By Dayan Jayatilleka –
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
“Come on up for the rising
Come on up, lay your hands in mine
Come on up for the rising
Come on up for the rising tonight” – Bruce Springsteen: The Rising
There was a WANTED poster out for Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday at Nugegoda, and it wasn’t one for crimes of corruption, human rights violation, dictatorship pasted by the JVP. It was a WANTED poster made of over a hundred thousand persons, which said that he was Wanted by the people, by the nation, as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.
I must have attended an Opposition rally in Sri Lanka which was larger than the one in Nugegoda on February 18th but I can’t remember which, where and when. It must have been back in the 1960s, when my father took me for the United Front rallies of the SLFP-LSSP-CPSL. A more objective source, unrelated to the UPFA, told me on the phone last night that he saw parallels in the largest of the rallies of the DUNF when Lalith and Gamini led it.
Whichever the more appropriate parallel, Nugegoda was quite distinct in my experience, for a different reason. It was the most emotional, energetic and enthusiastic crowd I have seen at a public meeting in Sri Lanka, and that emotion wasn’t against anyone. It was for someone and something. This, together with the numbers, made the event a turning point, and potentially historic.
The main players at Nugegoda were not the personalities who organized it or addressed the gathering. It was the people. They were packed tightly together, spilling over and swarming the area, more enthusiastic than an American football crowd, waving Sri Lankan flags and posters of Mahinda Rajapaksa.
There was another main player at the Nugegoda meeting and he wasn’t even there. That was Mahinda Rajapaksa. It would have been the classic case of what Prof AW Singham named in his book “The Hero and the Crowd”, except that this time the hero wasn’t there and was there at the same time. The absent presence was of course, Mahinda, whose name was roared out by the crowd; welling up from its bowels.
It was as if the personalities on the stage were facilitators and conductors of that energy that came from the crowd. It was an energy that ran along an invisible circuit extending from Nugegoda to Medamulana and back.
The message from the rally had two intended audiences: Maithripala Sirisena and Mahinda Rajapaksa. The message was that Maithripala Sirisena was safe, unchallenged, acknowledged as President but that the same did not go for the unelected Prime Minister and his UNP government. The message was that the people want Mahinda back in the equation; that the 58 lakhs that voted for him and the 58% of the Sinhala majority that voted for him, will not go unrepresented; almost disenfranchised. The message was also that Mahinda Rajapaksa will not be allowed to enjoy a peaceful retirement and that his people have at least one more national service they expect from him, which is to defeat the anti-national Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister and institute an SLFP administration.
It is not an attempt at overturning President Sirisena or putting the clock all the way back. It is not a restorationist attempt. It is an attempt at re-balancing, at pressing the re-set button in Sri Lankan politics, so that the 58 lakhs (and percent of the 74% majority) do not go unrepresented.
For me the most emblematic scene of the Nugegoda public meeting calling for Mahinda Rajapaksa’s return to politics as the Prime Ministerial candidate of the Sri Lanka freedom Party and the UPFA was that of a young man atop a billboard whose response to the drone camera eyeballing it with him, was to wave a lion flag and Mahinda Rajapaksa’s portrait into the eye of the camera. That was gesture of defiance and proud defiance was what the ingathering was all about.
One of the political highlights of the public meeting was the presence of a significant number of SLFP MPs and ex-MPs, Chief Minister Ranatunga, Provincial Councilors, and local government representatives.
Overall the speeches were of high political quality, with progressive veterans Podi Appuhamy, Vasu, and Dinesh giving classic performances. The younger stars, Wimal Weerawansa, a pure Jacobin orator and Udaya Gammanpila, seemingly softer and more humorous, if you ignore the glint in his eye, turned in superb performances. The senior-most speaker, Dinesh Gunawardena spoke last and appropriately evoked anti-UNP memories not only of 1956 but more emphatically of 1960, in which there were two elections, the first won by the UNP and the second by the SLFP under a new leadership which could bring out the votes.
The Nugegoda meeting seemed to me the birth of a national-democratic movement and the launch of a national-democratic struggle to establish a national-democratic government. It was profoundly democratic in that it refused to accept the legitimacy of a Government which had neither won an election nor obtained the confidence of the majority of the Parliament. It was democratic also in that it sought to question the appointment of the leader of the opposition by a President who installed an unelected Prime Minister and Government. Finally it was democratic as it sought to rectify the anomaly of 5.8 million voters (and the 58% of the 74 % majority of the population) going unrepresented in the power equation.
