Why a two third Majority, when according to Feizal Samath’s Article “Jaffna Tamils Decry Development Plan of Gov’t”

Jaffna Teaching Hospital (Project)


Part Two.

The ordinary Tamil people do not hate the majority Sinhala Buddhists. But it is an artificial hatred that has been created by the Tamil politicians, Tamil business community, the Tamil journalists and the Tamil intelligentsia.

It is they the Tamil journalists, politicians, and the Tamil intelligentsia who should come forward to bring the communities together, and persuade the Tamil people that it is only by accepting the Sinhala majority as compatriots, and working together with them that their problems could be solved.

It is not an aggressive dialogue with the Sinhala majority that will make it possible to end whatever ethnic problems there is between the communities. It is only through peaceful dialogue , tolerance and compromise, that all the Communities in Sri Lanka could find solutions to their “ethnic” problems.

But what is prevailing is the contrary, every Tamil person who has become a sort of a spokes man for the Tamils, moving with the Sinhala people start by calling the Sinhala, chauvinists and supremacists, and criticises them and all their actions. All websites run by the Tamils such as the Sri Lanka Guardian, Transcurrent are not in favour of a friendly coexistence of the Sinhala Buddhists and the Tamils. They continue to campaign for a Tamil Eelam separated from the Sinhala majority.

Pakiasothy Saravanamuth stated in a recent dialoguer that he would ask the President if he were to meet him to work for peace , reconciliation and unity. But reconciliation and unity are possible only if the Tamils accept the Sinhala as their compatriots without harping on their majority status, and show their willingness to work together.

But how could it be possible if educated Tamil people like Narapalasingham wants to rewrite the History of Sri Lanka to prove the existence of an ancient Tamil homeland ? These are the fear mongers, the dark angels of doom that have become barriers for reconciliation and unity. It is the likes of them that keep the Sinhala and the Tamil people apart. Why cannot they emulate great people-like Ghandiji, of the past who were prepared to sacrifice their lives to promote unity among the people, the communities. ?

Anandasangaree in his old age should come forward to speak to his people for the much needed communal unity, without disowning their compatriots the Sinhala just because of their numerical majority. It is working together without having complexes that we could build our country from being a developing country, to a developed country.

It is time that Douglas Devananda too speak out for the people as a whole without identifying himself as a Tamil- the leader of the EPDF. The President Mahinda Rajapakse made a start by stating clear and loud that there is no majority or a minority in this country but Sri Lankans who are either bad or good.

Coming back to Feizal Samath’s article of the Inter Press Service, he quotes Arul who had been invited by the IPS to discuss the future of the high school children, “……..
Most of them want to go abroad for studies and live there permanently. "There is no future here. We will always be second-class citizens," said Arul. “

Perhaps Arul thinks that by going abroad he could be a first class citizen somewhere. Of course he assumes that the expatriates, who spend a lot of money when they come to Sri Lanka, and “fight” for a Tamil Eelam from abroad are already first class citizens in the respective countries where they live. They never tell the truth that even with qualifications they will never be, even second class citizens in those countries as long as their skin is black.

Arul probably does not know that the expatriate Tamils want to keep the ethnic problem going in Sri Lanka, so that they can continue to stay in those countries as political refugees. They are not any happier in those countries except that they have no responsibilities, and could educate their children to be people without roots any where. Arul’s problem is that in his mind he has made himself a second class citizen in his own motherland.

The Sri Lanka Tamils unfortunately carry with them the stigma of terrorism, with the expatriate Tamils back in foreign countries keeping terrorism alive, and TNA in Sri Lanka advocating self determination and a Tamil Eelam. Arul if he gets to a Western country, the police of that country will open a file for him from the day he lands in that country. He will like all Tamils, be under constant surveillance to see that he is not a terrorist sympathiser.

The Norwegian Police recently arrested seven Sri Lanka Tamils as terrorist activists. In France too there are arrests of Tamils and their identity checked . The Sri Lanka Tamils are treated with suspicion in foreign countries.

The following is a quote from a report that appeared in “hinduonnet.com”… IN the first week of April, the French law-enforcement authorities conducted a series of well-planned and coordinated actions against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Fourteen Tamils of Sri Lankan origin, suspected of being linked to the organisation, were produced at a special counter-terrorism tribunal in Paris and placed in judicial custody under a preventive detention order on April 5. A special four-member panel of examining magistrates filed preliminary charges and ordered that they be held in detention for 120 days pending further investigation.”

Things are not as bad as this in Sri Lanka. So when the “disappointed” Tamil youths would like to migrate to countries abroad, they should keep the above matters in mind. The Tamil youth in the North and East are not aware of these.

That is because no one, not even the IPS of Feizal Samath tells these youngsters, that there is no better place anywhere else in the world other than where they were born. They have to give time for development to come to Sri Lanka and there is a formidable future for the people of Sri Lanka, provided every one is prepared to work with that future in mind.

Even if Arul has no sympathies with the LTTE, once he is abroad, he will be in the clutches of the terrorist sympathising expatriates. Hinduonnet.com in its report mentions, that “One young Tamil who told a TV interviewer that he was forced into giving money to the LTTE had to go into hiding after that as the Tigers began gunning for him. There is a Tamil restaurant that dissident Tamils often frequent. Its owner, a Tamil film producer, was assaulted twice for letting anti - LTTE people patronise his establishment.”

Development has to come to North by way of tourism, infrastructure development, and industrialisation. It need not be repeated that there has to be a preparative stage of development when nothing positive would materialise. The Tamils in the North have lived for thirty years in utter misery and it is not understood why this impatience now. It appears they have short memories. Even before the hotels are being built, they turn out to be extra religious and look for loop holes not to appreciate the development work undertaken by the government, but to blame it.


Feizal Samath’s article shows the difficulties the government has to face in its attempt to develop the country to give the people a better living conditions in the future. The article states , “ Few Tamils from Jaffna were invited to the event ( laying of a foundation for a Hotel complex) and all the speeches were delivered in English even if the majority of the 700,000 people speak only Tamil. Furthermore, local residents questioned the location of the hotel as it is close to a sacred Hindu temple, visited by millions of Tamils every year.

"How can you sell alcohol or meat in a sacred location?" asked Arudpragasam Sivathamby, a taxi driver. Outside the same temple premises, dozens of Sinhala traders are doing business, in some cases displacing the Tamil merchants, causing resentment among the minority ethnic group.

"This is causing a huge problem," said Tamil parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran. ”

In the South there are more Tamils who have set up their commercial enterprises in certain areas , than the Sinhala. But the Sinhala people do not complain. Therefore , how could it be a different if dozens of Sinhala traders are doing business in Jaffna. Is this a minority ethnic problem or a problem the Tamils in Jaffna are trying to create?

