{"id":6796,"date":"2020-10-31T19:22:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T13:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankadawasa.com\/?p=6796"},"modified":"2020-10-31T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T14:18:00","slug":"adolf-hitler-vs-gotabaya-rajapaksha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankadawasa.com?p=6796","title":{"rendered":"Adolf Hitler Vs Gotabaya Rajapaksha"},"content":{"rendered":"

A comparative analysis<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany\u2019s\u00a0Nazi Party, was one of the most powerful and<\/strong>
\nnotorious dictators of the 20th century. Hitler capitalized on economic woes, popular<\/strong>
\ndiscontent and political infighting to take absolute power in Germany beginning in 1933.<\/strong>
\nGermany\u2019s invasion of Poland in 1939 led to the outbreak of\u00a0World War II, and by 1941<\/strong>
\nNazi forces had occupied much of Europe. Hitler\u2019s virulent\u00a0anti-Semitism\u00a0and obsessive<\/strong>
\npursuit of Aryan supremacy fueled the murder of some 6 million Jews, along with other<\/strong>
\nvictims of the\u00a0Holocaust. After the tide of war turned against him, Hitler committed<\/strong>
\nsuicide in a Berlin bunker in April 1945.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa<\/span>, [11] \u00a0RWP,\u00a0RSP,\u00a0 psc ,\u00a0GR\u00a0(born 20 June 1949) is a\u00a0<\/strong>
\nformer\u00a0military officer\u00a0currently serving as the 8th\u00a0President of Sri Lanka\u00a0since 2019. He<\/strong>
\nhas previously served as\u00a0Secretary\u00a0to the\u00a0Ministry of Defence and Urban<\/strong>
\nDevelopment\u00a0from 2005 to 2015 under the administration of his elder brother former<\/strong>
\nPresident\u00a0 Mahinda Rajapaksa , leading the\u00a0Sri Lankan Armed Forces\u00a0to the military<\/strong>
\ndefeat of the\u00a0Tamil tigers, which ended the\u00a0Sri Lankan Civil War.<\/strong>
\nIn 2018, he emerged as a possible candidate for the\u00a02019 presidential election,<\/strong>
\nhowever due to the bad reputation of his brother Mahinda and the misdeeds of the<\/strong>
\nRajapaksha Family he had to make a case to be elected. For this he used the support<\/strong>
\nof the Islamic Terror Group of Zaharan Hashim that had links to the ISIS. This group<\/strong>
\nwas also funded by the MOD during the time of Gotabaya in the pretext of taking them<\/strong>
\nas intelligence informers. This group executed a wave suicide attacks on the Catholic<\/strong>
\nChurches and Star Class hotels in Colombo on the Easter Sunday of 2019 that left 400<\/strong>
\ndead and many injured and created a security instability in the country which he<\/strong>
\nsuccessfully capitalized and contested on a pro-nationalistic, economic development<\/strong>
\nand national security platform. He is the first person with military background to be<\/strong>
\nelected as President of Sri Lanka and also the first person to be elected president who<\/strong>
\nhad not held an elected office prior.<\/strong>
\nIn comparison with Hitler Gotabaya too capitalized on economic woes, popular<\/strong>
\ndiscontent and political infighting to take absolute power in Sri Lanka with 6.9 Million<\/strong>
\nvoting in his favour.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Early Life<\/strong><\/span>
\nAdolf Hitler\u00a0was born on April 20, 1889, in\u00a0Braunau\u00a0am Inn, a small Austrian town near<\/strong>
\nthe Austro-German frontier. After his father, Alois, retired as a state customs official,<\/strong>
\nyoung Adolf spent most of his childhood in Linz, the capital of Upper Austria.<\/strong>
\nNot wanting to follow in his father\u2019s footsteps as a civil servant, he began struggling in<\/strong>
\nsecondary school and eventually dropped out. Alois died in 1903, and Adolf pursued his<\/strong>
\ndream of being an artist, though he was rejected from Vienna\u2019s Academy of Fine Arts.<\/strong>
\nAfter his mother, Klara, died in 1908, Hitler moved to Vienna, where he pieced together<\/strong>
\na living painting scenery and monuments and selling the images. Lonely, isolated and a<\/strong>
\nvoracious reader, Hitler became interested in politics during his years in Vienna, and<\/strong>
\ndeveloped many of the ideas that would shape Nazi ideology.<\/strong>
\nGotabaya Rajapaksa was born in Palatuwa in the\u00a0 Matara District ,\u00a0as the fifth of nine<\/strong>
\nsiblings, and was brought up in\u00a0 Weeraketiya \u00a0in the southern<\/strong>
\nrural\u00a0district\u00a0of\u00a0 Hambantota . Born to a\u00a0prominent political family\u00a0from the\u00a0Southern<\/strong>
\nProvince, Rajapaksa was educated at\u00a0 Ananda College, Colombo \u00a0and joined the\u00a0Sri<\/strong>
\nLankan Army\u00a0in April 1971. Following basic training at the\u00a0Army Training Centre,<\/strong>
\nDiyatalawa, he was commissioned as\u00a0signals officer\u00a0and later transferred to<\/strong>
\nseveral\u00a0infantry\u00a0 regiments He saw active service in the early stages of the\u00a0Sri Lankan<\/strong>
\nCivil War\u00a0with the elite\u00a0 Gajaba Regiment , taking part in several major offensives such as<\/strong>
\nthe\u00a0 Vadamarachi Operation , Operation Strike Hard and\u00a0Operation Thrividha Balaya, as<\/strong>
\nwell as\u00a0counter-insurgency operations\u00a0during the\u00a01987\u20131989 JVP insurrection.<\/strong>
\nHe took early retirement from the army and moved into the field of\u00a0information<\/strong>
\ntechnology, before immigrating to the\u00a0United States\u00a0in 1998. He returned to Sri Lanka in<\/strong>
\n2005, to assist his brother in his presidential campaign and was appointed Defence<\/strong>
\nSecretary in his brother&#39;s administration. During his tenure the Sri Lankan Armed Forces<\/strong>
