Crucifying Rajapakses and Burning Sri Lanka

“They made us many promises,

More than I can remember,

But they kept but one-

They promised to take our land  ….,

And they took it.”

-       American Indian Chief Red Cloud.

They all planned it – led by UNP Leader Ranil Wickramasingher, Venerable Sobhita,  Chandrika, Champika, Sampanthan and Anura Kumara Dissanayake. They even signe agreements as to how to share the political booty after the crucifiction and burning what remains of  the old Sri Lanka.

They were all motivated by an intense thirst for political power, without any love for Sri Lanka its Buddhist Culture and its history. They were from the beginning prepared to sell it divide it and pilfer to derive benefits for themselves. They have one thing in common that is to “crucify Rajapakses and burn  Sri Lanka-what it was before 2015, with its Constitution to build another on it ashes.

Ranil Wickramasinghe had no hopes of winning the Presidential elections so he formed a united opposition. They now had to lure a political bait  a simple man, who may be able to win the trust of the people,  but who will at the same time be naïve to fall blindly into their planned trap to win the Presidential election, agree tohave the executive powers of the President removed, to get the votes of the people and  appoint Ranil Wickramasinghe  the Prime Minister with the executive powers of the President vested in him.

They had to have money,  which they lacked,  as they were out of political power for more than 20 years and their Party treasuries were empty. They planned the robbery as JVP knew that even Stalin broke open banks to finance  the Russian  Marxist revolution.

The  Governors of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka were  honest men with high sense of morality, therefore if they were to form a government according to their plan they had to find a new Governor who will be wiling to work  according to their plan. Therefore it had to be a  foreigner scrupulous enough even to pilfer money from the Bank without making a fuss.  They had already earmarked a man from Singapore without any allegiance to Sri Lanka who would be made the Governor of CB if their plan were to work.

Chandrika was given the task of finding  an appropriate man acceptable to the people  but naïve to act without posing question as a President. Having organised the plan they put it into execution on the 8 January,2015. What happened thereafter is now history.

Each one had a reason to execute the plan- late Venerable Sobhitha because he wanted to have a yes man as President with all the glory for a making a new Sri Lanka after destroying what existed  before;  Ranil because he could not have been an elected President,  but yet become a Prime Minister with executive powers; Chandrika –because  it was during her presidency that th Sri Lanka Armed Forces lost the most number of men 12 000, and lost Elephant Pass ,and Katunayakae Airport was attacked by the terrorists causing  great material loss, she wanted make amends, besides she  was jealous that Mahinda Rajapakse had done what she could not have even dreamed of;  Champika because he thought with the help of Ratana thero and late Sobhitha Thero he may have the chance to be elected the next President of Sri Lanka;  Sampanthan because he wanted to achieve which Prbhakaran dreamed of –a separate Eelam State;  Anural Kumara Dissanayake because as the JVP had been a clean party  because they never had the chance to form a government thought after helping UNP to crucify Rajapakses, and as UNP was not popular,  JVP may have the chance to form a government of their own one day or share the power with politically weakened UNP.

Finally they got their chance on the 8^th January,2015. And a part of it is history and the other is in the process of being enacted step by step.

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Now two years of yahapalanaya government has seen Sri Lanka  disintegrating, parts of it have been virtually sold , Buddhist culture assailed and National Anthem desecrated , corruption crowned, and Tamils have been made a separate entity  with a Chief Minister completely out of control, foreign financed NGOs taking decisions  and making statements to suit the foreign agenda to destabilise Sri Lanka.

The Yahapalanaya has weekend the Sri Lanka Armed Forces and its  heroes being sacrificed to please the Foreign governments, the Tamil Diaspora, and local Tamil politicians. Two years more with this Yahapalanaya will see the ancient Sri Lanka disappeared into disorganised bits and pieces of regions and provinces.

Perhaps the proposed new Sri Lanka will emerge with Buddhism removed as a religion, as it happened in India, or with Buddhism as another religion amoung others. The Tamils are active with the help of the UN and UNHRC to set up their own provincial governments and eventually a seprate Eelam State, and the Muslims with new settlements for refugees from Syria,and Rohingya Muslims from Mainamar could also form a Muslim State.

What is left now for Yahalapalanay to do is to  crucify the Rajapakses and brush away all  memories of Rajapakses, which is still the only remaining hurdle they have, to make their modern  Sri Lanka from the ashes of the old.

The new Constitution they are proposing is another nail in the coffin where the old Sri Lanka remains laid, the recent local Government bill which further postpones local governments elections would be another nail. They the UNP, JVP and TNA have made all opposition to Yahapalanaya  inactive. They have finally gained their two third majority in Parliament.

The UNP, the JVP and the SLFP section lead by Maithripala Sirisena, Daily Mirror, Sunday Times , and some media personnel ,along with the English educated Colombians would like to have the memories of Rajapaksas’ removed from people.

Of course says some of them Mahanda Rajapakse cannot be forgotten for the part he played  to end the thirty years of suffering that Sri Lanka went through before it all ended in Nandikadal.

