Shenali D Waduge

when missionaries came we had the land, they had the Bible.
We closed our eyes for prayer and opened them,
only to find they had the land and we had the Bible”. –Desmond Tutu

There are plenty of Tamil leaders who claim they represent the rights & grievances of the Tamils. There are Muslim leaders who do the same. There are religions from colonial invasions who fund and represent their flock’s even aspiring ones. Do Sinhalese Buddhists have any present day leaders that stand for and are proud of the Sinhala Buddhist heritage, who sincerely and genuinely wish to reverse the discriminations suffered by the Sinhalese? Do we have leaders to demand the return of the Sinhale nation that was taken over by colonial invaders while post-colonial systems are camouflaged to continue a neocolonial imperial drive that aims solely to replace Sinhala Buddhists in Sri Lanka marginalizing them through pro-Western rhetoric? It is only the patriotic few and the public who are today defending their nation. The Tamils have India, ever ready to come to their aid. The Muslims have over 50 nations of the Muslim world, the Christians/Catholic have the Vatican and a network of other establishments all connected and linked to Western Governments. Do the Sinhala Buddhists have such support to protect an ethnic population that evolved in Sri Lanka and lives only in Sri Lanka and a pristine religion that Sri Lanka has guarded for centuries? Sinhala Buddhists can’t be on politicians ‘want list’ only when elections come. The people who built this nation and are fighting to preserve it deserve far better.

1. Protecting the status of the Sinhala Buddhist majority that built the Sinhale nation

a. Recognise Sri Lanka as a predominantly Buddhist country and uphold the Sinhala Buddhist civilization and its ethos constitutionally and legally. (for over 2600 years Buddhism was State religion invited by royal invitation and the compassionate nature of Buddhism ensured treatment of all citizens and even visitors with compassion)

b. Secure the foremost status of Buddhism and foster Buddhism both within and outside the country while ensuring the right to freedom of religious practice for all other religions (right to practice religion does not entitle the head offices of these religions to strategically change the pre- existing and current religious and cultural landscape of Sri Lanka to create one where their religion becomes majority with time)

c. Follow 70-30 representation – Majority Sinhala Buddhists must be assured of representation at all levels of Government, Legislature, Executive, Judiciary etc. and across all systems, that reflects the 70% demographic ratio of Sinhala Buddhists in the country while only 30% of places in any system should be allocated to religious and ethnic minorities. Allocation of time for public service by MPs must be according to ethnic ratio.

d. Allocation of housing (flats/housing schemes) & any state allocation to be based on the ethnic ratio of the country – 70% to Sinhalese & 30% to minorities to be divided at their discretion

e. Strive towards establishing a compassionate society in Sri Lanka which is all inclusive, protects all living beings and encourages peaceful co–existence between man and animal (a noble call no one can take objection to)

f. Protection of the rights of Sinhala Buddhists in particular the lower income groups and addressing their grievances on a priority basis. Tamils will have India to provide aid, Muslims have over 50 Muslim nations to provide aid, Christians/Catholics have Western Christian nations & Vatican – Sinhala Buddhists have only the State that built the nation.

g. No ethnic ghettos allowed anywhere in Sri Lanka to prevent potential uprisings in the future based on sectarian ideologies and separatist identities

h. No division or separatism to be allowed – legal action to be taken forthwith against any politician or person or entity advocating the division of Sri Lanka or laying the foundation for it under whatever nomenclature.

1. Recognize Ahimsa as a guiding principle in all endeavours of the State and discontinue state sponsorship of Buddhists to indulge in rearing animals for slaughter and export of meat products

2. Protecting heritage, history and natural environment

a. Declare Buddhist heritage sites as National Heritage sites providing both State protection and funds for preservation. But an end to attempts to eliminate national heritage/history via bogey of multiculturalis/multifaith and internationalism

b. No other religion that can with evidence claim to have existed prior to 2600 Buddhist history can demand joint-heritage claim status Stop well planned moves to identify and declare historic Buddhist sites as multi faith sites e.g. Sri Pada. Kataragama, Dambulla etc.

c. Moratorium on construction of new places of religious worship via foreign funds coming from sources out to create ethnic/religious tension combined with their imperial expansion ideologies

d. Introduce anti-conversion bill and ensure foreign-funded conversion of Buddhists and Hindus are legally dealt with

e. Foremost place to Buddhism via Article 9 must require Buddha Sasana Minitry to task panels to regularly produce reports covering media distortions/other manipulations by western funded-NGOs (content analysis of current media to denigrate Buddhists), incursions of heritage areas/sites, brainwashing of children towards multiculturalism/multifaith in an effort to get them to abandon their links to heritage and denationalize them. Christianity has $170billion / Wahhabi slam has $87billion to promote their faith worldwide.

