{"id":130768,"date":"2014-09-23T19:17:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=130768"},"modified":"2014-10-02T00:02:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T18:32:12","slug":"joining-the-stampede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/joining-the-stampede\/","title":{"rendered":"Joining The Stampede?"},"content":{"rendered":"
By\u00a0Emil van der Poorten<\/a><\/span>\u00a0–<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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\"Emil<\/a>

Emil van der Poorten<\/p><\/div>\n

I will make no bones about the fact that I do have a \u201ctake\u201d on the recent Uva Provincial Election<\/span><\/a> and some of what emerged during it and the slime that is already seeping out after it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

People like Professor Kumar David<\/span><\/a> have sounded the clarion call<\/span><\/a> to begin the process of driving out of power the most violent and corrupt government in the history of this country, pre- and post-independence. And the place where the first signs of resistance emerged is certainly fascinating. Remember the Uva Rebellion of yore?\u00a0 The difference, though, is in the sequence of events: that<\/b> Uva Rebellion was followed by unprecedented violence and suppression of dissent.\u00a0 This one has been provoked<\/b> by exactly that pattern of conduct by the rulers of what they have proclaimed to be the Miracle of Asia.<\/p>\n

One doesn\u2019t have to be a crystal-ball-gazer or have access to the services of Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a>\u2019s soothsayer who dwells in a several-stories-high mini-palace on the Southern coastline to anticipate what the reaction is going to be from those who suspect that their imperial edifices might be at risk from the rising tide of discontent.<\/p>\n

Many of us grew up being told the home-truth of how dangerous cornered rodents could be. Look no further because that would be an apt simile for what will unfold in Sri Lanka. No rodent, however, had at his command one of the largest armed forces in the world whose loyalty, and let\u2019s be realistic here, has proven to be available to He-Who-Pays even a devalued Sri Lankan rupee salary to a buck private which exceeds what an University graduate might earn after years of burning the midnight oil.<\/p>\n

\"Mahinda<\/a>The Rathupaswala<\/span><\/a> and Free Trade Zone shootings of absolutely unarmed civilians are simply coldly-calculated warnings to anyone suffering under the delusion that that the Armed Forces would display something resembling conscience and mutiny against those giving them orders to kill people from the same rural background and from the same class as themselves.<\/p>\n

The recent edict that any establishment offering shelter to Sri Lankan <\/b>guests must provide comprehensive information about those visitors to the local police (for onward transmission to our made-in-Lanka Gestapo) is not simply bizarre.\u00a0 (There\u2019s that word again!) On one hand, it is calculated to frighten those affluent elements of a middle class who are the beneficiaries of the robber-baron style of government on which they are already over-indulging themselves, such over-indulgence including availing themselves of boutique-hotel hostelries which they wouldn\u2019t be able to afford without the patronage of the Rajapaksa Regime. On the other, it is calculated to give anyone housing \u201clocals\u201d the jitters and make them that much more likely to squeal on any guests who might display \u201csuspicious\u201d behavior.\u00a0 This could well extend to blood relations who could be putting themselves at risk by being in some \u201cwrong place\u201d or being perceived as \u201cenemies of the state\u201d no sooner their personal information is made available to those seeking to emulate the Third Reich.\u00a0 I cannot but wonder, also, whether some members of the upper echelons of this government who have begun operating facilities who would fit the description of the recent fiat are required to provide information about their Sri Lankan guests to the local police station or whether, in typical Rajapaksa Regime-fashion, they are exempted from such requirements and can use such immunity as part of their advertising package to attract affluent Sri Lankan guests who might be interested in booking rooms by the hour! Who knows what motivation drives a government that is led by the uncultured and uneducated and has as its foot-soldiers common criminals and drug dealers to whom human life is a very cheap commodity.<\/p>\n

One thing\u2019s for sure though: those seen as \u201cenemies of the state\u201d are in serious jeopardy and I\u2019d suggest that they do not subscribe to the unrealistic belief that the Rajapaksa Regime is going to view the Uva result as a warning shot across their bows, requiring a mending of their ways and a more civilized approach to what passes for \u201cgovernance\u201d in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Far from it. The surest way to predict the future conduct of people is to look at their past behaviour and, in circumstances such of those we face in Sri Lanka such an evaluation hardly needs the application of genius-level analysis.\u00a0 Accordingly, those deemed to be \u201cenemies\u201d would be well advised to take whatever precautions might be available to protect themselves from everything up to and including \u201ctermination with extreme prejudice\u201d as that old CIA expression had it.<\/p>\n

