By Dayan Jayatilleka –
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
In a splendidly timed gift for Sinhala and Tamil New Year, Ed Miliband, the head of the British Labour Party, the Leader of the Opposition and a possible Prime Minister of the UK after the general election this year, pledged to “push’ for an international inquiry into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. He did so in what he chose to call a “Tamil New Year” message.
“I want to wish everyone in the Tamil community a Happy New Year…The Labour Party has always been a friend of the Tamil community and will continue to be so. And we will continue to push for the full and independent, international investigation into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. It is something I raised with President Sirisena when I met him. We will continue to push this forward and continue to advocate for your cause.
We, in the Labour Party, know our responsibility to the Tamil community. So let me reiterate my wishes for a Happy New Year and I look forward to working with the Tamil community, in the months and years ahead.” (We Will Continue To Push For Full & Independent Inquiry On Sri Lanka’s War Crimes: Ed Miliband, Tamil New Year video message 2015, Colombo Telegraph April 14, 2015)
Ed Miliband claims that he raised the issue with President Sirisena. Thanks for letting us in on that Ed; we didn’t know until now. We do not know what President Sirisena said in response. We do know what President Rajapaksa told Ed Miliband’s brother David, when the Foreign Secretary visited Sri Lanka in April 2009 together with his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner and demanded an end to the military offensive: “Mr. Miliband, we are no longer a British colony and we haven’t been one since 1948.” That was another leader, another time—almost another age– and Sri Lanka was another country.
So, despite Mahinda Rajapaksa’s electoral defeat and Maithripala Sirisena’s (and Ranil Wickremesinghe’s) incumbency, Ed Miliband and the Labour Party think it necessary to state that they “will continue to push for the full and independent, international investigation into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka”, and reiterate in the same text that they will “…continue to push forward”. This clearly proves that the primary problem isn’t and wasn’t Mahinda Rajapaksa and the solution isn’t Maithripala Sirisena. The problem is the Sri Lankan victory over the Tigers, the bitter hatred that the Tamil Diaspora bears about the defeat of separatist fascism, and the weight of Tamil Diaspora votes in crucial Western societies/states.
This problem will not go away with a foreign policy of appeasement such as that practiced by Ranil-Mangala-CBK, but by a Realist strategy which twins multipolar balancing and countervailing coalition-building. This ‘Kadirgamar paradigm’ was successfully applied by us in Geneva 2007-2009, grotesquely messed up by the Rajapaksa administration in its second term, and the new government has abandoned it entirely in favor of the supine posture of a doormat.
A few weeks ago, the Bharathiya Janatha Party held its annual sessions in Bangalore, and in its resolution on foreign policy, commended Prime Minister Modi for being the first Indian PM to visit Jaffna, for his statement that Sri Lanka should go beyond the 13th amendment and for his commendation of federalism. Such publicly prescriptive behavior is hardly evidence of even-handedness or good neighborly conduct.
‘India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in a resolution passed on India’s foreign policy, at its ongoing two-day national executive meeting in Bengaluru… said …Modi became “the first Prime Minister of Bharat to visit Jaffna…He invoked his idea of cooperative federalism and stressed upon the 13th Amendment and beyond.”’ (IANS news agency)
Meanwhile US Asst. Secretary for Labour and Human Rights Tom Malinowski squatted on his haunches on the Mullaitivu beach and laid a wreath as a token of the US’ mourning for victims of all communities who died in the war. Since only a few of us were born yesterday, the symbolism was not lost—and certainly not on the Tamil diaspora nationalist websites.
In the face of such blatant external tilting by the US-UK and our gargantuan neighbor, to one community on this island, who is there to speak for the majority community? Certainly not our new government which didn’t prevent, advise against or gently but clearly respond to such behavior. If one thing is more certain than any other, it is that Sri Lanka would have not been treated this way, like a doormat, if Mahinda Rajapaksa were at the helm of affairs. While our elite is happy at being the poodle of those who talk down to us, what we seem to have lost is our collective self-respect; our erect spine.
Meanwhile former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has just tossed her hat into the US Presidential ring. A ‘Wikileaked’ cable from her as US Secretary of State, dated May 4th 2009, proves that she was “leading from behind” when the UK-led EU moved a resolution against Sri Lanka in Geneva. She instructed the US Mission in Geneva actively support and assist a resolution on Sri Lanka at the UN HRC Special Sessions in 2009.
“Mission Geneva is requested to convey to the Czech Republic and other like-minded members of the HRC that the USG supports a special session on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka and related aspects of the humanitarian situation. Mission is further requested to provide assistance, as needed, to the Czech Republic in obtaining others, signatures to support holding this session…Mission is also instructed to engage with HRC members to negotiate a resolution as an outcome of this special session, if held. Department believes a special session that does not result in a resolution would be hailed as a victory by the Government of Sri Lanka. Instructions for line edits to the resolution will be provided by Department upon review of a draft.” [Cable dated 4th May 2009 from Secretary of State (United States)]
It was this resolution, endorsed, assisted and urged by Hillary Clinton as US Secretary of State which we pre-emptively defeated with one of our own, which obtained almost a two thirds vote in May 2009 at the UNHRC in Geneva.
If Hillary Clinton wins next year, we can well imagine what her position on Sri Lanka will be, and just how delighted the US based Tamil Eelam lobbyists would be.
How could it conceivably accord with our national interest, that our new government has taken its distance from our staunchest and strongest friend, China, while we are being talked down to by the West and our neighbor, who are openly tilting to the Tamil minority?
