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Those who do not accept the victory of the SLAF over the terrorists and praise them for their heroism, forfeit their right to be Sri Lankans.

By Charles Perera

Ranil Wickramasinghe, and his noisy followers Lakshman Kiriella, Michael Perera, Tissa Attanayake and the rest are a mean set of politicians, capitalising on the people who support them because they represent for them the UNP. The UNP has a block vote and these nondescript politicians who lack both imagination and intelligence, take their voters unquestioning devotion to a UNP, allow themselves to make any comments that would some how help their selfish endeavour to come to power, whatever, becomes of Sri Lanka.

The people who vote for UNP should now think whether they are, or they are not being led by their noses by the present set of the UNP Leadership. Any intelligent person could understand that the Sri Lanka Army had carried out a remarkable military campaign, with much sacrifice, to chase the terrorists from the East. We all know that the war against terrorism is still not over, and more sacrifices of life and material will be necessary, before Sri Lanka is completely freed from terrorism. Therefore, we should not let the Sri Lanka army and the Security forces loose courage, by uncalled for foolish remarks such as those made by Ranil Wickramasinghe and his set of howler monkeys.

Every parent who had lost a son or a daughter in this war of retaliation against the terrorists, will at least be happy in seeing that the cause for which their children have given their lives is worthy, and that their deaths had not been in vain. The Government’s pursuance of their military option against the terrorists, is not to bring honour and respect to the Rajapakse Family, the Bandaranayake Family , the Senanayake Family or the Premadasa Family, it is a necessary war against terrorism, to keep Sri Lanka United and Unitary.

The credit should of course go to the President, for having allowed the Army to take decisions without political interference, in the effort to rid terrorism, but the Sri Lanka army takes all the credit for planning and carrying out the retaliatory attacks against the terrorists under all difficulties, dangers, and shortfalls. These youthful soldiers of the army, the navy, the air force and the special task force went head-on into the dangers of a terrorist war with one thing in mind, and that is to defeat terrorism. They have come out victorious, and let us instead of criticising the victories, cheer our heroes.

The war of retaliation had been carried out despite the fears created in the minds of a vast and powerful invincible terrorist army, the constant reminder that the war is not the solution against terrorism, non stop call to stop violence and return to peace negotiation, and despite surprise attacks by the terrorists and killing of large numbers of the members of the army navy and the air force.

The war of retaliation had been carried out despite, slanders, vilification, accusations invented by Ranil Wickramasinghe and his unthinking followers, NGOs, Jehan Perera, Jayadevas, Kumara Rupasinghes, the Catholic Church, the UN, the Humanrights Groups, Amnesty International, Wahington Post, Sunday Leader, LankaeNews, and the foreign media. And thanks to the President’s determination, clever manipulation of foreign diplomatic interventions, good sense of political manoeuvres, not giving into local pressure, nor to foreign intervention, he with the able Foreign Secretary and the Commander of the Army Sarath Fonseka left the army un-interfered to carry out their responsibilities. The result is history, the army won what it set itself to do. We are grateful to the Government and the Army, and we wish, and we trust that our army will destroy the LTTE terrorists “lock stock and barrel” and free Sri Lanka from the clutches of terrorism.

JVP and Somawansa Amarasinghe

Somawansa Amerasinghe will never be a popular political figure. He has already done lot of damage to JVP which was an up and coming political party, who could have counted upon the peoples’ support in an election. But such eventuality is being eroded by a person who has neither a political future nor the ability to lead a political party. Politics require not only the ability to speak but the ability to speak cautiously. The President Mahinda Rajapaske fortunately understood what his priorities were before implementing the Mahinda Chintanaya. It was immaterial to him how many Ministers he would have in his cabinet, he had a definite object and a plan to jump the barriers that were being place before him, and bring Sri Lanka undamaged through communal strife or military failures. He had to have people who he could trust , who would stay with him through that difficult phase of getting the political perspectives clear. If he had the JVP with him, as he wanted to and invited them several times, the JVP would have left him in the lurch, and resigned from the Government on a flimsy issue, leaving him on a precipice, and he would not have been able to achieve what he has achieved today. Therefore, the President was correct in choosing his friends and relative to be around him.

Mahinda Rajapakse is not a vacillating leader as Somawansa tries to make him out. He is a very sharp politician, who understood very well the twists and turns of political labyrinth . Sri Lanka cannot set up a government in the line of Russia, or Venezuela . That is the mistake the Marxists make, to follow a system which is quite out of place else where. Sri Lanka should follow a political system which is not outside its cultural make up.Whatever Broad Front JVP sets up under Somawansa’s leadership is doomed to fail.If JVP follows his political plan, it will find itself outside Sri Lanka politics sooner than expected.

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