Journalists from virtually every mainstream media in the country with the exception of the Sunday Times newspaper have accepted laptops and car loans or both from the Rajapaksa regime, a Colombo Telegraph investigation has revealed.
A free Laptop from President to Daily News Editor Rajpal Abeynayake
According to statements made by Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella in Parliament during the budget debate on the Media Ministry earlier this month, 496 journalists have been awarded laptops by the Government, proof that the regime is ‘media friendly’. In fact the file is in Colombo Telegraph‘s possession indicates that only 403 laptops have in fact been awarded and not all of them to journalists, indicating that the Media Minister has in fact misled the House on the issue.
The Minister’s leaked files now in possession of the Colombo Telegraph prove that only 136 mainstream journalists and 30 provincial correspondents have been awarded laptops by the regime and noted by name. 11 of those provincial correspondents are from the Media Minister’s electorate of Kandy while nine chosen correspondents are from President Rajapaksa’s Hambantota. The other 237 recipients are believed to be Ministerial aides and supporters who cannot be identified as journalists. No explanation can be found for the missing 93 laptops from the Minister’s file.
Several senior editors of newspapers in Sri Lanka have also accepted the interest-free car loans and the free laptop from the Government, the Colombo Telegraph investigation has revealed.
Speaking to the Colombo Telegraph Sunday Times Editor Sinha Ratnatunge said that his news editor had informed him that a letter had arrived informing him that there was a laptop allocated to him. He had been asked to attend a ceremony to receive the laptop, the letter had said. However Ratnatunge said he had decided not to accept the laptop from the Government or attend the ceremony.
It was only Ravaya News Editor Lasantha Ruhunage in writing refused to accept the free laptop.
Colombo Telegraph also spoke with the Editor of The Nation newspaper Malinda Seneviratne who accepted a laptop awarded by the Ministry. Seneviratne said that two laptops had been offered to The Nation. “Two laptops were offered to ‘The Nation’, one was for me. I believe I was one of the last journalists to make use of the offer. The reason is simple. We were short of computers at the time, so I took it and gave it to one of my journalists to use. I even gave the machine entitled to me as the editor to one of my journalists. In fact, I’ve always used my personal laptop for my work,” he told Colombo Telegraph. Asked if there was an ethics issue about accepting the laptops Seneviratne said he did not believe so.
“My company didn’t have a problem with it. I don’t have a problem with it. The only difference it has made is that it has made our work a little bit easier. Indeed, it is one of the many machines we use to write stories criticizing government policy,” he said.
Victor Ivan, Advisory Editor of the Ravaya newspaper said he had not been offered a laptop, but cautioned that the fundamental issue facing the Sri Lankan media was not about material support but freedom. “Giving privileges to selected people or profession is always a bad practice” he added.
After a series of exposures by the Colombo Telegraph about the serious conflict of interest issues and violations of standard journalistic ethics, the BBC World Service ruiled that some of its Sinhala Section journalists have breached journalistic ethics and violated BBC’s code of conduct by applying for interest free vehicle loans offered by the Sri Lankan Government. The BBC has also stated that the staff in breach of the code would be sent for retraining.
The Colombo Telegraph has been unable to reach Media Minster for comment.
