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 HERE WE GO -- HARIMA SHOKE!

For sheer wanton braggadocio and hubris, this man should be given the highest award on offer in Sri Lanka. Or maybe a Nobel should be created exclusively in his honour ...

Harim Peiris is the name. If anybody remembers, he was a former Secretary of some sorts, and a factotum to the then President Chandrika Bandarnaike Kumaratunga.

Said Peiris recently in a newspaper tract that spoke about his ex boss's apparent opposition to the impeachment motion against Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, that Chandrika Bandaranaike has been so good as to give her successor in office President Mahinda Rajapaksa the 'freedom and latitude to govern as he sees fit.'

Politely speaking, it was his boss who was known to be late. Here is somebody who has with time, decisively surpassed his Superior in that department. Harim Peiris is - make no mistake about it - a full seven years behind time.

He seems to be absolutely convinced that his boss (who was NOT in any case known as the late Ms. Chandrika Kumaratunga ...), is still President. He seems to think also that therefore she gives Mahinda Rajapaksa 'the freedom and latitude he needs to govern.'!

Dear Harim --- Mahinda Rajapaksa became President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka seven years ago, and if you have Rip Van Winkle-like woken up a few minutes back, please grab the morning coffee to perk up your system and get you up and running, and squared with the prevailing reality.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa is the President, and he has been called the strongest Executive President in our history by N. Ram, the former Editor of The Hindu newspaper. The last person he needs any 'latitude' from to carry out the day-to-day or long-term tasks of governance, is the -- to be charitable - - retired, effete and now irrelevant Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga.

Of course President Rajapaksa has given her - Kumaratunga -- the latitude to make lame and unsubstantiated claims against his government, and the space and leeway to make snide and seemingly jealous statements from her irrelevant corner in retirement. Now, that is called latitude.

How persons of a washed out and has-been past such as Harim Peiris get the attitude to say that Chandrika Kumaratunga gives the 'latitude' to Mahinda Rajapaksa to govern, is more than a little astounding. But then, these are people who always carried a bushel of an ego above a molehill of a cranium, during the time they strutted about the corridors of power.

But more astounding than the generally hubristic Peiris's not so astounding tendency to be hilariously bombastic, is his former boss's tendency to be a pontificating pretender who still thinks in some way that she is fit to be the President, or perhaps that she is still the President.

Kumaratunga has said in a recent speech made in some rather remote conclave in some forgettable capital city, that certain Governments 'tend to conjure up "an enemy" from peoples who belong to different ethnic, religious, caste or political groups. History is replete with examples of States and Governments employing the concept of the "other", represented as the "enemy", as a tool of Government management', she said.

She has also said that 'the constant economic, social and cultural deprivation of the Northern and Eastern regions is clearly related to the 'violent conflict we have witnessed.'' She has said this without observing that unlike her administration, the current dispensation has done a great deal to rescue these provinces from their fate of long running penury, by ending the war and ushering in a promising peacetime economy.

The problem with people such as Kumaratunga is that when they make blanket statements to the effect that the North and East suffers under continual conditions of neglect and poverty, she infers that this is the current situation somehow, meaning that in her time she could not help it as there were hostilities, and the poverty that necessarily followed.

Why does she neglect to mention that the war is now over - something that she decidedly could not accomplish - and that slowly but surely, the people are coming out of this state of 'economic social and cultural deprivation' that she is talking about.

There is no 'OTHER' or 'enemy' about this. Be it North or East or South, people are happy that the war ravaged areas are now on the rebound. It's just that CBK and her brand of factotums are not on the rebound and never will be - and more is the pity!

The world’s most successful Resettlement programme

Mr Speaker, the work of the Ministry of Resettlement is of crucial importance, and I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on the subject. Sri Lanka has implemented perhaps the most successful programme of Resettlement in the world, and the manner in which we have developed infrastructural facilities for people,

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IMPEACHABLE GLORY -- OR WELIAMUNA, SO TRANSPARENTLY THICK

So why is Weliamuna silent -- and more pertinently, why are the rest of the generally perky and rearing-to-go civil society paragons of virtue, silent about the fact that Weliamuna is silent?

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‘... these countries are not personally angry with us’

The Hon. Harin Fernando talked about the diaspora. What does it mean? It is a fact of life. The groups that were close to the LTTE have, today, not changed their objective; they have only changed their methods. The fact of the matter, is that they are no longer able to use weapons, bombs and suicide squads, because the war is over thanks to the leadership of the President and the yeoman service that was rendered to this country by Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.

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