{"id":55913,"date":"2016-06-24T09:09:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=55913"},"modified":"2016-06-23T16:18:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T23:18:43","slug":"the-great-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/06\/24\/the-great-betrayal\/","title":{"rendered":"The great betrayal ."},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Sri Lanka<\/strong>\u00a0 in 2005 after 57 years of Independence\u00a0 elected Mahinda Rajapakse as the President of Sri Lanka.\u00a0 That was a great decision taken by the people of Sri Lanka to elect a great patriot, a national leader of affectionate qualities, a gentleman one could be proud\u00a0 to have as the President. He had a vision of what he wanted Sri Lanka to be.\u00a0 He improved on the national socialist plan of the late S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike. Mahinda Rajapakse\u00a0 did not want to build Sri Lanka on any foreign model.\u00a0 He wanted Sri Lanka developed as it is, to be an example for other\u00a0 developing countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When he was elected President, he inherited Sri Lanka in the grip of a group of ruthless Tamil terrorists.\u00a0 In addition he had\u00a0 very unfriendly Western Countries ferociously opposed to independent development of third world countries outside Western influence. The western media called him a hawkish\u00a0 politician.\u00a0 On the contrary Mahinda Rajapakse is \u00a0a humanist and a fighter for human rights, believed \u00a0in independent Sovereign rights of developing nations.<\/p>\n

He knew that the West\u00a0 does not take kindly to national leaders who want to develop their countries independent of Western domination. The glaring instances of the victims of \u00a0this Western prejudicial arrogance \u00a0are Cuba, Iran, Chili, Guatamala Congo etc. Therefore he had to be cautious even in dealing with terrorism that was festering the country\u2019s progressive growth.<\/p>\n

However, he had to settle terrorism first. He therefore tried to contact the terrorists for a negotiated settlement of their problems adhering to Western democratic norms. But as Tamil terrorists did not want any peaceful settlement but were determined to have their way to divide Sri Lanka by force, Mahind Rajapakse decided to deal with them the way they wanted it.<\/p>\n

Though the odds were against a military intervention to eliminate terrorism, he decided to go ahead against the advice \u00a0of the Americans and the West, who were acting in favour of the Tamils settled in large numbers in their countries.<\/p>\n

Mahinda Rajapkse a determined leader\u00a0 knew that the correct way to bring about peace and develop the country at the same time was to plan\u00a0 a strategy of development and act accordingly without changing it to suit what ever interfering foreign forces.\u00a0 That was how Mahinda Rajapkse, a great leader that he was \u00a0brought peace to Sri Lanka, and was able at the same time to \u00a0develop the country modernising it in a short time, as no one ever thought it was possible.<\/p>\n

However, Mahinda Rajapakse\u00a0 wanted a little more time to maintain the momentum of development to bring Sri Lanka in par with developed Nations of the world. In that he miscalculated\u00a0 his chances of success, and decided to call for an early Presidential elections.\u00a0 He believed that the satisfied people who were already enjoying a higher standard of living thanks to the changes he had been able to bring about\u00a0 despite a higher cost of living\u00a0 due to market exigencies, would re-elect him for another term.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the people decided otherwise. The Tamils and Muslims stood together against the Sinhala Buddhists to tip the scale against Mahinda Rajapakse. Mahind Rajapakse lost the Presidential election and with it the Sinhala Buddhists lost a rare leader that made them proud to be Sri Lankans.<\/p>\n

Mahinda Rajapakse was undoubtedly a great leader of rare qualities who followed the path traced by his erstwhile elder S.W.R.D.Bandranaike. He was respectful of the\u00a0 thoughts of Anagarika Dharmapala and gave an impetus to Buddhism converting \u00a0his official residence-Temple Trees every full \u2013moon day ,\u00a0 a centre for the emanation of\u00a0 the discourses of the Buddha by eminent Buddhist Monks. Some affectionately speak \u00a0of\u00a0 him as a reincarnation of \u00a0King Dutugamunu.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But what have we got in place of the great leader the President \u00a0Mahinda Rajapakse ?<\/p>\n

We have got Maithripala Sirisena a most ungrateful man of this century, a great betrayer of Sri Lanka ? Maithripala Sirisena\u00a0 inspires nothing. He is a political pawn in the hand of a cunning and ambitious man- Ranil Wickramasinghe the leader of the UNP- the party against which SWRD Bandaranaike organised the SLFP. SLFP now led by Maithripala Sirisen has become today a political party for corrupt \u00a0self-seeking individuals \u00a0to stay in political powr.<\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena distorts SLFP with a politically inexperienced Duminda Dissanayake as its General Secretary,\u00a0 insulting the memory of the late SWRD Bandaranaike the father of the SLFP<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena is so weak that he had to consent to let Ranil Wickrmsinghe swear in un-Constitutionally as Prime Minister , when there was already the Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne of the former government, which had not been dissolved. Maithripala Sirisena on the instruction of Ranil Wickramasinghe and Chandrika Kumaratunga promised to bring the individuals making up the SLFP consent\u00a0 to have a national government of SLFP and UNP.<\/p>\n

