Rattled by the Documentary evidence made Public by Channel 4 telecast of a Documentary ,’Sri Lanka‘s Killing fields’ on 14 March, The Government of Sri Lanka is organising march by mobilising stooges to protest tabling the Resolution to censure Sri Lanka on Tamil Genocide in Europe.
Henry Dephane, a Civil right activist from Tamil Nadu , who has been invited by the UNHRC, recounts how Tamil Supporters were manhandled in Geneva at the meeting and the Chairman of UNHRC apologised to the delegates.( source.Junior Vikatan 21/3/12)
Not content with this, the Sri Lankan Government seems to be inciting Sinhalese against the Tamils to the extent of making Sinhalese school children attack their Tamil counterparts from Jaffna!
‘Thousands of government supporters marched on foreign embassies yesterday to call on Western countries not to table a planned resolution critical of the country at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva.
Around 15,000 people marched to the US, Norwegian and German embassies, as well as the British high commission in Colombo to hand over petitions urging the resolution on alleged rights abuses committed during the country’s civil war be dropped…
The protesters condemned what they called interference from the US and other foreign powers in Sri Lanka’s internal affairs and accused the international community of trying to tarnish the country’s image at the UN meeting.
Among the marchers were the leaders of the Inter Religious Alliance for National Unity (IANU), who accused the US and international community of trying to tarnish the image of Sri Lanka.
“They have intervened in the internal affairs of other countries such as Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq and violated their human rights,” said its co-chairman Reverend Sarath Hettiarachchi.
The Methodist minister called on the government to align itself with anti-US countries to give Sri Lanka a stronger voice against its detractors.
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Nations divided at the grassroot in the island despite machinations of global powers, reflected in an episode this week in which visiting students from leading schools of Jaffna were attacked by fellow Sinhala students in a cadet camp at Randamba in the Southern Province. The Sinhala military officials in the camp, rather than attending to complaints, chose to send the Jaffna school students back, with a warning not to tell anyone what had happened to them in the camp. During the decades of war, Colombo had stopped cadet programmes in the schools of Jaffna. Now as a part of its militarisation and structural genocide programme Colombo has conceived the idea of obligatory military training to all university entrants and reintroduction of cadet programme in the leading schools of Jaffna.
Accompanied by teachers, school cadets (or rather children as they are under 18) from St. John’s College, Jaffna Hindu College, Kokkuvil Hindu College and Central College of Jaffna were among those who were taken for the cadet training camp of both Sinhala and Tamil students at the Randamba SL military facility in the Southern Province.
During the camping, verbal exchanges between the two sections snowballed into an attack on visiting Tamil students by the Sinhala students, on Tuesday.
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