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January 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Sarath Fonseka, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Chamal ^talk _{stealth mode} 13:29, 18 January 2010 (UTC) Why don't you allow to publish Sarath Fonseka's untold currupt and illegal as well as harmful activities that he intentionally carried out while he was in his office so let them to appear in this page otehrwise the account that has been published in wikipedia is partial. I don't agree with that priciple that you stick to.

Certain inforamtion which the writer has presented in respect of Sarath Fonseka is totally partial and accurate details about him has not been emphasized. Because of this reason, it seems that this web page has been constucted with the sole objective of presenting the personal image of Sarath Fonseka as a saint as well as a real hero to teh readers. But this is entirely distortion of facts so that readers are requested to refer to other sources to know more about Sarath Fonseka's real character which the Wikipedia writer has hidden.

See WP:SOAPBOX. ≈ Chamal ^talk ¤ 01:17, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Allegations against Gen. (Ret) Sarath Fonseka while in service and after

Chief allegation against Gen. (Ret) Sarath Fonseka

Telephone-gate continues to showcase Fonseka ‘corruption’ (www.asiantribune.com-2010-01-19 • By K T. Rajasingham Colombo, 19 January (Asiantribune.com):

Sri Lankan Army has demanded from the former Sri Lanka Army Commander the immediate payment of Sri Lankan Rs. 2,082,995.80 to the telephone calls he made in 2000 in the Inmarsat Satellite phone. Sarath Fonseka when he was Commandant of Jaffna, Mangala Samaraweera who was the Minister of Post in the President Chandrika Kumaratunga’s government provided the Inmarsat Satellite phone to the General to remain in touch with Colombo from Jaffna. Subsequently, when Major General Sarath Fonseka was moved out of Jaffna as Vanni Commandant he took along with him the satellite phone. It came to light that Major General Sarath Fonseka made use of the Sattelite phone to call his daughters, family members in USA and also in other countries thus abusing the Government property for his personal purpose.

On October 20, 2004, Sri Lanka Telecom demanded the payment of Rs. 2,018,3331/81 as outstanding payment for the use of satellite telephone during the year 2000/ 2001. The then Army Commander, General SHS Kottogoda refused to settle the bill to avoid audit objections later. ‘… as it has risen where Army is unable to settle these bills as these calls cannot be certified as official calls.’ “Further this may lead to other audit queries as well”, he sternly told the Fonseka. The tone and tenor of the letter clearly indicated that the Army would not settle the bill and Fonseka himself must foot the bill. CONFIDENTIAL COMD/1/2 () Comd’s Secretariat, AHQ Maj Gen GSC Foneska Chief of Staff February 2005 LONG OUTSTANDING TEL BILLS 1. Sri Lanka Telecom by their letter dated 20 Oct 04 has indicated that Sri Lanka Army owes Rs. 2,018,331/81 as outstanding for the use of three Satellite Telephones during the years 2000/2001. (Copy Attached) 2. Of the above amount I observe that a total amount of Rs. 1,836,780/69 is for the use of the satellite phone given to SF HQ (W) during the months of Sep to Dec 2000 during which you were the SF Comd. Having gone through the detail bills which are attached I find that no local calls have been taken but all are overseas calls. The summary of calls is given below: a. Sep (1) USA -151 (2) INDIA – 02 (3) AUSTRALIA – 03 (4) JAPAN -06 b. Nov (1) USA -163 (2) NEDELAND -01 c. Dec (1) USA -50 (2) UK -01 3. These Satellite phones were made aval for Comd’s of SF (J) and (W) to be used in an emergency if all other comms would fail and for urgent op reqmts. However I find that calls taken during the months indicated at para 2 are all overseas calls and has no relevance to op reqmts of the Army. Therefore a sit as arisen where Army is unable to settle these bills as these calls cannot be certified as official calls. Further this may lead to other audit queries as well. It is possible that amount could have been deducted from the Major General’s salary but for a turnaround in his fortunes – towards the end of 2005, just 20-days before his retirement, Fonseka was appointed Army Chief. Subsequently, Asian Tribune learnt that Sarath Fonseka after becoming the Commander of the Army ordered his Aide-de-camp to settle the satellite phones bills from the welfare funds of the Army.

