මතුගම – වසන්ත කුමාර උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම

මේ රටේ මිනිස්සු බලාපොරොත්තු වෙන්නෙ තවත් සභාග ආණ්ඩුවක් නෙවෙයි. රටේ ජනතාව ඉල්ලන්නෙ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් යුතු ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ ආණ්ඩුවක් යැයි කළුතර දිස්ත්‍රික් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රි කුමාර වෙල්ගම පසුගිය 6දා බේරුවලදී කීවේය.

සිසු නැණ ප්‍රණාම 2018 වැඩසටහන යටතේ කළුතර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ පෙර පාසල් ගුරුභවතුන් ඇගයීමේ වැඩසටහනක් පසුගිය හය වැනි දිනට යෙදුණු, ලෝක ගුරු දිනය දා බේරුවල හෙට්ටිමුල්ල අමා උත්සව ශාලාවේදී පැවැත්විණි. එහිදී වෙල්ගම මහතා මෙසේද කීවේය.

එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයත්, ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයත් එකතු වෙලා සභාග ආණ්ඩුවක් හදල රට විනාශ කළා. සභාග ආණ්ඩුවට යන්න බෑ කියලා මේ ආණ්ඩුව දැන් ඔප්පු කරල හමාරයි. ඉතින් ආයෙත් සභාග ආණ්ඩු හදල මේ රට විනාශ කරන්න සූදානම් නැහැ. මැතිවරණයක් තියල පොහොට්ටුවෙ ආණ්ඩුවක් හදනවා.

ඔය කියන සම්මුති ආණ්ඩුවක් හදනවා කියන කතාව මම නම් තවම දන්නෙ නැහැ. හදනවා නම් හදන්නෙ පොහොට්ටුවෙ ආණ්ඩුවක් විතරයි. මේ සභාග ආණ්ඩුවක් පිළිබඳ දූෂමාන කතාවක් මාධ්‍යවල නම් කියැවෙනවා. නමුත් ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ අපේ මන්ත්‍රිවරුන් මේ ගැන තවම දන්නෙ නැහැ.

මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහත්තය එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ දීගෙන් ඉවත් වීම සැක සහිතයි. මේ ගොල්ලො මට නම් කිසිසේත් විශ්වාස නැහැ. කියන දේ නෙවෙයි කරන්නෙ. සභාග හෝ සම්මුති මේ මොන ආණ්ඩුවක් හැදුවත් වෙන්නෙ මන්ත්‍රිවරු මුදලට විකිණීම විතරයි. මේ මිනිස්සු විශ්වාස කරන්න බැහැ. අද අපේ පැත්තෙ ඉඳල හෙට අනෙක් පැත්තට පනිනනවා. ඒ නිසා අපි කියන්නෙ ඡන්දයකට යමු කියලා.

මට ටිකක් දුර පේන කෙනෙක්. මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහත්තය සමඟ හවුල් ආණ්ඩුවකට ගියේ නැත්තෙ ඒ නිසයි. එදා ඒක මා ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කරලා ‍ෙදාට්ට බැස්සම සමහරු මට ‍ෙදාස් කිව්වා ‘තමුසෙට පිස්සු ඔළුව හොඳ නැද්ද? හොඳ කැබිනට් ඇමැතිකමක් අරගන්න තිබුණා’ කියලා. නමුත් මම කියන්න තියෙන දේ කෙළින් කියනවා. එදා මට බැනපු අය අද කියනවා එදා ඔබතුමා ගත්ත තීරණය හරියි කියලා.

මේ කාලෙ මොනතරම් නායකයෝ පත්වුණත් රටේ ලොකු කුඩා හැම දෙනාම අපේක්ෂා කරන නායකයා මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිතුමයි. අද මේ රටේ ආර්ථිකය, සමාජය, නීතිය, පරිපාලනය මේ සේරම කඩාවැටිලා. ඒ විතරක් නෙවෙයි ජාත්‍යන්තරය තුළත් අපේ රට හෑල්ලු වෙලා ගිහිල්ලා.

මිනිස්සු රැවටිලා ඡන්දය දීලා මිනිස්සු විතරක් නෙවෙයි රටම ලොකු අමාරුවක වැටිල තියෙනවා. ආයෙත් අපට මේ අමාරුවෙ වැටෙන්න බැහැ. මොකද දැන් මේ රට මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාගෙ කාලෙ තිබුණට වඩා 30 ගුණයකින් පමණ පස්සට ගිහිල්ලා. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා බලයට ඇවිල්ලත් මේ වසර 30 ආපසු ඉදිරියට ගන්න පහසු කාර්යයක් වෙන්නෙ නැහැ. නමුත් ඒ ශක්තිය ධෛර්ය, වාසනාව මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට තියෙනවා.

කවුරු මොනවා කිව්වත්, මොන විදියට ඡන්ද කල් දාන්න උත්සාහ කළත් 2020 ජනාධිපති මැතිවරණය කල් දාන්න බැහැ. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ මට පේන්නෙ දුටුගැමුණු රජතුමා වගෙයි. රටේ ජනතාව කියන්නෙත් ඒකමයි.

H.L. D. Mahindapala

Of all the migrants that stepped into Sri Lanka to make it their home only the Sinhala-Buddhists created, consolidated and sustained, the mainstream culture that shaped and dominated its history.  No other minority has succeeded in displacing them from the commanding position and power they held in the mainstream down the ages. As a pioneering force the Sinhalese opened up the virgin land for human habitation. The Sihalas”, as named in the Mahavamsa, were conscious of their mission in their new home. They knew their destination. They knew the tasks they had to fulfil as permanent settlers committed to create a new culture, new language and new civilisation. The legacy they left behind speaks silently and eloquently of their commitment and dedication to the land they transformed from a wilderness to a unique civilisation.

The gigantic monuments rising to reach the skies indicate that the dynamic intensity of their commitment to the land was of historic proportions. The deep roots they put down testify that they were not transient travellers or traders passing through to another destination, another homeland. There was no ambiguity in their minds, keeping one foot in Sri Lanka and the other in India from where they came. They were not invaders. They were not marauders. They were not exploiters. They were not conquerors or colonialists. They were the creative force that made our island a fit dwelling-place for men” – a political ideal defined in the Mahavamsa (1:44). In its extended meaning, it is a phrase that summarises the entire range of the provisions in the UN Charter. After all, isn’t the UN Charter designed to make our world a fit dwelling-place for men”? This humane and civilising mission of making our island a fit dwelling-place for men” was stated as a sacred mission, and with absolute clarity and certainty, in the Mahavamsa.

Within this overarching historic architecture the minorities played their secondary and tertiary roles, in particular the Tamils. Despite their repeated boasts about their grandiose role in Sri Lankan history, sometimes claiming pompously that they were the First-comers — even before the birth of Buddha,” said C. V. Wigneswaran, Chief Minister, Jaffna – their history has tagged along at a lower level than that of the Sinhalese. For instance, the history of the Tamils reveals that they did not even possess a deep, or cohesive sense of history rooted in Jaffna soil. They were in two minds, not knowing whether their homeland was in Jaffna or across the Palk Strait. The latter-day claims of Tamil nationalism” was visible only in the post-Chelvanayakam  period. Their hearts and minds were in S. India while their hollow physical frame walked in Jaffna, unwilling to sever the umbilical cord that tied them to their one and only homeland. Worst of all, they were not even aware that there was no written record that could comprehensively authenticate their real or imagined roles in Sri Lankan history.

They feel more aggrieved when they realise that their own Tamil historians have failed to provide them with a comprehensive history to either look back with pride or look forward with hope. Complaining that the Tamils did not actively pursue a systematic study of their past”, Tamil historian, Dr. Murugar Gunasingam, wrote : The most important single shortcoming at this time (2008) is that no historian, archaeologist, or even a social  scientist, whether Sinhalese, Tamil, or western scholar has written a complete and comprehensive account of the history of the Tamils in Sri Lanka.” (p. 14 –Tamils in Sri Lanka, Comprehensive History (C. 300 B.C. – C. 2000 A. D), MV Publications, South Asian Studies Centre, 2008). Then listing the various books written on Jaffna by Tamil scholars he adds: As the above discussion has revealed, no overall or comprehensive history of the Tamils in Sri Lanka has yet been written. Scholars seem to have limited their research to their specialised areas of expertise.” (p.17 – Ibid).

Dr. Gunasingam is credible not only because he is a Tamil historian but also because he makes his confession after combing the archives and libraries in Holland, Portugal, America, UK, India, and Sri Lanka. This confession should send shock waves among the Tamils who never fail to boast about their great history”, great learning”, and their overall claims of being superior to all other communities. After crowing about a great past, particularly as the First-comers who arrived before the birth of Buddha, how was it that they failed to produce a scholarly and comprehensive history book until 2008 when Dr. Gunasingam produced his book, Tamils in Sri  Lanka, emphasising in the subtitle that it is A Comprehensive History (C. 300 B.C. – C. 2000 A. D.)”.  Dr. Gunasingam trots out several excuses for the failure of the Tamils to produce a comprehensive history. Predictably he blames the active Sinhala scholars researching and writing comprehensive histories with the backing of the Government. He even accuses the Government of hampering Tamil researchers. But the same governments had established two Tamil universities.

The Jaffna University was established in 1974. Apart from teaching universities are expected to do research. Why couldn’t Jaffna University write a history during the 44 years of its existence? They could have completed a Tamil history even if they wrote half a page every day. As usual Dr. Gunasingam blames the Sinhalese for the failure of the Tamils to produce their history. But the Tamils are not shy to claim in their writings what the Sinhalese has done as their history.

This also reflects the Tamil tendency to sweep under the carpet the oppressive internal dynamics within Jaffna that had stunted their growth.  Jaffna Tamil politics has survived and thrived exclusively on blaming the Sinhalese. They never had any viable or credible agenda other than pointing the finger at the Sinhalese. Even when the Tamils fail to write their own history they blame the Sinhalese. They refuse to consider the fact that the Jaffna University chased out the first professor of history, Prof. K. Indrapala, for writing a history that was not palatable to the Tamils. Jaffna either killed or cleansed academics / intellectuals who did not toe the line of the ruling elite. One Vice-Chancellor was forced to quit his job because he was a low-caste. Rajini Thiranagama of the Medical Faculty was shot when she was cycling home because she was critical of the LTTE. Another academic with all the requisite qualifications for an academic post in Jaffna University was rejected because he was a Christian. Dr. Gunasingam embraced Prof. Indrapala after he recanted and re-wrote a new version of Tamil history aimed at  polishing the image of the Tamils. Tragically, Jaffna which produced the biggest killers of Tamils, from Sankili to Prabhakaran, could not produce a single historian who could write, on his own steam, a comprehensive history of their past. Isn’t it time that the Jaffna Tamils, who claim to have been here from the dawn of time,  sat down to consider what  is wrong with their own culture that failed to produce a comprehensive history for so long?

However, it should be noted that there are many papers and monographs written on various aspects of Jaffna society, politics, religion, caste etc. But they do not add up to a comprehensive or panoramic survey of the history of Jaffna. Yalpana Vaipava Malai, for instance, remains as the questionable and mythical history of Jaffna written on the back of a stamp. In the minds of the Tamils, it is, more or less, the equivalent of Mahavamsa. But poet Mylvaganam did not write it on his own volition like Venerable Bede of England or Bhikku Mahanama of Sri Lanka, both of whom were inspired by the values and the greatness of their civilisations. Mylvaganam wrote it because he was commissioned by the Dutch Governor Jan Maccara (1736) to produce an account of Jaffna for him to understand the lie of the land.

So writing the history of the Tamils in Jaffna has a rather curious history. As stated by Dr. Gunasingam, foreigners and Sri Lankans were falling over each other to write the history of the Sinhalese and the Buddhists, but not that of the Tamils. Why? If nobody had bothered to write about it could it be because it was not that great? Or because the Tamils did not have a sense of history because they were more committed to their homeland in S. India than their temporary residence in Jaffna? In any case, what is the worth of a people without a history? Why is it that the ground realities of Tamil history do not corroborate the assumed arrogance of Tamil greatness? Could it be that they were dragged all the way to Nandikadal because they were imbued with a politicised history that was miles away from the ground realities? Have not the Tamils lost the plot and gone  down the wrong path – all  the way to Nandikadal – because their leaders were misled by their own boastful propaganda which they thought (mistakenly, no doubt) was their history? Or, as stated by Prof. Kumar David, were the Tamil leaders congenital idiots” who, with their peninsular minds, thought that they could force their version of history down the throats of the nation which had produced a great and unique civilisation, way beyond that of the ant hills of the Tamils? Are the Tamils lying in the present state of despondency because they do not know how to climb out of the fake history into which they have fallen?

Faced with the monumental achievements of the Sinhalese, Tamil historians take refuge under the excuse of limited resources. Historians S. Arasaratnam and Dr. Gunasingam both fork out this excuse to cover up the failure of Tamils to rise beyond the level of mediocre copy cats of the grand and great Dravidian civilisations of S. India. In hiding behind this lame excuse they ignore the magnificent architectural marvels of ancient Egypt built in the middle of a dry desert which is barren as the waterless moon.

In the absence of a credible excuse the most common line of defence of the Tamils has been to attack the Sinhala-Buddhist history. Belittling Sinhala-Buddhist history has been their way of feeling superior to the Sinhala-Buddhists. They defend their greatness by claiming everything great in the Sinhala-Buddhist culture. They claim that the Sinhala-Buddhist civilisation was either initiated by the Tamils or nurtured by the Tamils. They claim that they were the founding fathers of Sri Lankan history by coming first, before even Buddha was born. They claim that they laid the foundations of the Sinhala-Buddhist culture and civilisation with their Dravidian contributions. They claim that even the Sinhala language was born out of Tamil words.

I am prepared to concede all that proudly because the Sinhalese possessed the creative genius, like all other great cultures and civilisation, to borrow from other cultures and civilisations, and produce a unique culture and civilisation of their own. Cultures that failed to borrow stagnated in their own billabongs like the aboriginal cultures, or, in some ways, like that of Jaffna which stagnated in the shadow of the overwhelming S. Indian culture. Jaffna failed to rise to a higher level because they were smugly resting on the laurels of the culture of S. India.

Whenever they claimed the greatness of the Tamils they meant the greatness of culture made in the history of S. India and not in Jaffna. For instance, when the Tamils talk of the Tamil revivalism under Arumuka Navalar and C. V. Thamotherampillai it meant, in short, the unearthing the buried and neglected sacred texts of S. India and publishing those texts in Jaffna for an audience that knew nothing about it. They did not produce any Tamil classics of their own which could add to the glory of the Jaffnaites. Jaffna was born and always remained as a pale imitation of the S. Indian culture. It never produced a genius that shone like a beacon across the Tamil landscape. Jaffna always basked in the reflected glory of S. Indian culture without contributing any original or significant creations – the hallmarks of a great civilisation. Jaffna was always sandwiched between two great cultures: the Dravidian culture of S. India in the North and the Sinhala-Buddhist culture in the south. Jaffnaites were Lilliputians who pretended to be Gullivers without any stature to back up their boastful claims.

1. P. Lewis, one of the keen analysts and prolific writers in the British colonial administration (he was the Government Agent of the Northern Province and left Ceylon in 1910 ) summed up the roles of the two communities in a very sharp observation. He was commenting on the work done in a dance hall in Galle. The work was done by the Sinhalese and Tamils. Having seen  the roles of both communities he wrote :  It is curious how the unfortunate Sinhalese to whom the credit of decorations were due are always overshadowed by the more widely known Tamils who are their fellow islanders” – p.51, Ceylon in Early British Times, J.P. Lewis, CMG, Government Agent of Northern Province.

Lewis’ observation is applicable on a large scale to the history of the nation. Starting from the late 20^th century the Tamil ideologues have laboured routinely and consistently to grab the headlines with their exaggerated claims of greatness. C. V. Wigneswaran, former judge of the Supreme Court and now Chief Minister of the Northern Province and Dr. Gunasingam are two peas in this jingoistic pod rooted in Jaffna. In their attempt to downgrade the monumental achievements of the Sinhalese both project Tamils as the great makers of Sri Lankan history. Though Dr. Gunasingam has done some useful research and put together his Tamils-are-great perspective in his book written to rescue the image of the Tamils, it only confirms, in the last analysis, the essence of Lewis’ cutting remark: the Sinhalese do the hard work and the Tamils come out screaming that it was all done by them.

By Charles.S.Perera

The West which speaks of a Christian Civilization is today with nothing to give to the world by way of Christian love, but death and disaster, through bombs, economic sanctions, trade embargoes, threats for violation of human rights, and political interference into developing countries without helping  them in their efforts for development.

It is in the light of this situation of the Western countries in their self centred  greed for power without concern for the people in less fortunate circumstances, that His Eminence the Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal  Malcolm Ranjith spoke out his thoughts before a congregation.

The Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, is honest and says what he thinks is right without being bound by religious pedagogy. The statement recently attributed to him  as having been made after a morning service at St. Mathew’s Roman Catholic Church in Ekala, that the West is now making human rights their religion,  is not untrue.

It was neither taking on the West or a sharp  criticism of it,  but stating what had been going on far too long without anyone dare tell the West the stark fact of their stand vis-à- vis human rights devoid of  love and generosity.

A Sri Lankan would understand  the truth of it  seeing how the West reacted to the  elimination of terrorism by a strong willed government with its most patriotic Armed Forces-efficient and humanitarian,  that the World had not seen before any where amoung even the Armed Forces of the mighty West.

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has been nurtured in the peaceful Buddhist Culture of Sri Lanka and his religious views takes  a greater dimension than those of the West. The Tamil political maniacs like Sumanthiran,Sampandan, Wigneswaran et al should learn a lesson from his Eminence the Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith., but they still remain leaning to barbarity  of penance demanding Gods such as Kali.

The West already had a problem with a religion, as they had been denied the God of the Bible who had His own chosen people- the Israelites.

Beginning from the Romans who believed in oracles, the West  wanted the belief in a God who is symbolic of  both love and fear when they became conquerors to keep the conquered under control of an unseen God who keeps an eye on them. The religion they sought was for political  exigencies than to satisfy a spiritual need. They were denied the Biblic God who had his own chosen people the Israelites.

The New Testament is alluded to Apostle Paul, but there are those who say  that half of it is forged.

