{"id":87499,"date":"2019-04-23T21:42:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T03:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87499"},"modified":"2019-04-23T14:39:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T21:39:58","slug":"national-security-politics-and-the-yahapalanaya-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/23\/national-security-politics-and-the-yahapalanaya-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"NATIONAL SECURITY, POLITICS AND THE YAHAPALANAYA IN SRI LANKA"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n

National\nsecurity is the priority in any country and Sri Lanka has been facing for this\nissue clearly since 1983 and even before it was, but after 1983 security forces\nidentified the significance of national security than any other activity of the\ncountry.  Before Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa\nelected as president of the country, the national security was negotiated with\nforeigners without knowing importance of national security and no country\nnegotiate with overseas people on national security.  Many people supported to such negotiation due\nto ignorance and members of the current government supported to such an attempt\nto neglecting of national security for greedy and selfish motives of money\noffered by foreign organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After\nthe election of Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa as the president of the country in 2005,\nthe scenario has been entirely changed and he determined to eliminate terrorism\nin the country and governed the country with a successful plan to overcome\nsecurity threats. The result of Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s strict and\nauthoritative administration was successfully controlled LTTE terrorism and\nso-called yahapalana advocates, NGOs and failed Marxist political parties\nunited against the Rajapaksa regime in 2015 as they were provided with foreign\nassistance to defeat the administration of Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa and to\nestablish an environment where it is a fertile ground to grow terrorism in the\ncountry. After the yahapala victory in 2015, good intelligence officers and\nsuccessful leaders of armed forces were prosecuted and put to jail based on\nfabrication of yahapalana advocates. These examples clearly indicate that\nneither Mr. Maithripala Sirisena nor yahapalana advocates had good\nunderstanding of the national security and politics involved in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nenvironment created under the yahapalana administration was a free ground for\ngrowing other potential terrorist groups and many abeyance personnel who\nsecretly associated with international or domestic terrorist movements gained\nopportunities to enter administrative positions, diplomatic and armed forces in\nSri Lanka. Recently experienced that certain foreign diplomats appointed by the\ngovernment of Sri Lanka were making decisions without listening to the\ngovernment of Sri Lanka.  These\nyahapalana advocates attempted to make decisions disregarding the national\nsecurity of the country. There were several racist conflicts after 2009 and in\nsuch conflicts, several members of the current government attempted to blame\nSinhala Buddhists without properly investigating the problems and attempted to\ngain political advantages.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nnature of all countries in the world is that national security is a not\nnegotiable task and it is free from the politics and nobody can gain political\nadvantages out of national security. \nPeople have seen that after the terrorist crimes in the Easter Sunday in\nCatholic Churches, Hotels and other places, Mr Mangala Samaraweera attempted to\npush the responsibility of terrorism to the Rajapaksa family and when the\nculprit was disclosed to the world, Mr Samaraweera is hiding and looking for\nsafe places to stay. Another minister of the government issued public\nstatements that his father knew about the terrorist activities and he did not\nattend the church service in the Easter Sunday. \nThese two misters must resign and beg the pardon of people.  They could have avoided the killing of local\nand overseas people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The most of people suffered from the terrorist\nattack was poor people, who have no opportunity to go overseas or to have\nbreakfast from the Shangri-La hotel.  One\nforeign national stated that his family contributed a large sum of money to\nbuild a hospital in Rathnapura and his family arrived to see the good\nwork.  Unfortunately, his wife was killed\nby the bomb blast and a child was injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now,\nninety per cent of people in Sri Lanka clearly believe that the current\ngovernment has no ability to govern the country, where needs an authoritative\nleader who can give priority for national security and make decisions to secure\npeople.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\na responsible person, the president of Sri Lanka needs resigning from his\nposition and allow to elect suitable person who respect national security and\nprotect people.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS National security is the priority in any country and Sri Lanka has been facing for this issue clearly since 1983 and even before it was, but after 1983 security forces identified the significance of national security than any other activity of the country.  Before Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa elected as president of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87499","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=87499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}