By a quirk of irony, the payment for some reason or other the satellite telephone calls bills were not settled. By a letter dated 7th January 2010 Sri Lanka Telecom addressed to Commander of the Sri Lanka Army, demanding for the outstanding payments of Inmarsat Satellite Phones - LKR 2,082,995.80. Letter from the Sri Lanka Telecom states: “ Further to our Letter dated 24th January 2006, we wish to to remind you that the payment for the above has not been made yet. Please settle the dues at the earliest. Please send your check in favour of Sri Lanka Telecom PLC to reach the Accountant/ International Services, 4th Floor, OTS Building , Sri Lanka Telecom Head Quarters, Lotus Road, Colombo 1.” Following this letter sent by the Sri Lanka Telecom under Registered Cover to the Sri Lanka Army Commander, the Sri Lanka Army’s Military Secretary Major General AWJC De Silva has written on 12 January 2010 to General Sarath Fonseka (Retd.) demanding the outstanding payment be made immediately. According to the letter – Outstanding payments for the usage Inmarsat Satellite Phone: 1. I have been instructed to bring to your attention that a bill has been submitted by the Sri Lankan Telecom to Sri Lanka Army for the settlement of a sum of Rs. 2,082,995.80 for the usage of Inmarsat Satellite Phone. 2. I have also been instructed to inform you that according to the records available in the Sri Lanka Army you have been found responsible for the usage of the said facility. As such it is kindly requested that the said bill be settled forthwith. A Copy of the bill furnished by the Sri Lanka Telecom. Asain Tribune learnt so far there was no response forthcomimg from the Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka for the repayment of the telephone call charges. Also Asian Tribune learnt that Sri Lankan Army High Command is considering to file action in the court of law to recover the money from the Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka.

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Gen. Fonseka's sole claim to victory, Green Card and eye on Presidency -2010.01.22 • Dr. P.A.Samaraweera, Australia The Army, Navy and the Airforce fought the war as a team with the leadership given by the President as Commander-in-Chief. But after the war, Fonseka claimed sole victory and belittled the role of the Navy and the Air Force. This week on a TV programme the former battle commanders of the Vanni front while discussing about the war analysed the role of the Navy and the Air Force. They discussed in detail how the Navy and the Air Force backed them to the hilt during their confrontations with the terrorists. They paid a glowing tribute to the Navy and the Air Force for their support. We should applaud the battle commanders for giving them credit as they said without their unhindered assistance it would have been a Herculean task to end the war quickly. In contrast to the battle commanders acknowledging the support of the Navy and the Air Force and working as a team, Gen. Fonseka who is claiming sole right to victory pointed the finger at the army in which he was the Chief, for war crimes. Thus he betrayed the army which he served for more than 30 years. As a Green Card holder and aspiring to be a US citizen, Sarath Fonseka has divided loyalties. The opposition is so 'bankrupt' of leaders they cannot find anyone other than Gen. Fonseka who is waiting to run away to 'Greener Pastures' while at the same time wants to have a go for the Presidency, claiming that he wants to save democracy in Sri Lanka! - Asian Tribune - Sarath Fonseka’s ‘sexcapades’ and ‘witch hunting’ those juniors calling ‘spade a spade’ coming to the fore (2010.01.17) • | • By K.T. Rajasingham Colombo, 17 January (Asiantribune.com):

