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ATTEMPTS TO SAVE THE TERRORIST LEADER AND
THE BOOTLICKER
Part I
A.A.M.NIZAM MATARA
“Wipe out terrorism totally, liberate remaining Mullativu/Killinochchi
districts and uphold the unitary status and the sovereignty of the nation”.
This was the loud and clear message given by the toiling masses of the
North Central and rural folk of the Sabaragamuwa provinces in the recent
Provincial Councils Election. The UNP strongly protested against the
dissolution of the two provincial councils and holding the election.
Ultimately the elections turned out to be a battle for and against the
war with UNP and its new found strange bedfellows JVP presenting all
sorts of allegations against the conduct of the war with each UNP candidates
spending 10 to 20 Million Rupees from unknown funding sources. Upon
failing all attempts made to defeat and reverse the war strategy the
treacherous UNP, which opposed holding of Eastern Province Local Government
Elections and Eastern, North Cental and Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council
Elections are now calling for a General Elections with a hidden agenda
of halting the war, and to resuscitate the terrorists from total annihilation
and the terrorist darling Ranil Wickremasinghe from getting deposed
from the party leadership.
When the government was forced prematurely to dissolve the North Central
and Sabaragamuwa Provincial Councils that became ungovernable due to
the unruly behaviour of new found UNP-JVP nexus the foul-mouthed UNP
General Secretary strongly protested to the Commissioner of Elections
against the dissolution of the Councils by respective Governors of the
Provinces.
The UNP General Secretary who now calls for holding a General Election
with hidden motives and acting on the agenda of vested interests, in
a letter addressed to the Commissioner of Elections on 13th June, 2008
strongly demanded “not to act in anyway under the provisions of
the Provincial Councils Elections Act No: 2 of 1988 as amended and in
particular not to take steps to hold election in the administrative
Districts of Ratnapura, Kegalle, Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa.”
UNP and their new found ally JVP even went to Courts in a bid to prevent
the elections.
Ultimtely they entered the fray and spent a colossal sum to buy over
the voters and garner public opinion against the war and thereby boost
the new neo-colonialist species called R2P gangs to intervene in the
country. The failure of the two UNP candidates Nihal Jayawardene and
Sandith Samarasinghe who publicly claimed that they will be spending
10 Million rupees each to get at least 22,000 odd preferential votes
and get elected from the Kegalle district, gives a simple clue to guess
how many millions the seven candidates who obtained 22,597 preferential
votes and above must have spent in the elections? How many billions
of rupees all the UNP candidates in both provincies could have spent?
Who provided these funds? These are questions the UNP leadership needs
to answer if it indeed is a responsible political party.
After spending all these billions and losing all the 27 Electorats
including the 5 electorates they won in the Presidential Election the
so-called democratic political party which exposed its anti-democratic
fangs by going to courts against holding elections, which profusely
criticised the former President for dissolving the Ranil Wickremasinghe
government and holding premature elections, is now shamelessly calling
for a premature General Election, at a time the general pubic all over
the country from East to West, and South to North, devoid of ethnicity,
religiosity and other differences loudly and unitedly champion for the
unhindered continuation of anti-terrosit operation and call for liberation
of the country. The UNP’s attempt to swim against the populist
tide vividly exposes its anti-national and pro-eelamist character.
The UNP’s anti-national fresh adventure is strongly backed by
the treacherous elements which raucously criticise the President and
do not fail to miss the slightest opportunity to slander and denigrate
the President, the Defense Secretary, Security Forces Commanders and
other government leaders.
The weekend and midweek mis(leader) rag sheets are notorious for presenting
everything related to this government negatively and mislead the masses
with sheer speculations and distortion of the truth. It was nauseatingly
critical, particularly of the government’s liberation operation
and leave no stone unturned in its attempt to mislead the masses the
Northern Liberation Operation as an unwinnable futile costly effort
prone to cause a gross human tragedy. These pubications carried Anti-war
news commentaries under banner headlines such as “Infinity and
beyond : A War without End”, “MR faces checkmate scenario”,
“Bloodshed and War mark abrogation of CFA”, “Gotabaya’s
belligerence may cost Sri Lanka the GSP plus”, “A reality
check on War and Peace”, “Playing Russian Roulette with the
Troops”, “Spending Millions on Elections, Freezing wages and
the HR nightmare”, “Taking masses for asses”, “Lessons
from Darfur and the missive from US Congress”, “A Trauma in
the Wanni”and so on.
In one of the aforementioned news commentaries, highly critical of
the government’s decision to hold Provincial Council Elections
in the North Central and Sabaragamuwa Provinces, these rag sheets had
the following to say:
“Elections cost a huge amount of money which has to be met by
the Treasury not to mention the millions more that are poured into the
campaign, and at a time the government says it has no money to meet
the salary demands of the judiciary, health, education and other sectors
the questions that necessarily will be asked by the affected groups
is why the president is then spending millions on unwarranted elections.
Unwarranted, it is argued because, both the Sabaragamuwa and North Central
provinces have one year more of its term left and a majority in both
councils had in writing informed their respective governors not to dissolve
the councils since there was no threat to its majorities.”
It was utterly surprising and astonishing to find a sudden U turn in
these (mis)leader rag sheets last week. Any simpleton can conclude that
there is a hidden master gameplan when a publication that was right
throughout critical of the PA governments and ferociously disparaging
President Rajapakse and his actions suddenly turning to flatter the
President, and attempt to advice him. Contradicting their own strong
ciriticisms about holding prematured election and the huge cost that
would burden the struggling masses, the notorious fair lady who is also
described as “Lap Dog Journalist” by some fellow journalists
was advocating the President to hold a snap General Election comments
as follows, perhaps with an imagination that the President would bite
her bait:
This is what she said: “For the government freshly emerging from
a euphoric victory in the Sabaragamuwa and NCP polls, the idea of a
snap general election may not seem much of a challenge. Meanwhile for
the government such a snap election at this time may prove advantageous.
Having taken all 27 electorates in the two provinces where the Sinhala
Buddhist sentiment was strongest, Mahinda Rajapakse would know that
the poll was more a referendum for the war and an endorsement of himself
personally – a man who has yet to lose his political shine.
Moreover an early general poll would also be advantageous given that
the government obtained a clear majority in these PC polls with the
smaller parties like the JVP decimated and reduced to two seats in Sabaragamuwa
and one seat in the NCP.
Indeed a delay in a call for a general election may leave room for
other issues like the economy or even a military setback to emerge.
It remains to be seen however if he would take up the parliamentary
polls challenge or go for provincial council elections in the other
five councils and continue to test the waters.”
It is clearly indicative that reactionary and treacherous elements
through these manoeuvres are making a final endeavour to disrupt the
Anti-Terrorist War and reverse the battlefront gains and save the terrorists.
Another person to join in this Twin Plan of “Save the Tigers and
Enliven the Eelam” and “Crush Plans to Depose the UNP Leader”is
the despicable politico Managala Samaraweera. He has been suddently
fished out from the political dustbin to act as the fall guy of the
serial loser Ranil Wickremasinghe and save the terrorist leader who
is alleged to be one of his distant relative.
(To be continued)
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