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By Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> –<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMangala argued that by obtaining the copies of the tally sheets and then comparing those totals sent by the districts to the totals announced in Colombo, it could be shown that changes were made. He also claimed they were trying to get statements from state employees working in the Elections Commissioner’s office, to provide evidence that both Basil and Gotabhaya Rajapaksa were at the Commissioner’s offices while counting was going on and that results were changed there.\u201d the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A Leaked \u201cCONFIDENTIAL\u201d US diplomatic cable, dated February 3, 2010, recounts the details of a meeting the US officials in Colombo has had with\u00a0opposition leaders including Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0The\u00a0Colombo Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0found the related leaked cable from the\u00a0WikiLeaks<\/a><\/span>\u00a0database which is written by then Ambassador to Colombo Patricia A. Butenis<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a February 2 meeting with diplomatic heads of mission, leaders of the opposition including Ranil Wickremesinghe, General Fonseka<\/a><\/span>, Mangala Samaraweera<\/a><\/span>, and Ravi Karunanayake<\/a><\/span>, argued their case that the election was rigged and cataloged a long list of government repressive actions against Fonseka, the media, and others. The opposition leaders claimed the election was \u2018far from free and fair\u2019 and entailed violations by the Rajapaksa government during the pre-election campaign, on voting day, and — most significantly — in the counting of ballots. (NOTE: Samaraweera provided further details on these accusations to PolOffs in a private meeting. See paragraphs 5 and 6 below. END NOTE.) On this basis, they said the election was a “complete fraud” and that they would be filing suit with the Supreme Court, though they confessed they had little faith in the court to rule in their favor, given its members were hand-picked by Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span>. General Fonseka also went into a long listing of complaints about his treatment by the government, including the arrest and detention of his personal security guards, raids on his office, inability to travel, and more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under the subheading \u201cMANGALA: RAJAPAKSA CHEATED, BUT STILL GATHERING THE PROOF\u201d Butenis wrote \u201cIn a follow-up to the briefing by the joint opposition leaders on February 2 for the diplomatic community, PolCouns and PolOff met privately on February 3 with Mangala Samaraweera to probe further details on the opposition’s fraud case and political plans for the upcoming general election. Mangala repeated some of the arguments he had made to the diplomatic community the day before, focusing on what he believed was a pre-planned effort to intimidate the opposition representative observers at the ballot counting centers, coupled with adjustments to the vote totals as they came in to the main counting office of the Elections Commissioner in Colombo. He said the opposition was in the process of gathering affidavits from their observers, which would show many of them had been chased out of the counting centers by thugs prior to observing the final counts and receiving signed and certified tally sheets. Mangala argued that by obtaining the copies of the tally sheets and then comparing those totals sent by the districts to the totals announced inColombo, it could be shown that changes were made. He also claimed they were trying to get statements from state employees working in the Elections Commissioner’s office, to provide evidence that both Basil<\/a> and Gotabhaya Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span> were at the Commissioner’s offices while counting was going on and that results were changed there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen pressed, Mangala admitted that the legal route of contesting the election results was not likely to lead to an overturning of the election results. He cited a previous elections-related case, which took over three years to complete, and reconfirmed that Rajapaksa had too many friends on the Supreme Court to lose this case.\u201d she further wrote.<\/p>\n

Placing a comment the ambassador wrote \u201cThe opposition seems slow and disorganized in the wake of Rajapaksa’s victory. Although they think they have an idea of how Rajapaksa might have stolen the election — and are convinced that he did — they appear to have been disoriented as a group by the margin of the president’s victory (and thus the scale of fraud required) and by the full-scale harassment of Fonseka after election day. It appears that the president is moving ahead at full speed with his second-term planning and is likely to keep the opposition back on their heels if they do not recover and regroup quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the cable below for further details;<\/p>\n

