US exit from UNHRC & US-sponsored UNHRC Resolutions against Sri Lanka

It is not the exit of the US from the UNHRC that should draw our attention but the cause cited for US withdrawal. If the US claims to the UNHRC to be a cesspool of political bias’ by the ‘hypocritical & self-serving’ it has only reconfirmed what Sri Lanka has been saying of the UNHRC that passed 3 questionable resolutions against Sri Lanka & co-sponsored by the former Sri Lankan Foreign Minister who was removed for this reason. If the US can walk out of the UNHRC simply because of a resolution that is not even directed at the US, then Sri Lanka has every reason to refuse to comply given that no longer is the US that drafted the 3 resolutions against Sri Lanka part of the UNHRC but that the resolutions would have been drafted by the politically biased, hypocritical & self-serving nations. Sri Lanka’s government having made the mistake of co-sponsoring a non-binding resolution & agreeing to implement recommendations that are imposing on the internal affairs of Sri Lanka’s sovereignty should also refuse to comply to implementing any of the demands set out by the US. What we see taking place inside the UN is a crass violation of the fundamentals of the UN Charter by which the OHCHR Head & the UNHRC are bound.

The UNHRC is a body that was a successor to the UN Commission on Human Rights (1946-2006) The Commission on Human Rights was shut down because of bias & it is no surprise that its successor is being branded the same, ironically by the very country that has been using the UN to bully smaller non-Western nations.

If Israel has an argument, it is that 1.5billion Muslims in the world against 13million Jews & 56 of the first 103 resolutions in the UNHRC have been criticizing Israel. If that be the case Sri Lanka has a worthy argument too – there are 14.8m Sinhalese against 76m world Tamils of which 72m live in Tamil Nadu & from where the bulk of Tamils were brought to Sri Lanka by the colonials as slave labor on colonial plantations.

Israel is lucky, it has the US, UK, some European countries & Australia backing it.

Sri Lanka on the other hand has had to rely on a handful of countries headed by Russia, China, Pakistan.

While Israel is a sovereign country, most would be perturbed as to why US ends up vetoing every resolution against Israel & it is the US administrations calling for the removal of Item 7. On the part of Israel, it too has a valid question – why did the resolution passed in 2014 (1725 words) addressing ‘human rights violations’ in Gaza not mention Hamas. Here is where Sri Lanka can empathize with Israel – none of the Resolutions against Sri Lanka has been anywhere near unbiased or fair too… need we be surprised when the Ban Ki Moon personally appointed panel calls Sri Lanka’s terrorists as ‘disciplined’ in their report which inspite of not being tabled in the UNHRC giving Sri Lanka the right of reply as a member nation, but this legally questionable Report is the basis on which the US pushed 3 resolutions all to advance its geopolitical ambitions in Asia.

The statements issued by western leaders & their envoys is interesting. While these countries are not only carrying forward the legacy of unaccounted colonial crimes, they are responsible for much of the mayhem taking place around the world.

Who manufactures arms & ammunition?

Who dropped the Atomic bomb twice even after realizing the damage caused by the first?

Who manufactures conflicts?

Who creates non-state actors & arms them?

Who uses rebel groups to create internal dissent justifying intervention in these countries claiming to liberate them?

Who uses friendly proxy states to wage terror in neighboring countries?

Who trains & arms terror groups?

Who runs the illegal arms trade/narcotics trade, opium trade?

Who has the largest military bases across the world?

Which countries have illegally invaded & occupied sovereign countries manufacturing false stories & spreading fake news?

Which countries have enforced their own created concept of R2P/militarily humanitarian intervention to land in countries & completely transform their internal systems without UN authorization?
What has the UN or the UNHRC done about all of the illegalities committed by US-UK-NATO troops in all of the countries they have illegally invaded, bombed, used drones, killed civilians & occupy?

And these are the very countries that issues disparaging statements against other countries accusing them of human rights violations, war crimes & what not.

It is baffling that the terrorist experts, the international academia & others are totally silent on these ‘hypocrites & self-serving’ nations.

In 2015, the UK had a secret deal with Saudi Arabia to ensure each others support to sit for election to the UNHRC according to leaked diplomatic cables. If this is how things function inside the halls of a supposed to be unbiased UN then do countries that have no clout like these powerful nations stand a chance at all?

The case of Saudi is poignant because while human rights groups are never short of accusing it of torture, suppressing women’s rights & beheadings, the US & UK are best of friends with Saudi. In fact, while the world watches in sadness the plight of the Yemenis’ on account of Saudi bombing, the UK that is one of the beacons of virtue has no issues in selling arms to Saudi & UK takes legal measures to ensure that these secret details remain hidden from public domain.

The UNHRC 47 rotational membership is always controlled by the bloc votes – EU Christian bloc votes & the OIC Muslim bloc votes will always tilt the bias in favor of their own political agendas. Russia & China will only balance the status quo with their veto vote. This is not a very healthy route & it is one of the reasons why many a UN member is today totally disillusioned with where the UN is going.

Until & unless the UN system absolves itself of bias & scheming methods by which it is acting as foot soldiers for powerful nations owing to the fact that these countries account for much of its project funding, the UN is just a puppet for powerful nations & countries cannot expect to find any fair justice.

In the case of Sri Lanka, it is now the onus of the government to seriously review the fact that the co-sponsoring of the resolution was done by one minister without the concurrence of the President or the Parliament or even the People & he had no right to subject the National Army to ridicule in so far as accepting that war crimes had been committed without demanding that anyone making allegations must first produce the evidence & substantiate their claims. The manner in which all of the players associated with the Resolutions inclusive of the UNHRC heads past & present have also been responsible for tarnishing the image of the UN needs to one day be investigated.

Sri Lanka’s government needs to immediately ask the UNHRC to review all of its resolutions on account of the statement made by the US before leaving the UNHRC.

If the UN/UNHRC does not take the same actions against US-UK-NATO that the UN/UNHRC adopts against other smaller countries – then it is time these non US-UK-NATO states take a call

Shenali D Waduge

රියර් අද්මිරාල් සරත් වීරසේකර  

by Senake Weeraratna

The shameless attack on Anagarika Dharmapala in an article in the Daily Mirror (2018-06-15) entitled ‘Anagarika Dharmapala: Shedding away the invective’, re –confirms a significant finding of the Press Commission ( 1964) headed by Justice K.D. de Silva that:

From the evidence placed before us we are satisfied that the existing newspapers did not hesitate to fabricate, suppress, slant or distort news and views whenever it suited them. They have been further guilty of anti — national and anti – Buddhist activities, which are more serious than the earlier mentioned lapses on their part. Indeed, the most vehement critics of the present activities of the Press were the Buddhists and some of their organisations, and we are satisfied that their grievances are genuine and should be removed.

Buddhist leaders have been falsely accused of being intolerant. Their hopes and ambitions receive scant consideration, and the rightful place due to their religion has being denied to it by the newspapers. This has been deliberately done in order to help the minorities, in particular, the Christian minorities, to perpetuate the unjust privileges acquired by them during the last four centuries at the expense of the Buddhist Majority.

Refer: Paragraph 212, Page 90 Final Report of the Press Commission (1964)

Article in the Daily Mirror

No Christian or Muslim country would allow mainstream newspapers to publish articles vilifying the national religion and national heroes, and humiliate the followers of the pre-dominant religion, as we see it happening almost every day in Sri Lanka, even in Poya Day supplements of English language newspapers.

The article in question is a shoddy piece of writing. It shows contempt for Buddhist readers. Deceptively projected as even sided and balanced a close examination reveals that it lacks any academic merit. It is poorly written, conceptually weak, cherry – picks issues / topics and reproduces hate speech and falsehoods. It does not serve any purpose except to promote neo – colonial agendas and interests.

The article does not advance our knowledge of Anagarika Dharmapala or shed any light on any issue except take matters out of context and pass biased judgment on a Buddhist National hero by using standards and criteria more relevant to the current era.

Not a single word in this article on colonial-era atrocities or the challenge faced by Dharmapala and the Buddhist Revival Movement to preserve the Sasana and fight against racial and religious discrimination openly practiced by the colonial Government.

Buddhist National Hero
In the modern history of Sri Lanka no one stands taller than Anagarika Dharmapala. In a country that had witnessed the overthrow of its last king in 1815, seen successive waves of Portuguese, Dutch and British invasions sweeping away much of the traditional Buddhist culture of the country, the unsolicited entry of missionaries of every conceivable denomination from both Europe and USA descending on local children like a cloud of locusts with unconcealed plans to wean them away from their longstanding religious beliefs, and make them ashamed of everything that they stood for and lived by i.e. their religion, their culture, their language, their race, their food and their skin colour, it was a time that any ‘reasonable man’ using a well – known British test introduced into court jargon in 1837 would have thought Buddhism had no hope of survival in Sri Lanka.

The mid -19th century soon after the crushing of the 1848 Matale uprising for independence led to the consolidation of British colonial rule and putting into action a grandiose plan to weaken the Buddhist foundations of Sri Lanka. Children born of Buddhist parents were more or less forced to be registered in a church, resulting in biblical names being bestowed on them, and most people were ashamed or afraid to declare themselves Buddhists. It was the worst of times for the indigenous Sinhala Buddhists.

Nevertheless in the words of Bhikkhu Sangharakshita, a biographer of Anagarika Dharmapala:

Low though the fortunes of the Dhamma had sunk, the great beam of the national karma was beginning to right itself, and gigantic forces were being set in motion which in the future would lift them to a position even higher than their present one was low”

Buddhist Nationalism
Dharmapala’s entry to public life was via the call to serve the cause of Buddhism pure and simple, But then he realized as wisdom and maturity dawned on him later in his life that Buddhism cannot and will not survive in any form unless there was a protective layer – Buddhist nationalism. In espousing the cause of freedom from colonial yoke, and then calling on his people to awaken and lift themselves from slumber and moribund state( ‘Sinhalayan Nagitiyaw’ – speech given in 1926) he touched a chord lying deep in the collective sub – conscious of the Sinhala Buddhists.

Anagarika Dharmapala unleashed forces that to this day reverberate not only in his country of birth but offshore as well. He was born to an incipient Buddhist Revival movement in the middle of the 19th Century but then found himself championing it in the first half of the 20th Century to the great delight of Buddhists everywhere.

The Buddhist Revival movements in India, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand owe a great deal to the pioneering efforts of Anagarika Dharmapala. The Buddhist nationalist movements in Sri Lanka of Brahmachari Walisinghe Harischandra, Sinhala Maha Sabha of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, the Buddhist National Revolution of 1956 and the Bauddha Jathika Balavegaya (BJB) of L.H. Mettananda have their genesis in the foundation laid by Dharmapala.

Both the writers and Editors who, under the guise of freedom of the press, approve abusive articles targeting Buddhism and Buddhist Savants must be held to account for hurting the religious sensibilities of the Buddhists. Sri Lanka needs a Media Ombudsman to look into the grievances of the Buddhist public vis a vis denigration of religion by a Sepoy media thriving with an editorial staff still unable to take up the challenge to de-colonize their minds.

Proposal for Reform of the Mass Media
The establishment of a Mass Media Commission to inquire into the state of the Mass Media in Sri Lanka in all their ramifications and provide recommendations for reform of the press and other mass media agencies is a public necessity.

Such a Commission must be empowered to monitor and review editorials, articles in newspapers and other publications, radio broadcasts and television programmes of media institutions that aim to undermine and denigrate Buddhism and its pre-eminent status as the leading moral and spiritual force in this country.

Article 9 of the Constitution must be given teeth via enabling legislation that would protect the fair name of Buddhism and all those worked for its revival during a time when it faced the prospect of extinction under oppressive colonial rule. 

In addition, the re – organization of the Press and the wider Mass Media is an essential pre-requisite to the resolution of the national problem and establishment of true peace and harmony in the country.

Senaka Weeraratna

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය

බැදුම්කර වංචාව විශ්වවිද්‍යාල අධ්‍යයන හා අනධ්‍යන සේවකයින් 15,000 කගේ විශ්වවිද්‍යාල අර්ථ සාධක අරමුදලේ (UPF) රුපියල් මිලියන ගණනක් ගිල දමා ඇතැයි ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍ර‍යේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් පවසයි.  රාජගිරියේ අද පැවති පුවත්පත් සාකච්ඡාවක දී තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා අනාවරණය කළේ මෙයට පෙර සේවක අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල, සේවක භාරකාර අරමුදල හා රක්ෂණ භාරයට බැදුම්කර වංචාව හේතුවෙන් සිදුව ඇති මුල්‍ය පාඩුව මෙයට පෙර අනාවරණය වී තිබූ නමුත් විශ්වවිද්‍යාල මහාචාර්යවරුන්, ආචාර්යවරුන් හා කාර්ය මණ්ඩලයන්ගේ විශ්‍රාම දිවිය සරු කිරීම සදහා ස්ථාපනය කර ඇති ‘විශ්වවිද්‍යාල අර්ථ සාධක අරමුදල‘ ද බැදුම්කර වංචාවට බිලිවී ඇති බව හෙළිවන්නේ මුල්ම වතාවට බවය.

බැදුම්කර වංචාවේ දී පර්පචුවල් සමාගම රු. 112 බැගින් මිල දී ගත් බැදුම්කර විනාඩි කිහිපයක් තුල රු. 121 ට විශ්වවිද්‍යාල අර්ථ සාධක අරමුදලට අලෙවි කොට ඇත.  විනාඩි කිහිපයක් තුල   පර්පචුවල් සමාගම එක් බැදුම්කරයකින් ඒ අනුව රු. 9 ක ලාභයක් ලබා ඇත.  කෙසේ නමුත්, එම මොහොතේම පුද්ගලික බැංකුවක් වන ඩොයිෂ් බැංකුව පර්පචුවල් සමාගමෙන් එම බැදුම්කරයම මිලදී ගෙන ඇත්තේ රු. 113 ට ය.  ඒ අනුව,  මේ රටේ විශ්වවිද්‍යාල පද්ධතියේ සේවය කරන 9000 කට වැඩි පිරිසකගේ විශ්‍රාම අරමුදල ද බැදුම්කර වංචාව නිසා සිදුවන අවම පාඩුම රු. මිලියන 140 ක් විය හැකිය.

බැදුම්කර වංචාව හේතුවෙන් විශ්වවිද්‍යාල අර්ථසාධක අරමුදලට අහිමි වූ මුදල් පියවා ගැනීම සදහා සිය ප්‍ර‍තිලාභීන් වෙත ලබාදෙන පොලී අනුපාතය කපා හැරීමට විශ්වවිද්‍යාල ප්‍ර‍තිපාදන කොමිෂන් සභාව කටයුතු කර ඇත.  ඒ අනුව,  2014 දී 15.0% ක් වු පොලිය 2015 දී 11.0%, දක්වා ද, 2016 දී 11.3% දක්වා ද, 2017 දී 10.5% පහත වැටී ඇත. වසර 20 කට වැඩි සේවා කාලයක් සහිත විශ්වවිද්‍යාල සේවකයෙකුට  විශ්‍රාම අරමුදලේ රු. ලක්ෂ 50 ක ශේෂයක් තිබුණි නම් ඔහුට බැදුම්කර නිසා සිදුවන අවම පාඩුව රු. ලක්ෂ 7 ක් ඉක්මවනු ඇත.  පොලී අනුපාතික තවදුරටත් පහත වැටේ නම් එම පාඩුව තවත් ඉහළ යනු ඇත.  

අදාළ ගණුදෙනුව සිදුවී ඇත්තේ විශ්වවිද්‍යාල ප්‍ර‍තිපාදන කොමිෂන් සභාව වෙනුවෙන් සිදු කර ඇත්තේ ජාතික ඉතිරිකිරීමේ බැංකුව මගිනි.  නියමිත කාර්ය පටිපාටියෙන් බැහැරව මෙම ගණුදෙණුව ඇත.

සේවක අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල, සේවක භාරකාර අරමුදල, ජාතික ඉතිරිකිරීමේ බැංකුව හා රක්ෂණ භාරය හරහා වංචා කොට ඇති බවට මේ වන විට තහවුරු කර ගෙන ඇති මුදල රු. බිලියන 8.7 කි.  මෙම මුදල් අය කර ගැනීම සදහා මේ වන විටත් නඩු පවරා ඇති නමුත්, විශ්වවිද්‍යාල ප්‍ර‍තිපාදන කොමිසන් සභාව තම පාඩුව අය කර ගැනීම සදහා නඩු පැවරීම සිදු කර නැත. 

විශ්වවිද්‍යාල ආචාර්ය සංගමය, අනධ්‍යන සේවක සංගමය, අන්තර් විශ්වවිද්‍යාල ශිෂ්‍ය බල මණ්ඩලය ඇතුළු කිසිදු සංවිධානයක් මේ පිළිබද අවධානය යොමු කර නොතිබීම පුදුමයක් බව ද, ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා පැවසීය.

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2018 ජූනි 20

සමස්ත ලංකා ප්‍රවාහන සේවක සංගමය. All Ceylon Transport Workers’ Union. 

2018. 06. 20

ගරු ජනාධිපති,

මෛත‍්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මැතිතුමා,

ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය,

කොළඹ 01.

Honorable President,

Mr. Maithripala Sirisena,

President’s secretary’s office,

Colombo 01

ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමනි,

ශ‍්‍රී ලංගම සේවකයින් වෘත්තීය ක‍්‍රියාමාර්ගයන්වලට පොළඹවන්නේ නැතිව වැටුපට එල්ලා ඇති රු. 10,000/= දීමනා මුදල මූලික වැටුපට එකතු කිරීමට කඩිනමින් මැදහත්වන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටීම

2015 වසරේදී රජයේ සහ ව්‍යවස්ථාපිත ආයතනවල සේවකයන්ට රු. 10,000/= ක වැටුප් වැඩිවීමක් සිදුකරන ලදී.  ජාතික වෘත්තීය සමිති මධ්‍යස්ථානය විසින් කරන ලද බලවත් බලපෑම් මත රු. 10,000 /= වැටුප් වැඩි කිරීම ආණ්ඩුවට සිදුකිරීමට සිදුවූ බව සමස්ත වැඩකරන ජනතාවම පිළිගන්නා ලද කරුණකි. 