But the resulting national government led\u00a0 by Ranil Wickrmasinghe is \u00a0a strong UNP Government with the Finance Minister from the UNP and a man obedient to Ranil Wickramasinghe the Speaker of the Parliament. Ranil Wickramasinghe \u00a0allowed a Tamil politician who was brought in \u00a0to form the TNA by the terrorist leader Prabhakaran as the Leader of the Opposition.<\/p>\n

That appointment of Sampanthan of TNA as the leaer of\u00a0 the Opposition \u00a0was also un- Constitutional, but the Speaker Karu Jayasuriya an obedient coterie of Ranil Wickrmasinghe , followed his masters instructions, and refused to accept the alternative leader proposed by the Joint Opposition which had more Members of Parliament than the TNA. That is Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s and Ranil Wickramsinghe\u2019s respect for democracy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena will go down history as the traitor of the Sinhala Nation who helped the local enemies of Sri Lanka,-Ranil, Chandrika , and Muslims\u00a0 to sell the nation to the local Tamil separatists, their sympathisers the Tamil diaspora, India and the West.<\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena \u00a0was in the SLFP long enough to have known\u00a0 that Ranil Wickramasinghe and Chandrika Kumaratunga were the local agents of the West. The West was determined to oust Mahinda Rajapakse \u00a0and his\u00a0 government so that they could \u00a0replace Mahinda Rajapakse with one of their local agents manoeuvrable \u00a0by them.<\/p>\n

But \u00a0either\u00a0 Sirisena was ignorant of all those matters going on behind scene \u00a0or\u00a0 his mind is so small that he cannot see that he is being used as a cat\u2019s paw by the Ranil-Chandrika duo. Sirisena is so grateful to Ranil and Chandrika for having enabled \u00a0him to become \u00a0the President that his loyalty to them is eternal.<\/p>\n

Sirisena was attracted by\u00a0 the proposal made by\u00a0 Ranil Wickraamasinghe and Chandrika Kumaratunga to be the common Presidential candidate of the opposition to become the President of Sri Lanka.\u00a0 He considered turning traitor to his country, and the political party of which he was the general secretary for 40 odd years\u00a0 was worth it, if he could become he President of Sri Lanka..<\/p>\n

But now Sirisena\u00a0 speaks shamelessly ill of\u00a0 his former political\u00a0 leader Mahinda Rajapakse\u00a0 relating \u00a0difficult times he had with him, and his fear that he would have been buried in an unknown cemetery if he had lost the Presidential election, to justify his quitting the party and an uncomparable political leader- Mahinda Rajapakse, who modernised Sri Lanka hoping to gradually turning it to a small country not second to any other developed country \u00a0in the West.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Sirisena was not aware to what extent Ranil and Chandrika were cunning to make use of \u00a0him to come to political power themselves and make\u00a0 him \u00a0their puppet once he was elected as the President. It is now quite apparent \u00a0that Sri Lanka is not run by Maithripala Sirisena as its President but by Ranil Wickramasinghe and Chandrika. Maithripala is \u00a0quite satisfied making speeches visiting\u00a0 foreign countries to meet foreign leaders, shake their gloved and ungloved hands and be photographed with them.<\/p>\n

In the meantime the Tamils are having a whale of a time making their political plans and readying themselves to set up their own \u00a0Tamil Eelam. This situation is similar\u00a0 to that of\u00a0 the terrorist Prabhakaran building his arsenal and the terrorist force after signing a CFA with Ranil Wickramsinghe and participating in \u00a0the so called peace talks in foreign countries agreed to by\u00a0 the terrorists, supported by\u00a0 the Norwegian Eric Solheim.<\/p>\n

While all that is going on in the North, \u00a0Maithripala Sirisena who is politically na\u00efve has only the desire to wipe out \u00a0the name of Rajapaksas from the name board of\u00a0 Sri Lankan political\u00a0 leaders. Along with Maithripala Sirisena are the other members of\u00a0 SLFP basking in the dim light of Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s not so bright political star, enjoying the ministerial bonanzas and all the perks that go with it.<\/p>\n

