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අද, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ (SLPP පොහොට්ටුව + SLFP ශ්‍රී.නි.ප. + UNP යූඑන්පී) යන ප්‍රධාන පක්‍ෂ තුන සම්පූර්යෙන්ම දේශපාලනිකව රහසිගතව එක්ව සැම විටම තීරණ ගෙන ක්‍රියා කරනු ලබයි. අද, ඔවුන්ගේ කුරිරු දේශපාලන බලය රඳවා තබා ගැනීම සහ ආරක්‍ෂා කිරීම සඳහා, ඔවුන් වැඩ කරන්නේ එක් පක්‍ෂයක් ලෙස මිස, තුන් පක්ෂයක් ලෙස නොවේ. ඔවුන් සියල්ලෝම සොරුන් සහ මිනීමරුවන් ය. ඔවුන් කරන්නේ ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන්ට සහ ලෝක ජනතාවට සහ ජාත්‍යන්තර නීති හා මානව හිමිකම් ක්‍රමයනට පිස්සු මෝඩ විහිළු සපයාලීම පමණි.

අද සියලු බුද්ධිමත් ලක්ෂ සංඛ්‍යයාත ලාංකීය ජනතාවෝ ඒ බව වටහා ගනිමින් නව ලාංකීය දේශපාලන පෙරමුණ වන NPP සහ JVP ය වටා ඒකරාශී වෙමින් පවති. අද එම නව පෙරමුණ හැරෙන්නට වෙනත් කිසිම විකල්පයක් නැත. වංචනික ඒ මිනීමරු දේශපාලන පක්ෂ තුන හරහා අලුතෙන් කවුරු බලයට ආවත් කිසිම සුබවාදි වෙනසක් සිදු නොවනු ඇත. ඒ අය සිදු කරන්නේ ද ඒ ඒ තමන්ගේ පැරණි වංචනික මිනීමරුවන් ආරක්ෂා කරලීම පමණක් වේ.

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In Sri Lanka three main Parties political of SLPP + SLFP + UNP working and take decisions altogether, always in secretly. They are one party politic, not three. They do only crazy joke foolish with country people and with International law and Human rights systeme.

Today, millions of intelligent Sri Lankans are gathering around the new Sri Lankan political front, the NPP and the JVP. Today, there is no other option than that new front. No matter who comes to power through the three fraudulent and murderous political parties, there will be no positive change. All they do is protect their former fraudulent murderers.

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Aujourd'hui, au Sri Lanka, trois partis politiques principaux de SLPP + SLFP + UNP travaillent et prennent des décisions toujours secrètement en totalité. Aujourd'hui, pour garder et protéger leur pouvoir politique cruel, ils travaillent comme une seul partie politique, pas comme trois parties. Ils sont tous des voleurs et des meurtriers. Ils ne font que des blagues et folles pour les Sri Lankais et les peuples du monde, ainsi qu’avec les lois internationales et le système des droits de l’homme.

Aujourd'hui, des millions de Sri-Lankais intelligents se rassemblent autour du nouveau front politique sri-lankais, du NPP et du JVP. Aujourd'hui, il n'y a pas d'autre option que ce nouveau front. Peu importe qui accédera au pouvoir par l'intermédiaire des trois partis politiques frauduleux et meurtriers, il n'y aura aucun changement positif. Tout ce qu'ils font, c'est protéger leurs anciens meurtriers frauduleux.

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Appointment of alleged war criminal to head of Sri Lanka army ‘deeply troubling’, says UN human rights chief
http://www.lankaenews.com/news/3034/en

reinstate death penalty
June 28, 2019 10:45 pm

France, Norway and Germany urge Sri Lanka not to reinstate death penalty

http://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=56062

Norway-Germany-France-Contre-SL-Death-Penalty-Adaderana-28.06.2019

June 28, 2019 10:45 pm

Norway and Germany have expressed deep concern regarding the Sri Lankan President’s decision to resume executions in the country for drug offenders.

“Norway is deeply concerned that Sri Lanka intends to implement the death penalty, which would put an end to Sri Lanka’s 43-year moratorium on the use of this cruel and irreversible punishment,” the Norwegian Embassy in Colombo said.

The statement said that as recently as December 2018, Sri Lanka was one of 120 countries that voted in favour of a UN General Assembly resolution calling for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty.

“The vote was a tangible sign of the global trend to move away from the use of the death penalty.”

Norway said implementation of the death penalty would negatively affect Sri Lanka’s international reputation and its human rights record.

“Norway strongly opposes all use of the death penalty as a matter of principle. We believe that states have a duty to protect the safety, well-being and human rights of all their citizens.”

“We have communicated our position and raised our concerns regarding this issue at the highest levels of the Sri Lankan Government, and we urge Sri Lanka to refrain from reinstating the death penalty,” the statement said.

Meanwhile the German Commissioner for Human Rights Barbel Kofler has also issued a statement in response to reports that the Sri Lankan President had publically announced that executions were to take place.

“I am extreme
ly concerned by reports that President Sirisena has publically announced that four death sentences are to be carried out,” she said.

She appealed to the Sri Lankan Government to continue to refrain from carrying out executions following a moratorium lasting more than 40 years, to which Sri Lanka itself expressed its commitment as recently as December 2018.

Executions would be a considerable setback along the path towards a reconciled and peaceful society, said the Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid at the Federal Foreign Office.

The application of the death penalty damages Sri Lanka’s reputation, its ambitions in the area of human rights and the country as a business location, she stressed.

Issuing a statement, the France government also said it is deeply concerned at the announcement and urged the Sri Lankan authorities to maintain the moratorium on the death penalty.

“A resumption of executions would be inconsistent with the recent commitments made by Sri Lanka, which voted in support of the resolution calling for a universal moratorium on the use of the death penalty during the most recent UN General Assembly session just six months ago, with the justice minister taking part in the 7th World Congress against the Death Penalty in Brussels in February.”

“France reaffirms its opposition to the death penalty everywhere and under all circumstances and encourages Sri Lanka to join the countries that have permanently abolished this inhumane, unjust and ineffective punishment,” the foreign ministry said.

Nihal Ranabahu

ශවෙන්ද්‍ර සිල්වාට යුධ හමුදාපති ධුරය ලබාදීම ගැන යුරෝපා සංගමයෙන් නිවේදනයක්

August 21, 2019

ලුතිනන් ජනරාල් ශවෙන්ද්‍ර සිල්වා මහතා යුධ හමුදාපති ධුරය දක්වා උසස් කිරීම සම්බන්ධව එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් මහ කොමසාරිස් මිචෙල් බැච්ලට් මහත්මිය නිකුත්කර ඇති නිවේදනයට සිය පූර්ණ සහය හිමිවන බව යුරෝපා සංගයමය පවසයි.

යුරෝපා සංගගමය නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් මේ බව සඳහන් කර තිබේ.

එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් පිළිබඳ මහ කොමසාරිස් මිචෙල් බැච්ලට් මහත්මිය පසුගිය දා නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් සඳහන් කර සිටියේ මානුෂික මෙහෙයුම් අවසාන අධියරේදී මානව හිමිකම් උල්ලංඝනය කර ඇති බවට චෝදනා එල්ලවී සිටින ලුතිනන් ජනරාල් ශවෙන්ද්‍රසිල්වා මහතා, යුධ හමුදාපති ධුරයට උසස් කිරීම අවධානය යොමුකළ යුතු කරුණක් බවය.

එමඟින් මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ 30/1 යෝජනාව බරපතල සෙල බලපෑමකට ලක්වන බවද මහ කොමසාරිස්වරිය සඳහන් කරයි.
එසේම ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සාධාරණත්වය හා වගවීම තහවුරු කිරීම සඳහා මෙම වසරේ මාර්තු මාසයේදී එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයට දැක්වූ සහයෝගය සම්බන්ධව ද මේ වනවිට ගැටළු මතුවන බව එම නිවේදනයේ දැක්වේ.

නිවේදනයේ වැඩිදුරටත් දක්වා ඇත්තේ ජාතික සංහිඳියාව කෙරෙහි ශ්‍රී ලංකාව දක්වන කැපවීම පසුබෑමකට ලක් කිරීමත් යුද්ධයේ ගොඳුරු බවට පත් වු සහ යුද්ධයෙන් දිවි බේරා ගත් ජනතාවට මෙමඟින් පීඩාකාරී පණිවිඩයක් ‍යොමු කරන බවත් ය.

ජර්මනි, ඉතාලි, නෙදර්ලන්ත තානාපති කාර්යාල හා එක්සත් රාජධානියේ මහ කොමසාරිස් කාර්යාලය මෙන්ම නෝර්වේ හා ස්විට්සර්ලන්ත තානාපති කාර්යාලවල එකඟතාව මත යු‍රෝපා සංගමයේ නියෝජිත මණ්ඩලය විසින් මෙම නිවේදනය නිකුත් කර තිබේ.

The Sri Lankan president and government have never respected European democracy and human rights conditions.

ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජනාධිපති සහ රජය කිසි විටෙකත් යුරෝපීය ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදයට හා මානව හිමිකම් කොන්දේසි වලට ගරු කළේ නැත.

Le président et le gouvernement sri lankais n'ont jamais respecté la démocratie européenne et les conditions des droits de l'homme.

US "vigilant" against Shavendra Silva's appointment as Army Commander

යුද අපරාධ ශවේන්ද්‍ර සිල්වා යුද හමුදාපති ධුරයට පත් කිරීමට එරෙහිව, ඇමරිකාවේ "දැඩි අවධානයට".

