Season Of Coups & Anarchy

Scottish Parliament lit-up for COP-26

By Kumar David –NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Prof. Kumar David

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjit is on the warpath for justified reasons. He has support from people of all faiths at home, the Vatican and Western governments – Biden is a rosary-carrying Catholic. Will the Thomas à Becket Archbishop of Canterbury and Henry II story repeat itself? It may. This video is dynamite it targets a deceitful, bungling regime.

Muslims, Tamils and now the Catholics have as much trust in Gota’s regime as a mongoose has in a cobra. Farmer’s upheavals are spreading; CEB unions are planning a blackout; the Gnanasara appointment is the ultimate obscenity. President Gota appoints military types to key positions at the drop of a hat and more alarming his public utterances demonstrate that he is edging closer to a ‘military solution’. The year 2021 has seen coups by three hated militaries which grabbed power, overthrew civilian governments and established brutal dictatorships. The people’s response has been de facto civil war! Coups so far this year were February 2021 Burma, Mali in August and last month in Sudan. In addition authoritarian game plans are in play by Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko. There is anarchy in Haiti where gangs have taken over the country and a general strike and turmoil in Ecuador over rising fuel prices. Ethiopia, Somalia, Libya, Lebanon and Yemen are trouble spots of a different genre.

It is useful if Lankans reflect on this epidemic of anarchy and coups as it is becoming clear that a power-garb is a likely Gotabaya option though he has the elected right to rule democratically for two to three more years. True, I have lost confidence in Aung San Su Kyi because of her weak-kneed submission to the Brass, but no denying she won a landslide election victory and is the rightful national leader. Her ousted clandestine civilian ‘government’ has belatedly formed an alliance with Burma’s restive armed minorities and they have collectively called on the people to rise up; battle has been joined. The Burmese junta has been rejected by the world (except China of course) and ASEAN; low intensity civil war is in progress. It is evident that military brutality and take-overs in the twenty-first century are not smooth sailing as they used to be. This time, unlike on previous occasions the Burmese gorillas are up against a civil war. The alliance of ethnic minorities with the opposition is heartening.

Then which idiot appoints a Task Force without a single representative of the nation’s majority (women) and without a single Tamil to draft national laws of ultimate importance? The Samagi Jana Balawegaya has, as far as I know, not condemned Ganasara’s appointment nor joined the trade union cum party drive against Basils’s LNG scam.

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