நோபல் பரிசு பணம் – சமூக சேவை அமைப்புகளுக்கு வழங்க ஒபாமா முடிவு

The Norwegian Noble Committee has decided that the Noble Peace Prize for 2009 be awarded to President Barak Obama. In the words of the Norwegian Noble Committee, The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama’s initiative the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and Human Rights are to be strengthened.
President Obama comes from a country that has little regard for Democracy. The economy of the USA was ruined and President Obama inherited a failed State in severe debt, with crumbling banks, bankrupt financial institutions and high unemployment. In addition Bush had attacked Iraq in search of weapons of mass destruction, which he never found and even made a foray into Afghanistan under the pretext that Al Qaeda had taken heels to its mountains. President Obama was hailed as the saviour to save not only the United States of America but also save the entire world economy. His election pledge was to stop the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to put the US economy on a sound footing.
Two winters and two summers have passed since President Obama ascended the Presidency but in this period though in the myopic eyes of the Noble Peace Parade there has been progress, in actuality there has been no progress whatsoever. Lech Walesa, the Polish President opined that he(Obama) has no contribution so far.(The Times OnLine,10/10/09)
As far as the US economy is concerned, the financial institutions have kept crumbling, the stimulus packages of finance ‘donated’ to the prestigious banks have ended up not in building up the capital starved economy but in the pockets of the bank mandarins in the form of bonuses, the very bureaucrats who craftily mismanaged the finance. This week the unemployment level in the USA had reached 9.8%, the highest level in 26 years.
President Obama has totally failed to sort out the wars waged on foreign soil in Iraq and Afghanistan. Paul Craig Roberts, the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the Reagan Administration tells of the Obama Regime and its current modus operandi: When justification for war becomes almost endless- oil, hegemony, women’s rights, revenge for 9/11, denying bases to Al Qaeda and protecting against terrorists- war becomes the path to peace. From, “Warmonger wins peace prize”, in SrilankaGuardian, 9/10/2009)

The World has had the occasion to see President Obama in action. On foreign soil, the Bush foray into Iraq has been a success in terms of the US commanding the oil wealth of Iraq. The people of Iraq are subjected to foreign domination and the USA is establishing a puppet government, controlled by the USA. Though officially only 110,000 civilians perished many estimates state that as much as 655,000 civilians were killed. In December 2007 it was reported that there were 5 million orphans in Iraq due to the war. Daily the people of Iraq are killing the foreigners wherever they can get at them and bomb blasts are frequently reported. President Obama has only continued his predecessor’s policies, just the opposite of what he preached in the election campaign.
Take Afghanistan. Bush commenced reducing Afghanistan to rubble and a puppet Karzai was enthroned. Instead of pulling out troops what President Obama promised, he has had to increase the strength. Worse, last month Karzai was accepted as the President by the USA when Peter Galbraith, their own diplomat who monitored the election reported that there was rampant fraud in the election. Instead of appreciating Peter Galbraith’s findings, Galbraith was dismissed from his job for his comments. Galbraith now states that his boss, Kai Eide, the Head of the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan ordered a systematic cover up to conceal the extent of electoral fraud by President Karzai “I was ordered not to pursue the issue of fraud…My staff collected evidence on hundreds of cases of fraud around the country and more important gathered information on turnout in key southern provinces where few voters showed up but large numbers of votes were being reported. Eide ordered us not to share this data with anyone including the Electoral Complaints Commission, a UN backed Afghan Institution legally mandated to monitor fraud. (The TimesOnLine5/10/2009) The UN Chief Eide has denied the cover up but the commitment President Obama has for democracy today is reflected in accepting Karzai as the President though under a cloud of fraud.
Now the South Asian arena is seeing the USA making forays into Pakistan. President Musharaff once agreed to allow airspace and facilities for the US forces to attack Afghanistan because he was firmly told that his country would be reduced to rubble if he did not agree. That was when the US was under President Bush. Now under President Obama the USA is attacking Pakistan under the pretext that Osama Bin Laden is in hiding in the mountains of Pakistan. The people of Pakistan have taken up arms against this foreign domination and against the Government of Pakistan which has now become a puppet of the USA. Today the USA is compelling Zadari the President of Pakistan to agree to the Kerry Lugar Agreement, by which Pakistan will be given $ 1.5 billion annually for five years in Aid if Pakistan agrees to what the USA wants. This Kerry Lugar Agreement was passed by the US Congress. This Agreement has been dubbed as an Insult to Pakistan. The Agreement states that the USA has the right to monitor nuclear installations in Pakistan, and has access to officials working in the field. This is an affront to the sovereignty of Pakistan. Zadari likes to sign the agreement but it has been=2 0opposed by the people of Pakiustan and has not been passed by its Parliament. Pakistan will end up in total disaster like Somalia very soon due to the machinations of the USA , all under the rule of President Obama.
As far as a world free from nuclear arms is concerned President Obama appears to be continuing the task of his predecessors to ensure that nuclear arms will be limited to the Superpowers and their allies only.
Where was President Obama when Israel was attacking the Palestinians in the Gaza strip and raining white phosphorous on its people. Even today and in the past month Israeli forces are dragging East Palestinians out of their hearth and home at gun point, taking over their homes- homes for which they hold documented deeds . The homes are then bulldozed and new Israeli settlements are built and Jews settled on them. This episode was documented on UK Television where I saw the people thrown out seated on their mattresses on the roads and they were watching their homes – the homes in which they have slept for years being destroyed. They were held at gun point by Israeli soldiers and I saw a journalist/photographer who documented this episode being chased away by the armed forces of Israel. There was not an utterance from President Obama to this pillage that was going on in East Palestine. The USA was silent about the Human Rights of the East Palestinians. One word from him- if he could dare to tell Israel that the Aid that the USA is giving annually to Israel would be stopped, Israel would stop forthwith. But President Obama kept silent. The drones and wails of the dispossesed people do not worry him any more. It is sad that Human Rights do not permeate the white walls of White House!.
LTTE mounted attacks in Colombo and in many other parts of the island- in some like the attack on the Central Bank over a hundred were killed. At Arantalawa over a fifty monks were gunned down. At Anuradhapura they attacked pilgrims at the Sacred Bodhi Tree- the most venerated sacred site of the Buddhists and the death toll was over three hundred pilgrims. It came to a point where no one was safe anywhere and in families the husband and wife never traveled together for fear of their children becoming orphans if both got blasted together. Even the armed forces were killed in the hundreds. This was the true situation till President Mahinda Rajapaksa took charge. It did not take long for him to find out that negotiations did not take him anywhere. All previous Presidents were taken for a ride and President Premadasa20who even donated weapons to them was murdered by them. President Rajapaksa took the rebels head on and brought them to their knees. Then the LTTE was finally routed out and captured. Today there is peace in a land that was torn with bomb blasts by suicide bombers, by air and sea attacks.
Mahinda Rajapaksa has upheld democracy again and again by holding democratic elections, even under difficult conditions, and has never tried to act in an undemocratic manner like what President Obama did by accepting Karzai as the President of Afghanistan in the face of fraud done in the election.
If the Noble Peacenicks who want to find anyone from the world that has really brought about peace then the choice has to be no other than Mahinda Rajapaksa, the President of Sri Lanka. Here is a personage who has within three years translated words and pledges to bring about peace into action.
He did deliver peace and ensured the Human Rights of the total population of close to twenty million and delivered them from the jaws of death in the hands of the most ruthless terroirist organization in the World.
By any standards it is President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka that could have a rightful claim for the Noble Prize if a proper and righteous decision is ever made.