Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara
I send two
important messages to the nation with this call
1. Assert
and protect our sovereignty, independence, freedom and political stability as
an Independent country as an equal before any other world nation by keeping
foreign Ambassadors in their due place
(This call
is for the Government)
2 Give up the
bane of Political parties which have destroyed this nation and restore our own
system of government based on the roots of our civilization, if you want to
save and once again build up a united and prosperous Sinhala nation and usher
in a vibrant state and a prosperous
economy for tomorrow. (This call is for the whole nation. It will come at the
end of this article)
Message 1
Assert and
protect our sovereignty, independence and freedom and political stability as an
Independent country as an equal before any other world nation by keeping
foreign Ambassadors in their due place
(This call
is for the Government)
Here I do not want to deal with The Vienna
Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961)
- That precisely has laid
down how Diplomats should deal with their host countries and
- How host countries should
deal with those who violate it under this Convention,
as it had been already explained by Mr.Sangadasa
Akurugoda in his Article that appeared in the July 26th, 2021 Lankaweb, which I
have given as Annex 1 at the end of this brief note.
My memo
apropos this issue
This memo of mine is addressed as an
open letter to The President, Prime Minister, the Cabinet, all MPs in the present
Parliament of this country and all patriotic Sinhala people, living here and
abroad, and particularly the Maha Sangha, who have gone down in the 2500 year history
of this country, as the Muradevatavo of the Motherland and the Sinhala Jatiya, pleading
them to join their hands, heads and hearts in unison to guarantee that the
above objective given under Message 1 is
realized as a living reality.
I am copying this write up to
Lankaweb News site as I have a higher faith in getting it published definitely
and quickly too, without any fear or favour.
However, considering the critical
importance and the urgency of this public issue and National crisis I do hope
and wish other media people will also copy this from Lankaweb and give maximum
publicity to it as an urgent national issue of the hour, where the Government
of the day has to take immediate action as a top priority.
My
suggestions
First, the President, Prime
Minister and the Government should take immediate action against these
undiplomatic Ambassadors, under the provisions of the Vienna Convention 1961, not only the Ambassador of US highlighted in
in Akurugoda’s letter but also of India,
UK and any other country violating Diplomatic norms by meddling with our
internal matters, in blatant contravention to the Vienna Convention,
asking them to stop this nonsense
immediately and put an end to this headache and nuisance forthwith, and protect
our sovereignty, Independence and freedom as a free and equal Nation with any
other nation on this planet irrespective of its geographical size, before every
diplomatic goat will follow suit and demand us to shave his beard ”, as the
proverbial Sinhala adage has very aptly stated
Second, The Government also
should take immediate action without further delay against traitors like
Hakeem, Sambandan, Sumandiram, Vignesvaran and all other traitors who get
involved in this kind of treacherous and terrorist activities against the Sri
Lanka State under relevant laws like the PTA, the 6th Amendment to the Constitution and also simultaneously
ban all communal and extremist political parties and such NGOO etc
Third, All the Opposition
parties in Parliament should also fall in line with the Government’s stance and
support the Government in this war, against these undiplomatic, uncivilized
enemies of our country, keeping the country first, at this critical hour of the
nation and the Motherland without any reservation, to get this headache sorted
out for good without resorting to cheap and silly demonstrations and trying to
rouse their supporters against the government creating more problems for the
government already buried to its neck deep in Covid 19 pandemic, natural
disasters and many other politically organized, too exhaustive to list here and
learn to act as responsible political organizations without resorting to this
kind of silly and foolish political gimmicks and trying to make narrow
political capital like the man who was
trying to light his cigar while the other’s head is caught with fire”
Fourth, At least ten brave young
MPP should form a ginger group within the Government as insiders and demand the President and the Prime Minister
to take action under 1 and 2 above, immediately
before everything goes out of control and become irreparable and irredeemable, without
any fear or favour as the entire country, or at least the 70 lakhs voters who
voted the President (August 2019) and the Government (May 2020) with a 2/3 in
Parliament without a single Muslim or Tamil Vote, except the very few like the Junior
Thondaman who may have voted MR for personal reason for supporting his father’s
funeral even violating medical advice in
May 2020, will stand solidly with the Government on this bold decision of the Government.
This kind of approach must definitely
get the nod from both the President and the Prime Minister, in the backdrop of
the present wave of social unrest all over the country on trivial issues, fast
growing unpopularity on various issues such as the unbearable cost of living,
increased fuel prices, excesses of the government, and salaries anomalies of
public servants and certain mad appointments such as Ministers like Ali Sabry and
diplomats like Moragoda and Ministry Secretaries like Education and Health and Chairmen
of certain cooperation like
Dumnida Silva, a list too long to list here for brevity against the wishes of
the Sinhala Buddhists majority and the Buddhist clergy and respected
personalities like Rev Malcom Ranjit Fernando, might be a welcome shower after
a long drought.
