Sri Lanka accepted Chinese aid to crush the Tamil Tiger rebels and then allowed the Chinese to built a new deepwater port at Hambantota. Now suddenly the West is up in arms about the human rights situation.
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Canadian foreign minister criticises Sri Lanka’s ‘appalling’ record, authoritarianism and failure to tackle rights abuses
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Port in Hambantota, Sri Lanka is latest in string of deepwater ports built with Chinese aid along Indian ocean coast
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This article insinuates that it is all the fault of the government in Colombo. Somehow I doubt that. The press in the West has been going after Sri Lanka ever since the Chinese started to invest large amounts of money there.
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More rioting Buddhists. With all the bad news coming from Sri Lanka you have to remember that the current regime heavily relies on Chinese aid and is thus very unpopular in the West. AKA this unrest could be instigated from abroad.
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Once again the issue of human rights abuses are used by the West as a weapon against a nation that has decided to align with China.
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An open ed from the New York times. Thechinese backed government in Sri Lanka won the civil war against the Tamil tigers. The West wants to regain control over this island and their weapon of choice is the alleged human rights abuse during that war.
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Forget the reasons stated in this article. Sri Lanka is a battleground between China and the US at the moment, with China having the upper hand.
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The ship came from China who does not adhere to the sanctions. The feud with a German lender could very well be an excuse to seize the ship.
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Sri Lanka’s president is not popular with the US, and they want to get rid of him. The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is a creation of the CIA. Need I say more?
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