Sri Lankan PM blasts West

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake lashed out western states for questioning Sri Lanka's human rights records despite their own human rights violations.

Addressing the Regional conference of Parliamentarians and National authorities in Asia, Wickramanayake accused the USA and the UK of practising terrorism.

“it was terrorism when the British used gas to kill hundreds of Kurdish people in their wars in West Asia or in the Middle East early last century.

“The arch imperialist Churchill justified it saying that `It is all right to kill niggers`. That was the white man s attitude, a lack of feeling for people of a different colour that accompanied the dropping of atomic bombs which massacred hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the World War II and those were weapons of mass destruction.

“It was terrorism when they dropped an atom bomb in Hiroshima Nagasaki killing hundreds of thousands of Japanese. Those were weapons of mass destruction. That was terrorism.”

Wickramanayake further said that America accused Saddam Hussein of Iraq of possessing chemical weapons, who was later to be hanged despite the testimony of their own inspectors that there were no such weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

“These are the people who are now questioning our human rights records at a time we are fighting against the world's most ruthless terrorist outfit,” he said.

Wickramanayake told the conference which focused on implementation of the International Chemical Weapons Convention that as far as the Government was aware there are no chemical weapons or any other weapons of mass destruction in Sri Lanka.