Dr Sudath Gunasekara

And what he says about DS, He not only took GGP into his Cabinet and made him the Minister of Industries but also accepted the name of his new Party UNP proposed by Governor Moor which itself meant that there were more than one nation in this country which was an absolute travesty of history which they deliberately planted here for the first time. Neither D.S. nor any other so-called Sinhala leaders in that Parliament had the brain to refute this diabolic lie and put the record right. None of them perhaps knew the history of the motherland beyond their noses or else deliberately ignored history to appease colonial masters in order to get the reins of power into their hands. More than that all of them were only crazy to take the power into their hands from the white people to consolidate their positions in Lankan society. I don’t think anyone of that group had a vision or a mission of building up an Independent.  a free and new nation.

As for me, I do not know whether they knew what freedom from a conquerer and independence means at all for a nation that was once on its own feet for two and a half millennia in all respects like territory, statecraft, legal system. economy. language, culture including religion, freedom of thought, and conscience no other nation enjoyed. I am lost to understand whether D.S or anyone else in that group knew. that we had a great heritage that was in par with ancient civilizations like Roman, Greek. Indian or Chinese, going back to 2500 years as against the colonial power who controlled us for 133 years were savage barbarians who did not know what civilization was

I pause these few questions to those who claim they have got Independence in 1948 to this country, including D.S?

.In 1948

1 Did they get back the full territory free of all encumbrances  including the Islands of Male, what was handed over to British  by Convention in 1815

2 Did they get the name of the country ‘Sinhale” that was  handed or in 1815, the name by which it was known  from the inception of history

3 Did they get  restored the place of Buddhism as the State religion in terms  of the Sec 5 of the Kandyan Convention

4 Did they get the full freedom to declare this country as the Independent Kingdom or at least Aa Republic

5 Did they get the freedom to have our own legal system restored

6 Did they get the language of the natives Sinhala  restored as the language of Public Administration and administration of Justice

7 Did they ask the British to take back all South Indian slaves brought by them to work on their projects, particularly the 1..2 million South Indians on their plantations in the Central Hill Country to make the country free of not only the British masters but also their coolies   to make sense of vacant possession of every inch of the motherland handed over to the original owners of the country?

8 Did they get back Katunayaka and Trikunamale bases  under our control  to make freedom meaningful

9 Did they get back the freedom to have our own system Governance and Administration restored?

10 Did they get the freedom to call the citizens of this country Sinhala as it had been for 2500 years up to 1815( (including Tamils and Moors) and declare that there is only one nation in this country. (Actually, even the word Ceylon  means the land of the Sinhala people and Sinhalese also means the people of the Sinhale) I really don’t understand why D.S and Co did not insist for this .and accepted the multi-national, multi-linguist, multiethnic and multi-religious nonsense crafted by the British and accepted Sec 29 of the Constiruriothat gave legal teeth to this concept for the first time in the instead of all these basic requirements to make this country fully independent, free and sovereign what di they do?

They accepted the Soulbury Constitution hook, line, and sinker that laid a permanent mechanism to perpetuate the Colonial control forever

According to K.M.De Silva

D.S.has accepted the concept of the presence of what they call Sulujaatin (minority nations such as Demala and Muslim) and their rights, Laankiya Ajtiya, the concept of a secular state, and the rejection of religious intervention in matters of State I see D.S The First Prime minister of Ceylon K.M.De.Silva) Unfortunately this is the tragic political legacy that is being continued up to date, which has become a veritable canker in the body politic of this country, Had these problems been addressed properly at the very beginning Sri Lanka would have been a different country today.