The crux of the problem is in the last paragraph of Feizal Samath’s article, which reads, “Tamils are hoping for a greater role in power sharing. However, Dr. S. I. Keethaponcalan, a political scientist from the University of Colombo, said that is not a priority for the government at the moment. "The government won a commanding majority at the recent parliamentary polls, and trying to appease the Tamils is not the biggest priority at the moment," he declared. “

It is people like Dr.Keethaponchalam, who have to step in to pacify the people in Jaffna and ask them to be patient and allow the government to proceed with development projects which are in fact meant for the ordinary Tamil people. Power sharing is a big word and it is for the rich and the powerful, which will not help the ordinary people. This goes to show that the educated well to do Tamils are seizing the opportunity to benefit from the situation for their own self aggrandisement, to lord over the less educated and the illiterate.

The President and the UPFA won the respective elections each with an overwhelming majority- The Tamils have to refresh their thinking.

When the UPFA won the general elections with an overwhelming majority, the UNP and the JVP were looking for fig leaves to hide their political nudity. They claimed a smaller voter turn out as a refusal of the people to endorse a victory for the government, and that was the reason for their failure to obtain a respectable voter acceptance.

In order to upgrade their importance as popular political parties when they have actually been dumped by the voters into the political wilderness, both UNP and JVP play all the tricks they could muster to downplay the importance of the popular vote for the President Mahinda Rajapakse and the UPFA.

The fall in the voter turn out has several reasons and it cannot be taken as a peoples refusal to accept the party that mustered a majority of the votes cast as the winner. The lower voter turn out at elections is not a phenomenon unique to Sri Lanka, and in no way could the parties that have received a smaller number of votes claim that the sympathy of the absentee voters was in their favour.

It has been reported by political analysts that “……..Voter turnout in European elections 2004 has followed the downward trend experienced since 1979. Participation was the highest in the first European election year with 63 per cent but has decreased since, generally by 2-3 per cent. The greatest drop in voter turnout of seven per cent took place between 1994 and 1999, when voter turnout decreased from 56.8 to 49.8 per cent”

If the voting is democratic and free the less voter turn out does not reflect on the final out come of the election.

The lesser voter turn out has also been explained by what is called the , “….. voter fatigue , which can lower turnout. If there are many elections in close succession, voter turnout will decrease as the public tires of participating. In low-turnout Switzerland, the average voter is invited to go to the polls an average of seven times a year; the United States has frequent elections, with two votes per year on average, if one includes all levels of government as well as primaries. Holding multiple elections at the same time can increase turnout; however, presenting voters with massive multipage ballots, as occurs in some parts of the United States, can reduce turnouts.” (Wikipedia)

France had been hit by the phenomenon of lesser voter turn out on many significant elections and the analysts continue their search for the real cause of these abstentions. “On the evening of 21 April 2002, the country faced up two phenomena which still occupy the media and political life today: the presence of the Extreme Right candidate at the second ballot and the record abstention level for this type of election. Of France’s 39,350,086 registered voters, only 28,721,939 voted at this ballot. Abstention rose to over 27% in an election which has traditionally been the French population’s favourite and which has consequently shown the strongest levels of mobilisation during the Fifth Republic. If this result was quite spectacular it was not an exception or a “storm in a blue sky” : abstention to any level of voting is increasing in France since the mid eighties. Another sign of it can be seen if we look to the European Parliament elections : in 1999, less than half of the registered electorate turned out, more precisely the abstention rose to 53% !”

Despite these disparities in the voting and non voting electors, the outcome of all elections had been accepted according to the majority of those who had voted without disputing the end result. That is the way with democracy whether the elections were in the West or elsewhere in the world.

I was Present in Sri Lanka during the Presidential Election and the Parliamentary elections campaign. I witnessed the enthusiasm of the villagers, and the crowds that braved the tiring heat and staying on until the turn up of the President Mahinda Rajapakse or an announcement that he would arrive late, or read out a message from him. People wanted Mahinda Rajapakse to win and that was the message that they sent with their presence at his meetings. It was far from being present through curiosity as it was at the meetings of Sarath Fonseka. It was the same enthusiasm and the desire of those young and old villagers out in numbers . Those are the people that mattered.

Even in those villages there were those who campaigned for Sarath Fonseka and discretely distributed pamphlets. The villagers accepted them, and after a glance crumpled and through them away as discretely as they were received. For the villagers and a greater part of the Sinhala Buddhist voting population the only favourite Presidential candidate was Mahinda Rajapakse. They were not going to be fooled by a Sarath Fonseka a war hero or not. They were going to caste their die with Mahinda Rajapakse for better or for the worse. They are however assured that it would be for the better, because Mahinda Rajapakse’s deeds so far spoke a lot in favour of him.

Mahinda Rajapakse has given the ordinary and the “not so ordinary” people a new hope. Hope of unity, peace, and for better days to come for themselves and the generations after. A hope of a peaceful coexistence with the Tamil people salvaged from the misery and suffering, under a ruthless group of terrorists, who took away their children from the “cradle” to make living bombs of them, and trained them to become cannon fodder in an all out war against the Sinhala. They –the terrorists were seeking these “ sacrificial lambs “ to save their own miserable skins, presenting themselves as the protectors of the Hindu Gods and the Catholic Church.

These Tamils saved from 30 years of such miserable existence, ungrateful as they are forgetting the misery from which they were saved by Mahinda Rajapakse and the Sinhala Buddhist Soldiers, still caste their votes for the living shadow of the terrorists the TNA- still kept alive by their lapdogs -the expatriate servitors, their bards the Kumar Davids, Pakiasothys, Jehan Pereras, Philip Rajans, LynnOkerszies, Sri Lanka Guardian, Transcurrent, and the rest.

Coming back to the vote turn out, the lesser number of voters have several reasons as far as the Sri Lanka Parliamentary Elections of the 8 th April,2010 is concerned . Having voted for the Presidential elections it was more or less a foregone conclusion that the UPFA will secure a comfortable victory, and that made the voters lethargic. Whether they vote or not the UPFA will win was the general thinking. They were probably not so concerned with a two third majority as what was essential for them was a victory for the Government. Furthermore there were many who were annoyed with the clamour for preferential votes. If not for the competition for preferential votes the Government would have easily secured a two third majority.

Who cared for the preferential votes, except those who were all out to prove who is more popular than the other ? What was necessary was to strengthen the hand of the President who proved himself skilful in keeping the Western Governments, all out to take revenge from the government of Sri Lanka for eliminating the terrorists, at bay.

No body asks the question why the International community- with Milliband , Kouchner, and Hillary Clington at the helm, were all out to teach a lesson to the government of Sri Lanka for the elimination of terrorism ?

