{"id":65961,"date":"2017-05-09T23:22:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T05:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=65961"},"modified":"2018-07-29T16:27:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T23:27:38","slug":"oil-exports-to-india-from-developed-trinco-tank-farm-can-anyone-in-sri-lanka-object-asks-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/05\/09\/oil-exports-to-india-from-developed-trinco-tank-farm-can-anyone-in-sri-lanka-object-asks-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOil exports to India from developed Trinco tank farm  Can anyone in Sri Lanka object? &#8211; asks PM\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Sugath Samarasinghe \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This is what Ranil W. is reported to have said at the UNP May Day Rally, according to the front page news of Sunday Island of 7<sup>th<\/sup> May. I am amazed. Could a political \u2018leader\u2019 be so dishonest in his intent, to mislead his followers? Could one imagine that an emerging economic power like India who imported all her oil requirement direct from wherever it did all this time, is going to import her requirement now from Sri Lanka\u2019s oil tank farms in Trinco? And why? Does he think that people of this country would be so stupid, to believe him?<\/p>\n<p>Instead, isn\u2019t it clear that what is going to happen is that India will take over the total supply of oil to Sri Lanka, robbing it from the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation? Ranil W. has already surrendered part of this right to the IOC, last time when he was in power. Is he now bent on making his sell out complete?<\/p>\n<p>Once the exclusive right to supply oil to this country is handed over to India, she could throttle Sri Lanka if she decides to stop this supply whenever she wants, if Sri Lanka does not toe her line. This is the control she wants over Sri Lanka so that she can manipulate this country, particularly against China. Why do we need to surrender the independance of this country?<\/p>\n<p>What will then happen is what has happened to that land locked country Nepal. Nepal has to be at the beck and call of India as she depends on India for her oil supply. In fact, India had the temerity to dictate to that country as to what she wanted included in Nepal\u2019s new constitution!<\/p>\n<p>An advantage that Sri Lanka has over land locked countries such as Nepal and Bhutan is that this country is an island. This is why no country is able to manipulate this country short of using force. We have enjoyed this advantage throughout history to maintain our independence and unique culture. It is one of the reasons why we were able to survive as a nation over two millennia.<\/p>\n<p>This again is why India is always trying to coerce and compel us to give into her manipulations. The Hanuman Bridge, direct railway line from Mannar to Trinco, Trinco Harbour, oil farms and the latest, a hospital in Norwood are all part of this strategy. It is strange that our PM does not see this obvious evil plan that India is laying, to lead us into her trap.<\/p>\n<p>Why cannot Ranil realize this? Is it a cse of  none are so blind tha those who do not want to see\u201d? Or, is he trying complete what his uncle failed in 1987?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sugath Samarasinghe\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sugath Samarasinghe \u00a0 This is what Ranil W. is reported to have said at the UNP May Day Rally, according to the front page news of Sunday Island of 7th May. I am amazed. Could a political \u2018leader\u2019 be so dishonest in his intent, to mislead his followers? Could one imagine that an emerging economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sugath-samarasinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65961","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=65961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}