{"id":43889,"date":"2015-05-16T21:15:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T03:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=43889"},"modified":"2015-05-16T13:53:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T20:53:57","slug":"enough-is-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/05\/16\/enough-is-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough is Enough \u2026\u2026\u2026\u00a0!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Are we \u00a0living today in\u00a0 Sri Lanka that was there on the 8th January, 2015 ?<\/p>\n

8th<\/sup> January, 2015 seems a long time ago.<\/p>\n

Since the Minister of Health of the \u00a0former President Mahinda Rajapakse\u2019s Government\u00a0 left stealthily in the night without even a word to the mat on which he slept (peduratath nokiya), to join a band of reactionary\u00a0 America and West inspired traitors,\u00a0 Sri Lanka commenced a downward journey, sacrificing its sovereignty, independence, fast growing economy, massive development projects and a peaceful march towards the\u00a0\u00a0 happiness of the people, progress and prosperity.<\/p>\n

Sirsena now says that under President Mahinda Rajapakse no-cabinet Minister could act freely, and that he had been questioned about his Ministerial work.<\/p>\n

President Sirisena speaking at the occasion reminisced at how meeting with trade union leaders were looked upon at under the previous regime. He noted that while serving as the Minister of Health if he met with any trade union leaders, the following day he would receive a telephone call from Temple Trees questioning his actions. \u201d<\/p>\n

That shows that the former President Mahinda Rajapakse was an intelligent man taking interest in the work of the Minister of\u00a0 his Cabinet, to know how they contribute to the welfare of the\u00a0 people\u00a0 they have been elected to serve.\u00a0 That is a quality of leadership. Under President Sirisena, Ministers \u00a0do just what they want without hardly a question asked by the President.<\/p>\n

This illegal Government set in place by a President who was elected with a resounding minority vote from the North and East of the country\u00a0 has failed to maintain \u00a0law and order. Case in point is the activities of\u00a0 the Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe\u00a0 he appointed.<\/p>\n

Ranil Wicramasinghe\u00a0 the Prime Minister of the President Sirisena has begun to question even the sentences passed by the Supreme Court\u00a0 stating that the judgments of the judiciary will be forward to\u00a0 a foreign court of law for their approval. That is sacrificing the Sovereignty of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

There is a special police force the FCID \u00a0under him, which arrests and releases whoever Ranil Wickramasinghe \u00a0wants to be taken into police custody. Most Vulnerable are the family members of the former President \u00a0\u00a0Mahinda Rajapakse, or Wives of Ministers.\u00a0 Prime Minister defends he wants when every thing points to his\u00a0 guilt, such as the Suprime Court decision to refuse to here a case against the Governor of the Central Bank.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka has become a dictatorship of the Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe .\u00a0 It is time that the people begin to speak out against him to change the situation as there is no more democracy, or Justice in Sri Lanka.\u00a0 People can be accused for the flimsiest matter and taken to police first for recording statements and arrested\u00a0 thereafter to be placed in\u00a0 remand jail.<\/p>\n

And finally when the cases are taken up and if the sentences by the Judges are not to the liking of the Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe proposes sending \u00a0the judicial decision\u00a0 for\u00a0 approval of the \u00a0Commonwealth Office.<\/p>\n

The former Minister G.L.Pieris had said\u00a0 with regard to the SC decision not to allow\u00a0 Gotabhaya Rajapakse to be arrested until the end of the FR case that, the\u00a0 Premier Wickremesinghe asserted that Sri Lanka could consult Commonwealth Judges Association as well as Commonwealth Magistrates\u2019 Association regarding the Supreme Court directive in this regard. He pointed out that President Maithripala being the current chair of the Commonwealth. The Prime Minister stressed that if given the opportunity, he could easily defend the government position.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka under President Sirisena and his acolyte Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasignhe appear to be a kind of a Revolutionary Junta State.\u00a0 People\u00a0 begin to ask whether this is the \u2018venasa\u2019- the Change the people expected when they voted to elect Maithripala Sirisena in preference to Mahinda Rajapakse ?<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka has become such a police state today that it had never been\u00a0 Since its Independence. People live in fear of arrest,\u00a0 and open the daily paper not to see what progress country has made, what school, roads, bridges and hospitals are being opened, but to see who is the\u00a0 innocent\u00a0 man that has been arrested recently and against whom and \u00a0what defamatory statements have been made or against whom false allegations have been levelled.<\/p>\n

A doctor with whom I was when it was announced that the Diyawadane Nilema was accused asked, when is this comedy going to end ? Who will they think of next ?<\/p>\n

That is how good things are \u00a0with President Sirisena\u2019s Government !!!<\/p>\n

Perhaps the President Sirisena does not know most of what disastrous actions are being taken behind his back by the set of UNP Minister under him, hence Sirisena seems\u00a0 to leave what he does not understand in the hands of his UNP Ministers without questions being asked. For instance does he know what transpired between John Kerry and Mangala Samaraweera and what promises the latter had made to the former ?<\/p>\n

Sirisena\u2019s UNP Ministers; and \u00a0Deputy Ministers are acting most stupidly like Ranjan Ramanayake for instance trespassing into a Meditation Centre, or enter Hotels with hidden cameras abusing their\u00a0 powers without the President Sirisena knowing absolutely\u00a0 nothing about those incidents. Or Mangala Samaraweera claiming that the former President had siphoned off\u00a0 18 billion\u00a0 US Dollars.<\/p>\n

