ජාතිවාදය මේ ආණ්ඩුවෙන් පතුරවනවා
ජාතිවාදය මේ ආණ්ඩුවෙන් පතුරවන බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි.

by Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Courtesy Island

My friend and senior colleague, Carlo Fonseka, has no doubt that ‘too many medical cooks spoiled the broth’ and resulted in the unfortunate death of a national treasure, Ven. Madulawe Sobitha Thera. His heartfelt lament published in ‘The Island’ on 12 November concludes thus:

“Sadly our profession could not save him for the nation. I do not weep for Ven. Sobitha who died in the fullness of honours. Instead I weep for myself and the rest of us. On behalf of my profession, I beg for forgiveness from the nation for failing so dismally to save Venerable Sobitha and I hang down my head in sorrow for shame.”

It has evoked a multitude of responses of differing shades of opinion. When the current President of the Sri Lanka Medical Council, the regulatory body of Doctors, makes such a sweeping statement, naturally, the profession has to take note and, as a member of that noble profession for over half-a-century, I feel I will be failing in my duty, if I do not express my views. Some may say we are ‘killing’ Ven. Sobitha, again and again, by protracting this correspondence but,as someone who braved to criticize my colleagues in the past, I feel I am obliged to state a few facts to diminish their responsibility for this unfortunate incident.

Minor Inquisition

In a follow-up piece published in ‘The Island’ of Saturday November 28th, re-printed in ‘Sunday Island’, the next day, with an enlarged headline ‘Carlo blames “too many cooks” –Controversy over VenSobitha’s death’, Carlo, in his typical tongue-in-cheek manner, refers to a ‘minor inquisition’ held by some council members of the Sri Lanka Medical Association, the all-encompassing professional body of Sri Lankan doctors. This surprised me as I am not aware of such an occurrence in the history of the SLMA. I speak with some authority as I was very actively involved in the SLMA from 1973 to 1988, holding all the key positions, except that of the Treasurer (I was never good with accounts) and the President, but was President-elect in 1988, when I left for UK on an impulsive but, in retrospect, a lucrative decision.

The minor inquisition is confirmed in a letter titled ‘Unfair criticism of Sri Lankan doctors- a rejoinder’ by my friend, Professor Sanath P Lamabadusuriya (Sunday Island, 6 December) but the perception of what transpired is at variance with Carlo’s interpretation. Perhaps, as the Buddha said over 2500 years ago, ‘the world is your (own) perception’. However,Sanath’s letter was very helpful as it gives essential facts regarding Ven. Soratha’s terminal illness. I was under the impression that he had an aortic valve replacement but it was a mitral valve replacement, which carries a much higher risk. He was referred for Cardiac intervention by the Neurologist as she found him to be in heart failure. Further, Ven. Sobitha had renal impairment and was diabetic; long standing and poorly controlled, I am made to understand. Considering all this, there is no doubt that Ven. Sobitha belonged to a very high-risk category. It is not unusual, not only in Sri Lanka, to rush to definitive treatment when it is a VVIP and it is purely conjectural whether the outcome would have been different had surgery been delayed till complicating factors were corrected as much as feasible.

His mental state, of huge disappointment and despair would, certainly, have compounded the risks. It is rumoured that though Mahinda Rajapaksa, much maligned by him, visited Ven. Sobitha in hospital, President Sirisena, who owes his present position largely to the valiant efforts of the prelate, did not visit him.Though used to ungratefulness, with wits dulled by severe illness, how Ven. Soratha reacted to this we will never know but can be sure, as we can be, that it would not have helped his mental state. It is well known that those who face severe illness with optimism fare a lot better than those who face with pessimism but, interestingly, trials showed that by being prayed for did not improve outcome.

Being the ever-questioning sceptic I am, may be because I have over-interpreted the words of wisdom of the Buddha about questioning, each and every, in ‘The Kalama Sutta’, I was not in agreement with everything Ven. Sobitha did or said but had the greatest respect for him as a conviction fighter for good causes. As much as Carlo was angry with his fellow doctors, I was so angry with the politicians, who made use of him to gain power and let him downso badly in no time, I wrote a piece titled ‘Did Yahapalanaya kill Ven. Sobitha?’ Interestingly, it appeared in the same issue of ‘The Island’as Carlo’s ‘controversial lament’ but the editor, with valued judgement, changed the title to ‘Venerable SobithaThero’. I shall not repeat the arguments I set there, except to say that at the time of writing I thought Ven. Sobitha belonged to a low-risk category, but repeat that it was politicians who were more responsible for his death than doctors.

Perhaps, later, the Editor agreed with my assessment when he stated in the editorial on Monday, November 30th:

“Ven. Sobitha campaigned hard to dislodge a seemingly monolithic government and lesser minions are enjoying the fruits of his labour. We believe his heart condition worsened because at the time of his death he must have been at least 15 years older than his chronological age thanks to his activism and the attendant stress. Regrettably, the venerable monk died a sad man; he could not achieve his goal of having the executive presidency abolished and electoral reforms introduced.”

Tay Bridge Disaster

Disappointment hastens mortality and there are many examples of it, the one that comes to mind being the ‘Tay Bridge disaster’

The Tay Bridge in Scotland, which was completed in February 1878, was nearly two miles long, consisting of 85 spans and, at that time, was the longest bridge in the world. The spans carried a single rail track and Sir Thomas Bouch was responsible for the design, construction and maintenance of the bridge. He was knighted for it as it was such an incredible achievement at the time.

The Tay Bridge disaster occurred during a violent storm on 28 December 1879 when the bridge collapsed while a train was passing over it on the way to Dundee, killing all 70 passengers aboard. It is said that Sir Thomas got on to a boat and went round looking at the wrecks and dead bodies floating and got ill very soon. An inquiry found that the cast iron used was not strong enough because of impurities of carbon embedded and blamed the entire disaster on Bouch. Under ‘shock and distress’ he died 30 October 1880, a few months after the public inquiry into the disaster finished.

Was ‘Yahapalanaya’ a bridge too far for Ven. Sobitha? Did he not realize that our breed of politicians are like impurities embedded in cast iron?

Politicians broke the heart of Ven. Sobitha and doctors were not able to fix it. Whoever at fault, the great prelate is no more and all that the medical profession can do, to honour him, is to make use of this opportunity, however unfortunate it may be, to better ourselves and improve the standards of health care.

While Professor Upali Illangasekara (The Island, November 24) gives explanations to some misdeeds (though it is no justification) what Dr Mahinda de Silva states in his opinion piece on Monday 7th is grossly unfair by most of the medical professionals in Sri Lanka. Some others have referred to a ‘rotten medical system’ simply because of a few bad eggs, which again is grossly unfair by the vast number of very competent doctors in the country. I was privileged to train ten post-graduates in Medicine from Sri Lanka, at Grantham Hospital, UK and found their knowledge and competence second to none. There was never a single valid complaint against any of them and all staff missed them, when they left at the end of their training.

What ails our medical profession is attitude, not competence. They need to be more responsible and compassionate to their patients. They should stop behaving like non-professionals who drop their tools at the drop of a hat. They should use strikes as a weapon of last resort,not what happens today, behaving like ‘harbour workers’ of yesteryear.

The person most capable and best placed, as President of SLMC, is none other than Carlo and may I earnestly request him to channel his sorrow to productivity: get the support of SLMA, GMOA and all other medical associations and colleges to draw guidelines regarding patient safety, private practice etc. May I also request him to persuade and convince the SLMC to introduce re-validation, which is done in most developed countries, and use his influence on PGIM to establish continuing medical education for all doctors, not only specialists, which is an essential part of the process of revalidation. If he does so, the premature death of Ven. Sobitha would not have been in vain and, though politicians would not, we would have learnt a lessonwhich could result in long lasing improvements of health care.

සුනිල් රත්නායක ‘දිවයින’ට කියන කතාව -සමන් ගමගේ

 අප්පච්චි ගෙදර යමුද… දුව එහෙම අහනවා.. ඒත් මං යන්නේ බන්ධනාගාරයට…

එය ඉකුත් 2000 වර්ෂය විය. චන්ද්‍රිකා කුමාරතුංග මහත්මිය මෙරට පළමු විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරිය ලෙස රට පාලනය කරනු ලැබුවාය. පැවතියේ සන්ධාන රජයකි. එය මෙරට දේශපාලනයේ බොහෝ හැලහැප්පීම් සිදු වූ කාලයක්‌ද විය. හරියට අද වගේමය.

එකල යාපනය අර්ධද්වීපය එල්ටීටීඊ ත්‍රස්‌තවාදීන්ගෙන් රැක ගැනීම සඳහා වීරෝදාර රණවිරුවන් සිටියේ නිරන්තර සටනක යෙදෙමිනි. ශ්‍රී ලංකා යුද හමුදා විශේෂ බළකායේ රාජකාරි කළ සාජන් මේජර් සුනිල් රත්නායකද එකී සටනේ කොටස්‌කරුවකුව සිටියේය.

යාපනය මිරුසුවිල් ප්‍රදේශයේ ස්‌ථානගතව සිටි සුනිල් රත්නායක ඇතුළු රණවිරුවන්ට ඒ දිනවල මුහමලෙයි හා පලෙයි ප්‍රදේශයේ සිට එල්ටීටීඊ ත්‍රස්‌තවාදීහු දැඩි ප්‍රහාර එල්ල කරන්නට වූහ. එහෙත් එකී ප්‍රහාරයන්ට සාර්ථකව මුහුණ දුන් ඔවුහු ලේ, දහදිය, හෙළමින් ජීවිත පරදුවට තබා රට වෙනුවෙන් සටන් වදින්නට වූහ.

නමුත් එදා එසේ උපන් බිමේ විමුක්‌තිය උදෙසා සතුරු වෙඩි වරුෂා මැද නුහුරු ඉසව්වක සිට සිය හිරිමල් තාරුණ්‍යය ගෙවා දැමූ සාජන් මේජර් සුනිල් රත්නායකට අද කුමන ඉරණමක්‌ අත්ව තිබේද?

ඒ පිළිබඳ අමුතුවෙන් සටහන් කළ යුතු නැත. එය දැන් මුළු රටම දන්නා කතාවක්‌ බවට පත්ව ඇත. එදා උපන් බිම වෙනුවෙන් මිරුසුවිල් යුද බිමේ සිට සතුරා සමග සටන් වැදුණු සුනිල් රත්නායක අද සිටිනුයේ පෝරකයට නියමවූ සිරකරුවකු ලෙස වැලිකඩ බන්ධනාගාරයේ බිත්ති අතරට මැදිව ය. ඒ මිරුසුවිල්හිදී සිදුවූ සමුහ ඝාතනයක වරදකරුවකු ලෙසිනි.

මීට මාස කිහිපයකට පෙර ඔහු වරදකරුවකු බවට තීරණය කර මරණීය දණ්‌ඩනය නියම කරනු ලැබුවේ අධිකරණය මගිනි. එහෙයින් අපි ඒ පිළිබඳ කිසිත් කතා නොකරන්නෙමු. නමුත් එදා එකී තීන්දුව ප්‍රකාශ කිරීමත් සමග සාජන් මේජර් සුනිල් රත්නායක සමග කෙටි පිළිසඳරක යෙදෙන්නට රහසේම අපට හැකි විය.

එහෙත් එය රටට කියන්නට අපි මඳක්‌ ඉවසා සිටියෙමු. ගිරි කුළෙන් ඇද වැටුණු සුරා සොඬා සේ ගත දැවටෙන මේ සීත පවන් රැළි අනේ සැපයි” කියනවා හැරෙන්නට පසුගිය කාලයේ වෙන කරන්නට දෙයක්‌ නොවීම අපේ ඒ ප්‍රමාදයට හේතු විය.

එදා එසේ වුවද දැන් එය රටට හඬගා කියන්නට කාලය එළැඹ ඇත. තමන්ට මරණීය දණ්‌ඩනය හිමි වීමෙන් පසු සාජන් මේජර් සුනිල් රත්නායක හිස්‌ බැල්මකින් යුතුව ඔහේ බලා සිටියා දැනුදු මගේ මතකයේ ඇත. දැඩි අසරණ කමකින් ඒ දැස තෙත් වී තිබිණ.

මාධ්‍යකරණය හමුවේ යුද බිමේ ඇවිද ගියකු ලෙස රණවිරුවන්ගේ දුක වේදනාව ඇති තරම් මම දැක තිබුණෙමි. නමුත් රණවිරුවකු හදවතින් කඩා වැටී සිටිනු දුටු පළමු වතාව සුනිල් රත්නායක හමුවූ මොහොත බවද මෙහිදී විශේෂයෙන් සටහන් කළ යුතු වේ.

ඉතින් සුනිල්.. මොකද වුණේ..” මම එදා ඔහුට හදවතේ ඇති බර වචන කරන්නට ඉඩ විවර කරමින් පළමු වචන කිහිපය මුදා හැරියේ එසේය. එතැන් පටන් සුනිල් කතා කරන්නට විය.

මම යුද හමුදාවට බැඳුණේ 1995 දෙසැම්බර් මාසේ 12 වැනිදා. මගේ පවුලේ අම්මයි තාත්තයි සහෝදර සහෝදරියෝ හතරදෙනයි අපි ඔක්‌කොම ඒ දවස්‌වල ජීවත් වුණේ මහියංගනයේ අ¹උල්පොත ගමේ. ඉගෙන ගත්තේ ආ¹උල්පොත ජාතික පාසලේ..

අපේ තාත්තා ගොවිතැන් කරලයි අපිව හැදුවේ.. අධ්‍යාපන කටයුතු ඉවර කරලා මම විතරයි අපේ පවුලෙන් හමුදාවට බැඳුණේ.. මට පොඩිකාලේ ඉඳන්ම හමුදා සෙබළෙක්‌ වීමේ ආශාව හිතේ තිබුණා.. ඒ දවස්‌වල මම හමුදාවට බැඳෙනවට අම්මයි තාත්තයි කැමති වුණේ නැහැ.. එල්ටීටීඊ ප්‍රහාරවලින් හමුදා සොල්දාදුවන් හත්අට දෙනා මැරුණු ප්‍රවෘත්ති උදේ හවස කියෑවුණා.

ඉතින් මොන අම්ම තාත්තද ඒ වගේ කාලෙක තමන්ගේ දරුවෙක්‌ හමුදාවට යනවට කැමති වෙන්නේ.. අම්මයි තාත්තයි යන්න එපා කිව්වා.. ඒත් මම හමුදාවට බැඳුනා.. යුද හමුදාවට එකතු වුණාට පස්‌සේ මාස කිහිපයක පුහුණුව අවසන් කරලා මාව යාපනය ගුරුනගර්වල රාජකාරියට දැම්මා..

හැම තැනින්ම ඇහෙන්නේ වෙඩි හඬ.. ඒත් මට බයක්‌ දැනුණේ නැහැ.. අනිත් සෙබළුන් එකා පිට මැරිලා වැටුණත් සටන් කරන විදිහ දැක්‌කහම මගේ හිතට ආවේ ලොකු හයියක්‌.. අන්තිමට හිතේ ඉතුරු වුණේ මේ මගේ රටනේ කියන හැඟීම විතරයි.. ඉතින් අපි ටෙරාලා කොච්චර ගැහුවත් පස්‌සට යන්නේ නැතුව සටන් කළා..”

ඒ වචන කිහිපය පිට කිරීමත් සමග මා දෙස මොහොතක්‌ නිහඬව බලා සිටි සාජන් මේජර් සුනිල් රත්නායක ගැඹුරු හුස්‌මක්‌ ගෙන දිගු සුසුමක්‌ පිට කළා දැනුදු මට මතකය. ඇතැම්විට එදා මරණය අතට ගෙන රට වෙනුවෙන් සතුරා ඉදිරියේ සිටගත් තමන් වෙත මෙදා දඬුවමක්‌ ලෙස මරණය ළඟා වීමේ වේදනාව සුනිල් එසේ පිට කළා විය හැකිය.

සුනිල් රත්නායක හමුදාවට එක්‌ වනුයේ යාපනය අර්ධද්වීපය එල්ටීටීඊ ත්‍රස්‌තවාදීන්ගෙන් මුදා ගැනීම සඳහා චන්ද්‍රිකා බණ්‌ඩාරනායක රජය 1995 වසරේ රිවිරැස” 1-2 මෙහෙයුම් ක්‍රියාත්මක කළ කාලයේදීය. ඒ හේතුවෙන් එකී මෙහෙයුම්වලටද සිය දායකත්වය දෙමින් අභීත විරුවකු සේ ක්‍රියාත්මක වන්නටද ඔහුට වාසනාව හිමි විය.

ඔව් මම රිවිරැස” 1-2 මෙහෙයුම්වලටත් සහභාගි වුණා.. පස්‌සේ 1997 ආරම්භ වුණු ජයසිකුරු” 1-2 මෙහෙයුම්වලදීත් සටන් කළා.. ඒ වෙනකොට මම යුද හමුදා හයවන ගජබා රෙජිමේන්තුවේ සෙබළකු විදිහටයි රාජකාරි කළේa.. පස්‌සේ මාව යුද හමුදා විශේෂ බළකායට අනුයුක්‌ත කළා..

මේ දවස්‌වල තමයි එල්ටීටීඊය අලිමංකඩ ප්‍රහාරය එල්ල කළේ.. ඒ අතරේ අපේ කණ්‌ඩායමක්‌ වලිකාමම් මුදා ගැනීමේ මෙහෙයුමට සම්බන්ධ වෙලා හිටියේ.. අපි වලිකාමම් ජයගත්තා.. එහෙම ඉන්න අතරේ 2000 වසරේ මුලදී මට මාන්කුලම්වලදී එල්ටීටීඊයේ මෝටාර් ප්‍රහාරයක්‌ වැදුණා.. ඒකෙන් මාත් එක්‌ක හිටපු රණවිරුවන් ගණනාවක්‌ මිය ගියා..

ඒ බව මම දැනගත්තේ දවස්‌ ගණනාවකට පස්‌සේ.. මෝටාර් ප්‍රහාරයෙන් මට සිහි නැතුව ගියා විතරයි මතක.. මට බරපතළ විදිහට තුවාල වෙලා ප්‍රතිකාර කරන්න කොළඹට ගෙනත් තිබුණා.. දවස්‌ ගණනාවකට පස්‌සේ කොළඹ මහ රෝහලේදී තමයි මට සිහිය ආවේ..

පස්‌සේ මාසයක්‌ විතර රෝහලේ ඉඳලා සනීප වෙලා මම මහියංගනේ ගෙදරට ගියා.. අම්මයි, තාත්තයි හොඳටම ඇඬුවා.. තුවාල වුණාට පස්‌සේ මට හමුදාවෙන් දවස්‌ දාහතරක නිවාඩුවක්‌ දුන්නා.. නිවාඩුව ඉවර වෙලා ඕනෙනම් මට හමුදාවේ සාමාන්‍ය රාජකාරිවලට සම්බන්ධ වෙන්නත් අවස්‌ථාව තිබුණා.. මොකද මගේ ඔලුවට ගොඩක්‌ තුවාල වෙලා තිබුණේ..

ඒත් නිවාඩුව ඉවර වෙලා මම ආයෙත් පුලියන්කුලම කෑම්ප් එකට ගිහින් රාජකාරියට වාර්තා කළා.. මම ගෙදරින් එනකොට අම්මා මාව බදාගෙන ඇඬවා.. පස්‌සේ උඹට තුනුරුවන්ගේ පිහිටයි කියලා මට යන්න දුන්නා..

එහෙම ඇවිත් දවස්‌ දෙකකට පස්‌සේ පුලියන්කුලමෙන් චාවකච්ෙච්රි ගියා.. ඒ වෙනකොට චාවකච්ෙච්රි ප්‍රදේශයේ සටන් ඇවිළිලා.. ටෙරාල අපිට ඇටෑක්‌ කරනවා.. ආයෙත් ඉතින් ගේමට බැස්‌සා.. චාවකච්ෙච්රියේ ඉඳන් නගර්කොවිල් පාර දිගේ අපි ටෙරාලට ගගහා මිරුසුවිල්වලට ඇවිත් මිරුසුවිල් ඇල්ලුවා.. ඒ 2000 අවුරුද්දේ අන්තිම කාලේ..

ඔය අතරේ තමයි මේ කියන සිද්ධිය වුණේ.. මිරුසුවිල් ඇල්ලුවට පස්‌සේ අපි අපේ ඩිෙµaන්ස්‌ ලයින් එක හදා ගත්තා.. ලයින් එකෙන් මීටර් සීයක්‌ විතර එහායින් ටෙරාල හිටියේ.. සැරින් සැරේ උන් ඇටෑක්‌ කරනවා.. අපිත් කොහොම හරි අල්ලගෙන හිටියා..

මිරුසුවිල් ටවුන් එරියා එකේ ඉඳන් ගොඩක්‌ දුරට යනකම් සම්පූර්ණ ප්‍රදේශය අපේ අතේ තිබුණේ.. ටවුන් එක කිව්වට ඒක අපි හිතන විදිහේ ටවුන් එකක්‌ නෙමේ.. ගරා වැටුණු ප්‍රදේශයක්‌.. මිනිස්‌සු කවුරුවත් නැහැ..