While the Sri Lankan soldiers were involved in a patriotic operation to free the country from the terrorist menace, the Commander in Chief was busy with his little ‘sexcapades’. Some reliable sources now come out with all his sexploitations and witch hunting. The rural Sinhalese girls who joined the armed forces with love and patriotism to free the country from the terrorist, encountered an Army Commander who was only keen on looking through their uniform, their body contours and curves. The Army Commander who was supposed to patronize these young women soldiers with paternal care and affection and encourage them to fight for the country, was forcing them, by threat and intimidation, to go to bed with him to fulfill his carnal desires. In one of our exposures earlier, "In transition: Steamy General Side up in public view -Who is this Wild Vulgar Army Officer?" we wrote: Who had a paradise of women (71 all told) comprising officers and soldiers alike – Capt Lakshimi Denagama, Capt Preethi Weeraratne, Ridmike , Officer Nandani Menike, Cprl Jayasuriya etc? One woman officer even produced two offsprings by this Mr Clean – something that a DNA test could prove. Our estimate of 71 numbers begins to be wrong as we get more and more details of his successful hunting of women. He not only slept with them but also enjoyed oral sex by continuously talking to them over the phone whenever he was away in some other location. The Retired General is notorious for wife beating also. He had such saddistic pleasures. (Who is the army officer who bites the breasts of women soldiers until they bleed while they are in bed with him?) Also he had the habit of punishing Army officers who were duty bound to take disciplinary action against his paramours. He had also gone to the extent of resorting to all illegal measures to threaten them, dismiss them from army service. He also would not hesitate even those scribes who dare to expose him. Recently Capt (Retd) Upul Illangamage had exposed him and his son-in – law. Subsequently at a TV interview appeared on the 9.30 PM news on ITN on 14/1/10, General (Retd) Sarath Fonseka castigated his former subordinate and one time friend Capt (Retd) Upul Illangamage in derogatory language such as a "Pahara minihek" and "Kalaweddek". General Fonseka went on to say " Oo pitipasse paththen avilla, kanuwe dige ei danagahagena magen samawa illanna (This low individual will come the rear and along the drain on his knees to ask for my forgiveness). In Sinhala, the word "Oo" is used in a very derogatory way to refer to someone as low individual unless it is used amongst friends or associates to refer to someone known to them. It is difficult to find English words to describe the words used by the General, but it suffices to say that this type of language would not have been used by even the lowliest human being unless he or she was drunk and out of his or her mind. Whatever private grudge and anger that Gen. Fonseka might have on Mr Illangamage because of the disclosures he made about the General's son in law, to air his anger in public that to in filthy language shows how intemperate he is when he gets angry. No one would have noticed this the General was just a retired General. It is different now as this man who used such foul language is aspiring to be the President of Sri Lanka. Similarly Lt. Colonel Siri Perea of the Volunteer Force, on January 10 was interviewed by the ITN TV. Subsequently General (retired) Sarath Fonseka at the Presidential Election rally held at Pilyandale and Bandaragama – on January 11 publicly announced a warning: "Sri Perera and other officers should be ready after 26 to go to Bogampara or Welikade prisons." (Is it that Sarath Fonseka tells the Lt. Col. Sri Perera to make arrangements for his cell in one of those two prisons? ) A person vying for the top-most position in the country stoops to the lowly low level to attack beautiful rural Sinhalese patriotic women soldiers to satisfy his carnal desires and speaks lowly of those patriotic soldiers and threaten them for courageously speaking the truth. Lt. Col. Siri Perera of the Volunteer Force joined the Army in 1980 in the Gajabahu corps and later transferred to the Sri Lanka Army Ordinance Corp. According to him in 2008 he was sent on compulsory leave by the former Commander Sarath Fonseka. He was told by the Army Commander that letter has been sent to the President of Sri Lanka, recommending his retirement from the armed forces, but Sri Perera says that he has not received any intimation saying either he has been retired from the Army or not. Neither he has seen a Gazzette notification announcing his retirement . As Sri Perera is an Officer holding the rank of a Lt. Colonel, he has to be retired from the Army service only by the Commander in Chief on the recommendation of the Army Commander and his compulsory retirement has to be Gazetted. The story of Lt. Colonel Siri Perera in his own words: "I was the Commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion Women Corps in the Eastern Province - comprising of the Batticaloa, Ampara and Polonaruwa districts and the battalion Headquarters was located at Dehiaphphakandiya, Ampara district from 2001 – 2004. At that time there was an undisciplined women soldier named Private Priyangani B.H.S. I took disciplinary action against her as she had 10 charge sheets and 7 bad reports from various camps in her career. According to the military rules and regulation, as the Commanding Officer I am responsible to maintain discipline in my battalion which had 30 Lady Officers and 700 women soldiers. It was brought to my notice about her last chargesheet of the woman soldier and it was about the said Private harassing two women corporals. That is why, after inquiry I took the decision to recommend the discharge of that Private to from the volunteer force. I forwarded my recommendation through Colonel Court (Volunteer Matters) in the Welikada 23rd Division. From there it was referred to the Women’s Regimental Command and finally to the Volunteer Force Commander. At that time the Volunteer Force Commander was Major General Chandrapala and he approved the Discharge recommendation. While we were in the discharge action of that particular woman Private Soldier, she got herself absent from the regimental headquarters. Then she filed a Human Rights petition against me and Maj. Gen. Chandrapala. In that petition she included the name of Major General Sarath Fonseka , as witness, who was at that time the Deputy Chief of Staffs of the Sri Lanka Army. Before Maj. Gen. Chandrapala, Major General Sarath Fonseka was the Volunteer Force’s Commander from 09 December 2003 to 20 August 2004. The dismissal order to the Private was given on September 2004. Major General Sarath Fonseka, while being the Deputy Chief of Staff came to the Human Rights Commission in Colombo on the first day the petition was taken up for review and gave evidence against me and Maj. Gen. Chandrapala. It has to be noted at that stage there was no summons from the Human rights Commission for the appearance of the witness at its proceedings. Before Maj. Gen. Sarath Fonseka left his position as the Volunteer Force Commander, he transferred the women soldiers Privates Priyangani and Sakalasooriya (Both at that time must have been around 26 years) to Pallekelle and this act was illegal according to Army Women’s Corp rules and regulation. According to women Corps Regulation the unmarried woman soldier has to be transferred to a location where it has the accommodation facilities for the said woman soldier. (Women’s Corp Regulation No: 35) At Pallekelle the two women soldiers were boarded in a private house, and they were given vehicle and the Army ration money – which were in fact illegal. Major General Sarath Fonseka went out of the way and did that because he had immoral relationship with both the women soldiers. His sexcapade with those two soldiers were an open secret in the midst of the army soldiers. Those two women soldiers used to make telephone calls making use of 081 2422766 Pallekelle, the telephone in that house where they were boarded to contact Major General Sarath Fonseka. According to the telephone bill summary of September – October 2004, both those two Privates has contacted Sarath Fonseka to his Office, residence as well as to his mobile phone. In that particular two months period they have made 111 calls to Maj. Gen. Sarath Fonseka. I am not aware of the incoming calls that came to that particular phone from Major General Sarath Fonseka. While Maj. Gen. Sarath Fonseka was the Volunteer Forces Commander he tried to send me on compulsory leave sometime in August 2004. The Army Commander at that time General Shantha Kottagoda reverted back the recommendation. Subsequently after assuming duties as the Commander of the Army Lt. General Sarath Fonseka tried to send me on compulsory leave, but according to the verdict by the Judge Sri Pavan of Court of Appeal (Case No: 2006/98) I obtained the stay Order against the compulsory leave . In the meantime when the Lawyer retained by me went to a foreign country, the Court of Appael Judge Ranjit Silva on 09 June 2008 dismissed my case without any argument even when the State’s Counsel was not present on a technical point. I referred that matter to the Supreme Court SC/Special/ 124/ 2008. When the case came for hearing, the State Counsel brought to the notice of the Supreme Court that already HE President in his capacity as the Commander of Chief has already signed my compulsory leave order and pointed out that it is not appropriate to go ahead with the case. I wish to point out that there was no charge sheet against me; no bad report against me; no military police report against me; there was no Court of Inquiry report against me. Furthermore, it has to be pointed out that there was no bad reports from the Brigade/ Divisional / Security Forces Commander against me. Without those reports the Commander in Chief of the Army cannot take any action against me. Also without any recommendation for dismissal from the Regimental Commander of the Sri Lanka Ordinance Corp where I rightly belonged, the Army Commander cannot take any action or institute any action against me. Even in case my Regimental Commander might have recommended to take any disciplinary action against me, there has to be the recommendation from the Volunteer Forces Commander. During those period 2001 to 04 following were the Volunteer Forces Commanders: 1. Major General Susil Chandrapala; 2. Major General Nanda Mallawaratchi; 3. Major General Shyamin Kulatunge and 4. Major General Lawrence Fernando. On January 10, I was interviewed by the by the ITN TV. General (retired) Sarath Fonseka at the Presidential Election rally held at Pilyandalae and Bandaragama – on January 11 publicy anounced a warning “Siri Perera and other officers should b\e ready after 26 to go to Bogampara or Welikade prisons.” Cases filed by Army officers against Sarath Fonseka Given below are details of some more court cases filed by Army officers against the former Commander Sarath Fonseka: Though the Sri Lankan Courts delivered judgments in favour of the litigants, as Army Commander he never implemented those court rulings which amounts to the contempt of courts and even though he is no more the Army Commander today lawyers are of the opinion, charges can be leveled against him even today for contempt of court and allow the law to take its normal course: 1. Capt. Navarattne v Commander of the Army a. SC Appeal no. - 43/07; b. SC writ no. – 2402/2004 SC order delivered on 28.05.2009 per Ratnayke J (Sarath N Silva, J Shirani Thilakaweratne J) Capt. Navarattne (Sinha Regt) was summoned to Sarath Fonseka’s office. Present in his office were one Miss Rosita and her mother. Capt Navarattne alleged to have had an affair with Miss Rosita and broke off the affairs several months previously. Sarath Fonseka ordered Capt. Navarattne to marry Miss Rosita within 6 months. However, Capt. Navarattne did not marry her. Capt. Navarattne was charge sheeted and the charge was heard by Army Commander Lt. General Sarath Fonseka himself. Capt. Navarattne was convicted and awarded a forfeiture of seniority by 109 lost numbers. He was also recommended to discharge from the Army. Capt. Navarattne petitioned to the Court of Appeal and he was partially successful. Judge Sri Skantha Raja held that the decision to discharge was illegal but allowed the forfeiture of seniority to stand. Capt. Navarattne appealed to the Supreme Court. Held ( Judge Ratnayaka) Undertaking to marry Miss Rosita was given by the respondent Lt. General Sarath Fonseka. Therefore, he himself cannot file the charge. Decision with regard to the forfeiture of seniority was quashed. Note: However, the SC decision has not been acted upon so far. Capt. Navarattne is not given his official seniority or his promotion. 2. Punyadase V Commd of Army (Ca No. 867/2007)

