Jayantha Liyanage General secretary Sinhaladeepa Jathika Peramuna

Dr. Jehan Perera,
Executive Director,
Naitional Peace Council,
No: 12/14, Purana Vihara Road, Colombo –
06. Date – 11.12.2021

Open Letter By Registered Post
Dear Sir,
SRI LANKA (SINHALADEEPAl ls NOT A MULTI EThNIC COUNTRY
I refer to the article that appeared on 16.11.2021 in the Island Newspaper titled “New Constitution needs to reflect Sri Lanka’s plurality” by Jehan Perera.

The concept of plural nature in Ceylon had been introduced by the British in 1815 under their “Divide & Rule” policy, hence not an indigenous concept. That concept continues to exist because the indigenous Sinhala people did not get their due historical rights in 1948. The so-called freedom fighters were from families groomed by the British in order to protect and maintain the said policy. That concept thereafter had been incorporated into the country’s Constitution under the Republican banner denying the historical national rights Of the Sinhala people.

The Republican Constitutions of 1972 & 1978 are without the name of a nation and only a citizenship is in place. Hence, a great enmfty had been done to the indigenous Sinhala people by the British, the Sinhala traitors and by some ethnic minorities, especially by the Tamils. King Pandukahabaya established the Sinhala nation state in the year 437 BCE and the Sinhala nation state was in operation as a unitary nation until 1505 A.D, but thereafter continued to degrade its supremacy under foreign invasions and occupations. But in substance still the Sinhala nation exits under an erroneous name called Sri Lankan nation, which does not reflect the name Of the group Of people who created the country’s civilization.

The so-called Sdi Lankan nation has no legal validfty either in the Constitution or in any of the legal documents. We, as a Sinhala nationalist political party reject the multi ethnic coneept.

We believe that all other ethnic groups should accept that this country is as a Sinhala country and should assinilate into the Sinhala mainstream while preserving their identities & cultures as sub identities & cultures and not on equal national grounds.

Sinhala people & the minorities should be on equal grounds only under the fundamental rights. Right to land, national flag, language, national identity are exclusive rights of the Sinhala people.

Therefore, we would like to inform the NPC that your attempts to promote this country as a mLIlti ethnic & multi cultural country is a clear attempt to rob & destroy the historical national, cultural & identity rishts Of the indigenous Sinhala people under the cover of fundamental rights with the sLlpport of certain foreign countries.

This, we regard as a cri.me against a’.Lj peaceful nation that has not done any harm to any other foreign nation. But now, we have clarified our position to you, therefore we kindly & respectfully ask you to refrain from promoting multi ethnic concept hereafter.

This is the land of the Sinhala people and v`re Sinhala people have no other country to go. All other ethnic minorities here have their own original countries that they could return.

We expect a response from you within a reasonable time and also willing to discuss this issue with you, if you so wish.