Stripped Of His Stars
- General Sarath Fonseka
By Frederica Jansz
General Sarath Fonseka, Johnston Fernando and Lakshman Seneviratne
The first Court Martial has found (Rtd) General Sarath Fonseka guilty of political activity and sentenced him to a dishonorable discharge. The ruling has to be approved by President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is the Commander in Chief of the armed forces. This comes after an often-delayed trial which finally proceeded during court holidays despite Fonseka not having legal counsel during that time.
Fonseka fell out of favour with the government when he decided to challenge President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the 2010 Presidential Election as the common opposition candidate. Prior to that he was the powerful Army Commander during the war and was portrayed as close to the President and his brother, the Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Fonseka is currently an MP from the opposition Democratic National Alliance party though he remains under arrest. He was tried for political activity while in office and a second court martial for corrupt procurement practices is continuing. His supporters allege that these accusations are politically motivated.
The first charge is that General Fonseka, who was then serving as Chief of Defence Staff, had made certain remarks to one time United National Party (UNP) Parliamentarian Johnston Fernando. The second that Fonseka, as Chief of Defence Staff, actually asked for the support of Johnston Fernando to have his name proposed at the UNP Working Committee as the presidential candidate. The third is for having over three dozen telephone conversations discussing politics with UNP MP and Deputy General Secretary Lakshman Seneviratne also whilst serving as Chief of Defence Staff.
JVP Parliamentary Group Leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake said there was no legal provision to present former Army Commander, General Sarath Fonseka before a court martial.
He said that General Fonseka could not be brought before a court martial according to the Army Act and that a Habeas Corpus has been filed before the Supreme Court requesting his release.
UNP Parliamentarian Lakshman Seneviratne went before the first court martial and gave evidence against Retired General Sarath Fonseka in this case.
Gamini Abeyratne known as “Taxi Abey” one time Executive Director of Airport and Aviation Services Ltd., together with Minister Johnston Fernando were the other two witnesses.
The trial focused on nearly 40 telephone conversations had between Lakshman Seneviratne and Fonseka during his tenure as Chief of Defence Staff.
Lakshman Seneviratne recounting some of those conversations said, “Fonseka’s close confidant and journalist Ruwan Weerakoon initially brokered those phone conversations.” Weerakoon was one time defence correspondent for The Nation newspaper.
“I had never met or spoken with the General before. Weerakoon contacted me middle of last year and said the General wished to speak with me. He brought a CDMA (Satellite) phone he claimed belonged to the Sri Lanka Army to my house at Pitakotte where he telephoned Fonseka and the General spoke with me.”
Seneviratne added, “The General told me he was planning his retirement. He said he intended to enter politics after he retired from service. I saw nothing wrong in this. He then told me that he would be flying to America on September 23, last year and returning a month later in October. He said he thereafter intended to enter politics. He asked me for my support.”
Seneviratne went on to say that during the course of these many telephone conversations he (Seneviratne) together with a number of other UNP MPs “all like minded colleagues” were meeting at Gamini Abeyratne’s apartment at the Sun City complex in Colombo 3 - to discuss party reforms for the UNP. “All of us were disgruntled and fed-up of Ranil Wickremesinghe’s leadership – Wickremesinghe was not going to contest the presidential election – we wanted to win and form our own government so at that stage we had proposed S. B. Dissanayake’s name as a presidential candidate – but Wickremesinghe turned it down. It was at this juncture that it seemed more than feasible to promote Sarath Fonseka as the main opposition candidate.”
At the time UNP MP Johnston Fernando was also a part of these meetings at Abeyratne’s apartment. Fernando subsequently defected to the Government in December last year weeks before the conclusion of the presidential election in January this year. Fernando is currently Minister of Cooperatives and Internal Trade.
Gamini Abeyratne recounting what happened said that on one of these occasions when Lakshman Seneviratne had come to his apartment he had said General Fonseka who at the time was still CDS would be telephoning him in a short while.
