The
Sri Lankan government is hosting the 2013 Commonwealth Summit.
The
choice of Sri Lanka as this year´s organising nation has been deeply criticised
in many quarters in view of the recent atrocities carried out by the Colombo leaders
against Tamil civilians in the Northern tip of the country. It has also been
perceived as an example of poor judgement, a feature that many believe is the
defining trait of the current Commonwealth Secretary-general, Kamalesh Sharma,
an Indian diplomat that has made a career under the protection of Sonia Gandhi
and her party. But Sharma is above all too tired and just interested in staying
in London as long as possible. He has very little influence and no strength of
will. That´s what the Sri Lankans knew and took advantage of. And now, they are
trying to make a lot of mileage out of the summit.
I
think they made a mistake. President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka thought he
and his friends would come out of this initiative cleansed. However, the
meeting is actually reminding the international public opinion that thousands
of innocent people were slaughter by the national armed forces in 2010, at the
end of the civil war. And that took
place under the direct responsibility of Rajapaksa and the rest of the clique.
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