සියලූම රජයේ සේවකයන්ට මේ වනවිට මෙම රුපියල් 10,000 දීමනා මුදලින් රුපියල් 7,500/= ක මුදලක් මූලික වැටුපට එකතු කර ඇත.  ඊට අමතරව ශ‍්‍රී ලංගමය හැර අනිකුත් සියලූම ව්‍යවස්ථාපිත ආයතනවල සේවකයන්ගේ මාසික වේතනයෙන් මෙම රුපියල් 10,000/= දීමනා මුදලින් අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල් ගිණුමට අය කර ගනී.  ශ‍්‍රී ලංගම සේවකයන්ට එම අයිතියද මෙතෙක් ලබාදී නැත. ශ‍්‍රී ලංගම සේවකයන්ගේ වැටුපෙන් අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල් ගිණුමට මෙම රුපියල් 10,000/= මුදලින් මුදල් අයකර නොගැනීමේ ක‍්‍රියාවලිය නිසා එක සේවකයෙකුට මාසයකට රු. 2000/= කට අධික මුදලක් අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල් ගිණුමට එකතු නොවේ.  මෙය ඉමහත් ඛේදවාචකයකි.

ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමනි,  රජයේ සේවයේ නියුතු අවම ශ්‍රේණියේ සේවකයාගේ මූලික වැටුප මේ වනවිට රුපියල් 19,300/= ක් වේ.  නමුත් ශ‍්‍රි ලංගම සේවකයන්ට  එම අයිතිය මෙතෙක් ලබාදී නැත.  එමනිසා ශ‍්‍රී ලංගම සේවකයන් වෘත්තීය ක‍්‍රියාමාර්ගයන්වලට පොළඹවන්නේ නැතිව, වැටුපට එල්ලා ඇති රු. 10,000/= දීමනා මුදල මූලික වැටුපට එකතු කිරීමට කඩිනමින් මැදිහත්වන ලෙස ඔබතුමාගෙන් ඉමහත් ගෞරවයෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටින අතර මෙම ඉල්ලීම් හිතාමතාම පැහැර හරින ලදහොත්  ශ‍්‍රී ලංගම සියලූම වෘත්තිය සමිති සමඟ එ්කාබද්ධවී රු. 10,000/= දීමනා මුදල මූලික වැටුපට එකතු කරගැනීම සඳහා අනිවාර්යයෙන් දැඩි වෘත්තීය ක‍්‍රියාමාර්ගයක් ගැනීමට සිදුවන බව ඔබතුමාට අප සංගමය අවධාරණයෙන් පවසා සිටින්නෙමු.

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2. ගරු ප‍්‍රවාහන අමාත්‍ය නිමල් සිරිපාල මැතිතුමා
3. ගරු ප‍්‍රවාහන නියෝජ්‍යඇමති අසෝක අබේසිංහ මැතිතුමා
4. ශ‍්‍රී ලංගම ගරු සභාපතිතුමා රමාල් සිරිවර්ධන මැතිතුමා
5. ජා.වෘ.ස.ම. ගරු සභාපති ලාලක් ාන්ත මැතිතුමා
6. ශ‍්‍රී ලංගම සියලූම වෘත්තීය සමිති

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග​

ප්‍රතිභාපූර්ණ ලේඛකයෙකු ලෙස ජී. බී.සේනානායක දක්වන ලද කුසලතාව තවමත් ඇගයීමකට ලක් නොවී ඇතැයි මා සිතමි. ඔහුගේ මේධා, චාරුමුඛවැනි නවකථා ද සාහිත්‍ය විග්‍රහය, සාහිත්‍ය සේසත් වැනි ශාස්ත්‍රීය ග්‍රන්ථ ද දුප්පතුන් නැති ලෝකය, පළිගැනීම වැනි කෙටි කථා සංග්‍රහයන් ද පෙන්වා දෙනුයේ අග්‍ර ගණ්‍යයේ ලේඛකයෙකුගේ ප්‍රතිභාවන්ය. ජී. බී.සේනානායක පවසන පරිදි ඔහුගේ රචනා වලින් හෙලි කරන්නේ චිත්ත තත්වයන්ය.

ඔහුගේ කෘතීන් වල ගැඹුරු හරයක් අන්තර්ගතය. ඔහු පෙන්වා දෙන පරිදි ඔහුගේ විධිමත් අධ්‍යාපනය නිම වූයේ හත් වැනි ශ්‍රේණියෙනි. ඉන් පසු ස්ව උත්සාහයෙන්ම ඔහු උපන්නේය. විශාල ප්‍රමාණයක් කෘති කියවා තමාගේ දියුණුවේ නිම් වළලු පුළුල් කර ගත් ඔහු බුද්ධිමතෙකු ලෙස අවිවාදයෙන්ම පිළිගැනෙන්නෙකි.

ජී. බී.සේනානායකයන්ගේ කෘතීන් වල ඔහු විසින් අත් විඳි මෙලන්කෝලියාව (Melancholia) දක්නට තිබේ. මේ ස්වභාවය ඔහු තම නිර්මාණයන්ට ද මුසු කල බව පැවසිය හැක. මෙලෙස තම නිර්මාණයන් තුලට තමන්ගේ ආවේදනිකයන් මුසු කල ලේඛකයන්, කවීන් විශාල ප්‍රමාණයක් සිටිති. සුප්‍රකට ජර්මානු කවි ගතේ තමන් අත්විඳි මෙලන්කෝලියා තත්වය සිය නිර්මාණයන්ට මුසු කලේය. එසේම ටෝල්ස්ටෝයි, නිකොලායි ගොගොල්, ඩිකන්ස්, එඩිගා ඇලන් ෆෝ වැන්නවුන් තමන්ගේ සෘණාත්මක චිත්තාවේගීය ප්‍රතික්‍රියා නිර්මාණයන් හරහා පෙන්වා දෙන ලදී.

මහා ගත්කරු ජී. බී.සේනානායකගේ කෘතීන් විමර්ශනය කරන විට ඔහු සාමාන්‍ය මෙලන්කෝලියාවෙන් හෝ ඊටත් එපිට වර්ධනය වූ විශාදයකින් පෙලුනේද යන්න පිළිබඳ සැක පහළ වෙයි.

විශාදය වූ කලී මානසික රෝග අතරින් බහුලවම දැකිය හැකි රෝගී තත්වයකි. ඇතැමි විට විශාදය මානසික රෝග අතර සෙම්ප්‍රතිශ්‍යාවවශයෙන්ද හැඳින්වෙන්නේ එය එතරම්ම සුලභව දක්නට ලැබෙන නිසාය.

විශාදය හෙවත් (Depression) ඇති වීම සදහා ජානමය සාධක, ජීවත් වන පරිසරයේ බලපෑම, මුහුන දෙන ක්ලෙමථකාරී තත්වයන්, ප්‍රජානන හේතූන් යනාදී කරුණු ගනනාවක් පර්යේෂකයන් විසින් පෙන්වා දී ඇත. එම නිසා ජී. බී.සේනානායකයන් තුල තිබූ ආවේදනික තත්වය කුමන හේතුවක් නිසා හට ගත්තේද යන්න එක එල්ලයේම පැවසීම අපහසුය.

විශාදය නිරන්තරයෙන්ම මනෝ භාවයන් සමග බැදී පවතියි. විශාදයේ මධ්‍යගත ලක්ෂණය වනාහී මනෝ භාවයන්ගේ සහ චිත්තාවේගයන්ගේ අදුරුසහගත අවපාතයයි. බොහෝ විට මිනිසුන් අත් විදින විශාදය නිසා ඔවුන්ගේ ප්‍රජානනය හීන වීම, නිර්මාණශීලීතාව අඩාල වීම දක්නට ලැබෙතත් ඇතැම් පුද්ගලයන් තමන් පෙලෙන විශාදය නිර්මාණකරණය සඳහා උත්ප්‍රේරකයක් කර ගනිති. මේ සාධකය ජී. බී.සේනානායකගේ ස්වයං චරිතාපදානය, මම එදා සහ අද මෙන්ම ඔහුගේ අනෙකුත් කෘති ආශ්‍රයෙන්ද පැවසිය හැක. 

ගත්කරු ජී. බී.සේනානායක අතිශයින්ම සංවේදී පුද්ගලයෙකු විය. තම කෘති අරභයා කෙරුනු විචාරයන් බොහෝ විට ඔහු පෞද්ගලික පහර දීම් මට්ටමේ ලා සැලකීය. ඔහු වරෙක මෙලෙස පවසයි. ලේඛකයන් බොහෝ කල් ජීවත් නොවිය යුතුය. ජීවත් වූවන්ගෙන් ඔවුනට වේදනා උපදවන අත්දැකීම් ලබන්නට සිදු වේ.” 

මේ හැර ඔහුට සතුරු වූ ලේඛක කල්ලි ජී. බී.සේනානායකට පහර දුන් බව නොරහසකි. මේ හේතුවෙන්ද ඔහු මානසිකව ඇද වැටුනි. මම එදා සහ අද කෘතියේ 60 වන පිටෙහි ඔහු මෙලෙස සඳහන් කරයි;

මා සාහිත්‍යයෙන් දස්කම් පෑ තැනැත්තෙකු ලෙස මාගේ සාහිත්‍ය ජීවිතයේ මුල් කාලයේම ඊර්ෂියාකාර කල්ලිකාරයෝ මා නැති කරන්නට නොයෙකුත් උපක්‍රම යෙදූහ. මටත් මගෙන් ජීවත් වූ අම්මාටත් ඔවුහු කරදර ඇති කල නමුත් මා නැති කරන්නට අසමත් වූහ.”

ජී. බී.සේනානායක තුල ඇතැමි විට තමා පිළිබද හීන වූ චිත්‍රය සහ හීන වූ ආත්ම අභිමානය (Low self esteem) ආක්ෂෝහිත බව (Aggitation) ස්වයං අනුකම්පාව (Self pity) සහ ශුන්‍යවාදී අදහස් (Nihilistic ideas) දක්නට ලැබෙයි.

තමා මිනිසුන්ගේ සිත් නොගන්නා පෙනුමක් ඇති අයෙකු බව ඔහු තරයේ විශ්වාස කලේය. එක් ස්ථානයකදී ඔහු තමාව හැඳින්වනුයේ අගුටුමිටි පෙනුමකින් යුතු විරූපී පුද්ගලයෙකු ලෙසටය.

ස්වයං අනුකම්පාව නිසා ඔහු තමාගේ කෘති විවේචනය ඉදිරියේ අතිශයින්ම සැලුනේය. මා අන්ධව සහ කොරව සිටිය ද විචාරකයෝ මට පහර ගසති යන්න ඔහු ප්‍රකාශ කරන ලදී. එසේම ස්වයං හුදකලාභාවයකට (Alienation) ඔහු තමාව ලක් කොට සිටියේය. මම එදා සහ අද කෘතියේ 152 පිටුවේ ජී. බී.සේනානායක මෙසේ ලියයි. මම ඔවුන්ගේ ආශ්‍රයෙන් ඈත්වීමි. මා පාරේ යන කල සිංහල ලේඛකයෙකු ඈත එනු දුටුවොත් පාරේ අනෙක් පැත්තට වී ගමන් කිරීමට මම පුරුදු වී සිටියෙමි.”

ස්වයං වරදකාරී ගැටලු ජී. බී.සේනානායක එලිපිට පවසයි. තමාගේ මව රෝගාතූර වූ අවස්ථාවේ ඈ මිය ගියේ නම් හොඳය යන අදහස නිසා ඔහු තුල පසුතැවිල්ලක් ඇති විය. එම සිතුවිල්ල ඔහු සම කරන්නේ ටෝල්ස්ටෝයිගේ යුද්ධය හා සාමය නවකථාවේ තම මහලු පියාවූ බල්කෝන්ස්කි කුමරු මිය ගියේ නම් යෙහෙකි යන හැගීම නිසා පශ්චාත්තාපයට පත්වූ මරියා බල්කෝන්ස්කියා කුමරියගේ හැඟීම් වලටය. 

ඔහු තමා හා ඇමරිකානු ලේඛක එඩ්ගා ඇලන් ෆෝ අතර සමානතාවයන් දකියි. එසේම ඔහු එඩ්ගා ඇලන් ගේ කෙටි කථා ශෛලිය අනුගමනය කල බව මාටින් වික්‍රමසිංහ පවසා ඇත. එඩ්ගා ඇලන් ෆෝ ද තමා අත්විඳි විශාදය නිසා කායිකව මෙන්ම මානසිකව පීඩා විඳි ලේඛකයෙකි. 

ජී. බී.සේනානායක කුඩා කාලයේ තමන්ට නිතරම ඇතිවූ හිසරදය සරස්වතී ආවේශයක් ලෙස හෝ තමන්ව ලියන්නට පොළඹවන බලවේගයක් ලෙසට සැලකීය. සත්‍ය වශයෙන්ම ඔහු මේ අත්විදින ලද්දේ මනෝ කායික (Psycho – Somatic) රෝගී තත්වයක් දැයි සැකයක් මතුවේ. ළමා කාලයේ අත්විදින මානසික පීඩනයන් බොහෝ විට මනෝ කායික රෝග ඇති කරන බව ළමා රෝග විශේෂඥයන් පෙන්වා දෙති. ආත්ම ඝාතනය හෝ ජීවිතාශාවෙන් තොර වීම බොහෝ විට විශාදය සමග බැඳී පවතියි. ජී. බී.සේනානායක තුල ද මෙවැනි ආත්මහරණයේ සේයාවල් දක්නට තිබුනි. එසේම ඔහුගේ පවුලේ සාමාජිකයන් දෙදෙනෙකු (පියා සහ වැඩිමල් සොහොයුරා) දිවි තොර කර ගත් බව ඔහු පවසයි. එසේම ජී. බී.සේනානායක ද ඇතැමි විට ජීවිතය කෙරෙහි උකටලී බවක් පෙන්වන ලදී. පහත දැක්වෙන්නේ ඔහු විසින් රචනා කරන ලද කවියකි. එහි කවියා තුල තිබූ මරනීය ආශයේ ( Death Instinct) සක්‍රීයතාව පෙනී යයි.

නයා 

නයෙකු නැගුනොත් මගේ ඇඳට

තුරුළු කර ගනිමි මම ඌ

සපන්න මිතුර මා

කරුණාවෙන්

යවන්න මා එහා ලෝකෙටයි කියා

මේ හැර ජී. බී.සේනානායකයන්ගේ ආත්ම ඝාතක සංකල්ප ඇතැමි විට ඔහුගේ කෘති වල එන චරිත හරහා ද නිරූපනය කරයි.

මනෝ විශේෂඥ ආරෝන් බෙක් විශාදය පිළිබදව තමාගේ ප්‍රජානන න්‍යාය මගින් ස්වයං අවතක්සේරුව, සෘණාත්මක දැක්ම මෙන්ම අර්ථකථනය සහ අනාගතය පිළිබදව අශුභවාදී දැක්ම හේතු වන බව පවසයි. ආරෝන් බෙක්ගේ පෙන්වා දීම් තුලින් සහ විශාදය පිළිබද බෙක්ගේ නිර්නායකයන්ට (Beck’s Scale)- අනුව මහා ගත් කරු ජී. බී.සේනානායක තුල විශාදයේ ලක්ෂන තිබූ බව කිව හැකිය. එසේම කෙලර් සහ ෂැෆීරෝ විසින් විශාදයට පත්වූ පුද්ගලයන් තුල මරනීය සාධකයන් ගොඩනැගීමේ ක්‍රියාවලිය පැහැදිලිවම පෙන්වා දෙන ලදී. මෙම පැහැදිලි කිරීම් අනුසාරයෙන් ජී. බී.සේනානායකයන්ගේ ජීවිතයේ අවසාන කාලයේ තිබූ මරනීය ආශයේ ප්‍රබලතාව පෙන්වා දිය හැක. එහෙත් ඔහු දිවි නසා ගැනීමට යොමු නොවීය.

අද්විතීය ගත්කරු ජී. බී.සේනානායක විශාදයෙන් පෙලුනේද යන්න තුළ සායනික මෙන්ම සාහිත්‍යමය වශයෙන්ද කාලීන බවක් තිබේ. ඒ මන්ද යත් ඔහුගේ නිර්මාණ තුළ මෙම විශාදයේ සේයාවන් ඇති නිසාවෙනි. එහෙත් එම නිසා ඔහුගේ නිර්මාණ වටිනාකමින් අඩු නොවේ. ඔහුගේ නිර්මාණ මිණි කැට වැනිය. එකී නිර්මාණ වල සාහිත්‍යමය මෙන්ම දාර්ශනික ගැඹුරක් තිබේ. චිත්ත තත්වයන් අරභයා ඔහු විසින් කරන ලද විවරණයන් සලකා බැලීමේදී ජී. බී.සේනානායක යනු ලාංකික දොස්තොයෙව්ස්කි ද යැයි සිතේ.

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භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේ කෙනෙකුගේ චීවරය ගලවා දැමීමේ බලය රටේ නායක භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලාට පමණක් හිමි යුතුය. එය බන්ධනාගාර කොමසාරිස් කෙනෙකුට නොව ජනාධිපතිට පවා ලබා දීම බුද්ධ චීවරයට කරන නින්දාවකි.

දෙව්දත් හිමි අපාගත වූයේද සිවුර පිටින් බව බණ කතාවේ කියවෙයි. කුඩාපොළ හිමි වෙඩි කෑවේ සිවුර පිටිනි. සුද්දා වාරියපොළ සුමංගල හිමි සිරගත කළ ද සිවුර ගැලවූ බවක් නොකියවෙයි. සුද්දා සිවුර ගැලවුවද ඒ වරද වහා නිවැරදි විය යුතුය.

මන්ද එමගින් හෑල්ලුවට ලක් වන්නේ මේ රට දැය සමයෙහි මුර දේවතාවුන් වැනි ආර්ය මහා සංඝ රත්නය කළ මහා උදාර සේවයයි. අපේ බෞද්ධ උරුමයයි. බන්ධනාගාර කොමසාරිස් වැනි මහජන මුදලින් යැපෙන ගිහියකු අතින් ගැළවෙන්නේ හුදු සිවුරක් නොව මේ ශිෂ්ටාචාරයේ අභිමානයේ සළුවයි.

