The National Freedon Front (NFF) said it "vehemently" condemned the statement by the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, Ben Emmerson on his visit to Sri Lanka this month, accusing him of violating sovereignty.
The NFF's national organiser, Piyasiri Wijenayaka was quoted by Adaderana as saying the statement was “an interference to the internal affairs of a sovereign country and a hypocritical utterance of a representative of the neo-imperialists".
"Turn your dirty, accusing fingers not toward us but towards your own countries, where the black people are beaten and killed on the streets in broad daylight just because they were born as blacks; where the anti-Semitism is the law of the day; where the unexpressed death warrant has been issued on Julius Asange, the founder of WikiLeaks, just because by publishing some documents he opened a window to the dark, ugly face of the true American State."
Questioning "why Emmerson and his superiors kept quiet on killings of suspects of recent terrorist attacks in USA, Britain, Germany and other western counties", Mr wijenayaka reportedly asked, "if those killings were reasonable and justifiable as the suspects appeared to be terrorists, why then, is Sri Lanka an exception?"
“The obvious naked truth”, he concluded was "that Sri Lanka was being singled out and targeted as it was a small country that was not part of the Western hemisphere and not inhabited by fair-skinned human beings."
“What our people wholeheartedly need and wish is to forget that bloody history and march [towards] prosperity as a peaceful country."
