{"id":44038,"date":"2015-05-21T13:13:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T19:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=44038"},"modified":"2015-05-21T01:26:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T08:26:47","slug":"gestapo-ranil-an-insight-into-a-dangerously-flawed-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/05\/21\/gestapo-ranil-an-insight-into-a-dangerously-flawed-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Gestapo Ranil -An Insight into a Dangerously Flawed Mind?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Sarojini Dutt<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

In an incisive analysis of the man who succeeded in dividing the UNP and made it the exclusive preserve of his coterie of similarly inclined persons, an icon of journalism opens our eyes to the recent actions of Gestapo Ranil who is attempting to doom the country too, to a similar fate.<\/p>\n

In the event of such an eventuality and given the mental make up of a man who makes no effort to help himself by conducting himself in a manner that would negate reports of a dangerously flawed mind, the prospects portrayed are very frightening; they send shudders down the spines of many, some of whom have been at the receiving end of his reportedly demented conduct, some others who having survived it are now breathing the sweet smell of life and yet others who have witnessed at close quarters his NAZI style of leadership like his performance recently, when in the full glare of\u00a0 shocked TV viewers around the country, Gestapo Ranil, shaking with rage, yelled at a Member of Parliament to \u2018Shut Up\u2019 in the same shameful fashion of how \u2018Periya Dorais\u2019 of old would\u00a0 bark at persons whom they derogatively referred to as \u2018Coolies\u2019.<\/p>\n

The brilliant analysis by Mr. Mahindapala evokes chilling flashes of the past and begs the question, Are we looking at a psychopathic mind?\u201d<\/p>\n

It was in the early 1980s that a convicted murderer and rapist, Gonawela Sunil, serving time in prison was given a Presidential pardon by J R Jayewardene who then went on to make the<\/p>\n

murderer- rapist an all island Justice of Peace!!<\/p>\n

Sunil from Gonawela who lived in the precincts of Kelaniya was subsequently involved in the orchestrated mayhem of 1983; he was reportedly a mentor of sorts to young Ranil, then the MP for Kelaniya, and on whom Sunil had a magical influence or vice versa. The pretty baby faced killer was untouched by the law.<\/p>\n

It was in 1981 that under the Jayewardene government one of the most barbaric and uncivilized acts the country has ever witnessed took place when one of Sri Lanka\u2019s priceless national treasures, the Jaffna library, was burnt down by thugs of the government in the ‘uninterfering’ presence of the civil agency that was required to maintain the \u2018Rule of Law\u2019; reportedly, also present at the crime scene was one with an \u2018Apple Orchard\u2019 reputation and another who at the time was an \u2018Apple Orchard\u2019 crony later to hold a very prestigious post in the Ministry of Defence.<\/p>\n

Gestapo Ranil was a Cabinet Minister at the time the Jaffna library was razed to the ground and perforce has to take Cabinet Responsibility for that despicable crime. While the country hungers for justice and demands that those responsible be brought to book the crime remains inadequately investigated for over three decades. This stage managed crime of arson by the government swelled the ranks of the then nascent Tamil terrorist movement.<\/p>\n

Also remaining uninvestigated and untried are those responsible for the events of July 1983 when the UNP government, in which Gestapo Ranil was a ranking Cabinet Minister, unleashed thugs on innocent members of the Tamil community living mainly in Colombo.<\/p>\n

The terror on the streets lasted for four days before Gestapo Ranil or anyone in the UNP government made any attempt to rein in the marauding UNP thugs; when they did make a feeble effort on TV Gestapo Ranil and his cabinet colleagues suggested that the Tamils deserved what they got!<\/p>\n

In the common man\u2019s parlance, the word Batalanda evokes images of Gestapo Ranil or the name of Gestapo Ranil conjures up horrible images of Batalanda. Batalanda was the location where allegedly a near 150000 JVP suspects were murdered at an illegal detention centre during the period 1988 – 1990; amongst those allegedly murdered were over dozen lawyers. There has been a clamour for a full scale inquiry to bring the murderers to book; to date the murderers remain free. The Rule of Law is applied in the breach and the JVP does not appear to show any inclination to seek justice for their murdered fellow travellers<\/p>\n

Gestapo Ranil (GR), the man reportedly with a dangerously flawed mind, continues to live a charmed life escaping the long arm of the law:<\/p>\n

He comes into an agreement that subverts the constitution, by promising to support a Presidential Candidate only if he, Gestapo Ranil, were made Prime Minister once the candidate he supports wins; it is criminal to attempt to subvert the Constitution and is required to be criminally investigated with the same force as in a military coup d\u2019\u00e9tat; the intent of a military coup d\u2019\u00e9tat is also to gain power by subverting the Constitution. Gestapo Ranil\u2019s appointment as PM for this reason is grounds for challenge in the Supreme Court:<\/p>\n

Gestapo Ranil is made Prime Minister although he does not enjoy the confidence of the majority in parliament as is required by the Constitution; this needs to be challenged by a motion of \u2018No Confidence\u2019 in Parliament and additionally in the Supreme Court by filing a petition:<\/p>\n

When Gestapo Ranil outside court makes disparaging statements on Supreme Court decisions, he was in contempt of the highest Court of the country:<\/p>\n

When Gestapo Ranil makes statements about challenging Supreme Court decisions outside the country he is attempting to subvert the country\u2019s Constitution and needs to be criminally investigated immediately. Furthermore he is in contempt of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

As the icon of Sri Lankan journalism brilliantly analysed, Gestapo Ranil created an illegal FCID, a repressive terror machine, through which Gestapo Ranil wearing two hats acts both as Prime Minister and IGP to hunt down and incarcerate political opponents.<\/p>\n

Hitler had a deranged and psychopathic personality attributed largely to a complex of inadequacy and personality aberration. Hitler allowed his aberrations and inadequacies to influence his decisions and the tragedy that followed is history. Many attribute Gestapo Ranil\u2019s record 30 odd losses at elections to his personal inadequacies. When pressed for an opinion on Gestapo Ranil\u2019s role in island politics an ardent UNP supporter had this to say, If Hitler was good for Germany then Gestapo Ranil must be good for Sri Lanka.\u201d\u00a0 Some others who are not so enamoured by Gestapo Ranil said, The man has a dangerous personality flaw and he must be criminally investigated. The FCID must be scrapped immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By\u00a0Sarojini Dutt In an incisive analysis of the man who succeeded in dividing the UNP and made it the exclusive preserve of his coterie of similarly inclined persons, an icon of journalism opens our eyes to the recent actions of Gestapo Ranil who is attempting to doom the country too, to a similar fate. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44038","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=44038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}