The reason is, that for the first time the International Community finds itself faced with a Leader of a developing country who dares stand up to them and say NO, what ever be the consequences. The President Mahinda Rajapakse is the only leader who had asked Foreign Ministers of two powerful Western Nations to keep away from meddling into the affairs of his country. He could say that because he did not depend on the West to protect his country and his people. He had played his cards well as a leader of a sovereign state cultivating diplomatic relations with other Nations.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa could depend on many nation for the defence of his righteous actions.
We saw it happening when the head strong High Commissioner of UNHRC Navi Pillai spear headed the revolt of the Western Countries against Sri Lanka who sought to condemn us for violation of human rights immediately after the Government Forces of Sri Lanka eliminated terrorism .
To their utter grief the following countries stood by us: Angola, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Madagascar, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Uruguay, Zambia, thwarting the attempts of the West to take revenge from Sri Lanka, and isolating it from the largess of the West.
These 29 countries that stood by us at the United Nations Human Rights Council respect the President Mahinda Rajapakse as a perfect leader of a Developing Nation, and for the first time the Western Nations who try to bully the developing countries find that they are themselves isolated. That is the reason why the West is out to teach us a lesson by most undemocratic actions such as the withholding of GSP+ trade concessions by the European Union, on the flimsy ground of a non existent violation of human rights. In doing so the EU itself is violating the human rights of a developing nation which does its best to keep a section of its poor people employed depending on those trade concessions.
These are more important issues that should concern our politicians of the opposition instead of defending an Army Commander who brought shame to our country after having taken a heroic part in the defence of our country and eliminating a group of dastardly ruthless terrorists. The people have forgotten him for his heroism. It is now the people in Colombo- the rich Muslims, the jetset, the business community that solicit him.
The Tamils whether they are of the intelligentsia or not, have not done the correct thing by voting for the TNA. They should be conscious of the numerical majority of the Sinhala and instead of playing the minority card to claim a separate Eelam, they should at least now come to terms with the reality of their situation and work with the Sinhala, perhaps on the same political platform for the progress and development of the Country and build a united nation of the Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim people without seeking communal segregation. It is time that we dump Sampanthans, Narapalasinghama, Kumara Davids, Pakiasothies overboard and stand together as a United Nation of Sri Lankans.
The Tamils should understand, that the Sinhala Buddhists could on their own, if the cooperation of Tamils is not forthcoming, develop this country and prepare it for all its occupants be they Tamils, Muslims, Malays and the rest to live happily sharing its prosperity. Sri Lank from Kankasenturai to Dondra belongs to all and the new era after terrorism should begin by dispersing the communities where ever they wish to live.
As much as there are Tamils in the South there should be as much Sinhala in the North and the East. The High Security Zones in the North and East should be strengthened and the Sri Lanka Army should be present every where so that never again will there be a tendency for terrorism to arise whether in the North, East or the South.

Wise King Solomon’s judgement to split the baby, and the Tamil peoples’ patriotism- if they have any.

No other President in any Country in the World is loved so much by the people as the President of Sri Lanka

The Tamils in Australia have announced a weekend referendum in support of the Vaddukodai Resolution which is for a separate Eelam State in Sri Lanka. Do these Tamils hold an allegiance to the land in which they were born ?

Certainly not if they have, they will make the end of terrorism to help Sri Lanka, and their Tamil compatriots who suffered for nearly thirty years under ruthless terrorism. The cause that led to that suffering of the Tamils living in Sri Lanka was the idiosyncrasy of a mad man a terrorist to separate a part of Sri Lanka for an Eelam State. These Tamils in Australia is trying to perpetrate the hallucination of that mad man.

These reminded me of the Biblical story in which the wise King Solomon made a strange judgment to see who was really the mother of a disputed baby.

Two women were fighting over a baby. One said the child was hers and begged the other woman to give it back. The other woman claimed that the baby was hers and refused to give the baby. To settle the right of ownership of the baby the two women went to the wise king Solomon.

Then the wise King Solomon having heard the two women asked the woman who had the baby to keep it on the table . Then the king proposed that the baby should be split into two and the women share the parts. One woman agreed with the king’s decision, while the other wailed out not to split the baby, and that she was willing the other woman keep it, despite the fact that the baby was hers. The King thus knew the real mother of the baby, and handed it over to the wailing woman who was willing to give the baby rather than having it split before her eyes.

This Biblical story, could be applied to the case of Sri Lanka where the Tamils ask that the motherland be divided and give a part of it to them to set up a Tamil Eelam, and the Sinhala Buddhists, though not wishing to accede, are willing to share their motherland with all Communities without splitting it to please the less than 13 percent of Tamil minority who show no patriotic love to Sri Lanka.

Do the Tamils claiming separation really love “a motherland” ? Is not their call for separation motivated by a strong desire to deprive the Sinhala of their birth right which they have preserved unto this date making sacrifices of their brave children ? What sacrifice have the Tamils made to keep this land intact from conquerors or terrorists ?

What love have the Tamils of th diaspora living in their cosy comfort or Robert O’Blake who careless whether Sri Lanka is split into two or three ?

There are now the Tamil National Interest being publicised by the Sri Lanka Guardian. They want to even change the history books of Sri Lanka to claim a fictitious interest in the country. What we want in Sri Lanka whether they be Sinhala, Tamil or Muslim are people who genuinely promote unity and selfless integration with the inhabitants and love the motherland as their own.

It is not setting up an All Party Conference for devolution of Power to the Tamils that will solve the national problem. It is accepting the ground situation and changing Tamil attitude to be one with the majority and work together for the progressive development of Sri Lanka hand in hand with its inhabitants alone, that will solve what ever ethnic problem they claim we have.

What after all is patriotism ? Patriotism is not only the love for the country in which one was born, but also accepting with respect its natural, human and cultural environment , whether it is racially mixed, religiously divided or politically corrupted.

To be a patriot it should not be a necessary requirement that each community claims a right to its own language, religion or culture. Be it D.B.S.Jeryaraj, Douglas Devananda, Pakiasoth Saravanamuttu, Kumar David or Ananda Sangaree, if they were to claim a patriotic affection to this country in which they were born, they should encourage the members of their communities to integrate into the existing social fabric without making selfish demands to identify one community differently from the other.

That is how communities have evolved in the Western Countries, if we were to take America of Robert O Blake for an example. It is not the monopoly of the rich countries to evolve as a Nation without devolution of political power to minority communities, insisting as in France that those of the minority communities seeking citizenship should learn the language and adhere to cultural norms of the country.

From the time the Colonialists made their way into our countries, they messed up our societies, introducing their religion bringing along with them their missionaries, introducing their way of life, and forcing their language. Today divided and separated it is still the Catholic Church that plays a role to keep the people separated, and the foreign NGOs that sow the seeds of hatred., while the Tamil intelligentsia perpetuate separation making monsters of the majority Sinhala that make much of the sacrifice to keep them well and happy, whether they live in Colombo or the North or East..

It was the Secret Police of India RAW that took over the Tamil youth and trained them as terrorists and let them loose in the country creating an artificial hatred towards the Sinhala by getting 13 Sinhala Policemen Killed in the north. This resulted in the unfortunate 1983 racial riots. That was how Indian RAW planned the beginning of terrorism through a handful of selected Tamil youth, creating in the minds of the Tamils that the Sinhala are their enemies.

