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The Troika & The Truth: A Constructive Commentary On Lalith Weeratunga’s Testimony

By Dayan jayatilleka

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka

I was delighted to read Lalith Weeratunga’s revelatory article ‘The Troika’ (Counterpoint, Daily FT). I regard him as a friend and I respect him as one of the finest public servants we have had. President Rajapaksa could not have had a better Secretary to the President at a crucially testing time in our contemporary history. I have long encouraged Lalith to write his memoirs and I hope what I see in the newspaper is but a ‘teaser’, which will eventuate in a full volume.

Lalith Weeratunga’s account of the Troika is the truth. However, while it is the truth, it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. There are important pieces that requires inclusion to establish a clearer account of the times and issues. These are of crucial importance because unless we insert them back in and complete the diplomatic history of that time, we shall be unable to understand what happened in President Rajapaksa’s second term, how we got mired in the war crimes quagmire in Geneva, and the problems we shall have in extricating them even if the Troika returns, even with some in significantly and qualitatively elevated roles.

Lalith’s account is of a golden moment in Sri Lanka’s foreign relations, where we avoided the fate that the Jayewardene administration suffered when it rightly attempted to defeat the LTTE in 1987. That attempt triggered intervention. Under President Rajapaksa, the Troika helped avoid it and secure the space necessary to win the war.

However, Lalith’s account omits the two crucial and inextricably interrelated factors that enabled this success.

Let me back up a bit. The Indians had been negotiating a political settlement with President Jayewardene since 1984. In late 1985, HW Jayewardene signed off on an agreement on Provincial level devolution. Further talks took place in December 1986 and early 1987. LTTE provocations and national Security Minister Lalith Athulathmudali’s faith in his Israeli military connection delayed the agreement. The Vadamaarachchi offensive therefore took place without the cover of a political agreement with Delhi, which only be devolution-centered. When the electorally powerful MGR lobbied Rajiv Gandhi, he caved in to pressure for intervention because he had nothing with which to neutralize Tamil Nadu. Later, after the Indo-Lanka Accord was signed, the Indian stance pivoted so drastically that the IPKF was in combat with the Tigers by October that very year, 1987.

What this goes to show is that if we had this political solution in place (which had been in the pipeline for years) before launching the Vadamaarachchi operation, the Indians would not have intervened to stop us, because Delhi would have had something to balance off Tamil Nadu.

Which brings me to my main point. What Lalith Weeratunga’s account omits is the heart of the matter; the meat in the sandwich. The policy and politics of it.

The Troika was brilliantly managing the relationship with Delhi, but they were representing and operating on the pragmatic policy decided on by President Rajapaksa, namely the promise to his Indian counterpart, to proceed with the implementation of the 13thamendment. The Troika’s managerial excellence was building on the policy equation and axis with Delhi decided upon by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Any account of its success without specific mention of that understanding is like Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark.

It is this promise that kept India on side and gave us the space to finish the war even in the face of US-UK pressure. President Rajapaksa was able to play the Delhi card to ward off the Hillary-Miliband-Norway driven ‘evacuation attempt’ by the US, the goalposts of which kept shifting.

That this policy was at the very heart of the Indo-Lanka equation during the war years, was amply and irrefutably proven by the content of the Joint Statement between the Government of Sri Lanka and the visiting Indian Troika (the Delhi counterparts of the Sri Lankan Troika that Lalith, a member, writes of).

The text of the Press Statement issued on May 21, 2009 after the top-level meeting with the Indian team and posted on the GoSL website read:

“Mr. M.K. Narayanan, National Security Advisor and Mr. S. Menon, Foreign Secretary of India visited Sri Lanka on May 20 and 21. They called on His Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of Sri Lanka and met with senior officials, including Hon. Basil Rajapaksa, MP, Mr. Lalith Weeratunga, Secretary to the President and Defence Secretary, Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.

They also interacted with a number of political parties in Sri Lanka…Both sides also emphasized the urgent necessity of arriving at a lasting political settlement in Sri Lanka. To this, the Government of Sri Lanka indicated that it will proceed with implementation of the 13th Amendment. Further, the Government of Sri Lanka also intends to begin a broader dialogue with all parties, including the Tamil parties, in the new circumstances, for further enhancement of political arrangements to bring about lasting peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka.” (May 21, 2009)

Note that Colombo’s commitment to ‘proceed with implementation of the 13th Amendment’ was not contingent upon the statement that GoSL ‘…also intends to begin a broader dialogue with all parties, including Tamil parties…’ and was therefore not contingent on the obstreperous behavior of the TNA in 2011 (when the GoSL-TNA dialogue began) but was seen as preceding that ‘broader dialogue’.

I wrote earlier that Lalith’s testimony about the Troika omits two, not just one, crucial and interrelated points. The second point is what went wrong, postwar, despite this wonderful arrangement.

Three years after the war ended, in 2012 India voted against us in Geneva. It did not return to our side in 2013 and 2014, though it did abstain. Now, what is of greatest salience is the fact of continuity in leading personalities and managerial personnel! The Troika was still in place in Colombo. The President was the same as during years of successful management of Indo-Lanka relations. The government in New Delhi was that of the Congress, with the same Prime Minister in place. If so, what had gone so wrong? What could have?

If one sticks simply to Lalith’s account, one would not find the answer to the question. One would not even know there is a question. Let me reiterate: same Troika, same leaders in both capitals, no change in government in either capital, but a complete turnaround in Indian behavior. Why so? Because our policy had changed or was not being implemented. We were perceived to have reneged on our promises– public, official promises which Lalith’s article makes no mention of! The Troika worked not only because they were good chums with their Indian counterparts but because they represented a policy pledge which was not being honored, perhaps being blocked, and therefore made the Indians increasingly vulnerable to pressure from Jeyalalitha, Hillary Clinton and civil society opinion.  We did nothing to help them help us, though even our best friends the Chinese kept signaling us to do so.

By the time we held the Provincial Council election in the North (with Japan’s nudging) it was 2013. India had already voted against us in Geneva. The warning signals from Delhi were coming in by 2011, but were ignored by Colombo. However, the Indians were still not on board with the West and were still running interference for us in 2011, which is why the US pulled back and did not back the Canadian attempt against us, which folded. But months later, when the West knew we no longer had India with us, it moved against us in 2012. When the Non Aligned knew that India was no longer with us, our traditional support from the BRICS and the global South began to flake off. Rising Islamophobic discourse and unprosecuted violent activism in Sri Lanka even neutralized Malaysia’s vote.

We could have kept India with us but we didn’t. What happened to the Troika? The Troika had nothing to sell. It was either internally divided or had shifted collectively from its wartime stand.

None of this is merely history. It is serial defeats in Geneva in 2012, 2013 and 2014 (with the Troika still intact in Colombo) that paved the way for the surrender in Geneva under the new government in 2015. I have been and remain a harsh critic of the 2015 and 2017 resolutions and fervently hope to see us roll them back. But that cannot and will not happen by returning to the failed post war policy of the second Rajapaksa term, which resulted in the serial defeats of 2012, 2013 and 2014. That failure was due to a deviation from or at the least the non-implementation of or the imprudently delayed implementation of President Rajapaksa’s correct wartime policy agreement with India.

I have no doubt that there could be a 1977 or rather a “reverse 1977” (the UNP at the receiving end) result at the next election. That is not my main concern. We all lived through the aftermath of that spectacular electoral victory and the rapid growth (a phenomenal 8% at one moment) of the economy. All that came to naught with the mishandling of the Tamil question and the concomitant mishandling of the equation with India, notwithstanding excellent relations with the US Republican administration (President Reagan) and strong security cooperation with Israel.

So, winning an election by a landslide, experiencing a rapid spike in economic growth, and an embrace of or by Washington and Tel Aviv, is only half of the story. Not plunging over the precipice is the more important half of that story. I do not think Sri Lanka can withstand a repeat performance after the experience of the 1980s. And that experience cannot be avoided by having a supposedly tougher, more patriotic leader than President Jayewardene. In fact, a leader without President Jayewardene’s pragmatic flexibility could result in a permanently divided island. After all, Serbia’s Slobodan Milosevic was regarded as a more nationalist Serbian leader (who also spoke of ‘socialism”) than the enlightened multiethnic socialist President Tito! Milosevic abolished the autonomous status of Kosovo. The result was the end of Yugoslavia.

There can be no sustainable Sri Lankan foreign policy which does not deal with the “intermestic”issue (to use Kissinger’s category) of the State and the Tamil people as a community. Good relations with India cannot be restored except by acknowledging the Indo-Lanka accord and its concomitant political commitment the 13thamendment. Without the Indian umbrella or shield supplementing the Chinese, we shall be vulnerable to Western pressure. The Indo-Lanka Accord cannot be ignored or bypassed without consequence.

