No Sri Lankan Patriot wanted it to come to this, but Gen. Sarath Fonseka had not learned this basic principle of survival: When immersed nose deep in mud, the wise keep their mouths closed!
Gen. Fonseka will have the time to ponder this truism, as he contemplates the errors of judgment that led to his precipitous fall from grace from being, perhaps, the third most admired man in Sri Lanka to one of the most vilified, in a brief period of nine months. World history abounds with such instances of foolish men of unbounded ambition destroying themselves when they loosen their grasp on honor, duty and patriotism.
Colombopage had this to say today (February 08, 2010) about Gen. Fonseka's arrest:
General Fonseka has been arrested on charges of committing military offenses during his time in the Army," the newly appointed military spokesman Major General Prasad Samarasinghe said in an official statement to the Government Media Unit. He did not elaborate on the specific offenses.
Director General of the Media Centre for National Security, Lakshman Hulugalle, said Fonseka would face charges in a military court of conspiracy against the government.
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The government has accused General Fonseka of plotting to assassinate the President and overthrow the government by a coup. The government has arrested over 50 of his loyal retired military officers on planning the coup. General Fonseka denies all government's accusations against him.
However, a BBC report said earlier in the day the General had threatened to divulge the military secrets in response to alleged war crimes against the Sri Lankan military during the final phase of the war against the LTTE.
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Early in his presidential campaign in an interview to a Sunday weekly, the opposition candidate accused the Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa of ordering the Army's 58 Division leader to kill the senior LTTE cadres who were attempting to surrender with white flags.
He later retracted the statement saying the paper misquoted him but the government and the media said the retired commander betrayed the nations and the damage to the country and the military had been done by the General's statement for political gain.
According to The Asian Tribune the main charges, read out to Gen. Fonseka at the time of his arrest, were
• Politicking whilst in uniform,
• Conspiring against the Commander-in-Chief whilst in Service,
• Harboring more than 1,500 deserters whilst on Service,
• And, corrupt practices in relating to military procurements.
We trust that the Government has all of the necessary evidence to support these charges, and that they will promptly release him if the evidence available cannot stand up to legal scrutiny. However, what we know of Gen. Fonseka's activities to date since the end of the Eelam War in May, 2009, as reported in the press and elsewhere, leads us to believe that Gen. Fonseka will be convicted in a court of law, and will spend a significant portion of his life behind bars.
We take no joy in the downfall of one we considered a war-hero, but we firmly believe that those who betray their country by deed and word for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, must be held ACCOUNTABLE, if only to serve as an example to deter others from VIOLATING the Law of the Land, and UNDERMINING the National Security of the Motherland.
Let ALL those who conspire to betray the Motherland, and violate Sri Lanka's laws with impunity take note: You will no longer will be allowed to run free; you will be held accountable for your actions! You can RUN, but you will not be able to HIDE! Therefore, CEASE and DESIST, in your own interest.
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white vans in india?????
or are they tata vans????
great proactive thinking by someone. wonder who it is!!!
"Some recent 'abductions' of Eezham Tamil refugees who have come to Tamil Nadu after the war may have connections to orchestrated efforts in silencing war crime witnesses, allege informed media circles in Chennai. Within the last one month, a special group of people, released from the detention camps of Colombo, was sent to Tamil Nadu to carry out certain specific tasks, the sources said adding that the group includes some former LTTE members of key positions and those who were employed in the former Tamil Eelam civil administration, including the police.
The group is engaged in gathering information about key LTTE members, who have fled the island, and in establishing contact with refugees and health workers having firsthand knowledge about war crimes committed by Colombo's armed forces.
Recently, a doctor, having knowledge of war crimes was abducted in Tamil Nadu, allegedly by some belonging to the said group, accompanied by Indian intelligence operatives, the Tamil Nadu media sources further revealed."
pol,
re: kra ismuth canal
yes, even singapore is engaged in bribing the corrupt thai losers.
this freaking canal is in the planning stage for 300 years now.
don't the bloody thai idiots realise that it benefis them most?????
