The Ever Present Quest For Crab
The boys blessing crab, Jaffna
If there’s one thing that seems to unite Sri Lankan travellers, it’s the constant quest for crab. This flesh of sea insect is craved and devoured by all ranks and stations with gusto. I have spent many hours driving around extremely random places for crab, especially lagoon crab, effectively the cocaine of crab connoisseurs. Personally I find crab a bit stressful being as you sorta have to kill the thing again to get the meat out. That said, I have had a few lagoon crabs that were fat as hens, and that was pretty good. Crab is like crack though. Everybody I know seems to be looking for it. So where do you get?
Honestly, Singapore. I’m pretty sure that the best crab is shipped out almost immediately. The one time I had proper lagoon crab my junkie friends finagled it from some guy in Jaffna that was about to ship it out. I have no idea how to procure that source again. Go to Casuarina beach and ask the fishermen where the UN hostel is, I guess. I write this post not as a guide, since I don’t know. I’m hoping that people would post any clues they have in the comments.
Jaffna lagoon crab
On one level I’m sure you can get crab at Cinnamon Grand (that place by the pool) or any of the five star hotels. Seeing as the crab is not coming from the pool this seems kinda pointless, ideally one would find these things on the beach. In Colombo, however, I think that the New Yarl Cafe is a pretty good bet. That is a street eatery on Station Road in Wellawatte, just off Galle Road. It is literally a hole in the wall, about 10 meters in from the main road. They have crab. I’ve heard it’s pretty good, but I get stressed out enough in there eating spicy food and blowing my nose with newspaper. I can’t deal with crunching through crustacean and haven’t tried. What else in Colombo, maybe Beach Wadiya, but I’ve honestly never seen crab there. Who knows.
One option is to go to St. John’s Fish Market at like 6 am and get crabs there. My friend used to party all night, buy crabs and leave that at home for his mum to prepare whenever he woke up. I suppose that’s an option.
Dude catching crabs
Of course, we have a lot of coast and one can actually go where the crabs are. North of Colombo is prolly the best bet. I’ve had decent crab at Brown’s Beach Hotel in Negombo, but I don’t know that area well at all. Wattala is closer, but again, area is unknown to me. Pegasus Reef doesn’t even have crab on the menu. The Chilaw rest house can prepare crab, but you need to order ahead and we could never find their number. Puttalam rest house as well, presumably but we dropped by there one night and it was strangely terrifying. Didn’t go in. Perhaps I’m wrong.
Crab at the Jaffna Fish Market, Rs. 200 per kilo (few months ago)
Then of course there is Jaffna, holy of holies, mother of all crab. I had some damn good lagoon crab there, but you need some serious junkie radar to find it. I actually find Jaffna to be a bit sparse and slow in terms of restaurants. The best thing is to go to the fish market and buy crabs, they’re way cheaper than Colombo. Or were. Then whoever at the guesthouse can cook them. We literally lit a fire in the yard, which works out well enough.
I can’t say that I’ve ever had crab on the East or South Coast, but it is surely possible. In Batti they can scare some up at the Riviera, but again you need to order in advance. And that is all I know about crab. It still stresses me out, both the getting and the eating. However, crab remains one thing that Sri Lankan eyes glaze over for, so worth knowing how to procure. Any clues?
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Sri Lankan domestics never say anything, they just stop coming. My maid just stopped coming and when I finally pressed her she said I needed to get a washing machine. I was hoping to ride this one out, but I’ve run out of underwear and I have no choice. I finally caved and bought a washing machine, from 
When I saw the your “Dude” who is catching crabs, I lost all my apatite. There is a whole story written on his haggard face which makes me wonder, what kind of life those poor souls spending there.
Same feeling I had
Yes, the man has survived more that Indi the twerp trying to jazz up crab like it’s a drug. It’s so revolting the way he ignores what has happened in his own country to his own people under his very nose.
I also think that while intelligent people who have an opportunity to get real and genuine stories out there, don’t but instead waffle on about virtually nothing really, we will have a time-bomb ticking.
Casurina beach is not far from Mathakaal and Kirrimilai. Three of the few places I have been to in the north as a child and where I own land to this day. I have no problem with anyone going there, setting up token Buddhist temples there, or living there. I do have a problem with the continual stories I hear from my mothers friends of friends, relatives of relatives who have some how managed to hang in there who tell us who got killed/raped/abducted/beaten up or robbed. This has been going on for soooo long and it hasn’t stopped.