“The General did indeed call. Seneviratne at that stage indicated to me that he was not certain if indeed he was speaking to Fonseka since he had not spoken to him before nor met him. I told him to put the phone on speaker as I knew Fonseka’s voice and could verify if indeed it was him. This Seneviratne did and the moment I heard the General speak I knew it was Sarath Fonseka. The following conversation ensued,” Abeyratne said.
Lakshman Seneviratne: Hello General. When are you going to retire?
Sarath Fonseka: Not decided. I am going to America on September 23, and returning in October. I am going to contest against Mahinda Rajapaksa. Please try to support me.
Lakshman Seneviratne: Ok. We will try to do something.
“Some more pleasantries were exchanged before the General ended the call,” Abeyratne said.
Abeyratne went on to recount how Ruwan Weerakoon meanwhile brought a similar phone also CDMA and belonging to the army (“because these phones could not be tapped”) to the Cricket Café off Duplication Road where another meeting was set-up with Johnston Fernando.
Weerakoon on this occasion used two mobile phones too from which he called the General Fernando says he was nervous at this meeting but had been reassured by Ruwan Weerakoon not to worry that there was a pistol team nearby who could be summoned at a moment’s notice if any trouble arose. Thereafter, Weerakoon had telephoned the General and handed the phone over to Fernando. Johnston says he moved into the garden of the Cricket Café to take the call. The General had spoken in Sinhala asking how Johnston was doing. He had then proceeded to tell Fernando that he intended to retire and enter politics. Fernando had asked when he would retire at which point the General had replied, “After September. I am going to the US and returning in October I will resign from office then. I will then contest the presidential election against Mahinda Rajapaksa.”
After Fonseka’s return in October 2009 the leaders of the opposition parties met with him secretly at numerous locations. That is what finally culminated in him being chosen as the main opposition candidate.
Ruwan Weerakoon has meanwhile denied to the CID that he ever facilitated these phone calls between the General and Lakshman Seneviratne and Johnston Fernando.
Seneviratne Friday told The Sunday Leader “I regret having had to go before this court martial. But I was really cornered. This is a very unfortunate incident.”
Seneviratne reiterated that the entire episode took a turn following Johnston Fernando’s and Gamini Abeyratne’s defection to the government weeks before the conclusion of the presidential poll. “Thereafter it all turned ugly following the conclusion of the poll and Rajapaksa’s comeback.”
The court martial proceeded without defence counsel. Sources close to General Fonseka’s family told The Sunday Leader that the defence counsel had informed the court martial that they would not be appearing for the case, as they were on vacation.
The court nevertheless proceeded to hear the case resulting in Friday’s order which stripped Fonseka of all rank.
Gardihewa Sarath Chandralal Fonseka, joined the Sri Lanka Army in 1970 and saw extensive action throughout the 26 year civil war, culminating in a term as Commander of the Army from December 6, 2005 – July 15, 2009. As Commander, he oversaw the final phase of the Sri Lankan civil war, which resulted in the total defeat of the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam organisation. He also survived an assassination attempt when an LTTE suicide bomber attacked his motorcade in April 2006. Following the end of the war Fonseka was promoted to a four star rank in the Sri Lanka Army, becoming the first serving officer to hold the rank of full general. He has been described as Sri Lanka’s most successful army commander, and his successful conduct of the war led the Indian National Security Advisor Kelath Narayanan to describe him as the “best army commander in the world.”
General Sarath Fonseka MP, has frequently recounted how he won the war. The Sri Lanka Army’s strategy of acting like a guerrilla organisation, the restructuring of the Army, ending corruption, increasing its strength, firepower and a direct chain of command that went from the top to grass root levels, forced the end of terrorism in this country, he says.
When he took over the Army, the LTTE was acting almost like a conventional army and was considered to be unstoppable. Like a conventional army, they had to protect land, equipment and armaments.
In conversations with The Sunday Leader Fonseka explained how he achieved victory, how, “From our side, we changed our tactics and strategies. We started acting like guerrillas, making incursions into their territories in small groups and carrying out daring attacks when the LTTE challenged us in the jungles.”
