Sri Lanka – Ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Pending Resignation
Padmini Arhant
Sri Lankan political scene resulting in the ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa en route to Saudi Arabia on Saudi Air via Singapore from Maldives is an interesting development.
The regime change routine orchestrated by United States and allies anywhere is commonly accompanied by immediate replacement of ruling power albeit indicative of the external sources preference.
There are several examples in the past and recent events.
When Thailand’s then democratically elected first female Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatrs (2011-2014) was aggressively removed from power on May 7, 2014, Thailand’s military junta were installed in power by United States and domestic collusion.
Similarly in Ukraine, on February 22, 2014 then democratically elected government of former President Viktor Yanukovych was violently overthrown from office at gun point in the United States and EU launched insurrection in Kiev’s maidan square leading to present status quo.
Following the undemocratic western intervention, the western powers appointed the Neo-Nazi government in Ukraine that led to polarization and sedition in the otherwise peaceful Ukraine and subsequent loss of Crimea to Russia in 2014.
Earlier in 2011, Africa’s vast country Sudan was bifurcated into Sudan and South Sudan. The latter then experienced civil war in 2012 exacerbating refugee crisis in that newly established country in 2012.
Lately in Pakistan, the government headed by former Prime Minister Imran Khan of PTI political party was swiftly unseated from power in the no confidence motion on 10 April, 2022.
United States’ role in this instance was elaborated by former PM Imran Khan in the local and foreign press interviews and western media.
Nonetheless, the successor to PM Imran Khan’s government represented by Pakistan’s multi-party coalition under PM Shehbaz Sharif assumed office wasting no time.
The western media (BBC) heavily criticized branding the current PM Shehbaz Sharif’s brother former PM Nawaz Sharif and daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif as criminals citing serious corruption scandals, the prominent one being the Panama Gate that caused then PM Nawaz Sharif to leave office.
The western criticism on corruption is contradictory to western action reflected in many incidents before and now in Pakistan’s latest political event.
Above all, Pakistan’s self-exiled political members from the former President and General Pervez Musharraf deposed in 2008 to ex-PM Nawaz Sharif implicated in Panama Gate sought refuge in London holding press conference, giving interviews and now former PM Nawaz Sharif is referenced in remotely running the government in Pakistan from London.
The above mentioned political dynamics with United States and western allies instrumental in seismic turbulence and turmoil expedited instant next-in-line to take over government in the respective domains.
Juxtaposed, Sri Lankan political evolution remaining anyone’s guess especially with no official and formal resignation from the embattled Gotabaya Rajapaksa regime is intriguing for the frustrated and betrayed Sri Lankan population deserving relief from the ongoing political and economic crisis.
Padmini Arhant
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