the GOSL has just made a statement that they will prosecute individual testimony if it infringes the Constitution of Sri Lanka.
You can only do this if the Supreme
Court, a GOSL vassal says so. They are the final arbiter of court action. The statement
made by the Govt. that they would prosecute witnesses at the UNHRC hearings is a
DIRECT threat, another method of muzzling freedom of expression and of stopping
people from telling the truth, as the truth hurts for the GOSL who are pretended
it is a lie, and a pretense now being shown as fact, and that fact has been put
in the heads of the gullible people who now believe the lies and then some, and
it is then going to be difficult in the current climate for evidence to be obtained
for a proper investigation.
It appears to me that the GOSL is bent on
scuppering any chance of the UNHRC from proceeding by knobbling the potential witnesses
before they get to say anything. This is just ridiculous.
I have seen film taken by soldiers on the
frontline that were brutal depictions of their behavior. However it is behavior
that is normal of our people. You only have to visit a police station to know how
people are beaten to obtain a confession! The policeman will tell you that unless
he is beaten almost to death he will not confess, so though he knows it is against
the rules he has to do it to protect the public!
This is therefore similar to that example,
as it is NOT just a race thing, it is a Sri Lankan uncivilized behavior thinking
that we must change. UNHRC is not going to change that.
Further race does not determine man’s inhumanity
to man. All races and religions in Sri Lanka are just as culpable, and there is
a long way to go before we as a country are able to control our emotions rationally
and NOT resort to hitting till death just because we have an argument or disagreement
or slight altercation.
In that context may I remind our reader that
if a pedestrian or motorcyclist is killed by a car, van, bus or lorry, it is assumed
that the driver is the culprit, and unless he flees the scene of the accident, he
is liable to be lynched by an easily aroused mob who seconds earlier, before the
incident was kissing babies and passing the time of day on the road!!! I hope these
examples put in perspective what I am trying to say, and why Sri Lankans don’t want
the rest of the world telling them they are bent on genocide, and I know for a fact
only a minority of Sri Lankans are such, and of that a higher percentage of Tamil
and Muslim fall into the category of implicitly not trusting Sinhala people due
to their own prejudices.
No comments:
Post a Comment