By Gandara John

Briefing potential foreign investors in Colombo recently, RW had reportedly given an assurance to the investors that the Megapolis Zones, which the government is proposing to set up and in which they have been invited to invest, will be sanitized of Sri Lankan Law.

RW had assured the investors that a new type of Courts, Primary Courts and Appeal Courts applying British Law, would replace the Sri Lankan Court Houses in these zones.

The Megapolis (or Megalopolis) project of this government has been described as the setting up of a chain of Mega City States, adjacent to each other, along the seaboard of the island.

Under the Megapolis concept, Sri Lanka would be ceding her land to foreigners in all the Megapolis provinces, with the purchase and ownership of land by foreigners being made legally possible

At present, only a mere 17 % of the land of the country is privately owned while 83% of the land is government owned. In other words, the people of this country collectively own 83% of the land.

The present laws do NOT permit foreigners to buy or own land.

Besides jettisoning Sri Lanka’s laws in the proposed Megapolis provinces, also being abandoned are the Rights of Individuals now guaranteed by the State (such as establishing Trade Unions, freedom to join Trade Unions, minimum wages, employment benefits etc), Judicial infrastructure and overview (such as Sri Lanka’s Courts, Judges, Lawyers etc) and Sri Lanka’s Administrative infrastructure.

In short, Sri Lanka under the Megapolis Project is proposing to renounce its Sovereignty over the entire Seaboard of the island.

Expressed differently, the rich of this country are selling off the island’s Maritime Provinces to US Corporates, and entrenching US Colonialism in the country’s rimland; it is akin to Dutch Colonialism of the 17^th Century in the Maritime Provinces of Ceylon.

The Megapolis concept is a US concept primarily geared to shore up US Corporates that will be at the vanguard of the US offensive to colonize Asia and Africa.

The US, using proxy terrorists, failed thirty miserable years in its attempt to fracture the Sovereign State of Sri Lanka. In 2009 the global hegemonist was decisively defeated when the Sri Lankan people and her Army decimated the terrorist leadership on the banks of Nandikadal.

Like the al-Nusrah Front, the Boko Haram, the USIS, the al-Qa’ida and many others, the LTTE is just one of the many terror groups sponsored by the US; these are the ‘foreign legion’ of the US, fighting proxy wars on its behalf in countries where the US prefers to operate inconspicuously, ‘without putting boots on the ground’.

During Sri Lanka’s major hostage crisis, the US and its allies tried desperately hard to prevent Sri Lanka rescuing the hostages taken captive by the terrorists. It was an unbending Sri Lankan political leadership, reflecting the strong will of the people that resisted all these efforts.

The US and its allies in a knee jerk reaction committed themselves to, physically attempt rescuing the terrorists (the hostage takers), a dastardly war crime by any yardstick.

Ignominiously defeated by the Sri Lankan Army, the US and its allies were perforce compelled to change tactics; they retreated from an ‘offensive war’ to a cowardly ‘siege war’ (of embargos etc, including GSP plus).

Siege warfare is one of the oldest forms of warfare in human history. It is indefensible in civilized society, even during a state of war, considering the deadly impact a siege has on the civilian population especially children. This is yet another war crime perpetrated by the US and its allies on Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka needs to notice the UN, the ICC and other relevant global organisations about the war crimes committed by the US and its allies against the people of Sri Lanka and pursue action against these war criminals.

Terrorism has been a significant feature of the late 20^th and early 21^st Centuries. It is a prime instrument used by the US to challenge, weaken and finally destroy Sovereign Westphalian States in Africa and Asia. By so doing, the US destroys the Sovereignty (or independence) of the people of those States and gerrymanders the world to a shape that facilitates the governance of its avowed ‘One – World’ Empire.

Having failed miserably to fracture the State of Sri Lanka the US conspired to change the political leadership, at the helm of the country, which had been its bête noir; it is a type of exercise the global bully regularly indulges in, changing democratically elected Governments and replacing them with despots of its choice; this, it vaingloriously describes as ‘regime change’.

Billions of dollars were pumped in through NGOs, Foundations, Electronic and Print media,  Mosques, Evangelical churches and the like for the Presidential Election, much of which was spent on facilitating and enriching the cross overs.

Involved in this murky activity was CBK whose seeming mental instability is reflected in her appearance, choleric emotion and conduct. Wallowing lavishly in her bog of ill fame, she prides herself in acting as a gofer to that notorious ‘Club Madrid’, playing peon between the local players and the US.

What the US failed to achieve during its 30 year shadowy war, it succeeded, partially at least, in that flawed Presidential election of 2015; it got rid of the political leadership that had been a hindrance to US objectives.

Working in cahoots with the US at that Presidential Election was its regional ally, India.

Dangling a ‘China’ carrot to bait India was not really necessary to motivate Modi.

Narendra Modi has for long been a votary of the US. In 1999, whilst ostensibly yet a political lightweight, the BJP turned to Modi, to entrust him with a crucial mission; he was instructed to proceed to Washington and use his connections to persuade the US to pressurise Pakistan to withdraw its troops from the Himalayan heights and extricate India from an intractable nuclear predicament.

This was at the height of the Kargil conflict and at a time when Pakistan was the closest ally of the US in the region and enjoying a special military relationship with it.

The relations between India and the US were frosty at the time.

Modi achieved the ‘impossible’; US forced Pakistan to withdraw from the Kargil heights.

Thus began Delhi’s special relationship with the US. By 2005 US had a comprehensive and long term bi lateral Security arrangement with India; India became the most important military partner of the US in the region.

Prior to the Kargil conflict US influence in India was mostly concentrated in the State of Tamil Nadu.

As in Jaffna, the American missionaries had set up schools, hospitals and churches in Tamil Nadu; they ran 2300 schools, 150 colleges and 104 hospitals such as Kodaikanal College, Vellore Medical College, Vellore Hospital and Bethesda Hospital to name a few.

Tamil Nadians dominated the Indian bureaucracy, the Judiciary, the Foreign Service and the Intelligence services; US influence over these Indian State organisations and Agencies was extremely strong.

R N Kao, a close confidante of Indira Gandhi, was the founder of the RAW; he had a cozy relationship with Bush (Senior) of the US.

Kao’s handpicked Intelligence operatives, many of whom were from Tamil Nadu, were trained by the CIA and the MOSSAD. The RAW worked closely with these two spy agencies.

It was during the time of Indira Gandhi that the RAW established military camps for the Tamil terrorists in Tamil Nadu. The terrorists were provided arms, combat training and safe haven by the RAW. Subsequently they were sent for advanced training to Israel and to George Habash’s PFLP.

It is perhaps pertinent that Kao was the personal security advisor to Indira Gandhi and subsequently to Rajiv Gandhi; his assignment as security advisor outlasted the assassinations of both mother and son; Intelligence, it would appear, had eluded India’s pro Western spy chief on both these occasions.