by Zacki Jabbar-August 16, 2013
A broad coalition comprising political parties and civil society was in the making with many government members also pledging to join it, UNP MP Mangala Samaraweera said yesterday.
Samaraweera said that various political parties, civil society members and many in the ruling UPFA had realised that the country was being taken down a dangerous path of conflict and violence, instead of unity and amity, over four years after the war had ended.
The new grouping, or unity force, would be formalised next Thursday, the MP said. Its main objective would be to form a buffer against what he called state terrorism.
Some problem or the other was created regularly at the expense of life and property, with a view to diverting attention from the deteriorating economic situation and the rising crime wave.
Samaraweera observed that there were encouraging signs of people now willing to come out in their numbers to protest against the suicidal manner in which the country was being run.