Les Etats-Unis "vigilants" contre la nomination de Shavendra Silva au poste de commandant de l'armée

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U.S. warns Sri Lanka on investment, military ties after army chief promotion
http://www.lankaenews.com/news/3035/en

US-Warns-LeN-21.08.2019

(Lanka-e-News -21.Aug.2019, 11.45PM)

A senior U.S. State Department official warned on Tuesday that Sri Lanka’s appointment of a war veteran accused of serious human rights violations as head of its army could affect U.S. military cooperation and investment in the island nation.

On Monday, Sri Lanka named Shavendra Silva, 55, as the country’s new army chief despite United Nations accusations that he was involved in human rights abuses during the country’s 26-year-long civil war.

The Washington official, speaking to reporters on background, said the appointment would have lasting implications for reconciliation following the brutal conflict, which ended in 2009.

“It is a highly charged political environment in which some political factions feel there is much to be gained by playing the nationalist card,” the official said.

“It is unfortunate that this card is being played through the promotion of a general about whom vivid and well documented human rights violations are on the record. We are deeply troubled.”

Silva is credited with successfully leading an army division against dissident Tamil Tigers in the final phases of the war. Thousands of civilians were killed in the last phases of the armed conflict, including in areas declared by the government to be ‘no fire zones’ that came under sustained army shelling, including hospitals.

Silva, who joined the army in 1984 and was its chief of staff from January, has denied the accusations.

The U.S. official said there would be “limits to what we can do as we develop a stronger military relationship with Sri Lanka if the army chief is a known human rights violator.”

The official also warned of a possible impact to foreign investment.

“There are limits to what foreign investors are willing to take as far as risk if they see a situation that is leading to greater polarization,” the official added.

The official suggested Silva’s new role could also affect a $480 million grant through the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation, aimed at modernizing Sri Lanka’s urban transport system and infrastructure. The agreement is awaiting approval by Sri Lanka’s cabinet.

Asked whether Silva’s promotion could affect the MCC investment, under which a country is assessed on its commitment to democracy, the official said: “It will be one factor that will be looked at.”

WASHINGTON (Reuters)

Meanwhile a statement of U.S. Embassy in Colombo on Monday said it was deeply concerned by the appointment of Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva as Army Commander.

U.S. Embassy Statement

August 19, Colombo : The United States is deeply concerned by the appointment of Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva as Army Commander. The allegations of gross human rights violaions against him, documented by the United Nations and other organizations, are serious and credible. This appointment undermines Sri Lanka's international reputation and itss commitments to promote justice and accoutability, especially at a time when the need for reconciliation and social unity is paramount.

Canadian High Commission in Colombo also said it was deeply concerned by the appointment of the new Army Commander.

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ලංකාවේ හමුදා ප්‍රධානියා ප්‍රකට යුද අපරාධකාරයෙක් නිසා ඇමරිකාවට ලංකාව සමඟ මිලිටරි සම්බන්ධතාවයක් තියා ගන්න බෑ; ඩො. මිලියන 480 ක MCC ප්‍රදානයත් නතර ‌වේවි; ආ‌‌‌යෝජකයොත් පස්ස ගහාවි - ඇමරිකානු රාජ්‍ය ‌දෙපාර්තමේන්තු‌වෙන් ලංකාවට බරපතල අනතුරු ඇඟවීමක්..!

රොයිටර් වාර්තා කරයි

https://www.lankaenews.com/news/9651/si

US-Warns-S-LeN-22.08.2019

(ලංකා ඊ නිව්ස් -2019.අගෝ.22, ‌පෙ.ව.8.20) බරපතල මානව හිමිකම් උල්ලංඝනය කිරීම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් චෝදනා ලැබ සිටින ශවේන්ද්‍ර සිල්වා ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සිය හමුදාවේ ප්‍රධානියා ලෙස පත් කිරීම එක්සත් ජනපද හමුදා සහයෝගීතාවයට සහ එක්සත් ජනපදය ලංකාවේ කරන ආයෝජනයට බලපානු ඇතැයි එක්සත් ජනපද රාජ්‍ය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නිලධාරියෙක් පසුගිය අඟහරුවාදා අනතුරු ඇඟවූූ බව ‌වොෂින්ටනයේ සිටින ‌රොයිටර් වාර්තා කරු පවසයි.

මෙම පත්වීම ‌හේතුවෙන් 2009 දී අවසන් වූ කුරිරු ගැටුමෙන් පසුව ප්‍රතිසන්ධානය සඳහා ක්‍රියාවලියට කල් පවත්නා අනතුරු ඇති කරවන බව වොෂිංටන් නිලධාරියා වාර්තාකරුවන් අමතමින් පැවසීය.

“‌‌මෙය අධික උණුසුම් දේශපාලන වාතාවරණයක් ඇති කරවන අතර සමහර දේශපාලන කන්ඩායම් ජාතිවාදී කාඩ් ක්‍රීඩා කිරීමෙන් බොහෝ වාසි ලබා ගත හැකි යැයි හැඟේ” යි එම නිලධාරියා පැවසීය.

"මානව හිමිකම් උල්ලංඝනය කිරීම් පිළිබඳ පැහැදිලි හා මනාව ලේඛනගත කර ඇති ජෙනරාල්වරයෙකුගේ ප්‍රවර්ධනය තුළින් එකී ජාතිවාදී කාඩ්පත ක්‍රීඩා කිරීම අවාසනාවකි. මේ පිළිබඳ අපි ගැඹුරින් කරදර වෙනවා." ඇමරිකානු රාජ්‍ය ‌දෙපාර්තමේන්තු නිලධාරියා කීවේ ය.

ඔහු වැඩිදුරටත් පැවසුවේ “ලංකාවේ හමුදා ප්‍රධානියා ප්‍රකට මානව හිමිකම් උල්ලංඝනය කරන්නෙකු වූ කල ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සමඟ ශක්තිමත් මිලිටරි සම්බන්ධතාවයක් ඇමරිකාවට ගොඩ නඟා ගත ‌නොහැකි" බවයි.

ලංකාව තුල විදේශ ආයෝජන කෙරෙහි ඇති විය හැකි බලපෑම පිළිබඳව ද නිලධාරියා අනතුරු ඇඟවීය.

"විදේශීය ආයෝජකයින් කැමති දේට සීමාවන් තිබේ. ඇමරිකාව සහ ලංකාව අතර වැඩි ධ්‍රැවීකරණයකට තුඩු දෙන තත්වයක් දුටුවහොත් ආයෝජකයන් අවදානමට ලක්වීමට අකමැති ‌වේවි” නිලධාරියා වැඩිදුරටත් පැවසීය.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ නාගරික ප්‍රවාහන පද්ධතිය සහ යටිතල පහසුකම් නවීකරණය කිරීම අරමුණු කරගත් එක්සත් ජනපද මිලේනියම් අභියෝගතා සංස්ථාව MCC හරහා ඩොලර් මිලියන 480 ක ප්‍රදානයක් ලංකාවට ලබා දීමට ද නව හමුදාපතිගේ පත්කිරීම නරකට බලපානු ඇතැයි ද නිලධාරියා පැවසීය. එකී ගිවිසුම ‌මේ වන විට ශ්‍රී ලංකා කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයේ අනුමැතිය බලාපොරොත්තුවෙන් තිබෙන්නකි.

ශවේන්ද්‍ර සිල්වාගේ පත් කිරීම MCC ආයෝජනයට බලපාන්නේ ‌කෙසේදැයි වාර්තා කරුවෙකු ඇසූ විට, "MCC ආයෝජන දීම ගැන තක්සේරු කරද්දී රටක් ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය සඳහා වන කැපවීම නිසැක සාධකයක්" යි නිලධාරියා කියා සිටියේ ය.
(‌රොයිටර් වාර්තාව පරිවර්තනය කළේ චන්ද්‍රප්‍රදීප්)

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Shavendra Silva’s appointment as the army commander is a test for the international commitment to accountability and reconciliation in Sri Lanka -GTF
http://www.lankaenews.com/news/3036/en

!! Ahfesl-France Message About scams politicians of Sri Lanka !!

අද, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ (SLPP පොහොට්ටුව + SLFP ශ්‍රී.නි.ප. + UNP යූඑන්පී) යන ප්‍රධාන පක්‍ෂ තුන සම්පූර්යෙන්ම දේශපාලනිකව රහසිගතව එක්ව සැම විටම තීරණ ගෙන ක්‍රියා කරනු ලබයි. අද, ඔවුන්ගේ කුරිරු දේශපාලන බලය රඳවා තබා ගැනීම සහ ආරක්‍ෂා කිරීම සඳහා, ඔවුන් වැඩ කරන්නේ එක් පක්‍ෂයක් ලෙස මිස, තුන් පක්ෂයක් ලෙස නොවේ. ඔවුන් සියල්ලෝම සොරුන් සහ මිනීමරුවන් ය. ඔවුන් කරන්නේ ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන්ට සහ ලෝක ජනතාවට සහ ජාත්‍යන්තර නීති හා මානව හිමිකම් ක්‍රමයනට පිස්සු මෝඩ විහිළු සපයාලීම පමණි.

