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“Amid fanfare, President Kumaratunga’s SLFP party and the radical JVP formally entered into a political alliance on January 20. The alliance is basically an electoral pact, but an MOU attacking the GSL’s handling of the peace track was also agreed to. In a related development, Somawansa Amarasinghe, a key JVP leader and noted hard-liner based in the UK (see bio-data in Para 10), is making a rare visit to Sri Lanka. While some observers believe the pact is inherently shaky, there is renewed speculation that parliamentary elections may be in the offing.” the US Embassy Colombo<\/span><\/a> informed Washington.<\/p>\n

\"Maithri<\/a>The\u00a0Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span>\u00a0found the related leaked cable from the\u00a0WikiLeaks<\/a><\/span>\u00a0database. The\u00a0classified diplomatic cable details the “Memorandum of Understanding”\u00a0between the President <\/span>Chandrika Kumaratunga<\/a><\/span>–<\/span>led SLFP and the <\/span>Somawansa Amarasinghe<\/a><\/span>–<\/span>led JVP.<\/span>\u00a0The \u201cConfidential\u201d is cable signed by the US Ambassador to\u00a0Colombo\u00a0<\/span>Jeffrey J. Lunstead<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on January 21, 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ambassador wrote; “As flagged in Ref B, President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga’s Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the radical Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party formally entered into a political alliance called the “United People’s Freedom Alliance” on January 20. (The SLFP is the core constituent element in the President’s People’s Alliance, ‘PA’, grouping.) The pact was signed amid considerable fanfare and at ‘an auspicious hour’ at a ceremony in a conference hall in Colombo. The ceremony was televised live on state-owned television and was broadcast on radio. The high point of the ceremony was the signing of the SLFP\/JVP ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ (MOU) which is reviewed below. Maithripala Sirisena<\/span><\/a>, chief of the SLFP, and Tilvin Silva, General Secretary of the JVP, signed the document on behalf of their respective parties. (For reasons that are unclear, President Kumaratunga did not attend the ceremony.) In his speech, Sirisena said the SLFP supported peace with the Tamil Tigers, but opposed how the GSL was handling the peace process. Silva, meanwhile, condemned the GSL on various fronts in much harsher terms and also paid homage to Rohana Wijeweera, the JVP founder who was killed during the JVP’s 1987-89 insurrection.”<\/p>\n

“None of the speeches at the ceremony mentioned the Norwegian government’s peace facilitation role, which has been on hold pending resolution of the cohabitation impasse between the President and the Prime Minister. The MOU also did not mention Norway. At a January 21 joint SLFP\/JVP news conference, however, Mangala Samaraweera, a senior PA MP, stated that “Norway’s role has been questioned by many. We will reconsider the role of Norway.” Tilvin Silva of the JVP also piped in to say that he did not think Norway had any role in the peace process.” the ambassador Lunstead further wrote.<\/p>\n

Placing a comment the ambassador wrote; “The pact signed on January 20 took almost a year to conclude, with the President mulling over the matter for months before giving it her blessing. This is in fact the second time that the two parties have signed a pact: in September 2001, the JVP agreed to support the then-PA government in Parliament. That pact collapsed about a month later when the PA government fell and elections were called. The September 2001 deal was shaky and this latest pact may be shaky, too. Minister Milinda Moragoda told the Ambassador today that he thought the two parties would get into serious arguments about seat allotments in Parliament down the line. He added that he did not see how a party “run by a family” (the SLFP) could realistically align for long with an ideologically driven party like the Marxist JVP. That said, the signing of the pact has led to renewed speculation that parliamentary elections may be in the offing. Moragoda did not appear too concerned about that possibility. Other observers, however, believe the President may think that the pact provides her party its best chance to defeat the UNP in elections, while also giving her leverage over the PM during the ongoing cohabitation dispute.”<\/p>\n

