{"id":102812,"date":"2020-05-25T15:51:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T22:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102812"},"modified":"2020-05-25T15:51:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T22:51:26","slug":"sheep-clothed-sumanthirans-tiger-spots-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/25\/sheep-clothed-sumanthirans-tiger-spots-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheep clothed Sumanthiran\u2019s tiger spots exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"

By : A.A.M.NIZAM \u2013 MATARA<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Sumanthiran, the\nprot\u00e9g\u00e9 o9f Tamil separatists, since 2012 Singapore Agreement was signed with\nquisling Mangala Samaraweera was making all efforts together with Terrorist\nGrandpa Sambanthan against whom visual evidence of fund raising for the\nterrorists in Canada are available, to get a new constitution, a federal and\nsecular constitution adopted and to repeal the existing constitution.  It was almost ready to be adopted but calling\nof the presidential election obstructed the sinister move and then this\nseparatist promoter vigorously campaigned for Sajith Premadasa (SP) brazenly\ncalling on Tamil voters to vote for SP to defeat the Sinhalese.(repeat to\ndefeat the Sinhalese).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having failed in all sinister moves from 2012 to 2019 this separatist Clone, sporting a sheep\\s cloth has recently attempted to pretend that he is opposed to megalomaniac Prabhakaran\u2019s ideals and his terrorist struggle and gas said that he does not acknowledge Prabhakaran’s armed struggle for a separate state, and he abhorred Jaathivaadaya and extremism.\u00a0 His primordial allegiance with separatist policies is however well known even to elementary students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this hypocrite was genuinely opposed to Prabhgakaran\u2019s strategies, being in the safe zone of Colombo during the 30 years of terrorist aggression why he remained silent without opposing Prabhakaran\u2019s horrendous terrorist aggressions, closing of Mavil Aru anicut and depriving the innocent farmers’ cultivation and drinking water, suicide bombings targeting strategic places and buses and abduction of students in the North to be used as child soldiers and commend our war heroes for rescuing nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians who were being ferried by the terrorists using as human shields.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man who strongly urged to defeat the Sinhalese is now attempting to fool the Sinhalese (Gonaata Andanna) thinking as Prabhakaran said that Sinhalese will forget anything in one or two weeks and hence any atrocities can be caused to them as they will vanish into thin air.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An important question\nthat Chamuditha Samarawickrema has missed to ask was where was Sumanthiran all\nthe years of terrorist aggression and who was responsible for bringing him to\npolitics and the agenda that has been assigned to him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sumanthiran who was considered as the leader of the TNA in waiting as Sambanthan is in a Wala payay goda payay (one foot in the grave and the other on the surface) status has created a thundering storm in the TNA and Tamil political circles by the statements he made in the interview.\u00a0 Four former TNA parliamentarians \u2013 Charles Nirmalanathan (Wanni), S. Sivamohan (Wanni), Easwaran Saravanapavan (Jaffna) and Mavai Senathirajah have written a letter to their leader Sampanthan, protesting against the remarks as to their view reportedly is that Prabhakaran had made a great sacrifice to win the rights of the Tamil people and Tamil youth had laid down their lives. These former MPs have said that Sampanthan should take whatever action he deems necessary and Sumanthiran should immediately be dismissed as the party\u2019s media spokesman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samnbanthan in turn for reasons unknown has defended hypocrite Sumanthiran saying that the remarks have been made in his personal capacity although, in the nearly 22-minute interview, Sumanthiran does not say so. In this interview he has answered a variety of questions and continued to acknowledge the key role he played in the TNA and has said that\u00a0 Sampanthan contacted him on all matters\u201d related to the alliance before making decisions. He has also stated that he accepted the Sri Lanka national flag and the national anthem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles Nirmalanathan\nyjr former MP for Wannidisreict has written a separate letter to Sampanthan stating\nthat Sumanthiran has been expressing views opposing the ultimate sacrifice made\nby the LTTE for the sole purpose of the liberation of the Tamil people in the\nrecent past. He has said that Sumanthiran should stop expressing critical\nviews against the LTTE and has asked the old man to call for the Central\nCommittee meeting of ITAK immediately to take a decision in this regard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sumanthiran\u2019s effigy tied\nto a lam[ [pst near the Nallur Kandaswamy Kovil which says that I am an enemy\nof the Tamil race\u201d.  It was reported that\nsimilar effigies were found in some other parts of the North as well and even\nin Chennai, Tamil Nadu put up by the staunch LTTE supporter film producer\nSeeman who attended the Maavir day commemorations in Jaffna last\nNovermber..   