We publish below the free laptop list in full;
Chief Editors
1. S Srigajan – Chief Editor – Weerakesari
2. Nisthar Cassim – Chief Editor – Daily and Weekend Financial Times
3. V Thanabalasinghan – Chief Editor – Thinakkural
4. Jatila Vellaboda – Chief Editor – Lakbima
5. Sisira Paranatantri – Chief Editor – Rivira
6. Thushara Gunaratne – Chief Editor – Maubima
7. Narada Nissanka – Chief Editor – Divaina
8. R Sivaraja – Chief Editor – Sudaroli
9. Gamini Jayalath – Chief Editor – Dinamina
10. Dinesh Weeravansa – Chief Editor – Sunday Observer
11. S Thillainathan – Chief Editor – Thinakaran
12. Karunadasa Sooriyarachchi – Chief Editor – Silumina
13. Rajpal Abeynayake – Chief Editor – Daily News
14. T. Seththivelar – Chief Editor – Thinakaran
15. Ariyananda Dombagahawatta – Chief Editor – Irida Lankadeepa
16. R. Prabagan – Chief Editor – Sunday Weerakesari
17. R. Baharthi – Chief Editor – Sunday Thinakkural
18. Mohan Lal Piyadasa – Chief Editor – Irurasa
19. Sundara Nihathamani De Mel – Chief Editor – Lakbima
20. Malinda Seneviratne- Chief Editor – Nation
21. Gamini Sumanasekara – Chief Editor – Irida Divayna
22. Saman Samarakkody – Chief Editor – Randiva
23. Ranga Jayasooriya – Chief Editor – Lakbima News
24. Mahinda Abesundara – Editorial Advisor – Dinamina
25. Jayantha Sri Nissanka – Editor – Ceylon Today / then News editor Lakbima News
News Heads
26. Nilantha Rajendra – Sri FM
27. Priyantha Pradeep Ranasinghe – Sha FM / Hiru FM
28. Lenin Raj – Vektary FM
29. Wasantha Karunaratne – Ran FM
30. Udithamal Hemachandra – Real radio / Kiss / Siyatha FM
31. Sameera Fernando – E FM
32. Mrugayya Indrajith – Sooriyan FM
33. Sachindra Jayesundara – Sun/ Gold FM
34. Bradman Jayaweera – Rangiri Sri Lanka
35. Sidath Mendis – Lak FM
36. Kulasiri Kariyawasam – Neth FM
37. Sashika Jayathilaka – The Buddhist radio/ TV
38. Chamika Janakantha Alwis – Isira radio
39. Shehan Baranage – Derana FM/ TV
40. Swarna Gunawardena – VIP radio
41. Sunesh Rodrigo – TNL rock FM
42. Champika Perera – Max radio
43. Chamila Galewela – Sinha FM
44. Udayajeewa Ekanayake – V FM
45. Chaminda Karunaratne – Swarnavahini
46. Sugath Dharmapriya – Sri TV
47. Sardha Jameel – Den TV
48. Teran Karannagoda – TNL
49. Nilantha Kankanamge – Art TV
50. Saddhamangala Sooriyabandara – CSN
51. Sudeva Hettiarachchi – Hiri TV
52. BAC Abewardena – TV Lanka
Section Directors and Managers
53. Vijaya Dissanayake – Rupavahini
54. NM Raja – Rupavahini
55. Vimukthika Kariyawasam – Rupavahini
56. Mohan Karunaratne – Rupavahini
57. Prasad Dodamgodage – Rupavahini
58. R Kanapathipillay – SLBC
59. Yusuf Noordeen – SLBC
60. Indika Jayaratne – SLBC
61. Thushara Sandanayake – SLBC
62. HSK Perera – ITN
63. GSN Perera – ITN
64. AG Gayan Chinthaka – ITN
65. Hasantha Hettiarachchi – ITN
66. Sanjeewa Edirimanna – ITN
News Editors
67. Sampath Deshapriya – Lakbima
68. Viranjana Herath – Rivira
69. Arthur Wamanan – the Nation
70. Benet Rupasinghe – Maubima
71. Piayasena Disanayake – Divayna Irida
72. Azif Huward – Ceylon Today
73. Naleen Dilruksha – Dinamina
74. Indrani Peiris – Lankadeepa
75. Ranjith Ananda Jayasinghe – Lankadeepa Irida
76. Duminda Sanjeewa Balasuriya – Ada
77. Daya Lankapura – Irurasa
78. Chaminda Senaratne – Randiva
Other section heads
79. Wimalanath Weeraratne – Ravaya
80. Nuwan Gankanda – Lakbima
81. Manoj Abedheera – Dinaina
82. Chandrasiri Dodamgoda- Divaina
83. Anura Solamons – Divaina
84. KRP Haran – Thinakural
Cartoonists
85. Tissa Hewavissa – Lankadeepa
86. Dasa Hapuvalana – Lankadeepa
87. Talangama Jayasighe – Lankadeepa
88. Prithi Kannangara – Dinamina
89. Ruwan Tharasvin – Dianamina
