By K Sutharsan
(November 10, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) Mr Sooriyasegaram has been out of Sri Lanka for nearly 45 years. His knowledge and experience post is departure to the UK seems to be blank.
His new found love to Sri Lanka fails to consider the suffrocation of the Tamils following the introduction of various state policies including the worst standardisation policy preventing Tamils from entering universities. These rejected the Tamil people systamatically and eventually produced the LTTE.
The £100,000 he is refering to as his gain must be repaid fully to the state or a Tamil charity from his fat deposit account in London without trying to manipulate his way with the government in his last crawling age of his life. The government is waiting to grab opportunists like him to conduct Perahara in Jaffna.
It is clear from his mutterings that he did not suffer any losses as a result of state policy against the Tamils. He says he is a socialist. What a confused state of mind is he in even to confuse the great Karl Marx.
I have experienced the ravages of the dastardly conduct of the successive governments against the Tamils. A victim of the 1958, 1977, 1983 anti Tamil violence. A victim of the standardisation policy. Victim of many other ravages including loosing my family members to the guns.
Sooriyasekaram's blinkered assessment appears to be a deliberate attempt to earn the goodwill of the government and his doing his boot licking service at this critical time for the government.
It is no secret that he had served the controvercial Douglas Devanada as consultant for the Jaffna Municipality during his latest visit to Sri Lanka and organised a public meeting for Prof Tissa Vitharane in Jaffna with Douglas's backing.
He should tell more about his ulterior motives than telling us his fiddle assessments like a rouge priest trying to earn the goodwill of the people.-Sri Lanka Guardian
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