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Co-chairs and their Local Coolies

S. Hewage

Who are these co-chairs of Sri Lanka’s peace process? What rights do they have over the people of Sri Lanka, and its sovereignty? It seems to me that for some backward-thinking media organizations, their reporters, and political agents of imperial forces (mainly in the UNP) have the idea that these co-chairs have the right to decide how and when Sri Lanka should solve its internal problems. When did we hand over the nation of Sri Lanka to these co-chairs, and what rights do these co-chairs have to dictate to the people of Sri Lanka who they should elect as their political leaders?

I have been reading news items speculating that the co-chairs are going to sit tight until Sri Lankans come up with a political solution to the LTTE terrorist problem. Of course, they should sit tight and observe how Sri Lankans themselves will solve their problems. What else can they do? Do the people of Sri Lanka ask them to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan after having destroyed those two countries, and having killed thousands of Iraqi and Afghan civilians? Perhaps it is high time that Sri Lankans should ask the NATO forces to stop bombing civilians in Afghanistan, and they should send Ranil Wickremasinghe to Afghanistan to negotiate with the Taliban on behalf of the NATO forces. In 2003, speaking at the UN general assembly, Ranil Wickremasinghe praised president George Bush for invading Iraq. He was the only political leader from a developing country who supported an illegal invasion that has resulted in the enormous destruction of a sovereign nation.

This tells how stupid Ranil Wickremasinghe can be, and why the people of Sri Lanka should never allow this man to form a government again. For Ranil and his fellow UNPers doing coolie work for imperialists is a glorious job that would automatically make him the leader of his nation. He should learn from other nations around the world that national leaders who are suspected of having clandestine collaborations with imperial forces are always rejected by the masses in the end. That was the fate of Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, the Shah of Iran, the Duvalier clan of Haiti, and many other political leaders who enjoyed the hospitality of imperialists, but were kicked out by their own people.

Ranil and his fellow UNPers should listen to the masses of Sri Lanka and work with the current national leaders to solve the country’s problems. He should forget these so-called self-appointed co-chairs, who are using him to get a foothold in Sri Lanka to achieve their own agendas. As President Rajapaksa recently told him, Ranil should “stop being an outsider” and instead be a “stakeholder of the nation of Sri Lanka” to ensure its economic prosperity and political sovereignty.

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