While the West and India are indicating their preferential option for the Tamil minority, the new Government in Sri Lanka has entrusted the complex, sensitive task of ethnic reconciliation precisely to a personality who is known to be close to the West and India, and who didn’t say a word in support of our armed forces or against the Tigers during the decisive last war and chose instead to sit it out in the UK and France (with an occasional conversation with the Clintons in between). I refer of course to Madame Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga.
“We now have an unprecedented situation, following the 2015 January Presidential Election, in which the elected Tamil Leadership has been invited to participate in drafting constitutional reforms to be coordinated by Jayampathi Wickramaratne and in promoting national reconciliation and resolution of the ethnic problem under the guidance of Chandrika Kumaranatunga.” (Dr. Devanesan Nesiah, The Island, April 8th, 2015)
Dr. Devanesan Nesiah is right of course: we now have an unprecedented situation. But that isn’t good news for a majority of the country’s citizens.
The West, certain top UN officials and some cosmopolitan civil society voices in Sri Lanka say that there can be no reconciliation without accountability. That flies in the face of the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland which had no accountability aspect. These elements also ignore the weight of international evidence, namely that there can be no reconciliation without realism.
Sri Lanka’s Northern Provincial Council is NOT a State or a proto-state. Accustomed to Prabhakaran’s Tiger Raj, the Northern Provincial Council is behaving as if it is the successor; flirting with discourse that is on a continuum, filling the same political head-space and entitled to fulfill the same function. It is being unwittingly encouraged in these dangerous delusions by the imprudent signals of our foreign friends.
At least in part, the voting volcano in the North which toppled President Rajapaksa was precisely because he was NOT neglecting the area; because he was bringing road and rail links to the North; bringing capitalist modernization in; integrating the North with the rest of the country; creating a truly national market –thereby puncturing the ghetto mentality of the North.
Given the exceedingly sensitive strategic location of the Northern Provincial Council, the Tamil political elite has to be made to prove that it can be trusted to run the province with a sense of truly national (by which I mean Sri Lankan) responsibility; mindful at all times of Sri Lanka’s security needs and strategic requirements. There must be no movement “beyond the 13th amendment”, towards federalism, “cooperative” or otherwise. To even broach the possibility of ‘building upon’ the 13th amendment—not ‘going beyond’ it–the Tamil political elite must first prove—for at least a decade–that it can be trusted with the 13th amendment.
It is clear that the Ranil-Chandrika project of a so-called National Government is meant to provide the two-thirds majority to move beyond the 13th amendment and to screen the pro-Western ‘poodle elite’ from the social consequences of macro-policy framework of Diasporization, de-nationalization and re-colonization. The UNP-SLFP ‘National Government’ is meant to be a mask for an anti-national policy direction.
Post-war ethnic reconciliation requires a moderate, responsible Tamil (sub) nationalist partner who will not be high on the delusion of being a nation entitled to political space and power equal to the majority, but will fight against all forms of discrimination and for full and equal integration, on the basis of the rights—political, social and individual–that any national minority enjoys anywhere in the world. An abiding or recurrent problem in finding counterparts for peace-building, is that while Sinhala moderates, liberals and progressives are moderates, liberals and progressives first and Sinhalese later, most Tamil moderates, liberals and progressives are Tamils first, and moderates, liberals and progressives later.
Asaipillai / April 14, 2015
Oh! no once gain on New Year’s day! Can’t DJ just accept that he is lost in his own schemes? Has he come to spoil the New Year too?
Few years back, there used to be this monkey in the Dehiwela zoo. Probably it was an intelligent monkey…. maybe. I am not sure. This monkey used to sit with few of its mates inside this cage peering through the bars with sad and forlorn eyes. Passersby too used feel sorry for him and throw some ‘Kadala’. But this monkey did not want pity or throw downs from the onlookers. It bared its teeth, curled its lips angrily and shrieked menacing at the people outside. It was quite apparent that this one monkey was not a happy one inside the cage. When the monkey acted like this the passersby including school children taunted it more and more by throwing more ‘Kadala’ and laughing at him. All this while, its mates would sit quietly without much fuss turning their back on the visitors. When the taunting became intense this one monkey would resort to some bizarre performance. It would openly and frantically masturbate and throw the resultant semen through bars at the on looking visitors. This would only instigate the people to taunt some more and shriek and laugh! The sad thing is that the monkey knew that it is in a fix and cannot get out. So the obvious recourse is to act bizarrely and illogically. I, for one always felt sorry for him.
This alas I feel is the situation with Dr. DJ. A primitive Neanderthal now in a cage due the support he extended to MR at the last PE. He is now imprisoned in the Rajapakse camp with other losers like WW, UG et el, unable to jump ship as he has burnt all bridges. He sees how the outside world is reacting through the space (CT forum) between the bars. Just like with the monkey all and sundry (school children too!) are taunting him with snide comments via the forum. He is acting bizarrely just like the monkey. His animal and true basic inclinations are exposed. He is a racist clearly exhibited. He is hurling naked racist postings day by day. People outside know these postings are only a frustrated monkey’s semen. Worth nothing!!!
I feel sorrier for him than the monkey!
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Point of View / April 14, 2015
When he is unable to grasp the local politics and how people feel about our politicians, how can he talk about the UK ? And only he calls himself a ‘political analyst’ ?
He says ‘ Ed Miliband, the head of the British Labour Party, the Leader of the Opposition and a possible Prime Minister of the UK’ . If EM becomes the next PM, then our own idiotic Namal will be our next PM. No chance – he is not PM material. Period.