Others allude the writing of the New Testament to an  aristocratic Roman Family Piso who wanted to keep,”………control over the masses and placate slaves….” It provided a son and a wife to the God of the Bible, which the Israelites refused to accept as it was a sacriiedge scandalising their God to have had a son from a virgin. (https://www.konformist.com/blasphemy/piso.htm)

The West had gone round the world conquering nations converting the indigen to their faith by threat of being burnt alive at stake those who refuse to accept their God. The unfortunate Inquisition that mars the Western civilization cannot be erased from history. Now the divine madness has gone to the heads of the ISIS who kill non-believers  in the name of their God.

The West not wanting to  Kill in the name of their God in whose name they become Santa Clauses for Christmas, has invented human rights as their new religion in order to kill to satisfy their urge to be the leaders of the World, undaunted by the presence of an all loving God..

The wealth of the West is spent in producing material to destroy the humanity. They are  prompted in pursuing this destructive new spiritual adventure  through  their great desire, craving (tanha) for  global power, moved by anger, hatred and jealousy  (dosa)on the delusion (moha)  that they are chosen” to be the global leaders.

UK and USA economic Sanctions are said to have caused the death of half a million children in Iraq.  But has USA learnt any lessons from its grandiose imposition of sanctions. It has not.  It continues its sanctions now on Iran and Russia. These sanctions and trade embargoes finally affect the people of the countries concerned and the West is least concerned with the suffering they endure to people through their political vengeance from the Governments.

(https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/mar/04/weekend7.weekend9

NATO forces in order to remove the Libyan Leader bombed Libya killing undeclared numbers of civilians. (https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/world/africa/scores-of-unintended-casualties-in-nato-war-in-libya.html)

In Libya alone massive bombing by the NATO Forces was the most destructive, with statistics that boggle the mind. It is worth reading these articles to understand the hypocrisy of the Godless West.  In Sri Lanka the West refused to accept our” terrorists as such, instead  treating them as freedom fighters”. 

In a country there are always a small number of dissatisfied elements who are ready to take arms against the Authorities. They could be handled by the security forces of the country and bring them under control. But this becomes difficult when foreign forces of the West get hold of these dissatisfied elements and support them against the Governments to initiate Regime Change. This is what happened in Libya and Syria.

But in Sri Lanka fortunately under the Presidency of Mahinda Rajapakse the Foreign elements could not intervene in support  of the terrorists.  That resulted in  the West going all out for a regime change in Sri Lanka in Cooperation with India, brining in Yahapalanaya which has become an alley of the West against its own country.

Under such circumstances, is it not justified that we question what civilised God the West with such disastrous mentalities  follow?  It cannot be the God the Christian Civilisation speaks about. Therefore His Eminence Archbishop Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith cannot be blamed for stating that  the West has made Human Rights their new religion.

His Eminence added ..that the West needs not teach human rights to our island. We are a nation that has cherished human rights concept in our culture, in our religions: “They (the West) keep it on their heads and keep preaching to us saying human rights, human rights, as though it is something new. Human rights were found recently. If we can live in a correct manner there is no need for human rights. Those who do not practice religion are the ones who hang on human rights. We should not be deceived by these charms.”

The West tried its best with David Miliband, Bernard Kouchner, and Hillary Clinton trio to save the Sri Lanka terrorist leadership. Having failed they made Sri Lanka their major target of attack reducing a thirty year terrorism to just a week or two of the last phase of the elimination of terrorists to make it the vital period to accuse Sri Lanka Armed Forces for violation of Human rights, and war crimes.

Thus the most evident period of terrorism for which only the terrorists could be blamed has been deliberately left out, highlighting only the last phase where the terrorists had been brought under control and driven into a small area, and the Armed Forces took over the control of the terrorists. During that period the Armed Forces had evacuated nearly  300 000 thousand civilian Tamils kept as human shields by the terrorists, Any civilians that died during that period could have been by the haphazard gunfire by the terrorists in their last ditch fight to save themselves.

Nearly ten years after, the West is still trying to take revenge from Sri Lanka for eliminating ‘their” freedom fighters.-our terrorists.

Their new religion –the human rights has a Child Jesus”, which is Reconciliation, which they now keep harping on demanding Sri Lanka to hasten to the satisfaction of the Tamil polititians and the Tamils of the Diaspora..

The USA and the West  having passed a resolution sponsored by a foolish Yahapalanaya Government which the West set up as their puppet regime,  now wants Sri Lanka to reconcile with the terrorists to give them a separate Tamil only Province an Eelam, which was the Objective  for which the Tamil terrorists terrorised Sri Lanka for thirty years.

UK State Minister Mark Field  speaks out against Sri Lanka’s slow progress in its reconciliation with the Tamil politicians and the anti Sri Lanka Tamil Diaspora. Their Notre Dame of Human Rights” is the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, where the Tamil Trans National Government and Tamil Eelam which the former US Ambassador for Sri Lanka Robert O’Blake helped the Tamil Diaspora to organize, plays a major role against Sri Lanka .

While the UK State Minister Mark Field  worries about slow progress of reconciliation in Sri Lanka, the Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soreide commends Sri Lanka continuing to set an example to the world  on Peace and Reconciliation. So what mored does the UK State Minister Mark Field want ?

The West is lost both spiritually and politically. They cannot check the rising of China both as a  world leader politically and economically,  but also as a military power.. That ascension of China was through friendly diplomacy, helping developing countries,  providing them loans on low interest rates and respecting the Sovereignty of the countries without interfering into internal affairs of the countries.

Where as USA and the west interfered with the internal affairs of the developing countries giving loans to entrap them in debt, and thereby make use of those countries as states indebted to the West, for their own  political, and economic gain.

The USA unable to compete with China accuses China of  a «  debt diplomacy” for taking over the Hambantota Harbour from  Sri Lanka to use it extend China’s military power to the Indian Ocean. What does USA intend to do,  Impose Sanctions or send their  mighty warships to keep China in check ?

Sudath Gunasekara
8.10. 2018.

Could someone find out the details about the foreign trips President Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinha have undertaken (separately) after they assumed Office in 2015.

Also the amount of public funds spent on these trips from government coffers and the benefits the country has got from these trips. Other than the sell outs in the form of PTAA etc and it would be interesting to make a cost benefit analysis of their trips. Of cause benefit to them and the country separately

It would also be interesting to how much they have spent on their heli tours inside the country and for what purpose they have gone

In my opinion the benefit to the country is almost zero. As for me their foreign sojourns are just like Neeros playing the fiddle while Rome was in fire. I wonder whether there is any country big and small they have not visited during these three years.

Now look this time both of them have gone out together when the whole country is on fire, Pm to Europe to get advice from those nations who have plundered this Island nation for centuries and continue to destroy and destabilize even now. The President on the last lap of his crazy foreign sojourns, on the other hand has gone to sychillese Islands a country with only 157.3 sq Km and about 70,000 people to improve bilateral trade and perhaps foreign assistance to rescue the Central Bank

The way they have been globetrotting alternatively competing against each other, while not doing anything at home  to lift up the country other than infighting and taking revenge from their political opponents, that has been the hallmark of their 4 years of adventures  miss-government. I propose this report should be tabled in Parliament and published so that the voters of this country will know how much pain their elected leaders have taken to develop the country and to improve living standards of the people.

Sri Lanka Government slow to return land” says Human Rights Watch in an 80 page report titled Why can’t we go home”: Military occupation of land in Sri Lanka”. HRW refers to land owned only by Tamils & occupied only by the national army. This is a major faux pas on the part of a supposed to be unbiased rights organization.

Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director of HRW says all those displaced during Sri Lanka’s brutal civil war are entitled to return to their homes”.

Ms. Ganguly you need to correct your statement. Was there a civil war in Sri Lanka? NO.

There were no two communities fighting with each other to warrant ‘civil’ if it was civil why designate LTTE as a terrorist? Or what place does the LTTE if it is a civil war? How can the armed forces defeat LTTE if it is a civil war?

HRW mentions ‘civil war’ 2

Who does Ms. Gangulay classify as displaced during this conflict? We would like her to make clear about this.

• Tamils
• Muslims
• Sinhalese
• Or LTTE?

Despite repeated pledged by the authorities, the military has been frustratingly slow to restore land to its rightful owners”.

How certain is the HRW that these are rightful owners? Do they have land deeds? Do they have proof that they lived there for a minimum of 10 years which is a requirement to claim any right? No report and no human rights organization can demand a state to give any land if there has been no proof of anyone owning the land & occupying it.

Have HRW posed this question to the US, UK & NATO forces forcibly occupying not only lands but entire countries in their illegal military interventions?

This 80 page report is based on 100 interviews – who are these people being interviewed. Are they Tamils, Sinhalese, Muslims or only LTTE?

So HRW finds fault in 300,000 people ending up in ‘military detention camp’ but it seems quite alright with LTTE herding these people for months to use as hostages/human shields. HRW & Ms. Ganguly being a lady should be wondering how the females & female children survived for months being dragged by the LTTE to all corners without proper clothing, sanitary welfare or sanitary items etc… why has no one highlighted these aspects when LTTE were taking these females with them? In what context can the HRW claim these camps to be ‘detention camps’ when the then government opened even banks inside the camp for the Tamils to deposit their gold, when tuition classes & extra curricular activities were arranged… HRW should not chirp anything that is being parroted by people trying to discredit the government that carried out a military offensive while saving close to 300,000 people – name any western army that has achieved such?

Ms. Ganguly’s attention is directed to the interview by HRW’s own Anna Neistat a senior researcher http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C3uYsnHIkw

Anna Neistat confirms that LTTE were not allowing civilians to leave, HRW had ‘documented cases where LTTE shot at peace trying to leave the area” – were these handed to the OISL or the UN? Can Ms. Ganguly please respond? She also states that LTTE placed their positions in front of the camps of the displaced persons & hospitals” – were these facts given by HRW to the Ban Ki Moon panel or the OISL?

The HRW also refers to military involved in non-military activity can HRW deny that the US army doesn’t have agricultural development teams? http://www.sciencediplomacy.org/article/2014/us-army-agriculture-development-teams

There are more than 330,000 civilian military employees (Army Civilian Service)

No land can be released simply because the President makes a proclamation to please the international community until it is proved that it has a civilian ownership.

Every government has the right to declare areas as national security & no one can question their right to do so. Does HRW question military deployments by US in any parts of the world & demand these be returned to the rightful owners? Does HRW question the placement of US, NATO or UK troops in the status of forces agreements? So why only Sri Lanka, is it because Sri Lanka has weak & meek leaders and anyone can bully them into appeasing?

HRW must realize that the initial decision to set up camps in the North & East were to quell illegal immigration & transportation of illegal items from Tamil Nadu & other areas of India. Today, because of the bullying to reduce camps & virtually putting the fear of the devil into our brave soldiers the Mannar area has become a paradise for illicit drugs & illicit items coming in from Kerala & Tamil Nadu – is this what those who want to remove naval & military deployment want. We are well aware that the Mannar / Puttalam areas where encroachments are taking place is strategically close to the Malwatu Oya basin the cradle of our civilization. To weaken our defences & allow any miscreants to enter the country? Wouldn’t that give the justification for countries to declare ‘terrorists’ have arrived & land to save our people just like these countries landed to liberate the Libyans, liberate the Iraqis & supposed to be liberating the Syrians and look at the bloody mess these countries are in.

Who is this Francis Crooss that the HRW is quoting. Who has prevented him from going back home? Firstly where is his home? And why can’t he go back? Well he may not be able to go back if he has been involved in LTTE as the people in some of th villages in the North & East are now taking out their anger on the LTTE for their suffering. Velvettiturai recently went to the streets to protest against Sivajilingam putting up a commemoration stone for a dead LTTEr so we can now see the Tamils are now becoming braver and feel no fear of the LTTE or their stooges any more.

Its interesting that HRW mentions 1990 – this is the very year that the Muslims & Sinhalese were chased out of the North by LTTE. Why has HRW not mentioned a single Muslim or Sinhalese by name. HRW is not paid to look into the interests of only the Tamils in this case it is not even Tamils but LTTE families. Every interview statement HRW makes is purposely directed to convey that GOSL has stolen the lands, the Army is not giving the lands & no mention is made about the LTTE forcibly chasing Muslims & Sinhalese & confiscating their lands.

So tell us HRW – thousands of Muslims & Sinhalese were chased out by the LTTE. What happened to their homes, their property & their lands? Who owns them? LTTE & their families? So are you going to help these Muslims & Sinhalese get back their lost lands, lost homes & lost properties?

Many of these Muslims & Sinhalese had been living in the North even before independence & they had sent their grievances with proof to the UNHRC for the OISL investigation. Where are their grievances – in the UNHRC OISL dustbin? Why have no recommendations for the return of these people being made?

It is interesting that HRW has documented cases of properties destroyed by the military ‘after the war’ and they claim to have included hindu temples, churches, mosques & even Buddhist shrines…have they done the same for all structures destroyed by LTTE? Has HRW documented the many Buddhist archaeological sites that are being bulldozed by TNA MPs in kilinochchi, mullaitivu & other areas of the North with even the Government being totally silent about it. Can HRW watch produce these cases & why have they not documented all of the renovations done by the army after the conflict on kovils, churches, mosques & Buddhist shrines?

HRW to be credible must take up credible cases with honesty. Yes, the government has to be pressurized into looking after displaced people, but this has to be genuine cases of displaced. Let HRW not neglect to acknowledge that the LTTE defacto rule of the north was severe upon not high caste Tamils but to low caste & poor Tamils. It was from these homes that they plucked children to turn into child soldiers, it was to their towns that the LTTE denied electricity & basic comforts, not even a radio was allowed to be used because the people would realize what the LTTE were doing elsewhere in the country. The LTTE had guns, their cadres were wicked, their families thought they were the cats whiskers & they bullied all other non-LTTE Tamils. Just imagine the scenario of how people would have suffered.

The HRW refers to partial release’ what exactly are they trying to convey – how certain is the HRW of Tamils not being displaced by LTTE for their military manoevres? How many Tamils would have been chased out or killed simply for LTTE to set up their camps – where is the documentation on this or does HRW not wish to tabulate these?

In the manner that the HRW has quoted the supposed to be Sinhalese displaced it is quite interesting that the blame is only pointed at the army so we can but raise an eyebrow as to who chose these ‘witness victims’ & the veracity of their allegations especially in the light of LTTE not being accused of confiscating lands & property that are today occupied by LTTE families.

Can we have success stories of HRW providing relief to Iraqi’s, Libyans, Syrians, Afghans, Haitians, Somalians and a whole list of other countries where US, UK & NATO troops as well as their sponsored armed ‘rebel’ groups who are trying to dislodge governments & place puppets in power where the people are displaced, their lands have been taken & they are living in ‘concentration camps’ or ‘detention centres’ – how much relief has HRW provided these with examples please

Shenali D Waduge

LTTE war crimes: Another witness – Anna Neistat of HRW

https://www.onlanka.com/news/ltte-war-crimes-another-witness-anna-neistat-of-human-rights-watch.html

http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/SL-Government-slow-to-return-land-HRW-156620.html

Living in Fear : Child soldiers & the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka – https://www.hrw.org/report/2004/11/10/living-fear/child-soldiers-and-tamil-tigers-sri-lanka

A lot of people are coming forward to give their expert opinions on how the war should have been fought. You wonder at times, where were all these people when LTTE were carrying out suicide attacks, assassinations & bombing missions throughout 3 decades. Why could they have not come out with all these templates for conflict resolution & solutions before people were getting killed? Where were they & what role did they play when LTTE were on a killing rampage. Every penny that should have gone to develop Sri Lanka was diverted to fighting terror. Why is LTTE not being held accountable for this?

LTTE evolved into a global network – LTTE comprised not just the leader Prabakaran, his ground force but LTTE had its representatives placed overseas and throughout the country who were handling logistics, propaganda, promotion & communication, financing & illegal & legal activities which generated the funds for them to fight, maintain their cadres, buy over influential people to speak on behalf of them & carry out bogus humanitarian/charity initiatives that would camouflage & cover their true colours. None of the people who were covertly & overtly involved in these activities are being investigated and no one seems to be wanting to hold them to account for their aiding & abetting terror, top on the list is TNA that LTTE created to be its political wing.

Advertising agencies will be funded to come up with fancy slogans & initiatives but how much of these cover the truth

Can the Office of Missing Persons/Office of Reparations tell us

• How can people ever return to their original state when half of the story is kept hidden? When the culpabilities of the culprits are swept under the carpet, when people who openly promoted & spoke on behalf of LTTE terrorists get away without any accountability?

• Who should be paid compensation – certainly not LTTE cadres or their families. How can the Office of Reparations be certain that the people they are recommending for compensation had zero links with the LTTE? Anyone with links to LTTE cannot be privy to state compensation without being charged for their murders

• Rehabilitation of LTTE cadres was done by the previous government under a locally-designed program and many LTTE cadres & child soldiers returned to normal lives & their families & some were even able to complete their studies & start a living. None of these efforts can reduce or dilute the State’s obligation to look after the war heroes who sustained life-long injuries having sacrificed their lives to fight the enemy. People who were literarily hiding under the bed in fear of LTTE have no business to talk like lions after LTTE has been defeated & find fault with how the army ended LTTE. If not for the Armed Forces we would still be living in fear of bombs going off & suicide missions

• The public of Sri Lanka do not require to make any apology to anyone except the war heroes if we have neglected to look after them & for the silence in the manner they are being hurled into prison without charges against them & denied bail & even their salaries. While they are being treated like this the government is more than happy to offer blanket amnesties for the terrorists. How fair is this & no righteous citizen can agree to the manner the government is following double standards. Whatever said and done the national army deserves a special place above an internationally banned terrorist movement that has not been held accountable for its crimes over 30 years.

• If there is to be any Truth Commission at all every name & individual/organization etc that had links to LTTE must be named & shamed with the assurance that legal action would be taken against them for aiding & abetting terror

• LTTE & their families cannot be accepted as victims. Therefore reparations must be given Only to every non-LTTE linked Tamil, non-LTTE linked Sinhalese, non-LTTE liked Muslim, non-LTTE linked Burgher. No civilian who was part of the LTTE civilian brigade can be given compensation, no civilian that took part in hostilities & died can be given compensation & their families are not entitled to compensation either, no LTTE who fought in civilian clothing & died can be given compensation, no LTTE who fought & died can be given compensation, no LTTEr running to foreign shores & in hiding, taking false identity & pretending to be a missing civilian is entitled to compensation either,

• Any Tamil civilian killed by LTTE trying to flee LTTE should realistically be looked after by the LTTE fronts who are having a whale of a time enjoying the LTTE kitty.