We shall be unable to rebuild the broad coalition, beginning with India that would enable Sri Lanka to neutralize the Geneva 2015 Resolution, and exit what outgoing US Ambassador Athul Keshap calls “the Geneva framework”.

Any delusion about an Israeli option of exit from the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva will only trigger a shift back to New York where the Darusman Report originated, and the activation of prosecutions under universal jurisdiction by a variety of countries, ending in unilateral sanctions by some.

Today in Sri Lanka there is a growing social sentiment that all it takes is a return to the competent management– as represented in this case by the Troika. While it is crucial, it is not enough.

What is necessary is the correct political policy and it is only then that a managerial and technocratic stratum can implement it because it will have something to implement.

The basic distinction posited by rightwing neoconservative American scholar Thomas Sowell, with its implicit appreciation of the “doers” over the “talkers”, if taken to a logical conclusion, would place Hitler over Heraclitus, Attila the Hun over the Buddha, Genghis Khan over Socrates, Pol Pot over Pope Francis, and Donald Trump over Dr. Martin Luther King.

This ‘doers/talkers’ hierarchy of practices and values is dangerous, because you can “do” right and you can “do” wrong. “Doing” and “doing the right thing” aren’t the same. Destruction, which is doing, is not the same as creation/construction. Thanos, in ‘The Avengers: Infinity War’, is the ultimate “doer”.

Wrong discourse cannot yield right deeds, only wrongdoing. That is why the Buddha preached (“talked”) right thinking, right mindfulness. That is why the Bible says “In the beginning was the Word”– rendered as Logos, a complex Greek term, principally meaning “Reason”.

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    Lalith Weeratunge’s article is hilarious!!Here is a convicted thief writing a load of bull shit ,without being sent to jail for his utter dishonesty in stealing TRC funds for supposedly purchasing Sil Redhi!.It is clear that a good portion of these funds ended up in the pocket of Lalith Sil Redhi Horaa Weeratunga so that he could live happily ever after with his mistress Indrani.

    So a billion rupee robber is out in the open while a poor man stealing a coconut is put to jail immediately.Why is the media not focusing on the Sil Redhi case any more? Surprising isn’t it?Ultimately it is the poor people who pay a big price.

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      when was that DJ underwent the OP. He should have cross implanted his both ends. No doubt about that. Anyone who would have a little brain would agree. Lalith W was an idiot. The manner he behaved infront of the interviewers were really funny. He just abused his position. Latter was proved by lanken courts. We dont want to discuss on the issue.
      Ridiculously, DJ sits always with controversal personalities. No matter facts lie somewhere else, the bugger to disagree and join hand with low lives became common during the last 3 years. All because, if he would not posted, then the disagreements would be distinguished.
      Very selfish katussa would never see it right.

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        Discussion Options: Samuel you say “we dont want to discuss on the issue” and then go on to write stupid comments, which shows how bad your English is. I hope your German is better than that, or else you will end up cleaning up the wrong toilets. Then you say, “He (DJ) should have cross implanted his both ends”. If you are a specialist in cross implants, why not try cross implanting, your back end to Sam, Babalathappu, Sama, Sama, Leelagemalli, Leelagemalligeakka nohoth leela, littlesomething, bunjappu and so on? It will look like the Udarata Menike!

        P.S.: If you don’t want to discuss a topic, just keep out, There may be others who want to.

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          The most abusive man on CT – seems to have the audacity to ask me to keep out of the CT ? How come ?

          When would you finally learn to sense it Edwin ? You are so abusive minded by many ways.
          I really dont want to kill my valuable time for a man of your nature. I am not dealing with Arabs but EU and Americans. So none of them have not come back to me sofar attacking this way., but you. ha hah
          I really hate your thoughts. You are absolutely a headache to CT readers. That we made it very clear not once several times sofar.

          I just wanted to add this, since I dont think DJ is genuine at lanken politics. He has been highly abusive in the last 3 years, so I have every right as a citizen of the country to add my thoughts – about DJ and the danger he could make to this nation.. DJ has today been a caricature handley by killi Maharaja. May be the bugger thought to get posted to somewhere on the ticket of MS, that seem to have failed sofar.
          And about your knowledge :
          You re the one who woul dnot the last para of each article when adding your thoughts as CT comments. I at least try to overead while travelling across europe/transatlantic with exception of the articles written by DJ. Please read before jump on to attack with your kind of filthy loads. That can help us the CT readership to keep it clean further.

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          I do want to discuss a topic but not with imbecile of your nature.

          So think many in this forum about you. So please dont try to teach us how we have to.
          Even that late IH would be happy, if you would become somewhat decent.
          There is no consistency of whatever being added by DJ. That is why I wrote that the guy should have undergone an OP. Just go back to his archives and come back to us – then we can discuss on the topics he has been publising on this valuable forum. Thanks. Enough for this day !

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            What is Abuse?: Samuel, hereafter I am going to call you the Udarata Menike. DJ may be a mouthpiece for Mahinda and all that, but you don’t see him using abusive words such as balligeputha, bugger etc. You do that with great abandon and you have the guts to tell me “You are so abusive minded ….”. But I respect your next statement that “it (my future absence) can help us the CT readership to keep it clean further”. I respect it because I know what a great cleaner you are, of things, including German toilets.
            You go on to say that “You (Edwin) are absolutely a headache to CT readers and Even that late IH would be happy, if you (Edwin) would become somewhat decent” . Somewhat decent? How much decent 50%, 25 % or 0% like you?
            Then in your delusionary way you go on to say , “You (Edwin) are absolutely a headache to CT readers” equating yourself with the whole readership of CT. Did you make a survey or a count to find out that I am a headache to the readership?
            Samuel, it is very clear that you suffer from a very rare and a highly serious form of split personality disorder called the ‘Multiple Split Personality Disorder”. You are the locomotive as well as all the compartments (Sam, bunja, leela….) of the train that makes up Uda Rata Menike (URM).

            I advise that you take the next train to Berlin and meet a top psychiatrist and get your train untangled.

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              Edwin, Samuel Jayaweera is an uncivilized, primitive being who is an insult to the mankind. Better avoid him.

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                Max – birds of a feather flock together.

                We know how close you have been to Rajapakshe Medamulana.

                Lately, I had been quesitoning myslef, if max the back licker of Rajas buried in their toilets not being able to see him appearing here on this forum.

                So, now again, you may be trying to promote most abusive Rajapkashes right ?
                Tell us you would love to see, your grand children grow up in a society where thugs are dominated ?

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                  I am not. Thats why I am hell bent on UNP, the so called yahapalanaya and its cohorts like Samuel Jayaweera. If you do not see how the underworld has sprung like never before in the recent past, you better immediately go to an ENT specialist.

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                    Max, get me right man.

                    I am no into lanken politics.

                    I am just a person that hates Rajaakshe abusive politics.

                    I have never had the chance to vote myself for anyone in that part of the world.

                    But I know if we promote Mr Naganada K or the like personalities to lead us down there, no doubt, we can achieve a lot SINCE his uppermost motive is to put LAW AND ORDER ABOVE anything else.

                    If I would live in SL, I may need to go to an ENT specialist, knowing the manner grass eaters (majority) behave even on the street or whereever you are – even in public buses, the sound exposure is beyond the decible limits. No matter anything and everything would ahve been the case, you the like lanken voters would sell yourslf just for a cup of arrack or a condom right ? That culture should finally be kicked off.
                    I thought that Sujeeva Senasinghe the young lawyer would ahve been that sober, but what is being revealed is he should have been corrupted long ago. That is the nature o flanken average.. dont you think so.
                    Almsot everyone is corrupted and abusive minded as not even psychologists can rehablitate them easily. Tihs is the resons what Dr Dewasiri has been the one among the few sociologists to have insisted, that lankens will need lot more time to see what they have been doing it right. pLEASE max .. read and get your facts right … then you can also become a fair person. THanks and get well soon !

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                  Samuel Jayaweera

                  Please bear with our max moron.
                  He wants to share his space with you and others inside saffron clad thug Gnanasara’s amude. max is being generous to you and other liberals.

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                    Guten Morgen Native !WIE GEHT ES DIR DENN SO ? Ich hoffe es geht Dir gut.
                    I got to know a video on You TUBE yesterday how a lanken solider faced his farewell. People started crying to the manner north koreans mourned the loss of their leader. How come these people have been made that sensiTIVE: I think there are few among us ARE that whole hearted.

                    Max is back right. ? My headache goes up… unfortunatley, I have to call my Dispensary to provide me with enough Asprine.

                    I thought the guy was taken away by Rajapakshe men.

                    However today his tune has been not that high as had been few months ago.

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                I can see that he is psychotic and cannot help being what he is. I attack him because I enjoy it. It hones my writing skills. There is no malice. It is only a game for me.

                But I must thank Samuel, leela, bunjikirilli et al for making me see reality. They have turned me from a Rajapaksa to a Rajapaksa loyalist just by their abusive comments. Perhaps, these people are doing this purposely. They are really, strong Rajapaksa supporters who are using negative propaganda to convert people like me.