Pay and Pension (PxP) officer was released from active service in 1991. A clearance certificate was given to him at that time. He was recalled to active service in 1995 and served for 5 years and therefore, became eligible for a pension. However he was denied on the ground that there was a deficiency of equipment entrusted to him in 1991. Supreme Court Judge Mahroof After discharging him from the service in 1991, it is not proper to raise matters that ought have been sorted prior to the first discharge in 1991 (pension granted) Note: However, despite the court decision the pension has not been granted yet. 3. Capt. Bamunu Aractchi Vs. Commander of Army ( CA No. 622/2006) Decided on 20.7.2007 Capt. Bamunu Aractchi was convicted by a Summary trial. Later Army Commander Lt. General Sarath Fonseka ordered the withdrawal of his commission. Held Shirani Thilakaweratne Commander Lt. General Sarath Fonseka has no to power to withdraw the commission without resorting to the General Court Martial. 4. Ranjith Weerasinha vs Commander of the Army (CA 2148/2005) ; (CA 2148/2005) ; Decided on 23.7.2007 ( Sri Skanda Rajah J)- do Commander of the Army has no power to withdraw commission without the court Martial. However despite clear cut instructions from the court appeal, Lt. General Sarath Fonseka, Commander of the Army continued to withdraw/ discharge officers / soldiers without court martials. a. Lt Col Huulgalla Vs. Com mander of the Army (CA 338/2008)- pending b. Maj A.J Thilak Vs. Commander of the Army (CA 566/2008)- pending c. WO. J Rajapakse Vs. Commander of the Army (CA 624/2009)- pending Warrant Officer Rajapakse, a Regimental Seargent Major Voluntary Force HQ. Scolded the former Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka’s one of the many girl friends. Warrant Officer Rajapakse was arrested by Sri Lanka Military Police, assaulted and later discharged from the army . A total 40 cases were filed against Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka during his tenure as the Commander of the Sri Lanka Army, and Asian Tribune learnt that Former Army Commander when he was in office failed to come forward to implement those courts decision in favour of those litigants – a serious breach of law and this is the man now coming forward to run the country, and anyone dares to speak against one of the many hundreds of his comfort girls, that person might face death by firing squad . List of phone numbers used by women solders

