-සුරකිමු ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංවිධානයේ පණිවිඩයකි

• බොරු හේතු දක්වමින් සංවර්ධන ව්‍යාපෘති මුදල් වෙන්කර තිබු ව්‍යාපෘති 58000 ක් අත්හිටුවීම නිසා රැකියා දස දහස් ගණනක් අහිමි වී ජනතාව අසීරුවට පත්විය .සංවර්ධනය කඩාකප්පල් වී ආර්ථිකය වඳ පීදී ඇති බව පැවසුවේ යහපාලනයක් වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටි ජවිපෙ විසිනි .
• ආණ්ඩුවේ වැරදි ආර්ථික කළමනාකරණය නිසා ගිය වසරේ ගත්තාටත් වඩා ණය ප්‍රමාණයක් දැනටමත් බැඳුම්කර හරහා මෙම ආණ්ඩුව ලබාගෙන ඇත.
• සේවක අතිරික්තයක් ඇති කරමින් රටේ මුල්‍ය අර්බුද ඇති කරමින් මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශයේ නිර්දේශ නොතකා දේශපාලන හිතවත්කම් මත ජල සම්පාදන මණ්ඩලයට සේවකයන් 600 ක් බඳවාගැනීම – මුලාශ්‍ර 2015 -06 10 දිවයින
• රුපියල අවප්‍රමාණය වීම නිසා බොහෝ අත්‍යවශ්‍ය ද්‍රව්‍යවල මිල ගණන් අධික ලෙස ඉහළ යාම -මුලාශ්‍ර 2015 -06 -10 දිවයින
• කරුන්කා ගනුදෙනුව වැනි වංචනික දුෂිත ගනුදෙනු නිසා රේගුවේ පරිපාලනයට බලපෑම් කිරීම -මුලාශ්‍ර 2015 -06 10 දිවයින
• සමෘද්ධිලාභීන් නොවන සිය පාක්ෂිකයන්ට සමෘද්ධි අරමුදලෙන් මුදල් නිසි ක්‍රමවේදයකින් තොරව හිතුමතේ බෙදාදීම -මුලාශ්‍ර 2015 -06 -09 දිවයින
• මුදල් නොමැතිකම නිසා ජ්‍යෙෂ්ට පුරවැසි දීමනාව අත්හිටුවීම මුලාශ්‍ර 2015 -06-08 දිවයින
• වෛද්‍ය උපාධිධාරීන්ට පත්වීම් නොදීම නිසා සෞක්‍ය සේවයේ බිඳවැටීම් ඇති වීම සහ රැකියා අර්බුදයක් නිර්මාණය වීම -මුලාශ්‍ර 2015-6-07 දිවයින
• අල අස්වනු නෙලන කාලයේ අර්තාපල් බදු අඩුකොට හිතවත් මහාපරිමාණ ආනයනකරුවන්ට සහන සැලසීමෙන් අර්තාපල් ආනයනය කොට දේශීය ගොවියා අසරණ කිරීම 2015 -06-10 ජානිපෙ මාධ්‍ය හමුවේදී ගොවි සංවිධාන සභාපති නිමල් පියතිස්ස මහතා
• සුදුසුකම් නැතිව බඳවාගත් සේවකයන් නිසා වරායේ වර්ජනයක් ඇතිවීම මුලාශ්‍ර 2015 -06 – දිවයින
• රට ණය උගුලක හිරකරන බවට මහින්ද රජයට චෝදනා කළද සංවර්ධනයක් නැති එදිනෙදා වැඩ කටයුතු වලට ණය ලබා ගන්නා ආණ්ඩුවේ ණය ලබාගැනීම්

• මහා බැංකු මුල්‍ය වංචාව නිසා සිදු වූ පාඩුව කෝටි 6000 ඉක්මවා ඇති අතර වසර 30 අවසන් වන විට එහි පාඩුව තවත් ඉහළ යනු ඇත .
• රජයේ මැදිහත්වීමෙන් පාරිභෝගිකයන්ට සාධාරණ මිලට භාණ්ඩ ලබාදුන් ලක් සතොස සෘජු රැකියා 3200 ක් අනතුරේ හෙළමින් පරිහානියට යාම .
• 2000 % කොමිස් ගසමින් ගසාකෑම් සිදු කරන බවට චෝදනා කළ අධිවේගී මාර්ග ප්‍රමිතිය බාල කොට පසුගිය රජයේ මිලටම නැවත වැඩ ආරම්භ කිරීම .උදා වත්තල කෙරවලපිටිය කොටස

• උතුර කොටින් පාලනය කරන සමයේ දරුවන්ට කාන්තාවන්ට සම්පුර්ණ ආරක්ෂාව තිබු බවත් හමුදාව පැමිණීමෙන් පසුව තත්වය අයහපත් වූ බවත් ආණ්ඩු පෙරළියෙන් පසුව හමුදාවෙන් නිදහස් වෙන්නට සිතන බවත් එජාප සංවිධායිකා සහ නියෝජ්‍ය ඇමතිනි විජයකලා මහත්මිය පැවසීම සහ එජාපය ඒ ගැන මුනිවත රැකීම
•  ජාතික සංහිදියාවක් ඇති කිරීම සඳහා උතුරු නැගෙනහිර එක්කළ යුතු බවත් එම ප්‍රදේශවල ඉඩම් නැවත දෙමළ ජනතාවට දිය යුතු බව ජාතික විධායක කමිටු සාමාජික ආර් සම්බන්ධන් මහතා පැවසීම සහ රජය ඒ ගැන මුනිවත රැකීම මුලාශ්‍ර 2015-06-10 දිවයින
• කොටි යලි ශක්තිමත් වෙමින් සිටින බවත් කොටි මුල්‍ය ජාලය සහ ජාත්‍යන්තර ජාලය හොඳින් ක්‍රියාත්මක වෙන බවත් අමෙරිකානු රාජ්‍ය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව හෙළි කලත් රජය ඒ පිළිබඳ තැකීමක් නොකිරීම මුලාශ්‍ර 2015-06-23 දිවයින
• කුරිරු කොටි ත්‍රස්තවාදීන්ව පෝෂණය කළ ගෝලීය ද්‍රවිඩ සංසදය ඇතුළු තහනම් කොටි හිතවාදී සංවිධාන 16 ක් සමග ලංකාවේ විදේශ ඇමතිවරයා ලන්ඩන් නගරයේදී රහස් සාකච්ඡා පැවැත්වීම .මුලාශ්‍ර 2015-06-14 දිවයින
• කොටි දෙමල ඩයස්පෝරා සැණකෙළියක් කොළඹදී පැවැත්වීමට ජනපති එකඟවීම .මුලාශ්‍ර 2015-06-21 දිවයින
• හමුදාවේ චිත්ත ධෛර්ය පහළ දමමින් ආන්දෝලනාත්මක නඩු විභාගයකින් පසුව දිගුදුර විහිදුම් බලකායේ හමුදා සෙබළෙක් පෝරකයට යැවීම සහ මරාගෙන මැරෙන කළු කොටි ඇතුළු දරුණු කොටි ත්‍රස්තවාදීන් නිදහස් කිරීමට සාකච්ඡා කිරීම .
• එජාප අපේක්ෂිකා විජයකලා මහේෂ්වරන් විසින් මැතිවරණයෙන් පසුව යාපනයේ සියලු පොලිස් ස්ථාන වසා දමන බවට ප්‍රකාශයක් කිරීම සහ රජය මුනිවත රැකීම . මුලාශ්‍ර Asian Tribune 2015-07-10
• දෙමළ බෙදුම්වාදීන්ගේ ඉල්ලීම පරිදි පළාත්වලට බලය බෙදන බව රනිල් අගමැතිවරයා ප්‍රකාශ කිරීම මුලාශ්‍ර අද දෙරණ 2015-07-12
• ලබන මැතිවරණයේදී ටී එන් ඒ ජයග්‍රහණයෙන් දෙමළ ජනතා අභිලාෂයන් ඉටු කරන බවත් ඒ සඳහා ආණ්ඩුව හැසිරවීමේ බලය උතුරු නැගෙනහිර ජනතාව තමන්ට ලබාදෙන බවත් ආර් සම්බන්ධන් මහතා ත්‍රිකුණාමලයෙදී පවතී රැස්වීමකදී කියයි .මුලාශ්‍ර හෙළබිම පුවත් වෙබ්අඩවිය

• කිසිම චෝදනවාක් අදටත් නැති මොහාන් පිරිස් අග්‍රවිනිශ්චකරු ව්‍යවස්ථාවට පටහැනිව ඉවත් කිරීම, මේ රටේ නීතියේ ආධිපත්‍ය ජනාධිපති බලතල වලින් පාගා දැමු අවස්ථාවකි .* ජනපතිවරණයකින් පාර්ලි‌‌මේන්තු බලය වෙනස් කොට බහුතරය පසෙක සිටියදී සුළුතරයකට ආණ්ඩු බලය ලබාදීම ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදයට එරෙහි පියවරකි .
• බැඳුම්කර සිද්ධියට අදාල කෝප් වාර්තාව ප්‍රසිද්ධ කිරීමට එරෙහිව අතුරුතහනම් නියෝගයක් අධිකරණ නියෝජ්‍ය ඇමති විසින් ලබා ගැනීම, ජනතාවගේ තොරතුරු දැනගැනීමේ අයිතියට වැට බැඳීමකි.
• රනිල් අගමැතිවරයා මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් පවත්වා විරුද්ධ මතධාරී මාධ්‍යවේදීන් පිරිසකට ජාතිවාදීන් යයි අශ්ලීල අයුරින් ප්‍රසිද්ධියේ බැන වැදී තර්ජනය කිරීම
• කිසිදු විශ්වාසභංග යෝජනාවක් චන්ද විමසීමකට ලක්නොකරන බවට පැවසීම .මුලාශ්‍ර 2015 -06 08 දිවයින
• ආණ්ඩුව සහ විපක්ෂය කුමක්දැයි හඳුනාගත නොහැකි තරමට විපරීත දේශපාලන තත්වයක් නිර්මාණය වීම .තමන් ආණ්ඩුවේද විපක්ෂයේද යන්න පැහැදිලි නැති අංජ බජල් තත්වයක් ඇතැයි එස් බී දිසානායක ඇමතිවරයාගේ ප්‍රකාශය උදාහරණයකි .2015 -06 -16 ලංකාදීප

• රටවල් රැසක් සමග තරග කොට ලබාගත් ආසියානු ක්‍රීඩා උළෙල පැවැත්වීම රටේ පවතින දේශපාලන අස්ථාවරත්වය හේතුවෙන් අත්හිටුවන ලදී .මෙමගින් රටේ කීර්තියට හානි සිදු වූ අතර ක්‍රීඩා ක්ෂේත්‍රයෙන් පමණක් නොව සංචාරක ක්‍ෂේත්‍රයෙන් අපට ලබාගත හැකිව තිබු වාසි රැසක් අහිමි විය මුලාශ්‍ර -බී බී සී වෙබ්අඩවිය
• මහින්ද රජය කුණු ගඳ ගහන රෝග බහුල කොළඹ නගරය ඇතුළු නගර පිරිසිදු හරිත නගර බවට පත්කොට ජනතාවට ව්‍යායාම් මංතීරු සකසා විවේකය ගතකිරීමට උයන් සකස් කළත් ඒවා නිසි පරිදි නඩත්තු නොකිරීම නිසා අභාවයට යමින් ඇත
• ආසියානු මළල ක්‍රීඩා උළෙලේ එකම පදක්කම්ලාභිනිය වූ නිමාලි ලියනාරච්චි මෙනෙවියට රජයෙන් කිසිදු සැලකිල්ලක් නොදැක්වීම
• වෛද්‍ය උපාධිධාරීන්ට පත්වීම් නොදීම නිසා සෞක්‍ය සේවයේ බිඳවැටීම් ඇති වීම සහ රැකියා අර්බුදයක් නිර්මාණය වීම -මුලාශ්‍ර 2015-6-07 දිවයින

•   2014 අයවැයෙන් පිරිවෙන් නගා සිටුවීමට වෙන් කල රු ලක්ෂ 5 ක මුදලක් නව අධයාපන ඇමතිවරයා විසින් ජාතික පාසල්වල පුනරාවර්තන වියදම් ලෙස මාරු කර ඇත.
• යහපාලන ආන්ඩුව මගින් දහම්පාසල් ධර්මාචාර්‍ය විභාගය නැවැත්වීමට යෝජනා කරමින් තිබීම.
• භික්ෂු විශ්‍යවිද්‍යාලයට බඳවා ගන්නා භික්ෂුන් වහන්සේලා සංඛයාව කප්පාදු කිරීම මගින් බෞද්ධ අධයාපනයට ඇති අවස්ථාව අහිමි කිරීමට වෑයම් කිරිම.
• 2009න් පසු උතුරේ සීඝ්‍රයෙන් මත්ද්‍රවය ප්‍රවර්දනය වූ බවද එය සිංහල හමුදාවේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් සිදුවන බව විග්නේෂන් කරන ප්‍රකාශය හමුදාව උතුරින් ඉවත් කිරීමේ තවත් වෑයමකි. සැබෑව නම් උතුරට මත්ද්‍රවය රැගෙන ඒමත් දකුණට ප්‍රවාහනය කිරීමත් දෙකම සිදු කරන ලද්දේ එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ විසිනි.
• ආගමික උත්සව නොපවත්වන්නේ යයි කියා අරලිය ගහ මැඳුරේ ධර්ම දේශනා තහනම් කළත් රාමසාන් මුස්ලිම් ආගමික උත්සවයක් පැවැත්වීම
• දළදා මාලිගාව වටා රේස් පැදි බවට හා ඒ හරහා දේශපාලන වාසි ලබා ගැනීමට ෆොටෝෂෝප් වලින් සකස් කල ජායාරූප ප්‍රසිද්ධ කරමින් දළදා වහන්සේ නිග්‍රහයට පත් කිරීම.සැබවින්ම දීර්ග කාලයක් මුළුල්ලේ පැවති නුවර රේස් පැදීම නවතා දැමුවේ මහින්ද පාලන යුගය තුලයි .
• ජිනීවාහිදී සමලිංගිකයින්ට පක්ෂ වූ එකම ආසියාතික රට ලෙස ශ්‍රිලංකාව සහයෝගය දීම හා ඒ හරහා ශ්‍රි ලාංකීය බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතිය අවමානයට ලක්වීම හා අනාගතයේදි ලංකාව තුල සමලිංගික විවාහ නීතිගත කිරීම පිළිබඳ අවදානම මතුවීම.
• කුඩු කැසිනෝ එතනෝල් තුරන් කරනවා කියා බලයට පැමිණි නව එතනෝල් බලපත් දෙමින් ඒවා තවත් ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම

-ඉසුරු ප‍්‍රසංග මූලාශ්‍ර – (බිදුණු වම් අත – ජවිපෙ නිරවි මර්දනයට පසුවදනක් කෘතිය- ඉසුරු ප‍්‍රසංග)

මේ ලිපියෙහි දක්වා ඇත්තේ යුධ ජයග‍්‍රහණයේ තීරණාත්මක කාලවකවානුවලදී ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ ඊට එරෙහිව කටයුතු කළ ආකාරය පිළිබඳ උදාහරණ කීපයකි. මේ පිරිස අද හෘද සාක්ෂියක් ගැන කියමින් නැවතත් මැතිවරණයකට ප‍්‍රවේශ වී තිබේ. පසුගිය වසර කීපය තුළ තමන්ගේම ස්වයං විනාශකාරී තීන්දු තීරණ හරහා බරපතල කඩා වැටීමකට ලක්වී තිබූ එම පක්ෂය අද නැවත ජනපි‍්‍රය වීමට උත්සාහ ගනිමින් සිටින්නේ මහින්දගේ ආණ්ඩුවේ පැවති වැරදි අඩුපාඩු අතිශෝක්තියට නංවමිනි. ඒ හරහා ඔවුන් පසුගිය මැතිවරණයට වඩා වැඩි ඡුන්ද ප‍්‍රමාණයක් මෙවර ලබා ගැනීමට ඉඩ ඇතත් එහි තේරුම ඔවුන් තම උපායමාර්ගිය වරද්දා ගැනීම නිවැරදි කරගත් බව නොවේ. කෙටියෙන් කිවතොත් යුධ ජයග‍්‍රහණය අවස්ථාවේ මෙන්ම මේ මොහොතේද ජවිපෙ මේ රටට එරෙහි දේශපාලන බල කඳවුර නියෝජනය කරන පක්ෂයකි. එය එසේ වන්නේ මන්දැයි පෙන්වා දීම මෙම ලිපියේ අරමුණ නොවන මුත් මේ ලිපියෙන් මා අපේක්ෂා කළේ ඔවුන්ගේ එම මග වරද්දා ගැනීමේ ඉතාම තීරණාත්මක තැනක් වන යුධ ජයග‍්‍රහණයට එරෙහි වීම පිළිබඳ බොහෝ අයට අමතක වෙමින් තිබෙන කාරණා කීපයක් පාඨක අවධානයට ලක්කිරීමටය. එය මේ මොහොතේ ජවිපෙ වැරදි දේශපාලන ස්ථානගත වීම වටහාගැනීම සඳහාද කිසියම් අනුබලයක් සපයන්නක් වෙයි.

ජවිපෙ එක්තරා කාලයකදී බෙදුම්වාදී ත‍්‍රස්තවාදය පැරදවීම සඳහා මේ රට පෙළගැස්වූ ප‍්‍රබලතම බලවේගය ලෙස කටයුතු කළේය. එසේ වුවද ඔවුන් තම මග වරද්දා ගැනීමෙන් අනතුරුව ඉතා වේගයෙන් ඒ කි‍්‍රයාකාරීත්වය සපුරා කණපිට හැරුණු අතර යුද්ධයේ ඉතා තීරණාත්මක අවස්ථාවලදී ජවිපෙ කටයුතු කරන ලද්දේ ඊට දිරිදෙන බලවේගයක් ලෙස නොව යුධ ජයග‍්‍රහණයට වල කපන බලවේගයක් ලෙසය. ඔවුන්ගේ මේ කි‍්‍රයාකලාපය එම පක්ෂය බලවත් ලෙස ජනතාව අතරින් ප‍්‍රතික්ෂේප වීමට හේතුවූ අතර ඔවුන් අද දක්වාම ඒ වැරදි දේශපාලන ස්ථානගතවීම නිවැරදි කොට ගෙන නොමැති බවද කිවයුතුය. ඔවුන් අද මහින්ද දෙස පමණක් බලා සියලූ තීන්දු තීරණ ගනිමින්, මහින්දගේ වැරදි අතිශෝක්තියට නංවා රනිල් බලයට ගෙන ඒමේ නිවට ප‍්‍රයත්නයක් වෙනුවෙන් තම හෘද සාක්ෂිය කැපකොට ඇත්තේ ඒ නිසාය. වත්මන් ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ මහින්දගේ රජයට එරෙහිව මතු කරන ඇතැම් සටන් පාඨ සාධාරණ ඒවා විය හැකි වුවත් ඔවුන්ට සැබෑ ප‍්‍රශ්නය ඇත්තේ මහින්දගේ වැරදි සමග නොවන බව මෙහිදී අප විසින් ගැඹුරින් වටහා ගත යුතුය. මහින්දගේ වැරදිවලදී පමණක් නොව මහින්ද මේ රටට ඓතිහාසික ජයග‍්‍රහණයක් අත් කර දෙන මොහොතේදී පවා හෘද සාක්ෂි කාරයන් ඊට එරෙහිව කටයුතු කළ ආකාරය අප විසින් කිසිවිටෙකත් අමතක කළ යුතු නැත. එහෙත් අද මේවා අමතකව යාම නිසා හෝ් නොදැනුවත් කම නිසා නැවතත් අනුර දිසානායකගේ ව්‍යාජ වංචා විරෝධී කතාවලට ආසක්ත වී සිටින යම් පිරිසක් රටේ සිටින බව සැබෑය. ඔවුන් විසින් අවසාන තීන්දුවට පෙර මේ බරපතල කාරණා දැඩිව අවධානයට ගතයුතුය.

මුලාවේ පියසටහන්

2002 -2004 යුගයේදී රනිල්ගේ සාම ප්‍රෝඩාව පැරදවීම සඳහා ජවිපෙ නියමු කාර්යය භාරයක් ඉටු කළේය. අනතුරුව 2005 මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා බලයට පත්වීමෙන් අනතුරුව ත‍්‍රස්තවාදය පැරදවීම සඳහා එතුමාගේ රජයට විශාල බලපෑමක් කිරීමටද ජවිපෙ ප‍්‍රමුඛ දේශහිතෛෂී බලවේග සමත්විය. එසේ වුවද 2006 -2007 වසරවල යුධ මෙහෙයුම් ආරම්භ වන කාලය වන විට ජවිපෙ ක‍්‍රමයෙන් බාල ආණ්ඩු විරෝධී භූමිකාවකට අවතීර්ණ වෙමින් සිටියේය. මෙය ඔවුන්ගේ උපාය මාර්ගික ගමන් මග පිළිබඳ පක්ෂ අභ්‍යන්තරයේ විවිධ ගැටුම් ඇතිවූ කාලයක්ද වූ අතර එහි ප‍්‍රතිපලයක් ලෙස 2008 වසරේදී විමල් ඇතුළු ජාතික මතවාදය නියෝජනය කළ පිරිසක් ජවිපෙන් බි`දී ගියේය. මේ අනුව 2007න් පමණ පසු කාලය වනවිට ජවිපෙ මුළුමනින්ම තමන්ගේ අතීතයට පටහැනි දේශපාලන ගමනක් කරා පල්ලම් බසින්නට පටන්ගෙන තිබිණි. මුලදී ත‍්‍රස්තවාදය පැරදවීමට පක්ෂව දැවැන්ත කාර්යය භාරයක් ඉටු කළද, යුධ මෙහෙයුම් තීරණාත්මක ලෙස ඉදිරියට යන අවස්ථාවේ ඊට එරෙහිව කටයුතු කිරීමට ජවිපෙ යොමු වූයේ එසේය. 

ආණ්ඩු පෙරලීම
ජවිපෙ සෘජුවම යුද්ධය ප‍්‍රතික්ෂේප කළේ නැත. එසේ වුවද කතාවෙන් බෙදුම්වාදී ත‍්‍රස්තවාදයට එරෙහිවන අතරේම කි‍්‍රයාවෙන් ඊට උපරිම වශයෙන් පක්ෂ වීම ජවිපෙ නිත්‍ය පිළිවෙත බවට පත්ව තිබිණි. ඔවුන් එක් අතකින් ත‍්‍රස්තවාදය පැරදවිය යුතු බව පවසන අතරේම අනෙක් අතින් ත‍්‍රස්තවාදය පරදවන ආණ්ඩුව තමන්ගේ අංක එකේ සතුරා බවට පත් කර ගත්තේය. ඉතාම සරල කාරණා පවා අල්ලා ගනිමින් ආණ්ඩුව පෙරලා දැමීමට ඔවුන් ඝෝෂා න`ගන ලද්දේ අලූත් ආණ්ඩුවක් පිහිටුවීම පිළිබඳ කිසිදු විකල්පයක් තමන් සතුව නොමැති තත්ත්වයක්ද යටතේය. ඔවුන් අද පමණක් නොව යුධ ජයග‍්‍රහණය අතරතුරදී පවා අනියමින් එජාපයේ හා අන්තර්ජාතික බලවේගවල වුවමනාව ඉටු කරන ලද්දේ ඒ අන්දමිනි.
උදාහරණ –
”මේ ආණ්ඩුව පෙරලන්න පුළුවන් බල කඳවුරක් අපි ගොඩනැංවිය යුතුයි. ඒ බලවේගය හදන්නේ යූඇන්පීයත් එක්ක නෙමෙයි. ඒ බලවේගය හදන්නේ මේ රට පාලනය කරන කා එක්කවත් නෙමෙයි. ඒක ගොඩනැගෙන්නේ මේ රට හදන්න පුළුවන් හැකියාව තිබෙන ජනතා බලවේග එක්කයි.”
ටිල්වින් සිල්වා සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡුාවකදී
2008 ජුනි 15 ඉරිදා ලංකාදීප
2008 අයවැය
 මේ මෝඩ හා රටේ පැවැත්මට එරෙහි ආණ්ඩු විරෝධය නිසාම ජවිපෙ කෙරේ වූ ජන ප‍්‍රසාදය වේගයෙන් පහත වැටිණි. යුධ ජයග‍්‍රහණයට අදාල අතිශය තීරණාත්මක කාලවකවානුවක් වූ 2008 වසරේ නොවැම්බර් මස පැවති අයවැය ඡුන්ද විමසීමේදී ජවිපෙ ආණ්ඩුව පෙරළා දැමීම සඳහා ඡුන්දය භාවිත කළේය. ඒ උත්සාහය පරාජය කළ හැකි වූයේ එවකට විපක්ෂයේ සිටි විමල් වීරවංශ ඇතුළු ජානිපෙ මන්තී‍්‍රවරුන් 12 දෙනා ආණ්ඩුවට එක් වීම නිසාය.

සටන් පාඨ අහේනිය

යුද්ධයේ ඉතා තීරණාත්මක අවස්ථාවලදී ජවිපෙ සටන් පාඨ හා කොටි හිතවාදී බලවේගවල සටන් පාඨ අතර කිසිදු වෙනසක් නොවූ තරම්ය. එහිදී එජාපය, කොටි සංවිධානය, එන්ජී ඕ ජාලය, හා බටහිර ප‍්‍රජාව මහින්දගේ රජයට එරෙහිව පෙරට ගත් සියලූ සටන්පාඨ ජවිපෙ සටන් පාඨ බවටද පත්ව තිබිණි. ඔවුන් එවැනි සටන් පාඨ මත පදනම්ව ආණ්ඩුවට එරෙහිව ගතහැකි සෑම කි‍්‍රයාමාර්ගයක්ම නොපිරිහෙලා අත්හදා බැලූහ. මානව හිමිකම්, ප‍්‍රජාතන්ත‍්‍රවාදය, මාධ්‍ය නිදහස, බඩුමිල ආදී මතුපිටින් සාධාරණ ලෙස පෙනෙන සටන් පාඨවලින් වසාගත් අසාධාරණ දේශපාලන මෙහෙයුමට ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණද දායක වූයේ එසේය. 

බොරු වැපිරීම
මීළ`ගට මහින්දගේ ආණ්ඩුව කිසිදා යුද්ධය නිමා නොකරන බව සහ නිමා කළත් එය හුදු නිශ්පල දෙයක් බවට බලවත් මතයක් පතුරුවා හැරීමද මේ කාලය තුළ ජවිපෙ අංක එකේ රාජකාරියක් බවට පත්ව තිබිණි. සැබවින්ම මහින්දගේ ආණ්ඩුව යුද්ධය වරද්දා ගන්නේ නම් ජවිපෙ පිළිවෙත විය යුත්තේ එය හරි මගට ගැනීම සඳහා අවශ්‍ය බලපෑම එල්ල කරමින් ඊට දිරි දීමය. එසේ වුවද ජවිපෙ පිළිවෙත වූයේ ආණ්ඩුව යුද්ධය නොකරන බව ඉතා ආශ්වාදයෙන් යුතුව නැවත නැවත අවධාරණය කරමින් ත‍්‍රස්තවාදයට එරෙහිව පෙළගැසී තිබූ ජනමතය ව්‍යාකූල කිරීම සහ යුද්ධයට පෙර ආණ්ඩුව පෙරළා දැමීමට දිගින් දිගටම උත්සාහ දැරීමය. ජවිපෙ නොනිල පුවත්පත වූ ලංකා තුළින් මේ සඳහා බොහෝ උදාහරණ සපයා ගත හැකිය. ඒ දුෂ්ඨ මෙහෙයුම සඳහා විශාල වශයෙන් බොරුව භාවිතා කිරීමද ජවිපෙ නිත්‍ය පිළිවෙතක් බවට පත්ව තිබිණි. ඒ බොරු මොනවාදැයි මේ සටහන් කීපය දෙස බැලීමේදී පැහැදිලි වන අතර ප‍්‍රභාකරන්ගේ මරණය දක්වාම ඔවුහු ඒ කටයුත්ත නොපිරිහෙලා ඉටු කළෝය. 
උදාහරණ

• ශී‍්‍ර ලංකා ආරක්ෂක හමුදා විසින් ගෙන යන මෙහෙයුම අතරමග නවතා දමා කොටි සංවිධානය සම`ග සටන් විරාමයක් සඳහා වන යෝජනාවකට එකග වීම පිළිබඳව ආණ්ඩුව සලකා බලමින් සිටින බව විශ්වාස කටයුතු මූලාශයකින් වාර්තා වේ.

(ප‍්‍රධාන පුවත) ලංකා 2009 පෙබරවාරි 08

• ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපද හමුදාවක් ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවට ගෙන්වා ගැනීම ඉදිරියේදී විය හැකි තවත් හානියකි. ඉන්දියානු සාගර කලාපයේ සිය බල අරමුණු ඉටු කරගැනීමට සුරතලෙකු ලෙස භාවිතා කළ හැකි කොටි සංවිධානය පරාජය වීමත් සමග සිය හමුදා මෙහි ගෙන්වා ගැනීමට එක්සත් ජනපද පාලකයන්ට අවශ්‍ය වී තිබේ.