The movement is national in the senses that it is proud of the valiant victory over Tiger terrorism and separatism, stands for the defence of national sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity against centrifugal forces and external pressures such as the genocide Resolution of the Northern Provincial Council and Foreign Minister Samaraweera’s written pledge to the UN Human Rights High Commissioner to “work together on developing a domestic mechanism on accountability”.
It is national also in the sense that it taps into a deep emotional wellspring of Sinhala nationalism in the service of a strong patriotism. It is Sinhala nationalist without being anti-Tamil or anti-Muslim in any manner, though it is against anything that is latently secessionist or of detriment to national security. This is a Sinhala nationalism that cannot but stand naturally at the center and in the vanguard of a Sri Lankan nationhood and Sri Lankan patriotism but in no way seeks to dominate the minorities. This is a nationalism and a patriotism that is directed outward, against external threats and their domestic beachheads and agencies (most notably Ranil Wickremesinghe’s UNP government) but does not seek to dominate domestic minorities. It is a patriotism and nationalism that seeks to re-energize the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the UPFA.
This is not the patriotism that will be applauded by the cosmopolitan Colombo elite which is delirious that happy days are here again. This is a patriotism of the people; a people that refused, to give into terrorism and secessionism and remains determined to see through their guises and resist. The audience at Nugegoda was one of the masses; the people, those who fought in and supported the war; those whose sons and daughters went off to fight and die in defence of their country so that we could all live in peace. They are grateful to Mahinda Rajapaksa because it was he who gave the committed leadership that none of his predecessors, most conspicuously Ranil and Chandrika could not or did not. They are grateful for the peace we now enjoy.
These masses, from the middle and what Gramsci would call the subaltern classes, are not willing to be ruled by the unelected, anti-national elitist UNP of Ranil Wickremesinghe. This was a fusion of the nation and the people; what Gramsci terms the “national-popular”. Thus the Nugegoda mobilization was the birth of a popular movement of national—and nationalist– Resistance. It signaled a people’s national/ist Renaissance.
Throughout the meeting was the rising chant from the crowd, “Mahinda! Mahinda! Apata Oney Mahinda! (“We want Mahinda!”)”. So Wimal was probably right when he said to rapturous applause “Mahinda is not a name, Mahinda is a country!” The great Vietnamese leader Le Duan who succeeded the legendary Ho Chi Minh and led the anti-imperialist war to victory often said ‘Socialism and the Nation are One’. For the people who swarmed over Nugegoda in February 18th, Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Nation are One.
It was veteran leftist Vasudeva Nanayakkara who struck the basic moral-ethical and even philosophical chord that unified everyone at the massive mobilization in Nugegoda, when he declared and repeated: “It is not defeat that is a disgrace, it is surrender!”
“’Cause we made a promise we swore we’d always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Blood brothers on the summer’s night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender” – Bruce Springsteen: ‘No Surrender’
mj / February 19, 2015
This shameless spindocter will kiss any toilet bowl if can can see him.
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Point of View / February 19, 2015
Oh leave him alone. He is trying to hang on to something, anything and only left with Wimal Weranwansa. How pathetic !
His master is a lost cause. He knows it but hoping against hope !
Dayan, enjoy the free bees which comes your way these days. It will stop eventually. Hope you enjoyed the all paid holiday at Cape Welgama, courtesy Merill J. Fernando. Oh, it did not come free, you had to pose with your wife, complement the food and say how great the hotel is.
Don’t insult your wife, she seems to be a decent lady.
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Seelawathi / February 19, 2015
It is nature of those who suffer from attention grabbing syndrome.
He has been kept in mental asylum by the unexpected regime change sending all his predictions similar to those of those fortunestellers.
Today worth of DJ is 10000000000000000000000000000000 times lower than it had been then in 2009. This invalid coin is a threat to the society as dangerous as Wimal Buruwanse.
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Samuel Jayaweera / February 19, 2015
i NEVER THOUGHT THAT DJ WAS BORN AND GREW UP IN THE SAME BACKGROUDN AS WIMAL WEERAWANSSE :
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Ruwan / February 19, 2015
The Best speech Made by Dr Dayan Jayatilleka yesterday At the rally For Democracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LuEuk0zZZXc
Today we see the International conspiracy to bring down former Government. WHat is the difference new Government did?? A lot of Tank only. And Int USA is now giving public relations to This Puppet Government. WHich coluded with the Media to invest stories about previous Democratic Administration. If people saw the Dinner hosted by MY3 on the 4th of FEB. Sajin and Duminda were Guest. Nothing abou that.
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Amarasiri / February 19, 2015
Dayan Jayatilleka –
RE: Crooks and Robbers Rally at Nugegoda.