Moshe what do you expect from a land of ho's, paedophiles & prostitutes? Thailand is the definition of corruption coupled with globalisation. Remember when we tried to get KP back in 2007 and they "denied it" (of course the MoD did fudge it on their part). Dirty Thais got worried they would not get "Pagar" from the LTTE operatives there.
By the way the human rights/war crimes circus is starting again.
Face it there is only one way to end this.
Indict Robert O’Blake for war crimes.
He's the one who gave the "green light" (maybe the concept itself) for the human shield to justify Tamilia protests, to justify intervention and saving the LTTE, therefore perpetuate war in Sri Lanka, therefore perpetuate human rights violations
We need a "team of experts" made up of some professionals and journalists loosely linked to the Government to issue a report in this regard. Gonseka can also be useful, can toss his installing Military dictatorship with blessings from Blake etc etc.
Basically screw Blake over for violating human rights in Sri Lanka, trying to undermine democracy and guilty for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Just Blake and Blake alone.
If we had a good media this would be easier.
We do not need to proceed with anything from there. Just need to grab headlines to humiliate the West using Blake. Screw him hard. Need to inform before hand, India and China to get them to back such a claim (through media nothing official, maybe one or two “concerns” or “worries from what SL has told us” –if we can get that).
It is the only way of getting the issue watered down.
Link in culpability of the UN, such as “maverick” actions of Gorden Wiess and Pillai as well just to make it juicer. As well as our local NGOs (working on contract).
a fantastic article by By Jolly Somasundram former Civil Servant.
although i find the last bit insulting.
Parliamentary Elections 2010: A Turnaround Challenge for NE Tamils? An Interesting Viewpoint
“The time has come the Walrus said to talk of many things -of sailing ships and sealing wax and —whether pigs have wings.” Lewis Carroll, Walrus and the Carpenter.
So with the Tamil Leaders! After years of politically representing and leading the NE Tamils, with the external assistance of the Diaspora, the Tamil Leaders have now led the marginalized NE Tamils to an arid future. In the 2010 Presidential Elections, NE Tamil leaders- betting with an unerring certainty on the wrong horse- converted an already dispirited people into an irrelevancy.
It was the devil’s electoral deal struck with General Fonseka that did it. General Fonseka was the commander of the Sri Lankan army, mandated to defeat the LTTE. He successfully achieved his mission and was nationally recognized. But, there were the gravest doubts whether he achieved his mission justly. In the last days of the war (17th-19th May) “the Tigers were completely and tightly encircled and their doom was certain. A little patience would have avoided needless and extreme civilian suffering and death.” (New York Times- 21/ May/ 2009, page 9).
Over 20,000 Tamil civilians were estimated killed in the three months, exceeding by five times, the civilian carnage inflicted by Prabhakaran over three years. Events of the last few weeks are graphically depicted in the US State Dept’s and the UTHR (J)’s reports. It was at this time that the wife, medico- daughter and 12 year son of Prabhakaran were done away with, like the Czar’s family by the Bolsheviks. Subsequently, Gen Fonseka boasted that he had given orders that those surrendering with white flags were to be shot. After the victory, he incarcerated the entire population of the Wanni as collective punishment. There were 300,000 of them- all Tamils- dumped in foetid prison camps and he wanted another 100,000 soldiers to manage these camps. (There is irony in the General protesting his post-election ” five star hotel arrest” for one night).
President Rajapakse refused the General’s request, causing the first rift between the two. Credible evidence has now emerged of the General’s criminal, exchange control breaches. It was with this General, one who wanted the Tamils to get back to India , that the Tamil leaders struck their electoral deal- with no mention of devolution, 13th amendment or NE re-merger in the deal. Kural (570) says, ” Tyranny, that allies itself to fools and charlatans, / Is the only burden under which the earth groans: there is nothing other besides.” Fortunately, the South, with common sense, saved the NE Tamils from utter annihilation, had the General won the Presidential election. NE Tamils are the modayas.
The deal struck between the TNA and the General was a Himalayan blunder, falling into the same category, as the Communist Party of India not permitting their leader- Jyoti Basu – to be the Prime Minister of India when it was his for the taking, and the Nazi- Soviet pact concluded in 1939.
