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We must learn from this situation and move on with a renewed resolve to approach our lives differently. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003Eby Pavani Jayasinghe Munagamage  \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nOn 5 April, it was reported by the Bronx Zoo in New York that one of its tigers, Nadia, a four-year-old Malayan tiger, had tested positive for the worldwide novel coronavirus. As this news report went viral on the internet, more and more people began to repeatedly question whether this newfound disease in animals has a chance of spreading to more of the same species or even humans, creating an internet cluster.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"425\" data-original-width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiaILUvQQtru6nxgDaq4PQdo4GCVZHBIq7wqkulHgSyEIzEYvAfZWMnmo2B3EYr5nNNBFWZlo88gEC00o8y9VeAYx-p92jD_vCVB7whUvnaHdzzRct3u0OkulOr45iwUBbCgwb1LKdIJTA\/s1600\/wimukthi-kumara.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #666666;\"\u003EDr Vim Kumaratunga\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTo gain a better understanding, a Colombo based weekly newspaper, the \u003Ci\u003ESunday Morning\u003C\/i\u003E, contacted advanced practitioner in veterinary ophthalmology Dr. Vim Kumaratunga to clarify some questions regarding this matter.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EBelow are excerpts of the interview:\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EQ: In your opinion, does the tiger that has now contracted Covid-19 mean indoor pets\/street cats are able to transmit this virus to its owners?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThis particular tiger and the other large cats at the Bronx Zoo that have apparently displayed respiratory signs and apparently tested positive for Covid-19 will not pose a threat to pets or humans outside the zoo as they are contained within the zoo, which is closed to members of the public, as are all zoos worldwide currently. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nMore detailed information regarding the type of testing that was carried out or the types of samples obtained (i.e. whether it was blood or swab samples of respiratory secretions or tissue samples directly, etc.) have not yet been released by the Bronx Zoo. It is likely that PCR (polymerase chain reaction) testing was conducted considering the fact that the zoo has openly announced the positive results.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nSARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) is still poorly understood. Scientists are doing their best to discern this virus’ mode of transmission and conduct further research into animal vectors. It is highly likely that the virus did originate in a zoonotic fashion (animal-to-human transmission). However, these zoo-based large cats and any pet cats or dogs (very few reported cases) that have so far tested positive for Covid-19 have come into contact with a human who was positive for Covid-19. So in these cases, this is a potential human-to-animal transmission (rather than the other way around). However, there is no definitive confirmation of this as yet and the animals have either shown no symptoms\/clinical signs or have recovered from mild clinical signs with basic supportive care, as per the reports.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThere is absolutely no evidence that pet cats pose any risk to humans at present. It is of paramount importance not to sensationalise these few, rare cases reported in the media. We do not have enough evidence to base any of these allegations on.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nMany animals are susceptible to different strains and types of coronavirus. However, the coronavirus family of viruses is large and because domestic cats can be affected by coronaviruses which cause Feline Infectious Peritonitis and Feline Enteritis (these viruses are globally prevalent and have affected cats for decades with not a single reported case of these viruses ever affecting humans in any way), this does not automatically translate to the fact that domestic cats or other cat species can be affected by Covid-19.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EQ: Since the release of this report, are there any precautions you would like to recommend to pet cat owners in Sri Lanka?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThere is currently no evidence that pets can transmit Covid-19 to their owners\/humans. However, the following precautions are worth considering:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EFor normal households with no members currently affected by the virus\/with no apparent clinical signs, normal precautions of hand washing and hygiene should be followed. You do not have to avoid contact with your pets\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EIf you are a person with potential Covid-19 symptoms or have tested positive for this virus, then avoid contact with your pets or wear gloves and a mask when handling any animals, and wash your hands thoroughly for a minimum of 20-30 seconds with soap and water after any interaction with an animal\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EIf you are a person who has a compromised immune system (elderly\/infirm, on immune compromising drugs, has a history of respiratory disease or asthma, has diabetes, etc.), then avoid contact with animals and ask a friend or family member to help you care for your pet where possible\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThere is no evidence of pets carrying the virus on their fur (fomite transfer), so please do not try to wash or disinfect your pet. Dettol and other chemical antiseptic solutions are highly toxic to cats and may result in the death of your pet. Washing animals in potentially caustic disinfectants is highly distressing for the animal and unnecessarily cruel. Do not do this!\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EDo not force cats that are used to roaming freely to stay indoors. This is highly distressing for cats that are territorial and enjoy freedom during normal times. This could precipitate a multitude of other health problems for your cat such as stress-related lower urinary tract disease (cystitis is often triggered by stress in cats) or result in normally handleable, friendly, and docile pets becoming more aggressive or feeling threatened. There is no evidence that keeping pets confined or indoors will minimise the risk of disease transmission in any way, when there are no current reports of animal-to-human transmission. The recent report by BBC has been highly condemned by the veterinary and animal welfare community and was not based on any solid scientific facts.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;(See: https:\/\/icatcare.org\/covid-19-dont-start-keeping-your-cats-indoors\/)\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"344\" data-original-width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi_KE6ehg6yjGqRGhUghwMdV7TmrE9wqfKlR1ny6xzbfT3vQTE-GS6_4O0nkxjlnxvoivD4alyfBCoSULvVpYMUYkxl77OpXmXZZgo5xfL03GRirg2coHHtaClxMHKwb245dR3kEStap_8\/s1600\/wimukthi-kumara-2.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n***\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/241161459?fbclid=IwAR1jE7FIoKyyoZh9pQaa9XkXUWaP5V-JWOzv2vUqYKww4e3aHIv6IjJihzg\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EClick here to watch BBC Documentary on Vim Kumaratunga's works\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n***\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EQ: What is your personal opinion on the pandemic?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIt is a very difficult time for many of us. Yet, like all things in life, it can also provide the opportunity to learn and grow. I am fascinated by this virus and as a veterinary ophthalmologist, I would particularly like to research the ophthalmic transmission and implications of Covid-19. Global One Health initiatives, which bring medical, veterinary, and scientific groups together in a joint effort, are more crucial at times like these than ever before.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAs a vet, this pandemic has hit our profession hard in the same way it has devastated many others. Here in the UK, many vets have lost their jobs or been furloughed. Those of us still required to carry out our duties are working harder than ever in many instances. There is a lot of misinformation and as vets who are also trained in epidemiology and public health, we feel it is our duty to not only care for sick animals, but also to help keep the public informed. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn Sri Lanka, the veterinary profession is often ignored and treated with disrespect. At times like these, please remember to be grateful to your local vets and the service they are selflessly offering. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWe do not yet know enough about this virus to make any detailed comments or statements. Bristol University, through the UNCOVER (See: http:\/\/www.bristol.ac.uk\/news\/2020\/april\/ebi-coronavirus.html) where I currently work, is one of the many institutions worldwide working tirelessly to shed more light on the questions that still need answering. What we suspect is that this virus, like MERS and SARS previously, may have originated in a wild animal and through another animal vector come into contact with humans. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nMany assumptions are being made about wild bats. In some countries, bats are being brutally culled. This could pose huge risks to our global ecosystem which is already hugely damaged. Bats are the only mammals that fly and have migratory patterns; they are vital for the pollination of many trees and plants and are intricately woven into the fabric of many natural environments. It is vital that in countries like Sri Lanka, these kinds of rash steps without any scientific basis should not be taken. Mass culling of species of wild animals is also incredibly ineffective. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe other wild animal that has been brought into the limelight is the pangolin. There is some evidence that the pangolin could potentially have acted as an intermediate host for Covid-19. However, this evidence is currently conflicting for many scientific reasons. The pangolin has been frequently listed as the world’s most illegally trafficked animal. Traditional East Asian medicines use pangolin scales for all sorts of quack remedies; pangolin scales contain keratin like our hair and nails, and these scales have zero medicinal value. Pangolin meat is also eaten in many Asian countries as a delicacy.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) is found in Sri Lanka and on several occasions, large illegal shipments of pangolin scales and meat have been confiscated by the (Sri Lanka) Customs and Wildlife (Conservation) Department in the past. It is vital for this poor creature’s existence that these loose connections between Covid-19 and the pangolin are not used as an excuse to cull them or traffic them further. If anything, they must be protected further. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThis entire pandemic has brought to light our unnatural, invasive, destructive, and abusive relationship with our natural world and the wildlife that inhabit it. Wet markets trading illegal wildlife produce and bushmeat have been brought into question and shut down by international governments. This needs to be a permanent closure of these horrible markets where hygiene is often incredibly poor and people are in far too close proximity to each other and wild animals. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe economic repercussions of this pandemic will be immense. We must learn from this situation and move on with a renewed resolve to approach our lives differently. Whatever the losses and negatives of a catastrophe of this scale, if we learn nothing from it and do not modify our actions in the future, then that will be the biggest crime of all. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWar, weaponry, and human might will not overcome this virus, but science, education, and people coming together as a global collective to do their part will. It is important to be humbled by the power of nature and put our lives in perspective at a time like this.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/feeds\/6653982266029264212\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment\/fullpage\/post\/2468613367801394261\/6653982266029264212?isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/6653982266029264212"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/6653982266029264212"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/2020\/04\/no-evidence-that-cats-pose-risk-to.html","title":"No evidence that cats pose risk to humans: Dr. Kumaratunga"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiaILUvQQtru6nxgDaq4PQdo4GCVZHBIq7wqkulHgSyEIzEYvAfZWMnmo2B3EYr5nNNBFWZlo88gEC00o8y9VeAYx-p92jD_vCVB7whUvnaHdzzRct3u0OkulOr45iwUBbCgwb1LKdIJTA\/s72-c\/wimukthi-kumara.