අද සියලු බුද්ධිමත් ලක්ෂ සංඛ්‍යයාත ලාංකීය ජනතාවෝ ඒ බව වටහා ගනිමින් නව ලාංකීය දේශපාලන පෙරමුණ වන NPP සහ JVP ය වටා ඒකරාශී වෙමින් පවති. අද එම නව පෙරමුණ හැරෙන්නට වෙනත් කිසිම විකල්පයක් නැත. වංචනික ඒ මිනීමරු දේශපාලන පක්ෂ තුන හරහා අලුතෙන් කවුරු බලයට ආවත් කිසිම සුබවාදි වෙනසක් සිදු නොවනු ඇත. ඒ අය සිදු කරන්නේ ද ඒ ඒ තමන්ගේ පැරණි වංචනික මිනීමරුවන් ආරක්ෂා කරලීම පමණක් වේ.

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In Sri Lanka three main Parties political of SLPP + SLFP + UNP working and take decisions altogether, always in secretly. They are one party politic, not three. They do only crazy joke foolish with country people and with International law and Human rights systeme.

Today, millions of intelligent Sri Lankans are gathering around the new Sri Lankan political front, the NPP and the JVP. Today, there is no other option than that new front. No matter who comes to power through the three fraudulent and murderous political parties, there will be no positive change. All they do is protect their former fraudulent murderers.

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Aujourd'hui, au Sri Lanka, trois partis politiques principaux de SLPP + SLFP + UNP travaillent et prennent des décisions toujours secrètement en totalité. Aujourd'hui, pour garder et protéger leur pouvoir politique cruel, ils travaillent comme une seul partie politique, pas comme trois parties. Ils sont tous des voleurs et des meurtriers. Ils ne font que des blagues et folles pour les Sri Lankais et les peuples du monde, ainsi qu’avec les lois internationales et le système des droits de l’homme.

Aujourd'hui, des millions de Sri-Lankais intelligents se rassemblent autour du nouveau front politique sri-lankais, du NPP et du JVP. Aujourd'hui, il n'y a pas d'autre option que ce nouveau front. Peu importe qui accédera au pouvoir par l'intermédiaire des trois partis politiques frauduleux et meurtriers, il n'y aura aucun changement positif. Tout ce qu'ils font, c'est protéger leurs anciens meurtriers frauduleux.

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Gota is a jackpot to the US, future devastation of Sri Lanka, How Shri Wickrama Rajasinghe was taken to Velur
http://www.lankaenews.com/news/3039/en

Gota-HandsUp-E-LeN-30.08.2019

(Lanka-e-News- 30.Aug.2019, 2.30PM) Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna has nominated Gotabaya Rajapaksa as its candidate. There is lots of discussions and debate about his American citizenship in the political arena. But what many of us do not realize is that there is a threatening side that Gotabaya’s renouncing of US citizenship does not address.

Immigration and Citizenship Act 1965

Chapter 212 of the US Immigration & Nationality Act, effective from 1965, addresses the rights, responsibilities and legal obligations of individuals who voluntarily give up their citizenship. It will go into great detail and we will cover some of the points that are relevant to us below.

Military Obligations

A citizen of the United States will not be relieved of his or her obligations to the national security and security services of the country only if they have renounced their citizenship. He is bound to maintain his loyalty to America regardless of what ever country’s he lives and whatever citizenship he has obtained. The people of Sri Lanka country must decide how wise it is to make Gotabaya the first citizen of Sri Lanka.

Punishment for previous offenses

Another important point in the above chapter is that American federal law enables law enforcement to act at any time for offenses committed while a former citizen was a citizen of the United States. According to the law, if Gotabaya becomes the President of Sri Lanka and make a decision that US dislikes, the US can falsify him for a case filed in the US and make him dance according to the US. The people of this country must decide how wise it is to make such a Gotabaya as the president of Sri Lanka.

Right to extradition

This is another dangerous aspect of the above American Act. This enables a former citizen of the United States to be taken into custody by the United States at any time for legal or national security reasons. This enables the US to take Gotabhaya Rajapaksa anytime if he deviates from the US agenda and act legally. If such happens what a disgrace it could be for the Sri Lankan nation. If such happens can Sri Lankans declare a war with the US? The people of Sri Lanka should be wise enough whether to make Gotabaya the first citizen of the country.

The US has the war crime proofs of Gota

Gotabaya was one of the worse criminal during the 88/89 JVP insurgency. Gotabaya Rajapaksa is the owner of the largest mass grave found in Matale Sri Lanka. During the war it was then army commander Sarath Fonseka who was responsible for the war in the north and east. Throughout the war Gotabaya has gone to the north only once. Assassin Gota by residing in AC rooms from Colombo did a strange play. He was involved in abductions, extortions ad hunting journalists and reporters. Gota was a hollow warrior who snatched the war victory of the armed forces that sacrificed their lives and named it as Gotas war. It was Gotabaya who disrepute the war victory by indulging in war crimes. Shavendra, bypassing the army commander Fonseka carried out illegal orders of defense secretary Gotabaya. Gotabaya’s crimes are like fire under ashes that US can light up any moment because they have evidence. The people should think how wise it is to make such Gotabaya the first citizen of the country.

The present situation is a great advantage for the US At a time when the Chinese power in the Indian Ocean has skyrocketed with the help of Mahinda and Sirisena, At a time when the US is thinking where to move the US forces from Afghanistan, It is a great profit for the US when puppet like Gota who can dance according to the US tune becomes the president of Sri Lanka. His supporters and party leaders must once again think whether or not the country is in great jeopardy for the sake of political slavery.

How similar Gota gonna enjoy Shri Wicrama Rajasinghe’s picnic to Velur.

The US has completed its plan to install a force that could subvert the Chinese domination of Sri Lanka. At a time when the US is thinking where to expel the US forces in Afghanistan, Gotabaya is a jackpot for the US. Gota’s nose trap is owned by the US. The story is very simple. Although Gota has renounced the US citizenship it is conditional. Either Gota should give what the US demands if not the latter has to pay the interest for the sins committed. When Gota becomes the president he would be taken to Mauritius similar to Sri Wicrama Rajasinghe who was taken to Velur as a prisoner.

If Sajith and his cronies are anti-Rajapaksa, more than mudslinging at his own senior leaders these are the facts that should reveal to the public today.

By Keerthi Rathnayake
(A former army intelligence officer)
Translated by azga

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by (2019-08-30 09:10:35)

 

ගෝටා ආවොත් ඇමරිකාවට ස්වීප් එකක් ඇදුනා වගේ; ලංකාවට සිදුවන වින්නැහිය; ශ්‍රී වික්‍රම රාජසිංහ ‌වෙල්ලෝරයට ගෙනගිය සන්තෑසිය ගෝටාටත්..!

හිටපු හමුදා බුද්ධි අංශ නිලධාරී කීර්ති රත්නායකගේ ‌හෙළිදරව්ව..!

http://www.lankaenews.com/news/9687/si

Gota-HandsUp-JF-LeN-29.08.2019

(ලංකා ඊ නිව්ස් -2019.අගෝ.29, ප.ව.9.20) ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ සිය ජනාධිපතිවරණ අපේක්ෂකයා ලෙස ගෝටාබය රාජපක්ෂ නම් කර අවසන්ය. ඔහුගේ ඇමරිකානු පුරවැසිභාවය ගැන තර්ක විතර්ක මේ දිනවල දේශපාලන පොරපිටිවල කන පැලෙන්න දෝංකාර දේ. නමුත් අප බොහෝ දෙනෙක් නොදන්නා කරුණක් වන්නේ ගෝටාබය ඇමරිකානු පුරවැසි භාවය අත් හල පමණින් නොවිසඳෙන භයානක පැත්තක් මෙහි ඇති බවය.

ආගමන සහ පුරවැසි පනත 1965

1965 වසරේ සිට බල පැවැත්වෙන ඇමරිකාවේ ආගමන සහ පුරවැසි පනතෙහි (Immigration & Nationality Act ) 212 වන පරිච්ඡේදය, ස්වකැමැත්තෙන් පුරවැසි භාවය අත් හරින පුද්ගලයන්ගේ හිමිකම්, වගකීම් සහ නෛතික බැඳීම් ගැන කතා කරයි. බොහෝ කරුණු කාරණා ඇතුළු වන සේ ඉතා දිගු විස්තර සහිත එහි, අපට අදාළ වන කරුණු කිහිපයක් පහතින් විස්තර කෙරෙනු ඇත.

ආරක්ෂණ වගකීම් (Military Obligations)

"එක්සත් ජනපදයේ පුරවැසියකු සිය පුරවැසිභාවය අත් හල පමණින් රටේ ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට සහ ආරක්ෂක සේවා සඳහා ඔහුගේ හෝ ඇයගේ ඇති වගකීම් වලින් නිදහස් කරනු නොලැබේ. ඔබ කවදා හෝ රටෙහි පුරවැසියෙක්ව සිටියේ නම්, ඔබ මේ වනවිට කුමන රටක ජීවත් වුවත් කුමන රටක පුරවැසි භාවය දැරුවත්, එක්සත් ජනපදය වෙත ඔබගේ පක්ෂපාතිත්වය පවත්වා ගෙන යාමට ඔබ බැඳී සිටී." එහි දැක්වේ. එවැනි ‌ගෝටාබය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මුල් පුරවැසියා කිරීම කෙතරම් නුවණට හුරුද යන්න රටේ මහජනතාව තීරණය කළ යුතුය.

පෙර වැරදි සඳහා දඬුවම් කිරීම..

