You Ask – We Answer

Some interested parties have launched a vilification program against the People's Fonseka2010 Campaign. To counter this we will give answers to some popular questions.


Are you supporting UNP, JVP or any opposition?

We are supporting Gen. Fonseka to become president as people's candidate. We know JVP and SU also support Gen. Fonseka. But we don't support any opposition. Even some UPFA members and MPs support Gen Fonseka because he is the best person to lead this country.


Are you trying to split UPFA vote so Ranil can become president?

Ranil has only about 10% support in Sri Lanka. If we split 90% by half that is 45% each. There is no way for Ranil to become president ever.


Are you trying to split patriots?

We believe all patriots would support Gen. Fonseka. In fact, millions of people who love this country want to end corruption and family rule. We are all gathering behind Gen. Fonseka as Sri Lankans. We are Sri Lankan first. Party loyalty, language loyalty and religion loyalty are all second.


Are you working for LTTE?

Terrorists like to see this country under developed. They want us to be dependent on Western GSP and aid forever so they can bully us. We want Gen. Fonseka as president to end corruption and develop country. There is only LTTE in the diaspora now. We are their nightmare.


Mahinda Rajpaksa is a good president, so why Gen. Fonseka?

President Rajapaksa has done one good thing for the country. That is giving freedom to Gen. Fonseka to defeat terrorism. Everything else he did like Mihin are all failures. Also, we have 110 Ministers who are not needed in a small country like ours. Then we have Mervyn the vermin who didn't get a single vote from a Sri Lankan. We have family rule and also corruption. Gen. Fonseka said victory in military campaign was due to ending corruption and bad promotions in army. We think he will do same for country.


Will Gen. Fonseka as president be exposed to terrorist attacks?

President Rajapaksa has been well protected by army. Same will be true for President Fonseka. Unless President Rajapaksa has some special deal with the terrorists.


Gen. Fonseka is a national hero, he should stay away from nasty world of politics?

We want best person to lead our country. If we Sri Lankans keep saying someone has to be a crook to be leader of this country then how can we ever develop? How can we end corruption and family rule? We trust Gen. Fonseka is a good Sri Lankan. He will not fall victim to any desires like money.


How is Gen. Fonseka qualified to be President?

Being army commander is not about firing a gun. Gen. Fonseka's leadership changed the army. He ended corruption, he promoted officers by merit and he led by example. We believe Gen. Fonseka would do that same for the country.


If you have more questions please ask in comments section. Thank You.

State television bans songs featuring Gen Fonseka

We, “People's Fonseka2010” are distressed to note that powerful persons have ordered state owned Rupavahini and ITN television channels have been forbidden from broadcasting patriotic songs featuring General Sarath Fonseka.

Over the past two months, there have been no songs showing the Great General. Instead politicians and retired colonels are showed in loops.

We took measures to find out about the hidden agenda.

Several employees of both stations have told us, on condition of anonymity, that “higher” officials have ordered them to stop broadcasting clips showing General Fonseka.

Even interviews with the great General have been forbidden.

Song by Chandrika Siriwardena have also been banned, because they often praise General Fonseka's character.

It is understood that political elements are seeking to character assassinate the General in order to reduce his popularity.

General Fonseka for Nobel Prize

Patriots,

Nobel Peace Prize is the world's most prestigious prize awarded for the 'preservation of peace'.

Every year, in the month of September the Nobel Committee sends out invitation letters to individuals qualified to nominate a person or a group for this honor.

Please join us in contacting many qualified nominators as possible and requesting them to nominate General Fonseka.

You can forward the sample nomination letter provided below as a helpful template to the nominators and encourage them to submit the nomination with a letter along these lines.

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Dear Nobel Peace Prize Committee Members,

I would like to nominate General Sarath Fonseka for the next Nobel Peace Prize.

General Sarath has been the architect of the wonderful peace that has dawned upon this ancient land, after thirty terrible years of unremitting war; a war inflicted upon the innocent people of Sri Lanka by the most ruthless and cruel terrorist movement the world has ever seen. What this noble man has accomplished is nothing less than ensuring the safety and welfare, freedom and progress, of all men, women and children of Sri Lanka who have an inalienable right to live in peace and security. Here I speak particularly of the myriad homes where wage-earners strive amid the vicissitudes of human existence to protect spouse and child from harm, provide for their daily needs, and raise a family in the time-honored traditions of great religions and ethical standards that reflect their unique and proud heritage. To give security to these countless homes, they must be shielded from the two giant marauders: terrorism and war. We all know the frightful disturbances in which the ordinary family is plunged when the curse of war swoops down upon the bread-winner and those he struggles to protect and preserve.

