Will Mahinda take action against Sarath Fonseka
October 15th, 2006
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj
Attempts are now being made by interested parties to make a scapegoat out of Army commander Sarath Fonseka. It is being made out that he was solely responsible for the military fiasco. Apparently President Mahinda Rajapakse was in the dark about this. So too was peace secretariat director Palitha Kohona it is being said.
The Joint Operations command did not know about it. The National Security Council chaired by Rajapakse which met on Oct 11th did not know about the on going war in the North.
Only Sarath Fonseka and his hard – line deputies knew about this, it is being insinuated. Rajapakse rapped his defence subordinates it is being said.
Bovine excreta!
Sarath Fonseka did not start this battle on his own. He did so with full support of Defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse.
Mahinda Rajapakse and Palitha Kohona are looking bad because they told the four co – chairs and facilitstor Norway that there would be no offensives.
Two factors screwed up things for Colombo. One was the defeat suffered by the armed forces. The other was the handing over of 74 bodies to Red Cross by the LTTE. If these things had not happened the GOSL would have continued with the ruse of having engaged in defensive action.
Now that Rajapakse has been exposed attempts are being made to pass the blame on to Sarath Fonseka. The fact that many top army officers hate Fonseka for his autocratic manner and cronyism is contributing further to the scapegoating exercise.
If Sarath Fonseka really did all this on his own withour informing his supreme commander in chief then he deserves to be removed from office immediately.
Will Rajapakse do that?
No!
“Why”
Because they were all in this together.
If Rajapakse was really misled by Fonseka let the President take action against his army commander.
Already Fonseka is in Jaffna berating his juniors for the disaster and planning a second operation. It is a matter of prestige for him and Mahinda. There will be more fighting and Fonseka will be at the military’s helm.
The army is being reluctantly pressured to go into action again.
The soldiers are lamenting
Before us there is Jony ( LTTE Johnny mines)
Behind us there is Fony (Sarath Fonseka)
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