The rockiness of Rock

The government of Sri Lanka [GOSL] has written to Radhikha Coomaraswamy, UN
Secretary General's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict
requesting her to provide the government with 'strong and credible evidence'
that the security forces had a hand in the recruitment of children for the
breakaway Karuna faction.

The statement by Allan Rock , Special Adviser to the UN , Special
Representative to Sri Lanka on Children and Armed conflict , that 'certain
elements of the government's security forces were sometimes participating in
abductions and forced recruitment of children in Eastern Batticaloa while
supporting the Karuna faction' has come into a huge political storm and
newspaper blizzard.

Quite obviously Coomaraswamy would have had a say in the choice of Rock and
if so did she not know that Allan Rock and his Liberal Party were biased in
favour of the LTTE and in the debt of pro-LTTE voters in Toronto?

The security forces and the GOSL have strongly denied these allegations,
unsubstantiated by credible evidence and based on gossip and hearsay.
Several writers to the local newspapers have taken the stuffing out of Rock,
who has made these flabby allegations.

A writer by the name of Dharma, obviously from Canada, writing to the
"Island" of Nov.2006 in an letter under the heading 'Allan Rock's quid pro
quo' says that Ontario where Toronto is located happens to be the prize in
the elections. After 1983 many Tamils settled there and along with other
minorities, they have been able to sway the elections in fifteen or more
constituencies.

Paul Martin and Maria Minna, Ministers of the Federal government attended a
Tiger banquet before the Federal elections despite warnings by the
Intelligence wing of the RCMP that the LTTE were a terror outfit.The
Liberals won and Paul Martin and Maria Minna continued as Ministers and
Allan rock was appointed as Justice Minister.

The Liberals were in debt to the Tigers and the government turned a blind
eye at Tiger extortions for the LTTE war chest.The Canadian media went to
town on Tiger depradations, but Allan Rock as Justice Minister neither saw
nor heard. He is now a UN Special Envoy.

Such persons, says Dharma, carry their past baggage of roots, biases,
prejudices and preferences to the entrance to the UN.

He recommends that readers read the chapter on the Snow Tiger in a book
entitled Cold Terror-How Canada nurtures and exports terrorism around the
world by Stewart Bell published by John Wiley and Sons Canada.

The 'Real Women of Canada' wrote to the "Daily News" on Nov 20 2006 on
'Allan Rock's marijuana garden' They classify him as being disaster
personified, and believe that he does not understand that power is not
absolute and that may be he has poor judgment.

One of his recent flops is his enthusiastic undertaking to grow pot for
government medical research, when the standard product could be obtained
from the US for medical trials.This followed an ill-advised Ontario Court of
Appeal verdict that marijuana should be freely available for medical
research.There was no proof that pot had medical benefits and it was ignored
that free use could have grave medical complications.

Rock then Minister of Health, jumped on the Ontario decision. amended the
regulations to enable people to grow their own pot.He opened a plot in an
abandoned copper mine in Flin Flon Manitoaba at a cost of dollars 5.75
million.

Seeds could not be acquired from the US. Seeds seized by the police were
used.

It was a flop. In his role as Justice Minister Rock was heavily involved in
bringing about the gun registry. The program was plagued by cost overruns
and is rumoured to be one the reasons for the failure of his leadership bid.
His department was involved in the Airbus affair which ended in a public
apology and dollars 2,000,000 settlement to Brian Mulroney.

Malin Abeytunga writing to the "Island" on Nov 23 2006 from Australia
indicts him on his total bias towards the LTTE by his actions - [1] by
attending LTTE fund raising events [2]Being in the forefront of protests
against the banning of the LTTE.
[3] His mandate was to investigate LTTE child recruitment, but he deviated
from this and found a link between the government and the Karuna faction.

He should be sacked, says Malin.

Asoka Weerasinghe of Canada says in the Daily News of Nov 23 2006 : You flew
to Colombo with negative baggage. Liberal Parliamentarians look the other
way while tigers collect two million dollars a month. In return Liberals got
100,000 votes to elect ten Liberals in the greater Toronto ridings.

In 2005 S P Tamilchelvan gave Canada a dubious honor by saying that 'Canada
is our greatest ally'. Do you know what the Tamil translators would have
done to hood wink you against the security forces. Malin referred to an
instance in Canada where a translator took 40 minutes to translate a three
line answer.

Neville de Silva writing in the 'Sunday Times' of Nov 26 2006 asks: Why is
it thought that only persons from the West are eligible for such
assignments? Is the UN or those who work for it burdened by some colonial
obsequiousness, that such assignments should go to Western individuals even
though the western record on human rights is not lily white?