උක්ත පරිච්ඡේදයෙහි ඇති තවත් වැදගත් කරුණක් වනුයේ පෙර පුරවැසියකු එක්සත් ජනපදයේ පුරවැසි භාවය දැරූ කාලයේදී කළ වැරදි සඳහා ඕනෑම අවස්ථාවක නීතිය මගින් කටයුතු කිරීමට ඇමරිකානු ෆෙඩරල් නීතියට ඇති හැකියාවයි. ‌මේ නීතිය අනුව ගෝටාබය ලංකාවේ ජනපති වී ඇමරිකාව අකමැති තීරණයක් ගැනීමට යන ඕනෑම අවස්ථාවක ඔහුට එරෙහිව ඇමරිකාවේ පවරා ඇති නඩුවක් එසේ නොමැතිනම් බොරු නඩුවක් දමා හෝ ඔහුව අල්ලේ නැටවීමේ හැකියාව ඇමරිකාව සතුය. එවැනි ‌ගෝටාබය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මුල් පුරවැසියා කිරීම කෙතරම් නුවණට හුරුද යන්න රටේ මහජනතාව තීරණය කළ යුතුය.

උදර්පණ අයිතිය (Right to Extradition)

ඉහත ඇමරිකානු පනතෙහි තවත් භයානක පැත්තකි මේ. ඇමරිකාවේ පෙර පුරවැසියකු ඕනෑම අවස්ථාවක නෛතික හේතුන් මත හෝ ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට වැදගත් වන හේතුන් මත සිය භාරයට ගෙන එක්සත් ජනපදය වෙත බලහත්කාරයෙන් රැගෙන යාමට මෙයින් අවස්ථාව ලබා දේ. මේ අනුව ගෝටාභය රාජපක්ෂ ඇමරිකානු න්‍යාය පත්‍රයට පිටින් යන ඕනෑම අවස්ථාවක සිය භාරයට ගෙන ඇමරිකාවට ගෙන ගොස් නීත්‍යානුකූලව කටයුතු කිරීමට ඔවුන්ට හැකියාව ලැබේ. එවැනි යමක් සිදු වුවහොත් ‌ගෝටාබය කර තියාගෙන යන සිංහල ‌බෞද්ධයාට පමණක් ‌නොව ශ්‍රී ලාංකික ජාතියටම මොන නව නින්ගිරාවක්ද? ‌මොකද අපේ කට්ටිය ඇමරිකාව සමග යුද ප්‍රකාශ කරන්නද? එවැනි ‌ගෝටාබය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මුල් පුරවැසියා කිරීම කෙතරම් නුවණට හුරුද යන්න රටේ මහජනතාව තීරණය කළ යුතුය.

ගෝටාගේ යුද අපරාධ සාක්කි ඇමරිකාව සතුය..

ගෝටාබය යනු 89 ජවිපේ කැ‍රැල්ල සමයේ සිටි දරුණුතම ජන ඝාතකයෙකි. මාතලෙන් මතුවූ විශාලතම සමූහ මිනී වලේ හිමිකරු ගෝටාබය රාජපක්ෂය. උතුරු නැගෙනහිර යුද්ධය ක‌ෙළේ සරත් ෆොන්සේකාය . යුද්ධය පුරාවටම ගෝටාබය උතුරට ගොස් තිබුනේ එක් වරක් පමනි. ගෝටා නැමති ජනඝාතකයා කොළඹ ඒසී කාමර වලට වී ක‌ෙළේ අමුතුම සෙල්ලමකි. කප්පම් ගැනීම පැහැර ගැනීම මාධ්‍යවේදීන් දඩයම් කිරීම ඔහු‌ගේ ‌'සෙල්ලම්' අතර විය. ත්‍රිවිධ හමුදාව දිවි පුදා ලබා ගත් ජයග්‍රහණයේ පැසසුම් ‌'ගෝටාස් ‌වෝ' කියමින් උදුරා ගත් පුස් රණවිරුවා ඔහුය. යුධ ජයග්‍රහණය නැමති කිරි කලයට යුද අපරාධ නමැති ගොම දැමුවේ ගෝටාබයයි. ශවේන්ද්‍රලා ‌ෆොන්සේකාටත් ‌නොදන්වා ඉටු ‌කෙළේ '‌සෙකට්‍රි‌ගේ' ‌හෙවත් ‌ගෝටාබයගේ නීති විරෝධී නියෝගයන් ය. ගෝටාබය කළ අපරාධ අළුයට ගිනි මෙනි. ඕනෑම මොහොතක ඇමරිකාවට ඒවා පත්තු කළ හැකිය. මන්දයත් සාක්කි ඔවුන් සතුව තිබෙන බැවිනි. එවැනි ‌ගෝටාබය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මුල් පුරවැසියා කිරීම කෙතරම් නුවණට හුරුද යන්න රටේ මහජනතාව තීරණය කළ යුතුය.

රූකඩයෙහි නූල ඇමරිකාව අතේය..

ඇමරිකාවට මේ හිමි වී ඇත්තේ 'දෙන දෙයියෝ ගෙට ගෙනවිත් දෙනවා' හා සමාන වාසියකි. ඉන්දියන් සාගරයේ චීන බලය මහින්ද සහ සිරිසේනගේ පිහිටෙන් අහස උසට ගොස් ඇති මොහොතක ඇෆ්ඝනිස්ථානයෙන් ඉවත් කරන හමුදාව යවන්නේ කොහෙටදැයි අහස පොළොව ගැටලන්න කල්පනා කරමින් සිටින මොහොතක, සිය රූකඩයක් කොට පහසුවෙන් නැටවිය හැකි ගෝටාබය වැන්නෙකු ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ජනපති වීම ඇමරිකාවට ස්වීප් එකක් ඇදුනා හා සමානය. දේශපාලන වහල්භාවය සන්තර්පනය කිරීම වෙනුවෙන් රට මේ සා විශාල අවදානමක හෙලනවාද නැද්ද යන්න ඔහුගේ ආධාර කරුවන් සහ පක්ෂයේ නායකයන් නැවත වරක් කල්පනා කළ යුතුය.

ශ්‍රී වික්‍රම රාජසිංහ වෙල්ලෝරයට ‍ගෙන ගිය සන්තෑසිය ‌ගෝටාටත්..

ලංකාවේ චීන ආධිපත්‍යය මැඩ පැවැත්විය හැකි බලයක් හොඳින් හෝ නරකින් ස්ථාපිත කිරීමට ඇමෙරිකාව සැලසුම් කොට හමාරය. ඇෆ්ඝනිස්ථානයෙන් ඉවත් කරන හමුදාව යවන්නේ කොහාටදැයි කල්පනා කරමින් සිටින මොහොතක ගෝටා යනු ඇමෙරිකාවට ඇදුනු ලොත‍රැයියකි. ගෝටාගේ නාස් ලනුව ඇමෙරිකාව සතුය. කථාව සරලය. ගෝටා ඇමෙරිකන් පුරවැසිභාවය අත්හැරියද එය කොන්දේසි සහිතය. එක්කෝ ඇමෙරිකාව ඉල්ලන දේ දිය යුතුය; නැත්නම් කල පව් වල පොලියත් සමග ගෙවිය යුතුය. ගෝටා ජනපති වුව හොත් ශ්‍රී වික්‍රම රාජසිංහ සිරකරුවෙකු ලෙස වෙල්ලෝරයට ‍රැගෙන ගිය සන්තෑසිය ඔහුට අත් වීමට ඇති ඉඩ කඩ සුළු ප‍ටු නොවේ.

සජිත් සහ ඔහුගේ පිලේ ඔළු බක්කන් සත්‍ය රාජපක්ෂ විරෝධීන් නම් අද ජනතාවට ‌හෙළිකළ යුත්තේ ‌මේ කරුණු මිස උදේ සිට රෑ වන තුරු තම ‌ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නායකයන්ට මඩ ගසමින් ඇවිදීම ‌නොවේ.

කීර්ති රත්නායක විසිනි
හිටපු හමුදා බුද්ධි අංශ නිලධාරී
ලියුම්කරුගේ ‌පෙර ලිපි පහත දිගුවෙන් කියැවිය හැකිය
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by (2019-08-30 08:43:07)

Appointing Shavendra Silva as the Chief of Staff of the army is Sri Lanka’s way of thumping its nose at the international community
http://www.lankaenews.com/news/2940/en

'Members of the majority community in SL frequently goes unpunished' -says UN expert (Video)
End of Mission Statement – United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association

Why did you not lift a finger against Gota..? Ahimsa ques Ranil
http://www.lankaenews.com/news/3033/en

Ahimsa-Ques-RAnil-LeN-Eng-14.08.2019

13th August 2019

Hon. Ranil Wickremesinghe,
Prime Minister of the Republic of Sri Lanka,
Temple Trees,
Colombo 03.
Prime Minister,

Yesterday, in a political speech, you referred to my father, and your close friend, Lasantha Wickrematunge, who was murdered on 8th January 2009. Responding to a claim by Gotabaya Rajapaksa that as president, he would create an environment without fear, you asked whether Rajapaksa would apologise for my father’s murder and several other gruesome crimes.

Let me put your mind at ease. No. Gotabaya Rajapaksa will never apologise for my father’s murder. In television interviews over the last 10 years, he has made no secret of the fact that he was proud of it. He has made up his mind not to apologise. But have you, Prime Minister? Will you apologise for spending the last four and a half years protecting and cavorting with the man you today call a mass murderer?

From the day my father died, you have invoked his name to win votes. My father’s murder was a prop in the 2015 presidential and parliamentary election campaigns that made you Prime Minister. You brought President Sirisena to power and won control of Parliament for the UNP, all by promising justice for my father’s murder.

