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Thursday, May 21, 2009 - 9.45 GMT |
What International Community?
Figures tell
the truth |
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For the past several months Sri Lanka has
been the focus of attack by the
“International Community” as it exercised
its sovereign right to eradicate terrorism
from its soil.
The main allegations of violations of human
rights, with dire predictions of “imminent
humanitarian crises” and “bloodbaths”, based
on often unverified information provided by
pressure groups that support terrorism came
from this “International Community”, which
has not given up is moves to hinder and
assail Sri Lanka, as she begins to restore
democracy, after the successful military
defeat of the “most ruthless terrorist
organization in the world” as stated by the
FBI of the USA in 2008.
Last Tuesday (May 19) the majority of
members of this “International Community”
called for and obtained a special session of
the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to discuss
the humanitarian situation in Sri I Lanka,
under the procedural rules of the HRC.
The requisition for this special session was
signed by 17 members of the HRC, a largely
Euro-centric group, influenced by the
political and economic power centres of the
west.
The total population of these 17 signatory
countries is 597.5 million.
The total population of the 31 members of
the HRC that did not sign the request for
the special session is 3,694 million.
The populations of the world’s largest
democracy alone, that did not sign the
request is 1,200 million (1.2 billion).
The populations of countries such as
Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Nepal and
Malaysia that largely follow western style
democracy, but have not signed the call for
the special session is 1,584.1 million.
The population of the South Asia region, no
country of which signed the request for the
special session, is 1,632.7 million.
By what calculation or imagination can
governments representing 596.5 million
comprise the International Community,
against those that represent 3,694 million
among members of the HRC, and an even larger
number when those not in the HRC are also
included?
Who is fooling whom, and to what purpose?
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