“I was the chief architect responsible for strategy, restructure, and implementation of the entire war. The small group guerilla tactics of’ ’search and kill’ in contrast to conventional battles for territorial conquests was the major deviation from previous war strategies. The strategy was implemented with clinical precision and thus effective in achieving a kill rate that stealthily and steadily destroyed the enemy despite no major show of grand battle successes. The strategy was amply supported by exorbitant and unaffordable but effective state of the art defence technology which gave a clear edge over the enemy. Intensive and incessant attack and bombardment of enemy territory, despite overwhelming obstacles, was also a key feature of the winning strategy,” Fonseka said.
Sentence was too lenient for a traitor.
They just plucked the feathers off his cap and removed his brass buttons.
He need not bother about the pernsions as he is entiled to dole in the US.
His parliament job, I have no idea still he seems to have his civic rights. am I right?
I do not think removing those stars affects a person who escaped death and being in a prison. He already established all the stars in Sri Lankan minds. Ultimately all these stars are of bronze. Nothing else. Important thing is the stories behind those stars. Nobody can remove them. It is the same as taking sombody’s educational certificates. But nobody can remove his knowledge. Imagine how many such badges and stars are there with other army officers. But how many Sri Lankan know them. I think not more than 100 people. However, General Fonseka is know to every Sri Lankan as a hero no matter who they vote. If you ask from an ardent supporter of Rajapaksha about General Fonseka. He or she will definitely say General is a hero no matter what political background he has. I am sure Mahinda Rajapaksha himself knows that very well. Namal will definitely tell in front of anybody the real truth. Just because of Gotabaya, every Rajapaksha is silient and not revealing the truth. But now it is too late because things have happened. Now it is Premadasa’s fate is left for MR and his family. When Premadasa realised what he has done to Athulathmudali and Gamini it was too late for him. Because nature or God normally decide the punishment well before a human realises his/her fault. Wait and see what will happen. Because every body is humans no matter how many soldires surround him and every guy is under the natrural justice. This is beyond the status of a human and you never know when will it come. What we have to do is wait and see. Then jurnalist can write stories and speculations in news papers prety soon.
Well said Ranjith!
While this so called conviction is a joke and represents the MR thugs at work, SF himself is no Angel. The medals and badges probable represent all the Tamil and Sinhalese women this uneducated thug raped. His escapades are well talked about among his own (Past) security detail. One of them is currently on assignment at the UN in NY. This is Karma (although the payback here is nothing compared to all the nasty things he did to these poor women let alone the helpless civis he murdered), what goes around comes around.
a medal for every rape he committed!
why did he sleep with your mother lal?
So, does this mean Lal is SF’s son?
You got it right! I am his Sinhalese B@STARD Child. Good one! : ) Sad that you think r@pe is cool, but then again you jokers probably our products of r@pe and incest anyways.
[General Sarath Fonseka RWP RSP VSV USP] This is clearly a politically motivated stunt by the Maha Raja & Company. Unfortunately the Kaevum-kana Moda Sinxalayas can not understand it. WE MUST NOT FORGET HOW GEN SARATH FONSEKA & THE OTHERS SUFFERED ON THE BATTLEFIELD TO DEFEAT THE RUTHLESS TERRORISTS (for the moment they are toothless thanks to Gen SF, but will gain “power” again with the help of MR & Co)! Some died on the battlefield owing to dehydration while the armchair “commanders” in the South ate buriyani and drank whisky! Is this the way to treat the man who saved the country?? Even Col. F. C. de Saram and the others who were involved in the 1962 coup attempt were not treated the way Gen SF is treated today. It is pretty hard to come to terms with MR’s (& his servants’/cleaners’) shabby treatment of Gen SF. ANYWAY, NO ONE COULD ERASE GEN SARATH FONSEKA FROM THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE WHO RESPECT AND ADMIRE HIM. Gen Sarath Fonseka has gone down in history as one of the greatest Sri Lankan/ Ceylonese, and, will be remembered for EVER as we remember: Lt. Gen. Denzil Kobbekaduwa, Lt. Gen. Nalin Angammana, Maj. Gen. Lakshman Wijeratne, Maj. Gen. Vijaya Wimalaratne, Maj. Gen. Ananda Hamangoda, Maj. Gen. Larry Wijeratne, Maj. Gen. Susantha Mendis, Maj. Gen. Janaka Perera, Cpl. Kularathna Y.G.G. (SLSR) – Hasalaka Veeraya of “the Mother of all Battles” and ALL OUR BELOVED BROTHER OFFICERS AND MEN WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR THE COUNTRY (ON BEHALF OF us). @Unconventional morons, please stop insulting the General.