• So far no one has been able to give us numbers as to who & how many were actually killed & by whom

• How many did LTTE kill in the last phase
• How many did the Armed Forces kill in the last phase – how many of these were LTTE cadres & how many were real civilians (not involved in any form of LTTE act)
• How many of the close to 300,000 saved by the Armed Forces were LTTE, were civilians who helped LTTE & were real civilians who took no part in LTTE terror acts
• How many people actually died – we know the number of dead in the army during the final phase but the common allegation is that there are 40,000 dead non Army – but no one has produced 40,000 names or details of the dead & th Office of Missing/Reparations have no right to be giving blanket cheques of compensation without ascertaining who is who!
• How many LTTE cadres died fighting in civilian clothing – none of these can be given any compensation.
• How many in LTTE’s civilian brigade died in combat – none of these can be given any compensation too.

• No government can force the tax payer to pay compensation to terrorists.
• No public officials who are paid to do their duty honorably & with integrity can make recommendations WITHOUT giving us a proper breakdown & details of those they claim as civilians. These public officials have no business to give terrorists compensation from public funds.
• No public official can recommend compensation without holding LTTE to book for their crimes in particular when there are calls for tribunals against the national army who were only defending the nation & its citizens.
• No public official can deem their job well done simply by writing blanket cheques & forgiving every LTTE but charging after the armed forces! There cannot be retributive justice to the Armed Forces & Restorative Justice to the LTTE. LTTE were the non-state actors, banned by 32 nations & Sri Lanka who had committed criminal acts over 30 years these have to be taken up first before the allegations targeted at the armed forces. If there are allegations against the armed forces the military must be given these allegations & asked to hold a military trial & if based on reliable evidence & guilt proven beyond doubt is established against any soldier & no action is taken by the Sri Lanka Armed Forces, only then should alternate action be recommended.

Therefore, moving forward the Missing Persons Office/Reparations Office must realize that the victims of the conflict are NOT ONLY TAMILS, NOT ONLY LTTE as is the common notion that we are forced to believe & accept.

Tamils died not by Sri Lanka Armed Forces alone. LTTE killed plenty of Tamils and some of these Tamils were noteable & valuable persons to Sri Lankan society the name of Lakhsman Kadiragamar is one such.

The real victims are the people that the illegal armed groups targeted & killed. Their rights should be looked into first. Their grievances should be addressed first NOT those of the LTTE or their families.

NO story can close without justice being served. Justice must be not only said to be done but be seen to be done as well. Therefore, the real victims must be looked after first. The real victims are NOT the LTTE, Not the LTTE families, Not the families of people linked to LTTE.

What the Office of Missing & Reparations cannot forget is that even foreign intelligence have acknowledged that the LTTE ideology & LTTE international networks are functioning still inspite of LTTE defeat. We know by the manner that the banned LTTE fronts are functioning even inside the UN & among UNHRC officials that money is a strong influencer in the inaction of authorities against them. Over and above this it is the representatives of these fronts that are meeting not only our government representatives by foreign envoys & UN officials but are making the identical demands made by LTTE and endorsed by the Tamil political leadership. In such a scenario it is quit laughable that we are extending the laurel which the demands of the LTTE & the separatist demands of the Tamil leadership continues.

Let us not live in any fairyland & create more problems that cannot be solved. We believe that officials given public roles & paid by the state are paid to protect the interests of the country & the citizens and not the elements trying to divide or separate the country.

Shenali D Waduge

විමල් පටබැඳිගේ(ශාස්ත්‍රවේදි, නීතීඥ සහ විශ්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර්)

දැනට වසර තුනක පමණ කාලයක සිට භික‍ෂූන් වහන්සේ විශාල පිරිසක් බැඳුම්කර මත (ඇප මත) මුදාහැරීම නොකොට රණෂිත බන්ධනාගාර ගත කිරීම, අධිකරණය කි්‍රයාවලියට යටත් කිරීම සහ බරපතල වැඩ සහිත දැඩි ද`ඩුවම් පමුණුවා බන්ධනාගාරයට යැවීම සුලබ කරුණක් බවට පත්ව ඇත. ඉන් වැඩි පිරිසක් පොලීසිය මගින් අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන අධිකරණ කි්‍රයාවලියට යටත් කොට ඇත්තේ දණ්ඩනීති සංග්‍රහයේ දැක්වෙන ඇප දීමට නොහැකි මහා බරපතල අපරාධ කිරීම නිසා හෝ අල්ලස් ගැනීම්, කොමිස් ගැනීම්, රාජ්‍ය මුදල් ගසාකෑම්, මහජන දේපල අවභාවිතය, මත් ද්‍රව්‍ය විකිණීම වැනි මහා අපරාධ කිරීම නිසා නොවේ. රටේ යහපත වෙනුවෙන්, රටවැසියාගේ වර්තමාන සහ අනාගත යහපත වෙනුවෙන්, බෞද්ධයන්ට සහ බෞද්ධ සිද්ධස්ථානවලට සිදු කෙරෙන අපරාධවලට එරෙහිව සහ රටේ ඒකීය භාවය රැකගැනීමට දිවි පරදුවට තබා ත්‍රස්තවාදය මර්ධනය කොට රටවැසියාට සාමය උදා කළ රණවිරුවන් සිරගත කිරීමේ අසාධාරණයට එරෙහිව අදහස් ප්‍රකාශ කිරීම නිසාය. ඒ කෙසේ වෙතත් මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් විග්‍රහ කිරීම හෝ විවේචනය කිරීම මෙහි අරමුණ නොවේ.

අධිකරණයට අපහාස කිරීමේ වරදක් සිදු කරන ලදැයි චෝදනා නගා නඩුව විමසා වරදකරු කොට 2018 අගෝස්තු මස 8 වෙනි දින භික‍ෂූන් වහන්සේ නමක් බරපතල වැඩ සහිතව වසර දහනවයක (19) ද`ඩුවමක් නියම කොට වසර හයකට සිරගත කරන ලදී. නඩු තීන්දුවට එරෙහිව අභියාචනයක් කරනු ලැබූ විට බැඳුම්කරයක් මත (ඇප මත) වරදකරු මුදා හැරීම සහ නඩු තීන්දුව කි්‍රයාත්මක කිරීම තාවකාලිකව අත්හිටුවීම යුක්ති ධර්මයට අනුකූල අධිකරණමය පියවරකි. එහෙත් අභියාචනයක් ගොනු කොට මාස දෙකක පමණ දිගු කලක් ගත වී ඇත ද එය සලකා බැලීම ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය විසින් 28.09.2018 දිනයේ ද 05.10.2018 දිනට කල් තැබූ බව වාර්තා වී ඇත. (මේ නඩුවේ පැමිණිලිකරු අධිකරණයේ නිලධාරියෙකි. චෝදනාව අධිකරණයට අපහාස කිරීම ය. නඩුව මෙහෙය වූයේ අධිකරණ නිලධාරියෙකි. සාක‍ෂිකරුවන් සියලූදෙනාම වාගේ අධිකරණ නිලධාරීන් ය. විනිශ්චය කළේ අධිකරණ නිලධාරීන් විසිනි. තමන්ගේ නඩුව තමන් ම අසා තීන්දු කොට ද`ඩුවම් කිරීමට අදාල මූලධර්මයක් ස්වභාව යුක්ති ධර්මය තුළ ස්ථාපිතව ඇත. මෙවැනි නඩු පිළිබඳ කි්‍රයා පරිපාටියේ යම් අඩුපාඩුවක් ඇති බව මට සිතේ.) මින් පෙර ප්‍රසිද්ධියේ zබලූ නඩු තීන්දුZ ගැන කියමින් අධිකරණය විවේචනය කළ ඇමැතියෙකු වසර දෙකකට සිරගෙට යවන ලද බව මතකය. එසේම මෑතක ප්‍රසිද්ධියේ පුවත්පත් සාකච්ඡා පවත්වමින් සමස්ථ අධිකරණ පද්ධතිය පමණක් නොව විනිශ්චයකරුවන් පවා අපහාසයට ලක් කළ, නීති සම්පාදනය කරන, ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකයේ නියෝජිත ඇමැති තනතුරක් දරණ අයෙකුට එරෙහි නඩුව දෙස රට වැසියා අවධානයෙන් බලා සිටියි.

ඒ කෙසේ වෙතත් මේ නඩු තීන්දුවත් සමගම භික‍ෂූන් වහන්සේගේ සිවුර ගලවා zජම්පරයZ ඇන්දවීම ගැන මහා කලබැගෑනියක් ඇති විය. අබෞද්ධයන්ගේ ඩොලර්, පවුම්, ක්‍රෝන, ප්‍රෑන්ක් ආදී මුදල්වලින් යැපෙන, සිංහල බෞද්ධ විරෝධී භඨධ නඩය පුවත්පත් සාකච්ඡා පවත්වමින් zජම්පරයZ ඇන්දවීමට කෑමොරගැසීය. ඊටත් වඩා පුදුමය නම් ආණ්ඩුවේ බන්ධනාගාර භාර ඇමති තනතුර දරණ, බෞද්ධයන්ගේ ඡන්දය ලබා ගත්, බෞද්ධ කාන්තාවක බව කියනු ලබන තැනැත්තිය සහ ටික කලකට පෙර ජනපති පදවිය දැරූ තැනැත්තිය සහ තවත් අන්‍යාගමික ඇමතියෙක් ඒ භික‍ෂූන් වහන්සේට ජම්පරය ඇන්දවිය යුතු බව ප්‍රසිද්ධයේ ප්‍රකාශ කිරීමය. එය නියමිත බන්ධනාගාර ඇඳුම බව කීමට හැකි ය.
අප අමතක නොකළ යුතු දෙයක් ඇත. එනම් භික‍ෂුන් වහන්සේගේ සිවුර ගැලවීමට නියෝගයක් අධිකරණ තීන්දුවේ නැත. එසේම මගේ දැනීම අනුව එවැනි නියෝගයක් කිරීමට අධිකරණයට නීතිමය බලයක් නැත. එපමණක් නොව භික‍ෂූන් වහන්සේ කෙනෙකුගේ සිවුර ගැලවීමට නිලධාරියෙකුට හෝ කිසිම ගිහියෙකුට අයිතියක් හෝ බලයක් නැත. කාලිංගමාඝගෙන් හෝ අරිට්ටකීවෙන්ඩුගෙන් හෝ බයිනේත්තුව සහ බයිබලය අතට ගෙන වෙහෙර විහාර කඩා බිඳ දමමින් බෞද්ධ සංහාරයක යෙදුනු බටහිර ආක්‍රමණිකයාගෙන් පැවතෙන්නෙකු හැර බෞද්ධයෙකු එවැනි බලයක් තමන් අතට ගන්නේ නැත.

වැරදි කරන භික‍ෂූන්ගේ සිවුරු ඉවත් කොට සුදු රෙදි අන්දවා ආරාමයෙන් බැහැර කිරීමට භික‍ෂූන්ටම පවරා තමන් ඒ කටයුතුවලට මැදිහත් නොවූ බව ධර්මාශෝක රජුගේ සෙල්ලිපි හෙළි කරයි. බි්‍රතාන්‍යයන්ගෙන් නිදහස් වීමට කළ 1817-1818 විමුක්ති සටන මර්දනය කොට අත්අඩංගවට ගත්, බි්‍රතාන්‍යයන්ට මහා අභියෝගයක් වූ වාරියපොල සුමංගල හිමියන්ගේ සිවුර ගැලවීමට බි්‍රතාන්‍ය හමුදා අධිකරණය දැ`ගලූවේ නැත. එසේම දෙවෙනි ලෝක යුද්ධය සමයේ බි්‍රතාන්‍යයට විරුද්ධ වූයේ යZයි සිරගත කරන ලද උඩකැන්දෙවෙල සරණංකර හිමියන්ගේ සිවුර ගැලවීම කළේ නැත.
මේ සියල්ලටම වඩා වැදගත් පූර්වාදර්ශයක් ලංකාවේ බි්‍රතාන්‍ය අධිකරණ පද්ධතිය තුළින්ම අපට ලබා ගැනීමට හැකිය. උපන්ගෙයි බෞද්ධයෙකු වෙන ජනපතිටත්, කි්‍රස්තියානි සම්බන්ධයක් ඇති එහෙත් පන්සලේ දායක සභාවේ තනතුරු දරණ අගමැතිටත්, බෞද්ධ අබෞද්ධ අනෙකුත් සියලූම මැති ඇමැතියන්ටත් ජනතා පරමාධිපත්‍යය නියෝජනය කරන එක් ආයතනයක් වෙන ස්වාධීන අධිකරණ සංස්ථාවේ සියලූම සාමාජිකයන්ටත් අබෞද්ධ බි්‍රතාන්‍යයන් දී ඇති අධිකරණමය පූර්වාදර්ශය වැදගත් පාඩමක් වෙනු ඇතැZයි මට සිතෙයි.

මෙය 1830 සැප්තැම්බර් මස 6 වෙනි දින හෝ ඊට පෙර දින කුරුණෑගල විනිසුරු (එකල නඩු විනිශ්චය භාර බි්‍රතාන්‍ය නිලධාරියා හඳුවනු ලැබුවේ Judicial Agent යනුවෙනි.) එක්තරා භික‍ෂූන් වහන්සේ කෙනෙකු වරදකරු කොට දෙන ලද නඩු තීන්දුවක් සම්බන්ධයෙනි. සොරකම සහ අසත්‍ය දිවුරුම් ප්‍රකාශයක් කිරීම මේ හිමියන්ට එරෙහි චෝදනා විය. නඩුව විනිශ්චය කිරීමේ සාමාජිකයන් ලෙස සිටි තක්සේරුකරුවන්ගේ ඉල්ලීම මත විනිසුරු ඒ භික‍ෂූන් වහනසේගේ සිවුරු ගැලවීමට ද`ඩුවමේ කොටසක් ලෙස තීන්දු කළේය. (රජයේ රැකියාවකට, අඩුම තරමින් කාර්යාල පිරිසිදු කරන්නෙකුගේ රැකියාවකට පවා පත් කරනු ලැබුවේ කි්‍රස්තියානි භක්තිකයන් ය. එකල ඉංගිරිසි හැර වෙනත් භාෂාවක් භාවිත නොකළ කාර්යාලවල, උසාවිවල භාෂා පරිවර්තකයන්, දිවුරුම් ප්‍රකාශ සකස් කරන්නන් වූයේ ඉන්දියාවේ මලබාර් ප්‍රදේශයෙන් සහ කොරමණ්ඩල ප්‍රදේශයෙන් ගෙනෙන ලද ද්‍රවිඩ කි්‍රස්තියානි භක්තිකයන් ය.) ඉතා දැඩි සිංහල බෞද්ධ මර්ධනයක් පැවති එකල මේ භික‍ෂූන් වහනසේට එරෙහි චෝදනා ගැන හෝ සිවුර ගැලවීමේ තීන්දුව ගැන නොව අධිකරණමය පූර්වාදර්ශය ගැන අවධානය යොමු කරමි.

ද`ඩුවමේ කොටසක් ලෙස භික‍ෂූන් වහන්සේගේ සිවුර ගැලවීමට තීන්දු කළ ද ඒ ද`ඩුවම කි්‍රයාත්මක කිරීම පිළිබඳව ගැට`ඵවක් විය. එබැවින් කුරුණෑගල විනිසුරු (අධිකරණ නියෝජිත) 1830 සැප්තැම්බර් 6 වෙනි දින, භික‍ෂූන් වහන්සේගේ නම සඳහන් නොකොට, අධිකරණ කොමසාරිස්ගේ (Judicial Commissioner) උපදෙස් පැතීය. අධිකරණ කොමසාරිස් 8 වෙනි දින ලිඛිතව කුරුණෑගල අධිකරණ නියෝජිතට දුන් උපදෙස් සහ මග පෙන්වීම අද පමණක් නොව මතුවට ද භික‍ෂූන් වහනසේගේ සිවුරු ගැලවීමට කෑමොර දෙන අයට ද මග පෙන් වීමකි.

නඩු විභාගය අවසාන වූ වහාම ද`ඩුවම කි්‍රයාත්මක කළ යුතු බැවින් ද`ඩුවමට යටත් වෙන භික‍ෂූන් වහන්සේ අයත් වෙන නුවර අස්ගිරි විහාර පාර්ශවයට හෝ මල්වතු විහාර පර්ශවයට සම්බන්ධ, සත් කෝරළේ අනු නායක ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේගේ පන්සලට රැගෙන ගොස් ඒ අනු නායක ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේ විසින් උපැවිදි කරවීමට සලස්වන ලෙසත්, මේ තත්වය පිළිබඳව උන්වහන්සේගේ ආසන්නම ප්‍රධානියා වෙන නුවර මහා නායක ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේට වාර්තා කරන ලෙස අනු නායක හිමියන්ට දැනුම් දෙන ලෙසත් ඉන් පසුව නඩු තීන්දුවේ ඉතිරි ද`ඩුවම් කි්‍රයාත්මක කිරීමට හැකිZZ බවත් කුරුණෑගල අධිකරණ නියෝජිතට අධිකරණ කොමසාරිස් විසින් උපදෙස් දීම සහ මග පෙන්වීම කරන ලදී. (අධිකරණ කොමසාරිස් දුන් මේ උපදෙස් ඉතා වැදගත් කරුණක් තහවුරු කරයි. එනම් අධිකරණ තීන්දුවක් මගින් නියෝග කරනු ලැබුව ද කිසිම නිලධාරියෙකු විසින් හෝ ගිහියෙකු විසින් භික‍ෂූන් වහන්සේ නමකගේ සිවුරු ගැලවීම හෝ උපැවිදි කිරීම නො කළ යුතු බව සහ එසේ කිරීමට නො හැකි බව සහ අයිතියක් නැති බවයි.)