As soon as you came to power, your priorities changed. When I met you at Temple Trees in February 2015 to appeal for your support in making sure my father’s killers saw justice, you told me that there were “other priorities” and that justice was “not just about Lasantha.”

I have since seen what these priorities are. The police, which came under the direct purview of your Chief of Staff, did not bring Gotabaya Rajapaksa to justice. Proving the MiG Deal is a critical part of proving why my father was killed. But on your watch, a corrupt officer in charge of the FCID botched the MiG Deal investigation and kept Gotabaya’s name out of it.

Because it is election season, you are publicly attacking him as a killer. But even as you do so, your Chief of Staff Sagala Ratnayake and other ministers are visiting him and spending hours at his residence, your government is allegedly issuing him irregular identity cards and passports and your senior aide and niece is openly promoting Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s campaign propaganda on on social media.

This is the kind of treatment that you and your staff mete out to the people you call murderers. However, whenever the CID needed help with my father’s case, you were nowhere to be seen.

Where were you, Prime Minister, when the army and intelligence services refused to cooperate with the investigation? What did you do when you were told a critical informant against Gotabaya Rajapaksa needed protection? And when my father’s lead murder investigator, Inspector Nishantha Silva, was kicked out of the CID by the President, why did you not lift a finger in protest?

For months now, your Attorney-General has been forcibly shutting down investigations involving Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the Tripoli death squad, covering up their involvement and pressing charges against foot soldiers. Gotabaya Rajapaksa was let off the hook in the Eknaligoda case despite two officers confessing that he personally ordered the abduction. Rajapaksa has not even been questioned about these sworn confessions. Even though Upali Tennakoon was attacked using four motorbikes, only two junior soldiers are being charged. Rajapaksa and the Tripoli team got off scot free. Will you do anything meaningful to seek accountability?

No. Instead, your family and senior staff continue to bond with Gotabaya Rajapaksa, while you blithely call him a murderer in public. If you become President or remain Prime Minister, I am certain that the mysteriously absolute impunity that Gotabaya Rajapaksa has enjoyed on your watch will continue unabated.

Now that the man who boasted about my father’s demise is formally a presidential candidate, I pray that his opponent will be an honest and courageous politician who embodies justice, equal protection under the law and mature, responsible governance. I pray that the candidate who opposes Rajapaksa will not be someone who cuts backroom deals and compromises his principles to ensure his own political survival to the detriment of his party and his country.

There is but one last hope for me and the other survivors and victims of white van era brutality. Gotabaya Rajapaksa must be challenged and defeated by a contender who is committed to delivering justice when in government, and not by someone who exploits victims to win elections and thereafter entertains people he calls murderers at his official residence.

Simply put, if this country remains at your mercy and at the mercy of your new friend, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, then there is no hope that your old friend, my father Lasantha Wickrematunge, will ever receive justice.

With the utmost sincerity,
Ahimsa Wickrematunge
cc. Members of the United National Front Parliamentary Group
cc. Members of the United National Party Working Committee

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by (2019-08-14 07:40:30)

Officials wary to probe legality of Gota’s citizenship
By a Special Correspondent

http://www.lankaenews.com/news/3029/en

(Lanka-e-News -05.Aug.2019, 6.30PM)

Bad-Mood-FT-E-LeN-05.08.2019

* Concerns ex- Defence Secretary has not made application under Citizenship Act

* Obtained new passport without appearing in person; application submitted after hours

* Passport issued under new NIC unconnected to border control records

Questions have been raised as to how Gotabaya Rajapaksa obtained a passport from the Department of Immigration and Emigration in May omitting an endorsement of his dual-citizen status. Rajapaksa told reporters last week that this passport was proof that he was no longer a dual citizen under Sri Lankan law.

Immigration officials, however, told the Daily FT that persons with dual citizen status are required to make a formal application under the Citizenship Act if they wish to regain regular Sri Lankan citizenship. Rajapaksa had not followed this regular process, they said, but had somehow obtained a passport which did not indicate his dual citizenship status.

Rajapaksa’s passport application, immigration records showed, was received and processed on an urgent basis on 7 May after 3.00 p.m, which is the cut-off time for new applications. Rajapaksa did not appear at the immigration department to be finger-printed, and the passport was issued in a matter of hours under a new National Identity Card (NIC) number not connected to Rajapaksa’s previous NIC or border control records.

The use of a new NIC prevented the immigration computer systems from automatically noting that Rajapaksa was indeed on record as a dual citizen. The manoeuvre may have allowed him, in theory, to bypass the legal process followed by ordinary persons to prove that they are no longer dual citizens.

Dual citizenship, the officials said, is a ‘status’ granted by the Government to former Sri Lankan citizens allowing them to exercise all of the rights of a Sri Lankan citizen. “Unlike regular citizenship, it is a strictly political decision,” the officials said. “The Minister has unquestioned authority to approve, deny or revoke dual citizenship as he determines in the national interest.”

According to Section 19 of the Citizenship Act, the Minister may only grant dual citizenship “if he is satisfied” that doing so “would, in all the circumstances of the case, be in the best interests of Sri Lanka.”

Unlike normal citizens, the Citizenship Act allows the Minister to revoke the status given to dual citizens. Section 19 (7) states that “the Minister may, at any time, revoke” a declaration of dual citizenship status if a dual citizen “has so conducted himself that his continuance as a citizen of Sri Lanka will not be of benefit to Sri Lanka.”

Should a dual citizen wish to become an ordinary Sri Lankan citizen whose status is not subject to revocation, they must apply under the Citizenship Act for a declaration that they are again full Sri Lankan citizens. This again is a decision that is delegated to the Minister for citizenship matters.

According to an affidavit filed by Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the Supreme Court, he returned to Sri Lanka in 2005 in order to assist with his brother’s presidential election campaign. He was an American citizen and not a Sri Lankan citizen at the time. Immigration records indicate that he arrived in Sri Lanka on his American passport with an on-arrival tourist visa in order to campaign for Mahinda Rajapaksa, applying for dual citizenship on Friday, 18 November 2005, the day his brother was sworn in as President of Sri Lanka.

Election records show that Gotabaya Rajapaksa was also a registered elector in Sri Lanka for the electoral list used in the 2005 presidential election, despite not being a citizen or entitled to vote at that election.

An electoral list for Medamulana in Weeraketiya lists ‘Rajapaksa Nandimithra Gotabaya’ as elector number 130 at house number 114. Also registered to vote from that address were candidate ‘Rajapaksa Percy Mahendra’, his wife ‘Rajapaksa Shiranthi’, Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s American citizen wife ‘Rajapaksa Ioma’ and Chamal Rajapaksa.

Alarmingly, investigators were unable to locate any files pertaining to Rajapaksa’s dual citizenship at the Immigration Department. The only records available indicate that he had applied for dual citizenship on 18 November 2005, the day his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected President.

Records show that his application was approved by the Minister on the next working day, Monday, 21 November, despite there having been no Minister yet appointed at that time. Despite a large backlog of applications over several months, Rajapaksa’s was brought to the front of the line.

According to the computer system, while the dual citizenship was granted in November 2005, the data pertaining to Rajapaksa was only entered into the system on 13 January 2014. In such a situation, officials would typically refer to the original paper records or digital scans of them to ascertain the factual position.

However, officials have found that there are no copies of the application, receipt of payment, or the dual citizenship certificate granted to the former Defence Secretary on file at the department. While dual citizens are usually required to present their dual citizenship certificate when obtaining a new passport, immigration records show no sign that Rajapaksa had ever presented a dual citizenship certificate when obtaining a passport.

The standard procedure followed by immigration investigators in situations of this nature, where irregularity is suspected in the issue of a passport, and critical records of dual citizenship appear to be altered or missing, is to send a formal complaint to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for further investigation.
However, in this instance, it is learnt that immigration officials have not forwarded information to the CID.
Courtesy to Daily FT

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by (2019-08-05 13:06:19)

Let’s Boycott President
http://www.lankaenews.com/news/2933/en

Boycott-the-President-LeN-08.12.2018

(Lanka e News - 08.Dec.2018, 10.00PM)

Sri Lanka have been suffering its worst days ever in its long history (of over 3500 years) since the Organized Coup on 26th October 2018 where the Executive President Violated the Constitution (on which he took oath that he would protect its dignity and will not violate it). He has been continuing to violate the constitution and have been engaging beyond his limits of power entitled to him by the constitution. To cover his first mistake, he has been violating over and over.

Since then, we have been witnessing twisting of tongues by the President which eventually proved that he no longer deemed fit to rule this country. We have been seeing on a daily basis that his speeches are in total contradiction to his previous speeches/promises. He himself symbolically admitted that his speeches are nothing but mere words to appease the Gallery and to seek attention.

As public, we have an obligation to display our dissatisfaction towards his actions over the period since 26th October. We already witnessed Many People are showing their displeasure at the President and his Men. A State Recognition Award for a Highly Appreciable Gentlemen was already returned , Tourism Industry Leader’s Decision to Boycott Awards Ceremony, The refusal of Receiving Awards from those MP’s who support the illegal move by president are good examples.

Therefore, it is high time we, the Citizens of Sri Lanka who honour the Country’s Dignity and respect the Constitution, should also set an example by BOYCOTTING ANY EVENTS OR PROGRAMMES FOR WHICH THE PRESIDENT IS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND” and show our silent displeasure towards his actions thereby teaching a lesson to anyone in the future who may have a motive of violating the Constitution or going against the country’s sovereignty. If a lesson is not taught, then it would pave way for others to follow the same footpath of the president and do things to his own whims and fancy.

