Vickremabahu Karunaratne Gets What He Deserves!

by S. Hewage

(October 02, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Vickremabahu Karunaratne, the extreme left politician and global terrorist sympathizer, was denied a visa to enter Canada. This is a good news for all peace loving people in Sri Lanka and Canada. I congratulate the Canadian High Commission for their decision!

It is no secret that Karunaratne, who is a leading pro-LTTE activist travels around the world to promote LTTE terrorist activity in Sri Lanka, and his expenses are taken care of by the LTTE networks in those countries during his propaganda campaigns.

By taking the cover of left-wing politics, this man advocates the division of Sri Lanka while enjoying all the welfare services provided by the Sri Lankan state. He lost his teaching post at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Peradeniya, when he was arrested by putting up black-flags against J. R. Jayawardena’s inauguration as president in the 1970s. This man destroyed the lives of many young promising undergraduates of the Arts Faculty, who followed his lunatic left-wing political ideas, and took part in civil disobedience campaigns in the late 1970s against the UNP government.

Karunaratne, in his usual arrogant style, challenges the Canadian High Commissioner’s decision, and questions whether he has any recourse to appeal the decision. The question he should ask himself is why he wants to visit a leading western capitalist state when he so proudly claims himself to be the leader of a left-wing political party. A vast majority of Canadians do not share his crazy political ideology, and despise all terrorists and their sympathizers. The best place for him to visit, as far as I am concerned, is North Korea, where he would find equally nutty political leaders, and the “Nutty Professor” from Sri Lanka can live there happily ever after.

Karunaratne does not realize that the type of politics that he practices is long gone, and in the 21st century political philosophies are much more pragmatic—and most importantly—abhor terrorism. As he still lives in a dream-world of radical politics of the 1970s, he fails to comprehend why a democracy like Canada does not does issue him visa. He questions whether it is democratic to refuse such a request. Karunaratne must understand that democracies do not want sympathizers of terrorists around their citizens, and the best place for Karunaratne is to visit Kilinochi, and help Velu, his beloved illiterate and megalomaniac comrade, write his obituary. - Sri Lanka Guardian