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Today Chennai based Pro-GOSL daily The Hindu published an interview wih Sri Lankan Social welfare Minister Douglous Devananda.

Anyone who follows Pro-GOSL daily's stand on Sri Lankan problem will not get any surprise in this untimely interview with the paramilitary leader, Mr. Devanda. It is a typical 'My_question would_elope_with_your_answer_to_conceive_our_agreement" sort of interview.

Pro-GOSL The Hindu reporter Muralidhar Reddy's questions include T-Dogma of the daily.
1. Trim: Trim the facts and only use what is useful for us

For instance, look at one of his questions:

Talking of the east, recent weeks have seen an upsurge of violence. At least 20 persons, mostly cadres of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikkal (TVMP), have been killed by unidentified persons. Do you think the province is slipping back to disorder?

Mostly TMVP cadres? Killed by unidentified persons? Hello! Count the deaths in the east
Mother, son, grandson shot dead in Batticaloa
STF shoots dead 3 TMVP deserters in Batticaloa
3 Tamils shot dead in 3 separate shootings, in Batticaloa district
Tamil youth shot dead in Ampaa'rai
Karuna group shoots dead 2 Tamil youths in Ampaa'rai

The Eastern Province Chief Minister's secretary Kumarasamy Nandagopan was allegedly murdered by the other faction of TMVP.

The Sinhala doctor was murdered by TMVP according to the latest report by Pro-GOSL media. Initially Pro-GOSL media including he Hindu blamed it on LTTE.

It is funny for both Pro-GOSL The Hindu and Mr. Devanda that LTTE is ousted from east when the violence in the east should be blamed at the same time.

Above all, today Human Rights Watch has blamed TMVP and the government for the most atrocities in the East

Also we need to look at what UTHR talks about the east. The recent edition of Chennai based Pro-GOSL fortnightly, Frontline (a sister publication of Pro-GOSL The Hindu) published an expected "Leave_out_what_we_don't_want" verson of UTHR's october 2008 report. Ironically, the rest of the report talked more about who does what in the east

This also shows the methods of this government. This is a President who pulls rabbits of varied colours out of his hat to flag messages of passing convenience that he does not want to be directly associated with. Deceit has a price. His ritual boast of having restored democracy to the East by implementing the 13th Amendment, rings patently hollow against the reality. That says much of his intermittent promises of a political settlement. The small print negates any substance.

Having seen the fickleness of some of their leaders playing unashamedly to the tune of Sinhalese hegemonists, what would the ordinary TMVP cadres feel? A great deal of what is happening is calculated to make ordinary Tamils and Muslims nervous. Behind a façade of ‘nation building’ what is evident is marginalisation of the Tamils and Muslims. The rulers insist that the unitary
state is here to stay and deny any need for real devolution. People see more movement into the East of Sinhalese, innocent civilians, as students, workers and contractors. This movement in the absence of a political settlement and endemic violence drives fears of Sinhalese colonisation. Many would feel that the LTTE is right.

TMVP cadres themselves have no choice but to keep their TMVP label to stay alive. But their nominal leaders cannot control their loyalties. By its foolish and ideologically avaricious handling of the East, the Government has created conditions of extreme uncertainty. The killing of the Sinhalese student of Eastern University and the attacks on Sinhalese workers, in all of which the perpetrators remain unidentified, are disturbing signs of a new tier to the existing anarchy.

It is interesting to see Mr. Devananda, who was openly accused of many things in Jaffna by the murdered MP Maheswaran was never been asked about his paramilitary surbordinates.

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