The craziest thing about all the problems that developed soon after the recent elections on 10th February 2018, which gave the faction represented by the BUDD, an unquestioned plebiscite by the public, has ennobled them to continue in the same manner of the MR regime that was overthrown on 8th January 2015.
Don't forget the whole brand was Mahinda Rajapakse, there was hardly any poster of the candidate, so effectively by voting for the BUDD people had no clue who they were voting for in their local area, they merely voted for the BRAND MAHINDA.
That said, if the people had any sense they were voting for the business as usual, that was conducted by the MR regime prior to their ouster, it has clearly been shown in recent incidents.
So let me merely confirm and detail just one incident,
and true, one incident does not make a pattern, the stamp of all incidents, but it just goes to show the blue print that is being adopted with impunity to divide the country, and effectively disenfranchise the rights of all minorities, and intelligent people, in every way and being subject to the whims and fancies of the envious regime of the past, represented by the Gallery of the poorly educated and easily manipulated, and enslaved electorate. I am trying not to be elitist here, but add racist educated to this herd too.
This incident yesterday, where an elected member of the BUDD party, came to the podium, in a Muslim Mosque, which was attended by local worthies, including Buddhist Clergy from the local temple,and made the usual statement telling all the Muslim people gathered there, that he will protect them all, and while he is the democratically elected head in the area, HE WILL NOT permit any crime against them and will take personal responsibility for anything that occurs. He assured the Muslim people gathered at the Mosque, that they need not worry about their businesses or personal safety while on his watch.
Ironically the high ups in the local police also were represented here, and there was the needed security also provided at that location.
IN THE MEANTIME, one of his henchmen went on the rampage at that time at a place not one km from when this event was going on. I cannot confirm it was orchestrated though.
Remember this newly elected politician is what is termed in Sinhala, a MARAYA, so obviously the people of the area, elected him knowingly or unknowingly as a MARAYA to represent them.
His henchmen attacked an innocent Muslim shopkeeper, older person with a heart condition, and did some minor damage to his premises and fled withing minutes. The shopkeeper was rushed to the hospital where he is right now.
Within minutes the police gathered having been informed of the incident, and a few Minutes later, the MARAYA turns up with his flashing lights indicating a man of power (remember even MPs and Ministers are now barred from using flashing lights, so he has broken the law in front of the POLICE who failed to arrest him on this infringement!) came to survey the scene and take control of the incident, as by now over 100 people had gathered as is normal in Sri Lanka.
PEOPLE LIVING IN SRI LANKA CAN RELATE TO THIS BEHAVIOR AS IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME, the police simply look the other way.
In Sri Lanka, when there is an incident, the nosy parkers appear from nowhere, instead of biding their time in their homes. they are all curious ready for their nights entertainment! So the MARAYA had a ready made audience for his theatrics. Over hundred people had now gathered at the scene of the incident at night.
So he goes around as if he is concerned, giving high fives to the Police gathered around as if he knows them all, and generally gives the impression of the man in charge. (remember he was a nobody, and a thug, known to the community as a thug involved in all sorts of nefarious activities, before the election, but has not changed his thuggish ways after it either)
He held sway, telling the people he will see that the culprit is caught and punished and made a full drama and requested with the Police for the people to disperse, as there was no problem now and he will ensure that the local area will be safe from such incidents. Don't forget that due to the tension created lately, the Security forces took this incident very seriously, and so deployed police and the army to this scene of this small incident in case it flared up! The security force presence was kept overnight in just in case, to the annoyance of the actual Policemen required to do the night watchman task.
So there were other local Politicians coming by to show their support to the Security forces and the people of the area, so it became a catalyst for a lot of VIP arrivals and departures, as is normal, as politicians believe it their duty to show there faces when any incident, where the crowd has gathered and need entertainment. They too must have seen the theatrics of this Johnny come lately!
NOW YOU HAVE READ THE WHOLE STORY. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
This is what is wrong in Sri Lanka today, after the rise of the BUDD. Once it blooms no telling what is in store for poor Sri Lanka, if the in the BUDD stage we have to face such people who are in charge.
Worse too, the average Policeman was given jobs under the MR regime, not for ability but on a list of party faithful, who frankly are MOST ANNOYED at having to guard Muslim shops overnight, or protect them, as they are, put simply, the rural racist catchment of the BUDD and the previous MR acolytes. Overheard was the Policeman complaining that all this security for a small incident, is over the top, and for all he knows it was not even a race crime, but one made to look like that, caused by the Muslims themselves to gain sympathy for their cause and rouse their people up, by their community.
No wonder then that the Muslim community HAVE LOST FAITH IN THE POLICE as they are not independent and don't see each human being as a citizen of the Country, they have sworn to protect.