THIS ACTION WAS FORCED UPON THE PUBLIC TO TAKE WHICH IS NOT TO TARGET ONE INDIVIDUAL OVER HIS MADNESS, RATHER IT IS TO MAKE A LESSON TO WHOEVER MAY COME TO THAT SEAT IN THE FUTURE.

WE MAY LOSE LITTLE BY DOING THIS BUT WE MUST REMEMBER THAT THERE IS NO GAIN WITHOUT PAIN.

Kindly share this among your circles if you agree that the president’s actions are unbecoming.
Thanks

A Citizen Who Loves His Country beyond Politics.

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by (2018-12-08 18:11:41)

Sri Lankan Politicians as archetypes of destruction - Asian Human Rights Commission
http://www.lankaenews.com/news/3021/en

SL-Poiticians-AHRC-LeN-16.07.2019

(Lanka-e-News - 16.July.2019, 11.50AM) In the Sri Lankan mind, politicians are thought to be engaged in the destruction of the lives of the people and the foundations of the nation.

In the subconscious or unconscious, this has gone so deep that to speak of them as archetypes in the Jungian sense is no exaggeration at all.

It is commonly said that all 225 members of parliament should be dismissed for the good of the people.

To be an archetype of destruction is worse than being a mere dictator or tyrant. History shows that in the past of many countries there were kings who were basically dictators but who did much for the benefit of the people they ruled over and for the development of the political structures and institutions within which people could achieve peace and protection. A tyrant is essentially a person who, as John Locke pointed out, did not have the common good in this political designs but mostly ruled for their own self interest. Both these categories use power for ends that they were conscious of, for the better or worse for the people.

But to have legislators and rulers that are not even aware of what they are trying to achieve is even worse than being subjected a dictator or a tyrant. Their actions and their speech, whether intentionally or not, are directed towards destroying the better moral and legal foundations of their countries. The worst part of it is that they are often not concerned with any good aims, meaning either good for the nation or for themselves. The self-destructive nature of Sri Lankan politicians was well portrayed in one silly even that people saw on television recently: the so-called debate on the no confidence motion against the government relating to its inability to prevent the events of 23rd April Easter Sunday attacks.

It was a silly debate because none of the speakers were really revealing anything that people have not already known for some time. Specifically, there was information that bombings were going to take place in Sri Lanka by a terrorist group, which would cause serious harm. Beyond this, nobody among the speakers in the debate made any attempt to reveal information about what caused this bombing, how it was organized, how and where the suicide bombers were trained, who brought in the necessary money and other materials into the country to enable the attacks, and what the command responsibility of the state was within such a context in terms of the framework of the rule of law.

In fact, calling it a debate was ludicrous. It was merely a childish play just to hoodwink the people. The movers of the resolution and those who supported it were seeing the 23rd April events as a great opportunity that may allow them to topple the government, with the hope that it would provide opportunities for them to come to power.

On the other hand, the government, instead of revealing and analyzing their own decisions relating to the catastrophic events that happened, and perhaps taking a more confessional approach with concrete plans for the future protection of the people, were engaged in preserving their power. Further, the people in government was also concerned with using the occasion to further the conflict between two groups that are now at loggerheads. This kind of quarrelsome shouting at each other is not a debate.

The idea of a debate has a long history, both in Western culture as well as in the East. When Socrates engaged with the people in the latter part of his life, questioning them and himself about their pretenses and the actual lack of knowledge about the things that they claimed to know about, he was basically pursuing a path that showed, through the revelations in the gaps in existing knowledge, how to delve deep to understand things better.

It is in that spirit that debates began to spread, which gave rise to the whole idea of empiricism as the tool for verifying information to get at something closer to the truth as much as possible. Renee Descartes became the symbol of that kind of investigation wherein every observation was doubted and, by the process of doubting, what was obviously untrue was eliminated, thereby paving the path for something that was true or closer to the truth.

Modern science is founded on this principle, with various schools that developed this basic concept from many different points of view.

Looking for the truth about a catastrophic event is necessary for the very survival of a people. The search for the truth behind such things is therefore vital to the community and also to all the institutions of the state that are functioning in order to achieve a harmonious, peaceful and productive society.

Therefore, it was simply silly to waste that time when people are agonizing to get to the truth. The people’s representatives should not have wasted that time by making a cynical attempt to get some limited advantages for themselves. Such attempts prove that they have, in fact, become an archetype of destruction.

Although the debate was ludicrous, it was an expensive affair. The parliamentary meeting was broadcast to the whole nation, costing a lot of money that was especially wasteful in a country that is so indebted that all its national revenue goes to the payment of loans.

The issue of expenses apart, there is the damage that this kind of “debate” does to the minds of the people’s representatives themselves, as well as to the minds of the people of the country, particularly the young. Young people watching this kind of quarrel don’t learn anything about the art of debating and searching for truth, or about the responsibilities that people owe each other when facing such events that threaten the whole nation.

If this was not a parliamentary debate but a mere teledrama, it is no doubt that many people would stop watching it. It even lacks the elements of a good drama. There is no critical or aesthetic value to this open quarrel, with politicians shouting at each other while knowing that the whole exercise would ultimately produce nothing.

Even though it’s silly and of a very low quality, it was nonetheless a drama, amateur dramatics. It was a drama to use of time, to pretend something was being done when nothing was being done.

When a country’s ruling elites, consisting of both the governing and opposition parties, become archetypes of destruction, what could such a nation produce? Is it a surprise that everything is getting worse, including the country’s indebtedness, its dropping productivity, the contamination of medicine in hospitals and dispensaries, poor quality education and transport, just to mention a few?

When a destructive archetype emerges to the surfaces, it only causes pain. In this case, the whole nation is affected.

It is this situation that, as one prominent journalist said recently, has led the country to a state similar to a volcano close to erupting. It would be more accurate to say that the volcano is already erupting, but that things may get even worse in the time to come.

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by (2019-07-16 06:49:38)

It's a shame to name a reputed criminal as a presidential candidate ..! -Mangala

https://www.lankaenews.com/news/3032/en

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(Lanka-e-News -12.Aug.2019, 11.30PM) Earlier today, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa announced the presidential candidate for his family’s new political party, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP). For weeks he refused to confirm the circulating rumours about who the candidate would be. I have known Mahinda Rajapaksa for many years. We worked together side-by-side in the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) under President Kumaratunga. We fought campaigns together and we won elections together. I have served in his Cabinet.

When I left Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government in 2006, he was a different man than I had once known. As President, his priority had become enriching, protecting and empowering his own family, not his country. Once upon a time, he was a true son of the soil, and a man whose heart beat as one with the ordinary citizens of Sri Lanka.

I wondered, after he was defeated in January 2015 by over 400,000 votes, and retreated to Medamulane, whether he had reflected and learnt a lesson from the error of his ways. I wondered if he regretted putting his family in charge of the state machinery and standing idly by as the nation’s coffers were robbed dry, and our journalists were bundled into white vans never to be seen again. I wondered if he regretted buttressing his political position by inciting racial hatred across Sri Lanka, first against Tamils, and later against Muslims.

In October 2018, when he conspired to orchestrate a coup d’état and illegally seize power, I realized that these were not the lessons he learned. The rule of law meant nothing to him. Democracy was only a buzzword to thunder from a stage. When Parliament stood against him, he had his minions try to destroy Parliament. It was only when the courts had the courage to stand up to him that Mahinda Rajapaksa finally aborted his coup and backed down.

Today I realized the terrible truth about what Mahinda Rajapaksa has really learned during his time in opposition. He does not feel that he gave his family too much power. He clearly believes that he did not give his family enough power. He does not feel that his merry men pilfered one too many million rupees or public money. He believes there is more left to milk dry. He does not feel that he terrorized this country too much. He clearly believes that he did not terrorize this country enough. He is not worried that he overly threatened the independence of the judiciary. He believes he should not have allowed any independence in the judiciary at all.

He does not regret the disappearance of Prageeth Eknaligoda, the murder of Lasantha Wickrematunge or the abduction and torture of Keith Noyahr and countless other journalists. He wants any remaining independent journalists to know that if they cross the man who committed those crimes, they will be next.

These are the lessons that Mahinda Rajapaksa has learnt. If not, he would not have announced today as his presidential candidate, a man who is on trial in two courts, one for corruption of over Rs 11 billion, and another for stealing over Rs 33 million in our taxpayer rupees to build a statue of his parents. He would not have announced as his chosen successor the man who has gloated about the murders of journalists, who has jailed real war heroes like Sarath Fonseka, and who has tried to bend the judiciary to his will.

After nearly five years in opposition, if Mahinda Rajapaksa’s message to the people is that one of his brothers should be president, he himself should be prime minister, another brother should be Speaker, a fourth brother put in charge of the economy and his son put in place as his chosen successor, that tells us all we need to know: in the mind of Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka, its land and its people are destined to be the private property of the Rajapaksa family.

Sadly, there are many Sri Lankans, whose hatred for certain segments of our country, in particular religious and ethnic minorities, lead them to gravitate towards the vision of the Rajapaksa family. They will gladly be second class citizens in a Rajapaksa family dynasty, so long as Tamils, Muslims, Christians and others are forced to live as third-class citizens. Others will support the Rajapaksas out of greed, or to escape prosecution for the sins of their part.

