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Let Us Not Forget The Rajapaksa Tyranny

By Malinda Seneviratne

Malinda Seneviratne

Malinda Seneviratne

There’s a politics of memory, which of course includes remembrance and forgetting

In December 1982 the workers of banana plantations in Columbia went on strike. They demanded written contracts, 8-hour working days, 6-day work weeks and the elimination of food coupons. It turned into the largest labor movement the country had witnessed until then.

An army regiment from Bogotá was dispatched, probably at the behest of the United Fruit Company. Machine guns were set up on rooftops. Access streets were closed. After a 5-minute warning they opened fire into a thick crowd made of workers, their wives and children who had gathered after Sunday Mass anticipating an address by the Governor. Hundreds were killed. Some estimate the number to be over 2000. What happened next is what is interesting. A survivor was said to have claimed it never happened. And doubt was raised whether or not the massacre ever took place.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez reenacts the Banana Massacre in ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’. Workers are killed in their hundreds but the final conclusion was ‘Nothing has happened in Macondo’.

MahindaHistory is like that. Things are taken off the chronicles. Things that never happened are scripted in. Not just in Colombia but in Sri Lanka as well. There’s a story that has been forgotten. Indeed, no one (including you) will believe it ever happened. But it must be told, just like Marquez did.

It happened in late April 2010, just before the Parliamentary Elections. Mahinda Rajapaksa was then the all-powerful Executive President of Sri Lanka. His most trusted political ally at the time was the Leader of the United National Party (UNP) and then Leader of the Opposition Ranil Wickremesinghe. Mahinda connived with Ranil to secure a decisive victory for the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA). It was a simple but effective plan.

First he claimed that as newly re-elected President of the whole country he would be playing a neutral role during the Parliamentary Elections. He said that but used every opportunity to support the UPFA. He even said that should the UNP win, he will make sure that Ranil Wickremesinghe is not made the Prime Minister but that he will pick a senior member of the UNP instead. The argument was that Ranil had already had two stints as Prime Minister.

We do not know what he promised Ranil or why Ranil played along, but Mahinda nevertheless got Ranil’s support to essentially straitjacket the UNP. Two weeks before the election, Mahinda got Harsha De Silva to get a court order preventing the UNP’s Working Committee from meeting. Court was moved. It was moved thereafter to extend the injunction past election date.

Three days before the election, Tissa Attanayake was unceremoniously removed from the post of General Secretary. He was replaced by Sujeewa Senasinghe. Immediately Sujeewa secured an interim order from the courts to prevent anyone from trying to oust him.

There was public outcry of course. People were horrified. There were howls of protest from the likes of Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), Jehan Perera of the National Peace Council (NPC) and J.C. Weliamuna of Transparency International (TISL). Citizens of high standing such as the Bishop of Colombo Malcolm Ranjith. Jayantha Dhanapala, Chandra Jayaratne, Deepika Udugama and Rohan Edirisinghe, as well as newspapers invested in justice, fairplay, democracy, good governance etc., such as ‘Ravaya’ joined the chorus of protest. Other paragons of virtue in the newspaper business blasted Mahinda for his tyrannical ways.

The US Ambassador in an official communique to Mahinda registered his displeasure, followed by the British High Commissioner. The US Secretary of State as well as Britain’s Foreign Minister echoed their sentiments in similar missives. The Commonwealth Secretariat issued a harshly worded statement condemning Mahinda for highhandedness, operating against the spirit of democracy and violating cherished Commonwealth values. Navineethan Pillai, then heading the UN Human Rights Commission was livid. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon didn’t mince his words when he called Mahinda to express his displeasure.

Does anyone remember any of this? I am willing to wager that no one does. This is because it never happened. But are you sure? Let’s leave the doubt there and consider what could have happened had Mahinda really done all this. Isn’t it more than likely that the description of what ensued would have come to pass? After all, similar responses were seen when Mahinda was guilty of less outrageous transgressions.

