The General has barely been out of imprisonment for 48
hours, when he has made statements that are unguarded, and characteristic of
the time before he was taken in. In that sense he has not changed his spots,
and his undoing then will be the same as his undoing now, and this time he will
have no one to blame but himself.
There are thousands of people who really believe that
the General is the political answer to this dictatorship. Try as I might to
explain this folly, learned men, have no doubt that he is the savior out of
corruption, back to discipline and good governance. In my opinion it is NOT
through representative democracy that he intends achieving his ends, but by
unfounded accusations against all who HE suspects of being corrupt, whether
they are or not, typical of the Premadasa pogroms when he gave carte blanche power
to the forces to eliminate the JVP and as a result all those people in villages
who had grudges against others who pointed out to the army as being JVP were
killed! Hope we never forget what we did to our innocent civilians during that
time.
There will come a time not too long hence, perhaps
within 3 months, when it will become clear the opposition to the Government by
the General will be more out of revenge for wrong done to him, rather than an
honest attempt to bring peace and justice to this nation for all human beings
who live here to look forward with optimism for a bright future for their
children.
The Country certainly does not want one set of corrupt
practices replaced by another set, which the perpetrators do not see as
corrupt, but in a soldier’s way of looking at the world, is ‘a necessary evil
to achieve the ultimate goal of winning the war’. I do not subscribe to that
theory at all.
This undue haste to set up a political party and
register it as the Democratic Party, a word that will haunt not just those who
misuse it, but those who come to believe in it, will be its downfall. Worse as
the General to head it and Arjuna and Anoma as the vice presidents and Tiran
Alles that master of deceit as the General Secretary will be a right royal
attempt at mass deception. Let us hope that people with common sense realize
this is not a party that is built to survive, and is merely an opportunistic
attempt to capitalize on a temporary popularity created by media hysteria which
is calculated by the President to provide another spanner into the intention of
the opposition to unite against the Government.
Watch the proceeding carefully and evaluate the why
and what for s before coming to a conclusion on the progress of the General in
the next few months.
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