Tissa Attanayake Must be Tried at a Court of Law for Violating the Constitution

by S. Hewage

(October 06, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The terrorist-appeasing United National Party (UNP) of Sri Lanka has repeatedly failed to distinguish facts from fiction, and as a result, they continue to lose elections, and the rank and file of the party has to endure moronic leadership. The UNP leadership continues to believe that the key to form the government is to please the LTTE terrorists and their supporters, mainly those Colombo based upper-class Tamils and other minority groups including the anglicized Sinhalese. The UNP leadership has no trouble insulting the majority Sinhala Buddhists if it pleases minority groups and Colombo-based NGO’s doing “coolly” work for foreign subversive elements for dollars. What these UNP morons do not understand is that while they are free to practice their sort of pariah politics to serve the interests of the LTTE terrorists and their sympathizers, they cannot, at the same time attack the existing government for their own failure to gain power.

The fact of the matter is that the majority of people in Sri Lanka, which include the Sinhalese, and a sizable number of Tamils, Muslims, Burgher and Malay, despise LTTE terrorism, and recognize the UNP as an appeaser of terrorists in the hope of gaining political power. As long as this dubious reputation of the current UNP leadership remains, the UNP has no political future, and the party and its leadership must be rejected by the masses.

The latest treachery of the UNP is the comments of its deputy, Tissa Atta-nayeke, who has come out criticizing the army commander Lt. General Sarath Fonseka for his personal views expressed during an interview with a Canadian journalist. Atta-nayake argues that the army commander has violated the constitution by expressing his personal views. I believe that the constitution of Sri Lanka permits the freedom of expression, while it prohibits baiting and aiding to divide the country. The UNP leadership, Ranil Wickremasinghe, Tissa Atta-nayake, Jayalath Jayawardena and a number of other rank and file of the party have violated the constitution by signing an illegal peace accord with a mass murder—V. Prapbhakaran, which helped the LTTE terrorists to bring arms, and other highly sophisticated communication equipments into Sri Lanka.

Expressing one’s own beliefs is no violation of the country’s constitution. However, what Ranil Wickremasinghe and his protégé have done over the years to strengthen the hands of a most-wanted leader of a terrorist group that has killed thousands of people in Sri Lanka is a major crime that is punishable according to the country’s law. We never hear these UNP’ers ever criticizing the members of the Tamil National Alliance who frequently denigrate the Sinhala Buddhist majority. Atta-nayake and his leader would defend these Tamil racists no matter what they do to undermine the nation’s sovereignty in order to ensure the Tamil vote will stay with the UNP. It is the irony that this anti-national political party was so named as the “United National” Party by its founding leaders who would not have envisioned that the party would someday be led by anti-national, shortsighted, group of traitors. I strongly urge the people of

Sri Lanka to undertake some legal proceedings to bring Ranil Wickremasinghe, Tissa Atta-nayake, and other top rankers of the UNP to justice for their crimes against the state. Let Atta-nayake to decide who has violated the country’s constitution: whether those who protect the country from terrorists, or those who directly and indirectly support them by signing a peace deal that resulted in strengthening the terrorists. In the meantime, the people of Sri Lanka should never allow this criminal gang of the UNP to gain political power in our motherland. - Sri Lanka Guardian