Sri Lanka Guardian: Time to tame real betrayals

Sri Lanka Guardian: Time to tame real betrayals

This is a moving appeal. I'm not a great liker of General Fonseka, but the fact is that this country has set up a kangaroo court merely because the man contested the Presidency.

Fonseka may have done many wrongs. A man in his position - commander of an army fighting a ruthless organisation - would. The family may have made much out of arms deals.

But also 4 million people voted for him (I didn't). Parliamentary elections are only weeks away. He is contesting and leading a Party. What is being done to Fonseka is just not fair. And every Sri Lankan will have to pay for it when sanctions are applied against the country. The President and family have become the rulers and will do well, in the short term. But such regimes usually end in bloody revolutions.

Beware the Ides of March!

Sri Lanka Guardian: 2010: Our 1984

Sri Lanka Guardian: 2010: Our 1984

Comments by "Random Thinker" (real identity to be guarded, please; I can't afford to get disappeared.)

Perceptive and valid comments in the Tissarinee article.

Is it just possible that all traditional UNP supporters will return to their fold now that their much hated JVP is out?

And could the JVP regain some of their supporters since they are severing links with the Capitalists?

Unthinking chauvinists will obviously be questioning the validity of their arguments given the Rajapaksa-Fonseka rift. If the World allows the Voters to realise that a few moderates and peacenicks in Parliament will ensure Human Rights are respected, it may just be that a Fourth Force consisting of small principled parties could emerge.

But all that depends on the Elections Commissioner reverting to his old honest self.

"Random Thinker"