Saturday, June 16, 2007

President in Geneva-Big Talk and lots of noice but did the IC hear it right?

President while addressing the 96th Sessions of the International Labour Conference in Geneva yesterday said "We are determined that in a democracy like ours where political views can be expressed freely, political objectives must be realised through negotiation and dialogue and through compromise. There can be no room for extremism, and even less for violence,"
And he went on to say "Terrorism has no place in the contemporary world. As a government, we are not prepared, at any cost, to bow down to terrorism," . MR also in his speech at a latter part asked the question "Would any of your governments submit to terrorism had they been in our position?"
yah!, i guess it was all great talk, its anyway embodied in our Constitution ,but are we really practicing it? instead of the rest of the world seeing this speech as all talk and big fart and no deeds,... the president has to have the balls to tackle all this allegations of abductions, 'culture of impunity' and the rest of the 'Civil Society' talk and live up to what he says...
I'm sure he may have got a big round of applause, may be a even a near standing ovations, due to the presence of a huge Sri Lankan delegation that accompanied the president but applause's is not we want at this stage of the game , its more hard political support that we need along with big wads of cash.as i see that's not going to happen in the near future.with this gathering storm against the Sri Lankan government in the west, it may be the time we start doing few quick impact 'special projects' and do out few 'quick fixes' so to have our tarnished image is fixed and glittering as new as a Swarnamal ad.
To start with may be we should get rid of the current Police Chief, for not ordering the (he didn't do it, we all know that-it was someone else idea!) expulsion of the Tamils in lodges but because he cant keep his mouth shut and keep on making comments that hurt the wider game plan of the government.
I like it when he asked the terror question on submitting to terror, of course no one will , except may be Norway.but then, not submitting to terror is one thing but violating some of the basic rights of citizens and denying rule of law is another.

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