Genius for lying
The demonstrators shouted slogans against Norway accusing them as the ‘Norwegian Tigers.’ Police and armed personnel were deployed for the security of the Embassy. The mob dispersed after about 10 minutes.
JVP Propaganda Secretary Wimal Weerawansa addressing the gathering said that the new peace envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer is an expert of [sic] oil exploration and he was behind the division of Sudan in the hope of exploiting the oil resources of that country. Weerawansa said that Norway has sent Hanssen-Bauer to divide Sri Lanka and own the oil resources to be explored in the sea around the country.
Norwegian Minister and former peace envoy Erk [sic] Solheim rejected the JVP Propaganda Secretary’s allegations earlier and said that Hanssen-Bauer was not deployed in the affairs of Sudan.
I don’t usually cover the Sri Lanka conflict on this blog. There are times, though, when the sheer inventiveness of the lies and duplicity in Lankan politics just leaves me awestruck. The Bush administration, the Khartoum regime, both sides in the I/P conflict — they could all take lessons from many of the operators on that troubled island.
