Dr Sudath Gunasekara
29. Sept..2019.
Now thanks devas
finally the dates for the Presidential Election 2019 (nominations 7th Oct &
Election 16th Nov) have been declared at last by the Election Commission after
so much of uncertainty and speculations, the biggest challenge before the Sinhala
nation today (I mean the Nation of this land called Sinhale /Sri Lanka for millennia that
includes all citizens of the whole island S,T, M & all citizens in the
country as it had been before 1815), is the selection and election of the correct person as the head of the
State” who can,
First, reclaim
the Augean mess created by the politicians of this country for the past 71
years since 1948, more particularly during the last 4 ½ years.
Second, solve
the sky high problems heaped up before this country, due to the blunders made
by those who are supposed to have ruled this country since the so-called
Independence in 1948 and thereafter, (again more particularly during the last 4
½ years)
Third, restore
and rectify the lost rights of the Sinhala nation in particular while
safeguarding the legitimately due rights of all communities in this country and
Fourth, who can
and who will decisively shape the future destiny of the Sinhala Nation?
This of cause is
not an easy task. But it is also not intractable and unachievable if one has
the will and the capacity. What is more is it has to be done at any cost to save
the country and the nation just now and not later. Because, if you miss this
golden opportunity you will never get it again.
The first
priority in this Herculean task is putting an end to four and half years of
absolute anarchy in this country, now almost bleeding to death, created by
Ranil and Sirisena duo, overflowing with utter chaos and confusion as there was
no government since Jan 2015. This has to be immediately followed up by
restoring national security, law and order, good Governance and sanity,
elimination of the pandemic virus of the tyranny of 71 years of British
manipulated party and minority politics and containing external threats and
undesirable foreign interference in domestic affairs, eliminating large scale
robbery, corruption, extravagance and wastage of public funds, abuse of
authority and misuse of power in the state sector and bringing up a new
political culture by eliminating all corrupt and useless politicians and
political cancers like the Provincial Councils, these being the basic
prerequisites of good and just Governance. It has also to be followed up by
laying a sound foundation for economic development and nation building to make
this Island nation, once again a stable, strong, prosperous, and vibrant and a
peaceful country and finally rebuilding the lost glorious heritage of this
Sinhala nation.
The biggest challenge in this new mission before the
Sinhala Nation is the selection and election of the correct Head of State at
the forthcoming election as the President for the next six years.
First and
foremost he has to be an extremely patriotic statesman, who has the character,
stature and ability, to restore all what
the country’s past leaders failed to regain at the so-called Independence in
1948 or thereafter, up to date. For example the original name of the country,
the nation’s rights over the motherland, native language, system of government
and administration, judicial system and the status of the religion (Buddhism)
as they existed at the time of annexation in 1815, to make this country a fully
free, Independent and a sovereign nation;
Secondly, he
also has to be a strong leader with far reaching vision and extra ordinary
qualities of proven leadership and direction who can command the forward march
of this broken and bankrupt nation in to a robust and vibrant nation that can
make its own mark in the modern world.
Looking at the
prevailing extremely chaotic and messy political situation in the country and
how all anti Sinhala and anti-Buddhist forces both at Home (Tamil Tigers and
Muslim Wahhabis extremist, communalists Colombo based foreign funded mentally
sick and disoriented NGOO and the westernized fast dying kalu sudda kolombian
cabal) and abroad (ex-colonial nations of the West led by UK and US together
with their agencies like UNO,UNCHR, USAID, NORAD and Amnesty International,
Tamil Diaspora (LTTE remnants), ISIS and
India) are trying to make capital out of that situation by organizing
themselves with intrigue and all the political, economic and military power and
trade mechanisms at their command to destroy this country and the Sinhala
Buddhist civilization, we also have to select a leader who has proven qualities
to resist and defeat all these pressure groups effectively and who can mobilize the whole nation for the
task of nation building at least for the next ten years.
This is not an
easy task by any means. But the crying need, to select and elect the correct iron man or woman who has the leadership
and capacity to overcome all these challenges, with unwavering strength,
remains the cornerstone of this whole mission. In the event of our failure to
elect the CORRECT LEADEAR supported by an eminent team, the same past tragic
process will continue and you will see the grand finale of the disappearance of
the Sinhala nation and its civilization from the surface of this planet in no
time.
