May 2015 be the year in which you become truly free and are
able to reap the full benefits of good governance. We are a people who suffered
much on account of the fears generated by war, unrest and of course
blood-letting and a people who began to be hopeful of a different future. These
hopes have been all but dashed. In its place uncertainty has entered people's
minds. There has been a collapse in the overall law and order situation. An
environment has been created where the primacy of justice has come under
threat. Nepotism has raised its ugly head and oppression and fear have spread
across our fair land. Critically important areas of the economy have come under
the sway of foreign powers in alarming ways. Our national image has been
terribly scarred in the international arena. We are getting increasingly
isolated. It would not be incorrect to say that we are at the brink of an abyss
whose depths we are unable to fathom. It is for this reason that I fervently
wish for our country a new year where true freedom and good governance will
permit all of us to legitimately entertain the hope that we can and will emerge
from this tragic state of affairs.
You are privileged that within the first few days of the
coming year you will have the opportunity to make a choice that can set the
country back on track and ensure a future for our children that is devoid of
miseries produced by a crisis-ridden economy, devoid of tensions and
oppression. I am confident that a new year awaits us in which a dark age comes
to a close and a new and hopeful one begins. This broken land direly needs
democracy, justice, and unity. This is how we can erase differences. I firmly
believe that all our people deserve equal opportunity. This is why we need a
just, law-abiding society where good governance and human rights are accorded
the values they so deserve. It is such a society that I wish to see emerge in
the year 2015. This is what I wish for all our people in the coming year.
I wish you a happy new year!
Thank you.
Yours Sincerely,
Maithripala Sirisena
Common Candidate
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