“There was a WANTED poster out for Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday at Nugegoda, and it wasn’t one for crimes of corruption, human rights violation, dictatorship pasted by the JVP. It was a WANTED poster made of over a hundred thousand persons, which said that he was Wanted by the people, by the nation, as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.”
Wow!. There were 100,000 people who were part of the Crooks and Robbers program.
I was under the impression, it was the shills and whitewashers only, so they mist have used the leftover cash from the robberies to to pay and get all the gollayas to come.
Did anybody try to burn the stage like your Medamulana MaRa boss and his cronies tried to do for the opposition rallies before the election.
Unfortunately for MaRa and their cronies, people know their truth. Not everybody who went there was a supporter. They went there to hear what the crooks and robbers had to say.
What did they say?
We are crooks and Robbers, and Would use Communalism To to get back to the business of Crooks of robbers and killers. Unfortunately, fewer and fewer Sinhala modayas left, just like the Tamil Mootals.
Have you hears of Lasantha Wickramatunga?
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Amarasiri / February 19, 2015
Dayan Jayatilleka –
So, it was the Shameless “Socialist” Robber and Crook, Vasudeva Nanayakkara. A true example of a shill and white=washer. Others have sold out their principles before for being crooks and runners, but not to the same extent.
“It was veteran leftist Vasudeva Nanayakkara who struck the basic moral-ethical and even philosophical chord that unified everyone at the massive mobilization in Nugegoda, when he declared and repeated: “It is not defeat that is a disgrace, it is surrender!”
“’Cause we made a promise we swore we’d always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Blood brothers on the summer’s night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender” – Bruce Springsteen: ‘No Surrender’
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Abu / February 19, 2015
Isn’t it ironical that every once decent PhD holder in the political limelight today had tried to flirt with the devil and got his robes removed and remains stark naked today? Unable to contain their desire for ephemeral fame they’re forced quite involuntarily to engage in political intrigue that results in nothing but shamelessness. Professor GL Peiris,Professor Rajiva Wijesinghe to name a couple. They did a lot when they taught students but today they’re an unquestionable public disgrace. Dayan sensing an opportunity to become the next Foreign Minister has started his shopping. Should stooping reach this kind of shameless heights?
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Rabok / February 19, 2015
Why not Dr.D will be a thousand times better Foreign Minister than spineless Professor Perish or headless idiot SaJin or Sudda’s pet dog Managalam
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Amarasiri / February 19, 2015
Dayan Jayatillaka, RE: Crooks and Robbers Rally.
The Rising: Nugegoda Feb 18th and the Crooks.
Is is a Political Rally or a Communal Rally by thew Crooks and Robbers? Even, Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa declined to attend.
[Edited out]
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Hinnibanda / February 19, 2015
lANKEN PEOPLE IF GUIDED BY MR ET AL ARE THIRSTY OF ABUSIVE AND SELFISH CULTURE. They only want to see it otherway around to succeed their own agendas. If they could feel the pulses of the majoirty of this country, Rajaapakshe could have made the island nation a greater one at least during the last few years alone.
No, nothing, but people are made blind by his kind of abusive culture – today not many would tick it right… even if Fuel or other items and their prices have been reduced as pledged not many would be grateful to that. That is the real nature of those abusive men and women or lanka today.
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ramona therese fernando / February 20, 2015
I, as a minority of inadvertent exile, can only look on at the Nugegoda-Happenings, and shout in Joy and Happiness, at the Rightful Manifestation that has emerged from the Bosom of Lanka . *Jayaweva, Jayaweva, Jayaweva,Sadu, Sadu, Sadu*
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BbS scamp / February 20, 2015
“”I, as a minority of inadvertent exile,”
stupid mewscial mickynority.
General, point of view Dumb-Assberger’s bitches can not think straight.
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ramona therese fernando / February 20, 2015
Hey!…..Einstein was an Aspie. (not me though)
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Javi. / February 20, 2015
That’s a popular rumor like .. Albert Einstein once said: “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination … no more men!”
But what he said: Information is not knowledge.
If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.-
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.– Albert Einstein
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Most Jewish folk have the gift of the gab so we see them on the world stage of Media and Money.They score 80 Bell Curve easily.- its a gift but they carry a sickness Crones, Crone large and small. Your 90% carry a value of <55 above you would all be supervisors not mere housemaids and escort boys for EU gay magazines.
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BbS scamp / February 20, 2015
You are no ᗅᗺᗷᗅ; was a Swedish pop group- Mama Mia…
nor a Babooo But just crying for the sake of it.
