{"id":52405,"date":"2016-02-29T11:01:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T17:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=52405"},"modified":"2016-02-28T06:34:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T13:34:24","slug":"sri-lanka-was-resplendent-under-president-mahinda-rajapakse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/02\/29\/sri-lanka-was-resplendent-under-president-mahinda-rajapakse\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka was\u00a0 resplendent under President Mahinda Rajapakse."},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Sri Lanka a resplendent Island, became cancerous and mutilated as its population changed and other cultures crept into it. The worst was the advent of \u00a0\u00a0Tamils in to the Island.\u00a0 They came as invaders, plunderers, and marauders.\u00a0 They\u00a0 eventually settled down, but never wanted to\u00a0 mix with the indigenous population the Sinhala.\u00a0 They maintained the foreign invader- marauder\u00a0 mentality. Hundreds\u00a0 of years of living together with the Sinhala have failed to change the Tamil mentality of separateness.<\/p>\n

All these talk about reconciliation, giving into all the demands of the Tamils, settling them in their own lands closing down the military camps, developing \u00a0the North and east where the Tamils \u00a0live in numbers , or give them political rights, police powers and power over lands, will not change the Tamil mentality.\u00a0 Even the latest gimmick of marriages between Tamil and Sinhala will have the least impact of stubborn Tamil marauder mentality of \u00a0taking the loot and runaway to enrich oneself and the tribe.<\/p>\n

If the inter marriage helps reconciliation\u00a0 it would not\u00a0 have made Wigneswaran the Chief Minister of Northern Provincial Council such a virulent racist.\u00a0 Because one would expect of him\u00a0 to be linked to Sinhala by the marriage of his two sons to two Sinhala women. Now Wigneshawaran says he is opposed to\u00a0 intermarriages.\u00a0 Can he be credited with any intelligence for making such a statement ?<\/p>\n

Giving into Tamil demands will never help reconciliation\u00a0 of\u00a0 the Tamils\u00a0 with the Sinhala accepting to live in cordiality with the Sinhala. They will never be satisfied until part of the country is given for them as a Tamil Eelam.\u00a0 This\u00a0 the yahapalanya leadership of Maithripala-Raniil has failed to grasp.\u00a0 They do not know that giving into India with ETCA and other such agreements will \u00a0only\u00a0 enhance and strengthen the separatist mentality of the Tamils and their insistence for a separate Eelam State.<\/p>\n

The worst is that the ordinary Tamils have no voice, and the freedom to speak for themselves.\u00a0 Hence\u00a0 they move with the political leadership.\u00a0 And\u00a0 unfortunately when we speak of Tamils in political terms we take every one of the Tamils under the umbrella of the Tamil political leadership.<\/p>\n

President Mahinda Rajapakse, too failed to understand this basic mental make up of the Tamils and took considerable pain to develop the North and East where the Tamils live and were affected by the Terrorism of their own people.\u00a0 President Mahinda Rajapakse expected\u00a0 an eventual demonstration of\u00a0 human gratitude by the Tamils, accepting\u00a0 that President Rajapakse is a friend, of the people and that he did not differentiate one community from another accepting every one of all Communities as the people of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Mahinda Rajapakse was not an enemy of the Tamil people. His enmity was towards the terrorists. He said there are no majority and minority but good or bad Sri Lankans<\/p>\n

The Tamils do not understand to what extent the Sinhala people have given into their unjust and unfair demands. Tamils are all over the world in different countries. \u00a0\u00a0But they do not ask for equal rights with the majority community \u00a0of those countries as they do in Sri Lanka.\u00a0\u00a0 The Yahapalanaya continues to say that Malaysia and Singapore has developed far better than Sri Lanka, but they do not understand that neither Malaysia nor Singapore had a problem with the Tamil Communities in their countries and they did not have to suffer under terrorism as Sri Lanka did. The Tamils in Singapore and Malaysia have become a part of the people of Malaysian\u00a0 and Singapore.<\/p>\n

We should understand friends and enemies, otherwise Sri Lanka will fall again into what it had been before.\u00a0 That is the greatness of Mahinda Rajapakse\u00a0 which the power crazy yahapalanaya crowd\u00a0 fail to see.\u00a0 Certain people pretend they are friends but they have hidden motives behind their friendship.\u00a0 America and the Western countries are such pseudo friends.\u00a0\u00a0 America will never give financial or technical aid for the development of poor countries.\u00a0 But they on the other hand would willingly\u00a0 get their United Fruit Companies to invest to buy\u00a0 or lease thousands of fertile land to cultivate fruits or sugar cane as they cultivated pine apples \u00a0in Philipines , banana in Central Africa, Sugar cane in Dominican Republic etc. After that the Fruit Companies \u00a0will control the finance and the political system of the countries.<\/p>\n

The wise leader Mahinda Rajapaksa did not fall into that trap of the West.\u00a0 The Ministers of Yahapalanaya Government are completely unaffected by these historical facts of how developing nations in Latin America and Africa were financially and politically controlled by American Fruit Companies.\u00a0 Mahinda Rajapakse did not\u00a0 want to antaganise the West,\u00a0 but he knew which countries could be trusted as political friends and which not.<\/p>\n

It is hilarious to hear John Kelly the Secretary of State of USA telling visiting Mangala Samaraweera\u00a0 with his yes Sir\u201d mentality , that USA hails the reconciliations attempts of Sri Lanka government and its\u00a0 efforts to address the regional issues and make peace in their own country as significant. Kerry says USA will further strengthen and broaden the relation ship between the two countries.<\/p>\n

The people of Sri Lanka unfortunately has not seen these significant developments USA speaks of taking place in the interest of the people since 9th<\/sup> January,2015.<\/p>\n