මින් පසුව, අධිකරණයේ පිහිට පතන පර්ශ්වකරුවන්ගේ නඩු ඇසීමේදී අනුගමනය කළ යුතු ඉතා දීර්ඝ රීති මාලාවක් (Rules for Administering Justice) අධිකරණ කොමසාරිස් විසින් දිවයිනේ සියලූ ම විනිසුරුවන් (අධිකරණ නියෝජිතයන්) වෙත නිකුත් කරන ලදී. බුදුන් වහන්සේ දේශනා කළ සූත්‍ර පිටකය, විනය පිටකය සහ ඊට අදාල අට්ඨකථා පදනම් කොට ගෙන මේ රීති මාලාව සකස් කොට ඇත. ඒ රීති මාලාව ඉතා දීර්ඝ එකක් බැවින් ඒ රීති එකින් එක දැක්වීමට අදහස් නො කරමි. එහෙත් ඒ රීති මාලාවේ පූර්විකාවක් ලෙස දක්වා ඇති, විනිසුරන්ට (අධිකරණ නියෝජිතයන්ට) දී ඇති උපදෙස් අද පවා අධිකරණ ෙක‍ෂ්ත්‍රයේ විනිසුරන්ට පමණක් නොව අධිකරණ සහායකයන් වෙන අන් සියලූ දෙනාට ම වැදගත් යයි හැෙ`ගන බැවින් උපුටා දැක්වීම සුදුසුයයි සිතමි.

“විනිසුරුවරයෙකු යුක්තිය පසිඳලීමේ දී ආදරය, වෛරය, බිය හෝ නොදැනුවත්කම, නූගත්කම, නොසැලකිල්ල හේතුවෙන් යුක්තිය නොසළකා හැරීම නිසා ඔහුගේ පිරිපුන් බව, සමෘධිමත් බව, දියුණුව අව පක‍ෂයේ චන්ද්‍රයා මෙන් ක්‍රමයෙන් හීන වෙයි.

එහෙත් විනිසුරු ආදරය හෝ ද්වේෂය, බිය හෝ නොදැනුවත්කම, නූගත්කම, නොසැලකිල්ල නිසා යුක්ති ධර්මයෙන්, සාධාරණත්වයෙන් බැහැර නොවේ ද ඔහුගේ පිරිපුන් බව, සමෘධිය, කීර්තිය පුරපස චන්ද්‍රයා මෙන් දියුණු වෙයි.

විනිසුරු යුක්ති ධර්මය නොසලකා හරිනු ලැබේ ද එසේම යුක්ති ධර්මයේ රීතිවලින් බැහැර වෙන්නේ ද නීත්‍යනුකූල අයිතිකරුට හෝ උරුමකරුට අගතියක් හානියක් කෙරෙන නඩු තීන්දුව ව්‍යාජ පැමිණිලිකරුගේ වාසියට දෙනු ලැබේ ද,

විනිසුරු ඥාතිත්වයෙන් මිත්‍රත්වයෙන් පොළඹවන ලද දයාව හෝ ආදරය නිසා හෝ ලබාදෙන ලද ලාභ ප්‍රයෝජන සඳහා කළගුණ සැලකීම වශයෙන් නඩුවේ එකී පාර්ශ්වයේ වාසියට නඩු තීන්දුව දෙනු ලැබේ ද,

විනිසුරු පෞද්ගලික ද්වේෂය, වෛරය නිසා හෝ පර්ශ්වකරුවන්ගෙන් එක් අයෙකුගේ බිහිසුණු සහ නපුරු, දුෂ්ට කල්කිරියාවෙන් ඇති කරන ලද, පොළඹවන ලද බිය නිසා නඩු තීන්දු දෙනු ලැබේ ද,

විනිසුරු නඩුවේ පාර්ශවකරුවෙකු රජයේ, ආණ්ඩුවේ බලගතු පුද්ගලයෙකු වීම හේතුවෙන් පොළඹවනු ලැබීමෙන් ඇති කරන ලද බිය නිසා නඩු තීන්දු දෙනු ලැබේ ද,

විනිසුරු නො දැනුවත්කම, නොසැලකිල්ල නිසා යුක්තිය බැහැර කරනු ලැබී නම්, එනම් බුදුන් වහන්සේගේ දේශනා තුළින් විස්තර කොට, පැහැදිලි කොට උගන්වා ඇති නීති විද්‍යාව (Science of Jurisprudence) පිළිබඳව නිසි ලෙස දැනීමක් නො ලැබීමෙන් නඩු තීන්දු දෙනු ලැබේ ද,
එවැනි අසාධාරණ විනිශ්චයකරු=ගේ සමෘද්ධිය, අනුගාමික පිරිවර ජනයා සහ කීර්තිය අවපස චන්ද්‍රයා මෙන් ක්‍රමයෙන් මිය යන්නේය. ඒ නිසා ගිහියෙකු හෝ පැවිද්දෙකු හෝ වේවා, විනිසුරු, එවැනි සාපරාධී ලෙස කරන ලද විනිශ්චය තුළින් ඔහුගේ සමෘද්ධිය, සම්පත් සහ බලයේ විනාශය තමන් ම සනිටුහන් කෙරෙයි.

එසේම සියලූ අගතිවලින් හෝ දුරාචාරයන්ගෙන් තොර සාධාරණ විනිසුරුගේ විනිශචයන් තුළින්, දිනෙන් දින විශාල වෙන, පුරපස චන්ද්‍රයාගේ දීප්තිය නො නැවතී පැතිර යාම හා සමානව ඒ විනිසුරුගේ කීර්තිය, ප්‍රශංසාව සහ ගෞරවය ක්‍රමයෙන් වැඩි දියුණු වෙයි.

එසේ හෙයින් ඥානවන්ත විනිසුරු පහත සඳහන් යුක්තිය පසිඳලීමේ රීතිවලට අනුකූලව නිරන්තරයෙන් ම කි්‍රයා කිරීම කළ යුතු වෙයි.

(ලංකාවේ බි්‍රතාන්‍ය අධිකරණ කොමසාරිස් විසින් දැනට වසර 188 ක පමණ කාලයකට පෙර (1830) සූත්‍ර පිටකය, විනය පිටකය සහ ඒ සම්බන්ධ අටුවා කථා පරිශීලනය කොට පුරවැසියන්ගේ යහපත සඳහා සකස් කරන ලද රීති මාලාව ඉතා දීර්ඝ නිසා මෙහි ඇතුළත් නොකරමි. එහෙත් ශී්‍ර ලංකා ශ්‍රේෂඨාධිකරණය, අධිකරණ සේවා කොමිසම සහ විනිසුරන් පුහුණු කරන ආයතනය එම රීති මාලාව පරිශීලනය කොට සුදුසු පරිදි විනිසුරුවන් දැනුවත් කරන්නේ නම් අධිකරණ සේවාවක පවතින ජනතා පරමාධිපත්‍යයේ අගය තහවුරු වෙනු ඇත.)

එසේම, විනිශ්චය අතරතුර විනිසුරු කි්‍රයා කළ යුතු ආකාරය පිළිබඳව ද අධිකරණ කොමසාරිස් තව දුරටත් උපදෙස් දෙයි:
විනිසුරු අසුනේ සිටින

• විනිසුරු උඩගු නොවිය යුතුය හෝ අහංකාර, ගර්විත නොවිය යුතුය.
• එසේම විනිසුරු භික‍ෂූ සංඝයාට හෝ රජුට අවඥාසහිත නොවිය යුතුය. හෝ අවිනීත, උඩ`ගු නොවිය යුතුය.
• විනිසුරු යහපත් දෙයින් සතු=ටු වෙන බවට හෝ අයහපත් දෙයින් නොසතුටු වෙන බවට පත් නොවිය යුතුය, එහෙත් යහපත් සහ අයහපත් දෙය ගැන උපේක‍ෂාසහගත විය යුතුය.
• විනිසුරු දොඩමලූ, වාචාල නොවිය යුතුය. එසේම වැදගම්මකට නැති වචන ප්‍රකාශ නොකළ යුතුය. එහෙත් අදාල වෙන සහ අවශ්‍ය වෙන දේ පමණක් කිව යුතුය.
• විනිසුරු අයහපත්, නපුරු දේ ගැන නොසිතිය යුතුය. එහෙත් යහපත් දේ කිරීමට බලාපොරොත්තු විය යුතුය.
• විනිසුරු භික‍ෂූන් වහන්සේ කෙනෙකු පැමිණිලිකරු වෙනවිට උන්වහන්සේගේ ආචාර්යවරයා කවුරුන් ද, උපාධ්‍යායන් කවුරුන් ද, උපසම්පදා භික‍ෂුවක් බවට පත් කළේ කවුරුන් විසින් ද, උන් වහන්සේගේ ශිෂ්‍යයන් කවුරුන් ද ආදි වශයෙන් අනුකම්පා උපදවන ලෙස විමසීම් නොකළ යුතුය.
• විනිසුරු තද බව සහ මෘදු බව සුදුසු, ඔබින අවස්ථාවන්හි පැහැදිලිව දැක්විය යුතුය.
• පරීක‍ෂණ කිරීමේදී, විනිසුරු කරුණාන්විත විය යුතු අතර යහපත කිරීමට සිතා ගත යුතුය. දැඩි, නපුරු ද`ඩුවමක් පැවරීමේ කැමැත්තකින් පොළඹවනු නොලැබිය යුතුය.
• විනිසුරු කෝපයෙන්, උදහසින් සහ පමණ ඉක්මවා ගිය නොඉවසිලිමත් බවෙන් නොව ශාන්තව සහ මෘදු ලෙස නඩු විභාගය පැවැත්විය යුතුය.
• විනිසුරු විනිශ්චය මණ්ඩලය තුළ කණට කොඳුරා හෝ රහසින් කථාකිරීම හෝ ඍජු නොවූ බැල්මෙන් බැලීම නොකළ යුතුය. එවැන්නකට ඉඩ නොදිය යුතුය, නොඉවසිය යුතුය.
• විනිසුරු පැමිණිලිකරුවන් වෙත බරපතල ලෙස ඇසිපිය හෙළීම හෝ හිස සෙලවීම නොකළ යුතුය.
• විනිසුරු ඔලූව වැනීමෙන් හෝ ඇහිබැම හැකිලීමෙන් හෝ ඔහුගේ හැ`ගීම්, අදහස් අනුමාන කිරීමට අවස්ථාව නොසැලසිය යුතුය.
• විනිසුරු ඔහුගේ බැල්ම බඹයක පමණ දුරකට සීමා කළ යුතුය. එසේම එම දුරින් එහාට කිසිම දිසාවක ඇති දෙයක් කෙරෙහි ඕනෑකමින් බලා නොසිටිය යුතුය. බැල්ම දිගු නොකළ යුතුය.
• විනිසුරු අයිතිවාසිකම් දක්වන පුද්ගලයන්ගේ සහ කෛරාටික බවට සහ බොරු කියන බවට හඳුනාගෙන ඇති අයගේ ප්‍රකාශ පරීක‍ෂා කිරීමේදී තමන්ගත් මතයෙහි හෝ කි්‍රයාමාර්ගයෙහි එල්බ සිටීමේ පරිස්සම්කාරී විය යුතුය.
• එහෙත්, විනිසුරු සත්‍යවාදී සහ කපටි කමෙන් තොර අය සහ අවංකභාවය, නිවටකම සහ නූගත් කම නිසා කලබලයට පත්වූ, වික‍ෂිප්තවූ සහ බයාදු, ලජ්ජා සහිත අය ප්‍රශ්ණ කිරීමේදී පි්‍රයශීලී සහ මෘදු වීම සුදුසුය. කාරුණික වචනවලින් උනන්දු කළ යුතු ය.
• මේ සියල්ලට අමතරව යහපත් විනිසුරු වෙනත් යහපත් ගුණාංගයන්ගෙන් සම්පන්න විය යුතු වෙයි.
• එසේම විනිසුරු බුදුන්ගේ ශ=ද්ධ දේශනාවලින්, එහි අන්තර්ගතයෙන් සහ ඒ හා සම්බන්ධ අටුවා විවරණ වලින් ඉදිරිපත් කොට ඇති නියමයන් දැඩි ලෙස අනුගමනය කළ යුතුය.

ඒ සඳහා මෙසේ නියම කරනු ලැබේ.

“උත්සාහවන්ත, අනලස් විනිසුරු සූත්‍ර සහ විනය සහ ඒවායේ ප්‍රකාශන සහ අටුවාවලින් දක්වා ඇති රීතීවලට දැඩි අනුකූලතාවයකින් යුතුව යුක්තිය පසිඳලීම කළ යුතුය.”

“වාචික සම්ප්‍රධායන්ට වඩා වාර්තාගතව ඇති රීතීන් ඉතා වැදගත් ය, ඒ නිසා ලිඛිත රෙගුලාසි, රීති විධිමත් ලෙස වලංගු කළ යුතුය.”
“පුද්ගලයන්ගේ නූගත්කම, නොසැලකිල්ල සහ වරදවා හැසිරීම, ඔවුන්ගේ පෙර පරම්පරාවේ ආචාර්යයන්ගේ පිළිපැදීම් නිසා විටින් විට නීතියේ කඩවීම් සිදු වීමට ඉඩ ඇත, එහෙත් පොත්වල වාර්තා කොට ඇති පාලි බුද්ධ දේශනා වෙනස් වීමට ඉඩ නැත, පිරිසිදුව පවතින්නේය. ඒ නිසා බුද්ධ දේශනාවේ දැක්වෙන පාලි පාඨ (Pali Text&) අධිකරණ පරීක‍ෂණවලදී නිත්‍ය රීති ලෙසට යොදාගත යුතු බව මෙයින් නියම කරනු ලැබේ.”
ඉහත සඳහන් කළේ වසර 188 කට පෙර (1830) අධිකරණ කොමසාරිස් විසින් දිවයිනේ විනිසුරන් වෙත නිකුත් කරන ලද යුක්තිය පසිඳලීම සඳහා අනුගමනය කළ යුතු රීති මාලාවේ පූර්විකාව ලෙස දී ඇති උපදෙස් ය.

උපසම්පදා භික‍ෂුවකගේ චීවරය ගැලවීමට කිසිම නිලධාරියෙකුට හෝ ගිහියෙකුට බලයක් හෝ අයිතියක් නැත. පාරාජිකා වීමෙන් දුසිල් බවට පත් වූ උපසම්පදා භික‍ෂුවක උපැවිදි කරවීමට භික‍ෂු සංඝයා වහන්සේට හැකිය. එහෙත් ඒ භික‍ෂුව සාමනේර නමක් ලෙස පැවිදි වත් පුරමින් සිටීමට කැමැති නම්, එසේම සාමණේර පැවිදි දිවියට හානි දායක වෙන ලෙස ධර්ම විනය විරෝධී වී නැත්නම්, එයට අවස්ථාව ලැඛෙනු ඇත. එහෙත් ජීවිතයේ කිසි දිනෙක යළිත් උපසම්පදාව ලබා ගැනීමට නොහැකිය. එසේම උපසම්පදා භික‍ෂුවකට තමන්ගේ කැමැත්තෙන් විනයානුකූලව සංඝයා ඉදිරියේ ප්‍රකාශ කොට උපසම්පදාව අත්හැරීමට ද හැකිය.

සංඝ සභාව විසින් උපසම්පදා වූ හෝ නොවූ භික‍ෂුවක් භික‍ෂුත්වයෙන්, පැවිදි දිවියෙන් ඉවත් කරනු ලැබුව හොත් එතැන් සිට ඔහු භික‍ෂුවක් නොවේ. ඔහුගේ පැවිදි දිවිය අහෝසි වෙයි. ඔහුට චීවරය දැරීමට කිසිදු අයිතියක් නැත. එසේ භික‍ෂුත්වයෙන්, පැවිද්දෙන්, භික‍ෂු ශසනයෙන් ඉවත් කරනු ලැබීමෙන් පසුව ද පැවිද්දන් ලෙස පෙනී සිටින අය ගැන වාර්තා වෙයි. ඔවුහු පැවිද්දෝ නොවෙති. වංචනිකයෝ ය. හොර චීවර ධාරියෝය.

බුද්ධ දේශනා අනුව තෙයියසංවාසක යනුවෙන් හඳුන්වනු ලබන තුන් ආකාරයක අපරාධකාරයෝ වෙති.

• ශාසනයට විධිමත් කැප කිරීමක් හෝ කැප වීමක් නැතිව සහ ආචාර්ය ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේ කෙනෙකු විසින් ධර්ම විනයට අනුව ආගමික පුණ්‍යෝත්සවයකින් පැවිදි බවට පත් කිරීමක් නැතිව යම් අයෙකු තමන්ම සිවුරක් පොරවා ගෙන පැවිද්දෙකු ලෙස පෙනී සිටී නම් ඔහු චෞරයෙකි.
• කිසි දිනෙක උපසම්පදා නොවූ හෝ පාරාජිකා වීමෙන් ඔහුගේ උපසම්පදාව අහිමි වී ඇති යම් පැවිද්දෙකු වංචනික ලෙස තමන් උපසම්පදා භික‍ෂුවක් යයි හ`ගවමින් උපසම්පදා භික‍ෂූන් අතරට ඇතුළත් වී පෝය පවාරණ ආදී ශ=ද්ධ ආගමික මෙහෙයන්ට සම්බන්ධ වීමට බිය සැක නැතිව සිටී නම් ඔහු චෞරයෙකි. එසේම සාමණේර පැවිද්ද පමණක් ඇති අයෙකු තමන් ආගන්තුකයෙකු වෙන ඉතා දුර බැහැර ප්‍රදේශයකට ගොස් තමන් උපසම්පදාවෙන් වසර 10ක් පිරුණු ථෙරනමක් බව වංචනිකව හ`ගවමින් විධිමත්ව උපසම්පදාව ලද උපසපන් භික‍ෂූන්ගෙන් පූද සත්කාර, ගරු බුහුමන් ලබන්නේ ද, තමන් එනවිට ඒ උපසම්පන්න භික‍ෂූන් හුන් අසුන්වලින් නැගිට බුහුමන් කරනු දකින්නේද, පෝය පවාරණ ආදී ශ=ද්ධ ආගමික මෙහෙයන්ට සම්බන්ධ වීමට බිය සැක නැතිව සිටී නම් ඔහු චෞරයෙකි.
• ආචාර්ය ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේ කෙනෙකු වෙතින් පැවිදි බවට පත් නො වී තමන් විසින් ම සිවුරක් පොරවා ගත් එසේම පාරාජිකා වීමෙන් උපසම්පදාව අහිමි කරගත් හෝ විනය කර්මානුකූලව

විධිමත් ලෙස උපසම්පදාව ලබා නොගත් අයෙකු තමන් පැවිද්ද සහ උපසම්පදාව ලබා ගත් අයෙකු ලෙසින් පෙනී සිටින්නේ නම් ඔහු චෞරයෙකි.
මෙවැනි ශාසනික චෞරයන් (තෙනකා) භික‍ෂුත්වයෙන් පහ කිරීම බුදුන් වහන්සේ අනුදැන වදාළහ.

