{"id":67466,"date":"2017-07-02T22:45:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T04:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=67466"},"modified":"2017-07-02T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T21:55:24","slug":"president-blinded-by-hatred-threatens-sri-lanka-a-sinhala-buddhist-country-for-over-2500years-of-its-culture-unitary-status-and-its-communal-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/02\/president-blinded-by-hatred-threatens-sri-lanka-a-sinhala-buddhist-country-for-over-2500years-of-its-culture-unitary-status-and-its-communal-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"President blinded by hatred threatens Sri Lanka, a Sinhala Buddhist Country for over 2500years, \u00a0\u00a0of its culture, unitary status and its Communal unity."},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Sri Lanka which was a Sinhala Buddhist Country from three centuries before the present era which later accepted and accommodated Tamil, Muslim and other Communities is today\u00a0 facing disintegration \u00a0as a united country with a nation of mixed communities.<\/p>\n

Instead of making an effort to unite the three main communities into one nation of Sri Lankans the country today under a pseudo Yahapalanaya, is facing disappearance as a United country with one nation \u00a0under a separatist shadow cast by the Tamil Community, supported by the West, and \u00a0giving into\u00a0 separatism through reconciliation, by a yahapalanaya government with ambivalent, uncertain national and cultural interest.<\/p>\n

A nation in the world has an\u00a0 identity, with its own culture and a belief system, having \u00a0an original people who would accommodate other communities, without loosing its original identity and remain \u00a0recognised by its original identity, with a language of its own and a religion and a culture based on that religion.<\/p>\n

It may\u00a0 accept and respect the religion and the culture of the\u00a0 resident minorities, without loosing its original identity despite the mixture of its population with the minorities. It is not bound to sacrifice its original identity in accepting any minority to live within its boundaries.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka was such a nation until it was colonised, and then became a Dominion of the British Commonwealth with\u00a0 constitutions written by the British. In 1956, \u00a0S.W.R.D Bandaranayake\u00a0 wanted to make Sri Lanka an Independent Nation like any other Nation in the world making the Sinhala-\u00a0 the language of its original people\u00a0 the official language, a National Anthem sung in that language, and hoisting the original flag of the Sinhala people\u00a0 in place of the British Union Jack.<\/p>\n

However the Tamil community despite its minority status being\u00a0 13 percent of the population clamoured for equality with the majority Sinhala the original people of the country. Despite that unjust, incongruous demand of the Tamils, \u00a0successive governments maintained the unity of the Communities in the country.<\/p>\n

When Sri Lanka\u2019s unitary status was under serious threat with a thirty year long terrorism, it was stopped in May,2009 by the elimination of terrorism by the \u00a0Armed Forces of the Government under the political leadership of \u00a0\u00a0President Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

Due to unceasing demands of the Tamils for separation the President Mahinda Rajapakse declared \u00a0Sri Lanka free of Majority-Minority division is a nation of \u00a0Sri Lankans. What should a people want more, but the Tamils being a people who can never be satisfied will continue asking for the sun and the moon\u201d as they have the West to support them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then by a false calculation or sheer bad karma, Mahinda Rajapakse was defeated at the\u00a0 January 2015 Presidential election, and the trusted Secretary General of\u00a0 the SLFP\u00a0 Maithripala Sirisena betrayed the \u00a0trust bestowed upon him as the General Secretary of the SLFP, stole his way to the opposition to become the President.<\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena \u00a0did not only betray his political party, \u00a0but he also departed from his rightful place in the SLFP with a heart burning with hatred towards the President of SLFP the President Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

A man whose mind is full of hatred can neither be a friend to himself, \u00a0nor to others around him.\u00a0 Therefore when Maithripala Sirisena became the President his mind was not freed from his\u00a0 hatred, but it became many fold, and his heart full of hatred , desire for vengeance has no place for love, and compassion to give to the people of Sri Lanka as a whole, or love his country, his culture, and his religion, as a true patriotic President of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

The hatred\u00a0 and anger in his heart is \u00a0so much so, \u00a0that overjoyed by \u00a0being the President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena \u00a0swore in\u00a0 Ranil Wickramasinghe( the leader of UNP the Party against which he worked as the General Secretary of the SLFP for over 14 years and as a member of the SLFP for 47 years), as the Prime Minister, \u00a0while there was still a Prime Minister whose government President Sirisena forgot to dissolve before swearing in Ranil Wickramasinghe as his \u00a0Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena began his carrier as the President of Sri Lanka, manifesting his anger, hatred and desire for vengeance against the former President Mahinda Rajapakse. Since then Sri Lanka had been continuously degenerating in all its aspects social, administration, financial, cultural and communal unity. <\/strong><\/p>\n

