By Dayan Jayatilleka –
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
Who and what do we take more seriously? Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s promise made to the Sri Lankan parliament of ‘the implementation of the 13th amendment within the unitary state’, or that which his Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera has disclosed in New Delhi, India, while “talking to a select group of journalists”? I’d go with the latter, not only because of the venue, but also because Mr. Samaraweera is known to be the bridge between Mr. Wickremesinghe and his influential political ally and partner, Madam Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga.
The Foreign Minister has given us the first clear inkling of the real political agenda of the new Government: “Sri Lankan Minister of External Affairs Mangala Samaraweera has outlined a series of steps President Maithripala Sirisena’s Government will undertake to achieve national reconciliation in the civil war-ravaged island-nation.” (‘Mangala Promises De-militarization of The North’, Domestic War Crimes Probe’, S. Venkat Narayan, the Island, Wednesday, January 21st 2015, page 1 lead story.)
The Foreign Minister is bullish and he is on the record. ‘”All these years we failed to achieve national reconciliation because there was no political will. Now there is a political will. We are optimistic about pulling it off this time,” the minister asserted.’ (Ibid)
What is the Foreign Minister upbeat about pulling off? ‘National reconciliation’ it would seem. Why has no one pulled it off as yet? Going by Minister Samaraweera’s version it was because “there was no political will”. I am deeply appreciative of this perspective because I had mistakenly thought for thirty years it was because of the war and the obduracy of the Tigers, and in the decades before and the half-decade after the war, it was the lack of broad bipartisan consensus. Now I know different. It was the lack, not of consensus or of a reliable peace partner, but precisely of political will. Well, you live and learn.
I also learned what Foreign Minister Samaraweera regards as the components and contents of “national reconciliation”; what the ingredients of “national reconciliation” are. Consensus at and within a roundtable process such as the Parliamentary Select Committee certainly isn’t one. “Who [would] go for a new Parliament Select Committee? There’s no need to reinvent the wheel.” That’s what he said, according to S. Venkat Narayanan.
If broad consensus is not an indispensable ingredient of ‘national reconciliation’, what is Minister Samaraweera’s program? Going by ‘Mangala Chinthana’ it seems to be threefold:
- “De-militarization of the Northern province.”
- “A domestic probe with UN assistance into what actually happened in the war zone in the months before the LTTE was militarily defeated by the security forces in May 2009”.
- “The Thimpu Proposals, the Mangala Moonesinghe Proposals, the CBK (Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga) Proposals, to name but a few”. (Ibid.)
To recapitulate (a) de-militarization (b) a domestic probe with UN assistance and (c) political proposals ranging from the Thimpu principles to Chandrika’s political packages.
The problem is two-fold: not only is each and every one of these three points downright wrong and bad as policy, but the triangle they constitute is a recipe for catastrophe– a political and strategic Chernobyl.
De-militarization of the Northern Province: The North is a strategically ultrasensitive province because it is separated by only a narrow strip of water from Tamil Nadu which is much larger and several times more populous than Sri Lanka; which has been a source of repeated aggression against Sri Lanka over millennia; and in which there remains a large pool of hysterical pro-Tamil Eelam and anti-Sri Lankan sentiment. No country would de-militarize such a vulnerable border province from which separatist or irredentist pulls can originate. It would have been entirely different had Foreign Minister Samaraweera said “demilitarize Northern society”, which would have meant reducing the military footprint in the North to a point that it is not overtly and excessively intrusive and alienating. However, that is not what Minister Samaraweera said. He said “demilitarize the Northern Province”. It took the Union armies twelve years to “de-militarize” the defeated Confederate states of the South after the American Civil War, and that was despite the fact that the Southern states did not have a much larger and more populous neighboring state with a reservoir of secessionist sentiment.
