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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rapa" data-source="post: 589725" data-attributes="member: 212">Sri Lanka Defence Secretary says western countries bullying SriLankaWednesday, June 13, 2007, 6:10 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.June 13, Colombo: Sri Lanka Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksayesterday slammed western countries for bullying Sri Lanka overhuman rights. "This is discrimination and bullying by theinternational community," Rajapaksa told Reuters news agency.He said that, "Without understanding the problem, they are trying tobully us, and we won't be isolated. We have all the SAARC countries,the Asian countries. Britain or Western countries, EU countries,they can do whatever. We don't depend on them."Commenting of the evicting Tamils from lodges from Colombo, thePresident's brother said, "It is a good example where the wholeworld was misled. Everyone knows the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) isinfiltrating ... We can't arrest 300 people and detain them. What isthe best option?"So you can tell them, if you don't have any legal business inColombo ... we don't want to detain you, you go back to your homes.In fact this operation was much better. We could have put all ofthem in detention," the defence Secretary said.Responding to a question, that several rights groups, Nordic trucemonitors and a U.N . envoy have accused government security forcesfor human right violation etc. Mr. Rajapaksa said "We have to defendourselves. You can't risk the country ..., I'm talking aboutterrorists. Anything is fair.""When the U.S. does operations, they say covert operations. Whensomething is (done) in Sri Lanka, they call it abductions. This isplaying with the words.""British Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells, who visited the islandon Monday, didn't talk a single word against the LTTE, a single wordagainst terrorism. They are threatening isolation, they are stoppingaid.""They want us to suffer. When America is attacked ... every country(calls it) war against terrorism, but why are the terrorists beingtreated in a different way in Sri Lanka? Is Britain talking aboutisolating America?" he asked.He also said U.N. agencies in Sri Lanka, had been misled by localstaff. "For 30 years or so, this LTTE planned this, they infiltratedthe U.N. The problem is the U.N. organizations, they took a lot oflocals (on)."The British High Commission in Colombo denied the defencesecretary's allegation of bullying by the international community.</blockquote>

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