Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris to resign? LNW Editor’s note
2010-09-14
LankaNewsWeb has been contacted by many colleagues, well wishers and critics regarding our news item titled Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris to resign?
We clearly knew that Prof. G.L. Peiris, formerly a distinguished professor of law whose students include current Supreme Court judges, according to his own admission, would never resign from his lucrative cabinet post.Our intention was to force the former distinguished academic turned pathetic promoter of dictatorship to respond to the news.
We simply wanted to show that the formerly respected academic whose Oxford contemporaries include current world leaders, is no different to other third class mafia politicians in Sri Lanka.
LankaNewsWeb had no intention to mislead our readers or tarnish our reputation as an alternative news source.
We understood very well his dilemma that he would never be able to deny our news as he would have to admit that the respected academic has now turned to another power – greedy man without a proper conscious.
By quoting him that “nowhere in the world has a country changed the constitution for one man’s benefit,” our only intention was to show how a world respected academic who once promoted democracy and even federalism could be no different to Mervyn Silva.
And by using the quote: “I am still respected as an academic and I can easily join any leading university in the world. I am not an apologist on behalf of dictators,” we wanted our readers to judge themselves how the dirty politics could even destroy a man of Prof. Peiris’ caliber, not to mention similar examples like Prof. Tissa Vitharana.
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