A domestic inquiry with the assistance of UN agencies: The new Foreign Minister should have stuck strictly to a pledge of fully implementing the recommendations of the LLRC. No less and no more. The LLRC listed several incidents which it said required independent investigation. Differently put, the LLRC recommended an independent yet specific and limited, domestic inquiry. That is not what Minister Samaraweera proposes. No legitimate, sovereign state which has defeated a terrorist army, has subjected itself to any inquiry within five years. Many states have taken three to four decades, and with good reason. Some, such as democratic Spain, an EU and NATO member, has rendered illegal, any inquiry even into the numbers of dead in a civil war that ended 75 years ago! Cambodia did have a domestic inquiry assisted by UN agencies as Minister Samaraweera proposes, but that was precisely against the defeated, genocidal Khmer Rouge, not against the legitimate army of the state– and in any case, there was a three decade lag between the inquiry and the events it investigated.
From Thimpu to the Mangala Moonesinghe and CBK proposals: the Thimpu proposals of 1985 were presented by a united front of Tamil Eelam organizations including the Tamil Tigers represented by Anton Balasingham. The main planks were (i) the recognition of Tamil nationhood, (ii) the right of national self-determination and (iii) the Northern and Eastern provinces as the traditional homeland of the Tamil speaking people. They were rejected out of hand by the UNP government of the day. Mr. Samaraweera represents a UNP government—albeit one that was not unelected as such. Precisely which aspects of the Thimpu proposals does he think should be permitted on the table? The Mangala Moonesinghe proposals contained a straight swap which was perhaps acceptable in wartime: federalism for de-merger. Is Mr. Samaraweera proposing federalism instead of the unitary state with devolution? The Chandrika packages proposed the removal of the term unitary and the re-definition of Sri Lanka as a “union of regions”.
These proposals could not be implemented even while the Sri Lankan state was under the gun of the Tigers. By what logic does Mr. Samaraweera think that compromises which the majority found unacceptable even during the war are necessary or will be acceptable after we have won it?
Does Mr. Samaraweera think that any of it will get past the masses at a referendum or does his Government now possess “the political will” to push on without a referendum?
Is this triadic “national reconciliation’, consisting of the “demilitarization of the Northern Province”, a “domestic inquiry with the assistance of UN Agencies” into the last months of the war, and a political outcome which takes as building blocks the Thimpu proposals and Chandrika’s ‘packages’, what our soldiers fought and died for? Is this what the war was for? Is this to be the political edifice erected over the great victory of 2009?
Dev / January 23, 2015
A little fox on not getting the grapes said…they are probably sour. –Aesop
You hope for the position that Mangala holds, missed out and now a wee bit jealous are we?
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Native Vedda / January 23, 2015
Dev
Have you read the whole of his typing?
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Sinchuappu / January 23, 2015
DJ is the most known malicious political analyst of all times.
I am telling this – this man has no other agendas than attacking the current caretaker govt. If I were him, I would have helped them the current men and women in their endeavours with wholeheartedness. This man and Malinda are both only bound to add malicious criticisms instead.
Good luck to us so long the kind of men in active – specially – in current turning point of the lanken politics.
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Sun / January 23, 2015
Dayan’s political incontinence needs to be examined. A man who publicly supported a most abusive men in the country – totally ignoring the gravity of it – I don thave any right to teach moral lessions to anyone as he has furtehr been doing now.
please CT readers, go and check yourself the archives of DJ particularly restricting to last 12 calendar months – there you will clearly see it his ultimate aims was to get him posted to a new destination than anything else. He is like a little boy who would turn his head the other side, would never see back to get how deep he is fallen to this day. This man knew almost everything about high profile corruption issues of the govt – those who got elected to new ruling team are speechless today, how they have built Araliya gaha mandiraya – by abusing all the funds of the people. Transport workers of the country stay witout being paid to them but MR had abused over billions of lanken funds for provide transport to his campaign. All these should be gotten back to give a life to the poor is the main motive of the current rulers- I wish all the very best for the current regime – may all mighty gods being blessed with them to achieve their 100-day programme to a better start of the nation.
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Javi. / January 23, 2015
and rather disgustingly the little man writes;
“..but precisely of political Will. well, you Live and Learn.””
and when you ever go away I could smell it from here.
Casandra cassanawa!
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Ajith / January 23, 2015
A dirty rascist fox is playing its game. He is trying to create fear among Sinhalese about Tamil Nadu and war crimes etc exaxctly the same mantra used by Mahinda and BBS. He wants to see another bloodbath in this soil.