\nsuccessfully concluded the Sri Lankan Civil War defeating the\u00a0Tamil Tigers\u00a0and killing<\/strong>
\nits leader\u00a0 Velupillai Prabhakaran \u00a0in 2009. He was a target of an assassination attempt in<\/strong>
\nDecember 2006 by a Tamil Tiger\u00a0suicide bomber. Following the war, Rajapaksa initiated<\/strong>
\nmany urban development projects. He stepped down following the defeat of his brother<\/strong>
\nin the\u00a02015 Presidential election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Military Career<\/strong><\/span>
\nIn 1913, Hitler moved to Munich, in the German state of Bavaria. When\u00a0World War<\/strong>
\nI\u00a0broke out the following summer, he successfully petitioned the Bavarian king to be<\/strong>
\nallowed to volunteer in a reserve infantry regiment.<\/strong>
\nDeployed in October 1914 to Belgium, Hitler served throughout the Great War and won<\/strong>
\ntwo decorations for bravery, including the rare Iron Cross First Class, which he wore to<\/strong>
\nthe end of his life.<\/strong>
\nHitler was wounded twice during the conflict: He was hit in the leg during the\u00a0Battle of<\/strong>
\nthe Somme\u00a0in 1916, and temporarily blinded by a British gas attack near Ypres in 1918.<\/strong>
\nA month later, he was recuperating in a hospital at Pasewalk, northeast of Berlin, when<\/strong>
\nnews arrived of the armistice and Germany\u2019s defeat in\u00a0World War I.<\/strong>
\nLike many Germans, Hitler came to believe the country\u2019s devastating defeat could be<\/strong>
\nattributed not to the Allies, but to insufficiently patriotic \u201ctraitors\u201d at home\u2014a myth that<\/strong>
\nwould undermine the post-war\u00a0Weimar Republic\u00a0and set the stage for Hitler\u2019s rise.<\/strong>
\nRajapaksa joined the\u00a0Sri Lankan Army\u00a0as a\u00a0Cadet Officer\u00a0on 26 April 1971, when Sri<\/strong>
\nLanka was still a\u00a0dominion\u00a0of the\u00a0British Commonwealth\u00a0and was in the midst of<\/strong>
\nthe\u00a01971 JVP insurrection. Following his basic officer training at the\u00a0Army Training<\/strong>
\nCentre, Diyatalawa\u00a0in its 4th intake, he was commissioned as a\u00a0Second Lieutenant\u00a0on<\/strong>
\n26 May 1972, in the\u00a0Sri Lanka Signals Corps.<\/strong>
\nDuring his 20 years of military service, Rajapaksa has received awards for gallantry<\/strong>
\nfrom three Presidents of Sri Lanka,\u00a0J.R. Jayewardene,\u00a0 Ranasinghe<\/strong>
\nPremadasa \u00a0and\u00a0D.B. Wijetunga. These include the gallantry medals,\u00a0 Rana Wickrama<\/strong>
\nPadakkama \u00a0and\u00a0 Rana Sura Padakkama .<\/strong>
\nGotabaya disgracefully used the Buddhist Clergy and certain politicians of his party to<\/strong>
\nmake a wave of attacks and allegations to the Muslims whilst the then government of<\/strong>
\nSirisena and Ranil remained desperate. Following Hitler\u2019s footsteps Gotabaya created a<\/strong>
\nfear among the Muslims and took their loyalty by force. This was seen when the voting<\/strong>
\nfor the 20 th Amendment was taken on the 22 nd evening in the parliament.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Political Life<\/span> ( this is important and given in detail)<\/strong>
\nAfter Hitler returned to Munich in late 1918, he joined the small German Workers\u2019 Party,<\/strong>
\nwhich aimed to unite the interests of the working class with a strong German<\/strong>
\nnationalism. His skilled oratory and charismatic energy helped propel him in the party\u2019s<\/strong>
\nranks, and in 1920 he left the army and took charge of its propaganda efforts.<\/strong>
\nIn one of Hitler\u2019s strokes of propaganda genius, the newly renamed\u00a0National Socialist<\/strong>
\nGerman Workers Party, or\u00a0Nazi Party, adopted a version of the ancient symbol of the<\/strong>
\nhakenkreuz, or hooked cross, as its emblem. Printed in a white circle on a red<\/strong>
\nbackground, Hitler\u2019s swastika would take on terrifying symbolic power in the years to<\/strong>
\ncome.<\/strong>
\nBy the end of 1921, Hitler led the growing Nazi Party, capitalizing on widespread<\/strong>
\ndiscontent with the Weimar Republic and the punishing terms of the\u00a0Versailles Treaty.<\/strong>
\nMany dissatisfied former army officers in Munich would join the Nazis, notably Ernst<\/strong>
\nR\u00f6hm, who recruited the \u201cstrong arm\u201d squads\u2014known as the Sturmabteilung<\/strong>
\n(SA)\u2014which Hitler used to protect party meetings and attack opponents.<\/strong>
\nOn the evening of November 8, 1923, members of the SA and others forced their way<\/strong>
\ninto a large beer hall where another right-wing leader was addressing the crowd.<\/strong>
\nWielding a revolver, Hitler proclaimed the beginning of a national revolution and led<\/strong>
\nmarchers to the center of Munich, where they got into a gun battle with police.<\/strong>
\nHitler fled quickly, but he and other rebel leaders were later arrested. Even though it<\/strong>
\nfailed spectacularly, the\u00a0Beer Hall Putsch\u00a0established Hitler as a national figure, and (in<\/strong>
\nthe eyes of many) a hero of right-wing nationalism.<\/strong>
\nTried for treason, Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison, but would serve only nine<\/strong>
\nmonths in the relative comfort of Landsberg Castle. During this period, he began to<\/strong>
\ndictate the book that would become &quot;Mein Kampf&quot; (\u201cMy Struggle\u201d), the first volume of<\/strong>
\nwhich was published in 1925.<\/strong>
\nIn it, Hitler expanded on the nationalistic, anti-Semitic views he had begun to develop in<\/strong>
\nVienna in his early twenties, and laid out plans for the Germany\u2014and the world\u2014he<\/strong>
\nsought to create when he came to power.<\/strong>