(දේශපාලන සටහන) ලංකා 2009 මාර්තු 29

• කුමාර් රූපසිංහ ආණ්ඩුවේ ඇමතිවරු සමග එක්වී බලය බෙදන යෝජනාව සකස් කරන අතරේම ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවේ ඇමරිකානු තානාපති කාර්යාලය සමග එක්වී විවිධ කටයුතුවල නිරතවෙයි.

……. මේ සඳහා පුළුල් බලය බෙදීමකුත් උතුරු නැගෙනහිර පළාත්වල සිය රූකඩ පාලනයකුත් ඔවුන්ට අවශ්‍යය. අද ඔවුන් කි‍්‍රයාත්මක වන්නේ ඒ වෙනුවෙනි. ඒ සඳහා මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂගේ ඊනියා දේශපේ‍්‍රමී ආණ්ඩුව සහ අධිරාජ්‍යවාදීන් අතර රහසිගත ගිවිසුමක්ද ඇත. 
(දේශපාලන ලිපියකින්) 2009 මාර්තු 15 ලංකා

• යුද්ධය අවසන් යැයි ආණ්ඩුව කරන ප‍්‍රකාශවලින් හැ`ගී යන්නේ ආණ්ඩුව කොටි සංවිධානයේ ඉහල පෙළේ නායකත්වය අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීම හෝ විනාශ කිරීම අතහැර දමා භූමිය අල්ලා ගැනීමට පමණක් සීමාවී සිටින බවය.

(දේශපාලන සටහන) 2009 මැයි 03 ලංකා
බොරු සිරස්තල
 සතිපතා පළකෙරුණු ව්‍යාජ දේශපාලන විග‍්‍රහයන් හා ගල් පැලෙන බොරු ප‍්‍රවෘත්තිවලට අමතරව ලංකා පුවත්පතේ ප‍්‍රධාන සිරස්තලයද අවසාන මොහොත දක්වාම සකස් වූයේ යුධ ජයග‍්‍රහණය සිහිනයක් හෝ පල රහිත එකක් බව හැ`ගී යන ආකාරයෙනි. 
උදාහරණ
1. ඇමරිකානු මිසයිල පද්ධතියක් තී‍්‍රමලේට (2009 ජනවාරි 18 ලංකා)
2. බලය බෙදීමට ජනපති එක`ග වේ. (2009 පෙබරවාරි 1 ලංකා)
3. සටන් විරාමයකට ආණ්ඩුව සූදානම්. (2009 පෙබරවාරි 8 ලංකා)
4. යුද්ධය නිමාවීමට පෙර ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවට සාමසාධක හමුදාවක්. (2009 පෙබරවාරි 22 ලංකා)
5. බි‍්‍රතාන්‍ය විශේෂ නියෝජිතයන්ට ආණ්ඩුව අනුමැතිය දුන් බව හෙළිවේ. (2009 මාර්තු 8 ලංකා)
6. ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවේ මුහුදත් තෙල් නිධිත් ඉන්දියාවට (2009 අපේ‍්‍රල් 12 ලංකා)
7. ප‍්‍රභාකරන් ගලවා ගැනීමට ඇමරිකානු මෙහෙයුමක් (2009 මැයි 3 ලංකා)
8. තෙවැනි පාර්ශවයක ආධාරයෙන් ප‍්‍රභා, පොට්ටු, සුසෙයි ඇමරිකාවට (2009 මැයි 10 ලංකා)

ටිල්වින්ගේ ආගිය කතා
ජවිපෙ මූනිච්චාවට ඉතාම ව්‍යාජ ලෙස යුද ජයග‍්‍රහණයට පක්ෂ බව පෙන්වුවද අවසාන මොහොත දක්වාම ඔවුන්ගේ පරම බලාපොරොත්තුව වූයේ මහින්ද යුද්ධය ඇනගන්නා ආකාරය දැකීමය. යුධ ජයග‍්‍රහණයෙන් දින කීපයකට පෙර ටිල්වින් සිල්වා මහතා සිදුකළ පහත එන විකට ප‍්‍රකාශය ඒ සඳහා කදිම නිදසුනකි. සිවිල් වැසියන්ට සිදුවන හානි වැලැක්වීම සඳහා බර අවි ප‍්‍රහාර නතර කිරීම පවා ටිල්වින්ට එදා පෙනුනේ යුද්ධය නතර කිරීමක් ලෙසය.

”ආණ්ඩුව නිකුත් කරපු නිවේදනේ ඉතා පැහැදිලිව තිබෙනවා සංග‍්‍රාමික මෙහෙයුම් නවත්තන්න ආණ්ඩුව කටයුතු කළා කියලා. ඒ අතරේම බර අවි පාවිච්චි කරන්නේ නෑ කියලත් තියනවා. ඒ නිවේදනයේ තව තැනක තියනවා ආරක්ෂක හමුදාව සිවිල් වැසියන් මුදා ගැනීමට පමණක් සීමා කරනවා කියලා. ඉතාම පැහැදිලියි මේ කියන්නේ ත‍්‍රස්තවාදීන් මර්දනය කිරීමේ කටයුතු ආණ්ඩුව අතහැරියා කියලා.” 
ටිල්වින් සිල්වා සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡුාවකදී
-ලංකා 2009 මැයි 3
මෙහි දක්වා ඇත්තේ පක්ෂ, පාට, ජාති, ආගම්, භේදයකින් තොරව මේ රටේ සහ මනුෂ්‍යත්වයේ ජයග‍්‍රහණයක් වන ත‍්‍රස්තවාදය පැරදවීමේ තීරණාත්මක ප‍්‍රශ්නය හමුවේ ඊනියා හෘද සාක්ෂි කාරයන් පෙන්වූ තුච්ජ හැසිරීම පිළිබඳ උදාහරණ කීපයකි. මහින්දගේ වැරදි හමුවේ පමණක් නොව මහින්දගේ අතිශය නිවැරදි කටයුතු හමුවේ පවා ජවිපෙට මහින්ද සමග පැවතියේ එකම පරිමාණයේ විරෝධයකි. එය හුදු මහින්දගේ වැරදි නිසා ඇතිවන විරෝධයක් නොව පරගැතිකම හා එජාප හිතවාදය ඔස්සේ මහින්ද ගැන ඇතිවන මාරාන්තික වෛරයකි. දින කීපයකට පෙරද ලාල්කාන්ත ප‍්‍රකාශකළේ තමන්ට රනිල් සමග ගනුදෙනු කළ හැකි වුවත් මහින්ද සමග කිසිදු ගනුදෙනුවක් කතාවක් නැති බවය. අද අනුරලාගේ උකස් තැබූ හෘද සාක්ෂිය ගැන බලාපොරොත්තුවෙන් පසුවන පිරිස් මැතිවරණයට පෙර මේ කාරණා තරයේ අවධානයට ගත යුතුව තිබේ.

-ඉසුරු ප‍්‍රසංග
මූලාශ්‍ර – (බිදුණු වම් අත – ජවිපෙ නිරවි මර්දනයට පසුවදනක් කෘතිය- ඉසුරු ප‍්‍රසංග)

යුතුකම සංවාද කවය

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Please ask your friends and relatives in Sri Lanka to attend it.

Please ask your friends and relatives in Sri Lanka to attend it. Dress in white if possible.

This is an event organized by nationalist organizations(Not the SLFP) to show MR’s mass appeal in order to influence the floating voter.

Please share it with all your friends and relatives.

Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha

Ranil’s dishonesty gets worse by the day. But even more startling perhaps is his brazen hypocrisy. And what seems to be open mockery of the President.

There have been multiple allegations of corruption with regard to the last government, but most were generalizations. There was in fact only one clear instance cited in the President’s manifesto, namely that on page 11. There it was asserted that ‘Earlier people spoke about ten percent commissions. Now the talk is about ninety percent ransoms. Now, if Rs 100,000 is spent on the construction of a culvert the amount pilfered is Rs 900, 000. If a total of Rs. 7.3 billion is spent per kilometre on the construction of the Kadawata – Kerawalapitiya highway, the amount pilfered is Rs. 5.2 billion.’

The reference was to the contract signed with the China Metallurgical Corporation. This company, supposed to have been the source of 90% commissions under the last government, is now flavor of the month as far as Ranil Wickremesinghe is concerned.

Earlier there were grandiose claims that Rs 30 billion had been saved on the cost of the Outer Circular Highway. In fact what happened was that the road was downsized. Then, what were reported as savings were given back to the same contractor. This was for a new contract, awarded without going through tender procedures, ‘to do the first section from Kadawata to Meerigama’ on what is now termed the Central Expressway.

This was proposed to Cabinet through a memo dated July 6^th. Then, two weeks later, on the 20^th, the Prime Minister prepared a memo seeking Cabinet approval for rates recommended by a Committee that his office has asked the Ministry of Highways to appoint on July 16^th. The composition of the Committee – which does not seem properly constituted – was reported to the Cabinet (for information / sanction) through a memorandum dated July 21^st, but it had by then already made its recommendtions.

The unit costs it recommended are higher than those the same company had proposed for the contract for another section of the Central Expressway some months earlier. The increase might be due to inflation, but since the earlier claim of the current government was that its figures were high because of excessive commissions, it seems clear that the Prime Minister no longer believes, or even pretends to believe, his previous wild allegations.

This cynical cultivation of the only company criticized in the President’s manifesto follows the Prime Minister’s protection of Arjuna Mahendran contrary to the President’s advice. All this indicates that President Sirisena will find it difficult to preserve his reputation for honesty if he has a government led by Ranil Wickremesinghe for much longer.

Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha

Second instalment of roadscam, you might like also to question the Secretary who was suddenly dismissed, Mr Udaya Seneviratne, and perhaps the Chinese Embassy too about the earlier and curent projects, since the Prime Minister claims that the EXIM Bank of China will be funding this project too

Dealings of the current government with the Metallurgical Corporation of China are very strange indeed. It was with regard to this company that the President’s manifesto claimed that ‘ If a total of Rs. 7.3 billion is spent per kilometre on the construction of the Kadawata – Kerawalapitiya highway, the amount pilfered is Rs. 5.2 billion.

’Kabir Hashim’s memorandum to Cabinet in April 2015 declared that the contract had been awarded in January 2013 for Rs 66 billion, for 9.32 kilometres. He recommended that the scope of the highway be changed

• To construct the expressway with 4 lanes (abandoning the provision to widen to 6 in the future)
• To reduce the length of viaducts
• To reduce the height of viaducts

The Memorandum says there could be a substantial saving, but it does not say what this would be. The report on the subject, dated, March 23^rd, indicated that, with several changes to the scope (including the omission of one proposed interchange) the contract should cost Rs 41 billion. It also suggested a reduction of 25 per cent in rates.

This last point is non mentioned in the Minister’s memorandum. Certainly the report and his Memorandum make a nonsense of the claim that the contract should have been for less than 20 billion.

Then matters get more curious. On March 30^th the Prime Minster submitted a note to the Cabinet to say that ‘Unsolicited proposals in general should not be accepted as a matter of policy. In the future, all proposals should follow the Guidelines on Government Tender Procedure issued in 1998’. However there was provision for the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Economic Affairs to review the ’35 unsolicited proposals’ now in the pipeline and report.

This Sub-Committee at a meeting on June 30 gave instructions to submit information at the next meeting to decide on contractors for each stage of what is now termed the Central Highway. Less than a week later the Prime Minister prepared a Cabinet paper in which he said that ‘The government had already agreed that they (MCC) should utilize the savings in OCH3 to undertake construction of a few kilometres on the first section of expressway from Kadawata where the OCH3 terminates’.

The Cabinet Paper does not mention the amount of the savings. There is no indication of when or why the government had agreed to these terms with MCC. All this suggests that, far from acting on the assertion in the Manifesto that the Kadawata Kerawaapitiya Highway was a source of massive commissions to the last government, the new government was determined without following tender procedures, to award yet another contract to this same company.

Next I will look at the manner in which rates were agreed on for this unsolicited bid. Meanwhile the Secretary to the Ministry who had prepared the frameworks for competitive bidding, and who had been touted as a very honest man, handpicked for the job (the Ministry initially included Higher Education too) was summarily dismissed.

There is clearly no commitment to Transparency, Accountability and Good Governance as far as the Prime Minister and his chosen instrument of fundraising, the Ministry of Highways (involved also in pressurizing the Central Bank before the Bond Scam) are concerned.

Lankan Puravesiya

Ten years from now how would Sri Lankans reflect back on August 17th 2015. It’s true that August 17th has not passed yet, but no one can ignore the supreme significance of this day. If there is a living soul on Sri Lankan soil that thinks August17th will just be another day under the sun, with the exemption of being a shorter working day, that person should be ashamed of being a Sri Lankan. To understand the importance of the coming general election scheduled to be held on this day one should take a journey down Sri Lankan history.

Sri Lanka has a written history dating back as far as 500B.C, in the form of ‘Mahawanshaya’. From the first king ‘Vijaya’ to the last ‘Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe’, ‘Mahawansaya’ lays out in detail the history of our little island. Other historical sources carry information even prior to this period and make references to the reign of king ‘Ravana’. One important fact standing out from all these sources is the priceless sacrifices made by our forefathers to protect our island nation. From king ‘Dutugamunu’ who was the first to unite this country, to king ‘Parakramabahu’ the Sixth who was the last of the ancient kings to repeat the feat, the sacrifices made by our ancestors to preserve this land for the next generation are forever etched in gold in the annals of history. They will continue to resonate in peoples’ hearts for a millennia to come as they have fueled on the nation for all these years. Be it the epic battle in ‘Vijithapura’ or the courages feats of prince ‘Sapumal’, as Sri Lankans we will continue to reflect back on these glorious periods of history. Such magnificent pieces of history are not limited to warfare only, we will also graciously remember the feats of king ‘Dewanumpiyatissa’ who endorsed Buddhism and made it part and parcel of everyday life. We will forever remember the engineering feats of our ancient forefathers whenever we see the great stupas, giant tanks or the iconic ‘Sigiriya’. But how would we remember March 15th 1815. It is a dark day in history where we surrendered our nations’ sovereignty to the British. It is worth noting that no western power was able to militarily conquer the entire island. The Portuguese and the Dutch were held constrained to the coastal lines. British made several attempts to overpower the Kandy kingdom which failed miserably. However later on, the British resorted to diplomatic ways of overthrowing the king. They learnt the immaculate bond between the king/temple/normal people. Agents like John Doyle closely associated with high ranking officials and noblemen to find ways to turn them against the king. This ultimately led to king ‘Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe’ being handed over to the British by the top brass of the country and surrendering the sovereignty of Sri Lanka. Shortsighted nature of that decision quickly became visible as the British broke their promises one by one. 1818 saw the first uprising, which was brutally suppressed. Thousands of Sri Lankans including women and children were massacred. The entire eastern part of the country which provided rice for the whole of Sri Lanka was converted to a barren waste land. The adverse effects of 1815 would continue to increase manyfold in the next 130 years. Not only would the British deliver a deathly blow to the social fabric of our society but they also purposefully injected social discrimination by favoring a subset of the society (in many cases people who were not natively Sri Lankan). Such favouritism has over the years transformed itself into an ethnic problem, which continues to strangle our country to this day. The social divide was so great that during 1950’s Tamil politicians led by ‘Chelvanayagam’ made the 50/50 demand. It is stated that first Prime Minister ‘D.S Senanayake’ at one stage even agreed to give 60/40 to which the Tamil politicians promptly disagreed. How a population comprising of 10-15% of the total, make such a demand is beyond reason. However the fact that event at that time Tamil politicians not agreeing to the 60/40 power sharing clearly goes on to show their ultimate goal of wanting to achieve a separate, autonomous land for themselves by dividing Sri Lanka.

So how would August 17th 2015 go down in history ? Will it be the day Ranil Wickramasinghe(RW) becomes the prime minister for the 4th time. Whatever the electronic or the social media has to say this general election is about selecting the prime minister. One might argue that without worrying about the political party we should vote for the local politician who is most qualified, least corruptive and most deserving to represent the parliament on their behalf. However that approach in the current context is a grave mistake. Maithripala has clearly demonstrated that he doesn’t want to exercise executive powers vested within the president. Therefore the whole responsibility of the country would mostly lay with the prime minister and the cabinet. Even during the last six months this was clearly evident. Ranil Wickaramasinghe was largely running the show, at times even neglecting the requests or advices of the president. Even though voters would be selecting local representatives that decision would ultimately directly impact who would be made the premier of our country. Unlike in previous occasions the selected prime minister would be making all key decisions about the fate of the country for the coming 5 years which would continue has a profound impact for years to come. Therefore if anyone doesn’t give due consideration as to who they want to see as the prime minister at the coming general election, before casting their vote, they are making a fundamental mistake. Voters should first decide from which party they would like to see the next prime minister. This entirely depends on the prime ministerial candidate of the respective party. After making that decision only, should one select the most capable person from that party from their local community to represent the parliament. It might be true that your favorite cricketer or your favorite actress is contesting in the general election from a certain party. But just because of that reason, you should not cast a vote for that party without giving due consideration to the person who would become the prime minister if that party goes on to win the general election. Simply put your favorite cricketer or the actress would have little or no impact on the strategic direction Sri Lanka would tread in the coming 5 years compared to the impact the prime minister has on those issues. Thus first decide from which party or whom you would like to see as Sri Lankas next prime minister and then decide the local representative of that party whom you would like to see elected to the parliament. Blindly voting for local super heroes would result in creating a brittle parliament that would be susceptible to external and evil forces attempting to break our beloved mother lankas unity and sovereignty.

So why would one want to make Ranil wickaramasignhe the next prime minister ? Ranil Wickramasinghe started politics under the guidance of his uncle J.R Jayawardena. Simply put if it wasn’t for family politics, if it wasn’t for his executive president uncle, there won’t be a RW today. It is no secret that during the JVP uprising Ranil was directly responsible for brutal massacre of youth in his infamous ‘Batalanda’ torture house. What kind of a sick person would draw satisfaction in seeing innocent youth being tortured to death? This is a fact and not a myth as some of the ‘Lamborghini’ allegations fired against Mahinda Rajapakse. In fact a commission consisting of three supreme court judges appointed by the then president Chandrika Kumaratunga found Ranil Wickaramasinghe guilty of such offences and recommended that his civil rights be apprehended. Such was the compassionate and ‘clean’ nature of Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe, nothing less than a convicted murderer who happens to wear a clean suit. After the heroics in Batalanda, Ranil got a lucky break to be the prime minister under the president D.B Wijetunga. He became the prime minister simply because the top brass of the UNP got wiped out by a terrorist attack. That particular LTTE attack took out some of the best politicians this country had ever produced. No wonder JR Jayawardena had a large influence in making RW prime minster at that point. However in 1994 elections, luckily, Chandrika Kumaratunga became prime minister (and later went on to become the first women executive president) and thus Sri Lanka was spared of the RW madness. Ranil never possessed a sound personality and never got the approval of the average Sri Lankan. RW never understood the average Sri Lankan simply because he was preoccupied with the colonial style of politics. Hailing from an affluent family he never had the iota of interest in understanding the average/low income/middle class Sri Lankans. Although a politician for around three/four decades RW doesn’t see the struggle of the common man. He only sees and is a master of projecting fantasies where youth drive ‘Volkswagen’ and wear ‘Bracelets’. The mad dictatorship of Ranil would come to light during the 2001 UNP government. As the prime minister of the country Ranil made the ultimate betrayal. The Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol of the army was silently but effectively removing the top leaders of the LTTE from the face of the earth. Prabakaran himself had feared for his life. After two decades long brutal war there was finally some light at the end of the tunnel. Alas, RW through the Millennium City incident made all army personnel behind the Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol be an open secret. As soon as the names of these gallant heroes were out, Prabakaran didn’t need a second invitation and immediately started hunting them down one by one. Army soldiers whose only motive was to protect our motherland were shot dead in broad day light. Some were hunted down inside their own police offices. Every passing day paper headlines carried news of an intelligence unit official’s murder. The idiotic and unpatriotic nature of RW had surrendered Prabakaran the very best of best soldiers of this country. With that betrayal the chance of ending a brutal war appeared dismal. Not stopping there Ranil went ahead and signed a cease fire agreement with LTTE even without notifying the then executive president Chandrika Cumaratunga. Such was the arrogant nature of this dictator. The cease fire agreement gave LTTE a legitimate status in the north. If it was allowed to continue for several years, LTTE would have the advantage of showing the world that they had their own administration system in operation in the Northern Province. That would provide them the basic footing in convincing the internal community that they should recognize Northern Province as a separate state. How can anyone in their right mind elect such a hopeless person who doesn’t give a damn about what happens to the country, as the next prime minister. We’ve heard JVP activists express their resentment over their actions in the 90’s. We’ve heard Mahinda Rajapakse admit that he made some mistakes. But have we ever heard Ranil saying anything about his misdemeanors about the Batalanda torture house, about the Millennium City incident, about the Cease Fire Agreement giving a legitimate state of recognition to LTTE. That’s the nature of Ranil. He is constantly living in a dimension of his own, where satisfying uncle Sam and carrying forward the infamous of legacy of his role model uncle JR Jayawardene is his main obsession. The greatest obstacle Sri Lanka faced after gaining independence is the brutal three decade long war. What was RW role during the 5 year period where the entire nation was behind the security forces to end it ?. What actions did he take as the leader of the opposition during this critical period ?. We should not take defeating the most ruthless terrorist organization in the world lightly. If the war didn’t end in 2009 what would be the state of Sri Lanka now ?. We all witnessed the arms storages of LTTE consisting of small submarines, small air planes, surface to air missiles etc which was enough to terrorize the nation for decades to come. During this critical period RW mocked the security forces. The infamous statement saying ‘Toppigala is a mere forest’ will forever be looked at with disgust by every Sri Lankan generation to come. Not merely stopping at his words, RW converted them to actions when he went around the world asking foreign countries and banks not to give loans to Sri Lanka. Such was the contribution of Mr.Clean to the eradication of terrorism. A person who never uttered a single word against Prabakaran, a person who never uttered a single word of encouragement to security forces recently threatened to ‘bury’ Mahinda Rajapakse. That is clear evidence as to the personal revenge RW is after. RW doesn’t care anything about the country.

Even during the period from 2005 to 2014 there were numerous struggles within the UNP party to get rid of Ranil. It is a undisputed fact that Ranil is a very cunning politician whose lust for power is boundless. That’s the very reason he was able to change the UNP constitution so that unless the leader steps down voluntarily or dies, there is no other way someone else could become the party leader. That’s the kind of person who is now boasting about good governance. How can anybody trust a person with good governance of the entire country, when his actions in the context of his own party speak otherwise? The internal power struggle of UNP saw many aspiring politicians leaving the party simply because they were not prepared to accept Ranil as their leader. With time UNP’s top brass became more or less puppets of Ranil himself. Ranil entrusted the party to his clan and to people whom he could control. One only needs to look at the composition of the current cabinet to notice this. What qualification does Ruwan Wijewardene has to be the state Minister of Defense ?. Defense ministry is of key importance, especially given the fact that only 5 years have passed since the end of the brutal war. Ruwan Wijewardene represented parliament for the first time in 2010. So why would such a key ministry be given to such a person who has virtually no experience. Ruwan Wijewardene is related to Ranil and hails from the Jaywardene dynasty. It’s widely rumored that Ranil is grooming Ruwan Wijewardene to be the next heir to his throne. On one hand RW is making accusations of Rajapakse family politics whilst on the other hand he is guilty of the same mistakes. The reality is Ranil has entrusted key positions within the cabinet and within the administration to his buddies. It’s just hard for the public to recognize them since they don’t share the ‘Wickramasinghe’ surname. Akila being entrusted with the ministry of education is another prime example for this. What qualifications or experience does he possess on the field of education ?. Ravi Karunanayke who has a proven track record of fraud at various levels, and the person who single handedly destroyed SATHOSA is given the Ministry of Finance. The list goes on and on. More than 80% of the current UNP portion of the cabinet comprises of politicians hailing from Colombo and are buddies of Ranil. We have to ask whether Ranil is taking voters to be plain stupid. While lashing out at Mahinda Rajapakse for doing family politics in public, RW is doing ‘buddy’ politics. Imagine what RW would do if he had his own blood line. Appointing Ghotabaya Rajpakse as the secretary of defense is something that no Sri Lankan has any issues with. He was a more than capable person for the job. Making Basil Rajapakse one of the most powerful ministers would have raised few eye browse, but nobody would disagree that Basil had worked for the party demonstrating his skills as an excellent organizer and a coordinator, and nobody would agree that he was an incompetent person. There might be other appointments in the Rajapakse government that saw relatives or friends being appointed who were not qualified. But the fact remains Ranil will also do the same and the consequences of such actions by RW will be far more disastrous. Appointment of Arjuna Mahendran is the most recent example for this. How can somebody in their right mind appoint a person who is not even a Sri Lankan citizen as the central bank governor and give him the responsibility of shaping the financial strategy of Sri Lanka. Let alone appoint him, why would RW try to cover up the bond issue. President Maithripalaa Sirisena in his nations address stated that he had advised RW that it would be good if the central bank governor could resign. It’s an open secret that when President Maithripala Sirisena tried to appoint a committee to investigate the issue when he first heard about the scandal, RW threatened against it, and appointed his own committee consisting of UNP loyalists who unsurprisingly found no wrong doing. If there was no wrong doing, how can the central bank suddenly take loans up to 30BN for 30 years at a higher interest rate ?. How come other bidders are unaware about the extension to the limit ? How come only the company belonging to the nephew of Arjuna Mahendran know about the increased limt ?. Any average person would see that such irregularities amount to a scandal. Furthermore it’s just not another political scandal. It’s the biggest scandal ever, amounting to 40BN and on the increasing with every second that passes by. People of Sri Lanka would continue to bear the burden for the next 30 years. Sri Lanka being a developing nation, political scandals are not a new thing. But the sheer scale of the bond issue is mind boggling. The most perplexing thing is even after the country’s president expresses his concern over the issue and suggests to the prime minister that it would be good if the governor resigns, to this day nothing has happened, no one is responsible. RW has bent the law, the administration and acted as a mad dictator. If anyone forgot the nature of Ranil, given for the last 10 years he didn’t have the chance to wreak havoc, the central bank bond issue is a clear wake up call. All this hype about RW being Mr.Clean and never having any corruption charges against him is pure BS. It might be true that he might not have accepted bribes similar to an office clerk. But the frauds and dealings that RW had been involved in has cause great suffering to mother Sri Lanka. He has shown time and again the actual notorious, sinister nature of himself that is masked behind the Mr.Clean hype. The truth can never be hidden. Karma will eventually caught up one day.

Ranil is a faithful servant of USA. He recently stated that he went to USA and sought their help on defeating Mahinda Rajapakse for 1 year. It is common knowledge that USA wanted to overthrow Mahinda Rajapakse because under his government, Sri Lanka was closely working with China. China saw Sri Lanka as a strategic point in their modern silk road. Fearing Sri Lanka’s close dealings with China, USA wanted to see Sri Lanka move away from China. USA wanted to control Sri Lanka. In the recent wikileaks it is clearly indicated USA wants to control Sri Lanka as they see us as the ‘pivot of asia’, a central place from where they can exert influence on the Asian region. USA intends to setup military bases here as part of that objective. However Mahinda Rajapakse would not give way to this. Whilst Chinese interest in Sri Lanka was financial, USA interest in Sri Lanka was purely political and selfish. China was an alley where both Sri Lanka and China could benefit. However from the things happening in world stage currently, and from what the past has to offer, the same can’t be held true for USA. Furthermore some recently declassified emails from Hilary Clinton clearly goes on to show, how she tried to persuade IMF & World bank not to give financial aid to Sri Lanka during the last stages of the war. During that period China, Pakistan were the only friends Sri Lanka had. Those countries helped as militarily as well as financially. So there was no alternative for Mahinda Rajapakse other than to have close ties with countries like China other than USA. USA sees RW as an obedient servant, whom they could easily control. However they also know he is not a popular figure. That’s why in January 8th they installed Maithripala as the president, but behind the scenes RW was entirely running the show. There were some unconfirmed reports indicating that even president Maithripala once discussing with ministers that the western powers want Ranil to be the next prime minister. Clearly western powers want RW made the prime minister because he is a loyal puppet of the west. Sri Lanka is sovereign nation, the very reason why we have elections and select ministers and have a parliamentary system is so that the will of the people could be exercised in a proper manner. That is the very basis of democracy. If we want to have puppets running our country dancing merely to the tunes of foreign powers we can very well choose to abolish the parliamentary system and have a governor from USA or India controlling the country as was the case before independence. As Abraham Lincoln once said, a government is coined as “government of the people, by the people, for the people”, under RW government would be for the betterment of foreign powers. It is true that being a developing nation and a smaller nation we are pushed and pulled by the heavy weights. But that’s the very reason why we need people with a backbone at the top so that the ship could be sailed safely through turbulent winds. RW is definitely not of that caliber.

