It is a fact that General Sarath Fonseka did a massive role in winning the war against brutal tiger terrorists LTTE. His war strategies are known to be among the best strategies and it is not a secret that many a soldiers compare Gen. Fonseka’s war strategies with that of Gen. Denzil Kobbekaduwa who almost captured LTTE leader Velupillei Prabhakaran during the famous Vadamarachchi operation in 1987.
However, then president Hon. J. R. Jayawardene was forced to abandon the military operation by the Indian government. This was followed up by the signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord which is now considered as one of the biggest political mistakes made by both India and Sri Lanka.
Since then, it took 22 long years to see the end of the brutal LTTE terrorist leader and its military operations. For the record, LTTE leader was killed on 18th May 2009. It was truly a memorable day for all “genuine Sri Lankans”. Gen. Fonseka was a true war hero. There couldn’t have been a single “true Sri Lankan” who did not believe that Gen. Fonseka was a true war hero…!
Unfortunately, things didn’t last that long. Most of us felt sad when we first heard that Gen. Fonseka wanted to enter into politics. We as professionals do not believe Sri Lankan politics have room for true professionals. Unlike a rare case of Mr. Udaya Gammanpila, who now is a Minister in the Western Province Council, there is hardly any “true” professionals involved in politics with a true love to the nation. Therefore, we were in a state of shock when we first heard Gen. Fonseka enteiring politics with the backing of JVP and UNP which were two completely mismatching parties in Sri Lankan politics.
The events followed that are now in history. However, here, we want to analyse the reason for the the 3 year sentence given against Gen. Fonseka. This court case was against Gen. Fonseka who had publicly stated that his “boss” – Defense Secretary, Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa had ordered to kill any LTTE who would want to surrender to the Army. Well… we all were again severely shaken when this news article published on news papers..!! After this, personally, most of us started to think twice about the personality of once a war hero. His actions gave fuel to so called Human Rights (HR) Agencies who turns blind eye to grave Human Rights violations committed by powerful nations and try to find a slightest mistake made by less powerful nations and try to devastate such nations. LTTE controlled Tamil Diaspora saw this as a great opportunity and started finding facts against Sri Lanka through the loyalists of Gen. Fonseka and started to use the popular western policy of divide and rule…!
When looking back, this was a political blunder made by Gen. Fonseka. In simple terms, Gen. Fonseka dug his own grave by turning into accuse his own team mates who were involved in winning the war. Useless JVP and some sections of UNP (who wanted to see the fall of UNP) did most of the hard work to push Gen. Fonseka into this level where there was not turning back for him.
When the whole scenario was taken to courts, it all was written on the wall. Finally, a verdict was given and Gen. Fonseka was jailed for 3 years. Hands down…. we have to accept the verdict given by the court. After all, thats the only place we could have some sort of faith on. We still do not have any idea about the base behind the sentence period being 3 years.
However, now we see a bunch of shameless politicians and their henchmen trying to convert this sentence for their own good. Our eyes went to a Facebook wall post written by a “notorious brother” of a great cricketing legend. This guy went on to challenge the court order..!! What a shame…!! A Playboy challenging a court order..!! We have many facts about this guy who has become a nuisance to a great cricketing family. This is why we decided to write about this person’s sudden patriotic behaviour. We hate to see such cowardly acts. The jokers trying to take advantage from a fall of a war hero. We have no doubt about this “playboy” cricketing brother is preparing the ground to step into politics. He has already shown to the Sri Lankan public that he has all what is needed to enter into dirty politics in Sri Lanka..!!
Furthermore, it is extremely sad to see popular news sites in Sri Lanka deleting/rejecting genuine comments made by genuine readers for absolutely no reason but probably for such comments being against their political alignment.
We can rest assure on this site, we respect any genuine comment made on this article and we welcome positive and negative comments as long as there is no filth and baseless direct character accusation.
- SLPOLITICS team