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Northern political sources claim that he was\ntrying to cut a deal with the ruling alliance.  The furthest is that he has moved away from\nhis former Yahapalana<\/em> partners and ambitiously leaned on the\ngovernment. An Intelligence source said that when the Tiger guerrillas\ndominated the ground in the north during the separatist war, a close relative\nof Sumanthiran had been tied to the same lamppost and assaulted for being\ncritical of them. Northern political sources also indicate that the lamp post\neffigy instances clearly show that there still remains a deep-rooted affinity\nin the minds of some of the people towards the former Tiger guerrillas. Most of\nthem have lost a brother, sister or a relative to the movement and still regard\nthem as martyrs.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making matters worse\nfor Sumanthiran with northern voters was a meeting he held with Prime Minister\nMahinda Rajapaksa on May 13th<\/sup>  It was to be slotted originally for the\nprevious day Tuesday, but two TNA former MPsSelvam  Adaikalanathan and Dharmalingam Siddharthan had\nraised issue with those at the Premier\u2019s Office claiming that Sumanthiran alone\ncannot represent the TNA and the meeting should therefore be disallowed. Later,\nthe matter has been resolved with other TNA leaders agreeing that Sumanthiran\ncould go for the meeting since he was in Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday\nTimes Political Editor (STPE) on 17th<\/sup> May reported that by then\nMinister Douglas Devananda, having come to know about that Sumanthiran had\nsought a meeting with Premier Rajapaksa., he met the PM together with a group\nof his Central Committee members prior to Sumanthiran\u2019s meeting and discussed a\nnumber of issues including the release of more private land to their owners in\nthe Jaffna peninsula, the release of LTTE suspects and the conversion of the\nOluvil Port in the east as a fisheries harbour. He has said that the port not\nfully operational, sand bars were forming and from the meeting, the Premier\ntelephoned his Secretary Gamini Senarath and asked him to formulate a Cabinet\nPaper for this purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STPE\nsaid that it was at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday when Sumanthiran had a one-on-one\nmeeting with Premier Rajapaksa at the latter\u2019s Wijerama official residence. He\nhad brought along with him a list of Tiger guerrilla suspects who have remained\nin custody for more than twenty years. This is a sequel to this issue being\nraised at Premier Rajapaksa\u2019s May 3 meeting with former MPs. The Premier has\ntold Sumanthiran that he would place the matter before President Gotabaya\nRajapaksa whose task it was to take a decision on the matter and the government\nis not averse to releasing at least some of the cadres after a whetting\nprocess. The Premier has also told him that he wished to have a meeting with\nwomen who have been widowed by the separatist war when he visits Jaffna soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sumanthiran\nhas also discussed matters relating to a new Constitution and opined that the\nissue was whether the country should have a presidential system or revert to\nthe parliamentary form of government saying that he preferred the latter. The\nPrime Minister has explained that it would depend on President Gotabaya\nRajapaksa who had won the people\u2019s mandate at the November presidential\nelection and  he would brief the\nPresident on the issues discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commenting\non the constitution issue the STPE says it is noteworthy that Sumanthiran\nshould now talk of a return to a parliamentary system of governance but under\nthe previous yahapalana\u201d government, Sumanthiran was a principal architect\nwhen the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. Together with Jayampathy\nWickremeratne,, they were responsible for drafting many a provision with the\nacquiescence of the UNP. That is not all. At his, and Sampanthan\u2019s behest, the\nTNA supported legislation under the previous regime to put off elections to\nProvincial Councils (PC). It was paradoxical from a party that had demanded\nmore devolution of power to make the PCs stronger. Even today, not one PC is\nfunctioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STPE\nfurther states that Sumanthiran\u2019s remarks, which he has now claimed are\npersonal, will nevertheless impact on the voters at the impending parliamentary\nelections and in a bid to do some damage control, Sumanthiran has now told\nTamil social media that he did not criticised the Tiger guerrillas or\nVelupillai Prabhakaran. However, the recorded video interview in Sinhala, has\ngone viral. