Rajiva Wijesinha

“ The JVP could well have imagined that General Fonseka thought like them, or rather that they could sell him as doing so. I believe this is a travesty of what JVP core thinking claims to be, because their principles cannot be racist or militaristic. However they have often enough allowed their activists to suggest such perspectives, as when they allowed their opposition to devolution to seem both racist and chauvinistic, or when their celebration of military victories ignored completely the concerted political and financial management that were the bedrock of the triumph over terror. ”

“ Given that any political party claims to have a core of fundamental values that ensure the commitment of both party activists and thinking voters, it was strange that they could have thought the abandonment of all principle would have helped them for the future. ”

“ But, sadly, there are adventurers amongst us, individuals who, carried away by their own self-righteousness, fuelled by those who see darkness and dysfunction and breakdown whenever they themselves are not calling the shots, relish the flexing of their own ample muscles, the opportunity to take down a peg or two those who will not knuckle under. ”