Now, five years later, we have Mahinda successor, Maithripala Sirisena doing a Mahinda Rajapaksa, so to speak. He pledged neutrality but aligning himself with Ranil Wickremesinghe and the UNP (paradoxically, given the above ‘history’), attacked the UPFA at every turn. A few weeks ago moved the courts to stop the Central Committee of the biggest party in the Opposition Coalition (UPFA) i.e. the SLFP, from meeting using a person called Solangaarachchi.

Two days ago Maithripala replaced the General Secretaries of the SLFP and the UPFA with people who pledged loyalty to Ranil Wickremesinghe and the UNP (even though one of them contests on the UPFA ticket —the other is a staunch Chandrika loyalist and we know she openly asked people to vote for ‘the beast’, i.e. the Elephant). He got the replacements to seek a court order stopping anyone from hindering their ‘work’. He moved the court to grant them the relief they sought.

Now someone might ask ‘But it was a court order, how can you say Maithripala influenced the courts?’ Well, didn’t the courts rule in favor of Mahinda’s preferences not too long ago and wasn’t it claimed that Mahinda influenced the courts? There was no proof back then, but that didn’t stop people from howling in protest did it? Someone might counter, ‘that’s ridiculous, Mahinda appointed friends to the Supreme Court, this is well known!’ Well, guess who removed and appointed Chief Justices not too long ago, and using executive powers no less! No proof of interference but that’s not stopping people from being silent, is it?

‘But this is a popular President who was mandated to set things right!’ someone might say. End justifying the means, ladies and gentlemen, is not something that Mahinda’s detractors would ever defend publicly, because that would have meant that Mahinda would have to be conceded the license to do whatever as long as stated end is considered good; ends like ‘peace’ and ‘reconciliation’ and ‘development’ need not be fleshed out if that were the case.

Mahinda was no saint. As I have pointed out since 2005 in articles to the Daily Mirror, Sunday Island, Sunday Lakbima News, Sunday Observer, Daily News and The Nation, Mahinda could have but did not transition from popular politician to respected statesman. His look-aside policy to the wrongs of his minions, the perpetuity-seek of the 18th Amendment, political machinations to wreck the UNP and the rest of the Opposition, and development that enriched further the wealthy without delivering anything of substance that was sustainable to the poor have been well recorded.

It’s all conjecture of course, but many thought that a third term given his arrogance and the despicable people he had surrounded himself with would have spelt disaster and even a bloodbath. He needed to be defeated and he was.

And yet, Mahinda was but dictator by office more than dictator by nature. The same goes for Maithripala Sirisena. Just ask yourself: if Maithripala could do all that he did even after some of the presidential powers were clipped by the 19th, what would he not do if he had Mahinda’s powers?

The beautiful thing about the politics of memory is that it undresses all. The UNP and Ranil Wickremesinghe, the intended beneficiaries of Maithripala’s machinations, are silent. Saravanamuttu, Weliamuna, Jehan Perera, Dhanapala, Jayaratne, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, Deepika Udugama, Chandra Jayaratne and Rohan Edirisinghe are silent. The US Embassy and the US State Department are silent. The British High Commissioner, the British Foreign Minister and the Secretary, Commonwealth Secretariat are silent. Not a word from Pillai’s successor at the UNHRC Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. None from Ban Ki-moon. The Ravaya, which a few weeks ago accused Maithripala of betraying the people’s mandate by letting Mahinda Rajapaksa contest, seem to have forgotten everything that Maithripala and the UNP have said about rule of law, due process, democracy in word, practice and spirt, good governance, civilization and a decent political culture. And where is Ven Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero these days? The vociferous anti-Mahinda commentators who framed their invective in those same terms seem to have forgotten all those sweet sounding ‘musts’ that they told everyone Maithripala and Ranil stood for and would deliver.

Yes, Mahinda was but dictator by office more than dictator by nature. The same goes for Maithripala Sirisena. Maithripala’s best friend and the man he is clearly backing to defeat the UPFA is Ranil Wickremesinghe. Ranil Wickremesinghe is not dictatorial by frame-of-office. He is dictatorial by nature. Anyone who has taken the trouble to read the UNP’s constitution and study how it was amended from the time Ranil became party leader would be forced to acknowledge that he is tyrannical. His behavior whenever he had power (remember the CFA without a by-your-leave from the President, the Cabinet, the party or the people when he was Prime Minister from 2001-2004, and remember the arrogance with which he defended Arjuna Mahendran over the Central Bank Bond Scam?) is reminiscent of Mahinda Rajapaksa, isn’t it? Or don’t we want to believe it of him or don’t we want to acknowledge because we prefer him and his party to Mahinda and the UPFA, because…well…he’s Ranil and he belongs to the UNP and apart from that we really don’t have any solid reason?

