-By A LeN Staff Reporter
(Lanka-e-News -25.May.2025, 11.10 PM) In the age of social media demagoguery and political hyperbole, Sri Lanka has no shortage of firebrands. But every so often, one emerges not just shouting slogans into the void, but delivering coded whispers seemingly calibrated for far more powerful ears. Dr. Pathum Kerner, a medical doctor by profession and a political whisperer by obsession, appears to be one such enigmatic figure.
Far from being your average Facebook ranter, Kerner has steadily cultivated an audience with rhetoric laced with eerie accuracy, unnerving clarity, and most notably—a curious timeliness. A recent series of incendiary posts by him, including one where he predicts mass resignations in parliament and calls for a "fresh election" before the end of next year, has sparked whispers in Colombo’s corridors of power. But it’s not just his words that are raising eyebrows—it’s who might be whispering them to him.
“Organising a protest against this government won’t be as hard as it was before,” writes Kerner. “Most of the 159 MPs are ordinary folks, not the hardened politicos of yesteryear. A couple of protests and many will resign. Circle a few homes and they’ll fear for their families. There are no extra benefits either. A mass resignation is coming.”
And with this, he concludes ominously: “Before an uprising can unfold, Parliament must be dissolved. A fresh election will be upon us before year’s end. The leader emerging from that election will head straight to the Presidency.”
This wasn’t the idle theorising of a disenchanted citizen. It was a plan—a prescription for political mutiny. And it has understandably triggered alarm bells.
But who exactly is Dr. Pathum Kerner? A Facebook firestarter? A rogue civil activist? Or—as some now daringly suggest—a puppet of foreign spooks?
Kerner’s public identity is benign enough. A trained physician, he once treated patients with professionalism. But somewhere along the line, the Hippocratic Oath gave way to a far more potent ambition: revolutionary politics.
And unlike typical loudmouths who fizzle after a viral post or two, Kerner has stayed remarkably on-message, as though working off a carefully curated script.
In Sri Lanka—a country with a long and murky history of foreign interference—that kind of discipline raises questions.
Is Kerner a mere citizen prophet, or the local mouthpiece of clandestine global forces?
In the great chessboard of South Asian geopolitics, revolutions do not arise in a vacuum. When a man like Kerner openly talks of dismantling a government elected with a two-thirds parliamentary majority and a presidential mandate, one must ask: whose game is he playing?
Consider the cast of usual suspects in the region’s not-so-covert operations.
RAW, India’s foreign intelligence agency, has long exerted influence over Sri Lankan affairs—from the patronage of Tamil insurgencies during the Jayewardene era to present-day diplomatic manipulations.
CIA, the United States’ global puppet master, has used Sri Lanka as a regional listening post and occasional pawn in its Indo-Pacific strategy.
By the 1980s, MOSSAD had ceded its Sri Lankan theatre to RAW and CIA. RAW took the lead during the early years of the Tamil separatist movement—arming, training and funding insurgents with the full blessing of then-Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The motive? Keep Sri Lanka in check, and by extension, keep China out.
The Americans, for their part, remained interested observers until the collapse of the Soviet Union. From then on, their interest transformed into direct engagement—first via USAID and “democracy-building” initiatives, and later through defence cooperation and diplomatic leverage.
Today, RAW and CIA operate in tandem in Colombo—a fact acknowledged privately by diplomats, though never publicly admitted. The Indo-American intelligence alliance now works less like Cold War adversaries and more like co-investors in Sri Lanka’s fragile democracy, with mutually agreed targets.
In 1987, for instance, India unilaterally ordered Sri Lanka to halt Operation Vadamarachchi, a major military offensive against the LTTE. President Jayewardene, a staunch pro-American, was forced to comply—not because of Indian muscle alone, but because Washington itself instructed him to submit.
Even America’s best friends aren’t immune when geopolitics trumps friendship.
So if Kerner’s recent rhetoric sounds rehearsed, radicalised and strangely timed—it’s no accident. It echoes a script used time and again in countries that fall afoul of RAW-CIA consensus.
Let’s be blunt. The current Malima Government is no revolutionary darling. It swept to power with a historic mandate, defeating a corrupt dynastic cabal and pledging accountability, economic stability, and institutional reform.
But its rise also disrupted many international interests, especially those with a stake in keeping Sri Lanka unstable and pliant.
So when a fringe figure like Dr. Kerner begins to call for “mass resignations,” claims that MPs are “ready to quit,” and forecasts the need for a “fresh election,” we must consider: is this mere fantasy? Or is it foreign-funded prophecy?
Kerner is no idiot. Nor is he naive. His messaging is strategic, not spontaneous. He knows what pressure points to press. His call to surround the homes of MPs, induce fear within their families, and trigger resignations is not just irresponsible—it’s sedition masquerading as activism.
And yet, his social media posts are not being censored. His rants are not being met with official rebuke. Why?
One theory gaining traction among Colombo’s policy wonks is chilling in its simplicity: the government fears turning him into a martyr. Better to let him rant than make him a symbol.
But another, more sinister explanation is also being whispered: he’s protected.
In Sinhala political slang, there’s an apt term for this: “eka haamputhekuṭa kēkaru sunakayā”—the dog who barks only at his master’s command.
Dr. Kerner is beginning to resemble precisely that. A dog trained not to bite the hand that feeds him, but to snarl at targets chosen by someone far above his pay grade.
His Facebook page, bristling with anti-government invective and cloaked threats, isn’t just a political diary—it’s a broadcast tower. But the message isn’t aimed at the masses. It’s a signal to foreign handlers: I’m active. I’m working. Watch me go.
And if there’s even a sliver of truth to the idea that Kerner has connections—direct or indirect—to RAW or CIA operatives, then his activities move from the realm of bizarre to dangerously subversive.
Because what begins with social media chaos often ends in constitutional crisis.
No nation should take lightly the warning signs of externally engineered destabilisation.
Sri Lanka has seen what happens when foreign meddling goes unchecked: civil wars, assassinations, economic sabotage.
If Kerner is indeed parroting the scripts of foreign handlers, then the Malima administration must be vigilant. Not in silencing him per se—but in preparing politically, diplomatically, and legally for the games ahead.
Foreign intelligence agencies don’t topple governments by dropping paratroopers. They do it by finding locals to speak their words, spread their memes, and ignite public dissent.
Dr. Pathum Kerner may wear a stethoscope by day. But in the theatre of geopolitical subversion, he may yet play a more nefarious role—the doctor of disruption.
-By A LeN Staff Reporter
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