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-5015593734465712916"},"published":{"$t":"2019-03-25T09:54:00.000+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-03-25T09:54:13.157+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"feature"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Henry A. Giroux"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Interview"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Henry A. Giroux: The Nightmare of Neoliberal Fascism"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EHistory unexpurgated provides us with a vital resource that helps inform the ethical ground for resistance, an antidote to Trump’s politics of disinformation, division, diversion and fragmentation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003Eby Mark Karlin\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIs there a chance to defeat the forces of neoliberal fascism? Henry A. Giroux explains why we must understand the historical and contemporary context of fascism to understand what we are up against.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EMark Karlin: Why is it important to have an historical understanding of fascism to shed light on the age of Trump?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EHenry A. Giroux: \u003C\/b\u003EThe conditions leading to fascism do not exist in some ethereal space outside of history. Nor are they fixed in a static moment in the past. As Hannah Arendt reminds us, the protean elements of fascism always run the risk of crystallizing into new forms. Historical memory is a prerequisite to the political and moral witnessing necessary to successfully counter growing fascism in the United States today. As Richard Evans, the renowned historian of modern Germany, observes, the Trump administration may not replicate all the features of Germany and Italy in the 1930s, but the legacy of fascism is important because it echoes a “warning from history” that cannot be dismissed. What historians such as Evans, Timothy Snyder and others have suggested is that it is crucial to examine history in order to understand what tyranny and authoritarianism look like and how we can use the past to fight against such forces. While the United States under Trump may not be an exact replica of Hitler’s Germany, the mobilizing ideas, policies, passions and ruthless social practices of fascism, wrapped in the flag and discourses of racial purity, ultra-nationalism and militarism, are at the center of power in the Trump administration. When selected elements of history are suppressed and historical consciousness and memory no longer provide insights into the workings of repression, exploitation and resistance, people are easily trapped in forms of historical and social amnesia that limit their sense of perspective, their understanding of how power works and the ways in which the elements of fascism sustain themselves in different practices. Fascism is not unvarying and expresses its most fundamental attacks on democracy in different arrangements, which is all the more reason for people to develop what Timothy Snyder calls “an active relationship to history” in order to prevent a normalizing relationship to authoritarian regimes such as the United States under Trump’s rule. Surely, a critical understanding of history would go a long way in enabling the American people to recognize the elements of a fascist discourse in much of Trump’s racist tweets, speeches and policies.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiGlrfUloQ1mqHlZB8Pj9Owj7eYtbF7OjRRBOqEZGwRFaCm9067ADP04cejW_qW4LiTvHIFA_P9aCWCl0UR4JNa14aYel8_SobX61rNFkRtLrls93_WHJikZbA38OiQTbWzN7MPzJRx9h8\/s1600\/neoliberal.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"532\" data-original-width=\"800\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiGlrfUloQ1mqHlZB8Pj9Owj7eYtbF7OjRRBOqEZGwRFaCm9067ADP04cejW_qW4LiTvHIFA_P9aCWCl0UR4JNa14aYel8_SobX61rNFkRtLrls93_WHJikZbA38OiQTbWzN7MPzJRx9h8\/s400\/neoliberal.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nHistory unexpurgated provides us with a vital resource that helps inform the ethical ground for resistance, an antidote to Trump’s politics of disinformation, division, diversion and fragmentation. Moreover, history reminds us that in the face of emerging forms of authoritarianism, solidarity is essential. If there is one thing that the important lessons of history in the work of writers such as George Orwell have taught us, it is that we must refuse to be complicit in the mockery of truth. This is especially crucial in the current historical moment, given the way the Trump administration — along with far-right media giants, such as Infowars, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Fox News and Breitbart News Network — work to aggressively propagate a vast disimagination machine. With the death of historical memory comes the nightmare we had thought was no longer possible to witness again. The lessons of history are crucial because they can readily be put to use in identifying present-day abuses of power and corruption. History not only grounds us in the past by showing how democratic institutions rise and fall, it is also replete with memories and narratives of resistance that pose a dangerous threat for any fascist and authoritarian system. This is particularly true today, given the ideological features and legacies of fascism that are deeply woven into Trump’s rhetoric of retribution, intolerance and demonization; its mix of shlock pageantry, coercion, violence and impunity; and the constant stoking of ultra-nationalism and racial agitation. Memory as a form of historical consciousness is essential in repaying our burden to the dead and the current victims by holding accountable those who … retreat from any sense of moral responsibility in the face of their reprehensible actions, if not crimes. Given the danger of right-wing populism and the incendiary rise of fascism in our time, Hannah Arendt is useful in reminding us that thinking and judging must be connected to our actions. Moreover, such thinking must grasp the underlying causes of the economic and political crisis at hand while acting collectively to fight neoliberal fascism and its embrace of white supremacy, social and economic inequality, and its hatred of democracy. That is why historical memory as a register of critical thinking is so dangerous to Trump and his acolytes.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EHow are state violence and white nationalism related?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nUnder the Trump regime, state violence and white nationalism are two sides of the same register of white supremacy and domestic terrorism. Trump’s call to “Make America Great Again,” his slogan “America First” and his emphatic call for a “law and order” regime are shorthand for legitimating state violence against Black people, Muslims, undocumented immigrants, and those “others” who do not fit into his racist notion of ultra-nationalism and his attempts to resuscitate a white public sphere as emblematic of American white supremacy. Ta-Nehisi Coates is right in stating that, “Trump’s ideology is white supremacy.” The merging of state sanctioned racism and state violence is the ideological signpost that informs Trump’s notion of white Christian nationalism, which allows him to assemble a broad coalition of bigots, white supremacists, super-patriots, apocalyptic populists and militarists. Under Trump, identity politics has surfaced with a revenge as the Republican Party unabashedly embraces itself as the white people’s party. Under such circumstances, Trump’s supportive response to incidents of violence by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, should surprise no one, given the history of racism in the United States in general, and in the Republican Party (and Democratic Party as well) in particular. This is a racist legacy that extends from Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” and George W. Bush’s treatment of the Black victims of Hurricane Katrina, to Clinton’s welfare and “law and order” policies to current Republican efforts at expanding the carceral state and suppressing the voting rights of Black Americans.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTrump not only embraces white supremacy, he elevates it. How else to explain his administration’s announcement that it would no longer “investigate white nationalists, who have been responsible for a large share of violent hate crimes in the United States?” How else to explain his willingness to lift restrictions imposed by the Obama administration on local police departments’ acquisition of military surplus equipment, such as armed vehicles, bulletproof vests and grenade launchers? How do we explain the endless tsunami of racist tweets and comments that he produces relentlessly with gleeful relish? Clearly, such actions deliver on Trump’s Jacksonian approach to “law and order,” escalate racial tensions in cities that are often treated like combat zones, and reinforce a war culture and notions of militarism over community-building among police officers.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nSuch behaviors do more than reinforce Trump’s endorsement of white nationalism; they send a clear message of support for a system of violence, amounting to acts of domestic terrorism. Moreover, they indicate a resounding contempt for the rule of law, and an endorsement not just of racist ideology, but also of institutional racism and the primacy of the racially-based incarceration state. Trump’s “law-and-order” regime represents a form of domestic terrorism because it is a policy of state violence designed to intimidate, threaten, harm and instill fear in particular communities. His relentless rhetoric of bigotry, racism and demonization of selected groups not only plays to his white nationalist base, it also normalizes support for state violence and signals an official position regarding racialized assaults against immigrants, especially Latin Americans. In addition, Trump’s conduct emboldens right-wing extremists, giving them the green light to support profoundly intolerant legislation and ideologies, and in some cases, engage in acts of violence against those who oppose their racist views. Trump’s overt racism and militant views have also inspired a number of overt white supremacists and neo-Nazis to run for public office. Trump’s overt nod to right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis is evident in his deportation policies, his cruel “law and order” policies that separate children from their immigrant parents, his renewed call for racial profiling, his silence in the face of voter suppression in a number of states, and his endorsement of white nationalists and overt racists running for public office.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EHow have we devolved into a nation of civic illiteracy?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi3FXRhGfD4cZaB76F9GsBZWjYen1x9q_ojMjF4dxTmWSfOk4CiKIHql62BUjbhOQOgom23CKxpXEDfLXjZ-nL1Ab4EorR20uPZukvcBFOjHiRpGIaP2JeL9M24EW5AujVUiMYYmIISOzE\/s1600\/Henry_Giroux.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"349\" data-original-width=\"525\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi3FXRhGfD4cZaB76F9GsBZWjYen1x9q_ojMjF4dxTmWSfOk4CiKIHql62BUjbhOQOgom23CKxpXEDfLXjZ-nL1Ab4EorR20uPZukvcBFOjHiRpGIaP2JeL9M24EW5AujVUiMYYmIISOzE\/s400\/Henry_Giroux.JPG\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #999999;\"\u003EHenry A. Giroux\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nDonald Trump’s ascendancy in American politics has made visible a plague of deep-seated civic illiteracy, a corrupt political system and a contempt for reason that has been decades in the making. It also points to the withering of civic attachments, the undoing of civic culture, the decline of public life and the erosion of any sense of shared citizenship. As market mentalities and moralities tighten their grip on all aspects of society, democratic institutions and public spheres are being downsized, if not altogether disappearing. As these institutions vanish — from public schools and alternative media to health care centers — there is also a serious erosion of the discourse of community, justice, equality, public values and the common good. At the same time, reason and truth are not simply contested or the subject of informed arguments as they should be, but wrongly vilified — banished to Trump’s poisonous world of “fake news.” Under the Trump administration, language has been pillaged, truth and reason disparaged, and words and phrases emptied of any substance or turned into their opposite, all via the endless production of Trump’s Twitter storms and the ongoing clown spectacle of Fox News. This grim reality points to a failure in the power of the civic imagination, political will and open democracy. It is also part of a politics that strips the social of any democratic ideals and undermines any understanding of education as a public good. What we are witnessing is not simply a political project to consolidate power in the hands of the corporate and financial elite, but also a reworking of the very meaning of literacy and education as crucial to what it means to create an informed citizenry and democratic society. In an age when literacy and thinking become dangerous to the anti-democratic forces governing all the commanding economic and cultural institutions of the United States, truth is viewed as a liability, ignorance becomes a virtue, and informed judgments and critical thinking are demeaned and turned into rubble and ashes. Under the reign of this normalized architecture of alleged common sense, literacy is regarded with disdain, words are reduced to data and science is confused with pseudo-science. Traces of critical thought appear more and more at the margins of the culture as ignorance becomes the primary organizing principle of American society.