So let’s not forget what Mahinda Rajapaksa did to the UNP in April 2010. Well, on second thoughts, let’s forget that since no one seems to remember it anyway. But let’s not forget that he got the 18th Amendment passed with (let us not forget) the support of Maithripala Sirisena and Champika Ranawaka, among others. Let us not forget that just as he gets the major share of the credit for defeating the LTTE on account of near dictatorial if not dictatorial powers vested in his office, by the same token he has to take responsibility for all the wrongdoing between November 2005 and January 2015. Let’s not forget Rathupaswala, but let’s remember that remembering Ratahupaswala forces us to remember 88-89 and all the atrocities and violations of rights perpetrated during Chandrika Kumaratunga’s tenure.

Let us not forget that Mahinda was taught a lesson on January 8, 2015. Let us try to remember that even thought this is no longer about personalities but about systems, we vote for persons and parties and not for systems. Let us not forget that Mahinda’s replacements were made of the same mould, although Ranil seems to have brought some special traits from a previous lifetime.

Let us not forget the Saravanamuttus, Jehan Pereras, Weliamunas and those self-righteous journalists and self-styled civil society activists whose tongues go missing when Ranil Wickremesinghe and the UNP do the dirty. They’ve undressed themselves.

Let us not forget that if anyone is serious about setting things right, he/she just cannot vote for people who have proved even as recently as two days ago that they are ok with ‘wrong’ as long as they benefit.

Maithripala is not contesting this election. His proxies are. They are led by Ranil Wickremesinghe and the UNP. They need to be taught a lesson.

It’s a simple exercise really. Just replace the name Maithripala Sirisena with the name Mahinda Rajapaksa and ask what the grand gentlemen and ladies of good governance would have said and done had Mahinda done what Maithripalas has done (as enumerated above). Just ask yourself what Ranil would have said and done. Then ask yourself why on earth Ranil is silent. Then buttonhole the likes of Saravanamuttu. Better still, ask yourself whether you truly believe in all those goodies that Maithripala and Ranil promised to deliver.

Yes, there’s a politics of memory which of course includes remembrance and forgetting. Remember that what you recall and forget are often choices and these choices mark you politically, ideologically and morally.

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  • 47
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    Noel Gratiaen, that most eminent and honourable of jurists must be turning in his grave at the thought of ANYTHING bearing his name being “awarded” to you who has pleaded guilty, in the highest court in Sri Lanka, to defaming a decent and honourable senior civil servant, Dr. Nesiah. Incidentally the Committee that made that award has not had the common decency to withdraw it even after such an admission is on record!
    Your attempt at satire is about as useful to the readers of CT as is the newspaper that you run for the Rajapaksas, so why don’t you take your laptop etc. etc. and p..s off and stop soiling the pages of CT? Your paymasters should be able to fund your efforts elsewhere with the money they have stashed offshore!

    • 22
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      Malinda

      You will even [Edited out] if watching that scene will please your Lord and Master Mahinda Rajapaksa.
      [Edited out]

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        [Edited out]

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          Malinda Seneviratne

          You were supporting Mahinda before. Why did you change?

          I am not at all happy that you are critical of Mahinda now. Did Ranil promise you a editor post in the state media?

          Mahinda is going to win. Dayan will be in the helm following the election. You will be nowhere eating the savour duriyang under the Maradana railway bridge.

          I will pressurise Mahinda not to give anything to you when he becomes the Prime Minister. You may have to seek political asylum with the ISIS.

    • 22
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      Comparing Mahinda the most abusive president with the current Prez should not be done.
      Because former ist most abusive by everymeans while the latter has not abused anything sofar.