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The Messenger / April 14, 2015
The one and only one way of keeping the Rajapakshe popular is by playing the communal card and the Rajapakshe’s SLAVES (those waiting to eat the crumbs) are playing it very well. Rajapakshe has hired these jobless vegabonds to ‘cough’ for him promising future perks, so let them cough but President Maithree should make sure to keep these Rajapakshe slaves at a distance and also ignore whatever they ‘cough’.
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Thiru / April 14, 2015
Asaipillai,
As usual, Dayan is back with with anti-Tamil rhetoric, and his political whims and fancies:
But, he does not acknowledge the fact that serious crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and most probably genocide of Tamils took place during the last stages of the war in Vanni.
There is extensive evidence of the above fact with the UN, US and India.
UN human rights group has already conducted an investigation and awaiting a damning report in September.
British prime minister and the opposition leader merely want this investigation to be made public, the guilty punished, redress both in justice and politics, and reparations to the Tamil victims done.
There is no point in Dayan pouring out venom against the diaspora or branding Tamils as having ghetto mentality: This sounds like Hitler branding the Jews, who produced many brilliant intellectuals in the world. A look at the Tamil diaspora will show that Tamils don’t belong to any ghettos that Sri Lanka want to create for them but they excel with world class credentials.
In summary accountability for the war is the key to solve the Sri Lankan ethnic problem.
If ethnic cleansing of Tamils took place then proper political redress must be done to prevent it in the future.
Ignoring or denying this truth Dayan wants to carry on regardless as Sri Lanka has done since 1948 with gradual but sure genocide of Tamils in the island as Wigneshwarn said in his report to the UN.
If as Dayan wants, Sri Lanka drags in China or Russia as a counter to the West and India, it will be political suicide for the Sinhala nation in the island.
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Navin / April 14, 2015
You mean he is in a worse position than a masturbating monkey? Ho ho ha ha haa ha ha ha haa!
Happy new Sinhala Only New Year to the Monkey.
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sama / April 14, 2015
This reminded me monkeys doing such activities while we were visting Zoo in Colongne Germany lately. Most of them hold it together their groups than the lankens in Parliament. Actually for good moves anyone with a brain the size of needle head must agree – which is unfortunately not the case for srilankens even today. Mati Molas are the majority of the island nation. Their gearing leader had made them irreparably sick.
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Samuel Jayaweera / April 14, 2015
All I raise on this special day – what do you Dayan Jayathilaka expect current rulers to do for the future of the nation ?
Please tell us clearly and why you dont want to back them in getting passed the proposed Amds ? In Europe, they get passed their AMd or provisions to some Amds so easily after debating on targeted issues while countries like our would wait years or sometimes decades to do so is a greater change between the two worlds. More you are aware – more the folks are aware of the ground reliaties and the consequences – it ll become much easier to make the people clear… today the problem has been majority of idiots being taken ground in the parliament – they seem to sarbotage all good moves of new leaders. That is a pain actually.
Dayan or any senior the kind of men and women should instead back to turn the situation into good rather than backing illfated men that looted the nation for their sake.
At least today DJ can play a greater role in that rather than go on licking the asses of Rajapkahses. He should better be aware Rajapakshes did not give him or any talented man a place in the late phase of MR administration.
May all these be realized to DJ, Rajiva et al soon.
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mike / April 14, 2015
@ Asaipillai
I concur. We should send Dayan some “Kadala” now and then so that he can keep on munching!
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Amarasiri / April 14, 2015
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka,
RE: Avurudu Thoughts: An Unprecedented Situation
Happy New Year to the Paras, in the Land of Native Veddah Aethho.
Are you going to go after other Paras on this Para-New Year Day, just the way you have been doing for the past so many years, or are you going to take a break?
I see the Paras have recruited a White Para as well to participate in this Para New Year celebration, and he is wishing the Para-Tamil Happy New Para-Tamil New Year. Did the white Para forget the Para-Sinhala? Did he forget that there are others Pas in the Land of Native Veddah as well?
Double standards?
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Slasher / April 14, 2015
You seem to be using the word “para” in a specific sense the reader does not understand.
Could it be that thts the way you re referring to your real father (or the mother’s kept man)?
Please come clean.
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Amarasiri / April 15, 2015
Slasher.
Para is the short form of Para-deshi in the original Language of the Para-deshis from where the Para-deshis, or Paras, came to the Land of Native Veddah Aethho. It is a Para-deshi word, or in short a Para word.
Paradesi is a word used in several Indian languages, and its literal meaning is a ” foreigner”;. Accordingly, the Paradesi Synagogue literally means a synagogue of foreigners. It is also referred to as the Cochin Jewish synagogue or the …
http://www.omnilexica.com/?q=Paradesi
In the case of the Land of the Native Veddah Aethho, Paradesi is a word used by Native Veddah Aethho, so that the Paradeshis can understand, and its literal meaning is a ” foreigner”;. Accordingly, the Paradesi Sinhala, and Paradeshi Tamil (Tamul) literally means Paradeshi-Sinhala (Para-Sinhala) and Paradeshi-Tamil (Para-Tamil) foreigners, and the other Paradeshis. The Paradeshi Portuguese are referred to Paradeshi Portuguese, Para-Portuguese, or simply as Parangios or Parangi for short.
Would you prefer the Paradeshi -Sinhala and Paradeshi-Tamil to be referred to as Sinhala Parangios and Tamil(Tamul) Parangios, rather than Para-Sinhala and Para-Tamil?
They all mean the same thing, foreigner.
Call a Spade, a Spade, in whatever language you call it is still a Spade..
