What is the Norwegian agenda?
I read the article on lankwatch.com about Norwegians recruiting child soldiers with much amusement. (Read article here) Obviously a satirical look at the Norwegian involvement in Sri Lanka and its endorsement of the Rock’s report, it went on to show the same reasoning Rock used to implicate the Sri Lankan government of recruiting child soldiers can also be used show that Norwegian small arms program makes the government of Norway complicit of human rights violations worldwide.
Days later I am reading an interview of Col. Karuna, the renegade leader of the LTTE break-away faction, speaking to Daily News claiming that he was a witness to a transaction where Norwegians paid the LTTE a sum of 16 million Norwegian kroners which the LTTE used to buy weapons.
All this is a little troubling.
As a supporter of the ceasefire and the Norwegian intervention in Sri Lanka, I am finding it increasingly hard to justify why I should do so. To make things worse they have stopped responding to such reports or explain why LTTE, with all its violations of the ceasefire agreement, is never reprimanded and why none of government’s peace initiatives were ever encouraged. So naturally, even I am now wondering if the Norwegians have some kind of a convoluted agenda that we don’t know about. I think it is about time the Norwegians help people like me explain what they are doing in Sri Lanka.
Days later I am reading an interview of Col. Karuna, the renegade leader of the LTTE break-away faction, speaking to Daily News claiming that he was a witness to a transaction where Norwegians paid the LTTE a sum of 16 million Norwegian kroners which the LTTE used to buy weapons.
All this is a little troubling.
As a supporter of the ceasefire and the Norwegian intervention in Sri Lanka, I am finding it increasingly hard to justify why I should do so. To make things worse they have stopped responding to such reports or explain why LTTE, with all its violations of the ceasefire agreement, is never reprimanded and why none of government’s peace initiatives were ever encouraged. So naturally, even I am now wondering if the Norwegians have some kind of a convoluted agenda that we don’t know about. I think it is about time the Norwegians help people like me explain what they are doing in Sri Lanka.
posted by Hitch at 11/28/2006 03:46:00 AM
5 Comments:
Are they still here? Haven't heard of the Norwegians lately.
everyone knows about these things. the govt also knows. govt also don't care.
If Norway leaves Sri Lanka will be in a civil war. Sri Lankan military cannot defeat the LTTE and the LTTE is not capable of creating a homeland. We need a third party to drill in some sense to both sides. India should have done it but they chose not to.
Who cares what Norway is doing? This is a local problem to which we don't the brain power to resolve. It is easy to blame everyone else but it is all our own fault.
It is now reported that the Norwegian govt knowingly participated in a human organ theft; a transplant of a kidney forcibly from a tamil tiger who wanted to leave the terror outfit.
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