{"id":86731,"date":"2013-05-13T03:27:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T21:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=86731"},"modified":"2013-05-20T12:09:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T06:39:20","slug":"wikileaks-mahinda-the-right-leader-to-make-progress-on-a-solution-to-ethnic-problem-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-mahinda-the-right-leader-to-make-progress-on-a-solution-to-ethnic-problem-us\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks: Mahinda, The Right Leader To Make Progress On A Solution To Ethnic Problem &#8211; US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;PDAS Steven Mann, accompanied by Ambassador and Pol Chief, met Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa on March 8. Gothabaya, noting that an overwhelming majority of Sinhalese Buddhists had voted for Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2005, told us that his brother&#8217;s popularity among the majority community was still strong. However, Sri Lanka&#8217;s system of proportional representation in Parliament meant that the President&#8217;s party would never secure an absolute majority on its own. This, he explained, had made it necessary to create such a big cabinet to satisfy everyone. Mann responded that the President&#8217;s considerable political skills and his strong support made him the right leader to make progress on a solution to Sri Lanka&#8217;s ethnic problem. The U.S. hoped that the new power-sharing proposals that emerge form the current consultation process would be of a quality that hadn&#8217;t been seen before.&#8221; the US Embassy Colombo informed\u00a0Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60488\" style=\"width: 328px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaksnobody-else-could-do-the-norwegian-job-if-i-say-that-i-will-lose-the-elections-mr-to-us\/mahinda_rajapaksa-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60488\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60488\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60488\" title=\"Mahinda_Rajapaksa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mahinda_Rajapaksa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mahinda_Rajapaksa.jpg 318w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Mahinda_Rajapaksa-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Colombo Telegraph found the related leaked cable from the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=WikiLeaks&amp;x=10&amp;y=1\">WikiLeaks<\/a><\/span>\u00a0database. The cable is classified as \u201cConfidential\u201d and recounts a meeting the US Embassy had with the Secretary to the Ministry of Difence\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gotabaya+Rajapaksa&amp;x=11&amp;y=7\">Gotabhaya Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span>. The cable was written on March 14, 2007 by the US Ambassador to Colombo\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Robert+O.+Blake&amp;x=7&amp;y=6\">R<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Robert+O.+Blake&amp;x=7&amp;y=6\">obert O. Blake<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa told visiting SCA PDAS Steven Mann that the government was certain that the LTTE was not interested in a political solution to Sri Lanka&#8217;s ethnic conflict. Nevertheless, he said, the government would try to reach out to the Tamil populations, bypassing the LTTE leadership. The security forces were finding it difficult to choke off LTTE resupply of arms and ammunition, but would redouble its efforts. Security forces would seek to consolidate their hold on the East by drviing the LTTE out of its remaining base in Thoppigala, then replace troops in the cities with police and Special Task Force units. He said the Karuna group was not a partner of the government in military operations, but that he saw no problem with the Karuna faction transforming itself into a mainstream political party. The government would try to push the LTTE back in the Vavuniya sector in order to control LTTE infiltration and secure the overland route to Mannar. Then it would press the LTTE to retrun to the negotiating table.&#8221; the US Embassy further wrote.