    • 3
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      Everyone knows who you are. You are just a Ponil fan and RW worshipping sycophant

    • 0
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      I was really shocked to see in ITN last night how MR has made the Temple Trees a 10 Star Hotel. He is worst than Sultan in ME. Happy go family but not in the future.

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        It was the Temple Trees, which belongs to the Government that has been renovated, not MR’s private residence. In fact this, as I understand, was done prior to CHOGM so that the distinguished visitors from overseas could be entertained without an insult to our country. Of course, a Gramasevaka from Polonnaruwa would not understand the importance of keeping the official residence of the President (in fact Temple Trees was earlier the residence of PM)up to a standard.

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          The Gramasevaka from Polonnaruwa is more educated than the Copy cat LOW yer and his Low yer son from hambathota is.

          Temple trees was Renovated and maintained properly by then president CBK.
          But so called Patriotic Mongol, Mallaccan Rajapassa made it to a Luxury palace as his Private Residence,to stay in power for life time spending, wasteing Billions of Rupees of People’s tax money.

          From CHOGOM What we Got???????.
          We got Bundles of Hotel Bills to pay for Jarapassa’s SINS!!!!.

          We poor people paid for the All the money spent on CHOGOM Gala party of Jarapassa!!!!!!.
          We have to pay for the Bloody Thieves and Killers from Generations?????.

  • 37
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    One last “pay back” attempt from some one who is an employee of the Rajapaksha fronted Nation.

  • 46
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    What a JOKE of an Article. All the hallmarks of a DESPERATE MR boot licker BEGGING us to vote for his GOD father who provides Milinda his sustenance.

    Milinda is trying to put the actions of MS (sacking of Anura and Susil) with those of MR during the past 10 years (Murder, rape, Plundering our tax payer money, arson, protection to Dug dealers, etc etc…)

    Hey milinda boot licking Rajapaksha, NO politicians is an angle. We all know Sirisena and Ranil have skeletons in their closets. But your mad dog of a leader is a BILLION times worse. We (the vast majority of the people) dont eat Punnakku and are not rajapaksha pimps like you.

    So we will keep an eye on Sirisena and Ranil (all politicians) during the next five years, but tomorrow we send that corrupt, murderous, psychopath (MR) of yours, home for good.

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      Sirisena and ranil have skeletons in their closests? I now know why MS does not have his spine with him.

  • 36
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    Oh Malinda we all know you are Mahinda follower and that is your right. However, you well know Mahinda is unlikely to get the required numbers to stage his claim to be P. M. You are just pretending to be a good neutral person and showing some negative picture of Mahinda. We well know this is not your intention but to criticise Ranil that he connived with Mahinda in 2010 elections.
    What a pie you are now trying to project against Ranil. Your assertion is not going to reduce the votes for Ranil which he is very likely to win handsomely at the same time form the new government.

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      Malinda is just an embarracement to Harward, if he actually got his UNI education there.

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        This is not the first I noticed this – I asked why any academic to please a leader of that low level. I really dont know. This can only be seen in Srilanka and India – in developing world. All these gesticulations of MaRa will shortlive.. he will have to face court cases soon. There will be no alternative him to get rid of them. His times are running out.

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        He is not only an embarracement to Harward but also to Royal College another hallowed institution

  • 37
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    Only you could title an article ‘The Rajapaksha Tyranny’ and still manage to twist it into a pro-Mahinda piece. Also, please attempt to express your thoughts with some clarity and coherence. An essay is meant to express an argument, not be an arrogant exhibition of one’s vocabulary. You and Dayan went to the same writing classes it seems.

    • 7
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      Me Inglish no good

  • 15
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    Only reminds what these mediam-men are made up of….. and a quote I read somewhere:

    All probelms come with “2get” and “2give”. This is solved if it is doubled –
    to “4get” and “4give” !

  • 26
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    Malinda Seneviratne, Mahinda Rajapaksa Shill and White-Washer

    RE:Let Us Not Forget The Rajapaksa Tyranny

    What is happening to you? Is MaRa MaRa Chatu MaRa not paying you any more?

    … On the road to Damascus…

    Malinda, you have been deceived by MaRa, Mara, using a Laptop and other perks.