Sri Lanka we have a problem, and we can solve it if we all get together and try to allay the incorrect, dangerous and incendiary information that is spreading from person to person, where the recipient is UNABLE to simply understand that it is all COCK TALK with NO basis in fact. We need a true STATES MAN TO GIVE THIS MESSAGE UNEQUIVOCALLY.
THE MASSES - Are they intelligent? Or do they have selective amnesia, where they are intelligent but like the Donald Trump acolytes, completely blind and deaf to their racist belief that they are being taken advantage of by the ruling class. They are told the present govt. by giving prominence and benefit to Muslim in Sri Lanka, believe they don't deserve this special treatment if in fact they are given undue benefits.
With regard to laws having to be equal, that is one for the legislature to rule on and not the Muslim community, who will practice their laws, until they are told it is illegal in Sri Lanka.
IN SUMMARY
If this analysis gives the reader a picture of the true position of smokes and mirrors at work, we have two severe problems. We have a majority of RACISTS now elected to the Local Government Level, who say one thing and do something completely opposite, and fool the masses to their advantage.
We then have the second string of people like the POLICE and SECURITY FORCES and Government Servants, who have been appointed on party lines, not with integrity or ability, who hold severely WARPED ideas of the world around them, and so are COMPLETELY UNFIT for the task they have been entrusted. RACISM BEING ONE OF MANY FAULTS, but is appropriate here.
YOU then have the Muslim community who have been victimized, a Police Force, as they are racist (majority) hold even the belief that it was not a hate crime, but one committed by the Muslim community themselves, and an elected politician prancing like a peacock having his day in the SUN with so many present as his audience.
SADLY ALL IN THE NAME OF POLITICS - TO GAIN AND STAY IN POWER BY FOOLING THE PEOPLE AND RESULT IN TAKING THE COUNTRY IN REVERSE. There is no one advocating the concept of ONE NATION and doing everything for the benefit of the nation.
Until Sri Lanka can produce a true statesman who can point out the folly in this thinking and the only means of survival is putting country first, we don't appear to have a future.
No matter what spin you put on this, the Ten year MR regime reign completely warped the whole system, where the police, government service at all levels, the security forces and even the Teaching Profession, were stuffed with people beholden to that regime, and to that regime they owed this SINECURE as many who were given the jobs in these places were NOT THE MOST SUITABLE people for the job.
ReplyDeleteThis has created a huge class of person, who is holding this country back, where paying their wages for no productivity is costing this Country big time. MR who does not understand economics does not care, as his version of economics is show projects to deceive, all economically unproductive, but it does not matter the masses who are bought by fertilizer subsidies, samurdhi benefits, and jobs where you don't do any work.
You are now seeing the consequences of this action. You have a Muslim community who have worked hard to build their businesses, and you have the useless cases who just get a paycheck for no work, resenting a community becoming more and more successful, as the Sinhala people are bone lazy and don't lift a finger to help themselves, let alone a neighbor and call themselves Buddhist.
There in lies the rub, of a Buddhist in name country, where it is hard to find a true Buddhist who practices his religion as he should.
What you say is true. However the Muslim community must now do their part in reconciliation, by agreeing to one law of the land for all.
ReplyDeleteThey should gradually allow the moderates to hold sway over the fundamentalist wahabis, who must share some of the blame for the extremist behavior of their people, that many muslim countries like, Egypt, Turkey, Syria or Indonesia do not practice or adopt. So it is the type of Islam practiced in Sri Lanka, especially in the east that is causing some of this resentment. It takes two to tango, and let us openly discuss the issue, without hiding behind the Abhayas, or Incendiary politicians or clergy on the Sinhala Front.
Sri Lankan Politicians are the problem
ReplyDeleteThere are no statesmen in Sri Lanka. The politics is just trying to gain mileage from their specific vote bank. They perceive going in the statesman mode, will lose their vote bank.
Sirisena had the best chance of becoming a statesman, if he was not going to contest again. He blew it by going back to his own vote bank and found out to his cost they had deserted him. Serves him right. At least if he showed true Leadership as a Statesman representing the people as a whole, his voice could carry the nation through this tragic period, and win the debate on behalf of Sri Lanka, not for one sick lot or another as is the case. Every party in Sri Lanka is mentally deranged, no one talks of a Country, only a segment of it.
The Country needs to be unified not divided, as is the case today.
I believe you are right in blaming this all on the Budd and not on the Hardline clergy of the Buddhist extremism who have not uttered anything incendiary. They have learned from their mistakes, and have been told off by their superiors not to incite.
ReplyDeleteThe politicians on the other hand seem to have a free hand as they are simply loose cannon, who got lucky in being elected, as they were not chosen carefully, and any thug who wanted to contest was given a ticket to do so, as no background checks were done by the BUDD camp, which I know for a fact. So we now have thousands of thugs as local councillors and just you wait till they go to work to see the shit that is going to come. People you voted the goons in, too late to stop what you started.