Daily News Slams Ex-Ambassador Dayan, Alludes To Him Being A “Diabolical Donkey”
Rajpal Abeynayake
August 15, 2013 |
The state run Daily News in an abusively worded editorial today slammed the Government’s former Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Dr. Dayan Jayatillake, accusing him of praying for a repeat of the anti-Tamil riots of July 1983 in order to destablise the ruling Rajapaksa administration.
The editorial comes in the wake of an opinion piece penned by Jayatillake in which he warned that state media was threatening Tamils in Colombo with violence by publishing a ‘point of view’ by columnist Jayantha Gunesekera who warns that the TNA’s demands for police powers could incite communal hatred towards Tamils living in the capital.
The Daily News also stated that its columnist Gunesekera, who Dr. Jayatillake said in his piece he had never heard of before, was a President’s Counsel and a former Secretary of the Bar Association.“No, there will never, ever, be a July 1983 in this country again, no matter how many Dayans want it to satisfy their own personal bloodlust in pursuance of their own petty pathological hatred against a regime that they now despise for piffling personal reasons,” Daily News Editor Rajpal Abeynayake said in his 15 August Editorial.
The state run newspaper’s editorial page that has taken to vilifying Government critics and rights activists in near profane language accuses the former Ambassador of having “wet dreams” about another Black July.
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The state run Daily News in an abusively worded editorial today slammed the Government’s former Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Dr. Dayan Jayatillake, accusing him of praying for a repeat of the anti-Tamil riots of July 1983 in order to destablise the ruling Rajapaksa administration.The editorial comes in the wake of an opinion piece penned by Jayatillake in which he warned that state media was threatening Tamils in Colombo with violence by publishing a ‘point of view’ by columnist Jayantha Gunesekera who warns that the TNA’s demands for police powers could incite communal hatred towards Tamils living in the capital.The Daily News also stated that its columnist Gunesekera, who Dr. Jayatillake said in his piece he had never heard of before, was a President’s Counsel and a former Secretary of the Bar Association.“No, there will never, ever, be a July 1983 in this country again, no matter how many Dayans want it to satisfy their own personal bloodlust in pursuance of their own petty pathological hatred against a regime that they now despise for piffling personal reasons,” Daily News Editor Rajpal Abeynayake said in his 15 August Editorial.
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On TNA, TGTE And The UNP Under Ranil
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
While it is by no means the place of a uniformed officer, however highly placed, decorated or both, to comment on the peaceful political conduct of members of parliament and/or of academics, the story told by the new Chief of Defence Staff, to the effect that Mr Sampanthan and Mr Sumanthiran attended an event of or sponsored by the so-called Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) is – if true—deeply distressing in several respects and warrants condemnation. If it is a mischievous untruth, a denial must promptly be issued by the TNA and a protest lodged from the floor of the House. If there is some truth to a story which has been maliciously spun out of recognition, a clarification must be issued by these gentlemen. If for instance they had made dissenting speeches at such an event, the text or transcript of these must be made public.
The TGTE is an enemy of Sri Lanka. The TGTE stands – and campaigns – openly for a separate state of Tamil Eelam to be carved out of the territory of Sri Lanka. This is not a call for a radically reformed Sri Lankan state along the lines of Canadian federalism! The TGTE stands outside and against the boundaries of the Sri Lankan political community. The TNA does not. Interaction with the Tamil Diaspora is one thing; association with those organised segments of the Tamil Diaspora or Tamil Nadu politics which are explicitly organized for the purpose of separatism and its promotion, is quite another. Read More
