{"id":52566,"date":"2016-03-03T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=52566"},"modified":"2016-03-03T13:51:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T20:51:35","slug":"why-yoshitha-why-not-ravi-karunanayake-arjun-mahendran-and-ranil-wickramasinghe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/03\/03\/why-yoshitha-why-not-ravi-karunanayake-arjun-mahendran-and-ranil-wickramasinghe\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Yoshitha\u00a0?\u00a0 Why not Ravi Karunanayake, Arjun Mahendran and Ranil Wickramasinghe?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Law does not differentiate a Prime Minister or a common man. If any one commits a verbal or physical act which is against the law then he could be arrested \u00a0and brought, before the law. In law there should be sufficient legally acceptable evidence a \u00a0probable cause for reasonable suspicion to arrest a person \u00a0and brought him \u00a0before a judge. It is the judge who decide\u00a0 on the existence of a probable cause for arrest.<\/p>\n

Otherwise any person could be accused on very flimsy evidence and brought before a court of law causing detriment to his character and abuse of law to satisfy personal grievances against a person.\u00a0 This is exactly what has happened in the case of Yoshitha Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

In Sri Lanka today under the guise of good governance there is an absence of law.\u00a0 The Government manipulates the law to punish those they fear would\u00a0 turn against their political mismanagement. The Government which\u00a0 is Ranil Wickramasinghe and Maithripla Sirisena gets rid of Attorney Generals or require \u00a0judges to retire not because they are inefficient but because they cannot be made to do what\u00a0 Ranil and Sirisena want them to do. \u00a0\u00a0There is a Committee under 19A for appointment of Judges but the Commistttee has to agree on the President\u2019s choice. There ends the independence of \u00a0Constitutional Committees.<\/p>\n

Since the coming into power of Sirisena \u2013Ranil duo nothing happens according to accepted norms of law and order.\u00a0 Persons continue to be arrested by the sinister FCID of the Prime Minister,\u00a0 and arrests are made without giving reasonable cause or\u00a0 reasonable suspicions.<\/p>\n

The graves are dug and bodies exhumed, without evidence of\u00a0 reasonable suspicions.\u00a0 Swimming pools which have been covered are uncovered to look for hidden treasures.\u00a0 The grounds are dug up to search gold supposed to have been stolen by the former President Mahinda Rajapakse.\u00a0\u00a0 There is a deputy Minister whose duty, \u00a0it appears is to accuse the persons of previous government for hidden money in banks, shares in hotels, or\u00a0 constructing Buddhist \u00a0meditation centres.<\/p>\n

Is it not time that Maithripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickramasinghe stop this paranoia and begin \u00a0to do some work for the country and ameliorate the condition of living of the people ?<\/p>\n

It does not help the country, people, or the government to make, catching thieves , bribe-takers, and arresting money launders, their whole occupation.\u00a0 Enough is enough , it is time to get down to do some work and seriously think\u00a0 of taking \u00a0action\u00a0 to help the country and the people instead of selling the Sovereignty of Sri Lanka to the West, building bridges between south India and north of Sri Lanka, signing agreements\u00a0 with India that are detrimental to\u00a0 Sri Lanka and its people.<\/p>\n

Yahapalanaya should take serious steps to separate the legislative, executive and the Judiciary.\u00a0 As it is the Judiciary has become a Yahapalanaya family affair.\u00a0 The Judges are frightened to antagonize the Ranil -Sirisena duo and make judgements to satisfy them. The Police takes orders from the Prime Minister and a Committee set up by him.<\/p>\n

We see this Judicial fear in the Ravi Karuynanayake\u2019s money laundering case involving 390 million rupees received from Raja Rajaratnam the American Tamil Millionaire who financed the Tamil terrorists.\u00a0 \u00a0The case was settled unders suspicious circumstances in a very short time\u00a0 by the High Court Judge Iranganee Perera\u00a0 who acquitted Ravi Karunanayake.\u00a0 Strangely, \u00a0the Judge Iranganie Perera retired immediately after the case.\u00a0 She was later appointed as the High Court Commissioner.\u00a0 Ravi Karunanayake was acquitted on technical grounds. The court hearing of the\u00a0 case left\u00a0 much to be desired.<\/p>\n

In the case of Yoshitha Rajapakse there is no evidence as to money laundering as in the case of Ravi Karunanayake. Yoshitha had proposed the setting up of a TV station reserved for sports.\u00a0 Some persons and agencies had contributed by providing loans for its setting up. The agreements for the loans taken\u00a0 had been \u00a0refused \u00a0to be \u00a0accepted by the FCID, which considers the loans as black money.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the case of Ravi Karunanayake there was certitude that the money in question had come from Raja Rajaratnam. But\u00a0 the case took a different turn since the government had changed and Ravi Karunanayake\u00a0 was appointed the Minister of Finance.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, talking about\u00a0 money laundering, the Government has not divulged to the public \u00a0the Belgian\u00a0 who parked one billion dollars,\u00a0 and another who parked a similar amount in the Sri Lanka Central Banka . In the absence of information, it is normal that one have doubts.<\/p>\n

One also begins to questions why Sri Lanka Yahapalanaya leaders\u00a0 have suddenly taken \u00a0a great interest in Singapore.<\/p>\n

