The controversial Darusman Report and the UNP

The Opposition UNP made monumental mistakes under Ranil Wickremesinghe’s leadership. It changed the hitherto UNP policy of eliminating terrorism with a one of accommodating terrorism. JR Jayewardene even refused to talk to the terrorist and it was at India’s behest that he agreed to talk to the terrorist starting from that infamous ‘Thimpu talks’.

Ranil on the other hand lacked his uncle’s political acumen and declared in 1999 that terrorism could never be defeated by arms and thus started a process of appeasing terror. By adopting such a policy the UNP even exonerated the LTTE for the crimes of assassinating its own leaders, Premadasa, Lalith and Gamini, signifying that the quest for political power is blind to ethics and reason.

However, the results of this moronic policy, that pushed Sri Lanka to the brink and to verge of being called a ‘failed state’ is now part of Sri Lanka’s history. Ranil adopted this policy because he wanted to woe the so-called ‘peace NGO’s’ that supported Chandrika to his side. Ranil no doubt won the support of the peace NGO’s but he lost every election that his party contested under this new policy of appeasing terror.

UNP leadership

This is ample testimony to prove that the majority in this country are more intelligent and had a vision above that of Ranil in that they never believed that terrorism could ever be wished away by placating. However, prodded on by the NGO’s and the West that had a design to bifurcate the country, Ranil continued in his policy and thus got more and more mired in his ‘peace jam’ and when Prabhakaran announced the election boycott he got well and truly entangled in his own ‘peace net’.

The present regime that assumed power in 2005 had a different vision and it never believed that dilly-dallying with the terrorist to be the ‘only solution’ to the conflict. President Rajapaksa treated the terrorist on their own merits and when they tried bellicose methods to subdue the legitimate government, President Rajapaksa thrashed and vanquished the terrorist. That act almost but sealed the political future, not only Ranil Wickremesinghe but even the other ‘high ups’ in the UNP who ridiculed the war effort.

Political opportunist

However, being political opportunist to the core, the UNP leadership made a complete turnaround in its policies and perceptions after the war victory and adopted the Army Commander Sarath Fonseka to run its post war campaign as it had no hope in hell of beating Rajapaksa who had now emancipated the country from the clutches of terrorism after 34 years. The UNP’s new found campaign slogan at the 2010 election was that the war was won not because of Rajapkasa but because of Fonseka’s the military genius. Some gullible people in this country believed in this and voted against Rajapaksa notwithstanding the fact that the UNP, during the war ridiculed Fonseka more than Rajapksa, calling him all types of names. The UNP leadership survived but Fonseka went to jail for his shenanigans of ‘extra democratic’ activities.

Pro LTTE lobby

The situation today is different. Ban ki Moon and his allies with vested interests, the former colonials and present day imperialist, who wish to keep Sri Lanka on the mat has now forwarded a paper called ‘The report of war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan forces during the last stages of the conflict with the LTTE’. It should be recalled that this pro LTTE lobby that styled themselves as the ‘International community’ tried a few of their pranks, during and soon after the conflict to prevent Sri Lanka from coming out of this mire of terrorism. Therefore, any person with average intelligence would understand that this latest attempt by the UN Secretary General, where he has gone out of the way to embarrass the Sri Lankan Government, is nothing but another attempt to sabotage Sri Lanka’s post war march towards prosperity and reconciliation.

The unfortunate thing however is that politicians, when they eye for power, even lose their average sense of intelligence. If what Ban ki Moon says about ‘war crimes’ is true it is Fonseka, the former Army Commander who should be taken to task for violating basic human rights as alleged by Moon. Fonseka now is very much a part and parcel of the Opposition and the UNP had been crying their heart out for the past two years for the ‘shabby treatment the Rajapaksa government meted out to the only war hero’.

War victory

According to the UNP supporters it was Fonseka and Fonseka alone who was responsible for liberating the country from terror and Rajapaksa marginalized him because he was ‘jealous of his war capabilities’. But now that these war capabilities have been put under scrutiny by Moon, is the UNP going back on its stance yet again and accusing the government of violating the human rights? Is the UNP claiming only the credits of war victory even by means foul or fair and when that same war is being questioned are they naive enough to disown the debit of war? Worst still, is the UNP thinking of capitalizing on this controversial Darusman Report to gain political mileage?

The UNP, in its quest for power during the past years, has made monumental mistakes in its strategies.

The biggest mistake it has made is to think that the people of this country are sub intelligent and they cannot see through this political chicanery. If the UNP continues in this vein it can be rest assured that coming to power for the UNP in this country would only be a dream, because the average Sri Lankan is more intelligent than the current UNP leadership.

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