Very We;ll said Ranjith, you exactly described what I wanted to say. Rajapakse’s think there power is eternal and as you said premadasa and most resently Prabhakaran thought the same. Who thought mighty soviet union would disintergarete. I have to tell same about Rajapakses His assumption is Sri lankan General public is stupid and he can deceive them by playing all tricks in the book like weerawansa. Mervyn Silva saga.
Hallo Ranjith Subasinghe, Yes, SF was a hero. Gotabaya is still a great hero. He escapee the country from LTTE ,with the help of SF, and all the other commanders and solders.
But, after the war SF betrayed his commander because of his “Presidency dream”. Also he betrayed the country by telling the “white flag story”. He could have thought his capability and capacity. Hope now he realized that. But now it is too late.
But Gotabaya is still a hero to the country.
Definitely SF is a Betrayer big time! If not for the political will of President and Gota go get Prabha and finish this war, not matter what stars MR SF held, this peace would have never come. We had more heros in the military in the past- my braver and not power crazy who dedicated life to the war. They could not bring this peace bcos we did not have a government with the political will to finish the big terrorist. So I do not see this peace and something that we need to worship SF for! People including his daughters in the USA are fighting with all kinds of stories to bring SF to power via UNP but the truth prevails.
The looses become traitors and winner become patriots and heroes. That’s how it has always been. In the second world war if the allies have lost then the Nazi’s and Japanese would have been the world heroes.
Because MR is the president, he and his brothers are heroes today. His brother who fled the country deserting his fellow soldiers to fight the war becomes the hero and the guy who fought for 40 years sacrificing his life becomes a traitor.
What a country country like no other!
Good points! The Victor writes the history no matter what.
Sf’s “fought for 40 years sacrificing” finished wuth the “wite flag story”.
Now he is a puput of US.
Well said Ranjith. MR & the gang will meet Premadasa somewhere soon. Fonseka will become the next President from his jail cell. Nobody can’t stop this. This natural law will happen again like you said in premadasa’s case.
Well said.
Almost all Lankans know that this is a personla vandetta by the Raja family.
Nothing, NOTHING … would have happend to SF, if he did not contest the Raja pissa. If he was soo guilty of many thing why did they offer Secretary to Ministry of Sports, National MP for Galle district which are top govt. positions.
The accusation- doing politics while in service
When will the govt. apply the same brush to
1. Yoshitha Rajapaksa- for having addressed presidents election rallies
2. Gotabaya Rajapaksa for actively participating in presidents election
When will they be court martialled!!!!
As Ranjith has said, SF will remain a star in the hearts and minds of Lankans in gratitude.
what r u blabberring?? the Past Great General was ceased to be great the moment he turned a traitor!! no amount of stars or your emmotional pleas what a Hero he had been can amend that!!
He is a traitor and deserved to be “Deleted” from the history books!!
Remember there were other Generals before him and he still served under them..so how come he came up with these sudden stroke of genius? Every fool should agree that what was DIFFERENT this time was a LEADER with a back-bone to have taken the tough decissions to FINISH this war once an for all..not a deranged General who was behaving very irrationaly….HOW ABOUT the thousands of other HEROs of the armed forces?? What about them??
Ranjith you have said it all and there is no other better prediction fo what things are to come. Its just a matter of time , that this name will be wiped out of the books of sri lankan history. The General will be another Nelson Mandela of sri lanka.
ranjith, it is all good what you say but the problem is, currently, Anoma smiles to cameras, reads out what the JVP writes and goes back home, close the doors and cry. Her daughters do similar. Now this man has been stripped off of his stars and all credentials. Does that mean, he has been denied of his pension as well? So you can trust the nature to punish MR but is that enough? What Fonseka needs is freedom and dignity. He has neither and he will continually lose whatever is left with him.Premadasa was not punished by the God but his bad associations and anti-Buddhist concept of associating rascals. What Fonseka could do is, distance himself from the JVP and plan a negotiated settlement with the president. That way, he will have his freedom and dignity rescued and his family will not have to suffer anymore.