For the first time since its independence the President Mahinda Rajapakse was able to bring not only peace and security to the country, but also \u00a0a fantastic development process which raised the standard of living of the people and maintained a unity of the Communities, despite the political leaders of the Tamil and Muslim Communities creating dissention in an otherwise settle atmosphere of unity , peace, and security.<\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena despite his political beginning with socialism and then with the\u00a0 SLFP, and also having a\u00a0 Sinhala Buddhist village background, lost his Buddhist cultural values such as gratitude, generosity, readiness to pardon the mistakes of others, and the common touch despite moving with the high and the powerful. <\/strong><\/p>\n

These are the Sinhala Buddhist qualities with which the former President Mahinda Rajapakse was well equipped and therefore won the hearts of every one he came in contact with, except of course with \u00a0those who were either jealous of him or disregarded him for his village background, and \u00a0is Sinhala attire.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe as everyone knows is a pretended Sinhala Buddhist, not brought up in a Buddhist environment. He adopted a Buddhist attitude for political purpose. Therefore he is ready to sacrifice Sinhala Buddhist values for the sake of\u00a0 his political popularity.<\/p>\n

Ranil Wickramasinghe is prepared to even write a new Constitution projecting Sri Lanka as \u00a0a multi-faith society, not giving special recognition and protection to Buddhism, allowing the National Anthem to be sung in any language, degrading the Buddhist priests manifesting against his government\u2019s \u00a0actions which go against historical, religious or cultural values of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

The President Maithripala Sirisena could have changed Ranil Wickramsinghe\u2019s excesses which are detrimental to the Sinhala Buddhist cultural background, which is the hallmark , the uniqueness of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

But unfortunately as mentioned above the President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s Buddhist values\u00a0 have been defiled through\u00a0 anger, jealousy, hatred and desire for vengeance. Therefore he cannot change the mental attitude of his Prime Minister and some of\u00a0 his Ministers to keep within the characteristics of the Sri Lankan culture \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and its uniqueness.<\/p>\n

If both Maithripala Sirisena the President, and Ranil Wickramasinghe the Prime Minister had maintained undefiled mental attitudes when they took over the Government in January,2015, Sri Lanka would have been different from what it is today.<\/p>\n

Why and How could it have been different \u00a0?<\/p>\n

Because, instead of the 100day programme the opposition\u201d \u00a0prepared to undo what the former President Mahinda Rajapakse had been doing after the elimination of terrorism, if the the Sirisena \u2013Ranil Government were to have continued with\u00a0 the programme of the former President Mahinda Rajapakse, situation today could have been different. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena as the President should not have allowed the appointment of Ravi Karunanayake as the Minister of Finance, \u00a0and Mangala Samaraweera as the Minister of Foreign Affaires. He should have kept those two ministries within the SLFP faction of the Government. The President Sirisena should not have allowed\u00a0 Ranil to set up the FCID.<\/p>\n

The Sirisena-Ranil Government should not have made accusations against \u00a0\u00a0Mahinda Rajapakse, his family and his supporters \u00a0its priority objective. It was done with a bad motive\u00a0 and all the activities it followed\u00a0 thereafter were as a result bound to fail.\u00a0 Sirisena- Ranil Government should not have given into the West and India putting all their cards on their\u00a0 support\u00a0 for the success\u00a0 of the Sirisena- Ranil a unity Government.<\/p>\n

If it would have been so , the Colombo Port City would not have been stopped and the relations with China would not have been negatively affected. Infrastructure work would have been carried out.<\/p>\n

The Sirisena \u2013Ranil government should not have given the leadership of the opposition to the TNA.\u00a0 Relations with the former President should have been maintained consulting him on necessary matters.<\/p>\n

The President Maithripala Sirisena would have been a successful President,\u00a0 if he had set up an advisory council\u00a0 without Chandrika Kumaratunga, but with Mahinda Rajapakse. He should have removed the \u00a013th<\/sup> Amendment and prepared a new system of provincial government, with the Central Government keeping \u00a0a strong hold on the Provincial Government System.\u00a0 No attempt should have been made to write a new Constitution. The 19th<\/sup> Amendment should have been amended to allow the dissolution of the Parliament if necessary before the end of its term of five years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If Maithripala Sirisena as the President\u00a0 had taken such matters things would have been different today. This would have avoided\u00a0 the present threat to the government with the NPC becoming completely uncontrollable preparing the background to something similar to the thirty years of terrorism Sri Lanka so miserably went\u00a0 through.<\/p>\n

After being elected\u00a0 President, \u00a0Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s mind\u00a0 became\u00a0 saturated with defilements of anger, hatred, and desire for vengeance,\u00a0 therefore he is unable \u00a0do what is right by the people. <\/strong><\/p>\n

President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s only way out is to rid himself of this hatred towards the former President Mahinda Rajapakse and start working with him for the betterment of the country and its people.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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