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Sarath Fonseka’s divided loyalty to US & Sri Lanka: High risk of foreign manipulation (2010.01.01) • Daya Gamage – US National Correspondent Asian Tribune Washington, DC. 01 January (Asiantribune.com):

All nations rightly guard against introducing “foreign influences” into their highest governing councils. The nations have all reasons to fear the “foreign influence” in their governance. The prohibition by constitutional law or by tradition of a person with dual-loyalty to become the executive head is a fundamental policy of all governments to exclude foreign influence from their executive councils and duties. In the January 26 presidential election Sri Lanka has faced an unusual situation in which one of the candidates is a Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) of another country. And this country in question wields broad and almost unchallenged political, military and economic influence over global affairs to the extent that it is in a strong position to effect changes especially in the internal affairs of Third World Developing Nations. If elected at the January 26 presidential poll this declared Common Opposition Candidate will bring far reaching consequences to the governance of Sri Lanka in allowing the introduction of “foreign influence” to the nation’s executive councils as he has divided loyalty to his country of birth and to the foreign nation that has granted him Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) status.

Federal laws can be used to bring influence/coercion on Fonseka that will reflect in the decisions of the Fonseka administration introducing foreign influence to the governance of Sri Lanka The Common Opposition Candidate Sarath Fonseka is a Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) of the United States holding the U.S. Government issued USCIS Form 1-551. The United States Customs & Immigration Service (USCIS) issues this document declaring an alien a Lawful Permanent Resident for all purposes and subject to Federal regulations and laws. Under the Constitution of the United States an alien who is made a LPR is barred from being elected to the position of President of the United States because the nation does not entertain a person to be its Executive President who has divided loyalty that brings foreign influence along with it. With the declared candidacy of the former army commander General Sarath Fonseka backed by the opposition’s main conservative party the United National Party and the indigenous socialist Janatha Vimukthi Peremuna (JVP) Sri Lanka is on the verge of being manipulated or influenced by a foreign power who is alarmed by the recent geo-political formation of the South and East Asian Region with increased Indian and Chinese presence as noted by the November (2009) report of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Sri Lanka. The United States has been an influential factor in Sri Lanka’s politics, economic development and to some extent her governance since 1948 Independence but never made any attempt of directly bringing its ‘influence’ into the governing council with an implicit and explicit indication for ‘regime change’ because of its disappointment with the current Rajapaksa regime acting independent of US/Western influence. Facts have emerged that the Human Rights Unit of the US Department of Homeland Security did not act alone but was well armed with the reports/investigations/analyses supplied by the South and Central Asian Affairs Bureau of the US State Department to almost coerce former army commander Sarath Fonseka for an ‘interview’ on the US soil to implicate Sri Lanka’s incumbent defense secretary for alleged human rights violations and war crimes, an agenda pushed by the pro-LTTE ‘formation’ in the U.S. which has established a close rapport with officials of the State Department such as former American ambassador Robert Blake now the head of the Bureau.

Fonseka’s rapport, dialogue and contacts with the officials of the U.S. government will have a far reaching impact in the affairs of Sri Lanka should he become the Executive President. As a Lawful Permanent Resident of the United States having his very close family residing in the U.S. State of Oklahoma the U.S. rightly possesses, under federal laws or otherwise, far reaching influence on Sarath Fonseka and his immediate family. The United States having disappointed with the current Rajapaksa administration of its non-US/West independent governing style never adopted by any previous Sri Lankan regimes except Madam Sirima Bandaranaike’s in the seventies when she accused the West as ‘rapacious’, having failed to maintain the LTTE not as a terror group but as a ‘pressure group’ preventing its total annihilation to reign over the ‘Sinhalese-dominated’ government, having opened a special dialogue with the US-based pro-LTTE lobby to alter the path taken by the Rajapaksa administration after the defeat of the Tamil Tigers, beginning to realize that the U.S. has been marginalized with India-China stepping in to facilitate the creation of a geo-political formation in the South and East Asian Region with Libya, Iran, Burma and Pakistan solidly with Sri Lanka, having failed to drag Sri Lanka to international forums that deal with war crimes, human rights violations and other atrocities as envisaged by the new LTTE formation in the U.S, and finally failed to gain the ‘interview’ from Sarath Fonseka scheduled for November 4 (2009) to implicate Sri Lankan leaders of alleged war crimes and other atrocities it made a subtle move toward achieving the ‘regime change’ through Fonseka a Lawful Permanent Resident that the United States is able to use covert and overt influence should he becomes the next Sri Lanka president on January 26. Fonseka Presidency: Vulnerable to Influence & Manipulation