පාරාජිකා වීමෙන් දුශ්ශීල භික‍ෂුවකගේ උපසම්පදාව ඉවත් කළ පසු ඔහු උපසම්පදා භික‍ෂුවක ලෙස පෙනී සිටිමින් ශාසනික චෞරයෙකු වීම පාරාජිකා වීමට ද වඩා බරපතල වරදකි. ඔහු අඩු වශයෙන් සාමනේර බවට හෝ පත් නොකළ යුතුය. අනිවාර්යයෙන් ම ඔහුට උත්ෙක‍ෂ්පනීය කර්මය (excommunication&) පැණවිය යුතුය.

මෙවැනි තුන් ආකාරයක ශාසනික චෞරයන් බුද්ධ දේශනා තුළින් හෙළි කොට ඇත. මොවුහු රටේ පවතින අපරාධ නීති රීති අනුව ද ද`ඩුවම් ලැබිය යුතු අපරාධකාරයෝ වෙති.

“ඉතා දැඩි විමර්ශණයකින් යම් අයෙකු ඉහත පැහැදිලි කරන ලද ආකාරයෙන් එකකට අයත් චෞරයෙකු ලෙස හඳුනාගනු ලැබුව විට ඔහු ගෞරවාර්හ මහා සංඝරත්නය විසින් හෝ රටේ පවතින රීතී අනුව උපැවිදි කළ යුතුය. එසේම ඔහුගේ සියලූ දේපල බඩු භාණ්ඩ සාංඝික කොට සංඝරත්නයට පැවරිය යුතුය.”යන රීතිය ද විනිසුරන් විසින් පිළපැදිය යුතු ලෙස නියම කොට, 1830 දී දිවයිනේ බි්‍රතාන්‍ය අධිකරණ කොමසාරිස් නිකුත් කරන ලද zzයුක්තිය පසිඳලීම සඳහා වූ රීති මාලාවටzz ඇතුළත් කොට ඇත.

ගිහියන් ඇඳුමක් අඳින ලෙසින්, කොහෙන් හෝ ලබාගත් චීවරයක් දමා ගෙන පැවිදි වෙන්නට නොහැකිය. එය ශාසනික චාරිත්‍රානුකූල ආගමික විධි අනුගමනය කොට සිදු කරනු ලබන වැදගත් ශාසනික පින් කමකි. එසේම උපසම්පදාව ලැබීම ඊටත් වඩා ප්‍රබල විනය ධර්මානුකූලව පවත්වනු ලබන විනය කර්මයකි. එය පවත්වනු ලබන්නේ බාහිර ලෝකයෙන් වෙන් වූ, ගිහියන්ගේ හෝ අඩුම තරමින් සාමනේර භික‍ෂූන්ගේ පෙනී සිටීමක් නැති, උපසම්පන්න ථෙරවරුන්ගේ සහ ධර්ම විනය උගත් උපසම්පදා අපේක‍ෂකයන් පමණක් සිටින, බොහෝ විට දියෙන් වට වූ සීමා මාලකයක් තුළ ය.
ගිහි ජීවිතය තුළ උපන්දා සිට මියයන තෙක් විවිධ විලාශිතා අනුව සකස් කරන ලද ඇඳුම් පැලඳුම් භාවිත කරනු ලබයි. පාසලට, කාර්යාලයට, ම`ගුලට, මරණයට, පන්සලට, පල්ලියට, ගෙදරට, ව්‍යායාමයට, රාති්‍රයට ආදී වශයෙන් ඒ ඒ අවස්ථාවට අදාලව ගැලපෙන විලාශිතා, මෝස්තර අනුව සකස් කරන ලද ඇඳුම් ඇදීම සහ එකම දවසේ එක එක වේලාවට විවිධ ඇඳුම් ඇඳීම ගිහියන්ගේ සිරිත ය. එලෙසින් ම zජම්පරයZ යනුවෙන් හඳුන්වනු ලබන්නේ සිර ගෙදර ඇඳුම් මෝස්තරයයි. එය ඇඳීම ගිහියෙකුට අරුමයක් නොවිය හැකි ය. එසේම ගිහි සමාජය නිරුවතින් සිටීම දක්වා ගෝති්‍රක සමාජයට ආපසු ගමන් කරමින් ඇත.

භික‍ෂූන් වහන්සේ පන්සලට, දනට, බණට, පාංශ=කූලයට, ගමට, රටට, රජ ගෙදරට වුව දරන්නේ බුදුන් වහන්සේ අනුදැන වදාල චීවරයයි. එය දැනට වසර 2600 කාලය පුරා විලාශිතා මෝස්තර වලට බිලි නො වූ බුද්ධ චීවරයයි. එය සිරගෙදර ඇඳුම් මෝස්තරය වෙන zජම්පරයටZ යටත් නො කළ යුතුය. නායක භික‍ෂූන් වහන්සේට හෝ පාරාජිකාවීමෙන් දුශ්ශීල නොවූ උපසම්පදා භික‍ෂූන් වහන්සේගේ චීවරය ගැලවීමට නො හැකි ය. එසේම චීවරය දැරීම ශාසනික චෞරයන් නො වූ, පාරාජිකා වීමෙන් දුශ්ශීල නොවූ, ධර්ම විනය විරෝධී නොවූ භික‍ෂූන්වහන්සේගේ මූලික අයිතිවාසි කමකි.
1830 දිවයිනේ බි්‍රතාන්‍ය අධිකරණ කොමසාරිස් මග පෙන්වා ඇති ලෙසින්, භික‍ෂූන් වහන්සේ සම්බන්ධ නඩු වින්ශ්චය කිරීමේදී, බුදුන් වදාල සූත්‍ර පිටකය, විනය පිටකය සහ ඊට අදාල අටුවාවල පැහැදිලි කොට ඇති පරිදි කි්‍රයා කිරීමට බුද්ධ ශාසනය ආරක‍ෂා කොට දියුණු කිරීමට විධායකය, ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකය සහ අධිකරණය ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන් බැඳී ඇති අනුල්ලංගනීය වගකීමකි.

(An internet post as translated by Rohana R. Wasala)

Professor Raj Somadeva is the head of the Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology of the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. He is a scholar who is engaged in archaeological excavation and exploration, devoting himself to efforts that even go beyond the demands of his profession, in order to divulge Sri Lanka’s ancient history. He has made many findings based on his own absolutely independent excavations and studies using his expert knowledge. Particularly, as a result of his research into a history that goes back beyond two thousand five hundred years, the Ravana legend is being revealed to be fact, and no longer  mere fiction.

The Yahapalanaya regime has imposed a ban on Professor Somadeva who is looking for Sri Lanka’s true history. It is learned that Professor Somadeva’s license for archaeological excavations has been cancelled. Professor Somadeva who found the Sinhala antiquity of Sri Lanka has proved with evidence that the country was known as Sinhaladveepa in the past and that Tamils and other races arrived there for trade. The Northern Provincial Council Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran has stated that there had existed a historical Tamil state in the north; he has also stated that the Sinhalese language originated in the sixth or seventh century CE. That is, his opinion is the Sinhalese language came into existence only after the birth of Christ.

This is how Professor Somadeva has responded to Wigneswaran, drawing upon his archaeological  explorations: Firstly, it must be said that his statement is a completely erroneous construct. I say so based on my academic background. According to the oldest available literary sources with which we can interact, the language known as Sinhala or Sihala was in circulation in Sri Lanka even at the time of the arrival of Mahinda Thera. It is recorded in the sources that Mahinda Thera preached the Dhamma in the language of the ‘dipe danan’ (people of the island). We can understand what this language was from taking into account the fact that erudite monks compiled a series of books or atthakatas (commentaries) to elucidate abstruse points in the Dhamma. These commentaries were called ‘Sihalatthakata’s. In some instances, the Sihalatthakata tradition has been referred to as ‘porana atthakatas’ (ancient commentaries). These commentaries were called Sihalatthakata because they were written in Sinhala. It is easy to understand that books written to explain difficult matters in the Dhamma to the male and female lay Buddhists (upasaka upasikas) were composed in Sinhala, because it was the language of the islanders.

Wigneswaran has stated that Tamils have lived in this country from pre-Buddhist times. Here we must be clear about what is meant by the term ‘Dravida’. It is the same as what is meant by the term ‘Dravidian’ in English. It denotes a language family, not any racial identity. The Dravidian language family is an extensive one. It includes many languages. Tamil is only one of them. Professor Somadeva describes a gold foil document found in the Jaffna peninsula: What is shown here is the oldest metal foil with writing (found in Sri Lanka). It is a gold foil. It was discovered at Vallipuram in the Jaffna peninsula. This gold sheet record in Brahmi script was written during the reign of king Vasabha (69-111 CE). It was made to record (for posterity) that the minister Irshigiri who was in charge of Nagadeepa built a vihara named Piyagunkatissa there.  Professor Somadeva is authoritatively establishing with archaeological evidence that the history of ancient Sinhalese goes back to the era of Ravana. A social media comment about him runs as follows: Many who fought for Kuragala were inspired by a sense of nationalism. But it may be stated confidently that the most crucial attacker in the Kuragala controversy was Professor Somadeva. His Kuragala report is an academic contribution that no person or group could reject. It is not a figment of his imagination. It is a document written after deep study.  Savants of our time like Professor Raj Somadeva provide proper guidance for  the Sinhalese who strive to protect the country and the nation out of mere emotional impulse to launch into an intelligent and comprehensive struggle.”

Isn’t it the Sinhalese, the real indigenes of Sri Lanka who get persecuted due to many courses of action taken by this government in the name of a misconceived reconciliation?

Let’s now read a remark that Professor Somadeva made about the ‘federal’ idea: Although any other matter may be changed or interpreted to suit (the whims of) an individual or group, subjecting history to the influence (of such distortions ) could generate unexpected long-term complications. Very recently, I read in a newspaper a statement made by a certain politician. I understand that the statements relevant to your questions to me are parts of the same agenda. Everyone has a right to hold and defend personal opinions. This applies in respect of the federal idea, as well. However, it is my view that intelligent politicians must understand that  history cannot be federalized”.

(24 SRI LANKA)

By:A.A.M. NIZAM – MATARA

When the need of the hour is to get this oppressive, foreigm slavish and inept government dissolved and hold elections, speculation is rife that moves are being made by certain avaricious politicians to establish an interim or probationary government and make the former President and the populist leader Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa the Prime Minister of the country and save Sirisena and allow him to continue as the President.    The real objective of these covetous politicians despite their claim that they are making these moves, the bovine moves, to save the country from an imminent economic collapse is to save Sirisena from his inevitable political demise after another few months and for them simultaneously to be the stakeholders of such a government.

There were also newspaper and social media reports that some religious leaders too (misguided or ignoramus) are going to make a proposal to the President to form such a caretaker government. Certain treacherous pro-western, and reactionary scribes have also written some articles advocating for the establishment of this so called interim government and their unexpected move to go against Ranil Wickremasinghe on this issue seem that this could be a well orchestrated move to create divisions in the Joint Opposition  and dent the immense popularity of Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa.

What these greedy politicians and misguided religious leaders should duly understand is that the 5.8 million solid patriotic masses of this country who stoood firm with Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa on 8^th January and this number that swelled to 47.7 % of the voting population plus voting population of Beruwela, Maharagama, Bandarawela and some other LG institutions (where pro-SLPP groups contestd as independents and won) on February 10^th does not approve any form of rescue operation to help and save Sirisena as they remember that it was Sirisena who

• Prevented MP DEW Guhasekera from submitting the COPE Report on the 1^st Bond Scam by dissolving the UPFA majority government of Premier D.M.Jayaratne and appointed Ranil Wickrmasinghe with only 44 seats as the Prime Minister thereby naking it possible for Arjun Mahendran and his son in law Arjun Aloysiius to fleece the country with the 2^nd Bond Scam in February 2016.
• Discouraged the people from voting for UPDFA in the 2015 August General Election by declaring on the eve of the elections that Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa will not be appointed as the Prime Minister even if he gets majority of the seats and issued a letter condemning Mr. Rajapaksa with concocted false allegations. Also, he dismissed the General Secretaries of the UPFA and the SLFP and appointed instead his minions to those posts on the eve of the elections with the sole purpose of disrupting elections.
• Made his docile MPs elected under UPFA and electoral rejects appointed by him as National list MPs to join the government offering them important Ministerial portfolios and help Ranil Wickremsinghe who got only 106 seatto to establish a majority government.
• Denied the post of the Leadert of Opposition to the majority Joint Opposition with 53cseats and gave it to separatist R.Smbandan who had only 16 MPS
• Even denied the Chief Opposition Whip post to the JO and gave it to the 6-member JVP who played a major role in ousting Mahinda Rajapaksa regime
• Made Rajitha Senaratne who made the country to lose the GSP+ facility, allegedly became the owner of four vessels when he was the Minister of Fisheries through corruptions and carried out other clandestine activities to topple Rajapaksa regime as official media spokesman with the objective of carrying out a malicious mudslinging campaign against Rajapakse family members.
• Made no effort to prove the imaginary allegations made against Mr. Mahinda Rahpaksa by quisling Mangala Samaraweera and loquacious Rajitha Senaratne.
•  Made prominent Buddhist monks such as Ven. Uduwe Dhammaloka Thero to keep imprisoned and humilited him by forcing him to disembark from an aircraft making the aircraft to return from its journey and eject the Ven. Monk from the aircraft
• Made prominent politicians such as JO Parliamentsrians such as Wimal Weerawansa, Udaya Gamamanpila, Johnston Fernando etc. the former Minister Mr. Basil Raapaksa and some other politicians to lamguish in remand prisons for several months on concocted charges
• Made sons and the spouse of the former President Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa to appear for court cases on various bizarre charges
• Made the former Defence Secretary who was mainly responsible for ending the 30ywars terrorist war and liberate the country to appear in Courts continuously to face various spinned and illusory allegations
• Forced disabled war heroes who should be looked after graciously to stage demonstrations in Colombo Fort several occasions under tiring conditions and harassments from the Police to demand relief for their grievances.
• Has forced several prominent war heroes who had served with commendable dedication and self sacrifices during the war to languish in prisons on the behest of Tamil separatists and Tamil diaspora.
• Firmly upholds UNP’s privatization and foreignization policies and facilitated handing over of Hambantota Harbour to China by appointing his stooge Mahinda Samarasinghe and the Shipping Minister replacing Arjuna Ranatung.
• Made hollow pledges against imposing VAT and reducing the price of Beer.
• Has fully endorsed the betrayal made by quisling Mangala Samaraweera by UNHRC resolution 30/1 and reaffirme the same by resolution 34/1.
• Has made similar pledges of using Madu Walige, a Sword and anging drug trafffickers serving death penalty.
• Has failed to take any action against drug traffickers, and underworld operators and has made Sri Lanka to become haven for drugs and crimes
• Has fully endorsed the despicable Sri Lanka-Singapore Pact and has not expressed any opinion againstensuing ECTA and other pacts being formulated by the UNP
• Blindly endorsed UNP moves to stall developmemt projects including Colombo Port City Project launched by the Rajapaksa government and thereby made several thousand people unemployed.
• Has made arrangements to release all lands occupied by armed forces in the North to its originasl owners before the end of this year obliging to the demands of the TNA.
• In another move to oblige to the demands of thee TNA the number of army camps and the strength of the armed forces in the North has been drastically rduced.
• Had given liberty to Tamil separatists to evict Sinhala people from the North, deny even forcibly displaced Sinhala people to resettle in the North, to impose taboo for placing Buddha statues, planting Boo trees or practising Bulddhism in the North
• Demand reconciliation in the South while making the North an exclusive anti Sinhala Tamil terrain
• Speaks of Tamils having grievances, having pale faces and of the need to to’tally alleviate these socalled grievances.
• Has assured Tamil separatists to enact a new federal and secular constitution before the end of this year
• While no action nhas being taken against MP Vijayakala for her speech on the need to revive tiger terrorist-imposed suspension of Parliament attendance on MPs Wimal Weerawansa and Prasanna Ranaweera for demanding action against Vijayakala.
• Has taken no action against anti-Sinhala and anti-Sri Lankan sentiments being continuously expressed by Wigneswaran, Sivajilingam. Sumanthiran. Sambandan, Mavai Senadiraja etc.

These are some of the anti national acts being carried out under the sole blessings and the set agenda of the quisling Sirisena.  Is it to implement these activities unhindered that the proponents of the socalled interim or probationary government aiming for and thereby create divisions in the joint opposition?

It is heartening to find that Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa, who has a determined dedication for placing the country before all other things has stood firm against these despicable moves and emphatically renewed his demand for the dissolution of the government and hold elections.  Speakimg at a function in Beruwwela he has ssaid that he is not prepared to form governments with those who sell the country/traitors.

Now it is the turn of the masses to stockpile their needs of essential food items, come out to the streets in their thousands and demand for the immediate dissolution of this inept visionless foreign slavish government, suspend the activities of government institutions and services and demand for holding elections by forcibly occupying such institutions and paralyze the government until their demands are met.  The armed forces should also firmly stand with the people at this crucial stage displaying their allegiance to nation’s welfare similar to what they did during the war.

Courtesy The Daily Mirror

Deputy Speaker J. M. Ananda Kumarasiri informed the Parliament today that Supreme Court had determined that some clauses in 20th Amendment needs a two-thirds majority in Parliament as well as a referendum.

ආරියරත්න රණබාහු සහ සුජිත් හේවාජුලිගේ උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප

විධායක ජනාධිපති ධූරය අහෝසි කිරීම සඳහා ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබූ 20 වැනි සංශෝධනයේ ඇති 38 න් 36 ක් ජනමත විචාරණකින් සහ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ තුනෙන් දෙකක ඡන්දයකින් සම්මත කළ යුතු බව ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය තීරණය කර ඇතැයි නියෝජ්‍ය කතානායක ආනන්ද කුමාරසිරි මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී අද (9) පැවැසීය.

