So, why would the President of Sri Lanka fear a coup? Did he believe that the Tamil's who are treated like indentured servants by the majority Sinhalese. One might think of Jim Crow Laws or how the Turks have treated their Kurdish minority with laws that prohibited the broadcast or use of their native language along with dehumanizing Tamil culture and society. Totally defeated the government of Sri Lanka continues to keep several hundred thousand Tamils in dentition camps because they live in fear of a group of people long denied any form of human or civil rights. But the Tamil's are not the group the president warily eyes as potential rivals to his hold on power. Its the Sri Lankan army.
President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka was so afraid of a military coup after the defeat of the Tamil Tigers that he warned India to place its troops on high alert as recently as last month, according to the former head of the Sri Lankan Army. General Sarath Fonseka, who led the victorious campaign against the Tigers only to be sidelined two months later, made the allegation in a bitter resignation letter, seen by The Times yesterday.
General Fonseka, who was switched to the largely ceremonial role of Chief of Defence Staff in July, said the Government alerted India on October 15 that a coup was imminent, “unnecessarily placing Indian troops on high alert”.
7 months after the defeat of the Tamil Tigers the President of Sri Lanka worries not about those most in need with the civil wars conclusion and what can be done to integrate them back into a life without the constant fear of displacement or death no President Rajapaksa is concerned with his ability continue as the President of Sri Lanka.
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