the United Nations had been getting in Sri Lanka” which she had expressed to Mr. Amarasinghe when she met him yesterday (23rd), Mr. Amarasinghe states it “could not have been carried out without inside UN efforts,” and points out the activities of Radhika Cumarswamy, a former head of the Sri Lankan foreign funded NGO, ICES and now the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence, was suspicious. In his letter Mr. Amarasinghe states that “ICES was started by a member of the Tamil Arsu Katchchi (Tamil State Party), a Tamil racist separatist party and which acted in many ways as its foreign arm. The ICES we know was instrumental in promoting R2P and we also know its present head Bradman Weerakoon is on a tape recording helping the LTTE smuggle advanced communication equipment.”

Full text of Mr. Amarasinghe’s letter:

We thank you for meeting with us in the JVP. We found that you were refreshingly different from Ms. Louise Arbour who met with us earlier. Let us recapitulate what we discussed.
You said that you are worried about the negative publicity that the United Nations had been getting in Sri Lanka. We reminded you that that this was well earned. We gave some examples like the former UN Secretary General expressing concern at the death of a terrorist leader and attempts by sections of the United Nations to intervene in Sri Lanka, including the not so hidden attempts to bring in R2P. You denied such attempts initially, till we gave you incontrovertible facts. At this stage you said that it may have been former UN officials but the present ones were different. This of course was ingenuous as the United Nations or for that matter any other organization is a corporate body not of different isolated individuals. We are happy to hear that present UN officials are different from the former ones.

We believe that the extent of the negative propaganda in Sri Lanka could not have been carried out without inside UN efforts. We pointed out that we suspect the activities of Radhika Cumarswamy a former head of the Sri Lankan foreign funded NGO, ICES which was started by a member of the Tamil Arsu Katchchi (Tamil State Party), a Tamil racist separatist party and which acted in many ways as its foreign arm. The ICES we know was instrumental in promoting R2P and we also know its present head Bradman Weerakoon is on a tape recording helping the LTTE smuggle advanced communication equipment.

The United Nations arose out of the ashes of World War II and the defeat of the ideologies and practices of Hitler and Mussolini. The United Nation’s rise was accompanied by the rise of those oppressed by Western colonialists and the emergence of new free nations from the ashes of colonialism. The United Nations arose at a time when the victorious Allied Powers were removing the poison of Nazi and fascist propaganda from the minds of the liberated Germans and Italians through major changes in the media and in school curricula. Most importantly the German anthem "Deutschland Uber Alles" was banned as was the book by Hitler "Mein Kampf". We believe that you would understand this very well. That philosophy of removing racial hatred and fascist intolerance was transferred to the UN itself. At the beginning of UN there was no equality made between the forces of darkness and forces of democracy and tolerance.

A direct follower of Hitler and his philosophy is the LTTE and its leader Prabhakaran. Like the Lebensraum of the Nazis it has demarcated a "racially pure" area as his Heimat- homeland from which all other ethnic communities have been ejected wherever it was possible. Like the Nazis, Prabhakaran has killed off all the democratic Tamil leadership and brooks no dissent. He has assassinated a President of Sri Lanka and a Prime Minister of India and has unsuccessfully attempted the lives of another Sri Lankan President and one Prime Minister, in addition to several other successful and unsuccessful attempts on many other Sri Lankan leaders. Going beyond the tradition of Hitler Youth "Hitler Jugend", Prabhakaran kidnaps little children, trains them in a racist ideology and uses them as cannon fodder. Following the example set by the fanatic Japanese Kamikaze of World War II Prabhakaran introduced suicide bombings to the modern world. In Prabhakaran's sick mind there is no room for tolerance, freedom of expression, human rights or democracy. Like in World War II, there is only one alternative left for the democratic forces in Sri Lanka that is to eliminate this intolerant cancer like the Allied Forces, precursors to the UN, did in the case of Hitler.

The UN has at times come under the influence of some of its temporary officials who want to indirectly reward the LTTE by sponsoring colonial policies like R2P. It does this through neo-colonial establishments that Western powers fund as a new form of control. One such is the ICES with its close links to sections of the interventionist wing of the UN. This is a return to the colonial era with the UN being used as an instrument of Western powers. The JVP values the UN for the good it does but will always resist it being used as a Western colonial proxy. We want the UN to stick unwaveringly to its anti-colonial roots. If it does, you do not have to worry about public protests and demonstrations of which you said you were very concerned. And as you correctly said, we must have a new beginning in Sri Lanka - UN relations. We will heartily support you if this is done in the correct spirit.

We believe that your visit to the Eastern Province would have been very useful to convince yourself that the Sri Lanka security forces have liberated the innocent people who were languishing in the open prison of the LTTE. Now it is the duty of the UN to assist Sri Lanka, an old and active member of the UN, to restore democracy in the Northern province by dismantling the remaining part of the open prison of the LTTE.