It is widely rumored that the general election was called on by the president at the request of foreign powers. They wanted to see a new government in place before September when the human violation report against Sri Lanka would be bought. If we had such presidents during 2009 the war would have never ended. During the last phase of the war many countries were exerting pressure to stop the war. Several foreign ministers including David Milliband of UK met with then President Mahinda Rajapakse in an attempt to achieve this. President Mahinda Rajapakse had clearly said to David Milliband that ‘Sri Lanka is no longer a British Colony’. It is because of only such acts of valor that we Sri Lankans enjoy peace today. It is appalling to hear some so called patriotic politicians who joined the UNP front to contest in the coming general election clamor that it was them, who gave energy to fight the war. The political leadership given by Mahinda Rajapakse to eradicate terrorism and free the entire nation of LTTE menace is undisputed. It’s a feat that will be graciously remembered by everyone for generations to come. Given the foreign powers at play against Sri Lanka the political will and the strategy exhibited in achieving the end objective is something that every living Sri Lankan today and those that will be born in generations to come, are forever in debt to Mahinda Rajapakse as well as the gallant soldiers who valued their own lives behind the sovereignty of mother Sri Lanka.

RW had stated recently that on January 8th people gave a mandate to make Maithripala Sirisena the president and himself the prime minister. Was that what actually happened on January 8th ?. January 8th saw the defeat of Mahinda Rajapakse. The slogan of Maithripala’s campaign powered by UNP was ‘Good Governance’. Maithripala although in political arena for close to 50 years, was largely an unknown character to the general public. He was the general secretary of the SLFP and the health minister, on few occasions he had acted as the defense minister when Mahinda Rajapakse was out of the country. It was a known fact that he wanted to have the prime minister post under Mahinda Rajapakse, which was ultimately given to the most senior minister within SLFP. There was no outstanding achievement by Maithripala on his resume, although there were allegation against him on adultery and corruption those didn’t penetrate the public mind. Who in Sri Lankan politics doesn’t have such allegations?. There was nothing to be excited about him but on the same time there was nothing to be against him. This is in contrast to RW, whose character and conduct is well known to mature voters. That’s the very reason RW didn’t contest in the first place. Even foreign forces knew that if RW was fielded as the presidential candidate he would lose hands down. ‘Good Governance’ campaign focused on corruption and state property misuse of the then government. Most of the allegations were levelled against sons of MR and close relatives. These allegations took wings and spread across the online communities. There was no rebuttal from the Mahinda Rajapakse campaign for these allegations. On the contrary the allegations against Maithripala were largely confined to state media and there was no online or social media presence for those. This resulted in southern vote being divided. Most notably the floating vote base and some of the SLFP voters swung to Maithripala’s side. Bulk of the new voters would have selected Maithripala as well. These voters genuinely believed that a ‘change’ was needed for ‘Good Governance’.

Although Mahinda Rajapakse camp alerted users on foreign power interventions and sinister motives of them to divide Sri Lanka, many thought that was just another election trick. Many who voted for Good Governance voted because of Maithripala and not because of Ranil. They thought they are electing an executive president who would exercise the powers with due consideration. This is not to say that UNP doesn’t have a vote base. There are voters in Sri Lanka who would vote UNP even if a scarecrow is fielded. That’s the nature of Sri Lankan politics. There are other elements vehemently opposing Mahinda Rajapakse. The so called elite families in Colombo can’t stand a man from south running the country. These elements still live in the colonial era. For them their eternal hero is Ranil Wickramasinghe. These would anyway vote UNP regardless of the campaign. This is clearly evident in the 2010 presidential election as well. That result largely comprises of these two groups. On top of these groups ‘Good Governance’ campaign was able to draw some votes from the south and some percentage of SLFP votes were also obtained by Maithripala. The conduct or the lack of it of some SLFP MP’s in some districts had a negative effect also. Bulk of such MP’s would ultimately be given ministerial posts by Maithreepala later on. However did the northern voters cast their vote purely due to Good Governance ? Did they want to see corruptions being get rid of or did they want Mahinda Rajapakse to be get rid of ? LTTE is no more, but it was just the military manifestation of the separatism movement. Although average Tamil people continue to live peacefully among Sinhalese in the southern areas, the Tamil politicians would not stop at anything less than a separate state. This has been their sole objective in the post independent era. To expect them to give up on this objective merely 5 years after the end of the war would be unrealistic. They knew Mahinda Rajapakse would not betray the hard won peace. They knew Mahinda Rajapakse would never agree to a federal solution. For them their worst enemy is Mahinda Rajapakse. They would not hesitate in considering enemy’s enemy as a friend. That’s why they voted for Sarath Fonseka in 2010 and that the reason they voted for Maithripala in January 8th. On January 8th they made sure that they will give their fullest support to overthrow Rajapakse by voting in great numbers. The high voters turn around stands as evidence to this. For the Tamil people there is no alternative but to vote for TNA whatever their personal opinions may be. For decades LTTE forcibly nurtured and brain washed their heads. After LTTE, TNA continues to tread the same path camouflaged in diplomatic ways. Five years is just not enough for free thinking Tamil people to come forward, form their own political parties and tread a different path. Mahinda Rajapakse did what he could towards reconciliation. He held the northern provincial council elections; he drove a massive development campaign to uplift the lives of northern people. To say he did nothing toward reconciliation would be blunt understatement. Although Mahinda Rajapakse was prepared to shake hands, nothern politicians (apart from Douglas Devananda) refused vehemently, clinging on to their ultimate dream of a separate state. They have not given up on their demand for the pound of flesh, regardless of how unjust the demand is. They along with foreign powers worked tirelessly towards ensuring that Maithripala would get the most votes from nothern part. Muslims also voted against Mahinda not due to ‘Good Governence’ but because they had also developed hatred towards Mahinda and Sinhalese. The Beruwala incident served as the perfect catalyst for them to turn against Mahinda. It gave them the perfect excuse to express their open dislike towards Sinhalese. That incident was not the fault of Sinhalese only. Muslims living on the area are to be blamed also. Hostility that was slowly building up in the background towards Sinhalese found the perfect valve to let go in Beruwala. True that, properties of Muslims were damaged and lives were lost, but again, the blame can’t entirely be dumped upon the Sinhalese. There are faults on both sides. Hakeem of SLMC has time and time again expressed their longing for the creation of their ideological state of ‘Nasaristan’. Although the average Tamil people and the average Muslim people might live among the majority in harmony the minority politicians are promising them fantasy worlds. Average people being humans are inevitably drawn towards them, who wouldn’t like to live in their own country where everybody follows your religion and customs. Average people might be content with what they have now, but the politicians have infected their minds with dreams of a promised land. Therefore from their perspective voting for the ‘promised land’ is justifiable. To see beyond the fantasy and realize that the problems faced by average Muslim or the Tamil is not much different to those faced by the average Sinhalese and that the power hungry politicians are taking them for a spin takes a special effort and a peaceful mind. It was not to achieve ‘Good Governance’ that they voted for Maithripala. They simply voted against Mahinda Rajapakse as the stepping stone to achieving separate states. So ‘Good Governance’ was essentially a marketing campaign targeting the weakest aspect of previous government designed to capture the votes of the south in defeating Mahinda Rajapakse. Those who voted for ‘Good Governance’ never voted for Ranil. Ranil becoming prime minister never penetrated the public mind as something catastrophic. Furthermore there was no alternative but to give the prime minister post to UNP, since Maithripala’s campaign was entirely fueled by UNP. General public was used to seeing executive presidents running the show and prime minister being a more or less a figure head. Nobody thought RW would run the show and Maithripala would take a back seat. At least nobody thought Maithripala would take the farthest seat from driver to enjoy the scenic beauty and never worry where the vehicle was headed. To have complete faith on RW for a politician of Maithripala’s stature was just beyond reason for many Good Governance advocates. It just put the entire country in harm’s way.

Even in this general election Ranil has stated after forming a government he would do the maximum dissolution of power that can be done within a single country. He has also stated a new constitution would be formed in order to facilitate this. TNA leader sampanthan had stated that they are perusing a federal solution and hope to achieve it by 2016. SLMC secretary Hasan Ali has stated Ranil has agreed to the demand of creating a separate administrational district for Muslims. This provides clear indication as to why Muslim and Tamil politician supported the ‘Good Governance’ campaign during the last presidential campaign. They are seeking to divide Sri Lanka. That’s was there main motivation then and it’s the main motivation now. ‘Good Governance’ is a distraction created to cover this up from the majority Sinhalese. Whilst Sinhalese ditch Mahinda Rajapakse in the hope of achieving good governance, others are hell bent on dividing this country and see Mahinda Rajapakse as the biggest obstacle towards achieving that. To think Ranil Wickramasinghe will provide good governance is beyond any reason or logic. Ranil has not been reborn during the last 5 years or gone through a transformation where his attitude or the way he thinks has changed. The past provides ample evidence as to how disastrous the future could be if Ranil wickaramasinghe becomes the prime minister. Let alone good governance RW will not even let the sovereignty of Sri Lanka prevail. Voters need to be alert to this fact and not let Ranil become the next prime minister. Otherwise August 17th 2015 would be seen as the reincarnation of March 15th 1815 by our younger generations. We would forever be seen as the generation that foolishly threw away the hard won unity of our beloved motherland.

It is crystal clear that Ranil should not be made the prime minister and thus UNP should not be the party one should vote for in the coming general election. This leaves the option of Mahinda Rajapakse becoming the prime minister or somebody else from UPFA becoming prime minister. Although president Maithripala has stated in his national address that he wouldn’t make Mahinda Rajapakse the prime minister, by constitution he has no other option to do so if UPFA has a clear mandate. Constitution amounts to something along the lines of ‘president should appoint as the prime minister the minister who has the confidence of most number of MP’s at the discretion of the president’. It specifically mentions about having the confidence of most number of MP’s. If the president could choose any MP as the prime minister, then there would be no necessity for having such a clause. The notion of president selecting the prime minister in previous occasions is highlighted in the media to support the argument that what matters is solely the discretion of the president. But in almost all previous occasions the elected president had been the party leader which had the majority power in the parliament. Due to being party leader, and since that meant he held the control of MP’s from his own party, president could select the prime minister more or less in his own will after consultation with party seniors. Given the prime minister post was largely a figure head it didn’t draw much attention in previous occasions. However in the current context although Maithripala is the leader of UPFA and SLFP, it is clearly Mahinda Rajapakse, whom 99% of the party members prefer as the prime minister. This is a fact even admitted by the president Maithripala in his address to the nation. It’s true that January8th Maithripala appointed Ranil as the prime minister even though UNP had a minority in the parliament. That’s simply because the majority of the parliament consisting of UPFA ministers didn’t oppose that decision, which was the correct ethical choice. However after RW made a mess of the central bank issue and the irresponsible nature of the FCID conducts, UPFA did bring a no confidence motion against RW. At that point Maithripala didn’t have any other option but to dissolve the parliament and call an election before his originally planned date. So if Maithripala doesn’t appoint Mahinda Rajapakse as the prime minister in the case of UPFA winning a majority in the parliament, it would become impossible to conduct the parliament. Furthermore according to the newly passed 19th amendment the parliament can’t be dissolved immediately as well. Thus President Maithripala has no option but to make Mahinda Rajapakse as prime minister if UPFA goes on to win a majority of seats. Another possibility is that UPFA would see a power struggle after the election where Maithripala commands the control of majority of elected MP’s and someone else other than Mahinda Rajapakse becomes the prime minister. However this is highly unlikely, as it is Mahinda Rajapakse that the general public sees as the prime minister. It is Mahinda Rajapakse who has the backing of the masses at the grass root level. To go against people’s will would be distractors for the image of Maithripala. As Mahinda Rajapakse respected the January 8th mandate of the people, Maithripala would have to respect the August17th mandate of the people. Not to do so would make Maithripala a dictator himself, a term he kept using against Mahinda Rajapakse during the last presidential election. However either way Mahinda Rajapakse or someone else from UPFA becoming prime minister is far better outcome than RW becoming prime minister. Mahinda Rajapakse has publicly admitted that he did make some mistakes which he has clearly stated he would not be repeating if given a mandate. Furthermore even during the presidential election bulk of the allegations were levelled against associates of Mahinda Rajapakse and not Mahinda Rajapakse himself. Bulks of such associates are not contesting in the coming general election. Furthermore giving a majority in the parliament to UPFA means President Maithripala would also have a significant influence on the conduct of the government. In the case of UNP government Maithripala would be hugely sidelined, simply because no UNP minister would go beyond Ranil’s word. But if UPFA is in power, Maithripala could work with UPFA MP’s at a personal level. This is simply because he has been working with them for the past so many years. So UPFA winning means more purposeful involvement of Maithripala in the strategic decision making of the government. Associates of Mahinda Rajapakse could be moderated also by Maithripala. So setting aside the personal agitation President Maithripala has of Mahinda Rajapakse, UPFA coming to power in August17th general election and Mahinda Rajapakse becoming prime minister is a far better outcome than giving power to sinister Ranil and his gang of buddies, even from the point of view of president Maithripala. However in the case if UPFA doesn’t go on to win a majority and UNP doesn’t also have a clean majority there is still a chance of UNP forming a coalition government with the likes of TNA and JVP. There are also rumors of some UPFA ministers after getting elected defecting to UNP side with blessing of Maithripala. We earnestly hope that such defections would not materialize beyond rumors, in the case of becoming a reality, president Maithripala would be slowly treading a path of self distructing his image as well as the confidence public has of him.

It is an open secret that JVP has become pawns of UNP. JVP was a party with a strong vision whose followers were supremely dedicated to it. That vision was based on socialism. Dedication of its followers saw two youth uprisings in the 70’s and in the 80’s. Uprising of 80’s was brutally suppressed by the then UNP government. Youth were massacred and tortured by the UNP using state sponsored torture houses. Batalanda being one such infamous torture house. JVP leader and founder Rohana Wijeweera was burned alive in Borella cemetary. JVP also killed innocent government workers and army personnel. It was a dark, resentful period in the history of Sri Lanka. During the 90’s JVP entered main stream politics laying to rest its belief in revolutionary struggle using weapons. Its followers were dedicated to socialism and were supremely disciplined & dedicated to the cause of the party. How such a party becomes pawns of UNP and thereby help implement capitalism policies is beyond reason. The hardcore JVP supporters would never cast their vote to the JVP this time around. Current leadership is a humiliation to everything JVP has stood for all these years. People correctly see them as ‘red elephants’. JVP’s previous leader Somawansha Amarasinghe has publicly charged current JVP leadership of accepting money from UNP and aligning itself with UNP policies. In the coming general election voting for JVP is indirectly favoring Ranil.

In order to ensure the sovereignty of Sri Lanka, it is a must that Ranil is not made the prime minister. In order to ensure the average Sri Lankan lives are enriched it is a must that Ranil is not made the prime minister. In order to make sure that our younger generations are passed on a united, undivided Sri Lanka it is a must that Ranil is not made the prime minister. The only way to make sure of that is by voting for UPFA and making sure that August17 doesn’t become day of resentment for generations to come. We should be vigilant to the fact that politicians of minority parties are hell bent on diving this country with the help of foreign powers. Foreign powers are supporting these politicians so as to exert their influence on the South Asian region through Sri Lanka. Ranil will do as told by these external forces and be completely ignorant of the native Sri Lankan peoples demands. This moment is a critical juncture of our history, mess it up and we would be opening up the doors to hell. Make the correct decision and we can protect our country so that we can work on improving living standards of each and every Sri Lankan. That correct decision is voting for UPFA and ensuring Rani Wickramasinghe does not become the prime minister !!!!

Courtesy Ceylon Today

General Secretary of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Susil Premajayanth told Ceylon Today that they will not accept 13+ as a solution to the ethnic issue through the UPFA Election Manifesto because 13+ was no longer a valid option.

He said the Alliance will only accept as solutions for the ethnic issue the proposals included in the 13th Amendment.

By Malinda Seneviratne

A question was asked from the former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, during his final breakfast meeting with media heads last year.  ‘Who is your real opponent, Maithripala Sirisena, Ranil Wickremesinghe or Chandrika Kumaratunga?’  He did not hesitate in responding: ‘Chandrika!’

This became the lead story in all newspapers the following day.  The headline in almost all newspapers was ‘Chandrika is my real opponent!’ or else versions of that same line.  What happened next is interesting.

The Maithripala Sirisena campaign quietly sidelined Kumaratunga.  It must be remembered that it was this lady who flanked Sirisena when he announced his presidential bid.  Many who were close to Candidate Sirisena expressed the view that she did more harm than good.  Her entire speech was full of invective and littered with revenge-intent, quite in contrast to the campaign theme (Maithree-Paalanayak or ‘Compassionate Governance’).  Perhaps it was hard to flush the bad news down the toilet at the time, but Rajapaksa’s assertion tipped the scales, so to speak.  She was essentially restricted to Gampaha.  The fact that she could not even deliver the ‘ancestral seat’ of Attanagalla speaks volumes of her political worth.

On the other hand, after declaring that she was his true opponent, Rajapaksa focused on attacking Sirisena.  Had he succeeded in turning it into a Mahinda vs CBK affair, he may have fared better, one can speculate.

The fact is Chandrika is bad news for whoever she supports.  It is fashionable these days to tag ‘corruption’ to anything associated with the Rajapaksas.  Yes, not just corruption but thuggery, abuse of power etc., etc.  It makes sense if it is a matter of defeating a Rajapaksa-led coalition of course, but if one stands back and does not pretend to have been born after 2005 then one must concede that the dark days began long before Mahinda Rajapaksa became President.

Not only did Chandrika do nothing of significance during the 11 years she was President, her reign was marked by absolute incompetence in managing the economy, unprecedented election violence (remember the Wayamba Provincial Council Election), political victimization, harassment and murder of journalists (remember the ‘Satana’ editor, Rohana Kumara?) and of course a cluelessness about dealing with the LTTE.

Victor Ivan called her fp!r /csk (‘Chaura Regina’ or ‘Thieving Queen’).  Diehard UNPers and even the holier-than-thou JVP would feel embarrassed to talk about the CBK-days, but a short visit to the National Archives would help unearth all they had to say about the lady before Ranil and Anura Kumara Dissanayake saw her as ally as per the classic thesis ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’.

Political parties have to weigh merits against demerits.  There are costs and these are checked against possible benefits.  This is why, perhaps, Sirisena came to the party almost clinging to Chandrika’s sari-pota and this is also why he dispatched the lady to Horagolla not long afterwards.  He would have sensed that she is a liability.  He probably was savvy enough to figure out that what politicians might forget (and forgive) the electorate may not.

Today, more than six months after the Presidential Election, the euphoria of the ‘venasa’ (change) is but a distant memory.  Sirisena came with promises.  The delivery van after some hopeful spluttering came to a halt not too long after.  His ‘abdication speech’ essentially delivered the SLFP vote base to the man he ranted about and whose defeat he sorely needs, Mahinda Rajapaksa.  The UNP might believe that the January 8 result (and all the votes) were green in color, but that’s wishful thinking.  The flak for all that was not done after January 8 (20th Amendment, Right to Information Act, Code of Conduct for MPs) and what was done (the Central Bank bond scam) got credited nevertheless to Ranil Wickremesinghe’s party simply because Sirisena took a back seat during the period.  So when Ranil says ‘Chandrika will return and some bombs will explode’ he is showing desperation.

There are bombs that Chandrika can explode.  She did toss some grenades (as we mentioned) and they almost wrecked Sirisena’s face.  This time, if we go by her now obvious party preferences, she will be closer to Ranil than Mahinda.  No prizes for guessing who is more likely to get hurt.  The point is, Chandrika does not carry bombs with her.  She doesn’t need to.  She’s one.

Politics in Sri Lanka, then, is a strange game.  For years, Ranil was Mahinda’s best friend and vice versa.  Chandrika could have been Mahinda’s best friend but he didn’t market it right, as explained above.  Ranil needed Mahinda to split the SLFP and perhaps this is why he was slothful in investigating the wrongdoings of the previous regime.  It didn’t help that his buddies were busy making bucks using connections of course but that’s another story.  Sirisena and Ranil were friends and still are one supposes, but Sirisena in trying to affirm loyalties played into Mahinda’s hands.

Chandrika thought Sirisena was a friend and believed that he would somehow ensure that Mahinda would not get nominated.  He read it all wrong.  She was peeved.  She left in a huff.  Ranil thinks Chandrika is a friend and has been since Mahinda effectively turned her from a Somebody into a Nobody in 2005, but she is his worst enemy.

One thing about her, though.  She adds color.  She makes things interesting. It’s more fun when she’s around than when she’s absent.

By Madura Ranwala Courtesy:The Island

Investigations had revealed that two underworld criminals wanted by police in connection with many criminal activities had returned to the country to do political work for a government politician and they had been the target of yesterday’s shooting at Bloemendhal Road, Kotahena, a senior police officer told The Island last night.

The car used for the attack found near the crime scene.

The attack left one person dead and twelve other injured.

How the suspects had fled after leaving the car is being probed and the four suspects had been identified and they had fled the area,” police said.

Two wanted underworld criminals known as ‘Army Sampath’ and ‘Sanka’, who had returned to the country recently were the main targets of the attack carried out by a criminal called Pathum and three assailants in a black car with T-56 assault rifles, police said.

Pathum is a buddy of ‘Dematagoda Chaminda’, another underworld leader, who is now in prison. The police attributed the incident to a dispute between the two criminal gangs a senior police officer said.

Police said that they had not been able to find ‘Army Sampath’ and ‘Sanka’ among the wounded being treated at the National hospital, Colombo and investigations were being conducted to ascertain whether they were wounded or not and what had happened to them thereafter.

Police Spokesman ASP Ruwan Gunasekara told The Island that the car had beeb found in the park of the newly built flats on the Bloemendhal Road.

Asked how the assailants had fled the area, Police Spokesman ASP Gunasekera said that the people there were yet in a state of shock after the incident and so the police had not yet been able to ascertain the details.

A T-56 magazine had been found inside the abandoned car, ASP Gunasekara said.

Courtesy:The Island

‘ආමි සම්පත්’ අයුධ තොගයක් සමඟ අල්ලා ගනී.. රවිගේ ඇමතුමෙන් නිදහස් වෙයි…

පෙරේදා දිනයේ කොළඹ කොටහේනේදී වෙඩි තැබීමේ සිද්ධියෙන් පසු ඇමති රවි කරුණානයකගේ දේශපාලන හිතවතෙකු වන ‘ආමි සම්පත්’ එදිනම පස්වරුවේ පතුරම් හා ආයුධ සහිත වෑන් රියක් සමඟ අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇති බව නි. ඇමති තිලංග සුමතිපාල මහතා පවසයි.

කොළඹදී මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් අමතමින් ඔහු කියා සිටියේ ඉන් පසු රවි කරුණානායක ඇමතිවරයා  අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් 21දෙනා නිදහස් කරන ලෙස පොලීසියට දුරකතන ඇමතුම් ලබා දී ඇති බවයි.

තව දුරටත් ඔහු පෙන්වා දුනනේ එදින වෙඩි තැබීම සිදුවන අවස්ථාවේ මෑතකදී නැවත මෙරට ආ ප්‍රධාන පාතාල කල්ලි නායකයින් දෙදෙනෙකු වූ ආමි සම්පත් හා සංඛ යන පුද්ගලයින් දෙදෙනාද සිටි බවයි.

CHAKRA—

Why are so many religious conversions in India going unnoticed?  The majority of the population there is quick to point out that Hindu Fundamentalists have done….,” or that The BJP, Hindu Nationalist Party is fanatical,” when such parties bring to attention the problem of forced conversions in the country.  All citizens of India who are influenced by giant media sources such as NDTV and CNN-IBN easily point out the Hindu fanatics,” but fail to see the growing existence of Christian missionaries throughout the so called secular country.

A Tamil advertisement posted by a Church trying to
fool uneducated Hindus by claiming that Hinduism
is been derived from Christianity

Christian missionaries come in huge numbers to India, most of who are from the Southern states of the United States.  They enter the country with claims of humanitarian-secular acts to help with compassion, the disadvantaged, poverty-stricken population of India.  However, when examined closely, out of their compassionate acts” emerge thousands and thousands of new converted Christians.  The disadvantaged populations of India are manipulated and taken advantage of by means of financial support and food as well as guidance towards Jesus through gradual force.  They are given education and put into labelled secular schools with Christian names in which students are fed lines from the bible while they are fed a lunch they previously did not have the means for.

If this is not an act of complete manipulation than what is?  Why is the Indian government allowing such organizations into the country in the first place, especially when their agenda is so clear?  In addition, when a Hindu soul decides to do something about such conniving acts, why is it printed as a first page story on a national news media source titled something in the line of Hindutva Group Hindering Freedom.”?  As in other countries such as Pakistan or Bangladesh with Muslim majorities, who sustain and fight for their religion, why can’t Hindus do the same for their countries religion without getting criticism from fellow Hindus?  How has a country’s majority, including the government become so blind to such appalling act’s that hinder and take advantage of religious freedom? No one should be forced into following a religion they do not wish to follow.  Instead, in India, thousands and thousands are baptized in masses.  There is literally a mass production of Christians in India, as if they are factory products that need to be re labelled as fast and as efficiently as possible.  Victims are gathered in an area together where a baptizing procession takes place. They line up for the holy bath, quickly poured down on them, and that’s it.  They must now follow the teachings of Jesus.

It is one thing to see such brutal acts but it is another to see it yet do nothing about it.  I as an NRI Indian am truly ashamed to be a part of a country who participates in allowing such amoral acts.  The solution to such a problem can only be devised if Hindus unite and form groups/organizations that fight against conversions in India and help to drive these people out.  It starts first by voting for the party that will support Hindu rights—parties like the BJP.  Such parties are not conservative right winged religion Hindu parties. Even though they have been titled as the Hindu Nationalist party, their views are very liberal and in line with the secular perspective.  However, they strive to protect the rights of the majority of India because they see the risk and threat there is to this majority.  People must act together and not be fooled by the headlines of mass media but rather question them and analyze them with true facts and personal experiences.  Believe it or not, one’s own experience can help a lot in understanding such headlines.  If you do not see or face what is claimed in anti-Hindu media, then there is a high chance that the facts are bogus.  Experiences, one’s surroundings and knowledge are key to understand the injustices that the Indian government is currently taking part in, by allowing such missionary groups into India.  The effects need to be examined and we need to be aware of the consequences for India as a country in the future.

Comments

Pratap Patel says

March 27, 2010 at 5:16 pm

All the Hindu religious leaders should come together and form an allianc to defend the Hindu culture
and the religion. They should fight as a united body to protect and defend Hindu culture. A conversation of one Hindu to other religion should be considerd as an attack on all Hindus. We should protest as a united body to the government and demand some action to ban the conversation ( just like the Muslims do ) We should also encourage the Hindus not to support and vote for Congress or any other party which does not support Hindu coulture , religion and Hindu interest. The congress and other political parties are taking the adventage of uneducated people.

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Mohammed Abdullah says

October 6, 2010 at 11:02 pm

I am very sorry to hear about these people being deceived to convert to Christianity.
Before converting, it is important to know some facts.

1. Jesus Christ never existed. The authors of the Bible, claiming to be his disciples who
   knew him personally, do not even know his name! JEsUs means a JEU = JEW, a Jew, any Jew.
   Over a hundred books have been written by famous white Europeans and Americans
   showing that the Jesus story is a fraud.

See: http://www.jesusneverexisted.com

2. The Bible (especially the Old Testament) is full of violence, barbarity, criminality,
   pedophilia and incest. See:

http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/ot_list.html

http://www.evilbible.com/

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Rudolf says

October 27, 2011 at 4:54 pm

These christian missionaries are like a plague, a disease that devours the victim.

Most of these missionary thugs are sex perverts par excellence, rapists scum who prey on young children, homosexual perverts who abuse young boys.

This religion is one of the most evil and perverted in the world. It has destroyed many cultures like, ones found in Greece, Asia minor, the Inca civilization, Red Indians of Americas.

In India too these christian fundamentalist hoodlums tried to destroy the local culture, but it looks like these evil demons are succeeding thanks partly to that Italian witch sitting in New Delhi.

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balli Singh dhillon says

November 15, 2011 at 6:42 am

Christianity is a plague affecting all the religions……

They creep into our system eating us away from inside,
these are the new threats…..

