Are we living today in Sri Lanka that was there on the 8th
January, 2015 ?
8th
January, 2015 seems a long time ago.
Since the
Minister of Health of the former President
Mahinda Rajapakse’s Government left
stealthily in the night without even a word to the mat on which he slept
(peduratath nokiya), to join a band of reactionary America and West inspired traitors, Sri Lanka commenced a downward journey,
sacrificing its sovereignty, independence, fast growing economy, massive
development projects and a peaceful march towards the happiness of the people, progress and
prosperity.
Sirsena now says that under
President Mahinda Rajapakse no-cabinet Minister could act freely, and that he had
been questioned about his Ministerial work.
“President Sirisena speaking at the occasion
reminisced at how meeting with trade union leaders were looked upon at under
the previous regime. He noted that while serving as the Minister of Health if
he met with any trade union leaders, the following day he would receive a
telephone call from Temple Trees questioning his actions. ”
That shows
that the former President Mahinda Rajapakse was an intelligent man taking
interest in the work of the Minister of
his Cabinet, to know how they contribute to the welfare of the people
they have been elected to serve.
That is a quality of leadership. Under President Sirisena, Ministers do just what they want without hardly a question
asked by the President.
This
illegal Government set in place by a President who was elected with a
resounding minority vote from the North and East of the country has failed to maintain law and order. Case in point is the activities
of the Prime Minister Ranil
Wickramasinghe he appointed.
Ranil
Wicramasinghe the Prime Minister of the
President Sirisena has begun to question even the sentences passed by the
Supreme Court stating that the judgments
of the judiciary will be forward to a
foreign court of law for their approval. That is sacrificing the Sovereignty of
Sri Lanka.
There is a
special police force the FCID under him,
which arrests and releases whoever Ranil Wickramasinghe wants to be taken into police custody. Most
Vulnerable are the family members of the former President Mahinda Rajapakse, or Wives of
Ministers. Prime Minister defends he
wants when every thing points to his
guilt, such as the Suprime
Court decision to refuse to here a case against
the Governor of the Central Bank.
Sri Lanka has become a dictatorship of the
Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe . It
is time that the people begin to speak out against him to change the situation
as there is no more democracy, or Justice in Sri Lanka. People can be accused for the flimsiest
matter and taken to police first for recording statements and arrested thereafter to be placed in remand jail.
And finally when the cases are taken up and if the sentences by the
Judges are not to the liking of the Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe proposes
sending the judicial decision for
approval of the Commonwealth
Office.
The former Minister G.L.Pieris had said
with regard to the SC decision not to allow Gotabhaya Rajapakse to be arrested until the
end of the FR case that, the “Premier Wickremesinghe asserted that Sri Lanka could consult
Commonwealth Judges Association as well as Commonwealth Magistrates’
Association regarding the Supreme Court directive in this regard. He pointed
out that President Maithripala being the current chair of the Commonwealth. The
Prime Minister stressed that if given the opportunity, he could easily defend
the government position.”
Sri Lanka under President Sirisena and his
acolyte Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasignhe appear to be a kind of a Revolutionary Junta State. People
begin to ask whether this is the ‘venasa’- the Change the people
expected when they voted to elect Maithripala Sirisena in preference to Mahinda
Rajapakse ?
Sri Lanka has become such a police state
today that it had never been Since its Independence. People live
in fear of arrest, and open the daily
paper not to see what progress country has made, what school, roads, bridges
and hospitals are being opened, but to see who is the innocent
man that has been arrested recently and against whom and what defamatory statements have been made or against
whom false allegations have been levelled.
A doctor
with whom I was when it was announced that the Diyawadane Nilema was accused
asked, when is this comedy going to end ? Who will they think of next ?
That is how good things are with
President Sirisena’s Government !!!
Perhaps the
President Sirisena does not know most of what disastrous actions are being
taken behind his back by the set of UNP Minister under him, hence Sirisena
seems to leave what he does not
understand in the hands of his UNP Ministers without questions being asked. For
instance does he know what transpired between John Kerry and Mangala
Samaraweera and what promises the latter had made to the former ?
Sirisena’s
UNP Ministers; and Deputy Ministers are
acting most stupidly like Ranjan Ramanayake for instance trespassing into a Meditation
Centre, or enter Hotels with hidden cameras abusing their powers without the President Sirisena knowing
absolutely nothing about those
incidents. Or Mangala Samaraweera claiming that the former President had
siphoned off 18 billion US Dollars.
Is President Sirisena proud about such statements of Mangala, Sajith, Kabir ,
Ranjan or Rajitha ?
