Wednesday Jan 07, 2026
Wednesday Jan 07, 2026
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The Sri Lanka Journalists for Global Justice (SLJGJ) in a statement yesterday strongly condemned the United States’ illegitimate and wanton aggression against Venezuela and the kidnapping of its democratically elected President Nicolás Maduro on 3 January.
The SLJGJ joins the growing condemnation worldwide of what is seen as imperial thuggery that renders a rules-based international order ineffective and undermines international law that upholds the inviolability of state sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The SLJGJ said it sees the US action as naked imperialism and an abhorrent effort to reinstitute the 19th-century colonialism that the world resisted and overcame.
“We denounce US President Donald Trump’s might-is-right policy, which sets a dangerous precedent in international relations, and urge the United States to release Maduro and his wife unconditionally and without subjecting them to humiliation,” SLJGJ said.
“We also assert that Venezuela’s oil and other natural resources belong to the Venezuelan people and insist that neither the US nor any other country has any right to claim ownership over these resources or interfere in the international affairs of Venezuela with the aim of bringing about regime change. If corrective steps are not taken to restore the status quo ante, history will lump the US together with pariah states such as Nazi Germany and Zionist Israel,” SLJGJ added.
