The Great Indian Betrayal - India Voted Twice For Sri Lanka

By  Paul Newman  -

April 15, 2014

Dr. Paul Newman

India proved once again that it cannot be trusted by anyone. When everyone who have been keenly following the Sri Lankan Affairs EXPECTED
to Vote for the U.S. sponsored resolution seeking International Investigations,
abstained after giving an unwanted moral Boldness and Conviction at the 25   ^TH  UNHRC in Geneva during the course of the passing of the resolution A / HRC/25/23.

All there were voting in Three  On the 27 ^TH  of March 2014. On The First One was by a Vote sought to ascertain whether there were Lahore Enough finances in the UNHRC to conduct an International Inquiry and wanted the resolution to be deferred for a year. India which had announced that would abstain jumped into action and voted for the Pakistan sponsored motion.   

Lahore was also sought by the Second Vote to remove operative paragraph 10 (OP10) seeking an International inquiry.
once Again voted along with Lahore, China, Russia and Caribbean Nederlands remover to OP 10. 

On the Third Vote seeking IT was only the passing of the resolution sponsored by the USA,
abstained.   Thereby clearly cast
Its Vote On behalf of Sri Lanka and of Supported twice Lahore and China.

It was a day of shame to be voting along with countries which has the scantiest regards for human rights. The justification may be the Kashmir issue. If India has treated the people of Kashmir with dignity and honor why should it fear any inquiry?

In 2012, everyone thought India would vote against the resolution (A/HRC/19/L.2) and support Sri Lanka, they just did the opposite. Sri Lanka stood dumb folded and betrayed as its immediate neighbor had taken the trouble of garnering votes for Sri Lanka in 2009 (A/HRC/S-11/L. 1/Rev. 2) and voted along with China and Pakistan long considered by the South Block and the other Indians as their traditional enemies and the only countries against which India has fought wars.

The 2009 vote for Sri Lanka along with Pakistan was a very curious case to note as India had virtually snapped all its relations with Pakistan after the Mumbai bomb blasts in November 2008 in which Pakistan was accused of aiding the terrorists who had carried out this attack on India's economic capital.

In 2012, India's position was not clear till the last minute. The pressure from Tamilnadu was too much for the Indian state to resist. It played its wily game by supporting the resolution and sprang a diplomatic success. India diluted the resolution and Sri Lanka was happy that its immediate neighbor had helped them by diluting the resolution despite voting against it. USA, the main sponsor of the resolution too was happy that the resolution had the support of the world's largest democracy and the leader of the Non Aligned Movement. The people of Tamilnadu too calmed down as their country stood by their emotional sentiments.

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