    Malinda, you need to Exorcise yourself from the MaRa, Mara infection. This is what you can do.

    Say the following Gatha, Verse when you wake up, three times, every day, each day, for the rest of your life. Remember, Mara, MaRa is very tricky, even tried to trick Buddha, but failed.

    MaRa MaRa Chatu MaRa

    MaRa MaRa Amana MaRa

    MaRa MaRa HoRa MaRa

    MaRa MaRa Dhushana MaRa

    MaRa MaRa MiNi MaRu MaRa

  • 21
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    Hear,Hear Malinda

    You have lost the plot:

    Here, here and here – Malinda or should it be Mahinda?

    Wishful thinking:

    You NEVER happened.

    Lets hope we have heard the last from you

    Replacing the name from Mahinda to Malinda.

  • 11
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    Well said Malinda… Thanks for exposing the tyranny of Mahinda…But as usual Mahinda’s stooges and sycophants in this forum will point their gun barrels towards you..!!!

  • 26
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    One last hurrah, Malinda S. has lost all his credibility.

    He has to use a trick headline in order to get someone to click on the article. Once u come in it’s the same old shit.

    Though most will be reformed Some Baiyo will go grave as a Baiya MS is one of them.

  • 18
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    This man Malinda would never see it right. All these verbal diahrrah cant help anyone that see it right. They have already decided who to vote for this time. People those were far from understanding as to why 6.2 mio went against, got time enough to rethink all these – not even half of those 5.8mio would allow the buggers getting elected. This we will see by 18th

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      He should see it right, but he behaves as if he cant. It is all because the perks the man and his families enjoy are thank to most abusive their god father. If MS or anyone is honest, shoudl and could have left MR long back. One should listen to own voice -that is what I learnt it from my granny. These men with or without titles of world recognized alma maters have done nothing towards reenforcement of law and order but clearly worked more towards the other way around: Their offsprings will have more questions to be raised to these men – there tthey have to be like dumb and deaf.

  • 19
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    Is this guy a journo seriously, another pathetic article displaying a mental vacuum filled with shit.

  • 4
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    shooting the messenger ?

  • 20
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    Malinda:

    Your argument is crap. You are just talking for the free car loan and the free lap top you got.

    Every body should remember what all powerful executive president did.

    Even the power clipped – executive president can nt behave simply powerless, then people will say he doesn’t have a backbone.

    President has to take some strong decision, because country is not in shape politically. It is a mess.

    RANIL CAN BE FORGIVEN FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS, because, he could not do it when he was not the duly elected prime ministers and SLFP was powerful than the UNP.

  • 16
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    Thanks for your BS but I would rather have the UNP in power right NOW…I may change my mind a few months down the line…but right NOW I want the UNP in power Get it???

  • 19
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    Most people predict that Ranil Wicramasinghe becomes victorious.

    On the other hand, Maithripala sirisena stopped the possibility that Mahinda Rajapakse would be appointed a National List member of SLFP.

    Because, everybody knows that Mahinda Rajapakse wants to be the president and he will get rid of Maithripala sirisena if he comes.

  • 10
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    This chap needs to get his head examined first, then any exposed cavities…for abuse. Every time he writes, I have to unlearn my linguistic skills and control my frustration.

    Freedom of speech is a bitch!

  • 11
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    I usually print out CT opinion pieces so I can read them in comfort lying in my haansi-putuwa and sipping a arrack en las rocas.

    However, when it comes to this kind of codswallop churned up by this disgraceful lickspittle, I do not, because I am immediately disposed to using that very piece of paper to clean up a bit of mess that happens ‘down below’, and I find the paper too sharp, shiny and non-absorbent for the only purpose it might be good for.

  • 11
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    Laptop weeraya Malinda is at it again and his writing shows his desperation to ensure MR is back and so are his benefits

  • 13
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    Utter Garbage it is

  • 2
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    As far as minorities are concerned, both are crooks (Rajapaksa, or the Maithree Proxies like Ranil). The Saravanamuttus, Jehan pereras, Wellimunis and Malcolm Ranjiths, Friday Forums are all hangers on profiting from the glow of the dollar.
    They are only a means to getting OUR objectives resolved.
    Muslims have always followed a more meaningful policy than the Tamils. The Tamils (10%), led by arrogant and stupid rich lawyers from Colombo have pitted themselves against a majority of people (80-90%) and decimated themselves, and blame others for genocide, while they themselves did it!