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Leelawathie / April 15, 2015
This is not the first time we read about the word “para” repeatedly being used by your Sir. Could you please explain why you have this much of affinity to the word ?
Besides, this sounds not fine – we are all humanbeings whose blood vessels flow only the same kind of blood found in homosapiens. You agree ?
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Amarasiri / April 15, 2015
Leelawathie
“This is not the first time we read about the word “para” repeatedly being used by your Sir. Could you please explain why you have this much of affinity to the word ? “
It is all about the truth, nothing but the truth. Remember, the Ancients, the Church, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton and Foucault? Joshua stopping the Sun?
It is about the Truth about the Paras, in the Land of Native Veddah Aethho.
Very simple. It is the Double Standards of the Para-Sinhala and Para-Tamils, when they themselves are Paradeshis, or Paras, or Parangios.
Example 1. The Para Sinhala Refers to Tamils as Para-Demala, Para-Tamil. The Sinhala are correct.
Example 2. The Para-Sinhala refers to Para-deshi Portugese as Parangios. The Sinhala are correct.
Example 3. The Para-Tamil refers to Para-deshi Portugese as Parangios. The Tamils are correct.
Example 4. The Para-Tamil refers to Lower-caste Tamils as Parayan, a low caste. They must have come abroad. The Tamils are correct.
Noe the Native Veddah Aethho calls the Para-Sinhala and Para-Tamils as Paras, just to keep reminiscing them that they are Paradeshis, Paras, and that they are following Double Standards.
They do not want to call a spade, a spade. They do not want to call a Para, a Para, if it applies to them. This is Double Standards.
It is like the spade saying, I am not a spade!
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Amarasiri / April 15, 2015
Leelawathie
“Besides, this sounds not fine – we are all humanbeings whose blood vessels flow only the same kind of blood found in homosapiens. You agree ?”
Absolutely, Madam.
Unfortunately, the Para-Sinhala and Para- Tamils and other Paras do not think so. So, Amarasiri, needs to keep reminding these Paras, even though they are Paras, they need to treat other Paras with respect and dignity and not harm them. That is not happening.
Unfortunately, the Para-Sinhala and Para-Tamils, and other Paras must be repeatedly reminded that they are Paras. If they cannot behave in civilized manner in the Land of Native Veddah Aethho, they need to get back to their Para-Land they came from, Bharat, Dambadiva, India, Para-desh etc.
The Vedda Tribe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f89NuukY32U
Tamil-speaking Veddas of Vaharai await war recovery support
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeFCuZwexRw
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Supun Jayawardhane / April 14, 2015
How stupid the Pinguththaraya Mahinda Rajapakshe should have been to rely on his Royal Astrologer who knows nothing but – fortunesteller knowledge on the street.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBvjAyaXg2Q
As anyone would see it after listening to the video, how stupid MR should be by his knowledge ? I really wonder how the man to have become the leader of the nation whose literaty rate is the highest in the region (93%).
Budda has rejected astrological predictions but most buddhists in the island to rely on those preditions has been connected with the Rajano’s affinity to astrology.
I think as the moderator of the video makes it clear – astrology can misguide the nation than the other way around.
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Amarasiri / April 16, 2015
Supun Jayawardhane
“How stupid the Pinguththaraya Mahinda Rajapakshe should have been to rely on his Royal Astrologer who knows nothing but – fortunesteller knowledge on the street. “
For some, especially for those who voted for Mahinda Rajapaksa, stupidity is a virtue.
I want to remind you that the average IQ of the Group who voted for Mahinda Rajapaksa, including Maninda Rajapaksa and Wimal Buruwansa, is 65. Of course, that includes the Astrologer.
Now you can understand the situation.
We have an IQ, Modaya, Fools, Mootals problem.
Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s Speech on Wimal Weerawansa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UMO0jqC7ww
2/2 =0 Says, Wimal Modawansa.
The Astrologer said, Mahinda Rajapksa will win.
I call it the the Advent of the Modayas, Mootals and Fools.
The average IQ of 79 for Sri Lanka helps them, because there are are many with IQ’s well below 79.
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Ben Hurling / April 14, 2015
DJ says a lot of sensible things in this article.
However, why DJ puts all his eggs in corrupt, defeated dictator Mahinda Rajapassa’s basket is beyond my comprehension. After all Mahinda among other things ruined Sri Lanka’s most important frontline by filling the Foreign Service with uneducated, talentless, good for nothing family members, cronies & henchmen.
Nevertheless, in this article, DJ presents factors all Sri Lankans ought to be aware of. Unless of course your ulterior motive is to see Ealam die-ass-pora succeed through Cameron’s, Miliband’s & Hilary’s backdoor. Or you believe blindly pro-western RW to be a genius.
Good relations with UK & USA are very welcome! But, at what price? Given the questionable dealings of both USA & UK throughout history we need to be sober.
Therefore DJ’s writing on this topic is absolutely worth reading. His relentless worshipping of the deposed dictator is another matter.
Cheers!
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Native Vedda / April 14, 2015
Ben Hurling
“DJ says a lot of sensible things in this article.”
For example?
AS usual you are in a hurry to buy a non existent car from DJ.
Cameron, Miliband & Hilary Obama & others don’t give damn about Sinhalese or Tamils. They are after their own interest and not yours’ nor Tamils’.
Dayan boasts
“It was this resolution, endorsed, assisted and urged by Hillary Clinton as US Secretary of State which we pre-emptively defeated with one of our own, which obtained almost a two thirds vote in May 2009 at the UNHRC in Geneva.”