Since the Executive President is a supreme policymaker of the government he heads, and the commander-in-chief who is the ultimate responsible person on vital national security matters he has immediate access to classified and top secret information. Further, the state guards trade and economic secrets with imminent political decisions the Executive President would not let foreign agents to know or discover. Divided loyalty of the person who holds that coveted position is a security concern because it can lead to the voluntary and deliberate compromise of information one is obligated to protect. Sarath Fonseka candidacy has posed Sri Lanka this serious and unusual situation. All types of foreign contacts present some risk of foreign manipulation or influence. Friends, immediate family members, extended family members, and business and professional contacts all provide a potential avenue for a foreign intelligence service or other intelligence collector to contact, assess, develop, and attempt to obtain classified information or other protected information. The foreign intelligence or security service can make a relative or friend's life better or worse and is more likely to be successful with the carrot than the stick. The opposition presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka fits into the above description for many reasons: (1) He is a Lawful Permanent Resident of the United States subject to U.S. federal laws (2) Federal laws can be used to bring influence/coercion on Fonseka that will reflect in the decisions of the Fonseka administration introducing foreign influence to the governance of Sri Lanka (3) The U.S. authorities are aware that Fonseka needs to maintain his status as Lawful Permanent Resident to facilitate his two daughters and the son-in-law (Foreign intelligence or security service can make a relative or friend's life better or worse and is more likely to be successful with the carrot than the stick.) (4) Fonseka’s rapport, dialogue and contacts with the officials of the U.S. government will have a far reaching impact in the affairs of Sri Lanka should he become the Executive President. Equal Preference: In the case of Sarath Fonseka because of his divided roots, born in Sri Lanka with the citizenship right and being a Lawful Permanent Resident of the United States, it goes beyond divided loyalty to an alarming level of ‘equal preference’. Many nations through their constitutions or traditions have prevented anyone who possesses equal preferences or foreign preference to become head of state. Despite her charisma and leadership brought the Congress Party to political power in India a strong lobby prevented Sonia Gandhi from becoming the prime minister of that country because of her roots to Italy. Despite Henry Kissinger became America’s powerful national security, defense and foreign policy advocate it was President Nixon who took final decisions on policy, national security and defense matters because of Kissinger’s roots to Germany. Sarath Fonseka’s possession of equal preference is an invitation of foreign influence and manipulation that Sri Lanka never experienced since her Independence. It raises the question about Fonseka’s loyalty and allegiance, and how Fonseka, should he become the president, would behave if faced with a conflict between the interests of the nation he heads as the Executive President or the country he is already a Lawful Permanent Resident ( the United States). A preference for a foreign country may cause Fonseka to make decisions that are contrary to the interests of Sri Lanka. Equal Preference and/or Foreign Preference are similar to Foreign Influence in that both deal with potential conflicting foreign interests. Foreign Preference differs from the Foreign Influence guideline in that it focuses on the legal obligations associated with foreign citizenship (in this case Fonseka’s status as Lawful Permanent Resident of the U.S.) and expressions of foreign preference or equal preference, as distinct from circumstances that indicate potential vulnerability to foreign influence. Sri Lanka, a sovereign and independent nation, is currently in a cross road. A formidable candidate for the president of the nation at the January 26 election, former army commander Sarath Fonseka, is currently has roots in a country which is in a position to manipulate and influence the destiny of Sri Lanka. The deep roots Fonseka has developed is through his status as the Lawful Permanent Resident of the United States which can hold the destiny of this South Asian nation on the palm Super Power bringing foreign influence and manipulations to the highest echelons of political power, the Executive Presidency. It is this threat that Sri Lanka is facing with the candidacy of Sarath Fonseka who has divided loyalty, a serious threat to the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Sri Lanka. <ref> www.Asian Tribune.com •