In light of India voting in favour of a resolution on Sri Lanka at the UNHRC and increasing anti-Sri Lanka sentiment in Tamil Nadu, Sri Lankan government ministers, political parties and even media have reacted furiously.

Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa reportedly expressed “deep disappointment with India”, saying the resolution employed “double standards” over “unsubstantiated allegations”.

He went on to add, "would India address its accountability issues to the satisfaction of Western powers or the UN"?

Rajapaksa has also called for all Sri Lankans to refrain from travelling to Tamil Nadu, “until the situation improves”.

Meanwhile the Official Government News Portal of Sri Lanka posted an article entitled “India bowed down to American dictates”, adding that,

“India became a lame duck under the domineering fist of Americans”.

The Daily Mirror carried a lead banner that read “India joins USA to beat SL”.

In an editorial headed “Geneva: A triumph for hypocrisy”, the Island slammed India writing,

“Ironically, it fully backed Sri Lanka’s war on terror during which crimes against civilians are alleged to have occurred. It was fully au fait with the situation in the Vanni—it had its personnel on non-military duty in the operational areas—and if there had been excesses on the part of the Sri Lankan military it should have made a direct intervention to stop the war at that juncture.”

“Its vote for a country specific resolution at the UNHRC is widely seen as a diplomatic bêtise vis-à-vis India’s accountability issues in Kashmir as well as discrimination and violence against its ethnic and religious minorities. Diplomatically speaking, two can play at that game.”

“Now that India has voted for the US resolution against Sri Lanka, Karunanidhi is likely to rejoin the UPA government propping it up and America will pat Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his back. But, India is sure to realise its folly sooner or later; it is digging itself into a hole.”

Ceylon Today in its piece entitled “Tamil Nadu plays aggressor” stated,

“Delhi will eventually mend its relations with Colombo, for it must. The increasing Chinese influence in Sri Lanka may not be the ideal political backdrop for this tiny island, but it is the perfect antidote to keep India in her place, when the need arises.”

The state-owned Daily News added in its editorial “United Nations Pvt. Ltd.”,

“This is the grandest indictment yet on a UN system that’s broken down, polarized and serving the interests of a few member states, as opposed to the larger UN community of nations.”

“But, what’s more important is that this news confirms the inconvenient truth about the new means of keeping member countries on a leash controlled by the big powers.”

“This is a fraud perpetrated on UN member states, and it is in very simple terms an instrument for neo-colonialism.”

"This time she (UN High Commissioner Navi Pillay) incorporated everything that was in the Darusman report into her own report and tried to palm that off as an acceptable and legitimate UN document."

"Well, it isn’t - and this is the considered opinion not just of Sri Lanka but UN member nations such as Russia and China. ‘There is hole in your bucket - dear Pillay dear Pillay, there is hole in your bucket - there is a hole!’ . The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights might as well brush her teeth and do her morning ablutions to this refrain, because there is a gaping hole now deeper than the Grand Canyon due to her extra legal machinations to prostitute the UN system to serve the ends of her own masters, the dominant powers that seek to subvert the consensus nature of the UN system through the agency of the offices of the High Commissioners."

"This is what the Commonwealth seeks to do as well, and to this end Sri Lanka’s wise refusal to try and block the creation of a Human Rights High Commissioner’s office in the Commonwealth is astute. But the Commonwealth is toothless and decorative, compared to the substantially empowered United Nations."