Asitha Gamage

Mr. James Gray MP
House of Commons
London

Dear Mr. Gray,

I was most surprised at the false allegations made by you in the British Parliament and the obviously overt vicious persecution of Sri Lanka by you, viz. “

*Mr James Gray* (North Wiltshire) (Con): The MinisterƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s word ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-reconciliationƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ is right after 25 years of appalling civil strife. In addition to the Tamils who are kept in such dreadful conditions in the camps, is he aware that quite a number of Sri Lankans in Colombo and elsewhere who were thought to be vaguely sympathetic towards the Tamils are also in detention without trial? There is huge human rights abuse there as well. Is my hon. Friend addressing that with the new Government?
*Source:
*http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmtoday/cmdebate/02.htm

*You declare:*

1. that Tamils are kept in dreadful conditions in the camps;

2. quite a number of Sri Lankans in Colombo and elsewhere who were thought to be vaguely sympathetic towards the Tamils are also in detention without trial.

I am extremely surprised that the son of a Scottish Chaplain and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and an educated mother togther with your own academic background, you could make such hideous and criminal statements of vast lies in what you call the Mother of all Parliaments!

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Mr. Gray, have you been to Sri Lanka recently and seen these so called dreadful conditions in camps? Where on earth did you find any justification/s to make your hideous and generalised second accusation about “detention without trials of anybody even vaguely sympathetic towards Tamils”?

In case you are unaware of the truth and are playing a “paid” pied piper for anti-Sinhela organisations or as a Christian committed to anti-Buddhist declarations alluding barbaric social practices in the liberated Commonwealth countries, let me say that you must either go to Sri Lanka and meet the following people before making your holier than thou falsehoods from the sacred pulpits of Westminster:

i. Minister Vinayagamoorthy Muralidharan (former Dep. Leader of the LTTE and present Minister in the SLn Cabinet]

ii. Kumaran Pathmanathan (presently a prominent care-taker of Refugees including those in the temporary camps/shelters; former Deputy Leader Leader of the LTTE and immediate successor to the late Velu Pirbaharan, Leader of the British Government proscribed LTTE)

iii. Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan, (Chief Minister of Eastern Province; former child soldier of LTTE)

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ They will be more than happy to answer your questions in addition to being better qualified and knowledgeable about the allegations you made in the British Parliament. You should be ashamed of yourself Mr. Grey. Surely in this day and age how could you carry on the traditional British and especially Scottish military attitudes of the imperial British days. Here is what your forefathers did in Sri Lanka in 1818, just 03 years after hoodwinking the Lankans into signing a joint declaration of administration for Sri Lanka:

The British reneged on every single joint agreement on administration that led to a revolt within 03 years. The response of your forefathers, Mr. Gray, was to order that every male person above the age of 12 to be massacred, all paddy fields and agricultural areas be set on fire, all Buddhist temples be razed to the ground, the ancient irrigation system to the paddy fields and water supply to the Sinhala community in this vast area of Uva Wellassa be destroyed beyond repair and even the cattle be completelyslaughtered. Even some of the British Government servants of successive times wrote about these gross genocidal efforts by your people. For example, in the ‘Journal of Uva,’ Herbert White, a British Government

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Government Agent in Badulla

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badulla after the rebellion minuted:

“It is a pity that there is no evidence left behind to show the exact situation in Uva in terms of population or agriculture development after the rebellion. The new rulers are unable to come up to any conclusion on the exact situation of Uva before the rebellion as there is no trace of evidence left behind to come to such conclusions. If thousands died in the battle they were all fearless and clever fighters. If one considers the remaining population of 4/5 after the battle to be children, women and the aged, the havoc caused is unlimited. In short the people have lost their lives and all other valuable belongings. It is doubtful whether Uva has at least now recovered from the catastrophe”.

Your predecessors set fire to over 2 million hectares of prime virgin rainforests in the highlands of Sri Lanka to cultivate Tea and in the process completely devastated the regional mesoclimate, destabilised the soil leading to massive erosion and sedimentation in the rivers and triggering off unusual floods patterns in the island. Your ancestors brought in and indentured over 1.5 million Tamil people from Soth India to labour in your Estates. These poor immigrant people were kept in isolated pockets with no access to communicate with the local Sinhelas, kept in “line rooms” which were worse than even glorified dog kennels. When your ancestors had gathered all the benefits fromn the natural and human resources and destroyed all vestiges of civilised harmonious society in Sri Lanka, they walked away leaving strife, misery and a disorganised civil administraion. The Tamil issue is one such where we are still, after 60 years of your leaving the country, trying to sort out in the traditional patterns we had over 1000 years.

Today, you get up in the House of Westminster and proclaim sanctmonious overviews casting false aspirtions on the very people you left in disarray some 60 years ago. Is it some strange genomic aberration in some of the British parliamentarians that drives your bogus holier than thou atitudes and allied statements? Have you no sense of shame even to keep quiet knowing full well that you were the reason for the evil legacies of post British colonial period? Why should a Conservative MP (of all people) from Wiltshire (of all places in the UK

Can you please explain yourself? You owe us a reply.

Yours sincerely

Asitha Gamage