If you do that without fear or favour and without
being un-necessarily servile any more, to party leadership and convince them to
carry out 1 and 2 above, the fast growing unpopularity of the Government might
disappear overnight that might give at least a breathing space to regain the
lost popularity at least temporally in the country.
This is a golden opportunity to come
back for the Government. That is why my dear sons I am asking you to make use
of this wonderful opportunity for President and the Prime Minister to bounce
back
And address two very important national
issues.
If you succeed I can vouch you will
be the future leaders of this country. Because the whole nation is looking for
a new Sinhala Buddhist leadership as they are fed up with all present day
leaders as none of them are genuinely committed to the cause of the Sinhala Buddhists
as the Kings of the yore such as Dutugemunu, Parakramabahu or vijayaba the 1st
were. At elections they all talk of
Sinhalese and Buddhist. But immediately after the elections all of them serve
only the Muslims and Tamils aspirations, expecting their vote at future
elections , which will never happen like the proverbial goat testicle that
never fell down in spite of the fox was following behind it for days.
There is no difference between the
SLFP, UNP, SLPP or SJBV, in this regard. All of them have betrayed the Sinhala
Buddhists, down the decades starting from 1948 up to date, except Mrs B. the
only National Leader this country ever had since 1948.
Today we are witnessing a very
turbulent and restless time where the people are exhausted with all the political
parties and therefore they are desperately looking for a solid leader,
moulded in the Anagarika Dharmapala calibre to rescue this country and the
Sinhala Buddhist nation. If you carry out this historic mission intelligently
to the letter and get these two things done for the moment (1&2) you will
also go down in history as the valiant sons of the 21st century Sri Lanka who rescued the Sinhala Nation out of an
imminent crisis of the demise of the Sinhala Buddhist civilization in this
country, followed by its disappearance from the surface of this planet.
Furthermore the people will adore you as true patriots, products of the
Anagarika Dharmapala tradition who got the rulers to address two vital national
issues in time. The people might find in you the younger politicians, the kind
of future leaders they are looking for to convert this Paradise Island once
again to its pristine glory.
Please remember there are only two
things under the sun for which all political leaders are afraid of. What are
they? The first is marana bhaya and the second is Chanda bhaya, for which these
leaders are no exceptions.
Therefore this is the time to strike the iron
as it is more than hot just now.
But of cause this mission has to be
done very carefully. You have to convince them that you are doing this in their
own interest and the interest of the Party and the interest of the country and
the Sinhala nation and the Motherland and that you are divine messengers sent
by the Gods and you are carrying out their Commandments only. Other than that
there is absolutely no private interest, you must make it very clear.
The strategy has to be well worked
out for this noble mission and the members of the core group who go to meet the
President and the PM (preferably together) have to be very carefully selected.
They have to be trustworthy, genuine and men of unstinted past record of
loyalty to the Party and the leadership and of commanding authority with whose
every word will convince the leaders to the hilt and to whom the leaders can
never say no.
In this regard I will give three
instances where I have succeeded in three such important missions on my own.
The first, where I convinced Lalith
Atulatamudali to join hands with his no 1 political rival Gamini Disanayaka,
making up the differences, if he wants to defeat Premadasa the all-powerful UNP
Leader at that time which he did. In fact this I did on his estate at
Rambukkana one day in early 1991 on my way to Colombo. Next morning he rang me
up from Colombo and said Sudath I told each and every word you spoke yesterday
to Gamini and both of us have unanimously decided to join hands. Thank you very
much for the advice”. This is how the DUNF was formed in 1991.
The second. In November 1992 where I
got President Premadasa to withdraw the Cabinet paper that proposed to
amalgamate the Divisional Secretaries with the
Pradesiya Sabha and appoint Divisional Secretaries as Secretaries to the
PS Chairmen and also to appoint outsiders from parallel Services as Divisional
Secretaries which would have been the end of the SLAS and professional
Administration in this country.at all three levels namely National, District
and Divisional which would also have
been the death-knell of SLAS, the
premier State machinery of the government in the country. This I did as the
then President of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service Association.
The third, where I got Chandrika
convinced to appoint Mrs. B as the Prime Minister of this country on the 11th
of September 1994. I did this as the Permanent Secretary to Mrs Bandaranayaka’s
Ministry.
So if the proposed group wants to
know how to convince the President and the PM who may be definitely reluctant
to do so either for personal reasons, threats from India (As they did it to JR
in 1987) or US or bad advice of the so-called selfish Advisors to the President
and the PM. But if you do it the way I propose you can win it. Because, you are
doing it in good faith, in the interest of the country and the Sinhala nation
at large.
On my part I will definitely
volunteer to help you in the interest of my Motherland, Sinhala Nation and the
Buddha Sasana.