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                  Correction: They have turned me from a Rajapaksa opponent to a Rajapaksa loyalist….

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                    Is that that easy to turn you that way.. there you proved yourself.. you are a born stupid person.
                    Nothing can help you heal in this life.

                    So what about villagers of Mathugama area ? You are an easy example to see that lankens in general are easy targets for vicious politicians.

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              Just counter attacks of your vomits only. Nothing valuable seem to be in your contents. On long run, if one woudl know your wording (nazi, german, toiletarians, Sam, Leela,-bla bla… guy may be fantacising about coming to Europe and in order to continue his all day long job here ? European clean their toilets by themselves, no hired people would be necessary, may well be Italy you coudl have chances. ). How can a man in 70ties to repeat like a teenager ?

              Let this be the last line. From this day onwards, I will just ignore you. So would many that find you as the most abusive among the many keep positing on this CT:
              We the ones worked for chased away of the power intoxicated Rajas would never be backward to proceed our mission – which is to build up a country country to free from Raja et al.
              DJ s thoughts are inconsistent. I know he writes well, but as an academic he could do lot more, had he maintained a heart free of malice and jealousy. I dont mind you protecting him, but he is hardly welcome by anyone in today s politics. Nor had Rajakashe in his second term. That is why not many would praise his articles though compact with references rather than meaningful contents.
              I simply get hurt not seeing any human deveopment in my home country. That is why i get allergic to your comments mostly.

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                My Response: Please stop using highly abusive words such as Ballige Putha, Bugger on people you do not like. If you called anyone here in ME a Ballige Putha it is taken as an unforgivable insult and you are honor bound to kill the offender.

                I have explained why this word should not be used before but being a moron and a man who seems to be with a serious psychiatric disorder you have not listened to me.

                you have never been able to mention Rajapaksa without using this word as an adjective. It should not be used because it is an insult on the mother of the person, who is innocent of the wrong doing of her child.
                If you and your ka’s, incarnations and Avatars (the coaches of the Udarata Menike) stop using such words, I will do so too.

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                  I am just a follower only. We woul dnot stop anything so long if you would not behave appropriately.
                  We are not the ones who got banned to CT not once several times.
                  Your wording is very hurtful.
                  So if anyone started we derogotary terms on you, we can use them whenever we cant tolerate your posts anymore. Basta.

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                    I am ready: “I am just a follower only.” Follower of whom?

                    “We would not stop anything so long if you would not behave appropriately”. Ha! Ha! Is that an echo in the Swiss mountains?

                    As I said I am ready for battle. But don’t go to Mama crying “Mama, Edwin has been naughty” when you cannot stand the heat of the battle.” You and the whole Udarata menike train coaches are sissies. I am not going to behave properly. Let that be understood. I am going to be very very improper.

                    The only thing that you can do better than me is in the toilet department. You are no match for me either in intellect or in verbal battles.

                    Let the battles begin! You can fire the next salvo.

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              Edwin be assured that you are not a headache for CT readers. On the contrary, your take on politics, electricity generation and everything else, is nothing short of delightful.

              I was not aware that your knowledge extended to the cleanliness of German toilets. There is simply nothing Germans fear more than unhygienic lavatories. Although many studies have shown that the main source of bacterial infection is the refrigerator, Germans remain far more concerned about the bathroom. They have nightmares about Schimmel (damp mildew mould), whose spores they might breathe in. URM, please sit up and take note.

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                Taraki, Thanks a lot for that comment. I understand that this is not a Dharma discussion forum. But to go on incessantly insulting any human being in that manner crosses all civilized boundaries.

                I visited Germany in 1986 with my family and as you say, I found it to be clean as a whistle including the toilets. The Westerners do not use water to clean their persons after using the toilet. Thus we have spick and span toilets but unclean Germans, which is exactly the opposite of what we have in SL.

                To know that our people like Samuel were responsible for the cleanliness of German Public Toilets is an honour and iam proud of them as a fellow Sri Lankan, irrespective of their, race, caste and religion.

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                  Stop Edwin

                  I thought you would have been changed.

                  Please dont attack me the way you have been on and on. If you really want to stay decent Okay why should I be a toilet cleaner just because I live BACK and FORTH in Germany. Lack of proper info have made you even stupidier… from what you have been uttering that reflect easily.

                  Not just GERMANS but westerners dont use water in toilets but they are used to take a shower almost everyday. I hate to see ME countries using water in Toilets each time waiting for my transit down there.

                  Anyways, youve got an affinity to the TOILETTs from the begining on for some hidden reasons. I really dont know why. Thanks fore being decent by your way… it can be like expecting pigs to fly.

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                  This Imbecile has again the audacity to call Europeans as dirt, even if he has been working as slave for them but under Middle East. Edwin please the name of god, please think twice before leaving your thrash on to this valuable forum. Not just Germans, almsot everywhere in the world today, they would not use WATER in public toilets. Only in ME countries, I see them very often, but hygenically it is even more dangerous since germs can easily be spread if the places left to be moist. This man not hving the basics on Biology to add the kind of statements are beyond my comphrehension. How can a man just visited once to Germany make the kind of statmeents.
                  Go and see maradana toilets, there you the kind men can even sleep inside, next to the heaps of kakka left by your like minded fellows. Going back to my past, when I was a schooler, I once happened to go to a toilet in Maradana.. there, i thought, it was the hell really. They dont maintain public toiletts at all but talk about becoming or making SL a singpore. Our folks would never see it right. They are just born KAMMALIYAS. No productivity reached to the levels that to be called as we are marching to turn this nation a singapore. But as Edwin himself has got, almsto every one is filled with an inferiority complex as no other folks. That is the cancerous problems the nation is entwined with.

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                How can a man of ER nature to be assured ?. He has been like that and he will end up with that.
                This guy has abosolutely not the least respect to fellow men. From what he has been adding to this forum is connected with incoherent interpretations.

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                  MsMaralathoni, there is a way to assure my nature. Let out a big maralathoniya if I ever step on your toes.

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                    No way, we dont allow dogs to even reach to our territories easily. Just trespass can be a punishable act. Please mind your wording for the sake of decent CT readers. Decnecy should be a not known to your voccabulary: Is not that so ?

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                      You mean dogs and Toiletarians not allowed? Decency? with you, the coaches of Uda Rata Menike? No way Hose! If you don’t like it don’t address anything to me (Edwin). I never addressed you first.

                      I don’t like to deal with minins like you. I deal directly with your boss, the locomotive of the train. If it is not still clear to you, I direct my comments to your boss, Samuel only. But if other riff raff come barging in to the arena and get hurt, don’t run to Mummy crying foul!

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                Taraki,

                . Pigs might fly if the kind of EDWIN would ever learn it. He does not know even what he has been talking about. One behind the other only attacks of his style. So it is better to focus on our issues rather than getting upset or wasting time on his BS..

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              Edwin,

              the question ABUSE would have been passed to Mahinda Rajapakshe, there he too would not know it.
              That is why you have much in common with the man et al.

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                Who are you Buramphisincho, littlesomething or the other, Maralathoni, Simon De Silva. Did I address you first? No. Never. Get lost. I talk to the Underworld (Patahala) Boss Berlinwale Samuel Aiya only. What is the problem Samuel. You cannot deal with me alone? What kind of Underworld boss are you.

                Just because you clean Nazi toilets together it does not mean you have to get involve the whole gang for every little thing.

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      What a stupid matta your Gamini! In the court verdict it was very clearly said, to the tune of “no a single cent has gone into his personal pocket”. LW was a brilliant govt servant who got trapped into a political witch hunt. Gamini is a raja matta who cant see anything without wearing his UNP spectacles!

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        Gamini is a decent soul. No attacks on him please.

        We perfectly know how you guys discussed issues few months ago on this forum.

        UNPrs are much more decent to date than Rajapkshe backing men.

        Just come with good arguments, no matter the bond scam has been your issue above anything else, but no doubt, UNP will reveal you all the bits of high profile fund grabs of Rajathuma et al in the near future.
        There Gota or any one in that family will surely end up in a jail than becoming a leader in next parliament.

        Jaya niyathayi… we will succeed it no doubt abou tthat.

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        Max
        Yeah but the “not a single cent….” part had nothing to do with the verdict. He was found guilty for criminal misappropriation, according to the High Court Judge “beyond a reasonable doubt and the accused had committed the offence dishonestly with the intention of gaining undue advantage to a particular Presidential candidate.” Further he was ordered to pay Rs.50 million to TRC in lieu of losses incurred and another two million rupees. I wonder whether he paid this amount????? He was sentenced to 3-year rigorous imprisonment but he never spent one day in the prison. I believe that he is on bail, an undue privilege accorded to a wealthy top government official by the same court which delivered a verdict for him to be in prison for 3 years.

