Jehan Perera awaiting a government-UNP alliance to restore peace and practices of good governance and accountability to the country.

By Charles Perera

If that happens we have the JVP and the JHU to keep a watchful eye, and Mr.Jehan Perera, did not fall with the last rain.

Mr. Jehan Perera says in an article in the Daily Mirror e-edition, with their strongly worded statement, the donors may be hoping to change the choice of the government and LTTE away from the military option to the political one. But this strategy is unlikely to be effective. Either the government or LTTE or both of them have to change their minds about the desirability of the military option if there is to be peace talks.

One does not know, whether the donor states with their strongly worded statement wanted to change the choice of the government and LTTE away from the military option to the political one. There may be an underline political strategy on the part of the donor states, that did not strongly condemn the military action of the government forces against the LTTE terrorists. It sounds more a surreptitious connivance, to encourage the government to militarily weaken or eliminate the terrorists, before another round of talks.

Mr.Jehan Perera knows very well, when he says that either the government or LTTE or both of them have to change their minds about the desirability of the military option if there is to be peace talk, that the problem is not with the government changing its mind about the desirability of the military options, but it is the LTTE terrorist who will have to change their minds. It has been evident from the past experiences with the LTTE terrorists that they cannot be taken on their word.

Do you think Mr. Jehan Perera, that if the government forces agree to a cease fire, the LTTE terrorists will do like wise, without taking the advantage of the ceasefire to do lot of damage before they give their assent ? You are too good a man Mr. Perera, to be naïf not to know the unscrupulous manoeuvring the ruthless terrorists are capable of. The co-chairs are not that sacrosanct Mr.Perera for the government to accede to the donor co-chairs statement and accept to talk with the terrorists without pe-conditions. Did you notice how during a short lull in fighting the LTTE terrorists managed to transport a ship load of armaments, which was fortunately detected by our navy ?

You are either floundering under a misconception or you are an unconditional admirer of the LTTE, when you say that both sides are seriously violating the Ceasefire Agreement, they have both insisted that the other should honour and respect it if there are to be peace talks. And very strangely Mr Perera what you say is that the government should accept to withdraw its armed forces from the Sampur area in the east that it recently captured from the LTTE, and also to move back to its original forward defence lines in Muhamalai in the north, to make way for the LTTE terrorists to come for negotiations, without any conditions imposed on them by the government. ? One should be completely out of ones mine to make such a statement.

Mr.Jehan Perera, surely has his own reasons to so blindly support an evidently ruthless group of terrorists. But his admiration for this group of terrorists should not be to the detriment of the country. It is no surprise that Mr.Jehan Perera says that, the most hopeful prospect in this bleak situation is the dialogue that has recently commenced between the government and UNP. Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe every one except Jehan Perera and his like, knows that Mr.Ranil Wickramasinghe was the most weak leader, who was unable to take firm decisions. He strengthened the LTTE terrorists ( your heroes Mr.Perera) with his policy of appeasement, allowing them to transport several boat loads of arms and ammunition. He lacked foresight and arrogantly abused the trust of the people signing a CFA behind the back of the people. If not for him we would still have the great men like late Mr. Lakshman Kadirgamar, with us to-day. That was your miracle man Mr.Jehan Perera.

You acclaim a future, government-UNP alliance to restore peace and practices of good governance and accountability to the country.

The most unwise thing at the moment would be to have an alliance with the UNP, which messed up with the terrorists problem costing immeasurable loss of men and material. Luckily we have the JVP and the JHU to keep a watchful eye, and the President Mr.Jehan Perera, did not fall with the last rain.