An open letter to Madame Louise Frechett,Chair of the Senior Advisory Group in UN by Asoka Weerasinghe, Canada.
After hearing your bombastic arrogance throwing your weight around and ostracizing Ambassador Major Gen. Shavendra Silva, one of my heroes, who was nominated by the Asia Group to be a member of a UN Committee, a female acquaintance of mine from a little unsophisticated town in Quebec during a get together came running to me and asked… “Hey Asoka, wat is cum-mun between Arbour and Freshette? It really no tricky queschion”.
I thought a little bit….scratched my head…and said…. “Sweet Mother of Jesus…Hallelujah…for once I got the handle of a difficult tricky question. Both are Louise’s, and both were born in Montreal, right?”
“De ar nut only Louise Arbour and Louise Freschette, and study at Universite de Montréal, de also Ar–schittes embarrassing Canadianne!” she responded.
“How so?” I asked. She went on to explain in Quebecois English your outrageous high handed, abrasive action against Sri Lanka’s Ambassador Major General Shavendra Silva. Your UN etiquette is for the pits Madame. After all the Ambassador was appointed with a decision taken by the Asia Pacific Group after lengthy consideration complying with the GA resolution 65/289.
So what was your problem, Madame? Is it the case of “If you are white, you are alright but if you are black then go back!” Or is it that you have difficulty to give prominence to an Asian Army Officer who had helped other Sri Lankan Armed Forces personnel to eliminate the scourge of the Tamil Tiger terrorism after a 27 year bloody war that witnessed the assassination of two heads of state, Rajiv Gandhi of India and President Premadasa of Sri Lanka, while the ‘white-man’s’ NATO forces are still struggling to overcome the Taliban’s who are adapting military strategies and home-made military technologies of the Tamil Tigers to kill the American and our Canadian soldiers. Or did you think that you are sitting on the thrown of your own little United Nations Kingdom ordering the foreign, exotic staff around you with sheer pompous, arrogance. What is it Madame?
Whatever it is Madame, your action is sordid. It reminds me how Minister Victor Toews told the Canadian parliamentarians on 17 June 2008, that our Canadian Louise (Arbour) was indeed an embarrassment to Canada. I wonder whether he would apply the same norms to you and remind you that the UN is not your Grandmother’s estate nor your Fairly Tale Kingdom that have turbaned Asians fanning you while sitting on your prima donna’s thrown.
Little wonder why this young political savvy Quebecois assessed the situation at the UN and described the two prominent Canadian Louise’s as Canadianne embarrassing ‘ar–schittes’.
And by the way, Ambassador Major General Shavendra Silva is my hero not because he and his military buddies got rid of the Tamil Tiger terrorists and their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran shot in the Nandikadal muddy lagoon, on 18 May, 2009, but it is because they gave back 22 million innocent Sri Lankans their ‘right-to-life’ which was hijacked by the Tamil Tigers for 27 bloody years, curtsey of India, Norway, Canada, France, UK and several other nations, that you nor Louise Arbour, nor Ban ki-Moon nor Human Rights NGO’s like AI and HRW have still got to acknowledge. POX on all of you, I say for being so crass, and unimpassioned towards my people in Sri Lanka who suffered for 324 hemorrhaging months and not the last 5 months of this unnecessary Tamil Tiger war that you all are hiccupping about.
Madame, just snap out of your dreamland. The UN is not your Fairy Tale Kingdom with turban Asians fanning you, nor is it your grandmother’s Montreal Estate, nor are you sitting on a make believe thrown studded with Quebec’s polished Tourmalines and Hessonite garnets and flaying your arms ordering foreign staff around you.
Oh, by the way Madame, are you not the same Louise Freschette of the UN who got caught up with the Iraq-oil-for-food scandal and had to resign? Just curious!
Get real lady. We Canadians know sweet nothing about terrorism. Ask a Sri Lankan and they will tell you what it was to be living when a Tamil Tiger Kalashnikov barrel was staring at them and they had to be vigilant not to walk near a parcel at a street corner, and learn the art of tiptoeing through the tulips as there were landmines buried all over like in farms of mushroom during rush hours in case they blow them up to smithereens
Ambassador Major General Shavendra Silva, stopped all that and gave back to the 22 million people a life. And so you are obnoxious to this good man who was a God’s send to these 22 million people. That is a reality check for you Madame Frechette. No wonder that young Quebecoise said that the two famous Montreal Louise’s “Ar–schiites”.
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