The akali dal,Bajrang Dal,RSS,BJP are going limp and impotent on these issues because they
have the power of western sponsored media behind them, if not kept in check…..these Missionaries will devour our culture

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Sundasr says

July 23, 2012 at 2:52 pm

The real meaning of Christianity is nothing but CHEATINITY. There is also one more meaning CORRUPTIONITY”. Christianity is nothing but a Marketing Group. People are Brain Washed and made to accept that it is the WHITES who are their masters. The amount spent for conversion is nothing but peanuts. People who go to the Church contribute huge sums. After conversion in the Weekly Mass, Congregations, Convocations, Conventions, etc., etc., etc., the collections ranges anywhere from Rs.1 Laks to 1 Crore per day. People are brain washed to part off from 1/10th to 1/3rd of their incomes to the Church. Percentages of these collections will be shared with their masters (higher Pastors). See the lavishness the Father (Pastors / Bishops / Brothers / etc) live, you will be astonished. The Church run schools, institutions, Orphanages are nothing but BROTHELS. Read the book written by Sister Jesme, you will understand all these. The real intention of the Christian Missionaries is to make a huge income from the innocents and ignorant in India by just CHEATING. They want the poor and the down trodden to remain as the same only then their business will run well. They can show the photographs, videos and film shows in which if you have a close look, you will find these people will be remaining as down trodden only, whereas these Pastors will be with neat dress, high fi colors and will be leading a lavish life. This is exactly the agenda of the Christian Missionaries

Norm Phelps

June 15, 2007

The Dalai Lama
Thekchen Choeling
P.O. McLeod Ganj
Dharamsala H.P. 176219
India

By mail and email to: ohhdl@gov.tibet.net

Dear Sir: I am writing to you with great sadness.

By way of introduction, or actually re-introduction, I am the author of The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights, a copy of which I sent you soon after it came out in 2004, and an additional copy of which I am enclosing with the hard copy of this letter. I have been a practicing Tibetan Buddhist for more than twenty years.

You may also recall that in November 1998 you generously granted me a private audience in Washington, D.C. for the purpose of discussing a vegetarian diet as Buddhist practice. You were very gracious in providing me an opportunity to urge you to adopt a vegetarian diet on full-time basis. You told me that because of liver damage resulting from hepatitis B, your doctors had instructed you to eat meat, and that for some years you had compromised by eating vegetarian every other day. You spoke movingly of your deep compassion for animals and your desire that as many people as possible, including Tibetans and Buddhists, adopt a vegetarian diet as an expression of Buddhist compassion for all sentient beings.

Less than three weeks after this interview, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported that at a dinner at the Elysee Palace for Nobel Peace Prize laureates, you refused the vegetarian meal that you had been served with the comment, I’m a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian,” and insisted on being served the same entrée that the other guests were having, which was reported to be braised calf’s cheek and vol-au-vent stuffed with shrimp. I understood that the dinner might have been held on a meat-eating day of your one-day-meat, one-day-veggies regime, but I could not understand why you would publicly go out of your way to dissociate yourself from a compassionate vegetarian diet when just days earlier you had spoken to me with such apparent conviction about the need for everyone who can” to become vegetarian. There were no reporters present at the dinner; the AFP reporter heard the story from you the next day, which suggests that you wanted the world to know that you were not vegetarian. In other words, quite inexplicably, you apparently wanted to promote meat eating as consistent with Buddhist practice. I wrote you asking about this, but received no response.

In light of this background, I was overjoyed to read in April 2005 that you had announced to a wildlife conference in New Delhi that you had lately adopted a vegetarian diet on a full-time basis. On February 16, 2007, Rinchen Dhondrup wrote a thank-you letter on your official letterhead to Ms. Dulce Clements of La Verne, California, who had sent you a copy of a wonderful book on vegetarianism as spiritual practice, The World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle, Ph.D. In this letter, Dhondrup-la said that His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s kitchen here in Dharamsala is now vegetarian.”

Thus, as you may imagine, I was greatly dismayed to read an article from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel dated May 15, 2007, reporting that you had attended a fund-raising luncheon on May 3, in Madison, Wisconsin for the Deer Park Buddhist Center and Monastery. According to the article, the food served included veal roast, stuffed pheasant breast, and soup made with chicken stock. The chef told the reporter that you chowed down” on everything you were served, including the veal. Veal calves are separated from their mothers just hours after birth, confined in tiny crates too small for them to turn around in, fed an iron deficient diet that gives them severe, painful, chronic anemia, and killed while they are still small children. When you ate the veal, you lent your public support to some of the most egregious cruelty that our society is capable of.

Someone who attended a public talk that you gave in Madison around this time reports that you mentioned the vegetarian issue, saying that you had been vegetarian for two years because the big monasteries are becoming vegetarian,” but that you had gone back to meat eating because of your health. I presume that the two years were spring, 2005 to spring, 2007. I would have expected you, as a great bodhisattva, to follow a vegetarian diet because it is the compassionate thing to do and was taught by the Lord Buddha Shakyamuni, not because it is the popular thing to do in the context of monastic politics.

Even more recently, it has been reported in the world press that on June 13, 2007 you visited a zoo created by the late television performer Steve Irwin in Beerwah, Australia. During this visit you reportedly spoke in support of a compassionate vegetarian diet while admitting that you eat meat occasionally” for the sake of your health.

It is hard to understand how eating meat occasionally” could benefit your health. It would seem reasonable that if your body did, in fact, require meat—which seems most unlikely—you would have to consume meat more often than occasionally” for it to have any health effect.. And since it is easy in India and the West to eat a nutritious, high-protein diet without meat, perhaps supplemented by vitamin B12 tablets, I cannot help suspecting that this is more a question of appetite and custom than health.

It is also hard to understand why you would lend your support to a zoo, which is, after all, a prison in which animals innocent of causing any harm are incarcerated far from their natural surroundings to live out their lives in bleak, barren deprivation and hopelessness. It is especially difficult to understand why you would visit a zoo dedicated to the memory of Steve Irwin, who was world-famous for teasing and tormenting animals for the sake of television ratings, worldly fame, and money.

The lack of consistency between your public statements in support of vegetarianism and animal protection on the one hand and your personal behavior on the other is troubling, to say the least. I am afraid that it is now taken for granted in much of the Western animal protection community that you are a hypocrite who tells his audience what he believes they want to hear and then does whatever he wants to. Your moral inconsistency toward nonhuman animals has even given rise to a website called Bad Karma Lama, www.badkarmalama.com. I have no idea who created the site, but it reflects a view that is very widely held—and, I fear, with good reason. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot be seen as a protector of nonhuman animals and continue to eat meat and visit zoos. You cannot respect the Buddha nature of animals in your speech and continue to disrespect it in your conduct. That is, in fact, hypocrisy.

In The Great Compassion, I said that Buddhism ought to be an animal rights religion par excellence” because of the Buddhadharma’s recognition that there is no intrinsic difference between humans and other animals and its insistence that the First Precept (Do not kill.”) applies to our treatment of animals as well as our treatment of human beings. If Buddhism does not in actual practice always extend the full measure of its compassionate protection to animals, that is a failure of individual Buddhists, including I am afraid, far too many teachers; it is a violation of the teachings, not a consequence of them. The world sees you as the living embodiment of the Buddhadharma, and even those who are not Buddhist see you as a great moral leader. Actions speak louder than words,” and when you eat meat, the public, Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike, takes that as proof that inflicting unspeakable suffering and premature death on sentient beings for the sake of appetite is morally acceptable. In that way, you contribute to the killing of the forty-eight billion land animals and uncounted billions of aquatic animals who are slaughtered every year for food.

After more than two decades of waiting for you to bring your personal regime into line with your public pronouncements—and the clear teachings of the Lord Buddha Shakyamuni in the Mahayana Scriptures—I have reluctantly concluded that you do, in fact, speak in soothing platitudes to people like me while continuing to eat the flesh of murdered mother beings, and that you have no intention of changing. I remain a firm practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism—you have broken my heart, but not my faith—but I no longer consider myself a follower of the Dalai Lama; and I will not consider myself one until your actions toward sentient beings in the animal realm reflect your teaching.

I have reached this decision only after much soul-searching and with great reluctance. I am not going to ask you to change your behavior. I’ve been there, done that. We have a saying in America that Anybody can talk the talk. What matters is do you walk the walk.” You can talk the talk with the best of them. But after twenty years, I can no longer pretend that everything is fine while I wait for you to walk the walk

Sincerely yours,

/s/ Norm Phelps
n.phelps@myactv.net
P. O. Box 776
Funkstown, MD 21734, USA

cc: Office of Tibet, New York

http://www.all-creatures.org/letters/20070615-np.html

 Our Correspondent

Guwahati: The Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) in association with Indian Women’s Press Corps, Delhi Union of Journalists, Press Club of India (New Delhi), Mumbai Press Club and Indian Federation of Working Journalists  have organized a two day national consultation on media freedom and the law on 8 & 9 August next.

To be held at New Delhi Press Club, the national meet is expected to highlight the burning issues relating to the frequent attacks on journalists, sexual harassment and criminal defamation cases against the media persons and also appropriate response to those attacks on press freedom including legal measures.

Senior journalist and media commentators like  Paranjoy Guha Thakurtha, Bharat Bhushan, Sevanti Ninan, Sukumar Murlidharan, Siddharth Varadarajan, PC Tiwari, Anil Chamadia, Sujata Madhok will be present on the meet, which will be graced by renowned advocates like Prashant Bhushan, Colin Gonsalves, media rights campaigners like Vikram Rao, Nadeem Ahmad Kazmi, Nava Thakuria etc.

The HRLN has been doing some preliminary work with journalists under attack. Our network partners have repeatedly reported various ways in which the employers and government have victimized journalists,” said a statement issued by the HRLN adding that in some cases lawyers have been able to provide legal defense but in many instances journalists have suffered physical assaults, criminal cases and sexual harassment without any effective legal aid.

Kusal

He was an evangelical believer of an “anti UNP” Left and still claims he’s working for an alternate Left, as a leading theoretician of the Wame Kendraya.

His Selfish Evolution

Stayed with the LSSP while the LSSP was with MR government on the pretext he was fighting for a “Left” alternative within LSSP

Ganged up with Maduluwave Sobitha Thera on the argument “MR should be replaced, but NOT with UNP”

Was with MS campaign on the promise, “Only to have 19 Amendment” and not to bring in a UNP government.

NOW HE IS IN THE UNP NATIONAL LIST, WAITING FOR A CABINET POST, rumored as minister for Constitutional Affairs to have the new constitution that Ranil is talking about.

Pity those few innocent Comrades who still trek to the N.M.Perera Centre thinking he is committed to a “Left Alternative”

Oh! The Red Shirt !!

Shenali Waduge

Sri Lanka is at a crucial juncture. The situation is far more dangerous than the 3 decades of terror that prevailed. It is such an intense situation that calls for all politicians to set aside their self-centred political ideologies and cunning to realize the thin line we are treading on and the abysmal outcome likely to result unless we all rise to the occasion as one nation protecting the nation from division or separation. This election is about voting to divide or secure the sovereignty of the country.

Let us take incidents and put them in perspective to understand the plot.

Firstly we need to realize that with the implementation of the 13^th amendment via the India forced Indo-Lanka Accord in 1987 and the introduction of the provincial council system, Sri Lanka is in structure federal. However the Centre holds the powers to dismantle the provinces if they do not function to the countrys laws. The best example was the annulment of the merged North-East Provincial Council in 1990 when its Chief Minister Varatharaja Perumal declared Unilateral Declaration of Independence and thereafter ran off to India.

Additionally it must also be stated that 36 of the 37 subjects have been devolved to the provinces barring police and land powers which have not been devolved to ANY of the provinces. Why should only the North seek it. The NPC cannot behave as spoilt children throwing tantrums without proving they are capable of governing the 36 powers under their purview! Obviously they are least interested in serving the people of the North proven by the simple example of utilization of the budget. TNA Provincial Administration requested Rs.5,831million for 2014 but had only utilized 25.17% for the entire 9months whereas the GOSL had spent Rs.290,271 million from the National budget for the same period. Who provided a service to the North – the GOSL or the NPC?

http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=features/sri-lanka-who-says-13th-amendment-not-implemented

https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2014/11/04/what-is-the-tamil-national-alliance-complaining-about/

Ever since the Northern Provincial Council was established in 2012 with a former Supreme Court judge leaving Colombo where he lived for over 70 years to live for the first time in the North there has been nothing but a harangue of complaints and whining with little done to serve the people of the North. The TNA MPs had been travelling overseas campaigning together with LTTE diaspora among foreign leaders and UN officials.

The packaged list of complaints have included demanding the closure of military camps and removal of military personnel, accusations of rape, claims of vices, colonization of Sinhalese. Taken together what the obvious intention is to remove military presence, nullify security blanket over the North and ensure that no Sinhalese was given entry to North. This high-handed initiative overlooked the fact that 10% of the population in the North in 1977 were Sinhalese and some Sinhalese had been living in the North well before 1940s while sufficient archaeological and historical artefacts serve to prove the Sinhalese occupied the entire island before Tamil migrants came from Tamil Nadu! Thus all mythical notions can be statistically & historically proven wrong though cultural genocide of Sinhala Buddhist artefacts need to now be showcased against both Tamil politicians and LTTE/supporters.

To give oxygen to these demands by the TNA and the North Chief Minister in comes the usual culprits the human rights activists all of whom secure their monthly salaries from Western governments  plotting the outcome for Sri Lanka in Washington & London. Thus, we have C4, Sooka, Amnesty, HRW and their local paid stooges all coming out with reports, panel discussions, statements which are then quoted as if from the Bible by the UN and foreign envoys and leaders which suffice to establish grounds for resolutions totally ignoring the legalities involved. The global systems function in such a way that there is not a soul to question how the very players that labored to prevent the elimination of the LTTE militarily were the one’s bringing the resolutions against Sri Lanka for war crimes/crimes against humanity partnered by internationally proscribed LTTE’s handlers abroad! No one came forward to question how investigation calls for the last phase ended up making allegations on everything that could be packaged to bring their enemies to trial and put them out of the way of disturbing their plans for Sri Lanka.

It was the same coalition that put together a common candidate and canvassed for the regime change in January 2015. The players were the same. The stakeholders the same.

Now imagine where these developments will gradually lead to:

• Unelected Prime Minister assuring full autonomy to the North in an interview to Indian media immediately after the January 2015 Presidential elections
• Applauds and bouquets pouring in from Western governments going so far as to even produce state reports praising improved human rights within months of the change in government.
• Virtually buying over key local entities like media / SL Bar even academia and steering the thought process of the people via a well constructed media campaign feeding lies and distortions that people were ready to believe and accept.
• Northern Chief Minister demanding direct foreign aid and direct diplomatic ties.
• Northern Chief Minister leaving for US without permission for ‘tuition’
• Major slip of the tongue revealing the real intentions came when UNDP head referred to the Northern Provincial council as a ‘Government’  a perfect example of ‘kata boru kiwuwath diva boru kiyanne netha”  https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2015/06/11/use-of-the-term-northern-provincial-government/
• UNDP and other INGOs offering only Northern Province direct aid and other assistance specifically in areas that are required in the event of running a separate state.

Reiteration of a separate state through the TNA election manifesto while simultaneously the Muslims are also claiming that unelected PM had given to them in an unwritten election pledge. (these all call to mind how the unelected PM signed the 2002 cease fire agreement giving territory to terrorists without so much as even informing his own cabinet and thereafter promoting himself for his wessanthara gesture).

What we need to take home from these developments is the realization that while LTTE was a creation of India & Britain that drafted the 13^th amendment & the provincial council system keeping in mind Sri Lanka’s geopolitical positioning and the Trinco natural harbour. It was with the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi that LTTE became directly controlled by the West via the Church and explains why Church leaders were the mouthpieces for both Tamils and the LTTE over the years inspite of over 98% Tamils being Hindus. The 3 decades of terror that kept Sri Lanka destabalized and curtailed to firefighting and damage control enabled the West’s covert operators the NGOs/INGOs and the UN entities to penetrate to Sri Lankan society and key structures that could be influenced – falling immediate victims were the SL media, handful of journalists, SL Bar Association and other key state structures.

When the decision to militarily defeat the LTTE was taken the West did their best to prevent the LTTE loss and when the elimination looked inevitable the West had a backup plan already in place and thus by bringing down the curtain on LTTE terrorism the next modus operandi was to resurrect the political arm of the LTTE via the TNA. This explains the manner in which significant attention was shown by the West towards the TNA. The GOSL erred in not initiating action to investigate TNA’s links to LTTE prior to holding elections in the North.

With the West realizing that in the TNA they have an easy partner ready to allow them to use North/East so long as Tamils were granted access to live in the West, the next stage was to secure a puppet down south. RanilW fitted the bill to perfection. With the powerful position of the Presidency diluted for the next 5 years by installing a rainbow multicultural President not knowing where his allegiance is, the overall security and stability of the country is now in a volatile position. Neutralizing the enemy comes via the UN and through the illegal mechanisms now in force to subject the national leaders for bogus war crimes and remove them from the picture.

So what does the picture now look like? With elections just weeks away the TNA manifesto and open declaration that UNP Leader has promised them a separate state fits perfectly with the slip of the tongue by the UNDP head referring to the Northern Provincial Council as the Northern Government! This is the ultimate outcome pursued.

So what is the danger in TNA asking for autonomy? TNA is an unregistered coalition. It is the ITAK party that is the key party in this coalition. The ITAK – Illankai Tamil Arasu Katchchi has fooled the people by referring to itself as the Federal Party. Its Constitution has been challenged and ITAK is reluctant to reveal what ITAK’s constitution aims & objectives are. If ITAK claims ‘Shamasthi” stood for ‘federalism’ why did they substitute the word ‘shamasthi’ with ‘innaipachchi’ in August 2008 months before LTTE was eliminated? The allegation is that the new word stood for ITAK’s aim for a confederacy. A confederacy is a union of independent and sovereign States.  A confederacy is formed with an intention to create independent and sovereign States. The government of a confederation can withdraw from the Union and explains why TNA is making a strong bid for self-determination a quest that satisfies age-long mental preparation that will leave them in the same abysmal situation that the people of Kosovo finds themselves though only a handful of Tamils are now beginning to realize that the West is pursuing their ‘cause’ not for any love of them but because that ‘cause’ fits well into their overall plan. If we look deeper we can realize the ‘cause’ was actually created by the West and promoted using selfish Tamil politicians who viewed it as an opportunity to rule over their own people!

Be that as it may the West has been playing politics with the minds of people creating slogans to pitch the minorities against the majority in the time-tested successful divide & rule initiative.

It is in connecting the dots that we can put the puzzle together to understand why Mahinda Rajapakse is not the preferred choice but Ranil Wickremasinghe is while the dots should also reveal that these preferences are only until the job is done and thereafter it is cheerio darling… as Saddam, Osama, Gaddafi and even Mubarak found out too late.

What we as citizens need to now realize is that in allowing various foreign entities to interfere and dictate how a sovereign country should run itself we have invited the enemy and now that enemy is slowing closing in and disturbing the structure of the country. Though Sri Lankans are poor at comparing Sri Lanka’s case with the other countries that ‘democracy’ has been delivered to we are blindly walking into a trap that is destined to ruin the nation and our people.

Nationalist leaders will be imprisoned for concocted crimes while puppets who will be used to remove all legislative, constitutional and other legal barriers and thereafter once there of no use any more they too would be removed. Where does that leave the rest of the country’s citizens?

That answer merits some serious thinking in the next couple of days by Sri Lankan citizens to realize that this election should not be to vote because parties promise to reduce the price of essential goods, promises the sun and the moon or increasing salaries. This election is very much about voting to safeguard the sovereignty of the country or to blindly vote for parties that are willing to give the nation to foreign powers so long as they will be kept in power irrespective of what is good for the nation or people.

Shenali D Waduge

Adaderana

By Concerned Sri Lanka Diaspora

Northern Provincial Government?”

The UN Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka’s reference to Northern Provincial Council as Northern Provincial Government

UN interference in the internal matters in Sri Lanka, Establish and operationalize processes for building peace    through reconciliation and accountability by addressing the critical core grievances of minorities in an inclusive and       consultative manner”

UN proposals- to provide technical support to the Northern Provincial Government to better plan and undertake development programs, generate revenue and reach out to communities, for consultation and feedback. This component is to be implemented by UNDP”.

Foreign Minister’s meetings with pro-LTTE organizations        overseas who funded and supported the LTTE. He ignored        non-LTTE expatriates who have always supported the       country.

Statements from the Foreign Ministry that are ambiguous      with reference to the status of the TNA

• US Policy-According to a statement made by the US Ambassador designate to Sri Lanka, the United States supports a Federal Structure as a catalyst for national reconciliation

• TNA’s discriminatory Claim- there is a Sinhalese influx into North Lanka ”.

• TNA’S Genocide Claim– The Sinhalese majority carried out genocide against the Tamils since 1948

• Delisting the Terror Organizations and Terrorists-Under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373, Sri Lanka listed 16 entities and 424 individuals of the LTTE overseas network that engaged in terrorist propaganda, fund raising, procurement and shipping of weapons and other terrorist related activities. If they are delisted by the present regime, LTTE network overseas will use their resources to embark on activities for a separate state in Sri Lanka.

• Several false statements on the US Senate floor by a leading US senator with information given by the Foreign Minister, a couple of them below:

1. For years, impunity for serious crimes has been the norm in Sri Lanka   

  2.”Under the government of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Armed Forces day was “Victory Day”, a divisive, provocative celebration for the Sinhalese majority.”

3. The return of land in the north and east currently occupied

by the Armed Forces, and the resettlement of Tamils displaced by the war and the provision of basic services, is an urgent necessity.”

• UNP/ TNA Collaboration-Last but not least, the UNP coalition’s wooing of the TNA

By Concerned Sri Lanka Diaspora

Ira de Silva London

Reference  the statement by the Deputy Foreign Minister on the TNA manifesto. The TNA, which acted as a proxy for the LTTE,  continues to support the division of Sri Lanka and the establishment of Eelam in the northern and eastern provinces supported and funded by the pro-LTTE Tamil diaspora. The problem with these statements from the Foreign Ministry is that they are not only ambiguous but do not clearly indicate that they will not permit the division of the country or in any way collaborate with the TNA and other anti Sri Lanka parties, who are communal based parties, wanting parts of the country as their own to the exclusion of the other communities. With the election on August 17, it is time for the leaders to make a commitment to the voters of Sri Lanka that they will not, under any circumstances, enable/facilitate the division of the country, or create enclaves for communal and religious groups, for short term political gain as has been the practice up to now.

Will the leaders of the current government and opposition do the following:Make a clear statement that they will not accommodate communal based politics to the detriment of the country as a whole.

Immediately issue a statement and broadcast it in all media that there will be no merger of the northern and eastern provinces under any circumstances.

Guarantee that any and all consultations with all stakeholders will be based on the premise that no one community will be permitted to prevent Sri Lankan’s freedom of movement and the right to live and work anywhere in the island.  It is a fundamental right. There should be zero tolerance for exclusive rights to any part of the country.

While provincial leaders have the right to express their opinions,  that they will be held to account when they act against Sri Lanka. That the government will challenge the numerous falsehoods submitted to international organizations that there was genocide, rape and torture was rampant and committed by the security forces, withdrawal of the security forces from areas they consider their own to the exclusion of other communities and  the claim of grievances that have never been defined.  Since January 2015 there has been an escalation of these actions against the country and the Government has been silent.

There has been much publicity that the Government wants expatriates to return, invest in Sri Lanka etc. However,  the Foreign Minister met with pro-LTTE organizations overseas who funded and supported the LTTE supposedly for reconciliation. These pro-LTTE groups still collect money for their goal of Eelam and fund the TNA to carry out their goals. It  is a damning indictment that he ignored other non-LTTE expatriates who have supported the country against division for the last thirty years. Any statement that comes from a ministry that allies itself with pro-LTTE groups to the exclusion of others, is suspect. A clear statement must be made that ALL stakeholders will be consulted, not a chosen few.

Make a clear statement that NO pact will be entered into with the TNA. Mr. Perera claims that the UNP “never entered into any pacts with the TNA except on re-establishing good governance and the rule of law”. This implies that there was some form of “pact”. He needs to clarify this statement because  good governance and establishing the rule of law does not need a pact with any party. That is the duty of any government.

It is imperative that the UNP, SLFP and all other parties clearly state their intentions and attitudes regarding the TNA manifesto without confusion, obfuscation and half truths and include them in their manifestos and  public speeches. There is no room for confusion and vagueness. The TNA has not changed it’s goal and have made it abundantly clear. It is now the turn of all political party leaders to respond so that voters know if they agree with the TNA or not.

It is the responsibility of the media to highlight important issues and ensure that the electorate is well informed.

Yours truly,

Ira de Silva
London

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න

ජවිපෙ තහනමින් පසු 1987 මුල්භාගය වනවිට වෘත්තීය සමිති ව්‍යාපාරයේ තරුණ රැඩිකල් කම්කරුවන් අතරත් දෙමළ බෙදුම්වාදයට එරෙහි සරසවි සිසුන් සහ තරුණයින් අතරත් ජවිපෙ මුළු ශක්තියම වාගේ රැදී තිබිණි. කම්කරුවන් අතර ඒ වෙනුවෙන් 1986 ජුනි 8  ජනතා සටන් පෙරමුණ දෙමටගොඩ වෙළෙඳ සංකීර්ණය භූමියේදී සහ පළාත් සභා යෝජනාවලට එරෙහිවන්නන් සඳහා මව්බිම සුරකිමේ ව්‍යාපාරය 1986 ජුලි 26 දෙමටගොඩ පාඨානගාර විහාරයේදී ආරම්භ විය.

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න විසිනි.

ජවිපෙ සිය දෙවන කැරළි සමයේදී භික්ෂූන් කෙරෙහි වැඩි බරක් යෙදවුයේ ජවිපෙ දේශපාලන මණ්ඩල සභික සහ දෙවන කැරැල්ල අවසානයේ ජවිපෙ නිල නොවන තෙවන නායකයා බවට පත්වූ ඩී.එම්. ආනන්ද විසින් භික්ෂු අංශය 1986 පෙබරවාරි මස භාර ගැනිමත් සමඟය. ඒ වන විටත් ඩී.එම්. ආනන්ද ජවිපෙ බස්නාහිර සහ සබරගමු පළාතේ දේශපාලන ලේකම්වරයා වූ අතර ශිෂ්‍ය, කාන්තා සහ භික්ෂු යන පෙරමුණු සංවිධානවලද නායකයා විය.

ජවිපෙ මගින් ඝාතනයකල භික්ෂූන් 41 දෙනා අතර සිටි නායක හිමිවරුන් කිහිපදෙනක්.(වමේ සිට) කළුතර තොටමුණේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක පොහොද්දරමුල්ලේ පේමාලෝක හිමි, ප්‍රකට ධර්ම කථික කොටිකාවත්තේ සද්ධාතිස්ස හිමි, මාතර වැල්තොට පඥ්ඥාදස්සි හිමි සහ මිද්දෙණියේ පුරාණ විහාරාධිපති බෙලිගල්ලේ මහින්ද හිමි.

වාරියපොලදී 1954දී උපන් දිසානායක මුදියන්සෙලාගේ නන්දසේන නොහොත් ඩී.එම්. ආනන්ද එක් දරු පියෙකි. පේරාදෙණිය සරසවියේ 1980 ශ්‍රාස්ත්‍රවේදී උපාධිධාරියෙකු වූ ඔහු කලක් නාරද හිමි නමින් පැවිදිව සිටියේය. භික්ෂු අංශය තුළ ඔහුගේ කටයුතු සම්බන්ධීකරණය කළේ සංස්කෘතික අංශයේද ක්‍රියාකාරි නියමුවෙකු වූ උපාලි ගමගේ නොහොත් මහානාමය. පේරාදෙණිය සරසවියේ කලා පිඨ‍යේ ප්‍රේමානන්ද හිමි නමින් ශිෂ්‍ය භික්ෂුවකුව සිටි ඔහු පසුව උපැවිදිවී පූර්ණ කාලීනව ජවිපෙට එක්වී සිටි අයෙකි.

දෙවැනි කැරළි සමය වනවිට ජවිපෙ සංවිධාන ව්‍යූහය වූයේ නායක රෝහණ විජේවීර සහ දේශපාලන මණ්ඩලය වේ. දේශපාලන මණ්ඩලය මගින් සෘජුවම කේෂේත්‍ර අංශයේ ප්‍රචාරක, මුදල්, අධ්‍යාපන සහ සන්නද්ධ(දේශප්‍රේමී ජනතා ව්‍යාපාරය) යන අංශද පෙරමුණු අංශයේ කම්කරු, තරුණ, කාන්තා, ශිෂ්‍ය සහ භික්ෂු අංශයන්හිද වගකීම් දැරීය. මධ්‍යම කාරක සභාව යටතේ දිස්ත්‍රික්ක 19ක් ඌව/නැගෙනහිර, දකුණ, බස්නාහිර/සබරගමු, මධ්‍යම, උතුරු මැද කලාප අංශ, දේශපාලන මණ්ඩලයේ අධීක්ෂණය යටතේ ක්‍රියාත්මක විය.

ආණ්ඩුවේ නිල සහ නිල නොවන කණ්ඩායම් මගින් ඝාතනයට ලක්කල භික්ෂූන් 681 අතරින් දෙදෙනෙක්.(වමේ සිට) රන්සෑ‍ගොඩ ධම්මාලෝක හිමි සහ වලල්ලාවිට චන්ද්‍රසිරි හිමි.

