Tony Blair, Chilcot Report & The UNP Led Government
By Latheef Farook –July 12, 2016
Latheef Farook
After losing more than two dozen elections the United National Party, UNP, was voted to power last year. The entire Muslim community voted for UNP to free themselves from the post-war persecution of Muslims by the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime.
However dismissing Muslim sentiments the UNP led coalition aligned itself, virtually unconditionally with the United States led British, French and Israeli neo con war mongers who have unleashed, world-wide a barbaric war against Islam and Muslims, destroyed several Muslim countries, killed millions of Muslims, forcing out millions of them into refugee camps and to cross the mighty oceans facing death for hundreds of them in deep waters and the rest finally ending up in European streets as beggars.
As part of this samaraweera foreign policy, war criminal Tony Blair and his family were invited by Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera on a two week holiday during November 2005.
This not only shocked but also insulted Sri Lanka –once a proud voice of the Non Aligned Movement and a fearless defender of justice for oppressed people worldwide in all third world fora and beyond.
Allowing war criminal Tony Blair to step into the soil of Sri Lanka, dismissing the island’s intelligentsia and the sentiments of the Muslim community, is the last think one could expect from a government claiming to establish good governance.
However it was not something unexpected as Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s UNP government was perhaps the only third world country that refused to condemn the US led invasion of Iraq. When some Muslim parliamentarians tried to condemn the US invasion they were told, according to several sources, by Prime Minister Wickremesinghe to leave the government and do so.