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Fareeda A / January 23, 2015
Yes, this man who prides and parades himself as an intellectual is now exposing himself.
Not as a racist – a creature with some claim to genuineness though evidently harmful and detestable – but as one who is not averse to exploiting racist paranoia to sabotage the closure to something that has plagued and devastated this country and its people for more than eight decades.
For no purpose other than to glean something for himself.
This self serving insincerity is no more and no less than what is to be expected from his bourgeois origins and continuing aspirations for parasitic status – a status that he continues to recall and dream of regaining by one means or another.
How can anyone be blind to the enormous losses this country and its people have suffered by their disproportionate preoccupation with denying this or that to the minorities? All this at the expense of wasting resources, time and energy which if not for this mad diversion could have made us a people to be admired envied!
Not only have these hypocrites wasted enormous national material resources but they have perverted the minds of the people of this country for their narrow self serving ends through their shamelessly adopted chauvinism.
Encouraging this wasteful preoccupation with what has been aptly described as our long played game of ethnic outbidding, to nit pick and muddy the waters as this parasite seeks to do should be dealt with under laws relating to treason.
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nike / January 23, 2015
ajith, you dirty coward….you’re a disgrace to sinhalese nation….your name sounds like a sinhalese, but you act like a paraya
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Ram / January 23, 2015
Don’t be taken in by his moniker.
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Humbug / January 23, 2015
The new advisory council should take note of these things as well, while drawing up new rules and laws. “Hate speeches, inciting communal/racism, religious blasphemy, character assassinations” should all be dealt with appropriate punishments.
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Native Vedda / January 23, 2015
Dev
This war monger write:
“The main planks were (i) the recognition of Tamil nationhood, (ii) the right of national self-determination and (iii) the Northern and Eastern provinces as the traditional homeland of the Tamil speaking people. They were rejected out of hand by the UNP government of the day.”
This war crime denier was a minister and part of the North East Provincial Council which was dominated by EPRLF. Thimpu principles were heart of EPRLF’s struggle(?) according to its publications. The party never renounced nor distanced itself from these principles.
Dayan suddenly sees conspiracy, inconsistency, danger, war cloud, Tamil nationalism, VP’s fat bump, federalism, Thimpu principles, political bankruptcy …. everywhere. Rather he should worry about his EPRLF days.
Perhaps Dayan is unhappy about the way Sushma and Mangala affectionately holding each other’s hands.
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Javi. / January 23, 2015
“Perhaps Dayan is unhappy about the way Sushma and Mangala affectionately holding each other’s hands. “
Yes, she is a New Delhi Defense Colony College Girl of the 80’s.
Papa GL could not do the jive.
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Javi. / January 23, 2015
Its like 2 fat ladies.
Former RAW chiefs daughter Sujatha Singh Foreign Sec. is a stumbling block for neighbour relations because she has shied from it. Term ends Auj2015
The man diplomat presently at US will take over: S. Jaishankar proved himself in the US first time.
Chithranganie Wagiswara wont be able to handle him, he Himalaya.
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Nivareddy Cabburala / January 23, 2015
Sushma is not a very attractive person. Anyway, she is safe with the gayboy. So no problem here for DJ or Sushma.
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Javi. / January 23, 2015
at Lady Shri Ram College Menika, Sujata, Sushma were in the students union striking lot all driving their pops fiats and that is how lucknow woman got in.
Anyway she needs Jayshanker who is a class above rest with language skills and family pedigree of administration with simplicity- the cross legged boys of n.delhi cantonment not tamil nadu.
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Dev / January 23, 2015
Native,
In case you didn’t read it, you didn’t miss much.
I think old age is catching up and he is forgetting his sordid past.
By the way, where is Rajasingham Narendran? He is very quiet these days after the election.
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Javi. / January 23, 2015
S. Jaishankar served at China and solved the major stumbling blocks because he speaks Mandarin- (2009 to 2013) Solved US problems in English first time.
