Mr .Prime minister don't insult sakkili by comparing them with Racist !!

 Monday, 23 February 2015 

Breaking his long silence, prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday (22) in Kurunegala fired the first salvo against a group of despicable journalists. We have certain reservations about the conduct of the premier, but we raise both our hands in support for him in this matter. The PM has launched a pioneering effort to deal the first blow to bring down the tree called communalism that has spread its branches in the Sri Lankan society. We have been expecting such a thing like a leader like him.

In the past when caste was a consideration, Sakkili (scavenger) was treated as a lowly segment of society. They had carried out their livelihood without inconveniencing others and led their lives harmlessly. By comparing such a group of people existent in our society to the communalistic, tribal, despicable journalists, the PM has committed a serious wrong. That is because, the scavengers have a dignity better than these despicable journalists. Here, we recall that the then chief justice Neville Samarakoon, ordering former ‘Eththa’ editor Siriwardena to pay a Rs. 5.00 compensation to a former higher education minister for having called him a ‘bull’, asked as to whether who would compensate for the pain of mind suffered by the bull for comparing a minister to it.

Since the new government took power, keeping silence for a week or two, this communalistic gang has once again begun creating false alarms and raising their ugly heads. From the 1987 Indo-Lanka accord, they had preached about a division of the country. They sermonized that the formation of provincial councils would definitely divide the country. By saying so, these so-called journalists took 60,000 youths to their death by making them swallow a patriotic rope. What the JVP had done was to lend a helping hand to that. These idiots cannot comprehend that as long as India remained our neighbour, formation of a separate state in Sri Lanka will not take place. India has already proven that the possibility of such a division had been negated by the wiping out of the LTTE first, and then by the removal of Mahinda Rajapaksa from power. Well knowing that it was them who would have to encounter more problems than Sri Lanka if the island becomes divided, India has now finished usurping its power shrewdly in Sri Lankan politics.

‘Irida Divaina’, of which Anura Soloman is the editor, has mixed up racism with nationalism. It is their right to propagate the Sinhala Buddhist opinion. We respect that. Edmund Ranasinghe, who nurtured ‘Divaina’ represented Sinhala Buddhism nationalism. Journalist of our time Dayasena Gunasinghe, to whom we bow with reverence, transgressed this Sinhala Buddhist nationalism. He would never belong to this class. Today’s ‘Divaina’ wants full-grown journalists like Dayasena Gunasinghe. But, unfortunately, it has a group that has got nationalism and communalism mixed up like Gamini Sumanasekara, Merril Perera, Narada Nissanka, Jayantha Chandrasiri and Anura Solomon. Their opinions can be tolerated, but the gutter journalism by the likes of Keerthi Warnakulasuriya, Saman Gamage and Manoj Abeydheera cannot be endured at all. A glaring example was an article by Saman Gamage in yesteday’s ‘Irida Divaina’ that had justified the ‘murder of Welikada prisoners’.

‘Rivira’ is a newspaper that is became extinct from the outset. Sisira Paranatantri was a very precious journalist when he was at ‘Divaina.’ Considering Dayasena Gunasinghe as his teacher, Sisira had used his pen bravely and elegantly, but he became dead after he had gone to live and cohabitate with Mahinda Rajapaksa. Now, what is living is a communalistic avatar of him. What Sisira does in Sinhala, Malinda Seneviratne does in English in ‘The Nation’ newspaper. As Prof. Carlo Fonseka said, it is doubtful as to whether Malinda had ever set foot on Harvard, even for a rain.

All the above-mentioned journalists have a sacred right to promote their master Mahidna Rajapaksa. They should definitely be grateful to their master who had served them hoppers at Temple Trees every month, paid fees for their children’s studies abroad and the medical bills for the bypass operations. But, for that they should not provoke communalism by using national newspapers.

One thing should be stressed here. There is every likelihood that tempted by the prime minister’s speech yesterday, the idiotic monkeys surrounding him would harass these journalists in order to appease their master. That should be prevented. All of them should be defeated ideologically, and not by beating them up, breaking their legs, shaving their faces clean or abducting them in white vans. If they continue to promote communalism, they should be dealt with in accordance with the law, and in no other way, we stress to the present government in conclusion.