{"id":64714,"date":"2017-03-30T02:41:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T09:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=64714"},"modified":"2017-03-30T02:41:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T09:41:49","slug":"repercussion-of-short-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/03\/30\/repercussion-of-short-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Repercussion of short memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Answering a question by The Irida\u00a0 Divaina<\/em> Journalist, Manoj Abeydeera, Former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has said that\u00a0 the mislead people of the country is responsible for the current pathetic situation prevailing in the country. He was blaming the\u00a0\u00a0 country’s majority community, for believing the lies propagated by the opponents of their administration and forgetting the menace of terrorism\u00a0 within five years, especially those who \u00a0live \u00a0in and around Colombo. (http:\/\/www.divaina.com\/2017\/03\/26\/feature18.html)<\/em> \u00a0It is a well known fact that our \u00a0majority community is often a community having short memories. They have forgotten, when casting their votes to defeat Mahinda Rajapaksa and to install the current regime, what\u00a0 the elite groups led by Ranil and Chandrika did when given power in the past.<\/p>\n

Chandrika paved the way for foreigners to\u00a0 meddle with the internal affairs of the country ‘inviting’ the cunning\u00a0 LTTE ally Norwegians as facilitators and opened the gate for various foreign funded \u2018bogus peace mafia groups\u2019 to establish their pro-LTTE propaganda movements from Colombo and presented a devolution package granting powers exceeding that of the present Indian model. The Sri Lankan state functioned as \u00a0an unofficial colony of the so-called donor countries during her period. Instead of helping the Sri Lankan government to eradicate terrorism, these donor countries, misled by Norwegians force the government to bow down to the conditions laid down by the terrorist group, since we were made economically dependent on those neo colonialists. She attempted to handover another devolution package under the name of \u2018Tsunami Joint Mechanism\u2019 during the latter part of her administration.<\/p>\n

Now she has started from where she stopped by taking over the role of so-called ‘reconciliation’ and even proposing to pay compensation to the families of the dead terrorists.<\/p>\n

Ranil, by being the favourite of international vested interest blindly signed a memorandum of understanding (the so-called CFA) with the terrorist leader arranged by the Norwegians, appointed so-called Co-Chairs’, demarcated \u2018LTTE controlled areas,\u2019 and virtually provided every facility to please the terrorists. By agreeing to safeguard an illegal document and thereby accepting illegal LTTE \u2018controlled areas\u2019 or \u2018territories\u2019, \u2018police\u2019, \u2018armed forces\u2019, \u2018courts of law\u2019 etc, for a period of 4 years under \u2018no war – no peace\u2019 situation, the government of Sri Lanka (both under Chandika and Ranil) gave an unprecedented recognition to the LTTE\u2019s claim as the sole representative of the Tamil people and their so-called autonomy. He also made wild declarations openly accepting a federal solution without even having the decency to consult or to get the consensus of the other political parties\u00a0 before making such a declaration.<\/p>\n

However, the LTTE continued its bloodshed and killed members of the government intelligence units, army informants and managed to take the lives of all those who were engaged in the \u2018Deep Penetration Unit\u2019 while building up their war capabilities, by leaps and bounds.<\/p>\n

He too has started from where he stopped, preparing a federal constitution, cosponsoring a resolution with western masters (backed by pro-LTTE elements) in Geneva to establish various mechanisms to punish the country’s security forces, almost deactivating the military intelligence unit by arresting its members on various charges framed on political grounds, removing security camps in the north and east, making use of the law enforcing institutions\u00a0 and other questionable institutions such as FCID to\u00a0 harass political opponents while providing a blind eye to henchmen who openly violate the \u00a0rules, norms and laws of the land\u00a0 in an unprecedented manner.<\/p>\n

Thus the coming few months will be very crucial as the enemies of our nation and their paid agents will work overtime to achieve their goals by any means to fulfil the wishes of the separatist elements, to\u00a0 trap\u00a0 the \u2018heroes\u2019 who fought against terrorism and to bring the country into chaos leaving room for them to do fishing in troubled waters.\u00a0 Unless we are fully aware of what is going on and act wisely to defeat the sinister motives of those enemies, the peace, stability and progress of our country will be at stake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

S. Akurugoda Answering a question by The Irida\u00a0 Divaina Journalist, Manoj Abeydeera, Former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has said that\u00a0 the mislead people of the country is responsible for the current pathetic situation prevailing in the country. He was blaming the\u00a0\u00a0 country’s majority community, for believing the lies propagated by the opponents of their administration […]<\/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-64714","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\/64714","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=64714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}