{"id":43583,"date":"2015-05-03T01:12:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T08:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=43583"},"modified":"2015-05-03T01:12:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T08:12:19","slug":"re-writing-history-the-mangala-kerry-recension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/05\/03\/re-writing-history-the-mangala-kerry-recension\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Writing History &#8211; the Mangala-Kerry\u00a0 Recension"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>R Chandrasoma<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A strange and doctored \u00a0reading of the history of the recent past is being \u2018manufactured\u2019 by the new political actors who currently occupy centre-stage following the historic defeat of MR. According to this new \u2018recension\u2019 or \u2018editing\u2019 the removal of MR was much more than a political shift to the right \u2013 it marked the end of a lawless and tyrannical regime that made our country a \u2018pariah state\u2019 in the eyes of the \u2018civilized\u2019 community of nations. The \u2018Sirisena-Wickramasingh Political Duo\u2019 ably assisted by \u2018champions of freedom\u2019 across the world pulled us from the edge of a yawning\u00a0 abyss that a decade of MR governance (or its mischievous opposite) had led us to. This \u2018deconstruction of history\u2019 has not fooled the people of Sri Lanka who are well accustomed to the\u00a0 vapourings of political \u2018gas bags\u2019 of all kinds. However, this foolery becomes malignant when our Foreign Minister no less &#8211; the redoubtable Mr Mangala Samaweera &#8211; whispers this rubbish into the eager ears of such eminent persons as Mr John Kerry of the US Political Establishment, the New Gun-Ho Prime Minister of India (Modi) and the arch enemies of Sinhala Nationalism in the British Governing Establishment.<\/p>\n<p>It is a lamentable\u00a0 feature of newly-elected governents in Sri Lanka to rubbish the defeated party and to boast of impending millennial achievements under the new dispensation. When the Sirisena-Wickamasingha leadership took control, they had a problem \u2013 they won not because of the failiures of the past but on account of a hate-wave against MR in which disaffected minorities and jealous elites played a big part. Above all,the American-Indian Grand Coalition against Independent Sri Lanka made a free aand fair election impossible. Given this unsavoury political background, history had to be re\u2014written where a decade of mighty achievments\u00a0 was made nought by an official \u2018fiat\u2019 of the\u00a0 new rulers who had a great fear of political backsliding. Thus the historic defeat of Prabhakaran\u00a0 became a non- event and the re-building of Sri Lanka a deceit. It is with this background that Mr John Kerry addressed a defeated nation \u2013 with a concocted history authored by Mangala Samaraweera as his chief inspiration. That no person of authority challenged this inspired fiction betrays a decadence of spirit and of true nationalism that is most saddening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R Chandrasoma A strange and doctored \u00a0reading of the history of the recent past is being \u2018manufactured\u2019 by the new political actors who currently occupy centre-stage following the historic defeat of MR. According to this new \u2018recension\u2019 or \u2018editing\u2019 the removal of MR was much more than a political shift to the right \u2013 it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-chandrasoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43583","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=43583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}