Sudath Gunasekara  Mahanuwara 17.9.2022.

Your serious attention is drawn to the following revelation by Dilrook Kannangara and thereafter my protest notes, that follows.

I also wish that this issue be taken up immediately, by all Sinhala MPP in Parliament irrespective of their political alignments. No Sinhala MP who cannot do that should also immediately resign his or her seat in Parliament and go home

Copied for attention of Mr Sarath Weerasekara and  Minister Vidura Wickramananayka.

WFP Creates Selective Hunger in Sri Lanka

Posted on September 16th, 2022

Dilrook Kannangara

Sri Lanka has an estimated 6.3 million individuals suffering hunger. World Food Program (WFP) distributes money to a selected crowd, mostly based on ethnicity. The north, east and Nuwara Eliya districts are the biggest recipients of WFP’s food aid. However, these areas have only a small population of hungry people. Other areas have a far larger population of needly people. This is a racist policy aimed at starving needy people while feeding a selected ethnic community.

WFP is not distributing food items. Instead, it gives 15,000 rupees to selected families. Total food supply does not increase as a result. The quantity of available food is the same. People receiving WFP funds will be able to buy their food out of this limited pool at the expense of others. They will grab available food leaving nothing for other hungry people. This worsens overall hunger in the island, selectively.

The government doesn’t seem to care as it brings foreign currency into the island. But the adverse impact of this discriminatory policy will further worsen Sri Lanka’s economic crisis.

This discriminatory and racist policy is in addition to government subsidized flour, rice and lentils distributed in the north, east and Nuwara Eliya district. Others are paying for this and suffering acute discrimination, higher indirect taxes and hunger as a result.

These two racist and discriminatory practices must end forthwith. They worsen the hunger problem instead of resolving it.

People in other areas must demand a fair and equitable share. If it is not happening, these two discriminatory policies must be disrupted.

Disgrace on the Government, the WFP and the Government officials who, allowed WFP to carry out this selective, illegal and discriminatory treatment for one community, the Tamils only, in the North, East and Nuwaraeliya.

Disgrace on the Government and the WFP and the Government officials who, allowed this selective treatment for one community, the Tamils only, in this land of the Sinhala people. Both the Government, the public officials responsible for this racial discrimination as well as the WFP officials should be severely dealt with for this criminal discrimination. The Government tender an open apology first and hold a full inquiry immediately in to this blunder and punish the public officials who supported the WFP to carry out this discriminatory dole.

The WFP should have channeled this through the public official, without making the Tamil minorities in the North, East and the Hill country to feel that there is no government in this country who care for them, as far as they are concerned.

 I wish at least one MP in parliament will raise this question and punish the wrongdoers immediately and deport the WFP Officials who carried out this selective discrimination and report them for carrying in anti- government conspiracies within this country.