Last week the Irida Lankadeepa published an interview with the former Chief Justice Sarath Silva where he had argued that President Mahinda Rajapaksa was disqualified from contesting a third time. It was a ruling given by Silva in 2005 that sent Chandrika Kumaratunga home one year before she thought she was due to relinquish office. This writer has always held that Silva ranks as one of the heroes who pulled this nation out of the abyss because he sent CBK packing one year early. If not for him, Mahinda would not have become president, Gota would not have become defence secretary, Sarath Fonseka would not have become army commander, the war machine would not have been set up, Prabhakaran would have been still wiping his feet on us, Sri Lanka would have been a broken, defeated nation, the roads would not have been carpeted, Colombo wouldn’t be looking like what it is today, and the Sinhalese would have had no self respect.
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August 23, 2014, 6:52 pm 