Best wishes

Yvette

Many thanks for a terrific article on the intended coup of 1962. IT seemed to me to be very balanced, and informative.

You say – in response to No: 125 – that you’ll be publishing the second installment ‘hopefully…mid-January’. Well, I’ve been keeping a lookout, but can’t find it…

Have I missed it? …in which case, could you kindly refer me to the URL?

Very best wishes,

Yvette

Thanks Yvette. I am so sorry but due to some problems I havent been able to write the second part as intended. I do hope to re-write it soon………DBSJ

Ironically, Fonseka uses Swan as his symbol. It is not clear whether there is some irony in selecting this symbol or whether someone selected it for him. However, as it happened in the famous ‘Bay of Pigs’ invasion, Castro victoriously called it the ‘First Imperial Defeat in Americas’ and the whole Cubans galvanized their support behind him. The CIA believed and assured their leaders that the opposition groups will rally behind them once the invasion was launched. However, Castro who took charge of the command of the military himself managed to outmaneuver the invading forces and capture 1100 of the invading forces who were eventually repatriated to the USA.

The fallout was disastrous for the newly elected President Kennedy and an utter humiliation in the international stage. The history is going to repeat itself with a different setup. We hear the talk of the ambassadors in someone’s backyard regularly meeting to move the pawns. Cash is plenty and some people have a price. Despite invasions over 2500 years, we have emerged again in one piece and will be victorious once more and the puppeteers of the west will be humiliated along with their puppets among us.

Very interesting Article.

When are you planning on posting Part-2? I hope not on 27 Jan 2010??!!!, the 28th Anniversary of the 1962 Attempt?

If so, I m afraid another big story – Pres Elections Results may drown Part-2!

Hopefully in mid-January………….DBSJ

In the crucial days in April 1971, when the Government had lost control of the entire Matara District including Hakmana and Akuressa and holding only the towns of Matara, Dondra and Weligama on the coast, a very large ship appeared close to our shores, unloaded a number of boats and were loading some things into them. Sri Lanka never had that size of ship, not even today. This was radioed to Colombo and an Air Force Plane came and machine gunned all the boats for over fifteen minutes. The ship reloaded the boats and suddenly left. The Gemunu Watch commander Major Wettasinghe who had his light machine gun loaded targeting it, but he said that the ship was just beyond its reach. It was a tense situation where we expected a foreign force to land on our shores and we were saved by our Air Force.

The 1971 uprising was an attempt by a foreign power to take over the entire country. It was like the Communists of Afghanistan inviting the Russians into Afghanistan in 1979. The JVP of today appears to be acting for a foreign power exactly in the way they did in 1971.

