To the Sri Lanka Ambassador
13 Hyde Park Gardens
London
W2 2LU
Dear Ambassador
I am appalled at your presidents comment that the human rights issue is off the agenda at the commonwealth heads of state conference. To refuse to discuss the human rights record of your country is an insult to the honest good people of the commonwealth and this planet and really should not be tolerated by the people of your nation or the people of this planet.
This conference was your opportunity to show your selves as a peaceful humanitarian nation ready to work to clear the awful record of rape, murder , abuse and torture, yet still it seems that people are disappearing and that your police force and government are complicit in theses disappearances if the visual evidence from many news reporters are to be believed.
We in the rest of the world know that at the end of your struggle to eradicate the Tamil tigers [ that struggle was an evil thing an is appalling in the eyes of most human beings of a peaceful disposition ] Your army was seen slaughtering the innocent Tamils in what can only be seen as ethnic cleansing and genocide as the government army had the whole civilian population pined down on the beach with no were to go. Its all very well for your president to say “That is passed and that we are no longer killing each other in Sri lanker”.
That said however there is a need for some form of peace and reconciliation with all sides of the conflict being able to meet without fear or favour much as happened here in the United Kingdom with the IRA and the Irish issue and still continues to this day. As all so happened in South Africa after the atrocity’s of the apartheid regime.
For your President to strike it from the agenda as the host nation and say that your country has systems for dealing with such issues is almost to admit that there is a case to answer at least covertly. However the place in the world of the commonwealth heads conference as the charter recently signed alludes to is to thrash out and confess to such bad practices and seek forgiveness and resolve to do better in the future and monitor the activities of all the member nations so that the meet the multi-ethnic equal rights and peaceful co-operative existence with the rest of the human race so that there is no need for terrorism or revolt in any of the member states. As prejudices and enmity will have been hopefully been irradiated by discussion, communication and acceptance of differences. Tolerance of differences regardless of sexual persuasion, ethnicity , spiritual belief, or political manifestos this has to be achieved within all the commonwealth states otherwise it is just a hollow useless hypocritical organisation that has no worth to man or beast an may as well be disbanded.
If as the president suggests the rest of the commonwealth needs to respect the laws and practices of the host state ! Then the host state needs to prove that it meets the standards laid down in the articles of membership in order to elicit that respect, it is disrespectful of the host nation to state otherwise and the responsibility for this disrespectful approach rests with your president and his statement as given publicly to day.
I trust you will pass my comments on to your president and I will be publicising this letter as much as I possibly can by what ever means are at my disposal,. I will be doing this in order to raise the awareness of what needs to be done in order to maintain the good work and reputation of the commonwealth so it is not shamed on a world wide basis by your country attitude as expressed by your presidents comments. Thankfully I reasonably sure that it is not the opinion of a vast number of your fellow country men and women who are also appalled at the state of affair’s in your country and its human rights record. Most of them live in fear of the oppressiveness of regime that is currently in control. Your laws on Gay sexuality, Lesbian sex and Trans-gender people do not meet with the ideals and rules of membership of the commonwealth as currently statued but it is true to say your country is not alone in that many of the signatory’s have not yet complied with what is required for the freedom of your lesbian gay and trans-gender population. So it should be on the agenda for discussion along with many other issues. All of the nations need to be open and honest about and be prepared to discuss such issues. If your presidents statement was meant then this an many more issues will not be up for discussion either that’s why his statement was so wrong, it was an attempt to close down discussion and debate before it even gets started.
I look forward to seeing how well the Heads of Commonwealth conference will do in tackling these issues and helping the member states to do better in regards to humanitarian issues and resolving to change the laws of their states to accommodate true democracy and freedom for all members of their community’s as we at the heart of the commonwealth here in the United Kingdom have had to bring in equality laws and many other changes to accommodate all the refugees and migrants from the oppression and violence that has been seen in many of the states of the commonwealth. I take my responsibility as a British gay pagan individual of the commonwealth a European citizen and human representative of planet Earth very seriously and believe all others of my species should do so to.
I trust that is what all of the representatives at this conference will also take their responsibility to humanity and the planet as seriously.
In Love trust and humanity may we all blessed be.
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