{"id":55905,"date":"2012-10-06T18:41:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T18:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=55905"},"modified":"2012-10-16T17:58:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T17:58:25","slug":"ridiculous-arguments-of-sb-display-the-bankruptcy-of-mahinda-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/ridiculous-arguments-of-sb-display-the-bankruptcy-of-mahinda-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridiculous Arguments Of SB Display The Bankruptcy Of Mahinda Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Vickramabahu Karunaratne<\/a>\u00a0–<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dr. Vickramabahu Karunaratne<\/p><\/div>\n

FUTA protest march was a success. Its success could be measured from the hate generated in the government camp. Minister SB said \u201cwe do not intend to look at FUTA<\/a><\/span> as our foe. But for example, take the foreign countries that were visited lately by Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0He is a second grade junior lecturer on History. In the recent past he toured\u00a0Oslo\u00a0and the\u00a0US. Who provided the air tickets for his sojourns overseas? Even Kumar Rupasinghe<\/a><\/span> has joined them now. He has publicly stated that the FUTA strike has the makings of an Arab Spring that will emerge in the future. But that guy is nothing but a knucklehead who is unable to understand that this is not\u00a0Arabia\u00a0but\u00a0Sri Lanka\u00a0and that there is no scope or room for such springs to take root in this part of the globe. No doubt there are scores of NGOs behind the FUTA strike. They have also been supported by the UNP, JVP and Sarath Fonseka as well. They have also cleverly got around the breakaway faction of the JVP<\/a><\/span>, the Frontline Socialist Party<\/a><\/span> (FSP) towards this endeavour. I must say that Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri is nothing but a mentally sick and ill person. He has publicly ridiculed our esteemed King Dutugemunu and he has also publicly clamoured to get same-sex marriages legalized here as well. It has been alleged that in the past, he has even crowed from the rooftops to get Eelam for the Tamil people in the North-East.<\/p>\n

Dewasiri has also allegedly gone to\u00a0India\u00a0with the EPRLF<\/a><\/span> and obtained training in arms as well. He does not understand who the genuine university lecturers are. He continues to grope in the dark. The genuine university lecturers are now beginning to understand who the FUTA chief really is. That is one reason why the FUTA strike is now showing signs of coming apart at the seams.\u201d All these words said, do not bring FUTA or Nirmal into disrepute; but goes a long way to reduce further the deteriorating image of the minister himself. I have never heard of a category of lecturers named \u2013 second grade junior lecturer. I joined the staff of Peradeniya Engineering faculty in 1966 as an assistant lecturer. Then I was promoted to lecturer grade in 1970 when I came back from\u00a0Cambridge\u00a0with a PhD. At the time I was interdicted in 1978, I was a senior lecturer. Next title awaiting me was assistant professor which was earlier referred to as Reader. These are the categories of university lecturers at the time. I never heard of this category that SB<\/a><\/span> refers to. I am sure he is wrong and he needs to apologize to Nirmal who is in my estimate a profound academic in his field. Also I must add that History is not as marginal a subject as SB assumes. EH Carr, the great historian said in his famous lecture \u2018what is history\u2019-\u00a0 \u201cWhen we attempt to answer the question ‘What is\u00a0history?\u2019 our answer, consciously or unconsciously, reflects our own position in time, and forms part of our answer to the broader question what view we take of the society in which we live. I have no fear that my subject may, on closer inspection, seem trivial. I am afraid only that I may seem presumptuous to have broached a question so vast and so important.\u201d<\/p>\n

SB must remember what happened in Arabia, happened in Lanka way back in the history; when we marched to Kataragama with Mahinda<\/a><\/span> and participated in many mass actions, which finally brought the down fall of the last UNP regime. It can happen again perhaps more virulently. When SB says that Frontline Socialist party was cleverly trapped into this protest, he displays his ignorance as to what is happening in higher education sector. In fact the government paper, Sunday Observer reported \u201cThe JVP did not have much say in the Inter University Student Federation, better known as Anthare, protest march that proceeded from Kandy to Colombo in support of the dons. It was the JVP\u2019s second breakaway group \u2013 The Peratugaami (Progressive Front), which secured control of the student protest from Kandy. In contrast to the FUTA protest march, the Peratugaami student leaders holding power at Anthare were clever enough not to entertain any of the opportunist politicians in the Opposition in their protest march, not even the JVP leaders. Hence, JVP parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayake was seen taking shelter at the FUTA protest to mark their political presence.\u201d Here we can disagree with the opinion but facts are correct.<\/p>\n

Nirmal never ridiculed historic figures; he only ridiculed mentally sick politicians who try to reenact stories of Mahawansa in the modern world. If Nirmal stands for same sex marriages he is with great intellectuals world over. If he has gone to the EPRLF for training, then he must have gone through the United Socialist Alliance headed by Chandrika<\/a><\/span>. ; Because EPRLF was in a common front with us at that time. We all got training in Vanni jungles to save our selves from the DJV attacks. In fact the leader of the Independent Student Union, Daya Pathirana was killed by the DJV. So it was perfectly correct to learn to defend one self.\u00a0 As far as I know Nirmal always stood for a United Lanka based on devolution of power. Any sensible person who expects a united Lanka should hold that view. There is no other way out.<\/p>\n

Ridiculous arguments of SB display the bankruptcy of Mahinda regime. They have forgotten their past and what they were campaigning for at that time. The government media has made special attacks mentioning my name. I am happy to think that the NSSP intervention got such recognition. One repot said \u201cThough Sajith even had his usual same team which whistles and cheers each time he comes on a political platform, Fonseka and Vickremabahu appeared to be isolated. On-the-spot reports said Vickremabahu, who tarnished Sri Lanka\u2019s image at the UN Human Rights Council<\/a><\/span> earlier this year, had only three supporters with him while Fonseka had only his security guards, that too provided by the Government as a former Army Commander.\u201d It added \u201cThe FUTA protest march which was followed by a rally in Colombo was used as gathering points for anti-government elements and political parties while UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/a><\/span>, Karu Jayasuriya, Sajith Premadasa, Sarath Fonseka, JVP leader Somawansa Amarasinghe, Vijitha Herath and Vickremabahu Karunarathne were seen voicing for their political survival.\u201d No, we were all voicing for the end of this chauvinist dictatorship!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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