Annex 1
US Embassy and its involvement in
local politics
Posted on
July 26th, 2021 Lankaweb.
Sangadasa
Akurugoda
1 As per
media reports, US Embassy officials led by Ambassador Alaina B. Teplitz held
discussions with SLMC leader Rauff Hakeem and earlier with TNA leader R.
Sampanthan at the latter’s residence, where the focus was on the proposed new
Constitution, post-war reconciliation efforts, devolution of power, rule of
law, Prevention of Terrorism Act and other issues which are solely internal
issues of the host country. It is also reported that both US and Indian
missions are engaged in discussions with political parties represented in parliament
and other groups to reach sort of common agenda.
(https://island.lk/us-embassy-consultations-with-political-parties-devolution-of-power-among-issues-discussed/). For details
2 General
Description of the Procedure adopted i expelling a Diplomat
The Vienna
Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961)
The Vienna
Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961) contains the most widely accepted
description of the international law on diplomacy. A diplomatic agent is
granted different inviolabilities and privileges, as well as immunity from the
jurisdiction of the receiving state, in order to enable them to exercise their
official functions independently and effectively and to avoid any interference
on the part of the receiving state. The functions of a diplomatic mission are
clearly stated in the Article 3 of the said Convention.
https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/English/conventions/9_1_1961.pdf
(a)
Representing the sending State in the receiving State;
(b)
Protecting in the receiving State the interests of the sending State and of its
nationals, within the limits permitted by international law;
(c)
Negotiating with the Government of the receiving State;
(d)
Ascertaining by all lawful means conditions and developments in the receiving
State, and reporting thereon to the Government of the sending State;
(e)
Promoting friendly relations between the sending State and the receiving State,
and developing their economic, cultural and scientific relations.
Organizing
meetings with local politicians, who are well-known for their racial extremism,
to discuss the proposed new Constitution of receiving State, devolution of
power, rule of law etc (none of which are any of the functions stated above)
are gross violation of the Vienna Convention since the foreign Diplomats are
bound to respect the laws and regulations of the hosting State.
The process
of dealing with diplomats who are no longer welcome has now been fully
recognized under Article 9 of the Vienna Convention:
Article 9 of
the Vienna Convention
1. The receiving
State may at any time and without having to explain its decision, notify the
sending State that the head of the mission or any member of the diplomatic
staff of the mission is persona non grata or that any other member of the staff
of the mission is not acceptable. In any such case, the sending State shall, as
appropriate, either recall the person concerned or terminate his functions with
the mission. A person may be declared non grata or not acceptable before
arriving in the territory of the receiving State.
2. If the
sending State refuses or fails within a reasonable period to carry out its
obligations, the receiving State may refuse to recognize the person concerned
as a member of the mission.
The most
common response when foreign diplomatic officials act inappropriately is to
declare those officials ‘persona non grata ‘and to expel them from the country,
if diplomatic parlance fails. While this is traditionally a remedy for offenses
committed by the actual personnel being expelled, it is entirely at the host
country’s discretion and several nations have used it to respond to
objectionable activities on the part of a foreign government as a whole. We
remember how President Ranasinghe Premadasa declared David Gladstone, who
served as Britain’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka between 1987-1991, ‘persona
non grata ‘and expelled from the country for his unwarranted interference in an
internal matter of the country”.
Statements
issued by various foreign diplomats in Colombo, notably those of former and current
US ambassadors, almost one after the other concerning the internal affairs of
the host country, and reported visits and secret visits said to have been made
to meet the opponents of the democratically elected government to matters
related to internal politics are examples of diplomatic excesses.
We also
remember how the former US Secretary of State John Kerry blatantly boasted in
public that US funded to execute Sri Lanka’s regime change in 2015. They didn’t
utter a single word against any of the undemocratic, unconstitutional and mega
level corruption issues which took place under the government they funded to
install, but appears to have restarted their old game, once again by various
means, soon after the removal of their choice.
The
meddlesome foreign envoys in Colombo should need the growing concern, among the
Sri Lankan population about the undue foreign interference. The government
needs to act without further delay and take remedial action to safeguard the
country’s security and sovereignty.”
Sangadasa Akurugoda
Message 2
2 Give up
the bane of Political parties which have destroyed this nation, since 1948 and
restore our own system of government
based on the roots of our civilization if you want to save and build up a united and prosperous nation and
usher in a vibrant state for tomorrow. (This massage is for the whole nation.)
I request those who are interested in this
subject to read my article An open letter to all political parties and
politicians who seek a mandate to rule this country at the forthcoming
elections Published in today’s Lanka web (29.July 2021).
I will follow up by my proposal on How to
form a Government without political Parties’
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara
Originally
published in Lankaweb on 5th August 2019