Having said that they  say that after 2010 Rajapaksas became a spent-force corrupt, undemocratic and dictatorial.

But for the ordinary people far from Colombo away from the likes of   Royal College, Rajapaksas remain the clan that followed in the foot steps of the SWRD Bandaranaike’s cultural renaissance to make Sri Lanka progress towards development  giving the people a higher standard of living safety and security. 

Before they  Crucify and the Burn  Sri Lanka we love and hold Sacred, let us listen to a voice which sounds significant:

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones;

……………….. Yet

Brutus says he was ambitious;

And, sure, he is an honourable man.

……………………….

But here I am to speak what I do know.

You all did love him once, not without cause:

What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?

O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,

And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;

My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,

And I must pause till it come back to me.

(from Marc Antony’s Funeral Oration for Julus Caesar)

All that ended on the  January,2015. Two years later after Yahapalanaya of Ranil and Sirisena  Sri Lanka is like a wood apple found amoung elephant droppings., where it still has the shell intact but with its natural coating lost and empty inside.

The UNP and the JVP that wants Rajapaksas crucified would like to have a puppet President with his executive powers given to a Prime Minister. Ranil Wickramasinghe acts as if he  already has executive powers.

Like the UNP and JVP, Maithripala Sirisena too wants Mahinda Rajapaksa’s crucifixion. Because he is jealous of Mahinda Rajapakse, as he knows despite all the hand shakings with the Western “leaders”, he will never reach the heights reached by Mahinda Rajapakse- either with the popularity amoung  the ordinary Sinhala Buddhist people nor , with the creative political vision Ma      hinda Rajapakse had  to go ahead with a project to which he sets up his mind for the progress of his beloved Sri Lanka or to end a ruthless enemy of the country and its people.

Another accusation directed towards the President Mahinda Rajapaaksa and his government by the Yahaplanaya cohorts and the self centred JVP is that under President Mahinda Rajapakse  there was dictatorship, there was no freedom, and the journalists were subjected to harassment and disappearance .

May be that was why there was a far greater development of the country during the period of the Rajapakse regime than it had been  during the two and a half years under Yahapaalanaya.

The Yahapalanaya says that there was lack of democracy, absence of freedom of speech and a dictatorship under the previous government of President  Mahinda Rajapakse and the  difference that Yahapalanaya has brought to the country is  democracy and the freedom to speak against the government or  freedom to express one’s opinion and even manifest against  the yahapalanaya government.

But if democracy and freedom  is all that Sri Lanka has achieved in the two years under Yahapalanaya, it is better to have been under Rajapaksa dictatorship since 2005 to 2015 as it was during that time that Sri Lanka developed as it had been never before, and  repeat that people had a far better standard of living.

It had always been said that a developing countries should have a leftwing dictatorship for true development and progress. Then it may be that we had during President Mahinda Rajapakse, and we welcome it now, as it is that which is badly needed now.

Maithripala Sirisena is hopelessly under the dictates of his Prime Minister, and he can do nothing to shake him off to reach any political height.

SWRD Bandaranaike when he left the UNP in 1951 to form SLFP furthered his socialist leaning by joining hands with Philip Gunawardhana of the MEP, N.M.Perera, and P.H.William de Silva of LSSP and  Dr.S.A.Wickramasinghe , Doreen Wickramasinghe and Peter Keunaman of the Communist Party.

SWRD Bandaranayake would never have wanted to go back to UNP from which he had severed all connections,   to form a Joint Government.  SWRD Bandaranayake was a Socialist.

Hence Maithripala Sirisena should not have been given the Presidency of the SLFP as long as he remained with the UNP, and it is still time if Maithripala Sirisena really wants to follow in the footsteps of the father of SLFP- SWRD Bandaranayake to leave the UNP to assert his leadership as the President of the SLFP despite his having left the SLFP in 2014 without giving any notice to join with the UNP, which was opposite of what SWRD Bandaranayake did in 1951.

Why do the UNP and the JVP and the Yahapalanaya Government want to crucify Rjapakses  ?

Because they are under the dictates of the Foreign governments and the Tamil Diaspora, to go ahead with a suicidal reconciliation with the Tamils, and write a Federal constitution to please the West and do away with Buddhism.

But they know that they have a problem to divide Sri Lanka with President Mahinda Rajapakse and his Sinhala Buddhist followers- its  true patriotic Sinhala Buddhists awaiting to rise against any meddlers to divide and destroy this land of the Buddha.

The first of the actions of the true patriots of Sri Lanka would be to reject the proposed   New CONSTITUTION presented by Yahapalanaya.

The Yahapalanaya attempot at a crucifixion or the burning of Sri Lanka will not work, even if they manage the Buddhist Sri Lanka coming from the  days of the King Devanampiyatissa and became a modern peaceful secure country for every one, and remained so until the fateful 8^th January,2015, will rise from its ashes like the legendary Phoenix under the leadership of another Mahind Rajapakse perhaps a  Socialist Dictator.