Political parties closely allied to Sri Lanka's president protest against Libya air strikes
By BBC News
Hundreds of people have protested against Western-led air strikes in Libya outside the United Nations headquarters in Sri Lanka.

Protesters chanted slogans against the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon - pic DailyMirror.lk
Demonstrators shouted anti-Western slogans, waved placards and burned tyres near the UN compound.
The protests were organised by political parties closely allied to Sri Lanka's president.
Correspondents say relations between Libya and Sri Lanka have been extremely close in recent years.
Libya was one of the countries which supported Sri Lanka when the UN Human Rights Council sought a resolution against Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes in the wake of the country's 26-year civil war.
In 2010 the UN was forced to close its offices in Colombo for several days because of protests over a proposed war crimes investigation.
BBC Sinhala's Elmo Fernando, who was at Thursday's rally, said that protesters chanted slogans urging UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to quit his post and "go home".
They also accused the international alliance of conducting raids over Libya of war crimes, our correspondent says.
There have also been protests against air strikes in Libya in Greece, Serbia, Spain and Turkey. ~ courtesy: BBC News ~
6 Comments
What's the issue
I doubt most of these protestors or their leaders are not applying for visas to go to Libya but to Western countries.
At least for their children to study in Australia or any other European country.
This is the real de-railment !
This type of protest is not going to help Sri Lanka. Very soon we will find ourselves on the wrong side of the fence. In addition we simply expose our own problems and come under increased scrutiny.
The days of gaddafi are numbered and we must think what will happen if the opposition prevails. Middle East is never going to be the same again in terms of dynastic rule. The rulers squandering the oil wealth on themslves and their families must end. The ordinary people of those countries cannot be treated as mere chattel, they must benefit from the wealth and resources of their countries.
Yes - when more than thousand fold atrocities were committed against the Tamils in Sri Lanka, Ban Ki Moon was sleeping?
Of course there is a lot of oil for the interested international communities!
Sri Lanka's action against the Tamils were not any different to the SL's friend Gadafi's actions to his own people - by a government run by his own family members - any difference?
So a natural friendship will 'prosper'
BBC broadcasted on March, 22, 2011 said; “Meanwhile rebel leaders based in eastern Libya have had talks with United Nations officials on the humanitarian situation there.”
Now, for Libyan rebels to have talks with UN as a single entity, they should have been pretty organized. Moreover, western media were never explicit on who the rebel leaders were or how they happened to crop up spontaneously when there had been no organized opposition in Libya for forty years. We are curious to find out these details for we know what Anglo-French-American consortium had done in many countries in the past.
Since the beginning of ‘demonstrations’ in Libya, Caucasian consortium, their media houses and backers started to write about brutality, atrocious acts and violence that Kaddafi had committed and have been committing against his own people. They should tell us which Arab ruler had not resorted to quash rebellion when they were under attack? They have conveniently forgotten that no Arab ruler has ever been an egalitarian or a democrat of their mold. We thought obstinacy and intolerance stem from their religion and is the culture that is inbuilt to them.
Leave such rational thinking aside; what is amazing is western leaders hadn’t considered Kaddafi as a dictator for the last few years. Just over three years ago, in December 2007, welcoming Kaddafi to Elyse palace President Nicolas Sarkozy insisted to a French newspaper: “Gaddafi is not perceived as a dictator in the Arab world.” “He is the longest serving head of state in the region.” Not just that, Mr. Sarkozy denounced those who ‘excessively and irresponsibly’ criticized the Libyan leader’s visit to Paris. “If we don’t welcome those who take the road to respectability, then what do we say to those who take the opposite road?” The Telegraph wrote on 19th March 2011.
Now, we can see, but beneath that welcome there laid silently the true animosity of Westerners against Kaddafi.
Leela
Ban Ki Moon and Mahinda Rajapaksha will never been pardoned for war crimes in Srilanka.
Just before starting to shell civilians, Ghadaffi had phoned Mahinda Rajapakshe. This is precisely what Sri Lanka has provided to the world. Having shelled and killed many civilians and then escaping with the help from friends like Ghadaffi and then advising people like Ghadaffi how to silent rights, Sri Lanka has been the master piece for many more monsters.