Dinamina’s Wijayani Edirisinghe resurfaces!
- Wednesday, 04 March 2015
Wijayani Edirisinghe, a darling of Mahinda Abeysundara, the mud-sliginging editor of Dinamina during the Rajapaksa regime, has resurfaced as the newspaper’s defence correspondent under the new Lake House administration.
Wijayani made it her duty to brand critical journalists as Tigers during the Rajapaksa rule. In hiding for some time after the new government took over, she has reestablished her position in Dinamina through its new lady editor.
The new editor was responsible for all the mud-slinging headlines during the Abeysundara period, as Dinamina’s chief sub editor.
After the new government came to power, she clung on to a former journalist, took part in several picketings and became the newspaper’s editor.
The article below written by Edirisinghe is full of falsehoods and half truths.
“Sea Tiger women’s leader tried to flee to France
By Wijayani Edirisinghe
Murugesu Pahiravi alias Muru, said to be the women’s head of the LTTE’s Sea Tigers, was arrested two days ago at the Katunayake airport while trying to flee the country to France.
She has been identified as the wife of Subamaniam Jayaganeshan, the international finance administrator of the organization.”
The claim in this article that the woman had tried to flee to France is false. She had informed the CID that she would go to France on the 2nd, and she had gone to the airport to go to France by legal means. The article does not say that she lives in France and that she had come to Sri Lanka a month ago to see her parents. It also mentions nothing of her leaving the Sea Tigers in 2000, going to France in 2005 and living there since. Her husband is suspected to be still active in the LTTE, and that is yet to be confirmed.
This entire article is misleading the reader. Top officials of Lake House seem to be unaware that the recent criticism by prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe of journalists who provoke communalism is applicable to extremist chauvinists like Wijayani Edirisinghe.