The 2010 Presidential election result has to make the NE Tamils come to terms with one reality. President Rajapaksa’s victory was a Pan-Rural Sinhala triumph with no NE Tamil input into the equation. President Rajapakse, could, if he now wishes, totally ignore the NE Tamils, and there is nothing the NE Tamils could do about it, except bleat. “Having painted themselves into a corner, NE Tamils complain of being cornered” acidly wrote Sivathasan, in a perceptive op-ed published in the Island
End Of Two Dynasties In The South
The 2010 Presidential elections ended two dynasties in the South. One was the Bandaranaike dynasty. Its last representative, Chandrika Bandaranaike, supported the General. Even her pocket borough electorates, Attanagalla and Dompe voted 60% against her. There will be no more Bandaranaikes in power in the near future, as there will be no Kennedys’ within the power structures of Washington DC . The second dynasty to end was the Senanayake- Jayawardena one. As will be explained later, its last representative- Ranil Wickremesinghe-, though of excellent presidential material, has no credible chance of gaining power in the future.
A Rising Son From The Deep South.
The 2010 Presidential Elections have the following consequences.
1. President Rajapakse will hold office for another 6 1/2 years.
2 Within this period, there will, at least, be two Parliamentary Elections, the first being in April 2010.
3. In the 2010 Parliamentary elections, there is the possibility, if cards are played right, of the leading NE Tamil Party having the largest contingent of parliamentarians it ever had, of 22-25. In 2011, there will be a population census, followed by a Delimitation Commission. NE Tamil will lose between 3-6 seats in the post-2010 Parliament because of a decline of population.
The 2010 Parliamentary Elections will be held under the prevailing electoral system of proportion and weightage for the smaller parties. Whatever the dimensions of the electoral victory of the Presidential Election, since the Parliamentary Election will be held under a different system of computing, it will be most unlikely that any Party will gain a 2/3rd’s majority nor even a simple majority. In short, the largest party will have to scout around for coalition partners: jumbo Cabinets will continue. The possibility is that the governing Party will gain 100-95 seats, the UNP 70-65 seats and the JVP 10-8 seats. (The UNP has conceded that the governing Party will be the largest: their concern is to prevent it getting a 2/3rds majority). Depending on the sophistication of the election approach of the NE Tamil Parties, they could well be a significant third Party, with an attractive seat portfolio of 22-25.
As stated, the post-2010 Parliamentary Election will also be held under the presidency of President Rajapakse. In foreign relations, the Russia- Iran- Pakistan- Sri Lanka- Myanmar-China linkages will continue and get stronger. Sri Lanka is no longer a dot in the Indian Ocean but a major player in a new, Eurasian international arrangement, and, a critical, strategic, transportation location for energy supply to
China, which is scheduled to surpass the US as the largest economy by 2030. (This is a rebuffing of the MacIinder, geo-political sea lane theory of the 19th century, now applied to the 21st). It is not in the interest of any country in this supply chain, to permit a regime change in Sri Lanka . There is also a possibility of the Putin Model being applied, i.e. President Rajapakse entering Parliament as Prime Minister, at the end of his second term. In short, the newly emergent Rajapakse power centre of the Deep South will become a dynasty, replacing the two moribund ones. It will last at least 25 years. If this were to happen, NE Tamils, if they are led by their NE Tamil Parties’ thinking and they acting within their existing, dated paradigms and continuing with their traditional “friends”- are facing a continuous exile from power for another ten years (at least) and possibly twenty five years.
Turn Round For NE Tamils: A Rebranding Required.
In this bleak emerging scenario, the militarily defeated NE Tamils, if they are not to follow the path adopted by the Veddahs- that of refusing to face realities and determinedly pursue dated technology and hunting economic modes, should- instead of re-arranging the deck chairs when the Titanic is sinking- immediately, craft a turn around strategy. If it adopts a fresh branding strategy there will be hope for them. There are refreshing signs that fresh thinking is prevailing. One of the first steps in a turn round is creative destruction.