Hindia together with USA and other countries made Dayan and his masters to believe they alone achieved success in 2009.
Dayan is desperate for some sort of recognition among a few hard core racists Sinhala/Buddhists. Think before you pat his back.
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Hinnibanda / April 15, 2015
The day – D A Y A N [Edited out]
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Snowden Edward Asange / April 14, 2015
YOU are NO better than ED Milliband, actually even worse… coz he aint Sri-Lankan, a Sinhalese or a Tamil… YOU being a Sinhala Buddhist should of known NOT to USE this to cast a stone for two fruits to fall… rather three…one being taking a swipe at Ed who would push for an investigation where ur MASTER would be held responsible for killing innocent, the 2nd being you, using the NEW YEAR as a tool for ur crap…3 forcing people to read your crap which is nothing but applying make up for MR the Drama Queen to come on stage for another Drama… SHAME ON YOU…
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Supun Jayawardhane / April 14, 2015
He is not buddhist at all. He is a man without vision but making every effort to protray something else. Have not you seen the way he behaves in the discussions, as if he is the god to have been aware of the facts and figures, but the bugger would never ever utter a single word – when the majority poor masses were being looted – not secretly but deliberately. God knows how this man DJ has worked sofar. He is neither maxist not a healthy man to lanken politics for the future. [Edited out]
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sun / April 14, 2015
This is for you and ilk that make every effort to paint the picture in favour of your god father -MR and his unmoral unethical underground activities focusing the on the sarbotage the constitutional amendments. Had MR been interested in them he could have done them long before. His intsterests are limited to stay in power eternally without amending anything but 18A -that was to extension of his term only. Anyways, you guys would take more than sometimes the rural masses would take it. Your cry cant touch the hearts of the many that have now come to consensus considering the country needs a set of changes in its constitution if the society turn to the good and betterment of the nation.
DJ, please tell us any good thing you have contriubted since 2009. You malicious thoughts are only connected to attack RW, CBK and the others since you have been against them from your childhood on. The truth is many are aware that you have lost your credibility if you had some – to this day. They dont even consider you as the level of Kelaniya Mervin Silva. Kata nisalu maluwa nasinne. That is valid to you too. Your complex and the sympotoms near to person who is seriously suffering from attention seeking syndrome has almost made blind and deaf so that you cant see it beyond. Nobody can rely on your analyses except ones that would work diehard to bring Most Abusive President of all times -Mahinda Raja back to illfated politics based on blatant lies. Now enough is enough, you too have to turn your mind right – else your father will wake up and warn you adequately. This is what many feel when overeading your bits.
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Samuel Jayaweera / April 14, 2015
His thinking is totally beyond all norms – Mama thamai miniha – I am the person know everything regarding lanken political issues. But none seem to respect him to this day. Gone were the days ITN and other channels set vaules of buggers thoughts. Now I really dont think except those street man ‘ s company (Buruwanse of the thummule junction) would ever consider you as a political analyst or anyone near to that.
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Sukirihamy_Desparity / April 14, 2015
MR #s term put the stop to the terror but with the backing of varied forces in and out. To that time, LtteRS were becoming weaker with their LTTE political wing was totally collapsed. Late great FM of the nation Kadirgamara had worked diehard to get LTTEers banned on any powerful soils out of the country led LTTErs not to get mobilised easily as the way they thought before. So the credit of war victory should essentially be a part of Kadirgamar s great extern politics. No other successors of him did the job well- so just to ignore him and the previous govts steps taken are the deliberate actions of MR regime- so they failed to do the least since 2009. This is seriously known to DJ, but he is kept silent by his malice and vengence. A man who himself called to be a maxist to behave this way against any actions being taken against any abusive men of the nation – is all the last – people will rather hate you DJ … you are a shameful man that knows nothing but to argue like the way Gembanpilla behaves as a political teenager. You guys are born to destroy the nation. You can make the white as black and vice versa. There you are talented. But there are enough academics that would never ever agree with you..
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Indra / April 14, 2015
This “political scientist”, a pseudo [Edited out], has mentioned not one word about the sustained implementation of the genocidal policy from 1948 of the Sinhala Buddhist majority against Tamils in Sri Lanka.
He also failed to mention that the minority movement demanding equal rights for minorities is a direct result of the violence directed against them.
He refuses to acknowledge that it is only just and fair that all communities should be allowed to live on equal terms.
The cowardly [Edited out] maintains a veneer of pseudo respectability by not mentioning that it is his wish that the Tamil community should be exterminated.
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MsMaralathoni / April 14, 2015
What is he doing as his occupation these days ? I have the feeling to the manner he writes to CT and other platform, he should be only living within 4 walls not even going to breath in some fresh air. Situation seems to be going through close to him – I mean the defeat of MR. Even his sons would not defend MR this way as DJ has been to do it since the 8th.
Whoever whatever has been explaining all the bunch MR, Rajapakshes in general together with Thunmulle Wimale should be kept away from lanken politics if we really want to achieve a progress towards peace and reconciliation. Thunmulle Wimale sees it always right – to abuse anyone the way MR and his brothers Basil and Gota had been. No matter even if his wife would have been raped and tortured, if that is done by Rajapakshes, Thunmulle Wimale would not go for holding Sathayagraya.
All in all, this nation is filled with all high corrupted men and women thanking to MR and his 10 year old rule. As a metastesized cancer patient would see no hope, the minority of right thinking healthy ones have to live with their tomrments all the majority stupids folks would turn to good SINCE so called democracies of lanken style can not elect the right person to lead the nation.
