Gota the Great's
Thuttu-deke Greatness
The would be His Excellency Gotabbhaya Rajapakshe is the talk of the town while the very mention of that name send shivers through the bodies of freedom-loving ordinary men and women of Sri Lanka. We don't want to enumerate his diabolical words and deeds as everybody knows them very well. If an when he gets the Presidential nomination we hope to record all of them as we are duty-bound to do for the sake of humanity.The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), the victorious party at the recently held local government elections again shows its political bankruptcy by suggesting that this man may be their next Presidential candidate despite the fact that he was enjoying the life in his other motherland (America) without bothering even to cast his vote for the SLPP, while millions of people who voted for the SLPP were living their usual miserable lives in their one and only motherland -Sri Lanka.
What we want to emphasize at the moment is his cowardly behaviour to
evade the charges levelled against him by using courts of law, instead
of facing them squarely with facts and figures, like the brave Defense
Secretary he claims to be. He thinks he is above the law;Not only he
cannot be arrested; He cannot be even prosecuted ! Such is his Viyat
Jathika Chinthanaya. (erudite national thought ) This is even before he
gets the nomination, let alone becomes the President. What it would be
like if he becomes the Executive President ! No Mr. would be
president. Gone are the days when not only the all-powerful President
but his kith and kin cannot be prosecuted. Emil Zola, the great French
novelist without ever claiming to be a HERO, had shown the world who a
real brave man is. Without having a single armed person to protect him
he not only charged top military leaders of specifically stated crimes
and but also asked the President to investigate publicly his charges
and unlike those Television heroes in Sri Lanka demanded that he be
prosecuted.He did all that when not only the whole "glorious" French
army but also the anti semetic (anti-demala) scum consisting of
clergy,press and politicians were on the rampage against him. The
bourgeois courts did their part by not postponing even once but by
hearing the case in haste and promptly sentencing him into prison. He
did not ask for Presidential pardon citing his great contribution to the
French nation as a novelist. The great novelist appealed against the
verdict. Then the racist gangs went on rampage again demanding his
blood and he had to flee the country.Subsequently he was vindicated and
the whole of France rose up against the clergy, press, politicians
etc., who misled the country all along , taking cover behind fake
patriotic slogans. In contrast to Emil Zola, the would be President Gota
the Great is demonstrating his so-called greatness not only by
mobilizing all the despicable racist gangs but also by doing everything
possible to evade giving evidence before a legally constituted court
of law. WHY? Is it necessary to elaborate?
The most hilarious thing in this whole episode is the fact that it was this same Gotabhaya the Great, who publicly advised one big fish of Rajapakshe gang - Udayanga Weeratunge the Notorius - to go back to Sri Lanka and tell everything and get his name cleared! The indisputable leader of the so-called VIYATH MAGA , the banner of which was put in the mud at the outset by that major Kamal Gunarathne with his advocacy of practicing one of the most uncivilized, brutal and barbarous methods Rohana wijeweera and and his murderous JVP gang introduced during the last years of 1980s , seems to have forgotten the very well-known sinhala adage: OVA DENU PARA HATA _ THAMA SAMMATHAYEHI PIHITA SITA (Practice what you preach)
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peoples'nightmare
During the last election campaign President Sirisena once came on to an election platform with the latest copy of RAVAYA newspaper with the banner headline ; COLOMBO IS SINKING. He did so with the intention of accusing Mahinda Rajapakshe as well as Ranil Wickramasinghe for constructing the Colombo Port City as if he has nothing to do with the Project. In order to emphasize the impending calamity he went so far as to say that he himself felt the tremors at the Cabinet meetings.If this is not a preposterous lie, he, as the head of the Cabinet ,should have adjourned the meetings then and there and should have summoned the geologists and other experts to look into the matter. But no such thing has ever happened.The Cabinet continued to sit in the same building and still sit there. Nobody in the Cabinet wants to know anything about that mysterious tremor! The only thing they want to know is whether their Cabinet posts are secure or not. They are prepared to go down in the event Colombo sinks with their portfolios intact! What a brave gang!
