CT Challenges State Run Daily News Editor To Reveal Name Of Website In Smear Editorial
Rajpal Abeynayake-------------------------------------------A free Laptop from President to Daily News Editor Rajpal Abeynayake
January 25, 2014 |
In another rant against websites operating beyond the long arm of the Rajapaksa government, State media’sRajpal Abeynayake says in his January 25 editorial that “in the cesspits of the so called web journalistic world there are a type that apparently cannot read.”
“A half educated half-baked callow whinge specialist who runs one of these reeking cesspools for instance is obviously so immersed in his constant self flagellation wishing for a change of regime in Sri Lanka, that he seems to have literally lost his sight. It has been claimed in his cesspit bilge-churner that the Daily News justified burning of places of worship when the editorial referred to stated categorically that nobody can take the law into their own hands and engage in such wanton acts of destruction,” the state owned Daily News said in its editorial today.
We are not certain which website the editor of the State controlled Daily News is referring to.
However Colombo Telegraph did carry his editorial of 22 January 2014, titled, THE ONGOING GENOCIDE AGAINST THE SINHALESE.
This editorial came in the wake of two brutalattacks on churches in Hikkaduwa by extremist Buddhist elements which are seen to have the backing of the highest officials of the ruling regime.Abeynayake on that instance said that Buddhists taking the law into their hands are a “persecuted people” (despite being 70% of the population), and that the Sinhala majority in Sri Lanka are often not permitted to do anything tangible about aggressive proselytization and the barely legal establishment of churches and other places of religious worship. “People besieged in this way can easily be paranoid, or they can overreact and it is suspected that the entire idea is precisely to get them to go over the top, so that this fact can be used against their further persecution as well, taking on the role of apologist for marauding saffron mobs perpetrating violence against minority religious communities” Abeynayake added. Read More