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          Champa saddest truth in this country is – even if court verdict is given that clearly.. they just deny to name his as a criminal…

          He is absolute a high criminal.. I dont have any sympthy to the kind of personaliteis. Besides the man LW is a most known back licker by his nature. And the talks given in Lanken TV made him a public fool. Always had been praising his master as no other. These men had no brains. I do nt think they will earn it next. Just to promote their thugism, they did almost everything.
          Abused his secretariat as no other.
          But was not able to hold records on Prez vehicle pool. Even today there are reports that no whatsoever records were maintained whoeever whatever was publicly abused under this secretariat in the high days of MR.
          Now they have to see it, that they were born culprits.

          I never thought the kind of men would ever abuse the state to the manner they did. I am so fed up of the kind fo personalites. These men should find their last moment not in free, but in a cell… then only we can see justice is served.

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            Samson Gunwardhana
            What I don’t like to see is the double standards in the legal sector. One law to the poor man and another law to the rich.
            There were so many people who were sentenced to 1-9 rigorous imprisonment. But they all went to jail directly as they don’t have money to hire top level lawyers who are good in twisting cases. If they had money they will also be on bail like Lalith W and who knows some can also visit foreign countries while on bail. This is not fair.
            Our prisons are full of poor and low income people while all the wealthy prisoners are in prison hospital by bribing doctors, and “some others.” Some ordinary people have decided to accept the jail term as they don’t have money to pay the exorbitant fines.
            Serving jail terms is now decided based on class and wealth. This is not fair.

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              I think immediately after having not gone to build rds but if they invested in building prisons could help for the future.
              I do believe, almost over 90% of lankens are highly corrupted so that they dont know what it means. That hs become like their genetics.
              Just talk to your cricles there you will not be surprised, if anyone would be attacked, easily for no reasons therewill be many that will back you.
              But for some good issues, not many would support you.
              Alone the corruptoin issues, in wihch millions have been exchanged between politicans and company holders have long been part of lanken abusive culture. That would not have been abusive if they were properly documented.
              Like not having proper drainage systems colombo circles get submerge following heavy rain- explains everything.
              Entire lanka has turned out to be a toilett.
              YYesterday I heard former Prez talking about corurptoin and murders.
              Can you imagine ? With Derana and Hiru standing to tape it… are these men reborn ?
              Murders and corrupution were institutionalized by MAFIA BOSS for a period of 10 years.

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        What about you Max, why on earth you back criminals rather than standing against them ?
        So you should be the king of fools right ?
        Why on earth you go after these vicious men if you have a brain the size of a mustard seed ?
        Max wake up, not even worms would leave you some respect if you would move the way you have been.
        Rajapakshes have now joined to the ultra hell for all what they have deliberateyl made to this nation. But you guys, just becing nail biting gulliable folks, to be caught by their tricks ? Man, wake up

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      Gamini…

      The sake of GOD, if RW abused Silredi or anythign else, these men would corner him to all levels, but a man of high cirminal nature – none othe rthan MR to have done that is tolerable to them.

      I think lankens in general so stupid. They are on sale jsut for a rice packet. I have no repsect to my fellow sinahalya anymore. That is why I dont want to return to home country.

      So long Rajapkshe rascals are part of lanken active politics, we will never see a decent society down there. Only criminals will get bred day to another. Drug traffickers would pump billions into Rajapakshe election campaigns. No displine would be introdcued to growing up youth .. so the result would be taking a country to SOMALIA:
      Ask the man how he would gap up the debts , would be replying with … by reducing 20% taxes.. how come ?
      Just an antoher election gimmick to the same stupid gawky folks.

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      The holy truth must be there is none who came close to Mahinda Rajapakse that did not become a thief. there is nothing that came close to Basil rajaoakse that was not stolen.

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      Lalith W was a pomous man as no other. I remember the man how he just arrived in BMICH for a summit meeting.
      There I thought bone licking dogs behave no difference to him.
      How can a man, who has never taken records even on Presidential vehicle pool to be named as ” brilliant “.
      Even that Silredi and other untold and yet unrevealed incidents, the man was the master mind being close to Rajapakshe.
      Rajapakshes was made up by LW for his own inability.
      These both are said to be class mates going back to their schooling.
      However, they themselves proved to be bunch of thugs, who would not care about rule and law in this country.
      Until to the, there had been no such huge corruption in lankan poltics.
      I thought Mr Premadasa was the highly corrupted person. But MR broke all records as no other.
      Most abusive thing is even after them being proved BLACK and WHITE none of them respect court verdicts.

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      Let s make it in short,

      if we had a JUSTICE system with rigorous law enforcement, no doubt both LW and MR should long have been LOCAL prisoners.

      Mr Nagananda K would clarify you lot more if you guys would not get it yet.
      Lanken law and order systems are no means CLEAN.

      How come LW was released on bails while thousands of innocient ones are jailed for years for some petty cases.

      Here the exchanges went up to millions if not billions, but THEY ARE NOT JAILED WHY ?

      Can we say JUSTICE and COURT ORDERS are independent in this country even today ?

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      Shamelessness has no bounderies in DJ’s profile. Else not a little brain can see it the way he praises it. How come ?

      I have not the least clue to see, as to why DJ or anyone with even a basic Uni DEGREE to fall the level of Wimal Weerawanse ? Meaning Wimal W would just utter blatant lies even if facts and figures with prima facie evidence lie somewhere else..
      That is a great insult to anyone that ended up with Uni education.
      Here the problem has been. DJ is the best example, failed to filter from goods from the bads. That should be very pathological- unfortunately the truth.

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    “The Troika’s managerial excellence was building on the policy equation and axis with Delhi decided upon by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.”
    I fully agree. From 2005 – 2010, it was Mahinda Rajapaksa’s decision . That is why Sri Lanka managed to see the war ending successfully not to mention the pivotal role played by the Foreign Ministry without any accolades; to disable almost all Geneva Resolutions when they were at the discussion level through extensive lobbying among counterparts and interlocutors.
    .
    However, the problem started, I think, when the decision making was taken away from Mahinda and the utter deterioration of the quality of the Foreign Service during the period 2010-2015 due to irritating continuous political interference of the Presidential Secretariat and Temple Trees, as was the topic of the media/alternate media at the time.
    .
    Otherwise, I don’t think it would have been a big challenge for the Foreign Ministry to deactivate “post-war” Geneva Resolutions which masterfully handled all “pre-war” Geneva issues even when the megalomaniac Prabhakaran was alive and the overseas LTTE propaganda machine was at its peak performance. I know nothing about Troika, but it is pretty obvious that the failure to defeat Geneva Resolutions in 2012, 2013, 2014, as done in the pre-war period, should be a direct result of Presidential Secretariat’s arrogance in sidelining and downgrading Foreign Ministry to a mere post office and taking “diplomatic issues” in their “undiplomatic” hands.

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    Dr. DJ, two things that LW does not talk about in his article 1) what assurance did the Troika had from India before meeting the Indian counterparts, and 2) What happened in 2014 that the India went hellbent against Rajapakshas, I believe Shankar Menon’s book “Choices” say that between the lines.
    If that Troika could end 30 years of civil war under MR, why cannot they win an economic war with Gotabaya? I am certain he/they can.

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      wannihami

      “If that Troika could end 30 years of civil war under MR, why cannot they win an economic war with Gotabaya? I am certain he/they can.”

      Hindians were right behind Sri Lanka and supported her every step of the way from early 2005.

      We know being stupid little islander you like to claim war victory to yourself. What else these little islanders have achieved over the past 70 years, crooks, war criminals, more crooks, more war criminals, saffron clad thugs, …………………………… liars, inertia and corruption driven public service, a noisy minority which envies the achievements of others, burns down properties and businesses of others on a regular basis including public library, … ……………………………

      Since you have no achievement that you noisy minorities could claim as yours Hindians donated a victory hoping to make you silly stupid people feel self confident. It didn’t.

      You silly little islanders, ill-informed and suffer from a lot of things, paranoia, varieties of envies, spiteful, ………………, p***s envy,

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    Lalith weerathunga was a highly abusive prez secretary we ever had. But as it is the unique to see, him as one of the good secretaries, is no surprise to us.
    I WONDER WHY YOU as an academic to see things so different to any others.
    Either your nature has been twisted by your genetics or you cant see it beyond.
    How can a man who never had held records of the presidential secretariat to be called as one of the best… by a guy who represented srilanka to outside world.. not to poor africa but being a diplomat in EUROPE.
    I wonder if the time has reached Dayan Jayathilaka to go and see his nearest neurologist. I really dont kno why this bugger behaves so abusively just because his personal childhood vendetta guide him that revengeful against RW.
    DJ; please let us know when you would ever grow up.
    Lanken nation would be very grateful to you if you through your pen or cesspit would not mislead anymore.
    THanks, had your respectable father been alive today, he would HAVE to suffer live not being able to see his own blood work for the very same folks to whom father rendered a yeoman service.

