Rajapaksa & Company’s Crocodile Tears & Their Public Stripping

By Vishwamithra1984 –November 22, 2016

“It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.” ~Francis Bacon

‘Come on, man’…that’s how President Obama ridiculed those who believed that Donald Trump was a sincere politician who professed to rule the United States of America and ‘Make America great again’ as a ‘successful’ businessman. Donald Trump winning the elections is another matter altogether and I have already written a commentary on the savagery defeat the Democrats and Hillary Clinton suffered. I have also repeatedly emphasized that ‘wide acceptance of an idea among a majority group is no proof of its validity’. I use the same phrase that Obama used to subject the former President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa to utter scorn and ridicule. ‘Come on man’, do you think that the people of Sri Lanka were born only yesterday? Step down from your portals and witness what is real and factual. Open your eyes and ears and behold the unprecedented harm and injury you have brought upon the good name of our nation and in the name of patriotism.

Mahinda Rajapaksa’s article ‘Media Repression Is Now a Cornerstone of Yahapalana Policy’ is an unmitigated insult to the rudimentary intelligence of every man, woman and child in this country. After committing atrocities of monumental proportions on the men and women of the mass media during his regime, Rajapaksa’s plea to the mass media cannot be construed in any other way than as a preposterous joke. He has lost all his credibility on this single article he is supposed to have written to the newspapers. Unfortunately for the Rajapaksas, the atrocities visited upon the men and women in the media have been well catalogued. They have been illustrated and presented in a book that is currently in circulation. It’s titled “Rajapaksa & Company” and authored by dahamipurawesifoundation– Righteous Citizens’ Foundation- a very credible presentation of facts and figures, cataloguing the range of atrocities committed by the Rajapaksa family and their relatives, cohorts, and henchmen. It is indeed a graphic description of an alleged commission of dastardly acts by a set of politicians headed by the First Family of the time.

In such a context, how on earth can the former President utter such nonsense? His transparent wickedness and apparent disregard for the immediate past is deplorable. And the total rejection of the people’s power of memory is appalling and contemptible and must be condemned by all those who yearn for good governance. Good governance- Yahapalanaya- did not have a place of recognition under his regime; Sri Lankan civil service and constitutionally independent institutions like the Central Bank were servile serfs. The defense cum military establishment was a lapdog under the command of a sibling reminding one of some third or fourth world dictatorships whose only goal was enrichment of themselves and their closest comrades-in-arms.

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