Comments on: Lasantha Wickrematunge: The man who changed Sri Lankan journalism

By: Nicole Mendes

Nicole Mendes — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:54:16 +0000

We worship you L.W
you are a God to journalists and patriots everywhere
and you are so brave and courages

By: Marrisa Liyange

Marrisa Liyange — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:52:11 +0000

I would do anything to meet him or his childrean!
He was a genius in both polatics and journalism and
his bravery is outstanding.
May he R.I.P

By: Dr Olga Mendis

Dr Olga Mendis — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:36:37 +0000

Such killings should be traced and those responsible must be brought ot trial. They too deserve to be shot dead.

By: Asitha Gamage

Asitha Gamage — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:16:14 +0000

DBSJ, Please remove that photograph of two small children on a pavement holding the photographs of Lassie Boy. Anybody with any brains will ask why you use children (who probably did/do not read the Sunday Leader or Irudina) to demonstrate in public on behalf of Lassie. UNICEF or the Sri Lanka Police (Child Abuse Unit) may knock on your door asking for statements! Grown up trousered women (of the type you find going up and down on the 112 Maharagama bus) as paid protesters is one thing but using little children may be child abuse. At least this is what Lassie may have said if the photos on parade happened to be MRs and not Lassies; don’t you think so?

By: RSS

RSS — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:59:51 +0000

When there is a senseless war which was dragging for nearly 30 years there will always be lot of losses. Lasantha is not special he was just another unfortunate victim for war like thousand of others who died in vain. As grown up people we all should know what is right and wrong. We all want a place to live peacefully��..

By: Safa

Safa — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:20:13 +0000

Now that we have it from the horses mouth, it is the duty of the Police to arrest Mervyn Silva and bring him to justice. If they fail to do so it means that they, the IGP, the Defence Secreatry and President are complicit in the murder of Lasantha.

People may not agree regarding Lasanthas work. It is difficult to expose corruption without hurting peoples feelings, but that cannot be an excuse for killing people. Justice has to be done. Since Mervyn Silva has now shot his mouth one time too many, he should now be brought to justice. Most likely that he was responsible for the Sirasa attack as well which was within the same time frame.

It is surprising that a civilized country tolerates the likes of Mervyn Silva and his henchman Kudu Lal.

By: Mervasinghe

Mervasinghe — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:58:28 +0000

I say, this Mervin is a sweet chap. He knows how to preotect the country from hooligans. He knows very well that when people say things without taking into account how many Army cadres and politicians are being scorned by the public, and how many of us at whom tomatoes are thrown, those people who said those hurtful things should be taken care of. They should not be ignored like the West. So, Mervin is a very nice person, like a caretaker, just more so.

Lassie, the last I heard, was the name of a dog in an American movie. So, I guess Lassie was Mervin’s pet, but when the pet starts doing some bad things such as saying some politician is trying to pay off another decent gentleman to go and make a dent on an opposition member’s legs, that should be perfectly acceptable, no?

Aney, poor Mervin, why all these people are hurling abuse at you?

By: RS Wickramasinghe

RS Wickramasinghe — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:45:28 +0000

Mervyn Silva is a vile abomination.

By: Saman

Saman — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:12:52 +0000

Mervin Silva is not civilized human bieng. He is an uneducated, maffia like person when he has a political backing.Otherwise he always try to act as a peoples friend to avoid enemies. However I will tell you one incident when he was a member of opposition in years back. Whenever he go to Kataragama he used to get money from kapuwas by using force.Sometimes 100,000, sometimes 50,000 or less directly from pooja watti. Unfortunately Kataragama Dewiyo or God Kataragama never punished this ugly maffia man! How can we expect MR to punish him at present? (Even Ranil didnt wanted to do that at that time too!)

By: Jayan

Jayan — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:50:10 +0000

Talking of murderer Mervin Silva,
Who received only two thousand votes,
When he last contested.
Analysing how he started,
Ranil brought him to politics
Chandrika nurtured him with her milk
Mahinda entrusting him with dirty work.
When I think about all this,
Regret that Velu is dead.

By: Thushanthi

Thushanthi — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:26:54 +0000

Comment 9 – Channa

I agree with you!!!

By: Jayan

Jayan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:58:48 +0000

Just before the presidential election MR ran out of money for his election campaign. Then MS volunteered to help. Next day morning MS went to all the businesses in Pettah and collected Rs. 200,000 “kappan” from each biz. Totalling more than Rs. 8 million. This is one of the reason why MR is given MS a free hand to do whatever he wants, including murder.