\nHitler would finish the second volume of &quot;Mein Kampf&quot; after his release, while relaxing<\/strong>
\nin the mountain village of Berchtesgaden. It sold modestly at first, but with Hitler\u2019s rise it<\/strong>
\nbecame Germany\u2019s best-selling book after the Bible. By 1940, it had sold some 6 million<\/strong>
\ncopies there.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Hitler\u2019s second book, \u201cThe Zweites Buch,\u201d was written in 1928 and contained his<\/strong>
\nthoughts on foreign policy. It was not published in his lifetime due to the poor initial<\/strong>
\nsales of \u201cMein Kampf.\u201d The first English translations of \u201cThe Zweites Buch\u201d did not<\/strong>
\nappear until 1962 and was published under the title \u201cHitler&#39;s Secret Book.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>
\nObsessed with race and the idea of ethnic \u201cpurity,\u201d Hitler saw a natural order that placed<\/strong>
\nthe so-called \u201cAryan race\u201d at the top.<\/strong>
\nFor him, the unity of the Volk (the German people) would find its truest<\/strong>
\nincarnation not in democratic or parliamentary government, but in one supreme<\/strong>
\nleader, or F\u00fchrer.<\/strong>
\n&quot;Mein Kampf&quot;\u00a0also addressed the need for Lebensraum (or living space): In order to<\/strong>
\nfulfill its destiny, Germany should take over lands to the east that were now occupied by<\/strong>
\n\u201cinferior\u201d Slavic peoples\u2014including Austria, the Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia), Poland<\/strong>
\nand Russia.<\/strong>
\nBy the time Hitler left prison, economic recovery had restored some popular support for<\/strong>
\nthe Weimar Republic, and support for right-wing causes like Nazism appeared to be<\/strong>
\nwaning.<\/strong>
\nOver the next few years, Hitler laid low and worked on reorganizing and reshaping the<\/strong>
\nNazi Party. He established\u00a0the\u00a0Hitler Youth\u00a0to organize youngsters, and created<\/strong>
\nthe\u00a0 Schutzstaffel (SS) \u00a0as a more reliable alternative to the SA.<\/strong>
\nMembers of the SS wore black uniforms and swore a personal oath of loyalty to Hitler.<\/strong>
\n(After 1929, under the leadership of\u00a0Heinrich Himmler, the SS would develop from a<\/strong>
\ngroup of some 200 men into a force that would dominate Germany and terrorize the rest<\/strong>
\nof occupied Europe during\u00a0World War II.)<\/strong>
\nIn 1932, Hitler ran against the war hero\u00a0Paul von Hindenburg\u00a0for president, and<\/strong>
\nreceived 36.8 percent of the vote. With the government in chaos, three successive<\/strong>
\nchancellors failed to maintain control, and in late January 1933 Hindenburg named the<\/strong>
\n43-year-old Hitler as chancellor, capping the stunning rise of an unlikely leader.<\/strong>
\nJanuary 30, 1933 marked the birth of the Third Reich, or as the Nazis called it, the<\/strong>
\n\u201cThousand-Year Reich\u201d (after Hitler\u2019s boast that it would endure for a millennium).<\/strong>
\nThough the Nazis never attained more than 37 percent of the vote at the height of their<\/strong>
\npopularity in 1932, Hitler was able to grab absolute power in Germany largely due to<\/strong>
\ndivisions and inaction among the majority who opposed Nazism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After a devastating fire at Germany\u2019s parliament building, the Reichstag, in February<\/strong>
\n1933\u2014possibly the work of a Dutch communist, though later evidence suggested Nazis<\/strong>
\nset the\u00a0Reichstag fire\u00a0themselves\u2014Hitler had an excuse to step up the political<\/strong>
\noppression and violence against his opponents.<\/strong>
\nOn March 23, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, giving full powers to Hitler<\/strong>
\nand celebrating the union of National Socialism with the old German<\/strong>
\nestablishment (i.e.,\u00a0Hindenburg).<\/strong>
\nThat July, the government passed a law stating that the Nazi Party \u201cconstitutes the only<\/strong>
\npolitical party in Germany,\u201d and within months all non-Nazi parties, trade unions and<\/strong>
\nother organizations had ceased to exist.<\/strong>
\nHis autocratic power now secure within Germany, Hitler turned his eyes toward the rest<\/strong>
\nof Europe.<\/strong>
\nHitler&#39;s Foreign Policy\u00a0<\/strong>
\nIn 1933, Germany was diplomatically isolated, with a weak military and hostile<\/strong>
\nneighbors (France and Poland). In a famous speech in May 1933, Hitler struck a<\/strong>
\nsurprisingly conciliatory tone, claiming Germany supported disarmament and peace.<\/strong>
\nBut behind this appeasement strategy, the domination and expansion of the Volk<\/strong>
\nremained Hitler\u2019s overriding aim.<\/strong>
\nBy early the following year, he had withdrawn Germany from the\u00a0League of Nations\u00a0and<\/strong>
\nbegun to militarize the nation in anticipation of his plans for territorial conquest.<\/strong>
\nNight of the Long Knives<\/strong>
\nOn June 29, 1934, the infamous\u00a0Night of the Long Knives, Hitler had R\u00f6hm, former<\/strong>
\nChancellor Kurt von Schleicher and hundreds of other problematic members of his own<\/strong>
\nparty murdered, in particular troublesome members of the SA.<\/strong>
\nWhen the 86-year-old Hindenburg died on August 2, military leaders agreed to<\/strong>
\ncombine the presidency and chancellorship into one position, meaning Hitler<\/strong>
\nwould command all the armed forces of the Reich.<\/strong>
\nPersecution of Jews<\/strong><\/p>\n

On September 15, 1935, passage of the\u00a0Nuremberg Laws\u00a0deprived Jews of German<\/strong>
\ncitizenship, and barred them from marrying or having relations with persons of \u201cGerman<\/strong>
\nor related blood.\u201d<\/strong>
