Blackmailing The Tamils: Rejoinder To Jayantha Gunasekara, PC
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
Mr Jayantha Gunasekara PC has sought to refute my criticism of his recent piece which appeared in the Features page of the Daily News, of Tuesday, August 13th, 2013 under the caption ‘TNA! POLICE POWERS A WAY TO HURT WESTERN PROVINCE TAMILS’ and bore the subheading ‘Catering to LTTE Diaspora’. In his reply, Mr Gunasekara PC has helpfully provided his bio-data too.
Having read his original article I had raised two questions. They were and are:
- Are the Tamils of the Western Province regarded as potential hostages in the event of a TNA victory in the Northern Provincial Council and a legitimate assertion of Constitutional rights by that Council?
- Is a veiled threat being issued through the state media that Tamils in the Western Province will be targeted if the TNA and the Northern Provincial Council do not behave with due obsequiousness?
In that article Mr Gunasekara PC, wrote: “…Tamils who live in the Western province will have to exert pressure on the TNA, not to endanger their businesses, their properties and their liberty by the TNA catering to the LTTE diaspora agenda, for a mess of pottage.
It is common knowledge that the TNA do not represent the Sri Lanka Tamils…
…They are instructed as to the manner in which they should act, to achieve a SEPARATE STATE OF TAMIL EELAM, through Police and Land Powers. This is High Treason.” Read More
No right thinking Sri Lankan will sympathise with the LTTE Diaspora who have done and continue to do much harm to our country. They extracted money from innocent Tamils and supplied weapons to Prabha’s “boys”, to kill innocent Tamils, Sinhalese and Muslims. They set the economy back by at least 25 years and all Sri Lankans are suffering the consequences. They continue to extract money from the Tamils.I have not entertained communal feelings nor do I expect others to act on communal lines. I am only against the LTTE and the LTTE Diaspora who have made our lives a misery for 30 years.
Reply To “Red Alert: Is A Black July Being Threatened Through The State Media”?
A Tamil boy stripped naked and later beaten to death by Sinhala youth in Boralla bustation |pic by Chandraguptha Amarasingha
My attention has been drawn to a convoluted analysis of my article which appeared in the Daily News of 13.8.2013.. This analysis has been placed on the website by one Dayan Jayatillake.
Jayantha is no pseudonym. I am available in flesh and blood if Dayan wants to meet me. To introduce myself, I am a President’s 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. I received my primary and secondary education at Royal College, Colombo and have as my classmates many Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims and Burghers. 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.
No right thinking Sri Lankan will sympathise with the LTTE Diaspora who have done and continue to do much harm to our country. They extracted money from innocent Tamils and supplied weapons to Prabha’s “boys”, to kill innocent Tamils, Sinhalese and Muslims. They set the economy back by at least 25 years and all Sri Lankans are suffering the consequences. They continue to extract money from the Tamils.I have not entertained communal feelings nor do I expect others to act on communal lines. I am only against the LTTE and the LTTE Diaspora who have made our lives a misery for 30 years.
