Congratulations Mr President Mahinda Rajapakse - A Note With Love

Dear Mr. President Mahinda Rajapakse,

Congratulations! You have won the Sri Lanka Presidential Election 2010. You have been rewarded by the people of Sri Lanka for the promises you delivered. You deserve that. You have been a great leader to the nation by delivering promises you made and defending us not only from the most ruthless terrorists but also from foreign intimidations. We elected you as our next president because we thought you stood out of other candidates. You are more resourcefull serving the national interests. The most of the people endorsed you as the president because you eradicated terrorism in Sri Lanka. You have won the trust of the people. We admire you for restating democracy and reuniting our country.

It s also worth looking at past term (2005-2009) and reflect on shortcomings. Among other issues constant criticisms and allegations about media freedom, corruption, nepotism, political harassments, thuggery, murders, abductions and abuses of state media take significant impact on our people. People tolerated, sacrificed for the sake of war. We do not consider “war crimes” allegations of west during last stage of war since it was not intended but happened in a war situation. But we do aware that there is room for improvements in maintaining law and order in the country and democracy, tolerance for criticisms and opinions. The hard earned tax money of poor people needs to be utilized for the betterment of very same people and not for a group of people. We overlooked those allegations because you showed us how steady you are in decision making on national interests.

Today is the moment of glory, the moment of a birth of a national leader; one country, one law and one president. A leader, not for one group but to all the citizens despite to whom they have voted.

When it comes to “all”, it means different interests and needs, young and old, Tamil and Sinhalese, Christians and Muslims. A good leader would choose what is best for all.

The most important priority at the moment are the development in the North and East, national reconciliation and a political solution has to be taken within undivided Sri Lanka. There are people who have suffered three decades of war and their lives have to begin from scrap; from zero. Providing them basic needs, such as; food, clothes, shelter, medicine, health care, jobs and education will help them to understand us as a nation and seek their help to rebuild the nation.

There is increased violence, thuggery, intimidations, murders that need your immediate attention to bring perpetrators to justice and make Sri Lanka a better place to live. The bureaucracy of civil administration, murderers who walk-free because of corrupted system, decades dragging civil law cases sucking money out of poor people etc are burdens to poor people and are more important than banning adultery movies. We assume you are smarter than Taliban extremists, we do not wish to have extreme restrictions, we as Buddhists, respect freedom of speech and beliefs. In short we are thirst of democracy. So please educate every citizen about laws, rights and obligations, so you can reduce abuse of law and violence in the Country.

Mr. President, do not take extreme paths; neither extreme Buddhism nor extreme Islam. Stay in the middle path, the path where we all can walk freely! Then you will find hearts of all people, and we shall treat you as our king!!!

We sent you this message not to humiliate you but to congratulate you and to let you know that we love our president and our country. We hope you have an ear for us to listen what we got to say! We wish you all the best, the strength and the determination to deliver the promises you mentioned in your 2010 manifesto!

Subha Anagathayak!

NoEalamInSL
27.01.2010

Sri Lankan Media, Western Media, Elections Loom

by NoEalamInSL

Its Presidential elections in Sri Lanka. Unlike previous 5 presidential elections (in 1982, 88, 1994, 1999, 2005); this presidential election is held under one law, one president, and one country. Sri Lanka is finaly freed from LTTE brutal terrorism after 30 years. Eelam War IV ended on 19th May 2009. Ever since President Rajapakse came to power in 2005, Sri Lanka has been on continuous development despite eruption of bloody Eelam war IV in 2006 against LTTE. The war was 24-7 for 2 years time. It is not just a war but a war against most ruthless terorists and who were funded, guided and directed by super powers. President Rajapakse not only fought a war against the most brutal terrorists in the world but also against pro-LTTE propaganda by west media and diplomatic intimidations by super powers in UN, UNHRC and other world bodies including ICRC, HRW which are under the leadership of same super powers; USA, UK, EU.

In comparison to war against terror superpowers whom were fighting a war against terrorism (Al Qaeda) are yet to achieve results while President Mahinda Rajapakse not only totally eliminated LTTE and won the war but also accomplished 90% of his promises given to his people in his 2005 manifesto. What west and the western media and its local agents here in Sri Lanka still struggling are try and manipulate the ground realities in Sri Lanka. They will again hear from Sri Lankans on the 26th January 2010 that they are not only wasteful creatures to bombard nations to stone age but also brainless hypocrites to have double standards on war against terror.

The FBI called LTTE as the most ruthless terrorists in the world followed in 2008. Al Qaeda which was the number one enemy of USA and its allies ( FBI LTTE Gets 1st Place Over Al Qaeda in 2008, Temilnet FBI: Taming the Tamil Tigers ) The war against Al Qaeda terrorists was supported by every state of the world while the war against LTTE was supported by only few countries. Surprisingly the superpowers US, UK, EU objected the Mahinda Rajapakse's war against LTTE. President Mahinda Rajapakse Government might not be perfect yet it is the best government Sri Lanka ever had.