Douglas Devanandas, Wickramabahus, indoctrinated through Marxism and selfish Tamil Politicians seeking their personal aggrandisement among the poor Tamil people are the sentinels of communal dissidence and social mayhem. How can they ever claim patriotism to mother Lanka.

If the Government giving into pressure from the inadequately informed International Community who lord over the developing countries, seek to find solutions to please the Tamil politicians, it will only be treating the symptoms of the so called ethnic problem. The cause of the problem is in the minds of the Tamil people. Unless they understand the problem and try to come to terms with the Sinhala majority the ethnic problem will continue to the detriment of both the Tamils and the country at large. It may not then possible to completely uproot terrorist tendencies arising from within the Tamil people, in the future. Because hatred breeds hatred, and in that environment there would be no place for peaceful coexistence.

Where do the interest of the Tamil people lie. Is it in their own personal well being or being a part of a nation to see the progress and development of that motherland. The Tamils of Tamilnadu are no patriotic Indians. So are the Tamils of Malaysia, Sri Lanka , Australia, Canada or UK if they seek a separate Eelam in Sri Lanka, they have no patriotic allegiance to any country. It is time the Tamil people accept to be the patriots of the country in which they were born. That would be the only way to end suffering as aliens living in a foreign country hoping one day, to divide the motherland of their ancestors to have a separate Eelam.

We cannot split the baby in the face of real love, and so it is with Sri Lanka. This country is not to be split to please O’Blake and his expatriate cohorts, or please the Tamil politicians and elitists to enhance their personal ego as Tamils.

Therefore, there is much to be done by the Tamil media, Tamil Bloggers, and Websites such as the Sri Lanka Guardian, Trance Current etc. to sponsor unity among the people without creating dissention and separation. Peace and happiness lie in unity and in love for one another.

Sinhala Budhhists have no sense of vengeance. They always extended their hand of friendship to all communities. It is the Sinhala who call for Communal Unity while the Tamils refuse the extended hands of friendship of the Sinhala and stand aloof, seeking separation from unity , seeking hatred from friendship.

Please wake up Tamils to unite, and build our motherland Sri Lanka to be a great Nation second to none.

Robert O’Blake - bereft of intelligent thinking, and the Western Media in an all out effort to cause a fear psychosis against a Rajapakse Dynasty, j

Jeremy Page for the Times on Line, Charles Haviland for the BBC, Bryson Hull for the Reuters, Lydia Polgreen for the New York Times, among other “ enlightened” anti Sri Lanka foreign media stalwarts have come out in force to raise a fear psychosis around the creation of a Rajapakse family dynasty. The Rajapakses for them are a greater menace to Sri Lankan Democracy than the late Prabhakaran the hero they “worshipped” , for some unknown reason.

The ordinary Sri Lankans who matter, other than those who have been brain washed by the political enemies of Sri Lanka, and do not suspect the manipulations of the West against developing countries, thank the “stars” for having given them at last a different dynasty who they can trust to usher in happiness and prosperity after having for the first time after 30 years saved the country from the menace of terrorism.

Robert O Blake the former USA Ambassador to Sri Lanka turned into an Assistant Secretary of State has come out to support his pro terrorists Tamil expatriates in America, repeating his same old harangue “……..I think it is important for the administration of President Rajapaksa to reach out to the Tamils… It is important that they feel that they are going to be able to live a future of hope and of opportunity, that the internally displaced people that are now in camps… be allowed to go back to their homes.”

It has to be said even though it is unpalatable, that this man Blake is the most unintelligent of diplomats and a hopeless Assistant Secretary to make statements without understanding the damage he may cause to a people of another country who think differently than him.

What Sri Lanka or as a matter of fact, any progressive multi racial country needs to day is to forget the age old communal differences to be united together into being a Nation. If Blake cannot think of a successful unity of communities that finally allowed a Black man to become the President of a White Majority State, he is really “dumb”.

If Blake had told the American Presidents to reach out to the American Blacks to give them a separate identity , and as he had continued to pontificate to the Government of Sri Lanka, that the solution to the ethnic problem in America is a political settlement for a separate Black State (an Eelam), Barrack Obama would never have been the President of America.

Therefore if Blake could shut his mouth, that speaks before he thinks, he may understand by beginning to exercise his brain cells, that the ethnic problem between the Sinhala and the Tamil Speaking Communities in Sri Lanka should be settled not by separating the Tamil Speaking people in Sri Lanka into a Eelam Ghetto, but by bringing them into the Sinhala Majority Environment to make them a part and parcel of the Majority. That would eliminate the Sinhala Tamil Difference to make them partners of a great nation, and one day raise an “Obama” from among them.

That the West be they the supposedly intelligent Politicians, or wealth seeking media operators will never understand. Because they speak to please some groups for their own personal gain, and do not take time to think that people of another culture, will not think and take decisions like them who are of another culture. But that is how they work to earn a living, and those matters beyond their petty interests are no concern of theirs.

That unfortunately is how they are being informed by local people like Kumar Davids, Jehan Pereras, Pakiasothy Saravanamuttus and others who are invited to Embassy Parties and cocktails to rub shoulders with the high and mighty, and while warming their whiskies, talk of the plight of the poor Tamil people whose political rights have been denied to them by an egoistic, selfish Sinhala majority.

These creators of the ethnic problem in the “simple” minds of the International Community on the one hand, and among the poor Tamil people on the other hand are aiming to build their own position according to their, caste, class and professional standing to lord over the “poor Tamil” population if things go the way they want. They do not think beyond their own immediate gain, to have long term views of building a Sri Lankan Nation where every one can have a say in its progress and development.

Just before the General Elections of the 8 th April, I had no doubt about the UPFA victory, but the greatest event of importance that took place then was the break up of the TNA and the three of its members joining the UPFA, seeking at last to bring about a viable unity among the Sinhala and the Tamils. I was hoping with all my heart that the Tamil people in the North and the East will understand the importance of the situation and vote for the candidates of the UPFA.

But alas ! Tamils of the Kankasenturai, Kayts, Point Pedro, Chavakachcheri, Vaddukoddai, Udupiddy, Manipe , Kopay and Jaffna did not see, the light at the end of the tunnel for the end of Sinhala Tamil ethnic rivalry, to build new bonds of unity.

But yet there is still hope if the Old Sampanthan and TNA could understand the reality of the action of the Thangeswari Kadirgamar, S. Krishore , and Sathasivam Kanagaratnam in contesting under the UPFA ticket, and put their weight along with them to strengthen the hand of the President Mahinda Rajapakse, who is finally the hope for the National Unity.

We Congratulate His Excellency the President Mahinda Rajapakse…….