<\/p>\n<p>We give below the relevant part of the cable;<\/p>\n<pre>VZCZCXRO4586\r\nOO RUEHBI RUEHLMC\r\nDE RUEHLM #0416\/01 0730542\r\nZNY CCCCC ZZH\r\nO 140542Z MAR 07\r\nFM AMEMBASSY COLOMBO\r\nTO RUEHC\/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5651\r\nINFO RUEHRL\/AMEMBASSY BERLIN PRIORITY 0275\r\nRUEHKA\/AMEMBASSY DHAKA PRIORITY 9963\r\nRUEHIL\/AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD PRIORITY 6932\r\nRUEHKT\/AMEMBASSY KATHMANDU PRIORITY 5009\r\nRUEHLO\/AMEMBASSY LONDON PRIORITY 3603\r\nRUEHNE\/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI PRIORITY 0747\r\nRUEHNY\/AMEMBASSY OSLO PRIORITY 3690\r\nRUEHOT\/AMEMBASSY OTTAWA PRIORITY 1012\r\nRUEHKO\/AMEMBASSY TOKYO PRIORITY 2770\r\nRUEHCG\/AMCONSUL CHENNAI PRIORITY 7505\r\nRUEHBI\/AMCONSUL MUMBAI PRIORITY 5209\r\nRUEHON\/AMCONSUL TORONTO PRIORITY 0137\r\nRUEHLMC\/MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION PRIORITY\r\nRUEHGV\/USMISSION GENEVA PRIORITY 1888\r\nRHHMUNA\/HQ USPACOM HONOLULU HI PRIORITY\r\nRHEFDIA\/DIA WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY\r\nRHEHAAA\/NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY\r\nRUEHBS\/USEU BRUSSELS PRIORITY\r\nRUEAIIA\/CIA WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY\r\nRUEKJCS\/JOINT STAFF WASHDC PRIORITY\r\nRUEKJCS\/SECDEF WASHDC PRIORITY<\/pre>\n<pre>C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 COLOMBO 000416 \r\n\r\nSIPDIS \r\n\r\nSIPDIS \r\n\r\nDEPARTMENT FOR SCA\/INS AND SCA\/RA\r\nMCC FOR S GROFF, D NASSIRY, E BURKE AND F REID \r\n\r\nE.O. 12958: DECL: 03\/13\/2017\r\nTAGS: PTER PGOV MOPS PREL CE\r\nSUBJECT: SRI LANKA: DEFENSE SECRETARY OUTLINES SIX-MONTH\r\nMILITARY STRATEGY \r\n\r\nClassified By: AMBASSADOR ROBERT O. BLAKE, JR.  REASONS: 1.4 (B, D) \r\n\r\n\u00b61.  (C) SUMMARY: Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa told\r\nvisiting SCA PDAS Steven Mann that the government was certain\r\nthat the LTTE was not interested in a political solution to\r\nSri Lanka's ethnic conflict.  Nevertheless, he said, the\r\ngovernment would try to reach out to the Tamil populations,\r\nbypassing the LTTE leadership.  The security forces were\r\nfinding it difficult to choke off LTTE resupply of arms and\r\nammunition, but would redouble its efforts.  Security forces\r\nwould seek to consolidate their hold on the East by drviing\r\nthe LTTE out of its remaining base in Thoppigala, then\r\nreplace troops in the cities with police and Special Task\r\nForce units.  He said the Karuna group was not a partner of\r\nthe government in military operations, but that he saw no\r\nproblem with the Karuna faction transforming itself into a\r\nmainstream political party.  The government would try to push\r\nthe LTTE back in the Vavuniya sector in order to control LTTE\r\ninfiltration and secure the overland route to Mannar.  Then\r\nit would press the LTTE to retrun to the negotiating table.\r\nEnd summary. \r\n\r\n\u00b62.  (C) PDAS Steven Mann, accompanied by Ambassador and Pol\r\nChief, met Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa on March 8.\r\nGothabaya, noting that an overwhelming majority of Sinhalese\r\nBuddhists had voted for Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2005, told us\r\nthat his brother's popularity among the majority community\r\nwas still strong.  However, Sri Lanka's system of\r\nproportional representation in Parliament meant that the\r\nPresident's party would never secure an absolute majority on\r\nits own.  This, he explained, had made it necessary to create\r\nsuch a big cabinet to satisfy everyone.  Mann responded that\r\nthe President's considerable political skills and his strong\r\nsupport made him the right leader to make progress on a\r\nsolution to Sri Lanka's ethnic problem.  The U.S. hoped that\r\nthe new power-sharing proposals that emerge form the current\r\nconsultation process would be of a quality that hadn't been\r\nseen before.<\/pre>\n<pre>BLAKE<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":60488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,2375,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories","category-wikileaks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WikiLeaks: Mahinda, The Right Leader To Make Progress On A Solution To Ethnic Problem - US - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-mahinda-the-right-leader-to-make-progress-on-a-solution-to-ethnic-problem-us\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WikiLeaks: Mahinda, The Right Leader To Make Progress On A Solution To Ethnic Problem - 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