The SuperPower Bullies

By: Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.d. – Michigan State University

These are crucial days for Sri Lanka. Terrorism has been totally defeated on the battle field in Sri Lanka but the scene of action has been taken to an international arena where the famous International Superpowers who overtly state their cause against terrorism are covertly aiding and abetting the continuance of terrorism. It is sad that they are trying their level best to castigate and punish Sri Lanka for having annihilated terrorism.

Few can speak out more than me for the land in Sri Lanka. As a student of archaeology and history I have in the Fifties been to many jungle areas in the North and the East and have read for myself the inscriptions carved on rock in Sinhala Brahmi script dating back to the Third Century B.C. Again as an administrator I have worked in most districts and have travelled widely in the wilds of the Wanni, moving with farmers and fishermen from fisheries hamlets that were interspersed all over the coast in the East and the North. Anuradhapura was my pet district where I worked twice and when President Rajapaksa took office there was a twenty mile strip of the Anuradhapura District including Horowpotana under the terrorist’s clutches. Many do not know this fact. Three years ago I knew that the Government held only the town of Trincomalee in that District and I was sad to see the splitting up of my Motherland. But now all that is history. We have seen our Diyasena Kumaraya in action. In March I heard that there were people in Sri Lanka who lit lamps daily for our President. What he has achieved merits that.

But all is not well. We have to listen to the International Community of Superpowers and we have just been victorious at the Human Rights Council where the Third World waged a battle to support a country that tried to establish its authority on its own land.

I have been more a student of history and can stand up in place of our Professors of history who are resigned to silence perhaps due to dubious reasons. It is time that they tell us what history tells us.

History tells us in no uncertain terms of the work of the Bullies. Sri Lanka as the Sinhale is called today, we have had a history dating back to two thousand five hundred years. During those years we never invaded other countries. A few of our kings like Nissanka Malla and Gajaba raided South India but that was to teach invading armies a lesson. We were never a belligerent nation trying to embark on seas and fight an enemy five thousand miles away- like what the USA has embarked on today. It is alright and legitimate for the USA to invade Afghanistan eight thousand miles away from its shores, in search of a terrorist- Bin Laden, but it is not correct for Sri Lanka to wipe out terrorism within our own land!

Rohith was a doctoral student with me at Michigan State University. When we parted in 1979, he gave me an undertaking that if I were to step into Afghanistan he would take me everywhere on his circuits as he was a Director of Adult Education. Alas today that country thanks to International Bullies is in rubble and Rohith is lost. Few realize that the foray of the USA to Afghanistan is today totally destablising Pakistan. President Musharaff in his last days made a frank admission why he had to allow the USA to use his air space- he said that he was told firmly that Pakistan would be reduced to rubble if he disagreed. He had to save Pakistan!. Third World leaders should remember this bullying.

Now Pakistan is in disarray. The presence of US forces and the use of Pakistan land is having a backlash from Pakistani militants. As far as I know two large consignments of army supplies have been blown up. Now almost half of Pakistan is in sheer turmoil, with attacks everyday and it is reported that as much as 2.5 million are displaced- living under tents. A good20question is as to why the United Nations Human Rights monitors-including Navi Pillai who were crying about 250,000 being displaced in Sri Lanka is not concerned with as much as 2.5 million people being displaced, living under tents in Pakistan. No one including the UN or Aid Agencies are clamouring to have access.! The Aid Agencies are not agitating to send supplies to this 2.5 million people! They know what happened to Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street Journal. This shows that the International Community as well as their Aid Agencies are really up to mischief. In the case of Sri Lanka, they really want to allow the terrorists to resurrect. Pakistan is not in their globe!

The International Superpowers do what they like. They do not care even about their own top officials. The USA and the UK, when they wanted to attack Iraq made a case that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction. David Kelley was an expert in biological warfare and a United Nations’ weapons inspector. Kelley was of the opinion that Iraq did not have Weapons of Mass Destruction but was reported otherwise. Kelley disputed the report. Strangely Kelley went on an evening walk and never returned home- he was found dead. Many strange things happened-. The facts are:

An inquest should have been held into his death, but the case was taken away from the coroner

The Hutton Inquiry ruled that Kelley had committed suicide. Medical experts have contested the suicide theory Norman Baker, a Liberal democrat Member of Parliament who held a private inquiry hinted at a cover up involving Thames Valley police who carried out the investigation.

The Memorium on Dr David Kelley, April 6, 2009 states:

The biggest load of whitewash for Government disgrace in a generation. It was a massive cover up from start to finish.

Rowena Thursby in Dark Actors at the Scene of David Kelley’s Death mentions a riverboat coming on the scene and a helicopter on the night Kelley died: She states: possibly an SAS style assassination or clean up team. The riverboat itself was the designated hideout- the get away method for an assassination team.

Michael Shrimpton, a UK national security lawyer explodes the myth that Kelley had taken his own life. Shrimpton even gave evidence to the confidential briefing of the US Senate Intelligence Committee.

Kelley’s death is a shame on the UK, but Human Rights authorities were silent.

It is also important to note that David Kelley had contacts with one Mata Hari-( the cover up name ) , a US Army Intelligence Officer who was working under disguise as a translator in Iraq.

The International Superpowers are not the humanitarian people they pose to be. In the Lancaster House Agreement of 1979, Britain the country that had ruled Rhodesia from 1890 to 1965 agreed to pay compensation to white farmers who will be dispossessed of their land when the land will be taken over. This was actually land taken over by force- the land was sold to the whites including entire villages. In 1981, Britain pledged to pay œ 630 million as compensation, but when Mugabe decided to take over the farms to settle the people the Government of Tony Blair reneged on the commitment and paid only œ 44 million. Thus the real culprit for not paying compensation to the white farmers was the British Government of Tony Blair.

However Tony Blair or the British Government was not castigated. . Instead the entire International Community of Superpowers imposed the sanction of not giving Aid to Zimbabwe.

Mugabe became a follower of the IMF and the IMF imposed its Structural Adsjustment Programme on Zimbabwe which led to Zimbabwe becoming an indebted country. It is important to note that every country that implemented the Structural Ad justment Programme and this includes Sri Lanka has ended with high inflation and severe foreign debt. My book: How the IMF Ruined Sri Lanka & Programmes of Success details how Sri Lanka was made indebted.

Faced with the sanction of no Aid and No Loans, Mugabe could survive only for a limited number of years with loans from friendly countries. In the meantime the International Superpowers had their say through human rights organizations and the opposition in the country. The Aid Agencies had a field day sowing seeds of discord. Production fell because the Government did not take full control and allowed foreign investors and Aid Agencies to play their dubious part.

Today Zimbabwe is in sheer trouble with an inflation rate of 100,000% in 2008, a totally failed production, starvation and severe poverty. Mugabe is held responsible for all this. But the real culprit is Britain who reneged on paying the compensation that was promised. The only action taken by Mugabe was to take over the lands occupied by the white farmers and he was entitled to do it because the local people had no land and were unemployed..(For full details on Zimbabwe, please see my article Mugabe’s Zimbabwe Today:The Stranglehold of the Superpowers and the IMF in Action: Lessons for Sri Lanka in Asian Tribune, 2008-07-21

Beware Sri Lanka! The International Community of Superpowers is yet gunning at you. The history of the past five centuries tells us that the Superpowers cannot be trusted. I can go on for ever writing details. It will be wise to look out for any ‘Mata Hari’ type of intelligence operatives among the staff of Aid Agencies.

It has to be a situation of total vigilance to survive. The International Community works through their own mechanisms- the IMF and the WTO and the United Nation’s institutions. Beware!