{"id":36177,"date":"2014-12-14T18:10:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T23:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=36177"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:44:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T23:44:17","slug":"blatant-discrimination-against-tamilby-media-despite-leftists-like-vasudeva-ew-tissa-vitarana-and-rajah-collure-being-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=36177","title":{"rendered":"Blatant Discrimination Against &#8220;Tamil&#8221; by Media  Despite Leftists like Vasudeva, DEW, Tissa Vitarana and Rajah Collure Being Present."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by<\/p>\n<p>Tissa De Silva<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was a keen observer who participated at the May Day rally and meeting at Nugegoda.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was graced by Ministers Tissa Vitharana, D. E. W, Gunesekera, and Vasudeva Nanayakara and CP Secretary Raja Collure. All of them talked of equal rights to all people of all backgrounds and vocally supported the 13th Amendment. They were all for a Sri Lanka with no Class system.<\/p>\n<p>But when the last speaker who was the only speaker in Tamil took the floor,I noticed in disgust that the media present, who were given a special space together with the Ministers on the podium, removing the microphones etc from the Tamil speaker&#8217;s table. <\/p>\n<p><strong>A few seconds before Vasudeva Nanayakkara Minister for Social Integration and Tri-Lingual policy of the government was boasting about the work he had done in these field. But He too failed to stop the action of the media, in downright insult to the Tamil Language.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Why didn\u2019t all these Ministers and trade Unionist observe what was happening, which could have been easily stopped, immediately to prevent the insult to the Tamil Language as well as the speaker and those Tamil&#8217;s present from Nuwara Eliya, North and East who knew only the Tamil Language.<\/p>\n<p>My feeling is that equality to the two languages is only an impractical view held by the so-called leftist ministers for the consumption of the Tamils and the West which funds the Language Ministry through Canada.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton36177\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D36177&amp;text=Blatant%20Discrimination%20Against%20%26%238220%3BTamil%26%238221%3B%20by%20Media%20%20Despite%20Leftists%20like%20Vasudeva%2C%20DEW%2C%20Tissa...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tissa De Silva I was a keen observer who participated at the May Day rally and meeting at Nugegoda. The meeting was graced by Ministers Tissa Vitharana, D. E. W, Gunesekera, and Vasudeva Nanayakara and CP Secretary Raja Collure. All of them talked of equal rights to all people of all backgrounds and vocally &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=36177\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Blatant Discrimination Against &#8220;Tamil&#8221; by Media  Despite Leftists like Vasudeva, DEW, Tissa Vitarana and Rajah Collure Being Present.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36185,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36177\/revisions\/36185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}