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    Dayan buddy,

    So, I take it that you are not heading to Moscow …. eh? :)) …….Man, your life must be one heck of a series of disappointments!

    “Jayewardene administration suffered when it rightly attempted to defeat the LTTE in 1987.”

    What song were you singing in 1987 with Annamalai Varadaraja Perumal? Surely you didn’t want the colonising imperialist “Sinhalese” government of SL to defeat the Tamils then? Your Smart Patriotism had a treacherous element back then! :)) …….. When exactly did the Road to Damascus conversion takes place?

    ” the Vadamaarachchi operation, the Indians would not have intervened to stop us, because Delhi would have had something to balance off Tamil Nadu.”

    What a load of hogwash! …. India would never have helped us to overcome the “Tamils” if Prabakaran did not bump-off Rajive (even after the IPKF was kicked out, India was still on the side on the “Tamils”…… Rajive’s death irrevocably changed India’s support/stance) The “Tamil insurgency” was a creation of India; fully aided and abated ……… to counter JR’s tilt towards the US ……….. they wanted to control the whole damn shebang but Prabakaran was his own man; uncontrollable. …….after 30 years India’s initial reasons for the “Tamil insurgency” had changed ……….. the US was no longer a threat but an ally ……..with Prabakaran around secession of TN was real …

    Although unsung (perhaps never appreciated in the future) Prabakaran is the greatest patriot to emerge out of SL ……..with or without him there would still have been a “Tamil insurgency” ……… but he did not let India control it to destroy SL.

    The greatest threat to SL is their own “Sinhalese” leaders/rulers ………. they have done the most damage to the country but the “Sinhalese” are too dumb to realise it …….. and turn around and thank them for it! :))))))

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      continued

      Prabakaran fought not only for the Tamils but for the Sinhalese too! ……..He kept them safe from Gota’s White-vans …….the rulers had to have the populace on-side to fight the war ……. after good ol’ Prabakaran bit the dust the “Sinhalese” felt the full brunt of their rulers “Goodness” after 2009 ……..

      And that’s a true history lesson from someone who has never even sat in a History class. Bugger all the “Historians!”

      Any of you buggers out there want to argue this out?

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        Nimal F,
        “Prabakaran fought not only for the Tamils but for the Sinhalese too! ……..He kept them safe from Gota’s White-vans “
        A truer word has not been spoken .
        Let’s see what the super-patriots say.

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          Prabakaran fought not only for the Tamils but for the Sinhalese too.
          That is true
          I think Ranil was the best.
          He allowed PAbakakran to get rid of Tamils slowly. but, Mahinda Rajapakse ruined it.

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            Jimson
            Oh yeah Ranil tried to separate North from the rest of the country and awarded it to Prabhakaran through CFA. Then he tried to do the same by introducing the Federal Constitution last year. Ranil tried to do what Prabhakaran couldn’t do for 30 years.
            Mahinda was able to keep North and South together by defeating LTTE.

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          Sadly I have to agree with Nimal Fenando.

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          oldcodger
          What’s that mean? “Prabakaran fought not only for the Tamils but for the Sinhalese too! ……..He kept them safe from Gota’s White-vans “

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          OC,

          The irony is …….. there is a perverse masochism pervading all third-word (primitive societies’) “liberation-struggles.” …….. People seem to like to be abused/brutalized by their own kind but not outsiders. This is what happened to us ………. we didn’t like the real or perceived abuse by the colonial English ……. so, we got ourselves “liberated” from the English and handed ourselves to our own kind the “Sinhalese” …….. and they have abused/brutalized us as much as or more than any colonial ever did. ……….I don’t know about others but if I am abused and brutalized …….. I am abused and brutalized ……….I don’t get any consolation/pleasure if it’s done my own kind the “Sinhalese” and not the colonial English. ……….

          But as you can read here many like to be abused/brutalized by their own kind. :)) …………

          And then tomorrow will try to get into an ex-colonial’s outpost by any hook or crook ………. including the great patriots Rajapakses, Fonsekas, ……..

          The “English” and their “outposts” are judged not by how they treat “outsiders” ………… but by how they treat their own people ……… the societies they have built/created for themselves.

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            Continued

            Look at the society we “Sinhalese” have created for ourselves!

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              nimal fernando
              Don’t worry, Sinhalese themselves will change it for the better. I hope that voters will not listen to politicians at the next Presidential election and take independent decisions when voting.

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                “Sinhalese themselves will change it for the better.”

                Oh yeah! ……….For sure. :)))

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        Tamil nimal fernando
        Argue about what? About your announcement that Prabhakaran is a patriot???????
        There is nothing much to say.
        Check the following and tell me if Prabhakaran has come to the street whether he would be lucky to receive a warm reception/farewell and a touching display of true emotions, affection and warmth from Tamil people which they have shown to Commander of the Civil Security Department in Mullativu, Colonel Ratnapriya, who was on a transfer ????
        .
        http://www.adaderana.lk/news/47995/transferred-colonel-receives-an-emotional-farewell-by-former-ltte-cadres-

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          Champawathie.

          name of god please dont attack tamil bretheren. Let alone today you should better learn a lessoin from the gentle man who treated all tamils in that areas as his brothers, sons, daughters and relatives.
          That is why the great soldier for example was not easy to leave those people up there.
          You guys being part of Wimal Weeranase is mixed up with all racial bound fantasies against your own folks right ? Why ? Think twice before you attack anyone not thinking twice please.
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wtyXIWouOQ

          You are woman who has been delivering your services to former goons. and cheap as no other.. please try to treat everyone with equality.. dont give a chance to racism.. then you will automatically win the hearts of your dear customers.

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            Nonchikolamawathie
            What are you talking about? Quote and show me how did I attack Tamil “brethren”?
            I asked a simple question as to whether Prabhakaran will receive the same love, respect and warmth which was extended to Colonel Ratnapriya by rehabilitated LTTE cadre? The answer is NO!!!!
            How could my question be an attack. What racism is there?
            Ordinary Tamils never regard Prabhakaran, the butcher as a hero.
            I don’t see any difference between Nimal Fernando and Sivajilimgam both of whom try to portray Prabhakaran the savage who killed his own people, used his own cadre including child soldiers and innocent civilians who got caught in between as a human shield to save his life.
            And I read another news. Tamil fishermen have chased Mavai Senathirajah away from their protest. The protest to ban Sinhalese fishermen is unfair, but Tamils understanding the double face of TNA is a very good improvement.
            .
            About your last para: You, dung heap, you are not the only loser and may not be the last who will resort to gross slur when the debate is lost.

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          Champa
          at leaset VP lived and died for his people but you compare our leaders who made money during the war and after the war.Did our readers ever cared for us?

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            This i sa very good point.. Nimal. Thanks.

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            ‘at least VP lived and died for his people’……………. by hiding behind women and sending children to die for him?

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              Paul

              “……………. by hiding behind women and sending children to die for him?”

              Exactly what the members of armed forces did from 1971 to 2015.

              Could you give us the average age of the troops who died in 44 years of war.
              Where did the armed forces hide when IPKF invaded the island, behind women folks, VP’s bum and LTTE’s baby brigade.

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                Keyboard City Vedda
                IPKF didn’t invade, they were invited by JRJ.
                Using IPKF to fight with LTTE, which used women and children extensively, was a brilliant tactic of JRJ to disarm LTTE and save the lives of our Army and the civilians. During the 3 year period they were in the North, it is reported that no Army dead bodies came to South but around 1,200 IPKF soldiers were killed.
                It says, they have become a headache to LTTE and also disgusted by Tamils as they were allergic to personal hygiene.

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                  Champa ……………………..the oldest profession

                  “IPKF didn’t invade, they were invited by JRJ.”

                  I am not going sit here and write the history of Operation Poomalai by the Hindian Air Force. Its is for you to look for the information that explains what led to the IPKF invasion.

                  Wimal Sangili Karuppan Weerawansa is incapable of educating you nor himself. Therefore try educating yourself independently. CT and google should do the trick.

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                    Keyboard Vedda
                    Google is not my friend. There are many documents Google missed.
                    I pity you as you have admitted that your knowledge is only confined to Google and CT.
                    A large number of scholars have written articles to CT based on their opinion and some based on other people’s opinions (list of their references is proof.) But don’t forget that there were many occasions where some minions who have no doctorates have challenged the arguments of those writers and presented a totally different or a new point of view of the subject.

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                      Champa

                      “I pity you as you have admitted that your knowledge is only confined to Google and CT.”