President Sirisena is a laughing stock for his
UNP Ministers. Poor man ! he is like the Greek King who is said to have been going about naked
believing highly those who spoke
praisingly of a dress he was not wearing.
How can
Basil Rajapakse be accused for distribution of Divineguma Funds when Sajith is
doing the same thing to-day ? Is there
any rhyme or reason in their accusations, calling to be present to take a
statement and end up being arrested,
apparently not for any crime but because they were in some way Connected to the
former President Mahinda Rajapakse.
This is all vengeance of a bad man, against a
good man.
But little
they seem to understand that the Maitripala Sirisena’s UNP government has
neither the legal right to exist as a government of Sri Lanka , nor have they
even the moral right to pretend to be
the Ministers of the people. They had been there for more than 100 days and
there is absolutely no reason for them to continue. They should step down taking along with them
the FCID and the Bribery Commissioner.
Making defamatory statements have become the
practice of the Ministers of the President Sirisenaincluding the Prime Minister. None other than the Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa
Rajapakse himself makes unsubstantiated accusations without the slighted
proof.
It was
reported that, “Justice Minister Wijeyadasa
Rajapakshe, PC yesterday alleged that Rs. 3,300 million had been
misappropriated from the Department of the Public Trustee (DPT) during the
previous regime. Speaking at the
ceremony to welcome the newly appointed Sri Lanka's first female Public
Trustee Tharangani Keenawinna Dissanayake at the department, he said the recent
audits had revealed thousands of rupees were improperly taken from DPT for
development projects by the previous government ”.
If he is a man worthy of the
position he holds he should refrain from making such statements. He should first investigate to have reliable
information before making accusatory statements.
The other Minister is the former dentist Rajitha
Senaratne, who was reported to have claimed that, “ ……. he was offered a bribe of Rs 20 million
per month in order to cover up the ‘Avant-Garde’ issue. ……….. He has added that the individuals who attempted to bribe him earn a
monthly income of around Rs 250 million”.
Of course this has to be taken with a pinch of salt as most of his
statements, because it was further reported that, “……Refusing to divulge any
names, Dr. Senaratne alleged that because the attempt to bribe him had failed
they had spread a story accusing his son of detaining an underage girl.’
The crust of it is that Senaratne is trying to cover up his moral shame for having allowed
his son to kidnap a teen age girl and keep her in his own house.
The best thing he could have done was to hand over the matter to the Prime Minister Ranil
Wickramasinghe’s police force the FCID,
instead of making false statements to make them sound true.
The other
white knight in Ranil’s cabinet is Champika Ranawake who wants Sri Lanka to imitate the West. He is reported to have said, “Our politicians want to stay in power till they die without
letting fresh faces come forward. If they think more progressively and step
down it will be better for the future of our country,” Patali Champika
Ranawaka, Minister of Power and Energy said, adding that, ‘Sri Lankan
politicians can take a good example from the British politicians and the way
they acted following the elections that was concluded earlier this month
(May),”
Champika
Ranawaka should have said that to his champion
the Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe
who was rejected 29 times by the people.
Sirisena-Ranil
government has miserably failed to make the people of this country happy for
even a day. Though they- the President and Ranil’s UNP Ministers in tie and black suits
seem to be enjoying their lives as they
seem to have never enjoyed ever
before.
The people
of the North and the East and the Tamil diaspora they thought were utterly
satisfied with their selling out the
provinces to the TNA and they have no
fear from that side. But they have got
the surprise( only if they are not fools and would understand what lies under
the statement) of their lives in the
statement issued by the TGTE.
It was
reported that, “In a rebuttal to the Sri
Lankan Minister’s Statement, TGTE member Suthan Raj pointed out that when
President Maithripala Sirsena was visiting London, thousands of Tamils
demonstrated against him, calling him a war criminal, for being the acting
defense minister during the final weeks of the war when thousands of Tamils
were killed. Thousands also marched in Geneva
two months ago against the Sri Lankan Government’s policies towards Tamils and
to call for an International Investigation for the mass killing of Tamils by
the Sri Lankan security forces.”
Well Mr.President
Maithripala Sirisena do you not think that it is time that you wake up to
reality and kick out Ranil, his no-good UNP Ministers in tie and coat, and all
the rest, and put your pride in the pocket to invite the former President
Mahinda Rajapakse to form a duo to govern Sri Lanka together and bring back the
pride Sri Lanka enjoyed as a developing Nation after elimination of the
terrorists and up to the 8th of January, 2015.
Otherwise Sri Lanka
has no future existence as an independent Sovereign Sate.