{"id":70597,"date":"2017-10-12T22:17:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T04:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=70597"},"modified":"2017-10-12T11:53:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T18:53:04","slug":"time-to-identify-our-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/10\/12\/time-to-identify-our-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to identify our enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

As stated in recent editorial of a printed media titled \u00a0‘Crooked and fleas’, our country today, has earned notoriety as a rogues’ paradise<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The basic question we have is ‘who is responsible for creating this situation?’.<\/p>\n

The eradication of terrorism militarily under the Mahinda Rajapaksa (MR) leadership was of \u2018grave concern\u2019 to some countries (including those who trained and armed the racial groups at the very beginning), who are interested in maintaining their \u2018superiority\u2019 over the others. On the other hand, the eradication of terrorism also caused tremendous hardship to the political wings of the militarily eliminated LTTE, TNA and GTF, politicians who signed pacts with the terrorist leader and promoted so-called political solutions for three decades \u00a0and the lobbyist NGOs who were the paid agents of those spy agencies. They were exploring\u00a0 every possible\u00a0 political avenues, by hook or crook, to\u00a0 topple MR and to install a puppet regime to achieve their goals.<\/p>\n

We were under foreign powers for centuries due to the acts of saboteurs and traitors. We have witnessed, during our life time, how powerful are enemies within, when toppling regimes. Throughout our history,\u00a0 invaders manipulate public opinion using\u00a0 ‘Creeping through Ears’ (Kanen Ringeema<\/em>) and ‘Giving Dead Ropes ‘ (Dirachcha Lanu Deema <\/em>) as weapons\u00a0 to capture power, more than artilleries. The invaders used\u00a0 the above weapons with the enormous support from power-hungry segment of the society.<\/p>\n

What we achieved in January 2015 was the mere consequence \u00a0of manipulation of public opinion (similar to what the invaders did in the past) by these foreign and \u00a0local elements to create distrust, ill-will among allies and \u00a0loss of confidence with the leadership of \u00a0President MR. \u00a0Unfortunately, no one is perfect and we are witnessing some of negative effects of his apparent weaknesses. \u00a0Although President Mahinda Rajapaksa has done a wonderful thing by keeping parliamentarians with different interest\u00a0 in his government, probably with the intention of achieving political stability as a short term measure, \u00a0\u00a0he too appeared fail to identify enemies within. \u00a0\u00a0There are ardent supporters of 13th Amendment and Federalism even , even today, among his JO members.<\/p>\n

The coming few months will be very crucial as the enemies of our nation and their paid agents will work overtime and will spend billions of rupees to turn the country onto turmoil , to trap all those who were opposing them and to achieve their goals at any cost. Unless we are fully aware of what is going on and act wisely to defeat the sinister motives of those enemies, what we achieved \u00a0by defeating\u00a0 racial separatism militarily , will be at stake.<\/p>\n

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S. Akurugoda As stated in recent editorial of a printed media titled \u00a0‘Crooked and fleas’, our country today, has earned notoriety as a rogues’ paradise. The basic question we have is ‘who is responsible for creating this situation?’. The eradication of terrorism militarily under the Mahinda Rajapaksa (MR) leadership was of \u2018grave concern\u2019 to some […]<\/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-70597","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\/70597","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=70597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}