It is an open secret that the President interferes by directly
calling the Editors of newspapers and telling them what and what not to do. Often
when there was adverse publicity relating to Govt or a high up or a family member
it was suppressed by direct calls by the President or one of his family.
A recent case in point was
when a Presidential son beat up on a Rugby referee and it was hushed by personal
intervention of the family to all the print and broadcast MEDIA!
This was also the case last
night, when the news of the day was the “disproportionate use of force” by the STF
and SF against the innocent civilians of the Weliveriya and Belummahara areas of
the Gampaha District.
Anyone with any common sense
will realize that the papers that the President was able to speak to refrained from
putting this in the headlines, and those he was not able to get through, did
put this very important news, on their front pages.
Congratulations, Daily Mirror
and Lankadeepa to have the guts to tell the people of this country what it is they
should know of the abuse of the power granted to this government. If civilians are
unable to demonstrate peacefully until their grievances are heard, and instead be
fired upon by LIVE BULLETS, that is nothing short of a gross abuse of HUMAN RIGHTS.
If the Govt. is prepared
to take such steps to stop a small demonstration, what is in store for future agitation?
They are sadly mistaken if they think they can silence peaceful patriotic citizens
of this country, to protect what are their rights from the actions of a traitorous
and murderous regime, hell bent on imposing their warped sense of self worth on
the people of Sri Lanka!
It is high time people take
to the streets and people power shows that the Government power is exactly what
it is worthless when they try to suppress the just rights of the citizens. This
government DOES NOT represent the people, as they have successfully bought the electorate
by buying all the politicians to do their bidding. It is for the people now to realize
this canard and rebel first at the ballot box against the brutal assassination of
the people’s rights and freedoms, tell this ruling CABAL that they are nothing more
than a CABAL of their own making and have nothing to do with Sri Lanka or its people,
and are more ALIEN than any other form of life. It is now the time for common sense
to prevail and realize that this Govt. has lost its right to Govern, as they have
lost credibility and time for them to be eviscerated forthwith.
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