KAMALIKA PIERIS India did not stop there. India was determined to get a good hold on Sri Lanka . India  used the Tamil Separatist Movement for this. A process of negotiations was begun between the Governments of India and Sri Lanka with India playing the role of an interlocutor bringing the Tamil parties and the […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS JR shot to fame when he spoke at San Francisco Peace Conference in September 1951, where he asked that Japan be forgiven after World War II and reparations forgotten Prime Minister D.S. Senanayake had been invited to participate at the San Francisco Peace Treaty Conference in September 1951, held to propose punitive provisions […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS  KM de Silva observed that the 1977 election was a landmark election, after 1956. JR was responsible for many changes in the political and economic spheres. JR engineered a fresh Constitution for Sri Lanka. The 1977 government appointed a Select Committee of the National State Assembly to consider the revision of the 1972 […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS President J.R.Jayewardene (1978 – 1989) had as his close advisors, two leaders of the Tamil Separatist Movement, A.J.Wilson and Neelan Thiruchelvam. Professor A.J. Wilson served as a constitutional advisor to J.R. from 1978-83.  And Neelan Thiruchelvam was associated with Wilson in discussions with JR. JR would undoubtedly have come under their influence. We […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS J.R.Jayewardene came from an elite family. He was the eldest of twelve children of Justice Eugene Wilfred Jayewardene KC, a prominent lawyer and Agnes Helen Don Philip Wijewardena daughter of Tudugalage Muhandiram Don Philip Wijewardena, a wealthy merchant. He was looked after by a Scottish nurse when a child. When he entered politics, […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS There were demonstrations at Colombo, Kandy, Galle,   Jaffna, Anuradhapura, Kurunegala, Dambulla, Gampaha Matara, Panadura, Ratnapura, Welimada Nuwara Eliya, and Ampara.  There were protests also at Homagama, Piliyandala, Polgahawela , Ragama Minuwangoda Nittambuwa, Jaela, Kantale, Nikaweratiya and Peradeniya, The public  also protested at  Bogawantalawa and Deraniyagala, at Dehiattakandiya and Galnewa, at Kochichikade, and  Meerigama, […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The public must realize that that their beloved Pohottu took over from Yahapalana   only to complete the USA scenario for Sri Lanka. Pohottu is Yahapalana 2, more deadly than Yahapalana 1, because the USA is now in a mighty hurry. The US   feels it must move fast and secure Sri Lanka. China is […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Edward Gunawardena pointed out that terrorism in the north started in the early 1970s. The insurgency in the north parallels the JVP insurgency in the south, said analysts. Both insurgencies probably had the same external influence, and that influence probably was USA. Edward Gunawardena  observed that In May 1972, militant youths tried to […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The LTTE was able to obtain the support of the Tamils living in the north through clever propaganda.   Kumaran Pathmanathan, (KP) said   he had got involved in politics in the 1970s at the early stages of the Tamil youth uprising in the Northern Province. At that time there was much unrest among the […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS By 2002, LTTE had an army (the ground forces), navy (the Sea Tigers), air force (the Air Tigers), and the LTTE intelligence wing (the Tiger Organization Security Intelligence Service, (TOSIS). The LTTE intelligence wing, known as the Tiger Organization Security intelligence Service (TOSIS) was formed in December 1983 and was originally based inChennai. […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS LTTE was a separatist movement poised to take over the north and east.   By 1986, the LTTE had 25 military bases and many more sub-bases within the Northern Province, in the populated areas of Jaffna and in the thick jungles of Vavuniya, reported Joanne Richard (2014). By 1987, roads approaching these bases had […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Since LTTE was not a lawful army, the weapons had to be smuggled in by sea. LTTE smuggled in weapons, including heavy items,    and other equipment such as power generators, by carrying out mid sea transfers, 200 nautical miles off Sri Lanka. They used special semi submersible submarines, capable of carrying 10 tons […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS In the Eelam war, Sri Lanka faced  a brutal, well funded terrorist organizations with a vast range of  sophisticated weapons . These powerful weapons gave the LTTE the appearance of great military strength. A sophisticated, extremely secretive,  weapons procurement system had been set up abroad  and the LTTE had a continuous supply of […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS In 2007 Janes Intelligence Review issued a report on the LTTE, saying that the LTTE had created one of the most sophisticate insurgencies in the world, largely due to a complex global network of financial resources and weapons. It has a financial and procurement structure well organized and strategically positioned around the globe […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The LTTE evolved from a militant Tamil youth group, in the 1970s, to become ‘one of the most powerful terrorist groups in the world’. It challenged the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Sri Lanka state, said admiring supporters of LTTE. We are asked to believe that  