Wednesday, 21st May 2014.
Editorial
In an article published in the New York Times Gardiner Harris the American newspaper's New Delhi correspondent states that while there was a victory parade in the South of the country -- there was a crackdown in the North.
Then there is the usual litany of accusations against the Sri Lankan government. Writes Harris and his local accomplice that 'Mr. Rajapaksa and the military authorities asserted that any outward expressions of grief on Sunday were intended to celebrate the life of Velupillai Prabhakaran, who led a brutal insurgent group known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or L.T.T.E. Mr. Prabhakaran was killed in 2009.'
That this is the truth does not seem to bother these NYT correspondents/stringers in any way. This Mr. Prabhakaran they are referring to was the butcher who led a fascist terrorist organization that was banned in 33 countries including the USA where the New York Times is published.
Does Gardiner want Prabhakaran deified? In which case he should put his hand up and say so and not seek to take cover behind a puff piece written in pursuance of the interests of those assorted suspects that back the same banned Tamil Tigers to this day.
Gardiner then writes this: "If people want to commemorate their loved ones," General (Udaya) Perera said, "they should hold memorials on the dates of their death. Commemorations on May 18 are memorials for the L.T.T.E. leader Velupillai Prabhakaran."
What this Sri Lankan army officer said of course should be very reasonable to any right thinking person as the fascist butcher Veluppillai Prabhakaran was indeed killed in May 18, 2009, which means of course that any memorial for the dead in the North on that day would be a memorial for Prabhakaran.
However, Gardiner then gives a spin to his wee puff piece, and says immediately following the above quoted paragraph that 'many people in the north have no idea when their loved ones were killed; many of the missing were kidnapped by either insurgents or government forces.'
Caught out, he might now want to deny what his inference was, but obviously what he is trying to get across to the reader is that since most people in the North do not know the dates on which their loved ones were killed, they should therefore be allowed to have memorials for them on the day that fascist terrorist butcher Prabhakaran died!
This incredibly is tantamount to saying that since a lot of Afghans did not know the dates on which their loved ones were killed in various skirmishes involving US troops they should all get together and memorialize their collective deaths on 9/11 (the 11th of September) or the day a person by the name of Osama Bin Laden was killed in the city of Abbatobad, in Pakistan.
Gardiner can be sympathized with for having to keep to a brief -- deny it as he may all mainstream American newspapers are mouthpieces for the US foreign policy establishment -- but to be take up a position that is so transparently indefensible, as explained above, should surely earn him a reprimand from his bosses over there in New York?
Not that we wish it upon him the poor man; we should not, since we need to look upon this kind of 'reporting' positively for the simple reason that it is better for everybody's general health that they know exactly where these types of free-press poster boys stand. We know only too well now, we do, yes!
As said before nevertheless, there is no particular variety of magic that's required to understand where exactly 'these people are coming from' to use the argot that NYT folks would be familiar with.
But yet its good to know that these days they are conspicuously emblazoned with their true colours!
From: Daily News. http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=editorial1