\nThough the Nazis attempted to downplay its persecution of Jews in order to placate the<\/strong>
\ninternational community during the 1936 Berlin Olympics (in which German-Jewish<\/strong>
\nathletes were not allowed to compete), additional decrees over the next few years<\/strong>
\ndisenfranchised Jews and took away their political and civil rights.<\/strong>
\nIn addition to its pervasive anti-Semitism, Hitler\u2019s government also sought to establish<\/strong>
\nthe cultural dominance of Nazism by burning books, forcing newspapers out of<\/strong>
\nbusiness, using radio and movies for propaganda purposes and forcing teachers<\/strong>
\nthroughout Germany\u2019s educational system to join the party.<\/strong>
\nMuch of the Nazi persecution of Jews and other targets occurred at the hands of the<\/strong>
\nGeheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO), or Secret State Police, an arm of the SS that<\/strong>
\nexpanded during this period.<\/strong>
\nIn March 1936, against the advice of his generals, Hitler ordered German troops to<\/strong>
\nreoccupy the demilitarized left bank of the Rhine.<\/strong>
\nOver the next two years, Germany concluded alliances with Italy and Japan, annexed<\/strong>
\nAustria and moved against Czechoslovakia\u2014all essentially without resistance from<\/strong>
\nGreat Britain, France or the rest of the international community.<\/strong>
\nOnce he confirmed the alliance with Italy in the so-called\u00a0\u201cPact of Steel\u201d\u00a0in May 1939,<\/strong>
\nHitler then signed a non-aggression pact with the\u00a0Soviet Union. On September 1, 1939,<\/strong>
\nNazi troops invaded Poland, finally prompting Britain and France to declare war on<\/strong>
\nGermany.<\/strong>
\nBlitzkrieg\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAfter ordering the occupation of Norway and Denmark in April 1940, Hitler adopted a<\/strong>
\nplan proposed by one of his generals to attack France through the Ardennes Forest.<\/strong>
\nThe blitzkrieg (\u201clightning war\u201d) attack began on May 10; Holland quickly surrendered,<\/strong>
\nfollowed by Belgium.<\/strong>
\nGerman troops made it all the way to the English Channel, forcing British and French<\/strong>
\nforces to evacuate en masse from\u00a0Dunkirk\u00a0in late May. On June 22, France was forced<\/strong>
\nto sign an armistice with Germany.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hitler had hoped to force Britain to seek peace as well, but when that failed he went<\/strong>
\nahead with his attacks on that country, followed by an invasion of the Soviet Union in<\/strong>
\nJune 1941.<\/strong>
\nAfter the attack on\u00a0Pearl Harbor\u00a0that December, the United States declared war on<\/strong>
\nJapan, and Germany\u2019s alliance with Japan demanded that Hitler declare war on the<\/strong>
\nUnited States as well.<\/strong>
\nAt that point in the conflict, Hitler shifted his central strategy to focus on breaking the<\/strong>
\nalliance of his main opponents (Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union) by<\/strong>
\nforcing one of them to make peace with him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beginning in 1933, the SS had operated a network of concentration camps, including a<\/strong>
\nnotorious camp at\u00a0Dachau, near Munich, to hold Jews and other targets of the Nazi<\/strong>
\nregime.<\/strong>
\nAfter war broke out, the Nazis shifted from expelling Jews from German-controlled<\/strong>
\nterritories to exterminating them. Einsatzgruppen, or mobile death squads, executed<\/strong>
\nentire Jewish communities during the Soviet invasion, while the existing concentration-<\/strong>
\ncamp network expanded to include death camps like\u00a0Auschwitz-Birkenau in occupied<\/strong>
\nPoland.<\/strong>
\nIn addition to forced labor and mass execution, certain Jews at Auschwitz were targeted<\/strong>
\nas the subjects of horrific medical experiments carried out by eugenicist Josef Mengele,<\/strong>
\nknown as the \u201cAngel of Death.\u201d\u00a0 Mengele\u2019s experiments \u00a0focused on twins and exposed<\/strong>
\n3,000 child prisoners to disease, disfigurement and torture under the guise of medical<\/strong>
\nresearch.<\/strong>
\nThough the Nazis also imprisoned and killed Catholics, homosexuals, political<\/strong>
\ndissidents, Roma (gypsies) and the disabled, above all they targeted Jews\u2014some 6<\/strong>
\nmillion of whom were killed in German-occupied Europe by war\u2019s end.<\/strong>
\nAssassination attempts<\/strong>
\nWith defeats at\u00a0El-Alamein\u00a0and Stalingrad, as well as the landing of U.S. troops in North<\/strong>
\nAfrica by the end of 1942, the tide of the war turned against Germany.<\/strong>
\nAs the conflict continued, Hitler became increasingly unwell, isolated and\u00a0dependent on<\/strong>
\nmedications\u00a0administered by his personal physician.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Several attempts were made on his life, including one that came close to succeeding in<\/strong>
\nJuly 1944, when Col.\u00a0Claus von Stauffenberg\u00a0planted a bomb that exploded during a<\/strong>
\nconference at Hitler\u2019s headquarters in East Prussia.<\/strong>
\nWithin a few months of the successful\u00a0Allied invasion of Normandy\u00a0in June 1944, the<\/strong>
\nAllies had begun liberating cities across Europe. That December, Hitler attempted to<\/strong>
\ndirect another offensive through the Ardennes, trying to split British and American<\/strong>
\nforces.<\/strong>
\nBut after January 1945, he holed up in a bunker beneath the Chancellery in Berlin. With<\/strong>
\nSoviet forces closing in, Hitler made plans for a last-ditch resistance before finally<\/strong>
