Lankas Priority No 1 - Rally
behind Rajapaksha.
ASOKA S.
In the 1960s the Far Eastern block of nations like Singapore, Malaysia,
Taiwan, Hong Kong embraced full fledged market economies and made rapid
economic progress. By the dawn of the 21st century these countries had
earned the grand status of newly industrialized countries.
During this era India, the leader of the South Asian block was experimenting
with Soviet style socialism under Ghandi. But in early 80's India woke
up to the reality of benefits of Capitalism and India too headed to
a full fledged market economy along with China who too hitherto was
a communist state with no private ownership of economic activity. Both
these nations went through rapid growth with Technology leading India's
economic boom while consumer goods manufacturing to the rich west being
the pace maker for China. These two nations and Japan will be central
to Asia's economic domination of the world in this century. India is
already planning to land a man on the moon within the decade and China's
space exploration has already started.
On the other hand ailing socialist Sri Lanka was dragged into a market
economy by JR long before India in 1977. Mrs. B had ruined the economy
with a flopped socialist experiment. Coupled with Gigantic construction
projects like the Mahaweli and Jayawardene Pura JR managed to propel
the economy forward and by early 1980s it was as if a new nation was
born. Indians traveled to Lanka to buy duty free Electronics and Fashion.
India did not welcome JR's capitalism, being the ragtag poor and bully
big brother it was then and even now.
Then came the blood thirsty Prabhakaran and power hungry Wijeweera
who began the path of destroying Sri Lanka's new found prosperity. Wijeweera
was a national curse and brought the country to a near halt with his
curfews and Prabhakaran took care of the rest of destruction. Rightly
Wijeweera was caught and executed while megalomaniac Prabhakaran continued
his path of blood letting, Tamils and Sinhalese alike.
Premadasa and Chandrika both misread shrewd and venomous Prabhakaran
and the former got blown into pieces and the latter lost an eye with
the curtesy of Prabhakaran. Dissanayaka and Athulathmudali, two of Lanka's
clever leaders were both killed by Prabhakaran. From then to now Blood
Thirsty Prabhakaran has executed and murdered hundreds of leaders and
thousands of innocent civilians. Lanka Lion was bleeding bad.
Ranil took the easy way out by signing a shameless deal of betrayal.Prabhakaran
made the biggest sucker out of him and nearly got his priced Elam on
a platter. Dear or dear!! How many of our leaders were taken for a ride
by this maniac who eventually killed all those who trusted him one by
one.
Only common man Rajapaksha from the South truly read Prabhakaran and
his thirst for killing. On one hand he has to discharge his constitutional
responsibilty of defending the country from an enemy within, while on
the other he has righfully come to the conclusion that unless the LTTE
is anihilated there can never be real progress in Sri Lanka. The LTTE
is a deep rooted cancer that is eating into the growth cells of the
Lankan society.
Rajapaksha together with his trusted brothers took on the grave responsibility
of driving the LTTE out of the planet. While appointing family members
to the Cabinet is never an acceptable policy the nation has to look
the other way for the sake of getting rid of the terrorist curse. Ranil
need to postpone his dying desire to lead Lanka and join hands with
Rajapaksha to offer a common united front to rid Lanka of the LTTE.
Enough is enough Mr. Wicramasinghe. This is no time for political games.
BBC and many of the ignorant English Politicians never know what it
is like when a megalomaniac infects a society with murder and destruction.
One day if a group of Indians in Bradford take to suicide bombers, arson,
murder and terrorism demanding a separate country for the Indians within
England, the English might wake up to realities of the 21st century
terrorist world. I have no doubt the English army will crush all separatists
wholesale just the same way some of their forefathers murdered thousands
of unarmed Indian peasants in Amritsa during Ghandi days of India. Ruthlessness
is in their genetic disposition and the English have no shortage of
that. It is always easy to preach than practice.
All Lankans have to get behind President Rajapaksha for a quick ending
to this 25 year old curse. The day Prabhakaran is busted will be the
day the new Sri Lanka will be born. With its ambitious and talented
people Lanka will rise up once again to be the true Pearl of the Indian
Ocean. Let there be politics as usual after that.
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