Stable Govt for comprehensive development
Human Rights and Disaster Management Minister
Mahinda Samarasinghe:
Although there had been speculation from time to
time, about various shortcomings, no one has yet shown or proven
substantially that there were violations by our Armed Forces. So
far, we have answered the speculative allegations concerning war
crime charges raised against Sri Lanka by various elements locally
and internationally, in a comprehensive and successful manner.
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People’s gratitude and ‘Suba Anagathayak’
The THIRD EYE - Political Perspectives
‘I am fortunate to be the leader of a country of
fathers, mothers, and children who know the value of gratitude.’
That is how President Rajapaksa referred to the new mandate he
received, during the course of his independent day speech. The
question however is: was this statement a courtesy paid by the
President to the nation for voting him to power or did the President
fervently believe that the people voted him because they were
nothing but paragons of gratuitous virtue?
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Presidential Poll result an SLFP victory:
Mobilizing people with innate native values
Mahinda Rajapaksa’s charismatic qualities of
leadership reached its Himalayan peak during the course of the
campaign and the ordinary rural vote, including the down-trodden in
the urban areas, saw him as the sole saviour of the nation, and it
was his populist style of leadership with which he reached the rural
voter whose attendance at public meetings was at its historic
height. His gift of grace, as Max Weber described, was ‘the
absolutely personal devotion and personal confidence in heroism or
other qualities of individual leadership’.
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