says President is the "devil and traitor" of the country.”

The recent disclosures regarding the secret and diabolically manipulative deals with the  LTTE by the Government is the most rude shock received by the people after the treasons  committed by  the traitors of  Sri Lanka who betrayed the Sinhala Nation to the Foreigners.

 The Government is duty bound to explain and give a correct picture to the masses immediately, and clear the 200 million rupee sum given to the LTTE before the elections. Of course, the masses are now fully aware that the Government which is so resourceful in  its capacity for lying can explain anything, even though the truth still stands out convincingly.

 It is little wonder therefore that Sooriyarachi had to say this about the President “ I thought he was the God and saviour, but now with so much facts surfaced against him I  know as well as the nation knows that he is the devil and traitor of the country.

It is  as clear as daylight that the recent trend in Sri Lanka is to gag the mouths and intimidate any one irrespective of who or what lofty position he is in. Latest in this long line of death threats and grave persecution  we are witnessing in our midst is that against the Opposition Parliamentary Member  Johnston Fernando who has been well known for is integrity and efficiency when he was holding portfolios under the Government of Mr.  Ranil Wickremesinghe. Once again in keeping with the trend, the only ‘crime’ Mr. Johnston Fernando has committed is his daring exposures  of the Government’s shady and murky activities; he made public the colossal Mig Jet commissions paid  to the Government rank politicians. As these threat are reaching alarming proportions , Mr. Fernando has lodged a complaint to the Kurunegala Police, without much avail, as usual.

"Inflationary spiral which now stands at 20 %"

Gone are the days when the Central Bank , the premier financial State co-ordinator functioned without fear or favour spelling out the truth regarding the country’s financial

position and orientation.! This truth has become very transparent and obvious  based on  the facts contained in  the recent Central Bank reports .

 All financial experts are of this opinion and have expressed this in unison and overtly. While it is an indisputable fact that 38.2 billion rupees money has been printed  creating  an unprecedented inflationary spiral which now stands at 20 %, and the growth rate of Sri Lanka has plummeted to a new low although the Government claims falsely as standing at 7.4 %.  The kin and henchmen planted by the Government in the Central Bank are glossing over, giving deceptive figures and pictures of  a robust economy distracting  the ailing common man from the stark reality.It is the view of well  reputed and internationally acclaimed Financial experts that Sri Lanka is heading fast to the brink of irretrievable disaster unless the Government takes up an honest and corrective stance in all its actions instead of riding roughshod over a wave of seeming popularity.

Until recently Bandula Gunawardena who has been castigating the Government’s policies when he was in the Opposition has suddenly somersaulted ( unique one at that ) to extol those very policies and vociferously justify them. What a talent!. The President who appreciates only this type of  talent , not ability and honesty, we understand is proposing to record an official appreciation in his favour. The whole nation has realized an incontrovertible truth that Bandula Gunawardena  has turned out to be a successful magician though he is an unsuccessful politician . His latest gimmicks finding solutions to the irredeemable country’s economic ills  are only unhealthy reminders of the pavement magician who conjures up  anything from nothing. Reduction of  a few cents in the prices of LakSathosa goods, he feels has solved  all the problems of the consumers. He crows about the cost of living having been brought down. What a mighty  solution by a mighty magician !