We congratulate His Excellency the President .Mahinda Rajapkse, for his election to the high office for a further period, and pray that by the blessings of the Triple Gem, he succeeds in carrying out the projects laid down in the Mahinda Chintanya to bring prosperity to Sri Lanka and to unite the Communities in to a one proud Nation of Sri Lankans.
The President Mahinda Rajapakse deserved much more than 57.88 percent of votes. The reason for this unfortunate shortfall is seen in who voted for the candidate of the opposition.
The candidate of the opposition Sarath Fonseka had the votes of the urban voters, the English speaking Colombo Sinhala and Tamil elitists, Tamils, Muslims, Christians and Catholics, while the President Mahinda Rajapkse had both urban and rural Sinhala Buddhist votes, except those diehard Sinhala Buddhist block votes of the UNP, considerably reduced because of the absence of both the colour and symbol of the Grand Old Party .
Despite this the President Mahinda Rajapakse had the largeness of heart and generosity in speaking out frankly to say that he is the President of those who voted for him and those who did not vote for him. That is a lesson for the Tamil population of Sri Lanka to understand what is in the heart of a man nurtured in the Buddhist Culture.
The virulently racist elitist Colombo Tamils such as the Sampanthans, Kumar David, Pakiasothy Saravanamuttu, Rajan Philip, Lynn Ockersz and yet others of the same ilk ,helped those urban English speaking Tamils who cannot reason out in the choice of a most suitable candidate of the two principle candidates, to vote blindly against the candidate they thought stood for the Sinhala Buddhist interest.
The Sinhala Buddhist interest which they cannot understand is the setting up a country of peace and tolerance, a society honest and principled, disciplined and of good conduct, without giving into intoxication and drug peddling , according to Buddhist principles, for all communities to live together without any discrimination against race, religion or class.
The Colombo Tamil Elitists, the politicians, intellectuals, writers and journalists, are against the society which the Sinhala Buddhists want to make of the Sri Lankans of all Communities, because they are divisive, non patriotic, self centered, seeking to divide Sri Lanka calling for a political devolution to make it easy for the Tamils to set up a Tamil Eelam.
If these reactionary non-progressive Tamils, who try to speak in the name of the larger under trodden Tamil population have an iota of patriotism for the country in which they were born, and are able to put aside their self interests, they will realize that it was the Sinhala Buddhists who had pioneered progress in Sri Lanka, and who had defended the country against the marauders , adventurers, plunderers and invaders, and dare come forward willingly to sacrifice their lives to free their motherland from any ruthless terrorists.
It is these very Sinhala Buddhists, who speak out to give to the ethnic minority a rightful place in Sri Lanka, recognize their language, religion and culture, despite the fact that they abhor the Sinhala Buddhists and make every opportunity an occasion to call the Sinhala Buddhists by all types of names to demean them , to make out to the International Community that the Sinhala Buddhist are the cause of their plight. Their plight “the ethnic” problem of which they write in every possible journal and shout out at every forum, is only of their own making.
If only these elitist Tamils could come down to earth and learn to live with the Sinhala Buddhists, honestly as compatriots and extend to them their affection and cultivate an abiding friendship, and take the message that the Sinhala Buddhists are not the enemies of the Tamils, to the larger Sri Lankan Tamil Community , it is still not too late to take each others hands and unite to make this motherland of ours a truly blessed place on earth, where we can live together and participate in its development and progress.
It is being blind to this simple solution to unlock the communal problems , that keeps the Communities divided in Sri Lanka. The opportunity arose for the Tamils ( not to speak of the Muslims whose patriotism is spelt out in “business opportunity”), to show their willingness to cooperate with the Sinhala Buddhists to make our independence a reality by working together to make our motherland a happy place, in the Presidential Election of the 26 January by voting for the one and only progressive candidate the President Mahinda Rajapakse. But they thought otherwise and followed the Sampanthans who stand for reaction, division and utterly distasteful politics of communal disintegration.
This distasteful and dangerous politics of the TNA brought thirty years of utter suffering to the Tamils of the North and East, under the jackboots of terrorisms. But one fails to understand why the Tamils in the North and east voted against the President Mahinda Rajapakse who delivered them from the terrorists, and ushered in prosperity and unbound happiness in the many development projects in the North and East and opened the roads , rail and highways which had been closed to them for thirty years.
It shows that the Tamils of Sri Lanka, what ever the Sinhala Buddhists do for their wellbeing, will turn away from the Sinhala Community with utmost hatred and disrespect. They repeatedly show their disregard for the offer of the Sinhala hands of friendship, because a handful of opportunist elitist Tamils, and Self Centered Tamil politicians looking for their own political benefits, proposes to them a Separate Tamil Eelam.
The Sinhala Buddhists , as they have demonstrated time and time again through out the history of Sri Lanka, will fight until the last Sinhala Buddhist to keep their motherland a unitary state and make it a peaceful home for all who wants to live in it in peace and happiness.
The Tamils in the North and East were responsible for the thirty years of terrorism in Sri Lanka, as they have amply demonstrated by their willingness to turn their back and refuse their vote to the Man- Mr.Mahinda Rajapakse who took the responsibility to eliminate terrorism from Sri Lanka and precluded the terrorists from breaking it, to set up a separate Eelam State.
The hate mongering Sampanthan click of the TNA and their supporters the elitist English speaking Colombo Tamils, will promote disaster and degeneration and it will not help the ordinary Tamil people to follow their political demands.
It is time for the ordinary Tamil people to reason out for themselves what is good and what is bad instead of following the dictates of the failed politicians of the TNA. The Sinhala Buddhists can defend this country and maintain its unitary state without either the Tamil or the Muslim Community to support them. Therefore, there is no more the question of devolution of political power, to please the Tamil politicians, the Tamil diaspora or the Tamil intellectuals, who pontificate to the Sinhala what they should do and should not do.
The Tamils in the North and East who followed the dictates of the TNA and voted for the candidate put forward by the Opposition, show that the North and East is prone to another uprising against the government and the Sinhala Buddhists of the south. Therefore it is imperative that the government maintain the High Security Zones in these areas and establish larger Military encampments like the Panagoda Military Camp. In taking these precautionary measures the government should not give in to pressure brought in either by the Tamil politicians or by the International Community.

The President Mahinda Rajapakse, who led Sri Lanka away from its perilous past, should be trusted to lead us towards a brighter future.