                      Well I haven’t admitted anything as far as education is concerned. I am not going to let you remain a stupid for the rest of your life hence I am providing you some information on Operation Poomalai.
                      Please type the following in Google:

                      India’s decision to airdrop supplies over Jaffna opens up a diplomatic Pandora’s box
                      DILIP BOBB June 30, 1987 UPDATED: January 7, 2014 12:25 IST
                      http://www.indiatoday.in

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            Nimal
            Excuse me, VP lived and died for his people? How? By killing almost all leading Tamil politicians? By killing Prime Ministers/Presidents? By forcibly recruiting child soldiers? By training innocent young women as suicide bombers? By massacring innocent civilians including babies, pregnant mothers, elders, school children, Buddhist samaneras, villagers, office workers, policemen, army men?
            Why didn’t Prabhakaran swallow the cyanide capsule? He even tied cyanide capsules around the necks of innocent 5 year old child soldiers ordering them to swallow it if captured but he himself didn’t take it? Coward!

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            Nimal
            Who made money during the war? The war was a money making machine for many for 30 years but Mahinda stopped it by eliminating LTTE that saved a colossal amount of tax payers money.
            Our former leaders since 1970 I think cared about people except the present “dabala (duo).” Only problem was they ruled the country keeping their eyes on future elections. All their plans were aimed at winning elections. They only wanted to show “something” some development to hoodwink people. That was the reason for reckless debt mountain accumulated since Independence.

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            VP lived? Yeah, he did. On the food sent for the Tamil civilians by the ‘Sinhala’ government, paid for by ‘Sinhala’ tax payers . And also the daily chicken curry he had in his last meal with that day’s suicide bomber.

            Life and Death of VP: VP died? Yeah sure, he died. He was shot by an Army Pvt Nimal Maharage (GCE OL 3A + 5S) like a pig, while trying to escape abandoning all his mates. He died for his people licking the boots of Nimal and saying ‘Aiya Samy. Andavne. I will not kill Shingala Muniya meeta passé.’ All that humiliation he went through was for the freedom of the Tamil people.

            What a great HERO!

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          “Tamil nimal fernando”

          So that’s your argument? The best you could do, eh? ………….. the quintessential mind-set of a Lankan adult! That’s why you guys are such easy prey. ………….. I rest my case and let the readers decide. :))

          Gal, I see that your reputation in the forum is stellar …………. I always just write some crap to ruffle feathers to expose the typical mind-set of the Lankan adult ……… their inability to think for themselves; independently

          That’s the least I could do. :))

          Whatever we do Lanka is doomed anyway ……………..

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            nimal fernando
            What else could I think? A Sinhalese never think Prabhakaran is a patriot and that he fought for Tamil and Sinhalese. That is fluent rubbish.
            Alright, I read the second para only now. What are your saying? You write crap to ruffle feathers? Oh, buddy, you can do much better.

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              Champa,

              “A Sinhalese never think Prabhakaran is a patriot”

              Alright, then who should a “Sinhalese” consider a patriot? Give me one name.

              Please please please ………. Just one name?

              All you have to do is just give one name and not a word more.

              The ball is in your court ………… I hope you have the courage to give an answer.

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                nimal fernando
                Why one, I can give over 100,000. (This list is what came to my mind. There is no particular order.)
                .
                — 28,708 Army patriots who sacrificed their lives to defend the country from terrorists.
                — 40,107 Army patriots who sacrificed their limbs, eyesight and hearing for the country.
                — All the others in armed tri forces who served in the North and East during LTTE war.
                — King Dutugemunu
                — Monarawila Keppetipola Adhikarama
                — Ven. Wariyapola Sri Sumangala Thero
                — Ven. Kudapola Unnanse
                — Gongalegoda Banda
                — Weera Puran Appu
                — Hasalaka Gamini Kularatne
                — Wimal Weerawansa
                — Mahinda Rajapaksa
                — Ven.Kappetiyawe Siri Wimala Nayake Thero, Gatambe Temple
                — Ven. Bengamuwe Nalaka Thero
                — Ven. Elle Gunawansa Thero
                — Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera
                .
                I stop here. If you want, I can give lot more names whom Sinhalese regard as patriots.

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                  Champa,

                  “— Wimal Weerawansa
                  — Mahinda Rajapaksa”

                  Ha ha ha ha ………….I can’t just stop laughing! ……….Are you for real?

                  Why were they hidden in the middle; not at the very top? That says something; isn’t it?

                  Like I said, the quintessential mind-set of the Lankan adult ……….. :)))

                  You made my day!

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                    nimal fernando
                    Learn to read and understand before replying, you jumping jack.
                    Didn’t I say at the very beginning that (This list is what came to my mind. There is no particular order.)
                    .
                    Hey hey hey, hold on hold on, you challenged me to give a single name of a patriot and I gave 100,000 names of patriots but you have picked up my favourite patriots in that order. Thank you, dude!!!!! They are the heart and soul of patriots. They are the centre-core of Sinhalese. But they both are arrogant and stubborn. Sometimes they need a “soft tokka.”

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                      I feel your pain sis! ….. :))

                      Only 2 contemporary “patriots’ ” names, eh?

                      Do you realize, your reply itself proved my point?

                      I am just toying with you …….and letting your replies make a fool of yourself ……..I don’t want to say more and hurt ye feelings.

                      Do you realize ……. out of all the people in the forum that only you walked into this? ………. ##### rush in where angels fear to tread. :))

                      You guys are such easy prey. :))) ………. it’s embarrassing.

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          Champawathi,

          Prabakaran is a freedom fighter or patriot for them, but to other he was a terrorist.
          Like wise, you call Mahinda Rajapakshe is a patriot for us he is highly abusive power intoxicated rascal and an extremist that spread rasicsm in a fine manner across the country. So were JVPrs to average eye in the country in 89, looking at the manner they killed over 50 k youth across the country as was the case in Ruwanda tutsi folks. ::: it is just you call someone patriot, but we call the same man as most abusive… and anti-patriot but abuse s the nation for their political gains only.

          Wimal Ponnaya Buruwanse is a beloved bed partner to you, but to us those who look at his reactions being out of the country, is more or less like a school drop out whose knowledge is far from a 10 year old but his emotions and rhetorics can outreach the gallery of nation who is the majority in this country.
          Gotabaya Rajapakshe is provable multi murderer, highly aggressive srilanken came into being in recent times. He is supported by all the rascals and high criminals in the coutry, since he takes their side always.
          Lasantha Weerathunga s case is coming up… that will be instrumental in cornering GR in the near future.

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            Desperate Sinhalaya
            You Desperate Booruwa, if Wimal is a ponnaya how could he has a bed partner, Booruwo?
            Your argument lacks logic. Prabhakaran was a proven bloodthirsty terrorist. But any of the allegations hurled at Mahinda is not proven and will never be able to prove as they are unsubstantiated. The difference can be understood by any booruwa.
            However, the Unity government including the PM has proved beyond doubt with their own official smoking guns and admissions by “athe-caught (caught in the act)” politicians that they are the biggest corrupt rogues in Sri Lanka’s Parliamentary and political history.

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    Yes, right thinking should come before ‘right action’ particularly on the national question. Just bringing ‘doers’ into the scene could create a major impasse in the national question and thus in foreign relations. ‘Doing’ was finally necessary to defeat terrorism, but sustainable peace required right thinking. This was the mistake or the blunder after the end of war. Are we set to repeat history more catastrophically?

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      LF,

      I suppose it was right thinking that made you propose honorary doctorates to the Rajapaksas at the University of Colombo, after they had presided over murders and abductions, including that of journalists, a VC and MP’s.

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      Doers are on a shortage in the country, Dont you think so ?

      If they are the doers, prez should long have exercised his power to allow high culprits to be arrested.
      Not even the ones perpetrated Thadjudeen murders are arrested. Why?

      I saw Yoshita Rajaakshes video s in circulation, not to have done anything wrong by him in that doctored accident as reported by previous govt.
      Rajapakshes are proved to be pietyless leaders. In the same time, lanken law bound authorties seem to have no backbone to catch them by horns. Enough is enough. time has come to arrest these men.
      Then only, we can see, justice is served under current Duo.

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    Very pompous ! A Castro fan quoting the Buddha ! A little learning has become dangerous to a shallow mind.
    Anything can be argued and justified if you don’t have principles.Follow Castro, Premadasa and Rajapakse ! Did you accept a posting in Moscow , or even consider a posting under this government-Foreign Minister Maropane ?

    Rajapakse wants you to cover up Weeratunga’s criminal trail ?Even that Kamal Gooneratne is a military expert like this man is an exert on foreign affairs.
    This is like a man who has had several marriages claiming he is an expert on sex because he has had relationships with so many women ! But the truth is all these women have left him in disgust.

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    Please the Deities in Delhi;
    That is what it is all about..
    Dr Ranil and and his Buddy Mallika are well on their way there, with the juicy Offerings in the ETCA Pooja Basket..
    Either our great majority of the Inhabitant population are f******.
    Unless they are on Aloysiou’s Santhosams.
    Or work in one his 24 Enterprises,
    Or Dr Ranil’s mates Tyre Factories, Hoax wagon Assembly Lines and in the 20 thou Suare Metre kool room in Badulla..
    After picking Carrots and Broccoli for Elite ,Anglican and Vellala Dinning Rooms in Colombo.

