Sri Lanka gets UK assistance for serious fraud investigations

Things get “curioser and curioser” what with dear old
blighty making old “Ceylon” “the first country in the world that received a
tailored package of training from a senior investigator of UK Serious Fraud
Office”.

Spot on of course since the old lady left the island in the
lurch with no more than a few civilized servants in charge and a large crowd
that could see no better objective than to go back to an imagined golden past
of problem free plenty when supposedly superior “indigenous civilizations”
reigned supreme. The outcome was seen in “Mahinda Chinthana” and its attempt to
generate and establish a feudal aristocracy along with a feudal dynasty. The
nett outcome has been the borrowing of large amounts from China and the removal
of these funds by the “looting” of the islands treasury under cover of the
reign of terror that constituted this resurgent attempt at feudal rule. Though
many knew that something was amiss not many could see the unfolding pattern.

So the question is whether dear old blighty having seized
the strategic initiative intends to expose the robbery and punish the
criminals. This seems unlikely since the monkeys of the monkey kingdom continue
by virtue of paragraph 35 of its constitution to place their president above
the law not just in his official capacity but in his personal capacity as well
so that our late attempted king can in no way be held guilty for looting the
treasury or ordering the disappearances, torturing, rapes, and murders that
went on a decade. It seems more likely that the old dame being who she is will
use the ongoing investigations to deftly balance the internal political
pressures and inherent tendency to loot the kitty with tantalizing exposes of
incremental incriminating evidence that provides the hoi polloi with a darkening
“bad king” with his gang of thieves against the good green can be polarized.
This will be carefully kept warm on the burner in case there is need to light
fireworks in order to keep the creeping southern sinophile empire and the
spreading north eastern indophile one from encroaching on the interests of the
new empire firmly established in
the western megapolis and central massif of the island.

Overall it looks as though the 70 year trip on the alleged
wonders of Sinhala and Tamil civilization has at last come to an end and we can
now accept that there is such a thing as a set of core values and identifiable
process that characterizes the “global civilization of the species Homo sapiens’
and we can tone down the shouting and slowly and gently fall in line without
having to waste our time in futile attempts to invent – or dredge up from the distant
past – a wheel that is allegedly superior to the wheel that has long since been
invented. So its going to be Haiti – er, er ,er…I meant high tea, again what?

I wonder whether the bobbies remembered to teach our policeman due process so that – under normal operating conditions – they present their evidence to the relevant judicial authorities and obtain a warrant before making an arrest.

Most importantly I hope they taught our boys in khaki that torture is not on. If not for the use of torture we may have been spared the “cyanide cult”. If we did not have the “cyanide cult” then we would instead have had a “democratic revolution” that would have brought up underlying issues for resolution.

So we can say in a loose but not irrelevant way…that “the banning of torture may prevent the emergence of terrorism”.