Why Rajapaksa is Evil for Lanka.

All though nothing recently has taken place in Sri Lanka I write this post to express the falling state of Sri Lanka's so called democracy. Yeah that's right a democracy whose constitution promotes the rights of the majority while denying the same opportunities to its minority. That is just the democratic machinery. The main violations of any human right existing is committed by those who justify their actions based on the democracy. The main violator is without doubt the current head of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa. Under his regime almost every violations have been stepped up. Media is actively censored and according to the rankings released by Reporters Without Borders Sri Lanka is ranked 158th in the world. A country whose media is censored to that extent indicates the collapse in the basic structure of democracy. 

Mahinda Rajapaksa

After the Presidential win in 2005 Rajapaksa actively galvanized the government to end the LTTE. He along with his Army chief Sarath Fonseka started the main operations to end the Civil War once for all. It culminated by the deaths of the entire senior establishment of LTTE. Prabhakaran who was the head since the inception of LTTE was killed in action along with his entire family. Obviously many believed at that time that Sri Lanka would be now normal. But then a rift emerged between General Fonseka and Rajapaksa. Both ran for the 2010 elections which Rajapaksa won. Using his influence and power he sent Fonseka to jail under a number of controversial charges. But since then there have been increasing number of calls world wide for an independent probe set up by UN to investigate the reports of war crimes being committed against the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka by the army in its war on the LTTE. Countries still continue to push the Sri Lankan government into giving permission for the UN probe to be set up which it continues to deny.

Killing field. All those are corpses.

The recent deterioration in Sri Lanka isn't limited to ethnic bias between Sinhalese majority and Tamilian minority. It is because under Rajapaksa the government is actively targeting anyone who not just criticizes the Human Rights in Sri Lanka but anyone who questions or opposes him. In a widely reported incident a journalist by the name Prageeth Eknaligoda was abducted two days before elections in 2010. He was involved in the campaign of Sarath Fonseka who was the main opponent of Rajapaksa. He still continues to be missing. Amnesty has given the contact details of his wife and encourages to send her a note supporting her. Please do so and show your solidarity (http://www.amnestyusa.org/pdfs/SummerSolidarity_SRILANKA.pdf) 

Not surprisingly many of Rajapaksa's family members are now being given various big positions in the country. It's like he is starting to build a foundation by crushing the democracy in which his political successors will his own family and party members. So the only thing we can hope is that Lankans see this and throw this guy out in the next elections. But who knows his powers will be so influential that he may turn the tides and get away with almost every wrong he seems to committing.