The Sunday Times
yesterday has detailed a list of potential wrongdoings that lead directly to
the former Defence Secretary Ghotabaya Rajapakse, as he is the senior most
person who could approve or cancel any of these transactions, and in each of
these instances he is shown to be the person who has for reasons of his own,
(throwing caution to the wind in a Machiavellian fashion of authoritarianism
borne out of an insecurity complex) taken it upon himself to use the resources
of the State in transactions that now seem to be illegal, though at the time may
have seemed to his state of mind,. perfectly legitimate and in the best
interests of the Country.
Such are the
vagaries of life in and out of power and he must face the music fair and
square, as a citizen of this Country as well as the USA. He MUST remember one
thing that he is now being treated fairly, with equal protection of the law,
and the Investigators are well within their rights to prosecute if it is a
prosecutable offence in the eyes of the law here.
In fact the MIG
deal, Avante Garde, Lanka Hospitals and Lanka Logistics are the least of his
problems. They pale in comparison to the more rigorous scrutiny he is now under
by the US Internal Revenue authorities for not disclosing the Income he has
made over this period on deals that they (US Internal Revenue Service) have
detailed records of and are working closely with Sri Lankan Law enforcement
authorities for him to be extradited to the US to face prosecution as a Federal
Crime and if found guilty, may face up to 20 years in rigorous imprisonment in
a Federal Penitentiary, with murderers and drug addicts.
He must rue the
day he obtained US citizenship, as otherwise he would have been spared
prosecution!
What goes around
comes around, and the lesson in this is to have a sense of proportion about
oneself. Whilst he may pay a harsh price for the sins he is accused of, the
sins he is NOT accused of and more difficult to prove cast a historical
perspective on his conduct as the chief officer in charge of Security of Sri
Lanka. History will judge him harshly.
Let us NOT
forget the Law of the Jungle he imposed. Whilst cohorting with Drug Dealers in
Government, he allowed other underworld figures and drug dealers NOT part of
his circle to be taken in and then killed in broad daylight, ostensibly shot by
the Police when trying to escape when being taken to a scene of crime or to
show where arms or bodies are hidden; a standard procedure commonly reported
during the MR administration almost every month.
We have not had
even ONE of these incidents under this administration, which is proof positive
that it was going on under the MR regime. If they say criminals are allowed to
roam freely now and not in their administration as the reason, then their
criminality that supersedes in magnitude any criminality that was prosecuted
then, must be pointed out in comparison, that now at least the real criminals
are being rounded up, and then it was just the imaginary ones they caught so
that competition in criminality was disposed of!
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