I warn you all
patriots that this is the last opportunity and the best chance god has given us
to find the correct leader this country needs at this moment. April 21 incident
is a forewarning on this prophecy and also in a way a blessing in disguise. In
order to make the correct choice you have to first unite under the lion flag as
one indomitable national force setting aside all your blind political,
religious and all other petty parochial personal alignments. Then and then only, you can defeat all these
enemy forces to liberate the motherland. Whoever he is going to be, he should
definitely be a strong and true Sinhala Buddhist who loves this country and the
Sinhala nation. You should never make a mistake about that selection this time.
The onerous of that historic national responsibility is now squarely cast upon
you by destiny. Therefore it is your duty and prime responsibility by the
nation and posterity to select such a person at this election as the days of
the Sinhala nation and its 2500 year old unique Sinhala Buddhist civilization
are clearly numbered. If you fail in your sacred duty by your country and your
nation this time, you will be definitely witnessing very soon the disappearing
of the Sinhala nation and the Sinhala Buddhist civilization from the face of
this planet, as the days are definitely numbered.
The person you
are going to elect should be a leader of the highest stature and proved
leadership ability with full powers of an ancient benevolent Sinhala Buddhist
King, who can carry out the vision of our ancient Kings such as Dutugamunu,
Parakramabahua and Vijayabahu (1) and Anagarika Dharmapala, the undisputed
modern day champion of Sinhala Buddhist revival, to make our dream of nation
building a reality while conforming to and meeting the economic, social and
technical challenges of the 21st century by transforming this Island nation to
a miracle in Asia.
This is not
difficult at all considering the location of this Island right at the centre of
the Indian Ocean half way between the East and the West on the world’s most
important trade route, with its enormous geographical and geopolitical
advantages unmatched by any other country, with a mighty Indian Ocean extending
from Africa in the West to Australia in the East and perhaps South Pole in the
South. The only missing link we lack is
the correct type of political leadership to make this dream a reality.
When you look in
retrospect the way how blindly and with what servility and how faithfully the
local successors to British colonial rule since 1948 (of cause with very few
solitary exceptions like DS, SWRD, Mrs B, Lalith and MR, (of cause also in a
limited way only) have carried out their British contract to the very letter
yielding to their commands, as we were a bunch of uncivilized aborigines, and
have ruined this country almost beyond redemption, without replacing the
colonial system imposed on us by force with a home-made system of independent
system of governance based on our own civilization a pointed out by Gunadasa
Amarasekara in his Sabhyatwa Rajya), the need for such a new and towering
native leadership has become extremely critical and all the more important today
than at any time in the long history of this country.
All post 1948
Governments have totally and miserably failed to build up this country as a
fully independent, free, sovereign, prosperous, vibrant a peaceful nation as it
should really be. They all have blindly and meekly followed the Westminster
system of alien governance as a British model in the East, aiding and abetting
the colonial masters to continue their policies of subjugation, two way
exploitation through their exports of goods and technology and imposing trade
barriers on imports from colonies, continuing divide and rule policies by
supporting the minority communities and suppressing all native resurgence
movements. Their system of government, administration, judicial system,
language and education and social and cultural values all persist up to date at
the expense of all what is native, that was totally destroyed. As such today we have almost reached the
tether of our identity as a nation and the day the curtain will fall on this
once glorious civilization on earth is not that far.
I am fully aware
these introductory comments will be contested sometimes bitterly by those who
don’t know their own history and see everything through the Western servile
mentality. I also know definitely that it will stir up a hornets’ nest. But I
strongly hang on to that perception and defend it as a true and an ardent
Sinhala Buddhist. In defense of my argument for a leader of an ancient King of
the like quoted above it suffice to state that this country has the unique
record of having been ruled by 196 Kings from 543 BC up to 1815 AD unbroken, a
claim no other country in the world can make. Therefore I am convinced that I
have a right to have such a lofty and sweet dream.
I am sure all patriotic Sri Lankan who are
conversant with the 443 odd years of partial and nearly 150 years of full
subjugation, oppression, depredation, destruction and cultural and social
vandalism by the Western invaders from 1505 to date first by invasion and
aggression and thereafter through their Machiavellian model of occidental
democracy, which is completely alien and utterly irrelevant and absolutely
unsuitable to our indigenous Sinhala Buddhist civilization context will share this sentiments with me. Therefore
I strongly go for restoring a system of Government under a strong Sinhala
Buddhist leader, who will rule the country on the Buddhist principles of
statecraft that formed the foundation of righteous and successful governance
for millennia in this country, to rescue the motherland and the Sinhala nation
from the present critical situation that has already reached the last stages of
extinction and disappearance from the surface of this good earth.