However, what is also essential is that, particularly those seen as enemies of the Rajapaksa\u00a0 Regime do not<\/b> retreat into some metaphorical or literal cave but continue to speak power to truth.\u00a0 There are many writers who, literally, put their lives on the line to take a surgeon\u2019s scalpel to the body politic, to cut open the decaying entity that passes for government in this country, exposing the corruption within.\u00a0 This simple exploration has been necessitated by the fact that completely removing the malignancy and affecting a cure has been made impossible. Even continuing that \u201cinvestigative surgery\u201d will continue to be dangerous, perhaps more so after the Rajapaksa\u2019s Debacle of Uva. However, it can and must be pursued relentlessly despite the fact that the media available for any kind of dissent has shrunk to almost invisible proportions and even the (English-language) bastion of self-censorship has one of its few surviving dissenters under very serious personal threat, threat that appears to exceed that which drove him off the main pages of the Wijeya newspapers some years ago when armed forces personnel laid siege to his home, among other things.<\/p>\n

As impossible as an additional task might seem in these circumstances, there is one that is as essential. Those toadies and sycophants without whose active support the atrocities of years past could not have been perpetrated must be exposed so that, when the final denouement arrives, they are prosecuted to the full extent of the law for their criminality. They must not be permitted to scurry into some burrow, out of public view, until the storm of retribution passes only to emerge and lend their skills to generating more corruption within another regime.\u00a0 The recent demise of one of the slickest of \u201cfixers\u201d who was the sophisticated face of the problem that faces Sri Lanka in the matter of corrupt practice completely exposed many of the mealy-mouthed \u201cchampions of democracy\u201d in our midst.\u00a0 This late \u201cfixer\u2019s\u201d skills in applying the \u201capey miniha\u201d principle in dealing with totally unacceptable conduct were extolled by people who many of my generation thought \u201cknew better.\u201d\u00a0 In the name of expressing admiration for the concept of \u201cbending the rules,\u201d they sought to justify his shielding of those patently guilty of unethical, unprincipled and dishonest behavior, blanketing it all with the term \u201cwell-intentioned.\u201d\u00a0 These reams of praise for someone who had given a \u201crespectable\u201d face to promoting himself, his friends and his family at the expense of decency and justice in this country said it all about the \u201ctut-tut brigades\u201d who self-righteously pronounce on all that they deem to be honourable and decent.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to scratch too hard to discover the reason: the \u201cfixer\u201d had \u201cbent\u201d the rules for the person now singing his praises!\u00a0 Apropos of these humbugs, all I can say is who the hell needs enemies if one counts these among one\u2019s friends!<\/p>\n

But I digress. Those of us who\u2019ve viewed political reality in this country for at least the past decade, don\u2019t need to be told who the pandankarayas<\/i> and supplicants have been, are and will continue to be, given the opportunity.\u00a0 Some of them after being \u201clooked after\u201d have become \u201capey minissu\u201d in generation after generation! We need to ensure that, because they have been an active part of the criminal horde that has victimized this country\u2019s population, <\/b>they are listed for justice when the time arrives. To do otherwise is to sentence this nation to a repetition of a recent history that no nation should have had to endure. Prosecute all the pandankarayas<\/i> who have raped and pillaged this country.\u00a0 You will find many of the same names repeating themselves if you list them by regime, beginning with the Presidency of William Gopallawa. \u00a0Some of these currently serve in the highest echelons of government or as diplomutts, pouring \u201ccommissions\u201d into their overseas bank accounts from the Seychelles to Switzerland.<\/p>\n

This is an instance when the journey of rats leaving the sinking ship must be left to drown, with, perhaps, an assist from those occupying any lifeboats in the vicinity. To do less would be to subscribe to a 21st<\/sup> Century repetition of the political equivalent of the bubonic plague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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