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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 COLOMBO 000091 \r\n\r\nSIPDIS \r\n\r\nDEPARTMENT FOR SCA\/INSB \r\n\r\nE.O. 12958: DECL: 02\/02\/2020\r\nTAGS: PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE\r\nSUBJECT: POST-ELECTION UPDATE: SC SECOND-TERM RULING,\r\nOPPOSITION COMPLAINTS \r\n\r\nCOLOMBO 00000091  001.2 OF 003 \r\n\r\nClassified By: AMBASSADOR PATRICIA A. BUTENIS.  REASONS: 1.4 (B, D) \r\n\r\nSECOND TERM WILL\r\nSTART IN NOVEMBER\r\n----------------- \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>1. (C) On February 2, a full bench of seven Supreme Court\r\njudges, including the chief justice, ruled that President\r\nRajapaksa's second term of office would begin on November 19,\r\n2010, the five-year anniversary of his taking office.  The\r\npresident's lawyers had argued the second term should not\r\nbegin until November 19, 2011, saying that Rajapaksa's early\r\ncall for elections should not have an impact on the length of\r\nhis first term.  There are two conflicting past cases in Sri\r\nLankan history where the Supreme Court decided on the\r\nquestion of when a president should begin his or her second\r\nterm of office, but neither case would allow for the\r\ncompletion of the full six-year term, as Rajapaksa's lawyers\r\nhad requested.  Instead those decisions said that the second\r\nterm started either the day after re-election, as with the\r\ncase of Chandrika Kumaratunge, or on the calendar day the\r\nperson first was elected, on the first such date after the\r\nre-election was held, as in the case of J.R. Jayawardena in\r\n\u00b6<\/a>1982.  The latter appears to have guided the current court on\r\nthe Rajapaksa decision.  A number of observers believe the\r\ncourt was mistaken in the decision involving Chandrika and\r\nthat this latest interpretation corrected that mistake and\r\nre-established the precedent set with Jayawardena. \r\n\r\nELECTIONS COMMISSIONER WILL\r\nCOVER GENERAL ELECTION\r\n--------------------------- \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>2. (C) Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayaka\r\napparently has been persuaded by the government to continue\r\nworking.  Contrary to his statement on January 28 to PolOff\r\nthat he would not show up to work on February 1, even at the\r\nrisk of causing a constitutional crisis, Dissanayaka has now\r\ntold the media that he would continue working through the\r\ngeneral elections. \r\n\r\nOPPOSITION CATALOGS COMPLAINTS\r\n------------------------------ \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>3. (C) In a February 2 meeting with diplomatic heads of\r\nmission, leaders of the opposition including Ranil\r\nWickremesinghe, General Fonseka, Mangala Samaraweera, and\r\nRavi Karunanayake, argued their case that the election was\r\nrigged and cataloged a long list of government repressive\r\nactions against Fonseka, the media, and others.  The\r\nopposition leaders claimed the election was \"far from free\r\nand fair\" and entailed violations by the Rajapaksa government\r\nduring the pre-election campaign, on voting day, and -- most\r\nsignificantly -- in the counting of ballots.  (NOTE:\r\nSamaraweera provided further details on these accusations to\r\nPolOffs in a private meeting.  See paragraphs 5 and 6 below.\r\nEND NOTE.)  On this basis, they said the election was a\r\n\"complete fraud\" and that they would be filing suit with the\r\nSupreme Court, though they confessed they had little faith in\r\nthe court to rule in their favor, given its members were\r\nhand-picked by Rajapaksa.  General Fonseka also went into a\r\nlong listing of complaints about his treatment by the\r\ngovernment, including the arrest and detention of his\r\npersonal security guards, raids on his office, inability to\r\ntravel, and more. \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>4. (C) In response to Ambassador's query about the way\r\nforward, Wickremesinghe said they were planning for the\r\nprobable upcoming parliamentary elections (which would take\r\nplace in early April if the president dissolved parliament \r\n\r\nCOLOMBO 00000091  002.2 OF 003 \r\n\r\nnext week, as many predict).  Given the abuses that took\r\nplace in the presidential election, Wickremesinghe called for\r\nbetter election monitoring and other anti-abuse measures.  