හමුදාව විතරයි හිටියේ.. ඉස්‌සරහින් තිබුණේ කැලේ..

මෙහෙම අපි මිරුසුවිල් අල්ලගෙන ඉන්න අතරේ දවසක්‌ අපේ ඩිෙµaන්ස්‌ ලයින් එකෙන් අපි හිටිය පැත්තට ආපු මිනිස්‌සු කට්‌ටියක්‌ හමුදාවට අහුවෙලා තිබුණා.. කැලේ හැම තැනම ටෙරාලා ආයුධ හංගලා තිබ්බා.. ඒ දවස්‌වල සමහර වෙලාවට අපි ඉස්‌සරහට ගිහින් ටෙරාලට ගහනකොට හොරෙන් අපේ ලයින් එකෙන් ඇතුළට ඇවිත් හැංගිලා හිටිය කොටි හංගලා තිබුණ ආයුධ අරගෙන පිටිපස්‌සෙන් අපිට ඇටෑක්‌ කරනවා..

එහෙම පහර දීලා උන් පැනගන්නවා.. ඒ වගේ ප්‍රහාරවලින් යුද්දෙදී හමුදා සෙබළුන් දහදොළොස්‌ දෙනා එකපාර මියගියා.. ඒක අපිට හිසරදයක්‌ වෙලා තිබුණේ.. ඒ වගේ තත්ත්වයක්‌ තියෙද්දී තමයි මිරුසුවිල්වලදී මේ මිනිස්‌සු ටික හමුදාවට අහුවෙන්නේ..

අද සමහරු කියන්නේ උන් ආවේ දර කඩන්න කියලා.. මට ඒ හැමෝගෙන්ම අහන්න තියෙන්නේ එකම එක කතාවයි.. ඒ යුද්දේ කාලේ ඕමන්තෙන් එහාට දර කඩන්න කැලේට ගිය කවුරු හරි ඉන්නවද කියන එක විතරයි.. ඕමන්තෙන් එහාට එදා කවුරු හරි ගියානම් ඒ ගියේ එල්ටීටීඊ එකට ගහන්න.. සටන් කරන්න.. එහෙම නැතුව කිසිම මිනිහෙක්‌ ඒ දවස්‌වල දර කඩන්න කොටින්ගේ ඒරියා එකට ගියේ නැහැ..” ඒ වගේම තමයි උන්ගේ කවුරුවත් දර කඩන්න හමුදාdව ඉන්න තැන්වලට ආවෙත් නැහැ.. උන් ආවේ අපිව මරන්න..

ඔහු කියන ඒ කතාව තර්කානුකූලය. කිසිවකුත් එදා දර කඩන්නට එල්ටීටීඊ ත්‍රස්‌තයන් රැඳී සිටි ප්‍රදේශයකට ගියේ නැත.. නිකමට හෝ ගියේ නම් පණපිටින් එන්නට ලැබෙන්නේද නැත.

ඒ අනුව බලන කල එදා දරුණු සටන් පවතිද්දී එල්ටීටීඊය රැඳී සිටි ප්‍රදේශයේ සිට කිසිවකු හෝ සීමා මායිම් නොතකා දර කඩන්නට මිරුසුවිල් හමුදා කඳවුරට අයත් ප්‍රදේශය වෙත ඇතුළු වූයේ නම් ඌට පැහැදිලිවම මොලේ අමාරුවක්‌ තිබිය යුතුය. එසේ නැතිනම් පැමිණියේ වෙනත් අරමුණකට විය යුතුමය.

ඒ සැඟවුණු අරමුණ පැහැදිලිවම හමුදාවට ප්‍රහාරයක්‌ එල්ල කිරීම සඳහා ඔත්තු බැලීම විය හැකිය. එල්ටීටීඊය යනු ත්‍රස්‌තවාදයකි. උන් ක්‍රියාත්මක වූයේ සාමාන්‍ය මිනිසුන්ගේ වෙස්‌ ගනිමිනි. පසුගිය යුද සමයේ එය එසේම සිදු වූ බව කිසිවකුටත් අමුතුවෙන් පහදා දිය යුතු ද නොවේ.

ඒ ආපු මිනිස්‌සුන්ගෙන් එක්‌කෙනෙක්‌ ඇරෙන්න අනිත් පිරිස එදා ඝාතනය කරලා තිබුණා.. කොහොම හරි එක්‌කෙනෙක්‌ පැනලා ගිහින්.. ඒක කළේ කවුද කියන්න කවුරුවත් දැනගෙන හිටියේ නැහැ.. මේ සිද්ධියත් එක්‌ක එදා පරීක්‍ෂණයක්‌ කරන්න යුද හමුදා පොලිසිය කඳවුරට ආවා.. ඒ ආවේ පැනලා ගිය කෙනත් අරගෙන.. ඒ මිනිහා අපි කිහිප දෙනෙක්‌ට ඇඟිල්ල දික්‌ කරලා අපියි මැරුවේ කියලා කිව්වා..

ඒ මිනිස්‌සුන්ව මරලා වළක දාලා තිබුණේ.. පස්‌සේ යුද හමුදා පොලිසිය මට කිව්වා ඒ තැන පෙන්නන්න කියලා.. මම ගිහින් පෙන්නුවා.. ඒ වළ තිබුණු එදා තැන කෑම්ප් එකේ හැමෝම දැනගෙන හිටියේ.. ඊට පස්‌සේ මාත් එක්‌ක කණ්‌ඩායමක්‌ අත්අඩංගුවට අරගෙන අපිව පොලිසියට භාර දුන්නා..

පොලිසියෙන් අපිව යාපනය අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් කළා.. අධිකරණයෙන් රිමාන්ඩ් කළා.. අවුරුදු එකහමාරකට පස්‌සේ ඇප දුන්නා.. ඒ කඳවුරෙන් පිටත රාජකාරිවලට දාන්න එපා කියන කොන්දේසියත් එක්‌ක.. යාපනයෙන් පිටට යැමත් තහනම් කළා..

අන්තිමේ ඒ නඩුව අනුරාධපුර අධිකරණයට යොමු කළා.. අනුරාධපුර අධිකරණයෙන් කොන්දේසියක්‌ දැම්මා සාලියපුර කඳවුරෙන් පිටතට යවන්න එපා කියලා.. මේ නඩුව නිසා මම 2000 ඉඳන් 2010 වෙනකම් අවුරුදු දහයක්‌ විවාහ නොවී හිටියා..

පස්‌සේ ප්‍රශ්නයක්‌ වෙන එකක්‌ නැහැ කියලා හිතලා 2010 දී විවාහ වුණා.. ඒ මගේ පෙම්වතියත් එක්‌ක.. 2012 දී අපිට පුංචි දුවෙක්‌ ලැබුණා.. එයාට අවුරුදු තුන පිරෙනකොට මිරුසුවිල් නඩුවෙන් 2015 දී මට මරණ දඬුවම දුන්නා..

අද බිරිඳත් එක්‌ක මගේ දුවත් ආවා උසාවියට.. මම දැන් බන්ධනාගාරයට යන්න ඕනේ.. ඒත් දුව අහනවා අප්පච්චි ගෙදර එන්නේ නැද්ද කියලා.. බිරිඳ ඇස්‌ දෙකේ කඳුළු පුරවගෙන ඉකි ගගහ අඬනවා මම දැක්‌කා.. ඒක බලන් ඉන්න බැරි නිසා මම අහක බලා ගත්තා..

විවාහ වුණාට පස්‌සේ අපි දෙන්නා හිටියේ ගල්ගමුවේ බිරිඳගේ ගෙදර.. දැන් දුවටයි බිරිඳටයි කාගෙවත් පිහිටක්‌ නැහැ.. මම රටේ හැමෝම වෙනුවෙන් යුද්දෙට ගියා.. සටන් කළා.. අද මගේ දරුවයි බිරිඳයි අසරණ වෙලා.. මට හිත හදා ගන්න බැරි ඒ ගැන හිතනකොටයි..

තවමත් යුද හමුදාව මං වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී හිටිනවා.. ඒ ගැන මට තියෙන්නේ ආඩම්බරයක්‌.. මම එල්ටීටීඊයෙන් මේ රට බේර ගන්න යුද්දෙට ගියා.. මෙහෙයුම් ගණනාවකට සම්බන්ධ වුණා.. මාන්කුලම්වලදී මට වැදුණ මෝටාර් එකේ කෑල්ලක්‌ තවමත් ඔලුවේ තියෙනවා.. චන්ද්‍රිකා කුමාරතුංග ජනාධිපතිතුමියගේ කාලේ මට රණශූර පදක්‌කමත් ලැබුණා..

ඒත් දැන් මට මරණ දඬුවම ලැබිලා.. ඉතින් මට කියන්න තියෙන්නේ එල්ලන්න.. හුස්‌ම ටික යනකම්ම මාව එල්ලලා තියන්න කියන එක විතරයි.. අද හැමෝම නිදහසේ හුස්‌ම ගන්න රටක මගේ බිරිඳයි දරුවයි මම නැති පාලුවෙන් විඳවනවා දකිනවට වඩා මැරෙන එක සැපයි..”

ඔහු ඒ ටික කීවේ ඉතාම හැඟීම් බරවය.. ඒ දැස්‌ වේදනාවෙන් රතුවී තිබෙනු මම දුටුවෙමි.. මේ ගෙවී යමින් තිබෙන්නේ මිනිස්‌ බෝම්බ පුපුරවා, විවිධ ප්‍රහාර එල්ල කර මිනිසුන් පොකුරුපිටින් ඝාතනය කළා වූ එල්ටීටීඊ ත්‍රස්‌තවාදීන් නිදහස ලබා සිය ඥතීන් වෙත යන යුගයකි.

ඔවුහු සතුටින් නිදහස ලබා එළියට යති. ඒ අතරේ රට වෙනුවෙන් සටන් වැදුණු රත්නායකලා වැනි රණවිරුවෝ වේදනාවෙන් ඇතුළට යමින් සිටිති. මෙය සිදු විය යුත්තක්‌ද? මේ මොහොතේ අප තුළ මතුවී ඇත්තේ විසඳුමක්‌ නැති ඒ ගැටලුව පමණි.

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ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න

බුදු හිමියන් විසින් පළමුවෙන්  හ ඳුන්වා දුන්  පසු  දෙවනුව මිහිඳු මා හිමියන් විසින්  බුසසුන  සිංහල දේ ශයේ ස්ථාපිත කරන ලදී  හෙළයෝ  සහ සිංහලයෝ   වසර තුන්දහසකටත් වඩා කාලයක සිට  මේ නිසා බෞද්ධයෝ වුහ . වෙනත් ආගමිකයෝ ආගිය  අ  ය වුහ .  එහෙව් අ යද අතලොස්සකි . එනිසාම සිංහල දේශය   දහම් දිවයින වුනේය  පරයින්ගෙන් පසුව බිහිවූ  කිතුනුවන් පවා හැඳින් වුනේ  ”’ ආගම් කාරයින් ”’ ලෙසය බෞද්ධයෝ තමන්ගෙන් ඔවුන් වෙන්කර හඳුනා ගත්තේ එසේය . බුදු දහම  අනෙක් ආගම් වලින් වලින් වෙනස් බව ත් ආගමික  ලකුණකට වඩා තවත් විශේෂ දෙයක් බුදු දහමේ ඇති බවත් එකල සාමාන්‍ය බෞද්ධයෝ පවා දන සිටියහ . සිංහලයන්ගේ ජීවන  ක්‍රමය සංස්කරණය වුනේ  හෙවත් ”’කෘත්‍යය ‘ සැකසුනේ බුදුදම අනුසාරයෙනි  එනිසාම සිංහල සංස්කෘතිය   බෞද්ධ සන්කෘතියක් ම විය .
                                             අදටත්  බෞද්ධයෝ 70% ක් රටේ ඇත .   ඔවුන් විසින්   නඩත්තු කරන සංඝයා වහන්සේලා 30000 ක් පමණ රටේ ඇත . පන්සල් 10000 ක් පමණ ඇත . පේදුරු තුඩුවේ සිට දෙ වුන්දර තුඩුව දක්වා විහිදුනු බෞද්ධ නටබුන්  කියා පාන්නේ  මේ රට බෞධ්ධයන්ගේ රට බවය්  බලහත් කාරයෙන් පැමිණි පරයින් විසින්  එ  හෙව් රට මේ වන විට 30% ක්පමණ  අන් ලබ්ධිකයන්ගෙන් පුරවා ඇත .
                                                            මේ මහා පින් කෙත  දිහා බලා ඉන්නට බැරි  ඉරිසියාවෙන්  පෙළුන  පරයෝ  එක එක දෙසින් මෙහි පැමිණ  සරු කේත පුරන් කරන්නට  විවිධ උපක්‍රම   යෙ       දුහ. පරංගි ලන්දේසි හා ඉංගිරිසින්  මෙන්ම චෝලයන් ගැනද අපි දනිමු  නීල පෙරුමාල් පරපුර ගැන ද ඔබ අසා ඇත .මහිදී කිතුනුවන් බවට පත්වූ ඔවුහු සුද්දන්ගේ හොඳ ගෝලයන් බවට පත්වුහ .. එක අයෙක් පමණක්  මොන හේතුවක් නිසාදෝ  උන්ගෙන් බින්දී බෞධ්ධවී සින්හලා බෞද්ධයන් වෙනුවෙන් වැඩ කරන්නට ඉදිරි පත්විය  .ජන හදවත් ගැහෙන අයුරු ඔහු වටහා ගත්තේය  ඔහු වංක වුනත් අවංක වුනත් කලේ කලයුතු නියම දෙයය් .ඔහට බෞද්ධ බිරියක්ද ලැබීම  අපේම හොඳට සිදුවුවකි .  එහෙත් ඔවුන්ට අති ජාත තබා අනුජාත  , සහජාත  දරුවන් වත් සිටියේ නැත . සතියේ  අනෙක් වර්ගයේ උන්ය .  මින් එකියක්  චින්චිමානවිකාවටත්  වඩා කුපාඩිය  චින්චි ට උවමනා වුයේ බුදු හිමියන්ට අපහාස කිරීමටය   එහෙත්  මේ කිට අවශ්‍ය  මුළු බෞද්ධ රටම  කණපිට පෙරලා අබෞද්ධ රටක් කිරීමටය ..””  ආගම්කාර ”’ නළුවෙක් හා විවාහවී  උගේ බහට නතුවී දෙමල බෙදුම් වාදීන්ට රට පාවාදීමට ය තවලමේ ගියාය . ඒ තවල ම හැර තවත් අවලම් ගමන් කීයක් නම් යන්නට අත්දය් බොහෝ ය දනිති  වර ක්   යසට පාලනය     වූ වෙක් සමග  නටන විට හසුවී නළුවාගෙන් ගුටිකවේය .වරක්  ”ගුණත්  සනේ ”  අල්ලාගෙන  ඔහුගේ ජීවිතයම විනාශ කාලය .  ඇය  නුතන   ක්ලියෝපට්‍රාව   ලෙස දැන් ගුණත්   සනේ  විසින්  හදුන්වන්නේ එහෙයිනි  හරි හැටි ඇස නොපෙනුනත්   ඇය  බෞධ්ධයින්ගේ ඇ දනම්  අතගගා හරි සොයය් . මේ  ඉන්දියානු වෙල්පාසි  ලංකාවට ගෙනවිත් බොදු පින් කෙ ත  විනාශ කරන්නට  අයව යොදවන්නේ    මරු සිරා සහ අලුගෝසුවා විසිනි .මේ සඳහා හොඳම තැනැත්තිය ය බවොවුහු තේරුම් ගෙන ඇත .
                                                    සන්හින්දියාවේ නාමයෙන්   අපේ දරුවන්ට බුදු දහම පාසලේදී ඉගෙනීමට ඇති ඉඩත් නැතිකිරීමට   මය දැන් කටයුතු කර  ය්  සංහිඳියාවක් අවශ්‍ය නම්  කලයුත්තේ 75% ක  භාෂා ව වන සිංහල අන් හැමදෙනාම ඉගෙන ගැනීමත් මේ රටේ සංස්කෘතියේ ප්‍රධාන සංරචකය වන  බෞද්ධ සංකෘතිය  ගැන අන් හැම දෙනාම වැටහීමක් ලබා ගැනීමත් ය . 70% කට  සුලුවාර්ගිකයන්ගන  ඉගෙන ගනී මට බල කිරීම  අ න වශ්ෂ්‍ය දෙයකි ඔවුන් කුපිත කරවන්නකි  ඔස්ට්‍රලියාව එංගලන්තය  හා ඇමෙරිකාව වැනි රටවල සිටින  හැම දෙනාම ඉංග්‍රීසි ඉගෙන ගෙන ඒ බසින් කටයුතුකරන්නේ සන්හින්දියාවට එසේ කල යුතු බැවිනි  . ඉතින් ලංකාවේ එසේ නොවන්නේ      බොහෝ දෙනා   වෙල් පාසි වලින්  දුෂණය වී ඇතිනිසා විය හැක
                                         ගෑවුන තැන කසන වෙල්පාසි  මුළු රටෙන් ම තුරන් කිරීමට සියලු දෙනාම කැපවිය යුතුය  . බෞද්ධ අම්මලාගෙන් කිරි බී හැ දුන වැඩු න සියල්ලෝම  මේ අවස්ථාවේ ඒකරාශී වියයුතුය ..  ”මා මරන්නට අන්‍යාගමික කුමන්ත්‍රණයක්   ඇත ‘ය්  ””””” සෝම හිමියෝ අන්තිම සිය දේශනයේදී පැවසුවා ඔබට මතකද . සියල්ල සිදුවූ පසු අනේ අනිච්චන්   කියන්නට  ගිහින් වැඩක් නැත .
                                     භයානක  අනතුරක් අ ත ළ.ඟය  සිරිසඟබෝ  බෝසත් තුමා සිටි  අ ත්තන ගල්ල  වැසියනි මෙහිදී ඔබට විශේෂ කාර්ය භාරයක් ඇත . ඔබේ පින්බිම පුරා වෙල්පාසි   විසිරී ඇත  ඉවත් කිරීම ඔබට භාරය .  

By Charles.S.Perera

The Budget Presented to the Parliament by the Finance Minister of Yahapalanaya is a complete sellout of Sri Lanka to Foreigners. The Budget is now in Committee stage in the Parliament. The SLFP Parliamentarians who have accepted Ministries should give them up and join rank with the UPFA rather than betray the country and the people who voted for them. The President Sirisena is not the country, therefore the loyalty to the country is greater than the loyalty to the President Sirisena.

In this Parliament of today controlled by the yahapalanaya Ranil Wickramasinghe the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka behaves like a clown. He calls the Members of the Parliament by all types of names –pimps, gypsies, donkeys, beggars and monkeys.  He likes to laugh at his own clowning.  Ranil does not seem to understand that his fashion of behaviour in the Parliament is not in keeping with the position he holds as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.

As a Prime Minister he should have patience, controlled temper and wise, intelligent repartees.  It is not his coat and tie that make him respectable but the way he behaves and speaks.  He should not speak hatefully of the former President who was a great leader, and Ranil should speak more respectfully when he refers to him.

The latest clowning of Ranil was when he called the parliamentarians criticising the Budget card board” patriots.  All these insults to the representatives of the people in Parliament are indirect insults to the people of the country.  This shows to what extent the PM does not care either the Parliamentarians nor the people of the country .  Ranil Wickramasinghe the Prime Minister has become a law unto himself.

 Unfortunately Ranil Wickramasinghe is a man without a vision, a disadvantage to a man expected to decide on the destiny of a nation. His policy statement  is not different from that which he had presented in  2004. Some right wing intellectuals” point out that the Budget present by Ravi Karunanayake contradicts Prime Minister’s policy statement. Ranil Wickramasinghe often makes strange promises. In some of his earlier election campaigns he promised gold chains and bracelets  to young people if he was elected and recently he said he will make the farmers wear jeans.  It also  shows the extent to which Ranil Wickramasinhe’s  mind is warped  and West oriented.

This is the man that calls representatives of the people in Parliament  cardboard patriots” because they are defending Sri Lanka against  the yahapalana  political leadership of archaic mentality who has joined hands with the West to destroy Sri Lanka that had remained a unitary state with a Buddhist culture for over 2500 years,  which had accepted other communities in good faith to share this land.

Sirisena the President of Yahapalanaya, is the duplicate of the Prime Minister except for the clowning part. He lacks humour, because his mind is burning with jealousy and hatred. They  speak of democracy but democracy left Sri Lanka on the 8^th January,2015 when the democratic and the popular people’s President was defeated at the Presidential election.

From the day one of his election Sirisena the newly elected President broke all norms of democracy and  acted completely in breach of the Constitution of Sri Lanka. He reminds one of Musila of the Jataka story Guttila and Musila”. Sirisena like Musila  has already broken the first few strings of the seven stringed violin, it remains few more strings to prove he is better than the master. He has played with all the seven strings so badly, there is no saying that he will do better with  what remains.

