Catholic Justice Commission of Brisbane Archdioce’s
By Blaise Lowe
The recent article by Peter Arndt on Sri Lanka is just another attempt by some ignorant Australian playing God just because he works for the Catholic Justice Commission. It is strange to hear a Australian talking about human rights. One has to only look to the Australian aborigines to see what human rights they have. It seems to me many Australians, including the Catholic church here, believe they are not human and therefore have no human rights.
Before commenting on Sri Lanka and suggesting the Australian government should work with the other Western governments to impose trade sanctions against Sri Lanka, Peter Arndt should look into his own backyard and campaign against the Catholic church to work for human the rights for the aborigines.
Every Sri Lankan – Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims, or other minorities suffered in many ways for over twenty years because of the LTTE scum, and the Sri Lankan government should make no apologies for wiping them out. There may have been some human right abuses in achieving this outcome, but never forget that the army lost over six thousand men during the last few days by trying to save as many civilians as possible.
Tamils in Sri Lanka enjoy all the benefits as the other Sri Lankans do, definitely much more than the rural Sinhalese. Can Peter say the same about the aborigines in Australia? Tamils are only about 18% of the Sri Lankan population, but they are about 40% of the professionals like the engineers, doctors, teachers, etc. There over twenty Tamils in the Sri Lankan parliament. What is the literacy rate among the aborigines in Australia? How many aborigines are in the parliament in Australia? Peter should think and read about Sri Lanka before he talks. He talks like any other on the Tamil diaspora payroll like Hilary Clinton, BBC, ABC, and UN organizations.
I’m am a Catholic and often ashamed to call myself a Catholic as it is obvious the Catholic Church in Australia is only interested in making money. Perhaps the Peace Commission got a big donation from one of the LTTE fronts. The Church is building more and more churches and schools in well to do communities so that it can make more money. But what is the Catholic Church doing in those poor aborigine communities? I bet not much, as it is bad for business.
Originally published on March 8, 2010 on LankaWeb.
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