Colombo, 24 August, (Asiantribune.com): After UNICEF kicked out the former President Chandrika Kumaratunga when accusations of her past political crimes were exposed by her close friend Victor Ivan, the editor of Ravaya, she has returned to Sri Lankan to present herself as snow white to the local media. Oddly enough Chandrika Kumaratunga told the media how good she was as president after meeting two Tamil MPs Mano Ganeshan and TNA MP Suresh Premachandran at her residence yesterday.
In her latest interview to the media she state that “there were only one or two abductions during her tenure and those responsible were brought to book after thorough investigations.”
Victor Ivan had pointed out that Chandrika Kumaratunga’s goons were responsible for the killing of Kumar Ponnambalam, the head of the All-Ceylon Tamil Congress. Oddly enough she told the media how good she was as president after meeting two Tamil MPs Mano Ganeshan and TNA MP Suresh Premachandran at her residence yesterday. These two Tamil MPs had swallowed the line sold by Kumaratunga without raising any questions about the death of Ponnambalam and other killings and violations of human rights during her regime.
Political commentators also remember how women in the opposition party, UNP, were stripped naked and forced to march on the streets when she was President. She also terrorised leading UNPers like Sirisena Cooray, Secretary-General of the UNP, and Bodhi Ranasinghe, a leading UNP organizer. Both were persecuted by her on bogus charges. Cooray was kept under house arrest and Ranasinghe had to flee the country to prevent her goons from attacking him.
Now she has promised the two Tamil MPs that she will take up human rights violations, disappearances and extra-judicial killings in the appropriate fora.
In the meantime, her sidekick, Mangala Samaraweera, former Minister of Aviation who delayed Air Lanka flights just to accommodate Chandrika Kumaratunga who was always late when she was president, is threatening street marches against the JVP to force them to quit the Mahinda Rajapakse alliance.
This former dress designer is desperate to bring down the government because he has promised to do so to his new political ally, Ranil Wickremesinghe. His two-man SLFP (M) wing has joined Wickremesinghe in the UNP who is plagued with desertions from his ranks into the Rajapakse government. This new political alliance is called the National Congress. Critics have named it as the “Anti-National Congress” because of its pro-LTTE program of handing over territory to the one-man regime in the Vanni.
Samaraweera is pushing the JVP to join the “Anti-National Congress” after he left the Rajapakse government which refused to give him the ministerial portfolio of his choice. He left the government with the former Minister Sripati Sooriaratchi and is making a desperate bid to bring down the government which he helped to create.
Ranil Wickremesinghe is dependent on him to bring over other SLFPers from the government to form a government with him as the Prime Minister. Samaraweera says that he has all the SLFPers except 12 and is pushing the JVP to join his “Anti--National Congress”. Political observers are baffled as to why he needs the 32 JVPers when he has all the other SLFPers waiting to cross over.
JVP refuses to join the “Anti-National Congress” of Wickremesinghe and Samaraweera. The Marxist JVPers were traditionally opposed to the right-wing UNP.
The Government is confident that the bluff of Samaraweera and Wickremesinghe threatening to bring down the government will not work. Wickremesinghe has been doing this each time he loses election. Now Mangala Samaraweera has started the same game with Wickremesinghe.
They have been joined by Chandrika Kumaratunga, who was described as “The Queen of Thieves” by Victor Ivan. Her critics say that the only thing that has changed is her hair style. She has cut hair short. But her critics say that this is not going to improve her brains.
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In her latest interview to the media she state that “there were only one or two abductions during her tenure and those responsible were brought to book after thorough investigations.”
Victor Ivan had pointed out that Chandrika Kumaratunga’s goons were responsible for the killing of Kumar Ponnambalam, the head of the All-Ceylon Tamil Congress. Oddly enough she told the media how good she was as president after meeting two Tamil MPs Mano Ganeshan and TNA MP Suresh Premachandran at her residence yesterday. These two Tamil MPs had swallowed the line sold by Kumaratunga without raising any questions about the death of Ponnambalam and other killings and violations of human rights during her regime.
Political commentators also remember how women in the opposition party, UNP, were stripped naked and forced to march on the streets when she was President. She also terrorised leading UNPers like Sirisena Cooray, Secretary-General of the UNP, and Bodhi Ranasinghe, a leading UNP organizer. Both were persecuted by her on bogus charges. Cooray was kept under house arrest and Ranasinghe had to flee the country to prevent her goons from attacking him.
Now she has promised the two Tamil MPs that she will take up human rights violations, disappearances and extra-judicial killings in the appropriate fora.
In the meantime, her sidekick, Mangala Samaraweera, former Minister of Aviation who delayed Air Lanka flights just to accommodate Chandrika Kumaratunga who was always late when she was president, is threatening street marches against the JVP to force them to quit the Mahinda Rajapakse alliance.
This former dress designer is desperate to bring down the government because he has promised to do so to his new political ally, Ranil Wickremesinghe. His two-man SLFP (M) wing has joined Wickremesinghe in the UNP who is plagued with desertions from his ranks into the Rajapakse government. This new political alliance is called the National Congress. Critics have named it as the “Anti-National Congress” because of its pro-LTTE program of handing over territory to the one-man regime in the Vanni.
Samaraweera is pushing the JVP to join the “Anti-National Congress” after he left the Rajapakse government which refused to give him the ministerial portfolio of his choice. He left the government with the former Minister Sripati Sooriaratchi and is making a desperate bid to bring down the government which he helped to create.
Ranil Wickremesinghe is dependent on him to bring over other SLFPers from the government to form a government with him as the Prime Minister. Samaraweera says that he has all the SLFPers except 12 and is pushing the JVP to join his “Anti--National Congress”. Political observers are baffled as to why he needs the 32 JVPers when he has all the other SLFPers waiting to cross over.
JVP refuses to join the “Anti-National Congress” of Wickremesinghe and Samaraweera. The Marxist JVPers were traditionally opposed to the right-wing UNP.
The Government is confident that the bluff of Samaraweera and Wickremesinghe threatening to bring down the government will not work. Wickremesinghe has been doing this each time he loses election. Now Mangala Samaraweera has started the same game with Wickremesinghe.
They have been joined by Chandrika Kumaratunga, who was described as “The Queen of Thieves” by Victor Ivan. Her critics say that the only thing that has changed is her hair style. She has cut hair short. But her critics say that this is not going to improve her brains.
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