90. Janaka Ratnayake – Mawbima
91. MD Weeraratne – Divaina
92. Sujeewa Jayawickkrama – Lakbima
93. Anjana Indrajith – Lakbima
94. Darshana Karunatilake – Lakbima
95. Camilus Perera – Rivira
96. Asanga Indunil – Rivira
97. Awantha Artigala – Daily mirror
98. BB Opatha – Daily News
99. Shantha Weeramuni – Island
100. Udaya Wimalasiri – Island
101. Jeffrey Kelaart – Island
102. SM Jayasekera – Irurasa
Journalists
103. Mangala Radaliyagoda – ITN
104. Surendra Abepala – ITN
105. Vajira Sumedha – Swarnavahini
106. Lakmal sanjeewa – Swarnavahini
107. Sajith Ranasinghe – Swarnavahini
108. AEAN Wijeratne – SLBC
109. Ajith Gamage – Hiru FM
110. Sandamali Apsara – Sri FM
111. Jayasiri Munasinghe – Dinamina
112. Dhanushka Godakumbura – Dinamina
113. Mahinda Aluthgedara – Dinamina
114. Ruwan De Silva – Dinamina
115. Lorenz Selvanayagam – Thinakaran
116. Marlin marikkar – Thinakaran
117. Sunil Daya Alwis – Thinakaran
118. Anura Balasuriya – Divaina
119. Jude Densil Pathiraja – Divaina
120. Dushyantha Samarasena – Lankadeepa
121. Gayan Agalakada – Lankadeepa
122. Panuka Rajapaksa – Lakbima
123. Suranimala Perera – Lakbima
124. Sandun Jayasekara – Daily Mirror
125. Crishty Mahesh De Silva – Rivira
126. Tigo Kugan – Thinakkural
127. A Kanagaraja – Weerakesari
128. Nandana Kehelgamuwa – Maubima
129. Gamunu Vallage – Maubima
130. Keerthi Warnakulasooriya – Divaina
131. Chamara Lakshan Kumara – Irurasa
132. Bulitha Pradeep Kumara – Divaina
133. Nayanaka Ranwella – Rivira
134. Nimal Seneviratna – SLBC
135. Mohan Perera – SLBC
136. Kamal Jayamanna – SLBC
Provincial Journalists
137. K Arzarathnam – Manipai / Lake House
138. C Wimalasurendra – Kanday / Upali Newspapers
139. Kamal Suraweera – Kandy / –
140. Asanka Arambewatta – Kandy / –
141. Gaya Wanniarachchi – Kandy / –
142. Nihal Jayawardena – Kandy /-
143. Shan Seneviratne – Kandy / –
144. AG Wickckramsinha – Kandy / –
145. IPW Polkotuwa – Kandy / Upali Newspapers
146. JL Jayasinghe – Kandy / Lankadeepa
147. Asela Kuruluwnasa – Kandy / Dinamina
148. Herath banda – Kandy/ –
149. MA Fakurdeen – Akkarapattu 4 / Lake House
150. WSKK Justin – Uyanva – Matara /Lake House
151. Edmon Liyange – Matara /-
152. SP Ediwin – Tangalle / Lake House
153. Gamini Obesekara – Polonnaruwa / ITN
154. WGS Nissanka – Polonnaruwa / Dinamina
155. Chaya Wickckrama Surendra – Matara / Rupavahini
156. SM Farook – Badulla / Lake House
157. PHG Kulasiri – Beliatta – Hambantota/ Rupavahini
158. WSA Pakkaja Sankalpa – Matara / ITN
159. RHAR Vydyasekara – Hambantota / Lake House
160. Karunadasa Kottegoda – Hambantota / Upali Newspapers
161. KK Ariyadasa – Hambantota / –
162. Granvil Ratnayake – Hambantota / –
163. DG Jaysundara – Hambantota / –
164. Sanath Gamage – Hambantota / –
165. Wimal Garusinghe – Hambantota/ –
166. KK Dayasena – Hambantota / –
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WINSTON DEVALLIERE / December 22, 2013
Gaje, remember BILL CLINTON saying he did nothing wrong…just stood up and took it [rather gave it]…or was it ‘ allowed it” as Monica deep-throated him ? Ahem, that was not very long after she was savouring what it was to be like on Clinton’s “laptop”.
Like journalism, it’s a ‘process’. See?
Well, well ! Guess what these bastards will be doing next!! a la Levinsky !
So maybe I can coin a word to define kept journalists ?
How does “LEVINSKYTES” SOUND ? NOT BAD EH ?
WHAT’S [Edited out] SUCKING JOURNO CALLED ? A MONIKAT ? A MONICUNT? OR A LEVINSKYTE ? I KNOW WHAT I WILL BE CALLING THEM HEREAFTER: C-SUCKERS !
HEY CT ! I HAND THIS OVER TO YOU.
MAYBE YOU CAN REGISTER IT WITH THE CHAMBERS DICTIONARY.