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nUnder the 40-year reign of neoliberalism, civic culture has been commodified, shared citizenship eroded, self-interest and a survival-of-the-fittest ethos elevated to a national ideal. In addition, language has been militarized, handed over to advertisers, and a political and culturally embarrassing anti-intellectualism sanctioned by the White House. Couple this with a celebrity culture that produces an ecosystem of babble, shock and tawdry entertainment. Add on the cruel and clownish anti-public intellectuals such as Jordan Peterson who defend inequality and infantile forms of masculinity, and define ignorance and a warrior mentality as part of the natural order, all the while dethroning any viable sense of agency and the political.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe culture of manufactured illiteracy is also reproduced through a media apparatus that trades in illusions and the spectacle of violence. Under these circumstances, illiteracy becomes the norm and education becomes central to a version of neoliberal zombie politics that functions largely to remove democratic values, social relations and compassion from the ideology, policies and commanding institutions that now control American society. In the age of manufactured illiteracy, there is more at work than simply an absence of learning, ideas or knowledge. Nor can the reign of manufactured illiteracy be solely attributed to the rise of the new social media, a culture of immediacy and a society that thrives on instant gratification. On the contrary, manufactured illiteracy is a political and educational project central to a right-wing corporatist ideology and set of policies that work aggressively to depoliticize people and make them complicitous with the neoliberal and racist political and economic forces that impose misery and suffering upon their lives…. There is also the workings of a deeply malicious form of 21st century fascism and a culture of cruelty in which language is forced into the service of violence while waging a relentless attack on the ethical imagination and the notion of the common good. In the current historical moment, illiteracy and ignorance offer the pretense of a community in the form of a right-wing populism, which provides a gift to the cloud of fascism that has descended upon the United States.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EHow does capitalism suppress an educational system that nurtures a robust democracy?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIncreasingly, neoliberal regimes across Europe and North America have waged a major assault on higher education and those faculty and students who view it as crucial to producing the modes of learning and formative cultures necessary in the struggle for a strong and healthy democracy. For instance, in the United States, higher education is being defunded, devalued and privatized while also restricting access to working- and lower-middle-class students. Those underprivileged students who do have access to some form of post-secondary education are too frequently burdened with financial debts. Increasingly, universities are being turned into accountability factories designed to mimic the values of casino capitalism. Disciplines and courses that are not organized around market principles are either being underfunded, cut or refigured to serve market values. Disciplines, such as Women’s Studies, Afro-American Studies, Labor Studies and Latino Studies have lost much of their funding, have been closed or marginalized, while at the same time, the humanities and liberal arts increasingly disappear or are marginalized. The attack on higher education has a long history. Since the 1980s, the democratic principles of the university have been under assault by right-wing billionaires such as the Koch brothers, a select financial elite and big corporations, “leading to a blurring of the lines between the university and the corporate world.” Increasingly, the object of higher education is the individual consumer rather than the public good.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nUnder such circumstances, power is concentrated in the hands of a managerial class that too often views education simply through the lens of a market-driven culture that harnesses matters of governance, teaching and learning to the instrumental needs of the economy. Evidence of the corporate takeover of higher education is manifest in the emergence of governing structures that mimic the culture of business and modes of leadership defined almost entirely in entrepreneurial terms. Not only are these structures hierarchical and disempowering for faculty and students, but they produce massive levels of inequality among different faculty, staff and students in regards to salaries, resources and choices. Everything about education that matters appears to be absorbed into the discourse of business, metrics and a reductionist notion of efficiency. Research is increasingly shaped, valued and rewarded to the degree that it reflects corporate interests and is defined in measurable terms. Academic rewards, promotions and access to power are now tied to getting grants or outside corporate funding. Numerical signifiers and commercial values shape policies and practices at almost all levels of university life. For instance, university services are increasingly outsourced, students are defined as entrepreneurs and the culture of education morphs into the culture of business. In this instance, the distinction between knowledge and information, ideas and data diminish under the economic imperative to value knowledge in instrumental terms and to devalue ideas that serve the common good.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn addition, faculty in public universities have lost much of their power and autonomy and have been relegated to the role of part-time laborers, defined largely by the same type of workplace logic that characterizes Walmart and other service industries. The latter is designed — as Noam Chomsky points out — “to reduce labor costs and to increase labor servility.” This casualization of faculty also functions to undercut academic freedom and free expression, as many part-time and adjunct faculty are rightly afraid to speak out and address important social issues in and out of their classrooms for fear of being fired. Judith Butler is right in stating that faculty have increasingly lost the “financial and institutional support” along with “the guarantee and the conditions upon which freedom — both academic freedom and freedom of political expression — relies.” Many adjunct faculty not only have few job protections in such a precarious environment, they are also reduced to wages that in some cases force them to seek welfare and food assistance. As the university succumbs to an audit culture, it increasingly weds itself to a market-driven notion of customer satisfaction, metrics and performance measures that represses a genuine critical education, not to mention any viable notion of dissent. As critical education is subordinated to the task of reproducing and benefiting the corporate order, education collapses into training and the role of faculty is instrumentalized and devoid of any democratic vision. The attack on higher education as a democratic public good and faculty as public and engaged intellectuals has a long history in the United States.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nUnder this market-driven notion of governance, faculty both lose their power and autonomy. Under the reign of neoliberalism, students are often saddled with high tuition rates and a future predicated on ongoing uncertainty, economic instability and ecological peril. In addition, as democratic visions are removed from higher education, they are replaced by an obsession with a narrow notion of job-readiness and a cost accounting instrumental rationality. This bespeaks to the rise of what theorists such as the late Stuart Hall called an “audit” or “corporate” culture, which serves to demoralize and depoliticize both faculty and students, often relieving them of any larger values other than those that reinforce their own self-interest and retreat from any sense of moral and social responsibility. More specifically, as higher education both denies and actively abandons its role as a democratic public sphere, it tends to provide an education in which the citizen is transformed into a consumer, laying the foundation for the development of self-seeking agents who inhabit orbits of privatization and are indifferent to the growth of despotic power around them. Under such circumstances, education collapses into training, and the only learning that is valued is reduced to that which is measurable.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nOne of the challenges facing the current generation of educators, students and others is the need to address the question of what is the role and mission of education in a time of tyranny. What should it attempt to accomplish in a society at a historical moment when society is slipping over into an abyss of fascism? Central to such a challenge is the question of what education should accomplish in a democracy. What will it take for higher education not to abandon its role as a democratic public sphere? What work do educators have to do to create the economic, political and ethical conditions necessary to endow young people and the general public with the capacities to think, question, doubt, imagine the unimaginable, and defend education as essential for inspiring and energizing the citizens necessary for the existence of a robust democracy? What kind of language is necessary for higher education to redefine its mission, one that enables faculty and students to work toward a different future than one that echoes the present, to confront the unspeakable, to recognize themselves as agents, not victims, and to muster up the courage to act in the service of a substantive and inclusive democracy? In a world in which there is an increasing abandonment of egalitarian and democratic values and impulses, what will it take to educate young people and the broader polity to challenge authority and hold power accountable?\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EWhat is the “culture of cruelty in Trump’s America” and why is it important to analyze?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe United States has a long history in which the culture of cruelty has both undermined and challenged its professed claims to the democratic principles of equality, freedom, compassion and justice. The hardening of the culture and the emergence of a social order driven by a collapse of ethics, an unchecked celebration of self-interest, and a Hobbesian war-of-all-against-all have been increasingly nurtured in the last 40 years under the rise of a neoliberal form of gangster capitalism, more aptly called neoliberal fascism. Yet, this history of cruelty is not unique to the Trump administration. The attack on the welfare state, a numbing social atomization, the rise of a survivalist ethic and a growing indifference to human suffering have long been supported by both major political parties. Before Trump’s election, [the US’s] culture of cruelty resided rhetorically on the margins of power, hidden under the false rhetoric of liberal and conservative politicians who benefited from exploiting the vulnerable in order to further advance the interests of the rich and their own power.