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UNP MUST ACCEPT TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR SRI LANKA’S CURRENT WOES.

A.A.M.NIZAM MATARA.

The treacherous UNP which is unable to keep its own house in order, which hoodwinked the Colombo city folks in the Municipal Elections and denied them a sagacious administration, attempts to beguile the masses alleging that the President and the government are responsible for what it calls lack of security in the country. An idiotic shoddy statement by a despondent gang uttered in sheer desperation. People of this country are not babes to gulp these puerile assertions as majority of the masses have lived, suffered, experienced and endured with UNP’s State Terrorism and LTTE’s Tiger Terrorism throughout their life, and are well aware of the causes and the viciousness of these twin menaces.

The UNP that had a despotic rule by eliminating political opponents, destroying democracy and murdering the southern youth for a period of 19 years and for a subsequent two years of treachery was the cause for Sri Lanka’s all ills and tribulations. The grand national party established by the patriots such as D.S.Senanayake, S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike, F.R.Senanayake etc., are today in the hands of power hungry, visionless, treacherous, plunderers. The UNP of D.S.Senanayke was dead and has been buried long ago and in its place there exists a Union of Notorious Plunderers calling themselves as UNPers.

Many UNPers and the urbanite political illiterates have a passion of blaming the late Prime Minister Mr. S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party with responsibility for Sri Lanka’s ethnic crisis.

Nevertheless, these illiterates cannot hide the fact that the Vellala Tamil leaderships who inhumanly oppressed the other Tamil communities as low caste disliked the majority Sinhala community emerging as the rulers of this nation. This state of mind of the Vellala Tamils is well enshrined in the statement that had been made by the Malaysian born Tamil chauvinist S.J.V.Chelvanayagam that “Sinhalese rulers are not big enough to rule the Tamils”(Page 128 – Tamil Nationalism 1947 –
1977 by A.J.Wilson, Chelvanayagam’s Son-in-Law).

It was vicious chauvinist Ramanathans, Ponnambalams and Chelvanayagam of the Tamil Mahajana Sabha who saw the seeds of communalism in Sri Lanka and was responsible for Sri Lanka’s present misfortune.

Chelvanayagam speaking in the House of Representatives on 26th November 1947 advocated that in the event of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) gaining independence from the British Empire, Tamils should secede from the rest of the country. He urged the Britishers to annex the Tamil areas with the Indian State of Madras. Although it is out of context, it is opportune to remind that as per our historical records J.R.Jayawardene had urged the Britishers to declare Sri Lanka (Ceylon) as a State of India when granting independence.

Who was responsible for the first Tamil-Sinhala communal riots in the aftermath of the Bandaranaike-Chelvanayagam Pact? It was J.R.Jayawardene who organized and led the notorious Pada Yatra to Kandy and espouse communal hatred between the Tamils and Sinhala people.

In the 1977 General Election the UNP promised in its Manifesto that the so-called grievances of the Tamils will be addressed and solved. Majority of the Tamils voted for it and what they got in return?
State sponsored communal riots were unleashed against them in 1978. Leading Ministers went to Jaffna and not only rigged the District Development Council elections but unleashed terror and burnt the Jaffna Public Library that was considered as one of the best libraries in Asia.

In July 1983, prominent Ministers of the government led thugs and hooligans of the Party in violence against the innocent Tamil population resident in Colombo and other major cities, killing many, injuring several hundred and displacing thousands and damaging and destroying millions worth property. The President remained silent and was missing for three days until the pogrom was over. This incident led to a massive exodus of Tamil professionals, as well as skilled and unskilled Tamils along with their families and they became the main funding source for terrorism against Sri Lanka and its population.

The fallacious foreign policy adopted by J.R’s UNP government created apprehensions in India on its security concerns and that forced and encouraged Indians to arm, train and strengthen the terrorist organizations, and even to the launch the ignominious “Parippu Invasion” of 1987 and force J.R.Jayawardene to merge Northern and Eastern provinces against the will of the people in the Eastern Province.

President Premadasa misled by Balasingham commanded over 800 Police personnel who were serving in the North and East to surrender to the terrorist outfit for their safe passage out of those areas. Their compliance with the President’s order resulted in marching these Police officers into the jungle with their hands tied behind and killing them by indiscriminate shooting.

Our gallant generals, General Denzil Kobbekaduwa and a group of high ranking officers who were rendering invaluable service and who were a great asset to the nation and threat to the terrorist enemy were killed under mysterious circumstances.