This is what he told Marlene Monroe :
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour.
That’s relativity.
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Native Vedda / February 20, 2015
ramona therese fernando
“I, as a minority of inadvertent exile, can only look on at the Nugegoda-Happenings, and shout in Joy and Happiness,”
What were you doing between 7 September 2005 and 9 January 2015?
I take it that during that period you were
unhappy, sad, miserable, sorrowful, dejected, despondent, disconsolate, morose, regretful, broken-hearted, heartbroken, down, downcast, dispirited, downhearted, heavy-hearted, crestfallen, depressed, melancholy, blue, gloomy, glum, mournful, despairing, doleful, forlorn, woebegone, woeful, tearful, long-faced, joyless, cheerless, out of sorts; ……
under clan rule and you wanted them out of office, out of this island, out of this region.
Now they are out of office, out of power watching them make you
happy, contented, content, cheerful, cheery, merry, joyful, jovial, jolly, joking, jocular, gleeful, carefree, untroubled, delighted, smiling, beaming, grinning, glowing, satisfied, gratified, buoyant, radiant, sunny, blithe, joyous, beatific, blessed; cock-a-hoop, light-hearted, good-humoured; thrilled, exuberant, elated, exhilarated, ecstatic, blissful, euphoric, overjoyed, exultant, rapturous, rapt, enraptured, in seventh heaven, on cloud nine, over the moon, walking on air, beside oneself with joy, jumping for joy, …………
Jayaweva, Jayaweva, Jayaweva to My3, Ranil, …..
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Amarasiri / February 20, 2015
Dayan Jayatilleka –
CROOKS, ROBBERS AND CRIMINALS. So, it is an Honor to be a Crook and Rubber with Mahinda Rajapaksa.
“It was veteran leftist Vasudeva Nanayakkara who struck the basic moral-ethical and even philosophical chord that unified everyone at the massive mobilization in Nugegoda, when he declared and repeated: “It is not defeat that is a disgrace, it is surrender!”
DJ, so, you are part of the Team of
CROOKS, ROBBERS AND CRIMINALS.
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Simon / February 19, 2015
Where you not one of the organizer, speech writer pretending here to be a reporter ? monkey praising its own tail one more time while waving the lion flag.
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Ashoka Gunarartne / February 19, 2015
Oh this fool again. How long should we put up with this nonsense.
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Mati Dombasiri / February 19, 2015
Ashoka
Not long – Til 100 day of “Gava Palanaya” finishes my friend.
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Javi. / February 19, 2015
“”“Come on up for the rising
Come on up, lay your hands in mine””
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Hoo Hooo hoo,
Whom??
Addressing Baked Beans Heinz well the old man roll no more no more!
It’s all in NaMo yellow submarine and the south block tarts you are on fire_horseback twiddle your thumbs.
`Bruce Springsteen – The River
That night we went down to the river
And into the river we’d dive
Oh down to the river we did ride…
Kaliya you are dead – jaja ja ja ja alterboy
you fled the church with a whimper.
There is no Jeb or Hillary.
The 21st CE belongs to us.
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padmakumara / February 19, 2015
What a damn fool. The drone camera belonged to the organisers of your beloved nugegoda rally! No young man needed to be defiant in the face of it. The drone was there for aerial shots of the bring back mahinda rally. Drones were widely used in Dayan’s beloved mahinda rallies during the campaign too. Dayan’s imbelicity aptly portrayed. Good to see him standing with the most racist, bigoted elements of our society on stage yesterday. From Elle Gunawansa to Udaya Gammanpila..with the BBS that he claims to be opposed to pressing people to attend the rally. Exactly where he should be. On the fringes. While Sri Lanka moves on.
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wathie / February 20, 2015
I have a drone with a night vision camera that can stay 20 minutes in the air which my son use to keep an eye on vital stretches of my estate. I would have lend it to the organizers if asked. They’re not uncommon gadgets these days.
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Aela / February 19, 2015
DJ says the Nugegoda meeting seemed to him like the birth of a democratic movement. My foot!. The meeting was organized by a coterie of so called leftists who have no one to cling to but a plunderer of the nations wealth!.Of course there was a crowd, obviously the foolish die hard remnants of the 58 lakhs who wanted to continue the plunder. DJ the long time mouthpiece of MR was there in person.
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Viktor / February 19, 2015
‘The Nugegoda meeting seemed to me the birth of a national-democratic movement and the launch of a national-democratic struggle to establish a national-democratic government”
I think Dayan – the Fuhrer’s mouthpiece – is forgetting his history. The more appropriate parallel would be national-socialist movement, national-socialist struggle and national-socialist government
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sama / February 19, 2015
Go and see you in mirror Mr. DJ.
