by Gunadasa Amarasekera
The condemnation of the action taken by the President in ousting the rebels – the anarchists – and the forthright defence of the so called ‘peaceful protesters’ by the American Ambassador Julie Chung, the EU Representative, the Human Rights Representative, the Canadian Ambassador, should open our eyes as to what is happening at the moment. What is the role these representatives are playing? What is their intention? It should be obvious to any critical observer by now.
To put it briefly, the chaos unleashed by the ‘peaceful protesters,’ and taken over by the JVP and the SFP to bring about a revolution through mayhem, murder and anarchy, is aimed at making a Libya of this country. This is what the imperialist powers want.
This is the latest strategy these powers use. They no longer resort to the earlier strategy of installing a favourite of theirs since these favourites have often let them down at some critical stage. They have realised this through experience. The present strategy is a more surefire way of achieving their ambition with minimum physical presence. What is needed is to get the rebels to create violence, chaos and instability, and justify it. In the meantime, they get the hirelings across the globe to condemn the governments concerned for violating Human Rights. This is how the game is played. The name of the game is ‘disaster imperialism’. Iraq and Libya have proved its efficacy and success.
Those imperialist powers do not want even President Wickremasinghe – by no means an enemy of theirs – to form a stable government and eradicate the violence and chaos. They want that perpetuated as manifested by those representatives when they met the President.
What is sad is that we are completely unaware of how these hirelings are functioning in this country. We only know that there is a powerful network of lawyers, professionals and academics at work. But we do not know who they are, how they are funded and rewarded. However, the media seems to be ever ready to convey to us their profound statement on behalf of the protesters for our consumption. One Mr Ratnayake in a letter written to the Editor (Well Done CID 7/21) This is what he had to say ‘It was reported that the Criminal Investigation Department was probing into the incident based on reports that three leading activists of the Galle Face protest site allegedly received large amounts of funds to three bank accounts from overseas’.(Mr. Ratnayake is certainly a brave man.) It is high time the government focused its attention on this matter and investigate the modus operandi adopted by these anarchists. It is as important as neutralising them.
It is heartening to note that the President has the courage (unlike Gotabaya Rajapaksea who succumbed to Julie Chung’s dictates) to have summoned this gang of four and submitted them to a thorough dressing down. He did not mince his words. He indicated that he was aware of what he was up to, he told them to their face what he thought of them. Hope Julie Chung, who pokes her finger at every turn, would have learnt a lesson or two.I write this brief note to express my appreciation of the way the President handled the gang of four, and thereby restored the dignity of our country. He deserves our praise.
