Donald Trump – a safe bet for Sri Lanka
Donald J Trump, president elect of the United States has categorically stated that he is against all forms of terrorism, and has vowed to hound the terrorists that are threatening the security of his country. His views will presumably be the same for all countries threatened by terrorists.
The present administration of Barak Obama of which Hilary Clinton is a key figure, was for a regime change in 2015, not on the grounds of human rights violations, but because Sri Lanka was getting closer to China. Despite the regime change in Sri Lanka on 8 January 2015, the US still persists in their resolution before the UN Human Rights Commission, in order to hold Sri Lanka in a clasp.
Going back to May 2009 when the LTTE was eliminated, Hilary Clinton was very much in cahoots with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and French Foreign Minister Kouchner to arrive in Sri Lanka to save Prabhakaran’s life! Through Prabha, Hilary Clinton (who was then Obama’s Secretary of State) was hoping to fragment Sri Lanka, to get a foothold. India too adopted a lukewarm attitude in our war against the LTTE, because they themselves felt threatened by the presence of China and Pakistan who helped Sri Lanka to crush the terrorists. If not for their assistance we would still be grappling with the LTTE, and thousands more of our civilians both Tamil and Sinhala, and thousands more of our soldiers would have died.
Before Hilary Clinton contested Obama for the Democratic Party nomination in 1988, she was very much in contact with Prabhakaran and the LTTE. That connection with the LTTE has not waned. The present resolution in Geneva against Sri Lanka is partly her’s and Navi Pillay’s work. She lost in 1988 to Obama, and now, lost to Donald Trump. This was her last chance. This is the price she had to pay for hobnobbing with terrorists. This is a good lesson for the Tamil leaders as well. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
India’s former National Security Advisor Shivashankar Menon has said that the US and Norway wished to rescue Prabhakaran, so that his LTTE would live to fight another day. He also said that the Tamil Nadu leaders knew Prabhakaran would kill them to rule Eelam. During this period, Hilary Clinton was Secretary of State of the US.
To further quote Menon, “the way the Sri Lankans fought the war, though criticized for its brutality in the final stages might have taken a higher toll if delay and stalemate were brought about”. This is what Menon feels in his assessment of the war. He further says, “it is arguable that some brutality was inevitable in a war of this kind against a violent terrorist group that had shown no qualms about terrorising its own people and physically eliminating all its potential adversaries, Tamil or Sinhalese” (New India Express).
It was discussed in international circles that our government was indirectly backing Hilary Clinton against Donald Trump, because Clinton and Obama helped to achieve a regime change in Sri Lanka in January 2015.
The government should depend on highly intelligent advisors, not those who cringe but look the politicians in the eye, and give them proper advise. What has to be kept in mind is the successor of a leader in the US, who will benefit the whole of Sri Lanka, and not a particular government. The advisors should have advised our government that it would be disastrous to back Hilary Clinton, directly or indirectly. We must hope that Donald Trump will not hold it against us. At best we should have been neutral. It is no secret that the LTTE supporters in the North (dancing to the dictates of the LTTE diaspora) lit candles and engaged in religious observances to enlist the help of the gods to have Hilary Clinton elected. Did the LTTE diaspora have a secret understanding with Clinton to fragment Sri Lanka, if she was elected the President of