Comments on: …for The Missing http://groundviews.org/2010/02/21/%e2%80%a6for-the-missing/ Groundviews is an award winning Sri Lankan citizen journalism initiative Fri, 25 May 2012 18:34:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ahamed http://groundviews.org/2010/02/21/%e2%80%a6for-the-missing/#comment-15054 ahamed Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:35:15 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=2748#comment-15054 maybe groundviews can change the "release tissa and put this pciture instead"? you dont seem to place the same emphasis on this journalist that you palce to certain others? maybe groundviews can change the “release tissa and put this pciture instead”?

you dont seem to place the same emphasis on this journalist that you palce to certain others?

]]> By: Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam http://groundviews.org/2010/02/21/%e2%80%a6for-the-missing/#comment-15027 Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:48:48 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=2748#comment-15027 A beautiful and fitting tribute to the missing, the detained and those killed who dared to tell the truth. A beautiful and fitting tribute to the missing, the detained and those killed who dared to tell the truth.

]]> By: Bardo Flanks http://groundviews.org/2010/02/21/%e2%80%a6for-the-missing/#comment-15011 Bardo Flanks Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:05:18 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=2748#comment-15011 I really don't think that the things are as bad as it's being portrayed by the anti-national media. With Lasantha forgotten and Tissa released, they need a persecuted hero figure to rally around, and Prageeth fits the role. The likes of Prageeth were being used primarily to influence the Sinhala vote. The presidential elections have shown that the puppets and the puppet-masters have been resoundingly unsuccessful in this endeavour. The Sinhalese - Prageeth's target audience - have overwhelmingly voted against what he represented. There is no real dissent in Sri Lanka for the government to crack down on. What can be seen is an artificially manufactured campaign against the government. The government gains nothing by allowing this perception of oppression and lawlessness to continue by abducting an unknown cartoonist who makes absolutely no impact. It's the anti-national forces that benefit from it. Once Prageeth is forgotten or turns up alive and unharmed somewhere, they will find someone else to fight for. Does someone have the statistics on how many of these "white van" victims have subsequently claimed asylum in Western countries? Prageeth's outlandish allegations of electoral malpractices are simply not true. They haven't even included them in the opposition's petition. Nevertheless, his convenient disappearance gives weight to these allegations in the eyes of poorly informed international observers. Who benefits from this? Answer that question, and you will have your "abductors". I really don’t think that the things are as bad as it’s being portrayed by the anti-national media. With Lasantha forgotten and Tissa released, they need a persecuted hero figure to rally around, and Prageeth fits the role.

The likes of Prageeth were being used primarily to influence the Sinhala vote. The presidential elections have shown that the puppets and the puppet-masters have been resoundingly unsuccessful in this endeavour. The Sinhalese – Prageeth’s target audience – have overwhelmingly voted against what he represented.

There is no real dissent in Sri Lanka for the government to crack down on. What can be seen is an artificially manufactured campaign against the government. The government gains nothing by allowing this perception of oppression and lawlessness to continue by abducting an unknown cartoonist who makes absolutely no impact. It’s the anti-national forces that benefit from it. Once Prageeth is forgotten or turns up alive and unharmed somewhere, they will find someone else to fight for. Does someone have the statistics on how many of these “white van” victims have subsequently claimed asylum in Western countries?

Prageeth’s outlandish allegations of electoral malpractices are simply not true. They haven’t even included them in the opposition’s petition. Nevertheless, his convenient disappearance gives weight to these allegations in the eyes of poorly informed international observers. Who benefits from this? Answer that question, and you will have your “abductors”.

]]> By: Travelling Academic http://groundviews.org/2010/02/21/%e2%80%a6for-the-missing/#comment-14936 Travelling Academic Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:33:07 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=2748#comment-14936 Nicely written tribute - well done. Reading it took me back down memory lane of Richard De Zoysa and the wonderful half day he spent with us at a drama workshop at Peradeniya. RDZ was so many years ago... "have we evolved?", is a question we are entitled to ask in despair. That alone won't help us. The more challenging question is how we can work with the present administration to make the situation better? Nicely written tribute – well done. Reading it took me back down memory lane of Richard De Zoysa and the wonderful half day he spent with us at a drama workshop at Peradeniya. RDZ was so many years ago… “have we evolved?”, is a question we are entitled to ask in despair. That alone won’t help us. The more challenging question is how we can work with the present administration to make the situation better?

]]> By: Observer http://groundviews.org/2010/02/21/%e2%80%a6for-the-missing/#comment-14932 Observer Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:19:10 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=2748#comment-14932 hmm one of My uncles went missing during the JVP crack down. No one dared speak of it back then, let alone publish. Some of my most clear memories are of Andiri Neethiya. The same folk cry foul of media freedom these days used to run torture houses. On my way to school, when I could smell burnt out rubber, I used to wonder if he was under one of those piles. Either way he probably wasn't a saint either so this not about missing my uncle, but I haven't forgotten the past and I appreciate where we are today. It's sunshine compared to those dark ages. hmm one of My uncles went missing during the JVP crack down. No one dared speak of it back then, let alone publish. Some of my most clear memories are of Andiri Neethiya. The same folk cry foul of media freedom these days used to run torture houses. On my way to school, when I could smell burnt out rubber, I used to wonder if he was under one of those piles. Either way he probably wasn’t a saint either so this not about missing my uncle, but I haven’t forgotten the past and I appreciate where we are today. It’s sunshine compared to those dark ages.

]]> By: Janaka http://groundviews.org/2010/02/21/%e2%80%a6for-the-missing/#comment-14919 Janaka Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:07:28 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=2748#comment-14919 Shouldn't you ask Gen Fonseka about Prageeth Ekneligoda whereabouts? Wasn't this part of a grand plan of SWAN alliance to discredit the government during the Prezi elections? Duhh.. Shouldn’t you ask Gen Fonseka about Prageeth Ekneligoda whereabouts? Wasn’t this part of a grand plan of SWAN alliance to discredit the government during the Prezi elections? Duhh..

]]> By: Tmama http://groundviews.org/2010/02/21/%e2%80%a6for-the-missing/#comment-14918 Tmama Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:55:50 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=2748#comment-14918 MR X was writing feverishly the list of men he would like to see hanging from the trees. He would have the questions to put to them. He knows where to buy the bullets, where to buy the ships and aircraft, who pays the best commission. He had followed closely the careers of many men who made it to the top in the last ventury. He made friends in the overseas non gov sector and the ambassodors, doers and shakers of the world shock exchanges, who knew a thing or two about what matters in the military as well as political world. He also knows who are the guys he can depend on and where the the assets are held. . Alas, there are things that still do not go to plan, his party is still low on public speaking ability, nasty journos on the other side make mincemeat of his leader. One day he would be the cheif advisor and keep the Chief in a stern grip. MR X was writing feverishly the list of men he would like to see hanging from the trees. He would have the questions to put to them.

He knows where to buy the bullets, where to buy the ships and aircraft, who pays the best commission. He had followed closely the careers of many men who made it to the top in the last ventury. He made friends in the overseas non gov sector and the ambassodors, doers and shakers of the world shock exchanges, who knew a thing or two about what matters in the military as well as political world. He also knows who are the guys he can depend on and where the the assets are held.

. Alas, there are things that still do not go to plan, his party is still low on public speaking ability, nasty journos on the other side make mincemeat of his leader.

One day he would be the cheif advisor and keep the Chief in a stern grip.

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