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Native Vedda / April 14, 2015
K A Sumanasekera and like minded people
Suba Aluth Awuruddak Wewa
Iniya Tamizh Puthandu Nalvaazhthukkal” (இனிய தமிழ் புத்தாண்டு நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள்).
Happy New Year
Javi
இனிய தமிழ் சிங்களம் புதிய ஆண்டு
Feliz Tamil cingalés año nuevo
Ravi Perera Sinhala speaking Demela
Happy Tamil Sinhala Malayala New Year Wishes
සිංහල, දෙමළ, මලයාලම් සුබ නව වසරක් ප්රාර්ථනා
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Native Vedda / April 14, 2015
Sorry
I forgot.
Happy new year wishes to those Silvas, Pierises, Fonsekas, whose ancestors converted to Sinhala/Buddhism just after their arrival from South India who have now taken it upon themselves to being the guardians of Sinhala/Buddhists.
Feliz ano novo deseja os Silvas, Pierides, Fonseka de, cujos antepassados convertido para Sinhala / budismo logo após a sua chegada do sul da Índia, que já tomaram para si a serem os guardiões da Sinhala / Buddistas.
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sirimal / April 14, 2015
Dear CT friends,
Let s forget it for the moment – what nation ‘s pundith most malicious man of the day DJ has to say….
*******May dawn new year be filled with peace and happiness *************
“sabwithiyo viwajjatho…
sabba rogo winassatho..
Mathe bawath antharayo..
Suki digayu ko bawa…”
120ta 220k awada ayu bo wewa…!
Suba aluth awuruddak wewa..!
Sirimal
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Justice & fairplay / April 14, 2015
So you are back to haunt us, you weary old humbug?
This time I note it is with a stray statement by Edward Miliband which is good enough for you to create an article of its own, and insinuating in the rush that Ed Miliband’s statement is the fault of president Sirisena? What a classic eccentric we have here In Dayan Silva! Or should we say someone more seriously ‘gone’ than a mere eccentric?
So may I ask what’s wrong with an international investigation to clear our good name once and for all if our name is in the clear?
If this country has nothing to hide, and if it played its international cards right, it should not worry about any international enquiry. None at all. If we have something to hide, then it is quite something else.
Tamils are a part of our population. Therefore alleged crimes committed against tamil civilians must be investigated in the name of justice. Tigers are quite something else as they were terrorists. If we have nothing to worry about civilian annihilation, why should Dayan Silva worry?
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Jango / April 15, 2015
Spot on, J&F! What the hell is DJ all bent out of shape about an investigation if, in fact, there’s nothing to ‘hide’? The sooner this is done, the better for us all, so we can put this sorry episode of our history behind us and move forward in an attempt to create a just society for all citizens of this country, not to mention the fact that we now have an administration that will prove its credibility, should this happen.
DJ is an ego-maniac, as can be seen from his ‘I, me, mine’ writings and now since he has lost credibility among everyone who is familiar with his crap (including his idol, MR, who is only using him as a dhoby) he is flailing away, hoping for some respite from his torment.
Wonder who his shrink is?
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Off The Wall / April 14, 2015
Dayan, get a life man ………You are suffering from some very potent fixations and obsessions. It’s so sad to see someone as bright as you is also afflicted with such debilitating syndromes. It’s like someone is pulling the rug under your feet. Your thought process seems to be trapped in a vortex. You need to break out of it. Otherwise, don’t you realise it’s others who are determining what you’re going to think when you wake up in the morning. You must learn to develop your own thoughts on a topic rather than reacting to every Ed, Devanesan and Hillary. If you want your ideas to be original, be creative rather than reactive. Maybe you badly need a ride with the cabin crew in order to get your groove back.
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Burning Issue / April 14, 2015
It is his ego more than anything else! His chest-thumpping victory in Geneva is going to be devalued and this he cannot stomach.
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n.ethir / April 14, 2015
DJ,
I shall ignore the venoum you spitted out at the “Tamils and Foreigners.” Your last paragraph is worth commenting on.
The first long sentence is your delusion of thinking that Tamils are a minority and not a Nation of people with their rights same as the Sinhala Nation with their rights living in the same Island. Who is delusional is something a person outside deluded. I guess Modi, Miliband, Clinton, Malinowski adn John Kerry who is about to descend in your midst are not the ones you would consider outside the deluded.
Your last sentence. “An abiding or recurrent problem in finding counterparts for peace-building, is that while Sinhala moderates, liberals and progressives are moderates, liberals and progressives first and Sinhalese later, most Tamil moderates, liberals and progressives are Tamils first, and moderates, liberals and progressives later.” Mmmm. Ever considered that the reverse would be true or at least most Tamils would consider it true? Try to be in a Null point, if you can, and give the reader a point of view of an academic you were long time ago. Take a sabbatical in Cuba or UCLA. I will recommend Cornell – a beautiful campus in the Fall. The problem will be here don’t worry.
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Netizen / April 14, 2015
Successive Sinhalese-dominated post-independence regimes of Lanka have injured DIGNITY of the ethnic Tamil minority community, through the chauvinist policies they pursued. The just ousted MR regime did the same to the Muslim community too, strategically manoeuvrings the Bodu Bala Sena as a tool. Naturally, they too threw their full weight behind My3 camp to defeat MR. Dayan’s pyrotechnics will only exacerbate this injured sense of DIGNITY.