A mystery plane, loaded with 35 tonnes of lethal weapons-including surface to air missile launchers, and twenty four 240 mm guns, so far never used, all documented as oil drilling equipment, had to be refueled at Don Mueng Airport at Thailand few days ago. The arms were valued at $ 18 million. It was said to be heading for Sri Lanka. It had come from North Korea accompanied by 4 persons from Kazakhstan and Belarus. It is important to note that North Koreans master minded the 1971 insurrection in Sri Lanka In entire South Asia, Sri Lanka is the most destabilized country today. Perhaps the plane was heading here. Zimbabwe where in 2004 a plane laden with weaponry and mercenaries led by Simon Mann, former Commander of G squadron 22 of the SAS(UK) had to land to refuel. The smart sleuths of President Mugabe found that the plane was heading for Equitorial Guinea, impounded the weapons and incarcerated the mercenaries. That was an attempt to stage a coup and take over an oil rich country, financed by Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The SAS officer and others caught were later jailed in Guinea and pardoned in 2009. Mann says that tacit approval for the regime change came from the Pentagon, CIA and the big oil companies. The ‘buddhist’ sleuths of Thailand may fail to get the terrorists to speak.
The national minded members of the JVP have left under Wimal Weerawansa’s leadership. Thanks to them they have joined the Patriotic National Movement.
To add to this is the revealation made by Ranil Wickremasinghe to the effect that his Party Manifesto “Anagata Abiyogaya” he had put out last week was printed by an undisclosed foreign organization. In other words the UNP is acting as a hireling for a foreign power- the terms seem to be to support Sarath Fonseka as the President. There is room to think that the USA and the other Superpowers are now trying to covertly defeat President Rajapaksa at the Presidential Election by supporting Sarath Fonseka and the opposition – the UNP and the JVP. Robert Blake the Assistant Secretary who was recently in Sri Lanka has said that the US will not take sides in this Presidential Election.
However, it is important to note that the USA has a record of interfering in the internal affairs of foreign countries when their rulers do not adhere to the ways of thinking of the Superpowers. If the countries fail to adhere to the IMF rules by which the multinationals are allowed to plunder the resources, and have dealings with other countries like Iran and China, then that country has to be destabilized. The modus operandi is to offer advice and help at first and if necessary let lose the CIA goons. The instances range from Lumumba in the Congo to what is currently happening in Iraq and Afghanistan. Details are included of a few instances where the record shows that the USA has blood on its hands.
In the Congo, Patrice Lumumba was elected as the Prime Minister of Congo. At the inauguration instead of being thankful, he insulted his former colonial Master- he said that Belgium should apologise for the pillage and plunder done by them. In a matter of ten weeks, “Lumumba’s Government was deposed in a coup… he was subsequently imprisoned and murdered in circumstances suggesting complicity by the Governments of Belgium and the US
In Iran, “the 1953 Iranian Coup d’etat deposed the democratically elected government of Iranian Prime Minister Mossadeq. The USA CIA overthrew the Government of Mossadeq at the request of the British Government and enabled Mohamed Reza Pahlavi to become an authoritarian monarch who went on to rule Iran.. till 1979.”
What happened in Chile in the Sixties rings bells of what is happening in Sri Lanka today. In Chile, In 1962 the CIA received authority to carry on covert action projects in support of the Chilean Radical Party and the Christian Democratic Party. … to assist these Parties to attract larger followings… to influence political orientation to support US objectives in the Region ,,, to support efforts to split the Socialist party….The CIA was tasked to support continued unilateral placements of propaganda in the mass media to influence public opinion against leftist public opinion, against leftist parties and candidates… In 1970 Allende was elected President. President Nixon instructed the CIA to unseat Allende and authorized $ 10 million. President Nixon specifically directed that this action be carried out by the CIA without advising the Departments of State or Defence or the US Ambassador in Chile. CIA took a variety of actions-… making overtures to the military, initiating efforts to promote public opposition to Allende . A coup’d’etat was planned- it included the abduction of General Schneider, a strong supporter of Allende. His men guarded Allende day and night. In the process General Schneider was killed. Schneider was a strict constitutionalist and was therefore an obstacle to US efforts to promote a military intervention. Scheneider’s murder was classified as collateral damage. During Allende’s regime 1970-1973, $ 6.5 million was spent for covert activities against Allende. In September 1973 the Chilean military staged a coup against Allende, who is said to have shot himself or was assassinated.
It is sad to state that what is happening in Sri Lanka today is similar to the very process of foreign conspiracy that unseated President Allende, with perhaps many Superpowers having a hand in the pie.
It is upto the citizens of Sri Lanka be they followers of any political party to open their eyes to the nefarious conspiracies of the Superpowers- understand that our beloved political parties including the UNP that won our independence have been totally infiltrated and riddled by the Superpowers to do their bidding. We have to stand firm as a nation.
The Party System of politics has been bequeathed to us by the Britain to keep us divided and fighting. It is a system where one half of the people stand opposed to whatever good work that the elected majority engage in. Development work done by the Government, be it a bridge, a road, an anicut are only to be broken by the people of the opposing political party immediately afterwards. That has been our fate.
If we fail to go beyond party politics and guard our beloved motherland at this Critical moment in history, it will be the end of Sri Lanka as a sovereign nation.
It is perhaps a travesty of fate that the foremost Superpower, the USA does not realize the fact that President Rajapaksa has contributed to World Development by not only defeating terrorism but also by dismantling the LTTE drug trafficking and extortion network which was world wide. All the Developed Countries stand to benefit from this. It was a task that their CIA, MI5 and many other security organizations have miserably failed. No other country leader has accomplished such a task for the USA and other Superpowers.
The USA stands to gain more by helping the democratic forces in Sri Lanka than by attempting to subvert it. The USA has to realize for once that it will gain more in prestige and dignity by allowing a sovereign country to attend to its own affairs, without interference.

Jan , you are spot on. SF is the man for he moment. His speech in Kandy on 18 Dec 2009 was classic. This man can speak.. MR is only good for the gallery. After 40 years in politics MR still can’t speak. He stammers and mumbles, just like his foreign minister, Bogolla. Every day MR brings 3000 people to temple trees and give them whisky and food with plenty of meat and fish. How many innocent animals are slaughtered for MR’s tamashas. The man drunks like a donkey. Then who pay for these parties – the innocent people. There’s no medicine in Hospitals. People die of lack of medicine. Beggars have died of starvation. SF is the man for the moment. Let’s make him our President

#121. jan | December 18th, 2009 at 1:37 am
We hope and pray Sf should win for the simple reason, He is capable in bringing discipline to Sri Lanka. He is the one who won the War, no dispute about it.
What Sri Lanka want now is not experienced man but a man who can bringh disciple and decorum. The country in a mess . Health sector is ailing cant capable in brining a bottle of saline, Education is at Gods mercy . cant print a question paper niether can correct a exam paper. Economy is on downard trend and cost of living is skyrocekting every minute. Corruption is at its helm with MR family patronage. goons and thugs are Ministers Journalists are domiciling in abraod of fear.
So only mater of consolation and solace is winning the war. so it is SF the Man behind.
P president who cant capable in bring a bottle of saline and do an exam paper can never win a war,
from where did his son get so much of money to squander Tharuna eta.

SO ITS NOT EXPERINNCE WE WANT . A MAN WHO CAN BRING DECENCY AND DISCIPLINE
SF IS THE MAN

JAN

SO ITS NOT EXPERINNCE WE WANT . A MAN WHO CAN BRING DECENCY AND DISCIPLINE
SF IS THE MAN

JAN

will you spill it

jan