There are two candidates for the Presidential Elections scheduled for the 26th Janurary, 2010. One is the incumbent President Mahinda Rajapakse, and the other the retired Commander of the Sri Lanka Army Sarath Fonseka . Sarath Fonseka is a last minute candidate chosen by Ranil Wickramasinghe of the UNP, as their was no suitable man among the members of the UNP, who is respectable and popular enough to be nominated for the highest office.
Ranil Wickramasinghe formed an alliance with three other politically bankrupt Parties who have neither the political base nor the people of recognizable stature to be nominated as a candidate for the Presidential election. They therefore, roped in with the help of their political friends of the foreign governments seeking to politically destabilize Sri Lanka, the retired Army Commnder Sarath Fonseka to be their common candidate to contest the Presidential election.
The incumbent President Mahinda Rajapakse, who within three years of his taking office harnessed the services of a formidable combination of dependable persons such as one of his own brothers a military man of experience, a very clever military strategist, and equally clever naval and air force commanders, to carry out the military offences against the terrorists who had built a considerable military force, even better than that of the government, during nearly thirty years of a disastrous rein of terror.
The Sri Lanka Armed Forces were given a free hand to carryout its military offences against the terrorists without any interference by the government. The President Mahinda Rajapakse himself took charge of keeping in check the foreign interventionist governments from interfering into the military offensive against the terrorists, until the Government Armed forces completely annihilated the ruthless group of terrorists.
No one could dispute the enormous role the incumbent President Mahinda Rajapakse played in the elimination of terrorism from Sri Lanka. There had been many Presidents in Sri Lanka, as well as brave Army Commanders during the three decades of terrorism, but none of them were able to end terrorism, as those several Presidents did not have the fortitude to stand by their conviction, and determination to end terrorism.
Therefore, no person with even the least intelligence could deny that it is to the President Mahinda Rajapakse, that we owe our gratitude for the complete annihilation of terrorism in Sri Lanka.
But the Common Presidential Candidate Sarath Fonseka , claims he alone is responsible for the defeat of terrorism, and continues with absurd declarations which show, that he though a very great military strategists and contributed immensely for the defeat of terrorism in the performance of his functions as the Commander of the Army, is sadly not suitable to lead the nation as its President.
His claim that he alone was responsible for the defeat of the terrorists, is an affront to the Commanders of the Naval and Air Forces, and numerous others who paid the highest prize to make the war against the terrorists a success.
Sarath Fonseka is a self-centered man goaded by pride, and blinded by fury. Therefore, he does not realize that even the battle against the terrorists, as any enterprise, was a shared responsibility. Can such a man lead the Nation as its President ?
Therefore, the only choice the people have, if they were to intelligently evaluate the period after the 2005 Presidential elections, notwithstanding the call for eradication of corruption and put an end to the government by a family etc; is to vote for the incumbent President Mahinda Rajapakse to continue his development projects in the peaceful climate he has brought to the people of Sri Lanka.
The people in Jaffna recently celebrated the Thaipongal, without fear, in peace, and happiness, for the first time after thirty years of suffering under uncertain condition of living with terrorism. So were the Tamil population in the east, who are witnessing today an unparalleled development of the infrastructure, the roads, bridges , towns and villages, schools, hospitals, markets, and houses.
The people who suffered most during the three decades of terrorism were the people in the North and East. They are being compensated for what they were deprived of in the past, having been forced to live with terrorism in their midst.
Some of the Sinhala voters , who have not suffered as much as the Tamils in the North and East from the presence of the scourge of terrorism amongst them, swayed by an avalanche of anti Mahinda Rajapakse propaganda, fail to see the reality of the end of terrorism, despite the fact that it was their very sons who sacrificed their lives to deliver Sri Lanka their motherland from the disastrous cancer of terrorism that prevailed for nearly thirty years.
I was watching a television program in which a man somewhere in Colombo was asked what he thinks of the Presidential elections and what he expects. He spoke pretentiously that he is a socialist, but nevertheless, he said he thinks from what he had seen that there should be a change. What did this foolish Sinhala individual really understand by “ a change “ ?
The President Mahinda Rajapakse who was elected the President of Sri Lanka in 2005, had in three years brought about the greatest “ change” in Sri Lanka, that none had seen since the independence, or at least from what it had been during the last thirty years.
These are the foolish Sinhala people who get swayed by words, without taking time , with whatever intelligence they have, to reflect. These are also people who have not suffered as much as the Tamils in the North and East, or have had no one of their kith or kin blown up by a terrorist bomb.
Yet these foolish Sinhala people could still be left to sink in their dirty puddles of imbecility , but we cannot expect this from the Tamils, at least those in the North and the of East, to forsake the President Mahinda Rajapakse , for an illusive “ change” . Because these Tamils were delivered from the worst of suffering under the iron boots of terrorism, by none other than the President Mahinda Rajapakse.
There is a saying that the worms living in the faecal matter are quite content in their situation. Therefore, there may still be some of those Tamils who suffered under the jack boots of terrorists , yet hoping for the division of Sri Lanka to set up a Tamil Eelam separate from the Sinhala.
A journalist visiting Jaffna on the day of the Thaipongal, wrote eloquently of what he witnessed as follows: “..............it was a special sun that marked the dawn of a New Year and more importantly, a new era full of hopes, evaporating endless worries of decades long war . Of course it was a special day for the Tamil Community, because it was January 14……..In Jaffna the situation was even more exiting. Happy faces with smiles pouring out like milk spilling over the pongal pot, bore witness to the dramatic changes over the last few months….”
Both Jaffna and East are seeing unprecedented development, remarkably so after the elimination of terrorism on the 18 May,2009. IDPs in camps brought to safety by the soldiers of the Sinhala Army are being rapidly rehabilitated in their former homes abandoned at the behest of the cruel terrorists who took them away to be kept as their human shield.
The Tamil people in the North and East are once again free and happy . They can move freely. They are no more isolated from the rest of the country, as A9 road has been reopened and buses ply regularly from Kandy, and train services have commenced from Colombo.
All that and a bright hope for the future have come about, more significantly to the Tamil people of the North East, because of the President Mahinda Rajapakse. It is a real change that has been offered to the Tamil people. Therefore these Tamil people should not have that same foolish thought of the Sinhala man who does not see the dawn of hope in the North and East , and crave for another “change”, perhaps for the worst in voting for a Presidential Candidate other than the incumbent President Mahinda Rajapakse.
The Tamil people of the North and East have above all a moral right to vote for the incumbent President, and no one else. If the Tamils would not vote for the President Mahinda Rajapakse they will be the most ungrateful Community that occupies Sri Lanka.
The Sinhala Buddhist youth who died in the war against terrorism gave their lives, firstly to save their motherland from being divided , and secondly to give the people in the North East, harassed and made to suffer by the terrorists, the freedom to live their ordinary lives in peace and without fear. The Sinhala Buddhist soldiers were willing to give their lives for those objectives as they knew that they were being lead by a patriotic President with the determination to end the three decades of terror, a President they loved, as much as they respected him.
If in this Presidential election the Tamils, specially those of the North and East, were not to vote for the President Mahinda Rajapakse, they would prove themselves to be a people who do not love their motherland but desire its division to create for them a Tamil Eelam. A people who wants to be separated from the Sinhala, and will therefore earn for ever, to put mildly , the wrath, distrust, and the dislike, of the Sinhala people.
The Educated Tamils like Kumar David, Pakiasothy Saravanamuttu, Rajan Philip and the rest of the Tamil politicians, writers and journalists, should work not for the separation of the Tamils from the Sinhala, but for the reconciliation of the two Communities. By their divisive verbiage of hatred they become the enemies of Sri Lanka, nauseating scums polluting the atmosphere of our motherland at last united under a single National Flag.
After the elimination of terrorism, which was the result of the determination of the President Mahinda Rajapakse, there should be a change of attitude of all the people that populate Sri Lanka to take the same path towards progress and development as a one nation, united and undivided.
Sarath Fonseka was a great Commander of the Army, but his vision of the future as a trained soldier is different from that of Mahinda Rajapakse. Mahinda Rajapakse is a man of the soil who understands the desire of the peace loving ordinary people. The person we want now to lead the nation for its development and progress and a real change for Sri Lanka is none other than the incumbent President Mahinda Rajapakse.

