Save The SLFP From The Rajapaksa Dynasty
By Granville Perera -November 18, 2014
It is time that all those who believe in the ideals of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) immediately gather around any opposition candidate who would genuinely work towards abolishing the executive presidency and save the future of the SLFP.
Those who fail to act now will realize that a 3rd Term for Mahinda Rajapaksa would ensure that Gota will succeed him and the baton would be passed on to Namal and there is no hope for any in the SLFP to climb up the ladder of executive office for the next twenty five years or more. What would be the fate of the SLFPers who have toiled all their lives to bring the party back in to power, especially surviving the iron fisted rule set in motion by the late cunning fox – J R Jayewardene and the UNP rule of 17 years that disfranchised Madam Bandaranayike. Today, the old guards of the SLFP are confined to the old peoples home tagged as “Senior Ministers” and their future in politics systematically destroyed.Read More
Those who fail to act now will realize that a 3rd Term for Mahinda Rajapaksa would ensure that Gota will succeed him and the baton would be passed on to Namal and there is no hope for any in the SLFP to climb up the ladder of executive office for the next twenty five years or more. What would be the fate of the SLFPers who have toiled all their lives to bring the party back in to power, especially surviving the iron fisted rule set in motion by the late cunning fox – J R Jayewardene and the UNP rule of 17 years that disfranchised Madam Bandaranayike. Today, the old guards of the SLFP are confined to the old peoples home tagged as “Senior Ministers” and their future in politics systematically destroyed.Read MoreRomania’s Ceausescu Chinthana And Sri Lanka’s Mahinda Chinthana
By S. Sivathasan -November 18, 2014
S. Sivathasan
“Precise dates, picturesque outbreaks, these are the conventions and conveniences of history; and history is a process too subtle for such methods” – Le Ferber.
A brilliant quote for us when we were students. It was thrilling to repeat, but we had to discern the mind of the author. The French and Russian revolutions were always cited to illustrate the long period of gestation needed for an eruption of historical import. While conceding it as true and correct, yet one may see the precision of date and time and the graphic circumstances surrounding the revolution in Romania. Perhaps videography has made such an experience possible and internet conveys it anywhere.
Approaching Explosion
In Romania mismanagement of state enterprises resulted in economic inefficiency. It caused disaffection which was met with suppression of any unrest. Discontent building up in the seventies, escalated in the eighties and came to a boil by late 1989. It was at this time that the grip of Warsaw Pact was loosening and the countries were domino fashion getting independent or were on the verge of becoming so. Romania locked up in a dictatorship, lurched to be free. When the cinder was dry, only a spark was needed. It came in a very unlikely form.
