Why Should Blake Consult Sri Lankan Tamil Expats to Make Demands From the Sri Lankan President?
September 3, 2009 —
By Charles S. Perera
As the American Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Robert O’Blake, was already a sympathizer of the terrorists in Sri Lanka, along with Chilcot, the Ambassodor of UK, and Eric Solheim of Norway.
When Robert O’Blake was promoted from his position of American Ambassador to Sri Lanka to Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, he also seems to have got promoted from his status of a sympathizer of the terrorists in Sri Lanka , to being the spokesman for the pro-terrorist Sri Lankan Tamil expatriates in America. For which of the two promotions he is better adapted, or for which he should be recognized, only the time will tell.
Blake is not upholding President Barack Obama’s foreign policies. He is still in the days of the Bush era. During the period he was the Ambassador, he had been telling the government of Sri Lanka, at regular intervals, that the only solution to the terrorism in Sri Lanka is a political solution, and that it cannot be solved through a military option. He got all local pro-terrorists elements recognized by the American State Department, proposing people like Mano Ganeshan for an American award for defending human rights. They were strangely given visas to enter America. The paradox of it is seen now after elimination of terrorism.
The international community, led by America and the UK, vowed to fight terrorism whereever it exists. And they refused any negotiations with terrorists. But despite that being hoisted as their principal modus operandi in the face of terrorism, they inexplicably went soft towards the terrorists in Sri Lanka and were all out to save them at any cost, even seeking to enter the area when the most ruthless of all terrorists, -Prabhakaran and his cohorts – were cornered in Mullaitivu.
That was a real change of attitude of the international community that had vowed to fight terrorists where ever they are. Furthermore, even now when the government forces have successfully eliminated terrorism, the international community is deliberately taking revenge from the Sri Lanka government and its Armed Forces for their praiseworthy military operations to eliminate terrorism by accusing them for violating human rights, war crimes, and now for imprisoning the IDP’s in camps.
We now see the West as they really are – bereft of their well-publicized Christian justice and fair play. The paradox of their vowed anti-terrorist principle is that the American Embassy in Sri Lanka it appears, may not issue visas for the members of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces to visit the United States on the ground of their part in “violation of human rights.” Is America a democracy? One really begins to wonder.
Blake, now an Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, with his own agenda – different from that of President Barrack Obama’s foreign policies – is having a dialogue with terrorist sympathizers among the expatriate Tamils. Blake has shamelessly met with them in the State Department,in Washington D.C., assuring them that they will not be prosecuted by the Government of Sri Lanka for the part they played in aiding and abetting the terrorists in Sri Lanka, or by providing the terrorists with financial aid, and carrying out pro-terrorist and anti Sri Lanka manifestations in foreign countries. In doing so he has become the spokesman for the pro-terrorist Tamil expatriates in America, as well as their protector.
Blake’s departure from President Barack Obama’s foreign policy is in his collaboration with the expatriate Tamils in America, who openly aided and abetted the terrorists in Sri Lanka, to make demands from the Government of the Sovereign State of Sri Lanka on behalf of them – the Tamil expats – for an early reconciliation with the Tamils.
The question to be asked in this circumstance is whether President Obama, in trying to find a solution to have a dialogue with the political leadership in Iran, will call the expatriate Iranians in America to find out their point of view before he meets with Iranian leaders?
I am sure he will not, and President Obama is an intelligent and forthright statesman. He would rather enter into a direct contact with the political leaders of Iran and not cultivate doubtful relationships with expatriate Iranians who are opposed to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But surprisingly, this is not what Robert Blake is doing behind President Obama’s back with regard to Sri Lanka.
Of course there is no point in bringing it to the notice of the State Department, as the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Hillary Clinton, is hand in glove with Milliband, Carl Bildt, Bernard Kouchner, Eric Solheim, and the crowd. Perhaps President Obama has not paid attention to what is going on in the State Department, and is a stranger to the manipulations of Robert Blake’s intent to break up Sri Lanka ethnically, and if possible territorially.
Whom does Robert Blake take himself for, to tell the President of Sri Lanka when he should begin a national reconciliation in Sri Lanka? It is purely a matter for the President of Sri Lanka to decide. The expatriate Tamils were contributing to the breakup Sri Lanka, and never for any reconciliation, and Blake becomes their unofficial spokesman, taking up the cause of expatriate Tamils. In doing so, he interferes in the affairs of a democratically elected Government of a Sovereign State, which he should not do in his present capacity as Assistant Secretary of the State Department in the United States.
Ever since he was the Ambassador of Sri Lanka, he began to find ways and means to break up Sri Lanka and bring discredit to the Sri Lankan Government. He prophesied that the military option will not be successful. But he was proven wrong. The only solution against terrorism is a military solution and that was proven to the world by the Sri Lanka Government under President Mahinda Rajapakse and his brave Armed Forces.
And Robert Blake now dares make another prophesy that if the government does not move to find a political reconciliation before January 2010, the people will become disaffected and that will give new impetus to terrorism. It is time that he stops making his prophecies to please certain quarters, as he is proving himself to be a hoax and a false prophet.
He merely repeats the demands of the Tamil expatriates who are strangers to Sri Lankan Tamils. They, living in the cozy comfort of their foreign home, do not understand what the Tamil people had to go through being under a ruthless group of terrorists for the last 25 years. And they are people with fires of hatred within and cannot bring about the much needed communal unity in Sri Lanka.
The pro-terrorist expatriate Tamils stand for dissension, hatred, and disunity. Sri Lanka wants nothing to do with them as long as they do not come directly to the Government of Sri Lanka to discuss what role they would like to play in the development of Sri Lanka as a nation. Their going in search of people like Blake to be their spokesman shows their dishonesty and their continued effort to discredit Sri Lanka, and if possible finance another terrorist group. Does Robert Blake want that to happen?
Robert Blake is now the Assistant Secretary of State. His office demands that he should forget his past affiliations in living up to the call of his new office. He should not mingle with terrorists, rabble-rousers, disrupters, and nincompoops when he has to deal with another sovereign state. He should consult the leaders of those countries directly without sullying his hands dealing with non-state elements of doubtful origin.
What Blake never seems to have understood is that the Government of Sri Lanka, which removed a 30 year old cancer of terrorism without causing great death and injury to the civil population, and rescuing over 200,000 Tamil civilians from the grip of the terrorists who had kept them as a human shield, has not been able to learn any lesson from Blakes, Bildts, Millibands, Solheims or Kouchners in dealing with the IDPs, removing obstacles to security, and finally settling them in their homes.
Originally published on LankaWeb on August 31, 2009.
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