Why we should vote for the President Mahinda Rajapakse , and not Sarath Fonseka ?

Sarath Fonseka calls for a change. But a change for the better cannot come from Sarath Fonseka , who is not a real patriot . A patriot would not come forward to lead a country as its President only to stop corruption, and to end the executive powers of the President. There should be the greater objective of unifying the country under one flag and get the different Communities in Sri Lanka to shed their Communal identities to become one with the Sri Lankan Nation.

His latest acceptance of the TNA to support him in his election campaign is not a move to unify Sri Lanka, but to divide the country by setting up a Tamil Eelam in the North East. The TNA is working to obtain by cunning what Prabhakran could not obtain through terrorism

President Mahinda Rajapakse moves towards the more noble object of unifying the country and make a United Sri Lankan Nation with the now divided Communities. Having eliminated the disastrous terrorism, he said that there are no minorities in Sri Lanka , but there are those who love the country and those who do not.

If Sarath Fonseka is a real patriot he should have supported the President Mahinda Rajapakse, giving up his personal ambition of becoming the President on the ground that he was the Military Commander who led the armies to defeat terrorism.

Sarath Fonseka is today an ambitious hatemonger. He is not suitable to be the President of Sri Lanka, not only because he is a military man with no political experience, but also because he has taken a vow of allegiance as a citizen of America.

A President of a Sovereign State cannot have a divided allegiance. Sarath Fonseka to continue his election campaign should in the first instance show to his electors that he is a patriotic citizen of Sri Lanka by renouncing his claim to USA citizenship.

He has not publicly stated that he has given up his “green card “ and repudiated his claim to the citizenship of USA. As the President of Sri Lanka he cannot have one step here and the other elsewhere ! An ordinary citizen may have the right to keep a double citizenship, but not one who seeks to be the Citizen number one of a country; He is duty bound to have an undivided allegiance to the country of his birth if he seeks to be its President.

Perhaps the law of Sri Lanka is not clear on the point of requiring a candidate seeking election as the President of Sri Lanka should only be a citizen of Sri Lanka, without taking any oath of allegiance as a citizen of another country.

If there is no such requirement in our legal system, it is a serious lapse. However, the voters have the right to know where Sarath Fonseka’s allegiance lies, and refuse his vote to him if he is claiming citizenship of another country;

We know that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Assistant Secretary of State for Asia Robert Blake had sympathized with the terrorists in Sri Lanka. Therefore, it is apparent that the government of USA is sympathetic towards the terrorists of Sri Lanka. The President Barack Obama himself spoke out against a judicial decision taken against an errant Sri Lankan Journalist.

Therefore Sarath Fonseka a “green card” holder who has perhaps taken the oath of allegiance as a citizen of USA, will by consent of being a citizen of America becomes a sympathiser of the terrorists of Sri Lanka, he claims he defeated in battle. Could the Sri Lanka electors then accept Sarath Fonseka as a suitable candidate to lead the Sri Lankan Nation as its President ?

Sarath Fonseka since his nomination had been making promises without any concern for the future of the country. Salary increase of R.10,000 will cause immense economic difficulties to a country which has so many development projects in hand, and many more to be undertaken.

His consent to accept the support of the TNA itself shows that what he wants is not the welfare of the country and its people , but to get elected as the President at any cost, because he has a grudge against the President Rajapakse and his very able brothers who stood by the President to enable him to fulfill his 2005 election promise of eliminating terrorism and unifying the country.

One wanders whether Sarath Fonseka accepts every one who comes forward to support him making impossible demands, merely to get elected as the President, so that once elected he will form a military government and make all those impossible promises he had made null and void.

That is the danger that all those who are enthusiastic with Sarath Fonseka’s promised change, do not seem to understand. Sarath Fonseka is after his own personal glory and cares less for the country and its people. It may not be a surprise, if days after his election as the President and the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, he will commandeer the Armed Forces to take over all Government Establishments.

It is a possibility as these type of regime changes had already taken place in Iran, Guatamala, Chile and many other countries very ably arranged by the CIA.

Sarath Fonseka is a victim of a terrorist assassination attempt. He vehemently opposed the removal of the High Security Zones, when he was stationed as the Commander of Jaffna. He was number one in the terrorist’s list of persons to be assassinated. He was leading an army of Sinhala Buddhist Soldiers against the terrorist he vowed to eliminate. Seeing his soldiers dye in great numbers, he claimed that Sri Lanka belongs to the Sinhala, and the other Communities should not make undue demands.

Such a man cannot change over night , and accept the demands of the TNA to merge East and North, release all suspected terrorists in prisons, remove the Army Camps from Jaffna . There is surely some thing in the back of his mind, and that does not auger well for the future of our country.

Therefore the electors should be vigilant and use their vote wisely. Even if one feels that they do not agree with the President Rajapakse, and put him in the category of a “hopeless devil”, a known ”hopeless devil” is better than the unknown “ ambitious devil”

Mahinda Rajapakse sought to be elected as the President of Sri Lanka in 2005, to bring an end to terrorism, through dialogue. But having failed in his attempt to meet Prabhakaran face to face, he began a series of peace negotiations. Having failed in the attempt, he was forced to resort to military operations when the terrorists closed the sluice gates of Mavil Aru depriving water to thousands of farmers. And that ended up with the defeat of the terrorists at Nandikadal in May, 2009.

With that the President Mahinda Rajapakse fulfilled his first election promise to his electors. People seem to have now forgotten the difficulties the President had in gaining his victory over the terrorists. The war against terrorism was not only a destruction of the naval force of the terrorists, their meeting places and communication centres, face to face fighting capturing their fortified towns, villages and earth-bunds, but also to stall attempts by terrorist friendly foreign governments to stop the military offenses against terrorists.

The President Mahinda Rajapakse refused their call for ceasefire, despite the fact that he knew that he was antagonizing the foreign governments , but he had no alternative as he was determined to end terrorism, at whatever cost, that being the promise he gave to his people. He may have thought in his heart of heart that the European Governments proud of their Christian civilization, the cradles of democracy would eventually understand and finally applaud him for his determination to end terrorism , a global disaster, a menace to human civilisation.

