The Death Of A Newspaper – The Sunday Leader;The Entrenchment Of A Fascist State

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The Death Of A Newspaper – The Sunday Leader;TheEntrenchment Of A Fascist State

By Brian Senewiratne -

Dr. Brian Senewiratne

On Friday 21 September 2012 (another ‘black Friday’[1]), The Sunday Leader, the only newspaper critical of the Rajapaksa junta, was ‘killed’ (silenced), the ‘body’ quickly ‘cremated’ (handed over to one of Rajapaksa’s stooges), and the ‘ashes’ scattered in the President’s House (Palace) and ‘Temple Trees’ (so that the President and his brother can keep an eye on them to make sure they do not rise again (get back into circulation and be a thorn in the flesh)).

‘Temple Trees’ is the official residence of the Prime Minister – now acquired by the President presumably because the vast President’s House in the Colombo Fort is unable to accommodate the ever-increasing Rajapaksa dynasty. It used to be “Queens House”, the residence of the Governor General of Ceylon, and then became “President’s House” in 1972 when Ceylon became the Republic of Sri Lanka. I have no idea who occupies it now, presumably the Rajapaksa clan or the de facto President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, with the de jure President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, demoted to “Temple Trees”.

The assassin of The Sunday Leader has not been identified but the bloody footprints lead to the Rajapaksa junta and theColombo stock market.

Rumour has it that the Colombo stock market mafia raised Rs 190 million, in addition to Rs 100 million given as a bank loan by the President. It is difficult to believe that Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who recently called the Sunday Leader ‘a fucking newspaper’ and the Editor-in-Chief “a dirty fucking shit journalist” was not applauding.

The stock market involvement was that if The Sunday Leader was silenced, there would be no more exposure of the crooked dealings that go on there.

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