Sofar i RESPECTED YOU AS A SENIOR ACADEMIC. But today, I would not do so. How many among us would see it in that way.
Surely
62 lacks of voter
More than half of 57 of voters
YOu will see it in coming days- the consequence of lying with dogs and facing the trouble of ticks. Good luck the most malicious man of srilanka of the day.
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chinthaka / February 19, 2015
Applauding Wimal.Weerawansa and his hideous anti minority record and rhetoric. Clearly not listening to the speakers yesterday if he thinks the noise at the Nugegoda rally was not against minorities.By his own writing it is made abundantly clear that he wishes the minorities had no say in this election and that the 58% majority of the majority held sway and his master was returned to power.
Oh Dayan. How the mighty have fallen.
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sach / February 19, 2015
One can say many things to Wimal, but he is certainly not anti minority. I remember he was a target of BBS those days.
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Samuel Jayaweera / February 19, 2015
Birds of a feather flock together is what I felt immediately looking at Gommanpila, Buruwanse,Wasideva and your sitting together. How come you fell on their laps- as you too are that extremist ? You have been cheating the vulnerable of this island nation from that day on. Man you seem to have no life – think twice for the sake of the academics. Wimal Buruwansa et al are just for the social scum that needed to achieve everything through this abuses and crimes. I really don think you need that. Your father if he lived would have squeeze your neck looking at the manner you behaved today. You nothing but highly revengeful person by all natures. No worth to read of yours anymore.
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Ejantha Bandara / February 20, 2015
All in all, I have the feeling Dayan has betrayed the learnt community of the country. Who thought this man would ever become this cheap ?
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Jaufer / February 19, 2015
“The younger stars, Wimal Weerawansa, a pure Jacobin orator and Udaya Gammanpila,” …Dr Jayan has gone this low. Pathetic.When someone say Wimal Weerawansa is an STAR, then no more to read. Sorry Dr. Better yu have rest and stop writing anymore.
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The last Dinosaur / February 19, 2015
Is this written by Dayan or by Rajpal?…
Dayan… from a Scholar to a lap dancer of MR…
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Mati Dombasiri / February 19, 2015
Toothless Dino
Rather be a lap dancer than a Peelamist in La-La land.
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sinhala_voice / February 19, 2015
This patriotic movement MUST be based on the values of true majority in Sri Lanka.
The TRUE majority in Sri Lanka MUST stand against CORRUPTION, NEPOTISM and FRAUD of public and private wealth. esp: PUBLIC.
They MUST stand for RULE OF LAW and GOOD GOVERNANCE.
They MUST stand for truly democratic UNITARY REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA that has to GUTS to standup against anyone in the WORLD.
LET’S ALSO recognise the INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM of ALL PEOPLE.
The Eelamist, Islamists and other groups ALWAYS want differentiated rights NOT EQUAL RIGHTS.
SINHALA-BUDDHISTS are willing to give you EQUAL RIGHTS NOTHING MORE NOTHING LESS. THIS SHOULD BE OUR STANCE AND STAND.
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Ajith / February 19, 2015
I wonder what sort of knowledge and understanding this racist, fundamentalist have about democracy and people power. Just 40 days before, people around Srilanka irrespective of race, language, religion marched jointly to defeat the trror king Mahinda Rajapakse despite threat, illegal voting, bribes, racist propaganda etc. I don’t know how many billions of public money that was steal during this regime used for this rally. It is true there are still large sunk of racist people there still believing the racist agenda. I am sure the rule of law of Srilanka (not international investigation)act as soon as possible to send Mahinda & Co including this racist behind the bars.
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jash / February 19, 2015
When someone say, he is a mouthpiece of Rajapakse, I was sceptical. But, Now he has clearly proved what he is. I am so sorry myself to repect till today.
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sach / February 19, 2015
A very much needed rally. It gave a voice to a people who are now voiceless.
Anyway we should protect this movement from being colored in sinhala nationalistic paint by opportunists and steer it towards srilankan nationalism.
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Burning Issue / February 19, 2015
The cat is out of the bag. The rally was about bringing back MR as the PM! So you have been lying through your teeth that you are not a supporter of MR! I have always known that you are dishonest person. The rally was filled with anti-minority speeches and there is no wonder you like it!
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sach / February 19, 2015
Nothing is out of the bag. I speak directly. I have never ever supported MR and voted for Maithree. But this coming GE I will vote for MR…..
