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News Image 13248 - President J.R. Jayewardene
Thursday, 22 March 2007 - 3:18 AM SL Time - Some pictures are worth a million words |  | |
President Mahinda Rajapaksa unveils the portrait of former President J.R. Jayewardene at the Parliament complex yesterday. Looking on are Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and Speaker W.J.M. Lokubandara. | | |
punchimahinda
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21 Mar 2007 21:26:19 GMT Report for Abuse
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| President JR is the creator of executive presidency. |
Bheesan
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21 Mar 2007 21:35:50 GMT Report for Abuse
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He had a very good team, topped by Lalith, Gamini, Ananada etc. He messed it. The best cabinet team sri Lanka ever had was 1977 ministers.
LTTE did not allow to develop the country.
His best was fooling Rajiv to commit in Sri Lanka. |
tamilcanuck
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21 Mar 2007 21:38:19 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ah the old fox
'I am not worried about the opinion of the Tamil people...now we cannot think of them, not about the lives or their opinions...the more you put pressure on the North, the happier the sinhalese people will be here...Really if I starve the Tamils out, the sinhalese people will be happy..' - First Elected President J.R.Jeyawardene -
Daily Telegraph - July, 1983. |
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21 Mar 2007 21:47:21 GMT Report for Abuse
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JRJ - Left two contrasting legacies..
1. Father of modern SL.
2. The Man who screwed up the the whole North east issue. |
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21 Mar 2007 21:54:52 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ah the old fox
'I am not worried about the opinion of the Tamil people...now we cannot think of them, not about the lives or their opinions...the more you put pressure on the North, the happier the sinhalese people will be here...Really if I starve the Tamils out, the sinhalese people will be happy..' - First Elected President J.R.Jeyawardene -
Daily Telegraph - July, 1983.
I was waiting for someone to mention that! But I have to agree with Anizam, especially on his second point. |
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21 Mar 2007 22:48:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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The old fox, like the other foxes that ruled the country, also screwed the country by his shortsighted sinhala chauvinist policies.
The tamils have no fond memories of any of the sinhala rulers of the country.They were all cunning and racist bas'ards. |
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21 Mar 2007 23:07:27 GMT Report for Abuse
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| JR was the reason this country is in this bad situation now. He failed the Indo Lanka agreement. He created this monster dictatorship presidency and the man behind the 1983 July riots against Tamils. After retirement He went to Australia to live because he could not live here as a pariotic citizen, He created a big mess and Rajapaksa continues.... |
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21 Mar 2007 23:58:47 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Sinhalese always did this: he was the only guy to have the balls to say it openly. |
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22 Mar 2007 01:47:31 GMT Report for Abuse
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1. Father of modern SL.
Father of corruption if it is what modern SL is. |
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22 Mar 2007 01:58:17 GMT Report for Abuse
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Maitreya,
JRJ never went to Australia to live in retirement. He was always in Sri Lanka at 'Braemar' his Ward Place residence till he died in.
Edited By - kiwikanga - 22 Mar 2007 01:59:29 GMT |
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