The dodos in power don’t even seem to realize that they had to have an
action plan to fend off the international media pressure, and it seems they are
just in a fist fight with each other. In this instance it is the EAM or the
Ministry of External Affairs making rules as the go along and the Immigration
Department doing their own thing and it is our foreign visitors that get hurt,
and then it is the country that gets a bad name.
People of Sri Lanka, don’t you care about how we are perceived by the
outside world, as the Govt. sure does not, and to me that is out and out
treachery!
Below are just few of the links I became aware without any particular
searching.
This is just from
a 5 minute surf on web sites without a search. I dread to think what it would be
if I spent a few hours. So the crescendo is coming, and is the President and his
government blissfully unaware of the growing adverse comments.
It is time we stop
acting like idiots on the world stage granting visas one day and revoking them the
next saying that the purpose for which ti was granted has been broken. Stop this
nonsense grow up show consistency and not schizophrenia.
In my last blog entry I said that the Rajapakse clan won, but I failed to say that the Country Sri Lanka lost. In essence that is the treachery against the state!
http://www.trust.org/item/20131112091200-cmuoe/
ReplyDeletefor more on this
While I would have to agree this may have been a bit of a PR oversight (much worse disasters have happened in the past, have you seen the Al Jazeera interviews? *gasp*) These particular MPs from New Zealand and Australia were on tourist visas and (like most other nations) they were engaged in political activities, ready to engage in press conferences and conducting meetings with TNA offices and questioned when they were at the Political Colombo office of the TNA.
ReplyDeleteThey were engaged in activities that their visas did not allow. I think it is important to stress this point. Also the head of the Immigration Dept had met and explained the reasons to them in person to which they had agreed, perhaps reluctantly. But we really were within our rights, and they really were going beyond the visa granted to them. After all, this was a fact finding mission for them and Sri Lanka would have not come out of this one without making it a PR disaster anyway.
Interesting blog :)