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Reply to Uvindu

your whole argument is based on two foreign based sources or rather cables. that lacks credibility. what does the local media say about it? please include those as well, you just cant ignore the local media and have faith in foreign sources. Also you only talk about the Human Rights violations from the SL Government side. Do you even have the guts to go through the unclosed cases of which the millions of Sinhalese been killed over the 30 years? All in all this piece of writing is a crap which is ONE SIDED!

Ref Article- http://colombotelegraph.com/2012/02/04/basil-a-traitor-and-rajapaksas-delegation-to-the-us/

journalism should not be used as a weapon to attack the people who tries to do something good for the country. Professor H.L Senevirathna will also agree on it. Uvindu does the same thing which the western media does,attack the men in power if they are not doing what they need. Does that secure us a better Sri Lanka ? no they make it worse. Talk about local corruption, money mishandling is fine, but this is way too over the limits when dealing with a national issue. “Kuliyata Kahinawa”

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In Time 2011 : Movie that made me Think

"In Time 2011" is definitely a movie with a different theme..in it TIME IS MONEY..btw Justin Timberlake seems to be my fav actor these days...awesome upper body...hope he wnt lose it like Ashton Clutcher :)
back to the movie..people pay for coffee with TIME..a cup of coffee worth about 4 minutes..they earn TIME from wok not money...and the best part is people stop growing old when they are 25...so the Mother ,Father and Son have the same looks...
after 25 years they need to earn and live...till then the clock wont start clicking..rich people live for many years...may be more than 100..

Time makes people rich and they do any thing to get rich..i mean earn Time to live..
The story is about this system and how it works....taxes and living prices keep ricing so that people need to pay more time to live..when the TIME is up..they are gone ..just like in our world!

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The BBC, the Voice of America and the manipulation of, by and for Sarath Fonseka

The BBC, the Voice of America and the manipulation of, by and for Sarath Fonseka:   by Rajiva Wijesinha

Charles Haviland - BBC

I have long had a soft corner for Charles Havilland, the local BBC Correspondent. Indeed, as Marlow said of Lord Jim, have I not stood up for him, when Sri Lankans to whom one white reporter is just like another thought the BBC and Channel 4 were identical? I have argued, quite often recently, that the BBC (though not its rather strange Sinhala Service, with its conglomeration of old fashioned leftists) tries to be objective in its coverage of Sri Lanka, without succumbing to the temptation to stereotype.

I was saddened therefore to find in a report on the verdict on the Sarath Fonseka case that the BBC referred to him as Mahinda Rajapaksa’s ‘Ideological soulmate’. This was stereotyping with a vengeance, whereas the Voice of America, which I have always thought more simplistic, actually referred to Fonseka falling out with the President over differences as to political ideology.

Anyone looking at the evidence, not least that provided by Fonseka himself, in his letter of resignation, would realize that the latter was a more plausible interpretation. Fonseka referred to the President’s rejection of his proposal to expand the army, and also criticized him for too swift resettlement of the displaced. To assume then that one Sri Lankan nationalist is identical with another seemed totally unworthy of the BBC.

US Ambassador - Patricia Butenis

I suppose it is a mark of how little interest there is really in Sri Lanka that no one has bothered to explore the implications of the differences between the two, and more particularly the divergence between what Fonseka was advocating for a few months after the war ended, and the position he took up later. Not only his interview with Federica Jansz (whether or not one believes him or her as to what he actually said with regard to the White Flag Case), but also the persona Patricia Butenis seemed optimistic about according to Wikileaks, suggests a 180 degree turn from the chauvinist rather than nationalist ideologue who fell out with the President.

More surprisingly, no one drew attention to the elephant in the room, which somehow never found its way into the Courthouse either, namely Sarath Fonseka’s claim in Ambalangoda just a couple of months after the war ended that he had resisted instructions to accept the surrender of people carrying white flags. This was to my mind the most worrying allegation that was recorded in the State Department Report that was conveyed to us around October 2009. I suggested then that we answer that report promptly, as had very politely been requested by the Americans, and I believe we would have saved ourselves a great deal of trouble had that been done. But the panel the President appointed delayed meeting, and the report was overtaken by events, not least Sarath Fonseka’s candidacy and his very different interpretation, according to Frederica, of what happened in the White Flag case.

