Sri Lanka’s state media referred to British Prime Minister David Cameron as a buffoon, a boor and a bully today, in response to his calls for an international independent investigation into war crimes should Sri Lanka fail to complete one by March.
The government paper, the Daily News, in its editorial demanded an apology from Cameron “for being, in short, the total unmitigated boor on his recent trip to Sri Lanka to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting.”
Further extracts from the editorial reproduced below.
“The disrespect was palpable, but what stood out was the exceptional boorishness. From the time he landed on Sri Lankan soil, the Prime Minister played the imperial blunderbuss.”
“In many ways if his buffoonish behaviour did not have such far reaching implications, possibly, it would have been hilarious.”
“But the problem was that this is the Prime Minister of Britain, and though the gentlemen cannot possibly help but be regular bumbling boor, the office he holds has ensured that he has alienated a great many Sri Lankans. AN unqualified apology is in order, and we expect one to be dispatched form 10 downing street as soon as possible, under Prime Ministerial seal.”
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