Ms.Pillai’s IMPLAUSIBLE stand

M. Haris Z Deen, Ph.D., MBA., BSc., LLB (Hons.) FRICS

Naveen Pillai having failed in her earlier attempts in the United Nations Human Rights Council in March 2012 to humble and humiliate Sri Lanka on its Human Rights record, continues to rake muck in further attempts to save face at her previous failures.

United Nations Human Rights Council session in progress

Sri Lanka though bravely faced, confronted and responded effectively to all the charges levelled against her. Furthermore, Sri Lanka, in allowing foreign fact finding missions to the places ravaged by the civil conflict (which has been erroneously termed war) and to confront and question the very people, the Tamils, against whom Naveen claims atrocities have been committed have displayed complete transparency. So far none of these foreign agencies have been able to come up with any evidence to support the trumped up allegations.

In fact, Sri Lanka in my view is the only country prepared to open its doors to such fact finding missions to travel freely to wherever they wished to go and speak to whomever they wished to gain evidence from, thus proving that she has no proverbial 'skeletons in her cupboards'. In fact in May 2012 Sri Lankan External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Pieris agreed to allow a visit to this country by Naveenathan Pillai as United Nations Commissioner on Human Rights, without any reservations or conditions and also to host her. Despite this she continues to rubbish this country. Perhaps she has a reason for it as George Orwell stated in 1984 referring to another situation that:

She spent an astonishing amount of time in attending lectures and demonstrations, distributing literature for the Junior Anti-Sex League, preparing banners for Hate Week, making collections for the savings campaign, and such-like activities. It paid, she said; it was camouflage. If you kept the small rules you could break the big ones.

Perhaps for Pillai, Sri Lanka is the camouflage or the scapegoat to cover her own disappointments and humiliations she and the UNHCR are suffering at the hands of the arrogant Israelis. In fact on the same day that the UNHCR passed a resolution condemning Sri Lankas human rights record in which the US and UK voted for, a similar resolution was passed against the Israelis in which the US and UK voted against. At this point it will not be out of place to assert that the Arab countries including Saudi Arabia and Qatar supported Sri Lanka by voting against the resolution. The Saudi and Arab bashers in Sri Lanka should not forget that these countries always continued to support this Island of ours.

Readers of this article will be interested to know that the very same country, the United States that proposed the resolution against Sri Lanka used its veto powers 26 times on human rights motions against Israel and ironically the US not only opposed the motion against Israel it also spoke against the motion on the probe on Israeli settlements proposed by Pakistan. What hypocrisy!! Time and again when it comes to Israel, not only the US but all the western nations have shown unjust partiality and Naveenathan Pillai is powerless to do anything about it.

The Gulf Times of March 27th reported that Israel was very upset at a resolution passed against it in the United Nations Human Rights Council and has declared that it would cut off all contacts with that body. In the same report it was stated that Israel has said that it would bar any UN fact finding team from entering the Jewish State. At the same time (very aptly in my view) Israeli Prime Minister in his usual arrogant manner, has called the Human Rights Council a hypocritical body with an automatic majority against Israel.

This Council should be ashamed of itself, he thundered. According to him, the Council has passed 91 resolutions upto that time and 39 of them were against Israel. It is on record that there were 224 resolutions dealing with various violations committed by Israel passed in the UN, its Security Council and its other organs all of which were flouted by the Jewish State.

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Ms.Pillai’s IMPLAUSIBLE stand