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBut such attacks have taken on a more aggressive and organizing role under the Trump presidency. This is evident as Trump devotes an inordinate amount of tyrannical energy to the notion that the market and state violence are the primary solution to all social problems and constitute the only legitimate pillars of governance. This descent into the practice of cruel power, cruelty and barbarism no longer hides in the shadows and is employed without apology in most of Trump’s activities since he was elected. Trump revels in the discourse of bullies. He calls his critics “losers,” insults world leaders with belittling language and tacitly supports the violent actions of white supremacists. He endorses state torture, has remilitarized the police, relishes representations of violence and in one instance, tweeted an edited video showing him body-slamming and punching a man with the CNN logo superimposed on his head during a wrestling match. He has executed policies that bear the weight of domestic terrorism, which partly include breaking up immigrant families and separating young children from their parents while expanding the racially charged reach of the carceral state under his call for “law and order.” He has called Latinos “animals,” Mexicans “rapists” and “drug dealers,” and a number of African nations “shithole countries,” all of which echoes the dangerous, racially charged rhetoric of the Nazis in the 1930s.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTrump’s embrace of the culture of cruelty also drives policies rooted in an ongoing process of dehumanization, rancor and a racially-inspired hatred — one that views with disdain basic human emotions, such as compassion, empathy and care for the other. How else to explain his $1.3 trillion tax cut for the ultra-rich and big corporations along with a massive increase in military spending? This dreadful and harmful legislation accompanies policies that produce unprecedented cuts in low-income housing, impose punitive work requirements for those on welfare, eliminate job training programs, slash food assistance programs for the poor, decrease quality health care for the poorest populations, cut nutrition programs for new mothers and their infants, and remove billions from desperately needed programs such as the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). All of these policies serve to redistribute wealth upward while an alarming 43 percent of American families cannot afford basic needs, such as housing, child care, food or even a cell phone, and millions of the most vulnerable Medicaid recipients risk losing their health care. Philip Alston, the United Nations monitor on poverty, in an interview with the Guardian, has warned that Trump is not only producing policies that reward the ultra-rich, he is also punishing the poor and most vulnerable as a result of “a systematic attack on America’s welfare program that is undermining the social safety net.” And states that by removing “any sense of government commitment, you quickly move into cruelty.”\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIt gets worse. A new level of hatred, exhibition of ferocity and state-sanctioned cruelty are on full display in Trump’s willingness to end the Dreamers program, risking the expulsion of over 700,000 immigrants brought to the country as children. Moreover, Trump has put in play executive orders that end temporary protected status for more than 425,000 immigrants, including 86,000 Hondurans and 200,000 people from El Salvador, many of whom have lived in the US for decades. There is a genocidal mentality at work here, amplified by a hatred that suggests a disgust for those who do not fit into Trump’s embrace of racial purity, white nationalism and a “cleansed” public space.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThis culture of cruelty has a long history in the United States and has to be connected with the intensifying and accelerating practices of a neoliberal fascism, which is more than willing to exercise cruel power in the interest of accumulating capital and profits without any consideration of social costs to humanity or the planet itself. The culture of cruelty is not simply about character…. On the contrary, it has to be connected to structural and ideological forces in the service of a financial elite. Rather than simply produce moral outrage, the culture of cruelty should point to a convergence of power, politics and newly emerging structures of domination that are as unjust as they are cruel. Gangster capitalism is the root cause of such cruelty because of its concentration of power, ongoing destruction of democratic values and ongoing production of a machinery of terminal exclusion, disposability, social abandonment and social death.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nNeoliberalism fascism, as a form of extreme capitalism, views democracy as the enemy, the market as the exclusive arbiter of freedom, and the ethical imagination as an object of disdain. It is a form of zombie politics that produces a ruling elite that represents a 21st century version of the walking dead. To paraphrase New York Times film critic A.O. Scott, these zombie politicians and power-brokers serve as a dystopian “reminder of not only our fears but [also] what we have become.” The coarsening of American culture and society has solidified into a state-sanctioned language in which the tyranny of authoritarian zombies has become domesticated, if not normalized. What we are now witnessing is the death of compassion, a repudiation of our obligations to the most vulnerable, the death of the social and a dishonorable discharge from the obligations of a democracy. Under neoliberalism’s form of gangster capitalism, the United States has lost its sense of decency and collapsed into a society of lawlessness and moral indifference. Trump is the endpoint of a country that has become a criminogenic society, one which, as Pankaj Mishra has written, promotes “a widely sanctioned ruthlessness … that does not make for an understanding of the tangled roots of human suffering.” The current culture of cruelty is both a symptom of the war on democracy and a mirror that reveals the collapse of the United States into the abyss of fascism.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EIn your new book, American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism, you argue that there is a connection between neoliberalism and fascism. Can you speak to that connection?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nActually, I bring the two terms together in the phrase “neoliberal fascism,” which I define as both a project and a movement. Neoliberalism is an enabling force that weakens, if not destroys the commanding institutions of a democracy while undermining its most valuable principles. It is part of what Sheldon Wolin called a totalitarian imaginary that constitutes a revolutionary break from democracy. This is a form of fascism in which state rule is replaced by corporate sovereignty and a culture of fear, insecurity and precarity reinvigorates executive power and the rise of the punishing state. Consequently, neoliberalism as a form of gangster capitalism provides a fertile ground for the unleashing of the ideological architecture, poisonous values, and racist social relations sanctioned and produced under fascism. Neoliberalism and fascism conjoin and advance in a comfortable and mutually compatible project and movement that connects the worst excesses of capitalism with fascist ideals: the veneration of war and a hatred of reason and truth; a populist celebration of ultra-nationalism and racial purity; the suppression of freedom and dissent; a culture which promotes lies, spectacles of disparagement and a demonization of the other; a discourse of decline, brutal exploitation and ultimately, state violence in heterogeneous forms. All vestiges of the social are replaced by an idealization of individualism and all forms of responsibility are reduced to individual agents. Neoliberalism creates a failed democracy, and in doing so, opens up the fascists’ use of fear and terror to transform a state of exception into a state of emergency. As a project, it destroys all the commanding institutions of democracy and consolidates power in the hands of a financial elite. As a movement, it produces and legitimates massive economic inequality and suffering, privatizes public goods, dismantles essential government agencies and individualizes all social problems. In addition, it transforms the political state into the corporate state, and uses the tools of surveillance, militarization and “law and order” to discredit the critical press and media, and undermine civil liberties, while ridiculing and censoring critics. Moreover, what is quite distinctive about neoliberal fascism is its aggressive war on youth, especially Black youth, its war on women, and its despoiling of the planet.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn addition, corporate control of the cultural apparatuses provides the public with endless spectacles of violence, toxic and banal illusions, the celebration of market-driven values, and an empty obsession and worship of celebrity culture. With the collapse of the social state, the punishing neoliberal fascist state emerges in full force, criminalizing a range of behaviors that are in fact expressions of social problems such as homelessness and poverty. The model of the prison and the state-sanctioned embrace of violence and lawlessness are now unleashed with impunity on youth, people of color, undocumented immigrants and all those others considered disposable. Massive inequality horribly accentuated by neoliberal policies that destroy basic social services, needed infrastructures and essential public goods provide a fertile ground for advancing a sinister turn toward a collective anger and resentment open to a newly charged populism willing to embrace white supremacist ideology, state violence and authoritarian beliefs. Neoliberalism is the face of a new fascism. After decades of the neoliberal nightmare both in the United States and abroad, the mobilizing passions of fascism have been unleashed unlike anything we have seen since the 1930s and 1940s. Extreme capitalism has destroyed any vestige of a substantive democracy, produced massive economic suffering, tapped into a combination of fear and a cathartic cruelty, and emboldened a brutal lawlessness aimed at those considered “disposable.” It is time to repudiate the notion that capitalism and democracy are the same thing, renew faith in the promises of a democratic socialism, create new political formations around an alliance of diverse social movements and take seriously the need to make education central to politics itself. As Walter Benjamin reminds us, fascism is the product often of failed democracies, and under the reign of neoliberalism, we are in the midst of not simply a dysfunctional democracy, but in the grip of an extreme form of gangster capitalism wedded to unbridled forms of corporate power that produce massive inequalities in wealth and power, and aggressively wage war on everything crucial to a vibrant democratic society.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMark Karlin is the editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout, where this piece originally appeared.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/feeds\/5015593734465712916\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment\/fullpage\/post\/2468613367801394261\/5015593734465712916?isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/5015593734465712916"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/5015593734465712916"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/2019\/03\/henry-giroux-nightmare-of-neoliberal.html","title":"Henry A. Giroux: The Nightmare of Neoliberal Fascism"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiGlrfUloQ1mqHlZB8Pj9Owj7eYtbF7OjRRBOqEZGwRFaCm9067ADP04cejW_qW4LiTvHIFA_P9aCWCl0UR4JNa14aYel8_SobX61rNFkRtLrls93_WHJikZbA38OiQTbWzN7MPzJRx9h8\/s72-c\/neoliberal.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-187630733416515780"},"published":{"$t":"2015-01-21T09:57:00.000+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-01-21T09:57:23.310+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"feature"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Interview"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ranil Wickramasinghe"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UNP"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"No One In This Country Can Be Taken To The International Courts Against War Crimes "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E|\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E by Ranil Wicramasinghe \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E( January 21, 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian)\u003C\/b\u003E “Throughout the previous government, the judicial powers of the country was misused by the political interests. Even after war got over, the law of the country was not properly established,” Prime Minister appointed Mr. Ranil Wicramasinghe noted in a statement. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/srilankaguardian.org\/\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiWedYAkLa2kdU-T-3z1jlWt2NHMmUgNskd4skINTmSGSzGeWWb_ey5vWNdhdADDrzoTC7lp7dbikIJ_eVqiuGoZ8Laf77lyrcBlRBgXSexS0dJzkOm8nWtOEh7we24tESGiewc_wvRqT8\/s1600\/ranil_Wick.JPG\" height=\"388\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n“We are in the process of bringing to Parliament the Witness Protection Bill, the Right to Information Bill and the National Audit Bill. The Minister of Justice is entrusted with this task. It is just the beginning of good governance, the Parliamentary Committees, the establishment of the Public Finance Committee and the enforcing of parliamentary control over the executive,” he added. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n“Sri Lanka was not a party to the Rome Statute and therefore all matters should be determined by domestic jurisdiction but that the new Government would engage with the UN Human Rights Council and the concerned members in a positive manner so that an understanding could be reached on outstanding issues on human rights. Further, no one in this country can be taken to the International courts against war crimes. All such matters to be solved through the internal courts of the government,” he further added.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cscript async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E \u003C!-- Art --\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0219040124010769\" data-ad-slot=\"5270704672\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 90px; width: 728px;\"\u003E\u003C\/ins\u003E\u003Cscript\u003E\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\u003C\/script\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/187630733416515780"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/187630733416515780"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/2015\/01\/no-one-in-this-country-can-be-taken-to.html","title":"No One In This Country Can Be Taken To The International Courts Against War Crimes "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiWedYAkLa2kdU-T-3z1jlWt2NHMmUgNskd4skINTmSGSzGeWWb_ey5vWNdhdADDrzoTC7lp7dbikIJ_eVqiuGoZ8Laf77lyrcBlRBgXSexS0dJzkOm8nWtOEh7we24tESGiewc_wvRqT8\/s72-c\/ranil_Wick.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-8680384302285821759"},"published":{"$t":"2015-01-20T21:35:00.000+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-01-20T21:35:57.143+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"feature"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Interview"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"PresidentialElection2015"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"statement"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"TGTE"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"VisvanathanRudrakumaran"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Tamil votes amounted to a penalty for Rajapaksa - Rudra "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/srilankaguardian.org\/\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEieEDYq9Eqg4pS65MpFeG319O3Abn6sD16eqRdcqJ0KTHYqA9tsedfehGCyZQah3KIfmiqumFb1v6k1xBSzZZgUls7SvDYOmngQYOIEL7iWFKH-PfPWuA-0yo2XU_aXYD8I8urU2YhdIGw\/s1600\/people.jpg\" height=\"324\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E( January 20, 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian)\u003C\/b\u003E “The recently concluded Presidential elections in Sri Lanka should be seen as the Tamil voters delivering a punishment to the genocidal ruler, Mahinda Rajapakse, and not at all as an endorsement of the newly elected President Maithripala Sirisena or an acceptance of Sri Lanka’s unitary Constitution. Those attempting to portray the Tamil votes as an endorsement either do not comprehend the aspirations of the Tamil people or they are simply hypocrites” said Visvanathan Rudrakumaran, the Prime Minister of the transnational Government of Tamil Eelam, when commenting on the Presidential elections recently concluded in Sri Lanka.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EThe full text of the Prime Minister’s Statement follows.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nMahinda Rajapakse is none other than the man who, as the leader of the Sinhala State, was overseeing the genocidal assault by that State on the Tamil people for a decade, which has left in their collective memory the pain and blood stains of the Mullivaaikaal Genocide. The Tamil people ensured his defeat in the Presidential elections by purposefully exercising their opportunity to vote. Such a decisive vote also sends out the loud signal that the Tamil people would never be prepared to forgive or forget the perpetrators of such international crimes.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWe do not consider that Mr. Sirisena’s ascent to the position of President of Sri Lanka will bring any change to the status of the Tamils. We believe that it is the Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinist structure that is the basis of the Tamil national crisis. In our view, the election has enabled only a face change such that the very same chauvinist structure could reassert itself further.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIt is hard for the Tamils to brush away the thought that that the new President, Maithripala Sirisena, too has stains of Tamil blood in his hands. He carries the burden of responsibility for the Genocide of Tamils by virtue of having been the Deputy Minister of Defense in the final days of the war in Mullivaaikkal, when Mahinda Rajapakse was overseas. He was in fact given credit for this during the election campaign. We could very well ask, therefore, why he too could not be summoned for an inquiry on his alleged role in the Genocide of Tamils perpetrated by the Sinhala armed forces.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWith all that as background, it is the bitter reality of the Tamil people that they could not confer any faith in any one of the Sinhala leaders.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWe would, therefore, like to bring to the attention of the Tamil leadership in our homeland, and indeed the international community, a set of pre-conditions that we consider as essential for the protection of the rights and identity of the Tamil Nation.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe Genocide being perpetrated on the Tamil people by the Sri Lankan State demands an international investigation on Sri Lanka. While welcoming the demand made by the British Prime Minister, Hon David Cameron, on the new government of Sri Lanka that it should extend its full cooperation for the international investigation, we call upon the UN Human Rights Commissioner to go to Sri Lanka now and complete the investigations there.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWe cannot accept the idea that the 13th Amendment, which is built on a unitary Constitution centralizing all powers, including the power over land and the police, as the one that would pave the way for the resolution of the Tamil National Question. Instead, the first steps towards a viable political solution should be taken on the basis of an Interim Self Governing Authority (ISGA) that was on the table when the Ranil Wickremasinghe Government and the LTTE were negotiating.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe Tamils feel that they are under military occupation as long as the Sinhala armed forces are present in their traditional areas. Therefore, as a prelude to creating civic space in the Tamil homeland, we call upon the Sri Lankan army to be withdrawn forthwith from the Tamil areas.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cul style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EAll forms of land appropriation by the Sinhala regime in the Tamil homeland should be stopped immediately.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EAll political prisoners detained because of their involvement in the Tamil liberation struggle should be released immediately and unconditionally.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EAll information pertaining to Tamil political leaders in the struggle such as Balakumar, Puthuvai Rathnathurai, Yogi and Thilakar, and other cadres who were taken in during the last stages of the war in Mullivaaikkal, should be released immediately.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EA mechanism for the participation of Diaspora Tamils without any fear in the various development activities in the war affected homeland should be developed in cooperation with the international community.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe 6th Amendment to the Constitution that denies the rights of the Tamil people to speak, discuss and express their political future should be repealed, followed by efforts to arrive at the permanent resolution to the Tamil National Question.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIt is only when the Government of Sri Lanka moves forward to acknowledge the above as a set of just and democratic demands that the Tamil people will be convinced that the search for a permanent political resolution based on their democratic rights to the Tamil National Question would become a reality.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cscript async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E \u003C!-- Art --\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0219040124010769\" data-ad-slot=\"5270704672\" style=\"display: inline-block; 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text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/srilankaguardian.org\/\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhfLTcUsVRRIP5X3Ld0zmvbCPMFvglj2iDvF0ttdq2-A7X1GDRCBv8VxhRKK_ml2GTK8udaWiG9EOXhNqHmMbZURnrE1xYb0a2qln_zHpUSQ_vVtsXX6imrgNBB2v-KHxlYCVRWVx6DQ5I\/s1600\/Gota_file.JPG\" height=\"406\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E( January 20, 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) \u003C\/b\u003EFormer Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday expressed concern over what he described as “baseless allegations” levelled against him, suggesting that he had personal dealings with a Defence Ministry account at the Bank of Ceylon.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn response, Rajapaksa issued the following statement.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nI refer to the baseless allegations levelled against me, purporting that I maintain an account with the Bank of Ceylon – Taprobane Branch with funds of Rs. 8 billion. This claim is grossly misleading and has been made purely with the ulterior motive of discrediting my character and reputation.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTo my knowledge, there exists an Operational Account held with the Bank of Ceylon – Taprobane Branch the funds of which are dedicated to financing the construction of the proposed Army headquarters building at Pelawatte. This account was opened with the approval of the Cabinet of Ministers, and the funds deposited in the said account were from the proceeds of the sale of land at Galle Face, Colombo on which the Army headquarters was situated.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nConsequent to the commencement of construction work at the proposed site in Pelawatte, and based on the progress of such work, withdrawals were to be made from this account in order to settle amounts due to the various contractors and suppliers. The account is operated by the Chief Accountant and other authorised officials of the Ministry of Defence, under the overall supervision of the Secretary of Defence. To elaborate further on how this account operates: cheques are drawn upon the receipt of payment vouchers, and all cheques bear two signatures of authorised signatories.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTo the best of my recollections, the account was opened in 2011 with about Rs. 20 billion, which were the total proceeds from the land transaction mentioned earlier. Regular withdrawals have since been made to carry out payments of certified claims from contractors. The names and signatures of the persons authorised to operate the account are available with the bank and the Chief Accountant of the Ministry. The balance of the said account, as at the last day of my holding office, was certainly over Rs. 8 billion. The figures may be verified with the Treasury, as the annual deposit balance is reported to, and would be reflected on, the Government Balance Sheet.