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Tribune stands by Somawansa interview
Amerasinghe said what his party agreed to form after an election victory with the SLFP was a 'pure capitalist democratic government' in place of the 'crony and corrupt capitalism run with black money by the Ranil Wickremesinghe administration in Sri Lanka today'. He had said that the true Sri Lankan entrepreneurs would be placed in an unprecedented advantageous position to develop Sri Lanka to the fullest possible extent following new Asian leaders like Malaysia, India and China. The telephone interview done by Los Angeles based journalist Walter Jayawardhana appeared in the Asian Tribune web page and was subsequently picked up by other local newspapers. The official website of the JVP also picked up the interview and published it without contradictions, but Weerawansa later denied the report claiming that it was fabricated by the Government. Mr. Jayawardhana, responding to reports about the denial had written back to The Asian Tribune. He said "Somawansa Amerasinghe has known him since the April insurrection of 1971. So I sent him an e-mail requesting a telephone interview. As I mentioned in my story he gave me a call from his London home eight hours before his departure. Two or three minutes later he once again called me. So actually he called me twice" Many were to note that same version - the telephone interview with Somawansa Amerasinghe appeared in the international website of the JVP - www.jvpnet.com. If anyone is interested kindly browse the JVP website then they can see for themselves the interview as well as other writings of Walter Jayawardhana in the website. '...the JVP wants to tell the country and the whole world that they are no more Marxist than Malaysia, India and China who adopted capitalist method to develop their fast growing economies'. Talking more about the crony capitalism in the country under Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, Amerasinghe charged that it was black money earned by narcotic drugs and gambling, as allowed by the budget, that was being invested in the enterprises. He said the new administration that would replace that of Ranil Wickremesinghe would give those indigenous capitalist class enough opportunity to reinvigorate their businesses so that they could treat their employees rightly and produce efficiently. Speaking about the economic policies agreed by the two parties under the agreed alliance Amerasinghe said that the national economy should be strengthened by investments coming from all parts of the world. He said since 1978 under the UNP governments the nation had unfortunately marched, not towards neo colonialism as some say, but towards re-colonization by certain imperialist powers. He said, Sri Lanka should accept all good sides of the globalization and reject all the ill effects of it injurious to the nation. He said our economic policies for 26 years under the UNP had been formulated not for the mutual benefits of the country and the other trading nations engaged in trade but to the detriment of Sri Lanka. He said today every Sri Lankan citizen was indebted to about one hundred thousand rupees to foreign countries. Under this government national assets were being sold to cronies for a song, he charged. |
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