{"id":76617,"date":"2018-04-19T16:39:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T23:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=76617"},"modified":"2018-04-19T16:39:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T23:39:50","slug":"in-defence-of-mr-supposed-horrors-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/04\/19\/in-defence-of-mr-supposed-horrors-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"In defence of MR \u2013 Supposed \u2018Horrors\u2019 revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

R Chandrasoma<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The supposed misdeeds and the flagrant violation of the norms of democracy perpetrated by MR and his aids and accomplices are now part of a political legend entrenched this country. Not only was the populace robbed and cheated \u2013 they were in danger of being bumped off by hired agents of a merciless dictator. Meanwhile the latter and his \u2018gang of thieves\u2019 ruined the economy, unleashed the dogs of racial intolerance and incurred the total contempt of the rulers and leaders of the World to such a degree that the crowning ignominy of the Electric Chair for the ruler of our country was only very narrowly averted\u00a0 – thanks to the goodwill and international recognition of the New Saviours of Sri Lanka who gloriously vanquished the Tyrant.<\/span><\/p>\n

Is this story true? Among the \u2018story tellers\u2019 regularly featured in your Journal is Mr Kumar David \u2013 the anointed Dravidic Hero who famously said that the Tamils will be safe in Sri Lanka so long as the Heroic Armies of Pirapaharan have the Sinhala Forces pinned down and their political masters at their wit\u2019s end on how to save their land \u2013and their skins. He also announced with great pride that Tamil Brain-Power will be more than equal to the task of routing the seemingly preponderant Sinhala Armies. That such a champion of Tamil Racism should re-write history is not surprising \u2013 what is incredulous is the venom and the distorted history that you as the Editor of a leading Journal display in your Editorial Column \u2013 a demonizing of MR and a recasting of recent history that is astonishing in its perversity. Suffice it to say that MR\u2019s victory over the forces of separatism marks a turning point in our long and tortured history. He was triumphant while the mean-spirited men who succeeded him grovelled before the haters of our sovereignty He will be remembered as the true saviour long after the petty political actors of today are buried in history, <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

R Chandrasoma The supposed misdeeds and the flagrant violation of the norms of democracy perpetrated by MR and his aids and accomplices are now part of a political legend entrenched this country. Not only was the populace robbed and cheated \u2013 they were in danger of being bumped off by hired agents of a merciless […]<\/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-76617","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\/76617","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=76617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}