Dayan Was….at Paris but did not learn Romance or French except he and Mango gave us a running commentary of Hadley Chase style murder at Paris on CT and ran away. France is different now- high security with Belgium.
Dayan take a book and read a foreign language plus its culture to learn romance which your pop never told you are.
You cannot now play the China card even if your Passa captures power.
Hope the JT’s dont spoil it for themselves as they usually do by not negotiating but bullying.
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Anpu / January 23, 2015
Dev,
“where is Rajasingham Narendran?” I am also wondering about Dr RN.
I am also wondering about Thiru.
Have not heard from them after the election.
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Native Vedda / January 23, 2015
Dev & Anpu
“where is Rajasingham Narendran?”
I am worried about his health.
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georgethebushpig / January 23, 2015
Aiyoo! I took him for his word when he said he wasn’t going to write to the English speaking audience just a couple of weeks ago. Why such a hasty retreat? Couldn’t he at least given us about a 6 month reprieve?
Regards
GTBP
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Amarasiri / January 23, 2015
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
RE: The New Government’s Real Agenda
Catch the Culptits, Punish the Guilty Culprits .
Dayan, do you have any shame? Are there are “limits” to Shilling and White-washing?
JVP Press Conference on 21.01.2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&x-yt-cl=84503534&v=8tx2f_o2Oj8&x-yt-ts=1421914688
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Samuel Jayaweera / January 23, 2015
Dear CT readers,
Nation’s most known bakapundit know-all – self proclaimed political analyst plus senior diplomat has been making every effort to rubble rouse the 5.7millions that gave their universal franchise to MR. I dont think now even half of the number still feel that they did a good job. However, many today with much of the information mushrooming reveealing more about the the gravity of corruption that deliberately engineered by MR and his oligarchs. But with the time, as you guys becoming clear, the country will have almost none to help ministries since almost all and sundry were there have been infected by Rajapakshe corruption devices. This is the reason why the formerleader to threat his ministers with FILES. But how many of them have opened their hearts today – almost more than a half of upfa. Hour to hour people become more aware of high profile abuses. In the days to come, Basil Rajapakshe will be brought before the courts – so almost everything will be informed to the nation.
This man DJ being in his slumber not have grasphed it right – should be healed by a process of healing him new forms of tranquilizers. He may be suffering from schizophrenia of high grade. Only therapies can save him life. There is no other option for us to wish him while ignoring man’s rubbish – beleiving his health condition would recover soon: Dayan you please get well soon and let s see whether we could work together in the future.
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Kain / January 23, 2015
Still writing? I thought you promised you will never write again in English? Please keep your promise!
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Leelawathie / January 23, 2015
I just started reading HIS USUAL VERBAL DIAHORREA but I lost my appetite IMMEDIATELY.. since it is the same baila DELIBERATELY stammering going through his channels as he is used to be. Now most knowing Bodhilima – knowing very clearly that he will never be posted for a diplomatic engagement – with almost all and sundry becoming known that RW is not a person as the MR regime painted to the locals – DJ seems to have lost his all hopes. This is the reason him to come this way and continue his malicious writing.
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imad / January 23, 2015
Dayan means doyen of broken promises. He is now ‘scoring’ a point out of what Mangala said in India as giving maximum autonomy to Tamils in the North and East, and what PM Ranil said as implementing 13th Amendment subject to unitary state. In my view, there is no contradiction between both statements. One has to look at Manga’s statement against the backdrop where MR had assured Indian leaders that he would grant 13 A plus. Mangala’s use of the term ‘autonomy’ should be seen in that context. It should not be understood in the same manner that a political scientist or a constitutional lawyer would give meaning to it. It is a form of politician’s language at best. In essence, it would appear that both are open to giving maximum power available under the 13th Amendment. And they are right in my view.
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Citizen / January 23, 2015
The new leaders have a superficial regard for the opinion of us citizens, that much has become crystal clear from their behavior over the past 12 or so days. FM’s comments are highly inflammatory…and it is not what was promised by them prior to the election to say the least…voters have been severely duped!
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Native Vedda / January 23, 2015
Citizen
“it is not what was promised by them prior to the election to say the least…voters have been severely duped!”