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Ajith / April 14, 2015
[Edited out] Dayan is looking for reasons to raise the boiling point of Sinhala blood against Tamils. Indirectly, he wants a blood bath of Tamils by Sinhalese and the whole civilised world to turn against Sinhala. In otherwords, he wants to prove that Sinhalese are blood thirsty people. There is a general talk that many of those who converted from Buddhism to Christianity are more of an opportunistics and and very wise to create division among Sinhalese. He is one of them! He is anti Sinhalese! He is anti Tamil!. He is anti Srinakan!
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Justice & fairplay / April 14, 2015
Dayan Silva,
In all probability you grew up inside a dark hole and feared light.
You are comfortable only in the presence of fear and darkness and the unknown terror factor.
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Pala / April 14, 2015
DJ is an utter racist. No wonder he wholeheartedly supports the very racist previous horror regime with MR at its helm. Pissu DJ.
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Burning Issue / April 14, 2015
Depraved DJ,
“In the face of such blatant external tilting by the US-UK and our gargantuan neighbor, to one community on this island, who is there to speak for the majority community?”
First I need to expose your duplicitous nature. Not long ago, you claimed that you belong to one of the minority communities! Now you ask “who is there to speak for the majority community”.
The whole world was standing up against the LTTE; they proscribed their activities including their lucrative funding sources thus strangling their activities in SL. They provided intelligence, arms, and diplomatic backing in order that SL could militarily defeat the LTTE.
Have you forgotten this? You speak about the Kaddikamr model; this is exactly what the West and India want done. The majority community needs to be responsible and empower the Tamils as agreed and promised by the past and present Sri Lankan leaders. This is exactly what is expected of the majority community.
Understand this clearly, the Tamils will get 13A plus near-enough federal system within a united Sri Lanka; this is just and long over due. I think you should retire gracefully and keep your depraved mind at rest!
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Non PhD / April 14, 2015
I wonder how DST isthe ex diplomat and ageing political scientist , using the influence of Tamara wasable to organise a meeting between Raul Castro, the President of Cuba and Obama, the President of US, just few days before the Sinhala Tamil New Year to discuss Srilankan post war issues and in particular how to bring back MR and his sibilings and sons to power again.
DJ’s version of Gospel truth is even people like Laxman Kadirgamar and Neelan Thiruchelvam, Devanesan Nesaiah, Raviraj are Tamils first and progressive or moderates later.
It is sad that Lasantha Wickramatunge the former Sunday Leader editor is no more there to prove you wrong via his newspaper.
Who are you DJ ? MARXIST FIRST, SMART PATRIOT FIRST, PROGRESSIVE FIRST, MODERATE FIRST AND CHAUVANIST LAST, RACIST LAST, ADOLF HITLER LAST, SINHALESE BUDDHIST AT LAST?
It looks like SL is doomed because MR does not want to allow others to run the country.
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Hooter / April 14, 2015
Who cares about Ed. Milliband. What we care is about Dayan’s silence about the the way Air Force planes and helicopters were used by the Rajapakse’s, Wimal etc without a cent been paid. Come on Dayan, be a sport a give some answers. Or are you going duck it again under the cover of Maharajah or Tiran?
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dcn / April 14, 2015
DJ is suffering from Ranil/Chandrika/Mangala pbobia. He knows very well they will not give him any position in the government. He doesn’t criticise MS still hoping he may consider him. He backed MR imagining his return to power 3rd time which miserably failed.
Now and then he comes out with an article which will eventually end up bringing in some anti Tamil message and he pretends to be a political scholar/pundit. Just follow his series of articles which are all so biased. So much of corruption related news are around but he will not utter a word because all those are related to his master, MR and family.
Now he wants to spoil the spirit of the New Year and be should very well know what kind of reception he gets from the CT readers.
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Seelawathi / April 14, 2015
Not phobia but malacy and jealousy. He is malicious by all nature.. He talks big protraying himself to be highly educated but from his behaviour – almost everyone is becoming clear the man is on revengeful agendas. Anyone with a little brain would get it easily.
Now with MY3 rule, DJ will have no chances at least for a representative job of which he has been dreaming. He should be made silent – his poisonous cocktails can damage all the good moves towards a better society in this country.
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sun / April 15, 2015
YOU MAY BE VERY RIGHT- GIVEN THAT THE SENIOR BOY WOULD HAVE BEEN OFFERED A POSITION TO REPRESENT THE CURRENT REGIME, NO DOUBT THE SELFISH CREATURE WILL ACCEPT IT AND LEAVE THE COUNTRY FOR GENEVA OR NEW YORK. THIS MAN IS AN INCURABLE WOUND TO LANKEN PRESS TODAY: I DONT HATE ANY HUMAN BEEING BUT MY ANGERS BECOME MORE WHEN READING ABOUT DJ#s THOUGTS.
APITA BUDUMA BUDU SARANAI.
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alex / April 14, 2015
Happy new year DJ. Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed on New Years day! As ever I will be brief and address the points where DJ heads of into a lonely nationalist track into the wilderness:
i) The problem isn’t the Tamil Diaspora or the West, it is that Sri Lanka’s largely nationalist majority fails to recognise that in the modern world order Chauvinist national majorities are no longer protected by antiquated notions of absolute sovereignty;
ii) Sri Lanka, largely due to its very public murder of a large number (likely over 40,000) of its Tamil citizens is now under the global microscope (which should explain why DJ’s victimisation complex isn’t warranted);
iii) Where DJ is wrong, is that this chapter is very good for the vast majority of Sri Lankans (except the nationalist fanatics, including perhaps the author). Reconstructing Sri Lanka’s polity into one that represents all its peoples (and particularly includes the rights of all its indigenous peoples) will usher in an era of peace and prosperity as part of a neo liberal world order that has proven to uplift the lives of all those within it;
iv)DJ is further wrong that in the modern world backing China would some how protect Sri Lanka’s hegemony of the chauvinsts – the world is not the great game any more and it is much more cooperative;
v) Finally, DJ’s solution as always is to deem all Tamils as non-liberals, simply because they correctly assert their rights as indigenous people of Sri Lanka (and not a migrant minority). The extremists in this conversation are those who deny those indigenous rights to people who have been on the island for over a thousand years.