ජවිපෙ භික්ෂුන් පක්ෂය තුළ සංවිධාන ගතව සිටියේ සමාජවාදි භික්ෂු සංගමය හරහාය. වසර 1971 කැරැල්ල වන විටද භික්ෂූන් සැලකිය යුතු පිරිසක් ආමන්ත්‍රණය කිරීමට ජවිපෙ සමත් විය. 1971 අප්‍රේල් කැරැල්ලේදී ඝාතනයට ලක්වූ භික්ෂූන් සංඛ්‍යාව 50ක ආසන්න වූ අතර අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් සංඛ්‍යාව සිය ගණනකි. සමාජවාදි භික්ෂු සංගමය ජාතික කමිටු, දිස්ත්‍රික් කමිටු සහ ආසන මට්ටමින් ක්‍රියාකාරකම් සිදුකල අතර 1987 වන විට එහි ක්‍රියාකාරිකයින් භික්ෂු සාමාජික සංඛ්‍යාව 525ක් පමණ විය. එහෙත් පොදුවේ රටපුරා ජවිපෙ හිතවාදි භික්ෂූන් 750කගේ පමණ සෘජු සහාය හිමිවූ අතර දහස් ගණන් භික්ෂූන්ගේ වක්‍රාකාර සහායද ජවිපෙට හිමිවිය. වසර 1983 පක්ෂ තහනමට පෙර ජවිපෙ මැයි පෙළපාලියට සමාජවාදී භික්ෂු සංවිධාන බැනරය යටතේ සහභාගිවූ භික්ෂූන් සංඛ්‍යාව 550ක් වේ.

වසර 1986 දෙසැම්බර් වන විට රජයේ සංඛ්‍යාලේඛන අනුව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ තිබූ පන්සල් සංඛ්‍යාව 8,582ක් වූ අතර එහි සිටි උපසම්පදා භික්ෂූන් සංඛ්‍යාව 14,681කි. එමෙන්ම සිටි සාමනේර හිමිවරුන් සංඛ්‍යාව 16,741කි. මෙම සියළු භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා  31,422 ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ප්‍රධානම නිකායන් 3ක් යටතේ පිහිටුවාගෙන ඇති පිළිගත් පාර්ශවයන් 32කට අයත් විය.

ජවිපෙ මගින් ඝාතනයට ලක්කල බුත්තල සුබසෙත් ගෙදර මයිකල් පෝල් රොඩිරිගූ පියතුමා සහ තිස්සමහාරාමයේ ලංකා දේව සභාවේ ලයනල් ජයසිංහ දේවගැතිතුමා.

ජවිපෙ දෙවනි කැරළි සමය වනවිට සමාජවාදි භික්ෂු සංගමය රහසිගතව ක්‍රියාත්මකවූ අතර එය කුඩහපොල බලකාය මගින් බෞතිස්ම කර දේශප්‍රේමී ජනතා ව්‍යාපාරයට අනුගත කර තිබිණි. ජවිපෙ 1986 සිට 1989 මාර්තු දක්වා සිය භික්ෂූ ව්‍යාපාරයේ කටයුතු විවෘතව කරගෙන ගියේ 1983 ජවිපෙ තහනමින් පසු පිළියන්දල පුවක්දණ්ඩාව විහාරයේදී ආරම්භ වූ මානව හිතවාදී භික්ෂු සංගමය සහ 1985 මාර්තු 4 කැළණි සරසවියේදී ආරම්භවූ අන්තර් විශ්ව විද්‍යාල භික්ෂු බල මණ්ඩලය මගින් එම නාමයන් යටතේය.

දෙවන කැරැල්ලේ ක්‍රියාකාරිකයින් සමඟ සමීප සම්බන්ධකම් පැවැත්වීමේදී භික්ෂූන්ට විශේෂ උපක්‍රමශීලි සහ සංවිධානාත්මක වාසි රැසක් තිබිණි. සමාජයේ ජීවත්වූ උපාධිධාරි භික්ෂූන් එක්තරා ආකාරයෙන් වෘත්තීය බුද්ධිමතුන් පන්තියක් බවටද පත්වී සිටියහ. එම කාල වකවානුව තුළ සංස්කෘතික සහ මානව හිමිකම් සුරකීමේ කේ‍ෂේත්‍රයන්හිදී වැඩි බරක් ඇද්දේද ජවිපෙ භික්ෂූන් විසිනි. මානව හිතවාදි භික්ෂු සංවිධානය මගින් ප්‍රකාශිත විනිවිද මාසික සඟරාව 1987 සහ 1988 යන කාලයේ ජනප්‍රිය සඟරාවක් වූ අතර එක් සඟරාවකින් පිටපත් 62,000ක් අළෙවි වූ අවස්ථාවක්ද විය.

ජවිපෙ සමාජවාදී භික්ෂු සංගමයට 80 දශකයේ අග භාගයේදී නායකත්වය දුන්නේ අන්තර් විශ්ව විද්‍යාල භික්ෂු බල මණ්ඩලයේ කැඳවුම්කරු බලහරුවේ සෝම, දේශප්‍රේමි ශිෂ්‍ය ව්‍යාපාරයේ ලේකම් තාරපේරියේ රතනජෝති, මානව හිතවාදී භික්ෂු සංවිධානයේ එගොඩබැද්දේ ගුණසිරි, එක්සත් භික්ෂු සංගමයේ සභාපති තලකොලවැව චන්ද්‍රරත්න ඇතුළු හිමිවරුන් විසිනි. කැළණි සරසවියේ ශ්‍රාස්ත්‍ර පීඨයේ දෙවන වසර සිසුවෙකු වූ බලහරුවේ සෝම හිමි මාතර බලහරුවේ උපන්නෙකි. මාතර උපන් තාරපේරිය රතනජෝති හිමි කැළණිය සරසවියේ ශ්‍රාස්ත්‍ර පීඨයේ දෙවන වසරේ සිසුවෙකි. සමාජවාදී භික්ෂු සංගමයේ සෙසු නායකයින් වූයේ කොළඹ සරසවියේ මංගල හිමි, ආනන්ද හිමි, කැළණි සරසවියේ ශ්‍රාස්ත්‍ර පීඨයේ උඩුවෙල ධම්මජෝති ඇතුළු කිහිප දෙනෙකි. එහි ක්‍රියාකාරිකයින් කිහිප දෙනෙක්ම ආරක්ෂක හමුදා මගින් ඝාතනයට ලක්වූ අතර කඩුගන්නාවේ සීවිලි හිමි පොල්ගොල්ලේදීද, බදුල්ලේ ගුණසිරි හිමි බදුල්ලේද මරාදමා සිරුරු හමුවිය. සපුගොල්ලේ ඉන්ද්‍රවිමල හිමි කුරුණෑගලදී අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන එහි අංක 5 පාරේ ලොකු පාලම අසළට ගෙනවිත් ඝාතනය කිරීමට සැරසෙද්දී ගඟට පැන දිවි බේරා ගැනිමට උන් වහන්සේ සමත් විය.

මව්බිම සුරැකීමේ ව්‍යාපාරයේ අදිසි පැවිදි නායකයෙකු වු පිටුවල ධර්මකීර්ති හිමි නොහොත් ලෙනින් හාමුදුරුවෝ 1989 අගොස්තු 29වැනිදා ඝාතනය කිරීමෙන් පසු කම්පාවට පත් දායකයින්.

දෙවන කැරැල්ල අවසන් වීමට පෙර සමාජවාදී භික්ෂු සංගමයේ නායකයෙකු වන තලකොළවැව චන්ද්‍රරතන හිමි 1989 ඔක්තෝබර් මස රත්නපුරේදී අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීමෙන් පසු රජයේ රූපවාහිනියේ පෙනි සිටිමින් රජයට බාරවන්නැයි සටන්කාමී භික්ෂුන්ගෙන් සහ සරසවි සිසුන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටියහ. පසුව උන් වහන්සේට ප්‍රේමදාස රජය මගින් අභයදානයෙන් අනතුරුව ජපානයට යෑමට සමත් විය. එහිදී උපැවිදි වූ ඔහු වර්තමානයේ දෙදරු පියෙකි. නිකවැරටියේ උපන් හෙතෙමගේ පියා  ගොවියෙකු වූ අතර මව මියගිය පසු එම පිංකමටද ඔහු පැමිණියේය.

ජවිපෙ දෙවන කැරැලලේ පරාජයෙන් පසු සමාජවාදී භික්ෂු සංගමයේ ජාතික කමිටුවේ ඉතිරිවූ භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා 12 නමක් ගම්පහ යක්කල කෙහෙල්වතුගොඩ පන්සලේදී 1989 දෙසැම්බර් 26 සහ 27වැනිදා රැස්වූහ. ගම්පහ මූලස්ථාන පොලිස් පරික්ෂක ගාමිණී සිල්වාගේ නායකත්වයෙන් 1989 දෙසැම්බර් 27 රාත්‍රී 11ට කෙහෙල්වතුගොඩ පන්සලට පැමිණි කණ්ඩායමක් හිමිවරුන් 11ක් අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් අතර එක් හිමිනමක් පලා ගොස් අත්තනගලු ඔයට පැන දින දෙකක් ඔයේ සැඟව සිට 1989 දෙසැම්බර් 29වැනිදා උදෑසන වේයන්ගොඩ සහ ගම්පහ අතර දාරළුඔය දුම්රිය අසළ දුම්රියට පැන සියදිවි නසා ගැනීමට තැත්කිරීමේදී අවට ගම්වාසින් විසින් බේරාගෙන ගම්බිම් බලා ආරක්ෂිතව පිටත්කර යවන ලදී. හිමිවරුන් හතර දෙනෙක් හැර සෙසු හිමිවරුන් හත් දෙනෙක් නිදහස් කරන ලදී. අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් 4 දෙනා පසුව ඝාතනයට පත්වූ බව කියති.

ජවිපෙ ඝාතනය කල පොහොද්දරමුල්ලේ පේමාලෝක හිමිගේ දේහය 1988 දෙසැම්බර් 21වැනිදා කළුතර නගර ශාලාවේදී තැම්පත් කර තිබියදී. ඒ අසළ සිටිනේනේවාද්දුව කවුඩුදුව පන්සලේ විහාරවාසි බේරුවල සෝභිත සහ පියරතන හිමියන්ය.(වමේ) ලයනල් ජයසිංහ දේවගැතිතුමා ගේ සිරුර දෙබරවැව දේවස්ථානයේ මහජන ගෞරවය සඳහා තබා තිබියදී(දකුණේ

පසුදින අත්අඩංගුවෙන් නිදහස් කල පිරිසට බලහරුවේ සෝම, එගොඩබැද්දේ ගුණසිරි සහ තාරපේරියේ රතනජෝති යන හිමිවරුන් අයත් විය. බලහරුවේ සෝම හිමි 1989 දෙසැම්බර් 29වැනිදා පස්වරු 2ට හොරොව්පතානේදී ලියුම්කරුට දැකගන්නට ලැබිණි.  පසුව උපැවිදිවී ප්‍රංශයට ගිය අතර වර්තමානයේ තිදරු පියෙකි. කැළණි සරසවියේ සිටින 540ක් වූ සරසවි භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා භික්ෂු නේවාසිකාගාරයක් ඉල්ලා 1987 මාර්තු 4වැනිදා සරසවිය අල්ලා ගත් අතර ජයග්‍රාහීව නිමවූ  සටනේ නායකත්වය දැරීම තුළින් බලහරුවේ සෝම හිමි ඉස්මතු විය. අන්තර් විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ භික්ෂු බල මණ්ඩලයේ ආරම්භයද එය විය.

තාරපේරියේ රතනජෝති හිමිද ජපානයට ගොස් උපැවිදිවී එහි වාසය කරයි. එගොඩබැද්දේ ගුණසිරි හිමි ලියුම්කරුට හදිසියේ හමුවූයේ  හමු වූයේ 1990 ජනවාරි 23වැනිදා කටුනායක ගුවන් තොටුපලේ ගුවන් ගතවීමට නියමිතව තිබූ තායි ගුවන් සේවයට අයත් යානයකදීය. ලියුම්කරු තායිලන්තයට ගියේ එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ පරිසර වැඩසටහනේ සමුළුවකට සහභාගිවීම සඳහාය. අවසානයේ තමාගේ තාවකාලික නවාතැන තායිලන්තයේ සුලක් ශිවරාක්ෂගේ බැවින් හැකියාවක් ඇත්නම් එම ස්ථානය සොයා ගෙන එතනට ගෙනයන මෙන් ඉල්ලීමක්ද කළේය. ලියුම්කරු එය ඉටු කළේය. එගොඩබැද්දේ ගුණසිරි හිමියෝ පසුව උපැවිදිවී මුණසිංහ නමින් ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවේ ජිවත්වන ඔහු දෙදරු පියෙකි.

ජවිපෙ භික්ෂු අංශය භාරව සිටි දේශපාලන මණ්ඩල සභික ඩී.එම්. ආනන්ද, ඒවා සම්බන්ධීකරණය කල සංස්කෘතික අංශයේ උපාලි ගමගේ නොහොත් මහානාම, දේශප්‍රේමී ශිෂ්‍ය ව්‍යාපාරයේ ලේකම් තාරපේරියේ රතනජෝති හිමි සහ අන්තර් විශ්ව විද්‍යාල ශිෂ්‍ය බල මණ්ඩලයේ කැඳවුම්කරු බලහරුවේ සෝම හිමි.(වමේ සිට) ආනන්ද සහ මහානාම උපැවිදිවී සිටි අයවූ අතර රතනජෝති සහ බලහරුවේ හිමිවරුන්ද කැරැල්ලේ පරාජයෙන් පසු උපැවිදිවී පලාගොස් ජපානයේ සහ ප්‍රංශයේ දේශපාලන රැකවරණ ලබා ගත්හ.

ජවිපෙ භික්ෂු සංගමයේ ප්‍රබල ක්‍රියාකාරියෙකු වූ පිටුවල ධම්මකීර්ති හිමි ප්‍රචලිත වූයේ ලෙනින් හාමුදුරුවෝ නමිනි. අසූවේ ජුලි වර්ජනයෙන් රැකියාව අහිමි වූ උපාධිධාරියෙකු වූ උන් වහන්සේ 1989 අගෝස්තු 29වැනිදා කෑගල්ලේදී පැහැර ගෙන ගොස් තිරශ්චීන ලෙස ඝාතනයට ලක්විය.  එහි තවත් ක්‍රියාකාරිකයෙකු වූ හික්කඩුවේ ගුණසිරි හිමි ජපුර සරසවියේ තෙවන වසරේ පැවිදි සිසුවෙකු මෙන්ම එහි භික්ෂු සංගමයේ සභාපතිවරයාය. අගලවත්ත ආසනයේ කෙට්ටියාගල කන්දේ වැඩවාසය කල ගුණසිරි හිමි පසුව මිරිහාන පොලිසිය මගින් අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන පැලවත්ත සහ බූස්ස කඳවුරේ රඳවා තබාගන්නා ලදී. උපැවිදි වීමෙන් පසු හික්කඩුවේ දසනායක නමින් ප්‍රාදේශීය සභා මන්ත්‍රීවරයෙක්ද වශයෙන් කටයුතු කල ඔහු වර්තමානයේ ගුරුවරයෙකි.

ආරක්ෂක අංශ ගෝතමී විහාරයට 1988 සැප්තැම්බර් 07වැනිදා පැමිණ මානව හිතවාදී භික්ෂු සංවිධානයට අයත් සියලු ලේඛන සහ බඩු බාහිර ආදිය අත්අඩංගුවට ගන්නා ලදි. එහිදී භික්ෂූන් 08 දෙනෙකුද අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන දීර්ඝ ප්‍රශ්න කිරීම් වලින් පසු රජය මගින් නිදහස් කරන ලද්දේ බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයේ ඇමිනෙස්ටි ආයතනය ආරක්ෂක ඇමතිවරයාගෙන් එසැනින් කරන ලද ඉල්ලීමක් අනුවය. එකල කොළඹ නගරාධිපති රත්නසිරි රාජපක්ෂ එහිදී සියළු කටයුතු සම්බන්ධීකරණය කළේය. ජවිපෙ වෙනුවෙන් විනිවිද සඟරාව පලකලේ උඩුගොඩ සෝරත හිමි සහ එගොඩබැද්දේ ගුණසිරි හිමිය. එයට සහාය වූයේ ජයවර්ධනපුර සරසවියේ උපාධි අපේක්ෂකයෙකු වූ දික්වැල්ලේ සෝරත හිමි ඇතුළු කිහිප දෙනෙකි. චිත්‍ර ශිල්පියා බණ්ඩාරය. විනිවිද සඟරාවේ කලක් සම සංස්කාරකවරයා වූ කොන්ගස්දෙනියේ ආනන්ද හිමියන් භීෂණය හේතුවෙන් ප්‍රංශයට පිටුවහල් විය. එසේම මණ්ඩාවල පඤ්ඤාවංශ හිමියන්ද දැන් වැඩ වසනුයේ  එක්සත් ජනපදයේය. භාතිගම්මන උත්තරානන්ද හිමි නිකවැරටියේ ගොඩනගන ලද වන අරමක අපිස් දිවියක් ගතකරමින් වර්තමානයේ වැඩ වසති.

වධකාගාරවල භික්ෂූන්ට වධදීමේ ප්‍රචලිත ක්‍රමයක් වූ ධර්මචක්‍ර වධය සිතුවමට නඟා තිබුණේ මෙසේය.

සමාජවාදී භික්ෂු සංගමයේ මධ්‍යම පුවත්පත වූයේ විමුක්ති මගය. එහි නාමික කර්තෘවරයා ධර්මකීර්ති හිමි වූ අතර අදිසි කර්තෘවරයා වූයේ මහාචාර්ය ඩබ්ලිව් එස්. කරුණාරත්නය. සංගමය ලෙසින් නිර්මාණය කල විමුක්ති බණද අතිශයින් ජනප්‍රිය විය.චක්‍රවර්ති සිහනාද සූත්‍රය, කූටදන්ත සූත්‍රය, අඥණ සූත්‍රය ඇසුරින් මෙම විමුක්ති ධර්ම බණ දේශනා සකස්වූ අතර ජවිපෙ මතවාදය ගෙන යෑම සඳහා භික්ෂු සංගමයේ සාමාජිකයින් බණ දේශනයන්හිදි එය උපක්‍රමශීලීව භාවිතයට ගත්තේය. පුහුණු වැඩමුළු පරගොඩ රජමහා විහාරය ඇතුළු ස්ථාන 7ක පැවැත්විණි. විමුක්ති බණ නිර්මාණය කිරීමේ වැඩි ගෞරවය හිමිවන්නේ ආචාර්ය විලේගොඩ අරියදේව හිමිටය. ජවිපෙට 1969 සම්බන්ධවූ ආචාර්ය අරියදේව හිමි 1983 පක්ෂ තහනම දක්වා ක්‍රියාකාරි විය. පසුව සමස්ත ලංකා ප්‍රගතිශීලී භික්ෂු පෙරමුණේ ලේකම් වශයෙන් බහුජන සංවිධාන සමඟ මෑතක් වනතුරු කටයුතු කළේය. එවැනි විමුක්ති බණකට එරෙහිව කෑගල්ලේ විහාරස්ථානයක දායක සභාවක් විසින් පොලිසියටද පැමිණිල්ලක් කොට තිබිණි.

දෙවන කැරැල්ලේදී එජාප ආණ්ඩුව මගින් දියත්කල තිරස්ථීන රාජ්‍ය මර්ධනය සහ ජවිපෙ පෞද්ගලික ත්‍රස්තවාදය හේතුවෙන් රට අවිචාරවත් යුගයක් බවට නැඹුරු වීම ඇරඹිණි. විජයබා කොල්ලය මෙන් දරුණු භීෂණයක් රටතුළ ක්‍රියාත්මක විණි. සැබෑ නීතිය වෙනුවට එජාප රජය මගින් කැලෑ නීතිය ක්‍රියාවට නැගිණි. ජවිපෙ බවට චෝදනා නඟමින් සමාජවාදී භික්ෂු සංගමයේ සාමාජිකයින් ඇතුළු රටපුරා ප්‍රගතිශීලි භික්ෂූන් දඩයම් කිරීම ඇරඹිණි. අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් භික්ෂූන්ගෙන් ඇතමෙකු  ඝාතනයකර ටයර් සෑයවල්වල අවසන් ගමන් ගියහ. වධදීමේ ප්‍රචලිත වූ ධර්මචක්‍ර වධය භික්ෂූන් වෙනුවෙන්ම ක්‍රියාත්මක විණි. පවතින මර්ධන තත්ත්වයට මුහුණදීමට නොහැකිවීම නිසා ඇතැම් භික්ෂූන් උපැවිදි විය. බොහෝ භික්ෂූන් විවිධාකාර වධ හිංසාවන්ට ගොඳුරුවී ජීවිත පරිත්‍යාග කළහ.

අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් භික්ෂූන්ට වධදුන් ආකාරය සිතුවමකට නඟා තිබූ අයුරු.

ජවිපෙ මගින්ද සිදුකළේ භික්ෂුන් මගින් බුදුදහම හදාරා එහි ගැඹුර ප්‍රයෝජනයට ගැනීම නොවේ. පක්ෂයේ මතය ජනතාව අතරට ගෙනයෑමේ දේශපාලන උපක්‍රමයක් ලෙස භික්ෂූන් පාවිච්චි කිරීම පමණි. එහි බරපතල එල විපාක සමාජයට ගෙන ආවේය. සමාජවාදී භික්ෂු සංගමයේ සාමාජිකයින්ගේ අරමුණ නව සමාජයක් බිහිකිරීම වුවද ජවිපෙ සන්නද්ධ අංශයේ ක්‍රියාකාරකම් හේතුවෙන් ජවිපෙ දේශපාලන සම්ප්‍රදාය තුළ වැදගත්ම අංග ලක්ෂණයක් වූ පක්ෂ සංස්කෘතිය සහ ජීවන විලාසය එදා උඩු යටිකුරු විය.

අවසානයේ තමන්ට එරෙහිව පමණක් නොව එජාපයට සහ සෙසු වාමාංශික පක්ෂවලට සහාය දුන් භික්ෂූන්ද ඝාතනය කිරීමට ජවිපෙ කටයුතු කළේය. එසේ ජවිපෙ සන්නද්ධ අංශය වූ දේශප්‍රේමි ජනතා ව්‍යාපාරය මගින් දෙවැනි කැරළි සමයේදී එනම් 1986 සිට 1990 දක්වා එසේ ඝාතනය කරන ලද බෞද්ධ භික්ෂූන් සංඛ්‍යාව 41. කතෝලික පූජකවරුන් සංඛ්‍යාව 2කි. එජාප ආණ්ඩුවේ නිල සහ නිල නොවන සන්නද්ධ කණ්ඩායම් මගින් ඝාතනය කරන ලද බෞද්ධ භික්ෂූන්ගේ සංඛ්‍යාව  681කි. මේ අනුව ජවිපෙ දෙවැනි කැරළි සමයේදී ඝාතනයට ලක්වූ පූජකවරුන්ගේ සංඛ්‍යාව 724ක් වන අතර ඉන් 722ක් බෞද්ධ භික්ෂූන්ය.

ඝාතනයට ලක්වූවන්ගේ අවමගුල් පෙරහැරකදි භික්ෂූන් ගමන් කරමින්.

ජවිපෙ මගින් ඝාතනයකල භික්ෂූන් 41 දෙනා අතර සිටි නායක හිමිවරුන් අතර  කළුතර තොටමුණේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක පොහොද්දරමුල්ලේ පේමාලෝක හිමි, ප්‍රකට ධර්ම කථික කොටිකාවත්තේ සද්ධාතිස්ස හිමි, මාතර වැල්තොට පඥ්ඥාදස්සි හිමි සහ මිද්දෙණියේ පුරාණ විහාරාධිපති බෙලිගල්ලේ මහින්ද හිමිද වෙති. පොහොද්දරමුල්ලේ පේමාලෝක හිමි ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහජන පක්ෂයේ පැවිදි අනුශාසක වූ අතර ජල බද්දට සහ වෙල්ලස්සේ ඉඩම් විදේශිකයින්ට පවරාදීමට එරෙහිව අරගල වල මුල්තැන ගෙන කටයුතු කල යතිවරයෙකි. ජයවර්ධනපුර සරසවියේ උපාධිධාරියෙකු වූ පේමාලෝක හිමි කළුතර මහා විද්‍යාලයේ ගුරුවරයෙකු වශයෙන් සිටියදී 1980 ජුලි වර්ජනයට එක්වීමෙන් රැකියාව අහිමි විය. ආචාර්ය එන්.එම්. පෙරේරා, කොල්වින් ආර්. ද සිල්වා සමඟ සමසමාජයෙන් දේශපාලනය ඇරඹූ උන් වහන්සේ 1982 ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී ශ්‍රිලනිප අපේක්ෂක කොබ්බෑකඩුවගේ ප්‍රධාන කථිකයෙකු විය.

ඉන්දු ලංකා ගිවිසුමට පක්ෂ වූ අතර කොස්ගස් හන්දියේදී මහජන පක්ෂයේ රැළියකට ගැසූ බෝම්බ පහරකින් අනතුරකටද පත්විය. ප්‍රේමාලෝක හිමි 1988 දෙසැම්බර් 18 වැනිදා වාද්දුව තල්පිටිය සිටියදී රාත්‍රී 7.30ට පන්සලට පැමිණි කැරළිකරුවන් දෙදෙනෙකු විසින් බඩට සහ මුහුණට වෙඩිතබා පළා යන ලදී. එම අවස්ථාවේ විහාරයේ වස්කඩුවේ විමලජීව, පෝද්දරමුල්ලේ නන්දාලෝක සහ තල්පිටියේ විමලසාර යන හිමිරුන් වැඩසිටි අතර ඔවුන් විසින් රෝහලට ගෙන යන විටද උන් වහන්සේ අපවත්වී තිබිණි. ආදානය කළුතර නගර සභා ක්‍රීඩාංගනයේදී විශාල ජනකායක් මැද සිදුකල අතර දේහය මහජන ගෞරවය සඳහා කළුතර නගර ශාලාවේදී 1988 දෙසැම්බර් 21 තබා තිබිණි. මුහුණට වෙඩිතැබීම නිසා මුහුණ විරූපවී ඇති හෙයින් පේමාලෝක හිමිගේ දේහයේ උඩ කොටස සම්පූර්ණයෙන් වසා තිබිණි.

Sri Lanka. Monk seated on the ground surrounded by tear gas. Pettah bus stand, Colombo, 28th July 1987. Protest at the signing of the Indo Lanka Peace Accord between India and Sri Lanka.

කොටුව බෝගහ අසළදී 20,000කගේ සහභාගිත්වයෙන් 1987 ජුලි 28වැනිදා පැවති විරෝධතා අවසානයේදී ප්‍රහාර හමුවේ නොසැලී සිටි එකම තැනැත්තා වූ කෑගල්ලේ විමල සාමණේර හිමි.

පනාගොඩ හමුදා කඳවුරේ බෝධිරාජ විහාරයේ දහම් පාසලේ ප්‍රධාන ආචාර්යවරයා වූ හබරකඩ ධර්මාශ්‍රාම විහාරාධිපති වල්අඹගම පඥ්ඥාසාර හිමියෝද ජවිපෙ මගින් 1988දී ඝාතනය කළේ හමුදා නිලධාරින්ගේ දරුවන්ට දහම් පාසැල නොපවත්වන ලෙසට කල ඉල්ලීම ඉටු නොකල බැවිනි. උන් වහන්සේගේ ආදාහන කටයුතුද තහනම් කල අතර දේහය තබා තිබුණේ පනාගොඩ ධර්ම ශාලාවේදීය. එදිනම හබරකඩ ප්‍රකට වෛද්‍යවරයෙකු වූ ආරියරත්නද ඝාතනය කර තිබිණි.

එකල දේශප්‍රේමී ජනතා ව්‍යාපාරය මගින් මරා දමන ලද අයගේ අවසන් කටයුතු කරන ආකාරය පිළිබදව විධාන පනවා තිබිණි. අවසන් කටයුතු උත්සවයකින් තොරව සිදුකල යුතු අතර ආගමික වතාවත් සඳහා සහභාගිකරගත හැකිවූයේ භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා උපරිම දෙකකි. දේහය ඔසවාගෙන යෑමේදී එය පොළවේ මට්ටමින් අඩියකට වඩා ඉහළට ඔසවා නොගත යුතුය. අවසාන කටයුතු සදහා සහභාගි විය හැකි උපරිම ගණන 10කි. මෙම නීති පිළිනොපදින  අයට දැඩි දඬුවම් පැනවූ බවට වාර්තා විය.

දෙවන කැරැල්ලේ පරාජයෙන් පසු අතුරුදහන්වූ සහ ඝාතනයට ලක්වූ භික්ෂූන් පිළිබදව ආචාර්ය විලේගොඩ අරි‍යදේව හිමි කැළණි සරසවියේ භික්ෂු ක්‍රියාකාරිකයින් සමඟ 1990 අවසානයේදී සාකච්ඡාවක නිරත වෙමින්.