It has been the case for the past 67 years.
What is new? You would have got used to the idea by now.
Why are you mourning about it?
Remember it is the majoritarians who run the country.
“FM’s comments are highly inflammatory…”
Why?
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Moda putha / January 23, 2015
Dayan, you have lost your credibility, pls realise you are a spent force. Even Rajiva got something from the new govt but poor you nothing.
You are a war monger, with your bollocks political analysis bent backwards supporting the previous corrupt regime pls stop writing and take a break
Lol
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sama / January 23, 2015
It is just Prof. Rajva Wijensinghe has no such malicious agendas to go against Ranil WIckremasinghe. Just now I happened to listen to Rajiva in the SATANA weekly forum on Sirasa TV. He souded very positive no signs of having any hidde devious thoughts akin to those of DJ.
If anyone would closely study DJ archives of the recent articles posted onto CT of DJ – will see most of them are anti-Ranil CBK contnets. For some unkown reason most likely based personal vendetta – this creature has been attacking the Premier again anda gain.
DJ s self proclaimed mind set misguided him over last few years similar to masses living in lanken rural areas – had only been fed with RAJAPKSHE biased views – and this may well be the reason this man has still been on the same mode of attacking to PM. But jaya niyathia, truth will lead us to possitivity soon. At the end of 100-day programme people will have healthy judgment about Ranil et al -is my wish. I am not UNPers but today s slanka, he is the last torica to save the nation.
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Native Vedda / January 23, 2015
Moda putha
“Dayan, you have lost your credibility”
As far as my Elders remember he never had any credibility. Only difference is that you have just notice it.
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suhair / January 23, 2015
Dayan tell us your real agenda atleast now!! Will you?
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Aia / January 23, 2015
Yes, you’re right. This is due to frustration of failure- he thought he had a plumb position in offer in the External Ministry betting on Gota. All went astray, now he spew all what he has got, going away from the posture that was ‘sat on the middle and analyze both sides arguments”. If you observing the political land scape of SL, this is what politicians in SL has been doing, when they had been knocked down to the mat, they regurgitate venom to capture the eyes of the racists, and to make a come back. And, nothing surprising, it’s recurring. MR did in his first speech after the defeat and, made a visit to Malwatte and Asgiriya.
The current role DJ taking seems to me that he wants to fill in for Gnanasara akin Uruthira does for VP. Ironically this guy has a distinct record in his Resume, functioning as a Minister under Perumal’s NE Provincial administration. Those days he was a staunch advocate for the right of self-determination for Tamils. And, his mood swing has no limits. He seems to have two solutions; one when LTTE is alive and other is for ‘after we won’. He throw this baits to see if people like Chambika, Rathne thero, Wijewansa, etc. would bite and cause some difficulties to Ranil and CBK joint effort. He should translate this article to Sinhalese if he wants maximum out this.
In university days people like DJ and Vasudeva cheat students population with their socialists ideas to ascent to the top easily and, when they come out of Uni they see no selling for those ideas outside, they twist the agenda from being socialist to patriotic. The time it takes for them to change fully from one to another depends on a few factors that include: the individual duping capability; prevailing situation in the country, the positions that they were targeting on offer, their IQ and qualification. For DJ, he sees the current situation as an opportunity to establish himself a true patriotic in the absence of writers like the feral daily news editor, Sonali, etc.
Pathetically, MR and his cohorts didn’t even think he has any value perhaps they saw his mood swing episodes. Otherwise, he would have been invited to verify the political correctness of the document which they asked the AG to check it for its legality. With all dirt coming out now, he has nothing to say about them, but using the clever tactics to turn the readers focus on to something else. If he wants to write after the Presidential election, he should have chosen the titles like ” My miscalculation of voters mood”, ” MR Government paid a heavy price for terminating DJ’s ambassador position”, ” With Basil quick exit, “it now seems to me MR’s family less patriotic than that of MS by DJ”.
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K.A Sumanasekera / January 23, 2015
Over to Rathne, Sobitha and Champika…
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Jim softy / January 23, 2015
If Dayan Jayathilake’s opinion is right, Ranil, Mangala and CBK are giving new fodder to TNA to continue their political struggle. So that, Tamil voters can be fooled for ever.