මේ මොහොතේ අප අභියස රඟ දැක්වෙන්නේ භයානක විගඩමක් බවට කිසි සැකයක් නැත. කළු ඩිපෙන්ඩරයක තරුණයකු පැහැර ගෙන ගොස් මරණ තර්ජනය කළ හිරුණිකාලා මැති ඇමතිකම් දරමින් සුවසේ වාසය කරන රටක හුදෙක් මරණ තර්ජනය කළේ යැයි ඥානසාර හිමි සිරගත කර ජම්පරය ඇන්ද වීම ඔස්සේ සතුරා අරමුණු කිහිපයක් සපුරා ගැනීමට කටයුතු කරන්නේ යැයි සිතිය හැකිය.

පළමුවැන්න මේ රටේ සතුරන් සතුටු කිරීමය. දෙවනුව මේ රටේ බුදු දහමට හිමි තැන අහිමි කොට නින්දා කිරීමය. තෙවනුව මේ ආණ්ඩුව රකින අන්තවාදී කල්ලි සතුටු කිරීමය. සිව්වනුව රට වෙනුවෙන් පෙරට එන භික්ෂුව නිහඬ කිරීමය. පස්වනුව සමාව ලබා දී වීරයන් වීමය. සය වනුව එහිමියන්ගේ ගිලිහි ගිය ජනප්‍රියත්වය නැවත ලබා ගැනීමට මග පාදා තමන්ට අවශ්‍ය පරිදි බෞද්ධයන් රැවටීමට යොදා ගැනීමය.

දැන් නිර්මාණය වී අැති පසුබිම තුළ ඥානසාර හිමිට සිරගෙදර සිට පැමිණ 2020 ජනාධිපතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත් වී රනිල් හෝ රටේ සතුරු අපේක්ෂකයාට එරෙහිව වැටෙන බෞද්ධ ඡන්ද ප්‍රමාණයක් කඩා දැමිය හැකිය. නො එසේ නම් ඒ ජනාධිපතිවරණයට රනිල්ට හෝ රටේ සතුරාට එරෙහි අපේක්ෂකයාට සහාය දෙන බව පවසා ඔහුට වැටෙන සුළු ජාතික ඡන්ද විශේෂයෙන් මුස්ලිම් ඡන්ද කැඩිය හැකිය.

බොදුබල සේනාව බිහි කළ පාර්ශව පවසන පරිදිම එය දෙපැත්ත කැපෙන අසිපතකි. රටට හිතැති බලවේග ගෙදර ගියොත් අඹු නසී, මග හිටියොත් තෝ නසී තත්ත්වයට පත් වනු අැත. එහෙයින් ජනතාව වෙනදාටත් වඩා පරිස්සමින් ඉවසීමෙන් මේ දෙස බලා සිටිය යුතුය. මේ නාටකට ඔස්සේ සිදු කරන සංස්කෘතික සංහාරයට එරෙහි විය යුතුය. නැතහොත් මේ අසිපත් පහරක් ලක් මවගේ ගෙලට එල්ල විය හැකිය.

By Malinda Seneviratne Courtesy The Daily Mirror

Take a deep breath. Let it go. Suppress all urges to laugh your guts out. Breathe in. Breathe out. Have a cup of chamomile tea. Think of the best joke you’ve heard so far. Think of Charlie Chaplin and other great comedians. Now read.

The US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley announced that her country would withdraw from the UN Human Rights Commission (UNHRC). Calling the UNHRC ‘a cesspool of political bias,’ Haley explained the decision thus:

We take this step because our commitment does not allow us to remain a part of a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights”.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who appeared alongside Haley at a media conference held at the State Department said the noble vision of the body notwithstanding, the US ‘needed to be honest’. The ‘honesty’ he encapsulated in the following observation: The Human Rights Council is a poor defender of human rights”.

It is reported that Haley and Pompeo explained that the decision came after, a long year of efforts to shame the council into reform and to remove member states that themselves commit abuses”.

Take the key words/terms used or implied here: hypocritical, self-serving, poor defender of human rights, dishonesty, shamelessness. Which country do these words/terms describe best if not the United States of America? Cesspool indeed! They were spot on with that descriptive, only they used it on the UNHRC which, the world knows, was the USA’s baby all along. Just like the UN, one might add, which is for all intents and purposes a creature of the USA.

The UNHRC, ever since it was formed in 2006, and the UN in general have always treated with leniency the USA and the various war-mongering, rights-abusing blocs of countries it has led. ‘Leniency’ by the way is a generous term. When the USA wanted to censure any particular country or regime, the UNHRC turned itself into a cheering squad.

One thing is clear. Yahapalanaya is not the perfume it was thought to be. It stinks. All doubts about the source of the stench can now be laid to rest. Haley and Pompeo have give us the names and the addresses

The USA might not think of itself as the cesspit that it is, and indeed it might be so used to the stench that it has become oblivious to the bad odour. Well, it is more likely that they knew, but didn’t believe that the world knew the stinking truth as well.

Nevertheless it can’t be that Washington suddenly discovered a foul-smelling cousin. It can’t be that the likes of Haley and Pompeo woke up one fine morning and discovered that the UNHRC was bad. They must have known, especially since the resemblance between the USA and UNHRC was too close for anyone to see the two as anything but blood brothers, so to speak. What happened was that self-interest was not served one fine day. Stuff didn’t go down the tube as smoothly as it had before.

Put simply, the USA was rudely awakened and decided that the best way to counter punch was to throw at ‘the newfound enemy’ the terminology that was core to Washington-speak.

In fairness, though, they’ve done their part in ‘removing member states that commit abuses,’ simply by adhering to the dictum ‘charity begins at home’. It won’t make the UNHRC fragrant, not by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction.

We need not go into all that. We can laugh our guts out.

What’s more important about this veritable cesspit calling the UN agency concerned a cesspool is where it leaves those who were practically swearing by both on things such as human rights, truth, peace, justice and reconciliation. There’s little that a cesspool can deliver except, well, a lot of gooey stuff that stinks.

And yet, for purposes of political expediency there were many who ran to Washington as though the Messiah lived there. They ran to the UNHRC as though it was made of squeaky clean saints. Many worthies in this Yahapalana Government took policy and political cues from the US Embassy in Colombo, which actually facilitated the funding of the Yahapalana election campaign.

So, will the Yahapalanists stand with the cesspit (USA) or the cesspool (UNHRC) now? Will they take the cue from the US Embassy in Colombo and echo the words of Haley and Pompeo? Will they take a deep breath, pite their lips play ostrich, and wait for the UN system to recover its sense of purpose (read ‘Washington/Tel Aviv agenda’)?

Let us not forget that the then Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera went as far as co-sponsoring on behalf of Sri Lanka a resolution on (read, ‘against’) Sri Lanka at the UNHRC. What does he have to say about a resolution spawned in a cesspool now, one must ask. The Yahapalanists can navel-gaze and lapse into mumblement” as it often does. They can play ostrich. They can get the US Embassy to write a ‘position paper’. That’s if they have any shame. Shameless as they are, there’s one thing they really can’t wash their hands off from: the fact that they were dipped head-to-toe in the UNHRC by the USA. That’s a cesspool, according to Haley and Pompeo. The US Ambassador Atul Keshap is mandated to go with that description.

One thing is clear. Yahapalanaya is not the perfume it was thought to be. It stinks. All doubts about the source of the stench can now be laid to rest. Haley and Pompeo have given us the names and the addresses. More importantly, we need to recognize that the US leaving the UNHRC cesspool doesn’t exactly clear the air that’s polluted by those who were born and bred in cesspools (or cesspits if you prefer the word). Perhaps they’ll pack their bags and take the next flight to the USA. Perhaps not. If not, then there’s a choice before us: do we hold our noses for ever or do we take these people to the cleaners?

Malinda Seneviratne is a freelance writer. malindasenevi@gmail.com.
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Courtesy Mail On Line

The International Monetary Fund urged Sri Lanka Wednesday to let its rupee keep sliding and not intervene further to bolster the ailing currency as it fell to historic lows.

The currency bottomed out at roughly 160 rupees to the US dollar on Wednesday — its weakest ever point — despite efforts by the central bank to stop its steady decline in recent weeks.

The bank spent $190 million in May alone to ease pressure on the exchange rate, sounding alarm bells at the IMF.

The Washington-based fund urged Colombo — which is emerging from a balance of payments crisis — to conserve its foreign exchange reserves instead of propping up the rupee.

“We think the central bank has allowed for greater flexibility (in the exchange rate) than in the past,” said IMF mission chief Manuela Goretti.

“The rupee should be allowed to depreciate. When you look at emerging markets, the rupee has depreciated less.”

The IMF extended Sri Lanka a staggered $1.5 billion loan in June 2016, the latest tranche of which was released earlier this month.

The international lender said Sri Lanka’s economy had rebounded since growth fell to a 16-year low of 3.1 percent in 2017.

But it warned Sri Lanka was still vulnerable to shocks from at home and abroad and stressed that restructuring the island’s loss-making national airline and reforming its energy sector was vital to maintain the recovery.

One of the biggest drags on the country’s balance sheet is national carrier Sri Lankan, which has accumulated losses and debts of over $2 billion and is a huge burden on taxpayers.

The government has failed to privatise the airline. Investor interest has been lukewarm at home while international partners have also been elusive.

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia

New Delhi, June 20 (The Hindu): The Indian Central government has told Tamil Nadu that releasing the four foreign nationals convicted of committing the gruesome assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, in connivance with three Indian nationals, will set a very dangerous precedent and lead to international ramifications.”

In its communication to the Tamil Nadu government, rejecting its request for concurrence to its proposal to grant remission to the seven life convicts in the case, the Centre said … the murder of a former Prime Minister, for what he did for the country was an act of exceptional depravity on the part of the accused, an unparalleled act in the annals of crimes committed in this country.”

The Hindu reported on June 15 that the T.N. government’s plea to release the seven convicts had been turned down by the President.

‘Carefully Conceived’

The order issued by the Home Ministry on behalf of the President, said the diabolical plot carefully conceived and executed” by a highly organised foreign terrorist organisation claimed 16 lives including nine police officers and brought the democratic process to a halt.

The Tamil Nadu government has in the last four years, written twice to the Union Home Ministry to pardon the seven convicted prisoners and release them on humanitarian grounds.

The trial court had given cogent reasons for imposing the death penalty upon the accused persons. While referring to the diabolical conspiracy, the use of a female human bomb, the number of lives lost in the incident etc. it justified the award of the death penalty; the three judges of the Supreme Court highlighted the conspiracy and the horrific nature of the crime and held that the case fell under the category of rarest of rare cases.”

On February 14, following Supreme Court directions, the Ministry sought details on eight grounds from the State government to facilitate further” its request to release the seven convicts.

It asked the State government to furnish details on grounds like physical and mental status of the convicts”, their economic and social background” and the previous cases registered against them.

The seven convicts are V. Sriharan alias Murugan, A.G. Perarivalan, T. Suthendraraja alias Santhan, Jayakumar, Robert Payas, Ravichandran and Nalini.

The plot was executed with the active help and participation of these convicts and others who were LTTE militants or its staunch supporters…the brutal act brought the lndian democratic process to a grinding halt,” the order said.

(The featured image at the top shows Rajiv Gandhi and the immediate aftermath of the suicide attack on him on the night of May 21, 1991 in Sriperumbhudur, 40 kms from Chennai)   

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia

Colombo, June 20 (newsin.asia): The Sri Lankan Tamil issue, which has been the subject of very aggressive US-backed resolutions in the UN Human Rights Council (UHRC) against Lankan regimes since 2009, will not be swept under the carpet in the international arena because the US has quit the UNHRC, observers here feel.

Former Lankan Ambassador in Geneva and now Ambassador  designate to Russia, Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka, said that the exit of the US from the UNHRC does not mean that the US will not play a role in shaping events in the council.

The US had inspired resolutions against Sri Lanka even when it was not part of the 47-member body. The US got the British to engineer a resolution against Sri Lanka when it was not itself a member,” Jayatilleka recalled.

It is also not certain if the US has left the UNHRC for good. It had opted out in 2006 but joined in 2009.

The George W.Bush administration opted against seeking membership when the council was created in 2006. The US joined the body only in 2009 under President Barack Obama. It is not clear if the Trump administration has taken the hard option of staying out for ever, or the soft option of quitting now and coming back later, ” Jayatilleka pointed out.

The Lankan diplomat feels that even if the US under Trump were to take less interest in the Tamil question than the Obama administration, the British and the Canadians might not give up.

The Tamils in the UK and Canada have enough electoral clout to influence their government’s Sri Lanka policy,” the Lankan diplomat said.

Domestic Developments Hold The Key

Jayatilleka fears that domestic political developments in Sri Lanka could invite the unwelcome attention of the influential international human rights lobby, including the UNHRC.

If Gotabaya Rajapaksa, known for his hardline on the Tamil question, were to become Sri Lankan President after the January 2020 election, confrontation with the Tamils is likely to take place and could become very sharp,” he predicted.

Gotabaya is not only against devolution of power to the Tamil speaking Northern  and Eastern provinces but also to the 13 th. Amendment which gives a modicum of power to the provinces,” Jayatilleka said.

And the 13A has an international dimension given the fact that it stemmed from the India-Sri Lanka Accord of 1987.

The think tank Gotabaya has established to advise him on foreign policy is against the 13A in toto,” Jayatilleka observed.

But all Tamil parties, from the moderate Tamil  National Alliance led by R.Sampanthan to the extremists gathering around the Northern Province Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran, have put devolution of power before every other demand.

This being the state of affairs in the Tamil community, the assumption of power by Sinhalse extremists in Colombo, will certainly lead to a confrontation, Jayatilleka said.

With a government set to back them, the Security Forces might be emboldened to go for muscular responses which will lead to a transformation of the nature of the Tamil-government conflict for the worse,” Jayatilleka feared.

Sherine Xavier, head of Home for Human Rights” felt that the exit of the US from the UNHRC will not  make a difference to the Tamil cause because the Tamil issue is not specifically tied to support from the US.

The Tamils have sought the help of the international community and not the US specifically. The US is only a part of the larger international community,” Xavier said.

She also noted that the US is not necessarily wedded to human rights going by the way it has been supporting Israeli action against the Palestinians, and the way the Trump administration has separated migrant children from their parents as part of its border defense policy.

The Tamils will perforce have to look for broader support, Xavier said.

The Jaffna-based developmental economist Ahilan Kadirgamar said that he will not set much store by the US given its proven disdain for human rights. It does not matter if the US is in or out of the UNHRC, he added.

At any rate, Kadirgamar does not believe that international help is a sine qua non for a solution of the Lankan Tamil question.

The issue will have to be settled here in Sri Lanka, with the stakeholders here in the island. The Tamils will have to negotiate with the forces within the island to secure a sustainable and lasting solution,” Kadirgamar said.

(A Sri Lankan Tamil mother holds a picture of her missing daughter at a demonstration in front of the  UN office in Colombo)

 Courtesy NewsIn.Asia

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island

Having had brazenly used the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to adopt an anti-Sri Lanka Resolution in Oct 2015 on the basis of unsubstantiated war crimes allegations, the US has endorsed what we have been saying with regard to the inherent bias and lack of objectivity on the part of the UN agency, former External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris says.

Responding to a query by The Island, Prof. Peiris, yesterday, alleged that the Geneva body always treated Sri Lanka with preconceived notions and shuts its eyes to compelling evidence contrary to the conclusions which they wished to reach.

Prof. Peiris pointed out that US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley was quoted in the international media as having called the council a “cesspool of political bias.”

The former Law Professor said that it was funny for Haley to now accuse the UNHRC at a joint media conference with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that it was a “hypocritical and self-serving” body that “makes a mockery of human rights.”

The US quit the 47-member organization alleging its hostility towards Israel.

The UN transformed the human rights commission to a council in 2006.

Prof. Peiris recollected the circumstances under which the US coerced Sri Lanka to co-sponsor the Resolution just over a week after the then Sri Lanka Permanent Representative in Geneva quite rightly rejected the text.

The Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government certainly owed an explanation to the public over its refusal to make fresh representations on behalf of Sri Lanka in respect of Geneva Resolution 30/1 in the wake of Naseby revelations in Oct last year.

Asked whether the US move would have a bearing on Sri Lanka situation, Prof. Peiris said that both UN and the US couldn’t ignore the post-US pullout situation. Prof. Peiris pointed out how a US led group had been pursuing Sri Lanka at Geneva since the conclusion of the conflict in May 2009 and finally achieved their objectives after the change of government in January 2015.

Israel on Tuesday night praised the US move a “courageous decision against the hypocrisy and the lies” of the international body.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the US move, branding the council “a biased, hostile, anti-Israel organization that has betrayed its mission of protecting human rights.”

Prof. Peiris said that the US couldn’t expect the world to believe that Geneva had been biased towards one country and impartial in handling other situations.

Former Minister Prof. Peiris recalled how the US had intervened to have rescinded Goldstone war crimes report on Gaza invasion by Israel commissioned by the UN years ago, while pursuing Sri Lanka.

Prof. Peiris said that the Joint Opposition and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) would critically examine the situation.

The SLPP Chairman alleged that the government had been simply following Western dictates and struggling to implement the Geneva Resolution in spite of it being inimical to Sri Lanka’s interest. The government was on record as having said that it secured two year additional period to fulfill Geneva obligations while the country responsible for our predicament now accused UN body of playing politics.

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island

Justice and Prisons Reforms Minister and attorney-at-law Thalatha Atukorale has informed Kotte Sri Kalyani Samagri Sri Dharma Sangha Sabhawa that  Bodu Bala Sena General Secretary Ven. Galagodaatte Gnanasara would be treated like any other prisoner.

In her letter, dated June 19, 2018, Minister Atukorale has insisted that the Commissioner General of Prisons had no option but to treat Ven. Gnanasara in accordance with the Prisons Ordinance.

