Exultation Politics of unearthed “bunker”

The bottom-line is that, it is time for country to keep the track of which path we have chosen to follow in the name of good governance. Despite the fact, if we selected the path of being naked, then our security and other important issues sooner or later will be compromised.

EDITORIAL

(October 27, 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) In his response to the recently “unearthed” underground “palace”, former President and the member of the parliament for Kurunagala district, Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa made a relatively rational and valuable argument.

Perhaps, that’s laughable to see the acts of, those who have no idea about the deadly situation the country has undergone and those who have deliberately forgotten the reign of terror the nation faced, to conduct cynical attacks on Rajapaksa. This could possibly move the debate towards the wrong direction. This is indeed not only unfair motivation by our folks, but also similar to the tendency of the previous government to ignore the core issues of the wrongdoings.

We are not sympathisers of Rajapaksa’s politics, in fact the Rajapaksa politics was an irrational hit and run policy, decorated by basic theory of sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Rajapaksa paid the heavy price for that. Apparently the country too is suffering from it.

However, the recently unearthed “palace”, in true sense as Rajapaksa described, “secured hideout or bunker” was indeed constructed for security reasons. The construction of such a bunker was exclusively revealed by the old Sunday Leader, when it was edited by late Lasantha Wickramatunge. Then the story was sidelined due to pressure, and also the grave situation face by the country due to the LTTE insurgency. In fact, it was a pretty much understandable situation.

The LTTE indeed has a long term plan for the Kamikaze type attack which was fortunately unsuccessful because of the leaked information gathered by a unique team of Sri Lankan intelligence, which unfortunately was politicised due to political interests. In fact, their (LTTE’s) suicide pilots flew to Colombo and struck twice, but failed.

The sonority on whole issue of the hideout is related to this basic notion.

Every country, that faces external terrorists’ threats or internal insurgencies are having not only one but several underground hideouts to protect their leaders. Leaders cannot have a sensible discussion in a place such as the one where former President of Iraq, Mr. Saddam Hussain was hidden. If a leader uses state assets for personal benefits or unlawful activities, it is an issue that has to be dealt with by due process of the law. However, these are part of the national security of each country. It must be protected as the state secrets.

No one can forget where the former President of United States of America, George W. Bush was, when the flights were hitting his country on September in 2001.

The bottom-line is that, it is time for country to keep the track of which path we have chosen to follow in the name of good governance. Despite the fact, if we selected the path of being naked, then our security and other important issues sooner or later will be compromised.

We do not believe that is the way we have to address the problems.

True journalism should not the produce stuff just for the sake of self-exultation.