IF not, they are moving towards a disaster in their political careers.
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Puhul Dosi / January 23, 2015
Aiyo, aiyo Dayan….. you keep breaking your promise not to write in English publications again. Why? Withdrawal symptoms? Or IBF (Inna barri feeling since you were not offered any position in the new regime?). Poor you.
I suggest you back off on your criticisms of Mangala’s pronouncements or the Sirisena Presidency’s agenda….. the people have achieved what they set out to do (i.e. send the bunch of thieves home), so really, they need to buckle down and now deliver.
If in the process they dish out lots of much needed and so far lacking empathy and resolve to address the national question on ethnic harmony and give long-awaited redress to the minorities, it is exactly what they are expected to do.
Do you not see a paradigm shift coming your way? Either join it with sincerity or get the heck out lest you get crushed like the rotten egg that you are!
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Citizen / January 23, 2015
Native Veddah
Understood that politicians are prone to promising what they are loathe to deliver, but what’s worrisome is the sheer extent of their volte-face & how they are taking gross liberties with so many things, in particular, due process and the truth.
Inflammatory because he is speaking of options that are frankly alarming and anathema to most ordinary folks.
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Native Vedda / January 23, 2015
Citizen
“Inflammatory because he is speaking of options that are frankly alarming and anathema to most ordinary folks.”
Ordinary folks perceive many things, suffer fear of the unknown. This war monger fuel their fear. It is for the leaders to educate them while learning from them.
They cannot afford more of the same as if business is as usual. The state and its rulers have been hiding behind national security, unitary state, LTTE/Tamil separatist bogey for far too long and its time the leaders grasp the nettle.
In any case this island’s security is guaranteed by Hindia. Neither war monger Dayan nor war criminal Gota can protect this island forever. It is up to Hindians to decide whether this island remains multiple nation in one country or multiple countries in one island.
The war crime denier Dayan can type whatever amuses him the fact remains the Hindians decide the hearts and minds of this island’s leaders follow. It has been amply demonstrated in the last few weeks.
He is a statist and a racist with a cruel mind, first enemy of the ordinary working class folks and abhorrent to Buddha’s teaching.
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K.A Sumanasekera / January 23, 2015
Samaraweera must be good at pulling these off himself …
In the mean time the Prez seems busy giving the Elite, Anglicans and the SLMC “Siri Palanaya” instead of Mythree Palanayapa
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Vellalas are not worried because no Palanaya” from the South will reach them in the North, once Samare and CBK help India to give Sambandan his Homeland.
One Sira already got a Plum Job and my Elders tell me there are other 8 or 9 to follow.
Wonder whether the Prez has ear marked any thing for the sibling, whom he tried to disown a couple of years ago.
And then of course the darling baby son who must have gone to Royal…..
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Mahendra / January 23, 2015
My worry is that we don’t have anything concrete stated clearly and unambiguously as the current regime’s plan for resolving the Ethnic issue. Readers and commentators have their own views about what is good for the country and what is bad for the country but every spokesperson for the Government must be consistent in what they say. At the moment, not only in relation to the Ethnic problem but in relation to many other issues, we hear reports from different high up politicians which do not fit a consistent policy. I hope this type of speculative behaviour and exposition of personal views cease and they all “sing from the same hymn sheet”. This is going to be very difficult and when I saw a photo of a cabinet sitting, I just wondered how on earth are they going to tread the same path. Strong Leadership is necessary.
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Krish / January 23, 2015
I had some. respect for Dayan and read his writings with interest. But no more. He is like a chep Sri Lankan politician.
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Foxy Lady / January 23, 2015
DJ do you understand the meaning of F/O. We had enough of you. Pl. go and claim asylum on the laps of Mahinda, Gota and Mohan Pieris.
I did not read your article. I am so disgusted with you.
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lynx / January 23, 2015
Dayan,
Don’t mind the baying of the hounds. Keep writing. Otherwise the blood of the soldiers who fought the war would be a waste.