    Instead, we can sit on the sidelines and let the two biggies weaken each other.
    In the End, the Prophet’s WILL will be done.

  • 6
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    Malinda Seneviratne,

    A very poor article from you..if your own reasoning is used, you should be
    critical of both the current government and the previous MR regime, instead of leaning towards one side. Why is that? You and Dayan Jayathilaka are as alike as two peas in a pod. You both like to weave convoluted logic, which when picked apart, is pretty hollow. Just keep it simple mate. Your MR was a destroyer of human rights in Sri Lanka, so if you want to be taken seriously, at least paint both sides with the same brush. People like you have no credibility.

  • 1
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    “But let’s not forget that he got the 18th Amendment passed with (let us not forget) the support of Maithripala Sirisena and Champika Ranawaka,…”

    You raise an interesting point. Why did they do this? In the intervening months have they been able to come up with a reason?

    Also, Malinda, you are accusing RW, MS, MR all of being dictators. If so what is the future of this democracy?

  • 2
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    It is true.

    You do not exist in the minds of people as you have nothing to be remembered for, you only reflect light from others.

    People remember good and bad as they did on 8th January 2015. They also forgive, not to say they forget ALL.

    Rajapakse they remember, Ranil they Remember, they would even forget.

    But you, they never remeber to even forget.

  • 1
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    UNP landslide

    Prediction

    UNP 125 UNPF 48 JVP 23 TNA 22 SF 3 OTHERS 4 TOTAL 225

    • 0
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      Do not rush. Only few hours to go to know the reality.

  • 15
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    How right you are, Malinda!

    We are all imagining these things like the people in Macondo. General Fonseka never went to prison, Shirani Banadaranayake was never ousted, Mohan Pieris was never appointed CJ, there is not airport at Mattala, Sri Lankan Airlines ran at super profit under the brother in law, we never borrowed money at exorbitant interest rates, EPF & ETF money was invested wisely, no one was shot at Rathupaswela, there were no white vans, Lasatha W is still alive, roads were built at below cost, there was no 18th amendment, Namal never went on helicopters to ride horses in Nuwera-Eliya, we only dreamt there were night races in Kandy and Colombo, we never made a bid for Commonwealth Games, no jumbo loads of hangers-on went on joy rides at public cost, and the list goes on on on.

    We only imagined these things!!!!!

    • 1
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      Such a wonderful dream, only if it was true. If we get 1/2 of that from a MS & RW future government we can say we achieved our dreams.

  • 2
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    A currently relevant quote from the former British Prime Minister William Pitt:-

    “Unlimited Power is apt to corrupt the Minds of Those who Possess It; and this I know My Lords: that where Law ends Tyranny Begins!”

  • 5
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    Malinda has a good vocabulary. Alas, that’s all he’s got. What a waste!

    • 0
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      You may be right.
      He just wastes his time.
      Actually, this MR applogist could better fit for novel writing – that could then help the many – but no way white washe the damages made by Rajas

  • 1
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    What MS did and what MR has done cannot be compared because what MS did was done as the leader of the SLFP and UPFA and not as the President. The two different roles should not be confused. If MS was like MR would he allow Maco to stop prinying his speech?

    However, to paint MR as a normal Sri Lankan politician or leader is like an attempt to make MARA appear as an Angel. Overall, this argument reeks of hypocrisy and an attempt to insult our good sense and judgment.

    In my opinion, the problem is that MS is not what the author says he is. If I were MS the first thing I would have done is to give him the Libyan treatment. Thankfully for MR and the country I am not MS and more importantly, MS is not MR.

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    Your unblemished record of obfuscation and hypocrisy were choices you made, “and these choices mark you politically, ideologically and morally.”

    You have descended to the moral low-ground occupied by the Rajapakses and their gang of thugs and there you will stay , at least in the eyes of a majority of us who have read your tripe ( as the usual comments on your shite make obvious).

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