This is my first letter to you. How are you? I am sad and angry the way how you redicule the country’s supreme law, the 1978 constituition. You had ignored the 17th amendment to the constitution and sabotaged the independent commissions.

Today media has reported a principal  in a leading school in Nugegoda was nabbed by the officers of the Bribery Commission when solicit Rs 15000 for admission of year one student. In our society taking bribes is spreading to the almost all sections of the society. You are well known about the story behind the Mig Deal and  the COPE report.

On 19th February you had transfered the Director General of the Bribery Commission Mr. Piyasena Ranasinghe. This was a fatal blow to the survival of independent commissions and a clear violation of the constituition.

It is very shameful how you and your regime violate the constituition. You think that you are above the law. So it is time to change this. It lies on the voice of the people who lebelled as voiceless in this country.

Thank you,

A Sinhala Buddhist daughter.

Fatima Bhutto the granddaughter of the late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is a writer. There was an exclusive interview with her by Ziya Us Salam has published in the Daily Mirror on the 11th February 2008.

She said if we have to foster democracy violence has to be stopped. Politics in many places is like family business. Power does not change hands in my country. For instancy I have been told in Pakistan 20 political families monopolise politics 20 families monopolise the economy.

Her saying has remembered the regime of our country. Our politics monopolise by a family and it is worse than Pakistan. In Pakistan there are 20 people ,in our country only a family from the South.

In Sri Lanka violence has spreaded to almost all parts of the country. The violence has taken place in the universities. The MP Mr. Sripathy Sooriyaarachchi was dead. It has raised doubts whether the accident was man made or not. In some schools teachers are tortureing their beloved students. The most recent incident has reported from Melpitiya MV in Matale. A 13 year old student Dannanjaya Thishana Herath a grade nine student is alleged to have been brutally assaulted by a teacher was admitted to the Matale hospital on Saturday.

Fatima said so what is the way out? Spread power make those in power accontable. And I am a great believer in people. They have to build bridges. Governments will do what they do. As citizens of India and Pakistan we are like twins. We are like siblings. People want buses, trains ,peace. It does not pay to wonder what would have been the condition of the subcontinent if there were no Partition. I would say there would have been no Faiz without Pakistan.

This has remembered what our president said in an interview with the India today.” I want Prabhakaran ! alive”

“Today sixty years after self government we still are a deprived and divided people. While there is no such thing as a perfect nation, our performance continues to be traumatic and tragic. Our growth and progress as an independent people has been violated by confrontational party politics , greed and lack of vision and planning of the political leader ship of the country and an indifferent civil society. There has yet to be an apology from our successive layers of political leaders for depriving our people of a legitimate secure and integrated quality of life”by The Rt.Revd .Duleep De Chickera , Anglican Bishop Of Colombo.( Daily Mirror”justice”2007/02/02)

” In the meantime we call on both sides of the conflict to abide by obligations under international humanitarian law and protect all those not involved in hostilities. It is unfortunate and tragic that after having gained National Independence without shedding a drop of blood sixty years ago we have not yet found a way to make the February 4 celebration of our independence more meaningful and acceptable to all Sri Lankans. The people of Sri Lanka deserve to live and travel in peace and deserve more than the sorrow and frustration of more bodies and the shifting of blame with no end to violence in sight”. by National Peace Council(Daily Mirror 2008/02/02)