I have no other alternative. No matter how much I dislike MR and his goons, I cant let this american stooge RW to run havoc here. His irresponsibility reminds me of his 2001-04 period as PM.
There is a lot I did not know then but know now.
It is good Maithree came and RW became PM for 3 months. Because we could see what could happen, while we have the chance to change it.
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sach / February 19, 2015
I listened only to Wimal’s speech. Please point at a single sentence he said that can be called anti minority…
this is a challenge…please show
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sach / February 20, 2015
I am expecting BI’s racist anti minority sentence of Wimal or anyone here
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Native Vedda / February 21, 2015
sach
Here is a best one:
AUDIO: Singing National Anthem in Tamil is a joke – Wimal
December 13, 2010
Minister of Housing and Construction, Wimal Weerawansa voiced his support towards the Cabinet decision to do away with the Tamil version of the National Anthem, branding this practice a joke.
He said that in no other country is the National Anthem sung in multiple languages including India where the National Anthem is only sung in Hindi despite the hundreds of languages been spoken in the country.
“Only in Sri Lanka is this being practiced and it’s a joke. This decision was simply a correction of an error made through the Constitution of 1978,” he added.
http://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=10992
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puk / February 19, 2015
Here was DJ reading out MR’s speech at the rally and if i may add with great vigour and shamelesly campeigning for MR’s return (can you imagine a so called political scientist behaving with such naked bias)as if he was a politician himself.Equating Nationalism to racism and conveniently ignoring the fact that 6.2Mn voters rejected MR and harping on the 5.8mn. This man simply does not understand basic maths, that 6.2mn is greater than 5.8mn.When in 2005 RW lost by 186000 votes to MR i never read of such nonsense,and quite rightly so…a defeat is a defeat irrespective of the margin…imagine if DJ’s theory is applied to all aspects (sports,elections etc) we would never have a loser. if DJ’s laws (5.8Mn being greater or atleast equal to 6.2mn)applied to the post election scenario of 2010, it would be seem only fair to imply that 4Mn citizens of the country were banished behind bars of welikada prison.I simply cannot comprehend the inabilty of DJ and MR’s fellow travellers like WW,Vasu,dinesh,UG to accept defeat.But not surprisinly they all have one thing in coomon….there poitical survival and relevance will evaporate without the presence of MR.
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Burning Issue / February 19, 2015
puk,
“This man simply does not understand basic maths,…”
On contrary he does understand maths! As far as he is concerned, the minorities are not the true citizens of the nation! Hence, they do not count; please get your facts right!
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yasapala / February 19, 2015
If all the allegations against former President is proven no rally or Dayan-Dinesh-Vasu-Wimal& Co might have to wait forever to get their dreams come through.
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Navin / February 19, 2015
Dayan
You have now proved beyond even a shadow of doubt now you are fully qualified to [Edited out] Mahinda Rajapaksa’s [Edited out].
The hatred of Ranil Wickramasinghe, to what depths has it dragged you down!
You make me throw up. [Edited out]
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Burning Issue / February 19, 2015
“The younger stars, Wimal Weerawansa, a pure Jacobin orator and Udaya Gammanpila, seemingly softer and more humorous, if you ignore the glint in his eye, turned in superb performances.”
What a complete bankrupt fool this guy is! He has no semblance shame in him; he has reduced himself to praise the like of Weerawansa and Gammapilla whom in the past he labelled as the Sinhala chauvinists!
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sach / February 19, 2015
Wimal and the fellows are ahead than GGP racist…but you have no issue with GGP
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Matilda Ellepola / February 19, 2015
one word to sum up this man, just an I-D-I-O-T !!!
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Gamaya Yapalanan / February 19, 2015
You are absolutely correct Mati-Elda Ella-Polla.
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ahmad / February 19, 2015
In Mahinda’s government, this type of meeting would not have even be possible.
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Park / February 19, 2015
[Edited out] Pundit Dayan is a loser who has jointed the “Losers’ Forum”. Let us all be practical. Gathering people is not a major achievement, even this week Thondaman was still distributing the goodies that was given to him during the election to get votes. Similarly Rajapakses have enough money and hidden goodies to distribute and collect people for the rally. What is more important is -how many real votes did the Rajapakse Stooges who sat on the podium get during the last election, what is their voter base? How many complaints have been lodged against them and when they are investigated how many will have their voter rights or will be out of he prison to stand in the election. This Puss-Pundit Dayan is a joker, no one takes notice of him. He has written so many times that Rajapakse never listened to him and that Rajapakse sacked him. Still he is clinging on to Rajapakse as he knows he stands no chance in front of Ranil or Maithripala or Chandrika. Further with all his English, he is no match to Ranil. Shame on you Dayan, you are like a monkey jumping from branch to branch.