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      KASmaalam K A Sumanasekera

      What is ETCA?

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        Dear Native,
        You got a point mate,
        It should be ETBCSI..
        Economy Technology Business & Commerce Surrender to India.
        Dr Ranil’s Master Plan to F*** up the great majority ,the Sinhala Buddhist Influence in Lankawe.
        In order for Dr Ranil to rule with the help of the Minorities and the Elie, Anglican Vellala and the Wahabbi Faction, with the Hindians providing Logistics support from Trincomale and Mattala…..

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          KASmaalam K A Sumanasekera

          “Economy Technology Business & Commerce Surrender to India.”

          You tend to forget your citizenship status. As far as the Hindians are concerned Sri Lanka is the Sinhala state of Hindia.

          If Sri Lanka is the Sinhala state of Hindia what is there to surrender?
          Hindians aren’t demanding you to surrender your amude however they believe the entire island is part of Akhand Bharat.

          Don’t you think you have problem with understanding certain political concepts?
          Just visit Hindian High Commission in Colombo, Badulla, Hampantotta, Jaffna, …………. and the resident RAW officer at Colombo. Is he still living at Governor Rohitha Bogollagama’s let property?

          Deepthi Bogollagama must be an expert on public relation exercise.

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    Out of three one was busy swindling the country. I must say all three. Fortunately, Sarath fonseka had trained people and he had experience living under tress in the jungle. So, a colonel who had LTTE war experience and his eldest brother could trust him. CFA weakened the LTTE heroes as they got big bellies and the taste of a luxury family life. So, war won. but, none of the politicians was ready for POST WAR ACTIVITIES. So, LTTE brigadiers whi ran away, Tamil – Catholic church, Protestant NGOs and the SPy agencies that wanted a piece of Sri lanka were busy. Mahinda Rajapakse was busy claiming the victory for what gotabhaya Rajapakse and three forces did. They repsected fonseka by taking him to jail by pulling away him from one of his leg.
    Lalith Weeratunga and Anusha PAlpita are out because, I think, Mahinda Rajapakse said, it was MY ORDER.
    the war analysis what everybody did just after and before the war completely a different one.
    Dayan Jayathilake knows the truth. I think he wants fool tamils again.
    Say, why TNA is missing and there are news reports which say even their Tamil drivers had the opportunity to claim profits of the bond scam.
    What is thid Troika. Is it Basil Rajapakse. did he do anything except swindling money. He had lot of money under him. Where are the results /

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    Isn’t the setting up of Provincial Councils the implementation of Amendment 13 ??? Isn’t that the power behind the minority Tamil politicians who are shooting their mounths against the majority Sinhalese every which way now ??

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    Dayan Jayathilake: I heard that formerly PTL owned WM Mendis Liquer PAckaging plant is to be closed again and the owner had said IT is because Because Mahinda Rajaopakse has the majority ownership. Mahinda Rajapakse had heard this and had said, IT is not me, Basil rajapakse who said, I am not the one gotabhaya Rajapakse. so, what do you think Naml Rajapske had asked the Uncle to consdier him if he is selling it.

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      Jim softy the dimwit

      What are we discussing in this forum now?

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        That Ranil could not beomce PResident in 1999, 2005 after that he di dnot want to come bck again. so Sarath fonseka was ridiculed. Now, do yo think Ranil will come ? IT may be Maithripala and Ranil again. Because, the grandest theft in Sri lankan history, and one among world’s highest robbiers is justified for voters.

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    11 sept attack changed the world opinion on terrorism entirely which was a huge advantage Rajapakse had! Dayan your selective writing is really disgusting to read and you think
    we will simply swallow your opinion. We were breathing easily that you will go to Russia or Siberia so that you won’t have time to write this rubbish jay

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    if the troika mahinda basil and gota had shown the same dexterity in winning the peace as they did in the war things might have been different
    instead they wasted time putting the worlds greatet army commander in jail
    did sil redi agree to this
    time he took to the robes in recompense for pilfering a great deal of public money
    pambaya ranil has forgtten about this

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    Did Buddha teach ‘Right Mindfulness’ or just ‘Mindfulness’ ? In the midst of current confusion we should be extremely cautious about the available ‘Punditry’. Could we not appeal to India’s magnanimity to remove the anomalies contained in the 13th. Amendment, that hinders its implementation, especially in the light of the fact it was imposed upon us through ‘gunboat diplomacy’?

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      Mindfulness: Q: Did Buddha teach ‘Right Mindfulness’ or just ‘Mindfulness’ ?
      A: Buddha recommended ‘Right Mindfulness’ – not just ‘Mindfulness’. Just as Karma can be divided in to opposite categories as Kusala Karma and Akusala Karma, Mindfulness can be divided in to Right ‘Right Mindfulness’ and ‘Mithya? Mindfulness”.

      ‘Right Mindfulness’ is the 7th item in the Arya Ashtangika Marga or the Noble Eight Fold Path, which if followed properly leads to the Understanding of the Ultimate Truth followed by Nirvana.

      Samma Sathi means the Satahara Sathipttana : (I) Kayanupassana, (ii) Vedanupassana (iii) Chittanupassana (iv) Dhammanupassana. That is all I can say in this limited space. I hope that was useful.

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        P.S.: Right Mindfulness is a rough translation of Samma Sathi. Generally, Pali words cannot be correctly translated in to single words of any other language. Sometimes they need volumes to give the correct meaning. That is how rich Pali is as a language.

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        Mr. Edwin Rodrigo
        The clarification seems convincing!

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          Clearing the Path: Chandra, if you want more expert details about Mindfulness, you may go to the following (http://www.nanavira.org/libraries/ctp_book_v1.pdf) and download the book Clearing the Path by Rev Nanavira. Page 149 of this book where the Rev Nanavira discusses a letter sent by a lay person, you will find an authoritative description of Sathi-Samaljanna.
          If you are a serious student of Buddhism this book is a must.

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        OMG – Mindfulness is being abused by Edwin today.

        How on earth the kind of creatures can just use the word ” mindful ness”: This man is no means welcome to any decent places. I question myself why the stupid person is that virulent?

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          I am generally virulent on stupid like you Sam. It is my way. Okay?

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        LANKENs in general start with Mindfulness in their later day life. They dont care about anything in that line through out their lives, but in the days where their 5 senses have been weakened then they just join… THAT IS NOT THE CORRECT PRINCIPLES of BUDDHISTS.
        These men just twist buddha* s teachings for their abusive cultures. Like for example, lately, I heard a man with a record of crimes – departing the other by saying ” Budusarnayi”: Who knows if the man was heading to his next contract killing… that is sadly the culture down there in that part of the world today.

        It is now the right time for Edwin Rodrigos to start with it. This is very right wiht lanken typical style.

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        My foot !

        This man now abuse CT readers once again.

        How come a sodomite fall to the teach mindfulness ?
        Go and see in a mirror Mr Rodrigo. If anything else works, please contact your neurologist. That can for sure take you to a permanent healing.

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          Leelagemalli, have I ever abused you , sexually or otherwise. Oh, the foot! That is not your foot. That is my foot. And that is not sodomy. That is just my foot giving you a good kick in the ass.

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        Right Mindfulness — Samma Sathi (in Sinhala “Yahapath Sihiya, Smruthiya”) means proper thinking, self-possession, paying attention to one’s thoughts, behaviour and emotions and also others, avoid distraction, being aware of one’s action and having the right memory. In meditation, Samma Sathi means staying focused.

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      Chandra, to put it simply, Right Mindfulness means ‘Samma Sathi’. And ‘Samma Sathi’ means Right Mindfulness. I hope that this clears up any confusion in the minds of readers.

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    Lalith should take full responsibility for the deviations of Rajapakse. Take the case of exemplary civil servants like Bradmon Weerakoon Paskeralingam and Wijedasa who always advised their bosses on the legal way to do things. Lalith cannot hold a candle to them.

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      LAlith Weerstunga’s wife also had to quit after an Stock Exchange scandle.

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      Upali
      I fully agree with this. Secretary to the President is the highest civil service position. His duty is to guide the President to the right direction and offer his advice. A strong President like Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Secretary’s should also have been a strong man. The coward who was at Mahinda’s beck and call only put his boss in trouble and ruined his reputation.

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    A finest civil servant? Call him a finest slave of the cronies of Rajapakses including yourself DJ. Shame on you. Thanks to all you bunch of crooks that had the horrible, iron fist Rajapakse clan to crush, suck and squeeze the nation for many, many years!!!

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    Dayan Jayatilleka: Mention of Lalith Weeratunge in first para only is by no means a ‘Constructive Commentary’. In second para you say ~ “Lalith Weeratunga’s account of the Troika is the truth……..(but) not the whole truth……”. From then on it is all about oxymoronic Dayan truth.
    While talk talk Trioka you use we we we. Then you suggest ‘we’ as the meat in the sandwich. How low do you go Dayan?
    .
    Any luck with the Russo job?
    Tamara Kunanayaham has thrown her hat with a different interpretation of George Stigler.

