by Ranjith Soysa
(October 13, Melbourne, Sri Lanka Guardian) Jayalath Jayawardane returned to Colombo, bloodied, bruised and crestfallen after the IPU refused to entertain his plea to crucify Sri Lanka. It is not surprising that he did decide to go to IPU considering his funny record in the human rights industry when Sri Lankan governments were fighting the LTTE terrorists.
He was a common figure in NGO related forums from Canada to Australia including Europe berating against the violation of human rights by Sri Lankan forces etc in their attempts to overcome the Tiger suicide squads. He was held in very high esteem by the anti Sri Lankan NGOs as well as church groups in the West.
Ironically, JJ never showed an interest to go before the IPU to speak about the murders of the President Premadasa, Ministers Lalith Athulathmudali, Gamini Dissanayake, C.V.Goonaratne, Lakshman Kadirgamar and the Parliamentarians , Amirthalingam, Thiruchelvam and others who were at the receiving end of the LTTE machine oiled by the countries represented at the IPU forum.
If JJ was a keen follower of the ‘Western democracies’ he would have noticed that practically no parliamentarian from the West had gone before the IPU to complain about their own countries in regard to the violations perpetrated on Rawanda, Congo, Sudan, Diago Gracia ,Pakistan, Iraq or Afganistan. It is felt that the parliamentarians in the Western countries do not believe in throwing the baby with the bath water at international fora.
Our Parliamentarian, Jayalath Jayawardene, a follower of the Western interest groups and the Western NGO agenda be smart enough to learn from the Western Parliament members of the IPU and avoid becoming a laughing stock of Sri Lankans.
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