\nabandoning that plan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In order to assist his brother&#39;s presidential election campaign, Rajapaksa returned to Sri<\/strong>
\nLanka from the United States in 2005. He obtained dual citizenship from Sri Lanka but<\/strong>
\nkept his US citizenship. Gotabaya Rajapaksa was appointed to the post of\u00a0Permanent<\/strong>
\nSecretary\u00a0of the\u00a0Ministry of Defence\u00a0in November 2005 by newly elected President<\/strong>
\nMahinda Rajapaksa. In this capacity, he oversaw the military operation which eventually<\/strong>
\ndefeated the LTTE in May 2009.<\/strong>
\nWith his position, Rajapaksa also pursued projects like the Colombo Beautification<\/strong>
\nProject, which revitalised public centers and parks in\u00a0Colombo,\u00a0as well as many other<\/strong>
\ndevelopment projects focused on places such as\u00a0 Battaramulla \u00a0 Diyatha Uyana , Ape<\/strong>
\nGama Park, Wetland Park,\u00a0 Nugegoda ,\u00a0Arcade Independence Square,\u00a0 Weras Ganga<\/strong>
\nPark \u00a0and\u00a0 Defence Headquarters Complex . In 2011, the Ministry of Defense was<\/strong>
\nrenamed to the Ministry of Defense and Urban Development, having absorbed<\/strong>
\nresponsibilities related to urban development.\u00a0Results of his work were remarkable as<\/strong>
\nColombo became to the top of the list of fast developing cities in the world in 2015 by an<\/strong>
\nannual travel study by MasterCard.<\/strong>
\nAssassination attempt<\/strong><\/span>
\nOn 1 December 2006, at approximately 10:35 an assassin attempted to drive an<\/strong>
\nexplosive-laden\u00a0auto-rikshaw\u00a0into Rajapaksa&#39;s motorcade as it traveled<\/strong>
\nthrough\u00a0 Kollupitiya , Colombo. The\u00a0Sri Lanka Army Commandos\u00a0guarding him<\/strong>
\nobstructed the vehicle carrying the explosives before it reached Rajapakse&#39;s vehicle and<\/strong>
\ntwo commandos were instantly killed. Rajapaksa escaped unhurt.\u00a0The LTTE were<\/strong>
\nblamed for the attack. However there is a best kept secret that the attack was carried<\/strong>
\nout by the Colonl Karuna and the team to obtain sympathy to Gotabaya and support for<\/strong>
\nMahinda.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Karuna defection<\/strong>
\nGotabhaya is credited with using the\u00a0 Karuna faction \u00a0effectively during the war to defeat<\/strong>
\nthe LTTE. The former\u00a0LTTE\u00a0commander Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, better known<\/strong>
\nas\u00a0Colonel Karuna, told British authorities that Rajapaksa was instrumental in arranging<\/strong>
\nfor him to be issued with a false diplomatic passport so that he could flee to Britain in<\/strong>
\nSeptember 2007. These allegations were denied by the Sri Lankan Foreign<\/strong>
\nMinister\u00a0 Rohitha Bogollagama \u00a0at the time,\u00a0and later by Rajapaksa. Karuna defected<\/strong>
\nduring the time of 2002 -2004 peace talks and Ranil Wickremasinghe was responsible<\/strong>
\nfor this very important defection.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Criticism of the United Nations and western countries<\/strong>
\nGotabaya Rajapaksa during an official tour of\u00a0Brazil n June 2007, Rajapaksa was severely<\/strong>
\ncritical of the\u00a0United Nations\u00a0(UN) and of western governments. He accused the UN of having<\/strong>
\nbeen infiltrated by terrorists &quot;for 30 years or so&quot;, and as a result the UN was fed incorrect<\/strong>
\ninformation. He also alleged that Britain and the EU were bullying Sri Lanka, and concluded that<\/strong>
\nSri Lanka &quot;does not need them&quot;, and that they don&#39;t provide any significant amount of aid to the<\/strong>
\ncountry.\u00a0Ironically in 1990 his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa was caught attempting to bring<\/strong>
\nevidence of human rights violations to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and<\/strong>
\nthe evidence was confiscated by the government during which Rajapaksa justified foreign<\/strong>
\nintervention in Sri Lankan affairs. The person that demanded western nations to limit and put<\/strong>
\nconditions on foreign aid was also Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Controversies<\/strong><\/span>
\nHuman Rights Violations<\/strong>
\nOn 3 February 2009, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa stated to the<\/strong>
\ninternational media (in reference to the only hospital in the war front being shelled), that<\/strong>
\neverything is a legitimate target if it is not within the safe zone the government has<\/strong>
\ncreated and that all persons subject to attack by the armed forces were legitimate LTTE<\/strong>
\ntargets as there are no independent observers, only LTTE sympathisers, radio<\/strong>
\nannouncements were made and movement of civilians started a month and a half ago.<\/strong>
\nAs per Wikileaks, General Sarath Fonseka who led the war against LTTE had accused<\/strong>
\nDefence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa of ordering at the end of the war the shooting<\/strong>
\nof any LTTE leaders who might try to surrender under flags of truce. But Mr. Gotabhaya<\/strong>
\nalleged to have threaten to execute Mr. Fonseka if he had spilled any war secrets.<\/strong>
\nIn an interview on the Sri Lanka TV channel\u00a0 Ada Derana \u00a0on 16 March 2015, Rajapaksa<\/strong>
\nstated that he is a citizen of the United States but cannot travel to the United States<\/strong>
\nbecause of alleged war crimes charges against him.\u00a0However, Rajapaksa visited the<\/strong><\/p>\n

United States in 2016 and two Tamil groups have urged the United States government<\/strong>
\nto arrest and prosecute him. Sri Lankan government rejected to support the call to<\/strong>
\narrest Rajapaksa by Tamil groups.<\/strong>
