To Your Excellency, the President; to take the nation’s victory forward

by Nacholibre

(January 09, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sri Lanka, as a sovereign nation, has made significant strides forward in eliminating the LTTE terrorism from her own confines. Having being battered, ridiculed and reduced to the brink of being separated into two countries, the people’s force of this country has been brave and death-defying in its come back from the point of total kneel-down in the face of brutal terrorism, to standing up proud with their heads held high with patriotism and national pride. We are witnessing unparalleled times, where the people’s chosen administration and the guardian angels of the land, the tri Forces, lead from the front by the most gallant leaders of our time, have revived the whole nation from being taken hostage by LTTE terrorism.

At a time when our giant neigbours were struggling for days to apprehend and control a dozen of terrorist infiltrators at a half dozen of known places, our own defense forces have came out victorious in less than 3 years, battling nearly a 30-year old terrorist insurgency, the most effective one at that in the world, which had more than 10, 000 trained cardres and modern weapon systems, concentrated in a vast land mass under their exclusive control, inaccessible for decades for any state authority or personnel of the state armed forces. The threat was so invincible it was widely believed, and just when the majority of the world thought it was all lost to the State and that the LTTE terrorists were almost at the doorstep of declaring a separate Elam state within Sri Lanka, the people’s force of this country woke up from their nearly three decade old slumber, put their differences back and fought against the common enemy vis-à-vis the terrorist LTTE and its allied forces in every disguise. Today, we are seeing the fruits of that undeniable people’s force, which enabled us to rise from the rock bottom and regain the trampled national dignity that was being sold out in broad daylight for a dime to the LTTE terrorists and their cohorts with the blessings of the so-called international community. The world media, who filled their columns with stories of invincibility of the LTTE are now writing editorial after editorial predicting the end of the road for the terrorists. The foreign governments, who said the State should not wage war but negotiate with the LTTE are now saying that negotiations with the LTTE are no longer necessary. Defense experts, who wrote until they ran out of ink that the State armed forces would never be able to defeat the LTTE in their Northern strongholds are now silently discussing how the same terrorists would survive once being reduced to an insignificant guerilla group in the face of the military victories.

Thus, the victories of this stature are rare and invaluable for Sri Lanka. It cannot yet again afford to allow the infamous auctioneers of national pride to creep into power again and reverse what the nation has achieved at immense human and monetary cost thanks to the gallantry and selfless sacrifices made by our own brothers and sisters and their brilliant leaders in the battlefronts. However, attempts to undermine the war victories and put Sri Lanka back on track to face another cycle of defeat after defeat at the hands of the now debilitated LTTE terrorists, moves are afoot by courtesy of the malignant, anti-national forces both on shore and off shores. Hence, Sri Lanka should now look to ways and means of solidifying the military victories and develop a national security policy, which the national sovereignty auctioneers will not be able to sell out, even if they manage to creep back into power someday. The current political and military leadership of the country cannot stay there in office forever and that should be the concern of all who consider Sri Lanka as our own country. It is high time that the incumbent authorities concerned with national security looked into the aspects of formulating a clear national security policy, which the dime-a-dozen auctioneer politicians would not be able to play with, if they somehow, somewhere manage to grab power again. Surely, our nation does not want to see another “millennium city” or “signing agreements with terrorists” type jokes by the auctioneers. Nor can we allow them, who thought Thoppigala was so worthless a jungle and looked the other way when their beloved international community found ways and means of strengthening the infrastructure of the terrorists, to jeopardize what the country has achieved by defeating the LTTE terrorists once and for all. Thus, it is equally or more important to solidify and galvanize the current victories that our armed forces have brought for our country in such a way that it cannot be meddled with according to someone's whims and fancies. Until that national task is completed and the national security well secured, your Excellency, your responsibility towards the nation is just not yet over. - Sri Lanka Guardian