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At UN Human Rights Council:
Efforts of groups under rump LTTE bound to fail
by Manjula FERNANDO
The groups working under the aegis of the rump LTTE is plotting again
at the UN Human Rights Council sessions to destabilise Sri Lanka but
their efforts will not succeed as it had failed during more difficult
times earlier, said Plantations Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe who led
the Sri Lankan delegation to Geneva.
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Notorious local NGOs
pump money
Three notorious local NGOs
had pumped money to the tune of Rs. 600 million from 2008 -
2010 to work against the country and the Government. Their
terms of conditions to become beneficiaries included working
towards a regime change, authoritative sources said. The
funding had been channelled from overseas sources. Moreover,
the same NGOs had received a staggering Rs. 400 million from
unaccounted sources during this period. The sources said
that their main objective is to discredit the government and
paint a distorted picture of the situation in Sri Lanka. |
Minister Samarasinghe who returned to the country last week after
attending the inaugural sessions said, “There are the usual negative
constituencies which represent the NGOs.
They continue to harp on war crimes charges and strive to paint a
distorted human rights picture of Sri Lanka.” There is much progress
that could be put on record. No one could, in that kind of background
question the commitment of the Government in forging greater unity among
the different ethnicities.”
He said their efforts are bound to fail as the international
community has been made aware of Sri Lanka’s progress since the defeat
of the LTTE and the end of terrorism in May 2009.
“I cannot see the disinformation campaign against Sri Lanka ever
succeeding. If they could not achieve it during the height of the war
against terrorism, how could they do it when all these development
activities are taking place,” the Minister said.
He said that the international movement of the LTTE has not given up
their separatist ideology and their vigourous disinformation campaign
targets the UNHRC session each year. “Their target is to destabilise the
country.” “Those things will not disappear any time soon. We have to
intervene at the right time and put the record straight,” the Minister
said.
The UNHRC sessions that hear representations from government members
and non state players such as international NGOs will continue till
March 25. |
