විද්යුත් කැලෑ පත්තර අඩවි ගැන වැඩිදුරටත්
The article on the news websites that have turned into a species of electronic gutter press brought Ivan the chance to exchange views with one of the people he had charged — a man running a news website from a foreign country. Three sections follow: ethics, one-sided intellectuals, and Lionel Bopage and Rohana Kumara.
ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණට සිදුවූයේ කුමක්ද?
Rebutting Tilvin Silva’s claim of success, Ivan uses vote figures since 1994 to show the JVP lost 47 per cent of its 2001 vote in the local elections, worst in Colombo, Puttalam and Kalutara, which he blames on its nationalism and its alliance with the President. He traces how Chandrika Kumaratunga may steer the party through Somawansa Amarasinghe, whose relative Sirisena Cooray is said to have enabled his 1989 escape, citing General Cecil Waidyaratne.
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna: What Is It? Where Is It Going?
Writing as a former member of the JVP’s 1971 leadership, Ivan argues that the party now trading on the prestige of the April 1971 revolt is no longer the movement that fought it. Of the twelve-member Political Bureau only Rohana Wijeweera remains, none of the nineteen second-line leaders does, only two of the forty-one accused in the main case, and fewer than one in twenty of the 15,000 members of 1971. Ivan explains the old guard’s departure as the product of prison study, accuses Wijeweera of branding former comrades traitors and police agents, and describes a party without a constitution or conference, run by one man, whose young followers want only action.