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAs I have ceased to be the Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, my successor becomes the automatic custodian of this account; all facts I have presented herein can be verified by him. The inclusion of my name, along with other authorised officials, in the signature card relevant to this account is solely in my capacity as Secretary – Defence. Therefore, I have no personal connection to, or dealings with, the said account.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThere is no truth whatsoever in the claim that I maintain a personal account at Bank of Ceylon with funds of Rs. 8 billion. I strongly deny this baseless accusation and request the newly appointed Secretary – Defence to verify this with the bank and the treasury, in order to accurately disclose the details pertaining to this account.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cscript async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E \u003C!-- Art --\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0219040124010769\" data-ad-slot=\"5270704672\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 90px; width: 728px;\"\u003E\u003C\/ins\u003E\u003Cscript\u003E\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\u003C\/script\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/1281904004995465788"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/1281904004995465788"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/2015\/01\/sri-lanka-allegations-are-baseless-gota.html","title":"Sri Lanka: Allegations Are Baseless - Gota "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhfLTcUsVRRIP5X3Ld0zmvbCPMFvglj2iDvF0ttdq2-A7X1GDRCBv8VxhRKK_ml2GTK8udaWiG9EOXhNqHmMbZURnrE1xYb0a2qln_zHpUSQ_vVtsXX6imrgNBB2v-KHxlYCVRWVx6DQ5I\/s72-c\/Gota_file.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-8201035992905133601"},"published":{"$t":"2015-01-20T07:48:00.000+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-01-20T07:48:13.396+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diplomacy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"feature"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Interview"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Politics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"S.V.Kirubaharan"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"International investigation on Sri Lanka must continue!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E|\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E by S. V. Kirubaharan\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #6aa84f;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EViews expressed in this article are author own\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E( January 20, 2015, Paris, Sri Lanka Guardian) \u003C\/b\u003EThose who are in politics can continue on their path, through political means using diplomacy and those who are involved in the field of human rights should continue even though there is a change of regime. Those who are used to exchanging birthday greetings, meeting and taking photographs, maintaining personal friendships with Sri Lanka political leaders will continue their support for anyone of their choice. We respect their rights. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBut we are not ready to get caught to any mirage until we see justice for the victims.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/srilankaguardian.org\/\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh6DK6hMXgkLcE2oPMw_eZEu2SFhMVu9S4LpEcGonY0gC6i3LnHcamNTc-XxTEdspwjd9O_Y43UDP14YTxhyphenhyphenuPTV14CWSnVVWc2mFxtk_bNn0eceAO_D1TV1M4FOEi2CiiCchTGiFJ1b60\/s1600\/MG_8419.jpg\" height=\"426\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #134f5c;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003EIt is a joke for me to see newly appointed G. Palliakara as a Civil  Governor of the Northern Province. I have seen a lot of his prejudiced  and dirty actions in the then UN Human Rights Commission. He was the  most racist Sri Lankan Ambassador I have ever seen in Geneva.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAny international affair concerning human rights, war crimes and crimes against humanity is always against a State rather than against a political party or parties, which form a government. This is a fundamental principle regarding international standards. International covenants and treaties are signed by a State leader or his\/her representatives on behalf of a particular State, but not a political party or parties that he \/she represent.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWe have come a long way! We will not give up anything which we have been working on with the suffering victims and a burning Island nation! Each one of us has to continue our struggle. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAfter many decades, the international community has finally opened its eyes to the human rights and political issues facing the Tamils. If we are reluctant to pursue our international task, once again we will be cheated by political leaders in Sri Lanka.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nSince 1990 we have been taking this matter to international forums while each Sri Lankan government and its media have tried persistently to tarnish our image as LTTE – Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, LTTE supporters, terrorists, etc. We ignored these attempts to vilify and silence us and continued our task internationally, seeking justice for the victims. A few non-Tamils locally and internationally stood with us. Using government media the Sri Lankan state wrote fictional news and articles about our activities. Some extreme individuals, both Singhalese and Tamil, attempted to sabotage our efforts. But we stood firm and worked hard. We will continue our efforts at any cost, until the victims find justice.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nOf course, since May 2009 locally and internationally many organisations and individuals (including Tamils and UN member states) worked tirelessly in bringing three resolutions against Sri Lanka in the UN Human Rights Council – UN HRC. This was achieved collectively. After all these decades of efforts, how can we give up?\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThose who objected in the past, on behalf of the Sri Lankan state, are going to come back again in March to the UN HRC to demand “Time and space” yet again. Forgetting their history of violations over decades, the pretext will be that there is a new coalition government! This is a typical case of “old wine in new bottles”. There is no change in the actors but they start the new drama of a ‘new regime’. The main actors of this new regime consist of defectors from the old regime. These were the actors who named the report of the “UN Secretary-General’s Panel of Experts” as the “Darusman’s report” and ridiculed it!\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCommissions and Omissions\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nViolations, war crimes and crimes against humanity are not recent in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon. They have been going on since 1956. It started with a few and ended up in thousands! Well documented records of incidents have been submitted to the appropriate institutions over the years. But each Sri Lankan government never took any action on any of the culprits because the victims were mainly Tamils.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhenever there is international pressure, a Commission is appointed, but those Commissions ended in Omissions.  Sri Lanka’s commissions, local investigations, never found justice for the people in the North and East. Reports of some commissions were never even published at all. This method of hushing up the results applies not only to a particular Sri Lankan government, but all governments in power since 1956.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAs far as the Sri Lankan state is concerned the Tamils have never deserved any justice. During the war the LTTE’s violations were well documented by every government and circulated widely and systematically, locally and internationally. But when it comes to Tamils, the attitude is that Tamils do not deserve justice! \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBelow we give a list of Commissions appointed by various Sri Lankan governments. So far, no action has ever been taken! There are hundreds more incidents which just “disappear” even without a murmur of setting up an investigation or commission. In other words anyone can commit a crime against the Tamils and they are well protected by the government itself. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe horrendous violations of the Rajapaksa regime came to light because of the practice of nepotism, corruption and attacks on press freedoms. These were mainly violations on the Singhalese themselves.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ESRI LANKA’S ESTABLISHED COMMISSIONS AND OMISSIONS\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n(SO FAR NO ACTION HAS BEEN TAKEN)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n1- The Sansoni Commission - 9th November, 1977\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nReport published on - 2nd July, 1980\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n2 -  The Presidential Truth Commission on Ethnic Violence (1981-84) Report published on -\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n3 -  Inquiry into attack on MSF Vehicle (Palampiddi- Iranai Road Inquiry) 9th May, 1991 \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nReport published on - 9th May, 1991\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n4 - The Kokkadicholai Commission of Inquiry - 18th June 1991\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nReport published on - 9th March 1992\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n5 - The 1991-93 Presidential Commissions (1991-1993) - persons are being involuntarily removed from their places of residence by persons unknown.” Report not published\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n6 - Commission Appointed by President D.B. Wijetunge 13th September 1993. Report not published\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n7 - The 1994 Commissions of Inquiry into Disappearances - 30th November 1994\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nReport published in - September 1997.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n8 - The Batalanda Commission, Dec 1995  Report published on - \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n9 - The 1998 All Island Disappearances Commission - 30th April 1998\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nReport published on - March 2001\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n10 - The Presidential Truth Commission on Ethnic - 23 July 2001\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nReport published on - September 2002\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n11 - The Bindunuwewa Commission – March 2001. To inquire into the killing of 28 Tamil youth between 14 to 23 years old detained in Bindunuwewa Rehabilitation Centre. Another 14 were seriously injured. Incident took place on October 2000. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nReport Not Published\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n12 - The International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP) - November 2006\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nReport Not Published. This ended-up in a disaster.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNew President and UN investigation\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAccording to the Media and former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, it has been confirmed that President Mithiripala Sirisena won the elections with Tamil votes from the North, East and the Up-country. When I say Tamil votes this includes Muslims whose mother tongue is Tamil.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nSirisena and many in the new government are defectors from the former President and join the new coalition. Even though the United National Party - UNP has formed the cabinet it has no support to work independently. They fully depend on other Sinhala extreme parties whose policy is that ‘Sri Lanka is a Sinhala Buddhist country’.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAs far as the UN international investigation is concerned, as I mentioned before, the new government will be asking for ‘Time and space’ and will say that they will carry out a local investigation, based on their Magic baby – LLRC - Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIt is too late for a local investigation, because the Sri Lanka state has already refused to conduct one. The UN has spent huge financial resources to carry out the present investigation.