Sirisena’s  swearing in of Ranil Wickramasinghe as his Prime Minister when there was already a Prime Minister  was his blundering entry into the high office of President which marked his incompatibility. It was  a further distasteful confirmation of his indecent excessive greed for power for which he walked away stealthily like a thief in the night  back stabbing the leader of the political party that  was the cradle of his political life to join hands with his political enemies to change the path of  development and progress Sri Lanka was taking to divert it to a disastrous political abyss from which it will never be able to climb back.

Beside Sirisena’s incompetence he has allowed himself to be manipulated by scheming self ambitious  Christians and ugly revengeful Western lackeys. Sirisena has joined hands with them, to  sacrifice Sri Lanka to satisfy their ego.  They are  taking the President  Mahinda Rajapakse , his family, friends and all in some way connected to him to discredit them, label them corrupt and take them to courts or merely  smear them with false accusations to take away the love and affection the grateful  people of Sri Lanka have for them.

Hemantha Warnakulasuriya PC said in TV program Pethkada, that Mahinda Rajapakse was different after the elimination of terrorists, and that he took himself for a King.  One can imagine the immense pride, great satisfaction,  relief and happiness he had when  the end of terrorism was announced to him. In a way one cannot blame the former president feeling like a King as he was the only political leader who was able to eliminate terrorism and bring whole of Sri Lanka  under one flag , like King Dutugamunu who united the country after chasing away the Cholas who had occupied the then capital and the environment of Sri Lanka for nearly 25 years.

In the same breath Warnakulasuriya said that JR Jayawardhana too  acted like a King, when he became the  President in 1978.  But that was JR’s egoism. JR had done  nothing glorious  to Sri Lanka to claim that right. He only made matters worse for Sri Lanka after  his period of Presidency.  Of course Hemantha Warnakulasuriya has to be careful not to praise Mahinda Rajapakse, lest he would be taken by Ranil Wickramasinghe’s FCID for questioning and remanding.  That is what Sri Lanka has become today after the pretended Yahapalanaya of Sirisena.  People fear to speak the truth in respect of the former President.  There is no democracy any more in Sri Lanka it is a dictatorship and a police state of Sirisena, Wickramasinghe and Chandrika.

Sri Lanka is going down the drain to disaster, but Ranil and his lackey Mangala send FCID after the former President or any one connected to the former government .  That is the only thing Ranil seems to be doing,  all the rest are visionless ideas he had when he was Prime Minister last time in 2001-2004.

It is better leave Chandrika without of comments, as one sees her boiling jealousy, anger and hatred in her distorted face, reminding one of the Goddess Kali of the Hindu pantheon of Gods. Chandrika claims nobility being a Bandaranaike, which may cause the skeletal remains of  her dead parents rattle in their coffins.

If Sirisena is a President who respects democracy and good governance, he should have stood aloof, independent and not interfering in political battles  amoung political parties during the general election of August,2015.  He should have known despite his treachery in leaving his own political party stealthily to join with the UNP, that once he is  elected the President with the massive vote of the Tamils and Muslims he nevertheless, becomes the President of all the people in Sri Lanka and therefore he should remain independent, silent, non-interfering without taking sides with any community or a political party.

But he did the opposite by doing all he could to insult, discredit, discourage and stop the political carrier of  his former political party leader Mahinda Rajapakse  in addition to  the wounds he inflicted on him the day he walked away in the night like a rogue to give himself up to Ranil Wickramasinghe, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Champika Ranawaka and Mangala Samaraweera, to make of him a President of the reactionary forces, his political enemies.

Venerable Maduluwawe Sobhitha thero, when he saw how what he expected of Sirisena and the united force he helped to build against the former President had been distorted and was selling Sri Lanka to foreign forces, he spoke against it.  Sirisena and Ranil Wickramasinghe saw the danger Venerable Sobitha posed  to their  Yahapalanaya. The venerable Bikkhu who was taken suddenly ill was packed off to a hospital in Singapore from where he never returned alive.  Some say the same thing happened to another venerable monk who wanted reforms – the Late Venerable Soma Thero.

Sirisena was sure that Mahinda Rajapakse will win  at the general election on the 17 August,2015. He therefore had to forget that he was the President of Sri Lanka  before he became the President of the SLFP and the UPFA, and began doing all he could to stop Mahinda Rajapakse win at the elections.  Sirisena announced to Mahinda Rajapakse that he as the President will not  make him the Prime Minister even if he wins at the election, and named some members of the UPFA who are suitable to be appointed as  Prime Minister.  Then on the eve of the General elections he sacked the General Secretaries of the SLFP and UPFA and appointed two of his lackeys in their place.

Can all those actions of Sirisena the President of Sri Lanka be called democratic or a mark of good governance ?  Naturally the anti Sri Lanka foreign governments applaud his Presidency as democratic and proof of good governance, but the people in the villages  do not acclaim him as such.  But they are unable to change things as democracy has been taken away from them and a police state installed with the connivance of the Western Governments.

Yahapalanaya is  a government like the caravan that goes on  however much the dogs bark.

All  Sirisena  did was  with the one intention of  making UNP leader Ranil Wickramasinghe the member of the Mont Pelerin Society,  the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka as it was he who took him out of the political shadow into lime light of politics.

The ego centred SLFP Parliamentarians who have joined hands with the visionless UNP  do not see,  in their greed  to hold onto Ministries and to keep away from the feared  Ranil Wickramasinghe’s FCID,  are becoming a part of the UNP plan, (to destabilise Sri Lanka which had been brought out of the clutches of terrorism and developed to be a middle income country), to handover  Sri Lanka to the USA and the West to make it once again a dependent country. In that effort Yahapalanaya goons have distanced Sri Lanka from China and embraced India and the West. UK has prome

Yahapalanaya in the eyes of Maithripala Sirisena is making speeches and meeting  great white personalities of the world and shake their un-gloved hands.  He is happy with that , the dangers that come to Sri Lanka, from the actions taken by the Pelerin Ranil Wickramasinghe , Mangala Samaraweera and Ravi Karunanayake,  he  is blissfully unaware.  It is normal with a man despite having been a Minister of Health in Mahinda Rajapakse’s government, whose knowledge of  worldly matters  is limited. He even thought the  Buckingham Palace was in New York.  He is happy with little things repeating before assembled gatherings  his great achievement of shaking the un-gloved hand of the Queen.

How can the Sri Lankan people expect good governance from this cabal led by Maithripala Sirisena ?

It is those  others rich and self interested Sinhala of the business community , self interested academics, perhaps the Catholics because the Church demanded their support for a UNP government, teachers who expected a Rs.10,000,00 increase to their basic salary , and others who wanted a change and the Tamils and Muslims the major contributors of vote for Maithripala Sirisena’s victory at the Presidential election, and those others who  wanted a change from Mahinda Rajapakse led government,  having partly swallowed the rumours prepared for people’s consumption by  the experts of the American CIA, and those who fear being taken away by Ranil’s FCID, that support Yahapalanaya directly or indirectly in silence.

Ranil’s FCID and accusation of former government culture  has become much worse than the White Van culture the Yahapalanaya Ministers often refer to making themselves knights in shining armor.  Mont Pelerin Ranil Wickramasinghe is the agent of the USA, with his lackey Mangala Samaraweera all out to sell Sri Lanka to the West.

Under the Yahapalanaya Government, Sri Lanka  seems already occupied by the West. UK  offers 6 million UK pounds to upgrade Sri Lanka Armed Forces appointing UK Military Attaché in New Delhi to  overseer how the funds are used.  Norway in the  meantime is to send  an expert to help Sri Lanka in the preparation of a New constitution.

Sirisena’s Yahapalanaya is like the Marchal Petain’s Vichy Government of France which collaborated with the Germans  during their occupation of France. Mangala Samaraweera and Ranil Wickramasinghe sponsored at the Geneva UNHRCouncil the USA resolution against Sri Lanka

Mangala Samaraweera said very proudly as a great achievement that 725 of the Rajapakse clan is under accusation by the Ranil’s FCID.  It is on that falsehood of corruption allegations the Yahapalanaya Government has built their pseudo democratic government and that for them is the  only means of  survival as a government and have the protection of the West.

Mount Pelerin Ranil Wickramasinghe following the USA regime change instructions from the CIA and the USA Embassy in Sri Lanka tried all possible tricks of the trade to change the Rajapaksa Regimaya, with rumours of  White Van kidnappings, disappearance of journalists, killing of Lasantha  Wickramatunga. It was all to accuse the Mahinda Rajapakse Government and make the people rise against it, like the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt. But the people of Sri Lanka saw through it and refused to rise against their beloved President Mahinda Rajapakse , Gotabhaya Rajpakse and the Rajapakse Government.

USA thought  Mount Pelerin Wickramasinghe lacked the intelligence to change Rajapakse regime despite their well thought out plans, with an on going resolution against Sri Lanka Armed Forces for violation of human rights and war crimes.  Finally USA arranged to educate  Pelerin Wickramasinghe in Regime Change Tactics.

Ceylontoday of 9 April, 2014 reported  in an article Harvard and Ranil: Worlds apart”

UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is reportedly on a study tour at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to learn the art of toppling governments. After his stint at the MIT, the Opposition Leader will head to Harvard University, one of the finest places of academic and research excellence, on a lecturing tour. That is at least what his acolytes at the UNP say………………Nonetheless, Wickremesinghe needs to do some soul-searching during his stint at two great American universities. He could then see that he himself has been the main handicap for his own Party, the UNP……………The good thing is that those MIT dons would realize that Ranil is the real obstacle and they could well suggest that he should step down from the Party leadership……………..As for the so-called invite extended to Ranil by Harvard, we have our reservations. This could very well be another gimmick by his spin doctors to hoodwink the gullible locals that Ranil is a sage, even sought after by the world’s greatest academia. Wickremesinghe should not fool himself believing that people will buy that silly joke.”

However Mont Pelerin Ranil Wickramasinghe came back from his  stint in Masachusette Institute of Technology  named as a Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow. He immediately announced his intention to contest at the next Presidential election.

Now with a qualification from MIT, Pelerin Wickramasinghe  changed his tactics to oust the Rajapakse Regime , accusing Mahinda Rajapakse making his government a family affair and accused him for corruption and bribing the LTTE  Slowly this corruption theme against Mahinda Rajapakse and his family gained ground.  Every member of the UNP leadership made refernce to Mahinda Rajapakse’s corruption and enriching his family  and called  it a one family government.

Atlast CIA the Masachusette Institute of Technology andf Pelerin Ranil Wickramasinghe have all together found the solution for the hitherto unfound found solution for the regime change in Sri Lanka.

They had learnt it from the World war two, …Rumours are a perfect medium for unacknowledgeable clandestine propaganda and deception. They are incredibly hard to trace and near impossible to prove their origin; they can spread like the proverbial wildfire. There is no one in the world who does not relish passing on gossip or a titbit of “inside” information. Even in today’s news saturated world the populations of the Western democracies, who believe they are more enlightened and less gullible than ever before, still fall for the most ridiculous and often abhorrent conspiracy theories. …..”

http://www.psywar.org/sibs.php

Stories of Mahinda Rajapakse’s corruption  were heard from every speech made by leaders of the Opposion,  news reports, and TV political debates.  No doubt after elimination of terrorism the President Rajapakse was able to get aid not in Millions but in billions, therefore that was easy to make people wonder whether with that amount of money flowing in could there be some truth in the rumours being spread by UNP and JVP about the corruption of the Rajapakse Government.  People knew that Ravi Karunanayake, Karu Jayasuriaya all were enriched by small scale corruptions, and Ranil was accused of the Batalanda Torture camps, but yet the rumours of corruption against the President Mahinda Rajapakse continued  even the media swallowed it.  This was, a psychological warfare.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s  victory over terrorism , bringing freedom and security, massive the infrastructure constructions, propelling the country to a middle income country status , became secondary to the rumours of corruption.  This was partly responsible for the people of middle range intelligence as well to think of a change when the elections came around.

President Mahinda Rajapakse or even  his brothers leave alone other family members were certainly not corrupt. Rajapakse family was  well known and they were a honest family. At the beginning the  senior  members of the family took to politics at the demand of the people.  Even Chamal Rajapakse was invited by Mrs.  Sirimavo Bandaranayake to take to politics.  But people like to smear dirt on people. And falsehood is readily accepted, casting doubt on  truth.

Though many accusations have been made against Rajapaksas and their contacts, for bribery and corruption nothing has been proved against any one of them. It is possible that FCID may plant evidence to take at least one of the Rajapakse’s into custody. It would not be a surprise  when we think of the cruelty of the man behind the torture camps of Batalanda and constant reference to Rajapakse as the reason for all the failures of the Yahapalanaya Government.

But if Mahinda Rajapakse misused funds how could he have  left behind such a developed country and a financially sound heritage six years after elimination of terrorism.  People are not naive to believe these stories of corruption levelled against  the former President and those who were close to him.  People are happy with what  Rajapaksas contributed for their security , freedom and for improving the quality of their lives.

The Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake who is not unknown for financial corruption with the sale of Sathosa to a private party when he was in another Government of Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe. He had been accused for money laundering.  But the case against him was decided in a strange manner.  Please read on:

The case was postponed by High Court Judge Devika de Livera Tennakoon when Defence Counsel Reinzie Arsekualaratne informed the judge that Minister Karunanayake was unable to be present before the Courts yesterday as he was due to present the 2015 interim budget before the parliament. As there was no objection from the prosecution, the case was postponed to March 4.

The Attorney General indicted Nexia Corporation, Linton Sirisoma and Karunanayake for allegedly facilitating money laundering in violation of Central bank regulations and the Exchange Control Act by depositing Rs. 390 million in a Standard Chartered bank account, which had been later used to purchase shares of the Union Bank. The transfer had been made by Sri Lankan American billionaire and hedge fund dealer Raj Rajarathnam.

During the hearings it was alleged that Karunanayake was directly involved in the fraud and that he intervened to collect the funds once the money was deposited in Sri Lanka.

Exchange Control is the function of the Central Bank. The Central Bank is governed by the Monetary Board. The Secretary/Finance (Treasury) is a member of the Monetary Board. The Minister of Finance is the Boss of the Secretary/Finance. How nice to have a person charged with Exchange Control crimes as Finance Minister a good governance activist told Colombo Telegraph. ”

http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2015/1/92239_space.html

The Attorney General indicted Karunanayake for allegedly facilitating money laundering in violation of Central Bank regulations and the Exchange Control Act by depositing Rs.390 million in a private bank account, which had been later used to purchase shares of another bank.

While announcing the judgement judge stated that Attorney General Department is permitted to file another case on this matter.

According to Judge Irangani, the decision was reached upon taking into consideration the objections raised by the lawyers of the defence with regard to anomalies in the indictment produced against Minister Ravi Karunanayake. Justice Perera also said that the Attorney General has the capability to file a case once again and that an appeal could also be filled by the AG, if the need arises.

Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake spoke to the media following the court hearing, saying that the court case which was filed without any proper reason has proven futile. The minister also stated that while he is present at courts for the 27th time with his lawyers, the former defense secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is running away.

Today’s judgement was also the final judgment handed down by justice Irangani Perera as she bid farewell to her service as a judge and retired following 31 years of service.

http://www.lankasrinews.com/view.php?22eMC303lOS4e2BmAca25YKdd2Y5Bac2mBVe44Ol1023gA43

Interesting isn’t it ? There is no smoke without fire. What ever the judgement the readers  could come to their own conclusion about the honesty of the Finance Miniter of the Yaha Palanaya Government.  If one had watched some of the TV Political programs such  as Derana 360”, Satana” or Salanakuna” in which Ravi Karunanayake appeared, one would have seen how he responded to questions and  what an unreliable character he is, evading issues asking counter questions, giving evasive ambiguous answers.

He has no compunction even if he is to  sell Sri Lanka to foreigners or divide  the island to allow the Tamils to have a separate State.  In Sri Lanka every one speaks of his Tamil origin , now of course even the Wikipedia has made him a full blooded Roman Catholic Sinhala. But he behaves like a Tamil. He laughed at the Sri Lanka Armed Forces when they were engaged risking their lives to eliminate terrorism to bring peace and security to Sri Lanka. Whenever  he  refers to the former President he just calls him Rajapakse disrespectfully. A Buddhist Sinhala would refer to him more respectfully. He is a friend of Raj Rajaratnam who financed terrorist  LTTE.

The Governor of the Central Bank  Arjuna Mahendra who is a friend of his is also a friend of Raj Rajaratnam.  What part the Finance Minister played in the Bond scam is not known ? But no one speaks any more of the 2 billion loss  in the Central Bank bond Scam and Arjuna Mahendra  the friend of the Finance Minister who was directly involved  in it continues to be the Governor of the Central Bank.

But theYahapalanaya cabal  easily speaks of the corruption of Mahinda Rajapakse and how about speaking for a change of the corruption of Ravi Karunanayake and Ranil Wickramasinghe who may have profited from the 2 billion Rupees involved in the Bond scam. If they are honest they should  appoin another man as the  Governor of Central Bank.

Ravi Karunanayake’s Budget is a complete sell out of Sri Lanka to Foreigners.  Whether the land is sold outright or  given on 99 year lease amounts to the same.  Generations of Sri Lankans will lose the use of these lands. Who has not heard of United Fruit Companies which shaped  some of the countries  in Latin America where they implanted themselves, buying land on 99 year leases ?

When the Banana Company arrives in Macondo, the jungle town in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude,” it brings with it first modernity and then doom. Endowed with means that had been reserved for Divine Providence in former times,” García Márquez writes, the company changed the pattern of the rains, accelerated the cycle of harvests and moved the river from where it had always been.” It imported dictatorial foreigners” and hired assassins with machetes” to run the town; it unleashed a wave of bullets” on striking workers in the plaza. When the Banana Company leaves, Macondo is in ruins.”

Sri Lanka is courting danger in leasing out  large land areas of 5000 acres for foreigners on 99 year leases.  The investors could completely change the culture and the minds of the people and bring in complete chaos into our country.

The government encourages handing over public enterprises as well to private companies.  They get loans from the West on conditions laid by the donor which would introduce more poverty. Sri Lanka should not be developed according to other countries. UNP cannot make Sri Lanka a Singapore or a Malaysia.  The Yahapalanaya has begun to change Sri Lanka into a rich foreigners play ground as Cuba was under Batista.

Aid from the West, IMF or World Bank come with conditions  against welfare for the poor. Under these conditions of the IMF and the World Bank Yahapalanaya will hand over hospitals, schools, water, etc. to private companies.  It would be a treachery against  the people of Sri Lanka  for any Parliamentarian to  vote in favour of this Budget.

This Budget is capitalist flavoured. The ordinary people of the country will be  made dependent on the rich.  The government servants will have less or no pensions as  government will have no sufficient income as the countries finances will be controlled by foreign companies, which will be the owners of land, public  establishments, institutions. Welfare facilities to the people will be decided by the foreign companies.

The Budget proposal of stopping pension rights and introducing a contributory pension system seems to be  dictated by the Western donor states. Stopping the distribution of clothes to school  children , and providing fertilisers to farmers substituting it for voucher or  a cash allowance, may help Western investors to provide clothes and manure at their price to farmers and school children.

If Mahinda Rajapaksa was the President today the country would have continued with development projects. There would have been a sound economic development. Only problem would have come from the reactionary West and America passing resolutions in Geneva threatening to take the Armed Forces to courts for war crimes. The President Mahinda Rajapakse would have been able to keep the TNA in its place and strengthened the Armed Forces and provided more security to the country. The Colombo Port city would have progressed. The Mahaseya in Anuradhapura  would have risen up to a respectable height. There would have been rich harvests.  Mattala Air port may have begun to function with more planes landing in it. The people would have been happy. Mahinda Rajapakse may have reduced prices of consumer articles…….

Yahapalanaya has made all that only a dream, the future of Sri Lanka is bleak…..as one would have never expected a year before.

The following members of the SLFP, if they have any self respect, and a modicum of patriotism should not vote for the Budget of Ravi Karunanayake and give up their Ministerial, Deputy Ministerial posts.  It would otherwise be sacrificing the interest of the country to fulfil personal interest.

