{"id":59831,"date":"2018-07-03T01:08:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T05:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=59831"},"modified":"2018-07-03T16:15:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T20:15:56","slug":"after-asgiriya-anunayake-called-for-dictatorial-hitler-type-rule-jaffna-mp-and-state-minister-vijayakala-maheswaran-wants-return-of-authoritarian-ltte-leader-veluppilaai-prabhakaran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=59831","title":{"rendered":"After Asgiriya Anunayake Called For  Dictatorial Hitler Type Rule,  Jaffna MP and State Minister Vijayakala Maheswaran Wants Return of Authoritarian LTTE Leader Veluppilaai Prabhakaran."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> A legislator in Sri Lanka has reportedly expressed a preference for feared Tamil Tiger leader Vellupillai Pirabharan who ruled a part of northern Sri Lanka by the gun, shortly after a southern monk called for rule by Hitler, in the latest twist in a country where authoritarianism is worshipped by sections of society.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vijayakala Maheswaran, a legislator from the Northern Jaffna province had told a public ceremony that the Tamil Tiger leader was needed to make sure that children returned safely from school, after a 6-year old child was found brutally raped and killed, media reports said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Her husband, T Maheswaran who also a one-time legislator from the United National Party, was believed to have been assassinated by a paramilitary organization that was working with the military during the 30-year war, where thousands of SriLankans in an out of uniform were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Her comments came shortly after a leading monk in the South called for a \u2018Hitler\u2019 to return, and re-establish authoritarian military rule, and protect Buddhism in a reference to Gothabaya Rajapaksa, brother of ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p>Political analysts say sections of Sri Lankan society have long been mired in a deep confusion between \u2018law and order\u2019 with \u2018rule of law\u2019 which is responsible for the lack of justice to the common man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery irresponsible statement that all of us should condemn as we did to the Hitler comment,\u201d fellow legislator Ranjan Ramanayake said in a twitter.com message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cwe saw how the terrorist LTTE established rule of law by killing civilians and even recruiting children as soldiers, we don&#8217;t need neither (sic) Prabakaran or Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>Most politicians and even the media in Sri Lanka routinely call for \u2018harsh punishment\u2019 (<i>dedi danduwam<\/i>), showing a preference for law and order over rule of law, while the requirement is to fix the police and the judiciary so the justice prevails.<\/p>\n<p>The independence of Sri Lanka\u2019s police, judiciary and public prosecutor\u2019s office had been steadily eroded after constitutions of 1971 and 1979 broke a once-independence civil service. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:ECONOMY NEXT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton59831\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D59831&amp;text=After%20Asgiriya%20Anunayake%20Called%20For%20%20Dictatorial%20Hitler%20Type%20Rule%2C%20%20Jaffna%20MP%20and%20State%20Minister%20Vijayakala...%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>A legislator in Sri Lanka has reportedly expressed a preference for feared Tamil Tiger leader Vellupillai Pirabharan who ruled a part of northern Sri Lanka by the gun, shortly after a southern monk called for rule by Hitler, in the latest twist in a country where authoritarianism is worshipped by sections of society. 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