President Sirisena who was in such a readiness to believe what appeared ( or planted) in a newspaper , the sole proprietor of which is none other than Vicor Ivan of dubious character, has not given a damn about the warning given by one their patriotic engineers, Mr.D.L.O.Mendis as far back as 2004 at the D.A. Rajapakshe Memorial Oration in the presence of Mahinda Rajapakshe, the then prime minister.Unlike the Ravaya news item Mr.Mendis's warning was given in a very erudite oration with facts and figures going back to our ancient irrigation systems. His dire warning was given in regard to the MORAGAHAKANDA Project which the President Sirisena considers as his dream come true.While criticizing the project in the midst of his oration ,he did not forget to conclude it emphatically warning against the project in this way:
"A FINAL WORD OF CAUTION IS NECESSARY. IF THE PROPOSED MORAGAHAKANDA RESERVOIR IS CONSTRUCTED,THE ANCIENT PARAKRAMA SAGARA CAN NEVER BE RESTORED. AND IF THE NCP CANAL IS CONSTRUCTED TO TAKE MORAGAHAKANDA RESERVOIR WATER TO THE NORTH CENTRAL PROVINCE,THE RECENTLY DEMARCATED KAUDULLA SANCTUARY WILL SUFFER. IT CAN BE PREDICTED THAT MORAGAHAKANDA WILL BE AN EVEN GREATER DISASTER THAN THE LUNUGAMVEHERA PROJECT THAT HAS CAUSED GREAT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN RUHUNA" (D.A.RAJAPAKSHE COMMEMORATIVE ORATION 2004 -P.98)
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Three musketeers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's misfortune at the present moment is that all the three leaders who are in the limelight -Maithreepala, Ranil and Mahinda- who pretend to armed with everything to stabilize, develop and protect the country, are deliberately doing everything possible to destabilize the country and are leading the country to the brink of disaster.There is nothing surprising in this when one considers their utter bankrupt and ruinous policies during their administrations. What comes ro mind is the surprising resemblance of their characters to THREE MUSKETEERS -Athos, Porthos and Aramis- in Alexander Duma's famous novel by that name.As another novelist Anthony Burgess characterize them, ATHOS is reserved,sardonic,not given to talking much of women (or anything else for that matter) inclined to melancholy. (Ranil Wickramasinghe). Porthos is voluble,loud and gigantic,dressy (aware that he has not so noble an air as athos, he tries to eclipse him in the splendour of his costume.( -Maithreepala Sirisena ) Aramis is clever,learned, given to Latin and theology;' a musketeer against my will, but a churchman at heart' ( the temple-desecrating uneducated Mahinda Rajapakshe ). Be that as it may let us see how they protect their "most beloved " Mother Lanka.
President Maithripala Sirisena who has made history by almost losing his deposit continues to do everything in his power to destabilize the country through his double-dealing policies even going to the extent of deliberately violating the Constitution of the country, unashamedly showing to the whole world that he is ignorant of the constitutional amendments that were enacted after his inauguration with his blessings.
* He did not know that a President's term of office is only 5 years
* He doesn't know that a President cannot remove a prime minister at his discretion after the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.
* He doesn't know what even an ordinary citizen who knows the ABC of politics should know, let alone the all-powerful YUKTIYE MINISA, that the the results of a local government election or any other election for that matter, even if the victorious party gets more than 90% of votes, does not give the President any power to appoint the leader of that party or a member of a party which almost lost its deposit.
So someone has to enlighten him on each occasion.Thus he resorts to various means to get fulfilled his political agenda and entertain the whole country with his antics such as the so-called cabinet reshuffles.
