THE CRACK

Within the first few minutes of Mervin’s thuggery in Rupavahini corporation it became the hot topic in media. Anyway for two days they reported the news only in one point of view. Same story over and over again. But after Mervin’s some statements this has gained a new direction now.

In a statement to Divaina Sunday newspaper he says that he didn’t go to meet TMG. When he was discussing the matter with Rupavahini chairman, TMG came there and said “we only report what we need”. Then after once again Mervin urges to show his speech, some people with the news editor started the violence. He further says “this is a conspiracy against the government”.

Swarnavahini also today reported one of his statement which says “I only went there to discuss the matter peacefully”. He says that he accompanied only one person when he went there. “Attacking to one person with hundreds of others is not heroic” he says.

Anyway for sure this time Mervin is going to have a very difficult time since all the forces are against him.

About 15 years back when I was a kid this was a very popular song among us. I’m sure you have also watched this nice song at least once. When I watched it on YouTube today it bought my sweet past memories back.

Enjoy it once again! Thanks MyLanka for adding this song on YouTube.

After I read the anonymous comment about smart Tamils living in Malaysia and Singapore on the blog post “How many of you out there support the LTTE” on Kalharie’s blog I thought I have to write this.

As Sinhalese do we introduce each other by the terms Colombo Sinhalese, Galle Sinhalese or Ampara Sinhalese? No. But the commentator is talking about ‘Jaffna Tamils’. Why don’t he/she use the word ‘tamils’ to tell about those smart people? Because tamils from Jaffna including Prabakaran think they are superior among the tamils on other areas.

According to Karuna that’s the reason he broke up with the LTTE. It may be true that many tamils from south and east are supporting the LTTE to fight for a separate country with the hope that all their problems will be solved in a tamil eelam. But I’m sure if there’s a tamil eelam their problems become more worse.

You may think how can someone tell like this after reading a comment on some blog post but this is only a single experience among thousands of the same kind. In my university everyday I witness how those ‘Jaffna tamils’ behave with other tamils. Honestly I don’t have close relationship with the tamils but I can see how they are separated.

So at the end I like to know your opinion specially from the tamils because they are the people who knows the reality.

Here’s the anonymous comment :

Tamils have been suffering under a racist and deliquent goverment. Worst things are about to come. The LTTE has also attacked a naval detachment. Hatered is one full circle. Nazis/Japanese tried it and got what they deserved in return. Likewise you will too.

The Tamils in the South fear to openly support the tamils but most in their heart do. They would opely support them if they had their sister raped or family killed or they themselves beaten.

If there is a tamil eelam then all the problems for the tamils will be solved but how about the sinhalese and rest. You need to go back to the muslims like in 1915 and burn and loot them.

Sri Lankan economy is failing. The country is on its knees for world aid.

The richest man in malaysia is a Jaffna Tamil. He is Ananda Krishnana who just bought telco shares in Sri Lanka. The Jaffna tamils are probabily the richest people in Malaysia per capita.

SIA- Singapore Airlines was build up by JYM Pillai a Jaffna tamil. Its the No 1 airline in terms of profit He was also behind Singapore stock exchange now and DBS - one of Asia’s largest bank.

Singapore Airport and Seaport is build up by Dr Vijayaretnam who is also a Jaffna tamil. Both are No 1 in the world.

Rajaretnam who was Singapore deputy prime minister was also a Jaffna Tamil. He made prima setup the only flour manufacturer in Sri Lanka. He was hounered with a state funeral which 2 former presidents of Singapore did not get.

Presently the Singapore PMs right hand man is tharman shamugaretnam and the man behind Singapore central bank which the pm heads.

In last few days some blog posts emerged in Kottu claiming that TamilNet can’t be accessed from Sri Lanka and there were some solutions too. I haven’t visited TamilNet for a very long time perhaps for about 2-3 years because its unbalanced nature of providing news. But at the same time people can’t access TamilNet, there seems to be a problem of accessing www.lankanewspapers.com too. It brings news about Sri Lanka from various sources specially from the Sri Lankan English news papers, international news agencies and some other news providers including TamilNet.

So I used one of the proxy service, www.proxyindex.com to enter lankanewspapers.com and surprisingly the top news item was “Sri Lanka blocks TamilNet” and the source is TamilNet. I also visited TamilNet and their top news item was also the same. So probably the government has decided to ban TamilNet and other news sources which brings news from them. Even though TamilNet is linked to LTTE and providing false information this is a shameless and blind step taken by the government to stop them because anyone can easily access the site with the help of a proxy service.

It’s a tragedy for all of us that our leaders haven’t yet understood the fact that they can’t hide information forever from the public. This is the information age and it’s flowing freely. None can stop that. So Mr. President let them say what they want and let us decide what is true and what is not.