{"id":99759,"date":"2020-03-09T17:24:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T00:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99759"},"modified":"2020-03-09T17:24:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T00:24:17","slug":"attempts-to-exhume-the-provincial-council-cadaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/09\/attempts-to-exhume-the-provincial-council-cadaver\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempts to exhume the provincial council cadaver"},"content":{"rendered":"

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

A blessing in disguise from the Yahapalana Maralaya was its deliberate attempt to kill the PC white elephant. Nobody wanted this death-trap then in 1987 or since then other than a collection of Colombo black-white and Marxists, who want Sri Lanka divided into two warring factions: Tamil Eelam and the Sinhala quadrant. Rajiv Gandhi, who forced JR to pass 13-A, stopped in Madras, on his return trip to Delhi, and boasted, that he delivered for Tamils what they never thought it possible to obtain!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is so strange that all those\nprotested and died in 1987 opposing PCs, are now behaving like silent mice,\ndespite all possible evidence one could think of that the PC experiment has\nbeen a disaster for all except for a lonely philosopher like the Christian\nMarxist Dayan Jayatilaka  (Lanka\nGuardian, 2\/20\/2020) or Jehan Perera. Some crook politicians have the nerve to\nsay that 13-A is now part of the constitution and cannot be removed! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These bogus rule of law saints\nforget that Rajiv-JR pact was one-sided document like the 1815 Agreement, and\nall done for it in the parliament was a fraud in representative democracy. MPs\nwere kept in a hotel and hurled into busses to vote for 13-A, except for one\ncourageous MP, Gamini Jayasuriya of Homagama. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

India did not fulfil its obligation\nof disarming Prabhakaran. There is no justifiable reason to respect this\nshameful decision and the way to break it is not what Rpremadasa and\nPaskaralingam did by secretly arming Prabhakarana against IPKF while\nentertaining Balasingham in five star hotels in Colombo, but by seeking a\nmandate from the people at the April 2020 election to get rid of it once and\nfor all, whether the new parliament is going to enact a new constitution or\nnot. This means that 13-A is so important to the country as 19-A is considered\nso relevant to the ruling party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind the now prevailing debate\nabout whether the MCC could be converted to a new bride as MCC+, just like 13-A\nsupporters tried to soften the existential threat to Sinhale by distinguishing\nit as 13+ versus 13-, both 13A and MCC are trojan horses pure and simple. This\nwas revealed by the American agent of MCC in Colombo, when he said that there\nis no such thing called a free lunch. Ranil and Sirisena betrayed Sri Lanka by\ngifting the Hambantota port for a pittance to China for 198 years. Similarly, President\nGotabaya, should not listen to his black white friends\u201d within and outside\nPohottuwa, by abandoning his position against 13-A and MCC. The country did not\nexpect a politician from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The essay below that I found surfing\nthe internet is a comprehensive discussion on this 13-A debacle. It was written\nin 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LLRC and the future of Sri Lanka<\/a><\/blockquote>