Cabinet Ministers

S.B. Nawinne – Minister of Labour and Labour Relations
A.H.M. Fowzie – Minister of Disaster Management
Piyasena Gamage – Minister of Skill Development and Vocational Training
Dr. Sarath Amunugama – Minister of Research and Higher Education
S.B. Dissanayake – Minister of Rural Economic Affairs
Janaka Bandara Tennakoon – Minister of Provincial Councils and Regional Development
Felix Perera – Minister of Special Projects
Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena – Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
Reginald Cooray – Minister of Aviation Services
Mahinda Amaraweera – Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
Vijith Vijayamuni Soysa – Minister of Irrigation

Ministers of State

Pavithra Wanniarachchi – State Minister of Environment
Jeevan Kumaratunga – State Minister of Labour and Labour Relations
Mahinda Samarasinghe – State Minister of Finance
C.B. Rathnayake – State Minister of Public Administration & Democratic Governance
Dilan Perera – State Minister of Housing and Samurdhi

Deputy Ministers

Tissa Karaliyadda – Deputy Minister of Buddha Sasana & Democratic Governance
Dayasritha Tissera – Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
Ranjith Siyambalapitiya – Deputy Minister of Home Affairs
Lakshman Seneviratne – Deputy Minister of Disaster Management
Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena – Deputy Minister of Aviation Services
Lalith Dissanayake – Deputy Minister of Irrigation
Jagath Pushpakumara – Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries
Lasantha Alagiyawanna – Deputy Minister of Rural Economic Affairs
Sudarshani Fernandopulle – Deputy Minister of Research and Higher Education
Shantha Bandara – Deputy Minister of Mass Media & Information

Derana News

පාසැල් සිසුන් සඳහා මෙතෙක් ලබා දුන් නිල ඇඳුම වෙනුවට වවුචර පපත් ලබා දීම බොහෝ පාර්ශවයන්ගේ විවේචනයට ලක්ව තිබේ. එම වවුචර පත් රැගෙන වෙළඳසැල්වලට වයන දෙමවුපියන් ගැටළු රැසකට මුහුණ දෙමින් සිටී.

https://youtu.be/Z-K6h8xM0gM

නලින් ද සිල්වා

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග

බත් අම්මලා ලෙස හඳුන්වන බත් උයා දෙන කාන්තාවන් බත් දුන් මාතාවන් ලෙස මම නම් කරමි. කළුබෝවිල රෝහලේ වෛද්‍යවරුන්ට උයා දීමට සිටියේ මැගිලින් නම් කාන්තාවකි. අප වාට්ටු වල වැඩ කොට මහන්සිවී බඩගින්නේ චමරියට ගිය විට මැගිලින්ගේ බත් පිඟාන අමෘතයක් විය​. ඇයගේ කරවල බැදුම ඉතා රසය​. වෛද්‍යවරු බොහෝ දෙනෙක් ඇයගෙන් කෑම ගත්හ​. අප සතියකට වරක් කාපු කෑම වලට ඇයට මුදල් ගෙව්වෙමු.

මාතලේ රෝහලේ ඉවීම සඳහා පූර්ණා නම් ද්‍රවිඩ කාන්තාවක් වූවාය​. ඇයගේ මාළු මිරිස් බැදුම පාන් සමග අප අශාවෙන් කෑවෙමු. මාතලේ රෝහලේ සිටියදී මට පොඩි ජර්මානු ශෙපර්ඩ් (ඇල්සේෂන්) බල්ලෙකු සිටියේය​. බල්ලා මිදුලේ සෙල්ලම් කිරීමට දමා මම කෑමට ගියෙමි. බොහෝ විට මිදුලේ සිටින බළු පැටියා බලා ගන්නා ලෙස මම පූර්ණාට කීවෙමි එවිට ඇය ” ඔන්දයි මාතියා ගිහින් කන්න මම පල්ලාව පලා ගන්නම් ” කියන්නීය​.

සමහර දින වල පූර්ණාගේ කෑම රස නැත​. එවැනි දින වල අප මාතලේ අරුණාලෝක හෝටලයෙන් කෑම ගෙන්වා ගත්තෙමු. අප සමග සිටි වෛද්‍යවරියක වූ නිශාගේ නාසය නිතරම බරවී තිබුනු නිසා ඇය කතා කලේ නාසයෙනි වරක් ඇය පූර්ණාගේ කෑම ගැන පැමිණිල්ලක් ශල්‍යාගාරයේදී අනකුත් වෛද්‍යවරුන් ඉදිරියේ කලාය​. ” අනේ ඊයේ පූර්ණා තක්කාලි හොද්දක් හදලා තිබ්බා කටේ තියන්න බැහැ ” නිශා මෙසේ කී විට වෛද්‍යවරු කිසිවක් නොදොඩා මුහුණට මුහුණ බලා ගත්හ. නමුත් පූර්ණා දිගටම ඉවීම් කලාය​.

හලාවත රෝහලේදී මහළු කාන්තාවක් සහ ඇයගේ දියණිය ඉවීම් කලහ​.  ඔවුන් රාත්‍රියටත් උයා කෑම පිඟන් වලට බෙදා කෑම වසා පිටත්ව යති. වේලපහින් එන ඇත්තන් මදි පාඩු බෙදා ගන්නේ අනෙක් පිඟන් වලිනි. එම නිසා වාට්ටුවල කඹුරා බඩගින්නේ රාත්‍රියේ එන වෛද්‍යවරු සමහර විට කෑවේ බත් සහ හොදි පමණි. එම නිසා ලෙඩුන් මළත් සමහරු වේලපහින් විත් රාත්‍රී ආහාරය කටට දෙකට කා අදාල වාට්ටු වලට දිව්වෝය​.

තෙන්නේ අප සමග සිටි විනෝදකාමී වෛද්‍යවරයෙකි. වරක් තෙන්නේ යාලුවන් කීප දෙනෙකු සමග තම කාමරයේ මත්පැන් සාදයක් පැවැත්වීය​. අතර මගදී ඔවුන්ට බයිට් මදි විය​. තෙන්නේ බයිට් එකක් ගෙන එන්නට සූදානම් විය​. මේ රෑ කොහෙන් ද බයිට් හොයන්නේ කියා සමහර මිතුරන් ඔහුව අධෛර්‍යමත් කලහ​. ඔවුන්ට පිළිතුරු නොදුන් තෙන්නේ හිස් සිලි සිලි බෑග් එකක් ගෙන කාමරයෙන් පිට විය​.

ටික වේලාවකින් තෙන්නේ පැමිනියේ තම්බපු බිත්තර​, මාළු සහ කුකුල් මස් කෑලි පුරවාගත්   සිලි සිලි බෑග් එක සමගිනි. මේවා ඔහු කෑමට වසා තිබුණු පිඟන් වලින් එකතු කරගෙන තිබුණි. තෙන්නේගේ සාදය ජයටම ගියේය​. නමුත් රාත්‍රියේ කෑමට පැමිණි වෛද්‍යවරු මවට සහ දුව​ට දෙහි කපමින් බත් සහ හොදි කෑවෝය​.

(2009 වසරේ මම පුත්තලම දිස්ත්‍රික් මානසික සෞඛ්‍ය සම්බන්ධීකරණ නිලධාරී ලෙස සේවය කරන විට හලාවතට ගොස් මේ කාන්තාවන් දෙදෙනා හමු වීමට ගියෙමි. මට හමු වූයේ දියණිය පමණි. අම්මා නිතර අසනීපෙන් පසු වන නිසා දැන් නොඑන බවත් ඇය තනියම වෛද්‍යවරුන්ට ඉවීම් කටයුතු කරන බවත් කීවාය​. ඇයගේ මවට දෙන ලෙස කියා මම නෝට්ටු කීපයක් ඇය අත තැබුවෙමි)

By Lalin Fernando Courtesy Island

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (CBK) had her time like the two other Presidents before her and a Prime Minister to resolve what appeared to be the intractable problem of the LTTE. She and they didn’t. There was unrelenting bloody and to use her worn out cliché ’horrendous conflict’ for 26 years. MR did and brought peace to the entire country. He ignored her. Is what she says and does going to help SL or herself?

As the head of National Unity and Reconciliation, CBK, according to Al Jazeera and The Island among SL media states that her office ‘after decades of war’, was ‘building bridges between the Sinhalese and Tamils to ensure ethnic peace. Reconciliation and accountability will have to go hand in hand’.

She has told The Island newspaper that with respect to ‘alleged war crimes’… ‘Only respected SL judges and lawyers …with an open mind… would examine actions of those in the main stream line of command and not the soldiers who were only carrying out orders… SL would engage the Global Community (GC) with an open mind unlike Mahinda Rajapaksa’s confrontational and arrogant approach’. She failed to say Mahinda, fortunately for SL was also obdurate and unyielding. He did not allow the GC (IC) to mess about when victory over the terrorists and the elusive end of hostilities and peace were in his grasp.

The IC is responsible for the tragedy that is the Middle East today. In Iraq alone after a criminal war waged by the GC/IC, the estimates of the dead are today nearer 2 million not one. Islamic State (IS) has become more than a threat; even a challenge to the western IC .The West has a death list for 7 countries starting from Iraq and Iran to Libya through Lebanon to Syria. All are in oil rich lands. None are in Africa that has no oil. There is no talk of ‘reconciliation’ or international law applied to them. Bombings and drone attacks killing some terrorists and many civilians is the order of the day-from the chain (CBK’s’ line) of command. To some in SL the GC/IC is a saviour-of what only heaven knows.

One senses immediately that more than reconciliation which also means to pacify, CBK is motivated by envy and not ‘accountability’. SL was pacified for all time in 2009 and needs no more reconciliation

CBK is also quoted by Al Jazeera (Dec. 1, 2015) as saying that she ‘personally believed involving independent foreign judges was preferable’. This contradicts her other statement quoted in the local press. It is her normal off the cuff and blundering devious style.

CBK went on ‘though the war ended in 2009, we have not won the peace yet…. ‘. She attempts pathetically to hide the fact it was not simply that the ‘war ended’ but that the LTTE was wiped out. There is peace. MR won it. All SL, less CBK and her new green eyed friends, know that peace followed 26 years of terrorist mayhem. The peace needs consolidation. That takes time. There was nothing more to win.

She goes on ‘Tens of thousands of war victims of the Tamil separatist conflict would not accept reconciliation unless war criminals are brought to justice’. How did she find that out? Through the TNA that was the mouthpiece of the LTTE and the ‘Diaspora’ refugees? Do these figures include the 290,000 Tamils, who were held as hostages and used as human shields and were rescued by the Army? They were rescued from death. The conflict in SL was a terrorist and not ‘Tamil separatist’ one. The number of war victims’ she quotes appears to be inspired by what the ‘GC’ caused in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria than anywhere else. It still continues.

Who are these ‘war criminals’? Were they not the LTTE as the laws of SL would indicate? Or are these simply her pet hates in the ‘line of command’? Has she read or even glanced at the Paranagama report? Men of international eminence, Sir Desmond de Silva QC, Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, Prof David Crane (USA) and Major General John Holmes MC, DSO, OBE and former Commander SAS rubbish the Darusman report that is the base for the allegations CBK glibly trots out to please the GC. They do not rant and rave.

How many of those ‘tens of thousands’ victims died during her reign in the ‘line of command’ as well as those before her?

She went on, ‘The UN (and she too presumably) wants accountability. .. Court will not be chasing after every soldier but the main line of command…’ She adds almost as a sop to the general public that, ‘Surviving Tamil rebel leaders would be hauled up to answer horrendous crimes by the rebels’. Does she have a clue as to who and where these ‘surviving Tamil rebel leaders’ are? Does she not mean the terrorist LTTE and not ‘Tamil rebel’ leaders? There are and will be Tamil as well as other communities who have rebel leaders. Some are in Parliament. Why should they be ‘hauled up’? Rebels are not necessarily terrorists who have to give ‘answers’. Is CBK’s problem that she is unable to call a terrorist a terrorist, like the LTTE? What makes her demur after being C in C of the SL troops for nearly 10 years? Were her troops fighting ‘rebel leaders’ or terrorists? The TNA that is clamouring like her for ‘reconciliation’ and ‘justice’ were the LTTE’s supporters and mouth pieces. Their leaders were all Lord Haw Haws. Will all the TNA be ‘hauled up’ for being associated with the terrorists or is it to be their ‘line of command only’? Did she forget?

It is clear that the emphasis is on the so called ‘main stream line of command, ergo Mahinda Rajapaksa (MR), described as ‘confrontational’ and ‘arrogant’. Being so is surely not a crime. He gave peace to SL. It is certainly not the peace of the grave yard SL had before. How many of the ‘tens of thousands’ were killed by the LTTE during the diverse phony peace attempts that were totally rejected by VP? How many more would have died annually if CBK’s offer of sharing national sovereignty for 10 years had been accepted by the terrorist leader? Who was responsible in the line of command to defeat the LTTE and stop the ‘tens of thousands’ being killed? SL knows but did not call them names.

CBK speaks of the war ‘ending’ but avoids saying that the LTTE was actually whipped. The others were content to believe the LTTE could not be defeated far less whipped. They were willing to live with that forever. Especially, the beholders of the CFA. CBK at least tried.

CBK, as a former C in C, has to be aware every citizen, soldier or not, is responsible for his own actions. This includes the C in C. There is no escape for troops who indulge in unlawful acts by quoting superior orders even if they are from the C in C. This is laid down in all 3 Services Acts. Since VP is dead who in the LTTE will be tried for crimes like the shooting in the head of prisoners at Pooneryn (800) and Mullativu (1,000) and countless massacres of civilians in numerous villages like Arantalawa and the hundreds killed in suicide bombings and bombing of the Central bank, hotels, railway stations, airports in Chennai and SL, buses, trains and planes? So CBK’s interpretations will let the LTTE cadres off the hook as their ‘line of command ‘criminals are dead. Is this possibly a canny ploy to convict Karuna and Pillayan or even Douglas whose support for the state was inestimable or KP, who bared all?

CBK will remember the most ’horrendous’ rape and murder of Krishanthi Kumaraswamy and murder of her mother at a check point in Jaffna and several other similar cases when she was C in C. Who was tried and who was sentenced to death? Certainly and rightly not the ‘main stream line of command’. During the JVP reign of terror (60,000 killed during the UNP regime in 1989/90) didn’t selected MPs usurp the ‘line of command’ and give the military lists of ‘tens of thousands’ to be ‘destroyed’. It was open season for killing Sinhalese. Was an amnesty declared or should SL hide this?

So why does MR, the C in C in 2009, have to answer for whatever misdeeds that happened during the conflict, unless he gave illegal orders? Curiously, it appears that ‘crimes’ to be investigated are limited to the periods that MR was C in C and not any other time. The 1983 riots led to the conflict. As a consequence the LTTE were spawned. CBK’s efforts at ‘justice’ failed when she took over.

Adele, the LTTE women’s suicide cadre leader lives openly in UK. Can CBK/MS/RW tell Cameron to stuff the UK Sterling pounds 6.6 million he offered for military ‘development’ (spying?) and instead hand over Adele B? Where is Pottu Amman? Who cares? Thus, there will be no LTTE members charged for serious crimes as CBK knows. Yet she makes out that it is a probability. Instead SL troops that finished off the LTTE are in the ‘line’ of ‘GC ‘fire.

What a trial will it be? The merciless, barbaric LTTE terrorist cadres, cunningly referred to as Tamil rebels will not be charged with waging war and actually murdering ‘tens of thousands’ of civilians as their ‘line of command’ is dead. Instead, perversely the ‘line of command’ who delivered peace are to be ‘hauled‘ up as GC designated ‘hybrid’ judged ‘war criminals’. Are they to be punished by the GC and their own government because they defeated the abominations that were supposed to be undefeatable–for 100 years? Has SL forgotten these doomsayers? Will it forgive them?

Who on the advice of the Security Forces (SF) Commander ordered the withdrawal of forces (14,000?) from Jaffna? If that had happened there would have been no SL today. Who appealed shamelessly to India, SL’s only foreign enemy during the conflict, to help evacuate the troops from Jaffna? India fortunately rebuffed SL. SL troops stood firm and with Pakistan’s priceless gift of MBRLs (Multi Barrel Rocket launchers) ensured SL survived. Indeed, it was like at Waterloo, a close run thing. But now forgotten for expedience.

Who was responsible for the fall of Elephant Pass where an entire SL division was defeated, suffering enormous casualties? This was worse than Pooneryn and Mullativu that also have no fathers. Did not Maj Gen Hettiarachchi, founder commander of the Special Forces warn of the impending disaster? Why was the warning ignored? Who in the line of command was responsible? Has SL ‘reconciled’ herself to the deaths of hundreds of its soldiers who perished at above and other places while paying obeisance to the GC/IC to look after terrorists and their followers’ interests?

CBK and those who are hell bent on exacting revenge should also give a thought to what General Pervez Musharaf, former President of Pakistan, has written in his Memoir- Line of Fire- on page 293. It refers to the nuclear proliferation activities of metallurgist AQ Khan, (AQ) According to Musharaf ’there were money seeking free lancers … mostly from Europe, manufacturing, procuring , and distributing to countries like Iran and Libya materials and components related to centrifugal technology…. these people included nationals of Switzerland, Holland, Britain and Sri Lanka…. The net work in Dubai included several Indians who have since vanished’. Who were these from SL? Potential nuclear bomb merchants carrying suitcases in Colombo would pose enormous hazards to ‘reconciliation’ and ‘justice’ unless they are exposed, whatever their ethnicity.

CBK should be wary that instead of ‘reconciliation’ she does not stir a hornet’s nest. She should not be advised by the LTTE’s proxy the TNA or the GC, but by the likes of Mr. V Anandasangaree, the leader of the TULF, who stood fearlessly and firmly for a united SL. Let anyone from SL vie for the Nobel Peace Prize that RW’s father perversely wanted to nominate JRJ for; after the Indians had invaded SL! But let it not be at SL’s cost. Let SL have uninterrupted the peace it won at tremendous cost, sacrificing her best sons and daughters in 2009. Where were you when Nandikadal fell?

Dr. Upasiri de Silva Sydney Courtesy Island

Sri Lanka Medical Council has failed to Act in accordance with the Commission they received under the Chapter 105 of the Medical Ordinance.

After reading a notice published by the Sri Lanka Medical Council, in a newspaper on Nov. 8, 2015, I thought of writing this letter to the Editor, as I have some knowledge about this tug of war between SAITM and the SLMC since 2006.

In September 2015, after their inspection or fact finding mission SLMC wrote to the Minister of Health not to recognize SAITM degree, thinking they are the authority to approve Medical Degrees. But the statement of the SLMC is not meeting the Commission granted to them by the Act of Parliament-Chapter 105. Chapter 105 direct the SLMC in section 2 of that Commission issued to them – “According to the Medical Ordinance, the Sri Lanka Medical Council has powers to maintain the standard of Medical Education including standards relating to courses of study, examinations, staff, equipment, accommodation, training and other facilities of the Universities and other Institutions which grant or confer any qualification which entitles a person to obtain registration under the Medical Ordinance [Section 19(e)].

In simple words this Commission granted by the Act of Parliament is to ‘accredit’ the Medical Institutions engaged in Medical Education by checking their course of studies, clinical practices etc.etc. and if it meets the above requirements in accordance with the Chapter 105 of the Medical Ordinance, to grant accreditation to such Institutions, but not to request the Minister or any other Authority like the University Grant Commission (UGC) not to recognize the Medical Degree offered by such Institutions or SAITM. If the SLMC understood the meaning of the words “POWERS TO MAINTAIN” means that they should examine and direct the SAITM to direct their medical education meeting the Medical Ordinance and if they are not meeting the above requirements, then the SLMA should take up this matter with the Minister of Higher Education and the UGC in a very confidential manner. Due to SLMA failure to understand what their responsibilities are now trying to stop the accreditation of the degree offered by this institution, where students are enrolled under UGC supervision meeting UGC guidelines, without guiding the SAITM and the others involved in providing medical education to citizens of Sri Lanka by correcting their teaching methods.

As Sri Lankan medical education has, for the last 100 years, maintained very high standards, it is the duty of the SLMC to direct the SAITM to achieve the best standards in the field. But SLMC has failed in its duty to check the SAITM institute for the last 6 to 7 years and now like in a trance they go and do an inspection and issue a report to the Public and to the SAITM management about the shortcomings.

In this regard I like to mention about a media reports that out of 7,000 students who completed their medical studies in foreign countries and sat for the local qualifying examination, only 17 students completed the SLMC examination to get their registration in Sri Lanka. How many times the SLMA has gone to these countries where Sri Lankan students study medicine to check the standard and the quality of education they receive, when they spend the hard earn money of the Sri Lankan parents.

SLMC consist of qualified medical professionals and they are aware that medical ethic does not allow them to make known their findings to the public, but in this instance they did a mistake by doing so. The enrollments and selection of students for the medical degree at SAITM is recognized by the UGC. I am aware about this as I was present in 2006, when the then UGC Chairman, Prof Gamini Samaranayake met some university medical students protesting against the recognition of SAITM by the UGC, dash into the Chairman’s room. There were nearly 150 students protesting about the FREE EDUCATION getting eroded outside the UGC gates blocking the road, and the only alternative was to meet these student protesters Prof. Gamini invited them to meet him. Students’ main objection was about FREE EDUCATION GETTING VIOLATED by allowing this Private Medical College.

Prof. Samaranayake listened to their grievances and asked three questions.

Q. Do you pay money for your education or you enjoy the FREE EDUCATION provided by the government with university bursaries.

A. Yes, we are using the facilities provided FREE to us by the UNIVERSITIES.

Q. How many of you will treat sick patients , once you get your FREE Education FREE.

(Half the students left the hall without giving a answer YES or NO)

Q. When you complete your fellowship and get qualified will you treat sick patients FREE?

(NO answer, all the students left the hall without waiting for Prof. Samaranayake to tell them what he is going to do with the SAITM recognition.)

