1. The Mahanayakas of Malwatte and Asgiriya Chapters of the Siyam Nikaya, The Mahanayaka of Amarapura Nikaya and the Mahanayaka of the Ramanya Nikaya and the Anunayakas and other monks;

2. Venerable Sobhitha and other venerable bhikkus who whole heartedly oppose the package although they left no stone unturned to bring Chandrika and her lot to power;

3. The large number of other monks who though not so vociferous still oppose it when ever possible;

4. Gamani Jayasuriya, Raja Wanasundera and many other gentlemen and ladies whose love for the country is proven and are selfless leaders who had served and continue to serve the people spending their own money and energy;

5. The many organisations like the 'Ekiya Sanvidanaya' and 'Mawbima Surakeema Sanvidanaya' who go a long way to expose the many shortcomings and the dangers of the package to the country;

6. The political leaders like Dinesh Gunawardana, more recently Ranil Wickremasinghe and their many followers. Also the JVP and their followers;

7. Srimani Athulathmudali, Ravi Karunanayaka and other Lalith Front members who constantly remind her of the PA manifesto and oppose the package;

8. The many Muslim leaders and Tamils living outside the north and east who see the danger to their people from it;

9. The professionals and university staff (other than a vociferous few who have monetary benefits from Chandrika's government), businessmen and silent majority of the general public;

10. The clergy of other denominations who most of the time silently oppose it and.

11. The many Sri Lankans living abroad who earn valuable foreign exchange for the country and who wish to come back to a united Sri Lanka and not to Chandrika's partitioned Lanka or Prabakaran's Eelam, and thus oppose the package.

There are many other categories like the above who fall into "Chandrika's traitor" category.

Let me list "her patriots': (Those who support the package)

1. Chandrika herself who remains firmly entrenched to the executive presidency in spite of having given a written undertaking to the country that it would definitely be abolished before 15th July, 1995, and who has forgotten that there was ever a PA manifesto giving a set of wide promises,

2. Srimavo Bandaranaike and the other ministers who got mobs into the streets when JR proposed provincial councils but support the package to stay and enjoy power;

3. Richard Pathirana and other SLFPers who wrote many articles and used their verbosity to mislead the people to come on to the streets when the UNP tried to devolve power to the PCs in the eighties but have done right about turn;

4. The political appointees in the state media agencies and corporations who could only hold their positions as long as they are 'yesmen' to Chand-rika's government;

5. The bhikkus who benefit from various government agencies who too will get these benefits only if they continue to support the package and some other bhikkus who are mislead by these paid bhikkus:

6. The various NGOs who are funded by foreign powers who see the package as an excellent opportunity to destabilise the country and pave way for destruction of our long-standing culture and civilisation and thereby propagate their influence;

7. Thondaman who is a unique cabinet minister who organises strikes to destabilise the government, openly supports Prabakaran and openly criticise Chandrika government decisions against the terrorists and is tolerated because Chandrika's majority in parliament is dependent on CWC votes; and

8. Pro-LTTE TULF MP Joseph Pararaja-sinham who went to the United States and canvassed openly asking them not to sell arms to Chandrika's Government;

9. M. Sivasiththam-param who with Pararajasinham opposes any action to search and fishout Tiger guerrillas hiding in Colombo and the suburbs so as to allow Tigers to prepare bombs and bring about mass destruction. When Thondaman and Sivasithamparam requested Colombo SSP Kotakadeniya, who would have fished out the then terrorists to be unceremoniously and immediately transferred out within two months of the transfer the Central Bank was blasted;

10. The many Eelamists who makes no bones of their intentions of a separate state but provides Chandrika with parliamentary votes to stay in power and push the package and

11. The leftists who cannot stand on their own feet but does bogus criticisms of the government but cling to Chandrika for favours.

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