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Javi / December 29, 2013
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punchinilame / December 23, 2013
This list is the Local List as the Foreign List may include the name
Kamalesh Sharma who can only be satisfied with a Mac Pro (6 core)
instrument costing only USD 4000.00.
Now that CHOGM II is in the making, this news may spill out??
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Kamal / December 23, 2013
Offering material benefits to those work for the state is not a new thing. Take the whole issue of duty free car permits to politicians and high level public officers ?
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Park / December 23, 2013
How stupid these media guys can be! Its very easy to bug these laptops so that anything that is typed into these laptops can be viewed by the Government on a “live” basis. Every email, every letter, every chat could be monitored and tracked. Sad state of affairs for all those who took these lap tops. They themselves would have contributed to creating secret files by the Defence Ministry on them. Stupid Idiots.
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Naga / December 23, 2013
I do not understand this big fuss over the free laptops and car loans to journalists. These days journalists need laptops.Most of the Sri Lankan journalists live on very low wages and may not be able to buy their own laptops and the institutions that employ them may not be able to provide these. If the government provides these using public funds why should it be considered an issue of journalist ethics? One may have an objection if President Rajapakse provides these laptops using his own funds. It is public money that is used to help a section of the community that provides a useful service by informing them of current events and comments on politics. Why should anyone assume that just because they received a free laptop provided by the government they will definitely refrain from criticizing the government?
Government provides duty free car allowances to all Members of Parliament. All them including TNA and UNP MPs received them. Did they stop criticizing the government? TNA Leader Sampanthan was provided with a bullet proof car by former President Chandrika Kumaratunga for his protection? Did anyone say Chandrika was bribing Sampanthan? Sampanthan did not have any qualms in accepting this.
Now the government is providing police protection to all MPs and even Provincial Councillors. TNA MPs and Councillors readily accept this protection. Did they stop criticizing the government just because they received duty free car allowances and police protection from the government?
Why do you differentiate the MPs and journalists? If it is not unethical for opposition MPs how then it could be unethical for journalists to accept free laptops and car allowances? The undeniable fact is that both the MPS and journalists serve in the interests of the public and they are given these at the expense of public funds. The moneys to buy these laptops are not coming out of President Rajapakse’s pockets.
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srilal / December 24, 2013
which one in the above list represents your real name ?
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Javi / December 29, 2013
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Abhaya / January 14, 2014
Its ethics when the crooked Telegraph does not get a laptop .
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ethics-explained / April 7, 2014
The ethics kicks in especially because the government picks and chooses the journalists that get freebies. It is not an entitlement based on published criteria. Journalists are then “incentivised” to keep writing/functioning in a way that allows them to be chosen for future freebies as well. That’s why it is unethical.
In parliament benefits such as duty free licenses are given to all equally on a transparent basis, individual MPs cannot be deleted from the list by the president if he does not like what they say.
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crazyoldmansl / December 23, 2013
Thanks for the list of lapdogs.
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Vidhya / December 23, 2013
The Sri Lankan government ofter the free laptop and interest free car loan is okey with the our president view. It is good who worked with the responsibitly of media and protect the nation; but not who worked & support earlier with the LTTE and currently with the TNA.
Tamil newspaper such as Thinakkural , Weerakesari & SurarOli are LTTE support newspapers. Specially Surar Oli is belongs to Saravanapavan MP who alwas acting as LTTE proxy. how can this shameless above tamil media can go and get above gift from the givernment? They are not capable to get this at all. Beggers!!!!!! V.Thanabalasingam, KRP Karan, Bradhi & Sirikaran, Thillainathan, Surar Oli Selvaraj….. Above tamil medias fueling to LTTE and blaming government….!
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cindymontrose / December 23, 2013
Buying the journalists is a crafty act of fat Mahinda. They are now under obligation to fat Mahinda. They will be told what to write and against whom to write. He may even create a new ministry to manage the latest purchase, the journalists… and the best partial writer might be given the appointment as the Minister of Journalists… hahahahahhahaaa what a joker is this Mahinda.
Has’t he got any thing better to do, than waste time inviting these guys and giving bribes.