3. Language

a. Sinhala to be only official language of Sri Lanka

b. Tamil to be secondary language and English link language

c. Mandatory for all citizens to speak and write basic Sinhalese

d. Curriculum for non-Sinhalese to be made practical and limited to use of every day Sinhala so as to generate simply dialogue between communities.

3. Rights of citizens

a. Equal land rights & ownership in any part of Sri Lanka for its citizens. No law should deny the right of citizen to purchase land & live in any part of Sri Lanka (this will address current demands for only Tamil land / only Muslim land while Tamils and Muslims secure right to live in all parts of Sri Lanka while Sinhalese will not have right to land or right to live in North or East. It highlights dangers of Sinhalese losing land rights in the parts they currently live when using external money Tamils and Muslims will start purchasing land leaving Sinhalese a landless majority)

b. Special regulations for dual citizens/citizens marrying foreigners to ensure that land ownership (title deed) does not fall into hands of foreigners.

c. Illegal immigrants to be returned to their place of origin or wherever they came from

d. No ethnic based political parties as these represent only one ethnic group and are aligned to foreign sources that use these ethnic groups to cause communal and religious tension and discord in the country

e. No foods to be labelled according to the religious preference of one minority religion only and applicable to all. If export foods warrant labelling such should be done for export foods only. No consumer should have to pay for food preferences of a minority religion.

f. One law applicable to all – no two laws to be allowed (civil or criminal). No sub-laws per different religions to be entertained as such did not exist pre-colonial or even post-colonial.

5. Education must give prominent place to National History

a. History of Sri Lanka (endorsed by a patriotic panel of educators/historians) must be taught in every school (public, private, semi-govt & international) as a compulsory subject in the syllabus from pre-school to O/L.

b. Foreign service and other public service must include briefings on the pre-colonial history and the real patriots/heroes of Sri Lanka

Today, there are western funded militant groups tasked to destroy histories in countries and remove artefacts that end up sold for millions as collector’s items. This was how colonial invaders looted nations of Asia and Africa. The multicultural / multifaith initiatives are movements funded by entities who wish to create people who have no roots to heritage and that jealousy inspires them to create systems to denationalize people and nations that are proud of their civilizational heritage and fighting to preserve what has been passed down from one generation to the other.

The nations that have civilizational histories cannot remove their histories just because some nations do not have history, heritage or cultures/value systems to be proud of. 

Shenali D Waduge

Courtesy Lankanewsweb SPY July 14, 2015

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 රාජිත-පාඨලි-අර්ජුන තුන් කට්ටුව නැවත එජාපයට ගොස් රනිල් අගමැති කිරීමේ සටනට වාඩි වී තිබේ. මේ තිදෙනා ම ඒ සඳහා එජාපය සමඟ එක් වූයේ ජනවාරි 08 වැනි දා පැවති ජනාධිපතිවරණය සමඟ ය. එහෙයින් මෙහි ඇති කිසිදු අපූර්වත්වයක් ද නැත. ජනාධිපතිවරයෙන් පසු පැමිණ කෙටි කලක් ලැගුම් ගත් ශ්‍රීලනිපයේ ඇත්තේ ඔවුන්ට එරෙහිම භාවිත කළ58 ලක්ෂයක් ඡන්ද ය.මේ අවස්ථාවේ ආත්ම ගරුවත්වයක් යැයි කිසිවක් ඔවුන්ට තිබිණි නම් එය ද ටොමියාට දමා රනිල් සමඟ හිට ගැනීම මේ තිදෙනා දේශපාලන වශයෙන් ඉතා ම දුරදිග බලා ගත් තීරණයකි. මේ තුන් කට්ටුව ම ශ්‍රීලනිපය ප්‍රමුඛ සන්ධානයෙන් මහ මැතිවරණයට තරඟ කළේ නම් ජයග්‍රහණයට වඩා පරාජය ලැබීමට ඉඩ තිබිණි. විශේෂයෙන් ජනාධිපතිවරණයෙන් තමන්ගේ ශක්තිමත් ආණ්ඩුව පෙරලා රනිල් අගමැති කළ සිය පක්ෂයේ අපේක්ෂකයා පරාජයට පත් කර අනෙකෙකු ජනපති කිරීමට කුමන්ත්‍රණය කළ පිරිසකට ශ්‍රීලනිප සන්ධාන පාක්ෂිකයින් මනාප ලබා නොදීමට ඇති ඉඩ වැඩි ය.

