Double standards of USA, Western bloc exposed

by Uditha KUMARASINGHE

Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities Minister Wimal Weerawansa said had the USA had a genuine desire to safeguard human rights, they should have moved a resolution against the then UNP Government which was held responsible for the loss of 66,000 lives during the 1987-1989 terror.

“Why didn’t the USA and other Western countries move a single resolution on the killing of these 66,000 people in Sri Lanka? Didn’t they see it as a grave human rights violation”?

The then UN Secretary General should have appointed a committee to look into the brutal killings that took place in Sri Lanka and a similar Darusman Report should have been issued. But none of these measures had been taken, the Minister told the Sunday Observer.

It is obvious that the then Government in power had pandered to the whims and fancies of the USA. Therefore, whatever human rights violations had been committed in Sri Lanka, the USA and other Western countries turned a blind eye to them. Since the present Government does not do so, even trivial incidents

in Sri Lanka, were wrongly projected to the international community as grave human rights violations. This clearly shows the double standards of the USA and some Western countries, the Minister said.

Minister Weerawansa queried whether the USA had any moral right to talk about human rights violations? What happened to the human rights of the people in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan? Who is responsible for the chaos in Libya when people kill each other and also its catastrophe in Afghanistan? Therefore, it is evident that the USA is attempting to interfere in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka in the guise of protecting human rights.

The true story is that the USA and a few Western countries have incurred displeasure over the Mahinda Rajapaksa administration due to crushing of the LTTE terrorism. Therefore they are attempting to topple the Rajapaksa administration through the Rosa Wasanthaya (Rose Summer) which they had launched in the Middle East, the Minister said.