General Disorder
Ye shall hear of candidates and rumurs of candidates: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. (Bible, indi.ca edit)
I don’t know what’s going on. General Sarath Fonseka may be running for President, or at least he’s playing footsie with the opposition under the table. There are rumours of strikes that aren’t strikes, and reports that the military will take over power, water and ports if necessary. In between the troops are kept busy with fireworks and parades.
We’ve got this big military and no war. We’ve got these war heroes and only so much political oxygen. We’ve got a media so restricted against external threats that we have no idea what’s going on inside our own country. At this point I just find it amusing. If I looked closer I suppose it might be terrifying. But I can’t.
What I can guess is that Sarath is considering a run. Otherwise I don’t think he’d let these stories go so far as the UNF (pooled opposition, equivalent to a damp squib) endorsing him as their candidate. I don’t know why he would want such a terrible fate.
Beyond that the man is a cipher. People project various things onto him including, strangely, that he’s a closet liberal. I’m pretty sure he’s not. Dude is hardcore and I suspect he remains so. However, he makes very little public pronouncements.
The UNP traditionally includes minorities (though the riots were under a UNP government). They would now give northern Tamils the choice between the guy who bombed them and they guy who ordered the bombing. But stranger things have happened.
Of course, none of this may happen. Perhaps Sarath is just angling for a better position at the Sports Ministry. It is an awful lot of fireworks over Colombo, though, now that the artillery has nowhere to fall.
Bailaman has explained it in pretty simple terms. Give it a look. Fonseka can’t run for anything not even a marathon without Rajapaksa’s approval.
http://bailaman.blogspot.com/2009/11/fonseka-for-president-rajapaksa-will.html
Indi
The Rajapakses now want to enjoy the spoils of war.
Move around in freedom.
The general is elected he ensures no one messes with them. After all best friends no?
So as usual the people of SL are gang banged and Ranil Wickramasinghe.
Dont believe the hype…
Ha Ha Ha!
This is all bull @#$% about Sri Lanka .Reading this blog one would think everything in SL is going to he@#.
That is not the case at all. SL politic has always been crzay and thats all.
Sri Lanka’s top general resigns, may run for president
http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSSP122559
[...] Samarajiva at Indi.ca shows the irony of the situation: The UNP traditionally includes minorities (though the riots were under a UNP government). They [...]
Can he win?
Will he turn out to be worse than MR with his military background?
I don’t believe in the conspiracy theory.
Bravery
(Tribute to all those young men and women who have died fighting for a cause)
By: Audrey Barber
You gave up the bosom of your home
Gave up the love of family
Not knowing when you’ll see them again
Most of all you gave up your beautiful youth
Brave hearts you are
Yes you all are
To go fight a war that is not yours
The brave heart you are
You stepped on battle fields
On mines, implanted in the ground
Not knowing when they will explode
Brave hearts you are
Yes you all are
You saw the worst, and carried it too
And fought like true soldiers
The trauma you go through
No one can help,
Brave hearts you are
Yes you all are
But still you go on forward
Fighting like a Trojan
Fighting for justice
Fighting for peace
Brave hearts you are
Yes you all are
But then you can fight no longer
Get caught in that cross road
Where you seek the comfort of your mothers
The luxury of family
Most of all you know
Your youth has passed you by
Fighting a war that is not yours
Brave hearts you are
Yes you all are
With every passing day
Bringing depression, a sense of loneliness
This war will not be over
You know that,
It is not your battle
It will only take you away
Brave hearts you are
Yes you all are
You have laid down your life
For a war which was never yours
What must pass your mind that final hour
Those bullets did it pierce your heart
Or was it a land mine that took you away
Brave hearts you are
Yes you all are
They bring your casket
To your family
With colors and stripes presented
What comfort can that bring them?
For they have lost you forever
To a war that was never yours
Their precious children, taken in their youth
The sorrow, the agony only a mother can know
Brave heart you are
Yes you all are
May flower’s bloom upon your graves
May their fragrance blow around the world
Letting everyone know, there were children like you
Who gave up their youth, their innocence?
To fight for justice
Fight for peace
And we lost them
Fighting a war that was never theirs
Brave hearts you are
Yes you all are
Mine cries out to you brave hearts of ours
You will be living in paradise
Enjoying your youth,
Together with each other
Where angels serenade you
Cherubim’s applaud you
Brave, strong hearts of ours
hey, spring is cooming! good post there, tnx for indi.ca