I agree with you Mr.Ranjith Subasinghe.
I concur every statement depicted by Ranjith Subasinghe. I do not know the ultimate fate of General Sarath Fonseka, but I am sure MR and his brothers will get appropriate treatment as time goes on. Let the public give SF a honourable discharge.
ALL THIS BLUNDER HAPPENED BECAUSE OF THAT FOOLISH FREDRICA’S STUPIDITY IN THE FIRST PLACE. TO HELL WITH HER !
saradieal well said she is the cause of this whole fiasco! taking money from Gosl & sending SF to jail. she is the root cause of everything. fate awaits you evil women!
I think Fredrika is innocent in this case. There were lot of people around Gen.Fonseka at that moment and they all are deaf and blind at this moment.
fredrica innpcent my foot! yeah just like batalanda she is still innocent – fool
It’s very sad the way this was done but not a surprise at all. Gota first gave the ruling before the actual. All other cases too wil find him guilty & they will take his civic rights n jail him.. This is the verdict which is inevitable.. So readers don’t be surprised! Mervn silva issue is a the build up to this case. Coming November he will be reapponited as minister! There is no law in this country for sure! A LAND LIKE NO OTHER!
Even a 5 star general should not cross the path of a politician even with no stars, the latter is so venomous.
The General is a million times greater than Rajapakse will ever be. Rajapakse will eventually be thrown into the dust bin of history, forgotten forever. Not Mr. Fonseka, ever!
MR may be thrown in the dustbin but FS is already in the toilet floating around sh!t!
MR & Gota can take away the stars, but General is a star amongst the people! and MR’s & Gotas & the idiots who took part in the military courts stars will decide on their future very soon
You can explain SF’s heroism in just two words. ” Danuna Tilakaratna”. :)
The bottom line is that Politics is worse than prostitution this goes for all in govt and opposition.
SF should have known better to stay away, instead he paid the price for his naivety or was he too cocky? Was he really Mr.Clean? Why did he divulge “Gota ordered the killings”? and claim the victory was his alone! other than for personal glorification.
What next is the burning question? will SF’s nightmare end or will there be more court martials courtesy UNP traitors to keep him in check? the conditions are perfect for more defections whilst gutless UNP leaders battle it out for the plum job “lifetime opposition leader”
Whilst the poor gets poorer, the rule of law openly flouted, bribery and corruption is the order of the day, the likes of Mervyn (he’ll be back) and Wimal (now top dog) ensure that the Rajapakse’s will rule for many more years to come
This is what happens when a person becomes arrogant and selfish and thinks that he is the big shot. The Sri Lankan’s know what a great thing our army did and to this everyone in the army contributed. It’s not a single handed victory of SF as he says. He forgot about all the personnel under him as well as the Navy, Air force, Special forces STF police Civil defense force etc.
The biggest mistake he did because of his arrogance is he forgot the role MR played in this war and became the selfish and arrogant self which he is today
But Sri Lankan Public always knew what a war MR fought because without his leadership we will be under the flag of LTTE by now irrespective of SF or anyone else for that matter
pragooth;
I agree when you say “This is what happens when a person becomes arrogant and selfish and thinks that he is the big shot” then we also know is governing with arrogance and selfishly like Idi Amin style. And this will happen to them to, not today maybe tomorrow.
What goes around comes around!
hey Steve, You have no sence regarding the common public. You have to get down to the earth and anaylized. This is not the idea of the general public.
There is no idi amin out side now. He is in the jail. Now we have freedom to live, talk. We must honor and appriciate this leadership.
Illa gena Parippu kewa. This humbug decervs what he got as he foluted the basic rules of the armed forces!!!
I am a UNP ers but look at the article of his daughter. I dread to think the what SL would have been if this idiod appointed the president!!!. Mahinda is a saint copaing to this arrogant isiot.
