Comments on: Breaching Protocols Governing Press Freedoms To Pander To Terrorists Is Illegal Regardless Of Who Gets Sanctimonious About it!

By: Chintha

Chintha — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:45:46 +0000

Nuwans,

Talking of our politicians curruption- Mind you ,our politicians are angels compared to broke(debt upto thier nose) currupted poiliticians in USA, who tried to save the lives of top criminal LTTE terrorists of Sri lanka for money. I don’t think even any of our worst politicians will go to that extent of corruption. Because a few policeman doing misconduct does not give anyone else right to break laws of a country.

By: Chintha

Chintha — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:29:33 +0000

Just being a journalist does not mean you can break laws of a country. If journalist is proven a CROOK he has to go to jail. Present day ,most journalist publish any damn lie and misinformation for large sums of money. They are not independent nor follow any ethics. Times online, BBC,Chanel 4 UK have bunch of CROOKS of this calibure who are hired to publish lies and misinformation to the world by LTTE terrorists to hood wink the world. Nobody cares because the victim here is poor Sri Lanka who is struggling to overcome the terrorist menance. Wow ,a terrorist CROOK is Sri Lanka get awarded in France. What a world.

By: Raj

Raj — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:27:26 +0000

Tissanayagam did not write an article about war as some people think. He was writing blatant lies causing hatred among citizens, and supporting the now defunct world’s most ruthless terrorist organization, who killed so many innocent people in Sri Lanka, not to mention Rajiv Ghandi. The LTTE supporters such as HRW, AI etc will jump up and down, but what has been done is fair. Everyone must obey the law. Talking about corruptions and other crimes mentioned by some commentators here are irrelevant to this case. This is a good lesson for irresponsible reporters in Sri Lanka. One LTTE supporter has already published a letter today (01.09.09) in the ‘Independent’ in the UK, anonymously, saying he fears death by the SL government. The whole world now knows who tells the truth and the lies. This case will last for another few weeks until they find something else to moan about.

By: nuwans

nuwans — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:16:16 +0000

I didn’t read the opinion article he published to get 20 years of prison sentence. so I am not in a position to say whether the punishment fit the judgement or not. But if Sri Lankan is a country that uphold the law as those so called patriots claimed, why are the police in the country is having a license to kill innocent people ? Take law into their own hand to beat, threaten and bruitaly murder them. Only few cases surface to get the attention and to punish those involved. Secondly, if we think publishing a opinion article on the war is a treason, what do we call when politicians starting from the top leadership who engage in huge corruptions and waste public money and sinking Sri Lanka economically. I do not know what kind of social impact that article had on Sri Lankan people. But we can clearly see the social impact those other crimes having on Sri Lanka. Now where is the punishment for them. For writing a article about war deserves 20 years in prison with hard labour, what punishment would those politicians and police deserve for the crimes they commit against the people of Sri Lanka ? Why those who brags about this punishment and trying to justify it are silence when it comes to the real crimes which are much more sever happening every day in Sri Lanka ?

Btw, according to the recent news president may pardon this person. Lets see how that will be interpreted if that happens.

By: Ariya

Ariya — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:14:36 +0000

A terrorist a terrorist, and a traitor is a traitor, whether he is a journalist or not. Journalists are not some special people with special powers, its a job like any other, so the court verdict is just. No one should incite ethnic hatred and/or take arms against their motherland. Period!