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAny serious person will understand that the UN cannot be a talk-show whenever a particular State comes out with their policy of convenience to fool the UN.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAs far as the international investigation is concerned, nothing is going to change on the side of the Sri Lankan state. Excerpts given below from the media give a picture of the present President. .\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn an interview with Colombo ”Daily Mirror” Maithripala Sirisena asserts that during the final two weeks of the war, he was the acting Defence minister and during this period a large number of LTTE leaders and cadres were killed. How they were killed is the question asked by everyone. There is enough evidence to prove that they were all killed in summary executions. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nEven some ministers in the present government, in particular General Sarath Fonseka who was in charge of the Army during the war told Frederica Jansz, the editor of the Sunday Leader, who gave orders to carry out some of those killings. Now the same people have got power in their hands and are planning to justify or camouflage this accusation. This is a typical example of the way it is in Sri Lanka.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nQuestion; There is a sense of fear among the masses after the TNA and the SLMC came on board regarding the sovereignty of the country. What is the guarantee that you would give regarding the unitary nature of the state? \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAnswer : I was a person who was targeted by the LTTE on more than five occasions, the LTTE cadres who tried to kill me destroyed themselves without any sort of harm happening to me. The last attack was in Boralesgamuwa before that they planned an attack in Polonnaruwa which also failed.  I was the Minister in Charge of Defence during the last two weeks of the war in which most of the leaders of the LTTE were killed with General Fonseka at the helm of the Army.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nPrior to that I have acted as the Minister of Defence five times during the height of the war. I want to assure the people of this country that the country would not be divided, that there would be no war and that I would not permit a resurgence of the LTTE. We will build this country with all our hearts and our minds. (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/60193\/sri-lanka-s-sovereignty-will-remain-intact-under-me\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EExcerpt\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn a Press briefing on 28 November 2014, Mithiripala Sirisena said that he will stand against an international investigation into allegations of war crimes committed during the final phase of the war.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nSirisena, said that he would launch a domestic probe if he was successful in the January presidential election. “I will not allow President Rajapaksa or the security forces to be hauled before an international war crimes court,”.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nHis Government would act according to the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), Sirisena said. (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.lk\/2014\/11\/29\/sirisena-pledges-to-oppose-war-crimes-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EExcerpt\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ELLRC \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhat is the LLRC? On the advice of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s international propagandists, it was formulated to eye-wash the international community. Some of these international propagandists are now Ministers in the present government. The recommendations of the LLRC were not fully accepted by the international community. In the LLRC there is no specific political solution to the ethnic issue or national issue. So what is there for Maithripala Sirisena to implement?\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nLet us see in brief what the international human rights organisations say about the LLRC:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nHuman Rights Watch has condemned the LLRC report for disregarding the worst abuses by government forces, rehashing long-standing recommendations and failing to advance accountability for victims of Sri Lanka’s civil armed conflict. HRW has stated that the serious shortcomings of the report highlighted the need for an international investigative mechanism into the conflict as recommended by the United Nations Secretary-General’s Panel of Experts.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAmnesty International noted that the LLRC report ignores the \"serious evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity and other violations of the laws of war by government forces.\"\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe International Crisis Group noted that the LLRC report failed in a crucial task: Providing the thorough and independent investigation of alleged violations of international humanitarian and human rights law that the UN and other partners of Sri Lanka have been asking for. The ICG urged the international community to establish an independent international investigation in 2012.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nNew York Times, members of the UN Secretary-General's Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka criticized the LLRC report for ignoring or playing down their report's conclusions and for characterizing the civilian deaths as a consequence of the army’s response to Tamil Tiger shelling or cross-fire…..said in an opinion column in the New York Times (02 March 2012).\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe new Foreign Minister\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe new Foreign Minister, Mangala Samaraweera is also one of the defectors from Rajapaksa. However when he was removed from the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, he said the following in a letter written to President Rajapaksa on 14 February 2007:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n“Under the executive powers vested in you as the President, three Ministers, including me, were removed from our respective ministerial portfolios with immediate effect on 9 February 2007. I was informed of this fact while I was on an overseas visit to Singapore. I was not surprised by this decision as I view it as the culmination of certain events that occurred during the past few months.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhen I was the Foreign Minister, I urgently requested you and Secretary of Defence Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa that until individual countries within the European Union legislates laws banning the LTTE, we should take steps to avoid human rights violations, abductions, harassing the media, attacking places of worship, hospitals and schools even when we take defensive military action against the LTTE. As a true patriot, I was focused on creating a conducive environment to get the LTTE banned in 25 countries. Therefore it is indeed very disappointing when you attempt to portray me as an LTTE sympathizer.” (Excerpt)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nMangala Samaraweera’s letter to President Rajapaksa shows that the new Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka is for all sorts of human rights violations. According to him they had to stop temporarily until the European Union banned the LTTE. What a smart Foreign Minister, the new government has nominated. We will wait for his speech in the UN HRC in March. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EPalliakara the Governor\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIt is a joke for me to see newly appointed G. Palliakara as a Civil Governor of the Northern Province. I have seen a lot of his prejudiced and dirty actions in the then UN Human Rights Commission. He was the most racist Sri Lankan Ambassador I have ever seen in Geneva.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nHe, with his colleagues in Geneva, including the present UN Ambassador Prasad Kareawasam and some others, justified all the human rights violations committed by the Sri Lankan security forces in the North and East. These violations included the horrific rape and murder case of school-girl Krishanthy Coomaraswamy, the assassination of Kumar Ponnambalam, more than 600 disappearances in the Chemmani mass graves, etc.,etc.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhen Kumar Ponnambalam, eminent lawyer who defended the rights of all regardless of ethnic origin, was assassinated on 5th January 2000, we the Tamil Centre for Human Rights, carried out a campaign in Geneva. Palliakara and his colleagues were disturbed by this, and with the intention of putting me out of the UN, he made several false complaints against me to the UN Secretariat. On the basis of his complaint, I was investigated by the UN Security. But finding that Palliakara’s complaints were false and based purely on political motives, they established no evidence against me, to take action. Also he made several complaints about my speeches and the international non-governmental organisations – NGOs who helped me.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights, a French UN independent expert Mr Louis Joinet, spoke about the assassination of Kumar Ponnambalam. For this reason Palliakara took revenge on Louis Joinet and lobbied against him in one his elections in the Human Rights Commission. Louis Joinet is an internationally reputed independent expert, who always holds balanced views on every global issue.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nToday a man with all the afore-mentioned record is appointed as the Civil Governor of the Northern Province! To our knowledge, he will do more damage to the Northern provincial council than the military governor Chandrasri did in the past.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWe believe that, when the Tamil National Alliance – TNA was demanding that President Rajapaksa appoint a Civil Governor, he was planning to appoint Palliakara. At that time, EPDP leader Douglas Devananda, pressurised Rajapaksa not to bend down to the demand of the TNA and he gave up his plan to appoint Palliakara as the Governor of the North. Today the same person is appointed to that very position. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWe wish good luck to the Chief-Minister and his colleagues!\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nPalliakara is one of the members in the LLRC which ignores the serious evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity and other violations of the laws of war by government forces.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThis is a typical example to indicate what the future of the Tamils will be under this new President.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cscript async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E \u003C!-- Art --\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0219040124010769\" data-ad-slot=\"5270704672\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 90px; width: 728px;\"\u003E\u003C\/ins\u003E\u003Cscript\u003E\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\u003C\/script\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/8201035992905133601"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/8201035992905133601"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/2015\/01\/international-investigation-on-sri.html","title":"International investigation on Sri Lanka must continue!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh6DK6hMXgkLcE2oPMw_eZEu2SFhMVu9S4LpEcGonY0gC6i3LnHcamNTc-XxTEdspwjd9O_Y43UDP14YTxhyphenhyphenuPTV14CWSnVVWc2mFxtk_bNn0eceAO_D1TV1M4FOEi2CiiCchTGiFJ1b60\/s72-c\/MG_8419.