Election Results-2010

Who can believe the unbelievable election results with 1.8 million majority?
I can not trust this as most of the people whom talked to me after the results were out did not believe this.
Also, surprizingly when there is an election over, the ordinary people usually willing to identif with the winner and the winning party.
However, my experience so far within these few days, most of the people did not identify with the results and they suspect the results as fraud ones.
So,there is no UNP and JVP vote bank mobilized to support SF????
Usually, our experience was there are around 4 million votes casted to support to UNP candidate even at the 2005 presidential elections.
Most importantly, what we saw during the election campaign is that the SLFP supporters broke away from president and support SF due to various reasons. But, all of them are on dilemma and can not understand what happened.

The election violence is also very much seen after the elections as one of PC member of Western Province house has been attacked very badly. Some other incidents also reported in Negombo area where minister Sarath Gunarathne's supporters involved.
Our friend Freddie also got death threats again from the politicians and this is a serious situation for the people who openly engaged in supporting UNP/JVP alliance.
Now, there is a serious threat to the democracy where we promoted the values at the Platform for Freedom during the last year and even before. Today, we saw the news the Lanka Sunday news paper institution has been sealed by CID with the order of defence secretary.
So, the situation will not be easy for the social activists who want a change in the democratic agenda in the country.
We will have more and hard work and hard time in the future as lot of people will go to the shells with the elections results and the threats after that.
What is our role to make a democratic future for our children is our challenge.

Herman Kumara