The TNA has done it. It has undertaken a purge, on a scale no other political Party has ever attempted in Sri Lanka . Political pornographers, quislingams, boycotters, left-wing hallucinators, President Counsel aspirants, Katunayake roaders, flotsam and jetsam, debris and detritus, have all been swept away, though some atrophied individuals yet remain. Although the TNA made a mistake with the Fonseka agreement, it has now emerged stronger for the purge and has become the main and significant force to represent the NE Tamils. The TNA is the SLFP of the NE Tamils.
The 2010 Parliamentary Elections.
The forthcoming Parliamentary elections give a providential opportunity for an effective turn around strategy. There are two forms of election to Parliament, the first, direct, the other, through the national list. The national list depends on the total overall number of votes obtained. There is also a bonus seat given to the Party that obtains the maximum number of seats in a district. The number of elected members and the number of slots to be nominated for NE Provincial districts are,( the number of slots is in brackets), Jaffna 9 (12), Vanni 6 (9), Batticoloa 5 (8), Digamadulla 7 (10) Trincomalee 4 (7). While maximising the number of winning candidates, the leading NE Tamil party should be able to obtain the Jaffna, Vanni, Batticoloa bonus seats and, with effort, the Trincomalee one. Colombo district has 19 elected and 22 slots for nomination. There was one NE Tamil in the dissolved Parliament.
The TNA should be able to get two elected and gain a substantial vote that would give it a third national list slot. (Presently it has two). By careful management of the campaign, the TNA would be able to harvest 22-25 Members of Parliament.
Mahinda Chinthanaya.
President Rajapakshe has let it be known that he would like to reduce the size of the next Cabinet. The existing Jumbo Cabinet was the result of low parliamentary numbers of the governing Party at the beginning of its governance. It did not have enough numbers to even get its own member as a Speaker: the Speaker was elected from the opposition. In the meanwhile, the Rajapakshe government has turned out to the strongest government Sri Lanka ever had. It ended a “unwinnable” war and made a radical change in foreign policy.
Those of the West, which opposed the government, are ‘restudying’ the issue; the suspension of GSP+ will not be made effective. The government was able to strengthen its power by winning over members from varied opposition parties, attracting them with ministerial positions. If the Cabinet is to be reduced, the Party that could deliver over twenty members would be very attractive to President Rajapakshe. If this party works within the Mahindana Chinthanaya, that party has it made.
TNA To Grab The Opportunity .
As already argued, the NE Tamils are speedily moving towards irrelevance. If this backward movement is not stopped, their descendants are on their way to becoming Veddhas. NE Tamils are not in a position to make demands, ( Thimpu Principles, self-determination, NE merger, are, for now, so much pie in the sky); NE Tamils can only draw attention to promises.
The Mahinda Chinthanaya does offer many promises. Under the section on Provincial Councils, The Mahinda Chinthanaya states “I will re-establish the Northern Provincial Council under the 13th amendment, with immediate effect.” (Page 54). Further on, it adds, ” I will seek the assistance of Provincial Councillors of the Northern Province to expedite and strengthen the Northern Development programme that seeks to upgrade living standards of the Northern population and ensure sustainable development.”
There are various other promises strewn in the Mahinda Chinthanaya which should be mined. The TNA with over twenty members, being at the table and working with the governing Party, and, incidentally reciprocally strengthening it, is the only hope for NE Tamils to gain a modicum of self-respect.
Conclusion
NE Tamils, living in this country, have to decide what is best for them. Those living in foreign countries are not their role models or judges. It is left to NE Tamils to capitalise on this opportunity- never to be repeated- or blow it, leading to disastrous results. In the latter event, there will be no one to be their saviour.
Prologue
“Moses, after years of slavery of his people in Egypt, led them to the promised land, with the help of external assistance, that of God. After wandering all over the Middle East , he staked his people’s homeland in the only area where there was no oil. ”
Moshey
[anyway no point sam or anyone else wasting time trying to SALVAGE our parrot friend. he is just parroting what LTTE losers say. nothing original.]
Very true.
Same garbage he keeps regurgitating. Sure sounds like an aresehole lacking any formal or advance education. His knowledge is very limited to "National Concerns" on petty stuff (like potholes on roads, bus services, thuggery, etc. just to name a few areas).