ප්‍රකට ධර්ම කථිකයෙකු සහ එජාප හිතවාදී භික්ෂුවක්වූ කොටිකාවත්තේ සද්ධාතිස්ස හිමි ඝාතනය කරන ලද්දේ 1989 අගොස්තු 3 පන්සල තුළදීමය. මාතර වැල්තොට පඥ්ඥාදස්සි හිමි 1989 අගොස්තු 30වැනිදා ඝාතනය කරන ලද්දේ කිතලගමුව විහාරයේදීය. මිද්දෙණියේ පුරාණ විහාරාධිපති බෙලිගල්ලේ මහින්ද හිමි ඝාතනය කළේ 1989 මැයි 28වැනිදාය. මහින්ද හිමිගේ ඝාතනයට හේතුව වූයේ පළාත් සභා පනතට එරෙහි උද්ඝෝෂණ ව්‍යාපාරයකදී එයට පැමිණ සෙත් පිරිත් කියන ලෙසට කරන ඉල්ලීම ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කිරීම හේතුවෙනි. කුරුණෑගල ගොවි අරගල වලට ක්‍රියාකාරිව දායකවූ රෑද්දගොඩ සරණංකර හිමිද ඝාතනය විය.

ජවිපෙ විසින් ඝාතනය කල භික්ෂූන් අතර පහත හිමිවරුන්ද විය. ඒ අනුව මිහින්තලය විහාරයේ කුඹගොඩ ඥාණාලෝක හිමි 1987 ජුලි 11, මාරඹේ සෝමරතන හිමි 1988 දෙසැම්බර් 31, අඟුනකොලපැලැස්සේ උපාලි හිමි 1989 ජනවාරි 7, පල්ලම විහාරයේ හේමාලෝක නන්දිමිත්‍ර හිමි 1989 අගොස්තු 04, අතුරුගිරිය විහාරයේ ව. පඥ්ඥාතිස්ස හිමි 1989 අගොස්තු 13, රජමහවිහාරවාසී සොරගුණේ පඥ්ඥාසාර හිමි 1989 අගොස්තු 20, කිරවනාගම පඥ්ඥාරාම හිමි1989 අගොස්තු 27,ජයසුමනාරමයේ පැල්පොල ධර්මපාල හිමි 1989 සැප්තැම්බර් 04, ශ්‍රී සුදර්ශනාරාමයේ මුදිත හිමි 1989 සැප්තැම්බර් 05, බෝධිරාජාරාමයේ කහව විමලසිරි හිමි 1989 සැප්තැම්බර් 09, මඹරගල විහාරයේ මහනුවර ධර්මරක්ඛිත හිමි 1989 සැප්තැම්ර් 18දා ඝාතනයට ලක්වූහ.

අධ්‍යාත්මික මඟ පෙන්වීමක් ඇති දේශියත්වය මත පදනම්වූ දේශපාලන ව්‍යාපාරයක අවශ්‍යතාවය පිළිබදව 1991දී පේරාදෙණිය සරසවියේදී පැවැත්වූ සාකච්ඡාවකින් පසු සරසවි භික්ෂූ නායකයින් ‍.(වමේ සිට) පේරාදෙණියේ අතුරලියේ රතන හිමි, 71 කැරැල්ලේ බදුල්ලේ උපනායකයෙකුව සිටි පේරාදෙණිය කෘෂිකර්ම දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ අම්බලන්ගොඩ ජයන්ත ජයමුණි සහ කැළණියේ කළුපහන පියරතන හිමි.

එමෙන්ම මාවෙලගම රජමහා විහාරයේ ගෝවුන්නේ රතනජෝති හිමි 1989 සැප්තැම්බර් 20, තිරාණගම රතනසාර හිමි 1989 සැප්තැම්බර් 29, තාඹුගල ආනන්දසිරි හිමි 1989 ඔක්තෝබර් 13, ශ්‍රී ඛෙත්තාරාම විහාරයේ දික්පිටියේ අංගීරස හිමි 1989 ඔක්තෝබර් 05, කළුතර ධම්මරතන හිමි 1989 ඔක්තෝබර් 12, දංගොල්ල විහාරයේ හොරඹාව විමලකීර්ති හිමි 1989 ඔක්තෝබර් 20, දෙලිවල විහාරයේ  නිකපිටියේ සිද්ධාර්ථ හිමි 1989 ඔක්තෝබර් 30, මංගලගම පිරිවණේ මොලගොඩ ඩී. ගුණවංශ හිමි 1989 නොවැම්බර් 05, වියනෙලිය විහාරයේ වැලිපිටියේ පඤ්ඤාතිස්ස හිමි, 1989 නොවැම්බර් 29, මෙද්පිටිය විහාරයේ බමුණුපොත සෝමරතන හිමි, 1989 දෙසැම්බර් 10, වැවුළුකන්නල විහාරයේ පඤ්ඤානන්ද හිමි 1989 දෙසැම්බර් 11,කුළුඹුලන්ද විහාරයේ අඹේවල චන්ද්‍රජෝති හිමි 1989 දෙසැම්බර් 12, උභයාරාමයේ රැකව පඤ්ඤාසිද්ධි හිමි 1989 දෙසැම්බර් 16 යන දිනයේදීද ජවිපෙ අතින් ඝාතනයට ලක්වී තිබිණි.

ජවිපෙ මගින් ඝාතනයට ලක්වූ ක්‍රිස්තියානු පූජකවරුන් සංඛ්‍යාව 2කි. ඒ කතරගම බුත්තල අළුකාවිල සුබසෙත් ගෙදර මයිකල් පෝල් රොඩ්රිගූ පියතුමා 1987 නොවැම්බර් 10වැනිදා රාත්‍රී 7.30‍ට ඝාතනයට ලක්වු අතර එයට හේතුව වූයේ දෙමළ බෙදුම්වාදයට සහාය ලබාදෙන බවට චෝදනා ලත් කණ්ඩායම් සමඟ එක්ව කටයුතු කිරීමය. බුත්තල මයිකල් පියතුමාගේ වගකීම දේශප්‍රේමි ජනතා ව්‍යාපාරයේ වෙඩිහඬ පුවත්පත මගින් 1988 පෙබරවාරි භාරගෙන තිබිණි. කොළඹ ශාන්ත පීතර විද්‍යාලයේ ආදි ශිෂ්‍යයෙකු වූ මයිකල් පියතුමා බුත්තල ප්‍රදේශයේ ළමා අධ්‍යාපනය නැංවීමෙහිලාද, ගොවීන් අතරද වැඩ කිරීම පිළිබදව ප්‍රචලිතව සිටි අයෙකි. විශේෂයෙන් කුරුණෑගල සිට ක්‍රියාත්මකවූ ජනතා සංගමයේ වැඩසටහන් සමඟ මයිකල් පියතුමා වැඩකල බවට චෝදනාවක් විය.

තිස්සමහාරාමයේ ලංකා දේව සභාවේ  පී ලයනල් ජයසිංහ දේවගැතිතුමා ජවිපෙ මගින් ඝාතනය කරන ලද්දේ 1988 මාර්තු 25වැනිදා රාත්‍රි 8.45ටය. දේවගැතිතුමාගේ බිරිඳ ලලානි වූ අතර පුතා ශමිල් එම්මානුවෙල්ට එම සිද්ධිය වන විට වයස මාස 11කි. කතෝලික සභාව යටතේ ලංකා දේව සභාව 1914 ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඇරඹූ අතර එම සභාවන් 502ක් රටපුරා ස්ථාපිත කර ඇත. එම සභාව ප්‍රචලිත කිරීමේ පුරෝගාමියෙක් වන්නේ බෝල්ටන් වික්‍රමරත්නය. තිස්සමහාරාමයේ කතෝලික දේව සභාවට පුද්ගලයින් 1,500ක් සම්බන්ධවී සිටින අතර හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්‍රික්කය පුරා එහි අනුගාමිකයින් සංඛ්‍යාව 5,000කට ආසන්නය.

තිස්සමහාරාමයේ සේදවත්ත ගමට 1980දී ජයසිංහ දේවගැතිතුමා පැමිණි අතර ඔහු අවට ගම්වාසින් සමඟ ප්‍රජා කටයුතු ගණනාවක නිරත විය. කැරළිකරුවන් විසින් නිවසට පැමිණ දොර විවෘත කරගෙන වෙඩිතැබු අතර එම වෙඩි පහර කාගෙන කාමරයට දුවවිත් වාඩිවී තිබිණි. එහිදී යළි පැමිණි ඝාතකයින් දෙදෙනා පිහියකින් පපුවට ඇන මුහුණට වෙඩිතබන ලදී. තිස්සමහාරාම රෝහලට ගෙනයන විටත් දේවගැති ජයසිංහ මියගොස් තිබිණි. ඔහුගේ දේහය තිස්සමහාරාම පොදු සුසාන භූමියේදී 1988 මාර්තු 28වැනිදා භූමදානය කෙ‍රිණි.

ජවිපෙ මගින් 1989 පෙබරවාරි 9වැනිදා මහනුවර  ශ්‍රී දළඳා මාලිගයේ පොලිස් මුරපොලට ප්‍රහාරයක් එල්ලකර ආයුධ කිහිපයක් පැහැරගත් අතර කැරළිකරුන් 2 මරණයට පත්විය. සිවිල් වැසියන් තිදෙනෙකුට බරපතල තුවාල සිදුවිය. එම ප්‍රහාරයට මාතලේ ගංගා, නදීකා, මංගලිකා, ලිලන්ති සහ වීරසිංහ යන කාන්තාවන් 5 දෙනා ඇතුළු සාමාජිකයින් 11 දෙනෙකු සහභාගි වූහ. එම ප්‍රහාරය සැලසුම් කළේ ජවිපෙ මධ්‍යම කාරක සභික උපාලි ජයවීර නොහොත් මානෙල් මහත්තයා විසිනි. ප්‍රහාරයට සහභාගිවූ කිහිප දෙනෙකු පසුව අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් අතර ඉන් දෙදෙනෙකු අවි පුහුණුව ලබා තිබුණේ මාතලේ මීමුරේ වනගත කඳවුරකය.

බහුජනයා තුළ ආගමික ශ්‍රද්ධාව පවතින තාක්කල් ඔවුන් කෙරේවන භික්ෂූන් ඇතුළු පූජකයින්ගේ බලපෑම නොවැලැක්විය හැකිය. භික්ෂූන් ජනතාව සමඟ සමීප සම්බන්ධතා පවත්වන තාක්කල් දේශපාලන සහ සමාජ ව්‍යාපාරවලට ඔවුන් ඇදී ඒමද නොවැලැක්විය හැකිය. ජවිපෙ දෙවැනි කැරැල්ල අවසානයේදී ප්‍රථමයෙන් ආණ්ඩුවට හිතැති භික්ෂූන් ජවිපෙ පෞද්ගලික ත්‍රස්තවාදයට ගොදුරුවූ අතර අවසානයේ එය ජවිපෙට හිතැති භික්ෂූන්ට පමණක් නොව ප්‍රගතිශීලි ව්‍යාපාරයේ නිරතවූ සෙසු භික්ෂුන්ටද පාරාවලල්ලක් වී ප්‍රේමදාස ආණ්ඩුවේ නිල සහ නිල නොවන සන්නද්ධ කණ්ඩායම් හමුවේ ජීවිත වලින් වන්දි ගෙවීමට සිදුවූ මහා ඛේදවාචකයක් බවට පත්විය.(The writer is a senior journalist who could be reached at ejournalists@gmail.com)

ඡායාරූප විස්තර

1. ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න විසිනි.
2. ජවිපෙ මගින් ඝාතනයකල භික්ෂූන් 41 දෙනා අතර සිටි නායක හිමිවරුන් කිහිපදෙනක්.(වමේ සිට) කළුතර තොටමුණේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක පොහොද්දරමුල්ලේ පේමාලෝක හිමි, ප්‍රකට ධර්ම කථික කොටිකාවත්තේ සද්ධාතිස්ස හිමි, මාතර වැල්තොට පඥ්ඥාදස්සි හිමි සහ මිද්දෙණියේ පුරාණ විහාරාධිපති බෙලිගල්ලේ මහින්ද හිමි.
3. ආණ්ඩුවේ නිල සහ නිල නොවන කණ්ඩායම් මගින් ඝාතනයට ලක්කල භික්ෂූන් 681 අතරින් දෙදෙනෙක්.(වමේ සිට) රන්සෑ‍ගොඩ ධම්මාලෝක හිමි සහ වලල්ලාවිට චන්ද්‍රසිරි හිමි.
4. ජවිපෙ මගින් ඝාතනයට ලක්කල බුත්තල සුබසෙත් ගෙදර මයිකල් පෝල් රොඩිරිගූ පියතුමා සහ තිස්සමහාරාමයේ ලංකා දේව සභාවේ ලයනල් ජයසිංහ දේවගැතිතුමා.
5. මව්බිම සුරැකීමේ ව්‍යාපාරයේ අදිසි පැවිදි නායකයෙකු වු පිටුවල ධර්මකීර්ති හිමි නොහොත් ලෙනින් හාමුදුරුවෝ 1989 අගොස්තු 29වැනිදා ඝාතනය කිරීමෙන් පසු කම්පාවට පත් දායකයින්.
6. ජවිපෙ ඝාතනය කල පොහොද්දරමුල්ලේ පේමාලෝක හිමිගේ දේහය 1988 දෙසැම්බර් 21වැනිදා කළුතර නගර ශාලාවේදී තැම්පත් කර තිබියදී. ඒ අසළ සිටිනේනේවාද්දුව කවුඩුදුව පන්සලේ විහාරවාසි බේරුවල සෝභිත සහ පියරතන හිමියන්ය.(වමේ) ලයනල් ජයසිංහ දේවගැතිතුමා ගේ සිරුර දෙබරවැව දේවස්ථානයේ මහජන ගෞරවය සඳහා තබා තිබියදී(දකුණේ)
7. ජවිපෙ භික්ෂු අංශය භාරව සිටි දේශපාලන මණ්ඩල සභික ඩී.එම්. ආනන්ද, ඒවා සම්බන්ධීකරණය කල සංස්කෘතික අංශයේ උපාලි ගමගේ නොහොත් මහානාම, දේශප්‍රේමී ශිෂ්‍ය ව්‍යාපාරයේ ලේකම් තාරපේරියේ රතනජෝති හිමි සහ අන්තර් විශ්ව විද්‍යාල ශිෂ්‍ය බල මණ්ඩලයේ කැඳවුම්කරු බලහරුවේ සෝම හිමි.(වමේ සිට) ආනන්ද සහ මහානාම උපැවිදිවී සිටි අයවූ අතර රතනජෝති සහ බලහරුවේ හිමිවරුන්ද කැරැල්ලේ පරාජයෙන් පසු උපැවිදිවී පලාගොස් ජපානයේ සහ ප්‍රංශයේ දේශපාලන රැකවරණ ලබා ගත්හ.
8. වධකාගාරවල භික්ෂූන්ට වධදීමේ ප්‍රචලිත ක්‍රමයක් වූ ධර්මචක්‍ර වධය සිතුවමට නඟා තිබුණේ මෙසේය.
9. අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් භික්ෂූන්ට වධදුන් ආකාරය සිතුවමකට නඟා තිබූ අයුරු.
10.     ඝාතනයට ලක්වූවන්ගේ අවමගුල් පෙරහැරකදි භික්ෂූන් ගමන් කරමින්.
11.  කොටුව බෝගහ අසළදී 20,000කගේ සහභාගිත්වයෙන් 1987 ජුලි 28වැනිදා පැවති විරෝධතා අවසානයේදී ප්‍රහාර හමුවේ නොසැලී සිටි එකම තැනැත්තා වූ කෑගල්ලේ විමල සාමණේර හිමි.
12.  දෙවන කැරැල්ලේ පරාජයෙන් පසු අතුරුදහන්වූ සහ ඝාතනයට ලක්වූ භික්ෂූන් පිළිබදව ආචාර්ය විලේගොඩ අරි‍යදේව හිමි කැළණි සරසවියේ භික්ෂු ක්‍රියාකාරිකයින් සමඟ 1990 අවසානයේදී සාකච්ඡාවක නිරත වෙමින්.
13. අධ්‍යාත්මික මඟ පෙන්වීමක් ඇති දේශියත්වය මත පදනම්වූ දේශපාලන ව්‍යාපාරයක අවශ්‍යතාවය පිළිබදව 1991දී පේරාදෙණිය සරසවියේදී පැවැත්වූ සාකච්ඡාවකින් පසු සරසවි භික්ෂූ නායකයින් ‍.(වමේ සිට) පේරාදෙණියේ අතුරලියේ රතන හිමි, 71 කැරැල්ලේ බදුල්ලේ උපනායකයෙකුව සිටි පේරාදෙණිය කෘෂිකර්ම දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ අම්බලන්ගොඩ ජයන්ත ජයමුණි සහ කැළණියේ කළුපහන පියරතන හිමි.

Shenali Waduge

Abrahamic religions and the violence, expansionism and advocacy of conversion are things that cannot be kept hidden or denied. Spreading the good word” has led to purging of territories and their wealth and excommunicating natives and their unique cultures. Current fears associated with the repetition of past colonial crimes need empathy in view of the competing claims of both Christianity and Islam for world hegemony.

The Church is Christianity’s first soldier and it is becoming more and more evident that behind most terrorists’ activities the Abrahamic religions prevail. LTTE was simply a pawn of the Church to advance a pan-Christian political agenda that aims to create a satellite Christian autonomous state out of Tamil Nadu and north Sri Lanka (a Sudan-style divide). LTTE’s demise does not mean that that ambition is over.

The Church refers to all denominations as well as Christian funding agencies, Christian NGOs, Christian Governments and countries that use evangelization and militant Christian missionaries as instruments of foreign policy in countries of Asia and Africa. Church in generic form also applies to the UN that enforces only Western Christian political principles on all, even if they infringe on Eastern cultures and values.

Church-Colonial: convert and control / divide and rule

The continents of Africa and Asia were conquered by Christianity-promoting colonials. They divided the populace and converted people along communal and linguistic lines. That doctrine is vigorously advocated with competition between Abrahamic religions to convert people in Africa and Asia. Their objectives are facilitated by self-serving politicians and the manipulation of secularism and multiculturalism helped by non-Christians/non-Muslims ready to sell their souls.

Across the globe, the separatist secessionist and political insurgent movements are either backed by the Church or followers of Islamic fundamentalism. The 1991 Rwanda genocide is an example of Vatican’s role in financing the genocide.

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India was divided as Aryan (Brahmin) and non-Brahmin (Dravidian) and Hindi-Tamil. In Sri Lanka, the Church divided people as Sinhalese-Tamils and infiltrated the State through Sinhala Christian/Tamil Christians to purposely segregate the majority Buddhists.

The Church uses to perfection tenets of democracy to control impoverished nations in both Africa and Asia. The strategy is simple – communities are turned against each other and they step in as referee with the solutions. Solutions are never meant to help Hindu-Buddhists or Sinhalese-Tamils actual rebuild severed ties. Thus, a paradigm shift in thinking is necessary and both Hindus and Buddhists to know the real enemy. The reality is that Buddhists and Tamil Hindus are both being systematically disempowered.

Tamil Nadu’s Dravidian movement” meant it wanted to be led by Britain, while Christian import Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam called for a Greater Dravida Nadu” connecting India and Sri Lanka – the exact plan of the Church! LTTE was simply a mercenary outfit given tacit approval to kill innocent people to buy time until the creation of that pan-Christian state” with the necessary numbers of converted Christians on both sides of the Palk Strait.

LTTE a mere pawn

Many wonder why the West is angered that Sri Lanka has eliminated the LTTE. That anger stems from destroying their investment, dislodging the LTTE from the Eelam-Church nexus, destroying the West’s hopes of a Christian foothold in Asia that would combine a future separate Tamil Nadu and the geopolitically important nation of Sri Lanka. Now they have to use plan B of the same strategy.

We can now understand why LTTE didn’t accept the solutions offered; LTTE was merely an interim beneficiary of a greater plan. Whether Prabhakaran was aware of it or not was immaterial because he was dependent on these alliances for his own survival; his supremacy was limited to what stood within the Church agenda.

Church-LTTE links

Most of LTTE’s top tier leaders were Christian and often hid their Christian identity with Hindu names. The cadres were almost all low-caste impoverished Hindus, most of whom would have been unaware that they were pawns of Church-sponsored terrorism via LTTE, because LTTE’s ties to the Church was one of its best kept secrets!

The names of some top-notch Christian leaders:

–        Prabhakaran aka Pirapaharan, a lapsed Methodist

–        SP Tamil Selvam

–        Balraj aka Balasegaram Kandiah

–        Pottu Amman

–        Prabhakaran’s son Charles Anthony

–        Anton Balasingham – Roman Catholic and LTTE’s self-declared theoretician”

–        Soosai aka Thillaiyampalam Sivanesan

–        Thenmozhi Rajaratnam, nickname Dhanu, Rajiv Gandhi’s suicide bomber assassin

Church clergy openly supporting LTTE:

–     Frs. Singarayer, Diyogupillai, Prof. (Fr.) Joseph Chandrakanthan, from the Department of Theology at the University of Toronto, a former President of the University of Jaffna Teacher’s Association

–        Father Jagat Gasper Raj, close to DMK leadership in India

–      Fr. SJ Emmanuel, former Vicar-General of Jaffna, currently residing in Germany. He is on record saying he is first a Tamil and then a Christian. He called Prabhakaran ‘Jesus Christ’, the LTTE ‘soldiers of Christ’, the suicide bombers ‘martyrs of the Catholic Church’ to whom the Church provided a Catholic burial, and proclaimed himself as ‘the Moses’ who would lead the Tamil nation from the bondage of Sinhalese-Buddhists to the land chosen for them by God: Eelam. He leads the Global Tamil Forum.

–   S Jebanesan, Bishop of the Church of South India (CSI), who said he was working on a theology for Tamils, that is, excluding Sinhala Christians!

–       Prof. S Chandrakanthan, attached to the Theology Department, Toronto University, Canada

–        Rev. Dick Wootton of Uniting Church, Melbourne, Australia

–  Bishop Kenneth Fernando of the Anglican Church, visited Prabhakaran with Charles Abeysekera and Jayadeva Uyangoda and announced, Prabhakaran is humane” shocking all

–        Rev Sr. Mary Barbara, Dr Anita Nesiah, M. Rajasigham, Joe William and T. Jayasingham of the National Peace Council

–    Rajappu Joseph, Bishop of Mannar, declared open the ‘Embassy of the Tamil Eelam’, the Eelam House in London.

The Mylapore Diocese works closely with the former Tamil Nadu chief Minister while the CSI Church of South India keeps ties with the present Chief Minister. Virtually the entire Tamil clergy of India supported the LTTE, as did the Sinhala Catholic and Christian clergy and influential evangelical elites.

LTTE Voice of Tigers tied up with Radio Veritas, a Catholic broadcasting station run by the Asian Catholic Bishops Conference based in The Philippines. The Tamil Service of the Radio Veritas is run by the Tamil Catholics of Tamil Nadu. Voice of Tigers had a coordinating office” inside St. Sebastian’s Church in Mallavi, Wanni; the office was opened by the pro-LTTE Bishop of Mannar Fr. Rayappu Joseph. He played a key role in getting the army out of the Madhu Church premises (in Mannar) while allowing LTTE to operate from inside the Church!

Incidentally, Jaffna Mayor and MP of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, Alfred Duraiappa, Prabhakaran’s first assassination, had got off at the Madhu Church before proceeding to Jaffna. Many believe it was a tip off from the Church that informed Prabhakaran of Duraiappah’s arrival in Jaffna, leading to his death.

The National Christian Council of SL and affiliates (SL Baptist Sangamaya, Christian Reformed Church of SL, Diocese of Kurunegala of the Church of Ceylon, Diocese of Colombo of the Church of Ceylon, Methodist Church, Sri Lanka, Presbyterian Church, Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India, The Salvation Army, YWCA of Sri Lanka, YMCA of Sri Lanka, Ceylon Bible Society, Christian Literature Society, Students Christian Movement, Commission for Justice and Peace) have been working to balkanize Sri Lanka and colluded with LTTE in tarnishing the image of the country. This is proven by the World Council of Churches promoting the concept of traditional homeland theory in 1994 at the UNHRC in Geneva.

National Peace Council was formed in 1995 with the backing of NCCSL donors, including Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, NORAD, SLIDA and a number of EU, German donor organizations.

NCCSL and supporters take great pains to deny that Sinhala Buddhists played a role in building the Sri Lankan nation. Favorite topics include state colonization”, Tamil homeland” ethnic war”, Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism”, genocide of Tamils” etc. They have never referred to LTTE as a terrorist organization and rarely mention its atrocities. Their reports and papers end up being quoted by the West. The concept of self-determination” is being pushed by these Church forces to facilitate creation of a Church-sponsored state.

Rev. Father Tissa Balasooriya needs special mention for his attempts to build bridges and unite people rather than disunite them.

LTTE against Tamil Hindus

Tamil Hindus need to realize they were not and are not part of any Eelam being promoted in Tamil Nadu or Sri Lanka. There are enough clues for Tamil Hindus to realize this if they open their eyes and think.

1. a) Prabhakaran demanding a separate state before highlighting discrimination clearly indicates the end goal devoid of compromise. LTTE did not speak on behalf of Tamils discriminated in other parts of the world, which shows its lack of real concern for Tamils except to establish the separate state for the Christian West. That separate state was not meant for Tamil Hindus.

1. b) Why did Prabhakaran kill the entire moderate thinking Tamil Hindu leaders, politicians, academics and people respected in society? Did Prabhakaran’s actions show any evidence that he or the LTTE were interested in protecting and fostering Tamil Hindu culture? The reality is that Prabhakaran made a mockery of Hindus and Hindu culture – Hindus lost lives and property and a rift was created between Hindus and Buddhists in Sri Lanka (both followers of native Indian civilisation and religions and culturally closer than all others). LTTE ruled 90% of the Tamil Hindus through fear.

1. c) By breaking the rigid caste factor LTTE was helping a long term plan.

1. d) Why were Western nations so supportive of the LTTE quest as to allow London to be openly known as its international headquarters?

1. e) Can Tamil Hindus and Buddhists not see the efforts being made through pro-Christian media channels to chagrin Buddhists and Hindus?

1. f) Can Tamil Hindus and Buddhists not see how many pro-Christian humanitarian organizations set up over three decades actually employed non-Christians? See how economically disadvantaged the ordinary Hindus and especially Buddhists are.

Church influence on India

There is little doubt that the Church strategy is to turn Tamil Nadu into a Christian state. Investments made in communication networks, journalism and other mass communication, television networks, schools, buying acres of land, putting up prayer houses close to Hindu temples, establishing foreign Christian missionaries, presence of NGOs, AID agencies and financing various projects is clear evidence.

That is not all – the Church’s investments include using human weaknesses to plant Christians into ruling families, and generous donations that assure silence of politicians.

The Church knows how to use money – the target audience invariably includes self-serving politicians, the vulnerable, the ambitious and the greedy. Through them the damage is artfully executed.

The power of the Church is such that the present Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu even repealed the anti-conversion law (in 2004) implemented by her own Government. For this she was rewarded with the Golden Star for Dignity and Honor from the International Human Rights Defense Committee, a Christian body funded by USAID. She was also awarded with the Bharath Jyothi in 2005 and evangelist KA Paul presented Rs.1crore for tsunami relief. In 2003, Sri Lanka’s Buddhist and Hindu leaders also drafted an anti-conversion bill, but heavy Church influence upon the Government has ensured reluctance to implement it.

There are some 3000 Churches/para-churches in and around Chennai, 46 Bible colleges, 23 Christian media centers, 122 Christian magazines in English and Tamil, 114 church planting missions. The Church sponsors rallies, posters, conventions etc. Christianity is broadcast via national Doordarshan, satellite/cable channels of GOD TV, CBN, TBN, MiracleNet, Daystar TV, Raj TV, Zee TV, Vijay TV, Blessing TV, Angel TV, Shalom TV, Jeevan TV and web-based telecasts like Jesus Calls, Num.TV. These Christian channels are relayed to 216 cities across India to an audience of 21million.

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The Church’s successes in India include Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and the coastal states of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. South of Cuddalore every fishing hamlet along Tamil Nadu’s vast coastline is almost 100% Christian with the Church getting Tamil Nadu fishermen to intrude into Sri Lankan waters with a game-plan to exert pressure on both Delhi and Sri Lanka and to provoke.

Church manipulates

 The strategy of the evangelists is to continuously provoke people who do not agree with their line of thinking to the point of provoking attack and thereafter accusing them of intolerance, fanaticism, and being communal. The increase of mosques/churches in Buddhist hinterland is one such example. Of course, biased coverage is backed by reports that claim religious freedom is deteriorating due to Buddhist racists in Sri Lanka!

What we see before us is the application of Dominion-ism, where Christians believe they have a god-given right to rule all earthly institutions. It is a political agenda, rather than a theological one, which is why there are Christians who do not accept this methodology. Most Christians are ignorant of these pan-Christian geo-regional plans.

The situation in South Asia is that there is a plan to destroy Hindu control in Tamil Nadu and Buddhist control in Sri Lanka. Pro-Christian politicians and self-serving non-Christian politicians are being influenced to legally and constitutionally change provisions that place Hinduism and Buddhism at official levels. The changes recommended to the national anthem, national ID cards, suggestion to remove Sinhala/Tamil New Year, blocking anti-conversion laws etc, are ploys being used.