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    Dayan Jayathilake. It is said that Troica had their won helicopters assigned to SL air force. Another contribution of theirs is that Mihin air line which went bankrupt within the first three months has an account of Dollar 300,000 in a Toronto Bank. Ranil had siad that it was Mahinda Rajapkse paying alimony for certain woman and she is preoaring to come back as a Nationalist list MP if Pohottuwa comes to power. another negative point is even Mihin iar’s symbol is phottuwa. So what do you think about SLPP. Mihin air has a similar account in England too I heard. that is again for a woman.

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    Democracy in modern usage, is a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or elect representatives from among themselves to form a governing body. (Wikepedia)
    In a democracy all citizens of an age above a stipulated limit have equal rights to vote in a lawful election for selecting representatives. They also have the right to campaign for whomever they like in such elections.
    I came to Sri Lanka in 2015 explicitly for the purpose of exercising this right and voted against the incumbent President Mahinda Rajapakse. However, I have gradually realized that I had made a big mistake by doing so. Democracy does not mean voting against the candidate you dislike most but rather, voting for the candidate you dislike least. So, I have decided to vote for Mahinda, or any other candidate supported by him, in the next Presidential elections.
    Democracy… while it lasts is bloodier than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. (John Adams)
    Our democracy is in death throes. It is better to take off the oxygen than allowing it to suffer in this way. And the best man to kill it off quickly and mercilessly is Mahinda. That is why he is my man. Any objections?

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    Dayan Jayatilleka
    81 Comments
    The Troika & The Truth: A Constructive Commentary On Lalith Weeratunga’s Testimony

    Dayan Jayatilleka: Where the hell was the ‘Troika’ when Lalith Weeratunga was facing the music. They did not lift a finger to help him. Instead they were carefully listening to the music played.
    And why did you not come up with your ‘constructive commentary’ then?

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    Dayan : If the Russo-job is not a hoax then your the two most important missions are:
    Get former Sri Lankan Ambassador Jaliya Wickremesuriya safe and sound home. The US Department of Justice is moving to indict him on money laundering charge.
    Get former Ambassador to Russia Udayanga Weeratunga who is accused by the Ukrainian government of arms sales to the separatist rebels fighting government forces in Ukraine.

    Why not share your plans with us Dayan?

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    Buddhism is about hypocrisy. One is allowed to think bad in the mind, but behave outside as sage. Pretentious Priestly life is plagued in Buddhism. Unless Buddhism is cured in Lankawe, the eloquent, dishonest talkers will be the masters.
    What is the impact of Military factor in corruption and government’s function?
    Without hiding behind the hypocrisy, will one of these learned people come out and accept that four Judges in a series resigned on Old Brother Prince case because of the ever growing military and its dominance over the civil life? Will they publicly accept New King dismissed Dilrukshi, because Army was blamed to Kegalle Jeyamanne’s death? Will somebody recognize Joint Comedy Club Chief’s threat that military will take over if Yahapalanaya introduce changes? I am not talking about the game military playing in North East. It is raping and murdering the poor ones and by threat staging one or two widows to cry for their withdrawal. That is not our point here. Our point is how the military is controlling the Government and court system directly in Colombo. Why these hypocrites are not accepting that fact. They want to keep Tamils under the military’s Jackboot. They want to keep borrowing & spending on Military. The excuse is they these days i India going to invade so they are preparing the military.

    If they accept their hypocrisy, first thing they will advise Yahapalanaya not to expand the 250,000 troop strong military in North East to 300,000 secretly, but disband and find job for these men and women in Middle East, and then the remittances will make country netter. The judges appointed to investigate the corruption cases will stay in the cases with fear and punish the criminals. Then the corruption will go down.

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    Lets straighten the India factor saving from Thero’s lies
    Let put the truth, a repeated one here many times, to neutralize Thero’s lies. Mrs. Gandhi was bringing up Sanjeev as the Prime minister, a smart but arrogant child. Rajeev too arrogant but dumb. When JVP up raise came, she sent the troops. This naturally that made her to feel Lankawe was obligated to her. But when Bengal war started Lankawe showed it nasty face by allowing Pakistan military planes in Lankawe. She excused and gave Katchativu to Sirimavo hoping again to bring the love of Lankawe. But Sirimavo invited China to build BMICH. Mrs. Gandhi lost hope but had her own problem and started to work on that. Then JR thinking Moraji’s Badu sweeter and called her a demon-ghost. JR, knowing her action in Bangladesh, tried makes friendship with America hoping that will annoy Mrs. Gandhi. He invited America to build a tower. She suspected that it was to spy on her and warned Lankawe to remove it. Earlier, Siva Kumaran and others struggles reached her. She took over the puny training camps under her government & set up additional training camps for those boys in TN. It had grown up to a much matured level. She was planning the boys as hounds only, but she was oiling her gun. According the news reached us at that time, as last check up, she visited to Thiruvananthapuram and Vijayawada to ensure the airbase and Naval bases were ready for coordinated to a single surprise shot to JR. It was not Tamils oriented, but if it had taken, certainly Tamils would be now being on different bargain level. It was Tamils’ fate when she went back, she was shot. Then Rajiv came and he was caught in many scandals. He undid many of her deed and reversed the policies too. His entanglements destroyed him too. Other than that JR had made no pre-deal with India for 13A; it is Thero’s lie.

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    The 13th Amendment has to be repelled as it is forced on us by Idiot Indian Government at that time and devolution of power to provinces are not required to a country like Sri Lanka in accordance with size and other geographical factors. After so many years of current level of Provincial councils, it is proved without any doubt that it is bane to development and utter waste of resources including so much of funds as Administrative cost to a country like Sri Lanka.
    Besides, people of Sri Lanka never asked such devolutions as they whether Sinhalese or Tamils or Muslims or any other living in this country asked Economic development to address their day to day reasonable living.
    The reconciliation is always there with ordinary masses of Sri Lanka and only a few unpatriotic Tamil politicaians started from 1933 asked for Elam, separate state, federalism and taken the unfortunate Tamil masses down the road of vilolent destructive path and in the process so called Tamil leaders got assasinated and paid the ultimate price on the Banks of Nanthikadal Lagoon in the process of annihilation of LTTE Terrorists.
    We are confident that Tamil masses will never ever purchase those cheap , fanciful, non-existing and unrealistic slogans as they know from their heart how the Sri Lanka government, Armed forces saved them from the human shield of LTTE in the last stages of the annihilation of LTTE and aftermath of the annihilation, how the Military personal helped the tamil people and the LTTE surrendees to come up with their lives.
    People like Wigneshwaran, Sivajilingam, TNA are just talking for their political survival and never done anything worthwhile to the Tamil masses.
    We are confident that Tamil masses have recognized these cheap political tactics with no uncertain terms and that was very much evident from several recent incidents and most glaring was the emotional send off given to a Miliatary Commander in Kilinocchiya and Mulathivu a few days ago.

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      Nimal Tissa Wijethunga ~ “…….send off given to a Miliatary Commander in Kilinocchiya…….”
      Where the hell is this Kilinocchiya?

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      He was appointed to create illusion that North is highly compensated after war, by paying unnecessary high salary to unqualified rebels. After two, long interval, investigations military found out that this guy’s robberies are much higher than any others. He is being recalled. He staged this drama, people crying for him, with the blessing Yahapalanaya, to prevent media trying to find out about this crook and Yahapalanaya’s failure in rehabilitating the rebels. But some or how, now it is all over in the media.

      There are 90,000 widows alone in desperate circumstances. Even while fearing for Rapist Army, many are protesting against occupying military. The office under this man has been employing few rebels on 30.000 salary, that is only few Colombo executives enjoying. This idea stemmed to Yahapalanaya from having successfully separated Karuna and has he made the minister. This guy’s office, mainlined by Yahapalanaya for campaign purpose, has opened up many holes the Military syringes sucks blood from Yahapalanaya. Yahapalanaya wants to remove the man. There are many Chaff Tamils pretended to be with this man and appealed to Lokku Mathaya to leave him in Kilinochchi. But none of them asked to hand over his office to Northern Provincial Council, which has the obligation to rehabilitate the rebels. But whatever it is, his colorful looting job, on the name of rehabilitating rebels, has come to an end. It is not in reality the rebels were crying, in fact he and his team was crying of having lost their jobs.

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    All the widows, Sons and daughters lost to the parents in the north as a result of forced recruitment by LTTE for terrorist activites for non-existing and unrealistic demands as solutions by deceiving Tamil masses and we are sure that they will never ever be deceived by so called Tamil political leaders or individuals supporting Terrorists as the Tamil masses got the wisdom through past experiences much more than terrorist supporters.

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