Monday, July 6, 2015

And now Sri Lanka is on the road to de-stabilization since the U.S. engineered a 'regime change':

The U.S. wanted the ouster of Rajapaksa because of its orientation to China which was an obstacle to Obama's Asia Pivot policy.

Those who worked very closely with American foreign service officers (FSOs) from the eighties through the turn of the millennium were aware that the United States never wanted the secessionist Tamil Tiger movement totally annihilated; it wanted it to be a 'pressure group' to check the Sinhalese chauvinistic tendencies of Sri Lanka, and maintain Sri Lanka within the American orbit which promotes 'US Designs' in South and East Asian region.

The Rajapaksa administration was an obstacle to American interests in the region, and 'democracy' and 'good governance' were the least the U.S. was interested.

The U.S. had a taste during the 2001-2004 era when Ranil Wickremasinghe occupied the position of premiership; his government was clearly serving the American interests; made Sri Lanka's premier international airport available for the US to implement its prisoner rendition program transporting 'enemy combatants' to CIA Black Sites for enhanced interrogation - meaning torture - when even India refused that facility to the U.S.; sided with the U.S. at Doha Round of Talks against the wishes of the developing Third World nations; tacitly approved the Norwegian-engineered Peace Treaty (CFA) with Tamil Tigers in 2002 which helped the Tigers to strengthen itself militarily for later use.

The state department maintained an unusual cohabitation with the secessionist Tamil advocates and activists to destabilize the Sri Lanka state since the defeat of the Tigers through 2014 using the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva sponsoring several resolutions.

Obviously the U.S. wanted the Rajapaksa administration out to pave the way for Ranil Wickremasinghe - not really Maitripala Sirisena - to bring Sri Lanka into the American orbit.

The country was moving forward despite certain authoritarian tendencies of the Rajapaksa regime which has since retarded due to uncertainty in the nation's governance. Instability has crept in the way following the pattern emerged in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan when regimes were changed at the behest of the United States.

It was clearly manifested that Saddam Husain and Gaddafi exercised authoritarian power in their respective nations. Nevertheless, there was domestic stability in both Iraq and Libya, and external stability in the region. We see none since the US-doctored regime changes.

It is true that the Rajapaksa regime had authoritarian tendencies but there was stability within the nation while certain cautious attitude was taken in monitoring secessionist elements within the Global Tamil Diaspora who had moved closer to foreign policy handlers in Western Capitals.

The US ignores democracy and rule of law in countries strategically important to its foreign policy objectives and national security concerns. The CIA overthrew Mossadegh's democratically-elected government in 1953 and installed the authoritarian Shah Reza Pahlavi for economic reasons. It overthrew the Indonesian regime in 1965 to install a dictator for strategic reasons.

Former Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry in his December 2009 senate report on Sri Lanka warned the Obama administration that Sri Lanka is in a strategic location in the India Ocean for the United States to cultivate her friendship.

The calculated move to dislodge the Rajapaksa regime was in the strategic interest of the U.S. in the Indian Ocean region. But the collateral damage is felt within the perimeters of Sri Lanka.

Asian Tribute article summarized:
Thank you Asian Tribute for the excellent article!

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