\nAs reported by\u00a0The Sunday Leader, Major General Prasad Samarasinghe, the former<\/strong>
\nmilitary spokesman and director of the Directorate of Media in the army, has been<\/strong>
\npassing highly sensitive information to the US Embassy in Colombo on abductions.<\/strong>
\nMany of those abducted were believed to have been individuals who had fallen foul of<\/strong>
\nthe Rajapaksa trio, Mahinda, Basil and Gotabhaya. During her visit to the country,<\/strong>
\nUnited Nations Human Rights Commissioner\u00a0 Navanetham Pillay \u00a0expressed her<\/strong>
\ndisappointment over \u201cwhite van\u201d related disappearances reported in Colombo, and other<\/strong>
\nparts of the country, which were not covered by the Commission of Inquiry on<\/strong>
\nDisappearances set up by the government.<\/strong>
\nInvestigations on the 2008 abduction of journalist Keith Noyahr resulted in a White Van<\/strong>
\nbeing discovered in 2017 March from a house at Piliyandala with connections to an<\/strong>
\nArmy Major that was believed to have been used for the abduction. Police believes that<\/strong>
\nthe van may have been used for other crimes as well as being part of the operation to<\/strong>
\nmurder Lasantha Wickrematunge.\u00a0A few weeks after the Keith noyahr abduction in 2008<\/strong>
\nNamal Perera a course coordinator at the Sri Lanka College of Journalism was violently<\/strong>
\nattacked by a gang that came in the same White Van with a fake number plate and<\/strong>
\nattempted to abduct him after attacking his car but was foiled by residents and heavy<\/strong>
\ntraffic. Namal Perera identified two of his would-be-killers Duminda Weeraratne and<\/strong>
\nHemachandra Perera in April 2017.<\/strong>
\nBandara Bulathwatte was a key suspect in the murder of Lasantha was given a<\/strong>
\ndiplomatic post in Thailand at the request of Gotabhaya Rajapaksa near the 2010<\/strong>
\npresidential election. The letter sent bt Gotabhaya was prepared in haste and even a<\/strong>
\nbio data of Bulathwatte was not attached despite it being a requirement for him to get<\/strong>
\nhis visa and have the appointment regularised by the foreign ministry. But after the<\/strong>
\nelections, Gotabhaya requested his departure to be postponed claiming an urgent<\/strong>
\nmatter regarding national security. Technical evidence and telephone records have<\/strong>
\nplaced Bulathwatte at the location where Lasantha was killed as well as in the places<\/strong>
\nwhere other journalists were attacked.Investigations on assassinations, abductions and<\/strong>
\nassaults on journalist after the fall of the Rajapaksa government revealed that<\/strong>
\nGotabhaya directed a\u00a0death squad\u00a0to attack journalists that was outside the Army<\/strong>
\ncommand structure during this time 17 journalists and media workers were killed and<\/strong>
\nothers were either assaulted or abducted.<\/strong>
\nNadarajah Raviraj, a well-known human-rights lawyer and a parliamentarian, was shot<\/strong>
\nand killed in\u00a0Colombo\u00a0on 10 November 2006. At a magisterial hearing in Colombo on 26<\/strong>
\nFebruary 2016, Liyanarachchi Abeyrathna, a former police officer attached to the State<\/strong><\/p>\n

Intelligence Agency, stated that Gotabhaya Rajapaksa paid Rs. 50\u00a0million to an<\/strong>
\norganisation led by\u00a0Colonel Karuna\u00a0to murder Mr. Raviraj.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relationship with the media<\/strong>
\nRajapaksa has been accused of threatening journalists on several occasions, including<\/strong>
\ntelling two journalists attached to the state-owned Lake House Publications that unless<\/strong>
\nthey stop criticising the armed forces &quot;what will happen to you is beyond my control&quot;.<\/strong>
\nWhen asked by the two journalists if he was threatening them, he replied &quot;I am definitely<\/strong>
\nnot threatening your lives. Our services are appreciated by 99 per cent of the people.<\/strong>
\nThey love the Army Commander (General\u00a0 Sarath Fonseka ) and the Army. There are Sri<\/strong>
\nLankan patriots who love us do and will do what is required if necessary.&quot;\u00a0In April 2007<\/strong>
\nhe was accused of allegedly calling the Editor of the\u00a0Daily Mirror\u00a0Champika<\/strong>
\nLiyanaarachchi and threatening her, saying that she would escape reprisals only if she<\/strong>
\nresigned.\u00a0He was also accused for threatening to &quot;exterminate&quot; the\u00a0Daily<\/strong>
\nMirror\u00a0journalist Uditha Jayasinghe for writing articles about the plight of civilian war<\/strong>
\ncasualties.<\/strong>
\nA 5 December 2008 story from\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0quoted his news reporting position<\/strong>
\nas &quot;he insists that journalists should not be allowed to report anything that demoralises<\/strong>
\nthe war effort&quot;.<\/strong>
\nIn the editorial titled\u00a0A brother out of control\u00a0(16 August 2011),\u00a0The Hindu\u00a0raised the<\/strong>
\nobservation, &quot;President Rajapaksa would be well advised to distance himself swiftly<\/strong>
\nfrom his brother&#39;s stream-of-consciousness on sensitive issues that are not his<\/strong>
\nbusiness. This includes an outrageous comment that because a Tamil woman, an<\/strong>
\n\u201cLTTE cadre\u201d who was a British national, interviewed in the Channel 4 documentary<\/strong>
\nwas \u201cso attractive\u201d but had been neither raped nor killed by Sri Lankan soldiers, the<\/strong>
\nallegation of sexual assault by soldiers could not be true. For this statement alone, Mr.<\/strong>
\nGotabaya Rajapaksa must be taken to task.&quot;<\/strong>
\nIn May 2015, The Sunday Leader tendered an unconditional apology to Gotabhaya<\/strong>