From an electoral standpoint, it never mattered who the Rajapaksa candidate for president was. That is my feeling about the announcement of Gotabaya Rajapaksa. I am personally ashamed on behalf of my country to have to concede that for the first time in our history, a serious frontrunner for president is an alleged criminal whose very citizenship of this country is in question. But the question never was “will it be a Rajapsaksa?”. No. It was always “which Rajapaksa will it be?”.

Truth be told, the entire family represents thuggery, corruption, deception and a flagrant disdain for democratic values and independent institutions. The candidate is a figurehead. The choice of Gotabaya had nothing to do with trying to win more votes. If at all, such a choice would diminish their electoral prospects among liberal voters and minorities. The “terminator” was chosen for a different reason: to terrify the media, police officers, judges and public servants with a simple message: cross us at your peril.

It is a desperate tactic. It will fail. Politics is a distance runner’s race, not a sprint. The person at the front of the pack in a marathon rarely wins the race. Only amateurs jump up in front. What Mahinda Rajapaksa has done is shown the entire country, many months before an election, what his priorities are, what his assets are, and where his loyalties lie. The answers? Rajapaksas, Rajapaksas and Rajapaksas.

The next president of Sri Lanka will not be Gotabaya Rajapaksa or any Rajapaksa. The next president of this country will not be an alleged criminal who has the blood of countless journalists and innocents on their hands. Our next president will be a Sri Lankan citizen, born in Sri Lanka who never fled this country or swore allegiance to another land. The next president of Sri Lanka will be the person democratically selected by the United National Party and its allies to stand on a platform of democracy, safeguarding the judiciary, public service and other independent institutions and putting ordinary citizens before any family. Our candidate will be the next president of Sri Lanka. Who is our candidate?

He is the man who will unite the forces of transparent, secular, liberal democracy across our country, who will go toe-to-toe with any number of Rajapaksas and their white vans, will rally the people of Sri Lanka against tyranny and oppression, and will win.
Statement by Mangala Samaraweera M.P.

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by (2019-08-13 04:53:02)

 

නමගිය අපරාධකාරයෙක් ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂකයකු කිරීම ලැජ්ජයි..! -මංගල

https://www.lankaenews.com/news/9619/si

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(ලංකා ඊ නිව්ස් -2019.අගෝ.12, ‌‌ප.ව.11.20) හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ඔහුගේ පවුලේ අලුත් දේශපාලන පක්ෂය වූ ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂකයා ප්‍රකාශයට පත් කළේය. අපේක්ෂකයා කවුද යන්න ගැන සති ගණනාවක් තිස්සේ ඇසුණු කටකතා ඔහු නොදන්නා බව ඇඟෙව්වේය.

මා අවුරුදු ගාණක් තිස්සේ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ හොඳින් හඳුනමි. ජනාධිපතිනි කුමාරතුංග යටතේ අපි දෙදෙනා ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ දී ඉතා සමීපව වැඩකර ඇත්තෙමු. අපි එකාවන්ව එක්ව ඡන්ද ව්‍යපාරවල යෙදී ඇතුවා මෙන්ම ඒවා ජයගෙන ඇත්තෙමු. මා ඔහුගේ කැබිනෙට්ටුවේ සේවය කර ඇත්තෙමි.

2006 දී මා මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුව අතහැර යනවිට ඔහු මා කලින් දැන සිටියාට වඩා වෙනස් පුද්ගලයෙක් වී සිටියේය. ජනාධිපති වූ පසුව ඔහුගේ ප්‍රමුඛතාවය වූයේ රට නොව සිය පවුල පෝසත්කොට, ආරක්ෂා කොට බලවත් කිරීමයි. එකමත් එක කලක ඔහු මේ රටේ සුනීත පුත්‍රයෙකු වූ අතර ඔහුගේ හදගැස්ම වුණු ජනයාගේ හදගැස්ම හා සමපාත විය.

2015 ජනවාරියේ ලක්ෂ හතරකටත් වඩා වැඩි ඡන්ද ප්‍රමාණයකින් පරාජය වී මැදමුලනට පසුබැසීමෙන් පසු ඔහු සිදු වූ වරද ගැන සිතා බලා ඒවායින් පාඩමක් ඉගෙනගත් බවක් මට නොපෙනේ. රාජ්‍ය යන්ත්‍රණයේ සුක්කානම සිය පවුලේ ඥාතීන්ට බාර දී, ජාතියේ ධන සම්පත් ඔවුන් කොල්ලකද්දී, එමෙන්ම ජනමාධ්‍යවේදීන් සුදුවෑන්වලින් නැවත නොඑන ලෙස කුදලාගෙන යද්දී නිකම් බලා සිටි ඔහු ඒ ගැන පසු තැවෙන්නේ නැද්දැයි මා අසමි. ඔහු සිය දේශපාලන හයිය ගන්නට පළමුව දමිළයන්ට විරුද්ධවත් හා පසුව මුස්ලිම් ජාතිකයන්ට විරුද්ධවත් වෛරය පැතිරවීම ගැන ඔහු පසුතැවෙන්නේ නැද්දැයි අසමි.

2018 ඔක්තෝබරයේ රාජ්‍ය විරෝධී කුමන්ත්‍රණයක් දියත්කොට බලෙන් රාජ්‍ය බලය පැහැරගත් ඔහු තවමත් පාඩම් ඉගෙනගෙන නැති බව මා තේරුම් ගත්තෙමි. නීතියේ ආධිපත්‍ය ඔහුට තුට්ටුවක් නොවටී. ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය ඔහුට අනුව වේදිකාවේ සිට තප්පුලන නිකන්ම වචනයක් පමණි. ඔහුට එරෙහිව පාර්ලිමේන්තුව හඬනැගූ විට ඔහු සිය ඇම්බැට්ටයන් ලවා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විනාශ කිරීමට තැත් කළේය. අවසානයේ ගරු අධිකරණය නිර්භීතව ඔහුට එරෙහිව තීන්දු දුන් විට මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ සිය කුමන්ත්‍රණය හකුලාගෙන නිහඬ විය.

මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ විපක්ෂයේ සිටි කාලය තුළ සැබවින්ම ඉගෙන ගත් දේ පිළිබඳ භයානක සත්‍යය අද මට වැටහුණි. ඔහු තම පවුලට ඕනෑවට වඩා බලයක් ලබා දුන් බව ඔහුට දැනෙන්නේ නැත. ඔහු පැහැදිලිවම විශ්වාස කරන්නේ ඔහු තම පවුලට ප්‍රමාණවත් බලයක් ලබා නොදුන් බවයි. ඔහු තවමත් සිය ප්‍රිය මිතුරු ඥාති සමුදාය මේ රටේ මහජන මුදල් මිලියන ගණනින් පැහැරගත් බවක් පිළිනොගනී. තවතවත් මිරිකා සූරා හප කරන්නට මේ රටේ සාරය තවත් ඉතිරිව ඇති බව ඔහු විශ්වාස කරයි. මේ රට තුළ තමා විසින් අසීමාන්තිකව භීතිය වැපිරූ බවක් ඔහු තවමත් නොපිළිගනී. ඔහු අධිකරණයේ ස්වාධීනත්වයට ඕනෑවට වඩා තර්ජනය කිරීම ගැන ඔහු කනස්සල්ලට පත්ව නැත. ඔහු විශ්වාස කරන්නේ අධිකරණයේ කිසිඳු ස්වාධීනත්වයක් ලබා ගැනීමට ඉඩ නොදිය යුතු බවයි.

ප්‍රගීත් එක්නැලිගොඩ අතුරුදන් කර, ලසන්ත වික්‍රමතුංග මරා දමා, කීත් නොයාර් පැහැරගෙන ගොස් වධ හිංසා කොට තවත් මාධ්‍යවේදීන් විශාල ප්‍රමාණයකට වධදුන් ආකාරය ගැන මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට පසුතැවීමක් නැත. ඉතිරිව සිටින ස්වාධීන මාධ්‍යවේදීන්ට ඔහු ලබා දෙන පණිවිඩය නම් එම අපරාධ කළ පුද්ගලයාට මඟ හරස් කළොත් ඔවුන්ට ද එම ඉරණම නියත බවයි.

මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ උගෙන ඇති පාඩම් එලෙසය. එසේ නොවුවා නම් ඔහු අද දින අධිකරණ දෙකක ඇසෙන නඩු දෙකක විත්තිකරු වී සිටින පුද්ගලයෙකු සිය ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂකයා ලෙස නම් කරන්නේ නැත. එම නඩු දෙකෙහි චෝදනා නම්, එකක් රුපියල් බිලියන එකොළහක මූල්‍ය දූෂණයකි. අනික සිය දෙමව්පියන්ගේ පිළිම ඇඹීමට බදු ගෙවන ජනතාවගේ මුදලින් රුපියල් බිලියන තිස්හතක් හොරා කෑමය. එසේ නොවුනිනම් මාධ්‍යවේදීන් මරා දැමීම ගැන කාලකන්ණි සන්තෝෂයක් ලබා සැබෑ යුධ වීරයෙකු වන සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මහතාව දඟගෙයි දැමීමෙන් සිය මනාපයට අනුව අධිකරණය නම්මවා ගැනීමට තැත් කළ පුද්ගලයෙකු සිය ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂකයා ලෙස නම් කරන්නේ නැත.