Most members in the SLMC completed their fellowship in Australia or the UK as Sri Lanka was still not able to professionally test them due to some inadequacies. A few years back the Australian government offered scholarships to students who completed the HSC to study medicine in Australia. Approximately nine students got qualified to receive that scholarship grant and FOUR students completed their medicine degree at the Sydney University, and completed the first, second, third, fourth and the fifth years in the top order. Three students topped the list in the final examination and were awarded the gold and other medals. The scholarship arrangement was that the students should go back to their own countries to do their internship and then get qualified to work in that country. Eight students came back to Sri Lanka and the SLMC refused to allow them to work as interns and most of them left for the UK and some came back to Australia. Out of the students who left Sri Lanka and settled down in UK and Australia, are now working as qualified surgeons and specialist in other fields. Due to SLMC failure to recognise the degrees awarded by the Australian medical colleges, the Australian Government cancelled the scholarship scheme, and Sri Lankan students lost a golden opportunity to receive medical education at no cost.

In my professional opinion, what the SLMC should do is to prepare a list of the shortcomings they detected at SAITM and appoint capable and experienced medical professionals to tackle each and every section coming under the Medical Ordinance and direct the UGC and the Minister of Higher Education to request the SAITM management to rectify these shortcomings and recommend to the Minister of Health to allow these students to participate in clinical and other essential areas to learn their trade in either Colombo South Hospital or at Ragama or any other hospital, so the students who now follow this medical degree are not left between two worlds.

Sri Lankan parent’s main intention is for their children to become doctors, and if the Medical Colleges affiliated to the present Universities are unable to provide the facilities for the students, let the government formulate a Education system to open private Medical, Engineering and other Universities, to save the deflated foreign currency reserve in Sri Lanka, as the proper medical Education in the Western countries will cost around US $ 225,000 to US $ 300,000.

My professional opinion is that the government should look into the mushrooming of foreign technical institutions and other education providers as a matter of urgency as the country should clear this hurdle of providing a good education to the young generation.

Dr. Upasiri de Silva

Sydney

By M D P DISSANAYAKE

The newly appointed Prime Minister of Australia Mr Malcolm Turnbull has obtained the overwhelming  approval of the Heads of Governments of States and Territories in Australia  for the indefinite detention of terrorists.   A former Banker and a skilful negotiator Mr Turnbull has  successfully brought together all political parties of the country consisting, Labour, Liberal, National/Country Parties under one umbrella to address the serious threats of global terrorism.

In achieving this historic agreement at the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting on 11 December, in his first meeting with the leaders, the Prime Minister said ” the proposal had “solid precedent” with other offences and has been considered and approved or approved as constitutional by the High Court. The Prime Minister further explained  the “post-sentence preventative detention scheme” would be a nationally consistent court-supervised process.”[It] would enable a continuing period of imprisonment for high-risk terrorist offenders“. “This would be consistent with the arrangements that apply in a number of jurisdictions for sex offenders and for extremely violent individuals.”

At a time the world is addressing the key issue of terrorism, the Ranil/Mathiree/Chandrika three headed donkey government of Sri Lanka is releasing the high risk terrorists to the free civil society. This spineless government is also reducing the security arrangements previously made available to President Mahinda Rajapakse, Mr Gotabaya Rajapakse and other senior decision makers of the former regime who were instrumental in the defeat of Tamil Terrorists in Sri Lanka.

The high risk terrorists who were recently released by the Sri Lankan government have vowed to remain peaceful citizens and never engage again in terrorists activities.    But is it possible for the Donkey Trio Sri Lanka  to obtain a “search warrant to find out what plans are in the back of the MINDS of the terrorists” when  they are moving freely in the civil society?

Will Sri Lanka again be a Den of Terrorists?

RANJITH SOYSA

The Government of Sri Lanka has de-proscribed the Global Tamil Forum, Canadian Tamil Congress, Australian Tamil Congress, British Tamil Congress, Tamil National Council, Tamil Youth Organization and the World Tamil Co-ordinating Committee including a number persons who were proscribed as per special gazette of Sri Lanka on 21 st March 2014.

Further, a number of persons who were suspected to have involved   themselves in terrorism related offences and who were in custody under the Prevention of Terrorism Act too had been released by the Government.

Even though the Government has stated that the de-proscription was undertaken after evaluating security threats posed by the entities and individuals while the terrorist suspects were released as they were in the custody for a long time without being subjected to the legal proceedings, the twin steps taken by the Government will be detrimental to the national security and the unitary Sri Lanka.

The proscription of the LTTE/extremist Tamil related organizations and the individuals were initiated on the basis of a secret document found in May 2009, in a bunker in Mullivaliikkal formerly occupied by the LTTE leader of the international network, Castro. This list had names and address of 16 international Tamil organizations and 424 individuals who sent funds, arms and who were involved in anti Sri Lanka pro separatist Eelam propaganda. Hence, the proscription was imposed as consequence of an authentic LTTE document which outlined clearly the anti- Sri Lankan activities which co-ordinated the LTTE’ s crimes against the civilians, armed forces while attempting to create a separate country through terrorism. Further, the proscription was carried out under the internationally ratified UN Security Resolution 1373 which aims to prevent and supress the financing of terrorist acts and criminalizing the wilful collection and provision of funds for such acts etc.

The questions arising from the Government’s de-proscription are: Whether the proscribed organizations and the individuals have stopped collection of funds and whether they have given up in the attempts to challenge the national security by their demand for a separate country? By going through their record one can easily conclude that the very organizations which were de-proscribed are still continuing to celebrate the LTTE and its terrorist leader and continue to engage in vituperative campaigns against unitary Sri Lanka while demanding a separate state for the Tamil speaking people at the expense of the territorial integrity of Sri Lanka.

The Sri Lankan constitution specifically mentions under the article 157A that it is an offence to support, promote,  finance, encourage or advocates the establishment of a separate state within the territory of Sri Lanka, Therefore, all the entities and the individuals de- proscribed and who continue to subscribe to a separate country are indeed a danger to the unitary Sri Lanka.

With regard to the Prevention of Terrorism act which was enacted essentially to protect the national security, it necessary to study the existing legislation to protect the Nations in countries of our region such as India, Pakistan, Malaysia and Singapore and Thailand to realize the importance given to this issue. The laws in respect of protecting the national sovereignty and security in these countries are more stringent than Sri Lanka’s PTA. In India under the POTA the offences relating to the National security are liable to receive the capital punishment. In the USA. the suspects are held at Guantanamo camp without resorting to legal action for an  indefinite period, a story well known to many readers. Therefore, the suspects who are in custody under the PTA should be investigated properly before freeing them haphazardly in order to satisfy the international and the local groups. The foreign nations and their leaders who are demanding the changes to Sri Lanka’s PTA should be asked to examine their own laws honestly before preaching to Sri Lanka. It is indeed an open invitation to civil commotions and breaches of peace if the suspects who were involved in terrorism in Sri Lanka are freed in order to satisfy the parties whose main objective is to create instability in Sri Lanka.

The Government will be held responsible by the Nation and her People for irresponsible steps taken in not recognizing the vital importance of the issues facing the National Security and the Unitary State of Sri Lanka.

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උතුරු හා නැගෙනහිර පලාත් දෙකට අයත් වව්නියාව, මුලතිව්, මන්නාරම හා අම්පාර දිස්ති‍්‍රක්ක වල පිහිටි වන සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව යටතේ පාලනය වන ආරක්ෂිත ප‍්‍රදේශ 17 ක වනාන්තර අක්කර 16500 ක් පමණ එළි පෙහෙළි කරමින් අලූතින් ජනාවාස පිහිටුවීම හා වගා බිම් ව්‍යාප්ත කිරීම නීති විරෝධී ලෙස සිදු කෙරෙමින් පවතින බව අප විසින් සිදු කළ අධ්‍යයනයකට අනුව අනාවරණය වී තිබේ. වන සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව නිහඬව සිටිය දී වන රක්ෂිත නවයක හා රජයට අයත් වනාන්තර ප‍්‍රදේශ අටක මෙම වනාන්තර විනාශය සිදු කෙරේ. පසුගිය රජය පැවති සමයේ ආරම්භ වූ මෙම දැවැන්ත වන විනාශය වත්මන් රජයේ පාලනය යටතේ ද අඛණ්ඩව සිදු කෙරෙමින් පවතී.

මෙම සියලූ වන විනාශයන් සිදු කරන්නේ වන සංරක්ෂණ ආඥ පනත, ජාතික පාරිසරික පනත, පුරා වස්තු ආඥ පනත හා රජයේ ඉඩම් ආඥ පනත යන අණ පනත් සියල්ල උල්ලංඝනය කරමිනි. මෙම මහ පරිමාණ වන විනාශයන් හේතුවෙන් වැව් හා ගංගා වල ජල පෝෂක ප‍්‍රදේශ අහිමි වීම, අලි – ඇතුන්ගේ වාසස්ථාන අහිමි වීම හා ඛණ්ඩනය වීම වැනි හේතූ වල ප‍්‍රතිඵලයක් ලෙස ජල අර්බුධ උග‍්‍ර වීම මෙන්ම අලි – මිනිස් ගැටුම උග‍්‍ර වීම ඇතුළු හානිකර තත්ත්වයන් රැසක් මේ වන විට උද්ගතව තිබේ.

නීති විරෝධීව විනාශ කරන ආරක්ෂිත ප‍්‍රදේශ අතර මරිච්චුක්කඞ්ඩි – කරඩික්කුලි වන රක්ෂිතය, කරුන්කාලිපුරම් වන රක්ෂිතය, මඩුපාර වන රක්ෂිතය, පුවරසන්කුලම් වන රක්ෂිතය, කුලාමරිප්පු වන රක්ෂිතය, නාගන්චෝලෙයි වන රක්ෂිතය, ඉරසෙන්තිරම්කුලම් වන රක්ෂිතය, වඩකාඩු වනාන්තරය, කාකේනිකුලම් වනාන්තරය, පෙරියමඩු වනාන්තරය, ඔඞ්ඩුසුඩාන් වනාන්තරය, මුහුදුබඩ පත්තු වනාන්තරය, කරඩික්කුලි රජයේ කැලය, සාලම්බයිකුලම් වනාන්තරය හා සුදුවෙත්තකුලම් වනාන්තරය යන රක්ෂිත වනාන්තර හා රජයේ වනාන්තර බිම් වේ. මෙම වනාන්තර එළි පෙහෙළි කරමින් ජනාවාස පිහිටුවීම සිදු කෙරෙමින් පවතී. මීට අමතරව කුඹුක්කන වන රක්ෂිතය හා බක්මිටියාව – තිබිරිගොල්ල වන රක්ෂිතය එළි පෙහෙළි කරමින් වගා බිම් ව්‍යාප්ත කිරීම ද සිදු කෙරෙමින් පවතී.

වව්නියාව දිස්ති‍්‍රක්කයේ පිහිටි සුවිශේෂී වනාන්තරයක් වන කරුන්කාලිපුරම් වන රක්ෂිතයේ අක්කර 5000 ක් පමණ ප‍්‍රදේශයක් සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම එළි පෙහෙළි කර ශී‍්‍ර ලංකා මහවැලි අධිකාරිය, සිවිල් ආරක්ෂක දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව හා යුධ හමුදාව එක් වී ජනතාව පදිංචි කිරීමේ කටයුතු සිදු කෙරේ. 1940 ජුනි 7 වන දින අංක 8620 දරන ගැසට් නිවේදනය මඟින් හා පසුව 1985 ඔක්තෝම්බර් 15 වන දින 371/7 දරන ගැසට් නිවේදනය මඟින් නැවත රක්ෂිතයක් බවට ප‍්‍රකාශයට පත් කළ මෙම වන රක්ෂිතයේ මුළු භූමි ප‍්‍රමාණය හෙක්ටයාර 8432 කකි. පළමු අදියර යටතේ පසුගිය රජය පැවති සමයේ අක්කර 5000 ක් සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම එළි කර ජනතාව පදිංචි කළ අතර මෙම වන රක්ෂිතයේ ප‍්‍රමුඛව පැවති කළුවර ශාක දැව ජාවාරම ඉතා බහුල ලෙස සිදු කෙරින. මහවැලි එල් කලාපය ලෙස මෙම ප‍්‍රදේශ සංවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා මෙම වන විනාශයන් නීති විරෝධී ලෙස සිදු කෙරින. මෙම වනාන්තර විනාශය හේතුවෙන් උද්ගත වූ අධික අලි – මිනිස් ගැටුම පාලනය කිරීම සඳහා මේ වන විට වන රක්ෂිතය දෙකඩ කරමින් විදුලි වැටවල් ඉදි කර ඇත. මේ හේතුවෙන් අලි – ඇතුන්ගේ වාසස්ථාන තව දුරටත් ඛණ්ඩනය වී තිබේ. මීට අමතරව තව දුරටත් මෙම වන රක්ෂිතයේ ජනතාව පදිංචි කිරීම සඳහා තවත් වනාන්තර අක්කර 3000 ක් ලබා ගැනීමට යුධ හමුදාව විසින් පසුගිය වසරේ සැප්තැම්බර් මස දී වව්නියාව ප‍්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් වෙතින් ඉල්ලීම් කර තිබේ. නමුත් අපගේ දැඩි බලපෑම මත එම වනාන්තර ඉඩම් නිදහස් කිරීම මේ වන විට තාවකාලිකව නතර කර තිබේ.

අද වන විට වව්නියාව, මුලතිව් හා මන්නාරම යන දිස්ති‍්‍රක්ක තුනෙහි වන රක්ෂිත හයකට හා රජයේ වනාන්තර බිම් අටකට අයත් වනාන්තර අක්කර 10438 ක් එළි පෙහෙළි කරමින් අමාත්‍ය රිශාඞ් බදියුරුදීන් මහතාගේ සෘජු මෙහෙයවීම මත අලූතින් ජනාවාස පිහිටුවීම සිදු කරනු ලැබේ. මේ අතුරින් පසුගිය කාලය තුළ දී මහත් ආන්දෝලනයකට ලක් වූයේ විල්පත්තු ජාතික වනෝද්‍යානයට උතුරින් පිහිටි වනාන්තර බිම් වල නීතී විරෝධීව ජනතාව පදිංචි කිරීමය. මෙම වනාන්තර බිම් කල් ආරු ඔයේ ප‍්‍රධාන ජල පෝෂක ප‍්‍රදේශ ලෙස සැලකෙන කල් ආරු වනාන්තරය නැතහොත් මරිච්චික්කඞ්ඩි – කරඩික්කුලි වන රක්ෂිතයට අයත් ය. එහි වනාන්තර අක්කර 3000 ක් පමණ නීති විරෝධී ලෙස එළි කරමින් අලූතින් ජනාවාස පිහිටුවීම හා රිශාඞ් බදියුරුදීන් මහතා විසින් පෞද්ගලිකව වනාන්තර බිම් අත්පත් කර ගැනීම සිදු විය.

මේ අතරතුර නැවතත් රිෂාඞ් බදියුර්දීන් ඇමතිතුමාගේ මැදිහත් වීම මත මන්නාරම දිස්ත‍්‍රික් ලේකම්, මුසලි ප‍්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් හා නාවික හමුදාවේ නිලධාරීන් අතර විශේෂ සාකච්ඡුාවක් පවත්වා ඇත්තේ මරිච්චුක්කඞ්ඩි ප‍්‍රදේශයේ විල්පත්තුව ජාතික වනෝද්‍යානය මායිමේ වනාන්තර අක්කර 900ක් නැවත ලබා ගෙන අලූතින් ජනාවාස පිහිටු වීමට හා වගාබිම් ස්ථාපිත කිරීමට සැලසුම් කිරීමට ය. එය යහපාලන රජය තුළ දී ක‍්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට අමාත්‍යවරයා විසින් දැඩි උත්සාහයක නිරත වේ.

එ් තත්ත්වය එ් අයුරින් සිදු වෙද්දී වව්නියාව දිස්ති‍්‍රක්කයේ සෙට්ටිකුලම් ප‍්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයේ පිහිටි ඉරසෙන්තිරම්කුලම් වන රක්ෂිතයේ අක්කර 100 ක් පමණ සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම එළි පෙහෙළි කර අලූතින් ජනාවාස පිහිටුවීමේ කටයුතු පසුගිය කාලය තුළ දී කි‍්‍රයාත්මක කෙරින. පාවක්කුලම් වැව ආශි‍්‍රතව මෙම විශාල වන විනාශය හා අලූතින් ජනාවාස පිහිටුවීමේ කටයුතු සිදු කෙරින.

පසුගිය රජය පැවති කාල සීමාව තුළ හා දින සියයේ වැඩ පිළිවෙල කි‍්‍රයාත්මක වූ කාල වකවානුව තුළ මේ නීති විරෝධී වනාන්තර විනාශය හා අලූතින් ජනාවාස පිහිටුවීම පිළිබඳව අප විසින් රජයේ අවධානයට යොමු කෙරුව ද මේ තත්ත්වය පිටු දැකීම සඳහා කිසිදු කි‍්‍රයාමාර්ගයක් නොගැනින. එහි ප‍්‍රතිඵලයක් ලෙස සිදු වූයේ යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව තුළ ද රිශාඞ් බදියුරුදීන් අමාත්‍යවරයාට රිසිසේ වනාන්තර එළි කරමින් අලූතින් ජනාවාස පිහිටුවීමට අඛණ්ඩව ඉඩ හසර ලබා දීමය.

සමහරුන් මීට එරෙහිව කටයුතු කිරීම ජාතිවාදී ද්‍රෘෂ්ථීකෝණයකින් බලා එම කි‍්‍රයාවන් සාධාරනීකරණය කිරීමට උත්සාහ දැරීය. නමුත් අප විසින් දිගින් දිගටම අවධාරණය කළේ නීති විරෝධී වනාන්තර විනාශ කිරීමෙන් සිදු වන හානි පිළිබඳව ය. එ් පිළිබඳව බලධාරීන් ඇහුම්කන් නොදීම හේතුවෙන් අද වන විට ජාතිවාදී ගැටුම් තත්ත්වයට මෙය පරිවර්ථනය වෙමින් පවතී.

රිශාඞ් බදියුරුදීන් අමාත්‍යවරයාගේ ආධාරකරුවන් විසින් මුලතිව් දිස්ති‍්‍රක්කයේ මඩු වන රක්ෂිතයේ, කොන්ඩියාකුප්පම් ප‍්‍රදේශයේ අක්කර 600 ක් එළි පෙහෙළි කරමින් අලූතින් ජනාවාස පිහිටුවීමට එරෙහිව දෙමල ජාතික සංධානයේ නියෝජිතයින් පිරිසක් විසින් දැඩි බලපෑමක් එල්ල කර තිබේ. එහිදී ඔවුන් අතර ගැටුම් පවා හට ගෙන ඇත. මෙවැනි තත්ත්වයක් ඇති විය හැකි බව අප අවබෝධ කර ගෙන මීට ප‍්‍රථම මෙම කි‍්‍රයාවලිය නතර කිරීමට නීතිය කි‍්‍රයාත්මක කවන ලෙසට අදාළ අංශ දැනුම්වත් කළ ද ඔවුන් කි‍්‍රයා නොකිරීමේ ප‍්‍රතිඵල අද වන විට අහිතකර ලෙස මතු වෙමින් පවතී.

උතුරු – නැගෙනහිර යුද්ධය පැවති සමයේ දී අවතැන් වූ ජනතාව යුද්ධයෙන් පසුව නිසි පරිදි ඔවුන්ගේ පාරම්පරික ඉඩම් වල නැවත පදිංචි කිරීමට පසුගිය රජය හා වත්මන් රජය විසින් නිසි කි‍්‍රයාමාර්ග නොගැනීමේ ප‍්‍රතිඵල ලෙස මේ තත්ත්වය උද්ගතව තිබේ. ජාතික සැලැසුමකින් තොරව රිශාඞ් බදියුරුදීන් අමාත්‍යවරයාට රිසිසේ නැවත පදිංචි කිරීමේ කටයුතු සිදු කිරීමට අවස්ථාව ලබා දීමේ ප‍්‍රතිඵලයක් ලෙස මේ තත්ත්වය උද්ගතව තිබේ.

සැබෑ ලෙසම යුද්ධයෙන් අවතැන් වූවන් තවම අනාථ කඳවුරු වල සිටිය දී අලූතින් ජනතාව උතුරු – නැගෙනහිර ප‍්‍රදේශ වල පදිංචි කරමින් එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ. ත‍්‍රස්ථවාදීන්ගෙන් මුදා ගත් ප‍්‍රදේශ වැරදි ලෙස භාවිතයට ගැනීමෙන් නැවතත් උතුරු හා නැගෙනහිර ප‍්‍රදේශ වල ජීවත්වන පාරම්පරික ජන කණ්ඩායම් අතර අනවශ්‍ය ගැටුමක් මතු වනු ඇත. මේ තත්ත්වය වර්ධනය නොවීමට නම් රජය නිසි පරිදි මේ සඳහා මැදිහත් විය යුතුව ඇත.