The language he is supposed to have used in July 2009 is most interesting. In the web report about the Ambalangoda speech to which the Americans referred, he was quoted as saying ‘I managed the war like a true soldier. I did not make decisions from A/C rooms. I was under pressure to stop the war even during the final phase. I got messages not to shoot those who are carrying white flags. A war is fought by soldiers. They do so by putting their lives on the line. Therefore, the decisions about war should be taken by the soldiers in the battlefront. Not the people in A/C rooms in Colombo. Our soldiers have seen in life the kind of destruction carried out by those people before they decided to come carrying a white flag. Therefore, they carried out their duties. We destroyed any one connected with the LTTE. That is how we won the war,’ Fonseka said at an event held in Ambalangoda to felicitate him on July 10.’

This has however been ignored subsequently, most notoriously by the Darusman report, even though it shows itself well acquainted with the State Department report otherwise. Of course it could be claimed that the West was only following Sri Lanka in this regard, since we too seem to have forgotten that earlier claim. But, given that Western journalists do not follow a Sri Lankan lead in other respects, I think there is another reason for their deafening silence.

Quite simply, had they noted that earlier claim, the question must have arisen as to why Fonseka changed so much. The man who had been pushing a supremacist ideology earlier, with longer detention for the displaced, had now turned into the great rescuer of the oppressed. Far from ignoring orders from Air Conditioned rooms to spare surrendees, Fonseka was now presenting himself as an innocent abroad, as compared to terrible war criminals.

It was an extraordinary performance, and as we know it backfired terribly, so that Fonseka promptly withdrew the claim (or claimed to have done so, though Federica declared that he ‘never showed any enthusiasm for the denial always admitting that he had said what he had said’). Why then had he got into all this? It could not have been only that Federica, who seems to have decided to support him simply out of animosity for the Rajapaksas but who needed to claim that he was the ideologically softer candidate, had pushed him into this embarrassing position. On the contrary, Fonseka himself was angling for such a characterization, for he had realized that that was his only hope of success. So he moved on to the wooing too of the TNA, which seems to have been taken in, surprisingly, given what a wily old bird Mr Sambandan normally is.

Robert O. Blake, former U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka

But the Americans seem to have been taken in too, if Wikileaks is anything to go by.That is the charitable position, and ignores the view that they were responsible for the conversion of Fonseka in the first place to an unconvincing saintliness. Indeed, even if they were responsible, I would argue that Robert Blake certainly would not have been taken in, but would rather have thought this a useful tool with which to apply pressure on the government. But sadly, not everyone is as intelligent as Robert Blake, and perhaps there were those who really thought that Christmas had come, and Fonseka as President would dish out all sorts of goodies to President Obama and Ranil Wickremesinghe as well as to the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam or whoever was flavor of the month at the time.

The BBC I had always thought to be much wiser. Not Charles, but his counterpart in Delhi, had Fonseka squarely in sight, when he told me that, had Fonseka won the election, it was not the Rajapaksas who would have had to fear being killed, but rather Ranil. Ranil I think had begun to suspect something of the sort. But in the strange game of double bluff that Ranil and Fonseka and the TNA and their Western adulators were playing, everyone would also have been taking out insurance. If the West thought Fonseka as President would hand over power to Ranil as Prime Minister, they would have had ways of convincing him to do the gentlemanly thing if he were proving recalcitrant – but if Ranil were out of the way, that strategy would not work.

It was strange then finding young Charles reiterating the old story that the President and Sarath Fonseka were ideological soulmates. This is perhaps the BBC’s way of affirming its conviction that, even when Frederica and the TNA were supporting him, he had not changed his spots. But it is sad that they have to drag the President into all this.