Then comes Ranil Wickramasinghe. His much-vaunted LICHCHAVEE KELLIYA has come to an end as it was destined. Notwithstanding the fact none of the ancient kings ever adhered to the advice said to have given by Buddha , Ranil invoked it to present himself as the true follower of Buddha, thereby to fool the Buddhist voters. Yet no one was convinced.It has become a joke. Nobody in the anti-UNP camp voted for him.Not even a Buddhist priest in that camp ever praised him for that. In fact Ranil used it as a camouflage to cover up his utter incapacity to run a government of of his own, yet again proving what Trotsky said regarding the incapacity of the bourgeoisie to solve the democratic tasks facing the countries like ours. So his method was to install a government of various heterogeneous parties and riff-raff elements , baptizing it as a National Government although there was and is nothing national in it. The oft-repeated claim that it was formed because neither party got an absolute majority in the Parliament was belied by the undeniable fact that this very same Ranil Wicramasinghe even before the election date emphatically declared openly that even if the UNP gets 120 or more seats he will form a national government with the SLFP of President Sirisena! In fact, he , as always, was day dreaming that this HUCHAKKUWA will go on to govern this country even after 2020! His way of keeping it was giving all the perks and privileges to the discontented members of the SLFP while forbidding the UNP members to attack not only the President but even Wachalayas like Dilan Perera whom the President Sirisena used to convey his message in a "diplomatic" way. He always coupled Sirisena's name with every important project while Sirisena deliberately refrained from citing Ranil's name. While Sirisena was planing everything to topple him, Ranil oblivious to what is happening around him , acted as a joker even inside the Parliament giving answers too superfuous and expounding his never-ending periodic economic plans which no has taken seriously. Ranil's lunatic LICHCHAVEE policies were such,that even when President Sirisena using the worst and most despicable epithets he could muster, he was busying himself with summoning UNP Executive Committee meetings in the midst of the elections and adopting resolutions to the effect that the 'Yahapanana " government will go on even after the elections, as nothing serious has happened or will happen, and as if Sirisena is just joking like himself! In view of his stupid conciliatory attitude towards Sirisena which only disoriented UNP voters, it is surprising that it was able to get even 3.7 million votes. Ranil who has a history of never leading from the front but manipulating behind the scenes, is confronted now with a situation where there is no way out other than taking cover behind the Constitutional amendments he himself got enacted cunningly , to be used in case of an emergency. If anything to be learned from his LICHCHAVEE KELIYA, it is the fact that one has to confront the actions and reactions of the living forces at a certain point of time, sooner or later, however much one thinks that he or she is capable of sidelining those forces by his or her ultra ingenious manipulations.
Then comes the next musketeer ,who, in contrast to the original one -ARAMIS- is not well-versed either in Latin or any other language ,but superstitious beyond one's imagination , making a holy pilgrimage to Tirupathi shrine in India, immediately after his election victory. Such is his Theravada Buddhism! Since his election victory he started to demonstrate again to the world that he is not different from the other two musketeers. He who rallied the anti- UNP voters behind him with the promise of replacing the UNP government and he himself becoming the Prime Minister, shortly afterwards changed his tune and said that his SLPP is prepared to support a SLFP government! He did not stop at that. Through his main spy within the UNP government -Susil Premjayanth - a campaign was mooted to make Nimal Siripala Silva , one of the MPs who was previously ridiculed as a MAS KATU SOOPU KARANNA ( sucker of bones) thrown by the UNP! Still this campaign is not given up. It could not be achieved only for the reason that Sirisena, who was ever prepared to betray the 6.2 million people who voted for him even without having a AAPPA diet , could not find a way to oust Ranil . If that has been achieved , the 4.7 million anti- UNP voters who voted to get Mahinda as the Prime Minister would have to content themselves with a MAS KATU SOOPUWA as their Prime Minister! As the SLPP leaders used to say before the election, it would have been a classic example of giving in marriage the elder sister by showing the younger sister. (to be precise, making the mas katu soopuwa the Prime Minister by showing modern Dutugamunu! )
The stupidity, hypocrisy and opportunism of these leaders know no
bounds. To get power and to remain in power they are ever prepared to betray anything and everything.These modern day musketeers are prepared not to serve the country but their own petty interest, although petty they are worth billions and even trillions , if one were to believe what the President himself allege at the last stages of the polls.All these leaders without exception betray those who voted them and whole of the country .
There is no time to waste. Break off all relations with these parties and have no more illusions about them. That is the first step. Then form an united front of all the down trodden masses under the leadership of the working class to defeat all these blood suckers of the masses . Work out a programme of action on clearly demarcated lines. Don't blame the masses. trust them. What they are doing at the moment at elections are what they can do with a ballot paper. When the so-called intellectuals are tail -ending one or another leader, sowing illusion after illusion even after they show their true colours , how dare one blame the masses.
It is the absence of a reliable alternative leadership that makes the masses vote for these false leaders. Therefore the task of the day is to forge such a leadership.Of course it is easier said than done. We have to follow a long arduous way. This is only posing the task.Solving the task is a different matter. We hope to place our views here in the coming days and weeks.
