Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Guess Who's Back?
A few nights ago I was watching TV and who do I see on a Patriotic National Movement stage, shouting about the links between Ranil and the LTTE and defending Mahinda Rajapakse? None other than our old friend S L Gunasekera.

Who?

No one remembers him? That founding member of the Sihala Urumaya. That hero of the Sinhalaya who thought 'there are enough racist Tamil and Muslim parties in the country so let us try to even things out by starting a Sinhala one!'.

Take a trip down memory lane. Remember how he was later kicked out of the Sihala Urumaya because even though he was Sinhala, he wasn't a proper Sinhalaya because he was not a Buddhist? That defining moment in the Sinhala Buddhist ideology? When Champika and Tilak hid their little powergrab behind the statement that to be a proper Sinhalaya one had to be a Buddhist.

S L Gunasekera cried at the press conference. Sihala Urumaya was a party he had helped found and as far as he was concerned he was a proper Sinhalaya. He was not a Buddhist. So what? He'd occasionally have a scotch and soda in the evening. So what? These were the two things he cried about. I'm talking real tears here. Streaming down his face.

But now he's back out of hiding! He's standing on an PNM stage and defending Mahinda. Stranger things than this have been few. One good look at his face and you know the shot in the evening has turned into a bottle by now. I guess being a political exile can do that to a man. But let us not judge him on that. It's very clear that's he's but a shell of the 'hero of the Sinhala people' that he used to be. Another washed up has-been, being dragged out so that Ranil and Mahinda can put them on a stage and squeeze them dry.

Wonder who else is going to crawl out of the woodwork to stand by the two candidates as the elections get closer.

posted by Morquendi @  11:11 PM   || 9 opinion/s ||
Comments:
# posted by Blogger Morquendi : September 22, 2005 1:07 AM
 
No I'm saying he's a washed up has-been who's irrelevant.

I just find his presence on election stages funny.

I don't really care if he's Christian or Buddhist or Zoroastrian or Martian... he was a Sinhala nationalist politician who helped create the Sihala Urumaya.
# posted by Blogger Morquendi : September 22, 2005 12:39 PM
 
Ol' SL? Behind that rag tag group who calls themselves the North East Sinhala whatever? Gimmie a break. S L Has never been seen at a single NESA event and they have never spoken of him. The 'leaders' of NESA have a vague idea of who SL is. Perhaps SL has been going around telling people that he's the driving force behind them, but in fact he has done nothing for them.

For your information the North East Sinhala Assn is funded and maintained by the JVP through their long time support base in Trincomalee. I suggest you talk to the JVP office in Trinco about this.

It really bugs me when snotty little brats who live thousands of miles away pretend they know what's going on in Sri Lanka.

You left for greener pastures? Fine. NOW STAY THE FUCK OUT AND LEAVE US ALONE!

Thank you.
# posted by Blogger Morquendi : September 22, 2005 12:44 PM
 
Astrocyte,

If you want the pro-peace groups in Sri Lanka to shut down and go home and let the whole country return to war, then I suggest you join the army.

If you want war, fight it yourself. Or show the world what a coward you are by shouting for war and then letting some poor farmer's son die for you.

I also suggest you look up the origin of the word Peacenik. Perhaps then you will stop using it in this context.

I agree that the pro-peace lobby tends to ignore a lot of the ceasefire violations and human rights violations carried out by the LTTE, but that does not mean that the work they do in this country is not essential.
# posted by Blogger sittingnut : September 22, 2005 1:49 PM
 
morquendi:
aren't you yourself exaggerating s.l.gunasekera's importance by attacking him in this way?
# posted by Blogger Morquendi : September 22, 2005 2:05 PM
 
He was important, and is no longer so.

DS Senanayake was important, is no longer so. But if someone were to bring him back from the dead and put him on a election stage then I would wonder what he was doing there.

(I would also be wondering why a dead person was up there, but that's beside the point)
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : September 23, 2005 7:23 AM
 
Imagine you really could sue someone for blasphemy? Or that lawsuits could result in jail terms?

whoo whee
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : September 23, 2005 7:17 PM
 
I did admire SL for one thing, he seemed a man of principle.

If I remember correctly, he was kicked out of the Sihala Urumaya because he refused to go to temples to offer flowers (as part of the election campaign)

He said he was an atheist who did not visit temples and refused to do so an got kicked out.

I do not agree with his policies but I will always respect a man of priciple.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : September 23, 2005 7:21 PM
 
I must admint, I'm a bit confused by Astrocyte. Not pro-war but not quite pro peace either?
# posted by Blogger sittingnut : September 26, 2005 11:37 AM
 
my, such graphic language. wonder how dextr developed such a imagination.
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