The Rajapaksa Clan - Continued Hypocrisy
by Nilantha Ilangamuwa
“Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables
( January 30, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Another diplomatic battle has erupted against the glorification of the lawless and authoritarian regime in Sri Lanka. We understand that this panoptic regime’s political existence depends on plundering, not only the wealth of the nation, but also the personnel liberties of the people from top to bottom. As Frederic Bastiat said, “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”