Thursday, April 3, 2008

Smashing pots and pans: CIA-inspired

It seems that UNP National Organizer S.B. Dissanayake has borrowed a leaf from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency which helped to stage the rightwing military coup that overthrew Salvador Allende's government in Chile. With the ousting of the popularly elected Allende the way was open for the notorious General Augusto Pinochet to seize power.

The CIA paved the path to his military dictatorship by instigating Chilean housewives to demonstrate on streets with pots and pans and beat them to protest against the rising cost of living in Chile under Allende's Government in 1973. S.B. Dissanayake has modified this a bit by planning to smash pots and pans instead of beating them.

Once a government is elected under a democracy, the normal procedure is to allow it to run its normal course. But Ranil, S.B. and company have no such patience. From day one since Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected President they have been wracking their brains on ways and means to topple his regime.

Read more,
http://www.srilankawatch.com/index.php?

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