The awful ruin of Northern Sri Lanka, with all its vanished glories, and of large parts of Eastern Sri Lanka is daunting to the soul of the most stoic of us. When the designs of wicked men, or the aggressive urge of ruthless terrorist groups, dissolve the fabric of civilized society over large areas, humble folk are confronted with difficulties they cannot fathom, or cope with. For them, all is distorted, all is broken, all ground to pulp. When I stand here at this time of blessed peace, at the end of this terrible war, I shudder at the awful memory of what actually transpired in this hauntingly beautiful resplendent land to millions of its innocent law-abiding citizens. Terrorized each and everyday for past thirty years by these cruel terrorists, their voices silenced at the barrel of a gun, their under-age children conscripted for battle or as human-bombs, all protest stilled by rope, barbed wire, gun, and bomb, their property confiscated, and expelled from their homes to seek refuge among strangers, often in foreign lands as refugees. The magnitude of the pain, horror and mayhem they inflicted in these thirty years upon the innocent people of Sri Lanka is beyond human comprehension.

Ending this anarchy and restoring the inalienable right to life and liberty to all people under the rule of just and fair law, was the supreme task and duty undertaken by these three brave champions of peace. Past leaders of Sri Lanka, though well meaning, did not take their duty to protect and serve the people of Sri Lanka seriously enough to risk paying the price of securing it. In placing political expediency above the lives and welfare of all of their people, and heeding the flawed advice of global naysayers with agendas not fully aligned with the interests of the people of Lanka, they allowed a terrorist movement to grow and usurp without consent the traditional liberties of the people. What distingushes these three leaders from those who preceded them, was their compassionate conviction that the lives and safety of their citizens matters more than any other consideration, particularly the interests of any ruling elite. To them what was at stake was not the survival of the leaders, but the survival of the common people.

Following in the footsteps of that most compassionate of men, President Abraham Lincoln, vilified in his own time for pursuing the US Civil war with utmost vigor to bring it to a successful close in four short years, General Sarath Fonseka launched a Humanitarian Operation with equal determination to liberate the enslaved people of North and East, and deliver all people of Sri Lanka from clutches of terrorism. He was dedicated to eradicating by leaf, branch, trunk and root every vestige of the violence and arbitrary exercise of power that the terrorists had unleashed, to reunifying the nation, and to restoring to all its people the protection of the fair and just laws of our democratic form of government. His humanitarian compassion for the plight of their people rescued Sri Lanka from descending into the lawless abyss that grips Somalia today.

In undertaking this sacred duty to his nation, his people, the cause of justice for all, and to humanity itself, they confronted many obstacles: humanitarian, political, military, economic, and assassination by the terrorists, on any day, at any time. He confronted the political machinations of a global terrorist and criminal network become wealthy enough through criminal activities to purchase the support of news media and of politicians in foreign governments, to hire batteries of lawyers to bring our great leader to court under various spurious charges, and browbeat him into foregoing the duty entrusted to him by his hapless people. He confronted an international phalanx of political scientists and military experts making pontifical pronouncements that terrorism cannot be defeated except through compromise that would abdicate the very rights and liberties we treasure as a free people, under the threat of continued terrorist violence. This great leader, driven by his compassion for his people, understanding deeply the facts on the ground and the false allegations at work internationally against him, girded their loins to confront these obstacles head-on, in all of their manifestations, thus saving lives and avoiding extending the debilitating conflict further. Today, as a result of his yeoman efforts, Sri Lanka stands poised on the threshold of a glorious future for all of its people, irrespective of community.

The tireless work of General Fonseka to forge this victory not only benefited all Sri Lankan people, but it benefited all peace- and freedom-loving people and nations the world over, by laying to rest the flawed notion that democracies cannot successfully confront and defeat militant terrorism in their midst, militarily if necessary. Had the terrorists succeeded in their attempt to avoid defeat in Sri Lanka, it would have driven another nail in the collective coffin of democracies the world over; democracies fighting existential struggles against terrorists who exploit the very liberties afforded by the democratic form of government to undermine and demoralize them through false international propaganda and devious artifice, based not in reality, but in internationally broadcast falsehoods, false premises and insidious blackmail.