The recent attacks against Muslim community were unleashed not due to an attack by four muslim youths against a Sinhalese and his subsequent death. On the contrary, that incident was used as a cover to unleash their very well planned anti -Muslim pogram which was in preparation for the last so many months.These gangs were waiting impatiently to restart what they were compelled to stop, after their first attempt at Aluthgama in 2014. In anticipation of the election victory which will bring back to power their godfather, they stared to spread wild rumours regarding a conspirasy hatched by Muslims to make Sinhala women infertile with "VANDA PETHI" (tablets allegedly make women infertile! ) and arouse anti-Muslim feelings among the gullible sections of the Sinhala people. Attacks against them in Ampara was their dress rehearsal.Face book was misused to spread these rumours throughout this period.The person who acted with his vituperatve speech to provoke Sinhala people just before the starting of Aluthgama anti- Muslim riots in 2014 -Madhu Madhva Aravinda- was again at work , this time misusing the facebook, with his diabolical anti-minority vituperation , in the guise of commenting on the local government election results.This dastardly vituperation should be read along with the bloody threat made by his mentor and leader Udaya Gammanpila, who is a racist to the marrow of his bones , in one of his so-called press conferences, to the effect that unless the government resigns forthwith the country would become a river of blood!
While these racists were marching on their way to achieve their ends , what the leaders of the government were doing was to conspire against one another to further their own petty personal ends, not giving any thought to what was happening in the country.Ultimately, this is where the government has brought the country . The SLPP is no better.Since their victory at the local government election, its leaders are in disarray making contradictory demands, one day demanding the government to resign, the next day declaring that it will support unconditionally a SLFP government without becoming ministers, then demanding the post of Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament, thereafter again demanding that Parliament should be dissolved, even going to the extent of organising mass rallies in furtherance of that demand, only to abandon the first mass rally taking cover behind the anti-Muslim riots, while harbouring Udaya Gammanpila and his clique whose most recent racist record we have cited above.
While it is imperative that this racist riots should be defeated at once, no one should have any illusion that under the leadership of these parties and their leaders it will be possible to solve the National Question and establish real national reconciliation.
09/03/2018
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The most hilarious thing in this whole episode is the fact that it was this same Gotabhaya the Great, who publicly advised one big fish of Rajapakshe gang - Udayanga Weeratunge the Notorius - to go back to Sri Lanka and tell everything and get his name cleared! The indisputable leader of the so-called VIYATH MAGA , the banner of which was put in the mud at the outset by that major Kamal Gunarathne with his advocacy of practicing one of the most uncivilized, brutal and barbarous methods Rohana wijeweera and and his murderous JVP gang introduced during the last years of 1980s , seems to have forgotten the very well-known sinhala adage: OVA DENU PARA HATA _ THAMA SAMMATHAYEHI PIHITA SITA (Practice what you preach)
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Moragahahakanda Project
President's dream andpeoples'nightmare
During the last election campaign President Sirisena once came on to an election platform with the latest copy of RAVAYA newspaper with the banner headline ; COLOMBO IS SINKING. He did so with the intention of accusing Mahinda Rajapakshe as well as Ranil Wickramasinghe for constructing the Colombo Port City as if he has nothing to do with the Project. In order to emphasize the impending calamity he went so far as to say that he himself felt the tremors at the Cabinet meetings.If this is not a preposterous lie, he, as the head of the Cabinet ,should have adjourned the meetings then and there and should have summoned the geologists and other experts to look into the matter. But no such thing has ever happened.The Cabinet continued to sit in the same building and still sit there. Nobody in the Cabinet wants to know anything about that mysterious tremor! The only thing they want to know is whether their Cabinet posts are secure or not. They are prepared to go down in the event Colombo sinks with their portfolios intact! What a brave gang!
