http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/03/07/news14.asp

All should unite to defend sinister moves’
Nadira Gunatilleke
Power and Energy Minister Patali Champaka Ranawaka yesterday said that the
entire nation is to be punished by the US and the Western countries for
defeating terrorism which plagued the country for three decades.
The minister said that the people of all communities should get
together and defeat this sinister move which is aimed at destablising the
country and the region. It is very clear that the US is going to intervene in
the internal affairs of Sri Lanka.
The US says that they want to ensure Sri Lanka’s human rights, democracy and
reconciliation. But when they intervened in Afghanistan they said the same. But
what happened to Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.
Speaking to the Daily News Minister Ranawaka pointed out that approximately
one million civilians were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Over two million
migrated and became IDPs. The entire region is now destabilized.
These countries are facing serious socio-economic and political problems.
These countries lost stability and got destroyed because of US intervention.
Machine guns were given to Benagazi rebels by US instead of humanitarian
assistance as promised in the resolution. According to Minister Ranawaka, now
Libya is divided and an anarchist situation prevails in the country and the
Libyan President openly stated that he cannot govern Libya and he cannot disarm
the persons armed by the US.
Only now the Libyans have realized that when Qaddafi was there, at least they
had food, water and security. Now they have nothing. This kind of thing can
happen to Sri Lanka as well if this ‘human rights crusade’ against Sri Lanka is
allowed to continue.
“We have to protect our motherland and the hardly earned peace and mostly the
sacrifices made by our heroic armed forces and especially our President who took
a serious risk to defeat terrorism.
It is our moral duty to protect our Commander-in-Chief, our Head of State who
defeated terrorism because of his actions. Now he and his entire nation is going
to get punished by Western powers because of defeating terrorism. We have to
unite to defeat this intention of western powers and we definitely will, added
the minister.