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HE. Mahinda Rajapaksa need to know his political friends. The so-called nationalists should be carefully watched.They can be opportunists.

Noor Nizam Peace Activist. Canada.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his team worked hard with a sense of honesty and sincerity to pull through this budget against all odds. The economical set-backs created by the LTTE were enormous, in the run-up to the budget and MR and his team presented what they needed to meet the challenges of the LTTE in order to help the LTTE to understand the reality of the inability of fighting a government (security forces) and the impossibility of dividing a sovereign state.

It is now for MR, the able Secretary of Defense Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the Cabinet of Ministers and those extending their fullest support to the government to make sure that - without violating the norms of International Human and Fundamental Rights, the LTTE will be tamed to give up violence and meet at the table to find an honourable and dignified resolution to the Tamil problems while at the same time give due consideration to the political and ethnic problems of all other minority groups, specially the Muslim (community) Factor/cause in the negotiations for durable and sustainable Peace in Sri Lanka.

MR should not forget his friends/political parties/groups who stood by him in supporting (voting) with the government in winning this budget vote, which should be considered a historic event in the path to Peace in Sri Lanka. MR can definitely depend on the minority of minority leaders like Hon. Rauf Hakeem and Hon. Arumugam Thondaman. But Hon. Rauf Hakeem was special in it, that he pledged and assured the SLMC votes well ahead of all. Both these leaders are surely are not opportunists. It should also be a very good lesson to the international community that Sri Lanka cannot be forced to do things the way others wish our nation to behave, but Sri Lanka has the capacity and ability to accomplish the mission of PEACE the International community is looking forward to. What Sri Lanka and MR/government need is a little bit of understanding and the much needed support to make it a political reality.

It is very clear that MR and his team should remember for the betrayal that the JVP had done, both to him as the President/the SLFP and the government in voting against the budget. If not for the SLFP votes that went to fatten the ballot boxes in the last general elections, the JVP would have never been what they are today and it was the SLFP votes in the South that gave them the edge. MR and the SLFP should now work to build/bring back these votes back to the SLFP and strengthen the SLFP and it's allies who voted with the SLFP to win the budget vote.

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