President Sirisena who was in such a readiness to believe what appeared ( or planted) in a newspaper , the sole proprietor of which is none other than Vicor Ivan of dubious character, has not given a damn about the warning given by one their patriotic engineers, Mr.D.L.O.Mendis as far back as 2004 at the D.A. Rajapakshe Memorial Oration in the presence of Mahinda Rajapakshe, the then prime minister.Unlike the Ravaya news item Mr.Mendis's warning was given in a very erudite oration with facts and figures going back to our ancient irrigation systems. His dire warning was given in regard to the MORAGAHAKANDA Project which the President Sirisena considers as his dream come true.While criticizing the project in the midst of his oration ,he did not forget to conclude it emphatically warning against the project in this way:
"A FINAL WORD OF CAUTION IS NECESSARY. IF THE PROPOSED MORAGAHAKANDA RESERVOIR IS CONSTRUCTED,THE ANCIENT PARAKRAMA SAGARA CAN NEVER BE RESTORED. AND IF THE NCP CANAL IS CONSTRUCTED TO TAKE MORAGAHAKANDA RESERVOIR WATER TO THE NORTH CENTRAL PROVINCE,THE RECENTLY DEMARCATED KAUDULLA SANCTUARY WILL SUFFER. IT CAN BE PREDICTED THAT MORAGAHAKANDA WILL BE AN EVEN GREATER DISASTER THAN THE LUNUGAMVEHERA PROJECT THAT HAS CAUSED GREAT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN RUHUNA" (D.A.RAJAPAKSHE COMMEMORATIVE ORATION 2004 -P.98)
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Three musketeers of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's misfortune at the present moment is that all the three leaders who are in the limelight -Maithreepala, Ranil and Mahinda- who pretend to armed with everything to stabilize, develop and protect the country, are deliberately doing everything possible to destabilize the country and are leading the country to the brink of disaster.There is nothing surprising in this when one considers their utter bankrupt and ruinous policies during their administrations. What comes ro mind is the surprising resemblance of their characters to THREE MUSKETEERS -Athos, Porthos and Aramis- in Alexander Duma's famous novel by that name.As another novelist Anthony Burgess characterize them, ATHOS is reserved,sardonic,not given to talking much of women (or anything else for that matter) inclined to melancholy. (Ranil Wickramasinghe). Porthos is voluble,loud and gigantic,dressy (aware that he has not so noble an air as athos, he tries to eclipse him in the splendour of his costume.( -Maithreepala Sirisena ) Aramis is clever,learned, given to Latin and theology;' a musketeer against my will, but a churchman at heart' ( the temple-desecrating uneducated Mahinda Rajapakshe ). Be that as it may let us see how they protect their "most beloved " Mother Lanka.
President Maithripala Sirisena who has made history by almost losing his deposit continues to do everything in his power to destabilize the country through his double-dealing policies even going to the extent of deliberately violating the Constitution of the country, unashamedly showing to the whole world that he is ignorant of the constitutional amendments that were enacted after his inauguration with his blessings.
* He did not know that a President's term of office is only 5 years
* He doesn't know that a President cannot remove a prime minister at his discretion after the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.
* He doesn't know what even an ordinary citizen who knows the ABC of politics should know, let alone the all-powerful YUKTIYE MINISA, that the the results of a local government election or any other election for that matter, even if the victorious party gets more than 90% of votes, does not give the President any power to appoint the leader of that party or a member of a party which almost lost its deposit.
So someone has to enlighten him on each occasion.Thus he resorts to various means to get fulfilled his political agenda and entertain the whole country with his antics such as the so-called cabinet reshuffles.
Then comes Ranil Wickramasinghe. His much-vaunted LICHCHAVEE KELLIYA has come to an end as it was destined. Notwithstanding the fact none of the ancient kings ever adhered to the advice said to have given by Buddha , Ranil invoked it to present himself as the true follower of Buddha, thereby to fool the Buddhist voters. Yet no one was convinced.It has become a joke. Nobody in the anti-UNP camp voted for him.Not even a Buddhist priest in that camp ever praised him for that. In fact Ranil used it as a camouflage to cover up his utter incapacity to run a government of of his own, yet again proving what Trotsky said regarding the incapacity of the bourgeoisie to solve the democratic tasks facing the countries like ours. So his method was to install a government of various heterogeneous parties and riff-raff elements , baptizing it as a National Government although there was and is nothing national in it. The oft-repeated claim that it was formed because neither party got an absolute majority in the Parliament was belied by the undeniable fact that this very same Ranil Wicramasinghe even before the election date emphatically declared openly that even if the UNP gets 120 or more seats he will form a national government with the SLFP of President Sirisena! In fact, he , as always, was day dreaming that this HUCHAKKUWA will go on to govern this country even after 2020! His way of keeping it was giving all the perks and privileges to the discontented members of the SLFP while forbidding the UNP members to attack not only the President but even Wachalayas like Dilan Perera whom the President Sirisena used to convey his message in a "diplomatic" way. He always coupled Sirisena's name with every important project while Sirisena deliberately refrained from citing Ranil's name. While Sirisena was planing everything to topple him, Ranil oblivious to what is happening around him , acted as a joker even inside the Parliament giving answers too superfuous and expounding his never-ending periodic economic plans which no has taken seriously. Ranil's lunatic LICHCHAVEE policies were such,that even when President Sirisena using the worst and most despicable epithets he could muster, he was busying himself with summoning UNP Executive Committee meetings in the midst of the elections and adopting resolutions to the effect that the 'Yahapanana " government will go on even after the elections, as nothing serious has happened or will happen, and as if Sirisena is just joking like himself! In view of his stupid conciliatory attitude towards Sirisena which only disoriented UNP voters, it is surprising that it was able to get even 3.7 million votes. Ranil who has a history of never leading from the front but manipulating behind the scenes, is confronted now with a situation where there is no way out other than taking cover behind the Constitutional amendments he himself got enacted cunningly , to be used in case of an emergency. If anything to be learned from his LICHCHAVEE KELIYA, it is the fact that one has to confront the actions and reactions of the living forces at a certain point of time, sooner or later, however much one thinks that he or she is capable of sidelining those forces by his or her ultra ingenious manipulations.