He\r\nsaid, however, that the opposition coalition that had\r\nsupported Fonseka (the UNP, JVP, TNA, and others) had not\r\ndecided yet whether it would stand separately or together in\r\nthe parliamentary elections.  (NOTE: Wickremesinghe told\r\nPolCouns privately that he thought the ideological\r\ndifferences between the opposition parties -- particularly\r\nWickremesinghe's right-liberal UNP and the neo-leftist JVP --\r\nwould force the parties to stand for the elections\r\nseparately.  END NOTE.)  In pull-asides after the opposition\r\nmeeting, Wickremesinghe and Karunanayake told us that the\r\nopposition was planning to change its position from\r\nabstaining to voting against renewal of the emergency\r\nregulations at the next scheduled vote on February 5, though\r\nKarunanayake believed the government would still have enough\r\nvotes to renew the regulations. \r\n\r\nMANGALA: RAJAPAKSA CHEATED,\r\nBUT STILL GATHERING THE PROOF\r\n----------------------------- \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>5. (C) In a follow-up to the briefing by the joint opposition\r\nleaders on February 2 for the diplomatic community, PolCouns\r\nand PolOff met privately on February 3 with Mangala\r\nSamaraweera to probe further details on the opposition's\r\nfraud case and political plans for the upcoming general\r\nelection.  Mangala repeated some of the arguments he had made\r\nto the diplomatic community the day before, focusing on what\r\nhe believed was a pre-planned effort to intimidate the\r\nopposition representative observers at the ballot counting\r\ncenters, coupled with adjustments to the vote totals as they\r\ncame in to the main counting office of the Elections\r\nCommissioner in Colombo.  He said the opposition was in the\r\nprocess of gathering affidavits from their observers, which\r\nwould show many of them had been chased out of the counting\r\ncenters by thugs prior to observing the final counts and\r\nreceiving signed and certified tally sheets.  Mangala argued\r\nthat by obtaining the copies of the tally sheets and then\r\ncomparing those totals sent by the districts to the totals\r\nannounced in Colombo, it could be shown that changes were\r\nmade.  He also claimed they were trying to get statements\r\nfrom state employees working in the Elections Commissioner's\r\noffice, to provide evidence that both Basil and Gotabhaya\r\nRajapaksa were at the Commissioner's offices while counting\r\nwas going on and that results were changed there. \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>6. (C) When pressed, Mangala admitted that the legal route of\r\ncontesting the election results was not likely to lead to an\r\noverturning of the election results.  He cited a previous\r\nelections-related case, which took over three years to\r\ncomplete, and reconfirmed that Rajapaksa had too many friends\r\non the Supreme Court to lose this case.  Instead, Mangala\r\nbelieved the arguments brought forth in the case could be\r\nused by the joint opposition as a campaign-platform plank\r\nwith which they could win more votes than they had during the\r\npresidential election.  Mangala acknowledged that if the\r\npresident had rigged the presidential election he could\r\nprobably do the same during the general election but said\r\neven if the recent results were replicated in the general\r\nelection, the opposition would win 91 seats against the\r\ngovernment's 134 seats.  If the opposition was able to win\r\njust five more key districts, which in his mind was possible,\r\nthe split would be 113 seats to 112, in the opposition's\r\nfavor.  He said he was worried about voter apathy and\r\nfeelings of helplessness, and Post has indeed spoken with a\r\nnumber of voters who feel discouraged about the electoral\r\nprocess now and do not intend to vote in the general\r\nelection.  Mangala said the opposition needed to work harder \r\n\r\nCOLOMBO 00000091  003.2 OF 003 \r\n\r\nto gain their voters' trust, and asked for help from the U.S.\r\nand others in the diplomatic community in getting more\r\ninternational monitors to position at the counting centers\r\nduring the next election. \r\n\r\nCOMMENT:\r\n-------- \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>7. (C) The opposition seems slow and disorganized in the wake\r\nof Rajapaksa's victory.  Although they think they have an\r\nidea of how Rajapaksa might have stolen the election -- and\r\nare convinced that he did -- they appear to have been\r\ndisoriented as a group by the margin of the president's\r\nvictory (and thus the scale of fraud required) and by the\r\nfull-scale harassment of Fonseka after election day.  It\r\nappears that the president is moving ahead at full speed with\r\nhis second-term planning and is likely to keep the opposition\r\nback on their heels if they do not recover and regroup\r\nquickly.\r\nBUTENIS<\/pre>\n
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