I m not surprised at all how Fedrika has conveniently and cunningly avoided her own mudslinging on General Fonseka in this report. I dont say here that she must be ashamed of what she did, because she does not not know the meaning of the word shame since she is used to act shamelessly. Good that Lasantha left this world before witnessing the shameless nature of his one time media colleague.
Mokada Concerned
Hey Fredrica is doing an outstanding job my friend. And I think Lasantha would be very proud that she is unbowed and unafraid to stand up and write what she believes. Fredrica is a stand up person, who are you to judge.
You can say anything about the Rajapaksha brithers. But you can never say that they openly promoted communalism among the citizens of the country. mR even spoke in Tamil at an international meeting. Imagine this 5 star General saying anything in tamil. His eyes say it all …. and those facial expressions. DB Wijesinghe and Fonseka are twins joined at the hips where their feelings for the minorities are concerned. Now he is reaping his rewards. And dont blame Frederica Jansz. She is a brave and honest lady who only reports facts. However, Fonseka dug his own grave and even Fredericas efforts oculd not save him because he got too cocky. Serves him right.
DB Wijesinghe? Never heard of him.
Let anybody remove the stars of General Fonseka, but he/they cant remove the stars created in the hearts of Sri Lankan general public for General Sarath Fonseka. For us he is a 4 Star General always.
I am dreaming to become a politicians to make money and fame for my family. I don’t care about country but my family, this is the philopsophy of politics in sri Lanka. Sarath Fonseka is too honest, he is not suitable for politics. I feel sorry for the man, he safe guarded us from terrorists now Gota is taking revenge from Sarath for no fault of Sarath’s.
Mr. Ranjith Subasinghe, Hats off to you for your brave and praise-worthy comments. You have said it wonderfully.
Thank you Ranjith.
Mr. Ranjith Subasinghe, you are now a 4 star hero yourself, for your comments. Now dont let your pride get too far and hold your head too high in the air. I dont think the minorities think you are their 4 star general. To them, you are just another Garandihewa Fonseka who wants to drown them all in the Indian ocean for the simple crime that they happened to be born as Sri Lankan citizens.
One of the World Best Army Chief is General Sarath Fonseka, as per Mr Narayana Indian Security Advisor stated in 2009, How can some one can strips his ranks…no matter Gen SF will General for all the SriLankan hearts & foreever …..for his dedication on commending Elam War IV…
One of the world’s biggest rapists???
Those who put adjectives like foolish, idiots, arrogant in front of Fonseka do not have brains to classify them even as foolish. Because foolish people have some kind of thinking power than these people. There is no good word to classify those people who try to use bad adjectives in front of Fonseka.
Yes Fonseka can put all these adjectives in front of his name. Because of his foolishness, he destroyed LTTE. LTTE should have been still there. Then you know what happen to those brave politicians. They would be under a bunker every time even when a passenger plane flies over Colombo. Because of his foolishness, his parents and family was under threat from LTTE. Because of his foolishness he flew many times over LTTE territory when they had SAM missiles. Because of his foolishness, so much of his blood was flown during assasination attempts. Because of his arrogance, he led Sri Lanka army successfully. So these adjectives have real meanings in front of Fonseka. So please keep on adding some. The truth is those who tries to add bad adjectives in front of Fonseka do not have any adjectives to add in front of their names. Only an empty space. Because they did not do any thing.
God bless Sri Lankan who forget the immediate past. They can easily forget their parents
The Rajapakse family have dug their own graves and its a matter of time before they fall into it and are buried.
They are a disgraced to Sri Lanka.
Geet: I would be more than happy to give a little “push” so they fall into the graves sooner rather than later! : )
General( he will always be) Fonseka has established an irreputable reputation not only in Sri Lanka but internationally. (I live abroad and fully aware of the these facts) It is indeed foolhardy to strip him of what the General achied militarily. Many foreign august people have marvelled at the tactics he used in beating the most organised guirilla movemovemnt in the world. Above all it must never be forgotton that phycologically the Genral beat an extremely cunning and dangerous despot as Prabakaran. Let us not forget the peaceful conditions, post war, the General was instrumental in creating. No one in Sri Lanka is scared anymore to go about without the fear of LTTe blasting us to smithereens any more. Ireespective of dirty Sri Lankan politics, let the General’s acheievement be remembered for ever.