Then comes the next musketeer ,who, in contrast to the original one -ARAMIS- is not well-versed either in Latin or any other language ,but superstitious beyond one's imagination , making a holy pilgrimage to Tirupathi shrine in India, immediately after his election victory. Such is his Theravada Buddhism! Since his election victory he started to demonstrate again to the world that he is not different from the other two musketeers. He who rallied the anti- UNP voters behind him with the promise of replacing the UNP government and he himself becoming the Prime Minister, shortly afterwards changed his tune and said that his SLPP is prepared to support a SLFP government! He did not stop at that. Through his main spy within the UNP government -Susil Premjayanth - a campaign was mooted to make Nimal Siripala Silva , one of the MPs who was previously ridiculed as a MAS KATU SOOPU KARANNA ( sucker of bones) thrown by the UNP! Still this campaign is not given up. It could not be achieved only for the reason that Sirisena, who was ever prepared to betray the 6.2 million people who voted for him even without having a AAPPA diet , could not find a way to oust Ranil . If that has been achieved , the 4.7 million anti- UNP voters who voted to get Mahinda as the Prime Minister would have to content themselves with a MAS KATU SOOPUWA as their Prime Minister! As the SLPP leaders used to say before the election, it would have been a classic example of giving in marriage the elder sister by showing the younger sister. (to be precise, making the mas katu soopuwa the Prime Minister by showing modern Dutugamunu! )
The stupidity, hypocrisy and opportunism of these leaders know no
bounds. To get power and to remain in power they are ever prepared to betray anything and everything.These modern day musketeers are prepared not to serve the country but their own petty interest, although petty they are worth billions and even trillions , if one were to believe what the President himself allege at the last stages of the polls.All these leaders without exception betray those who voted them and whole of the country .
There is no time to waste. Break off all relations with these parties and have no more illusions about them. That is the first step. Then form an united front of all the down trodden masses under the leadership of the working class to defeat all these blood suckers of the masses . Work out a programme of action on clearly demarcated lines. Don't blame the masses. trust them. What they are doing at the moment at elections are what they can do with a ballot paper. When the so-called intellectuals are tail -ending one or another leader, sowing illusion after illusion even after they show their true colours , how dare one blame the masses.
It is the absence of a reliable alternative leadership that makes the masses vote for these false leaders. Therefore the task of the day is to forge such a leadership.Of course it is easier said than done. We have to follow a long arduous way. This is only posing the task.Solving the task is a different matter. We hope to place our views here in the coming days and weeks.
Down with Communal Violece
Against Muslims!