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Stanley / December 24, 2013
1. It’s not MR’s money.
2. Providing facilities to journalists are mentioned in Mahinda Chinthanaya and whole nation approved it already.
Please be calm yourselves and go back to work :)
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WINSTON DEVALLIERE / December 24, 2013
[Edited out], PROVIDING FACILITIES TO JOURNALISTS IS THE DUTY OF THE CHAIRMEN OF THE NEWSPAPERS. STOP SITTING ON YOUR F…..G BRAIN YOU [Edited out]
WITH [Edited out] LIKE YOU AROUND IT’S NO WONDER THAT THE MAHINDA CHINTANAYA WAS MANDATED. EVER SEEN A SLIMY WORM CREEPING OUT OF THE REAR END OF A DEAD PIG ? nO ? MUST BE KIDDING !!! GO LOOK IN THE MIRROR INSTEAD OF LOOKING FOR A NON-EXISTENT BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
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Stanley / January 4, 2014
are you unemployed now? or you lost the job because of being impolite? :)
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Thondamanaru / December 24, 2013
Up grading the Sri Lanka jurnos.
Now SL jurnos too use lap tops.
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Antany Peter / December 24, 2013
For the leaders who control the media and the country you are a LTTE member, if you are a Tamil intellectual. You are a traitor, if you are a Sinhalese intellectual. None of the them who comment on Lakbima news under various names is ready to disclose his identity. They say that they are patriots, but they can’t reveal their identity. What kind of patriotism is this? The comments are extremely pro Rajapaksa regime. And derogatory comments are made towards the people who are commenting against the Rajapaksa regime’s policies. And also derogatory comments are made under others’ name who comment against the Rajapaksa regime. This is very deplorable behavior. Every decent Sri Lankan must condemn this lowlife behavior. Clearly, it is the evidence of authoritarian rule in Sri Lanka. Seriously, Sri Lanka is going down, I urge the Lankans to wake up, the sooner is the better for you and for your future generations.
They are commenting under different names. Has anyone heard about Rohana Kodikara, Goring Aiya, Chandani’s, or Sarath Goonetilleke’s political expertise from the other media in Sri Lanka? The answer is no, they are creating bogus names and expressing their foolish ideas under those names. The Rajapaksa regime has been accusing me as LTTE since I stared to wake the people. This is an evil trick as Prabhakaran eliminated most of the Tamil intellectuals and political leaders. This trick will harm the country and divide the people. I never accepted the LTTE as leaders or as a solution for the country. I didn’t even give one cent to the LTTE. When I was sixteen I had finished reading about President Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Junior. They are my role models, they never took arms against others to achieve their great goals, but shot and killed by others. I am the First Asian to expose the West’s dirty democracy outside of Asia, and to start an organisation to unite the billions of Asians, because of my role models. I kept my distance from most of the Tamils, because I never accepted the LTTE. This is the reason I am not part of any Tamil organisation. If I accepted the LTTE, I would have joined with the GTF or TGTE. I have decided to do as much as I can to bring a change in Sri Lanka not only for Tamils, but for the whole country.
They all have been taught to hate their own people. Tell me one Asian country has been fighting like Sri Lanka in the 21st century? I am the first Asian to expose the West’s dirty democracy outside of Asia, and also to start Asia Unites to unite the billions of Asian. I have been paying high price for my determination and courage. But what the Sri Lankans did to me? Accusing me as the LTTE member, publishing derogatory comments under my name, or publishing derogatory comments unde bogus names and blaming me for it. This is how they appreciate their own intellectuals, no wonder why they have been fighting since 1948. I rank Sri Lanka in the last in Asia. I come across the most lowest people in Sri Lanka. They have done so much evil to their own people. Surely the country has been cursed, because of the arrogant and ignorant leaders like J R, Prabhakaran, Rajapaksa brothers etc. Therefore, I am committed to expose the truth to theSri Lankans and to the world to remove the leaders who have been curse to the country. I owe this responsibility to the people of Sri Lanka and also to the world.
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layer / December 27, 2013
journalist on mara’s lap are on top
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Sam / December 31, 2013
I wonder what would be the reason for these ‘laptop awards’?
I’m sure the main reason is to monitor each and every move (or key stroke) of the main media personnel in Sri Lanka so as to keep them under control.
I can guarantee that these laptops are bugged.
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Priyalal Dissanayake / December 31, 2013
That’s elementary Sam.
That is to make these topless journos sit
on the lap of the politicians. That becomes
the final lap of their career for they
go off their top.
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Afzal / January 4, 2014
It is not surprising that “FAT FUK” is missing in action on this topic. What a cowered. Where else on every single article even it has iota of a reference to minority community “FAT FUK” pounce on it like to mad dog with his Gibberish.
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Scott / January 5, 2014
Malinda Seneviratne, you are exposed. You can’t hide behind your verbiage and verbosity any more. Rather than pretending to be “objective” have at least the honesty to accept that you a Raja[aksa slave and that you have no moral worth.