That man couldn’t even be bothered to look at Indi. He probably has the utmost hatred and contempt for him because he’s lost his family, his life, everything. These happy snappy tourist shots are not the ones that colonial masters took of the natives in Africa, the sub-continent etc. These shots show how callous anyone is trying to promote Sri Lanka as a tourist mecca when it has all these open, gapping wounds.
Was speaking to a prominent lawyer who is working with Tamil refugees. Asked about the mental state of one of them who is only 20. He said to me, you know these Tamil people they are very quiet, they don’t say much, they won’t tell you more than you ask, eventually all that has happened comes out but they show very little emotion, but I know that they cry behind closed doors.
That old man has exactly the same story to tell but he has also learned how to survive and one day he will have justice because although we won’t hear his story, we’re hearing so very many of the other ones. And let me tell you they are ugly stories and they incriminate many. Many Sinhalese, like Indi who sat around and did nothing.
Sweet Fuck All except write these inane bullshit articles about “Tamils” in “Jaffna”.
The war’s over. Get over it.
I find this comment to be a bit ironic. On one hand, Indi has been accused of being a terrorist supporter because of the articles he has posted in the past regarding the suffering the war was bringing to the Tamil people. Now we have someone else accusing him of being a callous asshole who never gave a fuck!
Make up your minds people…! :)
Well, in the end Tamils should have thought twice before trying to steal Sri Lankan territory by waging a terror war. The Tamils had ample oppotunity to settle but deliberately chose not to. Instead, they chose the path of violence and war. Tamils have only themselves and their leaders to blame for their sorry plight.
War is war, and collateral damage will always be there. It will take years to clean up. For that, blame the people who waged the war in the first place, and kept it running instead of knowing when to quit. The irony of your post is that you don’t want SL promoted as a tourist destination (evidently), yet, tourism is one of the only ways we can get in enough money for real development beyond borrowing from banks. You seem very bitter about something, is it because you don’t fit in in Canada? Come back and make that change you want to see so bad, then.
Jayaweva, can I eat my crab now? Man Dilan, I want the pot that you have been smoking, Lately I have been less patriotic!
Oops, I meant “Man lakthilikasupporter,”
Um, is it possible for us to even talk about food without the war getting into it? Most fishermen I’ve seen look pretty tired, North, South, East or West. There’s no need to put words in the guy’s mouth.
I don’t think this fellow has read my articles in the past. Most people I’ve met actually living in Jaffna are extraordinarily hospitable and willing to talk about some of the terrible things that have happened, and their hopes and doubts for the future. Over a meal. I think it’s only a few elements in the diaspora of perpetual grievance that deny that bit of humanity.
Indi, you are damn imperialist for buying crabs from the tamils, how dare you pillage their crustacean wealth. :)
I have to agree with indi about the Tamil people, at least the ones I have met. They seem very nice and welcoming, I do understand that most of them still support the eelam to some degree o the other. But what they want the most is to reconstruct their lives & livelihoods. The rest is bitter history. What government need to do is help them rebuild thie livelihood.
History is something that happened a long, long time ago. Your current state in Sri Lanka is unfolding right across the world even as I write.
Dodo … my comment had a lot more to it than calling Indi an imperialist. You’d be more on the mark if you stopped blindly defending your dope buddy and open your mind.
It’s not necessarily Eelam it’s not wanting to get killed, raped, tortured, discriminated against and having to cow tow and bow tow to you when you come waltzing through with either your guns or your money. So nothing is over, it’s all the same.
And … just because Indi is a UNP supporter doesn’t make him a Tamil supporter. He’s only in it for himself which is pretty much what he proved just before the election.
You can crap on about crabs all you like but unless you start saying sorry for all the evil things you have done to Tamils, your karma is set. There can be reconciliation and there is between those of us who don’t lie about things. There can’t be reconciliation until you say sorry, go through a war crimes tribunal, punish your leaders who you elected and pay compensation.
Grow up and get off the grass.
Tamils can cry and whine all they like. The world moves on.
“There can’t be reconciliation until you say sorry, go through a war crimes tribunal, punish your leaders who you elected and pay compensation.”
Why the hell should we go though the war crimes tribunal and destroy this countries economy as well as turn the LTTE into martyrs, when there is no evidence against this country. If you have evidence of all these crimes you speak of, you are most free to present it in front of the Hague. it’s as simple as that.
