Monday 27 of February 2012
(Lanka-e-News-27.Feb.2012, 11.45PM) The MaRa regime which had heaped unbearable economic burdens and hardships on the people thereby provoking their monumental resentment and opposition, found in the present Geneva human rights conference an escape route from people’s bitter hostilities against it . The regime by launching the campaign, ‘people’s group against foreign invaders’ directed against the UN human rights conference is diverting the attention of the abysmally suffering people from their dire woes currently besetting them. In any event , according to our outstation correspondents , this campaign had been unsuccessful at village levels.In most areas , the Govt. employees at District Secretariats and Govt. offices have been forcibly brought to participate in the protests . Yet these protests have not lasted more than half an hour, reports say. In some regions a parcel of lunch and a Rs. thousand had been given as an inducement to make them join in the protests.
Nishantha Ubeywansa ,the Dep. Director General of National Rupavahini TV channel has personally gone to various places and had forced outside workers also to take part in the protests, and threatening them that , otherwise they stand the risk of losing their jobs. This Director General had conducted himself in a manner that is worse than that of an underworld unlawful criminal who threatens the law abiding citizens if they lawfully report him to the police. Dayaratne Ratgedera and present Chairman Mohan Samaranayake, who held a post in the UN formerly, have also begun running wild in all directions in search of people for the campaign claiming there is not enough crowd for the demonstrations.
It is view of the majority that the notification issued by the Three Maha Nayakes to rescue the MaRa regime at this juncture is a most grave insult inflicted on the Buddhist people of this country , because this notice has been issued , despite the fact that the Maha Nayakes whose eyes and ears are open being fully aware of the raging lawlessness in the country and atrocities committed on the people by the MaRa regime including the following :
Suspects brought to courts being abducted by the White van even while they are within the court precincts; Judges are attacked on the middle of the roads ; while the people who provide the public funds to run and fatten the regime are plunged into starvation and hardships , the regime ruthlessly imposing unending burdens – introducing a recent 40% fuel price hike among other hikes; the son of regime’s ‘Maharaja’ taking part in car races in showy luxurious Lambogini car in ‘mahajara’ manner while people are struggling even for a square meal a day ; and MaRa regime shooting at and killing people who are abysmally suffering and therefore protesting .
