Colombo Clans, Goon Squads
and the Church
(Perpetrators behind the July 83 Pogrom)
Ratanapala
This article was written a few years ago but
the message is still relevant facts still valid and many of the perpetrators
of the pogrom still alive; some still holding important positions. You
can judge for yourself why the Sinhalese who make more than 70% of the
Sri Lankan population has no reason to apologize to the Tamils. It is
the UNP and Church affiliated mafia who should be held responsible.
Let the world know the truth about July '83.
July 31 2008
Colombo Clans, Goon Squads
and the Church
(Perpetrators behind the July 83 Pogrom)
Ratanapala
Today Sri Lanka is again at the cross roads. It is time to take a look
back into happenings of the last two decades. The puppet masters, the
Colombo Clans ( Wijewardhanas and Bandaranaikes), and the Christian
Church, who nurtured Tamil racism are out in the open in a last ditch
attempt to save and give respectability to the genocidal LTTE and their
erstwhile leader - Prabhakaran - the man who styles himself as the sole
representative of the Tamils in Sri Lanka. In the aftermath of the September
11th attack, no effort is to be spared to make him another Yasser Arafat
and to save him from facing charges at the Hague for crimes against
humanity, genocide and ethnic cleansing. If the world gives into this
masquerade it will shame all civilized society.
It is common knowledge that it was UNP goondas who attacked and killed
Tamils in Colombo during the July '83 riots. It is also common knowledge
that it was the then President J R Jayawardene who allowed the riots
to continue unabated for a full day before a curfew was called to stop
the rioting. On this day J R Jayawardene was under severe pressure from
the army after the killing of the 13 soldiers in Jaffna , to take effective
action against the LTTE terrorists in the North. His solution was to
use his Goon Squads to attack and kill the Tamil residents in Colombo
and other major cities and thereby avert the wrath of the army.
It is also common knowledge that after his victory at the General Elections
in 1977, Jayewardene wanted to remain in power for an extended period,
if necessary by terrorizing the general electorate. For this purpose
every minister in his administration was encouraged to form and develop
their Goon Squads with the idea of intimidating the electorate prior
to any subsequent election in Sri Lanka. In this fashion R Premadasa
his Prime Minister, Gamini Dissanayake, Lalith Athulathmudali, Ranil
Wickramasinghe the present Prime Minister, Ananda Tissa de Alwis,Cyril
Matthew, M H Mohammed and others went on to form their own Goon Squads.
These Goon Squads were used most effectively in subsequent elections
to intimidate, terrorize, maim or kill political opponents. Viz; the
1980 District Development Council Elections, and the 1982 infamous "
the Pot and the Lamp Referendum. How the democracy in Sri Lanka deteriorated
during this period is also common knowledge and is a subject that is
well researched and documented. These Goon Squads were equipped with
electoral lists and they knew in advance where their political opponents
lived.
It may not be common knowledge that the mini riot that originated at
the Borella Kanatta on the day of the funeral of the 13 soldiers ended
at Narahenpita around mid night the same day. However the systematic
torching of Tamil trading establishments and residences commenced the
following morning at Borella junction. The riots and the burning continued
throughout the day through Punchi Borella, Maradana, Pettah and finally
on to Fort, and unabated till they reached the Ambal Café in
the heart of Fort at 4:00 PM - just a few meters away from where the
now infamous President of Sri Lanka had his office. It took Jayewardene
10 hrs to impose a curfew and get his Goons off the streets. Goon Squads
armed with electoral lists went from house to house, this time looking
for Tamil residents. Goon Squads saved the day for Jayewardene by taking
the army who was breathing fire on his scrawny neck.
Once the curfew was in place, in four consecutive days, four very significant
statements were made over the Television - Rupavahini Channel. While
a shocked populace waited for the Executive President to address the
nation, the UNP government and the Church plotted behind the scenes
to place the blame entirely on the shoulders of Sinhalese Buddhists.
This is how it was done.
1. Most Ven Madihe Pannaseeha Maha Nayake Thero was asked to address
the Nation first. Naturally the Mahanayake Thero requested the Nation
to have patience and be calm. The nation was angry but it was in no
mood to go on a killing rampage. By getting him to address the nation
J R Jayewardene got the world to believe that the Mahanayake Thero was
really addressing the Sinhalese Buddhists and that they were responsible
for the pogrom.
2. The second was made by J R Jayewardene (the man with the professional
mourners face)himself, , as the President of Sri Lanka. He justified
the riots as the justifiable anger of the Sinhalese for the killing
of the 13 soldiers in Jaffna. Here he clearly laid the blame for the
pogrom on the Sinhalese. It must also be noted that UNP Goon Squads
and every shade of hooligan, Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim and other took
part in the universal phenomenon of looting that followed throughout
the island. In many instances old scores were settled, regardless of
ethnicity, taking advantage of the deplorable and unfortunate situation.