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WalaGemba Raja / January 23, 2015
In spite of all the faults of GOATA, I must give my dues to the devil. There is one thing that I admire of GOATA and that is what Goata said and did to DJ after forcing his removal as a diplomat in Paris. “Moo num kissima wadekkata natthi K* bullek”. Translated that “This guy is a useless *_dog”.
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Native Vedda / January 23, 2015
lynx
“Otherwise the blood of the soldiers who fought the war would be a waste.”
The lives of young men who died in the war could have been saved only if the leaders had been wise and visionaries.
As a self confessed war monger Dayan is solely responsible for destruction of many young lives. He should regret for the rest of his life. Knowing this war crime denier he would definitely continue gloat as to how he single-handedly won the war and then defeated the western conspiracy at UN.
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Piranha / January 23, 2015
Dayan is trying to whip up the Sinhala racists in order to ensure victory for the Rajapaksa faction in the forthcoming parliamentary elections. He is playing the same old game played by Sinhala politicians since independence to win power.
He is badly hurting that Rajapaksa lost and with it any chance he had of getting a plum post in the government. His vitriolic attacks against both Ranil and CBK will ensure that he gets no position of importance in the government. He will continue to snipe from the sidelines but I think he will be largely ignored by the now enlightened electorate. Who knows, he may end up being the spokesperson for the BBS or the other racists PNM.
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douglas / January 23, 2015
Dr. DJ: You are like one of those “Blind Men” who tried to describe an elephant. You, in your “blindness” hangs on to the leg/ear/trunk/nose etc. and try to tell us and discuss national situations. You can be “blind” but please remember the people in this country are “both eye seeing” and “intelligent” than of your estimation.We know how and what to know and assess and also who tells it and at what point of time. So please refrain from any of these types of “pranks”.
We know there is an “Executive Council” comprised of Political Leaders and Civil society representative who are meeting on a weekly basis and making decisions to be implemented through the Parliament and various Ministries. That is in operation for the next “100 Day” Programme. Please get accustomed to that “operation” and you will not be “BLINDED” as to what is going on in the country and I know definitely, you can contribute in a more meaningful manner than picking up from “ally ways”.
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Sun / January 23, 2015
If the focus is to gather people’s thoughts through his articles – he should lhave grasped it long ago,that over 90% joined to CT as commentators would reject DJ’s. Many of us want to see thing move forward. Just attacking rivals- perhaps because of personal vendetta cant bring us forward.I have the feeling that DJ seems to see almost everything is wrong when it came from Ranil. Who on this country would agree with the island being partitioned. Nobody. It was the biased media branded Ranil W as colonial representatives.
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justice / January 23, 2015
The new government’s agenda is, democracy.
It will come slowly and mature slowly.
There will be few setbacks by the bootlickers of the tyranny which ended on the 8th January.
They will try to put ‘spanners in the works’.
But let us give some time for things to settle.
I have faith in the new government.
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Saman / January 23, 2015
Dayan,
I highly regarded you as a scholar but very swiftly you changed yourself before presidential election by thinking that Mahinda Rajapaksa would win the election or by receiving Mahinda’s gift package.
Not only me but also many other those who respected you are very negative about your character.
You are not real gentleman.
Now stay quiet.
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Don Quixote / January 23, 2015
Now that democracy is restored this little [Edited out] has changed his tactics. He is going to try to make a nuisance of himself, in the hope that he will be given a job of his choosing in exchange for his silence.
He doesn’t realize that no one takes any notice of his rantings and ravings !
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Jim softy / January 23, 2015
IF the govt is adamant on giving the full 13th amendment, the parliament number of 225 MPs should be cut drastically.
Sri Lanka does not need three levels of govts.
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Park / January 23, 2015
If this “Pundit” Dayan did not know what Mangala meant was – “that there was no political will (after the war) to bring about a solution to the minority issue”, there is no point of him claiming to be a Political Analyst! Today Dayan has become a “Spin Doctor” and a “Racist” in addition to being a “Liar” to the UN.