We publish below the “confidential” cable in full;<\/p>\n

C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 COLOMBO 000109 \r\n\r\nSIPDIS \r\n\r\nDEPARTMENT FOR SA, SA\/INS, INR\/NESA;  NSC FOR E. MILLARD \r\n\r\nPLEASE ALSO PASS TOPEC \r\n\r\nE.O. 12958:        DECL:  01\/21\/14 \r\nTAGS: PGOV PINS PINR PHUM CE NO\r\nSUBJECT:  President's party signs pact with radical JVP; \r\nKey JVP leader based in UK on rare visit to Sri Lanka \r\n\r\nRefs:  (A) Colombo-SA\/INS 01\/20\/04 fax \r\n\r\n-      (B) Colombo 103, and previous \r\n\r\n(U) Classified by James F. Entwistle, Deputy Chief of \r\nMission.  Reasons 1.5 (b,d). \r\n\r\n\u00b61.  (C) SUMMARY:  Amid fanfare, President Kumaratunga's \r\nSLFP party and the radical JVP formally entered into a \r\npolitical alliance on January 20.  The alliance is \r\nbasically an electoral pact, but an MOU attacking the \r\nGSL's handling of the peace track was also agreed to. \r\nIn a related development, Somawansa Amarasinghe, a key \r\nJVP leader and noted hard-liner based in the UK (see \r\nbio-data in Para 10), is making a rare visit to Sri \r\nLanka.  While some observers believe the pact is \r\ninherently shaky, there is renewed speculation that \r\nparliamentary elections may be in the offing.  END \r\nSUMMARY. \r\n\r\n\u00b62.  (SBU) PACT SIGNED:  As flagged in Ref B, President \r\nChandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga's Sri Lanka Freedom \r\nParty (SLFP) and the radical Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna \r\n(JVP) party formally entered into a political alliance \r\ncalled the \"United People's Freedom Alliance\" on \r\nJanuary 20.  (The SLFP is the core constituent element \r\nin the President's People's Alliance, \"PA,\" grouping.) \r\nThe pact was signed amid considerable fanfare and at \"an \r\nauspicious hour\" at a ceremony in a conference hall in \r\nColombo.  The ceremony was televised live on state-owned \r\ntelevision and was broadcast on radio.  The high point \r\nof the ceremony was the signing of the SLFP\/JVP \r\n\"Memorandum of Understanding\" (MOU) which is reviewed \r\nbelow.  Maithripala Sirisena, chief of the SLFP, and \r\nTilvin Silva, General Secretary of the JVP, signed the \r\ndocument on behalf of their respective parties.  (For \r\nreasons that are unclear, President Kumaratunga did not \r\nattend the ceremony.)  In his speech, Sirisena said the \r\nSLFP supported peace with the Tamil Tigers, but opposed \r\nhow the GSL was handling the peace process.  Silva, \r\nmeanwhile, condemned the GSL on various fronts in much \r\nharsher terms and also paid homage to Rohana Wijeweera, \r\nthe JVP founder who was killed during the JVP's 1987-89 \r\ninsurrection. \r\n\r\n\u00b63.  (SBU) None of the speeches at the ceremony mentioned \r\nthe Norwegian government's peace facilitation role, \r\nwhich has been on hold pending resolution of the \r\ncohabitation impasse between the President and the Prime \r\nMinister.  The MOU also did not mention Norway.  At a \r\nJanuary 21 joint SLFP\/JVP news conference, however, \r\nMangala Samaraweera, a senior PA MP, stated that \r\n\"Norway's role has been questioned by many.  We will \r\nreconsider the role of Norway.\"  Tilvin Silva of the JVP \r\nalso piped in to say that he did not think Norway had \r\nany role in the peace process. \r\n\r\n\u00b64.  (SBU) (Note:  Although Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim \r\nprelates attended the ceremony, Christian clergy did \r\nnot, though they seem to have been invited.  The fact \r\nthat Christian clergy did not attend could be a \r\nreflection of their concerns about recent attacks on \r\nchurches, but Catholic and Protestant leaders made no \r\npublic announcement to that effect.) \r\n\r\n\u00b65.  (SBU) BASICALLY AN ELECTORAL PACT:  At its root, the \r\nSLFP\/JVP political alliance is an electoral pact.  As \r\nenvisaged by its sponsors in the SLFP and JVP, the pact \r\nwill allow the two left-leaning parties to run a joint \r\nslate of candidates in parliamentary elections. \r\n(Parliamentary elections are due by December 2006, but \r\nthere is renewed speculation that the signing of the \r\npact indicates that the President may call them much \r\nsooner than that  -- see Para 9.)  By running on a joint \r\nslate, the two parties hope to combine their vote vis-a- \r\nvis the governing United National Party (UNP) coalition \r\nand thus take those seats allocated on a \"district\" \r\nbasis.  (In Sri Lanka, most parliamentary seats are \r\nallocated on a proportional representation basis, but \r\n\"bonus seats\" are awarded to the party that wins each of \r\nSri Lanka's 25 districts and there are also \"national \r\nlist\" seats.  The UNP coalition won most of these \r\n\"district\" seats in the December 2001 election and was \r\nable to form the government, although its vote total \r\nnationally was only roughly equal to that won by the PA \r\nplus the JVP.)  Per the signing of the pact, the two \r\nparties could also run joint slates during the \r\nProvincial Council elections slated to take place in \r\nApril, but it is not known whether they plan to do so. \r\n\r\n\u00b66.  (SBU) MOU BLASTS PEACE TRACK:  The MOU signed by the \r\ntwo parties (see Ref A for text) blasted the \r\ngovernment's handling of the peace process in no \r\nuncertain terms, stating: \r\n\r\n\"The ethnic question of Sri Lanka has taken an \r\nundesirable turn since the formation of the UNP \r\ngovernment.  