Communal violence unleashed against Muslim community by very well organised ultra racist Sinhala Buddhist gangs should be condemned unequivocally by every Sri Lankan. These gangs who want to make Sri Lanka a killing field again, despite the fact it has suffered more than enough for 30 years , are not Buddhists in any sense of the word, but diehard Sinhala racialists who are in thirst of blood of minority communities.The recent attacks against Muslim community were unleashed not due to an attack by four muslim youths against a Sinhalese and his subsequent death. On the contrary, that incident was used as a cover to unleash their very well planned anti -Muslim pogram which was in preparation for the last so many months.These gangs were waiting impatiently to restart what they were compelled to stop, after their first attempt at Aluthgama in 2014. In anticipation of the election victory which will bring back to power their godfather, they stared to spread wild rumours regarding a conspirasy hatched by Muslims to make Sinhala women infertile with "VANDA PETHI" (tablets allegedly make women infertile! ) and arouse anti-Muslim feelings among the gullible sections of the Sinhala people. Attacks against them in Ampara was their dress rehearsal.Face book was misused to spread these rumours throughout this period.The person who acted with his vituperatve speech to provoke Sinhala people just before the starting of Aluthgama anti- Muslim riots in 2014 -Madhu Madhva Aravinda- was again at work , this time misusing the facebook, with his diabolical anti-minority vituperation , in the guise of commenting on the local government election results.This dastardly vituperation should be read along with the bloody threat made by his mentor and leader Udaya Gammanpila, who is a racist to the marrow of his bones , in one of his so-called press conferences, to the effect that unless the government resigns forthwith the country would become a river of blood!
While these racists were marching on their way to achieve their ends , what the leaders of the government were doing was to conspire against one another to further their own petty personal ends, not giving any thought to what was happening in the country.Ultimately, this is where the government has brought the country . The SLPP is no better.Since their victory at the local government election, its leaders are in disarray making contradictory demands, one day demanding the government to resign, the next day declaring that it will support unconditionally a SLFP government without becoming ministers, then demanding the post of Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament, thereafter again demanding that Parliament should be dissolved, even going to the extent of organising mass rallies in furtherance of that demand, only to abandon the first mass rally taking cover behind the anti-Muslim riots, while harbouring Udaya Gammanpila and his clique whose most recent racist record we have cited above.
While it is imperative that this racist riots should be defeated at once, no one should have any illusion that under the leadership of these parties and their leaders it will be possible to solve the National Question and establish real national reconciliation.
09/03/2018
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LIFT THE BAN ON FACEBOOK AND
other social media!
It is almost ten days since the violence against the Muslim community started and the State of emergency was proclaimed. Now the the situation is back to normal. Yet the state of emergency is not lifted despite the claim that it was proclaimed only for seven days.Neither was the banning of the FACEBOOK and other social media was lifted. It was the most ludicrous and ridiculous step taken during the crisis by the government ,which is well-known for its capacity to entertain the country (this time, the whole world) even in the midst of a tragedy. The man who was at the helm of the Telecom, who is none other than the brother of the President and who was appointed by none other than the President himself, is still there, notwithstanding the fact the he utterly and irresponsibly failed in his duty to take any measure against the racist rabble-rousers who were openly misusing the Facebook and other social media prior to 4th of March 2018.It was the anti-Muslim propaganda and agitation of these racist gangs , carried on, not only through Facebook and other social media but also through various other means that the ground for an anti-Muslim pogram has been prepared. Ironically, it was only on the very Facebook that these rabble-rousers were combated consistently by anti-racists, while the President and the government were praising themselves for their historic role in establishing national reconciliation, only to be awakened to the reality by racist goondas.To justify their stupid banning of Facebook and other social media, the government spokesmen now allude to certain posts appeared in the social media, which is no news at all to people who use such media. If the government henchmen to be believed, to what a pathetic situation they have brought the country, where a 17 or 18 year old , 2 or 3 students can make the country aflame by posting a few inciting statements or orders! If that is true they can do the same thing by using smart phones or not-so smart phones , thus making the Facebook ban superfluous. It should be reminded that the 1983 Black July anti-Tamil pogram was carried out , not only without Facebook or any such social media, but also without smart phones or even land phones!
Now the cat is out of the bag. The main target of the President and the government is not so much the racist instigators of the recent violence but the critics of the government. As for those instigators are already under arrest and those who are not arrested can be traced so easily , there is no need for the ban to be continued any more.The country is no more in a state of emergency is attested by the fact that the president started roaming the world, wining and dining with royal dignitaries with his Facebook fully functioning, while not only his countrymen but also the tourists who came to see the country of this Great Leader are deprived of the Facebook and other social media, which the whole of humanity (except the citizens of China and such few dictatorial countries) used to enjoy freely nowadays.His opposition to the social media was expressed many times earlier and he was trying to find a way to get his wish fulfilled.With the recent events he got the opportunity and he embraced it with both hands.However much his henchmen try to justify and continue this ban , weighing the pros and cons of the social media ,they will never be able to prevail. So, it's better to be sooner than later:
LIFT THE BAN ON FACEBOOK AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA!
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