Well wisher

The tragedy that seems to have befallen on President Mahinda Rajapaksa reminds me of the “Gladiator” from the film with Russel Crowe. In the film he is the favorite of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus becomes jealous of the Emperor’s love for his General Maximus. Commodus kills his father and sends Maximus also to be also killed. Fortunately he escapes and goes underground. Then he comes back as a Gladiator and Commodus recognizes him and arranges a fight with him in the arena. However before the fight Commodus goes and stabs Maximux in the back and tells the soldiers to dress him up in the suit of the Gladiator and fights with him in the arena. Even though mortally wounded  Maximux defeats Commodus and kills him.

Look at what befell MR.

1. MR was stabbed in the back by Maitripala Sirisena (MS) who then manages to convince the people of the country that MR was corrupt, based purely on allegations without any proof.
2. The Yahapalanya group tried hard to prove their allegations and have failed even though they had the backing of foreign countries to investigate MR. Even his family members and all his associates were accused in a similar manner and arrested and taken to prison without proof of crimes.
3. MR handed over to MS his party UPFA, and the SLFP too, of which he had been a life long member.
4. He then retired hoping to live a quiet life. However the ordinary Sinhala villagers started coming to his house and begging him to run for office. His caring for them was so strong that he agreed at great personal risk and loss of all his Presidential privileges. (The people are equivalent to Marcus Aurelius in the story).
5. MS was jealous of this love of the people for MR and tried to persuade everyone to follow him rather than MR. But it was not to be. So like in the film he first mortally wounds him by removing all the support for MR and after putting negative conditions, tells him to run for elections in the forthcoming general elections.
6. Like Maximus in the film, MR has suffered all the insults and allegations stoically.
7. Let us hope that in the election MR can defeat the anti Sri Lanka elements who have tried their best to destabilize the economy and destroy the country in the name of good governance.

When MS who contested the Presidential election under a different party instead of SLFP for UPFA then appointed a minor party UNP as the Governing party against all rules of norm. He appointed RW as Prime Minister when there was an existing Prime Minister, a Chief Justice when there was an existing head and did not follow any rules of good governance to appoint these people. People anyway decided to give him a chance to prove this mettle and overlooked all the irregularities. The man who spoke vehemently against family bandyism promptly appointed his Family members to key posts. Even his son Daham who was under investigation by the Police for having $1.2 Million in Swiss Francs and Dollars was released and went to USA on a Green card offered by grateful USA. See http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=116619

It is ironic that the JVP people who was slaughtered mainly by Mrs. Bandaranayake and then by the UNP seem to have forgotten history and joined the UNP/CBK wing. Kumara Dissanayake whose speech is colored by his hatred has decided to direct his venom at MR when MR is the one person who has tried to uplift the poor villagers, both Sinhala and Tamil. KD is like a spitting cobra spitting venom at MR and associates.  Similarly the JHU which has as policies the upliftment of the Sinhala Buddhists have also forgotten history and joined the UNP. Have they forgotten the past so soon how both CBK and RW betrayed the country again and again. So many of the Sinhala soldiers who all came from the villages were killed due to the incompetence of these two people. The should have resigned from active politics a  long ago for what they did to the country.

RW who gave a personal undertaking to the Parliament that he will be responsible for Arjun Mahendran’s actions when he was brought in as CB Governer since there were many in the Parliament who opposed RW. Earlier Arjun was calling RW “Uncle Ranil” at every turn. However when things went wrong Arjun put the blame on RW and said that he was acting on RW’s instructions. Now RW is like a cat scratching the floor trying to cover up after laying its faeces on a concrete slab. Now the poor people of the country will be paying for RW and Arjun’s bond scam for the next 30 years.

MR’s biggest fault appears to be his inability to ciriticise even  his worst enemies or speak ill of them and also not defending him self when false accusations were brought against him.  Of course the English media is run more or less by the pro-foriegn UNP Colombians and Christian/Catholic journalists. Read the Colombo Telegraph to see what I mean.

Let us watch the outcome and let us hope that TRUTH wins.