3. The third statement was made by R Premadasa the Prime Minister a
servant of the Wijewardhana clan. He said that behind the riots was
a coup organized by a Naxalite Terror Group. This was a diversionary
attempt to put the blame on the pseudo socialist group led by Vijaya
Kumaranatunge at that time.
4. The fourth and final statement was made by Christian - Ananda Tissa
de Alwis the then Minister of Communications and Constitutional Affairs.
He said the next stage of the coup would be for Sinhalese Buddhists
to attack Sinhalese Christians. His was the voice of the Christian Church
who would finally go to convince the world that Sinhalese Buddhists
were responsible for the carnage. With this they killed two birds; firstly
the blame for the pogrom was laid firmly and squarely on Sinhalese Buddhists
and secondly they set up the Christians against the Buddhists.
(If one has access to Rupavahini Archives the veracity of these 4 statements
can be verified.)
The essence of the above four statements show the way J R Jayewardene
and his administration manipulated the media to put the blame, for the
riots by his Goon Squads, on Sinhalese Buddhists. It is doubtful even
today if the Mahanayake Thero knows how he was manipulated to lay the
blame on the Sinhalese Buddhists. The subsequent propaganda by the State
media and the Christian Church convinced the world that it was the Sinhalese
and especially the Sinhalese Buddhist who were responsible for the July
'83 Riots.
As Sinhalese and mainly as Sinhalese Buddhists, we should not harbor
any guilt complex about the happenings of July '83 or those Racial riots
of 1958, and thereafter. These were carried out by thugs affiliated
to the two main political parties the UNP and the SLFP. To the Western
Christian World, this was just the opportunity to denigrate the Buddhists
in Sri Lanka. Since July '83 dozens of provocative actions have been
carried out in Sri Lanka. Even though hundreds of innocent Sri Lankan
civilians have been bombed, maimed, killed, driven away from their lands,
their places of worship desecrated and destroyed, their leaders assassinated
the nation has just looked on with hope that ultimately justice would
prevail. They have waited with timeless patience for their elected leaders
to take appropriate action to curb terrorism, eventually eliminate racism
from Sri Lanka and put an end to the meddling by externally funded church
affiliated NGOs, inimical to the culture and life in Sri Lanka. This
is yet to happen.
The Terrorist war that ensued has consumed much of Sri Lanka and her
resources. Tamils in droves left the island crying genocide, many seeking
greener pastures. Yet for all there are more Tamils now living in the
South than in the North of Sri Lanka. The Western World and the Christian
Church accepted them with open arms. Various Terrorist groups were funded,
nurtured, and covertly trained initially by India and then later by
others. Hundreds of Church funded NGO's descended on Sri Lanka in various
guises, but intent on division of the country and the unethical conversion
of Sri Lanka to Christianity. On Sri Lankan soil they were ably assisted
by the Church affiliated Wijewardhana clan and the Bandaranaike clan.
These two clans outwardly masquerade as Buddhists, but their loyalties
lie with the Christian Church.
At the moment the subjugation of Sinhalese Buddhists is going on various
fronts. Unethical conversion of Buddhists is going a pace unabated.
The land of the Sinhalese is up for grabs. Sinhalese Buddhists have
neither voice left nor any representation in the proceedings in the
so called "Peace Process" in Sri Lanka. A Lutheran Christian
nation, and one time Nazis, who practiced open racial discrimination
against their own indigenous people - the Inuit or Lapps, who aided
and abetted with the LTTE are now in the garb of the mediators. (We
should have been better off getting the TULF to mediate than these unknown
foreigners with agendas of their own for South Asia.) The Buddhists
are left largely friendless in the world due to years of diplomatic
mishandling. The media has been in the hands of the Church affiliated
Wijewardhana clan for decades. The audio- visual media are on a frontal
attack on Sinhalese Culture. What is seen, heard and covertly imposed
on the minds are all foreign values and ethos. While the Puppet Masters
are now on open stage for everybody to see, a helpless nation is waiting
its dismemberment.
Today with one time leader of one of the Goon Squads- Ranil Wickramasinghe
of Batalanda fame as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Tyronne Fernando
as the Foreign Minister, John Amaratunge as the Minister of the Interior
and Home Affairs, Jayalath Jayewardhana the LTTE spy as the Minister
of Rehabilitation and Refugees, Joseph Michael Perera as the Speaker
of the House, the Christian Church is well and truly enthroned in Sri
Lanka. The LTTE never had it any better.
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