They go to hospitals in Singapore, even Ranil Wickramasinghe visits Singapore unofficially quite\u00a0 often . Yahapalanaya is even getting down specialists from Singapore to re-organise the\u00a0 Sri Lanka Foreign Service. The Governor of the Sri Lanka Central Bank is a citizen of Singapore. Has\u00a0 this great interest in Singapore on the part of the Yahapalanaya Government has anything \u00a0to do \u00a0with the billions of rupees involved in the Sri Lanka Central Bank Bond scam ?<\/p>\n

There is no information as to what happened to the two \u00a0billion rupees involved in the Sri Lanka Bond Scam.\u00a0 The whole Bond Scam issue has been conveniently covered up.\u00a0 The COPE report was never allowed to see the light of day.\u00a0 Will the new COPE President Handunetti of JVP take it up ?<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. 3 million dollars said to have been received by the CSN from a questionable foreign source\u00a0 and the failure to give details of how Rs.234 million was obtained\u00a0 were the reasons \u00a0on which Yoshitha Rajapakse has been arrested and refused bail . These amounts \u00a0are just peanuts compared to the money involved in the Central Bank Bond Scam.\u00a0 Yet Ranil Wickramasinghe\u2019s FCID\u00a0 has not bothered to look for these bond scam rogues who are free\u00a0 while Yoshitha Rajapakse has been arrested and \u00a0refused bail.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Is their law and order under Yahapalanaya Government which controls every thing ?\u00a0 Accusations on which persons are arrested by the FCID are questionable, and no body in Sri Lanka is safe-today, as blame and guilt could easily be fabricated by the FCID established by the establishment to arrest any one it wants.<\/p>\n

    The \u00a0thieves and bribe takers , and money launders in Sri Lanka, according to the Yahapalanaya government of Maithripala and Ranil, \u00a0are those who are in some way \u00a0connected to \u00a0the former President Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

    In a recent Rupawahini TV Debate Kauda Atta Kiyanne\u201d, Attorney Mr. Thishara Dissanayake said, quoting a news paper that at a special committee meeting where the action against those arrested by FCID is discussed, \u00a0Minister Rajita Seanaratna had told the IGP who was present that even though there are accusations against the members of the\u00a0 family of the former President Mahinda Rajapakse , no body has still been arrested, and he had \u00a0pointed his finger at the IGP and told him that he should get the FCID to arrest Yoshita Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

    If that is how Yoshitha Rajapakse came to be arrested then this government has become a police state- a dictatorship of Yahapalanaya .\u00a0\u00a0 The TV debate was on whether the CSN\u00a0 where Yoshitha Rajapakse was the Organiser, was set up for the purpose of money laundering and not because of the necessity for a TV\u00a0 Station exclusively for Sport.<\/p>\n

    Yoshitha Rajapakse had been arrested for political purposes and to get credit to the Yahapalanaya Government\u2019s principle activity of\u00a0 accusation and arrestation of persons of the family of the former President Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

    The Yahapalanaya is an extreme rightist political party of Ranil Wickramasinghe a member of the Mount Pelerin Society.\u00a0 He is very keen in abolishing the Executive Presidency,\u00a0 as then he as the Prime Minsiter will have power\u00a0 making the\u00a0 President a political decoration. In fact Maithripala Sirisena has little power as it is the UNP led by Rani Wickramasinghe which takes political decisions.<\/p>\n

    Recently Ranil Wickramasinghe\u2019s Foreign Minister \u00a0in a question and answer session after he made a speech to the US Institute of Peace in Washington DC on 25 February, 2016, phoo-poohed the\u00a0 President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s statement that he would not allow foreign judges in a court established in Sri Lanka\u00a0 to\u00a0 try the war heroes, \u00a0as a personal opinion of the President.<\/p>\n

    \u2026..Samaraweera responding to a question from the audience said that Sri Lanka is still open for international actors including judges, forensic experts and other relevant professionals, as he thinks it is only fair that the victims of the war would want some form of guarantee.<\/p>\n

    He also said that the government is looking into all options and come up with a Special Court that is not only credible but also acceptable to all victims of the war, within the next five to six months.
    \nHowever, when the person who posed a question raised the point that President Sirisena has clearly ruled out foreign involvement Samaraweera responded<\/strong>:
    \n“What the President has expressed is his own opinion, and in Sri Lanka there are various thoughts on how this matter should be handled. Frankly, we too admit the need of international participation in the process, and even some nationalist parties in Parliament agree. There is general agreement across the board that a Special Court will have to be set up in Sri Lanka if the process is to have any credibility, as the Judiciary has lost its credibility over the past 10 years due to the politicization of the judicial process by the previous government.\u201d<\/p>\n

    ( https:\/\/www.ceylontoday.lk\/142-119521-news-detail-president-outraged-at-mangala.html<\/a>)<\/p>\n

    This is the Yahapalanaya that exists in Sri Lanka under Ranil Wickramasinghe. The President Maithripala Sirisena \u00a0is only a decoration, without a voice in Sri Lanka\u2019s Foreign Policy which has been\u00a0 exclusively taken over by Ranil Wickramasinghe and his Foreign Minster Mangala Samaraweera.<\/p>\n

    This is the Yahapalanaya Government that says it got rid of the white van culture. Yahapalanaya has instead set up the FCID creating a Culture of fear of arrest by FCID where \u00a0any one may be \u00a0arrested at any time without reasonable cause merely for political reasons.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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