මේ වන විට නැගෙනහිර පලාතේ අම්පාර දිස්ති‍්‍රක්කයේ කුඹුක්කන වන රක්ෂිතය හා බක්මිටියාව – තිබිරිගොල්ල වන රක්ෂිතය එළි පෙහෙළි කරමින් මහ පරිමාණ වගා බිම් ව්‍යාප්ත කිරීමේ කටයුතු ද සිදු කෙරේ. මේ කි‍්‍රයාවන් මෙහෙයවනු ලබන්නේ එ්. එල්. එම්. අතවුල්ලා හා රවුෆ හකීම් යන මහත්වරුන් විසිනි. මේ වන විට බක්මිටියාව – තිබිරිගොල්ල වන රක්ෂිතයේ වට්ටමඩු ප‍්‍රදේශයේ අක්කර 1000 ක් එළි කර නීති විරෝධීව වගා බිම් ව්‍යාප්ත කර ඇති අතර කුුඹුක්කන වන රක්ෂිතයේ රදැල්ල ප‍්‍රදේශයේ අක්කර 70 ක් පමණ එළි කර අලූතින් වගා බිම් ව්‍යාප්ත කරනු ලැබේ.

මෙලෙස වන රක්ෂිත එළිපෙහෙළි කර ජනතාව පදිංචි කිරීම හා වගා බිම් ස්ථාපිත කිරීම සිදු කර ඇත්තේ 2009 අංක 65 දරණ පනතින් අවසන් වරට සංශෝධිත 1907 අංක 06 දරණ වන සංරක්ෂණ ආඥා පනතේ 7 වන වගන්තිය උල්ලංඝණය කරමිනි. එම වගන්තියට අනුව වන රක්ෂිතයකට අනවසරයෙන් ඇතුළු වීම, රැුදී සිටීම, ශාක කපා ඉවත් කිරීම, ස්ථිර හෝ තාවකාලික ගොඩනැගිලි ඉදිකිරීම, එවායේ පදිංචි වීම, මාර්ග සකස් කිරීම හා වගා බිම් ස්ථාපිත කිරීම නීති විරෝධී වේ. එවන් වරදක් සිදු කරන පුද්ගලයකු හෝ ඒ ස`දහා ආධාර හෝ අනුබල ලබා දෙන තැනැත්තෙකු ද වරද කරුවකු වෙයි. එවන් වරදක් ස`දහා වැරදිකරුවකු වන පුද්ගලයකු වසර 05 ක් නොඉක්මවන බන්ධනාගාර ගත කිරීමකට හෝ රුපියල් ලක්ෂයත් දස ලක්ෂයත් අතර දඩයකට හෝ මේ දෙකටම යටත් කළ හැකි ය. ඊට අමතර ව වන රක්ෂිතයට කරන ලද විනාශය සඳහා අධිකරණය මඟින් නියම කරන දඬ මුදලකට ද යටත් කළ හැකි ය.

වන සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව යටතේ පාලනය වන රජයට අයත් වනාන්තර බිම් එළිපෙහෙළි කර ජනතාව පදිංචි කිරීම සිදු කර ඇත්තේ වන සංරක්ෂණ ආඥා පනතේ 20 වන වගන්තිය උල්ලංඝණය කරමිනි. එම වනාන්තර එළි පෙහෙළ කිරීම, ශාක කපා ඉවත් කිරීම, මාර්ග සකස් කිරීම, ස්ථීර හෝ තාවකාලික ගොඩනැගිලි ඉදිකිරීම, ඒවායේ පදිංචි වීම, වගා බිම් ස්ථාපිත කිරීම නීති විරෝධී ක‍්‍රියාවකි. එවන් නීති විරෝධි ක‍්‍රියාවල නිරතව සිටින පුද්ගලයෙකු හෝ ඒ ස`දහා අධාර හෝ අනුබල ලබාදෙන පුද්ගලයෙකු ද වරදකරුවකු වේ. එවන් ක‍්‍රියාවක නිරතවන පුද්ගලයකු වරෙන්තුවක් නොමැතිව අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන මහේස්ත‍්‍රාත් අධිකරණයකට ඉදිරිපත් කළ හැකි අතර එහි දී වරද කරුවකු කරණු ලැබූ විට වසර 2 ක් නොයික්මවන කාලයක් ස`දහා බන්ධනාගාර ගත කිරීමක් හෝ රුපියල් 5000 ත් 50000 ත් අතර දඩයකට හෝ මේ දෙකටම යටත් කළ හැකි ය. ඊට අමතර ව වනාන්තරයට සිදු කරණ ලද හානිය ස`දහා අධිකරණය ම`ගින් නියම කරණ දඩයකට ද යටත් කළ හැකි ය.

මෙවන් දැඩි නීති රීති යටතේ මෙම වනාන්තර පාලනය වුව ද වන සංරක්ෂණ ආඥ පනත උල්ලංඝනය කරමින් උතුරු හා නැගෙනහිර පලාත් වල ආරක්ෂිත වනාන්තර 17 කට අයත් වනාන්තර බිම් විනාශ කිරීමට එරෙහිව කිසිදු කි‍්‍රයාමාර්ගයක් වන සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව මඟින් මෙතෙක් ගෙන නොමැති වීම ඉතාම කණගාටුදායක තත්ත්වයකි.

වන සංරක්ෂණ ආඥා පනත පමණක් නොව ජාතික පාරිසරික පනත හා පුරාවස්තු ආඥා පනත යන අනපනත් උල්ලංඝණය කරමින් මෙම වනාන්තර එළි පෙහෙළි කිරීම, අලූතින් ජනාවාස පිහිටු වීම හා වගා බිම් ස්ථාපිත කිරීම සිදු කර ඇත. 1980 අංක 47 දරන සංශෝධිත ජාතික පාරිසරික පනතේ 23ප වගන්තියට අනුව ප‍්‍රකාශිත 1993 ජුනි 24 දින අංක 772/22 දරන ගැසට් නිවේදනයට අනුව හෙක්ටයාර එකකට වඩා වැඩි වනාන්තර ප‍්‍රදේශයක් එළි පෙහෙළි කර යම් සංවර්ධන ව්‍යපෘතියක් සඳහා යොදා ගැනීමට ප‍්‍රථමයෙන් හෝ පවුල් 100 කට වැඩි ප‍්‍රමාණයක් එක වර පදිංචි කිරීමේ ව්‍යාපෘතියක් කි‍්‍රයාත්මක කිරීමට ප‍්‍රථමයෙන් හෝ වන රක්ෂිතයක් තුළ හෝ එහි මායිමේ සිට මීටර් 100 ක් ඇතුළත යම් සංවර්ධන ව්‍යාපෘතියක් ක‍්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට ප‍්‍රථමයෙන් පරිසර බලපෑම් ඇගයීම් ක‍්‍රියාවලියට යටත් ව පූර්ව ලිඛිත පාරිසරික අනුමැතිය ලබා ගත යුතු ය. එවන් කිසිදු ක‍්‍රියාමාර්ගයකට මෙම ව්‍යාපෘතිය ක‍්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට ප‍්‍රථමයෙන් යොමු වී නොමැත. නමුත් ඊට එරෙහිව මධ්‍යම පරිසර අධිකාරිය විසින් ද මෙතෙක් කිසිදු ක‍්‍රියාමාර්ගයක් ගෙන නොමැත.

1940 අංක 09 දරණ සංශෝධිත පුරාවස්තු ආඥා පනතේ 23අ සහ 47 වන වගන්තිවලට අනුව ප‍්‍රකාශිත 2000 ඔක්තෝම්බර් 04 වන දින අංක 1152/14 දරණ ගැසට් නිවේදනයට අනුව පවුල් නැවත පදිංචි කිරීමට ප‍්‍රථම, හෙක්ටයාර දෙකකට වඩා වැඩි භූමි ප‍්‍රදේශ එළි පෙහෙළි කිරීමට ප‍්‍රථම හා පදිංචිය ස`දහා නිවාස සංකීර්ණ ඉදිකිරීමට ප‍්‍රථම පුරාවිද්‍යා හානි ඇගයීමක් සිදු කර ඒ ස`දහා අනුමැතිය ලබා ගත යුතු ය. නමුත් එවන් අනුමැතියකින් තොරව මෙම සියළු වනාන්තරය එළි පෙහෙළි කරමින් මහා පරිමාණ ජනාවාස පිහිටු වීමට එරෙහිව පුරාවිද්‍යා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව ද මේ වන තුරුත් කිසිදු ක‍්‍රියාමාර්ගයක් ගෙන නොමැත.

මෙම අණ පනත් උල්ලංඝනය කරමින් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ රජය පැවති සමයේ දී ආරම්භ කළ මෙම වන විනාශයන් හා නීති විරෝධී ජනාවාස ව්‍යාප්ත කිරීම මෙන්ම වගා බිම් ව්‍යාප්ත කිරීමේ කටයුතු වත්මන් යහපාලන රජය තුළ ද අඛණ්ඩව සිදු කෙරෙමින් පැවතීම කණගාටුවට කරුණකි. මේ සියල්ල පිටුදකිමින් බලයට පත් වූ රජයකින් මෙවන් තත්ත්වක් බලාපොරොත්තු විය නොහැකිය.

මෙවර ජනාධිපතිවරණයේ දී වත්මන් ජනාධිපති මෛති‍්‍රපාල සිරිසේන මහතා විසින් ‘‘මෛති‍්‍ර පාලනයක් ස්ථාවර රටක්’’ මැයෙන් ඉදිරිපත් කළ ප‍්‍රතිපත්ති ප‍්‍රකාශනයේ 31 පිටුවේ සොබාදහම රැුක ගැනීම කොටසේ සඳහන් වන්නේ වන විනාශය වැළැක්වීමට හා සංවේදී පරිසර පද්ධති ආරක්ෂා කර ගැනීම සඳහා තරාතිරම නොබලා පරිසර නීති කි‍්‍රයාත්මක කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය පසුබිම ගොඩ නගන බවය. නමුත් එ් තත්ත්වය ගොඩනැගීමට මාස 10 කට වැඩි කාලයක් ගත වුව ද තවම අපොහොසත් වී ඇත. මේ නිසා උතුරු හා නැගෙනහිර ප‍්‍රදේශ වල සංවේදී පරිසර පද්ධති රජයේ අමාත්‍යවරුන්ගේ මැදිහත් වීම මත සීග‍්‍රයෙන් එළි පෙහෙළි කරමින් පවතී.

පසුගිය පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයේ දී ‘‘මාස 60 කින් අලූත් රටක් හදන පංච විධ කි‍්‍රයාවලිය’’ ලෙස එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය ඉදිරිපත් කළ ප‍්‍රතිපත්ති ප‍්‍රකාශනයේ 18 වන පිටුවේ තිරසර සංවර්ධනය කොටසෙහි සඳහන් කර ඇත්තේ රටේ සංරක්ෂිත කලාප ලෙස නීතියෙන් නියම කර ඇති භූමි භාග ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට කටයුතු කරන බවය. නමුත් මේ සියල්ල ප‍්‍රතිපත්ති ප‍්‍රකාශන වල වගන්ති වලට පමණක් සීමා වී ඇති බව පෙනෙන්නට තිබේ. එ්වා යතාර්ථයක් බවට පත් කිරීමට උත්සාහ ගන්නා බවක් පෙනෙන්නට නොමැත.

එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ ආහාර හා කෘෂිකර්ම සංවිධානය, එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවර්ධන හා පරිසර වැඩසටහන යටතේ කි‍්‍රයාත්මක වන මෙරට වනාන්තර හායනය හා ඛණ්ඩනය වීම වැළැක්වීම සඳහා වන මහා ව්‍යාපෘති සැලැසුම ඩොලර් මිලියන ගණනක් වැය කර සකස් කරන වන සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට උතුරු හා නැගෙනහිර ප‍්‍රදේශවල දැවැන්ත වන විනාශයන් නොපෙනීම පුදුමයට කරුණකි.

මෙම සැලැසුම් සකස් කර කි‍්‍රයාත්මක කරන අවධිය වන විට බොහෝ වන රක්ෂිත හා වනාන්තර ඛණ්ඩනය වීම හා හායනය වීම නැවත ආපස්සට හැරවිය නොහැකි තත්ත්වයට පත් වී තිබෙනු ඇත. අවශ්‍ය වන්නේ මෙම සැලැසුම් සකස් කරන අතරතුර දැනට ඉතිරි වී තිබෙන සියළු රක්ෂිත හා අවශේෂ වනාන්තර සියල්ල ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට දැනට පවතින නීති රීති අපක්ෂපාතීව කි‍්‍රයාවට නැංවීමය. එසේ නොමැති වුවහොත් වත්මන් යහපාලන රජයේ රිශාඞ් බදියුරුදීන් වැනි ඇමැතිවරුන්ට රිසි සේ උතුරු හා නැගෙනහිර ප‍්‍රදේශ වල වන රක්ෂිත සියල්ලම වනසා දමා අවසන් වන කාලය වැඩි ඈතක නොවනු ඇත.

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) today said that with the recent acceleration in private sector credit growth and rising core inflation, there is now little scope for further monetary easing.

Hence it noted that most factors—including the deterioration in the balance of payments and pressures on the rupee—suggest that the Central Bank of Sri Lanka should be prepared to tighten monetary policy in the coming months, albeit at a gradual pace.

The press release issued by the IMF to announce the conclusion of the Fourth Post-Program Monitoring with Sri Lanka by the IMF’s Executive Board is reproduced below;

IMF Executive Board Concludes Fourth Post-Program Monitoring with Sri Lanka

Press Release No. 15/553
December 9, 2015On November 13, 2015, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Fourth Post-Program Monitoring (PPM) with Sri Lanka.¹

Recent economic developments reflect a more challenging external environment as well as a sharpening of macro-financial imbalances that began to emerge late in 2014. During the first half of 2015, growth picked up to 5.6 percent versus 4.5 percent in 2014. Headline inflation fell to -0.3 percent in September before rising to 1.7 percent in October, while core inflation (excluding fresh food, transport, and energy prices) has risen since the beginning of 2015, reaching 4.4 percent in October.

Preliminary data indicate that the government fiscal deficit in the first half of 2015 was 3.7 percent of GDP. Tax revenue collection picked up, but not to the extent assumed in the 2015 budget. The external accounts benefitted from the lower oil price, but higher imports of consumer and investment goods more than offset this effect. Following the reduction of policy rates in April 2015, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has kept monetary policy unchanged. Successful issuance of a US$ 1.5 billion sovereign bond in October helped boost foreign reserves and partially compensate for earlier declines.

The economic outlook remains uncertain, and will depend to a large extent on the course set for economic policies in the coming months. The risks are tilted to the downside. Underlying growth momentum appears relatively firm and the outlook for headline inflation looks contained. However, the large increase in wages and salaries in the revised 2015 budget and lower administered prices have boosted incomes. Together with a reduction in import taxes on vehicles, this has fed through to a sharp rise in imports, a deterioration in the nonoil current account balance, rising core inflation, and continued weakness in the structure of public finances. Further, external risks have risen. Global growth prospects have weakened. Global financial conditions have tightened and may rebalance further when the U.S. Federal Reserve moves to raise interest rates.

Executive Board Assessment

In concluding the Fourth PPM Discussions with Sri Lanka, Executive Directors endorsed the staff’s appraisal, as follows:

Economic growth continued to be fairly strong in 2015, while headline inflation has remained low. The external current account deficit is projected to narrow moderately in 2015, due largely to lower oil prices. Private sector credit growth has picked up sharply in 2015. At the same time, deterioration in the overall balance of payments, the loss of central bank foreign exchange reserves, the weak state of public finances, and growing public debt are reasons for concern.

Despite continued access to international debt markets, these trends suggest that financial risks for Sri Lanka have increased. To mitigate these risks, the authorities should take appropriate corrective actions to safeguard macroeconomic stability and lay the foundation for durable and inclusive growth. Improvements in the business climate, reform of state owned enterprises, and a more open trade regime are key to boosting competitiveness and growth.

In view of high public debt, fiscal developments this year pose a risk to the economy and call for ambitious measures in the 2016 budget to put Sri Lanka’s fiscal position on a more sustainable footing. Sri Lanka has a very low tax-to-GDP ratio, and high levels of current expenditure constrain needed development spending, limit policy space, and threaten debt sustainability. Therefore, a comprehensive reform of tax policy and administration, and a prompt resumption of fiscal consolidation supported by increased revenues should be a key policy priority.

With the recent acceleration in private sector credit growth and rising core inflation, there is now little scope for further monetary easing. Most factors—including the deterioration in the balance of payments and pressures on the rupee—suggest that the CBSL should be prepared to tighten monetary policy in the coming months, albeit at a gradual pace.

Another policy challenge is to reduce external vulnerabilities and address the deterioration in the balance of payments. Tighter fiscal and monetary policies could help restrict aggregate demand, contain the recent sharp rise in imports, and strengthen the external balance. However, to be more effective, these policies should be supported by greater exchange rate flexibility, reduced foreign exchange intervention, and efforts to deepen the foreign exchange market, as well as structural reforms to enhance competitiveness.

The financial sector remains relatively stable, and the authorities are taking measures to tackle remaining vulnerabilities in the nonbank financial sector. However, there is the need for continued progress in consolidated bank supervision and in developing a more robust stress testing framework.

ජ්‍යේෂ්ඨ කතිකාචාර්‍ය මහින්ද පතිරණ යුතුකම සංවාද කවය

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane CANADA

‘Soma Haamuduruvo’ as he was popularly known, passed away twelve years ago, on December 12, 2003, at the age of 55 years. The unexpected death of this renowned Sri Lankan Bhikkhu, led to a spontaneous outpouring of grief throughout the country. Sri Lankans living overseas were shocked and grieved by the untimely demise of an outstanding Buddhist monk of exceptional popularity. On the day of his funeral in Colombo, the crowds that flocked into the city from all parts of the country to pay their last respects to a bhikkhu have been unprecedented in living memory. This particularly reflected the overwhelming reverence, adoration and sense of gratitude, of people towards an outstanding bhikkhu held in utmost esteem and veneration by most people.

His Past

Soma Thera was ordained in 1974 when he was 26 years of age.  He received training at the reputed Bhikkhu Training Centre, Maharagama, under the guidance of two of the most revered monks in Sri Lanka at the time, Venerable Madihe Pannasiha Maha Thera and Venerable Ampitiye Rahula Maha Thera. He obtained his higher ordination in 1976.

Having entered the Order of Bhikkus through conviction he strived to acquire a thorough understanding of the Dhamma. He knew by heart volumes of dhamma texts and was not second to any other erudite scholars. His sermons, discussions and publications, which include several books and articles, reflect the depth of his knowledge of the Dhamma and his capacity to impart this knowledge for the benefit of people.

After his higher ordination in 1976 he took time off to be in solitude in a monastery in a remote village in the Ampara district, where he practiced meditation. His interest in research and meditation on the special virtues of the Buddha resulted in the publication of  his excellent  book titled  ‘Buddhastupa’,  which is an excellent guide to those interested in the study of the virtues of the Buddha.

He traveled widely throughout Sri Lanka and several other countries including Canada, spreading the message of the Buddha and on how to lead simple lives based on the Five Precepts. He was the Chief incumbent for some time, of Victoria Vihare in Australia.

His Personality

Venerable Soma Thera lived a calm, serene and disciplined life and by his death Sri Lanka has lost an exceptional monk that people could closely relate to. Piety, wisdom and erudition, which are among the main characteristics of a great Buddhist monk, were conspicuous elements in his character. He was an embodiment of Buddhist morality and a shining example of virtue. His rather unmatchable virtue of cheerful equanimity, adorned often with a serene smile, often reminded his followers of the great qualities – Metta, Karuna and Muditha of their Enlightened One.

One of the noblest examples he left to us was his preference for simplicity in all his activities. His simplicity was well displayed in his verbal and non-verbal communications, both in discourses and books he authored. He turned out to be the householder during media discussions, irrespective of the time of the day.

His Service

His dedicated service to Buddhism and to the Sri Lankan nation is unfathomable. Soma Thera will be best remembered as the one and only Dhamma preacher par excellence in contemporary times. Thousands flocked to listen to his sermons, which were delivered in simple language yet most effectively.

His sermons and television discussions drew the undivided attention of the young and the old, Buddhists and the non-Buddhists alike. In his popular TV programmes, “Anduren Eliyata” and “Nena Pahana”, watched by millions, he never trimmed words to express what he frankly meant on a particular subject, nor did he at any time abstain from submitting a positive and viable alternative that could help one get out of an impasse or any problem that plagues someone. In his TV programs along with a well-known psychologist he showed people how Buddhism could help them solve their psychological problems. His role as the leading Buddhist communicator of modern times, social reformer cum defender of the Sinhala-Buddhist identity and its rights, came into prominence during these electronic media and public discussions, debates and sermons.

His Approach

He became a beacon of hope for the common masses since his ocean of knowledge on Buddhist canons, scriptures and literature remained unchallenged, well respected and thoroughly logical. His erudition, enriched with scientific psychoanalytical perspectives, his clarity in perceptions, pitch and intonation in his verbalizations, no doubt prompted his audience to be glued to TV sets. The masses felt that they found expression for their worldly, social and political problems through Ven. Soma Thera, who during many interviews was flooded with a barrage of questions that confront the public at large.

