Comments on: Lasantha Wickrematunge, RIP

By: jcnars

jcnars — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:12:46 +0000

How will you send me 500 bucks? Is it dollars or SL rupees? Never saw such easy money. I like Lankan girls…dark and sultry. But I am not SL-kan.

The point is our people want to see a prosperous neighbour. Heck, I have known South Indian friends who’d like to have marriage alliances with SL families. Not anymore.

By: Sene

Sene — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:24:53 +0000

500 bucks you’re not actually Indian, but actually a Lankan pretending to be an Indian.

By: Lefroy

Lefroy — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:59:08 +0000

I’m horrified. Hate only leads to more hate.

By: jcnars

jcnars — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:56:16 +0000

Indi,
I don’t know much about you…i got some google links and stumbled on to you on twitter.
What I read and saw of you, I liked very much.

I’ve been interested in SL affairs as a neutral observer from India.
Last year around the same time, we had a story on Lasantha’s killing in TIME magazine and then I started digging deeper.

I was horrified to see the smile on Gota’s face on Youtube when a BBC reported asked about Lasantha.

AAAAAAAAAAAND, I’ve made some 1 or 2 comments previously on your blogs…requesting you to be careful.
BECAUSE, these fucking bastards won’t fucking allow any point of view that’s anti-govt.

I am proud of the plurality of India. I cannot understand what my friends talk in their language. But we like cricket. We like spicy food.
We don’t care what each of us worship. People from all regions get equal employment opportunities everywhere.
And sometimes the American clients I share my office are surprised at the confusing diversity of India.

I am just rambling…take care mate.
Though sane voices are rare and few to emanate from SL now, you are precious to your family. Just wait for times to change and then say, whatever you want to.

I wish SL with just 3 ethnicities and a beeeeeeeeeeeautiful landscape can be a lovely place.
I believe it truly.

Gota’s days are numbered. He will die a death that fits him…a spectacularly gory and public death.
We’ll leave that to Providence. But my hope is, before he dies actually, I’d like to see him die of fear first.
Every waking hour and sleeping hour, he should be boiling inside with fear.

Ok, Srilankans give me that news of Gota’s death soon.

By: Lefroy

Lefroy — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:33:30 +0000

Of course Lasantha was partial. But the last time I checked, we all have a constitutional right to be partial. Kill any one who dissents. Hah. Is that what you want? Well then Mahinda Abesekara, Hudson Samarasinghe will be tortured to death under a UNP regime. Is that what you want? Even whimsical, sue, chandana will be killed. Is that what you want? I don’t.

By: Lefroy

Lefroy — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:26:54 +0000

“Why Lasantha’s death is more special…?” hah. BECAUSE THAT’S DEATH OF FREE SPEECH, AND DEMOCRACY.

By: Sue

Sue — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:44:43 +0000

Lasantha was obviously effective for some powerful people to want him dead. As Indi says the journalists are scared. The killers have achieved their purpose. I am horrified at some comments. Seems that it’s OK that Lasantha was killed. I feel ashamed to be Sri Lankan.

By: Whimsical

Whimsical — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:12:14 +0000

“‘great and valuable mind” – was that a joke, or were you being serious? The truth is, Lasantha engaged in the worst kind of yellow journalism. He used his broadsheet to go on witch hunts against individuals he had a grudge against. His newspaper was totally partial to the UNP, a party which he supported. He wound hound people and if they ended up joining the UNP, he would start singing their praises. Even now, the The Sunday LEader is as unprincipled as it always was with Fredrika Jansz revealing that the management recently took the decision to support a particular political candidate. I don’t think his death is a loss to Sri Lanka at all, besides of course, the sadness of the loss of a human life. This is my personal opinion of course.

By: Suresh

Suresh — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:10:34 +0000

His death in itself was no more special than the tens of thousands who have died, but in murdering him, the perpetrators denied Sri Lanka of a great and valuable mind.

By: Bardo

Bardo — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:03:35 +0000

The people holding those placards would hardly know who Lasantha was, let alone have read anything he’s written. Why is Lasantha’s death more special than the death of any one of the tens of thousands who’ve died in the course of this war. Lasantha took a side, and he was killed for it. What’s so special about it?