal Sinhala State in the island.
Right from
early 1980s, the district councils and provincial councils were
masterminded by the USA and India to ignore and diffuse the national
question of Eezham Tamils and to save the genocidal Sinhala State in the
island.
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The US draft resolution
seeks Sri Lanka’s ‘cooperation’ with special procedures mandate holders
and with some outstanding requests. They were on Colombo giving access
to Special Rapporteurs on judiciary, human rights defenders, etc., and
in responding to requests related to fundamental freedoms and individual
human rights.
After seeing nearly for a year since the last
UNHRC resolution, what justice the foreign visitors have brought to
Tamils in making reports and comments when they return, one could guess
what would happen through the ‘cooperation’ the US draft is seeking with
Colombo.
The humorous part is the US giving time to Colombo in the ‘implementation’ of a hollow resolution.
Sri
Lanka will be again taken up for discussion at the UNHRC after one full
year, in the 25th session. One could expect further extensions as long
as the Rajapaksa regime looks after the special needs of the USA and
India.
Colombo is given unchecked time and space for the annihilation of the nation of Eezham Tamils, desired by the USA and India.