Is President Sirisena proud about\u00a0 such statements of Mangala, Sajith, Kabir , Ranjan or Rajitha ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>President Sirisena is a laughing stock for his UNP Ministers.\u00a0 Poor man !\u00a0 he is like the Greek King who is\u00a0 said to have been going about naked believing\u00a0 highly those who spoke praisingly of a dress he was not wearing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>How can Basil Rajapakse be accused for distribution of Divineguma Funds when Sajith is doing the same thing to-day ?\u00a0 Is there any rhyme or reason in their accusations, calling to be present to take a statement and end up being \u00a0arrested, apparently not for any crime but because they were in some way Connected to the former President Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

This is all vengeance of a bad man, against a good man.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But little they seem to understand that the Maitripala Sirisena\u2019s UNP government has neither the legal right to exist as a government of Sri Lanka , nor have they even\u00a0 the moral right to pretend to be the Ministers of the people. They had been there for more than 100 days and there is absolutely no reason for them to continue.\u00a0 They should step down taking along with them the FCID and the Bribery Commissioner.<\/p>\n

Making defamatory statements have become the practice of the Ministers of the President Sirisenaincluding the Prime Minister.\u00a0\u00a0 None other than the Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakse himself makes unsubstantiated accusations without the slighted proof.<\/p>\n

It was\u00a0 reported that, Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, PC yesterday alleged that Rs. 3,300 million had been misappropriated from the Department of the Public Trustee (DPT) during the previous regime.\u00a0 Speaking at the ceremony to welcome the newly appointed Sri Lanka’s first female Public Trustee Tharangani Keenawinna Dissanayake at the department, he said the recent audits had revealed thousands of rupees were improperly taken from DPT for development projects by the previous government \u201d.<\/p>\n

If he is a man worthy of the position he holds he should refrain from making such statements.\u00a0 He should first investigate to have reliable information before making accusatory statements.<\/p>\n

The other Minister is the former dentist Rajitha Senaratne, who was reported to have claimed that, \u2026\u2026. he was offered a bribe of Rs 20 million per month in order to cover up the \u2018Avant-Garde\u2019 issue. \u2026\u2026\u2026..\u00a0 He has added \u00a0that the \u00a0individuals who attempted to bribe him earn a monthly income of around Rs 250 million\u201d.\u00a0 Of course this has to be taken with a pinch of salt as most of his statements, because it was further reported that, \u2026\u2026Refusing to divulge any names, Dr. Senaratne alleged that because the attempt to bribe him had failed they had spread a story accusing his son of detaining an underage girl.\u2019<\/p>\n

The crust of it is that Senaratne is trying to \u00a0cover up his moral shame for having allowed his son to kidnap a teen age girl and keep her in his own house.<\/p>\n

The best thing he could have done was to hand over \u00a0the matter to the Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe\u2019s\u00a0 police force the FCID, instead of making false statements to make them sound true.<\/p>\n

The other white knight in Ranil\u2019s cabinet is Champika Ranawake\u00a0 who wants Sri Lanka to imitate the West.\u00a0\u00a0 He is reported to have said, Our politicians want to stay in power till they die without letting fresh faces come forward. If they think more progressively and step down it will be better for the future of our country,\u201d Patali Champika Ranawaka, Minister of Power and Energy said, adding that, \u2018Sri Lankan politicians can take a good example from the British politicians and the way they acted following the elections that was concluded earlier this month (May),\u201d<\/p>\n

Champika Ranawaka should have said that to his champion\u00a0 the \u00a0Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe who was rejected 29 times by the people.<\/p>\n

Sirisena-Ranil government has miserably failed to make the people of this country happy for even\u00a0 a day.\u00a0 Though they- the President and\u00a0 Ranil\u2019s UNP Ministers in tie and black suits seem to be enjoying their lives\u00a0 as they seem to have never enjoyed ever\u00a0 before.<\/p>\n

The people of the North and the East and the Tamil diaspora they thought were utterly satisfied with their selling out\u00a0 the provinces to the TNA and they\u00a0 have no fear from that side.\u00a0 But they have got the surprise( only if they are not fools and would understand what lies under the statement) of their lives\u00a0 in the statement issued by the TGTE.<\/p>\n

It was reported that, In a rebuttal to the Sri Lankan Minister\u2019s Statement, TGTE member Suthan Raj pointed out that when President Maithripala Sirsena was visiting London, thousands of Tamils demonstrated against him, calling him a war criminal, for being the acting defense minister during the final weeks of the war when thousands of Tamils were killed. Thousands also marched in Geneva two months ago against the Sri Lankan Government\u2019s policies towards Tamils and to call for an International Investigation for the mass killing of Tamils by the Sri Lankan security forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well Mr.President Maithripala Sirisena do you not think that it is time that you wake up to reality and kick out Ranil, his no-good UNP Ministers in tie and coat, and all the rest, and put your pride in the pocket to invite the former President Mahinda Rajapakse to form a duo to govern Sri Lanka together and bring back the pride Sri Lanka enjoyed as a developing Nation after elimination of the terrorists and up to the 8th<\/sup> of January, 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Otherwise Sri Lanka has no future existence as an independent Sovereign Sate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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