(Lanka-e-News-21.Oct.2013, 3.30PM) At the end of her recent week-long visit to Sri Lanka, UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay sharply criticised the government of Sri Lanka’s human rights record saying she feared the country was becoming increasingly authoritarian.
But spin doctor Dr Dayan Jayatilleke has picked on the words of Ms Pillay to fool Pillay and his target audience, clearly the West, to suggest President Mahinda Rajapaksa was not a dictator but a true democrat and he was not the person to be blamed for the evils of the regime. But the opposition calls President Rajapaksa a dictator and many Sri Lankans who live in exile call him “Idi Amin”. During provincial councils’ elections, Mr Rajapaksa asked in the rallies, like a saint, “Why people call me a dictator…?”