ඒ අනුව 20 වැනි සංශෝධන පත්‍රයේ ජනපති බලතල අහෝසි කෙරෙන සියලුම වගන්ති ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවට පටහැනි බව තීරණය කර ඇත.

පනත් කෙටුම්පතේ නාමය දැක්වෙන පළමු වගන්තිය සහ පනතේ සිංහල සහ දෙමළ භාෂා පාඨ අතර පරස්පරතාවයක් ඇති වුවහොත් සිංහල භාෂා පාඨය බලගැන්විය යුතු බව දැක්වෙන අවසන් වගන්තිය වන 38 වගන්තිය පමණක් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවට අනුකූල බව ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය තීන්දු කර තිබේ.

මෙම 20 වැනි සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පතට එරෙහිව ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබූ පෙත්සම් වලට අදාල තීන්දුව කතානායකවරයාට යවා ඇති බව දක්වමින් නියොජ්‍ය කතානායකවරයා එම තීන්දුව ප්‍රකාශයට පත් කළේය.

Nimanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy The Daily Mirror

The Government Analyst’s report states that the voice samples provided by DIG Nalaka de Silva and Namal Kumara have tallied with those in the tape, the CID said.

It submitted the relevant voice samples to the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court today after they received the samples from the Government Analyst on Monday.

The Magistrate had wanted to check whether the DIG’s voice matched with that in the recorded telephone conversation between him and dNamal Kumara.

by Sanath Nanayakkare Courtesy The Island

The current government’s needlessly self-destructive overemphasis of corruption and the oft-repeated ‘debt mountain’ scared away foreign investors who lost faith in the country’s administrative and financial system, Dr Nalaka Godahewa, former chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) told the media at the Patriotic Professionals’ press briefing held on Monday.

“One of the main complaints the then Opposition had about the previous government was that there were excessive borrowings. However, the amount borrowed by the current government in less than 4 years is far worse in comparison. The total national debt that stood at Rs 7391 billion when the powers changed, is now at Rs 12,000 billion which is a 60% increase,” he said.

“In less than two months the new government got involved in a major Central Bank bond scam. Subsequently interest rates went up and the cost to the economy was exorbitant. The financial scam seriously affected the credibility of the government. It had a direct impact on the general perception on corruption. In 2014 Sri Lanka was ranked 83rd in the global corruption index. By 2016 it had fallen to the 95th place”.

“As recurrent expenditure increased with the Rs.10,000 salary hike for public servants, the government was left with no option but to increase taxes and pass that burden on the people. Today taxes have gone up by 100% compared to 2014. This has also dampened the sentiment of business and investments”.

The government should only blame itself for the lack of foreign direct investments in the country. Who would want to invest in Sri Lanka when it has a government promoting a negative sentiment about doing business in Sri Lanka ” Dr. Godahewa queried.

ආචාර්ය නාලක ගොඩහේවා උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම

ලංකාවේ මේ අවස්ථාවේ විශාල සමාජ ආර්ථික දේශපාලන අර්බුදයක් ඇති බව නොපිළිගන්නා අයෙක් වේ නම් ඒ එක්කෝ බොරුකාරයෙකි. නැත්නම් මෝඩයෙකි. මන්ද සත්‍යය ඕනෑම අයකුට ඇස් ඉදිරිපිටම දක්නට ඇති බැවිනි.

දේශපාලන වේදිකාවල රටේ ජනතාවට හැමදාමත් බිල්ලන් මවන වත්මන් අගමැතිවරයාගේ අලුත්ම හෙළිදරව්ව නම් ලෝක ආර්ථික අර්බුදයක් ඇති බවත් ලංකාව ඉන් පීඩනයට ලක්වී ඇති බවත්ය. ඉදිරියේදී මේ තත්ත්වය තවත් දරුණු වන බවත් ලංකාව ඊට සූදානම් විය යුතු බවත් නෝර්වේ රටේ සංචාරයක් සඳහා පිටත් වීමට පෙර ඔහු කියා තිබිණි.

ලෝකයේ ආර්ථික අර්බුද තිබෙනා කාලවල ඒ ගැන සාමාන්‍යයෙන් මුළු ලෝකයම දැනුවත්ය. උදාහරණයක් වශයෙන් මෑත කාලීන ඉතිහාසයේ 1975, 1982, 1991 හා 2009 ගෝලීය ආර්ථිකය සමස්තයක් ලෙස කඩා වැටුණු වසර ලෙස නම් කළ හැකිය. 2007 – 2008 වර්ෂවල ලෝක මූල්‍ය අර්බුදයක් හා ලෝක ආහාර අර්බුදයක් තිබිණි. 2005 – 2014 කාලයේ බලයේ සිටි පසුගිය ආණ්ඩුව මින් අර්බුද කිහිපයකටම මුහුණ දුන් අතර එම ආණ්ඩුව අදාළ ප්‍රශ්න හොඳින් කළමනාකරණය කළ නිසා ලෝකයේ එවන් අර්බුදයක් තිබූ බවක් ලංකාවේ සාමාන්‍ය ජනතාවට නොදැනිණි. එහෙත් 2015 යහපාලනය බලයට ආ දා සිට ලංකාවේ අර්බුද පිට අර්බුදය. මේවා ලෝක ආර්ථික අර්බුදයක් නිසා ඇතිවන බව කියා රවටන්නට උත්සාහ කිරීම ජනතාවගේ බුද්ධියට කරන අපහාසයකි.

අද ලෝකය පුරාම අපට දක්නට ලැබෙන්නේ ආර්ථික ප්‍රගමනයකි. 2010 සිට ලෝක ආර්ථිකය ධනාත්මකව වෙනස් වූ අතර 2016-2017 වන විට 3%ක පමණ දළ වර්ධන වේගයක් ලෝකය පුරාම දක්නට ලැබිණි. විශේෂයෙන්ම සංවර්ධනය වෙමින් පවතින රටවල දළ සංවර්ධන වේගය 4.3% ඉක්මවා තිබිණි. ඒ අනුව මේ කාලය සැලකෙන්නේ ලෝක ආර්ථික චක්‍රයේ ධනාත්මක යුගයක් ලෙසය. මේ අතර ඇමෙරිකාවේ ආර්ථිකය අනෙක් රටවලට වඩා වේගයෙන් දියුණු වනවා කියන්නේ අනෙක් රටවල ආර්ථික අර්බුදයක් ඇති බව නොවේ.

2016දී 1.5%ක පමණ වර්ධන වේගයක් තිබුණු ඇමෙරිකාවේ ආර්ථික වර්ධන වේගය 2017 වන විට 2.3% දක්වා ඉහළ ගිය අතර 2018දී එය 2.5% පමණ ප්‍රමාණයකට තවත් ඉහළ ගොස් ඇත. 2016දී 1.8%ක පමණ වර්ධන වේගයක් තිබුණු යුරෝපයේ දළ සංවර්ධන වේගය 2.5% දක්වා 2017දී ඉහළ ගිය අතර 2018දී එය 2.2%ක් පමණ වේ යැයි බලාපොරොත්තු වේ. චීනයේ දළ සංවර්ධන වේගය 2016 සිට 2017 කාලය තුළ 6.7% සිට 6.8 දක්වා ඉහළ ගිය අතර පරිසර දූෂණය අඩු කිරීම, රාජ්‍ය ආයෝජන සමතුලනය කිරීම හා මූල්‍ය අංශ නියාමනයන් ශක්තිමත් කිරීම වැනි රාජ්‍ය ප්‍රතිපත්තිමය තීරණ මත චීන රජය තම 2018 සංවර්ධන ඉලක්කය 6.4%කට පමණ වෙනස් කොට ඇත. ජපානයේ පවතින්නේද යහපත් ආර්ථික තත්ත්වයකි. ඒ අනුව අගමැතිවරයාගේ අලුත්ම ත්‍රාසජනක ප්‍රවෘත්තියේ එන ලෝක ආර්ථික අර්බුදය ඔහුගේ තවත් එක් මන–කල්පිත නිර්මාණයක් පමණක් බව පැහැදිලිය.

මේ අපූරු හැකියාවෙන්නම් ඔහු හා සම කළ හැකි නිර්මාණකරුවන්ද අද රටේ ඉතා විරලය.

අද ලංකාවේ ආර්ථික යථාර්ථය කුමක්ද?
2012-2014 පැවැති දළ ආර්ථික 7%ක සංවර්ධන වේගය 2017 වන විට 3.1%ට අඩු විය. මේ වන විට තත්ත්වය තවත් දරුණු බව පෙනේ.

• 2014දී රුපියල් බිලියන 7391ක් වූ රාජ්‍ය ණය
2018 මැද වන විට රුපියල් බිලියන 11,971 දක්වා
60%කින් ඉහළ ගොස් ඇත.

• රාජ්‍ය ණය දළ ජාතික නිෂ්පාදනයේ ප්‍රතිශතයක්
ලෙස 70.1% සිට 87% දක්වා වැඩිවී ඇත.

• 2014න් පසු රුපියලේ අගය ඩොලරයට
සාපේක්‍ෂව 28%කින් බාල්දු වී ඇත.
ඒ නිසා රාජ්‍ය ණයවල දේශීය අගය
රුපියල් කෝටි ලක්‍ෂයකට ආසන්න ප්‍රමාණයකින්
වැඩිවී ඇත.

• 2014දී තිබුණ 10%ටත් අඩු පොලී අනුපාතයන්
දෙගුණයකට ආසන්නව වැඩිවී ඇත.

• සුළු හා මධ්‍යම පරිමාණ ව්‍යාපාර රැසක්
වසර 3 1/2 තුළ බංකාලොත් වී වසා දමන ලද අතර
තවත් ව්‍යාපාරික රාශියක් නුදුරු අනාගතයේ
වැසී යනු ඇත.

• මහ පරිමාණ ව්‍යාපාර රැසක්ම මේ වසරේ ලාභ
අඩුවෙන් පෙන්වන හෝ පාඩු පෙන්වන
තත්ත්වයට පත්වී ඇති අතර මෑතකදී
කොළඹ පැවැති සම්මන්ත්‍රණයකදී ලංකාවේ ලොකුම
ව්‍යාපාරිකයන් කිහිපදෙනකුම ප්‍රසිද්ධියේ
මෙය පිළිගනු දක්නට ලැබිණි.

• හිතුමතයට බඩු ආනයනය කිරීමෙන්
දේශීය කර්මාන්ත රැසක් අනතුරේ වැටුණු අතර
ආනයන සීමා කිරීමට රජයට මතක් වූයේ
අස්සයා ඉස්තාලයෙන් පැන ගියාට පසුවය.
• 2014 ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 1500ක
ආයෝජන තිබුණු රටට අද මොනම
ආයෝජනයක්වත් එන පාටක් පෙනෙන්ට නැත.
රටේ ආයෝජනය කර තිබුණු මුදලුත් ආයෝජකයන්
විසින් ඉවත් කරගනු ලැබීම රුපියලේ කඩා වැටීමට
මූලික හේතුවක් වී ඇත.

• තිබුණු රැකියා ප්‍රමාණය අඩුවී ඇත. 2014දී
රැකියා ලක්‍ෂ 84ක් වාර්තා වුවද 2017 එය ලක්‍ෂ 82ට
අඩුවී තිබිණි. අලුතින් දෙනවා කී රැකියා ලක්‍ෂ 10
වාෂ්ප වී ඇත.

• කොටස් වෙළෙඳපොළ විශාල අර්බුදයකට
මුහුණදී ඇත. 2014දී 23.5%ක් ප්‍රතිලාභ දුන්
කොළඹ කොටස් වෙළෙඳපොළ මේ වන විට
ආයෝජකයන් විශාල වශයෙන් පාඩු ලබන
තැනක් බවට පත්වී ඇත.

• ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය තොරතුරු විශ්ලේෂක සමාගමක්
වන බ්ලූම්බර්ග් ආයතනය ලංකාවේ ලෝකයේ
ආයෝජනයට අනතුරුදායකම රටක් ලෙස
නම් කොට ඇත.
• රටේ දුප්පත්කම වැඩිවී ඇත. ජීවන බර
අද ජනතාවට තදින්ම දැනේ. පවුල් ලක්‍ෂ ගාණකට
අද තුන්වේල කෑමේ හැකියාව නැත.

වත්මන් යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුවට පැහැදිලිවම තිබෙන්නේ බැරිකම පිළිබඳ ප්‍රශ්නයකි. වසර 20කට වඩා වැඩි කාලයක් විපක්‍ෂයේ සිටීමේ ප්‍රතිඵලයක් ලෙස ද ආණ්ඩුවේ ප්‍රධාන හවුල්කරුවා වන අගමැතිවරයාගේ පාර්ශ්වයට පළපුරුදු, කළමනාකාර හැකියාවන් ඇති කණ්ඩායමක් නැත. ජනාධිපතිවරයා සමඟ ආණ්ඩුව තුළ ඉතුරුව සිටින්නේ පසුගිය ආණ්ඩුවේ කොන්වී සිටි වැඩ බැරි කණ්ඩායමයි. යන්තම් හෝ හැකියාවක් ඇති අයෙක් පසුගිය කාලයේ හවුල් ආණ්ඩුව තුළ ඉතුරුව සිටියා නම් මේ වන විට ඔවුන්ද ගිලෙන නැව අතහැර යන මීයන් මෙන් ආණ්ඩුවෙන් ඉවත්වී අවසන්ය. දැන් ගැටලුව වන්නේ මුළුමනින්ම වාගේ වැඩ බැරි ටාසන්ලාගෙන් පිරි කණ්ඩායමකට රටක් පාලනය කිරීම වැනි භාරදූර වගකීමක් ඉටුකළ හැකිද යන්නයි.

2015 මැතිවරණ දෙකේදීම වත්මන් පාලකයන්ට විදේශ උපදෙස් හා සහාය නොඅඩුව තිබිණි. ඡන්ද ව්‍යාපාරය සඳහා විශාල වශයෙන් මුදල්ද ලැබිණි. 2015 ආණ්ඩු පෙරළන්නට ඇමෙරිකානු එක්සත් ජනපදයෙන් මුදල් වියදම් කළ ආකාරය තවදුරටත් රහසක් නොවේ. ලංකාවේ, නයිජීරියාවේ හා බුරුමයේ ආණ්ඩු පෙරළන්නට ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 680ක් වෙන් කළ බව හිටපු ඇමෙරිකානු රාජ්‍ය ලේකම් ජෝන් කෙරී මහතා රජයේ ගිණුම් සහතික කරමින් තැබූ වාර්තාවකම කියැවේ. ඉන් තුනෙන් එකක් ලංකාවේ මැතිවරණ ව්‍යාපාරයට වියදම් වුවත් එය රුපියල්වලින් නම් කෝටි 3000කට අධික මුදලකි. එකල විපක්‍ෂයට මුදල් ලැබෙන්නට ඇත්තේ ඇමෙරිකාවෙන් පමණක් නොවේ. පසුගිය ආණ්ඩුව පෙරළන්නට දැඩි අවශ්‍යතාවක් තිබුණු ඉන්දියාව, අන්තවාදී දෙමළ ඩයස්පෝරාව, රාජපක්‍ෂ විරෝධී යුරෝපීය රටවල් යන කොයි කවුරුත් ඔවුන්ට උදවු කරන්නට ඇත.

ඒ අනුව කෙතරම් විශාල මුදලක් මේ බල පෙරළිය සඳහා වියදම් වන්නට ඇත්දැයි අපට සිතාගත හැකිය. එදා සුදුපිරුවට පොරවාගෙන සිටි සමහර දේශප්‍රේමීන් හිටි අඩියේ බෙදුම්වාදීන්ගේ පිලට උඩුකරණම් ගැසූ හේතුව මින් පැහැදිලිය.

උගුර ලේ රහ වන තුරු ධනවාදයට එරෙහිව කෑසමින් සිටි නිර්ධන පන්ති නායකයන්ට හදිසියේම එදා තම නායකයා පණ පිටින් පුලුස්සා මරා දැමූවන් සමඟ යහන් ගතවන්නට තරම් ලැජ්ජා නැතිකමක් ආවේත් මේ නිසාම බව වටහා ගන්නට මහා බුද්ධියක් අවශ්‍ය නැත. නමුත් මුදලේ බලයෙන් එකතු කළ හොර හවුලකට රට පාලනය කළ නොහැකි බව අද ඔප්පු වී අවසන්ය.

ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී පාලන ක්‍රමයක් තිබෙන ඕනෑම රටක ආණ්ඩුවක් විශාල අර්බුදයකට ලක්වී ජනතා අප්‍රසාදයට ලක්වූ විට පවතින ආණ්ඩුව විසුරුවා දමා නව පාලනයක් සඳහා ජනවරමක් ඉල්ලීමේ සම්ප්‍රදායක් ඇත. උදාහරණයක් වශයෙන් 2001 අවසන් කාලයේ බලයට ආ රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහගේ ආණ්ඩුව වසර දෙකක් පමණ සුළු කාලයක් තුළ විශාල මහජන අප්‍රසාදයකට ලක්වූ විට හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනිය විසින් ආණ්ඩුව විසුරුවා දමා භාරකාර ආණ්ඩුවකට රට භාර දෙන ලදී. භාරකාර ආණ්ඩුවක වගකීම වන්නේ මැතිවරණයක් පවත්වන තුරු රට පාලනය කිරීමයි.

භාරකාර ආණ්ඩුවක් තුළ එක්වී සිටින සියලු පාර්ශ්ව ඊළඟ මැතිවරණයේදී එක්ව තරග කිරීමේ අවශ්‍යතාවක් නැත. ඒ අනුව මැතිවරණයෙන් තමන් කැමැති කණ්ඩායමක් බලයට පත්කර ගැනීමේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී අයිතිය ජනතාවට හිමිවේ. නමුත් ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය තහවුරු කිරීමට කියා බලය ගත් වත්මන් යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව 19 වැනි ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය හරහා බරපතළ ලෙස ජනතාවගේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී අයිතිය උල්ලංඝනය කර ඇත.

