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Jana Madya / May 12, 2013
A grand even but how many Colombo Telegraph
readers know what happened at this event.
The Free Media Movement’s invitees for this
year’s World Press Freedom Day included General
Sarath Fonseka.
If the FMM wallahs check their files, there would
have been numerous occasions when they have hinted
in news releases that Fonseka was one of those who
killed and maimed journalists. The best example is
one of their own stalwarts, Poddala Jayantha.
Perhaps the FMM now wants to ensure good relations
with Fonseka since he is a politician. Who knows he
can be a future President or Media Minister. Or
perhaps this is what the new wallahs of the FMM think.
Okay given them an okay for that.
Then comes the shocker. FMM invited Fonseka to light
the oil lamp by giving him a burning candle, the same
candles their members held aloft when Lasantha Wickremetunga
was murdered in cold blood in broad daylight.
The insult was to the wife of Prageeth Ekneligoda’s wife.
She had to sit and watch the proceedings. There was no canldes
for her.
What do you call this? Is this what is meant by a free and fair
media?
The next year, they as well invite Fonseka to deliver the
lecture on how to silence the media. FMM, you are all Foolish
Media Modayas thriving on foreign and NGO funds. You don’t love
the profession or the country.
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