The letter was addressed to the Most Ven. Prof. Kottapitiye Rahula, Chief Registrar, Kotte Sri Kalyani Samagri Sri Dharma Sangha Sabhawa.

Thalatha

Justice Minister’s spokesperson Nalin Rajapaksha told The Island that the letter had been delivered to the Thera yesterday in response to a missive, dated June 16, from Kotte Sri Kalyani Samagri Sri Dharma Sangha Sabhawa in respect of Ven. Gnanasara.

The Homagama Magistrate, on June 14, sentenced Ven Gnanasasa to one year RI to be served in six months for threatening Sandya Ekneligoda, wife of missing media personality, Prageeth within the court premises.

Addressing the media, on Tuesday, at the Sunethradevi Pirivena, Pepiliyana, Ven. Prof  Medagoda Abhayatissa Thera said that according to the disciplinary texts, the Vinaya Pitakaya, a bikkhu who spent seven days out of the robe could lose his status as per the rule cheevara vippavaasi (residing out of the robe).

The Thera pointed out that in other instances bikkhus who were found guilty of transgressing established laws were punished but never forced to remove their robes.

Justice Minister Atukorale insisted that the prisoner would be dealt with the Section 106 of the Prisons Ordinance therefore Ven. Gnanasara, too, was to receive usual prison garb, commonly referred to as ‘jumper suit’.

Earlier, Kotte Sri Kalyani Samagri Sri Dharma Sangha Sabhawa has advised Minister Atukorale that the power to disrobe a monk lies with the Sangha Sabha that ordained him. The Sangha Sabhawa asserted that even the Commissioner General of Buddhist Affairs couldn’t take a decision in respect of a monk unless specifically instructed by the relevant Mahanayaka Thera.

Minister Atukorale has informed the Sangha Sabhawa that the measures mentioned by Ven Rahula couldn’t be accepted as part of the law of the land. She has pointed out that in addition to the steps that could be taken in respect of those who had been found guilty of offences, monks could give up robes voluntarily.

While assuring the Sangha Sabhva that the government, political leaders or any section of the administration wouldn’t hinder or interfere with the way the clergy responded to such situation, Atukorale has stressed that all citizens, irrespective of their social status, should be dealt with equally under the law.

Minister Atukorale responded to Ven. Rahula in the wake of President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) U. R. de Silva, PC, asserting that members of the clergy, too, were subjected to the law of land.

The BASL chief told The Island yesterday that there had been about 15 Buddhist monks and three other clergymen at Welikada at the time Ven. Gnanasara was brought in. Responding to a query, De Silva said that the Homagama Magistrate could have dealt with the monk’s bail application, on Tuesday (June 19), without putting off the hearing to Friday afternoon (June 22).

The President’s Counsel pointed out that no one had objected to other monks being compelled to wear usual prison garb. “The BASL believes that there shouldn’t be interference of any sort from any part and the judiciary should be allowed to address the issue.”

Pannadasa Punchihewa 

The demonstration by the Maha Sangha over the Rev .Gnanasara issue yesterday, as befitting the Sangha was very orderly, and restrained although according to some reports more than thousands participated. Demonstrations had also taken place in other places like Moneragala,Padukka,Tissamaharama and Badulla showing the wide spread discontent of the Buddhist public .This is one of the rare occasions when the Members of the Maha Sangha came out in such numbers on a matter of great importance.

In the Buddhist countries it is a well-known fact that the Buddha civaraya is held in the highest esteem .I am told that in 1942 when the Japanese attacked Ceylon, a low flying plane over Kelaniya hit a temple premises and a British soldier who was running  to save his life fell on the ground. A Buddhist priest seeing him, removed his upper robe and threw it over the British soldier. The Jap plane came down further down, noticed  the yellow robe and  returned to the base without attacking.

Buddha civaraya   is the world’s oldest uniform .It had not changed over the last 2,600 years in the Theravada tradition .At the end of Vas season even the cloth that is taken around the villages in the early hours of the morning  is held in high esteem even though  that  would be turned to a full pledged civarya only after several hours.

So it is nothing but correct that the Buddha civaraya be treated with the due respect it deserves.

However it is surprising that particularly the English media seems to have played down the significance of the yesterday’s event comparing to the publicity received by trade union activities of other organizations. Was there an unseen hand working to partially black out the publicity?

A leading monk while addressing the gathering said If the sad situation continue they might refuse to participate in state functions  .There have been instances when such action brought redress  to others earlier!

If you wondered why LTTE could not be defeated for 3 decades there is no one reason. When you look at the plethora of players that were backing the LTTE over the years, you will never want to stop showering accolades at the Sri Lankan Armed Forces as well as the political leadership that had the guts to withstand these multiple forces that were using the LTTE to advance their own geopolitical agendas in the region.

Let’s take a step back & run through just some of these players most of whom we know well enough

Indian intelligence wing RAW was created in 1968 led by Rameshwar Nath Kao till retirement in 1977. According to Stephen P Cohen of Brookings Institute CIA assisted the creation of RAW.

The ‘Tamil New Tigers’ was formed in 1972 immediately after the country’s 1^st republican constitution.

TNT was re-christened as ‘Liberation of Tigers of Tamil Eelam’ (LTTE) in 1976 immediately after the Tamil racist leaders put forward the separatist agenda with the Vaddukoddai Resolution.

India

Poignant to note is that Sri Lankan Tamil armed militancy began training in India in the 1970s well before July 1983.

Indira Gandhi’s government

The Indian Government saved a cornered Prabakaran in Vadamarachchi in 1987 & flew him to India

RAW (Research & Analysis Wing)

LTTE leader’s deputy, Gopalaswamy Mahendrarajah, alias Mahattaya, was a RAW agent

Advanced training of the LTTE was arranged by the Indian intelligence agency in Lebanon under Russian General Mikhail Barsukov in early 1990s.

RAW also managed LTTE’s sophisticated training in Israel in collaboration with its intelligence agency MOSSAD.

Prabhakaran’s ‘handler’ when the LTTE leader was in India, Chandran additional secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat and in charge of RAW in Sri Lanka

Tamil Nadu Leaders/Politicians

In the 1970s LTTE developed links with Tamil Nadu political groups – Dravida Kazhagam headed by Veramani, the Kamraj Congress headed by Nedumaran and the Pure Tamil Movement headed by Perinchintanarayanan.

LTTE had links to M G R Ramachandran, Karunanidhi

In April 1984 Pirapaharan met for the first-time Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. G. Ramachandran,’

In April 1984, Balasingham and Adele lived in a house in Thiruvanmiyur. Pirapaharan lived in another house nearby.

Many a Tamil politician have been pro-LTTE. An interesting video has emerged in social media highlighting the church involved in the great Tamil Eelam project.

Foreign Intelligence

CIA

Daya Gamage in his article the US early flirtation with Tamil militancy shows examples of ambiguity in responses by the US. In 2003 he quotes Deputy Secretary of State Armitrage of saying the United States government is encouraged by the vision of the LTTE as a genuine political entity.”

When pro-US President Jayawardena requested US military assistance in 1980s to defeat LTTE, the US refused.

MOSSAD

What is interesting is that in 1970 Sri Lanka severed ties with Israel for its refusal to withdraw from Palestinian territory but in 1980s Palestine began aiding LTTE in the 1980s while President Jayawardena renewed links with Mossad allowing 50 officers to provide Sri Lanka Army training in 1983 & Mossad ended up training both Sri Lanka Army & Tamil militants. Sri Lanka paid

According to Victor Ostrovsky’s book ‘By way of deception: The making of a Mossad officer’ RAW had been paid by Mossad for brining Tamils (TELO) to train in Israel. In 1987, the Hindustan Times reported that in the Sri Lankan city of Jaffna, the troops seized large quantities of arms with Israeli markings, meant for the Tamils.

British Intel

According to A Bharathkumar LTTE began training in 1970s & obtained arms from OXFAM who he refers to as ‘one of the most powerful & secretive British intelligence organizations acting under non-governmental cover”.

That British mercenaries were training LTTE was revealed by John Glover, a British writer to the Western Mail in Wales a band of mercenary soldiers recruited in South Wales is training a Tamil army to fight for a separate state in Sri Lanka. About 20 mercenaries were signed up after a meeting in Cardiff and have spent the last 2 months in southern India preparing a secret army to fight the majority Sinhalese, the the cause of a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka”.

In June 2018 it was announced that the British Foreign Office had destroyed some 200 files belonging to 1978-1980 period

http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/Files-on-LTTE-and-MI-in-SL-erased-at-UK-Foreign-Office-150331.html

The British Special Air Services firm Keenie Meenie Services also trained the Sri Lankan Army & the LTTE in the 1980s (A Bharatkumar P K T – Terrorism Comes from Us”)

In 2003 a trial of Michael McKevitt held in Dublin, Ireland revealed attempts by the Real IRA (Irish Republican Army) to develop links with Tamil Tigers.

According to Dushy Ranetunge Deirdre McConnel (IRA) was linked to LTTE & worked as a LTTE humanitarian lobbyist in the LTTE led front, the Tamil Centre for Human Rights (TCHR) in Manchester. http://www.island.lk/2003/07/26/news01.html

LTTE reaches out to Scottish separatists – https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/ltte-reaches-out-to-scottish-separatists.326941/

Britain

Britain banned LTTE on February 28, 2000. MPs Robert Evans, Linda Perham, Andrew Dismore, Dr. Jenny Tong, Jeremy Corbyn, John MacDonald, Andy Love raised objections against ban.

LTTE’s defacto headquarters was in London masquerading under the name British Tamil Association” with debit accounts in Natwest Bank.

MPs Hon Andrew Love (Labour), Hon Simon Hughes (Lib Dem), Hon Jeremy Corbyn (Lab), Hon John McDonnell (Lab), Hon Paul Burstow (Lib Dem), Hon Susan Kramer (Lib Dem), Hon Andrew Dismore (Lab), Hon Andrew Pelling (Independent), Hon Lee Scott (Conservative), Rt. Hon Keith Vaz (Lab) and the Hon Minister Bill Rammell (Lab) Gavin Barwell, Tom Brake, James Brokenshire, David Burrowes, Edward Davey, Duncan Smith, Barry Gardiner, Zac Goldsmith, Robert, Halfon, Stephen Hammond, Nick Hurd, Joseph Johnson, Sadiq Khan, Siobhain McDonagh, Bob Neill, Richard Ottoway, Stephen Pound, Andrew Rosindell, Sarah Teather, Gareth Thomas, Stephen Timms, Theresa Villiers, Angela Watkinson, Angus Robertson, Dianne Abbot, Jon Trickett, Mark Hendrik, Philip Davies, Peter Bottomley, David Miliband, Stella Creasy & John Mann, have all been openly supportive of LTTE. http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2011/10/why-are-uk-mps-supporting-ltte.html

British MPs – Siobhan McDonagh and Joan Ryan

For Prabakaran’s 50th birthday 5000 Tamils gathered in Wembley Arena with entrance fee £35 per head.

MR Barry Gardiner MP arrived in Sri Lanka in 2001 without even informing the SL High Commission. He has been a regular attendee of LTTE events in the UK. He together with LTTE front Confederation of Tamil Associations UK” organized an event booked under Gardiners name.

In 2010 – British MPs attend a fundraising dinner in Harrow organized LTTE front – Nick Hurd, David Ashton, Jean Lammiman, Richard Almond, Golsie Simms,

In October 2010 – Siobhain McDonagh MP calls for the UK to take action against Sri Lanka. Hansard transcript http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm101027/debtext/101027-0001.htm#10102752000011

In September 2011 – Rt. Hon. Douglas Alexander MP calls for an international commission on inquiry into war crimes against Sri Lanka speaking at a Tamils for Labor event at the Labour Party Conference

In September 2012 – Gareth Thomas MP makes an emergency Point of Order” speech in the House of Commons raising concerns about the Human Rights Watch report about Tamil asylum seekers deported from UK and being tortured in Sri Lanka.

In January 2013 – Lee Scott MP calls for, justice for Tamil people – he is the Chairman of the APPGT

In 2011 –  41 British MPs wrote to PM Cameron calling for an independent, international inquiry against Sri Lanka. These MPs – Lee Scott (Chair) Virendra Sharma (Vice Chair) Siobhain McDonagh (Vice Chair) Simon Hughes (Vice Chair)

Heidi Alexander, Ian Austin Hazel, Blears Peter Bottomley Russell Brown David Cairns Martin Caton Katy Clark Jeremy Corbyn Stella Creasy Jon Cruddas Jim Cunningham John Cryer Jim Dowd Clive Efford Mike Gapes Barry Gardiner Mary Glindon Robert Halfon Tom Harris Margaret Hodge Sharon Hodgson George Howarth David Lammy Andy Love John Mann Stephen McCabe John McDonnell Teresa Pearce Steve Pound Nick Raynsford Chris Ruane Joan Ruddock Stephen Timms Emily Thornberry Gareth Thomas Keith Vaz.

UK even gave permission for World Tamil Conference on November 10, 2012 at the British House of Parliament where Jeremy Corbyn urged the international community to recognize Tamil’s aspirations and their right to self-determination in Sri Lanka. Also present were Siobhain McDonagh, Mike Gapes, Barry Gardiner, Seema Malhotra, Stella Creasy, Kate Green while Garath Thomas urged to set up international independent inquiries. Conservative MPs were Steve Baker, Steve Brine, Bob Blackman, Alok Sharma, Stephen Hammond, Mike Freer, Nick de Bois, Iain Stewart, Lord Popat of Harrow. Liberal Democrat MPs Tom Brake

Norway

Fredrica Jansz in an article titled the LTTE rides high in Norway while Lanka gets torn apart” that LTTE raises half a million US dollars per month in Norway & Scandinavian countries, with 6 offices out of Norway operating as fronts. Jon Westborg, the Norwegian ambassador in Colombo denies LTTE offices in Norway.

In a 2014 Wikileaks release, revealed a confidential US embassy cable on 23 Oct 2003 that the then President Chandrika B requested the removal of the SLMM chief Tryggve Teleffsen as he & the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission had tipped off LTTE vessel helping it escape from the Sri Lanka Navy.

Shamindra Ferdinando writing to the Island in 2016 ‘a secret Norwegian missive to Dear Mr. Prabakaran” in the wake of the Kadiragamar assassination” claims that LTTE women leader Thamilini confirmed that Prabakaran ordered the assassination of Lakshman Kadiragamar

What more is there to say when an interview with Eric Solheim says that he regrets he ‘could not spend more time with Prabakaran”

Norway, Solheim helped establish LTTE-Eritrea links for arms deals http://infolanka.asia/news/general/norway-solheim-helped-establish-ltte-eritrea-links-for-arms-deals

Sri Lanka accuses Oslo envoy Erik Solheim of financing Tamil Tigers 2014 http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1641542/sri-lanka-accuses-oslo-envoy-erik-solheim-financing-tamil-tigers

Canada

Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper threatened to boycott Commonwealth Summit in 2013 Sri Lanka. Pro-LTTE TNA parliamentarian Sumitharann thanked Canadian MP Stephen Harper and Foreign Minister John Baird for supporting their cause.

In 2007 Liberal MPs Jim Karygiannis, Derek Lee, Maria Minna, Yasmin Ratansi & Borys Wrzesnewskyi participated in an event to commemorate death of LTTE Tamilselvan. MP Karygiannis had met Tamilselvan in 2004 in Sri Lanka.

MP Bob Rae

On June 9, 2009, Rae was denied entry by Sri Lankan Immigration officials (in 2006 the Canadian Govt did not allow British MP George Galloway to enter Canada citing his links to Hamas) Bob Rae set up the Forum of Federation together with Centre for Policy Alternatives organized several workshops in the Wanni on federalism in 2002. http://www.cpalanka.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/8/cpa_forum_report.pdf

Forum of Federations has been active in Nepal since 2008 sponsored by Global Affairs Canada. The Forum worked extensively with Nepali Constituent Assembly members assisting their efforts to draft a federal constitution.

The Forum is also involved in Myanmar in training sessions in Yangon and Nay Pyi Daw for Burma politicians, civil society representatives and media personnel.

Former PM Paul Martin when he was Finance Minister & MP Ms. M. Minna and several MPs attended an LTTE fundraiser in 2000 (Dining with Terrorists – Judi McLeod)

Cabinet Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Bill Graham prevented LTTE proscription in Canada in 2003.

Liberal member of the Canadian Parliament Gurbax Malhi addressed a rally in Ottawa on March 5 against the backdrop of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam flags.

Proscribed pro-LTTE event attended by Federal Citizenship and Immigration Minister Hon. Chris Alexander, Ontario Premier Hon. Kathleen Wynne, , Parliamentary Assistant to the Prime Minister M.P. Paul Calandra, Markham Mayor Frank Scarpitti, John Tory, York Region Police Chief Eric Jolliffe, Consul General for India in Toronto Mr. Akhilesh Mishra, U.S. Consulate General Vice Consul in Toronto Mr. David Swalley, academics, members of law enforcement, and business and community leaders (Jan 2014) in which Federal Liberal leader Mr. Justin Trudeau was the chief guest.

Conservative Party MP Roxanne James laid flowers inside the Canadian Parliament on the 5th year Anniversary of May 2009, ‘Vanished Voices Memorial’ in 2014 others who attended were other MPs – Dr. Kirsty Duncan, David Smith, John McKay, Don Meredith & the Human Rights critic Wayne Marston,

Conservative MP Deepak Obhrai visited Jaffna in 2013 & laid a wreath allegedly for dead LTTE.

Australia

SPUR spokesman Mr. Ranjith Soysa in a hard hitting letter to MP John Murphy regarding his statement made to the Australian parliament on 28 June 2008 questioned by he was reluctatnt to name & shame the LTTE for its crimes.

Australian Green party Senator Lee Rhiannon has been a frequent glorifier of LTTE terrorists even inside the Australian parliament calling to celebrate the Tamil Terrorism’ day on 27 Nov 2014.

Funding panel discussions by LTTE diaspora has been another means of promoting itself globally. The Human Rights Law Centre was the venue in 2013 where despite the organizers being notified of a biased panel the program went on as scheduled. The panel included one Dr. Sam Pari who had been connected with LTTE with a member of the audience even producing copies of her LTTE ID.

