{"id":46040,"date":"2015-07-22T19:17:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T01:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=46040"},"modified":"2015-07-22T12:05:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T19:05:29","slug":"safeguard-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/22\/safeguard-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Safeguard \u00a0Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

S. Akurugoda<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

We remember how the government elected in 1977 under the leadership of J.R Jayewardene (J.R.J) removed the security forces from the coastal areas of the Northern and Eastern provinces in order to please the Tamil politicians, disregarding the\u00a0 importance of national security. J.R.J led government underestimated\u00a0 and turned a blind eye on the strengthening of the separatist movement until 13 soldiers were ambushed and killed by the LTTE in July 1983.<\/p>\n

The LTTE commenced their attack on civilians in 1987 with the Pettah Bus Station bombing which killed 113 civilians and continued their massacres\u00a0 until 2009. The evils of\u00a0 terrorism continued for decades with loss of several thousand of lives (including those of innocent civilians), almost daily in addition to the loss of\u00a0 billions worth of properties.<\/p>\n

The deteriorating of the internal security invariably provided a greater room for the intervention of opportunistic foreign hands. \u00a0India became the first country, since independence, to interfere with the internal affairs of Sri Lanka , in the late 1980s with the so-called Indo- Lanka Pact of 1987 leading to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution and the induction of Indian troops (IPKF).<\/p>\n

Norwegians became the second country to interfere with the internal affairs of Sri Lanka, under the guise of ‘peace facilitation’. Simultaneously, various meddlesome NGOs started emerging.<\/p>\n

Disappearances, abductions and killings were carried out daily by the LTTE in areas under their control for nearly three decades while the so-called international or local ‘ human rights champions’ behaved like the proverbial monkeys, hearing no evil, speaking no evil and seeing no evil.<\/p>\n

The so-called ‘peace facilitation’ also led to the emergence of undue interference of the foreign diplomatic corps based in Colombo notably US, France, Germany and Britain as never seen before.<\/p>\n

The signing of the so-called peace agreement of Ranil -Prabhakaran, orchestrated by the so-called ‘ peace facilitator’\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0allowed LTTE to have their own areas of administration, police, armed forces, court of law etc and the then government of Sri Lanka gave the terrorist outfit\u00a0\u00a0 an unprecedented recognition.\u00a0 The signing of P-TOMS\u00a0 by Chandrika to share tsunami relief with Prabhakaran , another attempt by the so-called dubious ‘peace facilitators’ to administer the country’s internal affairs, was a typical examples of\u00a0 such\u00a0 exploitation of the opportunities until 2005.<\/p>\n

None of the above pacts or so-called solutions promoted by the interveners helped us to achieve the preached peace or security but enhanced routes of terrorism and separatism\u00a0 leading to the creation of\u00a0 ‘an unofficial state’ in the LTTE held areas. Had that so-called \u2018Peace\u2019 process continued, unopposed, the country would have been divided long ago with a formation of a country called Eelam under the rule of Prabhakaran and Sri Lanka under the rule of a puppet regime of the West.<\/p>\n

The country was almost at the verge\u00a0 of separation on racial basis until the Precedential election held in 2005.\u00a0 The elected President of 2005, Mahinda Rajapaksa gave the necessary political leadership to defeat the decades long terrorism and to re-establish peace, national security and the unitary state of the country while preserving the national identity by leaving no room for those opportunistic foreign elements\u00a0 for further involvement in the internal affairs of the\u00a0 country.<\/p>\n

With the change of government in last January, incidences of dismantling or reduction of several High Security Zones and Defence Establishments in the North and East of Sri Lanka have been reported, jeopardising the country’s national security.<\/p>\n

The policy of reducing the high security zones, closure of defence forces camps, confining troops to barracks, the release of LTTE cadres suspected of criminal activities and proposal to remove the ban imposed on LTTE front organisations and individuals with LTTE links\u00a0 functioning in foreign soils under the guise of so-called reconciliation\u00a0 appear to be an attempt to appease the LTTE lobby and other assorted internal and external political forces, especially the opportunistic foreign hands\u00a0 who were behind the regime change.<\/p>\n

As per media reports, foreign hands are directly involved in the\u00a0 local politics by providing every amenities to install and maintain puppets regimes, as they wish, a situation worse than that existed\u00a0 prior to 2005.<\/p>\n

The latest reports of remote controlled bomb found in Aluthgama, hand bombs found in Kaluthara and Aluthgama, seizure of cyanide capsules owned\u00a0 by\u00a0\u00a0 LTTE cadres \u00a0in Tamil Nadu and the discovery of white van (bearing a forged number plates) with a firearm\u00a0 in Mirihana\u00a0 are signs of another\u00a0 emergence\u00a0 of ‘ rule of terror’ that we experienced since 1977.<\/p>\n

Thus the basic question we have in front of us today is whether we are prepared to go back to the 1977-2005 era or to go ahead with the peace and prosperity achieved since then up to the January 8th of this year.<\/p>\n

Henceforth, it is the duty of the peace-loving patriotic general public of Sri Lanka,\u00a0 regardless of their party affiliations,\u00a0 to defeat undue foreign interference in the internal affairs of the country to \u00a0protect the hardly achieved peace and national security, remembering those\u00a0\u00a0 heroic men and women of the Sri Lankan security forces who fought to re-establish peace, national security and the unitary state of the country.<\/p>\n

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