马欣达·拉贾帕克萨给被还押的儿子纳马尔·拉贾帕克萨寄去了一封饱含深情的狱中来信。他敦促儿子要相信司法体系，并警告不要搞政治报复。
Mahinda Rajapaksa sent an emotional jail letter to his remanded son Namal Rajapaksa. He urged faith in the judiciary and warned against political revenge.
据印度报业托拉斯通讯社报道，斯里兰卡拉贾帕克萨政治家族的家主马欣达·拉贾帕克萨在一桩涉嫌腐败案中其子、家族政治继承人纳马尔·拉贾帕克萨持续被还押之际，向他发去了一封饱含深情的信。
Mahinda Rajapaksa, the patriarch of Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa political dynasty, has sent an emotional message to his son Namal Rajapaksa, the family's political heir, amid his continued remand in an alleged corruption case, news agency Press Trust of India reported.
40岁的纳马尔·拉贾帕克萨自9月4日起因贿赂指控及其他正在进行的调查而被还押羁押。周五，在一起与已废弃的印度克里希酒店项目有关的案件中，他的还押期限被延长至11月6日。
Namal Rajapaksa, 40, has been in remand custody since September 4 in connection with bribery allegations and other ongoing investigations. On Friday, his remand was extended until November 6 in a case linked to the abandoned Indian Krish Hotels project.
在送到狱中纳马尔手中的一封信里，这位81岁的前总统兼前总理回顾了他在儿子2010年步入政坛之前给他的忠告。
In a letter delivered to Namal in jail, the 81-year-old former president and prime minister recalled the advice he had given his son before he entered politics in 2010.
据印度报业托拉斯报道，马欣达·拉贾帕克萨对他三个儿子中的长子说：“我提醒你，2010年你想进入政坛时我对你的忠告。进入政坛是你的意愿，但要做好坐牢和吃苦的准备。”
“I remind you of my word of advice to you when you wanted to enter politics in 2010. It is your wish to enter politics but be prepared to go to jail and undergo hardships,” Mahinda Rajapaksa told the eldest of his three sons, according to PTI.
在过去二十年里先后担任斯里兰卡总统和总理的马欣达·拉贾帕克萨说，纳马尔曾请求他允许自己进入政坛，而他告诫儿子要做好坐牢和吃苦的准备。
Mahinda Rajapaksa, who has served as both president and prime minister of Sri Lanka over the past two decades, said Namal had sought his permission to enter politics and that he had cautioned him to be prepared for imprisonment and hardship.
他说，这一忠告来自他自己的经历——他在步入政坛后不久、纳马尔出生之前，因他所说的毫无根据的指控而被监禁。他敦促儿子保持对司法体系的信心，称在他自己被监禁期间，这是他唯一的信心来源。
He said the advice came from his own experience of being jailed on what he described as baseless allegations shortly after entering politics and before Namal was born. He urged his son to retain faith in the judiciary, saying it had been his only source of confidence during his own imprisonment.
马欣达·拉贾帕克萨说，命运的巧合是，他和纳马尔的母亲希兰蒂·拉贾帕克萨住进了科伦坡的同一家私立医院，纳马尔1986年就是在这家医院出生的。希兰蒂于10月7日被还押，10天后获准保释，她此前接受了心脏手术。
Mahinda Rajapaksa said that, by a twist of fate, he and Namal's mother, Shiranthi Rajapaksa, were admitted to the same private hospital in Colombo where Namal was born in 1986. Shiranthi, who was remanded on October 7 and granted bail 10 days later, had undergone heart surgery.
他还提到自己的小儿子约希塔·拉贾帕克萨，后者因2007年作为军官学员被征召进入斯里兰卡海军一事面临法庭诉讼，据称这一征召过程不合规。
He also referred to his younger son, Yoshitha Rajapaksa, who faces court action over his recruitment as an officer cadet in the Sri Lanka Navy in 2007, allegedly through an irregular process.
马欣达·拉贾帕克萨建议纳马尔，如果上台执政，不要把对对手的政治报复作为一项政策。他说，政治人物的子女不应为父母的行为承担责任，并以自己入狱的经历作为这番讲话的结尾，而他的儿子当时仍被羁押。
Mahinda Rajapaksa advised Namal not to make political revenge against opponents a policy if he came to power. He said the children of political figures should not be held responsible for their parents' actions, concluding a message that drew on his own experience of imprisonment as his son remained in custody.