Furthermore, in adopting a humanitarian approach to the conflict, General Fonseka showed the world that it is possible to fight and defeat terrorist movements in a compassionate way, that preserves and protects the lives of all non-combatants, while dealing firmly with the transgressors. In no other country in the world, in recent memory, has a government fed and provided all necessities for its citizens living in areas occupied by the enemy for three long decades, disregarding the use of those supplies by the enemy. In no other country has a government fighting a diabolically ferocious enemy, curtailed and limited its military operations, and the use of more effective offensive weapons, to save civilian lives, and successfully rescued hundreds of thousands of civilians held as human shields, and kindly cared for them after rescue.

In the final analysis, General Fonseka bestowed a real, tangible peace upon the twenty two million people of Sri Lanka, allowing them to again reach for the glorious future that beckoned them at the dawn of independence in 1948. Sovereign Sri Lanka that shone as a model for emerging nations before this unhappy war, can now resume its march towards that national goal ... thanks to the vision, compassion and courage of General Fonseka. I therefore urge you, the Members of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, to recognize the humanitarian contributions of General Fonseka to the welfare of all people of Sri Lanka in delivering to them a durable peace, and in rekindling hope in the hearts of people all over the world that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall long endure, by selecting General Sarath Fonseka of Sri Lanka for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize.


Thank you.


Sincerely,


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This is how I managed the war -Gen. Fonseka

The Sri Lanka Army’s strategy of acting like guerrilla organisation, the restructuring of the Army, ending corruption, increasing its strength, firepower and a direct chain of command that went from the top to grass root levels, forced the end of terrorism in the country.

Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Sarath Fonseka, in his first public appearance nearly three months after the elimination of terrorism in the country, made these comments at ‘Counter Point,’ organised by the PIM Alumni on Friday.

Speaking on ‘Winning Military Strategies – Lessons for Managers,’ General Fonseka said that when he took over the Army, the LTTE was acting almost like a conventional army and was considered to be unstoppable. Like a conventional army, they had to protect land, equipment and armaments.

“From our side, we changed our tactics and strategies. We started act ing like guerrillas, making incursions into their territories in small groups and carrying out daring attacks when the LTTE challenged us in the jungles,” General Fonseka said.

General Fonseka was speaking on how he prepared the Army to fight the Elam War Four. He said that when he was appointed Commander of the Army on 6th December 2005, the organisation was in need of lot of changes, including enhanced manpower, excellent training and better equipment.

“Thiry years of war had caused a lot of frustration to the people, who had lost their faith in the Army and their confidence that the violence could ever be contained. The war was started in August 2006 in Jaffna.

“My first task was to prepare the Army for battle. For that, I restructured the entire Army deviating from traditional methods. I appointed new people, new faces of my choice to the battlefront, people untainted with corruption, people capable of carrying their duties effectively.

“I dramatically increased the manpower of the Army with recruitment.

“My strategy also included the procurement of arms and ammunition, battle tanks, armoured carriers, the best equipment could buy. I also changed the strategy of the battle from conventional tactics to guerrilla tactics. For that, I needed excellent commanders and improved firepower.

“We started operating in small groups and actively operated in the jungles. Earlier, it was the LTTE who operated in the jungles. When we moved into the jungles, they avoided meeting us at all costs,” he said.

The General said that during the war, the Army’s main strategy was to confront the LTTE’s strongest positions.

“During the Jayasikuru operation launched to liberate Wanni, I observed through experience that when we attacked the LTTE’s most formidable strongholds, they became very weak. With that in mind, we commenced our assault from the A9 road, the Maddu road, Mannar and the Mulativu jungles.

“Sometimes it took us four to five days just to take control of one or two kilometres. But the results were good for us. We minimised our casualties and increased the losses of the enemy.

“At the end of 2007, we were operating 35 battalions on all fronts and the LTTE had to react to our plan. We were engaging them every day, 24 hours a day, weeks and months on end. We maintained our assault in all conditions. In pouring rain and floods, in the hot sun and drought, we kept the momentum going until we achieved victory,” General Fonseka said

Restructuring the Army made it necessary to stamp out corruption at all levels, corruption which was rampant from the lowest to the highest ranks.

“Because of corruption at every level, we were not doing what we were asked to do. I made it clear that not five cents will be spent by the Army without proper accounting. To that end, I implemented strict rules and standards.
I sat on Tender Boards and was personally monitoring every detail. This was not a function of the Commander of the Army, but I personally went through every detail to ensure that the blight of corruption was eradicated from the Army.