And you talk as if the Sri Lankan army invaded another country and conquered it. that is nonsense, the army regained our territorial integrity and put to an end the lunacy of the LTTE. I’m sure Tamil people got raped, murdered and pillaged. This is tragic, but that happens when you fight a war. It’s not as if the Tamil populous were passive in this war, the majority of them supported the LTTE explicitly, and soldiers sometimes saw this as treason. However, I agree those who raped and murdered indiscriminately should be punished.
@lakthilikasupporter,
Many Tamils participated in the war from a safe distance.
It didn’t matter to them that the road to Ealam was built on the blood and tears of poor Tamils you say you care about.
If you want to genuinely help them , don’t exploit their current plight to fight your next war.
@lakthilikasupporter,
“it’s not wanting to get killed, raped, tortured, discriminated against and having to cow tow and bow tow to you when you come waltzing through with either your guns or your money.” So true, that is why the war mongers are dead.
and I will join Karuna Amman and take the money!
I think those crabs are helping the Sri Lankans more than you or your words will ever do,
Oh of course, I forgot, yawn, the mandatory mention of the L T T E. The LTTE will have to deal with their own shit. Oh sorry I forgot apparently your hero Mahinda “I’m a war criminal and everyone knows it” killed them all. Hmmm… bit of a bummer aye?
Your fucked country is already bankrupted and your poor little kids and their kids will be paying the Chinese your racist egotistiacal debts for generations to come.
As for invaing another country, I think you know you did and you know you had no right to. We haven’t been Ceylon for a long, long time. We haven’t co-existed for a long, long time. Tamils from the North and East have grown apart from the Sinhalese. It’s because of your racist and discriminatory policies and the murders, race riots, etc.
Oh, so you agree that those that rape and murder indiscriminately should be punished. Good, good, good. So what are you gonna do about it? DODOOO? You have GOT to accept REALITY. Grow a brain you big dumb bird!
1. Say sorry and MEAN it.
2. Support an investigation into war crimes.
3. Bring the perpetrators to justice
Then you can dream about running all over Sri Lanka and eating crab without running into some old Tamil man who looks half dead because etched on his face is the pain you have inflicted on him and his race.
“Your fucked country is already bankrupted and your poor little kids and their kids will be paying the Chinese your racist egotistiacal debts for generations to come.”
It seems you have your share economic and political delusions. I suggest you go back to school and work on your econ 101 or read the IMF report on the sri lankan economic status.
As for sovereignty, I really don’t care what delusion you have about a tamil state, but the government is still in colombo and the rest of the world recognizes this. Plus, I’d love to read this long list of racist policy the Sri lankan government had adopted before the war.
As far as war crimes are concerned, I really don’t care too much unless there was a genocide taking place. If you have any evidence to support this, you should share it with the rest of us. Besides, with the number of satellites up there, I find it difficult to believe these just so stories about genocide committed by the government unless there is any evidence. For me there is a difference between random soldiers going psycho and murdering people and the government ordering tamil civilians to be killed enmasse, these are two different types of evil that act on a whole different scale.
“1. Say sorry and MEAN it.”
I think expat community has some sort of weird ‘apology’ fetish; one not shared by a single jaffna, trinco or batticaloa tamil that I have met. The local tamils just want their lives back and I don’t blame them, our responsibility as a country should be to ensure that they get a chance to do this. It is these damn expats, who pumped money into the LTTE, that want apologies. Where were your apologies when Colombo was burning? Did the exapat tamil community, or even the local tamil community, say anything about those, what pretentious pricks you are. If you think this war is wholly our fault, you are sorely in need of medication. So sorry, you’ll just have to find another one you type to wank off one another.
“Then you can dream about running all over Sri Lanka and eating crab without running into some old Tamil man who looks half dead because etched on his face is the pain you have inflicted on him and his race.”
I didn’t know you could read minds by look at faces, an amazing analytical skill I must say. Just so you know, half dead faces can be found everywhere in this country, some of them are probably because of the war but don’t think for a second that tamils were the only people who suffered.
Look, feel free to pass on your responsibilities to others. Feel free to believe your own corrupt government’s propaganda. The reality speaks for itself. A few dumb showcase events here and there mean nothing.
Yeah, get over it, I read the man’s face. I know where he’s catching that crab. I don’t care that you don’t know me but don’t be a fool and think I’m Diaspora.