India’s stance on Sri Lanka after 2004 under the Italian leadership of the Congress is pertinent. Tamil Nadu politicians are acting under orders and India’s Central Government, at least the Hindu leaders, must realize the impending dangers for their country. The country’s ruling party chairperson is no friend to India.

The dangers India faces is the gullibility of political parties in Tamil Nadu to Christian strategies and the cluelessness of the BJP in Tamil Nadu giving Church-run Congress a cakewalk to balkanize India totally, ridiculing the 82% Hindus of Bharat.

The way ahead is to revive the Hindu-Buddhist unity that the colonials purposely destroyed. For that, a strong political agenda must prevail in the Hindu leadership of India while a complimentary Buddhist scenario must prevail in Sri Lanka to save the two nations from disintegrating.

• Tamils and Sinhalese must re-unite
• Buddhists and Hindu’s must reunite
• Both have no fear of converting each other and both are culturally linked

The leaderships of both nations need to realize the dangers that lurk for both nations and their people and place their own ambitions aside to ensure that two of the oldest cultures of the world doesn’t fall to ruin by the decisions they take or do not take.

The author is a keen observer of contemporary affairs and a Sri Lanka national

by  Senaka Weeraratna

PREFACE

Buddhism which has been the moral and spiritual force in Sri Lanka in the last 2500 years, having survived a prolonged period (nearly 450 years) of persecution and discrimination directed at its adherents under western colonial rule, now faces a serious challenge from a growing Christian evangelical movement, represented mostly by foreign funded non-governmental organisations (NOGs) based in the country. This movement has as its overall aim the creation of a numerically and politically powerful Christian community in Sri Lanka (and also in South Asia) through a rapid conversion into Christianity of large numbers of Buddhists placed mostly in depressed and poverty stricken economic circumstances. The visibility of these NGOs in increasing number in traditionally predominant Buddhist regions, and the generation of alarming reports comprising narratives from affected individuals, and observations and studies conducted by third parties, has produced public anger and calls to combat this threat to the long term survival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.

The use of unethical means such as financial, educational, medical, and the media by the Christian evangelical groups to induce Buddhists to change their religion has been viewed as a glaring abuse of the tolerance displayed by Buddhists towards other religions, and a violation of fundamental freedoms enshrined in the National Constitution.  The aggressive conduct of foreign missionaries in their attempt to spread Christianity and other Abrahamic religions, and undermine the traditional status of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, as has happened in South Korea in the last few decades, carries with it the seed for a potential religious conflict in the future.

The purpose of this essay is to examine in brief the aim of organised conversion, the Constitutional provisions, the history of Christian Missionary work in Sri Lanka, the methods and strategies employed to convert people, the reasons that compel people to change their religion, the implications for the status of Buddhism if conversions continue to take place on a large scale, and the options available to the Government of Sri Lanka to protect and preserve Buddhism.

Introduction

Organised religious conversions inflame passions and human emotions. It is usually effected by the missionary denigrating the target person’s existing religious belief, which may encompass strong personal commitment or a long family history of service to that particular religion or a strong cultural tradition, by calling his belief either heathen, pagan, idolatry, wrong or sinful or a combination of these disparaging terms.

Organised conversions differ from instances of change of belief on the basis of one’s own free will, upon a consideration of the relative merits of the religion being abandoned and the religion being embraced. The influence of another person through an open friendly discussion and debate about the strengths and weaknesses of the relevant religions may have influenced the change of belief. These types of religious conversions do not generate a social problem, as they are usually few and take place on a random basis. Further, such a change of belief falls well within the exercise of one’s fundamental rights.

However when the established institutions of a particular religion develop an agenda for conversion on a mass scale and harnesses resources from both within and outside a host country, aimed at weak, poor and unsuspecting groups of people then such activity cannot be considered as acceptable conduct or the proper exercise of freedom of religion.

Conversion – A Constitutional View

1. a) Constitutional provisions on freedom of religion

In Chapter lll of the National Constitution of Sri Lanka (enacted in 1978) dealing with Fundamental Rights, Article 10 states that ‘ Every person is entitled to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, including the freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice’

Article 14 (1) (e) of the Constitution states that ‘Every person is entitled to the freedom either by himself or in association with others, and either in public or in private, to manifest his religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching’

Article 15 imposes restrictions on the exercise of Fundamental Rights. Article 15(4) states that the Fundamental Rights declared by Article 14 (1) (e) ‘shall be subject to such restrictions as may be prescribed by law in the interests of racial and religious harmony or national economy.’

Further, Article 15(7) states that the Fundamental Rights declared in Article 14 ‘shall be subject to such restrictions as may be prescribed by law in the interests of national security, public order and the protection of public health or morality, or for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others, or of meeting the just requirements of the general welfare of a democratic society.’

1. b) Comments

Article 10 specifies the freedom of thought, conscience and religion including the freedom to adopt a religion or belief of his choice. The key work is ‘choice’ which means free consent or the voluntary adoption of another religion. If a missionary were to use either force, fraud, inducement or allurement as the means to convert a person who is in a depressed state of mind, can it be said that there is a proper exercise of ‘choice’ within the meaning of Article 10?

Article 14(1) (e) allows every citizen either by himself or in association with others to manifest his religion or belief in workshop, observance, practice and teaching. This provision permits a missionary (who is a Citizen of Sri Lanka) to preach and propagate his religion. However this freedom to propagate (and convert others) is subject to a number of restrictions specified in Article 15. If unethical methods such as bribes, financial assistance, education, medical services and employment are used to convert people and in such a way that it generates a breach of the public peace, then in the interests of racial and religious harmony or national economy, the State is empowered under Article 15(4) to intervene and restrict the exercise of this fundamental right.

Likewise the ground of national security, public order and the protection of public health or morality, or for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others, or of meeting the just requirements of the general welfare of a democratic society, could be used by the State to restrict the exercise of the right to propagate and effect the change of the religious beliefs of others (Articles 15 (7).

 History of Christian Missionary work in Sri Lanka

The European entry into Asia, commencing with the Portuguese in the 16^th century, was driven by two principal factors, namely the aim of colonising Asian countries for purpose of trade and exploitation of natural resources, and secondly converting the inhabitants of these lands to Christianity. The Portuguese arrived in Sri Lanka in November 1505, when a Portuguese fleet under Dom Lourenco, son of the Viceroy Don Francisco de Almeida reached the Port of Colombo. The Portuguese through a policy of cunning statecraft and ruthless terror were able to govern the coastal areas of the island for most of the next 150 years, until the Dutch replaced them in 1658. During this period the country witnessed the most obtrusive act of religious conversion when the Portuguese forced the grandson (Dharmapala) of King Buwanekabahu VII to renounce his Buddhist faith and adopt Roman Catholicism as his religion. In 1557, Dharmapala and his Queen were baptised under the names of Don Juan and Dona Catherina. Conversion was no longer a question of faith. The conversion of kings was sought because their subjects were expected to follow suit as a matter of course.

The Portuguese wrote to their King in Lisbon as follows: “If the King became a Christian, that would be sufficient for all to become the same: this your Lordship can take as certain, for such is the nature of these people.”(1)

King Dom Joao III ( King John the III)  of Portugal was an ardent follower of the Christian gospel. In 1546, he wrote to his Viceroy in Goa as follows: ” We charge you to discover all the idols by means of diligent officers, to reduce them to fragments and utterly to consume them, proclaiming rigorous penalties against those who shall celebrate in public or in private any festivities which shave any Gentile taint.” In respect to Christian converts, he added “they should also be encouraged with some temporal favours, such as greatly mollify the hearts of those who receive them.” (2)

The Portuguese claimed that it was their duty owed to their God to destroy Buddhism by every means in their power. The Sinhala Commission Report (Part 1) states as follows: “No trouble was spared to achieve that object: monasteries were razed to the ground, and their priceless treasures looted, libraries were set fire to. Whosoever dared to worship in public or wear the yellow robe of the ascetic was visited with death. The great institutions of Totagamuwe and Keragala, which had carried on the traditions of Taxila and Nalanda Universities were destroyed and their incumbents put to the sword. The land groaned in agony as one after another (Theros) fell, before the fierce onslaughts of the fanatical missionaries…(together) with the Buddhist religious edifices which had taken generations to build. Never were a glorious civilisation and a noble culture more brutally destroyed. The work of centuries was undone in a few years” (3)

The reputed historian P. E. Pieris observes that ” The King’s change of religion was a grave political blunder: the social organisation of his people was based on Buddhism, and his defection could not fail to estrange them from him, the more so when they were the revenues of their most venerated shrines being diverted towards Christian propaganda. It was not long before the Portuguese priests guided his counsels, Portuguese officers controlled his army, and Portuguese names were the fashion at Court.” (4)

Don Juan Dharmapala’s conversion was followed by the most reprehensible act of treachery in the history of Sri Lanka, when Dharmapala by a formal Act gifted the reversion of his rights to his Kingdom to King Philip l of Portugal (5). When Dharmapala died on May 27, 1597, King Philip l of Portugal laid claim to the Lion throne of Ceylon (6). The biggest legacy of the Portuguese however was the Roman Catholic religion they had introduced into Sri Lanka.

The Dutch ruled the Maritime Provinces of this country from 1658-1796. They were mainly Protestants. They were members of the Dutch Reformed Church. They too took great steps to spread their version of Christianity in Sri Lanka and marginalize Buddhism. They established Christian schools and trained a number of local people drawn from different races, to act as Christian priests.

The British took over from the Dutch in 1796 and governed the entire country from 1815 till 1948. Though they committed themselves to protect Buddhism under Article 5 of the Kandyan Convention that they entered into in 1815, this commitment was more or less honoured in the breach. The British allowed Christian missionaries to establish both primary and secondary schools, which were used among other things, to denationalise the students and deform Buddhist children wherever possible to make them vulnerable for conversion into Christianity. During the British colonial rule, Baptists, Weslyian, Methodists and Anglicans of the church Missionary Society became very influential and aggressive proselytizers in the Buddhist hinterland of the country.

Objectives of Missionaries

The Christian missionaries claim that their God has commanded them as set out in the Bible to spread Christianity all over the world. They further believe that unless one has faith in Jesus Christ as the only son of God it would not be possible to enter heaven. This view implies that Christianity is the only valid religion and all other religions are false and therefore inferior. A Christianity missionary considers it as a sacred duty to convert people into Christianity and thereby ‘save the souls of such unfortunate people.’

Extensive state patronage has been the prime reason for the growth of Christianity since its inception. When western countries commenced their policy of colonisation of the non-Euoropean world, the then Pope (Spanish-born Pope Alexander VI ) divided the world into two spheres of influence i.e. Spain and Portugal, ( The Treaty of Tordesillas signed at Tordesillas (now in Valladolid province, Spain), on 7 June 1494, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Crown of Portugal and Crown of Castile (Spain))  in the hope that there would not be any unnecessary competition between them in the race to convert the maximum number of people. Western colonial rulers also realised that a ‘loyal’ population sharing a common religion, would be relatively easy to pacify and govern.

Today, most of the former Western colonial countries project themselves as secular nations. Nevertheless, the politics of religion still continue to influence decision making in these countries, and the Christian Church and Christian evangelical groups enjoy significant state patronage. In a book entitled ‘Exploring the American Gospel: Global Christian fundamentalism (1996) the authors Brower, Gifford and Rose have observed that “A new kind of Christian fundamentalism, once thought to be unique in the United States is spreading across the globe. A transnational religious culture is meeting a common need in the mega-cities of the developing world, in the slums which surround them, and in the outlying agricultural districts as well.” (7)

Another author, Caplan states that these Christian Evangelical groups had access to an operating budget of over US$ 500 million (8). Further these Christian fundamentalists have tended to see “American military and economic might as guarantors of their ability to evangelize the world.” (9) A study entitled “New Evangelical Movements and conflict in South Asia: Sri Lanka and Nepal in Perspective” by Sasanka Perera , then Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Colombo, examined in depth the expansion of Evangelical Christian activity in both Sri Lanka and Nepal. Dr. Perera saw this new wave of Evangelism as an assault on long standing cultures, and multi-cultural societies where various ethnic groups had lived peacefully side by side. The objective of the Evangelists is to homogenise the multi-ethnic and multi-religious Asian societies. Dr. Perera lays emphasis on the point that this kind of aggressive proselytisation can plant the seeds of conflict on a religious basis in Sri Lanka and Nepal. (10)

In contemporary Sri Lanka the composition of the various religious groups is as follows percentage wise, according to the 1981 census:

1)       Buddhists – 69.30% 2) Hindus – 15.48% 3) Muslims – 7.55% 4) Christians (including Roman Catholics) – 7.61%. (11)

The aim of Christian missionaries is to alter this picture by ‘playing a game of numbers’ i.e. by boosting the number of Christians in Sri Lanka through adoption of various methods and strategies.

Various Methods and Strategies of the Christian Missionaries

The new wave of Christian Evangelists originates mainly from USA, Europe and South Korea. Though their primary role is missionary work, they sometimes adopt various guises in their initial interaction with target groups. For example, they may be found acting in a counseling capacity, or as the management team of a BOI project located in a remote area, or as a free house construction agency, or as a charity focused on educating pre-school and primary and secondary school students.

Some of these Evangelists call themselves ‘born again’ thereby indicating an entirely new relationship with Christianity. One of the weapons in their armoury that they use to undermine the faith of Buddhists and Hindus is unceasing attacks on the use of idols in traditional rituals. Their strategy also comprises demonstrating ‘miracle cures’ by faith healers at largely attended public meetings.

According to Dr. Sasanka Perera, ‘The institutional framework of the collective evangelical movement in Sri Lanka consists of churches, para-church organisations, literature outlets, and other agencies concentrating on education, health and rural development and so on.” (12) The exact number of these groups currently active in Sri Lanka has not been fully determined largely as a result of the lack of a central registration system established by the Government. However Dr. Perera has given in his study a list of 73 such organisations linked to the Christian Evangelical movement (13). Unofficial estimates place the number of such organisations in the vicinity of 300.

In addition to the endeavours to convert people and increase the number of adherents of Christianity, this movement also engages in what is called ‘ church planting.’ This basically means the establishment of Christian churches in areas where there is no Christian presence. In the Evangelical vocabulary these areas are called ‘unreached areas’ which may mean not only the absence of Christians but also geographical districts where numbers of existing Christians and institutions can be increased (14)

Professor Buddhadasa Hewavitharana,  Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Peradeniya, in a paper presented at a Conference of the Lanka Bauddha Sangarakshana Sabhawa, held on July 30, 2001 at the BMICH, has further elaborated on the plans/projects, methods and cunningly designed strategies employed by the missionaries in Sri Lanka to convert people to Christianity (15).

These plans, which have been formulated by a Methodist Physician in Colombo, have classified the so called ‘unreached people’ of Sri Lanka into 16 categories and a conversion strategy/programme has been designed to suit each different category. For example, this plan which has fallen into the hands of Professor Hewavitharana, refers to the existence of only 50 rural churches in a country which has 25, 483 villages, as a problem that needs rectification. The solution recommended in this plan is to:

1. a) Plant a church in each village by each urban church of which there are 350
2. b) Settle down conversion activists in the chosen village, and
3. c) Each village church to plant new churches in other chosen villages, keeping in mind that due to rural transport difficulties, a villager cannot be expected to travel more than two miles, often even less (16).

The Ruhuna Project formulated under the Ceylon Every Home Crusade campaign, for the conversion of people in the Matara district contemplates three phases in the project. They are as follows:

1. i) distributing booklets/tracts by visiting each home and hospital patients by using a large number of ‘volunteers’
2. ii) planting churches in the villages

iii)                target – to reach more than 500,000 people in the district. (17)

The use of vile techniques including fraud and inducements to convert people all over the world is a fairly common practice. Alexander Berzin, Research Fellow, Columbia University, New York, made the following comment in respect to the situation in Mongolia, in an interview:

“The missionaries come in (the) guise of English teachers. They give money, comptuers to universities, scholarships to children of influential officials. They buy their way in” (Disrupting the faith? Newsweek Jan 13, 1997) 

It is also quite pertinent to bear in mind what Mahatma Gandhi said during his time in respect to the activities of Christian Missionaries. 

“If instead of confining themselves purely to humanitarian work such as education, medical services to the poor and the like, they would use these activities for the purpose of proselytising, I would certainly like them to withdraw. Every nation considers its faith to be good as that of any other. Certainly the great faiths held by the people of India are adequate for her people. India stands in no great need of conversion from one faith to another” (M.K.Gandhi “Foreign Missionaries” Young India  April 23, 1931, p. 83).

The Attraction of New Evangelical Groups – Some Reasons

According to the studies of Dr. Perera and Professor Hewavitharana, some of the reasons why Buddhists and other non-christians are attracted to new evangelical groups are as follows:

1)       depressed condition of domestic agriculture, which is the main occupation of most rural Buddhists (18)

2)       Rising rural unemployment and the on-going changing life-styles (19)

3)       Many of the Buddhists who are attracted to Evangelical groups come from socially or emotionally depressed backgrounds. Buddhist institutions lack adequate mechanisms to assist such people. In contrast, many of these evangelical groups have extended counseling or self-help rewards. They allow for close personal interaction between group leaders or local pastors and the aggrieved person. In the Buddhist establishment there is no such system despite the vast network of temples and monks (20).

4)       The Buddhist institutions are very slow in innovation in line with the fast changing socio-political situation in the country (21)

5)       Most Buddhist institutions and temples collectively have no programmes to assist refugees, or provide shelter for homeless children or provide rehabilitation services. In contrast, the well established Christian churches and new evangelical groups are active at village and town levels in helping affected individuals e.g. victims of political violence, come to terms with their grief.  Further, they also help people to cope with more mundane problems (22).

6)       The lack of an adequate Buddhist sponsored network of schools at village and town levels, and also in some urban areas of Colombo. The missionaries target pre-school and primary school children for conversion and de – nationalisation, i.e. the deliberate ‘distancing’ of the Buddhist students from their culture, history and heritage.

Conclusion

The missionary strategies to convert people mainly Hindus and Buddhists of Asia to Christianity is not something new. This plan has been part of the political agenda of Western European countries for the last 500 years. However, today in most of these Western countries there is a marked trend among educated Europeans to abandon Christianity as a pivotal faith. Church attendance has dropped considerably in these countries, and the Church buildings and premises are often advertised for sale.

The sizeable drop in the numbers of Christian adherents in the West, may have also contributed as a pressing factor towards the making of a new agenda by the Christian Establishment including the Vatican, to proselytize aggressively and gain new converts rapidly in Asia.

Sri Lanka in its efforts to meet the challenge of conversion should learn from the efforts undertaken by the Hindus in India to put a stop to unethical conversion. There is a whole body of new literature published by the Hindu Vishva Parishad on these issues, which could be made use of as good resource material by the Sinhalese Buddhists.

However the fundamental step is to ensure that the Government of Sri Lanka earnestly implement Article 9 of Chapter ll of the National Constitution which states that:

“The Republic of Sri Lanka shall give to Buddhism the foremost place and accordingly it shall be the duty of the State to protect and foster the Buddha Sasana, while assuring to all religions the rights granted by Articles 10 and 14(1) (e).”

The protection of Buddhism by the State as mandated in the Constitution, requires the enactment and enforcement of appropriate legislative mechanisms to combat unethical conversion. There are some useful precedents in the legislation of Nepal and in some Indian States such as Orissa. For example, Clause 14 of Part 3 of the 1962 Constitution of Nepal dealing with the Section on ‘Fundamental Rights and Duties’ states as follows:

” 14) Right to Religion: Every person may profess his own religion as handed down from ancient times and may practice it having regard to the traditions. Provided that no person shall be entitled to convert another person from one religion to another”.

It is important for the Buddhist public to raise their vigilance as regards the activities of these missionaries, while at the same time lobbying the Government to monitor and probe their conduct.

The failure to curb unethical conversion in Sri Lanka may result in a disastrous outcome similar to what has happened in South Korea. The percentage of adherents of Buddhism has been so much reduced ( 85 % to 30% ) within the last few decades that South Korea is no longer called a predominantly Buddhist country.

One thousand years ago Buddhist Asia ranged from Afghanistan to Japan where the vast majority of people in all the countries in between subscribed to various traditions of  Buddhism and some to Hinduism. The map has changed dramatically. It is sad to note that today once strong Buddhist countries such as Myanmar, Thailand and even Mongolia are threatened by the forces of Abrahamic religions which are, using a truism ‘at the gates’ of these countries. Buddhist space and territory is shrinking by the day in traditional Buddhist lands.

For how long can Buddhism survive in Asia?

Footnotes

1. P. E. Pieris, Portugal in Ceylon 1505-1658 (Cambridge: Heffers, 1937) 5
2. Peiris, Portugal … 5
3. Report of the Sinhala Commission (Part 1) Colombo: National Joint committee, 1998) 34-35
4. Peiris, Portugal …7
5. Peiris, Portugal … 8
6. Peiris, Portugal … 9
7. Steve, Brouwer, Paul Gifford & Susan D. Rose, Exporting the Americna Gospel: Global Christian Fundamentalism, (New York: Routledge, 1996) 1, quoted in Sasanka Perera, New Evangelical Movements and Conflict in South Asia: Sri Lanka and Nepal in Perspective  (Colombo: Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, 1998) 22
8. Lionel Caplann, 1995. “Certain Knowledge: The Encounter of Global Fundamentalism and Local Christianity in Urban South India” The Pursui of Certianty: Religious and Cultural Foundations (London: Routeledge, 97) quoted in Sasanka Perera, New Evangelical Movements
9. Nancy T. Ammerman, 1994 “The Dynamics of Christian Fundamentalism: An Introduction in Martin E. Mart and R. Scott Abbleby eds., Accounting for Fundamentalism (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press) quoted in Caplan 1995: 97 and Sasanka Perera, 1998: 22
10. Sasanka Perera, 1998:109
11. Quoted in Sasanka Perera, 1998: 44
12. Perera: 49
13. Perera: 49-51
14. Perera: 62
15. Buddhadasa Hewavitharana, Why and Wherefore Pre-Planned Conversions to Christianity by Developed Countries and Why and Wherefore is Sri Lanka is a Good Hunding Ground to Them – Economic and Social Reasons, A Paper Presented at the conference of the Lanka Bauddha Sangrakshana Sabhawa held at the BMICH on July 30, 2001
16. Buddhadasa Hewavitharana, 2001
17. Buddhadasa Hewavitharana, 2001
18. Buddhadasa Hewavitharana, 2001
19. Buddhadasa Hewavitharana, 2001
20. Sasanka Perera, 1998: 64
21. Sasanka Perera, 1998: 64
22. Sasanka Perera: 1998, 65

උතුරේ යාපනය දිස්ත්‍රික්කයට එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයෙන් තරග කරන විජයකලා මහේෂ්වරන් මහත්මිය ඇතුළු එජාප අපේක්ෂකයින් තම මැතිවරණ ව්‍යාපාරය ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා ඊළාම් සිතියම යොදා ගෙන ඇත. මොවුන් ශ්‍රීලංකා සිතියම විකෘති කරමින් ඊලාම් නියෝජිතයින් ලෙස මැතිවරණයට සහභාගී වනබව ඔවුන්ගේ මැතිවරන ප්‍රචාරක කටයුතුවලින් පෙන්නුම් කෙරේ. අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාගේ ඡායාරූපය ද මෙම ඊළාම් සිතියම සමඟ ප්‍රදර්ශණය කොට තිබේ. එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය මේ වනතුරු මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් තවමත් ප්‍රකාශයක් නිකුත් කොට නැත. 

පැරණි සිංහලේ කොඩිය ප්‍රදර්ශනය කලැයි පසුගියදා පුද්ගලයෙකු අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් අතර එය ජාතික කොඩිය විකෘති කිරීමක් ලෙස පොලිසිය අර්ථ දැක්වීය. ඒහෙත් ශ්‍රී ලංකා සිතියම විකෘති කිරීම පිළිබඳ මේ වන තුරු පියවරක් ගෙන නොමැත.

නලින් ද සිල්වා

1971 පැත්තකින් තබන්න. 1989-92 යුගයේ දී ජ වි පෙ සාමාජිකයෝ හා හිතවත්තු ඊනියා විප්ලවයක් වෙනුවෙන් මිනී මැරූහ. එ ජා පක්‍ෂය එයට ප්‍රතිභීෂණය එක් කරමින් තරගයට මිනී මැරුවේ ය. මේ දෙගොල්ලෝම අවසාන වශයෙන් ගත්කල යටත්විජිතවාදීහු වෙති. ජ්තිකත්වයක් නැති කිසිම පක්‍ෂයකට යටත්විජිත විරෝධී විය නො හැකි ය. ජ වි පෙ ජාතිකත්වය හා මාක්ස්වාදය අතර දෝලනය වුව ද ඔවුන්ගේ පදනම ඔවුන්ට තේරෙන මාක්ස්වාදය විය. 

ජ වි පෙ නිතර කියන කතාවක් නම් සියළු ජනවර්ග සමාන බව ය. ඔවුහු සිංහල දෙමළ මුස්ලිම් සමානත්වයක් ගැන කතා කරති. මේ තරම් තකතීරු යටත්විජිතවාදී කතාවක් තවත් නැත. මිනිස්සු සමාන වෙති. එහෙත් එය ද පොතේ පමණ ය. උසාවියට ගිය පමණින් මිනිස්සු නීතිය ඉදිරියේ සමාන නො වෙති. ද’ක්‍ෂ නීතිඥයන් මිළට ගැනීමට හැකි අය අනෙක් අයට වඩා අසාමාන්‍ය හා අසමාන වෙති. 

අනුර දිසානායක එංගලන්තයට යන එන බව අපි දනිමු. එංගලන්තයේ විවිධ සංස්කෘතීන් ගැන අධ්‍යයනයක් කිරීමට මේ මහා පඬිවරයාට අවස්ථාව ලැබෙන්නට ඇත. එහි ඉංගිරිසි, මුස්ලිම්, චීන, බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතීන් සමාන නොවන බව ඔහුට දැනගන්නට නො ලැබිණි ද? එංගලන්තයේ සිංහල බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතියට හිමි තැන කුමක් ද? 

මෙරට සියළු ජනවර්ග සියළු සංස්කෘතීන් සමාන වන්නේ යැයි කියමින් අනුර දිසානායක පච ප්‍රචාරයක් ගෙන යන්නේ දෙමළ ජාතිවාදය වෙනුවෙනි. එහි අනුග්‍රාහකයන් හා ආරම්භකයන් වන ඉංගිරිසි යටත්විජදතවාදීන් වෙනුවෙනි. අනුර දිසානායක ද අවසාන වශයෙන් කරන්නේ මෙරට සිංහල බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතියට හිමි සුවිශේෂීත්වය අහිමි කිරීම ය.

ජ  වි පෙරමුණට දෙන සෑම ඡන්දයක් ම භීෂණයට දෙන ඡන්දයකි. සිංහල බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතියට එරෙහි ව දෙන ඡන්දයකි. දෙමළ ජාතිවාදයට දෙන ඡන්දයකි. ඉංගිරිසි යටත්විජ්තවාදයට දෙන ඡන්දයකි.

නලින් ද සිල්වා

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Exclusive:By  LNW SPY July 31, 2015 Courtesy Lankanewsweb

නලින් ද සිල්වා

1980 දී රනිල්ගේ වයස අවුරුදු තිහක් පමණ වී යැයි සිතමි. එකල තිබුණේ ඔහුගේ මාමා වූ ජේ ආර් ජයවර්ධනගේ ආණ්ඩුවකි. 1977 දී බලයට පත්වූ ජේ ආර් ධර්මිෂ්ඨ සමාජයක් ඇති කිරීමට පොනේදු විය. මාමා පොරෙන්දු ඉටු කිරීමේ දක්‍ෂයෙක් විය. ඔහු අධර්මිෂ්ඨ භීෂණ රජයක් පිහිටුවී ය. අද යහපාලනය ගැන මැත දොඩන කුලියට කහින ධර්මසිරි බණ්ඩාරනායක එදා ජේ ආර්ට විරුද්ධව නාට්‍යයක් නිෂ්පාදනය කර ගැනීමට තරම් කොන්දක් නොමැතිව පරිවර්තන කෘතියක් ලෙස මකරාක්‍ෂයා නිෂ්පාදනය කෙළේ හොරණ විද්‍යාරත්නයෙන් ලැබුණු තුට්ටු දෙකේ මාක්ස්වාදී ආභාසයෙන් විය යුතු ය. පොතේගුරු කසිකබල් මාක්ස්වාදීන් වූ ඔවුහු කිසි දිනෙක ජාතිකත්වයක් සහිතව යටත්විජිත විරෝධී කලාකරුවෝ නොවූහ. ඔවුහු ද අවසාන විග්‍රහයේ දී බටහිර ගැත්තෝ වූහ. අද ඔවුන් රනිල් වැනි බටහිර ගැත්තකු සමග යම් ජාතිකත්වයක් ඇති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂට විරුද්ධව දීිග කන්නේ ඔවුන්ගේ ජාතිකත්වයක් නැති කසිකබල් මාක්ස්වාදයේ හෙළුව ද ප්‍රදර්ශනය කරමිනි.