අවුරුදු පහක් විපක්ෂයේ සිටි මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ජනතාවට දුන් පණිවිඩය නම්, ඔහුගේ සහෝදරයෙකු ජනාධිපති විය යුතු බවත්, ඔහුම අගමැති විය යුතු බවත්, තවත් සහෝදරයෙක් කථානායක විය යුතු බවත්, සිව්වන සහෝදරයා ආර්ථිකය භාරව සිටින බවත්, ඔහුගේ පුතා ඔහු තෝරාගත් අනුප්‍රාප්තිකයා ලෙස අප දැනගත යුතු බවයි. එනම් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂගේ සිහින තුළ ඇත්තේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවත්, එහි භූමියත් ජනතාවත් රාජ්‍යපක්ෂ පවුලේ බූදලයක් බවය.

අවාසනාවට අපේ රටේ ආගමික හා ජනවාර්ගික සුළුතරයට වෛර කරන යම් පිරිසක් මේ අටේ ජීවත් වේ. ඔවුනට රාජපක්ෂ පවුලේ චින්තනය ආකර්ශනීය වී ඇත. දෙමළ, මුස්ලිම්, කිතුනුවන් සහ වෙනත් අයට තෙවන පන්තියේ පුරවැසියන් ලෙස ජීවත් වීමට බල කෙරෙන තාක් කල් ඔවුන් රාජපක්ෂ පවුල් රාජවංශයක දෙවන පන්තියේ පුරවැසියන් වනු ඇත. අනෙක් පිරිසට හුදු කෑදරකම හා අතීත පාපයන්ගෙන් ගැලවී සිටීමට රාජපක්ෂ පිහිටවනු ඇත.

හුදු මැතිවරණ දෘෂ්ටි කෝණයකින් බලන කල, ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂක රාජපක්ෂ අපේක්ෂකයා කවුරුන්ද යන්න කිසි විටෙකත් වැදගත් නොවීය. ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂකයා ලෙස නම් කිරීම ගැන මට ඇති මතය එයයි. පුරවැසියෙකු ලෙස මට ලැජ්ජා හිතෙන්නේ ඉතිහාසයේ ප්‍රථම වරට ජනාධිපතිවරණයේ ප්‍රධාන තරඟකරුවෙකු ලෙස කටයුතු කරන්නේ අපරාධකරුවෙකු බව පිළිගැනීමට සිදුවීමයි. ඒ පිිළිබඳව මගේ රට වෙනුවෙන් මම පෞද්ගලිකව ලැජ්ජා වෙමි. දිගින් දිගටම අපේක්ෂකයා කවුද යන්න ඇසීමේදී කිසිවෙකු “රාජපක්ෂ පවුලේ කෙනෙක් එයිද?” යන ප්‍රශ්ණය වෙනුවට කවුරුත් ඇසුවේ “මොන රාජපක්ෂද?” යන ප්‍රශ්ණයයි.

සත්‍යය කිව යුතුය. මුළු රාජපක්ෂ වරිගයම නියෝජනය කරන්නේ මැරබලය, දූෂණය, රැවටීම, ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍ර විරෝධී අදහස් මෙන්ම ස්වාධීන ආයතන කෙරෙහි රොද බැඳගත් වෛරයකි. එහි අපේක්ෂකයා යනු නිකම්ම රූප කායකි. ගෝඨාභය තෝරාගැනීම යනු අළුතින් ඡන්ද එක්කර ගැනීම ගැන ඇතිවූ උද්වේගයක් නොවේ. ඇත්ත යථාර්ථය නම් එවැනි තෝරාගැනීමක් තුළින් ලිබරල් ඡන්ද හා සුළු ජාතික ඡන්ද තවතවත් දුරස්වේ. නමුත් ''ටර්මිනේර්'' කෙනෙකු තෝරාගෙන ඇත්තේ සුවිශේෂී වැඩකටය. මාධ්‍යවේදීන්, පොලිස් නිලධාරීන්, විනිසුරුවරුන් සහ රජයේ සේවකයන්ට සරල පණිවුඩයක් දීමටය. එනම් අපට හරස් කැපුවහොත් අවසානය අතලඟ බව කීමටය.

එය බලාපොරොත්තු සුන්වූ අයෙකු යොදන උපක්‍රමයකි. එය පරාද වී යනු ඇත. දේශපාලනය යනු මැරතන් තරඟයකි. මීටර් සීයකින් තරඟය අවසන් නොවේ. ගමහරහා දුවන විට ඉදිරියෙන්ම පළමුව දිවයන්නා ඉක්මනින් විසිවී යයි. ආධුනිකයෝ එලෙස ඉදිරියටම දිව එයි. මැතිවරණයට මාස කීපයක් තිබියදී මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ සිය ප්‍රමුඛකතා මොනවාද, සිය හැකියාවන් මොනවාද, ඔහුගේ පාක්ෂිකයන් කවුද යන්න ඇසුවහොත් ඒවාට පිළිතුරු ලබා දී තිබේ. එනම් පළමුවත් දෙවනුවත් තෙවනුවත් රාජපක්ෂ පමණි යන්නයි.

මේ රටේ මීළඟ ජනාධිපති වන්නේ ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ හෝ වෙනයම් රාජපක්ෂ කෙනෙකු නොවේ. මේ රටේ මීළඟ ජනාධිපති වන්නේ දෑතේ ලේ තවරාගත් අනන්ත මාධ්‍යවේදීන් වධ බන්ධනයට ලක් කළ අපරාධ චෝදනා ඇති අයෙක් නොවේ. අපේ රටේ මීළඟ ජනාධිපති වන්නේ මේ රටේ ඉපදී මේ රටේ හැදී වැඩී මේ රට අතහැර නොගොස් මෙහිම ජීවත් වූ, තවත් රටකට පක්ෂපාතී බවට දිවුරුම් නොදුන් අයෙකි. මීළඟ රටේ ජනාධිපතිවරයා වන්නේ එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ හා අනුබද්ධ පක්ෂ විසින් ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදීව තෝරාගන්නා අයෙකි. ඔහු ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටින, අධිකරණයේ ස්වාධීනත්වය සුරකින, රජයේ සේවයකයන්ට ගරු කරන කිසිදු පවුලකට ඉහළන් රටේ පුරවැසියා ඔසවා තබන්නෙකි. අපේ පක්ෂයේ අපේක්ෂකයා රටේ ඊළඟ ජනාධිපතිවරයා වනු ඇත.

අපේ අපේක්ෂකයා කවුද?

අපේ රට පුරා විනිවිදභාවය, නිදහස, මානව හිමිකම් සුරක්ෂිත කරන, එසේම ලිබරල් ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදයේ බලවේගයන් එක්සත් කරන, ඕනෑම රාජපක්ෂවරයෙකුට හෝ ඔවුන්ගේ සුදු වෑන්වලට එරෙහිව නැගී සිටින, ඒකාධිපති මර්දන හස්තයේ කුරිරු පීඩනයට එරෙහිව ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජනතාව පෙළ ගස්වන ඔහු... නිසැක ජයග්‍රාහකයා වනු ඇත.

2019 අගෝ 11 දා මංගල සමරවීර මහතා කළ ප්‍රකාශයකි

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by (2019-08-12 20:21:01)

The winning formula; A heartfelt appeal to Ranil from a senior medical specialist
http://www.lankaenews.com/news/3038/en

Winning-Formula-E-LeN-27.08.2019

(Lanka-e-News -27.Aug.2019, 11.30PM) The upcoming presidential election is not just about electing the next president of Sri Lanka. What is at stake is democracy. Gotabaya Rajapakshe has already been nominated by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna as their presidential candidate. Sri Lanka is on the verge of becoming a fascist nation run by a military junta, however elected through democratic means, akin to the machanism used by Hitler to seize power in Germany.

25 years is a very long time. When you were entrusted with the mantle of UNP leader, I had just finished advanced level examination. Over the years, we watched the UNP lose election after election. We watched you importing presidential candidates and erode the solid block vote we once bragged about. Now the UNP is merely a pauper, at the mercy of minorities. This is the reality. This is your legacy.

It is not surprising that nobody is proposing you to be the presidential candidate as the result would be a foregone conclusion. The bond scam and allowing Arjun Mahendran to escape unscathed has destroyed your reputation. The letter from Lasantha Wickrsmsthunga’s daughter where she accuses you of inaction against the Rajapakshas was the final nail in the coffin. The general consensus is that you have reached a deal with Gotabaya to ensure your status as the leader of the opposition after the election. However, this assurance is not extended to the average UNPers who stand to get beaten up, have their houses torched and lose jobs following defeat at the election.

Take a moment to ponder the fate of these people. There is only one thing between victory and defeat at the election. That is you and only you.

We can still win this election but we should adopt the following winning formula
1)Karu Jayasooriya should be named the presidential candidate.

2)Sajith Premadasa should be named the prime ministerial candidate

3)you may remain the party leader and leader of the alliance to be formed

Karu is the ideal presidential candidate as he is well respected by everyone.
However, the grassroots are yearning for Sajith which makes it pivotal to make him the prime ministerial candidate. This is the magic combination

I hope you will be ready to make this sacrifice for the sake of the party. Karu will have no chance if he nominates you as the prime ministerial candidate as you are politically dead with no resurrection possible.

As the party leader and as the leader of the alliance, you will be expected to play a major role in a future UNP government. This draws parelal to the role played by Sonia Gandhi as the leader of the Congress while Man Mohan Singh was the prime minister. As the coalition partners trust you over all others, it is essential that you ensure that they extend the same support to Karu and Sajith.

It is time to put aside personal aspirations and to make sacrifices for the sake of democracy. I sincerely hope that you will give considerstion to these proposals and adopt this formula.

By a senior medical specialist

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by (2019-08-27 18:49:09)