\nRajapaksa for a series of articles regarding the purchase of MIG 27 airplanes for the\u00a0Sri<\/strong>
\nLanka Air Force.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Corruption<\/strong><\/span>
\nDeceased MP\u00a0 Sripathi Sooriyarachchi , assassinated journalist\u00a0 Lasantha<\/strong>
\nWickrematunge , suspicious death of Dr. Amith Munidradasa who headed Military<\/strong>
\nProcurement and others had accused Rajapaksa of corruption since 2006.\u00a0In<\/strong>
\n2015\u00a0Interpol\u00a0provided further evidence to the Sri Lankan government on corrupt<\/strong>
\nmilitary procurements.\u00a0In March 2015 a Sri Lankan court imposed a travel ban on<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rajapaksa over allegations he used a commercial\u00a0floating armory\u00a0as a private<\/strong>
\narsenal.The travel ban was lifted by the court in December 2016.\u00a0UNP MP Mangala<\/strong>
\nSamaraweera claimed that Gotabaya&#39;s son illegally occupied a house rented for a<\/strong>
\nconsulate in Los Angeles and caused millions of rupees in losses to the<\/strong>
\nstate.Rajapaksa rejected the allegations regarding occupying a house rented for a<\/strong>
\nconsulate in LA.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alleged Assassination Plot<\/strong><\/span>
\nIn September 2018 Director of the Anti Corruption Movement revealed a conspiracy to<\/strong>
\nassassinate President\u00a0 Maithripala Sirisena \u00a0and former Defence Secretary Gotabaya<\/strong>
\nRajapaksa because the duo are against the drug trade.\u00a0CID of Sri Lanka<\/strong>
\nPolice\u00a0investigated the issue. It has now come to light that this is a hoax created by the<\/strong>
\nRajapaksha\u2019s to divert the attention of the CID and other intelligence units and create a<\/strong>
\nhurricane within that will allow them to peacefully carry out the Easter Attack to achieve<\/strong>
\ntheir objective.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presidential campaign<\/strong>
\nIt was widely speculated and even claimed by several politicians that Gotabhaya<\/strong>
\nRajapaksa would be contesting the 2020 elections. However, this was denied by<\/strong>
\nRajapaksa but claimed that he will accept if he was offered the candidacy. His<\/strong>
\nacceptance came days after the Easter Attack. The Easter Attack was planned by the<\/strong>
\nRajapaksha Brothers to create an atmosphere that they could bring in Gotabaya as a<\/strong>
\npotential candidate based on Islamic Terrorism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

United States Lawsuits<\/strong><\/span>
\nIn April 2019, Ahimsa Wickrematunge, the daughter of\u00a0 Lasantha Wickrematunge , filed a<\/strong>
\nlawsuit against Rajapaksa in the state of California. Rajapaksa, while on vacation in<\/strong>
\nthe\u00a0United States, was served notice of two civil lawsuits. In October 2019, the court in<\/strong>
\nCalifornia rejected the case based on lack of jurisdiction to consider Wickrematunge&#39;s<\/strong>
\nclaims, because, in the Court&#39;s view, Rajapaksa is entitled to common law foreign<\/strong>
\nofficial immunity for the alleged acts of torture,\u00a0extrajudicial killing, and crimes against<\/strong>
\nhumanity.<\/strong>
\nIn May 2019 former Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Assistant Secretary of State for<\/strong>
\nSouth and Central Asia in the Obama Administration,\u00a0Robert O. Blake Jr., praised<\/strong>
\nRajapaksa on the management of the intelligence services during and post war.\u00a0On 26<\/strong>
\nApril 2019 he confirmed that he will be contesting the presidential election, following the<\/strong>
\ndeadly\u00a0Easter Sunday bombings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On 11 August 2019,\u00a0Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna\u00a0led by former president\u00a0 Mahinda<\/strong>
\nRajapaksa \u00a0announced that Rajapaksa will be their candidate for the\u00a02019 Presidential<\/strong>
\nelection.\u00a0Rajapaksa campaigned on a pro-nationalistic, economic development and<\/strong>
\nnational security platform in which he gained 6,924,255 votes, which was 52.25% of the<\/strong>
\ntotal cased votes and 1,360,016 votes majority over\u00a0New Democratic<\/strong>
\nFront\u00a0candidate\u00a0 Sajith Premadasa . Rajapaksa won a majority in the<\/strong>
\npredominant\u00a0Sinhalese\u00a0areas of the island which included the districts of Kalutara,<\/strong>
\nGalle, Matara, Hambantota, Monaragala, Ratnapura, Badulla, Kurunegala, Puttalam,<\/strong>
\nGampaha, Kandy, Matale, Polonnaruwa Colombo, Kegalle and Anuradhapura, while<\/strong>
\nPremadasa gained a majority in areas dominated by\u00a0Tamil\u00a0and\u00a0Muslim\u00a0minorities, which<\/strong>
\nhad been effected by the civil war.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Citizenship row<\/strong><\/span>
\nDuring the campaign, several political parties including then ruling\u00a0United National<\/strong>
\nParty\u00a0accused him of having American citizenship and claimed that he stayed and lived<\/strong>
\nin America for more than ten years and revealed that he was not a Sri Lankan citizen.<\/strong>
\nGotabhaya was also pressured to not to contest at the Presidential elections because of<\/strong>
\nholding dual citizenship. Further he was alleged to have carried a duplicate Sri Lankan<\/strong>
\npassport with him and court cases were pending against him over the citizenship issue<\/strong>
\nand the issue regarding his passport.Former President and the elder brother of<\/strong>
\nGotabhaya,\u00a0 Mahinda Rajapaksa \u00a0was also accused of using his executive powers to<\/strong>
\ngrant his brother, the Sri Lankan citizenship after commencing his first term as president<\/strong>
\nin November 2005. The judge of the Court of Appeal gave verdict on the former&#39;s<\/strong>