This idiot reminds me of one "David Blacker" whorebitch who I used to castrate in DA first and then DW later. That bastard was of mixed parentage of Burgher and Tamil (nothing wrong in that per se) and was a rabid "selective" racist and was staunchly anti-Sinhela, anti-Sinhela-Buddhist, pro-Church, pro-Tamileelam (but not necessarily pro-LTTE), pro-west to the point of kissing the anus of Suddhas AND as he had done a short stint in the SLA, he thought that gave him the license to insult Sinhelas and Buddhism in these blogs.
Boy o Boy, did I ever enjoy castrating that uneducated whore-bitch and it was easy to do so as he lacked not only a formal education but knowledge of macro-complexities, etc. that one gets from working in the "corporate world."
The point is, I would say that bugger was the mirror image of this Parrot Pakis whoredog!
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OaO Asithri
So, hear ya all LTTE whorebitches:
Take this Parrot-Pakis out and put someone with a better knowledge/education if you want to give us proud (and "well-entrenched" "well-established")(and I am being modest here when I select my words) SL Patriots a fight based on "salient points" and not old-spinsters' or penny-laborers’ gossip/hearsay.
OaO Asithri
A powerful Mangala group oppose and bid farewell to 'elephant '
(Lanka-e-News, March 4, 2010, 9.15AM)
31 members of the Mangala Samaraweera led SLFP (M) including its Executive administrative secretary, Dr. Sisil Bandara, Central Committee members, District Organizers and a number of front liners met the President Mahinda Rajapakse and joined the old ‘Mahagedera’ the SLFP Party.
Dr. Sisil Bandara told Lanka e news that they took this decision because, the SLFP M wing was originally begun as a separate party aiming at rectifying the SLFP policies. But, now that the decision has been taken by Mnagala Samarweera to contest this election under the symbol of the elephant jointly with the UNP, he and others with him cannot accept that course of action.
SLFP (M ) wing Assist. Secretary, fromer PC member and Gangavata Korale District former Assist Secretary, Knady Nazzar Hajiar, Anuradhapura District Organizer Upali Kiriwathuduwa, Plonnrauwa District Organiser Vipula Hettirachi, Gampaha District Committee Secretray Dhammika Edirisinghe, Badull District chief Organizer VG Liyanage, Kegalle District Organizer Mahnanma Dissanayake, Kurunegala Distrcit Organizer Rohitha Wijesekera are among the 31 who left the SLFP (M) to re join the SLFP. All of them are SLFP M Central Committee members.
http://www.lankaenews.com/English/news.php?id=9188
Why is it that everything that this Ranil Ponna Wesa Traitor touches, ends up in ashes?
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As for Mangali, well he seems to have made the same mistake as Sarth Gonseka the Dog...thinking that you can still be a TRAITOR and expect all your supporters to follow!
OaO Asithri
Asithri/others,
I do not trust these Mangala types "coming back".
We need ensure their loyalty. They need to be witnesses to Mangala/Gonseka/Wests attempt funding Gonseka/green lighting military coup (to humiliate the Wests “we love democracy” crap), they must also be used to counter the Wests bogus "war crimes" tears (you know get them to say how Mangi, SF, Ranil-ponna, NGOs etc planned this scam) as well as divulge details on the various meetings they had.
Chaps, looks like the number of comments for current post has made google software go a little crazy. If you are ready I can make a new post. I have something written up on the subject of never ending myth spread by separatists, the one about how Sri Lanka was never unified as a single political unit until British made it so. I saw a post in TamilNut spreading this Monkey feces, which kind of made me itch to write something about it. If you chaps are tired of talking about Fonseka follies let's move on.
Cheers!
KB,
i have reserved the next post since yesterday!!!
:))
will be in an hour's time.
Moshe, old boy, no problem at all. Mine's a little boring anyhow talking about ancient history. It can wait. By the way did you see the latest outburst from that stupid cow Navi Pillay? We should arrange a gunny bag ride to Colombo for this cow. Put her up with KP.
Cheers!
guys,
there is a new post in sri lanka defence forum.
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