Towards A Rainbow Nation
President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe
by Wimalanath Weeraratne
Sunday, December 06, 2015
President Maithripala Sirisena at a recent forum said, “I believe that those who spearheaded the revolution can defeat the counter-revolution.” What he implied was that there is currently no movement that can reverse the political transition triggered on January 8, which some have dubbed as the ‘Rainbow Revolution’. Firstly, we wish to emphasize that there is no room for a counter-revolution. The reason is because Sri Lanka has still not seen a genuine revolution, in the true sense of the word. Hypothetically-speaking, if one argues that the revolution took place on January 8, he or she could assume the protest walk organized by the people against deals and calling for expeditions of investigations as counter-revolutionary.
