German NGO's duplicity exposed

Colombo, 19 August, (Asiantribune.com):Over forty years ago novelist
Ian Fleming's creation, James Bond, inspired a Sri Lankan movie maker
to direct a spy thriller titled Jamis Banda, with the late Gamini
Fonseka playing the lead role as the Sri Lankan-born British secret
agent Banda. However, in this film the bad guys are not the Soviet
Russians as in most James Bond movies, but a German Nazi group, which
slips into Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) after roaming in disguise in several
countries following Germany's defeat in World War II. Once safe in
their hideout here, they don Nazi uniforms.

In the movie these terrorists threaten to blow up the city of Colombo
with a nuclear bomb unless the world's major powers pay the group
billions of dollars so that Nazis can stage a come back in Europe with
the force of arms and `liberate' the German people.

At the time this movie was screened here, Velupillai Prabakaran the
founding father of the Sri Lanka's Nazi-style `Tamil liberation'
movement would not have been more than six or seven years old.

Four decades later, the film version became a reality with only a few
changes. VP and his group donned uniforms, blasted bombs in Colombo and
elsewhere, engaged in ethnic cleansing and held the country to ransom
with the active cooperation of some Germans (among other Westerners)
who masquerade as peacemakers. The LTTE racists have even imitated
their Western counterparts, giving Nazi-style salutes at ceremonial
events. They are making maximum use of the claymore mine that
Hitler's Germany invented in World War II, to create havoc in Sri
Lanka.

Turning a blind eye to all this is the Wanni Tigers' German
benefactors the Berghof Foundation. The BF's double game is exposed
in their cordiality towards a gang of `black' Nazi imitators in Sri
Lanka whereas in Germany the Constitution strictly prohibits promoting
Nazism or helping neo-Nazi groups in that country or elsewhere in
Europe.

If the Berghof bosses are genuinely committed to promoting peace, and
democracy in Sri Lanka as they pretend why have they not condemned in
the strongest possible terms `Fuehrer' Prabhakaran's despotic rule
in the North? It should have been the first thing in their agenda
unless they are trying to hoodwink the world. The BF and other assorted
local and foreign `anti-war' crusaders to date have not seriously
called for political pluralism in LTTE-dominated areas. Instead they
work overtime to convince the world that any serious condemnation of
Prabhakaran's tyranny amounts to `obstructing the peace process.'
Bergdorf's links with VP's rogue state in the North reminds us of
Hitler's agents in former Czechoslovakia where they helped the German
dictator to seize the country in the name of liberating of the ethnic
German minority on her Northern border (Sudetenland).

The irony here is that the German Nazi regime at least had some
legitimacy since Hitler's party won the 1933 elections to the
Reichstag, whereas the LTTE has absolutely no legal basis to claim
Tamils' sole representative status. Yet the Berghof humbugs do not
care a hoot. Their blueprint for `lasting peace' is `right sizing'
Sri Lanka's armed forces so that their strength and power will not
surpass that of the Wanni Tigers no matter that these terrorists have
waged a separatist war against a legally constituted State over the
past 20 years. All these BF `peace' strategies are formulated under
cover of `restructuring' the defence establishment, introducing
better discipline, awareness of human rights and transparency in the
State's armed forces.

The BF's primary objective is to convince those in the seats of power
in the South that military power should not be used against the LTTE,
which according to the likes of Berghof, can never be neutralized. Part
of this dubious campaign is to get the State withdrew troops from the
areas, especially High Security Zones they now occupy in the North and
East or at least to explore the possibility of isolating the security
force units so they are vulnerable to LTTE attacks.

To reach its goal, the BF has been busy granting scholarships to Sri
Lankan military personnel (among others), sending them on foreign trips
and organizing workshops for them so that the end result will be
soldiers who are not willing to fight but ever ready to accept
`political solutions' virtually on Tigers' terms!
Berghof's political clout is a classic example of the pathetic level
to which Sri Lanka has sunk. In which other country does the State
permit a foreign NGO to promote within the administrative machinery
views contrary to accepted national policy? Which other State allows a
foreign NGO to give equal recognition to the country's legitimate
security forces and an illegal separatist rebel group? Which other
democratic nation permits an NGO to covertly discourage its troops from
facing a fascist enemy?

- Asian Tribune -

sinna wrote:
>
> Colombo, 19 August, (Asiantribune.com):Over forty years ago novelist
> Ian Fleming's creation, James Bond, inspired a Sri Lankan movie maker
> to direct a spy thriller titled Jamis Banda, with the late Gamini
> Fonseka playing the lead role as the Sri Lankan-born British secret
> agent Banda. However, in this film the bad guys are not the Soviet
> Russians as in most James Bond movies, but a German Nazi group, which
> slips into Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) after roaming in disguise in several
> countries following Germany's defeat in World War II. Once safe in
> their hideout here, they don Nazi uniforms.
>
> In the movie these terrorists threaten to blow up the city of Colombo
> with a nuclear bomb unless the world's major powers pay the group
> billions of dollars so that Nazis can stage a come back in Europe with
> the force of arms and `liberate' the German people.
>
> At the time this movie was screened here, Velupillai Prabakaran the
> founding father of the Sri Lanka's Nazi-style `Tamil liberation'
> movement would not have been more than six or seven years old.
>
> Four decades later, the film version became a reality with only a few
> changes. VP and his group donned uniforms, blasted bombs in Colombo and
> elsewhere, engaged in ethnic cleansing and held the country to ransom
> with the active cooperation of some Germans (among other Westerners)
> who masquerade as peacemakers. The LTTE racists have even imitated
> their Western counterparts, giving Nazi-style salutes at ceremonial
> events. They are making maximum use of the claymore mine that
> Hitler's Germany invented in World War II, to create havoc in Sri
> Lanka.
>
> Turning a blind eye to all this is the Wanni Tigers' German
> benefactors the Berghof Foundation.

Berghof?

Wasn't that the name of Hitler's mountain retreat?

M.