Comments on: Gota’s War: Emotionally Tone Deaf History

By: Citizen

Citizen — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 04:53:00 +0000

here’s more of CA chandraprema’s nonsense, this time covering SF’s press conference

http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=54613

some notable excerpts

“This is where Fonseka also probably has to reform his act. He has to give the correct answer when he is asked a question. For example, when asked about war crimes tribunals, if he simply answered that no war crimes were committed, and there is no need for any war crimes tribunal and even if one was instituted, he would refuse to testify before it, nobody will ask him any more questions about it.”

“For an opposition politician to talk about corruption in the government is one thing, but to say that corruption is in the genes of the present set of rulers is perhaps unwarranted especially if he was not going to offer the public any specific instances where a prima facie case for a crooked deal had been established.”

i would expect some tactful bias from a journalist, but this guy is blatantly pro-govt and nationalistic, that he belongs more in politics.

By: sach

sach — Tue, 29 May 2012 03:57:21 +0000

No body is trying to view north as a tamil dominated area, it IS a tamil dominated area, for centuries.

By: sack

sack — Mon, 28 May 2012 10:24:47 +0000

yeah and BTW do you remember a book called “??? ??? ????? ” Kola Pata Samajaya ( Green society )?

By: sack

sack — Mon, 28 May 2012 10:22:48 +0000

Well the problem is there is no unbiased, actual from of truth here. It is always biased people saying their version of the events. Same way DBSJ says his version of events. And yeah, Vitor says his version.

And I am quite amazed at you indi for expecting CAC (itz not GA BTW) to be unbiased out of all the people. Do a proper Google search for that name (in both Sinhalese + English) and i think you will be lot more “enlightened”.

By: Gun Gun

Gun Gun — Mon, 28 May 2012 08:26:27 +0000

Reality is history is generally the victor’s version of events.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Mon, 28 May 2012 08:04:22 +0000

this is a response to one of his articles… you can figure out pretty much what the author is all about

http://www.island.lk/2009/08/16/features8.html

By: Citizen

Citizen — Mon, 28 May 2012 07:56:18 +0000

the views from the book is hardly surprising.. considering the author is the Political correspondent of the Island NewsPaper, a very Sinhalese nationalist newspaper in which the official line on the conflict can be summarised as “its just a terrorist problem, and there are no special problems that effect the minorities..and there was no discrimination” .

most of the author’s articles attack NGO’s , tamil political parties, western countries etc and is very close or same to the official govt position that states “war is over.. tamils r free..there is no problem now” . i remember this is the same author that attacked the missing journalist ekneliyagoda’s character when the issue was being taken to various international fora.

the more i read his stuff .. the more i imagine what kind of dreamland the author is living in.

By: tastyjujubes

tastyjujubes — Mon, 28 May 2012 07:33:10 +0000

People like Gota because he is straightforward.

Gotabhaya Rajapaksa: Sri Lanka north ‘not just for Tamils’?

Sri Lanka’s defence secretary has said it is not appropriate to view the north of the country, over which a separatist war was fought, as a predominantly Tamil area.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18207198