\npending court cases on 4 October 2019, dismissed the petition challenging Gotabhaya&#39;s<\/strong>
\ncitizenship.\u00a0He was also allowed to contest at the elections but did not take part in the<\/strong>
\ndebate among Presidential candidates which was held on 5 October 2019, was also<\/strong>
\nhistorically Sri Lanka&#39;s first-ever debate to have been conducted among Presidential<\/strong>
\ncandidates for an upcoming election.<\/strong>
\nPresidency (2019\u2013present)<\/strong>
\nRajapaksa&#39;s inauguration took place at the\u00a0Ruwanwelisaya\u00a0in\u00a0Anuradhapura\u00a0( the most<\/strong>
\nsacred site of the Buddhist of the country) on 18 November 2019. It is the first elected-<\/strong>
\noffice Rajapaksa has held and he is the first non-career politician and former military<\/strong>
\nofficer to serve as president. Following assumption of the office of president, he<\/strong>
\nannounced intentions to form a new government and taking over the portfolio of defence<\/strong>
\nhe further stated that he became the President only from the majority Sinhala votes. On<\/strong>
\n19 November 2019, following taking over assumed duties at the\u00a0Presidential<\/strong>
\nSecretariat, he appointed\u00a0P. B. Jayasundera\u00a0as Secretary to the President (the<\/strong>
\nSupreme Court has ordered that he cannot hold any public office) and\u00a0Major<\/strong><\/p>\n

General\u00a0Kamal Gunaratne\u00a0as Secretary of Defence, as well as a new Secretary of the<\/strong>
\nTreasury and the Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.\u00a0On 20 November, Prime<\/strong>
\nMinister\u00a0 Ranil Wickremesinghe \u00a0had agreed to resign for Rajapaksa to form a caretaker<\/strong>
\ngovernment until fresh parliamentary elections can be held after the President can<\/strong>
\nconstitutionally dissolve parliament in March 2020. On the same day, the presidential<\/strong>
\nsecretariat called for all\u00a0provincial governors\u00a0to tender their resignations.\u00a0On 21<\/strong>
\nNovember, he appointed his brother\u00a0 Mahinda Rajapaksa \u00a0as Prime Minister following the<\/strong>
\nresignation of\u00a0 Ranil Wickremesinghe \u00a0and the day after appointed a\u00a015 member Cabinet<\/strong>
\nof Ministers.\u00a0Thus, Sri Lanka became only the second nation in the world after\u00a0Poland\u00a0to<\/strong>
\nhave a combination of brothers taking charge as president and Prime Minister of a<\/strong>
\ncountry at the same occasion.<\/strong>
\nAfter a few months in power, Rajapaksa had to face his biggest challenge. The\u00a0COVID-<\/strong>
\n19 pandemic in Sri Lanka\u00a0started in March 2020. Rajapakse at first refused to lock down<\/strong>
\nthe country but later decided to impose a curfew when a number of cases began to<\/strong>
\nrise.\u00a0Rajapaksa dissolved parliament on 2 March. The election was initially put on by<\/strong>
\nRajapakse on 25 April 2020, was then postponed by the election commission to 20<\/strong>
\nJune 2020.<\/strong>
\n2020 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election<\/strong>
\nGeneral Election was held on 5 August 2020.\u00a0Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna\u00a0(SLPP)<\/strong>
\nwas able to secure landslide victory in the election claiming the majority winning 145<\/strong>
\nseats out of 225 seats. Main opposition party\u00a0 Samagi Jana Balawegaya \u00a0won just 54<\/strong>
\nseats. SLPP victory is mainly owing to the predominant success in curbing the COVID-<\/strong>
\n19 pandemic and due to the negative publicity about the UNP-led government, which<\/strong>
\nwas accused of a major intelligence failure triggered by the aftermath of the\u00a02019 Easter<\/strong>
\nattacks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

20 th Amendment to the Constitution.<\/strong>
\nFor him, the unity of the Volk (the German people) would find its truest<\/strong>
\nincarnation not in democratic or parliamentary government, but in one supreme<\/strong>
\nleader, or F\u00fchrer.<\/strong>
\nOn March 23, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, giving full powers to Hitler<\/strong>
\nand celebrating the union of National Socialism with the old German<\/strong>
\nestablishment (i.e.,\u00a0Hindenburg).<\/strong>
\nBy early the following year, he had withdrawn Germany from the\u00a0League of<\/strong>
\nNations\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the 86-year-old Hindenburg died on August 2, military leaders agreed to<\/strong>
\ncombine the presidency and chancellorship into one position, meaning Hitler<\/strong>
\nwould command all the armed forces of the Reich.<\/strong>
\nThe above four points stand out from the whole article of how Hitler worked and took<\/strong>
\nGermany down the drain to a long war destroying the world and it\u2019s self.<\/strong>
\nToday with the 20 th Amendment passed in Parliament on the 22 nd of October 2020 we<\/strong>
\nsee that Gotabaya has decorated himself as a Fuhrer and the amendment as the<\/strong>
\nEnabling Act given him MORE THAN NECESSARY POWER to run a democratic<\/strong>
\ncountry.<\/strong>
\nGotabaya in his speech to the Nation on the Independence Day stated as Hitler that he<\/strong>
\nwill not hesitate to withdraw from the UN if the need arises on issues like Human Rights<\/strong>
\nissues.<\/strong>
\nFinally when you read both personalities there are more similarities than contradictions.<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe Sri Lankans will finally (after 72 years of democratic governance) will be able<\/strong><\/span>
\nto taste a bit of a total dictatorship that will slowly perish them in isolation.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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