"The High Commissioner in his speech gave a valuable insight by touching on issues that are relevant and much needed to be told on the eroding path Sri Lanka is heading in the fast progressing global village."by R. Jayadevan
(December, 14, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna’s (JVP) Wimal Weerawanse has once again let loose his usual paranoiac attack on the fair minded opinion maker about Sri Lanka. The British High Commissioner Dominic Chilcott during the Dudley Senanayake Memorial Lecture on December 10th gave a much matured analysis about Sri Lanka and its political predicament. Speaking in parliament on 13 November 2007 the infamous castigator of the JVP had taken exception to the High Commissioners comment that: ‘Had he been alive today, Dudley Senanayake would be disturbed at the many allegations being made these days about corruption in politics. He would be pleased at the existence of a parliamentary committee to investigate corruption but surprised that 22 of its 30 members are government ministers.”
The High Commissioner in his speech gave a valuable insight by touching on issues that are relevant and much needed to be told on the eroding path Sri Lanka is heading in the fast progressing global village.
The constrained and hate mindset of the JVP and its nostalgic media man Wimal Weerawanse did not spare any moment and as expected went on the usual spree to attack the fair minded High Commissioner who made his fair testimony without any fear, about the decay Sri Lanka is progressively embracing due to its majoritarian hate mindset.
Weerawanse’s unsurprising diatribe went on to accuse: ‘Do his duties as a diplomat include making insulting remarks about Sri Lanka? Does Chilcott think Sri Lanka as a country still being governed under British imperialism? He cannot make open statements against Sri Lanka. They should come to Sri Lanka as diplomats enjoying diplomatic privileges, not as open and controversial criticizers of the country’s internal affairs”.
One cannot understand what is insulting in making rational and objective analysis about degenerating politics in Sri Lanka. Wimal Weerawanse seems to suffer from irrecoverable verbal diarrhoea and he reflects his hate whenever an opportunity arises. That is JVP politics. The valuable and irrefutable argument put forward by the British High Commissioner cannot be argued in a matured way by the hate politicians like Wimal Weerawanse, instead are set upon their conditioned mindset to accuse it as ‘British imperialism’. When the British imperialism suits the JVP they will claim asylum in the United Kingdom and live on the benefits paid out of the tax payer’s money.
The British High Commissioner is not only the emissary of the British government, he has to represent the views of the democratically elected parliamentarians in the House of Commons who genuinely represent the voices of the over 250,000 Tamils, Muslims and Sinhalese. In the UK, these citizens play participatory politics without the type of intimidation and harassment practiced in Sri Lanka. The British High Commissioner voiced the changing international attitude to find a lasting resolution to the conflict in Sri Lanka where Wimal Weerawanse and I could live as brothers without any fear and prejudice in the future.
Weerawanse’s diatribe goes further when he said: “A person who keeps his mouth shut in a sensitive situation like this is either deaf or mute, or both,”. Sri Lanka had proved to be insensitive and an intolerant country. Sri Lanka has lost its senses 60 years ago when it got its independence. It has become a decaying and intolerant society with persons like Wimal Weerawanse is able to thrive with their hate and venom with their conditioned mindset. We do not see this blatant hate culture in the British society. The High Commissioner was right in everything he said and it was not an ordinary moment for him to articulate his thoughts. It will be best if persons like Wimal Weerawanse shut up and learn to put up with the truth, fairness and honesty without blaring with their inborn hatred.
What Weerawanse and his party needs to do is to follow the Lord Buddha’s path to achieve nibbana (salvation) by remaining ‘deaf or mute, or both’ to events happening around to allow fair minded persons to deal with the issues in a matured way.
The High Commissioner in his speech gave a valuable insight by touching on issues that are relevant and much needed to be told on the eroding path Sri Lanka is heading in the fast progressing global village.The constrained and hate mindset of the JVP and its nostalgic media man Wimal Weerawanse did not spare any moment and as expected went on the usual spree to attack the fair minded High Commissioner who made his fair testimony without any fear, about the decay Sri Lanka is progressively embracing due to its majoritarian hate mindset.
Weerawanse’s unsurprising diatribe went on to accuse: ‘Do his duties as a diplomat include making insulting remarks about Sri Lanka? Does Chilcott think Sri Lanka as a country still being governed under British imperialism? He cannot make open statements against Sri Lanka. They should come to Sri Lanka as diplomats enjoying diplomatic privileges, not as open and controversial criticizers of the country’s internal affairs”.
One cannot understand what is insulting in making rational and objective analysis about degenerating politics in Sri Lanka. Wimal Weerawanse seems to suffer from irrecoverable verbal diarrhoea and he reflects his hate whenever an opportunity arises. That is JVP politics. The valuable and irrefutable argument put forward by the British High Commissioner cannot be argued in a matured way by the hate politicians like Wimal Weerawanse, instead are set upon their conditioned mindset to accuse it as ‘British imperialism’. When the British imperialism suits the JVP they will claim asylum in the United Kingdom and live on the benefits paid out of the tax payer’s money.
The British High Commissioner is not only the emissary of the British government, he has to represent the views of the democratically elected parliamentarians in the House of Commons who genuinely represent the voices of the over 250,000 Tamils, Muslims and Sinhalese. In the UK, these citizens play participatory politics without the type of intimidation and harassment practiced in Sri Lanka. The British High Commissioner voiced the changing international attitude to find a lasting resolution to the conflict in Sri Lanka where Wimal Weerawanse and I could live as brothers without any fear and prejudice in the future.
Weerawanse’s diatribe goes further when he said: “A person who keeps his mouth shut in a sensitive situation like this is either deaf or mute, or both,”. Sri Lanka had proved to be insensitive and an intolerant country. Sri Lanka has lost its senses 60 years ago when it got its independence. It has become a decaying and intolerant society with persons like Wimal Weerawanse is able to thrive with their hate and venom with their conditioned mindset. We do not see this blatant hate culture in the British society. The High Commissioner was right in everything he said and it was not an ordinary moment for him to articulate his thoughts. It will be best if persons like Wimal Weerawanse shut up and learn to put up with the truth, fairness and honesty without blaring with their inborn hatred.
What Weerawanse and his party needs to do is to follow the Lord Buddha’s path to achieve nibbana (salvation) by remaining ‘deaf or mute, or both’ to events happening around to allow fair minded persons to deal with the issues in a matured way.
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