Time has come for Ranil Wickramasingha to step down and fade away. He has to step down as the leader of the United National party (UNP) and fade away from Sri Lankan Politics. Ranil has done nothing for this country other then hurting the fabric of this society so much, over the period of time he was in Politics.
Since he became the deputy minister of education in JRJ administration he has caused chaos, like the mess he did with the introduction of a destructive White Paper, to infamous Batalanda torture house and later with the introduction of the CFA, nothing but irreplaceable damage.
During the premiership of Ranil, LTTE not only got a new lease of life, but also a life line in terms of receiving quasi state of recognition. CFA had its own good things, it brought some sense of peace and stability, opened the LTTE controlled 'living prisons' areas to normal life and brought about investor confidence and better economic opportunities, but at what cost?
LTTE never saw the peace process and the CFA as a viable option in search of peace but an opportunity to seek an impasse to engage in terrorism against the people of Sri Lanka. Under the cover of the CFA, the LTTE embarked on a campaign of murder and assassination. It rearmed itself and re trained its cadre. During CFA time, LTTE was instrumental in recruiting more than several thousand child soldiers and used the peaceful and open access as a time to stockpile weapons of violence and murder.
All this was attributed to Ranil's failure to act according to established and agreed norms of the CFA and uphold the laws of the land. While Ranil gave a blind eye to increasing amounts of CFA violations, he never raised the LTTE campaign of assassination and re armament with his 'International safety net'.
If not for the Tsunami of December 2004, the LTTE would have launched a preemptive strike against the Government and annihilate the forces in North and East.
There is much to be said about Ranil and his misdeeds during his Premiership and the time prior to that but that's not the focus of this post. It's more to do with Ranil's constant attempt to undermine the integrity and sovereignty of Sri Lanka in the resent times, and also role as a campaigner to win back support for the LTTE.
Ranil's resent comments on the capture of Thoppigala, the last bastion of LTTE control in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, aptly describe the inner workings and the portrays the real Ranil Wickramasingha for all the see.
Wickramasinghe's initial position is capturing Thoppigala is a useless exercise as it is worthy only for collectors of fire-woods, and went on to question the use of 700 square Kilometers of jungle .later he had the audacity to allege that the security forces allow the LTTE leaders including Ramesh and its cadres to escape from Thoppigala with all of its military hardware including multi-barrel rocket launchers.
Ranil told the press that the order that the LTTE leaders and cadres should be allowed to escape through pre-arranged route came from Colombo, allegedly from the political leadership of MR administration.
Whatever the value or not of Thoppigala to Ranil, the reaction of the LTTE was, such that it was in shock and at sense of Desperation. Such was the Desperation of the LTTE, S.P Thamilchelvam, the political head of the LTTE vowed to fight back and threthned to hit economic and military targets of the country, with the aim to cripple the economy. And Illanthiriyan, the LTTE spokesmen concede that they were defeated in the East to BBC. Such was the view of the LTTE for the loss of a ' patch of jungle'. But then Ranil went on to say "there was not much to crow about".
Then with regards to Ranil's allegation of letting the remaining LTTE cadres flee Thoppigala, whether it's true or not, the government from the beginning reiterated that this operation was a humanitarian operation, not an offensive, in order to clear the East of the scourge of the LTTE and establish normalcy and civil administration.
By examining the conduct of the operation, it was quite evident that the governments' war strategy was not based on killing as much as LTTE or capturing or destroying its war machine but to follow its interest in clearing the East. As such, the forces were more committed in wrestling control of Thoppigala from LTTE, and not a bloodbath.
If the allegations are true then it proves that unlike the UNP governments' crush of the JVP insurrection in the 1980s, which Ranil was a major player in, the Army was not in for a bloodbath, nor they were intended on butchering the LTTE. But close study of military achievements gained since the Maavil Aru Operation, portrayers a strategy that achieved maximum results at a minimum loss of life. may be this is due to MR administrations claim that they do not believe in a all out military solution but a peaceful end to this conflict, at the same time never to give in to Terror.
So far that in all means stands evident, and the LTTEs' loss of East is very much a reality.
Ranil today stands alone, abandoned by a treacherous international community ,lost among the hoards of NGO wallah's who used to cajole him and surrounded by a group of vultures, awaiting his downfall, to start devolving him. Long gone are the trusted Journalists, who traveled under his wings, justifying his every move, as a traitor of peace loving citizens of this land.
Abandoned, alone and in company of vultures is no qualification for a leader of this land.
Therefore, Ranil must go, never to return.
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