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Afzal / February 19, 2015
It is not a surprise to see a article from DJ today (the very next day) this is a celebration of Victory for DJ. Now it’s all pretty clear, we don’t have to wonder whether this this person was crazy or insane, it’s clear now he was/is just boot liking.
DJ Say’s I quote “Nugegoda was quite distinct in my experience, for a different reason. It was the most emotional, energetic and enthusiastic crowd I have seen at a public meeting in Sri Lanka” proves he never been to any of MS campaign rallies. Proof that he was among the most racist lot among our population.
Just so no one will throw the racist card at him he continues I quote “and that emotion wasn’t against anyone” when you read between the lines you know he knows he was among the racist.
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Sanjaya / February 19, 2015
We know you have no options but to continue in this manner. But people are more intelligent than some retards think. The mass will not fell into the same old pit Dayan. Soon you will be exposed more to that will be remembered along with Wimalasena, Gamanpila , Vasu , Denesh and the cat paws behind your game playing with peoples life’s in broad daylight. We removed Mahinda because he could not build the bonds between ethnic diversity of our nation to move towards a greater Sri Lanka. Now it’s crystal clear who are behind in this greedy game of Mahinda and company. And who dragged Mahinda to his own pit.
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Sinhala Banda / February 19, 2015
Sanjaya
I beg you pardon!!!!!!. We all could see very clearly the early signs of building a bond between two communities by your beloved Peelamist CM Vegie and his action of passing the order last week. You cannot play the same trick over and over again.
By the way, what do you mean by “WE” in your comments? I presume Peelamists??
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Sanjaya / February 19, 2015
Well I disagree the use of ” National Anthem , SL Forces, Apea Mawubima , Sinhala Jathya” like propaganda words towards uninformed masses to create that atmosphere by this so called educated people. When the common man get carried away neither Dayan or Mahinda Company suffer, and we know that from our history.
And the way Dayan delivered the speech , Wow the rhythm and the occasional pauses are great. You can fool some for sometime but not all the time as they say. Your days are over. I’m not a peelamist and I am against building any kind of walls but breaking them and also I think you are Dayan commenting as “Sinhala Banda”. Game on looser.
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Sinhala Banda / February 20, 2015
Son-jaya
Just a clarification – Dr. Dayan does not want hide behind anybodies name you idiot. He has shown that in that massive human river in Nugegoda
You are absolutely right – you are not breaking only walls, you are like ” a bull in a china shop breaking everything to dust”. A mirror image of Gonjan Gobbanayake, self-claimed glassy hero!!!!!.
Who the heck are to tell public not to use our national anthem, SL Forces? That is our birth right. These prove that you are one more stupid Peelamist living in the La-La land.
If you really think the game is on, bring the targets, our forces are ready.
We bet you – the short carnival of yours and Looser Nickamasinghe, will soon be over by next April. Enjoy dancing the pot til the water in cool.
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Native Vedda / February 20, 2015
Sinhala Banda
“Dr. Dayan does not want hide behind anybodies name you idiot.”
He doesn’t have to.
He is hiding behind smart ass patriotism while trying to hide bigots behind him.
“If you really think the game is on, bring the targets, our forces are ready.”
If there is real target, of course your forces are ready and hiding behind their women folks.
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Sinhala Banda / February 20, 2015
Peelam Kala Vadda
Kallathnoi invaders like you do not have a land to be feeling patriotism. LTTE looser like you do not even understand the bloody meaning of that word.
Hiding behind the pombule’s saree is the way of yours, bloody idiot. It was well exhibited in the practice with all Pombules’ human shield at in Nandikhadal lagoon by your sun goad mass killer podian Preba, just before his ultimate mud bath that lead the way in attaining the Hell. Do not even open your mouth on that subject further as you have nothing to defend that coward behaviour.
So please mind your own [Edited out]
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Javi. / February 20, 2015
Hora_Oru Shit Bucket,
Don’t worry about him think of yourself. When you fall down from your coconut tree and break your legs don’t come running back to your mother because you are schedule class.
Sold the gift of Diego Garcia now you want to play yellow submarine- you have no ba**s neither are the Americans, Chinese willing to play ball for you in the island.
You still lick the feet of an Indian from birth and you speak from your khyber pass.
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Dr. Dhamma / February 19, 2015
Dayan, Do you have a Brain to go with Weerawangsa?