In that respect the very different perspective presented by the Voice of America suggests I hope that the Americans are now older and wiser. It is of course conceivable that they are potty enough to continue to think that Fonseka was the best hope for reconciliation and pluralism. I suspect that is too much for even American naivete, or idealism, or whatever you choose to call it, though that is a quality I have learned never to underestimate. But I would hope that they have finally realized that, charming though they may once have thought him, the ideology that the country actually voted for is preferable. Working harmoniously with that, building on its strengths, the rapid resettlement, the swift rehabilitation of former cadres, the intense programme of development in the North, would make more sense, because that would be the best way of helping to overcome any weaknesses, instead of using the man who took pride, according to the Report they wanted investigated, in destroying ‘anyone connected with the LTTE’.

Daily News 22 July 2011 – http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/11/22/fea02.asp

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Shame on You DailyMirror!!!

Related Link- http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/14102-dutugemunu-in-lion-city.html

     Its been a common site to see the non SL based media (like Maharaja) using the great King Dutugamunu's name to bug Mervin Silva.But most of the time those were indirect attacks rather than calling the guy directly from the Great Kings Name. Mervin never said to call him that but he bragged that he is been inherited.Mervin is certainly taking the media as a Joke and the guy needs to be on paper every day. That's a different story all together but, Today I came across the DM site and found this disgusting news which referrers to as "Dutugemunu in Lion city".
                                 Certainly its a shame to call any one living today from the Great Kings name.If it wasn't him we might not be speaking the same language as we do today. I don't know about the writer of this post but i assume  the guy has learned a little bit of English simply because the guy went to an International School and has no freaking seance about the History of Sri Lanka. And the editor must be a son of a Kalu Sudda. Government should ban the media from using former Kings names in order to give cheap publicity to their carpy news items.
           

Once again SHAME ON YOU DAILYMIRROR.

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Rare pictures of ceylon

 

Rare Pictures of Colonial Ceylon. Various Modes of Transport.

River Transport, Ceylon, Early 1900's
This photo of old Sri Lanka demonstrates the Ceylonese use of coconut palms on the roofs of their water vessels.

Boats were often constructed out of large trees.

These would be hollowed out in the center.

The vessel would be kept from capsizing thanks to bent pieces of wood at each end and a long spare extending into the water.

Rickshaw Operators at Victoria Park, Colombo.
Victoria Park in the middle of Colombo and was named in honour of Queen Victoria.
The fares for a rickshaw operators were calculated by time instead of distance.

In 1907, to hire first class rickshaw in Colombo would cost roughly 1 cent a minute,

with a discount to 50 cents for 60 minutes.

Rickshaws drawn by 2 operators were more expensive, as was hiring a rickshaw in the evenings.

Tea in Transit to Wharf.

 

Race Bull and Cart, Early 1900′s 

Catamaran, Native Fishing Boat. displayed in this popular image was planted by the British in 1905.
A Double Bullock Cart. Bullock carts in Ceylon are known as bandies or Tamul wandi.

Bullock carts like the one shown here were normally used for carting coffee or rice.

These two-wheeled wagons were covered with plaited coconut leaves.

The bullocks would on average haul a fully laden cart 20 miles per day. 

Hamilton Canal in Negombo and Padda Boats, Early 1900's 

Boat Bridge over Kalani River at Grand Pass 1880's

Bullock Hackery.

Elephants Transporting a Boiler to Tea Factory.

Colombo - Kandy Mail Coach, c.1860
 

Steam Engine at Matara Railway Station – 1895

 

Colombo Kandy Train - Crossing Bridge.

Ballast Train, Colombo - Badulla Railway.
 

Tunnels on the Railway near Ohiya, Ceylon
 

Colombo to Kandy Railway Line

Typical Road Scene on Galle Road, Ceylon 1880
 

A Mountain Road to Haputale, Ceylon in 1894
 

Elephant at Work  One of many duties by elephant. Here the elephant is pulling a plane.