Full-Report-of-OHCHR-Investigation-on-Sri-Lanka

jiggysaurus wrote:

kass wrote:

My view is that RW should show his colors and soften the stance of US with out giving 100% of what they want. Let's see how things go

The US has always backed its friends even the crappy ones like Saudi and Israel let's see what they deliver for Ponil.

Ethical Trader wrote:

kass wrote:

Ethical Trader wrote:

slstock wrote:ET what is your view on the report?

The report deals with human rights violations, (not crimes) and does not name any person/s responsible.

It allows the country concerned to name the names and to see whether there were any criminal charges against them and take appropriate action acceptable to all concerned.

So called recommendation on hybrid court investigation is the direct result of continued lies and cover-ups by the previous regime on the advice by certain consultants like Dayan Jayathilaka. Theoritical arguments on soverinity and interference on internal affairs by the UN is a ruse to cover-up misdeeds of previous regime. If they genuinly attempted to bring those violators to book no such hybrid courts proposal would be needed. Hence, the previous regime is responsible for the "untrust" created in the world community on our judicial system.

We canot develop this country by lying to the international community and avoiding due process for any human rights violations in the past. We need to show genuine effort to resolve all these in a transparent manner acceptable to the world. Then only we can be assurred of FDI badly needed to boost our economy. This objective cannot be achieved by continues lying and cover-ups.

Thus, the report gives a respectable space to us to deal with our internal affairs without direct international interference. The report should never be treated as an interference in our internal affairs because UN Human Rights Commission is an organization in which we too are active members. The dead rope given by so called consultants such as Dayan Jayathilaka should not be entertained. He does not seem to know that we too are members of the UN system.

I think US is also a member in this so called HR Commission, wonder what the commissioner did when US bombed Iraq, Afghanistan and their drones killing many civilians. Gorge Bush invaded Afghanistan with out the permission of UN and many other countries these, we all know what happens those days, but we simply ignore them and take the whole blame on us.

As Hunter said a bigger global wrath is upon us especially from the West lead by US and UK. This is due to MR defeating LTTE ignoring the West people's request. They think this as a grate insult to their command.

Yes there are problems in our system so as theirs. When black people are shot in USA and black people were shot in London where were these so called Human Rights people ( or blacks and Muslims are not people by their books).

I dont dispute what you say, but compare their judicial systems with ours. Their judicial systems are capable of taking care of any violations of laws by any one irrespective of the status of the culprit. Instead, our systems are tightly controlled by the political leaders.

Until this government corrected some of the weaknesses in the system (we canot do it over-night) all those rogues in power were spared and only those in the opposition were hunted. Minorities were hounded if they voice against the govt., journalists were harrassed or killed if they do not fall in line. In addition the system was highly corrupt and lethargic.

Hence, the distrust created among the UN system members lead to this "hybrid" proposal. ?Can we blame USA for this.

yellow knife wrote:

Japan is the best country we have to study..specially in economic fight .

Japan used to devalue their currency and subsidizing exporters who manufacture products. This innocent effort was like thrones to US and Britain who were the leading manufacturers in those days.

But Japan was very creative.

When Japan was forced under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to stop tax exemptions of export earnings in 1694 , MITI instead based firms' depreciation allowances on export performance- an equivalent tax rebate by a back door.

While allowing the newly elected government to sort out on its own, we have to educate ourselves on efforts taken by Japan and China to economically grow specially without begging for FDIs.

jiggysaurus wrote:

Ayyo how to compare shoeshine land with Jap land?

Jap land is 100% Jap and filled with hardworking peoples. They will happily work 80+ hours a week and take zero holidays. Shoeshine land is filled peoples and racists who define themselves based on ethnicity rather than nationality also it is full of lazy jeaolus shoeshine boys who don't wont others to do better than themselves and  the shoeshine boys want to only work 30 hours a week and take 30 holidays a year.

Lazy shoeshine land can't be compared to japland better we compare to Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda.

Also remember Japland was full pro US throughout the cold war and allowed US bases on their land so got access to US markets and developed through Exports. The unqualified widow who ran shoeshine land for most of the cold war went inside Indira's saree and become non aligned/soviet leaning thereby missed a golden opportunity to back the eventual winner.

Ethical Trader wrote:

slstock wrote:ET what is your view on the report?

We canot develop this country by lying to the international community and avoiding due process for any human rights violations in the past. We need to show genuine effort to resolve all these in a transparent manner acceptable to the world. Then only we can be assurred of FDI badly needed to boost our economy. This objective cannot be achieved by continues lying and cover-ups.

kass wrote:

Problem is not with the systems it's with the people. Though our systems are designed with some standard ( look at our education, health, transport they are not the poorest but not good as in West, however sufficient for a developing country) our people are not up to the standard. It is a tough leadership we require as a nation who would force our people to go though the systems in the right manner this should be practiced at least for a decade as per my view. Then only it becomes a norm in the culture and all the leaders who are taking the country thereafter should try to preserve and improve these qualities.

kass wrote:

Mind you these are not very easy tasks, many may give up after few attempts (as most did) and that's why we need a strong (politically and personally) person to run country. Otherwise we stay as beggars of puppets for ever

yellow knife wrote:

The only negative factor in your argument is if we continoulsy try to down-grade SL to Sudan and if all scholars, politicians, writers repeat the same we cannot expect anything more than that...

HUNTER wrote:True friends will never forget your help.
They will truly remember you when in need again.

HUNTER wrote:True friends will never forget your help.

They will truly remember you when in need again.

කිත්සිරි ද සිල්වා wrote:

We all should take such opportunities to educate others the ground realities (like what SLS did recently).

slstock wrote:Kiths I have done this at every opportunity for a long time .

කිත්සිරි ද සිල්වා wrote:Thanks (So, I am not alone, but some think that I am Sinhala Buddhsit chauvinist, reading my blog and other writings).

slstock wrote:Kiths I have done this at every opportunity for a long time .