Well I must say Mr
Jayatilleka seems to have awoken from a deep slumber to find that the stuff his
nightmares have come to life.
He claims "an
entirely predictable response to perceptions of external and ethnic
siege from afar and the ‘near abroad’. We have the Gang of Four
of David Cameron, Samantha Power, Jayalalitha and Navi Pillay to
thank for the prospective radicalization"
What utter nonsense.
For those of us who were wide awake while Mr Jayatilleka was speaking
up and standing up for the regime, these trends were apparent from
the very start of 2005, from the time the family descended en-masse
from all corners of the globe.
I first looked at the issue in 2008 and more recently a couple of months ago.
He goes on to say "The North will
get the Gaza treatment. In the South the Weliweriya Doctrine will be
more in evidence than not. There will be “two, three, many”
Rathupaswelas. "
The Weliveriya
doctrine, as Mr Jayatilleka terms it is only the logical result of
the culture of impunity that prevailed in the military that enabled
the war victory. It follows incidents in Chilaw (fisherman killed),
Katunayake (worker killed, factories smashed by Government goons) and
a couple of others. The war victory was a result of a no-holds
barred, assault. Whether these tactics went against the rules of war
we cannot tell, but there is a lot of very uncomfortable material
that is surfacing.
As for this:
"The hard-line
will include neo-isolationism in foreign relations, a firmer
positioning on an Islamabad–Beijing axis, and greater reliance on
Israel.
Is this not already
already very much in evidence? I agree though that this will get
worse, so we will be keeping company with Zimbabwe and other rogue
states.
As for the election,
it is not the opposition candidate that will matter. I reckon that all that will matter is the
quantum of resources the rulers will pour into the election (state,
crony, and perhaps (shockingly) even some personal funds?) and how many they are
prepared to kill.
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