{"id":48133,"date":"2015-09-25T14:45:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T20:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=48133"},"modified":"2015-09-25T07:34:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T14:34:24","slug":"stop-humiliating-our-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/09\/25\/stop-humiliating-our-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop humiliating our heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Former Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Mr Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, addressing the media, has expressed\u00a0 his regret for finishing the war on terror when he came to the so-called Presidential Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate serious acts of fraud, corruption and abuse of power, state resources, and privileges (PRECIFAC) few days ago, to give a statement over the Rakna Lanka armoury.
\nToday I feel sad to have finished the war. I have had to report to all these commissions just because I finished the war. None of these commissions would be there, if I had not finished the war,\u201d<\/em> he has said.<\/p>\n

Mr Gotbhaya Rajapaksa,\u00a0 rightly guiding the country’s security forces,\u00a0 under the\u00a0 political leadership of\u00a0 Mahinda Rajapaksa managed to crush the decades long terrorist movement within three and a half years and removed the threat to lives of all the citizens including those of the ungrateful politicians ruling the country today and their supporters. As Mr. Rajapaksa has quite rightly revealed, he had to report to all these commissions as a result of ending the war.<\/p>\n

Beside his great contribution to the ending menace of\u00a0 terrorism, Mr Rajapaksa did a immense service\u00a0 to develop major cities, within a very short time, remarkably the city of Colombo.<\/p>\n

During the time of terrorist war the threat to life was the main concern of every citizen on daily basis irrespective of their ethnicity.\u00a0 All those who failed to remove the menace of terrorism for nearly three decades\u00a0 have united and grabbed the power, via political coups, are ruling the country today disregarding the\u00a0\u00a0 wishes of\u00a0 a large section of the people who still pay their respect to\u00a0 the real heroes for paving\u00a0 the way to achieve the peace they are enjoying today.<\/p>\n

The above statement of Mr Rajapaksa immediately remind us what late Angarika Dharmapala told the people of this country, merely because of the ungratefulness of the countrymen towards his great services to the country and Buddhism.<\/p>\n

The British wrongfully alleged that Angarika Dharmapala instigated Buddhists to riot during the 1915 Singhala-Muslim riots and imprisoned \u00a0him for 6 years. It is alleged, it was a case where the British took revenge from Dharmapala who spoke harshly against the British rule in Sri Lanka.\u00a0. Angarika Dharmapala never recovered from the mental agony he suffered as a result of the unlawful imprisonment. \u00a0He suffered because he did nothing wrong; it is alleged he was punished solely because of the British\u2019s hatred towards him.\u00a0.<\/p>\n

It is interesting to note that , similar to what is happening today, there were some Singhala leaders, loyal to the British (‘Kalu Suddas’<\/em>), worked against\u00a0 Angarika Dharmapala <\/strong>even during those days. History is repeating. Although hundreds of similar incidences are \u00a0available throughout our history (including some during the most recent past), it is not the idea to reveal all those in this short letter. It is evident from what is exhibiting\u00a0 since the end of last year,\u00a0 how our foreign enemies are manipulating\u00a0 the country’s \u00a0‘Kalu Suddas’<\/em>, the inherited \u00a0‘Short Memory<\/em> ‘of some Sinhalayas<\/em>, and the greediness to power and wealth (by any means) of the majority of the\u00a0 politicians to their advantage, even today.<\/p>\n

The current acts of ‘Kalu Suddas’<\/em> and the power hungry politicians are not surprising at all and they will do their best within the next few months to achieve the goals of their masters suppressing the views of the rest of the countrymen towards their war heroes.<\/p>\n

The Washington, Capital of USA, is full of war memorials including the wars they lost, such as Vietnam. Australia and New Zealand, too, celebrate their ANZAC day and provide enormous\u00a0 respect to those who fought on behalf of the country, despite the motives of such battles.\u00a0 It is time for our ‘Kalu Suddas’<\/em>, at least to learn from their own masters, to pay due respect to those who fought to defend the territorial integrity of the country, \u00a0instead of humiliating them and paying way to send the heroes to gallows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

S. Akurugoda Former Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Mr Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, addressing the media, has expressed\u00a0 his regret for finishing the war on terror when he came to the so-called Presidential Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate serious acts of fraud, corruption and abuse of power, state resources, and privileges (PRECIFAC) few days ago, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s-akurugoda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48133","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=48133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}