(March 14, 2014, New Delhi, Sri Lanka Guardian) The country is dancing to the music of the Rajapaksa family and the Regime that they have effectively set up, very much like following a Puppy Its tail. I wrote in 2010 that President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited the UN headquarters in New York to address the world body with over one hundred and thirty people selected from his clan. Most of those so called 'country representatives', were there just for shopping and enjoying themselves at the expense of the Sri Lankan taxpayer. This was at the time when he passed the 18th Amendment to the Constitution in which he dissolved the term limits of the president who, by an earlier constitution, is above the law. He could now dispense with the independent commissions for free & fair elections, corruption control, police and government services which was introduced by the 17thAmendment. The jumbo team, like the jumbo cabinet, which is also financed by the tax payer, happily made their contribution to the ruin of the country.
| By NILANTHA ILANGAMUWA