Regime Change? Yes, That’s What We Wanted & Still Haven’t Got!

By Emil van der Poorten –October 18, 2015

Emil van der Poorten

The term “regime change” has been consistently applied to mean some kind of skulduggery by the developed democracies of the west in order to change governments that they figure are not to their liking in the so-called “less-“ or “under-” and “undeveloped” nations of the world. In the case of Sri Lanka, everyone from the faux-hunger striker Weerawansa to one of the leaders of what Dr. Kumar David so accurately describes as belonging to the “Dead Left,” Tissa Vitarane, are given an inordinate amount of publicity by our media who must, indeed, be starved of news to feature these two, one a patently fraudulent politician and the other whose place in our political firmament cannot but be adduced to his connections with what is left of a one-time left-leaning intelligentsia, still retaining some influence in the media.

I believe that, pejorative applications aside, what we sought and thought we’d achieved with the removal of the Rajapaksa Gang as veritable monarchical rulers of this country, both in January and then, again, in August was in fact what we desperately needed and had fought, at considerable risk, to achieve: a change of ruling regime.

Now it seems that what we have seen since have been delays and obfuscations which, in total, can only be explained by the fact that those with the authority to even begin cleaning the Augean Stables have chosen not to do so, advancing a variety of excuses for the lack of any tangible proof of even prosecutions being launched against those that have gutted this country, stealing its resources and creating an administrative mess without equal in our recent (or any) history.

The only reason for this state of affairs is that there are those now in the seats of power who owe all kinds of political and other debts to those whom the people of this country chose to be rid of. What the current lot is doing is in deliberate contravention of the mandate that the people of this country handed them and it is time that we proceeded beyond simply holding their feet to the fire: we need to chuck them in the inferno if they don’t act to bring the thieves and murderers to justice and follow through on the mandate handed them and which they knowingly accepted.Read More