He used the simplest possible language in clarifying and explaining the intricacies of the Dhamma in a manner that was lucid, understandable and most convincing. His simple explanations on difficult and varying Buddhist perspectives and concepts enlightened the public en masse and were fascinating. In some instances authorities had to stop traffic when thousands began to flock to listen to him in temples and other public places where he conducted sermons. He was listened to by many and watched by many and read by many.  He possessed the capacity to be unbiased, conscientious and upright before all national and religious problems.

His Impact 

Soma Thera’s followers admired him for his courage in propagating a pure, superstition-free Buddhism. Soma Thera spoke about the relevance of Buddhism and Buddhist principles for the present day world. He took up day-to-day problems and pointed out how these could be solved by following the pristine Buddhist precepts. His practical approach to the teachings of the Buddha influenced many to change their lifestyles.

In his discourses he often opened a dialogue for us to inquire from ourselves whether we are honestly Buddhists, and what are the characteristics of a Buddhist and by what are we to measure ourselves. One reason for Soma Thera’s immense popularity was that in his sermons he spoke on contemporary secular, social, economic and political problems. He did not hesitate to express, in the strongest terms, the frustrations of the common man vis-à-vis the governments of the day.

His sermons reached the hearts and minds of not only Buddhists but non-Buddhists as well. He respected all other religions and had a very good knowledge of other religions. Non-alcoholism was a key word in him. This itself was a remarkable achievement at national level by this great monk who visited so many remote areas for Dhamma preaching throughout the whole year.

One of his most outstanding missions was to mould the younger generation to live according to the Dhamma. He had the right approach in handling youth problems and soon they rallied round him in an organisation called ‘Tharuna Saviya’ (Strength of the Youth). From every corner of the island, youths dedicated to the unfailing observance of five precepts taught in Buddhism, flocked and rallied round him in veneration and began to follow his teachings.

National Culture

He cherished Sri Lanka’s national culture and heritage with a passion. He spearheaded the cause of reviving Buddhism and Sinhala culture, and restoring a sense of nationalism and pride among the Sinhala-Buddhists. He fought relentlessly for the survival of the Sinhala people and their culture, which were being threatened by Westernisation and a striking lack of nationalism.

Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism was getting eroded by a perceived inability to face up to the challenge posed by minority Tamil militancy and a tendency to give in easily to influences from the West. Theravada Buddhism, the core of the Sinhala identity, was being subjected to an unmitigated and multi-dimensional onslaught from alien forces. The people were aware of these, but they did not, and could not, articulate them, because power was firmly in the hands of a Westernized, comprador bourgeoisie.

It was through Soma Thera that the suppressed feelings of the people found utterance. He personified Sinhala-Buddhism, becoming a “totemic figure”, an “icon”, to use the words of the veteran commentator, Ajith Samaranayake of Sri Lanka’s Sunday Observer. He courageously defended the rights of the Sinhala community and Buddhists at a time when identification with either of them was considered racism and bigotry. With his sermons and interviews on TV, he lifted the spirit and morale of the Sinhala people.

 Jana Vijaya” 

He spearheaded an inexorable effort combined with the sustained campaign to introduce clean politics” by establishing the “Jana Vijaya Foundation”. The objective was to mobilize the well-mannered citizens of the country to have a positive influence on political decision-making. He wanted all patriotic men to resist and make decision-makers drop foul practices for the benefit of the masses in the country. Through Jana Vijaya, he assembled thousands and thousands of youth in the island who were yearning for a morally rich Buddhist leadership.  Through publication of a popular newspaper on Dhamma and Buddhist way of life, he took his message to grassroots level.

Soma Thera, the socio-cultural reformer of our times, to his credit, was explicit in his criticism levelled against corrupt politicians and others undermining the interests of the Sri Lankan nation and of Buddhists. National and religious issues, in his view are interwoven and could not be isolated from the body politic of the country. He maintained that it was the bounden duty of the state to give pride of place to Buddhism, as enshrined in the constitution.  Morality, he said was the key to any righteous society.  Stimulus he gave in this direction was overwhelming and results-oriented. His outright assertions meant to help create a statehood ruled in accordance with Buddhist principles of righteous living, were food for thought for politicians, and some it is known,  accepted what he said in secret.

He awakened the nation with his forthright views on national issues. He opened people’s eyes to the dangers that lie around and ahead of us. Citing clearly and rationally, the socio-economic trends in Sri Lanka, he warned the Sinhala Buddhists of the imminent danger of decimation of the Sinhala race and the adulteration of Buddhism by worship of gods, and moving away from practice to ritual.

Gods and Deities

He challenged the worship of gods and avatars by Sri Lankan Buddhists. He pointed out that such worship was contrary to the teachings of Theravada Buddhism.  His simple advocacy was to encourage the inquirer to seek refuge purely in Buddha and Triple Gem, not in mystic powers appealing for mere worldly gains. This stance in Ven. Soma Thera was unprecedented and unheard but was well received by the masses in the recent history of Sri Lanka. Buddhism tells its followers to be self reliant, and not to depend on Gods and other supernatural forces. Also, the Buddha does not grant boons. Self-confidence taught in Buddhism was the only god for him. In pursuit of his noble ideals, his unswerving efforts revolutionized Buddhist psyche and disposition to such an extent that some Buddhist temples discontinued patronizing deity worship. Also, Soma Thera was very troubled by the Satya Sai Baba cult, which had swept Sri Lanka. The elite of Sinhala-Buddhist society had become ardent devotees of the Baba. He thought it was sacrilegious for Buddhists to get swayed by such gibberish.

Unethical Conversions

Soma Thera campaigned against unethical conversion” to Christianity and the encroachments on Sinhala-Buddhist property by Muslims. He was not against any religion. He was only against poaching of this sort. Conversion to Christianity became a major issue in Sri Lanka when Christian sects, with heavy funding from western countries and South Korea, entered the scene to exploit the poverty, lack of economic development, and the displacement and deprivation largely brought about by the LTTE terrorist menace. They promised instant cures and solutions to problems, and enticements were offered to the poor.

His Last letter from Russia

Here is a segment (translated from Sinhala) of Venerable Soma Thera’s  last letter from Russia:   Christian brethren in Sri Lanka, kindly bear with me without enmity, I will show you the truth. Portuguese introduced Christianity to Sri Lanka in 1505. From that time for a period of 450 years, because of the many atrocities committed by the Dutch & the English invaders up to 1948, only a 4.5% of the people in Sri Lanka embraced Christianity. We are very well aware that those people embraced Christianity did not do so because it is a superior philosophy in comparison to Buddhism, but because of the greed for economical and social benefits from the foreign invaders.

If Christianity were a successful religious doctrine in comparison to Buddhism, Sri Lanka would have been a wholly Christian nation, much earlier. Please consider that you are immorally trying to delude and attempting to convert the simple and poor citizens of this country through material inducements, because Christianity by itself has nothing good to offer.

Wise Christian faithful please think – because of the betrayal of your forefathers you are now a Christian. Or you have done so yourself. A betrayal of a natural law is an unwholesome act, which cause grief. It is evil to betray a wholesome philosophy. Evil will condemn the evildoer. I urge you to return to Buddha’s Dhamma – which is the wholesome philosophy”.

Interactions with Soma Hamuduruvoo

I had the privilege of knowing personally, the Venerable Soma Thera, while I was working in Sri Lanka in the 1990s and had many opportunities of closely interacting with and developing a cordial relationship with this exceptional person. I was delighted with his visit to Canada in the Summer of 2002, and I had the most pleasant opportunity of accompanying him on his visits to a number of Buddhist temples in Greater Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal on speaking engagements, and to several other places of interest in Ontario and Quebec.

During our long driving trips together, we interacted freely on various issues and subjects that were of common interest to both of us. Communicating with him was a breath of fresh air. He spoke clearly, freely and eagerly on many issues pertaining to the Teachings of the Buddha, to Buddhism as practiced in Sri Lanka.  He had unequivocal views and well-defined plans on how to address from the Buddhist perspective, the complex problems and issues that the Sri Lankan nation is confronted with.

We spoke on the increased interest in Buddhism and Buddhist practices in North America and in several western countries, and the strong influence of the Dalai Lama in bringing about this interest. I found Venerable Soma to be well versed not only in the Theravada, but also in other Buddhist traditions such as Mahayana, Vajrayana and Zen, and countries where these traditions are followed. I recall vividly his description of a region in Russia with a large Buddhist community observing the Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist tradition. He was well aware of the oldest Buddhist temple in Europe located in St Petersburg. It was shocking and most distressing to me to hear that he died in St Petersburg.

I have had many opportunities of associating a large assortment of Buddhist bhikkhus including well known Mahathera’s, especially during my tenure as lecturer in the late 1960s, at the former Vidyodaya University (present Sri Jayawardenapura) when the late Venerable Walpola Rahula was its Vice Chancellor. Such opportunities continued even during my academic-professional activities in later years, in UK, USA and Canada and in my travels in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. I continued to keep in touch with Bhikkhus that I had respect for, and could relate to. Also, I often obtained information about prominent and popular bhikkhus in Sri Lanka, through the Sri Lankan media and  publications and also from friends living in Sri Lanka and elsewhere.

With this background I am in a position to say with all honesty that Venerable Soma was an exceptional Bhikkhu. He was endowed with a very sharp and clear mind and a highly developed power of reasoning and verbal expression. He was not only well versed in the Dhamma, but had a tremendous capacity to share it with others, with utmost clarity and simplicity. Having known him closely I can say that Soma Thera was definitely an outstanding bhikkhu who lived a calm, serene and disciplined life. Piety, wisdom and erudition were conspicuous elements of his impeccable character. He was an embodiment of Buddhist morality with unmatchable virtue, of cheerful equanimity and a serene face and smile that reflected his inner composure. One of the noblest examples he left for us was his preference for simplicity in all his activities. He led a simple life with the minimum of worldly possessions. He was in every sense a practicing Buddhist bhikkhu with well developed skills in Buddhist meditation. His publications bear testimony to the depth of his knowledge of the dhamma and meditation practices.

Influence and Inspiration

Soma Thera passed away at a relatively young age of 55. Although his life was rather short it has become legendary. He left a lasting imprint on both the Sri Lankan and the international social and religious scene. His death is admittedly an irreparable loss to Sri Lanka at a time his services are required most. The influence of his mission will continue to be felt in the Sri Lankan social scene for many years to come. The impact he has had on the lives of all those who came in contact with him directly and indirectly has been remarkable. Memories of his life, rich with experience, wisdom and dedication will continue to resonate for many more years. His name will be honoured with undying gratitude for many more generations to come.

Ven. Soma Thera will continue to remain a guiding star as long as the much-cherished Buddhist civilization in the country survives. His contribution to the cause of Dhamma and Sinhala-Buddhists in Sri Lanka is eternal and will always be fondly remembered. The aching void left by his sudden departure is unbridgeable and will continue to be felt by millions of Sri Lankans for years and years to come. What his departure reminds us is the fact that time is ripe for Sri Lankan Buddhists to re-evaluate and re-think of our collective stand on national and religious issues of our motherland.

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane

CANADA

December 12, 2015

By Bhagavadas Srikanthadas

Before I am their equal”, I must become their superior”.

This daring contradiction was S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike’s well thought out recipe for gaining entry into the inner portals of Oxford.

An Englishman is generous in recognising merit in others; it is more difficult to overcome the various barriers to his friendship. Once, however, his respect is obtained, it is easy to become his friend. And what a true and loyal friend he can be!” exclaimed the man who found the golden key to English friendship”. D.B.Dhanapala

S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, known to many as a politician, was born on January 8, 1899 and succumbed to an assassin’s bullet on September 26, 1959. It’s unfortunate no serious study has been ever done to evaluate his life from a literary perspective.

To find out about Bandaranaike’s literary skills, his Speeches and writings” remains a treasure trove. This volume was published by the Department of Broadcasting and Information, to coincide with the fourth death anniversary of the late Prime Minister’s death. Bandaranaike’s Memories of Oxford” which appears in this volume is a collection of articles he wrote to a Colombo journal The Ceylon Causerie less than a decade after he left Oxford. This series of articles written in an elegant style, though at times may appear to be in stilted form, encapsulates his days at this prestigious institution. These writings help the reader to get a better understanding not only of the challenges that under-graduates from the colonies faced at Oxford, but also about the writer’s interest in the field he opted to study as well as some interesting information about a few of his contemporaries who were destined to enter the world of the literati.

S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike statue at Galle Face Green, Colombo 

Western classics
Bandaranaike owes a great deal to A.C. Radford for introducing him to western classics at an early age. It was Sir Solomon, father of young Bandaranaike, who engaged Radford of Cambridge University as full time private tutor to his son. The scholar from Cambridge not only introduced his protégé to Chaucer and Milton but also provided a thorough grounding in classics. As tutor he was provided accommodation at the ancestral residence of Bandaranaike’s at Horagolla, where he remained for four years till his protégé turned fifteen.

Later Bandaranaike was admitted to S Thomas’ College, Colombo as a boarder during the warden-ship of Stone. The tutoring he had from Radford provided young Bandaranaike with an edge over his classmates. Not surprisingly, a few years later when he sat for the Cambridge Senior he performed exceptionally well, obtaining distinctions in English and Latin.

Bandaranaike read classics at Oxford during a period where it was unusual for anyone other than an English public-schoolboy to read for Litterae Humaniores”. As an undergraduate at Oxford he was fascinated by Prof. Gilbert Murray’s lectures on Homer and Prof. Garrod’s on Virgil.

Oxford contemporaries
Amongst his Oxford contemporaries, there were a few who were destined to excel as writers of great repute. The friendship Bandaranaike forged with Edward Marjoribanks lasted till the early death of the latter. After leaving Oxford, Marjoribanks made great strides as a politician, lawyer and also an author. There are several books to his credit and The Life of Marshall Hall”, the biography of a great criminal lawyer, is considered to be his magnum opus.

In his Memories of Oxford” Bandaranaike also alludes to Evelyn Waugh, an undergraduate four years younger than him. Evelyn wrote several novels including Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust, etc. At Oxford when Bandaranaike was functioning as Junior Treasurer, prior to being elected as Secretary of the Union, had an ‘encounter’ with Waugh over collecting subscription which was in arrears.

Leelamani Naidu, daughter of Sarojini Naidu, attended Oxford during Bandaranaike’s days. According to him She possessed all the charm of her mother, and gave promise of developing much of her talent”.

The short story as a genre always fascinated Bandaranaike. In Memories of Oxford” he recalls a short story he wrote for the Cardinal’s Hat, his College magazine, which was returned”. This didn’t dampen his desire to try his hand as a short story writer on his return to Ceylon.

Loathing for respectable garment
After being away from home for six years, Bandaranaike returned in early 1925. To keep his literary interests alive in Ceylon, he co-edited The Island Review with J. Vijayatunga. In the September 1926 issue of this journal Bandaranaike’s short story The Kandy Perahera” appeared. This story serves as a prism for readers to view the conflict taking place within the writer and how it spilled over as a symbolic manifestation of loathing for ‘his stiff shirt front and collar’ considered by the West as the respectable garment of civilisation.

The Mystery of the Missing Candidate, a story serialised in the Sunday Times of Ceylon during the early part of 1951, gives a glimpse of the life a candidate has to put up with during a Sri Lankan election. This story is leavened with a touch of humour. By the time this story was written Bandaranaike had turned out to be a seasoned hustings performer, and was aware of the ways everyone paid blatant disregard to the edicts from the Election Office. Probably the writer sees in his hero, Sunil Rajapakse, a mirror image of himself! The hero lives in an ancestral house built during the Dutch period by his grandfather. Sunil Rajapakse on return from Oxford University on completion of his studies, takes to politics like the writer.

The story portrays how the candidate virtually becomes a prisoner in the hands of his supporters, dancing to their tune by participating in processions and propaganda meetings; the ancestral home turned into a twenty-four hour kitchen to feed all and sundry who masqueraded as well wishers. Bandaranaike through this story explains how politics can change an honourable person to trim his sails to every wind and make him lead a Jekyll and Hyde” life. Finally, Sunil Rajapakse, a person with an intellectual leaning, finds an escape route that would give him much needed tranquility.

Bandaranaike who enjoyed reading classics found equal pleasure with horror stories and detective novels. Edgar Alan Poe, Agatha Christie and Sherlock Homes are some of the writers to whom he alludes in his writings. In most of his short stories including The Horror of Mahahena, we come across a fictional character John Ratsinghe who helps us un-tangle mind boggling mysteries. Bandaranaike sees in John Ratsinghe the local counterpart of Sherlock Holmes – a truth he makes more obvious in The adventures of the Soulless Man.

Bandaranaike’s writings show he had enormous creative skills which if developed could have taken him to great literary heights. Probably he would have been another Evelyn Waugh!

Courtesy: The Nation

Sir Soloman Dias Bandaranaike with wife & SWRD as a baby

The Bandaranaike-Ratwatte wedding

“I attended the wedding of ‘Young Banda’ to Miss Ratwatte (daughter of Disawa Barnes Ratwatte and niece of the late Sir Cudah) at Balangoda and a week later, their ceremonial homecoming to Sir Solomon Bandaranaike’s residence near Veyangoda. This marriage is of great sociological and political importance. Whatever opinion one may hold of young Bandaranaike as Minister for Local Administration, or as founder and leader of the Sinhala Maha Sabha or as a pervert for political purposes from Christianity to Buddhism or as a master of nationalist rhetoric, one is bound to admit that he has taken to himself a wife who appears thoroughly nice, placid and sensible and that this union between a first-rank family of the lowlands with a first-rank family of the Kandyan highlands represents an accretion of considerable political influence to the Sinhala Maha Sabha.”

An Extract from ‘Things Ceylonese’: twelfth periodical report by Sir Andrew Caldecott for CO (Colonial Office) from British Documents on the End of Empire edited by K.M de Silva.

Death of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike (1959)

Photo:

Mrs. Sirima Bandranaike paying her last respects to her dead husband lying in state at their residence at Rosmead Place

From left to right R.G. Senanayake (Minister of Trade and Commerce), Lionel Fernando (Director of Information), Mrs. Sirima Bandaranaike, young Anura Bandaranaike (in national dress) 

Mrs. Sirima Bandaranaike with Chairman Mao Tse Tung in Beijing (1972)

Mrs. Sirima Bandaranaike welcoming Col. Muammar Gadaffi of Libya to the 5th Summit of the Non – Aligned Conference held in Colombo in 1976

Mrs. Sirima Bandaranaike with Saddham Hussein in Colombo (1975)

Mrs. Sirima Bandaranaike with Mrs. Indira Gandhi (1976)

See also  

The Assassination of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike An Anecdotal Reflection

https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2015/09/24/the-assassination-of-s-w-r-d-bandaranaike-an-anecdotal-reflection/

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror

The government is to conduct a forum of world renowned economists including some attached to the Harvard University , to advise on the implementation of the economic policy plan laid down by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, a Deputy Minister said yesterday.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Harsha de Silva told the Daily Mirror that this would be done early January.

He said these economists would advise the government on the implementation of these policies over a period.

We are going to consult the best economists in the world. They may be from different countries. This is organised by the Ministry of International Trade. There are economists attached to Harvard University, to attend it,” he said.

Ahead of the budget, the Prime Minister, in a statement to the House, outlined the economic policy.

Generation of one million economic opportunities, enhancing income levels, development of rural areas, ensuring land ownership to rural and estate sectors, and the middle class and government employees, and creating a wide and strong middle class are the aims of this economic policy.

The 2016 budget also serves as a roadmap for the achievements of these targets. (Kelum Bandara)

– See more at: http://www.dailymirror.lk/98897/harvard-economists-to-advise-sl-harsha#sthash.RU6TW3u6.dpuf

by Dasun Edirisinghe Courtesy Island

The Joint Opposition led by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s loyalists yesterday expressed their strong opposition to British involvement in military reforms in Sri Lanka.

Addressing the media at the N. M. Perera Centre in Colombo, former External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris said that accepting British funds for military reforms in Sri Lanka was a serious threat to the country’s national security.

According to a recent statement of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s office in UK, 6.6 mn pounds over a three-year period to support reconciliation, military reforms as well as displaced persons in Sri Lanka.

“Sri Lanka was a British colony then and got Independence by sacrificing lives, but it will become their colony again with this initiative,” Prof. Peiris said.

He said that PM Cameron had also offered to appoint a non-resident defence attache and access to UK military training courses to help Sri Lankan military reforms.

Prof. Peiris asked how a New Delhi-based UK military attache’ could handle and monitor funds for the Sri Lankan Army directly. Instead, he said the Sri Lankan government should fund the army without falling into a British trap.

The present government had planned to release 269 hardcore LTTE cadres and delist eight non governmental organisations which were accused of LTTE links, he said, adding that the same organisations were now campaigning around the world displaying LTTE flags as well as on social media networks for fund raising.

Prof. Peiris said the present government was working according to promises it had made to the international community and the TNA before the Jan. 08 presidential election.

“We will continue our protests with legal and political action against this anti-constitutional activities of the government,” Prof. Peiris said.

Former Minister and Ratnapura District MP Vasudeva Nanayakkara and Former Minister Prof. Tissa Vitarana also addressed the media.