රටේ මොන අර්බුද ආවත් වසර 4 1/2කට පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවන්නට බැරි බවට නීතියක් ගෙන ආවේ මේ ආණ්ඩුවය. මීට අමතරව ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් පත්කරන ලද අගමැතිවරයා තමන්ම ඉල්ලා අස්වුවහොත් මිස ඉවත් කළ නොහැකි බවට තවත් අමුතුම නීතියක් හඳුන්වාදී ඇත. බලයට ආ දින සිට ඡන්ද කල් දමමින් ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී ක්‍රමයක් තුළ ජනතාවගේ මූලික අයිතිය වන ඡන්දය භාවිත කිරීමේ අයිතිය බරපතළ ලෙස උල්ලංඝනය කොට ඇත. මෙවැනි තත්ත්වයක් යටතේ කුමන ක්‍රමයකින් හෝ මෙම ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍ර විරෝධී පාලනය ඉවත් කිරීම ජාතික අවශ්‍යතාවක් බවට පත්වී අවසානය.

ඩබ්ලිව්.කේ. ප්‍රසාද් මංජු උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම

ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගේ ප්‍රකාශ විශ්වාස කිරීම බරපතළ ගැටලුවක් නිසා ජනාධිපතිතුමා සමඟ හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා ප්‍රමුඛ ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂය භාරකාර ආණ්ඩුවක් පිහිටුවීමට සූදානමක් නොමැති බවත් එවැනි කාරණයකට තමා පෞද්ගලිකව විරුද්ධ බවත් ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂයේ නියෝජ්‍ය ප්‍රධාන චසංවිධායක රත්නපුර දිස්ත්‍රික් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රි රංජිත් ද සොයිසා ‘මව්බිම’ට ප්‍රකාශ කළේය.

ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා කෙරෙහි විශ්වාසය තැබිය හැකි කාලය මේ වනවිට ඉක්ම ගොස් ඇති බවත් අවස්ථා ගණනාවකදීම ජනාධිපතිතුමා විසින් ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂයේ විශ්වාසය කඩකර තිබෙන බවත් රංජිත් ද සොයිසා මහතා පෙන්වා දෙයි.

19 වැනි ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය සඳහා ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂයේ සහාය ලබා ගන්නා විට 20 වැනි ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය කඩිනමින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ගෙන එන බව ප්‍රකාශ කළද වසර 3 1/2ක් ගත වී ඇතත් 20 වැනි ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය ගෙන ඒමට කටයුතු නොකිරීම,

2015 අගෝස්තු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මහ මැතිවරණයට දින 3කට පෙර දිනුවත් මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතාට අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ධුරය ලබා නොදෙන බව ප්‍රකාශ කිරීම, ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්‍ෂයේ සහ එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානයේ මහ ලේකම්වරුන් වෙනස් කළා, ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍ර විරෝධී මූල්‍ය අපරාධ විමර්ශන කොට්ඨාසය (ජ්ඛ්ධ්ච්) අහෝසි කරන බවට ප්‍රකාශ කළද තවමත් එය කළේ නෑ, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහට එරෙහිව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද විශ්වාසභංග යෝජනාව ජයග්‍රහණය කර වීමට අවශ්‍ය කරන සහයෝගය ලබා දුන්නේ නෑ, ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂයට පාර්ලිමේන්තු විපක්‍ෂයේ බහුතරය තිබිලත් විපක්ෂනායක ධුරය ලබා දුන්නේ නෑ. මෙවැනි කරුණු ගණනාවක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂයේ විශ්වාසය කඩකර තිබෙන බවද රංජිත් ද සොයිසා මහතා පෙන්වා දෙයි.

එම නිසා භාරකාර ආණ්ඩුව පිහිටුවීමට පෙර විශ්වාස කළ හැකි යම් යම් ක්‍රියා ප්‍රායෝගිකව ඔප්පු කර පෙන්වීමට ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා ක්‍රියා කළ යුතු බවත් ඒ වන තුරු ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂයට ජනාධිපතිතුමා කෙරෙහි කිසිදු විශ්වාසයක් ඇති නොවන බවත් වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ රංජිත් ද සොයිසා මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කළේය.

By A. Abdul Aziz.

Lajna Imaillah (Ahmadiyya Muslim Women Association) Sri Lanka held its Annual Gathering (Ijtima) recently at Ahmadiyya Jubilee Hall Negombo. The event started with flag hoisting by A.H. Nasir Ahmad – National President of Sri Lanka Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, followed by silent prayer. Mrs. Shakeela Aslam – President of the Ahmadiyya Women Association chaired the event which began with the recitation of Holy Qur’an.

In his address, the National President said:

To gain pious children the standards of righteousness (Taqwa) of the parents should be high because the world today is in a horrible state. God has given the Spiritual System of Leadership (Caliphs) to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. So we must follow the advice given by them. Our actions must show piety, that will display a preaching to others. The National President went on to say that, the circumstances in homes must be full of examples of righteousness to your children. Give them right advise in right time and create atmosphere of love, forgiveness, and understanding. He concluded by advising to establish and protect the rights of all namely neighbors, relatives and the Community you attached to. In his address, the National President quoted from the addresses delivered by Ahmadiyya Khalifa Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad during the recent Ahmadiyya Ladies Conventions held in U.K., Germany and Belgium.

In her short inaugural address, President of Ahmadiyya Ladies Wing  Shakeela Aslam said, the aim of such gathering (Ijtima) is to promote love and brotherhood among its members and to create righteousness and pious among themselves.

AN NISA – A publication of Ahmadiyya Ladies Wing was launched and the first copy was handed over to the National President of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Sri Lanka.

The daylong m event includes academic competition such as Hifs-e-Qur’an Competition, Quiz Competition and Urdu Poem competition etc. Ahmadi girls and ladies from all the Chapters of Ahmadiyya Community in the country attended.

Lajna Imaillah: is the organization of Ahmadi women 15 years and above, headed by a President in each country known as Sadr Lajna Imaillah who is answerable to Ahmadiyya Supreme Head – Khalifa. This ladies wing has a sub-organization for girls of 7 to 15 years known as Nasiratul Ahmadiyya.

Lajna Imaillah means maidservants of Allah.” The organization was founded in 1922 by the second Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad. He defined its primary objectives as:

To educate Ahmadi women and reinforce the necessity of living their lives according to Islamic teachings.

To prepare them to serve their fellow beings lovingly and to preach Islam in the best manner possible.

To encourage them to instruct, guide and train their children in the precept and practices of Islam.

To promote in Ahmadi women such a spirit of sacrifice as to keep them ever ready for offering their lives, properties and their children in the cause of Islam and for the preservation of the Ahmadiyya Khilafat (Spiritual Leadership) . There are currently more than 700 branches of Ahmadi women Associations in various parts of the world. These branches, by promoting cooperation and teamwork among their members, are trying to realize their objectives throughout the world. One of their important achievements is its contribution towards building mosques. The Fazl Mosque in London, the Mubarak Mosque in Holland and the Nusrat Jehan Mosque in Denmark were built exclusively by donations by Ahmadi Women.

Abdul Aziz – Press Secretary.

Nimanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy The Daily Mirror 

Courtesy Bernama.com

COLOMBO, Oct 9 (Bernama) — Nearly a million in Sri Lanka, out of its 21 million population, suffer from blindness or from conditions that could lead to blindness due to an increase in the number of cataract patients, local media reported on Tuesday.

Panos Mourdoukoutas Courtesy forbes.com

The IMF won’t solve Pakistan’s debt problem.

In dealing with a soaring foreign debt, Pakistan has a couple of choices. One of them is to cancel Chinese projects, as Malaysia did back in August. The other choice is to allow China to turn debt into equity, as Sri Lanka did back in July.

Pakistan’s new leader Imran Khan inherited several problems from the previous leadership. One of them is the soaring foreign debt, fueled by loans from China to finance the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). It’s a collection of infrastructure projects built by Chinese construction companies throughout Pakistan.

Pakistan’s external debt soared to 95097 USD Million in the second quarter of 2018 from 91761 USD Million in the first quarter of 2018.

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That’s an all-time high, and well above the average of 54065.23 USD Million for the period 2002-2018.

Pakistan’s soaring foreign debt comes at a time when the country is living well beyond its means. Pakistan recorded a Current Account deficit of 8.20% of its Gross Domestic Product in 2018. That’s an all-time high and well above the -2.60% average for the period 1980-2018.

Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Foreign Exchange Reserves dropped to 16369.70 USD Million in August, down from 16891.10 USD Million in July of 2018.

That’s slightly below the average of 16032.54 USD Million for the period 1998-2018.

A soaring foreign debt in the face of rising current account deficits and falling foreign currency reserves have made Pakistan dependent on foreign capital flows. And left Kahn with no choice but to knock on the door of the Washington-controlled IMF again.

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But while the IMF may ease Pakistan’s problem, it won’t solve it as long as it keep on building the CPEC.

That leaves Imran Khan with two choices. One is to cancel Chinese projects to save funds, as Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad did back in August.  He canceled two major infrastructure projects by Chinese companies for adding to the country’s heavy foreign debt burden.

Pakistan Equities Have Been Heading SouthKOYFIN

The other choice for Khan is to reschedule the country’s debt to China. Perhaps, by swapping debt with equity, which in essence will transfer CPEC ownership to Beijing.

That’s the model China applied in rescheduling Sri Lanka’s debt, turning the country’s Hambantota port officially into China’s own port, for 99 years. This was done in accordance with a landmark agreement signed early last year. It gives China Merchants Ports Holdings—an arm of the Chinese government—70% stake in the Indian Ocean’s key outpost.

As was the case with CPEC, the Hambantota port expansion began with loans from China. But when Shri Lanka could not pay back the loans, Beijing converted these loans to equity, in essence turning Sri Lanka into a “semi-colony,” though in a subtle way.

That’s what will eventually happen to Pakistan when China takes over CPEC, and end up collecting tolls from every vehicle that passes through.

Apparently, Imran Khan has a difficult choice to make.

By KERRY MCDERMOTT FOR MAILONLINE Courtesy Mail on Line

• Gina Lyons, 33, and Mark Lee, 35, honeymooned in Sri Lanka after 2017 wedding
• Agreed to take over lease for their rustic beach hotel on rum-fuelled night 
• Newlyweds, who are now expecting a baby, named it Lucky Beach Tangalle 
• As of July 1 this year they became owners of the seven room B&B 

• A newlywed couple has told how they got so drunk on a boozy night out on their honeymoon they agreed to buy their hotel.

  London-based Gina Lyons, 33, and Mark Lee, 35, set off on a three week backpacking adventure around Sri Lanka last December, following their wedding in June 2017.

  While there they checked into a rustic hotel on the beach, quickly falling for its charm and that of the friendly staff.

  So much so that, when one of the bartenders told them the lease was coming up for renewal over several glasses of rum, the newlyweds decided they’d be just the people to take it over – at a cost of £30,000.

  

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  Gina Lyons, 33, and Mark Lee, 35, got married in June 2017, waiting until December last year for their honeymoon – three weeks of backpacking in Sri Lanka

  

   After several glasses of rum on a night out, the newlyweds decided to take over the lease on their rustic beach hotel – at a cost of some £30,000

  On their first night, they took to the beach with several bottles of rum and drank with one of the hotels bartenders, where they were told the current lease on the hotel was almost up.

  Now, as of July 1 this year, producer Gina and Mark, a sales director, officially own the hotel they drunkenly agreed to buy and have renamed it ‘Lucky Beach Tangalle’.

  Gina said: ‘When we walked into the hotel we saw a group of old Sri Lankan men who were still drunk from the night before, so we started drinking with them.

  

   Almost a year on from their ‘drunken idea’, Gina and Mark are expecting a baby – and refurbing their own hotel in Sri Lanka

  ‘The hotel looked grotty and very cheap, but it was by the beach and had the “wooden tree house” feel that we like.

  ‘When we were on the beach drinking rum, we were told that the lease was almost up for the hotel.

  ‘After finding out that it was £10,000 a year, myself and Mark thought that it would be a brilliant idea to buy it – because we were so drunk.

  ‘Now, almost a year on from our drunken idea, we own the hotel and have started doing the hotel up and making it ours.’

  The couple, who married in June 2017, are now starting a family as they work to put their own stamp on the hotel, which they’ve named Lucky Beach Tangalle

  Despite having had the initial conversation about purchasing the hotel whilst they were drunk, Gina explains that the couple were also tipsy during the following, more serious, chats.

  She said: ‘The next day we went and met an old couple who we had to speak to about renewing the lease ourselves.

  ‘We had to take two friends we had made with us so they could translate for us, as the couple didn’t speak English themselves.

  ‘Because we didn’t understand most of the conversation, Mark and I were just sat drinking more rum and slowly getting drunk again.

  

   Gina and Mark immediately fell for the hotel’s charms – and those of its staff – after checking in during their December 2017 Sri Lanka honeymoon
  

   They are now in the process of doing up the rustic beach bed and breakfast, which has seven rooms – all while preparing to welcome a baby
  

   Thanks to some swift bartering, the couple negotiated a deal whereby they will pay the £30,000 cost of their lease over the course of the three year period

  ‘After some bartering, we finally agreed that we would pay £30,000 for the three year lease and pay £15,000 in the first year and the other half by March 2019.

  ‘But on top of that we had to pay about £7,000 legal fees in obtaining licenses and then £6,000 to refurbish, so it wasn’t cheap.’

  Despite struggling financially, the couple managed to pay the first half of the lease – however they stumbled into an unexpected debt three months after agreeing the purchase in March this year, when Gina discovered she was pregnant.

  Gina said: ‘When we had paid £8,000 of the lease, we found out that we were expecting a baby.

  ‘I felt like I was already a bad mother because I felt guilty that I’d wasted all of this money buying a business that might not work.

  ‘Even our friends and family think we’re idiots and shouldn’t have been doing it – we owed a lot of money from the wedding and only lived in a tiny flat, and now we had a baby on the way.

  

   The couple, soon-to-be parents, have confessed many of their friends and family ‘think we’re idiots’
  

  London-based Mark and Gina tied the knot in June 2017, and enjoyed a honeymoon in Sri Lanka in December of that year

  ‘I was plagued with feeling irresponsible, but it was either sink or swim – so we decided we’d have to make it work.

  ‘That’s when we decided to throw our all into it, both for ourselves and for the baby, and in July we officially became owners of the business.’

  Despite initially doubting their decision, the couple opened their seven-bedroom B&B at the end of July and have since had an inflow of regular customers.

  And although the business venture has paid off for them, the couple insist that their decisions to expand will be made sober.

  

   The couple, soon to be a family of three, are sticking to their impulse decision to take over Lucky Beach Tangalle

LTTE remains a banned terrorist organization not only in Sri Lanka but in 32 countries including India, US, UK, Canada, EU, Malaysia. The UNSC Resolution 1373 incorporated by the GOSL in April 2014 has listed 15 foreign-based organizations as LTTE fronts warranting the countries from where these fronts are functioning to investigate & hold them to account for material support for a terror movement under their laws as LTTE is banned in their countries. Over & above this the UNHRC has passed 3 resolutions crux of which aims to hold to account only the Sri Lanka National Army. This is retributive justice to a National Army defending the country & its citizens while offering restorative justice to LTTE terrorists that were responsible for 3 decades of gruesome pre-meditated murder. Only Tamils who had no links to LTTE should receive any compensation. LTTE terrorists should not be given any compensation.

We suffered 30 years of terror no doubt, but we never got breathing space to adjust ourselves to life after LTTE without the interference of the very entities that did nothing to stop terror in Sri Lanka. UN, Western nations cannot shirk their guilt with regard to this.

The LTTE victims were Sinhalese, Muslims, Foreigners & even Tamils

While the LTTE killer cadres comprised only Tamils (even those from Tamil Nadu) those that provided covert/over support included not only Tamils but Sinhalese, Muslims, Burghers, foreign governments, foreign envoys, NGOs & their local stooges, UN officials & associate bodies, the Church & their representatives too. If we go to investigate every person or persons that benefitted by LTTE we are unlikely to go anywhere, however there are some who have been very vocal about their support & their links need to be investigated. TNA and members of the TNA belong to this category & when Sri Lanka has a 6^th amendment applicable to them it is a surprise that no government wishes to incorporate this against them.

It is accepted that with the blur of distinction as LTTE not only had a civilian armed force but also fought in civilian clothing, mistakenly the Armed Forces may have killed some Tamils. This is a grievance shared by Sinhalese whose sons & daughters were also mistakenly killed by the Armed Forces during the JVP heyday.

However, no civilian involved in hostilities (voluntarily or by force) in civilian clothing is not privy to enjoy the privileges offered to a civilian.

So in terms of reparations, compensation must ONLY go to a civilian who was not involved in any LTTE terror act at the time of death. How sure can the office of missing persons be of this?

The office of missing persons has no right to force the tax payer to pocket money to be given to men or women who belonged to a banned terrorist movement.  

The Opposition & civic society must make this very clear and the Government should also understand the basis for this argument. If anyone wants to compensate terrorists out of their own personal funds, we have no issue but no terrorist group that remains banned has any right to be paid by state funds without them first being tried for their criminal acts & premeditated murders of innocent civilians.

In giving compensation to terrorists, a government is doing injustice to the real civilians that the LTTE killed.

So far even the UN has failed to death totals for Tamil

• Civilians who were not involved in any LTTE acts of terror
• Civilians who were part of the LTTE armed force
• Civilians who were involved in hostilities (either by force or voluntarily)

Without this crucial data, how can all these deaths be placed as civilian & compensation offered to the ‘civilians’ who were involved in terrorist acts?

Therefore, how many & who are the genuine cases of civilians? How many of these LTTE cadres have run to foreign shores & taking up false identities yet claiming to be missing & seeking state funds for their families? This is totally unfair on the Sri Lankan tax payer.

All those who are demanding reparations for the LTTE do not pay taxes and so they do not feel the weight on the taxpayers who are already having to shoulder many blunders & errors committed by politicians. Therefore, officials must think twice about this absurd venture they are walking into.

No Tamil who has been involved in LTTE has any right to state compensation.

The government is welcome to offer a general amnesty so long as the LTTE & LTTE fronts & LTTE linked Tamil political parties give written assurance that they have dropped the Vaddukoddai Resolution of 1976 for a separate independent state & UNHRC removes their witch hunt against the armed forces demanding that only th National Army be brought before tribunals.

The government must demand that the UNHRC does not welcome any of the demands made by LTTE fronts who remain de-listed including the ones that have been removed only on the personal whims of the former foreign minister.

When there are 5000 Missing soldiers and when soldiers & intelligence officers are getting arrested & placed in prison without bail or without pressing charges against them thus resulting in the halt to even their salaries it is a damn shame & joke that terrorists are getting paid by the state. Let sanity prevail & not allow stupid decisions.

