My Position Regarding Citizen Rani Wickramasinghe

My Position Regarding Citizen Rani Wickramasinghe

My Position Regarding Citizen Rani Wickramasinghe is clear.

He was rejected by the general public twice and as an old man he should retire and become an ordinary citizen, again.

He is good for an ornamental political coffin, ideally a political dustbin.

Making him a hero is not good for our politics.

He did not settle any of our long standing loans but delayed payment until 2028. 

We have to pay back the loans with accrued interests which is worse than paying it now itself.

He should be treated like any other citizen and he does not deserve any special treatment at all.  

If there is a legal provision to prosecute him it should not be delayed. If there is any legal procedure against a politician it is dragged inordinately until that government is out of power. A case against Senior Premadasa came out 12 years after his death. 

So far only one minister had seved his sentence and two others went to prison. Ranil should be in this list if he had done punishable deeds politically or otherwise.

Along with Gaminie Lokuge, he was involved in disappearances of Students of the Peradeniya Univesity, when I was young Medical guy working in the university

seconded from the Department of Health.

Equally one my friends Nagahawatta who was an army volunteer officer was killed by NPP/JVP guy in 1987/89 in the university and dumped into Alwis pond. 

I was witness to the killing of our vegetable vendor in Digana village. 

He was not allowed to come to my clinic which was right across the road. A few children under my care died because they were not allowed to attend my clinic at Digana.

138 bodies were dumped into Manikhinna hospital. They were killed because they were forced to parade against the police in Manikhinna and Digana. Our hospital team was asked to join the parade and I stopped them going, there lest they would be among the 138. 

Police dumped several bodies for public display in Digana.

I am not defending neither police nor army. 

I did not think Airfoce guys were involved and their training seem to be different.

I was a temporary lecturer (not as officer medical officer but a teacher) in the University and I resigned from my post with two kids to feed when my friend Nagahawatta was killed. He was from the Arts Faculty.

I was without a job for six months and joined the Private sector and ended up at Navaloka Hospital. I worked for Quality Control in Hospital Management and Navaloka was awarded the National Quality award.

Incidentally, J.R.J was warded with terminal illness, I never went to see him but I signed all his reports as part of the Quality Control (there was no need for me to countersign) work.

I signed his last blood report most likely taken after his demise, and I made a verbal comment that this guy ought to be dead. 

Sure enough, I saw white flags when I passed Ragama railway station.

Ragama railway station, on my train journeys I have never alighted but has a special memory in my mind. A rouge guy threw a stone at the railway and it hit my forehead narrowly missing my left eye. 

Without alighting at Peradeniya, I went to Kandy station and reported this incident. I made sure this guy and several others were caught. 

Then, there was a gang of pickpockets who board from Ragama and steal thing from train passengers. After six months of investigation with the help of forensic medical guy we rounded them up. 

The number if I remember right were between 25 to 30.

In actual fact, his wrist watch was snatched by these pickpockets at the Panideniya Junction.

Regarding my injury, I went to Peradeniya hospital (the place I was trained and also worked as a teacher) for a X-ray and I was kept until midnight for the wound toilet. 

Again a shoddy job.

It took nearly three months for it to heal and the sand particles or the silica particles to come out on their own accord. Had I not taken antibiotics on my own accord (hospital did not dish out any), I could have been dead by a nasty meningitis episode.

Renukane Chanda Wimala and my boss during my internship Dr. S.S. Drahaman were hospitalized along with J.R.J. but   neither recovered from the illness. I of course, went to see Dr. Drahaman but he was desperately ill and couldn't recognize me.

Just to say, Private hospitals are no better.

This is just for Sepala to make a note why I am now in Australia but would never come home. 

I did my part today for "Australia Clean" and dumped all the rubbish where it belonged, which included recycling material.

Ceylon will never regain its glory of the time of Dudley Senanayake.

I wish not be born again in Ceylon, having seen Jayaratne Pathiraarachchi's YouTube presentation where he had to do the cooking (for his wife), which included cleaning up little fish Salaya. 

I advice him to take protein rich diet to regain his composure. He looks deficient in B Vitamins.

Cooking is far better than making a YouTube presentation to grab some money from gullible viewers.