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by sivakaran | July 23, 2009 at 11:54 am
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The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has again asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to not condone the human right abuses committed by the Sri Lankan government by providing the funding.
The Sri Lankan govenrment has blocked all monitoring attempts, barred access to media, and restricted access to aid agencies. The government failed to investigate attacks on journalists and activists, instead accused them of supporting the "terrorists".
Even, after the defeat of the Tigers, Sri Lanka has announced the plan to expand the size of its military force by 50%, from 200,000 to 300,000. And the government policy to confine all the IDPs to detention camps also costs alot. (estimated US$400,000/day by an organization).
This is happening despite the "critical budget shortfalls".
"To approve a loan, especially $600 million more than the government even asked for, while they have hundreds of thousands of people penned up in these camps is a reward for bad behavior, not an incentive to improve," said Brad Adams, Asia Director at Human Rights Watch. "The IMF needs to change its approach."
It is to be noted that key IMF members had condemned Sri Lanka and raised concerns about the loan.
Key IMF members have raised concerns about the loan and condemned Sri Lanka's treatment of the displaced people on numerous occasions. In mid-May, the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, said that it was "not an appropriate time" to consider an IMF loan to Sri Lanka. The UK foreign secretary, David Miliband, said, also in May, that "it is essential that any government is able to show that it will use any IMF money in a responsible and appropriate way ... I don't think that that's the case here."
HRW suggests IMF board of governors to use the IMF as a bait to improve the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka.
"The IMF board of governors should make the release of each new tranche of funds contingent on tangible human rights progress," said Adams. "Allowing people to choose for themselves whether to stay in the camps and full access for independent monitors should be minimum benchmarks."
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at 15:25 on July 23rd, 2009
IMF is essentially a bank for countries to take loans from. They do not take political issues into consideration. USA and UK had said those things before the war was over. Now it is.
This is not aid. It is a loan that Sri Lanka is entitled to, and Sri Lanka will get it. USA and UK will not oppose it, and they do not have the moral ground to oppose it anyway after what they've done in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Human Rights Watch is lost in a time of white supremacy, where whites would dictate to others how to run their countries. Those days are now over, and the Global South rules the world. The economically and politically bankrupt West has no such power to influence Sri Lanka anymore, and they have no incentive to do so either.
Sri Lanka's internal affairs are our own business, and we will do what we please, and we will not allow in our enemies.
at 15:30 on July 23rd, 2009
You can't commit human right abuses and call it an internal affairs.
It is not a political issue here, its a humanitarian issue.
at 15:49 on July 23rd, 2009
75% of the world and the UN doesn't think so, only a few vocal western NGOs and some Tamil women who head UN agencies.
It's a trade-off between these 300000 people, or the future of 15 million Sri Lankans at the mercy of terrorist amongst these refugees if they are let out. The security of my family is more important to me than that of family members of terrorists. If they must suffer for our safety, so be it.
at 19:28 on July 23rd, 2009
China, Russia and North Korea will not form 75% of the world.
The lives of 300,000 people are more valuable than 2.5 billion dollars. Keeping all those tamil people against their will inside razor wired fence is against international law.
at 20:01 on July 23rd, 2009
So think eelam supporters. But they don't even form 1% of the world.
Understand this thy-selves, eelam dreamers, if you had obeyed the country's laws first, then you would not have come to this. Since you have chosen this path, enjoy your stay.
Oh...it is not you who see the razor wires, right? It is those pawns of yours, those coolie soldiers who are at the receiving end. Their flight is a deterrent to the coming eelam dreamer's generations.
at 15:38 on July 23rd, 2009
"The IMF board of governors should make the release of each new tranche of funds contingent on tangible human rights progress," said Adams. "Allowing people to choose for themselves whether to stay in the camps and full access for independent monitors should be minimum benchmarks."
1. These people are harbouring trained and indoctrinated terrorists, who if let out, will regroup and release their terror on us. We know that this is what the Human Rights Watch would want. Until and unless every single terrorist and terrorist supporter is identified and quarantined, these people will not be let out. If they are let out before arrangements are made for their resettlement, they will have grounds to seek asylum from Western countries such as Canada, and then raise funds for terrorist activities back home. This is also to be avoided.
2. Sri Lanka is no one's colony to allow in independent monitors. We have won the war not just against the Tamil terrorist, but their white friends at Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the Norwegian government. We will decide who enters our country, for what they enter our country, and the manner in which they enter our country. Our country is ours, not a playground for white aid workers and other nosy miscreants.
at 18:17 on July 23rd, 2009
"....they will have grounds to seek asylum from Western"
Nailed there..!
at 22:11 on July 23rd, 2009
Regarding your points Mr. KK,
1. You can not detain and punish somebody for expected crime. Then any human can be detained without any charge for anticipated crime.
and
If over 250,000 Tamils are willing to re-group and fight again for something, then I belive there must be a lack of rights and freedom these people must be enduring. May be it is time for the Sri Lankan government to start working on delivering equal rights, freedom and opportunities to Tamils, or work on delivering Tamil Eelam to Tamils.
2. If Sri Lanka does not want to play by the rules of the International Community, then it should not also beg money from them either. If you don't even have money to sustain your economy, then why beef up the military and keep the ethnic hatred fueling to jeopardize any slim chance for peace ?
Sri Lankan government would not start to behave when there are so many Sinhalese chuvanists encouraging its behaviour.
Now it is clear more than ever before that the Tamils to live peacefully and freely in Sri Lanka is to attain Tamil Autonomy - the Tamil Eelam.
Successive Sri Lankan governments and the supporting Sinhalese chuvanism has no way of changing its minds or views to ever let Tamils live freely or peacefully in Sri Lanka.
at 23:39 on July 23rd, 2009
1. If tamils are willing to fight for what the diaspora wish for, so are 21,324,791 Sri Lankans. Incidently it is not the tamils in Sri Lanka who want to fight, it is the NRTs (Not Required Tamils) who took asylum in the West who want them to fight. If you wanna fight, come fight.
2. What eelam dreamers will do if Sri Lanka secure the loan - as demonstrated in the past? NOthing. Alleya..?
3.The most suitable place for the eealm to get delivered is Estonia. See,both the names are startign with 'E'. Sri Lanka canno't deliver eelam autonomy to you, sorry. But another thing is very much possible and will be happily delivered.
It is eelam autopsy.
at 22:00 on July 24th, 2009
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at 04:58 on July 27th, 2009
Hallelujah..!