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Medalankara de Choppe / April 14, 2015
Jayatilake, I am a Sinhala Buddhist and a Southerner.Please listen to this. According to Mahawanse, Vijaya’s mother was a plain and simple prostitute who used to roam the roads.The 700 women who were brought were tarts.You and I are descendants of those tarts.I keep my mouth shut without spreading vile ideas because over a time my family developed what we call culture. Apparently your you have missed the bus.
Jayatilake, if you want to prove your point provide proof that the Tamils were not the original inhabitants of this country.From Jaffna to Hambantota, Ampara were inhabited by the Tamils.Dondra Temple was a Siva Kovil.It was converted to a Vishnu Kovil by Rajasinghe -the king of Seetawaka after it was sacked by the Portugese.Who handed over the sacred Dalada to the Portugese, not the Tamils but the uncultured Sinhala priests. Over a period of time the so called Sinhala people over came the prepondance of the Tamil population in the same manner that the few Male Muslim traders now have a population that is Muslim.
You are a blood thirsty, half wit, you are the person who landed us in this mess after you tried to deflect the accusation against SL with bogus promises.
DO NOT BLAME MILLIBRAND. You are personally responsible for this mess. You should be prosecuted for this shame that you brought upon this country and sent to jail for life without any reprieve.
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Samuel Jayaweera / April 15, 2015
Not worth to add your 2 cts to his articles. He is not representive for the cross section of the majority folks in the country. He is now conrered by the educated folks. His cause is to fight for his agendas. The guy [Edited out]
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Dev / April 14, 2015
Happy New Year Everyone !
As for Dayan, ignore him esp. on this auspicious day !
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Crazyoldmansl / April 14, 2015
It is high time the sinhalese whom this DJ speaks for realize that that have to give up the delusion of being “a nation entitled to political space and power equal to all other nations”. They have to recognize that they are not even the Sri Lankan nation because the Sri Lankan nation is composed of many citizens who do not have their heads stuffed with such delusional arrogance. They see themselves as part of a small islands population of some 20 million people who belong to many ethnic and religious backgrounds who have jointly built a state which belongs to all of them as its citizens.
It is high time that someone dragged the DJ off to the doctor.
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Pot Shot / April 14, 2015
Shall we all make a new year resolution and stop reading or commenting on Sri Lanka’s biggest and failed opportunist Dayan J.
Frankly I don’t see why we should put up with this man’s frustration as a failed emissary of the former government.
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Native Vedda / April 14, 2015
Pot Shot
Are you out of your mind?
“Frankly I don’t see why we should put up with this man’s frustration as a failed emissary of the former government.”
Name one person who really read his complete typing and comment here.
We are here for the fun, read comments and make fun of each other.
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alex / April 14, 2015
What a wonderful NY’s resolution.
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simon / April 14, 2015
Reading the comments of the famous war crimes denier, Milabd has ht a hasty retreat. He has now amended hs new years wishes, which goes like this.
“Milband on behalf of the British people wishes the Sinhalese War Criminals a happy Tamil New Year.”
So, finally Dayn, be happy. Some one is taking notice of you.
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Ansar / April 14, 2015
Asaipillai,
You could not have said it better.
I used to call him D….., you have gone one step further with a classic live incident report.
Hats off to you.
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Vanguard / April 14, 2015
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sandara / April 14, 2015
clear deterioration of a potential intellectual into a barbaric, cruel,third rate, self seeking, chavunistic individual. his education has only helped him to reach these low levels. very sorry for people who conferred him the dr.
sundara
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Lasanda / April 14, 2015
Dear Dr Dayan
The majority must stand as one and reject this puppet regime. That’s the only solution!
By the way, we received a new year wish from Sirisena and we sent it to the trash bin!
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Native Vedda / April 14, 2015
Lasanda
“The majority must stand as one and reject this puppet regime.”
Why?
“That’s the only solution!”
What is the solution?
“By the way, we received a new year wish from Sirisena and we sent it to the trash bin!”
Did he actually mean to send you his new year wishes or his secretary made a mistake and sent it to the wrong address?
It is rude to dump the new year wishes in the bin. I blame your family.
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Samuel Jayaweera / April 14, 2015
NV@,
happy new year to you… ! My new year wish would be many to gain more knowledge about the realities of the home country considering us all being SRILANKENS regardless of ethinic background.
Only solution would be to silence all these henchmen of MR.
That is the only solution if we really want to achieve permament peace in this country. THese men are nationalists or highly corrupted by birth. Or even stupid by all means to ask the high abusive man to return.
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yus / April 14, 2015
? Time for DJ are Prof Nalin,Weerawansa,Dinesh,Gamanpila,Vasu and You firstly moderates,Liberlals and Progressives and secondly Sinahlese.The profound statment that you make in the last paragraph(profound in your own small mind)is a clear reflection of who really you are and what you stand for.Your utterances are more racist than that of the BBS and idicates your intellecual bankruptcy and you and Maharaja will not rest untill a repeat of 1983.
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