Sri Lanka is currently facing its most difficult period since Independence but Sri Lankans are not that unfortunate because after 74 years, they have a President with a strong backbone who sees the reality and speaks the bitter truth in public, without expecting cheap votes, a Public Security Minister who sees the reality and admits it in public without any fear. Strengthening the situation, Sri Lanka has a State Minister of Higher Education who completes this dynamic trio which will definitely save Sri Lanka’s future generation. 
A former Education Minister is also out there strengthening the team of three by reminding the people of the past, especially, about the dark history of the trade unions and trade unionists in the education field.
No room for sabotage
We are talking about the education, higher education and future of this country today. The protesters will not like this but the poor ordinary people who do not have money to educate their children abroad or in private universities will like it and stand by this team of four led by the President. People will stand by this team of four because they do not want their innocent poor children to die at the hands of beasts in State Universities and they want their precious children to come out alive after graduation. The other factor is that the innocent daily wage earners do not want to be forced to stay at home due to various ‘situations’ created by protesters. This is why they stand by the President and the Government.
Let us start with the speech delivered by the President in Parliament recently. During the speech he very clearly stated that individuals in yellow robes will not be allowed to turn the country into a hell and university education should end in four or five years for all undergraduates and not in eight or ten years. The meaning is undergraduates should pass out within their respective official study course period. To do this they have to study hard without ‘going shopping’ for a specific small political party.
Meanwhile Public Security Minister Tiran Alles stated that terrorists that were among protesters have been accurately identified. He admitted the bitter truth seen by the entire country for the last eight months. So far no one admitted it fearing for their lives. No one had the backbone to admit it after witnessing the murder of MP Amarakeerthi Athukorala in broad daylight and the burning of the private properties of MPs. Now the time has come to re-capture “terrorist” held areas located within State Universities and deploy our heroic Armed Forces to save those who are selected to State Universities. There should not be ‘no man’s lands’ or ‘Area 51’s’ inside the State Universities.
One of the former Education Ministers Akila Viraj Kariyawasam reminded the entire country how the present Teachers’ Trade Unionists opposed when he tried to introduce a comfortable form of attire for pregnant school teachers a few years ago and how the same trade unions and trade unionists are now trying their best to remove the Saree as the attire of school teachers. He exposed the double standards of them.
End to ragging
State Minister of Higher Education Susil Premejayantha is working hard to eradicate ragging from the State University system. He will bring a Bill soon to remove all undergraduates who overstay inside State Universities for several years, especially in hostels without completing their degrees without a valid reason. They deprive the hostel facilities that should be given to innocent poor undergraduates who are selected to enter universities from distant areas in the country. They pay money and stay in private boarding houses while second, third and fourth year undergraduates stay in hostels for eight or ten years without any problem, when their study course is just three or four years. 
The decision makers in the education field in Sri Lanka have now come up with the best formula. The country lacked a formula or solution of this nature during the past 74 years. In the past all politicians who held posts in higher education field were only aiming at the next election and never worked to uplift higher education. They did not communicate with other relevant Cabinet Ministers and the Presidents. Therefore, they just gave temporary and extremely weak solutions for ragging which were not practical at all. None of the former Presidents ever treated ragging and brainwashing as a major issue.
It is natural for Sri Lankans to see the faults of politicians without seeing the faults of themselves because they elect politicians and were trained to point the finger at others during the past 74 years. This is why we Sri Lankans stand here today at a very critical juncture. We never see our own faults and we are not ready to follow the rules and regulations. We do not have any discipline at all.
This evil training was mainly done by the small political party which has only three percent of representation. Now the task has been taken over by its sister political party which broke off from it a few years ago. They do not have any representation at all, not even 0.01 percent. But now at least some people have started to see the faults of themselves who are the key players of this existing system.
Power at any cost
Those two small political parties, especially the tiny one without any representation at all, are behind the destruction of the country’s higher education system. In addition, they destroy the country’s image from time to time. Their main objective is capturing power by themselves using ordinary people as a tool because they cannot ever come to power through elections. They are determined not to let Sri Lanka stand up under any President or any Government until they achieve their evil target. First, they killed people, then burnt State properties and are now doing everything possible to achieve their evil target.
It was a sunny morning in March 1993. I was standing near a fully closed building inside the Sri Jayawardenepura University as a fresher. I was taken away and ordered to stand there for a few hours by some raggers because I was not well. I was forced to stand with great difficulty on top of a small short wall which was less than a metre in height. I was slightly able to see the inside of the building through reflection of the windows. There were over 75 young Buddhist monks and they were half naked. They were freshers. What I saw cannot be described in this State owned National daily English newspaper as a female journalist.
Since that day, I was determined to use my pen as much as possible to save the Sri Lankan people from this evil breed of ‘creatures’ who pose as ‘liberators’, ‘rebels’, ‘young generation’, etc. from time to time. Since last March they have called themselves ‘protesters’. They can fool some people but not those who came out alive from State Universities after undergoing inhuman ragging. Only a handful of Sri Lankans who were born before 1962 or so or who had not been brainwashed inside State Universities know the real face of them.
By now the entire country knows very well that they are behind every single strike launched by any public servants belonging to any State institution. By now the entire country knows very well that they are behind every time a public road is being blocked. By now almost all Sri Lankans know they were behind the ‘dollar shortage’ of this country. They are behind every act of evil which pushes the country backwards. They even ‘organise’ various shortages and other problems inside State institutions through their trade unionists.
The time has come. Now or never. Sri Lanka has been suffering at the hands of these evil creatures since 1971 from time to time. Now it is 2022. A total of five decades (52 years) passed without a permanent solution. Hopefully, Sri Lankans can have a better country without these ugly acts in another year or two when the Government takes required actions. This time, higher education will be saved for the first and the last time from these two evil political parties.
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