There are certainly room for improvement but it is unlikely that Sri Lankans will choose another candidate as the President of Sri Lanka in 2010!

Anti-Rajapakse-front (as appear on this video)also criticizes President Rajapakse for sending a personalized greeting to mobile phones in Sri Lanka on the new year day. A personilzed greeting to a mobile seems an innovative thought by a president. I would definitely be delighted to have such a greeting from the president my country on the new year day. It gives me an impression of a symbol of a friendly nation. But unfortunately they use his friendliness as a intimidation to attack the president. Do they expect us to imitate their western norms and values? Or are they trying to imply western standards in Sri Lanka? What they forget is, Sri Lankans belong to a collective culture, it differs from western individualistic norms and values. They may have absorbed western norms, values and attitudes but should not criticise Sri Lankans in western perspective.

Sri Lanka is a hot topic for both businessmen and politicians, especially for the West Europeans, because giving a critic on Sri Lankan government attracts millions of Tamils around the world. They are busy attacking President Mahinda Rajapakse government to attract Tamils votes and try to defeat President Rajapaksa at elections on 26th Jan 2010.

So pro-LTTE western nations are sending their media agents and UN Special Rapporteurs on TV, You Tube, renewing outdated, discarded issues like Channel4 Executions, media attacks, killings, as well as new staged grenade attack of Tiran Allas to tarnish image of Sri Lanka. These deliberate manipulations and intimidation s are directed at Mahinda Rajapakse who fought and won a war super powers were embarrassed to admit or accept. They invaded Iraq on false allegation of WMD, later, post war investigations and commissions (NL, UK, USA) concluded that the war against Iraq was illegal but none of these media gave such a publicity as they do for Sri Lanka. Is this called unbiased reporting? is this called reporting with responsibility in west part of the world?

The human rights violaions, media threats, corruptions and thuggery have been decreased since the end of war in May 2009, as it is said here. But some journalist who makes comments on free media (Groundviews journalist 7:43 doesnt even allow readers to make a critic in his blog. Before pointing out others, it is wise to criticize your own attitude, be an example to others.

Dr. Palitha Kohana:

With regard to the west, we had some difficulties mainly owing to the fact that the LTTE had a well oiled propaganda machine operating in western capitals and in various international agencies. They influenced the policy makers in such a way that they tended to take a fairly sympathetic view of the LTTE. Despite this, Sri Lanka was successful in getting the LTTE proscribed in 27 European Commission states, in the United States, in Canada and so on. So we did have a number of significant successes in our foreign relations, even with regard to the west. The president has consistently maintained that Sri Lanka is a non-aligned country, and therefore, we have to ensure that good relations are maintained with all countries. It has to be said that the president's influence on foreign policy formulation in the last four years was a significant factor in managing our foreign relations in a satisfactory way. There was a time when we were not getting what we needed from the west including military material and funding for our development efforts. President Rajapaksa turned to other friends India, Iran, China and Russia.

Related links:

http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20100123_03
Please read Mahinda Rajapakse Manifesto 2010
http://www.mahinda2010.lk/manifesto2010.html

Human Rights Improved EU Freezes Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) to Sri Lanka - 19.10.2009

The European Union has decided to freeze Generalized Systems of Preferences (GSP allows Sri Lankan 7,200 products to enter EU markets free of taxes or duty free access) to Sri Lanka as a collective punishment for so called Human Rights Violations during war against LTTE separatist terrorism.

LTTE terrorism has destroyed the tiny island, Sri Lanka both economically and socially. The present president of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapakse ended 30yr war by eliminating entire LTTE leadership and most of its members in 2years of his four year presidency. The West Europeans (especially EU) strongly condemned the President Mahinda Rajapakse's war on LTTE and threatened to use economical sanctions if the war against LTTE was not stopped. President Mahinda Rajapakse continued his war against LTTE, and eliminated entire LTTE leadership and most of its members. EU is bit embarrassed of Mahinda Rajapakse and uses its resources to punish this war torn tiny nation collectively. EU's accusations are war crimes during last phase of war against LTTE, human rights violations, 300,000 IDPs (Tamil refugees), media freedom, labour etc which have improved (investigations to deaths were done, 200,000 IDPs resettled etc) since the war over on 19th May 2009.

Now, Sri Lanka has become again a focus point. The presidential Elections will be held on 26th January 2010, West Europeans use this golden opportunity and use their resources to influence Sri Lankans not to choose Mahinda Rajapakse because MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE defeated 30 year conflict on which they lived as a parasite letting Sri Lankan poor people suffer three decades. The cause of the conflict was not apparently genuine but  initiated from a group of Eelam extremists who claim Tamils are discriminated and genocided by the majority Sinhalese while 58% of minority Tamils live among Sinhalese and Europeans used it as a weapon to carve out Sri Lanka and promote two states option as a solution to the conflict like they did in other conflict zones.

The approach of Mahinda Rajapakse to the conflict is integration and democratization giving all citizens equal rights.