But unfortunately end of terrorism in Sri Lanka made us see the hypocrisy of the West. They have a love and hate relationship with terrorism. They categorise terrorism , as their terrorism, and other peoples’ terrorism. They loved the terrorists in Sri Lanka and their elimination has made the Western Governments vengeful towards the Government of Sri Lanka. Phillip Alston of UN who is a great sympathizer of the Sri Lanka terrorists is all out to inculpate Sri Lanka for war crimes. And Robert Evans of EU threatens Sri Lanka with the withdrawal of GSP+

David Miliband the British Foreign Secretary, and the French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner came to Sri Lanka with the intention of saving the terrorist leadership. They were well received by the President Mahinda Rajapakse, but they were kindly requested not to interfere.

They later together with the US Secretary of State moved to adopt a resolution in the UN Security Council to send UN Peace troops to intervene in Sri Lanka. But the President Mahinda Rajapakse had the support of China and Russia who stood firmly against such a move.

The President Mahinda Rajapakse had a difficult time waging a diplomatic battle in the political front to keep away foreign interventions attempting to foil the battle against the terrorists. That was patriotism, and that was a President who kept his word. As the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and the President of Sri Lanka, the victory over the thirty year old terrorism in Sri Lanka is primarily his. Despite that if one wants to vote against the President Mahinda Rajapakse, which, one has a right to do, one should then be clear in his mind, what are the reasons that justify such a decision ?

What are the reasons some people give to vote against the President Rajapakse to bring about a change ?

There are those who make allegations of corruptions against the President and his brothers, but allegations by themselves do not prove any thing . Those allegations have to be proved. So far nothing has been done except make noises and innuendos .

Then there are those who blame the President for having his brothers around him holding positions of importance. But it was his brother Gotabhaya Rajapakse a man with considerable experience in war and negotiations, who brought the three Forces together and provided them with arms and war material, and carried out an exceptional job in the war against the terrorists, and continues even today to disable the activities of the vast network of Sri Lanka terrorists overseas.

The President’s other brother Basil Rajapakse was engaged in constant contact with the Government of India to keep the Tamil Nadu State at bay and stop any interventionists attempts by the Government of India. He was also maintaining good relations with the political leaders in the East and looking after the IDPs. The President’s elder brother was looking after the development of the Ports in the Colombo, Galle, Kankasenthurai and the new port in Hambantota.

The President Mahinda Rajapakse fortunately had his brothers who were qualified and capable to carry out the different functions allocated to them. He could trust that the work that they have been given would be carried out well and with responsibility. Above all he could trust them. So what is wrong in having employed his brothers . It is the people of Sri Lanka who have benefitted from their employment.

The Opposition speaks of the Rajapakse family, as if they were nincompoops who lived freely at government expense. But it was the Rajapakse family that delivered us from terrorism. We should be thankful to them.

The other allegation leveled at the President Mahinda Rajapakse is that he had the largest cabinet in the world. That was the fault of the JVP. JVP left the government when the President was beginning his task of elimination of the terrorists. If the government crashed for want of a majority the elimination of terrorism in Sri Lanka would have remained a far cry.

The President had to think fast and use his political acumen to keep his government afloat. The only way to do this was to win the confidence of politicians of the opposition . They would not come unless they were given some sort of incentives. He first signed a MoU with the UNP and when it was not working he gave cabinet posts to those who were willing to remain with him to consolidate his government so that he could assure that the military solution to eliminate terrorism could be given effect. If the President did not set up that strategy, the government may have crashed and th military operation against the terrorists would have stopped.

We can imagine the scenario if that had happened. So why blame the President for the large cabinet, which was a decision he was forced to take when the JVP left him without an alternative solution of even assuring their support while being in the opposition.

Unfortunately he did not have brothers in the JVP. If he had they would have remained with him.

Another allegation leveled against the President is why he has people like the Minister of Labour Mervyn Silva, whose indiscipline some times causes concern. But perhaps the President’s future plans to eliminate the underworld elements may necessitate the services of a person like Mervyn Silva. But though not quite disciplined Mervyn Silva is not a dangerous person. Therefore, that is no reason to blame the President for his more human acceptance of the indiscipline of a devoted friend. On the other hand is it not a great human quality of the President not to discard a friend because he is different ?

Taking into consideration all what has been said, electing the President Mahinda Rajapakse for another term in office is to continue the good work he had commenced, and allowing him to complete the changes he had promised in the Mahinda Chintanaya. There are many promising projects underway, and a change now will only hamper the development of these projects, the beneficiaries of which are the people of Sri Lanka.

A change should not be made for the sake of a change. A change should be to get some thing better, and that change for the better cannot be expected from Sarath Fonseka making all sorts delirious promises, without any planned development projects.

The change for the better we can expect only from the President Mahinda Rajpakse, a man of the people, simple, forthright, human, a genuine son of the soil of whom we can be proud.


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2 Responses to “Why we should vote for the President Mahinda Rajapakse , and not Sarath Fonseka ?”

1. cassandra Says:
January 15th, 2010 at 2:20 am

No way can any sensible Sri Lankan who loves his country vote for Sarath Fonseka, certainly, not after his infamous interview reported in the Sunday Leader of 13th December. He’s shown himself to be vindictive, loose tongued, lacking in discretion or common loyalty. Voting for him will not be voting for something better.
2. Chintha Says:
January 15th, 2010 at 2:53 pm

(Why any Sri Lankan should NOT vote for SF)
During 1970-1980 when the Tamil extrimist harassed and chased all Sinhalese from North, the population in North increased by 30%. Figuring out all these people illigally migrated from Tamil Nadu is not difficult. Imagine if they are given SELF RULE. Wow the whole Tamil Nadu will cross over to SL. Then what ? According to the history taguht to Tamils, Ealam is whole of SL. They are the indgenous people of SL.Then they will chase more and more NOn Tamils out from border villages to expand thier Ealam,and the endless war will begin. Or may be they have pacts with LTTE sympathising countries to bulid a port in thier Ealam country and Sri LAnka will have no say. One day the rice eating donkeys can live under super duper Tamil Ealam.
ITN-Jan 15 2010
Tamil National Alliance Parliamentarians have confirmed that Presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka and UNP Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe had accepted all conditions submitted by them.

Parliamentarian Thangeshwari Kadiraman said they expected the right to self-rule for the Tamil polity. This was a main condition put forward by them. The right to self rule is the only method that the problem of the Tamil civilians can be sorted out. Re-merger of the North and East was another condition they laid down. Sarath Fonseka and UNP Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe totally accepted all these conditions put forward by their Party Leader R.Sambanthan.

Parliamentarian Sivashakthi Ananda said the Government rejected all their demands in toto. However, the group including Sarath Fonseka and UNP Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe endorsed all their conditions.

TNA Parliamentarian K.Thurairatnasinham said they submitted a proposal for their self-administration. It was put forward as a condition. Sarath Fonseka, not only endorsed their proposal, but has also signed an agreement accepting it.