{"id":191893,"date":"2018-07-06T16:21:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T10:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=191893"},"modified":"2018-07-12T10:58:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T05:28:54","slug":"the-nyt-story-unstripped-much-more-than-it-intended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-nyt-story-unstripped-much-more-than-it-intended\/","title":{"rendered":"The NYT Story Unstripped Much More Than It Intended"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Malinda Seneviratne<\/a> –<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Malinda Seneviratne<\/p><\/div>\n

If not the Rajapaksas, their supporters are certainly perturbed by the New York Times (NYT) article on wrongdoing regarding the China Harbour Engineering Company, which is one of China\u2019s largest state-owned enterprises. The NYT piece has since been dismissed by the Rajapaksas, their spokespersons and the Chinese Embassy in Colombo.<\/p>\n

The NYT has claimed that the company had paid large sums of money to the election campaign of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/a>. The Chinese Embassy claims that there was no wrongdoing and that the company was compliant \u2018with the laws of the market from beginning to end, reflected by the principle of wide consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits.\u2019<\/p>\n

The NYT story emphasizes two concerns. First, that Rajapaksa was corrupt, and secondly, it was all a part of China\u2019s strategy to have a port in the Indian Ocean, a key element of its \u2018string of pearls\u2019 strategy to control the seas.<\/p>\n

First let\u2019s discuss these concerns and the self-righteousness of that newspaper. If \u2018bribe\u2019 is an issue, well then the NYT could have also written about the USA pumping bucks into an election campaign that would cough up a plaint president in Sri Lanka. Former Secretary of State John Kerry unapologetically acknowledged that the US did fund that campaign. It is also known that the State Department routinely funds agents and agencies in Colombo engaged in political activities whose objectives coincide with those of the USA. Do we even need to go into how the USA has helped install dictators, military juntas and other \u2018friends\u2019 in countries all over the world?<\/p>\n

The NYT never had a problem with such intervention. So the issue is not bribery but bribing those not in the good books of the USA, if indeed there was a bribe here. We need to keep in mind that companies do fund election campaigns of parties and politicians and that typically the bucks are sent to all takers. These are essentially investments, which is why legislation on campaign finance is so necessary and so regularly \u2018back-burnered\u2019 by politicians, the current lot included. Some funders get contracts, some get ports (the NYT would have us believe).<\/p>\n

The NYT hints that the Chinese interest was strategic more than commercial. If that be the case, then this government and especially Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is on the same page as Mahinda Rajapaksa with respect to \u2018going along\u2019 with China\u2019s interest. One might say that Ranil\u2019s collusion was more timid since Mahinda at least got some bucks out of the deal. No give and take, but just give. That is, IF the UNP directly or indirectly did not benefit from \u2018the principle of wide consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits\u2019.<\/p>\n

Why should the NYT be upset over China doing stuff that\u2019s in China\u2019s interest when the USA does the same? According to David Vine of the Politico Magazine, \u2018despite recently closing hundreds of bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States still maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad\u2014from giant \u201cLittle Americas\u201d to small radar facilities. Britain, France and Russia, by contrast, have about 30 foreign bases combined.\u2019<\/p>\n

How many \u2018cough up\u2019 pieces have the NYT written over the years, one has to ask. The NYT talks about a \u2018debt trap\u2019 as though it\u2019s a Chinese invention. Well, that\u2019s been part of the Bretten Woods doctrine for decades, and the USA has been the key mover and shaker in the \u2018debt-for-coughing-up-whatever\u2019 strategy. To the peoples in whose names such coughing-up happens, the identity of the beneficiary is hardly important. Enslavement is not fun and the name of the slave-master is of little consequence.<\/p>\n

Now let\u2019s get to the drama. A quick sweep of the chronology would help paint the true picture of this government\u2019s clumsiness, this time dripping into media practice. The Daily News reported in July, 2015 that the CID was investigating a case where the China Harbour Engineering Company had given Rs. 149 million to the former President’s election campaign. Again quoting CID sources, the Daily News said money had been obtained from HTPD Phase 02 013359190\/19 account of the company, maintained at Standard Chartered Bank, Colombo. A person by the name of V.H.R.H. Francisco had obtained Rs. 89 million on December 12, 2014 and January 07, 2015 in three cheques.<\/p>\n

What does the NYT say? Here goes:<\/p>\n

\u2018At least $7.6 million was dispensed from China Harbor\u2019s account at Standard Chartered Bank to affiliates of Mr. Rajapaksa\u2019s campaign, according to a document, seen by The Times, from an active internal government investigation. The document details China Harbor\u2019s bank account number \u2014 ownership of which was verified \u2014 and intelligence gleaned from questioning of the people to whom the checks were made out.\u2019<\/p>\n

What\u2019s this \u2018active internal government investigation\u2019? The only investigation anyone knows about is the one referred to in the Daily News story. Probably the same source, we can presume. Probably and not possibly, considering that among the contributors to the NYT article is a journalist who held a high post in the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd (ANCL aka Lake House) which publishes the Daily News.<\/p>\n

The journalist was recently appointed as the editor of the Sunday Observer. The journalists strong political loyalties to the current regime and strong antipathy to the previous are well known. That\u2019s not important here. It\u2019s the connection with the newspaper that ran the first story that matters. That\u2019s what makes the NYT a re-hash and a cheap one at that.<\/p>\n

