Clearly you’ve not read the statements by FMM, Sunanda’s own points as reported on Groundviews at a recent press conference, or the report that they brought out. What you say so clearly indicates that you are going by heresay, the Government Press, JVP / NMAT propaganda and the news as reported on the MOD website – all these accusations and allegations have already been answered, and the government is left without any reply, not the FMM.

The FMM didn’t say what you say they did – so much has been written on it that to debate it again here is tiresome, and useless really – those like you don’t read the statements anyway, and just like to base your judgements on what others say.

Does the FMM not participate in rallies and other events with LTTE front organisations and TNA MPs who openly support terrorism and genocide? Does it not overlook and make excuses for crimes by the LTTE yet exaggerate abuses by the military. The arrest of Lalith Seneviratne et al is a case in point. These terrorists have previously worked for the FMM linked Hiru newspaper, and FMM went into such a frenzy following their arrests saying they were innocent trade unionists abducted by men in white vans, despite the daunting evidence that they were trained terrorists who had participated in many terror activities in Colombo. When have the FMM ever made such a fuss about any genuinely innocent person killed or abducted by the LTTE?

Judging by these facts, is not fair for Sri Lankans to be angry at FMM’s hypocrisy. Is it not natural for them to think that FMM’s actions are deliberately meant to be beneficial to the LTTE, not least because the allegations against FMM’s foreign donor nations, organisations and other affiliates that they are linked with the LTTE? Are they not allowed to publicly voice their indignation and frustration.

Many of these so called abductees are simply being detained by law enforcement agencies or the armed forces. There arrests are perfectly legal under the PTA. The secretiveness is justifiable considering the gravity of their alleged offenses and is akin to the lack of transparency seen in counter-terrorist measures taken by other nations.

Sunanda doesn’t speak of Rwanda in his Sinhala article – clearly your facts, as your judgement, is mixed up. In attempting to colour the NMAT while, you are clearly espousing their attitudes to the resolution of this conflict, which to me again suggests you are some diasporic individual who has no real connection to what’s going on in Sri Lanka, and seeks to shout as loud as he / she can, in order to feel important, wanted and heard.

Thank god that there are those like Sunanda to inject a saner more reasoned voice into the debates on peace, even though he’s not always right in his judgements. I don’t ever recall the FMM inciting people to violence, spewing hatred, publishing hate publications, putting up posters to incite hate and holding public conventions in which the speakers openly name people for people to kill them – all things which your beloved NMAT has done, and will continue to do.

Nobody’s whitewashing the LTTE – but this government, in trying to wipe them out, is becoming much like them. And that’s a real danger those of us who live here have to deal with everyday.

The country is at war and it’s natural for people to be angry with foreign funded peacenik mediamen who seemingly support the enemy and try to undermine the war campaign. The same countries and organisations who give money and other benefits (foreign study tours, scholarships etc) to these “journalists” are also being accused of syphoning money to the LTTE via its NGO fronts such as TRO. Is it not fair for ordinary people to assume that these people are carrying out someone else’s agenda, one that’s hazardous to the operational health and safety of Sri Lanka?

The manifest bigotry of these people in exaggerating alleged offenses by the military, yet justifying and making excuses for far greater crimes by the LTTE, certainly does not help their (already non-existent) credibility among the ordinary people. Fairy tales about men in black in white vans abducting people left and right may strike a chord with unwary foreign benefactors, but most Sri Lankans would find the comparison between their’s and LTTE’s own propaganda much more interesting.

The question is that how could the fair and righteous indignation of the ordinary Sri Lankans towards the likes of Mr Deshapriya be interpreted as a prelude to a Rwandan-esque massacre of himself and his associates, as he’s done in his Sinhala article. How paranoid (guilty conscience perhaps?) would one has to be in order to draw such an absurd comparison, when neither the NMAT nor the JHU have any history of assassinating their ideological opponents or other terrorist activities. It is the LTTE that is unanimously believed to be involved in such things, and yet Sunanda does not feel the slightest threat to his life from them – as it should indeed be the case, if he had in fact been an non-partisan rights crusader exposing the abuses of both parties.

The journalists are forced by the government to adhere and now it is a permanent feature. I believe all journalists love their country specially freedom of expression no wild ass as they do a duty by their public and Sri Lanka is no exception.

My research has proven that the Sri Lankan media – newspaper journalism is unique and they know to write or convey their expressions to the public without hiding facts. This is the most important function of a jounalist but without politicizing.

You can hide once and remember the famous quote of John F Kennedy- “If you are right no one remembrs. I you are wrong no one forgets”.