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-7481095507084919464"},"published":{"$t":"2015-01-19T10:19:00.001+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-01-19T10:19:57.525+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"feature"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Interview"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Journalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Politics"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"NDTV Fail: The Ranil Tweets"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E|\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/indi.ca\/\"\u003Eindi.ca\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/srilankaguardian.org\/\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhSXdpYS69ETtJfL09iX90IOwFemrW0lYlAFo_EO0sOYPTIoytzKRAZzbfWrEoEdT2-JBLvAidl8l1Zr_Tz_ucuWGuFFvRtmOf9HvCtZHXOJGpLZRHDpduNExW080BYjpSbWFxErlDbZCU\/s1600\/Ranil_Wickramasinghe_Vasu_650.jpg\" height=\"392\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E( January 19, 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) NDTV \u003C\/b\u003Epublished two paraphrased tweets quoting Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Those tweets said essentially what Rajapaksa loyalists had been fear-mongering about – that the new government would give ‘full autonomy’ to Tamil areas and that it would engage with the UN on war crimes probes. If you \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublicsquare.com\/politics\/2015\/01\/prime-minister-new-govt-accepts-13-a-will-engage-with-unhrc\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eread the transcript \u003C\/a\u003E(via Republic Square), however, Ranil said nothing like the tweets imply. It’s really irresponsible of NDTV and they should retract. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/player\/truth-vs-hype\/truth-vs-hype-sri-lanka-hope-or-illusion\/352756\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EYou can watch the full video here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThese are the tweets put next to the relevant part of the transcript:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhOdmF2MVbhjarVaX_rZiUU2awcFZx7nk3gBwg6XzZAqazcFf6NVJ467KFJtJAjeb85J9SsEYaEvlhwws8DZo9G-wlOv9utXdR4OQVCEZjPmz3Iu8mzY6KYThWj035gxPw_ehxKL92iJCA\/s1600\/Twi_1.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhOdmF2MVbhjarVaX_rZiUU2awcFZx7nk3gBwg6XzZAqazcFf6NVJ467KFJtJAjeb85J9SsEYaEvlhwws8DZo9G-wlOv9utXdR4OQVCEZjPmz3Iu8mzY6KYThWj035gxPw_ehxKL92iJCA\/s1600\/Twi_1.JPG\" height=\"252\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nNDTV: What about the question of prosecution of war crimes?\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nPM: Our position has been that we are not a party to the statute of Rome, so whatever we have to do has to be within our domestic jurisdiction.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nNDTV: So you are saying no international probe will be allowed?\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nPM: No what we are saying is that the jurisdiction to try any person who has committed a crime lies with Sri Lanka.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nNDTV: So your stand is the same as the previous government. UN probe will not be welcome. You will do your own internal probe?\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nPM: The UN can give it’s report. We will engage the UN on these issues. That’s the difference. We are going to engage the UNHRC on these issues. All we are saying is any criminal jurisdiction must be exercised in Sri Lanka.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nSo Ranil is essentially say there will be no foreign war crimes probes, but we’ll talk to the UN. If I were to paraphrase, I’d say Ranil rejects international war crimes jurisdiction but will engage with the UN.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhJiWbsgczyS19gV2uPalwizNrUBDSI_d4zNLnoH5gZEVEobUJMDkefR_A21eshlHCI4PfmXzeJV4UkwdMCmVinx2isfNT44y7MCqIKQkSRMHVvLDuyZnkkY20-w2lPJD5jDrHO2-VCcgg\/s1600\/Twi_2.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhJiWbsgczyS19gV2uPalwizNrUBDSI_d4zNLnoH5gZEVEobUJMDkefR_A21eshlHCI4PfmXzeJV4UkwdMCmVinx2isfNT44y7MCqIKQkSRMHVvLDuyZnkkY20-w2lPJD5jDrHO2-VCcgg\/s1600\/Twi_2.JPG\" height=\"288\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAnd what he actually says:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn principle, all have agreed that the 13th amendment should be implemented. We’re only having discussion about the police powers and how it should function. Police powers is a provincial subject but there are certain concerns, once we bring an independent commission in, how do we do that.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nGiven the full context, I don’t see how NDTVs tweets are accurate at all. Full autonomy is very different from talking about provincial police powers. Saying that Sri Lanka will engage with the UN is also very different from saying they’ll engage on war crimes probes.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhat NDTV has falsely said puts a stamp on everything Rajapaksa loyalists have been asserting. Their tweets simply aren’t true based on the transcript and viewing of the video and they’re not government policy. The video story is actually quite good, but they should retract and apologize for the misleading tweets.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cscript async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E \u003C!-- Art --\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0219040124010769\" data-ad-slot=\"5270704672\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 90px; width: 728px;\"\u003E\u003C\/ins\u003E\u003Cscript\u003E\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\u003C\/script\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/7481095507084919464"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/7481095507084919464"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/2015\/01\/ndtc-fail-ranil-tweets.html","title":"NDTV Fail: The Ranil Tweets"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhSXdpYS69ETtJfL09iX90IOwFemrW0lYlAFo_EO0sOYPTIoytzKRAZzbfWrEoEdT2-JBLvAidl8l1Zr_Tz_ucuWGuFFvRtmOf9HvCtZHXOJGpLZRHDpduNExW080BYjpSbWFxErlDbZCU\/s72-c\/Ranil_Wickramasinghe_Vasu_650.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-2533375169157910192"},"published":{"$t":"2015-01-18T07:59:00.000+05:30"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-01-18T08:03:41.358+05:30"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Espionage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"feature"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Interview"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"news"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Intelligence Chief Quits; Telephone Tapping Stops"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/srilankaguardian.org\/\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiTK0rNkmFjsdXMrwGZiZGQ0v0H9Xlw60DqKtQjx21b2tJkxlCyU0lJdT_j6ZkV6TIuprH3pwwmlOVRyWThV8QPGEQgMTKYN7SinvKCVK3CszJerQnFwWQY-qc_aLzNoRHGROp-KdWQGOI\/s1600\/SSP+Wakishta+3.png.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E( January 18, 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) \u003C\/b\u003EThe State Intelligence Service (SIS) called a halt to monitoring land telephones soon after the election results were announced. Insiders say that the technical hand hired for the purpose has also been relieved of his duties. He was a serving officer who was later recruited to work in a temporary capacity.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe move came as SIS Director Chandra Wakista, DIG, quit his post yesterday. He made a brief two-minute speech to his officers before departing.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nSenior Superintendent of Police M.H. Marso is acting for the Director until a new appointment is made.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nMeanwhile, the local media revealed today how telephone records of prominent opposition politicians, media personnel, former UPFA Government’s own ministers, ‘unfriendly’ military, police officers, Colombo-based diplomats and other leading citizens were monitored blatantly violating the law. In terms of the law, a Court order has to be obtained by the Police before intercepting or tampering with the telephone records of subscribers. All mobile phone operators were issued written instructions by an official in the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development. They were directed to make available the monthly telephone bills of these persons to an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) in the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) for reasons of “national security.”\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EEvery month, police officers would visit different mobile phone providers to collect these monthly bills. Thereafter, the ASP would supervise a team of police officers examine every bill to determine to whom their targets speak. Under the cover of “national security,” the telephone bills were systematically analysed and a report prepared for scrutiny by the higher-ups. The identification of those who are supporters of the present Government led to surveillance being mounted on them. There have been instances when some have even been threatened.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe Terrorism Investigation Department (TID) of the Police is located on the third floor of the new Secretariat Building. The headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is on the fourth floor of the same building. If “national security” is used as a cover to snoop into the mobile phone records of those considered “national security threats,” like for example a leading member of the opposition, is indeed damning, the fact that this became a regular practice in what was then touted as the ‘Wonder of Asia’ was laughable. When Sri Lankans go on holiday to any tourist hotel, the management there was required to report their name and national identity card numbers to the nearest Police station. \u003Cb\u003EThe police would forward them to a unit under DIG Chandra Wakista, who headed the State Intelligence Service (SIS). He attended the first National Security Council meeting of the new NDF Government on Friday. Wakista quit his post yesterday\u003C\/b\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nEarlier, telephone analysis of genuine targets was carried out by either the SIS on grounds of “national security” or the CID in instances where crime is involved. Despite the end of the separatist war, the TID became a convenient cover to spy on the phone records of unsuspecting citizens who had hardly anything to do with terrorism. Even if these bills have been destroyed by those at the TID, the copies of letters issued to mobile phone providers by the MoD official and the copies of bills they issued are available with each one of them. There is no gainsaying that an investigation into this is imperative to lay bare the identities of those who tried to create an authoritarian state.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nA senior TID officer who is familiar with the working of this illegal operation said even some Government officials who were considered supporters of the opposition political parties came under scrutiny. “It is only a fuller investigation that will bare this massive operation which invaded the privacy of citizens and outsiders,” the TID officer said. He added that those who violated the law should be prosecuted if the new Government wished to prevent such “anti-democratic” acts recurring under the pretext of “national security.”\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe first meeting of the NDF Cabinet of ministers is due to discuss the appointment of tribunals to probe misdeeds of the former Government. The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) this week handed over two different complaints to the Commission to Investigate Bribery or Corruption. CID detectives are probing many misdeeds of the previous administration. History has shown that as weeks and months pass by, the findings are forgotten and little happens. Making matters worse is the fact that the current probes are being carried out by those appointed to positions by the previous regime. As one witty political observer cautioned, it should not be a case of the “same bun remains. Only the flies have changed.” It behoves President Sirisena and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe to ensure this does not happen.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" trbidi=\"on\"\u003E\n\u003Cscript async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E \u003C!-- Art --\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0219040124010769\" data-ad-slot=\"5270704672\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 90px; width: 728px;\"\u003E\u003C\/ins\u003E\u003Cscript\u003E\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\u003C\/script\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/2533375169157910192"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2468613367801394261\/posts\/default\/2533375169157910192"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/2015\/01\/intelligence-chief-quits-telephone.html","title":"Intelligence Chief Quits; Telephone Tapping Stops"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiTK0rNkmFjsdXMrwGZiZGQ0v0H9Xlw60DqKtQjx21b2tJkxlCyU0lJdT_j6ZkV6TIuprH3pwwmlOVRyWThV8QPGEQgMTKYN7SinvKCVK3CszJerQnFwWQY-qc_aLzNoRHGROp-KdWQGOI\/s72-c\/SSP+Wakishta+3.png.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}}]}});