{"id":88010,"date":"2019-04-30T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T23:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88010"},"modified":"2019-04-30T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T23:45:14","slug":"shouldnt-we-invite-erik-solheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/30\/shouldnt-we-invite-erik-solheim\/","title":{"rendered":"Shouldn’t we invite Erik Solheim?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bodhi Dhanapala Quebec<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Prime\nMinister Ranil Wickremesinghe during Chandrika Kumaratunga’s presidency and\ntoday as well, has in his many statements on the Easter suicide bombings\nemphasized the global nature of the problem, and referred to the need for\ninternational help..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given all\nthe US and Western support available to the Prime Minister, didn’t his security\nnetwork, or the FBI, or the CIA, warn him independently of the messages that\nSirisena is supposed to have got, three times over? Isn’t it likely that the\nPrime Minster who considers himself a great tactician actually GOT the news,\nand since Sirisena had hogged security, decided to let Sirisena take the blame\ntoo?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that\nthe Prime Minister has declared that we need international help to resolve this\nproblem, and given his statesman-like approach of holding talks and never\nbecoming a hawk, shouldn’t we hold talks with the ISIS and the NTJ about these\nbombings, just as we did with Prabhakaran? Wouldn’t this be a policy advocated\nby political thinkers like Minister Mangala Samaraweera who even inspired\nSamatha Power to fly into Colombo to felicitate him on his work anniversary?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all,\nNTJ has done only ONE day of suicide bombings, while the LTTE did it every\nother day for many years. Of course, Sri Lankans by themselves are not trusted\nto hold such talks, as they may succumb to the pressure of bigots like Balagoda\nAtthe Gnanasara. Fortunately, we locked him up while the Wanathawilluwa owner of\nthe weapons cache was released to ensure ethnic reconciliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So,\nclearly the best approach is to declare a CFA with the ISIS, and get Solheim to\nmeet Al Bagdadi himself, because Erik was a man who got along famously with\nPrabhakaran and Anton Balasingham. So he will have no problem, given his\ndiplomatic skills, in getting right into the Al Bagdadi’s tent, charm him and\nget him to sign the CFA. Like the CFA that Eric and Ranil signed with\nPrabhakaran, the President doesn’t have to even see it. Even Chandrika\nKumaratunga, an admirer of Solheimian slickness in peacemaking would love all\nthis and the return of Erik. The Swedes might even give a Nobel prize to the\nright person, for getting them back on the stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solheim\nacted for a while as the European Union minster of the environment. So may be\nEric S could even get Qatar which funded the building of houses and Mosques in\nthe Wilpattu to demolish those houses and plant trees there \u2013 even date tress,\nas has been done in Kattankudi. Just as we had the TNA becoming the servile\npolitical voice of the LTTE, we need to promote the NTJ to act as the spokesman\nof the ISIS instead of banning it. Furthermore, Eric S and his friends could\nfinance a few more NGOs, say a Centre for Political Advancement. That will be\nto bridge the gap between the ISIS and the Sinhala Buddhists who should be\nchastised and weaned of their dangerous “Mahawamsa Mindset”, and\ntheir tendency to “triumphalism”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or maybe\nErik Solheim can convince Wickremesinghe and Sirisena that the only decent\nthing they can do is to resign from their respective positions and live in the\nAndaman Islands, scrubbing their hands for ever, of those layers of negligence\nof duty and guilt, surrounded by the pictures of 300 people dead, and 600\npeople injured, and the two people who were made to resign as scapegoats. That\ncould have been the slogan of the now canceled May day events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bodhi\nDhanapala ,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bodhi Dhanapala Quebec Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe during Chandrika Kumaratunga’s presidency and today as well, has in his many statements on the Easter suicide bombings emphasized the global nature of the problem, and referred to the need for international help.. Given all the US and Western support available to the Prime Minister, didn’t his security […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodhi-dhanapala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88010","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=88010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}