Another pro-LTTE supporter Bruce Haig who claims all asylum seekers should be allowed into Australia.

The extent of LTTE infiltration into international government & international systems was clearly visible in the manner that ‘Tamil Eelam’ was featured as a country in Australia’s census in 2016.

The Church

In July 1995, US national Kenneth Mulder employed with National Council for Christian Churches (NCCC) was arrested by Sri Lankan police in Vavuniya for links to LTTE after NCCC’s offices were raided by police.

Also in 1995 when the conflict escalated the International Committee of the Red Cross refused to put its food-ships through the government security at the port of Kankasanthurai & wanted to be allowed to directly travel to the LTTE’s Point Pedro pier (we can recall they tried similar stunts during the final phase of the conflict too)

LTTE Terrorism-Church Links – Can someone explain these photos? http://www.sinhalanet.net/ltte-terrorism-church-links-can-someone-explain-these-photos

LTTE-Christian ties – http://ltte-christian-ties.blogspot.com

The Church & Its Links to Sri Lanka’s Terrorism & Elsewhere  http://unethicalconversionwatch.org/2012/the-church-its-links-to-sri-lanka’s-terrorism-elsewhere/

Voice of Tigers ties up with Veritas – http://www.infolanka.com/org/kalaya/new168.htm

Praising The Lord & Passing The Ammunition To Prabhakaran (H D L Mahindapala) https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/praising-the-lord-passing-the-ammunition-to-prabhakaran/

Catholic Church, an ally of Tamil Tiger terrorists http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2009/04/catholic-church-ally-of-tamil-tiger.html

The Catholic Church as the backbone of the international LTTE resurgence. https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2012/01/11/the-catholic-church-as-the-backbone-of-the-international-ltte-resurgence/

Foreign Media

Frances Harrison ‘Counting the Dead’ from overseas!

C4 lies has been exposed enough of times and the fact that LTTE blood money has been instrumental in its ‘edited’ documentaries is now an open secret.

http://www.adaderana.lk/news/30917/who-is-the-giant-black-tiger-that-backs-the-pro-ltte-elements

Who is the giant ‘black tiger’ that backs the pro-LTTE elements?

We all know the level former UN official Gordon Weiss stooped to in doctoring ‘dead’ estimates so he could sell his book ‘the Cage’.

The foreign media stands guilty of guestimating numbers of dead and building sensationalism around the last phase of the conflict completely ridiculing the humanitarian effort that save 300,000 Tamils & running down the only military that was able to defeat a terrorist outfit.

Foreign Lawyers

Former United States Attorney General, Ramsey Clark is now a legal counsel for a US-based LTTE front that remains proscribed under UNSC 1373

Bruce Feinn is another lawyer retained by the LTTE fronts. ‘Why Bruce Fein has come forward to deproscribe the LTTE in the US ?’  http://www.asiantribune.com/node/12269

 Pro-LTTE Attorney ordered to pay the defendant he sued: Bruce Fein gets drubbing in US Federal Court https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2011/01/29/pro-ltte-attorney-ordered-to-pay-the-defendant-he-sued-bruce-fein-gets-drubbing-in-us-federal-court/

The LTTE’s Bruce Fein and the IMF Loan http://www.island.lk/2009/06/11/features3.html

 Foreign NGOs/Human Rights Organizations

Amnesty International accepted Canadian dollars 50,000 from a proscribed pro-LTTE front operating from Canada

Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace & Justice

Professor Craig Scott, M.P. and founding member of the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice.

What exactly is World Vision upto again in North Sri Lanka? https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2013/10/14/what-exactly-is-world-vision-upto-again-in-north-sri-lanka/

Save the Children in Sri Lanka refutes providing funds to the LTTE

https://reliefweb.int/report/sri-lanka/save-children-sri-lanka-refutes-providing-funds-ltte

LTTE used notorious Norwegian NGO’s vehicles for military activities http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/12428

The above names linked to LTTE is not even near the full total & some of the names are likely to emerge after their demise. However, from the names given any reader should understand the pressures that the Sri Lankan governments in power had to deal with. However, while all of the Sri Lankan Governments caved into these foreign pressures it took one President to defy all the odds & give his military the orders to annihilate the LTTE, you can therefore understand why the same parties & personalities wish to take revenge on that President & all those who were involved in the elimination of the LTTE.

Is it therefore, not our national duty to protect those that defied the odds to ensure we are living without LTTE bombs, suicide missions, assassinations simply to advance the geopolitical agendas of external parties & enable a set of others to get rich enjoying perks & privileges for helping LTTE thrive?

Shenali D Waduge

ඇමෙරිකාවේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක අග්ගමහා පණ්ඩිත, ආචාර්ය වල්පොළ පියනන්ද නාහිමි

හිටපු රාජ්‍ය ආරක‍ෂක හා නාගරික සංවර්ධන ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාගේ ජන්ම දිනය අදට (ජුනි 20) යෙදේ. මේ ලිපිය ඒ නිමිත්තෙනි.

මුළු මහත් ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය ජාතියම අ`දුරු වළාවකින් වෙළා ගෙන සිටි තිස් වසරක කුරිරු යුද්ධය අතිගරු මහින්ද රාජපක‍ෂ මැතිතුමාගේ අභීත නායකත්වය යටතේ අවසන් කොට සියලූම ජාතීන්ට ගෞරවාන්විතව ජීවත් වීමට නිදහස ලබාදීමේ සටනේ නියමුවා ගෝඨාභය රාජපක‍ෂ මහතා ය. එහෙයින් නිතැතින්ම කෘතගුණ දන්නා සියලූම ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන්ගේ ආශිර්වාදය එතුමාට හිමි වේ.

ඔහු ආරක‍ෂක ලේකම් පදවිය භාරගන්නා විට ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආරක‍ෂ අංශයන් පැවතියේ ඉතා දුර්වල මානසික මට්ටමක බව නොරහසකි. 2002 බලයට පත් රජය විසින් ක්‍රියාත්මක කළ බටහිර ගැති, එන්. ජී. ඕ. රූකඩවලට නැටවුණු, ඊනියා සටන් විරාම ගිවිසුම මේ ස`දහා බලපෑ මූලික හේතුව විය. උසස් හමුදා නිළධාරියාගේ සිට පහළ මට්ටමේ සිටින සොල්දාදුවා දක්වා හිමි විය යුතු ගෞරවය හා අභිමානය නොලැබීමත් අවිය අත දරාගෙන ත්‍රස්තයන්ගේ උසුළු විසුළු සමච්චලයන්ට හසුවීමට සිදුවීම තවත් හේතු වේ. මේ තත්වය වෙනස් කිරීමට ගෝඨාභය මැතිතුමා ඉතා දූරදර්ශීව කටයුතු බව අද බොහෝ දෙනෙකුට අමතක ය. එකල ඔහු zඅපි වෙනුවෙන් අපිZ යන තේමාව යටතේ විවිධ වැඩසටහන් ක්‍රියාත්මක කරමින් හා ශ්‍රව්‍ය දෘශ්‍ය මාධ්‍ය මගින් ප්‍රචාරණය ලබාදෙමින් සියලූ රටවැසියාගේ අවධානය හමුදාවන් දෙසට නතු කරගෙන සමස්ත හමුදාවේ ම චිත්ත ධෛර්යය වර්ධනය කිරීමට සමත් විය. ඇතැම් ඉහළ හමුදා නිළධාරීන් විරුද්ධ වුව ද, අද ප්‍රශස්ති ගී ගයන ඇතැම් දේශපාලනඥයන් එදා විවිධ කරුණු ඉදිරිපත් කරමින් තියුණු විවේචන එල්ල කළ ද දින කිහිපයකින් විශ්‍රාම යෑමට සිටි ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ හමුදා නිළධාරියා හමුදාපති තනතුරට ගෙන ඒමට මුල් වූයේ යුධ බිමේ දී ඔහුට කළ නොහැකි දෑ ප්‍රායෝගික අත්දැකීමෙන් ම ගෝඨාභය මහතා දැන සිටි හෙයිනි. ඔහු සතු සුදුසු අවස්ථාවේ නියම සුදුස්සා තේරීමේ හැකියාව අද මුළු රටම භුක්ති වි`දිති. එහෙත් අදාළ පුද්ගලයා එය තේරුම් නොගැනීම ජාතියේ අවාසනාවක් ලෙස දකිමි. යුධ ජයග්‍රහණය වෙනුවෙන් එතුමා කළ අසීමිත කැපකිරීම මා පෞද්ගලිකවම දැක ඇත. එහෙත් ඔහු කිසිවිටෙකත් ඒ ගැන උදම් අනන්නේ ද නැත. ඔහු නිතර පවසනුයේ zරට වෙනුවෙන් මගේ යුතුකම ඉටු කළා එපමණයිZ යනුවෙනි. මෙහිලා පැරැණි සිංහල ආප්තෝපදේශයක් මගේ සිහියට එයි. එක් සිංහල වෛද්‍යවරයෙක් එක්තරා රෝගියෙකුගේ රෝග නිදානය හො`දින් පරීක‍ෂා කොට නියම පරිදි ප්‍රතිකාර කොට රෝගය සුවපත් කළේය. රෝගියා සුවපත් වූ පසු තෙල් සාත්තු කළ තැනැත්තා පැමිණ zමම හරියට නියම වෙලාවට තෙල් ගෑම කළ නිසා තමයි මේ රෝගියා සුවපත් වුණේ යැයිZ පැවසීය. කෂාය තැම්බූ තැනැත්තා zමම හරියට පදමට කෂාය තම්බපු නිසා තමයි මේ රෝගියා සුවපත් වුනේZ යැයි උදන් ඇනීය. ආවතේවකම් කළ තැනැත්තා පැමිණ කීවේ zමම හරියට වැඩ ටික නොකළ නම් ලෙඩා සුවවෙන හැටි බලාගන්න තිබ්බාZ යනුවෙනි. යුධ ජයග්‍රහණය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ද මේ ආප්තෝපදේශය ඉතා අගනේ ය.

කිසියම් වැඩක් භාරදුන් පසු ගෝඨාභය මහතාගේ සිරිත ඒ ගැන හො`දින් අධ්‍යයනය කිරීමයි. අධ්‍යයනය කොට අතීතයේ වැරදුන් තැන් ඇත්නම් ඒවා නිවැරැදි කොට ගෙන, තමාගේ මතයට විරුද්ධ අයකුගේ වුව ඵලදායී වටිනා අදහසක් හෝ යෝජනාවක් ඇත් නම් එය සිය කාර්යයන්ට එකතු කර ගනී. හො`ද දේ අගය කිරීමට හා ඒවාට වටිනාකමක් දීමට ඔහුට ජාති, ආගම්, පාට පක‍ෂ ආදී භේදයක් නැත. මානුෂීය යුධ මෙහෙයුමෙන් පසුව

ඔහුට භාර කෙරුණේ නාගරික සංවර්ධනයයි. zයුධ විරුවා මමZ යැයි ද zයුධ ජයග්‍රහණයට පාර කැපුයේ තමාZ යැයි ද වහසි බස් දොඩවා බලයට පැමිණි අය අද දේශපාලනික වශයෙන් බලවත් වුව ද ඔවුන්ගේ හැකියාවේ තරම සමස්ත රට වැසියාට ම ප්‍රදර්ශනය කොට ඇත. ගෝඨාභය මහතා නාගරික සංවර්ධන විප්ලවයේ දී පෞරාණික දේ ආරක‍ෂා කර ගනිමින් හා දියුණු රටවල භාවිත නවීන තාක‍ෂණය යොදා ගනිමින් කටයුතු කිරීමට සමත් විය. ඇමෙරිකාවේ ලොස් ඇන්ජලීස් නුවර zලොයලාZ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ පරිපාලකයෙකු වශයෙන් කටයුතු කරන සමයේ සියලූ දෙනාගේ ම සිත් දිනාගෙන කටයුතු කළ බව ඔහුගේ සමකාලීනයෝ අදත් ගෞරවයෙන් සිහිපත් කරති. ඇමෙරිකාවේ දී ඔහු ලබා ඇති අත්දැකීම් ලංකාවේ නාගරික සංවර්ධනයට යොදා ගැනීමට සමත් විය. නාගරික සංවර්ධන අංශයෙන් පසුගිය රජය සමයේ ලබා තිබූ දියුණුවේ පුරෝගාමියා ගෝඨාභය මැතිතුමා බව ඉතා සු`එ අතළොස්සක් හැර අන් සියල්ලෝ ම පාහේ පිළිගනිති. යුධ ජයග්‍රහණයෙන් පසුව අවිය අත දරා සටන් වැදුණු හමුදා සොල්දාදුවන් බෞද්ධ විහාරස්ථාන ඇතු`එව අනෙකුත් ආගමික ස්ථානවල සංවර්ධනයට යොදවා කළ සේවය අගය කළ යුතු ක්‍රියාවකි. වියෙට්නාම් යුද්ධයට සම්බන්ධ වූ ඇමෙරිකන් සොල්දාදුවෝ අදත් ගෙවල් අහිමි තැනැත්තන් (හෝම්ලස්) ලෙස ප්‍රධාන නගරවල ජීවත් වෙති. ඇමෙරිකාව ලෝකයේ දියුණුම රට වුව ද මේ තත්වය ම`ගහරවා ගැනීමට තවමත් සමත් වී නැත. ඊට හේතුව පශ්චාත් යුධ සමයෙන් පසු ඊට සම්බන්ධ සොල්දාදුවන්ගේ මානසික තත්වය න`ගා සිටුවීමට විධිමත් වැඩපිළිවෙලක් ක්‍රියාවට නොනැගීමයි. එහෙත් ලංකාවේ එවැනි තත්වයක් උදා නොවූයේ හමුදා සාමාජිකයන් සමාජ ප්‍රගතිශීලි කටයුතුවලට සම්බන්ධ කර ගෙන ඔවුන්ගේ මානසික තත්වයන් න`ගා සිටුවා ගැනීමට අවස්ථාවක් ලබාදීම හේතුවෙනි.

ලංකාවේ පැවැති තිස්වසරක යුද්ධයේ දී මව්බිම වෙනුවෙන් යුධ වැදුණු සාමාජිකයන්ගෙන් සාතිශය බහුතරය සිංහල බෞද්ධයෝ ය. ඒ ගැන කිසි`දු විවාදයක් ද නැත. අප වෙනුවෙන් ජීවිත පරිත්‍යාග කළ එවැනි උතුමන්ට පිංකම් කොට පුණ්‍යානුමෝදනාවන් කිරීම අපගේ යුතුකමයි. ගෝඨාභය මැතිතුමා හමුදාවේ නියමුවා ලෙස යුධ ජයග්‍රහණයේ සැමරුම් මාසය වූ මැයි මාසය තුළ ලංකාවේ සිව් දෙසින් ම මහා සංඝරත්නය වඩමවා සියලූ ලාංකිකයන්ගේ අවධානය ඒ කෙරෙහි යොමු කරවා පිරිත් දේශනාවන් පවත්වවා දන් පූජා කොට රණවිරුවන්ට පිංදීමේ චාරිත්‍රය ගෞරවයෙන් හා මහත් වූ ශ්‍රද්ධාවෙන් ම සිදු කළහ. එහෙත් වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව එය පුහු ආටෝපයක් සේ කල්පනා කොට නොසලකා හැර ඇත. පසුගිය වසර 03 තුළ දී ලංකාව ස්වභාවික විපත්වලින් ලෝකයෙන්ම සිව්වන ස්ථානයට පත් වී ඇත. බොහෝ විට එම අවාසනාවන්ත ඉරණමට ගොදුරු වනුයේ මැයි මාසය තුළ ය. එබැවින් මේ ගැන අදාළ බලධාරීන් අවධානය යොමු කිරීම ඉතා සුදුසු බව අපගේ අදහසයි.

විවිධ ෙක‍ෂ්ත්‍රයන්හි නිපුණතාවක් ඇති වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ අදහස් හා යෝජනා ලබා ගෙන ඒවා අනාගත ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ දියුණුවට යොදා ගත හැක්කේ කෙසේ දැයි zවියත්මගZ ඔස්සේ සාකච්ඡා කෙරේ. එහි නියමුවාණන් ද ගෝඨාභය මැතිතුමායි. අද ජන්ම දිනය සමරණ ගෝඨාභය මැතිතුමාට අනන්ත ගුණ ඇති උතුම් වූ රත්නත්‍රයේ ආශිර්වාදයෙන් නිදුක් නිරෝගී සුවය හා චිර ජීවනය ලැබේවාZයි ආශංසනය කරමි.

ඇමෙරිකාවේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක

අග්ගමහා පණ්ඩිත, ආචාර්ය

වල්පොළ පියනන්ද නාහිමි

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS

The free education system in Sri Lanka was successfully initiated by Mr. CWW Kannangara who represented the State Council in the colonial era, animated education of the country with a view to developing as an asset of common people. Currently, education in Sri Lanka has translated to a way, which supports human resource development empowering disadvantaged people as John Dewy stated in How to Think.  The literacy rate of Sri Lanka compared to other Asian nations seems to be significantly higher or parallel to emerging nations and parents of the country also highly motivated to educate children as they have better understanding that education would be an asset that kids could be given by parents.  A traditional saying of Sri Lanka also expresses that the monumental wealth that children are supposed to be given by parents is education, which would lead kids to be in a prime place in the society of educated people. Practically, Mr. Kannanga’s strategic initiatives effectively worked in Sri Lanka’s society as successfully educated people have become richer than non-educated people. It was visibly accepted by the community to motivate for educating kids.

Historical evidence confirms that a reasonably organized education system had been managed in Sri Lanka since Anuradhapura era, which existed 2000 years ago. Universities were also a part of the education system in that society although they were not named as universities.  Recent research articles published in Sri Lanka expressed that there were universities in Anuradhapura era which offered a range of courses, such as religion, languages, law, arts, medicine and many other to students. Faxian’s report clearly articulated about Abhayagiri University and confirmed the historical existence of universities in Sri Lanka.

