Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Britain Dr. Chris Nonis has blamed criticism of his country’s human rights record on a “proxy propaganda war” being carried out by those who funded the nation’s “terrorist conflict.”
Speaking to CNN’s Fred Pleitgen for the “Amanpour” show Dr. Nonis said he was unsurprised by the criticism.
The Sri Lankan High Commissioner said one has to understand that there’s a tremendous influence from those who funded the terrorist conflict who are now carrying out, really, a proxy propaganda war.
What they realize is that over the years — as people realize the wonderful reconciliation, rehabilitation and reconstruction program that they are carrying out in Sri Lanka — that gradually that proxy propaganda war will lose its currency and, in that context, he said he considered it is entirely right and fitting that they should host the Commonwealth Summit.
Dr. Nonis said there’s a huge dichotomy of disjuncture between what is said abroad in terms of criticism and lack of rights and the freedom and the justice and equality that people are experiencing here.
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