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by Latheef Farook-September3,2015
Certain section of the local media gave wide publicity to his lecture at Lakshman
Kadirgamar Centre and meeting with President Sirisena.
However the media was completely silent on his crime against humanity. Is it due to
ignorance or indifferent?
Iraq has been very friendly country to Sri Lanka. It has helped the island on many
occasions. I remember once when late President R Premadasa asked the Iraqi
Ambassador in Sri Lanka Abdo Ali Daeri whether Iraq could help tide over the crisis
of oil shortage, Iraq National Oil Company ordered six shipments of oil loaded at Basra
However the mainstream local media failed to mention a word about this crime against
humanity. Isnt this intellectual fraud to please war criminals?
This has been the pattern for long in the local media.
For example under various pretexts hoodwinking the world, US,UK, Europe and Israel
invaded or interfered and destroyed many Muslims countries during the past two and
half decades. This range from Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, now Syria, Egypt,
Yemen, Bosnia, Kosovo and several other countries under the guise of fighting War on
Terrorism which in fact is MADE IN US AND ISRAEL
In almost all these invasions victims sufferings and the atrocities committed by US
and its allies were never highlighted. In fact ignored.
As we all know that Middle East has been one of the most peaceful places in the
planet until Israel was planted by European imperial powers in the robbed Palestinian
lands. Palestinians who lost everything due to western conspiracy continue remain in
refugee camps where Israel periodically invade and massacre them with impunity.
Since 1930s Israel has committed more than 65 massacres of Palestinians and now
turned the entire Middle East into a killing field.
Unfortunately these Israeli crimes were never highlighted in the local media in its
proper context. Instead the local media, perhaps increasingly is coming under Israeli
influence, never fails to publish articles often distorting facts in favour of Israel on
Israeli Palestinian issue.
In February 2013 I published a book entitled Americas New World OrderEXPORTING WARS. The book provides a clear picture of the international scene and
the US led European forces which turned the Middle East into a killing field to suit the
evil agenda of western corporate conglomerates worldwide.
It has comments from Sir Paul Craig Roberts, late US President Ronald Reagans
assistant treasury secretary, Nobel Laureate Tawakkul Karman, Clair Short,
Secretary of State for International Development in War Criminal Tony Blairs
government until her resignation in 2003 over British involvement in the Iraqi invasion,
Stephen Lendman, Chicago based Research Associate of the Centre for Research on
globalisation,. Chandra Muzaffar, Malaysian social activist and Ram Punyani, Indian
writer and activist working for communal harmony and peace.
In June 2014 organised violent attacks on Aluthgama, Dharga town and Beruwala
Muslims made the local media a laughing stock. This was a disaster for the local
mainstream media which made an all out effort to cover up this carnage. However
people were kept informed of the barbarity with minute by minute comments by
several sources including mobile phones, sms, face book and twitters.
In one of the most shameful developments in the history of the islands mainstream
media, wide publicity was given to news and views of politicians and others who tried
to hide the crime and put the blame on the victims.
However, foreign media covered the carnage with all the details exposing local
medias hostility towards Muslims and hypocrisy.
It is not an easy task for Muslim point of view to find some space in the local media
which built up racist elements such as BBS and JHU to the detriment of the country.
The mainstream media suffers from some kind of anti Muslim hysteria though the
Muslims in the country have been the most peaceful of the three communities and
Muslim countries in the world remain the best friends of the island in the world. Ends
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