{"id":100594,"date":"2013-08-16T12:37:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T07:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=100594"},"modified":"2013-08-19T13:04:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T07:34:39","slug":"reply-to-red-alert-is-a-black-july-being-threatened-through-the-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/reply-to-red-alert-is-a-black-july-being-threatened-through-the-state-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To &#8220;Red Alert: Is A Black July Being Threatened Through The State Media&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Jayantha Gunasekera<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My attention has been drawn to a convoluted analysis <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/red-alert-is-a-black-july-being-threatened-through-the-state-media\/\">of my article which appeared in the Daily News<\/a><\/span> of\u00a0 13.8.2013..\u00a0 This analysis has been placed on the website by one <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Dayan+Jayatilleka&amp;x=12&amp;y=2\">Dayan Jayatillake<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Jayantha is no pseudonym.\u00a0 I am available in flesh and blood if Dayan wants to meet me.\u00a0 To introduce myself, I am a President\u2019s Counsel appointed by the J R Jayawardene Govt, 25 years ago (in 1988), and a former elected Secretary of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka.\u00a0 I received my primary and secondary education at Royal College, Colombo and have as my classmates many\u00a0 Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims and Burghers.\u00a0 Two of my Tamils classmates are Chelvanayagam Vasiharan a maths prodigy ( son of S J V Chelvanayagam the TULF leader) and Kumar Ponnambalam (son of G G Ponnambalam QC the Leader of the Tamil Congress). We are a very close knit group of friends.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1358\" style=\"width: 336px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-post-newtonian-political-equilibrium-in-post-war-sri-lanka\/83-pic-by-chandraguptha-amarasingha-a-tamil-boy-stripped-naked-and-later-beaten-to-death-by-sinhala-youth-in-boralla-bustation-colombo1jpg-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1358\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1358\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1358\" title=\"83 pic by Chandraguptha Amarasingha.- A Tamil boy stripped naked and later beaten to death by Sinhala youth in Boralla bustation- colombo1jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/83-pic-by-chandraguptha-amarasingha-a-tamil-boy-stripped-naked-and-later-beaten-to-death-by-sinhala-youth-in-boralla-bustation-colombo1jpg1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/83-pic-by-chandraguptha-amarasingha-a-tamil-boy-stripped-naked-and-later-beaten-to-death-by-sinhala-youth-in-boralla-bustation-colombo1jpg1.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/83-pic-by-chandraguptha-amarasingha-a-tamil-boy-stripped-naked-and-later-beaten-to-death-by-sinhala-youth-in-boralla-bustation-colombo1jpg1-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Tamil boy stripped naked and later beaten to death by Sinhala youth in Boralla bustation |pic by Chandraguptha Amarasingha<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have not entertained communal feelings nor do I expect others to act on communal lines.\u00a0 I am only against the LTTE and the LTTE Diaspora who have made our lives a misery for 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>No right thinking Sri Lankan will sympathise with the LTTE\u00a0 Diaspora who have done\u00a0 and continue to do much harm to our country.\u00a0 They extracted money from innocent Tamils and supplied weapons to Prabha\u2019s \u201cboys\u201d, to kill innocent Tamils, Sinhalese and Muslims.\u00a0 They set the economy back by at least 25 years and all Sri Lankans are suffering the consequences.\u00a0 They continue to extract money\u00a0 from the Tamils.<\/p>\n<p>At the drop of a hat, the TNA runs to the Western countries for instructions from the Tamil Diaspora.\u00a0 According to the Former Army Commander they are right now in Canada where the LTTE is very active and the PM is blindly siding them against the Sri Lanka Govt.\u00a0 They would also meet US State Dept officials.<\/p>\n<p>No Sri Lankan has\u00a0 any regard for sympathizers of the LTTE Diaspora.\u00a0 They, according to the US Country Report 2011\/2012, are in the process of procuring weapons.\u00a0 These weapons are procured not to have as toys, but to restart violence\u00a0 here.<\/p>\n<p>I have by my article attempted to convey that it would be dangerous to have another set of people categorized as the Provincial Police Force, over whose conduct the Central Govt may not have control.\u00a0 Eventually this will lead to a\u00a0 division of the country, which we are all trying to prevent.\u00a0 The State will be duty bound to respond to such an uprising.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of my article is to prevent some communities from electioneering on communal lines, and fall a prey to LTTE Diaspora machinations.\u00a0 Electioneering on communal lines may harden the attitude of other communities.\u00a0 At least 4 years after the war, we must learn to live as Sri Lankans.<\/p>\n<p>I do not entertain any ill feelings towards Dayan.\u00a0 I have never set eyes on him.<\/p>\n<p>I still maintain that the whole country should be consulted by a REFERENDUM before granting Police and Land Powers to Provincial Councils.<\/p>\n<p>A regime change cannot be achieved by personal attacks on authors of articles, who express views against the LTTE Diaspora.\u00a0 Each one is entitled to express one\u2019s point of view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Reply To &quot;Red Alert: Is A Black July Being Threatened Through The State Media&quot;?  - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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