These self seeking SLFPers do not care what may happen to Sri Lanka to morrow which is in the hands of Ranil and his UNP coteries, and not at all in the hands of the traitor Maithripala Sirisena who ha been conveniently parked into a Presidential Palace with his SLFP sprites keeping \u00a0him happy doing things to please him.<\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena asks for nothing better.\u00a0 He is happy calling himself the leader of the SLFP, and tell his little sprites that he will not allow Ranil Wickramasinghe and the UNP rule the country, \u00a0but he\u00a0 with his SLFP sprites will be doing that. But in the meantime knowingly or unknowingly Maithripala Siriseana is only helping UNP to rule the country without even consulting him.<\/p>\n

Ranil and the UNP will be writing the new Constitution for Sri Lanka and sign the agreements with India for the ECTA and \u00a0to construct \u00a0the Hanuman Bridge.\u00a0 Maithripla Sirisena cannot say no to Ranil Wickrmsinghe because it is he who made it possible for him to be the President of Sri Lanka.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the meantime the bones of the late Mr.S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike must be rattling in his grave as Maithripala Sirisena has made SLFP a partner of the UNP- the policies of which SWRD opposed and formed the SLFP only\u00a0 as a barrier against UNP taking Sri Lanka away from Independence and development.<\/p>\n

SWRD with his \u00a0SLFP brought to independent Sri Lanka a spirit of national socialism, brining back the cultural and national values lost under colonialism. He gave a proper place to Sinhala Language , Buddhism and even the national dress. It was Mahinda Rajapaksa and not his daughter Chandrika Kumaratunga that stepped into continue SWRD Bandaranaikre\u2019s progressive policies.<\/p>\n

Today\u00a0 we have the SLFP\u00a0 supporting the policies of UNP , the very policies opposed by \u00a0SWRD Bandaranaike, who resigned\u00a0 from the UNP to \u00a0set up his own party the SLFP against UNP. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena nominally the President of the SLFP has today subordinated SLFP to UNP .\u00a0 Maithripala Sirisena is in fact promoting UNP to which he is grateful for having made of him the \u00a0President of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Sirisena is being used by Ranil Wickramsingh and Chandrika Kumaratunga\u00a0 calling the government a\u00a0 National Government, but carry out proWestern and pro Indian policies of UNP. The Government of \u00a0Maithripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickramasinghe has taken a complete U turn making Sri Lanka \u00a0\u00a0a colony of the West, dependent on the West.<\/p>\n

What is national about the Maithripala-Ranil-Chandrika government is only the National dress worn by Maithripala Sirisena\u00a0 amoung the UNP Ministers- the Black Sahibs, dressed\u00a0 in\u00a0 very English Coats and trousers.<\/p>\n

UNP will do lot of damage to Sri Lanka\u00a0 as it had done before, like the Indo-Lanka pact signed by J.R.Jayawardhan with Rajiv Gandhi\u00a0 of India, CFA signed by Ranil Wickrmasinghe with Prabhakaran- the Tamil terrorist, and arming the terrorists by R.Premadasa.<\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena will be instructed by Ranil and Chandrika to keep the SLFP Ministers under control, \u00a0to enable him to sign the ECTA and sign the agreement to construct the Hanuman Bridge\u00a0 with India, and present a new Constitution to Sri Lanka.\u00a0 Sirisena will obediently send out stricture to the members of the SLFP to obey Ranil Wickrmasinghe and\u00a0 fall in line as \u00a0it happened \u00a0on the No Confidence motion against the Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake.<\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena will also obediently re appoint the Governor of Central Bank for a further period, and ask the SLFP Ministers\u00a0 and some of the obedient UPFA Parliamentarians not to raise objections.<\/p>\n

This most calamitous situation could be stopped only by the ouster of both the President Maithripala Sirisena and the so called National Government along with Ranil Wickramasinghe and the UNP.\u00a0 If that would not happen then we have to prepare ourselves o say good-bye our \u00a0unitary Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

For the people of Sri Lanka to have voted against Mahinda Rajapkse at the Presidential election\u00a0 on the 8th January,2015 was the \u00a0great betrayal. The result of it would be that generations to come will suffer, and Sri Lanka will never be again what it was before the 8th<\/sup> January ry,2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera Sri Lanka\u00a0 in 2005 after 57 years of Independence\u00a0 elected Mahinda Rajapakse as the President of Sri Lanka.\u00a0 That was a great decision taken by the people of Sri Lanka to elect a great patriot, a national leader of affectionate qualities, a gentleman one could be proud\u00a0 to have as the President. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55913","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=55913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}