The excitement of the Rajpakasa loyalists now and their silence back in 2015 is strange. Are they indirectly saying that they are more effected by a NYT story than a Daily News story? Is it because the word of Lake House is not taken seriously by the voters anyway? Was it that back then, just after political fortunes hit an unexpected low, they were too down-and-out to respond? We don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s strange is that once the NYT\u2019s rehashed story \u2018broke\u2019 it was not only the Rajapaksa loyalists who got excited. The Government went to town, ridiculously implying that because the NYT said it, it is serious, notwithstanding the fact that the Daily News had said virtually the same thing three years before!<\/p>\n

Then we have Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe calling for a CID investigation based on the NYT story. So essentially, he\u2019s asking the CID to investigate something the CID had already investigated. What happened to that investigation, though? What did the CID conclude? Did it not conclude anything of significance or did it find things that could embarrass certain individuals in the new regime?<\/p>\n

If all this was not enough, we have another Act in the drama, that concerning \u2018naming\u2019 journalists. The NYT has sought to tutor the Rajapaksas about how to respond to media stories.<\/p>\n

The international editor of the NYT Michael Slackman said the politicians’ actions appears intended to silence critics and curb press freedoms and ultimately deprive Sri Lankans of information in the public interest.\u2019 They\u2019ve said that instead of taking issue with the relevant journalists, concerns should be addressed to the editors of the particular media institutions. These sentiments have been echoed by the Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Association (FCA) in Colombo.<\/p>\n

First of all, the only response that can directly be linked to the political group(s) that the Rajapaksas belong to was a media conference where two members of parliament (Kanchana Wijesekera and Dullas Alahapperuma) mentioned journalists who had contributed to the NYT story by name and called Minister Mangala Samaraweera to explain their alleged longtime loyalties to him.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a strange request. Loyalty is not at issue here. What\u2019s at issue is the re-hash and the clumsiness of the entire process, starting from July 2015, both by the relevant media personnel and the government. One of those named, anyway, is a stringer for the NYT and in the case of this story only helped put the NYT correspondent in touch with relevant informants. Both Wijesekera and Alahapperuma seem to have got the wrong end of the stick, but to say, as the FCA has, that they \u2018vilified the authors of the report without utilizing established channels to redress any grievance\u2019 is downright silly.<\/p>\n

Journalists have bylines. They take responsibility for the content they produce. They are morally and professionally bound to be ready for response. Neither Wijesekera nor Alahapperuma threatened anybody. That they were barking up the wrong tree is a different matter; for example, the spouse of one of the journalist, the ups and downs of the person\u2019s professional life has nothing to do with either the journalist or the NYT or the Daily News report. That said, some of the backers of the previous regime have in fact launched a nasty and threatening campaign against the said journalists.<\/p>\n

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have also overreacted. They state, \u2018politicians have every right to dispute the findings of a news report, but publicly singling out Dharisha Bastians<\/a> and Arthur Wamanan<\/a> is a worrisome development in a country noted for attacks on journalists and unsolved journalist murders.\u2019 What the said politicians did was to name the journalists named in the NYT article. It\u2019s not that there were dozens of journalists contributing to the article and that only these two were \u2018singled out\u2019.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Mangala Samaraweera also joined the howling-in-horror circus<\/a>, condemning \u2018virulent personal attacks by individuals linked to the joint opposition and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) in a bid to intimidate journalists who worked on the NYT (New York Times) report, attacking them for doing their job.\u2019 Virulent personal attacks? Really? \u2018In a bid to intimidate?\u2019 Oh well!<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s talk about virulent personal attacks and bids to intimidate. On the same day that Samaraweera issued this statement, his it was revealed that his Coordinating Secretary Thusitha Haloluwa has launched as scathing attack on a journalist who had exposed financial irregularity in a state institution running into millions of rupees. The fact was exposed by SLVlog and was picked up by News 1st only three days ago. Is Samaraweera not bothered<\/a> by the virulence and the intimidation?<\/p>\n

The FCA is concerned about all journalists and apparently issues statements relevant to foreign correspondents or correspondents working for foreign media institutions. What does the CPJ have to say about Haloluwa, though?<\/p>\n

Samaraweera would also remember how in February 2016, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe launched a virulent and intimidating attack<\/a> on Daily Mirror (naming its editor) and Derana.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an excerpt: \u201cEveryone from the Daily Mirror tagged along with Rajapaksa, and one of its writers Kesara Abeywardena had written an article saying I should resign from the party leadership. I am asking them to get in line with the new line of thinking, and I have given them sufficient time for it. If they cannot get in line, without writing lies they have the opportunity to leave. We won\u2019t tolerate this.\u201d<\/p>\n

So Wickremesinghe thinks it\u2019s up to him to fire journalists who don\u2019t toe his line. That\u2019s not the first time Wickremesinghe has launched virulent and intimidating attacks on the media. The FCA can remain silent. How about the CPJ? How about Samaraweera himself?<\/p>\n

The point is, are we supposed to talk about corruption, debt traps, coughing-up, media ethics, media-integrity, protection of journalists and such across the board, or are were supposed to be selective? The NYT, CPJ and Mangala Samaraweera seem to think \u2018selective is best\u2019. Well, that\u2019s what the Rajapaksas were all about, weren\u2019t they?<\/p>\n

The entire NYT story, what preceded it and what followed it, far more than \u2018exposing\u2019 the previous regime, has shown that this government, its loyalists and the journalists it uses, are morally corrupt, professionally inept and are two-tongued. As for the NYT, let\u2019s not even go there for it would be such a waste of time!<\/p>\n

*Malinda Seneviratne is a freelance writer. malindasenevi@gmail.com. www.malindawords.blogspot.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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