No country in the world compensates terrorists!

A country must compensate VICTIMS OF TERROR not the PERPETRATORS OF TERROR

Shenali D Waduge

Dr Sudath Gunasekara

8.10. 2018

It was flashed in news papers that Sivajilingam  b-in-law of Prabhakaran  making a public protest against a Court order denouncing it.

If this Government was so quick in sending Galabodaatte Gnanasara  for six years to jail on a flimsy issue why cant the it arrest this man Is it not defamation of court to make such derogatory public speeches for a Tamil tiger. At the same time has he not violated the  law of the land and by engaging in activities in front of the law enforcing authorities. Does the Government consider all his anti government activities as not going against the so-called much hyped reconciliation policies of this government

Why this duplicity of having two policies and two laws. One for the Tamils and another for the Sinhalese and more particularly for Buddhist clergy who form the Bed rock foundation of this 2500 year old nation.

Does the Government wants to bury the Sinhala nation for the sake of temporary political power to quench its sadistic political mania.against the Sinhala Buddhists?

Over to you all those who love this country and the Sinhala nation.

Sudath Gunasekara

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  

 (Rome is burning, Nero plays fiddle  ….?  OR  are our rules fiddling with sentiments of the people ?) )

Yesterday’s TV news showed Colombo Mayor (rests) Talking rubbish .She was asking President and PM to intervene in resolving the problem, where SLLRDC is refusing to accept CMC  garbage  to Muthurajawela Site.

CMC should be thankful to SLLRDC for accepting to allow dumping of garbage despite many protests from public and environmentalists sometime back.

Ugly site of dumping ground is also visible to all travelling to and from airport even after authorities try to cover the ugly scene by installing a net by side of the highway.

During my time in SLLRDC I had various issues with then Mayors’ of Colombo when it comes to illegal constructions and dumping garbage .I hardly could meet the mayor as the chairman even if I had requested time to meet .

One lady engineer from CMC was the only person who was willing to help the projects, specifically the Canal Development Project .

CMC not only keeps a blind eye against illegal constructions along road reservations, canal banks aggravating flood control problem.

Main problem we have today ,is all the Mayors who are mainly close confidantes of the PM or President think that they are above all and try to undermine authorities who are from other ministries.

CMC earns millions, but waste the funds to pay their idling staff, Whole CMC is full of corrupted officers .Mayor should at least come to SLLRDC and discuss with the Chairman and agree on a payment plan to ease the problem.

Verbal abuse by the mayor that SLLRDC is seeking a kappam” would not only and insults the public officers , but also illustrates the nakedness of the government where decision making, is lacking.

One call from PM from Norway ( where I incidentally worked for three years where Oslo Mayor and Government never exchange such dirty Salvos) or another call from HE ( From Seychelles ??( where I was in few months back to see how clean and beautiful that country is) to the Mayoress of elite class from Colombo 7 and tell her in uncertain terms  that SHE has to move her butt from their mighty seat of the Council ,move around in area like Colombo 15 where deprived people live and help the Corporation to solve the problem .

Main problem we are facing now is not the uncollected garbage, but nonexistence of decision making process ,and Tug of War between main parties which formed this Yahapalana state apparatchik.

https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/07/02/cardinal-joins-protestors-against-garbage-dumping-in-muthuirajawela-god-save-the-country-from-garbage/

https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/07/18/garbage-and-rotting-country-with-overaged-politians/

https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/04/24/garbage-fiasco-and-no-solution-in-the-horizon/

https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/04/15/open-letter-to-he-the-president-minister-of-megapolis-minister-of-disaster-management-and-chief-minister-western-provincial-council-solution-to-emergency-situation-in-meethotlamull/

https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2016/10/12/we-need-state-of-emergency-or-martial-law-if-state-wants-to-solve-garbage-problem/

https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/06/15/shangrila-is-angry-with-galle-face/

https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/04/16/sri-lanka-rubbish-dump-deaths-still-they-dump-bbc/

https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/04/18/garbage-problem-at-least-one-minister-talks-sense/

https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/06/30/insult-to-premadasa-and-gotabaya/

https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/06/12/wonder-of-asia-back-to-square-one-again-and-again/

If the decision makers read articles in the press and try to learn from people with experience, Garbage problem would have bearnt” long time ago.

Chandre Dharma wardana.

It has been fashionable to claim that honey bees and wild bees in particular are declining in numbers, and that this is caused by glyphosate, neo-necotinoids and other agrochemicals, especially by eco-activist NGOs and donation-collecting organizations like the AVAAZ team.

However, scientists had suspected that the new types of viruses, parasites, loss of habitat due to the increase of human population and such evolutionary pressures were responsible. Just as humans have to face new types of influenza and other viruses, so do bees, birds and other animals.

In fact, in spite of all this,  many urban-agricultural areas, the bee populations have increased 40 % (see Goulson et al Science 2015 Review article) due to farming.

However, new insight, and a new solution to the declining Bee population has come from a completely unexpected direction. Not from wild flowers, but from MUSHROOMS.

See the very recent research report in Nature (attached below).

[No copyright infringement here]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32194-8.pdf

Summary:

Waves of highly infectious viruses sweeping through global honey bee populations have contributed to recent declines in honey bee health. Bees have been observed foraging on mushroom mycelium, suggesting that they may be deriving medicinal or nutritional value from fungi. Fungi are known to produce a wide array of chemicals with antimicrobial activity, including compounds active against bacteria, other fungi, or viruses. We tested extracts from the mycelium of multiple polypore fungal species known to have antiviral properties. Extracts from amadou (Fomes) and reishi (Ganoderma)
fungi reduced the levels of honey bee deformed wing virus (DWV) and Lake Sinai virus (LSV) in a dose-dependent manner. In field trials, colonies fed
Ganoderma resinaceumextract exhibited a 79-fold reduction in DWV and a 45,000-fold reduction in LSV compared to control colonies. These findings
indicate honey bees may gain health benefits from fungi and their antimicrobial compounds

The Editorial Courtesy The Island

The Grade Five Scholarship Examination (GFSE) results have been released. The best performers and their parents are walking on air while others are sulking. This, we see year in, year out. Some parents even mete out cruel punishment to their unfortunate progeny who fail to score enough marks. Numerous shocking incidents have been reported, where low-scoring students were beaten mercilessly or even burned with heated spoons, etc. by their frustrated parents.

President Maithripala Sirisena has recently told the parents of schoolgoing children some home truths. Speaking at a school function in Kandy, on Friday, when the GFSE results were released, the President urged parents not to cause untold suffering to their children in the name of examinations. He pointed out that the percentage of outstanding performers at the GFSE, doing equally well later and entering university, was woefully low.

One cannot but agree with President Sirisena, who deserves praise for having refrained from making a political speech at a school event and addressed an issue that affects children, their parents and teachers. It is hoped that he will continue to do so and other political leaders will follow suit. However, one should not lose sight of the fact that the Education Ministry itself has recognised some seats of learning as popular schools while doing precious little to develop others. This situation has, more or less, remained unchanged under successive governments. Students who fail to gain Grade One admission to privileged schools are left with no alternative but to sit the fiendishly difficult GFSE; they and their families are put through the hoop as a result.

Politicians have, in a bid to cover up their failure to develop the education sector, characterised by a glaring urban bias in resource allocation, have coined an attractive slogan: ‘The nearest school is the best school’. But how many MPs and ministers who represent rural areas send their children to schools in those far-flung corners of the country?

Why the ordinary people sans the wherewithal and political connections are so desperate to see their children perform exceptionally well at the GFSE is understandable. What attracts children to popular schools is not education per se. More opportunities are available to students in elitist urban schools than their less fortunate counterparts elsewhere, as is public knowledge. Products of the popular schools, therefore, get a head start over others in many fields, where the latter have to work their fingers to the bone in a bid to succeed in life. Besides educational qualifications and skills, social class and the old school tie do matter in the local job market.

Examination results are not the only yardstick of student’s performance, much less his or her intelligence, as the President has rightly said. But unfortunately, in this country, they are the sole means of separating the sheep from the goats, so to speak. (Perhaps, the only field where it is not applied is politics.) This is the reason for parents’ desperation to ensure that his or her child scores very high marks at examinations even at the expense of the latter’s mental wellbeing. No wonder those who undergo tremendous suffering owing to examinations in their formative years are not at peace with either the world or themselves when they grow up.

The yahapalana leaders, in the run-up to the 2015 regime change, promised to allocate as much as 6% of the GDP for education if they were voted into office. They are now ensconced in power, but their pledge has turned out to be yet another Machiavellian promise. Most state-run schools remain backward. The ever increasing number of private educational institutions to cater to the children who drop out of the race for popular schools is an indictment on the government.

Nothing is said to be given so freely as advice. No amount of exhortation is going to prevent ordinary parents from dragooning, if not coercing, their children into studying extremely hard with a view to clearing the GFSE hurdle and gaining admission to popular schools. If this undesirable practice is to be brought to an end, underprivileged people should be provided with an alternative, which is to develop the existing schools and build new ones with necessary facilities as a matter of national priority. Else, children will continue to face the crucible of GFSE with wily politicians shedding copious tears for them in public from time to time.

JANAKI CHANDRARATNA

It is heartening to note that the government is paying serious attention to the rapid depreciation of the rupee and the deterioration of the economy. We are being told that the import of luxury cars and other luxury items will be suspended for a short period of six months to improve foreign exchange reserves. Financial analysts have already questioned the success of this strategy as they claim the current foreign exchange reserve amounting to USD 8000 million, including Chinese loans to the tune of USD 1000 million will not be sufficient to meet the outstanding payment commitments. The loan repayment for 2019 is estimated to be USD 4000 million and the import expenditure for the first six months of 2018 alone was at USD 11,400 million. Needless to say the free trade agreements with Singapore and India are likely to further exacerbate the situation.

The yahapalana government is responsible for the country’s current predicament. The liberal capitalist economy was in full force for politicians and the rich to get richer for about three years. The government went all out to import the best vehicles and enabled its leaders and their kith and kin to go on foreign junkets. Even those in the Provincial Councils followed suit. They have been doing so at the expense of the country’s foreign exchange reserves, which are replenished for the most part by the Sri Lankan workers in West Asia.

The government appeared to be unaware of the disadvantages of liberal capitalism for a country like ours. No country in the world that cares for its future generations would adopt unrestricted liberal capitalism. One of the most damaging outcomes of the market economy in recent times, in Sri Lanka, is the impact it has had on the agricultural sector, in general and on food production in particular. In fact, the production of rice, our staple food, has been neglected. Farmers are not provided with the required fertilizer in a timely manner. Instead, they are asked to diversify crops and grow potatoes..

Food security is of paramount importance to most of the developed nations in the world, and they are focused on safeguarding the agriculture sector. Generally, farmers are subsidized and encouraged to increase production for local and export markets. Australia and the US are good examples. The agriculture sector in these countries not only adds to foreign exchange reserves, but also assures a steady food supply in times of world recessions. Our yahapalana leaders ruined our paddy stocks by storing it in unsuitable environments such as at the Mattala airport.

The yahapalana government is lucky that the previous regime developed infrastructure. But the country has not progressed on the intended path of development. The increase in foreign reserves was mainly through added loans. The government was imprudent in halting investment projects of the previous regime without assessing the future consequences. The cancellation of the Sri Lankan Airlines aircraft purchases incurred a significant foreign exchange loss to the already down trodden economy.

The government keeps blaiming the previous regime for the borrowings for infrastructure development. It now holds American President Donald Trump responsible for the depreciation of the rupee. It is true the surge in the American dollar affected a number of countries, but most of them have sufficient reserves to address currency fluctuations. What we have in Sri Lanka, in part, are the evils of an unbalanced market economy under the yahapalana regime. It is well known that unrestricted market economies can lead to an increase in the gap between the rich and the poor, unbalanced economies, lack of investments, sale of assets, depreciation of currencies, increased taxes, and increased loans to sustain imports.

Stressed economies also are often pressured to create tax havens and encourage money laundering activities. Without investors to boost export earnings, the government may have to take further restrictive measures for much longer period than mere six months.

by Sanath Nanayakkare Courtesy The Island

Woeful mismanagement of the economy coupled with the resultant steep fall in foreign reserves and the unjustifiable depreciation of the rupee will leave the government with serious cashflow problems in the future and the general public will have to stand in queues across the country every single day for hours at a time pushing, shoving and grunting for their basic necessities, such as, milk, sugar, soap and even bread, former Governor of the Central Bank Dr. Ajit Nivard Cabraal told the media in Colombo yesterday.

He said that the predictions he made six months ago have proved right today although few people took them seriously and this time too he is making this prediction having taken note of the government’s imprudent management of the economy.

‘Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe has been complaining about a global economic crisis, seemingly in an attempt to show the public that the current economic problems are due to external factors. But this is not true. There is no global economic crisis currently. In fact, what we see currently is a positive trend in the global economic cycle. The average GDP growth of the world is around 3.9% . In the developing world the average growth rate is as high as 4.9%. The developed countries are growing at about 2.5% on average. So, to say that the country’s growth is impeded due to external factors is a lie, Cabraal said.

“There is also an attempt by some politicians to create an impression that the economic policies of U.S. President Donald trump have affected the global economy adversely. This is also not correct. It is not only the American economy that is growing, rest of the world is also progressing well, he said.

“The first action of the government when it came to power in 2015 was to freeze all infrastructure development projects starting with the flagship project of the previous government ‘the port city’. Not even the small and medium sized projects were spared. The economic advisors of the government failed to understand the economic implications of this shortsighted decision. It resulted in a chain reaction affecting economic activities across the country. Money circulation got affected. Many small and medium sized businesses had to be closed down. A large number of people lost employment. In such a context, the foreign investors became wary of economic policies of the government. Today the loan quantum has increased to Rs. 12 trillion from Rs. 7 trillion with nothing to show for it. Debt to GDP ratio has moved to 87% from 71%. Rupee has depreciated 9.1% per annum. Banks and micro finance companies are in a precarious situation. I saw news reports today of staggering amount of non-performing loans. These will lead to a plethora of economic ills which will present a dark era of queuing for food and basic goods for your family, he said.

Former SEC chair Dr. Nalaka Godahewa also made a presentation at the media briefing and illustrated how the government has put the country and its people into an economic abyss.

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island

The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) yesterday alleged that President Maithripala Sirisena, in spite of being the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, was a prisoner in the UNP-led administration.

SLPP Chairman Prof. Peiris asserted that President Sirisena was incapable of dealing with what he called an unprecedented police conspiracy.

Addressing the media at former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Nelum Mawatha Office, Prof. Peiris emphasized that the government owed an explanation as regards its failure to take Deputy Inspector General of Police Nalaka de Silva, the senior officer in charge of the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) into custody in spite of his alleged involvement in conspiracy to assassinate President Sirisena and wartime Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.

Prof. Peiris said that no arrests had been made though the alleged conspiracy was revealed on Sept 13.

Flanked by UPFA lawmakers, C.B. Ratnayake (Nuwara Eliya district) and Piyal Nishantha (Kalutara district), Prof. Peiris explained how IGP Pujith Jayasundera, too, had been placed among those who were allegedly involved in the assassination plot. The former Law Professor pointed out that the IGP had authorized the releasing of two Light Machine Guns (LMGs) from the Central Armoury to the TID. These weapons had been taken out of the TID for a couple of days before being brought back without any entries, Prof. Peiris said, adding that it would be of pivotal importance to establish the circumstances under which Nalaka de Silva sought the assistance of the elite Special Task Force (STF) to train some of its men in para-military operations.

“A thorough inquiry is required to identify the hidden hand behind the conspiracy,” Prof. Peiris said.

The SLPP Chairman said that it had transpired that DIG De Silva got to know whistle blower Namal Kumara through IGP Jayasundera. Prof. Peiris asserted that sufficient attention hadn’t been paid to the IGP’s role in Nalaka Silva meeting Namal Kumara.

Commenting on the conspirators having some role in Digana violence directed at the Muslim community, Prof. Peiris said that there should be a no-holds barred probe into a Sri Lankan based in France funding troublemakers here.

On behalf of the Muslim community, an MP recently complained to the CID regarding the threats directed at the community and its leaders.

By BROOKE ROLFE FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Courtesy Mail on Line

• There were Barren scenes at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday

• It was Australia’s first game back after the ball tampering scandal in March 
• A sole security guard stood watch on the stands despite them being empty 

• The Australian cricket team received a frosty reception in Dubai for its first Test series back since its ball tampering scandal in South Africa in March.

  There were barren scenes in the stands at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday, and organisers mistakenly erected New Zealand flags instead of Australian.

  Despite there being thousands of empty seats, a sole security guard could be seen standing watch as he faced away from the game towards the grand stand.

  

  The Australian cricket team received a frosty reception in Dubai (pictured on Sunday) for its first Test series back since its ball tampering scandal in South Africa in March

  

  There were barren scenes in the stands at Dubai International Cricket Stadium and organisers mistakenly erected New Zealand flags instead of Australian (players on Sunday)

  

  Despite there being thousands of empty seats, a sole security guard could be seen standing watch as he faced away from the game towards the grand stand

  Australia’s bowling attack was yet to make an impact in Pakistan’s top order, with opening batsmen Mohammad Hafeez and Imam-ul-Haq still standing at the crease after 54 overs.

• Australia named three debutants with batsmen Aaron Finch, Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne coming into the team for the visitors’ first test since the ball-tampering incident.

  The scandal at Newlands, South Africa, subsequently saw captain Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft receive lengthy bans for their part in trying to change the condition of the ball with a piece of sandpaper.

  

  The tests were the first of the two-match series, with three T20s due to follow (players pictured on Sunday)

  

  Thousands of seats were completely empty as the captains (pictured) took to the centre of the pitch for the coin toss

  The absence of Smith and Warner was certain to be a significant factor with three debutants among the visitors’ top six for the first Test in Dubai.

  Australia has lost four of its last five test series in Asia, including a 2-0 series defeat on its last tour of the UAE to play Pakistan in 2014.

  Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed won the toss and elected to bat first, before the hosts handed a debut to offspinner Bilal Asif, with 26-test seamer Wahab Riaz selected ahead of Mir Hamza.

  

  Not one person, other than media, showed up to watch three Australians receive their baggy greens (ceremony pictured)