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Lasantha Pethiyagoda / January 8, 2014
I suppose in poor countries, laptop computers are a luxury and people’s asking price is fairly low. In Australia (for example) if an unethical person with a vested interest attempts to bribe it would be relatively uphill as their basic needs and tools of the trade are relatively affordable, and the sense of indignation at the implied insult will generally dampen the corrupt person’s enthusiasm.
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Abhaya / January 12, 2014
CT is run by a bunch of morons , how does giving a laptop mean they would write good things about the govt . I suppose the head honcho of this idiotic outfit didnt get one . lmao
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Native Vedda / January 12, 2014
Abhaya
“how does giving a laptop mean they would write good things about the govt”
Buying loyalty and return is in their gratitude. It had worked superbly well in the past and will work forever.
I wonder though you maintain that you never got one but you still remain loyal to the clan. Did you get the equivalent of a main frame computer?
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Abhaya / January 13, 2014
wedda
no wonder you go nekkid and worship thissahamy . they pretty much gave laptops to every journo they could find 150 or so , are you stupid or dense or both . a laptop is like 200 $ its nothing . CT is run by morons and weddas . they are lucky to have a bow and arrow . lmao .
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bo / January 20, 2014
Soon all those criticizing MARA will be eating from MARA’s hands like ducks. LOL
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Wayne dyer / January 22, 2014
This means all the rest of the of the journalists are professionals!
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P.T. Rajah / January 23, 2014
The coming elections will give the answer. Results will give these people a shock. Wait and see.
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Sengodan. M / January 24, 2014
Bought over!
Sengodan. M
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salmaj / January 25, 2014
List of those person who took the benefits is far too long and it would be of interest to the CT readers to have a list of prominent journalists who did not take the loan. Can CT do this also.
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JimSofty / February 10, 2014
If CT were given a good financial grant as these Journos were given, CT would never publish this article.
Believe me, if CT was given a 500,000 grant CT would become Pro-Sri Lankan govt.
CT editorail board knows that, Be some of them are Tamils, it does not matter. They will be Pro-Sri Lankan govt.
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Roos / April 15, 2014
Kandy and Hanbantota has got a bigger quota. Kehelia has served himself
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Peter Casie Chetty / September 8, 2014
When the UNP was in power they had their own favourites. Lasantha Wickrematunga had free access to Ranil Wickremasinghe office also Dineth Kulatunga and a few others. Lal Wickrematunga was ever present at all the UNP media conferences not as a journalist but as a a supporter. Jehan Perera and Pakayasothy were the others who got inside info and who knows other perks. There was no Colombo Telegraph in existence when Richard Saravanamuttu de Zoysa was murdered.
Every regime has its own “sodomisables”.
So what is all the fuss about?
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sirisena yatawara / October 23, 2014
LTTE of Tamil ruthless terrorist outfits by way & many forms by attempted to divided and split Sri lanka, that One for non- Tamil land other for Tamil state of name the Eealm of separatism.
So-called Tamil intellectual’s who are having deep roots that Tamil chauvinist ideology used and manipulated Eealm struggle for different forms; as Gandhi path of methods of non-violence one route and other one.is/was..Gun point politics by LTTE form of struggle by war on Terror.
Terror politics or non-violence way of politics by Tamils few handful leadership TNA are NOT struggle for liberation or salvation of Tamil, but that is counter-revolutionary steps form of an established Rough State in Indian sub-continental, that tip of Republic of India which against People of India.
Tamil Eealm is I believe the chief sources of the belief in Tamil intellectuals eternal and exact truth as well as in a super-sensible intelligible world.
There was general development of Tamil Eealm first from Federalism to Separatism or Eealm then to alternation of Tamil terrorist of that tyranny and democracy.
Tamil’s democracy different social phenomenal was that different parts inside and outside Sri lanka. In all history nothing is so surprising or so difficult to account for as the sudden rise of Tamil civilization in Sri lanka. Much of what makers Tamil civilization had already existed for thousands of years in Tamil Nadu, India and had spread thence to neighboring countries like Sri lanka.
Needless to say Tamil’s elites politics invented Eealm or Separatism in Sri lanka, which was purely intellectual realm is even more exceptional.
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vis8d / January 9, 2015
First get the “laptop heroes” who hallucinate most of the junk that appears in the CT. Will have some respect for your naysaying “journal” then.
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