In the name of the aspirations of all our \r\npeoples for an honorable and durable peace, the UNP has \r\nset out on a path toward a separatist `Eelamist' state.\" \r\n\r\nThat said, the MOU supports trying to achieve a \r\nnegotiated settlement with the Tamil Tigers.  In a stark \r\ncommentary on the historical difference between the two \r\nparties' positioning on the matter, however, the MOU \r\nalso explicitly noted that the SLFP supports the concept \r\nof \"devolution\" as a means of settling the dispute, \r\nwhile the JVP only supports \"administrative \r\ndecentralization...within a unitary state.\" \r\n\r\n\u00b67.  (SBU) The MOU also contained the following \r\nhighlights: \r\n\r\n-- Economy:  The MOU criticized the GSL's handling of \r\nthe economy, stating, in part:  \"The economic policies \r\nof the UNP are determined by the lending agencies with \r\nscant regard for local priorities and the aspirations of \r\nthe people...The poor are called upon to bear the brunt \r\nof these policies.\" \r\n\r\n-- Human Rights:  The MOU asserts that the UNP \r\ngovernment has systematically murdered 60 SLFP activists \r\nand done harm to 3,000 others.  (Note:  These figures \r\nare wildly inflated.) \r\n\r\n-- Foreign Policy:  In a glancing blow aimed at the U.S. \r\nand the UNP government's generally pro-U.S. policies, \r\nthe MOU states:  \"Our foreign policy which was based on \r\nregional cooperation and mutual respect has been \r\nreplaced by one of servitude and the absence of national \r\ndignity.\" \r\n\r\n-- \"Five Noble Objectives\":  The MOU also contains a \r\nhortatory statement reviewing \"Five Noble Objectives\" \r\ninvolving:  (1) the Economy; (2) \"Ethnic Harmony;\" (3) \r\n\"Strengthening Democracy;\" (4) Cultural Policy; and (5) \r\nForeign Policy.  (In a clear nod to Sinhalese Buddhism, \r\nthe \"Cultural Policy\" segment includes a call \"to halt \r\nthe rapid erosion of social values and direct society \r\ntoward cultural rejuvenation.\") \r\n\r\n\u00b68.  (C) KEY JVP LEADER MAKES VISIT:  In a related \r\ndevelopment, Somawansa Amarasinghe, a key JVP leader \r\nbased in the UK and a hard-liner, arrived in Sri Lanka \r\non January 20 for a visit (see bio-data in Para 10). \r\nThe exact nature of Amarasinghe's rare visit is not \r\nclear (his last visit was in late 2001) and he did not \r\nattend the SLFP\/JVP signing ceremony on January 20. \r\nSince his arrival, however, he has been involved in \r\nmeetings with other JVP officials and has been giving \r\nsome media interviews. \r\n\u00b69.  (C) COMMENT:  The pact signed on January 20 took \r\nalmost a year to conclude, with the President mulling \r\nover the matter for months before giving it her \r\nblessing.  This is in fact the second time that the two \r\nparties have signed a pact:  in September 2001, the JVP \r\nagreed to support the then-PA government in Parliament. \r\nThat pact collapsed about a month later when the PA \r\ngovernment fell and elections were called.  The \r\nSeptember 2001 deal was shaky and this latest pact may \r\nbe shaky, too.  Minister Milinda Moragoda told the \r\nAmbassador today that he thought the two parties would \r\nget into serious arguments about seat allotments in \r\nParliament down the line.  He added that he did not see \r\nhow a party \"run by a family\" (the SLFP) could \r\nrealistically align for long with an ideologically \r\ndriven party like the Marxist JVP.  That said, the \r\nsigning of the pact has led to renewed speculation that \r\nparliamentary elections may be in the offing.  Moragoda \r\ndid not appear too concerned about that possibility. \r\nOther observers, however, believe the President may \r\nthink that the pact provides her party its best chance \r\nto defeat the UNP in elections, while also giving her \r\nleverage over the PM during the ongoing cohabitation \r\ndispute.  END COMMENT. \r\n\r\n\u00b610.  (C) Bio-Data on Somawansa Amarasinghe: \r\nAmarasinghe, 59, had been in exile in Europe for 12 \r\nyears until he was allowed to return to Sri Lanka in \r\nlate 2001.  Now living in the UK, he is the last \r\nsurviving member of the JVP \"Politburo\" involved in \r\nlaunching the failed 1987-89 insurrection against the \r\nSri Lankan government.  In that role, he was a close \r\nassociate of Rohana Wijeweera, the slain JVP leader, who \r\nled the 1987-89 revolt and an earlier revolt in 1971. \r\nAmarasinghe's current role in the JVP is not precisely \r\nclear, but he is treated as a major leader of the party. \r\nHe is known to be a hard-liner, who spouts Marxist \r\nrhetoric.  Earning a reputation as a Sinhalese \r\nextremist, he also has regularly condemned the GSL's \r\npeace process policies.  When he returned to Sri Lanka \r\nin 2001, he gave a number of speeches for the JVP during \r\nthat year's parliamentary election campaign.  His \r\nspeeches were long and verbose, and were not well- \r\nreceived.  He is a Sinhalese Buddhist and hails from the \r\ntown of Wadduwa, located about 35 kilometers south of \r\nColombo.  He is thought to be related to Wimal \r\nWimalwansa and Nandana Goonetillake, two JVP MPs.  End \r\nBio-Data.  He is thought to be a widower. \r\n\r\n\u00b611.  (U) Minimize considered. \r\n\r\nLUNSTEAD<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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