Sri lankans suffer a lot. Mostly they just keep going from one poya day to another. It’s up to them to snap out of it and work things out for themselves. Stop voting for family dynasties for a start.
I really don’t know what my exact responsibilities to the country is. But i have no interest in war crimes unless we’re talking about ethnic cleansing. For the third time, if there is evidence to support this assertion just bring it up. And no, i don’t believe in government propaganda. infact, i’m highly skeptical about the current government wanting to do anything to help the tamils in the north. I think this is something that needs to pushed further, and something Sinhalese people should take responsibility over. But you see, i have very little reason to believe your claims as well.
Actually, we’d like to put the Tigers up for ethnically cleansing the Tamil-speaking Muslim Moors out of the Jaffna peninsula, but as Lathickalickawhatever says those turds are already dead. Too bad. But you can’t shoot ‘em twice.
Actually, I’d like to see an apology from the diaspora for paying the Tigers to fuckup the Northeast for all the Tamils, but I might as well wish VP was alive. Pretty pointless.
Lathicka, you keep saying “your country” over and over. Yup, it’s our country, and if it isn’t your country too, shut the fuck up. We really don’t care what some whiny wanker on the net thinks. It’s our country and we’ll run it as best we can. You can just go back to shooting your load on VP’s picture.
On the subject of crab, I actually had some good stuff at the Vadiya a month ago. Not as spicy as Yal though, but I didn’t mind that.
Oh and Sri Lankan crab is still Sri Lankan crab — it won’t taste bad if it’s picked out of a lagoon by an alcoholic Sinhalese fisherman, or grilled over the ashes of dead Tamils. It’s still bloody good crab, and that’s all.
Oh here’s David Blacker. Chief crabby crawler. You’ve been shouting off your racist anti-Tamil rhetoric against Tamils for at least 5 years thinly disguised as standing up for Sri Lankans against the LTTE and VP.
Out here, it’s a free world so you can’t shut me up. In Sri Lanka you are the epitome of the bully who would be much despised by many Tamils though of course they smile (not with their eyes)
The LTTE did not just do the wrong thing to Muslim Tamils. Suicide bombing was wrong. Child recruitment was wrong. These acts must be investigated and compensation must be paid.
However, it would appear that because you want Mahinda and all your other despots to be let off scott-free, we will never get to this stage. The fact of the matter is people like you David Blacker know that along with your full range of despotic tyrants, you are guilty too.
Because the Diaspora do not live in a dirty, corrupt, sleazy, violent country that is Sri Lanka today, we have no choice but to deal with the reality of the last 60 years. We also have to power to ensure that the next 60 years don’t end up the same.
What, fuckwit are you going to do to help the future?
“we have no choice but to deal with the reality of the last 60 years. We also have to power to ensure that the next 60 years don’t end up the same.”
Funny how 30 of those 60 years has no reference to reality. Also how is it that the sinhala diaspora doesn’t share these sentiments. Is the dirt still clogging their ears.
They gave up on you a long, long time ago. However, I must say, if not for them, some of them the Tamil Diaspora would be lost.
If Tamils want an apology they can always bite a cyanide capsule if they don’t get one… how does that sound?
Sounds like you are a nasty racist arrogant prick who will eventually be swallowing a very large dose of your own medicine.
Good Luck.
“nasty racist arrogant prick”
Who?
Take a look in the mirror and take a good look around.
@Lakthilakawhatever, you should look in a mirror too, my friend. You’d be amazed at the amount of hate showing in your face.
“Your fucked country is already bankrupted and your poor little kids and their kids will be paying the Chinese your racist egotistiacal debts for generations to come.”
Well so is America, in much much more debt to China alone than SL is to any country (heck, the US doesn’t have any money at all!).
Doesn’t stop you from licking their asses, evidently.
Dodo – we know where the bodies have been hidden. We have countless of statements from eye witnesses, more are being collated and even Sarath wants to talk. No-one is going to look pretty with this. It may take 5/10/15/20/25/30 years. The longer it takes, the more evidence will come to light and the worse people like you will look for denying it. You will be nothing more than a holocaust denier. Lowest of the low and such has been what the Jews from Europe achieved in terms of demonizing the Hitler generation. It is entirely up to you, to decide whether or not you want that hanging around your neck. For ever.
Dilan – don’t worry about America, worry about your own backyard.
LoL. A holocaust deniers are people who deny the evidence of a holocaust, my denial of your vacuous accusation doesn’t make me one. So why don’t you get back to the evidence again, not just proclamations of evidence.
