Will Rajapakse’s cunningness work this time too?
( May 18, 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Former Chief of Army turned politician - General ( Rtd) Sarath Chandralal Fonseka will be free on May 18, not because of the Government’s celebration of the victory day but as a tactic to gain political advantage from the bilateral crucial meeting scheduled with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, of the United States of America, a source from the President’s office informed the Sri Lanka Guardian.
However, General Fonseka would be freed because the situation in Washington is giving the jitters to the ruling party, the source added.
The Government is trying to cover-up their failure to implement core requirements of the UN resolution which was adopted recently at the UNHRC, in Geneva. The Minister of External Affairs, Mr. Gamini Lakshman Peiris better known as the Prof. G. L. Peiris who is now in the US with other few key players of the ruling Rajapakse party, has disclosed that the government’s intention is for home grown solution. “At the end of the day, the solution that everyone wants has got to have a home-grown element to it, “ Minister Peiris said.
The relevant statement issued by the US embassy in Washington, highlights that, “ in a second Senate meeting with Democratic Senator Jim Webb, of Virginia, member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a former Secretary of the U.S. Navy, Minister Peiris noted that reconciliation is Sri Lanka's main focus, along with the swift implementation of the LLRC’s recommendations acceptable to the government.”
However these days, the Colombo based media is focusing on ongoing dialogue between President Rajapaksa and Tiran Alles who is a business tycoon turned politician, holding a national list MP of General Sarath Fonseka’s Democratic National Alliance Party. Recently Media reported, while quoting Mr. Alles, that his attempt to release General Sarath Fonseka was becoming successful.
It was known that this Mr. Alles received a tight hug from President Mahinda Rajapaksa after the latter won the Presidential Election in 2005, while the former was evaluating his money laundering game with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). However President Rajapaksa kicked out Mr. Allaes few months after he took the Presidential seat and claimed that his ( Mr. Alles’) newspaper company was helping the LTTE along with two other key players of that Presidential Election.
The Rajapaksa government banned this own newspaper company under strict instructions from Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa - Secretary of Defence and a brother of the President. However later, the source said, Mr. Alles was approached by Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa through a senior in the Sinhalese extremist political Party JHU and a deputy leader of one of the opposition parties.
Minister G. L. Peiris is scheduled to meet the Secretary of the State, Mrs. Clinton on May 18. The son of the President Namal Rajapaksa MP, Sajin Gunawardha, who was appointed as “Monitoring MP of the Ministry of External Affirs”, Ms. Senarathana, who is one of most corrupted diplomats in Sri Lankan foreign services and currently the Secretary to the Ministry, and Minister Yapa, a genius in communication are also included in this official visit.
Unofficial source from the US State Department says that Ms. Clinton would focus on the UN Resolution and the LLRC Recommendations. The Secretary of State is expected to confirm the time frame work for implementing the UNHRC-LLRC recommendations.
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