A. Abdul Aziz – Press Secretary. AHMADIYYA  MUSLIM  JAMA’AT – SRI LANKA

A three member delegation led by Mr. A.H. Nasir Ahmad – National President of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Sri Lanka (AMJSL) met Honorable. R.  Sampanthan, M.P., Leader of the Opposition, at Parliament Complex, Sri Jeyawardenapura, Kotte on 9 December 2015

Welcomed the delegation, the Opposition Leader showed his attention towards the brief introduction about the Community put forward by Mr. Anis Ahmad, National Vice President (AMJSL). Mr. A.H. Nasir Ahmad briefed about the Holy Qur’an translations being done by World-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and pointed out that the Community had translated this Holy Book into 76 languages world over. The Opposition Leader commended this noble task and said he accepts this gift with utmost gratitude.

Mr. A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary (AMJSL) pointed out about the unique feature of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and said that this is the only Community which has Spiritual Leadership and termed as ONE COMMUNITY – ONE LEADER’. He added that the Community’s motto is ’LOVE FOR ALL; HATRED FOR NONE’.

The Opposition Leader was also told about the tireless efforts being made by the Khalifa and the Ahmadiyya worldwide leader, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, by spreading the true teachings of Islam through various means, particularly addressing lawmakers at Capitol Hill, EU Parliament, in Ireland Parliament, and recently the Dutch Parliament. He was informed about the gist of His Holiness’ address during the recent Dutch Parliament visit.

A copy of the Sinhala Translation of the Holy Qur’an with some other literatureS including Peace Messages in English as well as Sinhala were presented. He was also  presented the copy of addresses of the Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ‘The World Crisis and the Path Way to Peace’ and the Sinhala Translation of the book ‘The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam’ written by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam ahmad – Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the Promised Messiah and Imam-al-Mahdi.

Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwwara 9.12.2015.

I appeal to all patriotic Sri Lankans, especially the Sinhala Buddhists and the legal fraternity who are not servile to any political party to draw their immediate and serious attention to the following two news items and, if the news paper reports are correct, first to lodge their protest to the Government against this decision and ask the Government to stop this madness forthwith. Second if they don’t listen, then to organize a countrywide protest against this treacherous move and continue it nonstop until the Government withdraws this decision and chase out those so-called advisors and experts already come on invitation to destabilize, disintegrate and destroy our motherland and pause  a serious threat to national security. They also should demand this Government to apologize to the people and also to the legal fraternity of this country as it is a shame and a humiliation by the country and the entire nation and ask to sack those responsible for his blunder. If they don’t listen, I suggest the protesters ask these politicians responsible to seek election to the Parliaments of those countries from where the experts have been invited.

Isn’t it a disgrace on a Parliament having 225 Members and the entire legal fraternity of this country if they are unable to find the necessary expertise to either reform of draw a new Constitution for this country? As for me I strongly believe they can. After all it is the patriotic legal circles and the intellectuals of this country who know best about the needs of the people of this country. And this Constitution is going to be the supreme law of this country, not Britain, USA,      Norway           or         India.   I am thoroughly disgusted and dismayed over this subservience and servility on the part of the Government. I am sure it can find more decent ways of paying its debt to these international ‘friends’ for helping them to defeat MR without humiliating the whole nation and losing a nation’s self respect. I thought we have got freed, at least partially, out of this colonial bondage long ago. The UNP that runs the present Government has miserably failed even in 1948 to assert, reclaim, restore and protect our pride as a 2500 year old civilization when it timidly gave in to the dictates of British colonial hegemony by accepting Governor Moors dictates to adopt the word UNP and Jenning’s Constitution wherein the seeds of communal politics were first legally enshrined. Thereby it accepted that there is more than one nation in this country. Firstly, by accepting the name of the newly found political Party as UNP and the Sec 29 of the Constitution (both of which conceded to the concept of presence of many nation in this country), whereas at the time of cession in1815 there was only one nation in this country, that being the Sinhala nation. Secondly, it also failed to demand for the original name Sinhale to be inserted in the Constitution which was the name of the country handed over in 1815 by accepting the name Ceylon with the Sinhala translation Lankawa that has created innumerable problems thereafter.  I only cited this instance to show readers as to how our politicians have blundered in handling national issues even in the past. Curse to all those who have betrayed the motherland and the nation then and also those who follow suit now.

I doubt whether those pundits who have invited these foreign experts have obtained prior Parliamentary approval to get down them. If not, that again amounts to a betrayal of the sovereignty of the people by this Government. Importing foreign lawyers who do not know what Sri Lanka is and its history or culture to draft a constitution is not second to getting down ‘experts’ from Italy sometime back to saw coconut trees in Batticaloa.        

            UK to work with Lankan military (Island Dec 7^th)

                ‘UK will work with the Sri Lankan military on accountability issues in the wake of the country co-sponsoring a resolution at the UNHRC. British Defense Adviser in New Delhi will concurrently function as non-resident military representative for Sri Lanka to facilitate the process. UK is a member of the UNHRC comprising 47 countries’

Norway experts to Change the constitution (Divina 6.12, 2015)

               ‘The Government has decided to get foreign expert assistance to effect the necessary Constitutional changes for the abolition of the Executive Presidential system and to revise the election system.  The Government has already invited number of experts from a number of countries including Norway. Meanwhile the Norway expert is expected to arrive in the Island on December 7^th. A member of the Cabinet subcommittee appointed to make recommendation on these reforms said among other things these experts will advice and provide guidelines ton these issues.’

                The promises made by these people at the elections were to replace the existing Constitution with a new one. Later it also said that it is going to appoint a Constitutional Council to draft a new Constitution

My question is as to why this Government resorts to this type of antinational tactics to destroy this country. We all know how countries like Britain and all other Western allies acted against this country at the UNHR to pin us down. We also know how these imperial powers have exploited us in the past and how they have destabilized our countries for centuries. We also know how they have supported the LTTE to ruin this country. We also know how they continue to do the same thing even today. In this backdrop why doesn’t the Government get Samantha power, Nawanedan Pille, Kerry or that lean tall hungry looking former US Ambassador in Sri Lanka Mr Blake or the Prime Minister of the Interim LTTE Government in New York or that deported Tamil Bishop of Global Tamil Forum living in London, looked after by Cameron, Jayalaitha or Karunanidhi to advice on the new Constitution for us. I really cannot comprehend what a wonderful set of legislators we have in our Parliament who does not have that wee bit of brain to understand the danger of putting these serpents under their clothes.

Meanwhile please see the following two development package as well by the EU and India to get further insight in to the de-Sinhalization conspiracy programme deployed by these western intruders and India. They all built for Tamils only in the North, East and on the Plantations thereby creating and strengthening polarization of ethnic Tamil settlements all over the country, a virtual canker for all future reconciliations, one of the main accusations by the UNHRC against Sri Lanka. Under the 13^th A, India asked JR to make Tamil also an Official Language here, while it is not even in India. JR meekly did it. India asked him to give citizenship to all estate Tamils He did that too, violating all national and international procedures by making the citizens by an affidavit worth one rupee? India asked JR to accept the North and east as traditional Tamil Home lands in this country. JR granted that as well. I am not surprised even if this International community and India ask Ranil- Sirisena Government to accept Colombo District also as a Tamil enclave as the majority, with those who have been recently packed in, there, are already Tamils. When you see how things are lining up and the dead silence of the people no one should be surprised even if they grant it on a platter in the name of national reconciliation, if saying no to that will affect their positions.

EU supports building of houses in Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu and Batticaloa via Euro14 m grant

Tuesday, 8 December 2015 00:04

With a financial envelope of Euro 14 million, more than 300,000 people are expected to benefit from the support provided by the European Union to build houses and improve community infrastructure for internally displaced people and returnees.
The activities will be implemented from 2016-2018 in nine selected divisions of the Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu and Batticaloa districts by Habitat for Humanity. This initiative dovetails on the earlier housing programs for which the European Union contributed with Euro 50 million in the districts of Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya and Batticaloa.
Speaking during the signing of the project, Ambassador of the Delegation of the European Union to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, David Daly said: The project contributes to a sustainable solution for returnee families with the specific objective of improving the living conditions and social cohesion of displaced people, returnees and their host communities. This is not just an infrastructure project, but an initiative that will contribute to livelihood support through skills development and loan facilities to help people build towards a more hopeful future.”

The initiative aims to construct houses for almost 16, 000 conflict-affected persons, in cooperation with World Vision Lanka. To minimise debt, vulnerable families will receive supplements for loan repayments. In addition, more than 60,000 people in 60 villages will be supported through financial, disaster preparedness and construction trainings. To provide more holistic development support and increase livelihood opportunities, Habitat for Humanity will provide vocational and skills development training to households, persons active in the trade sector and youth in construction related services. 
This project will also follow a homeowner driven process” of construction, whereby the selected families will contribute through their own labour towards the reconstruction efforts. The project also provides support to the domestic economy by sourcing all building material locally. The project also aims to safeguard women’s rights by ensuring their participation in community consultation meetings and decision making process.
At Habitat for Humanity, we believe that housing is not a product but a process. It is not enough to build houses, we need to turn them into homes and empower homeowners to transition from poverty and dependency to independence and self-sufficiency,” says Greg Foster, Area Vice President for Habitat for Humanity Europe, Middle East and Africa. This is exactly what we hope to do for the war affected communities in Sri Lanka. We want to show them”

The billion question I am compelled to ask the Government in this instance is as to why the hell it allows these foreigners who are our sworn enemies to freely interfere and intervene with our internal matters to promote division of the country on ethnic basis which the British did it from 1815 continuously and carry on up to date as if this country is still under them? I don’t think any other country in the world has allowed this type of selective and direct aid to particular groups within their countries.

Implementation of these selective packages further aggravates the existing tendencies to isolate different ethnic groups and prompt them to think as separate ‘nations’ as they do even now. This situation will further complicate the reconciliation process. Therefore this modern device of divide and rule  packages should be immediately suspended until arrangements are made to allocate these houses and all other facilities on national ethnic ratio basis, eg S 70% T18% and M 7%. These new settlements should also me mixed settlements where land will be allocated by lots to avoid communal segregation and promote inter ethnic harmony.

India Committed to Build 50,000 Houses in Sri Lanka: Government

By PTI

‘Published: 08th December 2015 02:16 PM

Last Updated: 08th December 2015 02:16 PM

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NEW DELHI: India is committed to build 50,000 houses for internally displaced people in Sri Lanka, Lok Sabha was informed today.

Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said the project envisages construction of new houses and repair of damaged houses and it is being implemented through two models, agency driven and owner-beneficiary driven.

“The beneficiaries of the housing project are identified through a consultative process,” he said in reply to a written question. Rijiju said as per the information received from the state governments of Tamil Nadu and Odisha, a total of 1,01,368 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees are presently staying in the country.

“There has been no organised repatriation of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees since 1995,” he said.             The Minister said the Sri Lankan government has released nearly 2,000 acres of land to internally displaced persons in the Northern and Eastern provinces.

In January 2015, the External Affairs Minister, during her meeting with visiting Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, has urged the Sri Lankan government to create conducive environment for Sri Lankan refugees to return to Sri Lanka.

The Sri Lankan government has been extending facilities, including education, civil documentation and medical services to any returning Sri Lankan citizen after staying as refugee, including in India, he said’.

At the same time look at the way how the Sinhala Mpp keep dumb, deaf and blind to the plight of the Kandyan Peasants who have sacrificed so much over 300 years to save this country from these colonial invaders and who had been robbed  of their lands and life in millions to save the Motherland for posterity. Has anyone spoken at least a single word about the imminent danger that will befall on them by this approach to foreign assistance and by this type of interferences.  All foreign aid should be channeled through the government of the country.  If you are going to allow all our enemies to come in and play hell like this, then why should we have a Government? Hasn’t the government failed miserably in its most fundamental duty of national security, protecting the country from foreign invasion by allowing outsiders to have their own governments within our country?

ALI SUKHANVER

If we blame the whole nation for the misdeeds of a handful of people it is simply injustice. It is true that after Mr. Modi’s coming into government, the extremist elements in the Indian society have become stronger, the incidents of cruelty against the Muslims have increased and one could very easily feel a wave of intolerance against the Muslims in India but it does not mean that the whole of the Indian society must be held responsible for the situation. On the whole the Indian people are peace loving and cordial in nature. They are very much successful in the field of science and technology, education, poetry and film-making. They own a very fertile heritage regarding culture and civilization but a handful of extremist element there is simply damaging the repute and character of the whole of Indian nation. Until unless a strict eye is kept on this extremist element no peace effort between India and her neighboring countries could be successful. Recently India’s Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj came to Pakistan to attend the Heart of Asia Security Conference. Her visit to Pakistan was in fact the first significant engagement between India and Pakistan since the meeting between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and PM Narendra Modi in July at Ufa earlier this year. It is being hoped that this visit of Swaraj would pave way to better relations between Pakistan and India. During her visit she had a meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad amid efforts by both countries to improve ties. Sources say that she conveyed to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif India’s commitment to ‘good neighbourly relations’. Earlier talking at the ‘Heart of Asia Summit’, she said it was time that India and Pakistan displayed “maturity” in doing business with each other. She added that on India is prepared to move her cooperation at a pace which Pakistan is comfortable with.  Media reports say that the first visit by an Indian foreign minister to Pakistan in three years comes as part of a series of events following a surprise meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif in Paris two weeks ago on the sidelines of the climate change conference. That meeting led to secret talks between the National Security Advisors of both countries in Bangkok last week. Things are no doubt moving to a positive direction but for ‘good neighbourly relations’ the most important thing is to discourage the blame game which has become a hobby of different politicians and media-men in India. Two weeks back the Indian media at once started blaming Pakistan of supporting the freedom fighters in the Indian Occupied Kashmir without any proof. The tradition of dragging Pakistan into Kashmir conflict is very old but after Modi’s coming into power this tradition has become stronger. On one hand Muslim actors, film directors, poets and singers are being victimized in India, on the other hand the blame game with reference to the Indian Occupied Kashmir is also on its bloom. Every day the Indian newspapers are replete with the anti-Pakistan statements of the Indian extremist leaders.

The Indian government is continuously depriving the people of Kashmir of their basic human rights. Executive Orders like AFSPA are simply making the life of Kashmir people painful as much as possible. Armed Forces Special Powers Act grants special powers to the Indian Armed Forces in so-called disturbed areas. This Act of 1958 is commonly known as ‘a draconian law’ and it allows even a junior non-commissioned officer to ‘shoot to kill’ on mere suspicion in order to maintain ‘Public Order’. This license to murder is widely misused by the security forces in India particularly in Indian Occupied Kashmir. Some of the moderate politicians of India call this license ‘a trigger-happy culture of governance’. The Act has been employed in the Indian administrated state of Jammu and Kashmir since 1990. As per rules and regulations the security forces of any country must be the custodians of human rights and civil privileges but in the Indian Occupied Kashmir the situation is altogether different. Under the shield of AFSPA, the security forces are butchering and slaughtering the innocent people of the Indian Occupied Kashmir. Various human rights activists have ever been expressing their reservations regarding this inhuman and brutal Act but they are never listened to. The Kashmiris are a nation according to any definition. They must be given the same rights which other nations are enjoying. India’s Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj has a lot of experience regarding political and strategic affairs and she enjoys the repute of a balanced and unprejudiced personality. People of Kashmir expect from her that she would do all possible for giving back the basic human rights to the helpless Kashmiris. And this step would be the first step in bringing the two countries closer and in making the region a homeland to peace and prosperity.

මන්ත‍්‍රී වැටුපත් ජනාධිපති විශ‍්‍රාම වැටුපත් දෙකම ලබා ගන්නේ යයි මුදල් ඇමති රවි කරුණානායක මහතා විසින් එල්ල කරනු ලැබූ චෝදනාවකට හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා අදහස් පල කලේ මෙසේය

https://youtu.be/h7QaN0ojXdc

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග 

යාපනයේ කෝපායි උතුරට අයත් කොකුවිල් ප‍්‍රදේශයේ ජීවත්වූ 18 හැවිරිදි රාජේස්වරන් සෙන්දුරන් නම් ශිෂ්‍යයා දෙමළ දේශපාලන සිරකරුවන් නිදහස් කරන්නැයි ඉල්ලමින් නොවැම්බර් විසිහයවැනිදා කොන්ඩාවිල් දුම්රිය ස්ථානය අසල කන්කසන්තුරයි සිට යාපනය බලා ධාවනය වෙමින් තිබුණු දුම්රියට පැන සිය දිවි හානි කර ගත්තේය​. අභාග්‍යකට මෙන් සෙන්දුරන්ගේ මරණය මේ වන විට උතුරේ දේශපාලකයන් උත්කර්ෂයට පත් කරගනිමින් සිටිති. ළමා සොල්දාදුවන් බිහි කරමින් දමිළ සමාජයේ මහා සංස්කෘතික ව්‍යසනයක් ඇති කල  කාලය යළි පුනරුක්තියේ යොදවමින් නොමේරූ තරුණයන් ගේ ජීවිත සමග සෙල්ලම් කරන කැත සෙල්ලම යළිත් වරක් ආරම්භ කිරීමට ඇතැමෙකු වෙර දැරීම පිලිකුල් සහගතය​.

සෙන්දුරන්  උපත ලබන්නේ 1997 කෝපායිහිදීය. සෙන්දුරන්ගේ පියා තමන්ගේ ඉඩමක කෙසෙල් සහ එළවළු වගා කරන ඉතා දිළිඳු ගොවියෙකි. ඊලාම් යුද්ධය අවසන් වූ 2009 කාලයේ සෙන්දුරන් වයස අවුරුදු දොළහක ළමයෙකි. සෙන්දුරන්ගේ කිසිදු ඥාතියෙකු දේශපාලන සිරකරුවෙකු ලෙස සිටින බවක් වාර්තා වී නොමැත. එහෙත් ජීවිතය මරණින් කෙලවර කර ගැනීමට අවශ්‍ය කෙරන නිර්දය විනාශකාරී අදහස ඔහු තුල හට ගත්තේ කෙසේද ?

කුඩා කාලයේ සිට සෙන්දුරන්  හැදී වැඩෙන්නේ උතුරුකර යුද්දයත් සමගිනි. දරිද්‍රතාව , සමාජ ව්‍යාකුලභාවය , අවතැන්වීම් , යුද ආතතිය වැනි අභාවවාචකයන් සමග හැදී වැඩෙන දරුවෙකුගේ මනස ප්‍රකෘතිමත් නොමැත​. ඔවුන් බොහෝ විට දුස්සාධ්‍ය විශාදය මෙන්ම ප්ශ්චාත් ක්ලමථ ලක්‍ෂණයන් ගෙන් පෙලෙති. මෙවැනි අපරිණත හා මානසික ව්‍යාධියන් ගෙන් පෙලෙන කොටස් පරිචාරණය කිරීම ඉතා පහසුය​.   මේ කොටස් මගින් ළමා සොල්දාදුවන් බිහි කරවා ගැනීම මෙන්ම  ඔවුන් ගේ මරණ ආශය සක්‍රිය කොට ඔවුන් දේශපාලන අරමුණු වෙනුවෙන් දිවි නසා ගැනීමට , මරාගෙන මැරීමට යොමු කරවිය හැක. සෙන්දුරන් ගේ දිවි නසා ගැනීම සාකච්ඡා කළ යුත්තේ මේ කරුණුද අවධානයට යොමු කර ගනිමිනි​. මෙම කරුණු බැහැර කොට එය ජීවිත පරිත්‍යාගයකට හෝ වීරත්වයකට ආදේශ කරන්නා අන්තවාදියෙකු මෙන්ම ආත්ම වංචනිකයෙකුද වේ.

යාපනයේ සෙන්දුරන් දිවි නසා ගත්තද දෙමළ දේශපාලන සිරකරුවන් නිදහස් කරන්නැයි ඉල්ලමින් එංගලන්තය , කැනඩාව , ඇමරිකාව ඕස්ටෙ‍්‍රලියාව වැනි  සංවර්ධිත බටහිර රට වල ජීවත් වෙන සෙන්දුරන් ගේ වයසේ ද්‍රවිඩ  ගැටවරයන් දිවි නසා ගන්නේ නැත​. ඔවුන් සැප සම්පත් මත ජීවිතය විඳිති.  නමුත් යාපනයේ සෙන්දුරන්ලාට  ජීවිතය විඳීමට තවමත් ඉඩක් නොමැත.  ළමා සොල්දාදුවන් බිහි කරන ලද විනාශකාරී බලවේග තවමත් ඔවුන් අතර සැරිසරති. එම බලවේග සෙන්දුරන්ලා මරණයට පොලඹවා ගනිමින් ආත්ම ඝාතනය උත්කර්‍ෂයට පත් කරවති. රාජිනී තිරණාගම වැනි සමාජ ක්‍රියාධාරිනියන් එදා මරණය වන්දනා කරවන  මෙවැනි දුර්භාග්‍ය  දේශපාලන කල්ට් ප්‍රතික්ශේප කලේ ඉන් දමිළ ජනතාවට සිදු වන සෙතක් නොමැති බව තේරුම්ගෙනය. එය උතුරේ ඇතැම් දේශපාලනඥයන් වටහාගෙන නොතිබීම ඛේදයකි.

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