Mere and unfounded speculation... I swear!

I see General Fonseka has been well rewarded for his estimable service to Country and King. Perhaps somebody can explain to me how a man of his considerable military accomplishments can end up as a third tier bureaucrat in an all but meaningless ministry?

I am sure this has nothing to do with his discreet inquiries into the dealings of his former defense minister regarding military purchases and real-estate negotiations with the Chinese.


None what so ever.


Of course if that was the case no journalist in Sri Lanka would dare to investigate the story for fear of death.


So much for freeing the country at the expense of thousands of soldiers and civilians.




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Blame everyone but Sri Lankans

There is not now, nor has there been for years, a shortage of small-minded propagandists on either side of the Sri Lankan political divide. From the Pro GoSL apologists who fail to see the obvious retreat from democracy and decency that is the Rajapaska regime, to the conveniently blinkered supporters of the terrorist and murderer Prabhakaran, and both of these camps rely endlessly on the propagated myths that any and all who oppose their point of view are paid lackeys of their opposite numbers.

Sri Lanka will never awake from its troubled sleep so long as so many are willing to enjoy the kool-aid offered by the extremists on both sides of the problem.

In the end it will be more than the Tamil minorities who suffer as the present rot will eventually turn what should be a paradise on earth into nothing more than a despotic regime bent on enabling a smaller and smaller elite in their quenchless thirst for money and power.



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