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The USA is not only the sole super power in the world but also boasts of the highest diplomatic presence. When Sri Lanka has diplomatic ties with only 48 nations, the USA maintains diplomatic relations with 196 out of 206 sovereign nations in the world. In comparison with the USA, Sri Lanka is an insignificant member of the world community. However, the number of nations in favour of the US resolution has been increased only by one during the year.
India has also lost its status as the leader of the third world. Only 11 out of 34 third world nations voted for the resolution. Its record in Asia is dismal. Only South Korea voted for the resolution in Asia in addition to India. South Korea’s vote is a result of its dependency on the USA and India cannot claim any credit for it.
Giant India annually purchases only half a billion dollars worth of goods from Sri Lanka. Nevertheless, tiny Sri Lanka purchases goods from India worth nine-folds of Indian purchasing. 175,000 out of 1,200 million Indians visited Sri Lanka in 2010. In response, 210,000 out of 20 million Sri Lankans visited India. Indian companies dominate the Sri Lankan market in the fields of three wheelers, small cars, toiletries, telephones, medicine and agricultural equipment.
India had been practicing Pancha Seela Foreign Policy introduced by Sri Nehru which included non-interference in internal matters of nations. India broke this long-standing policy in order to harass Sri Lanka. India has urged Sri Lanka to permit a team of the UN Human Rights Commissioner to enter into the country and conduct a war crime investigation to the satisfaction of the international community. Sri Lanka has nothing to hide. We do not have skeletons in cupboards because we do not possess the cupboards imported from Kashmir. We are in fear since the results are pre-determined.
The Darusman report failed to secure international recognition since the report compilers neither visited Sri Lanka nor talked to the parties in conflict. It is merely a drama script which has no actors, nor a stage to perform. Navi Pillay is badly in need of visiting Sri Lanka to patch up the Darusman report with on-the-spot evidence. The TNA would train several Tamils to give evidence to meet this requirement. With Navi Pillay’s visit, the Darusman script would be turned to a live stage drama. That is why we are against the visit of Pillay.
Whenever India invaded us, we fought and defeated them. Our 2,600 years of recorded history is the tale of fighting India. It is not a novel experience for us. It is a part and parcel of our life. Indian diplomatic assault has now been turned to physical assaults in Tamil Nadu. In this backdrop, Sri Lanka should revisit its “pleasing India” policy.
George Thursday, 04 April 2013 11:00 AM
Wow! Interesting article.
Lionel silva Friday, 05 April 2013 06:07 AM
A sad article with factual inaccuracies and shows how naive the writer is. I hope a majority of Sri lankans will ignore this article.
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