The former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is sued in a US court over alleged extrajudicial killing and torture in Sri Lanka .The Centre for Justice and Accountability on behalf of Ahimsa Wickrematunge, Lasantha Wickrematunge's daughter is said to be the US based group which had filed this suit.
Its worthwhile to look into what this Center for Justice and Accountability is. A quick look at the list of staff and there is Ms.Jennifer Rasmussen who is said to be the director for transitional justice and quite possibly the person working on the said suit against Mr.Rajapaksha.
I would not be surprised if her time at the UN cross paths with Ms.Samantha Power. And if so, the Cat is out of the bag.... we know who sleeps with who here. Gota, it seems, present a very clear and present danger to the US and its extended interests via the Eelamist project in Sri Lanka to have him firmly in their cross-hairs. And so, they have started their campaign to deny Gota the candidacy that everyone in Sri Lanka is waiting for.
I've added a screenshot of CJA's main page here.. it says "We identify&prosecute worlds worst human rights criminals " yeah, right...How selective they are... just the day before United States revoked the visa of the International Criminal Court's ( ICC ) chief prosecutor because of her attempts to investigate allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan, including any that may have been committed by US force occupying Afghanistan.
This is US duplicity at its best here and irony of all this is CJA is said to be the same lawyers who said to have 'successfully' brought a civil suit against the Syrian government for the killing of the Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin.
And we do remember late Ms.Colvin, the journalist for few things including getting caught in an LTTE attack against what appeared to be a military target and losing an eye after getting injured (and always claimed she was caught in the cross-fire between Sri Lankan military and the LTTE although she knew well it was indeed an LTTE instigated attack-there was no 'cross-fire' ) and for witnessing LTTE recruiting or use of child soldiers and never wrote a thing about it though she, in private, mentioned this a few times to close confidants or over drunken loose talk but then again Matthew Heineman, the director of the film 'A Private War' conveniently dropped this from the script.
The LTTE in Sri Lanka may be dead and gone, but LTTE Inc and the Eelam lobby that lives off its scarps is alive and well and this civil suit in the US signifies a big shift.
In one way a desperate attempt by the US (and its henchmen in Sri Lanka, in the likes of UNP leadership and the TNA ) to prevent Gotabhaya Rajapaksha from being conferred the candidacy of the common opposition for the up-coming presidential elections in Sri Lanka and then in another way signifies move from a more traditional rhetoric based Anti-Sri Lanka movement to a more venomous and destructive path with incisive strikes.
This battle, I'm afraid we are not ready nor equipped enough even to offer meek resistance.