එ ජා ප ඊයේ උපන් පක්‍ෂයක් නො වේ. ගොන් කතා කීමෙහි ප්‍රසිද්ධ කිරඇල්ලලාට, තමන් විසින් මෙරටට ගෙන්වන ලද පාතාල කුඩ්ඩන් ට වෙනත් පාතාලයන් කරන වෙඩි තැබීම් සංධානයට පැටවීමට වෑයම් කරන රවිලාට මතක නැති වුවත් 1977 සිට 1994 දක්වා මෙරට පාලනය කෙළේ රනිල්ගේ මාමා ජේ ආර් හා වෙන්ඩ උපාධිධාරී සජිත්ගේ පියා ආර් ප්‍රේමදාස හා ටික කලකට මෙලෝ රහක් නැති විජේතුංග ය. එකල රනිල් යම් කාලයක අධ්‍යාපන ඇමති පදවිය දැරී ය.  අපකීර්තිමත් ධවල පත්‍රිකාව ගෙන ආවේ එකල බව චම්පකට හා අනුර දිසානායකට අමතක වීමට හේතුවක් නැත. ඔවුහු අද රනිල්ගේ චුවිං ගම් හප හපා සිටිති. රනිල්ලා අනුරලා 87 -92 භීෂණය ගැන වගකිවයුත්තෝ වෙති. පාතාලය සමග එ ජා ප නායකයන්ගේ සම්බන්ධය ඉතා ඇත අතීතයට යයි. මැතක දී වුවත් ගෝනවල සුනිල් සමාව හා රනිල් අතර සම්බන්ධය මැදි වයසේ අය ද දනිති.

ධවල පත්‍රිකාවට අමතරව දිනකට රුපියල් දහයක වැටුප් වැඩිකිරීමක් ඉල්ලා වැඩ වර්ජනය කළ ජූලි වර්ජකයන් මහපාරට ඇද දැමුවේ ජේ ආර් ය. ජූලි වැඩවර්ජකයන් කී දෙනෙක් සිය දිවි නසා ගත්තෝ ද? ඔවුන්ගෙන් කී දෙනකුගේ දරුවන්ගේ අනාගතය ජේ ආර් කා දැමුවේ ද? රාජ්‍ය සේවය කප්පාදු කරන ලද්දේ රනිල්ලාගේ ආණ්ඩු විසිනි. පොදුවේ ගත්කල එ ජා ප ආණ්ඩු රාජ්‍ය සේවය කප්පාදු කිරීමට බැඳී සිටියි. නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනයේ මළගම සනිටුහන් කරමින් පෞද්ගලික වෛද්‍ය විද්‍යාලයක උපාධිධාරීන්ට කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයෙහි උපාධි ප්‍රදානය කිරීමට තීරණය කෙළේ රනිල්ලාගේ ආණ්ඩුවකිනි. අනුර දිසානායකට හා චම්පකට ත්‍රීමාවිතාන මතක ද? අඩුම තරමෙන් රතන හිමියන්ට මතක ද? කරු පරණවිතානට මතක ද?

රනිල්ගේ පොරොන්දු තවත් ව්‍යාජ පොරොන්දු පමණ ය. රාජ්‍ය සේවය කප්පාදු කිරීමට, රාජ්‍ය වැය අඩු කිරීමට, නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනය හා සෞඛ්‍ය සේවය  කප්පාදු කිරීමට බටහිර යටත්විජිතවාදීන් සමග එකඟත්වයනට පැමිණ සිටින පක්‍ෂයක් රාජ්‍ය සේවකයන්ගේ වැටුප් වැඩි කිරීමක් ගැන කතාකරන විට නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනය නගා සිටුවීමට කතාකරන විට ඔවුන් කරන රැවටිල්ල අපට තේරුම් ගත හැකි ය. ඇතැම් තරුණ තරුණියන් මේ කිසිවක් නොදන්නවා විය හැකි ය. එහෙත් ඔවුන්ට වුව ද දැනුවත් වීමට තවත් සති දෙකක පමණ කාලයක් ඉතිරි වී ඇත.

1977 -– 1994 කාලය හඳුන්වනු ලැබුයේ දහහත් අවුරුදු ශාපය ලෙස ය. රනිල් ඉල්ලන්නේ ශාපය අඩු තරමෙන් මාස හැටකින් දිර්ඝ කර රට දෙමළ ජාතිවාදීීන්ට පාවාදීමට ය. අප ඔහුගේ බොරු පොරොන්දූවලට රැවටිය යුතු නො වේ. රනිල්, අනුර චම්පක එකතු වී තවත් භීෂණයකට මුල පුරනු ඇත.

නලින් ද සිල්වා

නලින් ද සිල්වා

 මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස්වරයා දේශපාලනයට අවතීර්ණ වී ඇත. ඔහු එසේ කර ඇත්තේ අද ඊයේ නො වේ. පෞද්ගලික ව ජනමාධ්‍යවෙිදීන් සමග කරන සාකඡාවල දී ඔහු ඇතැම් ජනමාධ්‍යවෙිදීන්ට ජාතික මතවාදවලින් බැහැරවීමට උපදෙස් දී ඇත. ජාතික මතවාදවල ඇත්තේ ජනමාධ්‍යවේදීන්ගෙන් කිහිප දෙනකු පමණ ය. මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස් තම බලය අයුතු ලෙස යොදා ජනමධ්‍යවේදීන්ට බලපෑම් කරන්නේ ඇයි? 

කිසිම පුද්ගලයකු අපක්‍ෂපාති නැත. අපි සියළු දෙනාම යම් පමණකට අපේ අධ්‍යාපනයේ ප්‍රතිඵල වෙමු. අපට අපේ දෙමව්පියන්ගෙන් ලැබුණු දේශපාලන ආගමික හා වෙනත් සංස්කෘතික මතවාද වෙයි. අප කිහිප දෙනකුට අපට ලැබුණු බටහිර ගැති ලිබරල්/මාක්ස්වාදී අධ්‍යාපනයෙන් කැඩී වෙන්වීමේ වාසනාව තිබුණ ද බොහෝ දෙනෙක් බටහිර අධ්‍යාපනයෙහි හිරකරුවෝ වෙති. මැතිවරණ කොමසාර්ස් ද අයත්වන්නේ දෙවැනි ගණයට ය. ඒ දෙවැනි ගණයට අයත් පිරිස බහුතරය බැවින් ද ඔවුන්ට බටහිර ආධිපත්‍යයික ආරක්‍ෂාව ලැබෙන බැවින් ද මෙරට ඊනියා අපක්‍ෂපාතීත්වය තීරණය වන්නේ ඔවුන් අතිනි. මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස් තමා අපක්‍ෂපාති යැයි සහතිකයක් ලබන්නේ මේ තුට්ටුවක් නොවටිනා අනුකාරක පඬියන් අතිනි. 

ජනවාරි 8 වැනි දා උතුරු පළාතේ පැවැත්වූ ජනාධිපතිවරණය පිළිබඳ ව ඇතැමුන් තුළ ඇත්තේ පහන් සිතිවිලි නො වේ. එහෙත් ඔවුහු තම මත ප්‍රසිද්ධියේ නොකියති. උදේ වරුවේ ඡන්දය දැමීමේ ප්‍රතිශතය 23ක් පමණ වුව ද සවස් යාමය වන විට එය හැත්තෑගණනකට ඉහළ ගියේ කෙසේ ද යන්න අදත් නොවිසඳි ප්‍රශ්නයකි. විවිධ පුද්ගලයන්ට ඒ සඳහා විවිධ හේතු ඉදිරිපත් කළ හැකි ය. එහෙත් එකී සිද්ධිය පිළිබඳ ව හැකි ඉක්මණින් පරීක්‍ෂණයක් පැවැත්වීම මෙරට දේශපාලනයට හිතකර ය.

මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස් පසුගිය දා ප්‍රකාශයක් කරමින් දේශපාලනඥයන් තම වාසිය සඳහා ජාතිවාදී හැඟීම් ඇවිස්සීමෙන් තොරව කටයුතු කිරීමේ වැදගත්කම සඳහන් කර ඇත. බැලූ බැල්මට මෙය යහපත් ප්‍රකාශයකි. එහෙත් මේ ප්‍රකාශය බටහිරයන් විසින් ඇතිකරනු ලැබූ දෙමළ ජාතිවාදයේ දෙමළ ජාතික සංධානයට බලපාන්නේ නො වේ. එය බලපාන්නේ නම් විසඳී ඇති ප්‍රශ්නයක් නැවතත් මතුකරමින් (ටී එන් ඒ සන්නිය ලිපිය කියවන්න) දෙමළ ජාතික සංධානය ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති මැතිවරණ ප්‍රකාශය සම්බන්ධයෙන් වහාම යම් පියවරක් ගැනීමට මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස් ඉදිරිපත් විය යුතු ය. දෙමළ ජාතියක් යනුවෙන් වෙන ම ජාතියක් ඇති බව, ඔවුන්ට ස්වයංනිර්ණ අයිතිය ඇති බව හා තවත් එවැනි දෙමළ ජාතිවාදී හැඟීම් අවුස්සන ප්‍රකාශ ඇතුළත් එකී මැතිවරණ ප්‍රකාශය පිළිබඳ මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස් නිහඬ ඇයි?

අප බොරු පඬියන් වීමට උත්සාහ කළත් මෙරට ජාතිවාදීන් ලෙස අධිපති බටහිර මතවාදය විසින් හැඳින්වෙන්නේ සිංහලයන්ගේ, විශේෂයෙන් ම සිංහල බෞද්ධයන්ගේ අයිතිවාසිකම් වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටින අතළොස්සකි. මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස් වෙස් මුහුණක් පැළඳ ගත්ත ද, ඔහුගේ ඊනියා අපක්‍ෂපාතී ප්‍රකාශය ඒ අතළොස්සට විරුද්ධව ය. මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස් එංගලන්තයට ගොස් ඇතැයි සිතමු.  එංගලන්තයේ ඇංග්ලො සැක්සන් ක්‍රිස්තියානින්ට ඇති අයිතිවාසිකම් හා වරප්‍රසාද මෙරට සිංහල බෞද්ධයන්ට තිබේ ද? මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස් උත්සාහ කරන්නේ බටහිර ලිබරල්/මාක්ස්වාදී මතවාදවල පිහිටෙන් සිංහල බෞද්ධයනට තිබෙන සොච්චමත් නැති කිරීමට ය. ඒ මතවාදවල කිසිම අපක්‍ෂපාතීත්වයක් නැත. 

මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස් තවත් ප්‍රකාශයක් කරමින් පන්සල්වල දේශපාලනය කිරීමට විරුද්ධ වී ඇත. ඔහු ගෙදරින්, පාසලෙන් හා විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයෙන් ලැබූ අධ්‍යාපනය හේතුවෙන් මෙරට ඉතිහාසය නො දනියි. මෙරට පන්සල් දේශපාලනයෙන් වියුක්ත වූ යුගයක් ගැන මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස් දන්නේ ද? එංගලන්ත ඉතිහාසය ගැන දන්නේ නම් එහි පල්ලිවල තිබූ හා තිබෙන දේශපාලනය ගැන අවබෝධයක් මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස්ට තිබිය යුතු ය. ආගම රාජ්‍යයෙන් වෙන්විය යුතු බවට බටහිර අධ්‍යාපනයෙහි සඳහන් වන්නේ තවත් ඊනියා විද්‍යාත්මක පට්ටපල් බොරුවක් ලෙස ය. විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේදී පට්ටපල් බොරු උද්භිද විද්‍යාව හදාරා එයින් කැඩීමට නොහැකි වූ අයකුගෙන් සිංහල බෞද්ධයනට යහපතක් වේ යැයි බලාපොරොත්තු විය නො හැකි ය. 

නලින් ද සිල්වා

S.S. Sahabandu PC (Member Central Committee) Courtesy The Daily News

For a party that had its origins in the early fifties, at its second attempt at a general election, the party captured power under an umbrella called the MEP. The road to 1956 is intertwined with the 25 years of the political life of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, which he completed shortly before the victory of 1956.

The relentless march to 1956 has its origins in the struggle for independence, the Buddhist Revivalist Movement, the Temperance Movement and the struggle of the rural intelligentsia of the country to come forward as against the English speaking upper classes that had governed the country during the reforms introduced by the British Colonial rulers.

It was the end of one phase in the history of the country and the beginning of the next phase. All change is accompanied by the good and the bad, but peaceful change through the ballot is more palatable than violent change through conflict.

A.P. Jayasuriya, a former minister and one of the directors of the MEP campaign stated, The victory of the MEP was a turning point in the history of Ceylon. We will form a democratic government truly representative of the people and our government will be fair by all.” (CDN April 1, 1956). The stakeholders of 1956 were many. They included the Sinhala intelligentsia, such as, the teachers, bhikkus, ayurvedic physicians and the vast majority of the peasants and working people. The result of 1956 baffled even the architects of the victory.

The Eksath Bhikku Peramuna led by dynamic Buddhist monks presented a programme of action shortly before 1956 to the MEP coalition. Among the important measures that they advocated were to:

*implement the Buddhist Commission Report;
*take steps to make Sinhala the official language of the country;
*promote the revival of our arts and crafts;
*promote Ayurveda and all other aspects of our national heritage and the return to a simpler way of life;
*bring about a fair distribution of wealth;
*refuse government assistance to all institutions that promote communal disharmony or which destroy peace and equality among the people.

Perhaps of all the stakeholders that participated to bring about the political tsunami of 1956, the Buddhist monks were the most prominent.

Bhikku Peramuna

Ven. Yakkaduwe Pragnarama Thera has a special place among the architects of 1956. It was further developed by Ven. Walpola Rahula Thera in his book Bhikkshunge Urumaya. There were others like Ven. Baddegama Wimalawansa Thera and Ven. Henpitigedera Gnanasiha Thera of Ratnapura. The late Buddharakitha Thera of Kelaniya was a leader of the Bhikku Peramuna. Howard Wriggins, the late US ambassador who predicted 1956, commented that, although the language agitation had little impact on the peasantry, the question of Buddhism had deep political importance for them and for many other groups as well.”

The storm which was gathering for sometime, suddenly manifested itself when all stakeholders united against the UNP government in 1956. Mr. Bandaranaike, the main architect of 1956 was never considered a winner shortly before 1956. He had many setbacks and all obstacles were thrown at him. He had no proper candidates and the MEP coalition lacked financial resources. The storm that gathered was a political tsunami and the leaders of 1956 were stunned by the result. The urban proletariat showed its power during the 1953 hartal. Year 1956 was staged by the rural poor and their leaders.

Mr. Bandaranaike had a setback when two members of Parliament, Bernard Aluvihare, a former Secretary and H.B. Tenne left the party shortly before 1956. Mr. Bandaranaike was lampooned and criticized by the press.

The cartoons of Aubrey Collete were used to ridicule him. He was described as the most pathetic political figure of South East Asia. It is stated that Mr. Bandaranaike went to the Bank of Ceylon to meet the General Manager and was unable to get an interview shortly before 1956 (Philip Gunawardena and the 1956 Revolution, p. 95). To all these he replied with humility and he continued to serve the people. His strength was the stature he had in the country and his band of devoted followers which formed the nucleus of his party.

The UNP on the other hand had adequate resources, the backing of the bureaucracy and was overjoyed by two by-election victories shortly before 1956. The results of these victories made the UNP leaders dissolve the Parliament early and seek a mandate from the people. See table

Sir Ukwatte Jayasundera in his annual report to the UNP at its annual session, shortly before 1956, stated, Everything is ready now for us to face the general election with confidence, the men, the machinery and the necessary spirit.” He said of Sir John, and above all, an undisputed leader, Sir John, the terror of the idler, the rogue and the hypocrite. The finances of the party are sound. The victory of the Matara Local Government polls and the winning of the Buttala and Aluthnuwara by-elections have given us confidence.”

Parliamentary system

After dissolution there was a staggered poll. On the first day key UNP seats were to poll and on the last day the Opposition strongholds which included the seat of Mr. Bandaranaike were due to poll.

This arrangement was to help the UNP. Though the Opposition protested it prevailed. The tsunami of 1956 beat all records when the UNP secured only the seats which they won on the first day amounting to eight. The UNP lost all seats on the second and third days. This led to the SLFP introducing the one-day poll in later years to make the poll more democratic.

The 1956 victory led to many changes social, political and economic. There was a drastic change in foreign policy sporting closer ties with India and the opening of embassies in USSR and China.

These changes and events are now part of history to be assessed by historians and political writers who review this period. More than any other, 1956 left a legacy created by the ‘Tamil problem.’ Mr. Bandaranaike gave a solution envisaged in the Bandaranaike-Chelvanayagam Pact, which had to be abandoned at that time.

The devolution debate goes on with the 13th Amendment, to await a solution acceptable to our people.

Cognizant of the impact of 1956, in recognition of its changes and to ensure that such a situation does not occur again, a political thinker and political leader created the ‘Executive Presidency’ and the Parliamentary system based on proportional representation. The Executive Presidency was to weaken the electoral base of the SLFP and give greater electoral power to the minorities. The system of proportional representation was meant to stop violent changes in Parliament. Year 1956 set the pattern for change, adjustment and new political thinking. The SLFP led by Mr. Bandaranaike was responsible for the events of 1956. It was the moment of the SLFP.

By GOMIN DAYASRI

Candidates made up, with make up, show pretty faces, virtually unrecognizable when met with their harassed appearances. Trick photography at photo shop makes them look younger and leaner.  Strapped across are their numbers sans rugby jerseys but do a localized Haka with a smile on a platform.

Will the government and the opposition extract the votes they collected at the presidential elections held 10 months ago? If so, the result is foreknown but the emerging picture is more byzantine – campaigns geared for a ‘manape’ contest does not excite voters. Worse, it is the same old disreputable names recycled in vintage bottles.

Turn out would be lower than at the previous, if political parties treat voters shabbily by providing undesirables to vote for, an insult to their intelligence. Don’t take the voter for a sucker –if hurt, retribution will be harsh. Rajapakse suffered the first dose of the awful concoction: UNP had many more.

If the polling stations register a low slow poll on the morning of the elections, Rajapakse could sense a yellow card is drawn against him. If an aggressive poll materializes in the first three hours, means Mahinda is playing referee armed with a red card to throw at foul play. If the polling is regular it is a close election. This is an alternate formula for a homemade exit poll used by public servants at polling booths.

Watch for early returns of the postal vote. If the early results disclose a close call at the postal vote: so it will be at the final count. That vote was overwhelmingly for Rajapakse but now is more evenly distributed. Will this trend continue? It will reveal if the first three postal results show uniformity. Ordinary state employees vote with the government in power but a swing in the country will show if there is an anti or pro movement among public servants.

Previously, Mahinda carried the vote with the helping hand of his majesties services at his easy disposal that were over worked, overtime. This time he has to pay for space searched; cannot afford the same. Mahinda comes from a fractured party with dubious backers and decayed horsemen enjoying state patronage.

A motivated campaign can inspire people to carry Rajapakse way beyond? Crowds at his meetings are a stimulated bunch; does not run deep outside the captive audience. Rajapakse’s weakness primed the moment his motely crowd of candidates’ names surfaced. National list members have risen, as if, from the dead. It carries many rejected parliamentarians and featherweight intellects known for spinning yarns to put Mahinda to sleep. New faces have affinity to the discredited old. Rajapakse has people at the ground level because of the war victory but they remain dormant with a refusal to align with the candidates named. Where have all his young people gone…gone to slumber due to disuse and discard? You need be a progeny of the charmed circle to be counted.

Ranil cannot attract Sirisena’s vote bank that is grievously splintered with many pecking for a share of it. JVP is running on it’s own and is a more attractive proposition. Fonseka is carrying his negligible few but that few can make a difference since the majority is slim. The northern vote does not get aggregated at the national count and stops its progress at district level unlike at the presidential election. Tamils in the south have formed mushroom parties and will pick a share of the vote for keeps. JHU is fatally discredited and for survival depends on the UNP vote to gain respectability having forfeited the Sinhala Buddhist vote with its double talk.

Sirisena, the pin up boy of the past, is now a lost nowhere man. Remember it is the North that brought Sirisena to his glory and that vote will not be counted beyond the district.  With a limited plus vote to attract, UNP reaches the near maximum on Sirisena’s aggregate. UNP has to retain that vote and not let it slide away. Its national list contains a share of Mahinda’s hidden loyalists in deceptive green caps. Why is a favorite son Karu Jayasuriya hidden without extracting a turbo boosts from otherwise a dismal Buddhist vote UNP possesses in the South? Inter party feuds are more important to the leadership than the importance of winning an election.

This leaves a large float vote idling. Mahinda’s campaign is not attracting the vote that floated away from him but the governance of the UNP, which is its own worse enemy, is drawing it towards Rajapakse, as are Mahinda’s candidates standing in the way of anchoring the dissatisfied youth with the UPFA.

Few months of Ravi Kaunanayake at Finance Ministry has done as much harm to the UNP as the Central Bank did to Rajapakse for years – in distancing the institutions from the peoples’ yearnings.

Arjuna Mahendra issue does not take the air borne route to the rural- it disturbs Colombo’s moneymen that will vote UNP, anyway, after mollycoddling the Rajapakse Family for years, now out of favor.

If the UNP is to win it has to hold on to the Facebook’s under – 35 vote that Sirisena acquired without a sweat. Vote is not static but the slippage is yet not coming in hordes since the UPFA campaign targets on the ‘manape’ vote without a damn to attract the impressionable new youth vote in the urban quarter. If UNP loses a substantial share of the urban middle class youth vote at elections 2015 it can occupy the opposition office again, as many groups are seeking good governance vote under diverse names alleging the UNP for its ineptitude. If the Colombo count becomes close; families and friends of these fringe ‘good governance’ groups with a few thousand votes can make the difference. Colombo, so far, is secure for the UNP but that is not good enough to win comprehensively as the rural vote is swinging against them except in sure Kandy and is marginally ahead in Puttlam and Badulla.

Badulla district is the place to watch – is a traditional UNP home. Unlock it: is a forerunner of the ultimate winner – a backward district that weathers changing fortunes and reads the Sri Lankan political chronicle correctly.

Few months ago when Sirisena won: Badulla district, bordered by pro-UNP Nuwara Eliya and pro- UPFA Moneragala, went with Sirisena picking a wafer thin majority of 261 votes; Rajapakse won only three of the nine constituencies namely Mahiyanganaya, Wiyaluwa and Uva Paranagama.

Looks easy for Rajapakse on paper in 2015 with the JVP and Fonseka in the field. They collected at the 2014 Pradesheeya Sabha elections respectively 20,625 and 4835 votes in Badulla district, which the UPFA won with a majority of 11348 votes. It reveals JVP and Fonseka votes count in the Badulla district results.

This time around UNP will clean the Indian Tamil vote with Thondaman loosing ground at the wage negotiations. But that vote is insufficient to register a win. It is the swing electorates of Welimada and Bandarawela that will decide the outcome to determine the winner of the critical Badulla district.

The general perception is different. UNP is expected to win with a smart campaign under Harin Fernando deemed attractive to the youth while the UPFA carries on with its usual colorless campaign concentrating to gain manapes instead of the district. Is the statistician going to undo public opinion?

However economic issues are more likely to take over. Falling prices for tea and rubber for small holders, with no guaranteed prices for the purchase of rice and other crops, denial of employment prospects in projects and construction and road activity are at a standstill with the cost of living rising sky high makes it fortunate being in the opposition.

Bid & Buy process of the elected representatives commences with the release of the election results. Election campaigns are financial windfalls for candidates of the major parties because black money gets into circulation in bulk from the vaults of the blue chips and secret drawers of the wheeler – dealers. A photo finish at the end of the contest is where the party whip loses the control of its winners. It will be a free fall like in bungee jumping. Its bonus time for the winning candidates, where money talks and tongues wag: the spotlight falls on the crossover artisans. Will the Yankee dollar outsmart the Chinese Yuan or the Indian Rupee hold sway to lasso around MPs of doubtful pedigrees? Local currency is candy- floss compared to supplies from Embassy Street. Final result is not contrived by voters but on the weight of hefty war chests provided by the alien powers –if the result is too close a call. Elections are democratic thus far and no further.  Election Commissioner becomes a passive spectator.

Sirisena is stupid if he fails to act democratically in his presidential role, forgetting petty prejudices to over come the peoples will. He is safer with Ranil: owes much for propelling him to the present position. If Rajapakse wins and is not given due recognition, Parliament has the power to make financial cuts to make a President smaller in stature than the 19^th amendment envisaged.

The silver line is in having a stable government after heavy traffic is acquired from the losing side but it would not last long in an environment where governments are compelled to last four and a half years according to the 19^th amendment. Passing bucks will keep governments’ in office. J.R.Jayewardane strove to make his governments stable: his heirs strive to make it weak. Who will benefit…undoubtedly the opposition?  Whose dunnit?

by stanley samarasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today

ALI SUKHANVER

On 27^th July 2015, The Washington Post published a report regarding the gun-battle between the Indian security forces and the so-called militants in Gurdaspur, a border town in Indian Punjab. The report was prepared by Ashok Sharma, an Indian journalist. According to the details the militants first attacked a moving bus and then stormed into a police station. The incident took lives of more than ten innocent people including four policemen. This fight between the security forces and the ‘militants’ lasted for about 12 hours and ultimately the three alleged militants were shot dead. In this operation against the militants, the troops of the Indian Army also provided help and support to the police. The Press Trust of India also reported the same incident but with a slight variation, ‘The attackers hijacked a car and then fired at the bus and a roadside eatery before entering a police station near. Eight injured people were hospitalized, seven of them in serious condition.  Police are investigating whether the militants came from the Indian portion of Kashmir which borders Punjab or from Pakistan. Rebels routinely stage attacks in Indian-held Kashmir, where they’ve been fighting since 1989 for an independent Kashmir or its merger with Pakistan.’ State-run All India Radio said, ‘ The police had discovered five bombs on a railway track in the area, causing train service to be suspended, though it was unclear whether it was related to the Gurdaspur attack.’. Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB) fulfilled its official responsibility very honestly by bluntly blaming Pakistan for the terrorist attack on Indian police station on Monday. UK based news Agency the News Tribe reported the claim of an officer from the Indian Intelligence Bureau with reference to the sources from the Indian media. The officer said, ‘The militants who attacked Indian police station had come from Pakistan.’ In short almost everyone from India directly or indirectly blamed Pakistan for the Gurdaspur Terror Attack. It seems they all are trying to paint this incident as another Mumbai Attack Episode. In spite of this hurricane of blames and allegations, Pakistan following its old tradition, expressed deep grief over the sad incident. Pakistan’s foreign ministry in its official statement condemned the attack by saying, ‘Pakistan reiterates its condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.’

But there is another side of ‘midnight’ too. Earlier in July, Pakistani Troops shot down an Indian Quad-copter, commonly known as spy-drone, inside the Pakistani side of LOC. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations Pakistan, the drone intruded from Jaurian Sector of the Indian Occupied Kashmir and was flying over Banchirian Sector near Bhimber in Pakistani area when it was shot down by Pakistani troops. The ISPR stressed that the spy-drone was sent for reconnaissance and secret surveillance and Pakistan has irrefutable evidence that it was flown by the Indian Army. There is a very clear connection between these two incidents; Pakistan’s shooting down of the Indian drone on 15^th July and ‘militants’ attack on Gurdaspur police station on 27^th July. Whatever happened there in Gurdaspur seems a desperate effort of face saving by the Indian authorities. They were facing no doubt very bitter criticism from their own nation and from the International forces on sending a spy-drone to Pakistan and just to pacify and cool-down the critics and to give the world an impression that India is in a serious trouble at the hands of Pakistan-supported ‘Militants’.

Let us cast a look at a report on the working and professional status of world’s one of the most proficient intelligence agency, the ISI. According to that report Pakistan’s spy agency ISI sought to intercept all communications passing through the country in 2013, the most significant expansion of its capacity to conduct mass surveillance till date and rivaling that of the US and UK. The report was prepared by Privacy International. The report revealed that in June 2013, the Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan’s intelligence agency, sought to develop a mass surveillance system by directly tapping the main fiber optic cables entering Pakistan that carried most of the nation’s network communication data. The Guardian commented upon the report that through this surveillance program ISI would rival some of the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies including those of the US and Britain. This report by the Privacy International added a lot of salt to the already injured Indian strategy of destabilizing Pakistan. It was very difficult for the Indian Authorities to ‘swallow’ ISI’s professional supremacy admitted by the International forces. So to give the world an impression that Pakistan is a supporter of the militants and ISI is not a strong and competent intelligence agency, the Indian conspirators planned to stage the Gurdaspur Attacks and earlier the Drone Drama. India must not behave in such a non-sense criminal way. This world has realized that nothing more is important than peace and friendship; conspiracies based on blame, accusations and allegations are no more welcomed and admired here. India would get nothing by going against this positively cool and comfortably calm wind of peace and tranquility.

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