The Vanni sticks of dead bodies. Some of them are Sinhalese soldiers bodies too. When you point the finger at the Diaspora for funding the LTTE, point the finger at yourselves for running around Barefoot and not fighting for your country while expecting low caste boys to do your dirty work for you.
This is why Mahinda and not Ranil is in power. This is why the JVP has so much support.
You really are delusional aren’t you. In really war, people die, alot of them, and some this is unavoidable collateral. So yeah vanni stinks of dead bodies. So did berlin & kyoto after WWII.
Also, what fuck does my ‘purported’ running around barefoot have to do with prolonging the war, there is serious dissonance in that sentence. And, you automatically loose by using JVP & support in one sentence.
Another thing I have noticed is that there is very little distinction between your type and creationists. Besides the obvious difference in subject matter, you both seem to have a bizarre inversion of evidence and conclusion. Causality seems to have a very different meaning to you.
The worls doesn’t care, dude. They really don’t. A few junior politicians make a bit of noise in London, Ottawa, and Madras when it’s election time and you dumb fucks vote for them. Then they have a laugh and carry on. Nobody cares where the bodies are, because y’all buggered yourselves sideways when you killed Gandhi. After that, most governments decided to let y’all die would be better for everyone.
Your accusations of racism is laughable considering I’ve been called a Tiger supporter by your opposite numbers on the Sinhalese right — and I’m half Tamil anyway.
The future? I’ll do what I can, but you’re not part of our future, so you’re irrelevant.
Oh so you’re half Tamil and have spent all of your life apologising for it. That’s your problem but wow it sure does explain a few of your comments.
No person who is Tamil whether in or out of Sri Lanka is irrelevant to the future of Sri Lanka. The so called victory in Sri Lanka for Mahinda is proof of this.
You all talk amongst yourselves and I guess time will tell.
Well, we could talk amongst ourselves if you’d let us. Just now, we were talking about crab.
Gee, ‘all my life’? You mean you’ve been listening in? Lol, get a life Lathicka.
And actually, anyone who thinks this ‘your country’ or ‘my country’ instead of ours, IS irrelevant, so you can jump up and down and whine all you want to, but if you think that anyone here gives a fart for what you have to say here, you’re a bigger joke than you already look.
Now go off and have a little cry, you’ll feel much better.
@lakthilikasupporter,
Takes two to tango. It was LTTE’s deliberate strategy to exploit the civilians.
All for what? That only delayed the trip to Ealam by a few weeks.
Seems like you are hell bent on continuing the exploitation.
No, not at all. Sri Lanka is structured to exploit the poor, the minorities, anyone who is not Sinhalese and Buddhist and wealthy. It’s been like that for a long time.
In having a culture that is so predatory, people suffer. As I said you wankers stick your ugly black bums in the air and think that it’s got nothing to do with you whereas in fact all you’re doing is perpetuating it.
You continue to fail to understand and are not willing to listen to ANY Sri Lankan voices that call out for justice, peace.
It’s just the same all bashing off the LTTE, the Diaspora, the Norwegians, blah, blah, blah…
While Mahinda has sold MY country to China, you sat around and did nothing. I’m going to blame you for that until you boot the Chinese out.
More of this standard baseless rhetoric, you sound like a broken gramophone. That post can be made to fit any country in this world.
“No, not at all. America is structured to exploit the poor, the minorities, anyone who is not White and Protestant and wealthy. It’s been like that for a long time.”
This is just a standard accusation, it carries very little weight. And is fucking uninteresting
No one’s forcing Tamils to stay in Sri Lanka…. if you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen…
“Sri Lanka is structured to exploit the poor, the minorities, anyone who is not Sinhalese and Buddhist and wealthy. It’s been like that for a long time.”
And what country doesn’t exploit the poor?
When it comes to real power (as in $) minorities have it much better in Sri Lanka than, let’s say, oh I don’t know, India?
This constant facist attitude that because other countries do this that and the other it’s cool to rape, torture, murder, discrimate and rip off your own citizens is not really an excuse is it.
It’s what has been indoctrinated into you at your dinning table when you’re eating that crab and you’re so blind that you think and believe that you’ve got it so good.
Sri Lankans have it bad in Sri Lanka. It doesn’t matter who they are. Except of course a few of you clowns..
Yawn!
