Wimal says Sri Lanka faced Pakistan style destabilization project

By Shamindra Ferdinando-December 3, 2012, 

 National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Minister Wimal Weerawansa says that Sri Lanka is faced with a situation similar to that in Pakistan, where political stability had been threatened due to a damaging conflict between the government and the judiciary.

Minister Weerawansa alleged that Western powers had caused rifts between the executive and the judiciary and the parliament and the judiciary hence causing political turmoil in Pakistan.

Addressing a public meeting in Ampara on Saturday (01), Weerawansa alleged that that the US had manipulated the Supreme Court of Pakistan to destabilize that country.

Weerawansa said that the Western powers had not felt the need to politically destabilize the country previously as it was in dire straits due to war with the LTTE. They have now adopted a different strategy to undermine post-war Sri Lanka, the minister said, alleging that all those who couldn’t stomach armed forces’ victory ganged up against the country.

The minister emphasized the need on the part of the government to be vigilant or face the consequences. Those bent on subverting the country were taking orders from New York and London, he said.

Commenting on the recent UN internal inquiry on the conduct of its mission in Sri Lanka during the eelam war IV, the minister said that the government expected a major Western attack at the forthcoming 20th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) in Geneva.

He said that the UN internal inquiry could be used to justify unsubstantiated allegations made by UNSG Ban Ki moon’s Panel of Experts (PoE). The UN was going to the extent of discrediting its mission in Colombo in a bid to make a case against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC, the minister said.