General Fonseka also said that in the past, there was a tradition that when an officer is caught making money illegally, he would not suffer any punishment, his service and seniority would not be affected, and his next promotion assured, as long as he paid back the stolen money in full. “I ended this tradition. The guilty received appropriate punishment.”

Speaking on new recruitments and promotions in the organisation, the General said that he deviated from traditional methods of awarding promotions and selected all commanders on merit and performance, and not on seniority.

“We recruited and trained 3,000 to 5,000 men per month. We also promoted 1,500 soldiers from the ranks of corporals and sergeants to lieutenants. We achieved excellent results through these methods, as we made the best use of those with strong battle experience. My new methods of recruitment and merit-based promotions gave me the manpower to win the war, ‘ he daid

I also implemented a direct chain of command which goes down to grass root levels in the Army. There were many instances when I had to remove commanders from their jobs and appoint replacements. We had to have the correct men in place when the going got tough. And there was huge resistance from the enemy every day.

At one point, we suffered many casualties and 130 troops died in a single day. Whenever there was a victory, I used to share that with my officers and when there was rise in casualties figures I took the blame to my self without passing to anyone. In that sense I my self was under pressure all the times but kept the momentum going” General Fonseka said

Speaking on Army intelligence and its performance the General Fonseka said that inteligence was back word in the past.

“I removed almost all the officers attached to it. I found that most of them has been serving that unit more that 15 to 20 years and filled with new young faces. They were brand new set of people committed, sincerely did their part, a very good job. If you take most of the Air Force targets, Navy ships targets are taken on Army intelligence unit.

Speaking on the support given by the other forces General said that Air Force, Navy and Police did splendid service with Army to gain the victory in war. The coordinated efforts and close monitoring of the battle changing of the tactics became as a daily routine.

“End of the day we had difficult time patience endurance demonstrating good results in eliminating terrorism from the country which one point considered unimaginable concluded General Sarath Fonseka.

At the conclusion of General Fonseka’s remarks the audience at the ceremony gave him standing ovation.

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Emails are not from me – General Fonseka

General Sarath Fonseka has denied that emails published by popular websites had originated from him.

On Saturday President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brothers had called the General to the Sinha Regiment Headquarters in Ambepussa to inquire about the emails.

Sources say that the family ran administration was jittery about the prospects of the popular General entering the presidential race.

However, General Fonseka had reassured the brothers that the emails had not originated from him.

The General had also said that he has not yet decided to compete in the presidential elections.

Though the emails might have been 'fakes', “People's Fonseka2010” campaign will continue to strive to make General Fonseka the President of Sri Lanka in 2010, for the sake of our future generations.

Gen. Fonseka takes new initiative on counselling

General Sarath Fonseka has ordered the National Cadet Corps (NCC) to launch a basic guiding and counselling programme 'Wiru Saviya', for troops and Police personnel.

The guiding and counselling programme was initiated on 21st..

Major General Gamini Jayasundara RWP, RSP, who was appointed as Director of NCC, was optimistic that the programme would provide officer under trainees (OUTs) with necessary competency in dealing with related issues in and off the field.

According to NCC sources, the 1st Batch of OUTs consisting of 10 Army officers, 6 Naval officers, 8 Air-force officers, 7 Policemen are scheduled to undergo a one month residence training on counseling guidance at the training institute.

Land redistribution is essential – Fonseka2010

We, “People's Fonseka2010” campaign team, believe that the government should take a serious look at land redistribution to better promote equality in the country.

From the 50s onwards there were many land redistribution schemes designed to give native land to native people so that they can live in prosperity.

Many thousand families were settled in prime farmland and around coastal areas to make living from farming a fishing.

The assent of terrorism, however, put an end to all the efforts to give land and livelihood to people in poverty.

Now that terrorism has been defeated, it is the responsibility of the government re-start land redistribution programmes.

The Wanni should be first. There are only 300, 000 Tamil speaking Sri Lankans who will return to the region. As we know, they can all live in a single town. Perhaps even in Kilinochiya.

That leaves many hundred square kilo meters of land to waste when there are many landless families in the South.

We believe that by electing General Sarath Fonseka to be president we can help redistribute land to poor families, especially those of valiant soldiers who gave their lives to the unity and integrity of the motherland.