You know, in ’91 we’d got some crab and crayfish out of the lagoon at EPS and were cooking it where we were bedded down. Nearby, a house had been mortared and some people in it were killed. There’d been C4 in the house too and it burned so bad we couldn’t get the bodies out. The fire eventually roasted the bodies, and from time to time, while we were eating, the wind would blow our way. Now roasting human flesh smells like bacon fat, and I tell you, those crabs tasted like they had been marinated in minced pork. Bloody amazing.
My friend, I don’t know what fantasy land you live in, but I suspect it is not a very pleasent place.
It is totally up to you to believe whatever you want about Sri Lanka, but just remember, the hell you imagine is mostly in your own head.
I have lived in a few countries, and Sri Lankans are not bad by comparison to a lot happening out there in the world.
Now now I witness don’t be feeling sorry for me, I assure you there is no need.
Beliefs are concepts one has without proof. Eye witness reports of exactly what is going in Sri Lanka from Parliamentarians, journalists, religious leaders, Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslim Tamils, Burghers, hell I’ve even got some half-Tamil-Sinhlaese friends like David (I like the smell of burning rotting flesh) Blacker is not something that any rational person would ignore. You’ve just become used to all the blood thirsty mayhem. Take a step out of your narrow-minded cesspit and OPEN your EYES!
True – they’re actually the nicest people in the world by and large, except when it comes to each other. We should deal with this, it’s never to late to start.
“half-Tamil-Sinhlaese friends like David”
Lol, were you dropped on your head when you were a baby?
Lathicka, nobody cares, man. When will you understand that. Sixty-thousand dead in the three years of the JVP rebellion, and no one cares. A hundred grand in the thirty years of the Tigers, and still no one cares. If half a million died no one would still care. Help rebuild if YOU care. Whining is pointless.
Apoo Blacker, do you know Prageeth machan? He’s missing. He’s a building block too. The building block of FREEDOM of the PRESS. Theriamah? Nee oru conju Tamil speak punadu ela? Half Tamil/Half Sinahlese Half Fuckwit.
Why don’t you go find this dude before he gets killed.
Missing Sinhala journalist under unlawful custody, wife files HC application
The missing journalist Prageeth Ekniligoa of Lanka E-News since January 24 is being held under unlawful custody or detention with the knowledge of police officers, stated in a Habeas Corpus application filed by his wife Mrs. K.M.S.P.Ekniligoda and his two children S.S.Bandara Ekniligoda and H.D.Sooriya Ekniligoda in the Court of Appeal. The Petitioners have cited DIG Nandana Manasinghe of the CID, OIC of the Homagama Police, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mahinda Balasuriya.
The HC petition was taken up for hearing Tuesday in the Court of Appeal and was re-fixed for support on May 10.
The petition seeks a writ order to be issued to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), the DIG of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and the OIC of the Homagama Police, who have been named respondents in the petition to produce the journalist in court. Journalist Prageeth Ekniligoda had supported General (retd) Sarath Fonseka at the last presidential election through media.
Enna Lathicka, okapakaringalay? Lol, why don’t you go find Elvis, apparently people think he’s alive too. It’s funny that journalists become building blocks only when they die or disappear. I guess that’s the only way they become really of any use.
Sorry are you trying to make light of an innocent journalist going missing by saying that he’s dead like Elvis or are you trying to say that no-one should high-light the need for FREEDOM OF SPEECH as a foundation of society?
Are you saying there is no use for jounralists unless they get abducted and killed by Mahinda’s goons?
Whoa half Tamil, you have got some serious problmes but I’m with Eye witness, yawn. Go away.
Sorry, are you trying to score points in an asinine online argument by bringing up a missing journo, so that you’ll actually have something to say? And, you mean Elvis is dead????!!! Fuck, I bet a white van got him.
Oh yes, I think freedom of speech should be highlighted (and typing in caps doesn’t really do that), but having a little egotistical rant doesn’t highlight anything other than your own little deficiencies.
However, yes, most SL journos (bar a very tiny fraction) are of very little use to anyone, least of all the cause of free speech, until they are killed or missing (sorta like kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers — though a missing suicide bomber isn’t entirely a bad thing). Then when retards like you have nothing to say for them selves, they can quickly type “Lasantha!” or “Prageeth!” or “genocide!!!!!” or whatever other useful little password to legitimacy you’ve recently acquired, preferrably in caps.
Go away, but why — it’s my country, remember?