What people of Sri Lanka have seen happening in Sri Lanka is a decadence of the splendour of Sri Lanka which was built under the former President Mahinda Rajapakse. John Kerry speaking in superlatives\u00a0 of the\u00a0 significant achievements are in gfact the benefits coming to America\u00a0 from the break away from the past economic and social developments\u00a0 of Sri Lanka independent of\u00a0 Western\u00a0 interference.<\/p>\n

It was China that helped Sri Lanka in development process after the elimination of terrorism and not USA now with its fine talk complementing the present Yahapalanaya crowd in its\u00a0 destruction of\u00a0 all that Mahinda Rajapakse built \u00a0to\u00a0 make Sri Lanka\u00a0 a resplendent Island which it had never been since\u00a0 Colonization.<\/p>\n

It is easy for USA to shower \u00a0their adulation on\u00a0 the present Yahapalanaya crowd of Ministers who have brought Sri Lanka\u00a0 under dictates of USA. The yahapalana Minsters Mangala Samaraweera basking in their \u00a0flattery says \u00a0 the relation between our two countries\u00a0 alone has experienced\u00a0 a veritable renaissance since the visit of Assistant Secretary Biswal weeks after the Presidential elections and my visit to Washington\u2026 our relations have been strengthened to unprecedented heights.\u201d<\/p>\n

But what has USA given to Sri Lanka before or even today , other than\u00a0 passing \u00a0vicious resolution accusing the Armed Forces for war crimes and help the separation of communities in Sri Lanka.\u00a0 JR Jayawardhana was nick named yankee Dicky for his strong support of \u00a0USA.\u00a0 JR trusted in the friendship of USA to help him out\u00a0 from being bullied by India. But USA works according to its political agenda and\u00a0 turned away from JR when he needed\u00a0 USA the most. When Indian Air Force dropped\u00a0 dry ration to terrorists under siege and forced JR to come\u00a0 to an agreement with India to settle the terrorists issue, JR expected USA\u2019s intervention, but USA dropped\u00a0 him\u00a0 like a hot brick.<\/p>\n

Interest USA\u00a0 has in Sri Lanka is\u00a0\u00a0 given in \u00a0an evaluation \u00a0report prepared for the US State Department, by the US Agency for International Development.\u00a0 It is called: \u00a0Sri Lanka: The Impact of\u00a0 PL 480 Title I Food Assistance\u201d dated \u00a0October,1982.\u00a0It is stated in this report that<\/p>\n

two factors give Sri Lanka an international importance\u00a0 greater than its\u00a0 modest size and economic\u00a0 position might otherwise suggest: its strategic location and its influential role in both the nonaligned movement and the group of 77.<\/p>\n

(http:\/\/pdf.usaid.govt\/pdf docs\/PNAAJ623.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n

USA has no other interest in Sri Lanka, other than its strategic position in the Indian Ocean.\u00a0 But Yahapalanaya big shots \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 are highly taken up by John Kerry\u2019s sweet words and think that every thing will be hunky-dory for Yahapalanaya, with USA at its side.<\/p>\n

If Mahinda Rajapaksa had turned to USA, after elimination of terrorism, instead of \u00a0to China.\u00a0 Sri Lanka would not have been what it was on the 8th<\/sup> January,2015.\u00a0 There would not have been that massive development within such a short time.<\/p>\n

Even if Rajapaksas had swindled money, stolen gold , took bribes and laundered black money, the Rajapaksas \u00a0had within five years after elimination of the ruthless terrorists developed Sri Lanka as no previous governments\u00a0 had done since Independence.\u00a0 They developed the country not only in the North and East but also in the South.\u00a0 They raised the standard of living of the people.\u00a0 They brought peace into the country and assured security. That period of President Mahinda Rajapakse was the golden period of Sri Lankan history after Independence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But within one year of coming in to power, since 9th<\/sup> January,2015, the yahapalanaya has turned Sri Lanka upside down.\u00a0 Only thing the Yahapalanaya government has shown is capable of doing is to make Sri Lanka a Police State. Creating special police Investigations sections, Commissions of Investigations, appoint a Chief Justice, an Attorney General\u00a0 and a Bribery Commission and arrest every one who has the slightest connection to the Previous government.\u00a0\u00a0 Their target is to arrest if possible the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa or failing that \u00a0arrest and jail his sons, brothers , or even his wife to humiliate\u00a0 him and scandalise his period of Presidency.<\/p>\n

The Yahapalanay\u00a0 from President to the cop in the street\u00a0 have gone absolutely mad\u201d with power in their hand to do what they want. There is\u00a0 a yahapalanaya MP\u00a0 Nalin Bandara Jayamaha who says that Mahinda Rajapaksa has done nothing beneficial to Sri Lanka. They say any thing without taking facts into consideration\u2026..they are sick in their minds.<\/p>\n

They pay lip service to democracy, but to day democracy is doomed in Sri Lanka, it is the Dictatorship of the Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe that exists. If they want to sign agreements with India\u00a0 they do it without\u00a0 even consulting the people, they build bridges to connect Sri Lanka to South India without consulting the people. They praise USA and the West\u00a0 welcoming\u00a0 their\u00a0 resolution which condemns Sri Lanka and accuses its Armed Forces for war crimes . They not only welcome the resolution but sponsor it.\u00a0 The Yahapalanaya leaders\u00a0 and Ministers should\u00a0 not be in a government but in a mad house to have their heads examined.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka that was a resplendent Island under Mahinda Rajapakse is today \u00a0a mis managed , ruined derelict, shabby and ugly floating like boat \u00a0without direction \u00a0as to which way to float.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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