a bunch of  village lads from […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Selvarasa Pathmanathan a.k.a. Kumaran Pathmanathan a.k.a. “KP” (b. 1955) was an important figure in the Eelam war. Pathmanathan was a top LTTE official. He was the chief procurer of arms for the LTTE. KP functioned as the chief arms procurement agent for the LTTE throughout the Eelam war, starting from 1984. KP was […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS KP was solely responsible for purchase of new ships for the LTTE. Five or six small freighters were added to the fleet, working under several dummy companies with offices in Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. These were officially to carry timber and grain  KP together with a UK based activists then […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Anton Balasingham (1938 – 2006) played an important role in the Eelam war. Balasingham and his wife influenced, assisted and guided the group from the very beginning, said analysts.  Balasingham spent time with the LTTE leadership, in India in the 1980s and Sri Lanka in the 1990s. By virtue of his close association […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Radical groups of Tamil youth   started operating in the north in the 1970s. ‘Standardization’ radicalized the student population, and organizations such as Tamil Maanavar Peravai (Tamil Students Federation) and Tamil Ilaingar Peravai (Tamil Youth Federation) were formed.  At one time there were nearly 34 groups, big and small, engaged in acts of violence, […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Scratch below the surface of any civil war and there is usually a foreign sponsor to be found, said   analysts. Almost all civil wars have an external dimension. In virtually every case of  political violence within  a third world country,  it is usually  a foreign government that  has  helped to fund, arm, train […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Instead of keeping the UN as a skeleton organization servicing the needs of member states and acting as a meeting place for them, the western powers have piled more and more tasks on the UN system and then funded these activities, creating a great dependency on them to keep the system going. The […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The UN started to take an interest in the Eelam war from Eelam War III onwards.  Eelam War III was from `1995-2002 and Eelam War IV was 2006 -2009 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (not to be confused with UNHRC) was in Sri Lanka in 1987, invited by the Sri Lankan Government […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS revised 26.12.21 The North and East was a part of the   Buddhist civilization of the Anuradhapura kingdom. It was part of the Rajarata and came directly under the rule of the Sinhala king.   Inscriptions show that Abhayagiri had monasteries outside Anuradhapura. Abhayagiri had monasteries at Kantarodai in Jaffna, and at Nedunkerni and Ottimalai […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamil Separatist Movement says it is entitled to self determination and has the right to set up a separate state. The Tamil Separatist Movement cites the often repeated UN statement which says All peoples have the right to self-determination and by virtue of that right to freely determine their political status and […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamil Separatist Movement said that the north and east of Sri Lanka was the homeland of the Ceylon Tamil. The historical reasons for this were examined and dismissed by KM de Silva and GH Pieris in two writings dated 1995 and 1991 respectively.   These two writings completely demolished the homeland argument […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Language became an important element in the formation of new states in Europe in the 19th century. The emphasis was to be on the mother tongue, the language spoken in the home. The first International Statistical Congress of 1853 raised the question of including language in the    Census and the 1873 Congress recommended […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The   Tamil politicians had planned to achieve a separate Tamil state in Ceylon, long before Independence or Sinhala Only. The words Tamil Eelam” was used for the first time in 1923, by Ponnambalam Arunachalam when he spoke before the Tamil League. In this speech he spoke of the ‘desire to preserve our individuality […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Tamil Separatist Movement says it is entitled to ask for a separate state because the Ceylon Tamils are a separate nation”. The concept “nation’ is not a legally recognized concept, nor is it recognized in international law. International law only recognizes the sovereign state. International law does not recognize imaginary nations either. The […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS  SIR JOHN KOTELAWALA Sir John Kotelawala was Prime Minister of Ceylon from 1953 to 1956. He was strongly pro-USA.Nayani Melegoda records that the USA Secretary of State had visited Ceylon when Sir John was Prime Minister, date not given.  Sir John was firmly anti communist. He banned communist books and periodicals from arriving […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS This series contains snippets of information on the Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka collected while researching into social issues. It is a by-product of my main research. The essays include bouquets as well as brickbats. D.S. SENANAYAKE D.S. Senanayake (1884-1952) was the first Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.   DS’s father, Don Spater prospered […]