“Pundit” Dayan’s view on demilitarizing the North is a stupid statement. By keeping the military in the North is he expecting to fight the Indian forces if there is an invasion? Does he think India is going to invade Sri Lanka? Does he mean that after Sri Lanka becoming an off shore military base for China our forces in the North will be the protectionist force for the Chinese based in Sri Lanka? I am sure the citizens of the North will not mind if the forces are restricted to their barracks rather than cleaning drains and standing on the side of the road passing remarks at the girls and women who are passing by.
Why not have a domestic inquiry to find out what happened during the war and what did both the Government and the LTTE do? “Pundit” Dayan was a diplomat during this period, is he scared that his involvement and the advice he gave to the President and Gotha during the war may come out and harm him? Is he worried that his Gods Rajapakses’ will be found fault with for violating human rights?
Mangala never mentioned Timpu in his speech or for that matter no one in UNP, UPFA, TNA, JVP, JHU, SLMC, or any other party mentioned Timpu. Its only “Pundit” Dayan who has mentioned Timpu as he does not have any other hook to hang his hat.
“Pundit” Dayan, your comments, analysis and views have been proven wrong several times and in the recent past re: Uva PC elections and the recent Presidential elections. Why not you rest your pen, stop being a spin doctor and enjoy your “scotch”, take a rest.
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simon / January 23, 2015
So the former EPRLF minister of Noth and East does not now want national reconciliation?
What about his claims to have fallen out of the former kings favorite circke because of his stead fast support for the 13th Anendment,
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simon / January 23, 2015
The grapes hanging in front of dear Dayan are sour as hell because Madam Chandrika is part of that bunch.That good lady had the delails of Dayans serial betrayals from the days of VijayKumara thunga. Also she knows how he helped Preme buddy up with LTTTE once he jumped ship from the Tamil groups who appointed gim as a minster in the North East Provincial council.
Madam knows too much about Dayan and the more he writes here the more others will learn of his treacherous past.
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kumar guna / January 23, 2015
Fortnight before the election DJ wrote that he will remain ‘agnostic and above the fray’ in the 8 Jan election. But a week later he reneged on his word unashemedly and started ‘going shopping’ for MR on TV and in other fora. When MR dined and wined the Health Dept doctors at Hilton, just days before the election, Dayan was one of the after-dinner speakers who urged the gathering to vote for MR.
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Peace / January 23, 2015
Dayan,
Did any one listened to you when you mentioned from Geneva about full implementation of 13A?
Did any one listened to you when you went on on on on TV about Electing MR and how dangerous it will be to not to elect MR?
Now you are at it again,scare mongering.
Do you really think that Taming Tamil Nadu can be achieved by having heavy Military presence in the North?
Tamil Nadu can only be tamed when a solution is found to the minorities to live with Honor and Dignity within Srilanka.
This is what Mangala was trying to address.I
f you don’t get it,Too bad you have to take your blinker off or even better consult a psychiatrist and try to go on some psychotropic medication for your Paranoia, because it has reached a very pathological state.
You are a dangerous rabble rouser.
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Simon / January 23, 2015
Not dangerous. Desperate.
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Valagambahu / January 23, 2015
Am I the only person who goes STRAIGHT to COMMENTS SECTION whenever I see Dayans article on CT ?
There is much to read and learn in comments than in articles itself. Shows the quality (or lack of it I would rather say) of Dayans articles !!
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Siva Sankaran Sarma / January 24, 2015
I do that when it comes to most articles – there’s a direct correlation between how loudly the LTTE dogs are howling in the comments sections and the quality of the articles. The howls in here are deafening :D
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Javi. / January 23, 2015
Dayan,
You see Bali All three religions side by side in harmony from the times of Chola.
Hillary was shown that from South India when she visited it as the first US Foreign Sec.
South India has the sea and the north india has no sea so they have always seen west, north land and desert.
All Lankaians are South Indian by DNA and the Sihal Buddhist have played the Goo card China against Hindia saying they were north Indians by buying Shills.
Sihala Buddhist time is fortunately coming to an end for the good of the common people- Don’t fight your neighbors because you never know when you need them.
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opinion / January 23, 2015
He has the right to an opinion – or maybe CT should block him? Since he lacks credibility.
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