You should take Psycho treatment immediately.
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without being / February 19, 2015
Dayan, I applaud you and the ‘masses’, and their democratic right to support anyone they choose, however:
“It is Sinhala nationalist without being anti-Tamil or anti-Muslim in any manner”
If this were true, then the Sinhala Nationalist will have to be more careful than a blindfolded tightrope walker crossing the Niagra falls.
We have had sixty-seven years of Sinhala Nationalism that HAS been anti-Tamil and anti-Muslim, and I welcome an attempt to tread carefully.
I hope the future Prime Minister MR will make it clear how he intends to solve the national question to the satisfaction of all factions – TNA, JHU, BBS, UNP, SLFP, NDF, USA, UK, UN etc.
Most of all we need a leader who will unite the hearts and minds of the North and South.
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Native Vedda / February 20, 2015
without being
“Most of all we need a leader who will unite the hearts and minds of the North and South.”
I beg to differ.
We do not need a leader who will unite the hearts and minds of the North and South as long as they stop dividing them all is well.
We need wise people guiding the country and am sad to say I am still looking for them.
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Ramuk / February 19, 2015
It’s a pity to observe there are so much cattle in Sri lanka! They never remember the past, even the recent past! Still yearning for a goon who ruled this land in a dictatorial manner and all that abuse of power, nepotism, lawlessness, wastage, family bandism, murder etc. etc he committed. The cattle who flocked to Nugegoda wants this guy to return to power to continue his maniac ways. What a primitive mentality? No wonder why this country continues to be in a mess despite 67 years of independence. This country will be in a mess as long as this herds of cattle and the herdsmen who control them and who were on the podium yesterday, remains in SL politics.
The claim about the interests of the 5.8 million cattle who voted for the goon makes no sense since interests of so many persons who voted for loosing candidates who lost previous general elections and presidential elections for the past 67 years were not addressed and remained voiceless all these years!
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Mati Dombasiri / February 19, 2015
Ramuk
Not only cattle, feral pigs and mad foxes like you who scavenge on “Peelum Masala even after mouthful treatment from the SL Defence in 2009.
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Above the Rest / February 19, 2015
So Dayan, you call Weerawansa a “Jacobin orator”?
You are right. He is a Jacobin in the true sense of the word.
Google says:
“Jac·o·bin
ˈjakəbən/
noun
noun: Jacobin; plural noun: Jacobins; noun: jacobin; plural noun: jacobins
1.
historical
a member of a democratic club established in Paris in 1789. The Jacobins were the most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution, and in association with Robespierre they instituted the Terror of 1793–4.
an extreme political radical.
2.
historical
a Dominican friar.”
Of the two meanings, I know which one you attribute to Weerawansa – because you were hiding from his mob in the late 80s.
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Mervyn Silva / February 19, 2015
I thought that you were better than that third grade professor Peiris.
So you are going to be the next Foreign Minister of Rajapakse.
Soon people will make you fully naked for the second time!
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Ravana / February 19, 2015
Nugegoda rally was a great success. The pundits will not like it but this is the aspiration of common people. Sri Lanka is crying for a great leader. Rail and My3 are puppets of the west who will dance to their tune. We do not want that kind of traitors. All Sri Lankans please stand up to safeguard our dignity! We are not going to bow down to western powers and conspiracies.
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simon / February 20, 2015
bsolutely not you Sinhala Weeraya.With Dayans help you can sink deaper into the Sinhalese communal cesspit.
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Javi. / February 20, 2015
Ravana on JAR Syndrome,
toma toma toma ven aqui ven aqui!(drink, drink, drink, come here, come here)
Knowledge without imagination takes one nowhere.
Ha means ‘Supreme Spirit.’
Nu means ‘that which permeates’
Man means ‘manifested’
Hanuman Ki Jai!!
ʘʘ The culture includes ….Sunday sil Monday kill…….. Kill the Vedda..Rob the Buddha… and Blame the Sudda.. It is as simple as that……
Ravana, Now what are you going to do about it?
`Mahawamse`: Do you still want to retain Sinhala/Buddhist origin myth based on bestiality, parricide and incestuous relation?
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jinkers / February 20, 2015
” We do not want that kind of traitors. “
” We are not going to bow down to western powers “
What do you think about GoRa and BaRa who ran away to US
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Javi. / February 21, 2015
Musharraf did it and many did it before.
Arafat did it too but the mossad got him the same way they plucked Israel.
As planned by CIA the Oil goes to Ethiopia from Sudan and the ethopians have 50k armed men guarding the Oil flow- Thats called freedom and partition.
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