A traitor got what he rightly deserved.
Are the joker who is the President of Vihilu Peramuna?
The name of Gen.Fonseka can’t be easily erased from the contemporary SriLanka history;
THE HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
Mahinda got power by paying LTTE to rig votes in noth.LTTE used that money to buy arms and kill Srilankan soldiers.To keep this power and hand it over to his son Mahinda will do anything.Mahinda is scared to death of General Sarath Fonseka because he is a real hero and a genuin threat to mahinda’s dictatership.
MAHINDA WON THE FIRST TIME BY BRIBING PRABAKHARAN
THIS TIME OF COURSE IT WAS BY “COMPUTER AIDED FRAUD”
WE WERE ROBBED OF VICTORY. WHATEVER SAID AND DONE
SARATH WON THE WAR.A KANGAROO COURT CANNOT BRING, DOWN
A”HERO TO ZERO”. BUT THEN WE ARE RULED BY “NERO”
PREMADASA HAD ALL THE SECURITY,BUT A SIMPLE MAN ON A BYCYCLE
SENT HIM TO WHERE HE DESERVED FOR THE MURDERS HE COMMITTED
HISTORY WILL REPEAT.ACCORDING TO BUDDHISM,RETRIBUTION WILL COME AND SOON FOR ALL THE INJUSTICES PERPETRATED ON US BY
RAJAPAKSE AND COMPANY AND HIS FORTY THIEVES.
JOHNSTON AND LAKSHMAN, SHOULD COMMIT SUICIDE FOR BETRAYING THE TRUST THAT SARATH HAD IN THEM.TAXI ABEY OF COURSE HAS BEEN IN THIS “PIMPING” BUSINESS WITH ALL THE POLITICIANS.
SUMMING UP SINHALA BUDDHIST SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES. WHERE ARE THE MAHANAYAKES,TO SPEAK UP FOR JUSTICE.?
LOL.. sour grapes my friends?? Get a life.
Well said, Vintage Voter!
Then, lets change Taxi Abye’y name to Pimpi Abey.
gota is the real traiter and must be made hero.tthat is how it hao happens in sri lanka.
goes around comes around..this is what u get 4 killing innocent tamils, muslims, sinhaleese and cristians in gost town
Our raja paraya have stripped so many for his gain this balla also have strippred so many woman in temple trees.
Stroy going around the first lady has banned several women from visiting Temple trees, may be these sluts have some thing to do with JAY’s claim
Looks to me that these witnesses are PATHOLOGICAL LIARS who could be easily unwound by a good cross examination, no credibility at all, they have been bought over by this regime with political posts etc and giving evidence to suit the occasion. SHAME ON THE ARMY FOR LOOSING ITS GLORY and I just cannot imagine the Army taking these incredible witnesses seriously. THIS COUNTRY TOO HAS LOST ITS GLORY
Should have avoided politics, which is good for dogs! ( may be dogs deserve better respect than these politicians). Well said Ranjith, and well said JG too!
True, SF did lead the war and so was MR and Gota, What ever said and done all these three men were equally responsible for war victory. This just shows how low we are as a nation and how vulnerable our country for any invasion be it internal or external. If MR in power, Ranil will sell him to get in to power, If Ranil in power MR will sell him to grab the power. Just like that.
SF should’ve been stayed away from politics and retired respectfully.
This is digsuting. To go against someone who gave us peace in the country is a shameful. He may have done wrong that is a different matter. If not for him every Sri Lankan would not be able to go on the roads without fear. Why wont the people raise their voices against this injustice. if MR is a true buddhist he will not do this. It is disgusting. Gotabhaya ran away from the country but SF stayed and faced it and even faced a suicide attack. Have our so called leaders forgotten this. They cant be leaders if they are not truthful. If they do this to SF then retribution will come on the people who were involved. One should act accroding to one’s conscience and not be stooges.