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reoports\nsaid thatcriiticism against him in the Tamil social media has been on the\nincrease and there is little doubt it will place him on a confrontation course\nwith the Tamil diaspora. Sections of them are demanding a public apology that\nshould also endorse the contribution or sacrifices the guerrillas and their\nleader have made for Tamils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sumanthiran\u2019s\nmeeting on Wednesday with Premier Rajapaksa at his Wijerama Road residence <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The foreign based pro-terrorist racist scribe D,B,S,Jeyaraj\nstated that the past week or more saw Sumanthiran being attacked viciously by\nmany in a heated exhibition of \u2018manufactured rage\u2019 over the mainstream Tamil\nmedia and social media within and outside Sri Lanka. A number of media\nstatements were issued by Tamil politicians condemning Sumanthiran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said a common factor in most of the rants and raves was the\nlabeling of Sumanthiran as a Tamil traitor.and effigies of Sumanthiran were displayed\nwith a placard around the neck saying Naan Our Thamizh Thurogi\u201d (I am a Tamil\ntraitor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nIn a desperate attempt to defend Sumanthiran Jeyaraj says that Sumanthiran\nhimself released a 12-minute YouTube video where he gave an \u2018explanation\u2019 of\nwhat had actually transpired and how his interview in Sinhala was being\ndistorted by interested parties to vilify and attack him and the ex-MP from\nJaffna stated that he had responded with restraint to many hostile questions by\nthe interviewer as he wanted to explain some points rationally to a Sinhala\naudience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeyaraj says that Sumanthiran pointed out that a TV aligned to\nthe ruling regime had taken a few of his comments out of context and publicized\nthem in Tamil in a distorted manner and to his credit Sumanthiran defiantly\nstood by all that he had actually stated in the interview while denying the\nunfounded accusations of his critics. Jeyaraj adds that this YouTube video by\nSumanthiran turned the tide in his favour as far as sensible people were\nconcerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In further defense of Smanthiran, Jeyaraj says the targeting of Sumanthiran\nas a \u2018Tamil traitor\u2019 indicates that the recurring phenomenon of\n\u2018traitorisation\u2019 is occurring again within the sphere of Tamil nationalist\npolitics in Sri Lanka and reminds that he has written about this tragic curse\nafflicting the Tamil people in the past and \u2013 given its longevity \u2013 he may have\nto write about it in the future too. It is against this backdrop therefore this\npro-terrorist scribe says that he makes some specific observations on the\ntraitorzing tragedy in the Tamil polity relying to some extent on his earlier\nwritings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This pro-terrorist scribe says that in this writing he uses the\nword traitorisation instead of treachery or treason in order to differentiate\nbetween those who are actually treacherous or really are committing treason as\nopposed to those being falsely accused or labeled as \u2018traitorous\u2019 or traitors.\nThe reality is that most persons dubbed as traitors or \u2018thurogigal\u2019 by their\npolitical opponents are not \u2018guilty\u2019 as charged and do not deserve such a\ndescription. \u2018Traitorisation\u2019 is a terrible \u2018Goebbelsian\u2019 process by which\npolitical rivals are falsely portrayed or depicted as traitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u2018traitor\u2019 label in contemporary Tamil political discourse\nrefers generally to Tamils accused of working against the so-called Tamil cause\nand\/or collaborating with the enemy. Concrete proof of such conduct is not\nnecessary. What is required is a massive propaganda effort by which the cry\n\u2018traitor\u2019 is repeated incessantly at multiple levels as advocated by Herr\nGoebbels in Nazi Germany and the s Goebbelsian approach is patently visible in\nthe orchestrated attacks on Sumanthiran. Tamil nationalist politics made use of\nthe Goebbels technique liberally in dubbing those perceived political rivals as\ntraitors. Merely holding a different political view was sufficient to be called\ntraitors to the cause or collaborators with the enemy. The problem was that\nboth the cause and enemy were difficult to define clearly. Moreover, the nature\nof the cause as well as the identity of enemy underwent changes periodically.\nDespite these variations, what has remained constant is the practice of\ntraitorisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to justify his attempts to protect Sumanthiran this pro-terrorist scribe presents long narrations from the past political activities covering the periods of G.G.Ponnambalam. Chelvanayagam and up to Neelan Thiruchelvam which I have omitted mentioning here as they were\u00a0 irrelevant to Sumanthiran\u2019s issue.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile the Tamil Guardian published from London reported that\nSumanthiran has denied that was critical of the LTTE and Prabhakaran and said\nthat his statements in the interview with Chamuditha had been mistranalated and\nmisquoted by the Tamil media and the vested interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By : A.A.M.NIZAM \u2013 MATARA Sumanthiran, the prot\u00e9g\u00e9 o9f Tamil separatists, since 2012 Singapore Agreement was signed with quisling Mangala Samaraweera was making all efforts together with Terrorist Grandpa Sambanthan against whom visual evidence of fund raising for the terrorists in Canada are available, to get a new constitution, a federal and secular constitution adopted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aamnizam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}