{"id":111108,"date":"2021-01-28T17:01:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111108"},"modified":"2021-01-28T17:01:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T00:01:31","slug":"why-are-these-western-countries-and-india-interfering-with-everything-and-harassing-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/28\/why-are-these-western-countries-and-india-interfering-with-everything-and-harassing-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are these Western Countries and India interfering with everything and harassing Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sudath Gunasekra<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Do they think\nthat we are a Colony or a protectorate of theirs? In a way it is no surprise as\nour own so-called leaders except Sir John and Mrs Bandaranayaka no other had\nunderstood that we are an independent and sovereign country. What a tragedy not\nto be blessed with at least one national leader of that genre since Keppetipola\nAdikarama was beheaded. We bemoan this lacuna. But how long are we going to do\nthat even-if we have to continue until the Maitree Buddha is born one should\nnot be surprised, the way how our successive backboneless political leaders are\ncrawling naively and limping before these forces with no shame as Sinhalese.\nThis situation will continue as long as the Colombian leaders and their\nacolytes who are only the hybrid black white mostly of mixed genetic and\nbrainwashed by Portuguese, Dutch and British masters. Many people thought things\nswill change when leadership is shifted from Colombo based social strata to\nHambantota but sadly it has not. The status quo continues prevails. It is\nalways Colombo based politicians, business men, financiers and administrators\nand social elite, who run   the country\nwhatever Party comes to power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other\nhand how long are we going to tolerate this never ending nuisance of\nInterference by the Western and Indian bullying? Surely there must be a limit\nfor anything<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But with these\nformer colonial powers and their allies there is no end. Daily they have something\nto issue statements interfering with the internal policies and domestic matters\nof the country and it has become a routine nuisance as if these Ambassadors\nhave no other work .All the time it was human rights .Now against cremating\nMuslim Covid 19 dead trying to raise a religious issue thereby creating\ncommunal and religious tension. Tomorrow it could be gay marriage. Yesterday the\nUS Ambassador spoke on the Colombo Eastern Terminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is how the\nUS Ambassador Alaina B. Teplitz has said it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US Envoy pushes for Indian stake in ECT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 27, 2021\nSunday Morning<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Lahiru\nPothmulla <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amidst heated\nnationwide debates on the matter, US Ambassador Alaina B. Teplitz believes that\nIndia should have a stake in the Colombo Port\u2019s East Container Terminal (ECT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obviously, with\nIndia being the beneficiary of Sri Lanka\u2019s port facilities through all\ntrans-shipment activities that take place, along with the unloading and\nshipments to smaller Indian ports, having an Indian company with a stake here,\nI would think, is essential to Sri Lanka\u2019s maritime future,\u201d she told reporters\nyesterday (26).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She expressed\nthese views in response to a question posed during a virtual meeting held with\na group of journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

.Ambassador Tirpitz\nadded that Sri Lanka should be looking for the best value in its economic\narrangements and that in this regard, having private sector involvement was\nvery good\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at the\nbusiness arrangements, and finding something that is sustainable and beneficial\nand gives your key business partner a stake, is a no-brainer in terms of a deal\nfor this country,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US and India\nenjoy a strong relationship, with the former viewing the latter as its greatest\nally in Asia, and a counterforce to its main rival China\u2019s dominance in the\nregion, due to the similar populations of the two Asian giants and India\u2019s\neconomic potential. The relationship between US and India is expected to be\nstrengthened further under new US President Joe Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Meanwhile it is also reported that the Indian\nForeign Minister of India wants the control of Palale Air Port and\nTrincommallee harbor in the event of not giving ECT to India and abolishing the\n13th Amendment<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India has the\nsame incurable disease, often much worse. No wonder Indian had been suffering\nfrom this pregnancy craving from the days of Ramayana to annex this resplendent\nIsle. So it is not something new to us Sri Lankans. But I vouch you my dear\nfriends you will never succeed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obviously here\nyou see the cat has come out of the bag that US want to help its friend India\neven Sri Lanka goes to hell, it does not matter for US. The primary concern\nhere is her own economic and strategic interests in the now waning global\npolitical leadership specially in the Indo-Pacific region. Had at least Premadasa\nbeing there by he would have asked Ambassador Alaina B. Teplitz to go home and\nhang as he did to British Ambassador, once over a speech he had made in Matara\narea. As the Ambassador to Sri Lanka this is very unbecoming and highhanded\nstatement where she tries to dictate terms to the Sri Lanka Government when the\nwhole country is up in arms against handing over CET to India. I presume she is\nAmbassador to this country and not to India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why can\u2019t these\nDiplomuts limit their talks and actions to diplomatic issues without\nunnecessarily interfering with our domestic matters and without giving us a\nchance even to breath? Why can\u2019t they understand that we are no longer a colony\nunder them and we are a free and independent sovereign country? In spite of the\ndifferences in size each sovereign state has its own say and equal rights when\nit comes to its domestic matters. If Cuba with 109,884 km\u00b2 could stand up to\nthe US economic and military giant and if British Islas only six time the size\nof our country in a faraway corner of the world with almost three months\nfreezing during 3 months of the year, why can\u2019t we, with the best strategic,\nnaval and Air hub location in the world map with 365 days of equinoxes, a\nsalubrious climate and rain throughout the year \nblessed with an ingenuous people who has a rich legacy of a\nglorious  past running in to millennia follow\nsuit and assert dispelling the myth of small size in world politics. Our only\nshortfall to steer the nation in to power, prosperity and fame, in my opinion,\nis the absence of the correct type of national leadership that was extinguished\nby 500 years of Western colonial suppression and annihilation. Discovering\nthose past heritage and building upon that foundation making use of the present\nstrengths fired by patriotism, vision, self-reliance, dedication and full\ncommitment to nation building based on Buddhist principles of state craft is\nthe only way for future prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that process\nthese nuisance makers should be deported and even diplomatic relations should\nbe ended. Why can\u2019t we show them that we too have a government elected by the\npeople of this country and tell them we govern this country the way the voters\nof this country want to do it and not the way the Ambassadors of unfriendly\ncountries wants us to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If President Premadasa\ncould Sent back Gladstone Ambassador to UK overnight and John Kotalawala could\ntell Nehru that we are two Independent countries and there is no reason as to\nwhy he should consult him to Nehru before opens his mouth.at the Bandung\nConference, why can\u2019t the present day leaders also ask these nuisance makers\neither to act and behave within diplomatic norms and confine to Diplomatic\nnorms for mutual benefit based on the principles of equality, justice and,\nself-respect or go home and discontinue all relationships with such countries. What\nis the use of having Diplomatic relationships with enemy countries that are\ntrying to destroy the millennia old Sinhala Buddhist civilization in this\nIsland and hatching coups to install minorities rule on the debris of a nation\ndestroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sudath Gunasekra Do they think that we are a Colony or a protectorate of theirs? In a way it is no surprise as our own so-called leaders except Sir John and Mrs Bandaranayaka no other had understood that we are an independent and sovereign country. What a tragedy not to be blessed with at least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sudath-gunasekara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}