The President Mahinda Rajapaksa,
according to newspaper reports, has condemned the practice of certain countries
for using the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) against countries
like Sri Lanka and Belarus, during his visit to Belarus. This is an important
statement by a President of a non western country and the President’s recent
attempts to have good relationships with non western countries in Asia, Africa,
Europe should be welcomed. The President could play an important role in
organizing a new movement of non western countries especially when India has
become a lapdog of the western countries and the non aligned movement has died
a natural death after the collapse of the Soviet Union and emergence of uni-polar
world. The President should also visit the South American countries, especially
the Central American countries such as El Salvador that has followed the
Kelaniya group in identifying what they called the Chronic Kidney Disease due
to nontraditional causes as that due to Arsenic. We have to deviate from the
so-called methodologies of western knowledge and western knowledge per se
(unless we absorb them into our cultures), and the non western countries should
get together in evolving their own systems of knowledge, and I wish the
President would consider this aspect also in his future visits to the non
western countries. The western intellectuals propagate the myth that we live in
a knowledge based world (knowledge based economy etc.) without specifying that
by knowledge they mean knowledge created in the western Christian world during
the last four to five centuries. We in Sri Lanka are so much dependent on this
knowledge that while China chased out Fontera of New Zealand we are still
testing for DCD and some bacteria in powdered milk, while at the same time letting
the Kidney patients die to maintain the hegemony of western science. (The next
installment of the relevant series should appear in the near future). It has to
be mentioned that we have one of the most subservient “educated” sects to
western knowledge in the whole world.
The President is not quite correct when
he said that some countries are using UNHRC against countries such as Sri Lanka
and Belarus. The UNHRC is part of the hegemony of western Christian colonialism
that came into existence about five hundred years ago. To summarize what I have
been expressing in these columns and elsewhere, Greek Judaic Christian (GJC) Chinthanaya
began its struggle against the Catholic Chinthanaya in the late fifteenth century
and early sixteenth century and defeated it within two hundred years or so. The
so called Renaissance was the beginning of the process with Martin Luther who
became the father of the poster in 1517 playing an important role. Galileo
Newton were to follow and it was the GJC Chinthanaya that gave rise to Judaic
Christian Culture, western science, industrial revolution, capitalism,
rationalism, enlightenment, modernism etc., and even post modernism to a
certain extent. Joseph Needham had said that China with an enormous amount of
knowledge could not create western science due to absence of capitalism in that
country. However, he is wrong as in Europe capitalism followed western science
and not the other way around. The Judaic Christian culture has produced the
worst kind of colonialism known to the world, which has three components
cultural, political and economical, which are mutually interdependent.
The Catholic Chinthanaya tried to make a
comeback in the form of Marxism and Fascism but GJC Chinthanaya was able to
defeat all such attempts. Today not only the Pope but the Marxists have become
servants of the GJC Chinthanaya and they have all got together under the
leadership of Vickramabahu, sorry Obama to suppress the other Chinthanayas such
as Islamic Chinthanaya and Theravada Buddhist Chinthanaya. In the forties when
the Soviet Union was in existence the western countries were forced to give
limited political freedom to some countries in Asia including Sri Lanka and in
the sixties to countries in Africa. However, the west wanted to keep its
hegemony in all these countries and the establishment in the sixties of so
called non governmental organizations that were in effect financed by the
western governments was to propagate western knowledge, ideology in non western
countries. They were twentieth century missions and the missionaries were
adequately compensated. The Born Again Christian sect was born in USA and they
also have contributed their share in propagating western ideology. The west is
engaged in cultural colonialism in addition to political and economical, and
the education system that includes the schools, the universities and the
qualifications that we are awarded are all part and parcel of this component of
colonialism. Unfortunately free education in Sri Lanka has helped cultural
colonialism and that is one of the reasons why we have one of the most
subservient “educated” sects in the world. Now the media, with the introduction
of television, have joined hands with the NGOs, the schools and the
universities to propagate western ideology.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the
west has near monopoly in the UN and its organizations such as UNHRC, and the
latter are part of western Christian colonialism. The function of the western
states, and UN and its organizations is to maintain the hegemony of the Judaic
Christian culture and they would not talk of violation of human rights in the
western countries. The Muslims in Sri Lanka have more freedom, facilities,
privileges than in the western Christian countries (don’t tell me that they are
secular) but the UNHRC is interested in violation of the human rights of the
Muslims in Sri Lanka. It is not double standards by the western countries but
their vested interest in the protection of the western Judaic Christian
culture. They want to protect Judaic Christian culture against the Muslims in
the western countries but in the Theravada Buddhist countries they use Muslims
to annihilate the Theravada culture if possible. While Muslim culture is a
threat to Judaic Christian culture in the west, the Theravada culture is a
threat to Judaic Christian culture in the ideological sphere in the entire
world.
The Sinhala Buddhist culture had been
one of the most tolerant cultures in the whole world until the Dutch and the
English used other cultures to weaken if not destroy the Sinhala Buddhist
culture. It was the Sinhala king Senerath who settled the Muslims in the
present eastern province when the latter were harassed by the Catholic (emerging
Christian) culture of the Portuguese. The Sinhala kings then settled the
Catholics in Vahakotte near Matale and other places when the latter were
harassed by the Reformist Dutch. Even today the Muslim schools in Sri Lanka
have their own terms something that cannot be experienced in the “enlightened”
west or any other non Muslim country. The Sinhala Buddhists having realized
that the Dutch and the English were using the imported Tamils, Kochins
(Kochchi), Malays, and religious communities such as Christians and Muslims
turned against them as part of their anti colonial struggle. When Anagarika
Dharmapala warned the Sinhala Buddhists of the Kochchis it was the Kochchis
imported by the English that he had in his mind. The imported people did not
want to accept that Sinhala Buddhist culture is the significant culture in the
country and most of the problems in Sri Lanka are due to the association of the
non Sinhala Buddhists with the colonial powers and their culture. Piyadasa
Sirisena’s novels (Ediriweera Sarachchandra, after all basically a product of
western education, did not consider Piyadasa Sirisena as a novelist) clearly
demonstrate the anti colonial attitude of the author and not any hatred towards
other ethnic communities per se.
The UNHRC and its commissioner were not
chased out by the Sri Lankan government, knowing very well what they are up to.
If the NGO personalities think that the government has succumbed to
international pressure then they are wrong. The west, together with their NGO
agents will not stop their propaganda against the Sinhala Buddhists for
violating the human rights of the “ethnic minorities” as they would not accept
that the Sinhala Buddhists are fighting for their lost rights, and that the
“ethnic minorities” are being used by the western powers and their lapdog India
to maintain the hegemony of western Judaic Christian culture and the Indian
regional superiority.
Nalin De Silva
28-08-2013