Tuesday, 11 March 2014
President Mahinda Rajapaksa was scared to go to the UK because he feared that the Tamils would protest and ruin his plans to attend the Commonwealth event at the Commonwealth Secretariat, Marlborough House. Instead, he sent his External Affairs Minister G L Peris to represent him.
It is very unusual for the Chair-in-Office to be absent from such an event. President Rajapaksa’s last two trips to the UK were disastrous. The first trip where he had high hopes of giving a speech at the Oxford Union was unilaterally cancelled by Oxford Union as they could not provide security when the British Tamils Forum planned a protest in Oxford. The second trip, where he planned to give a speech at the prestigious Mansion House was also cancelled as the British Tamils Forum organized a protest. It looks like the President has to keep on hiding for the rest of his life. He has admitted that the US sponsored UN Human Rights Council resolution is a headache and he feels uncomfortable. Sri Lankans are now feeling ashamed of the President because he has brought nothing but disgrace to our mother land. When someone does a search in google and types ‘Sri Lanka’ they would see ‘war crimes’, ‘crimes against humanity’, ‘rape’ and so on. The Channel 4 news recently showed evidence of Sri Lankan soldiers sexually assaulting bodies of dead Tamil women. These soldiers are believed to be Sinhala Buddhists. All Buddhists in Sri Lanka are ashamed of their actions as it is completely the opposite of what Buddhism preaches.
The response from the High Commissioner to Channel 4 was unbelievable. He says it was unsubstantiated ‘rubbish’. Is this the best he can do being a diplomat. Is this diplomatic language? Even a Maradana thug would think twice before using such language. Then he also says Callum and calumny, Callum being the producer of the documentary. If a medical doctor, a businessman and above all a man representing our country can use such undignified language, what hope do we have?
The clip shows where the Sri Lankan High Commissioner DrNonis pointing to Mr and MrsPeiris the protest organized by the British Tamils Forum whilst their car was entering Marlborough House.