Instead of defeating the terrorist enemy President Premadasa strengthened them by providing Sri Lankan Rupees 20 million in cash, 500 T-56 machine guns, 500 AK-47 machine guns, 5000 Chinese grenades, 200,000 rounds of live ammunition, 20 jeeps and 200 tonnes of cement.
It was reported that many Patriotic Generals who did not want to stain their reputation flatly refused to associate in this deal. How many of our innocent soldiers coming from rural poor families could have been killed by using these armaments provided by the UNP?

Following two mysterious meetings, one in Singapore between Mr. Ranil Wickremasinghe and the LTTE shipping agent Gnanakoon and the other between Mr. Milinda Moragoda and Balasingham in London, the PA government was toppled by luring several Ministers and Parliamentarians, and paving the way for the Batalanda fame Ranil Wickremasinghe to get installed as the Prime Minister.

If the damage caused to the nation’s security and integrity by the treacherous rule of Ranil and his cohorts did take place in some other country the people would have certainly revolted against them and punished them through uncivilized means. As the list of treacherous acts done by Ranil Wickremasinghe and his cohorts are a very long one, only the major acts are given underneath to save space and time.

- When the whole world joined together against terrorism
following the 9/11 incident, the UNP failed to take advantage from this golden opportunity but ventured to absolve them as terrorists and instead labeled them as a Liberation Movement.
- Contravening the constitution and without the consent of the
President and the Parliament, blindly signed the disgraceful document called the Ceasefire Agreement which deprived Sri Lanka any rights to a large area of territory including the Districts of Killinochchi and Mulativ. Our security forces were confined to their camps and were prohibited taking any action against the terrorists even for defense.
Terrorists were permitted to roam freely all over the country under the pretext of doing political work.
- Restrictions prevalent in the transport of non-essential goods
to the areas under the occupation of the terrorists were lifted and even hazardous items were allowed to be transported.
- Ban on the terrorist outfit was lifted naming it as confidence
building measure.
- Air Force personnel were compelled to provide air-transport
terrorist leaders and their cronies incurring heavy expenditure to the State coffers.
- The safehouse of the military intelligence unit was raided,
the list of officers attached to the unit was provided to the terrorists helping to kill and eliminate most of them.
- Any and all demands made by the terrorists were granted
branding them as confidence building measures.
- Norway was given a free hand to do anything on behalf of the
terrorists. Under these measures Norway was allowed to provide sophisticated V-sat communication equipment to the terrorists.
- The successful campaign of getting the terrorist outfit
proscribed in foreign countries initiated by Mr. Kadiragamar was halted.
- Monitoring and propaganda activities carried out by Sri Lankan
Embassies abroad were ceased.
- The Prime Minister and other government Ministers visited
foreign countries including the United States to appeal those nations to treat the terrorist outfit as a Liberation Movement.
- The terrorist outfit was given equal status in International
Forums and foreign countries were canvassed to treat them as a nation state.
- Ambassadors resident in Colombo and Head of International
Organisations were allowed to freely visit Kilinochchi and conduct business with the terrorist outfit treating them as a nation state.
- Terrorists were capable of smuggling in more than 15 shipments
of sophisticated arms.
- Several high ranking military officers, police officers were
brutally murdered with complete collaboration of UNP journalists, organizers and active members.
- Expansion of a small scale smuggling boat unit to a
sophisticated Naval Unit.
- Construction of an airstrip at Iranamadu and developing an air-
terrorist Unit.
- Several Ministers openly stood for protecting and safeguarding
the terrorist cause and absolving them from vicious atrocities.
- Was about to open negotiations for granting the Separate State
blueprint ISGA.
- Brutally murdered Foreign Minister Mr. Lakshman Kadiragamar,
who is indisputably considered as one of the greatest sons of Sri Lanka.

The UNP should accept total responsibility for all the crimes committed by the terrorist outfit in the name of the so-called peace- façade and for the deterioration of the security situation in the country. The UNP which has completely lost the trust of the masses, for the purpose of political expediency is making mischievous and despicable efforts to terrify and mislead the people by spreading false rumours and blame the government despite its magnificent efforts to contain the terrorists. Recent telephone call campaign to schools was one of such vicious acts of the UNP which needs to be condemned by everyone. Playing politics with the life of innocent children is a disgraceful inhuman act.

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