With this lofty ideal in mind I venture here
to present a brief critical evaluation of the pluses and minuses of political
parties and the aspirant Presidential candidates to enable the intelligent and
patriotic people in this country to make the correct decision in selecting and
electing the ideal or at least the most suitable person at the forthcoming
Presidential election, who can take the country and the people to the above
destination.
I must also warn the voters that this is the
last chance you will get to make the correct decision. Looking at the way how
the two traditional major national political parties and their self-centered
leaders have failed in the past and continue to behave even now and how the
crafty Tamil and Muslim politicians play their cards to achieve their sinister
motives of converting this land in to a mono Tamil or a Muslim State, I reiterate that if you miss
this golden opportunity to give up all your traditional, outdated and blind
party affiliation like UNP, SLFP or JVP and misguided ideological convictions
and immediately rally round the Lion flag and elect a strong and patriotic
Sinhala Buddhist leader of the correct type, you are doomed and cursed as a
nation and a country. You are not left with any option, but to go for direct
action in the manner I have outlined above. If you fail now in this mission you
will not have a country or a Sinhala nation to talk about, even in your dreams.
You all know how
the Tamils and Muslims are united and globally organized determined to wipe out
the Sinhala Buddhist civilization in this country and replace it with their own.
The entire ex-colonial western world is behind them to get the minorities to do
what they could not do from 1505 up to date. It is only your unity under the
lion flag with one voice that can defeat this global enemy. Unlike in the past
where we had to confront only with South India, today we have to deal with a
global enemy.
As you all know
Tamils think and behave as Tamils and Muslims do the same as Muslims even in
their dreams. When it comes to elections they all ways vote only their community
men. So why can’t you also think, behave
and act as Sinhalese at least now without blindly and slavishly thinking and acting as UNP, SLFP and JVP or any other
and dig your own grave as a nation the same way we have been doing over the
entire past since Independence. May be you are living complacent thinking that
we are the majority. Forget that. Today our numbers have no meaning.
Politically minorities have become the deciding factor. They have already
established full control over the Sinhala Nation by now. If you carefully look
at the national economy, ownership of land, particularly in urban areas, rate
of population increase, their financial power and their international lobbying
power in relation to what we Sinhalese have, you will see where we stand as a
nation.
The division
created by the British among Sinhala people such as Kandyans and Low Country
has now almost disappeared. Even the caste differences are fast disappearing
with the expansion educational and occupational opportunities and increasing
social mobility and also through inter-caste marriages. The division as Buddhists and
Catholics/Christians also has narrowed down. All these factors have resulted in
a closer integration of the Sinhala people on a common denomination. The most
encouraging strength behind this new we Sinhala” consciousness and unity as
one force is the newly created unity between the Sinhala Buddhist and Sinhala
Catholics in the wake of the 21st April Easter disater. Full credit for this
newly born sense of Sinhala solidarity and togetherness should go to the
exemplary leadership and solidarity demonstrated by Rev Cardinal Malcolm Ranjit
in his recent remarks on the status of Buddhism and other religions and the
Sinhala people in this Island nation. I think his comments have completely
removed the division between Sinhala Buddhists and Sinhala Catholics. This in
my opinion is the most important political development in the Sinhala
electorate ever since Independence. I only wish that the Sinhala Catholic and Christian
politicians will follow suit to further cement this religious harmony to bring
the Sinhala nation under one flag disregarding what faith they profess. This in
my view is a happy and welcome departure from the traditional divisions that
divided the Sinhala people in to socially and politically antagonistic
segments. This is a very welcome trend we must build upon to unite the Sinhala
nation.
Therefore under
these critical circumstances I appeal to you all patriotic citizens over 1, in
the name of my motherland and my Nation to give up and renounce all your
present political and other alignments and wait for my advice in Part 11 to be
followed in a day or two in this column.
Next in part 11
to be followed, I will give you a brief analysis about the present status of
the main Sinhala political parties and the candidates nominated for the Presidency to prove that none of them or their so-called
leaders can meet the above requirements to rescue this country from the present
crisis.