Ranjith is correct. MR and family will vanish this earth like How Mussoloni vanished.Wait and see. We curse you MR. and Gotta also
GOATA GOT HIS ELU ARMY NOW
As a fellow Sri Lankan I am ashamed of the condemnation of SF. This is a personal vendetta of the Rajapakse clan against SF and they desperately want to see the back of him for good.
Johnston and Lakshman are politicians and would suck-up to anyone with a good lucrative deal. Abey is of course thrash in the can.
Might as well leave Frederica out of the scene as she will talk of investigative journalism. We all know what that is though earlier on she was good.
“What goes around, comes around”. It will be good for those concerned to remember that.
He who lives in fear will die in fear. Time will be the recorder of heros and zeros. Why is HE is so fearful of the man behind bars??? Why is the general so angry with his mate MR & GR. Has it got more than the eye has seen and ear has heard???
GOOD RIDDENS…..Damn good lesson for all TRAITORS!!
Fredrica…the artical heading should amend to say “Stripped off” His Stars (not Stripped OF)
This is how hon. president respects to charactors gave their best effort to win the wor.
The whole world knows that he is a real winner.
Mot once thrice.
1. Won the “Yama” at the death gate.
2. Won the war.
3. Won the …….. you know.
Dogs can bark at the moon.
But the moon is moon.
King can give his verdict now but the God’s verdict comes little later.
Hero is stripped. Zero (Karuna) received forged diplomat passport. This is the chinthana law. Any bastard is lick MR’s boot will get all the benefits in Sri Lanka. This is the survival technique in a country which has committed war crime
GSF is always GSF in our hearts, no one can remove them and no one can change history. GSF is the real one and only war hero of our time????
GSF is nothing but a rapist!
Fedrica why didn’t you write about the controversial white flag story?
Yesterday hero has become today’s traitor. Traitors are dangerous than enemies. Remember Ahalepola paved the way Britain to invade Sri Lanka. This hero to zero traitor also invited UN to poke their nose into our country. He is willing to testify at foreign commissions against his subordinates who sacrificed a lot in the frontline.
It is funny how SF found comfort in the UNP. During those hard and harsh days, the last phase of the war, the UNP as a party including the leadership ridiculed all what he did. Mangala said in the company of Ranil that SF would not be eligible to run even the Salvation Army. It is unbelievable now they keep worshipping him as the ultimate hero. SF will have to realise oneday, these bankrupt politicians who disgraced him those days were the same people who abused his status unsuccssfully to turn the tables. He will not have a future with them. The best is to reach an agreement with the boss (MR) and have a rest now. His wife deserves it, if he doesn’t want it. He doesn’t have a great vision for the country, so politics will not miss him either if he leaves politics.
A beautiful country, populated with the some of the most dis-loyal; treacherous; ‘ low-life’ scum on the ‘FACE OF THE EARTH’.
Because of Sarath Fonseka’s previous court martial punishment on his rape of a servant in Army Quarters, he was hardly awarded any medals. Only after he became the Army Commander he got himself the bulk of the medals. He awarded tenders to his son in law…Sarath awarded medals to himself…anyway now they have been removed
May be a lot of you don’t remember the crooks within the three forces that imported planes that can’t fly, ships that are not sea-worthy and rockets that don’t fire. Those were the real crooks who silently blended into our society with bags full of money. After ridding the army of such filth, which helped immensely to finish the war, the General may have thought “what good is the war victory if the country goes into the hands of another bunch of crooks”.
So, just as he cleaned up the army and as he told the Mahanayake’s in the beginning, he may have thought its his life mission to clean up the political establishment before riding into the sunset as the Great General. But his only miscalculation was his underestimation of the stupidity of the Sinhalese people.
It take a nation of people to make it great. It is a very unlikely prospect to see this country turned into the ‘Aschcharya’ by a nation of people who are so lacking in foresight. Your time will be better spent waiting for a goat’s testicles to fall down. So, what are you waiting for… go buy a goat today!
Nimal it is not clear for whom’s testicles you are waiting to fall down..Your last sentence is so confusing..please clarify