The offering of education in the history was either a role of religious institutions or a role of private business of educated individuals. It is quite correct if we assume that privately owned education system was operated in the country.   No recorded evidence so far found that the government had been playing a vital role in education distribution or was active in developing education policies to the country as an essential service to the community. Educating people under the administration of kings/queens was either a private or corporate activity without any influences from the government.  The historical evidence also confirms that the general public did not object to the way education distributed or public was apathetic on education policy had been in the country. The attitudes of political administrators showed that the distribution of education was not a concerned matter for them. Sometimes, it encouraged to assume that education was operated as an opportunity to privileged class than a common service to everybody. Feudalistic society in Sri Lanka under the leadership of Kings and Queens seriously marginalized the rights of poor or lower-class people.

However, the State Council under the colonial rule encouraged the government to make national-level policies for the structuring of educational programs in diverse contexts because the offering of education and the policy-making process were individually done by schools owned by religious or any other groups before Kannangara’s policy come into light. The stories about various prominent people such as poets and authors point out that they attended to schools, which were managed by Buddhist temples and the house of teacher (Guru Gedara).   The policy decisions of individual organizations were strongly based on the philosophy of such organizations, which were offering education to the community and they did not represent or support the requirements of the society and a national uniformity of offered education was not being in the system. There were contradictory objectives of school administrators on the purpose of education, which was inconsistent with required education quality and the development needs and the process of the country which demanded skillful people.  The other vital concern of the colonial administration was that the widening gap between educated and uneducated people, which might cause to create an unrest in the country.

The traditional education system in Sri Lanka seemed to be inclined to divide the society as educated and uneducated people and in the society without caste dictions educated individuals attracted wide respect from the community. It is also difficult to determine whether the concept of equal opportunity was applied in that society as the story in relation to Saliya and Asoka Mala in the history leads us to assume that there were caste dictions, which influenced on the day to day life of people. Therefore, I could reasonably conclude that caste dictions highly influenced education distribution in the history and also it influenced to determine who were the right people to obtain an education.

Mr. Kannangara enacted the policy for free education in the country considering many factors with a view to making justice to everyone and established central colleges in each electorate providing a reasonable opportunity and facilities for education to common people.  It was a strong and remarkable policy initiative to equally distribute education for both rich and poor and to commonly provide education in English medium for rich and poor too.  This was how rural people learn an international language, which had been used in workplaces.

Although the free education from kindergarten to the university allowed to a wider participation for education distribution, which was based on the state council policy on education, the strategic policy developments for implementation at school level was at seriously snail’s pace because of the role was not motivated by the political level. It was a responsibility of administration level, which encountered tremendous difficulties as the administrators in education at school level or district education offices were not adequately experienced personnel with a good understanding of education strategies and policies. Their knowledge and skills relating to curriculum, teaching and education policy developments were not commensurate to play a successful and effective role in the country.

The evolution of curriculum and teaching in the world has radically been changed over the time considering psychological aspects of students and contextual requirements of education levels.  The strategies in relation to curriculum and teaching have changed as a result of scientific and technological innovations in different educational contexts such as early childhood education, primary education, secondary education, TVET and the university education.  In all education contexts, curriculum development and teaching methods were based on learning objectives for a long period, in which students were supposed to achieve learning objectives through participation in learning activities.  Curriculum documents or syllabi were considered as legally valid instructions for teachers to develop a variety of objectives, which were based on topics and sub-topics of the subject. Consistent with curriculum documents or syllabi, teachers were required to plan and prepare lessons and present lessons in classrooms and evaluate lessons after the presentation and assess students consistent with curriculum objectives.  In most of the western countries, educational strategies were based on general objectives and teachers were supposed to plan and organize teaching focusing on objectives, but it was involved in a serious constraint to determine what level students achieve objectives or quantify the achievements. Teachers training and textbooks writing were congruous with the objectives-based curriculum documents.

However, before educational legislation in the State Council education strategies in the country were not clear whether they were focused on achievable objectives, but it is possible to assume that it might have focused on educational and learning objectives in relation to content knowledge rather than the applicability of knowledge in the real environment.  Teachers training and textbooks writing were not aligned to objective based education and many teachers of Sri Lanka were/ are really confused about the achievements of educational objectives and many teachers did not plan lessons, present lessons, evaluate lessons and assess students consistent with objectives as they were conjectured to do.

Internationally objective based educational strategies encountered many issues and criticisms on the measurement of objectives achievement. Many educationists were of confused that how to measure the achievement of objectives and evaluate the accountability of educators in relation to the achievement of objectives by students.  Objectives mean some kind of expectations in relation to teaching and learning but the achievement of such expectations might not definite or, quantify or it led to questioning whether students have gained the valid knowledge and skills through the learning process. It may have been a 50 to 50 gamble. The education environment of Sri Lanka found that a large volume of student failures in grade 10 and 12 exams, which meant that students did not achieve learning objectives.  The logical answer to failures could be regarded either student have not achieved objectives or teachers failed to evaluate the achievement of objectives using the right strategy.

When students failed from competitive exams such as grade 10 and 12, parents and students in Sri Lanka used to a habit of blaming teachers thinking that education was a teacher-centred activity. It is an issue that when students failed from exams, would it be right to blame teachers. On what ground such false generalizations be justified?  There is no argument that many teachers in public schools in Sri Lanka habitually failed to play the right roles in discharging the duties. The accountability for this failure is taken to light in education administration process in the country.  In this environment, many parents sent their kids to private tuition classes and it seems that private tuition masters also are not properly trained teachers but talkative individuals in the classrooms rather than directing students for student-centred education. Parents and students in many third-world countries have a false assumption that if the teacher was loudly talked in the classroom he/she was an effective teacher.  The teacher’s effectiveness is determined in modern era, how he /she played the role as a facilitator and mentor to students, which helps students to achieve learning outcomes.

Western countries were able to develop more successful strategies in place of objectives-based education in which the strategy focuses on developing educational outcomes in advanced and assessing the achievement of outcomes after the learning process.  The strategic policy development was underpinned by philosophical, sociological and psychological aspects and the best achievement in the 19th century was called a generation of outcome-based education, which has been extended to many countries.

The outcome-based education was tested in some Pacific countries with the support of Australian government but it was not successful due to training and resources related issues and when education policymakers and implementation of micro-level educators have no right training for content knowledge, teaching methods, and student assessment, the strategic policies would not succeed as expected.  However, UNESCO recognizes that Outcome-based education and competency-based training are highly successful in Australia.

Sri Lanka has been attempted to reform primary and secondary contexts since 1965 as the Mr. IMRA Irriyagolla, the minister of education had a keen interest in reforms and he was admonished by good advisors.  The effort was not successful as the politics in the country involved to create problems with a view to destroying the effort.  People of Sri Lanka could easily mislead using bogus information and this situation is continuing in the country.  The education reforms began in 1965 focused on diversification of education system giving a reasonable weight to skills requirement of the country and it should have commenced from primary and secondary contexts.

The traditional education in the country focused on literacy as well as skills requirements of the different industry and new reforms needed to stress on the employment growth and the productivity in workplaces.  The education strategies used under the reforming objectives didn’t go along with the prime aims of reforms and later the government attempted to change the strategy from teacher-centred education to student-centred learning.  When compared to many developing countries and even developed countries, Sri Lanka has a strong capacity to implement the new system as students are generally intelligent and capable of understanding the applicability of educational outcomes.  However, education information in the country indicates that outcome-based education has not successfully implemented in the country due to several reasons.

The major issue in relation to the implementation of outcome-based education involves the administration level, which has no highly skilled administrators to develop a practical policy for curriculum developing for a variety of subjects consistent with students’ psychological abilities to cope with outcomes. Current administrators were trained under the old education strategy and the changing of them to new strategy invites offering effective training to the new system.  This is a quite costly exercise and the government needs allocating sufficient funds to retrain education administrators.

Once policy-makers trained to develop right policy, teachers at micro level need to train for the policy implementation. This means that teachers need radically changing their teaching methods, evaluation, and assessment strategies consistent with educational outcomes.  It seems that retraining of teachers for new strategies would be critical aspect because attitudes of students, teachers, and parent in relation to the strategy is a challenge.

 BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS

As mentioned in the part one of this article, parents and students have a propensity to blaming teachers and schools when kids achieved failures in competitive exams. How far could the blame be justified if teachers have done the right in a school environment?  The success of examinations is not the one-way responsibility of teachers and students too are responsible for own learning. This critical issue should be considered in educational reforms at secondary context.

When students achieved failures in competitive exams or parents have a doubt that students would be failed, many parent’s decision seems to be directing kids to private tuition classes. However, private tuition masters are not properly trained teachers, who have a clear understanding of learning outcomes and national education policy of the country. The concept of individual facilitation defines that tutoring is an individual or small group activity rather than a large class with speakers.  In fact, private tutors are not better teachers than those who are employed in schools and tuition classes have no facilities similar to schools.  In this situation, education reforms should be focused on developing the confidence of students and parents that teacher education directly aims to provide the right service to students. As the private tuition service has become a broader educational business in Sri Lanka, educational reforms also need to stress transforming tuition as a licensed service.

The best achievement in the 20th century was the invention of outcome-based education, which clearly focuses on what is essential for students to be able to do successfully and finding and designing effective ways students to demonstrate outcomes.  Education experts indicate that the quality of an educational system can be judged from three perspectives, a. the Input to the system, b. what happens within the system and c. the outputs from the system.  Education philosophers believe that outcome-based education was originated on the basis of B.F Skinners’ Behaviourism philosophy which explains that the behavior of a person is influenced by environmental conditions.  If students have good learning facilitation and a classroom environment then students motivate to learning and good teachers trained for facilitation and mentoring, kids would successfully learn and pass exams. Outcome-based education directs the clearly focusing and organizing everything and educational system.

Sri Lanka has been experimenting with reforms in secondary education context since late1960s and the effort was not successful as the party politics in the country involved in creating problems and misleading parents.  People of Sri Lanka could easily mislead using bogus information and this situation is still continuing in the country.  The education reforms began in the 1960s focused on the diversification of education system giving a reasonable weight to skill requirements of the country and it needed to initiate from primary and secondary contexts. However, it was abortive with party politics and neither ruling government nor opposition was able to separate party politics from educational reforms.

The traditional education in the country focused on literacy and limited skills requirement of the different industry and some educationists in Sri Lanka have expressed that education reforms need to go beyond the literacy skills to creating an intelligent young generation. In addition to these aspects, new reforms are obligatory to stress on the employment growth and the productivity in workplaces rather than sending kids to universities which are working like degree factories without offering practical skills.

Therefore, educational reforms at secondary context must emphasis on making quality generation in the country.  The education strategies used in reforms was not going along with the broader aim of the reforms and later the government attempted to change the strategy from teacher-centered education to student-centered learning.  Sri Lanka has a strong capacity to implement the new system as students are generally intelligent and capable of understanding the applicability of educational outcomes.  However, education information in the country indicates that outcome-based education has not successfully implemented due to several reasons.

The major issue in relation to the implementation of outcome-based education associates with the administration level, which lacks the highly skilled personnel to develop a practical policy and procedures for curriculum development, lesson planning, lesson presentation and student assessment. These are essential for a clear and observable demonstration of students learning. The secondary context offers a broader range of courses and administrators must be able to produce materials on every aspect in the format of outcome-based education.  For this purpose, education administrators must have updated content knowledge and skills in the subject area.  Many administrators have not been trained for this purpose as they were trained under the old education strategy and the changing of them to new strategy might be a costly exercise and the government needs allocating sufficient funds to retrain education administrators.

Once administrators trained to develop right policies and procedures, teachers at micro level need to be trained for the policy implementation. This means that teachers need radically changing teaching methods, evaluation, and assessment strategies consistent with educational outcomes.  It seems that retraining of teachers for new strategies would be required a massive sum of funds as well as the changing of attitudes of students, teachers, and parent in relation to the new strategy.  When poli1tics involves in this type of radical changes in education, there would be many resistances especially from parents and political parties.

As the outcome-based education concerns with knowledge, skills, and application of knowledge and skills, the successful teaching would be dependent on the many factors such as the experience of teachers, planning, organization, problems solving and decisions making skills which are completely different from the teachers’ qualification.  Teachers get these knowledge and skills facing problems and experience in the different environment.  In Western countries, teachers are given such skills through industrial attachment, which means that teachers are given short training in practical fields with a view to providing opportunities to understand changes in practical environment related to teaching subjects and to observe the real practical approach day to day problem-solving.  Once teachers get this type of training, they would be able to participate in or play the role of facilitators and mentors.

Sri Lanka requires an educated young generation, which has more practical in approach and problems solvable and generates the productivity.  These are fundamental thinking that should be focused on education reforms.  As long as a traditional way of education operating, teachers give knowledge in the classroom and students take them to memory and feedback on the tests and exams.  The making decisions to classify students would not consistent with the underpinning policy objectives of educational reforms.

Sri Lanka’s government annually spends a considerable volume of funds for primary and secondary contexts, in which the participants have a considerable disparity in rural and urban areas, in addition to this the distribution of resources are dissimilar between urban and rural areas.  Despite these visible differences, the government of Sri Lanka needs an acceptable pace of returns from the investments in education. The current educational environment in high education appears that it is eminently interfered by politics and the process helps to decline the quality of high education. The involvement in heavy politics in higher education began in the late 1960s and it was gradually increased to reduce the time of educational participation of students and sometimes to close down entire university structure.  In this environment, Sri Lanka has difficulty to recruit good and quality teachers with knowledge, skills, and values.  This situation undermines the quality and fundamental objectives of education reforms in the primary and secondary context.

The education reforms in primary and secondary context need giving equal opportunity for kids to participate in education without differences whether they are from regional Sri Lanka or urban locations.  There is a competition for popular schools and trained and qualified teachers preference is urban schools creating a shortage of educators in rural schools.  This partiality in education distribution and as a result, the achievement of expectations in reform agenda would remote.

The major issue in relation to spending in the country was a terrorist war which consumed a large sum of budgetary funds.  Sri Lanka’s government successfully controlled the war in 2009 and after that, the policy focus of the government should be directed to education with more spending to successfully achieve the objectives of reforms.  There is a wide gap in education distribution and the quality of education between urban and rural areas.  The major focus should be the elimination of the gap between the urban area and rural area.  The cost for quality and modern education with technology in rural areas are higher than urban area as the infrastructure in the rural area is poor with a view to offering quality and advanced education.  The education reforms in the state council were to give more opportunities for rural people to participate in education and provide facilities for education in English medium in a rural area too.  When the world becomes closer place to people by scientific and technological innovation, people in the country need to gain education in international languages and educational reforms effected after the political revolution in 1956, the opportunity for rural people gaining education in English medium unexpectedly lost as the government did not spend sufficient funds for English education in rural area.

As a result of the visible gap in education distribution, international schools in the country have emerged but the system addresses only the problem of wealthy people in rural areas.  Many parents in a rural area cannot afford for education in international schools and the best reform option in primary and secondary context is to converting all rural government schools to international schools’ level by increase of budget funds for education in rural area.  Maintaining education gap in the rural and urban area would be the biggest constraint to economic development and to increasing disparities of the social system in the country.

S.AKURUGODA

The excellent political analysis done by Mr. N.A.DE S. Amaratunga under the above titled , appeared in The Island dated 17 June 2018 (http://island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=186475)  is an I opener to the people who can sense the perilous situation the country is in under the present Sirisena – Ranil regime.

Mr. Amarathunga, while analyzing positives and negatives of MR, concluded his analysis saying The country at this perilous moment in its history is fortunate to have a leader with Rajapaksa’s stature, proven ability, and patriotic love for the country, and courage to resist imperialist pressure and above, all people’s wide acceptance and love.”

In addition to the positives pointed out by the writer, in my view, there is a hidden reason for MR to be the most popular person/leader at present while the popularity of all his leading opponents are fading away rapidly.

MR never criticizes his political opponents, directly, the way his opponents do in public. He never insults his opponents in public the way his opponents do. His expressions, while addressing the public, do not give any sign of taking revenge while his opponents do the other way.

Although all most all his opponents call him hora”, we have not heard him calling even  his main opponents   (who are well known ‘horas’) as ‘horas”.  One example cited by Mr Amarathunga is incidence of the parliamentarians of the government which robbed its own bank call him “Rajapaksa hora” while the prime minister, under whose watch the Central Bank functioned when it was robbed, asks in parliament “kavuda hora?”

In addition to the negatives pointed out by the writer, in my view, MR failed to recognize his true enemies who were active around him while in power.

Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL)

Public Lecture

‘Water Deliveries and Diversions in Ancient Sri Lanka: Some Alternative Interpretations’

by

 Eng. Chandana Jayawardana

on

Monday 25^th June 2018 at 5.00 p.m.

at the

Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium

No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07 

ALL ARE WELCOME

                Ancient Irrigation System in Sri Lanka is a vastly discussed topic. The inputs and outputs of this system as well as the forms and the functions of the system components have been studied, interpreted and documented since the colonial times. However, the validity and the consistency of some of those interpretations are contentious and the methodologies adopted in formulating such interpretations need to be re-addressed. This lecture attempts to provide some alternative interpretations for few system components and their possible function in the original form.

සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී සේවා සංගමය. Development Officers Service Union. Servicio 

2018.06.19

ගරු අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍ය, 

අකිල විරාජ් කාරියවසම් මැතිතුමා,

අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශය,

ඉසුරුපාය,

බත්තරමුල්ල.

Hon. Minister of Education,

Akila Viraj Kariyawasam,

Ministry of Education,

Isurupaya,

Battaramulla.

ගරු අමාත්‍යතුමනි,

ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා ගුරු සේවයේ 3-1 (අ) සහ 2(ii) ශ්‍රේණි සඳහා බඳවා ගැනීමේ තරඟ විභාග අවස්ථාව සියලූම සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන්ට ලබාදෙන්න

උපාධිධාරීන් රැකියාගත කිරීමේ වැඩසටහන යටතේ අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශයේ හා ඊට අනුයුක්ත ආයතනවල සිටින සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන්ට පමණක් සීමා නොකර රාජ්‍ය සේවයේ සියලූම සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන්ට ගුරු සේවා තරඟ විභාගය සඳහා ඉල්ලූම්කිරීමේ අවස්ථාව ලබාදෙන මෙන් ඉතා  ඕනෑකමින් පළමුව ඉල්ලා සිටිමු.

අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශය යටතේ 2005, 2008 වර්ෂවල බඳවාගත් උපාධිධාරීන් ගුරු සේවයට අන්තර්ග‍්‍රහණය කිරීම සඳහා අප සංගමය විසින් කිහිප අවස්ථාවක් ඔබ අමාත්‍යාංශයෙන් ඉල්ලීම් කර ඇත. ඒ ඉල්ලීම් ඇතුලූ සියලූ ඉල්ලීම් සලකා බලා අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශය යටතේ සිටින උපාධිධාරීන්ට ගුරු සේවයට ඇතුළත් වීමේ අවස්ථාවට ඉඩදීම පිළිබඳව සතුටුවෙමු. 2005 වර්ෂයේ අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශය යටතේ බඳවාගත් උපාධිධාරීන්ගෙන් විශාල ප‍්‍රමාණයක් 2007 වර්ෂය වන විට අප සංගමය මැදිහත්වීමෙන් ගුරු සේවයට අන්තර්ග‍්‍රහණය කර ගැනීමට එවකට හැකි වූ බවද දන්වා සිටිමු.

2005/2008 වර්ෂවල අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශය යටතේ රැුකියාගත කරන ලද උපාධිධාරීන්ගේ පත්වීම් බලධරයා වනුයේ ඝෘජුවම අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශ ලේකම්වරයාය. 2012 වර්ෂයේ සිට උපාධිධාරීන් බඳවාගනු ලබන්නේ ඒකාබද්ධ සේවාවක් යටතේ වන බැවින් ඔවුන්ගේ පත්වීම් බලධරයා ඒකාබද්ධ සේවා අධ්‍යක්‍ෂ ජනරාල්වරයාය. සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් අයත්වන්නේ ඒ යටතේ වන බැවින් රට පුරා සිටින සියලූම සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන්ට සමාන හිමිකමක් පවතින බැවින් ඉහත ගුරු සේවා තරඟ විභාගය සඳහා රාජ්‍ය සේවයේ සියලූම සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන්ට අවස්ථාව හිමිවීම වඩා සුදුසු වේ. අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශය යටතේ සිටින 2012 වර්ෂයේ සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන්ට තරඟ විභාග අවස්ථා ලබාදීම පිළිබඳව කිසිදු විරෝධතාවයක් නොමැත.

2005-2008 රැකියාගත අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශ උපාධිධාරීන් ඍජුවම ගුරු සේවයට අන්තර්ග‍්‍රහණය කිරීමට හැකි වූයේ නම් වඩා සුදුසුය. නමුත් ඒ සඳහා පවත්වන්නේ තරඟ විභාගයක් වන බැවින් අදාල සුදුසුකම් සහිත සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන්ට එම අවස්ථාව ලබාදීම ගැටලූවක් නොවන බව අපගේ අදහසයි. අදාල ගැසට් නිවේදනය අනුව අයදුම්පත් භාර ගැනීමේ අවසාන දිනය ජූනි 22 සිට ඉදිරියට දීර්ඝ කර රාජ්‍ය සේවයේ සියලූම සංවර්ධන සහකාර/සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන්ට තරඟ විභාගය සඳහා ඉල්ලූම් කිරීමේ අවස්ථාව ලබාදෙන මෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටිමු.

එමෙන්ම රටපුරා පවතින තැපැල් දෙපාර්තමේන්තු සේවකයින්ගේ වෘත්තීය ක‍්‍රියාමාර්ගය හේතුවෙන් රටපුරා සියලූම තැපැල් කාර්යාල අක‍්‍රීයව ඇති බැවින් දැනට හිමිකම් සහිත නිලධාරීන්ගේ පවා අයදුම්පත් භාර ගැනීමේ අවසාන දිනය දීර්ඝ විය යුතු බැවින් ඒ සඳහා කඩිනම් පියවරක් ගන්නා මෙන්ද ඉල්ලා සිටිමු.

ඉහත කරුණු සම්බන්ධයෙන් අප සංගමය ඔබතුමා සමග සාකච්ඡා කිරීමට අපේක්‍ෂා කරන අතර ඒ සඳහා ආසන්නම දිනයක් හා වේලාවක් ලබාදෙන මෙන්ද කාරුණිකව ඉල්ලා සිටිමු.

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 Courtesy The Daily Mirror 

The Supreme Court in a landmark judgment, on Thursday, ordered the Ceylon Tobacco Company (CTC) to pay Rs.400,000 as costs to a smoker’s widow after the company was found to have prolonged the trial for more than 12 years by filing petitions in the Appeal Court and the SC.

Chief Justice Priyasath Dep concurring with Justices Sisira J. De Abrew and Prasanna Jayawardena held that the District Court should hear and determine the trial on its merit as soon as possible and dismissed the appeal filed by CTC and affirmed the Orders of District Court and the Court of Appeal.

The SC observed that the CTC had succeeded in delaying the case in the District Court for more than 12 years causing the widow to incur expenses which would have been to her a heavy burden and a considerable inconvenience.

It said these obstacles might have even prompted the plaintiff, probably with limited resources to be discouraged and giving up on the legal action.

The plaintiff Lalitha Padmini Fernando was the widow of K.S. Perera, a tailor, who had started smoking when he was a teenager. In September 1996, he was diagnosed with incurable cancer and died on April 13, 2001 at the age of 60.

Prior to his death, he had instituted legal action in the Colombo District Court against the Ceylon Tobacco Company to recover damages on account of suffering from cancer allegedly caused by smoking cigarettes manufactured by the company.

On April 11, 2003, the plaintiff instituted legal action against CTC pleading four alleged causes of action and seeking Rs.5 million from the CTC.

Manoj Bandara with T. Herath instructed by Sudath Perera Associates appeared for the CTC while Kanishka Witharana with H.M. Tillakaratne instructed by Medha N. Gamage appeared for plaintiff Lalitha Padmini Fernando. 

Gallege Punyawardana,Head, Swarna Hansa Foundation.

K. S. Perera, started smoking when he was a teenager. Later he was diagnosed with cancer caused by smoking in 1996 and died on 13th April 2001. During his life time he filed a case against the Ceylon Tobacco Company –CTC- claiming damages for manufacturing and marketing a defective product, cigarette, but he died pending that case.

Thereafter his wife filed the present case on 11.04.2003 in the District Court of Colombo claiming Rs.5 Million as damages from the CTC – a subsidiary of BAT- for causing the death of her husband by making available to the public –including her husband- a defective product containing addictive and harmful substances which were not fit for human consumption. The basis of the claim was deprivation of care, protection and maintenance she received from her husband.

When the case was taken up the CTC raised preliminary objections that, i. the Plaintiff’s case was prescribed on the face of the plaint, ii. The Plaint did not disclose a cause and action and did not conform to the imperative provisions of the civil procedure code and iii. The plaintiff cannot maintain this action for the Reason of dismissal of her earlier application to intervene in her husband’s case upon his death.

The District Court overruled such objections, and CTC again appealed against that order to the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal too affirmed that order, and again the CTC appealed to the Supreme Court. This process took about 12 years and finally the Supreme Court delivered its Judgement on 14.06.2018.

The salient feature of this Judgement is that the Apex Court in Sri Lanka very straightforwardly decided that CTC was responsible for delaying the case for more than 12 years and thereby caused hardships to the Plaintiff. Their Lordships of the Supreme Court –comprising of the Chief Justice and another two- very categorically stated in the Judgment that;

Accordingly, this appeal is dismissed. The Orders of the District Court and the Court of Appeal are affirmed. As set out above, this appeal, which is on preliminary issues, has no merit. However, by its applications to the Court of Appeal and to this Court, the defendant company has succeeded in delaying the trial by more than 12 years and would have caused the plaintiff to incur expenses which are likely to have imposed a difficult burden on her the plaintiff would have also been put to considerable inconvenience. In another case, these obstacles may even have led to the plaintiff, whose resources are likely to be limited, caving in and giving up the action. In these circumstances, the defendant company shall pay the plaintiff a sum of Rs. 400,000/- as costs, within one month of today. The District Court should hear and determine the trial, on its merits based on the evidence and the law, as soon as possible.”

The Court has admitted that CTC purposely –successfully- delayed the process and placed the Plaintiff at a disadvantageous position. Though, this was the usual conduct of CTC, such conduct has now been criticized by the Apex Court of Law of Sri Lanka, which finally imposed a heavy cost of Rs. 400,000/ on CTC. This presupposes that tobacco industry interference in tobacco control is no longer tolerated.

Now the court cleared that a smoker whose health was damaged by smoking or a person –wife or a child – depending on the deceased for care, protection or maintenance –including services-can file action claiming damages from CTC.

The court also recognized the right of a widower –or a child- to institute legal action against CTC in similar situations, within 2 years from the death –not from the date of diagnosing cancer.

Another significant aspect of the judgement is that it has opened a new dimension in Tobacco Control.

Refer to your letter dated 08th June 2018.

I strongly oppose to your perceptions of historical facts stated in your letter as they are mere distortions and fabrications.

Therefore I, without any hesitation, hereby state my willingness to prove the contrary to your purported and hypothetical perceptions with real and existing evidence.

Please let me know your arrangements to proceed to the next stage in this regard.

Gallege Punyawardana,

Head, Swarna Hansa Foundation.

ALI SUKHANVER

All wishes, all dreams never come true; same is the case with the desire and dream of turning Pakistan into a wasteland particularly with reference to Balochistan. A long portion of Pakistan’s boundaries is guarded and protected by the people most loyal to this land, the people of Balochistan. This loyalty of them is the basic reason of all foreign-engineered law and order disturbance in Balochistan.

It is true that things have never been all-fine and all-good in Balochistan particularly with reference to the provision of basic necessities of life including drinking water, health and education but it is also true that the government and the security agencies of Pakistan are doing all their best to solve these problems on priority basis. But the most important issue to be resolved has ever been the interference of foreign elements which has always remained harmful to the law and order situation there. Without maintenance of peace and tranquility in the area no development projects could be fruitful and no prosperity could be guaranteed.

The worst troublesome factor is the still uncontrolled flood of rumours and disinformation. A few days back an article appeared on different web-pages and blogs which blamed that the Armed Forces of Pakistan are poisoning different wells and water reservoirs to frighten the local people getting water out of them.

The article said that the Armed Forces are doing this cruelty because they want the local people leave the area. Here are the exact words of that propaganda write-up, At least six people including a woman have died and hundreds of other severely affected after drinking contaminated water from a pond in Tedanch village of district Awaran Balochistan. The reasons for the sudden outbreak of the gastro breakout are unknown. However, some unconfirmed reports suggest that the only water resource in the village has been deliberately contaminated by Pakistan army.”

God knows better if the hands behind this disgustingly foolish rumour would succeed in getting their objective but as far as the on ground realities are concerned most of the people in Balochistan very sincerely admit and acknowledge the help and support provided to them by the Pakistan Army. They are logical people and they know it very well that the Army is there to help and secure them not to harm and hurt rather poison them.

The Pakistan Army has sacrificed hundreds of lives of its soldiers and officers in fighting with the miscreants who have been a serious threat to the peace and prosperity of Balochistan since long. No doubt it is a very encouraging fact that the political leadership of Balochistan has also always admired and appreciated the positive role of Pakistan Army in bringing peace and prosperity in Balochistan.

Sardar Sanaullah Khan Zehri is also one of those who have great regard and respect for the services of the Army in Balochistan. In January 2016, when he was the Chief Minister of Balochistan, he had said addressing a passing out parade of police personnel, We are thankful to the army and the Commander Southern Command for providing professional training to the Balochistan police personnel to combat terrorism. Army and other security forces have been playing a vital role in restoration of peace in Balochistan.” He had further said, The army is a symbol of national solidarity. It has been serving people of Balochistan in different sectors, including health and education.”

The role of Pakistan Army in Balochistan has always been very constructive and productive. It seems that ‘innocent mouth-pieces’ of the forces hostile to Pakistan are not aware of the fact that Pakistani security forces have their roots very deep in the hearts of the people of Balochistan. It is also a fact that thousands of Baloch people are a part of the Armed Forces and other security institutions of Pakistan.

These forces are there to provide security, safety, trust and confidence to the local people; they are not there to contaminate wells of drinking water. It is an honour for Pakistan Army that it is extending full support to the socio-economic development projects in Balochistan. As far as projects of supply of clean drinking water to the people of Balochistan are concerned, Pakistan Army is doing specific efforts in this context. In the first week of March 2018, the foundation-stone of a desalination plant was laid in Gwadar by Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa.

This project would be completed with support and assistance of the UAE and Swiss governments. According to the details provided to the media, the said project would fulfill a long-awaited demand of the local population by providing them with 4.4 million gallons of water per day with a capacity to increase the production to 8.8 million gallons per day. This desalination plant would reach its completion by November 2018 and it would help a lot in resolving the issue of scarcity of drinking water in the area. This project of water desalination plant is a part of the Khushhal Balochistan Program.

This program includes opening of new schools and colleges, provision of electricity and natural-gas and construction of new roads and bridges in the far-flung areas of Balochistan. Khushhal Balochistan is in fact a ten-year package plan for the people of Balochistan and it is initiated by the Pakistan Army with the help, assistance and support of the Federal government. Experts are of the view that these development projects will transform the lives of people of Balochistan.

The so-called and self-claimed liberators of an already independent Balochistan are really frightened of the development projects resulting in peace and prosperity of Balochistan. They must come forward and give a helping hand to those who are trying to paint the picture of Balochistan with colours of peace and prosperity.

Courtesy The Island

Wildlife Minister Sarath Fonseka’s efforts to translocate the remaining two elephants in Sinharaja had caused concern to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), environmentalists alleged yesterday.

“The UNESCO wrote to the Sri Lankan Ambassador to France, raising concerns about proposed translocation of the last two wild elephants in the Sinharaja forest reserve. In response the Minister has said, ‘If UNESCO promises to solve the issue and ensures that not a single elephant or human will die in the area, I accept that the two elephants are part of heritage.’

Ven. Pahiyangala Anandasagara Thera, Chairman of Surakimu Sri Lanka (Let’s Protect Sri Lanka) has in a letter to President Maithripala Sirisena, said Fonseka does not care that such responses tarnished the image of the country.

The Thera has said that instead of trying to address the issue in an ad hoc manner, the authorities should focus on preparing a management plan to ensure the safety of the elephants as well as the people of the area. He has also requested the President to appoint a committee comprising relevant officials, technical experts, environmentalists and representatives of the community based organizations in the area, to study the issue.

“Another simple thing to do is place collars on the elephants to track their movements so as to prevent them from straying into villages,: the Thera has said.

Environmentalist, Sajeewa Chamikara said. “In the past several decades a number of unauthorised settlements and farm lands had been established near the Sinharaja Forest. Local politicians and their henchmen are running a number of illegal operations in and around the forest including illicit brewing, illegal gem mining, illicit felling and harvesting wallapatta. These groups were behind the moves to translocate two elephants from the forest.”

“Most residents don’t want the trans-location of the two elephants. These two elephants are the biggest problem these racketeers are faced with because they cause problems to their illegal operations. We thank the President for stopping the attempt to translocate the two elephants.”

Text and Pix by Buddika Kumara Courtesy The Daily Mirror

Homagama Magistrate’s Court today postponed the hearing of the appeal made by Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera till 2 p.m June 22 for not appearing of officials of the Attorney General’s Department.

Courtesy Adaderana

The General Secretary of the Sinhala Ravaya  organisation Ven.  Magalkande Sudatta Thero accuses the Attorney General’s Department for evading the case of Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero, General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) organisation.

The bail application filed on behalf of Gnanasara Thero was to be called before the Homagama Magistrate Court today (19). However, the issuance of the bail decision has been postponed due to the absence of an officer from the Attorney General’s Department.

Sudatta Thero further stated that they suspected of a continuing conspiracy related to the case of Gnanasara Thero and accused NGOs and foreign conspirators for their attempts to keep Gnanasara Thero imprisoned.

He stated that their struggle will continue until the current Bhikku hunt” is halted.   He also emphasized that a separate court system (Sanghadhikarana) to deal with cases pertaining to Buddhist monks is essential.

වහා අත්අඩංගුවට ගන්නැයි අධිකරණය විසින් වරෙන්තු නිකුත් කර ඇති රුසියාවේ හිටපු ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා තානාපති උදයංග වීරතුංග ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවට ගෙන්වා දෙන්නට තමන් සූදානම් බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා පවසයි.

ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවට පැමිණෙන ලෙම මේ වන විටත් උදයංග වීරතුංග මහතාට දන්වා ඇතැයිද ඔහු සදහන් කරයි.

ඒ ආකාරයෙන්ම අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්‍රන් හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයා මෙරටට ගෙන්වා දීමට අගමැතිවරයා කටයුතු කරනු ඇතැයිද රාජපක්‍ස මහතා විශ්වාසය පල කලේය.

අනුරාධපුරයේදී මාධ්‍ය අමතමින් ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේය

 සමන් ගමගේ  උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින

මේ රට එල්ටීටීඊ ත්‍රස්‌තවාදයෙන් බේරා ගැනීමට දිවිහිමියෙන් කැප වූ රණවිරුවන් පිරිසක්‌ අරබයා පෙනී සිටිමින් ප්‍රගීත් එක්‌නැලිගොඩගේ බිරිඳ සන්ධ්‍යා එක්‌නැලිගොඩට බැණවැදීමේ සිද්ධියක්‌ මුල් කරගනිමින් පැවති නඩු විභාගයකින් වරදකරු වීම හමුවේ ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥණසාර හිමියන් දැන් සිටින්නේ සිරගතවය. 
 
 ඉහත චෝදනාව හමුවේ උන්වහන්සේට හිමිව ඇත්තේ සය මසක සිර දඬුවමකි. බන්ධනාගාරගත කෙරුණු ගලගොඩඅත්තේ හිමියන්ගේ චීවරය ගලවා උන්වහන්සේට සිරිකරුවනට නියමිත ජම්පරය සහ කොට කලිසම ඇන්දවීම යන්න අද දවසේ මෙරට සමස්‌ත භික්‌ෂූන් වහන්සේගේ මෙන්ම බෞද්ධ ජනතාවගේද සංවේගයට කරුණක්‌ වී ඇත. 

 දැනගැනීමට ඇති පරිදි නම් තවමත් ගලගොඩ අත්තේ හිමියන්ට එසේ ජම්පරය ඇන්දවීමක්‌ සිදුව නැත. උන්වහන්සේ චීවරය ඉවත් කර අඳනයපිටින් බන්ධනාගාරයේ සිටින බව එහි අභ්‍යන්තර ආරංචි මාර්ග සඳහන් කරති.
 
 මේ අන්දමට චීවරය ඉවත් කිරීම ම සත් දිනක්‌ තුළ ගලගොඩඅත්තේ හිමියන්ගේ භික්‌ෂූත්වය අහිමිවීමට කරුණක්‌ වන බව බෞද්ධ විනය කරුණු මත පදනම්ව අදහස්‌ දක්‌වන උතුම් මහා සංඝරත්නයේ අදහස වන්නාහ. එහෙත් බුදුහිමියන්ගේ විනය නියමයන්ට අදාළ වූ එA සංවේදී කරුණ පිළිබඳ මෙතෙක්‌ බලධාරීන්ගේ අවධානය යොමුවූ බවක්‌ නම් පෙනෙන්නට නැත.

 මේ රට බෞද්ධය. එහි ජීවත් වනේනෝ අති බහුතරයද බෞද්ධයෝ වන්නාහ. ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ ආණ්‌ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්‌ථාවට අනුවද මෙරට තුළ බෞද්ධාගමට හිමිව ඇත්තේ මුල්තැනය. ඒ ව්‍යවස්‌ථාව මත පදනම්ව රට පාලනය කරන රජයක්‌ අපට ඇත. එයට කියන්නේ සම්මුතිවාදී යහපාලන ආණ්‌ඩුව කියාය.
 
 එහෙත් මේ සිදුව ඇත්තේ එකී යහපාලනය තුළ අද රටේ නීතියත්, බුද්ධ නීතියත් අතර ගැටීමක්‌ ඇතිවීම නොවේද? බෞද්ධ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව නිරාගමික, බහු සංස්‌කෘතික මඟුල් සක්‌වලක්‌ කිරීමට සැරසෙමින් සුජාතබවක්‌ නැත්තවුන් සේ හැසිරෙන සට්‌ටඹියන් අතලොස්‌සක්‌ යහපාලනයේ කසකරුවන් වීම මෙවන් ව්‍යසනයන්ට හේතු වී නොතිබේද?
 
 අප මේ කතා කරන්නේ ගරු හෝමාගම මහෙස්‌ත්‍රාත්වරයා ඥනසාර හිමියන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් වූ නඩු විභාගයේදී ලබා දුන් තීන්දුව පිළිබඳ නොවේ. එකී තීන්දුව රටේ නීතියට අනුව ඉතාම නිවැරදිය. ඒ පිළිබඳ අපට කිසිදු තර්කයක්‌ නැත. එයට අපි හිස නමා ගරු කරන්නෙමු. මහෙස්‌ත්‍රාත්වරයා කටයුතු කර ඇත්තේ අදාළ නෛතික රාමුව තුළය. යළි යළිත් කීමට ඇත්තේ එය ඉතාම නිවැරදියි යන්නය.
 
 එහෙත් ඥනසාර හිමියන් සිරගත වීම සහ ඉන්පසුව පසු උන්වහන්සේට ජම්පරය ඇන්දවීමත් චීවරය ගැලවීමත් යන කරුණු මත පදනම්ව රටේ නීතිය සහ බුද්ධ නීතිය අතර සිදු නොවිය යුතු ගැටුමක්‌ ඇතිවන තැන දක්‌වා මේ කතාව ආරම්භයේ සිට ඇදී එද්දී රටකරවන බලධාරීන් නිදොස්‌ කළ යුතු සදොස්‌ තැන් දෙස ඇහැක්‌ ඇර නොබැලීම මේ සියල්ලට හේතු වී නොතිබේද?
 
 යහපාලනයත් සමඟ ප්‍රගීත් එක්‌නැලිගොඩ විමර්ශනය ආරම්භ කළ රහස්‌ පොලිසිය ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගනු ලැබූ යුද හමුදා සන්නද්ධ බුද්ධි බළකායේ රණවිරුවන් නව දෙනකු හෝමාගම මහේස්‌ත්‍රාත් අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමෙන් පසු රක්‍ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කර තිබිණි.
 
 මේ රණවිරුවෝ කොටින්ගේ අඩවියට ගොස්‌ කොටි අතර සිට උන් රවටා රට වෙනුවෙන් දිවි පරදුවට තබමින් බොහෝ දේ කෙරුවෝ වූහ. එසේම යුද ජයග්‍රහණයෙන් පසුවද එල්ටීටීඊයේ නැවත නැගී සිටීම වැලක්‌වීම සඳහාද ඒ වන විට ඔවුහු ලොවම නොදත් රහස්‌ මෙහෙයුමකද නිරතව සිටියහ. 
 
 යහපාලනයට පිංසිදු වන්නට අද ඒ සියලු රහස්‌ ලෝකයට අනාවරණය වී අවසන්ය. ඒ පිළිබඳ කතා කිරීමෙන්ද පළක්‌ නැත. එක්‌නැලිගොඩ විමර්ශනයත් සමඟ මේ රණවිරුවන් පිරිස අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් රහස්‌ පොලිසිය ඔවුන්ට මිනී මැරුම් චෝදනා එල්ල කර තිබිණි. ඔවුන් රක්‍ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කර තිබුණේ එකී චෝදනාව අනුවය. 
 
 එහෙත් එවකට සිටි හෝමාගම මහෙස්‌ත්‍රතාත් ගරු රංග දිසානායක මහතා රහස්‌ පොලිසියේ එකී චෝදනා හමුවේ වරක්‌ විවෘත අධිකරණයේදී රහස්‌ පොලිසියේ ඉතාම වැදගත් ප්‍රශ්නයක්‌ අසනු ලැබීය. එම ප්‍රශ්නය වූයේ අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් යුද හමුදා බුද්ධි නිලධාරීන්ට මිනී මැරුම් චෝදනා එල්ල කළ මෙම සිද්ධියට අදාළ ප්‍රගීත් එක්‌නැලිගොඩ මැරිලාද නැද්ද යන්නය. 
 
 එදා එයට දෙන්නට පිළිතුරක්‌ රහස්‌ පොලිසියට නොතිබිණි. එය ඉකුත් 2016 වසරේ ජනවවාරි 25 වැනිදාය. එදිනද හෝමාගම අධිකරණයේදී එක්‌නැලිගොඩ නඩුව විභාගයට ගැනිණි. ඒ අවස්‌ථාවේ ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥණසාර හිමියෝද අධිකරණයේ වූහ. නඩුවිභාගයෙන් පසු යළිත් චූදිත යුද හමුදා බුද්ධි අංශ නිලධාරීන් පිරිස වැඩිදුරටත් රක්‍ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කෙරිණි.
 
 එයින් පසු ඥණසාර හිමියන් අධිකරණයෙන් පිටව යන්නට වූ අතර උන්වහන්සේ අධිකරණ පරිශ්‍රය තුළදී තමන්ගේ මුහුණට හමුවූ එක්‌නැලිගොඩගේ බිරිඳ සන්ධ්‍යා එක්‌නැලිගොඩට බැණවදින්නේ ඒ අවස්‌ථාවේදීය. ඥණසාර හිමියන් එහිදී කළ දේ වැරදිය. එය අධිකරණයේ ගරුත්වයටද හානිදායකය. 
 
 ඒ වරදට උන්වහන්සේ දැන් සිටින්නේ දඬුවම් නියම වී සිරගතවය. එසේම රහස්‌ පොලිසිය ඇරඹූ එක්‌නැලිගොඩ විමර්ශනයට අනුව අදාළ බුද්ධි අංශ නිලධාරීහු බන්ධනාගාරගතව සිට ඇප මත නිදහස්‌වීමෙන් පසු තවමත් හෝමාගම අධිකරණයේ පැවත්වෙන නඩු විභාගයට සහභාගි වන්නාහ.
 
 සියල්ල එසේ සිදුව ඇත. එහෙත් අදටත් එක්‌නැලිගොඩ මැරිලාද නැද්ද යන ප්‍රශ්නයට පිළිතුරක්‌ කිසිවකුත් නොදන්නාහ. එසේ වුවද දැනට ඇපමත සිටින රණවිරුවන් පිරිසට එල්ල වී තිබෙන්නේ මිනිමරුම් චෝදනාය. 
 
 එදා ඥණසාර හිමියන් කෝපවී සන්ධ්‍යා එක්‌නැලිගොඩට බැණවැදීමටත් ඒ වරදට දඬුවම් නියම වූ ඥණසාර හිමියන්ට ජම්පරය ඇන්දවීම තුළ රටේ නීතියත්, බුද්ධ නීතියත් අතර ගැටුමක්‌ නිර්මාණය වීමටත් මේ අප්‍රබ්‍රංශය විමර්ශනය හේතු නොවූයේද?
 
 අප ඒ ප්‍රශ්නය මෙහිදී මතු කරන්නේ සිදුවන රණවිරු දඩයම හමුවේ අදටත් ඇස්‌කන් පියාගෙන සිටින රටකරවන ඇත්තන්ගේ අවධානය සියල්ලට යොමු කරනු පිණිසය.
 
 ඥණසාර හිමියන් සේම මේ වන විට දීර්ඝ කාලයක්‌ තිස්‌සේ රක්‍ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගතව වැලිකඩ බන්ධනාගාරයේ රඳවා සිටින තවත් සුවිශේෂී චරිතයක්‌ද ඇත. ඒ අන් කිසිවකුත් නොව, එල්ටීටීඊයට එරෙහි යුද්ධයේදී යුද හමුදා බුද්ධි බළකායට නායකත්වය දුන් මේජර් ජෙනරාල් අමල් කරුණාසේකරය. 
 
 මේ සුවිශේෂී රණවිරුවා කොයි මොහොතේ හෝ රහස්‌ පොලිසිය අත්අඩංගුවට ගනු ඇතැයි අපි කලක සිටම අනාවැකි කීවෙමු. ඒ රටේ සිදුවන දේ පැහැදිලිවම අපට පෙනුණු නිසාය. අප කී ලෙසම එය දැන් සිදුව ඇත. ඔහුව අත්අඩංගුවට ගත්තේ කුමකටද?
 
 ඒ කීත් නොයාර් පැහැරගත දිනයේ ඉහළින් ආ දුරකථන ඇමතුමකට අනුව එවකට ටි්‍රපෝලි බුද්ධි කඳවුරේ අණදෙන නිලධාරියාට ඇමතුමක්‌ ලබා දුන්නේ යෑයි කියන සිද්ධියක්‌ අද හමුවේය. මෙසේ දුරකථන සංවාද පෙළක්‌ මුල්කරගිනිමින් අද මේ අන්දමට සිරගතව සිටින අමල් කරුණාසේකර යනු කවරෙක්‌ද?
 
 අටුවාටීකා අවශ්‍ය නැත. මේ සිරගතව සිටින්නේ වෙලුපිල්ලේ ප්‍රභාකරන් නන්දිකඩාල් කලපුවේදී වෙඩි කා මැරී වැටෙද්දී මේ රටේ යුද හමුදාවේ සන්නද්ධ බුද්ධි බළකායට නායකත්වය දුන් රටට උපරිමයෙන් සේවය කළ වීරයන් අතරේ සිටි තවත් වීරයෙකි. 
 
 තමන්ට පහර දුන් සිද්ධිය හමුවේ රහස්‌ පොලිසිය සිදු කරන විමර්ශනවලට සහාය දක්‌වමින් ඕස්‌ටේ්‍රලියාවේ සිට ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට පැමිණීමට අද කීත් නොයාර්ටවත් වුවමණාවක්‌ නැත. ඇතැම්විට විමර්ශන පිළිබඳ ඇති නොකැමැත්ත ඔහුගේ ඒ හැසිරීමට හේතු වී තිබෙනවාද විය හැකිය. වරක්‌ කීත් නොයාර් මහතා විදේශ මාධ්‍යයකට ඒ බව සඳහන් කළ බවක්‌ද ප්‍රචාරය විය. 
 
 එහෙත් කීත් නොයාර්ට එපා වුවද මේවා ලෙහෙසියෙන් අතහරින්නට අපේ අය සූදානම් නැත. යුද හමුදා බුද්ධි බළකායට නායකත්වය දුන් අමල් කරුණාසේකර වැනි මේජර් ජෙනරාල්ලාත් හිරේ සිටින්නේ එනිසා විය යුතුය. 
 
 කෙසේ වෙතත් අපේ විශ්වාසයේ හැටියට නම් රහස්‌ පොලිසිය ඉදිරිපත් කරන වැඩිදුර වාර්තා අනුව අඩුම තරමේ ලබන සැත්තැම්බරයේදී ස්‌විට්‌සර්ලන්තයේ ජිනීවා නුවරදී ඇරඹෙන මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සලයේ 38 වැනි සැසිවාරය අවසන් වන තුරුවත් මේජර් ජෙනරාල් මෙසේ සිරබත බුදිනු ඇත. 
 
 අප එසේ කියන්නේ ගෙවී ගිය තෙවසරක යහපාලනය තුළ සියල්ල සිදුවූයේ ඒ අන්දමට වන නිසාය. එහෙත් මේජර් ජෙනරාල් අමල් කරුණාසේකරලා එසේ සිරගත වෙද්දී තවත් පැත්තකින් අද මේ රට තුළ සිදු වෙමින් තිබෙන්නේ කුමක්‌ද?
 
 මේ රටේ මෑත ඉතිහාසයේ සිදුවූ සුවිශේෂීම පාවාදීමක්‌ ලෙස “මිලිනියම් සිටි” පාවා දීම පෙන්වා දිය හැකිය. එය පැහැදිලි පාවා දීමකි. ඒ පිළිබඳ කතා දෙකක්‌ නැත. අප එසේ කියන්නේ එම සිද්ධිය පිළිබඳ එකල පැවති ජනාධිපති කොමිසමකින් පවා එය තහවුරු කළ නිසාය. 
 
 එහෙත් අද මේජර් ජෙනරාල් අමල් කරුණාසේකර ඇතුළු රට බේරා ගැනීමට ජීවිත පරදුවට තැබූ වීරයන් රහස්‌ පොලිස්‌ විමර්ශන හමුවේ එකාපිට එකා හිරේ යදAදී එදා එසේ මහා පාවාදීමක්‌ සිදු කළ බවට ජනාධිපති කොමිසමකින් තහවුරු කළ වුන්ට දැන් යහපාලනය සලකමින් සිටින්නේ කෙසේද?
 
 “මිලේනියම් සිටි” පාවාදීම හමුවේ එවකට යුද හමුදා බුද්ධි බළකා අණදෙන නිලධාරියා ඇතුළු යුද හමුදා නිලධාරීන් පිරිසක්‌ අපකීර්තිමත් ලෙස හමුදා සේවයෙන් ඉවත් කරන ලෙස එවකට පැවති ජනාධිපති කොමිසම මගින් නිර්දේශ කිරීම හමුවේ ඔවුන්ව යුද හමුදා සේවයෙන් පලවා හැර තිබිණි. 
 
 එහෙත් එදා හිමි වූ ඬුවම එය වුවද මෙදා යහපාලනය මගින් මේ පිරිස යළි හමුදා සේවයට කැඳඳවා අතීතයට බලපාන පරිදි උසස්‌වීම්ද ලබාදී විශ්‍රාම ගන්වා ඇත්තේ රුපියල් ලක්‍ෂ ගණනින් හිඟ විශ්‍රාම වැටුප්ද ප්‍රදානය කරමිනි. 
 
 ජනොධිපති කොමිසමක තීරණයක්‌ මෙසේ කණපිට හැරීම නම් ඉතාම විශ්මිතය. එහෙත් බොහෝ විශ්මිත දේ සිදු කරන යහපාලනය කිසිදු හිරිකිතයකින් තොරව එසේ සිදු කර ඇත. එහිදී මේ නිලධාරීන්ට යුද හමුදා කඳවුරු තුළට ඇතුළු වීමට නොහැකි ලෙස පනවා තිබූ කඳවුරු තහනමද ඉවත් කිරීමට කටයුතු කර ඇත්තේ කිසිදු විලිලඡ්ජාවක්‌ නැතිවය. 
 
 මෙහි අවසන් ප්‍රතිඵලය ලෙස පෙනෙන්නට ඇත්තේ කුමක්‌ද? අද පාවා දෙන්නෝ සුරක්‍ෂිතව වැජඹෙන්නාහ. එසේ වෙද්දී එල්ටීටීඊය වැනසූ සටනේදී රටට යළි ජීවය දෙන්නට කැපවූ වීරයෝ අපරාධකරුවන් සෙල සිරගතවී පසුව හමුදා කඳවුරකට වැරදිලාවත් යා නොහැකි සේ කඳවුරු තහනමකටද යටත්ව සිටින්නාහ. 
 
 ඇත්තටම එය කොච්චර සුන්දරද? යහපාලනය හරිම අපූරුය. ඇත්තෙන්ම මේ ආණ්‌ඩුව සිදු කරමින් සිටින්නේ විජාතික වුවමණාවන් ඉටු කිරීමක්‌ නොවේද? 2015 දී සම්මුතිවාදය බලයට ගෙන එමින් මේ රටේ ජනතාව ආණ්‌ඩුවට සහය දුන්නේ මෙවැනි කුණුහරුප කිරීමට යෑයි ආණ්‌ඩුවේ බලධාරීන් සිතා සිටින්නේද?
 
 එසේ නම් අපට අවසන් වශයෙන් කීමට ඇත්තේ හැළියේ දිය කෙළි කකුළුවාත් සිටියේ අද අDණ්‌ඩුව සිටින මතයේම කියාය. 
 
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