මේ වන විට ශ්‍රීලනිප සන්ධානය වටා රොද බදින ඡන්ද දායකයින් මහින්ද කෙරෙහි විශ්වාසය තබන හෙයින් බොහෝ විට මහින්ද වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටි පිරිස් සන්ධානය තුළ රාජිත-පාඨලි-අර්ජුන තුන් කට්ටුවට වඩා මනාප ලබා ගැනීම ඒකාන්ත ය. කොළඹින් විමල්, දිනේෂ්, සුසිල් පෙරමුණ ගනු ඇති අතර පාඨලිට පසු බැසීමට සිදු වනු ඇත. කළුතරින් වෙල්ගම, රෝහිත ඉදිරියට පැමිණෙනු ඇති අතර ගිය වරදත් යන්තම් සන්තම් දිනූ රාජිත පසු බසිනු ඇත. ෆීල්ඩ් මාර්ෂල්ගේ විලක්කුවෙන් අලියා මතට කරණමක් ගැසූ අර්ජුන සිය සහෝදරයා වන ප්‍රසන්න ලබන මනාපවලින් අඩක් හෝ නොලබනු නියත ය. එහෙයින් ලංකාවේ අමන දේශපාලඥයින් කුණු බක්කියට විසිවීමට මොහොතකට පෙර ලැගුම් ගන්නා එජාපය නම් නගර සභා කුණු ලොරියට සිය ආත්ම ආරක්ෂාව පිණිස මේ තුන් කට්ටුව නැඟ තිබේ.

මේ කරණම මගින් මේ තුන් කට්ටුව කිසියම් ආරක්ෂාවක් ලැබුව ද එජාපයේ ඒ ඒ දිස්ත්‍රික්කවල ප්‍රබලයින් සිය මනාප එජාප නොවන මේ වවුල් කල්ලියට යෑමට ඇති ඉඩ ඍජු සහ වක්‍ර ක්‍රියා මාර්ග ඔස්සේ වසා දමනු ඇත්තේ අනභියෝගීව සිය ආධිපත්‍ය ආරක්ෂා කර ගනු පිණිස ය. එහෙයින් දෙලොවක් අතර රඟන රාජිත, පාඨලි, අර්ජුන වැන්නෝ ගෙදර ගියත් තෝ නහී, මඟ හිටියොත් අඹු නහී තත්ත්වයට පත්ව සිටිති. එමෙන් ම පාඨලි සිය සැබෑ වෘක සම වැසෙන සේ පොරවා ගෙන බැටළු සමට රැවටී සිංහ කොඩිය උස්සා ගෙන ඔහු පසුපස ඒකීය රාජ්‍යය ආරක්ෂා කරනු පිණිස පසු ගමන් ගිය ජාතිකවාදීන් යැයි කියා ගන්නා ඊනියා දේශප්‍රේමීන් මෙවර පාඨලීට රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ සමඟ පඨිසෝතගාමීව ෆෙඩරල් රාජ්‍යයක් කරා යෑමට ගොම්පස් ඇල්ලිය හැකි ය. කෙසේ වුව ද අනපේකෂිත මහින්ද පුනරාගමනය නිසා එජාපය සමඟ පයුරු පාසානමකට යාම හැර සිය ආත්ම ආරක්ෂාව සඳහා මොවුන්ට වෙන කිසිඳු විකල්පයක් රටට ආදරය කරන ජනතාව ඉතිරි කර නොමැත. මේ වන විට සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා මෙන් ම ඔහුට සහාය දැක්වූ ශ්‍රීලනිප කණ්ඩායම ද ජනපදනමක් නොමැති අනාථ බවට පත් කිරීමට ජනතාව නිවැරදි ලෙස කටයුතු කර තිබේ. රාජිත-පාඨලි-අර්ජුන තුන් කට්ටුව මේ උපාය මාර්ගය තේරීම සඳහා යොමු කරන්නේ එම යථාර්ථය විසිනි. මෙය එක්තරා ආකාරයකට දිට්ඨ ධම්මවේදනීය කර්ම ඵල දීමකි. මෙතෙක් එළිදැක ඇති ශ්‍රීලනිප සන්ධාන මහ මැතිවරණ අපේක්ෂක කටවුඩ්වලට සිරිසේනගේ රුව වෙනුවට මහින්දගේ රුව පැමිණීමෙන් සංකේතවත් කරන්නේ එය නොවෙද?

Vichara Bandara 

In an attempt to supplement the very proficient analysis by Dayan J., of the complex relationship of the above mentioned fearsome foursome, I like to add the another aspect of the relationship which is the conflict of culture between MS and RW.

RW and CBK are from a decadent urban background and with strong family influence perhaps with an evangelical bent and with many common interests. In fact RW boasts that they were playmates in childhood.

MS and MR have deep rural roots. Their political ideologies social outlooks are congruent. Whereas MS had been a militant left winger in his youth and has been a liberal socialist. RW and CBK are western oriented and have little religious upbringing whereas MS and MR are wary of the West and is a strong Buddhist.

There is a Sinhala verse which says ‘’Ya deka noratha ratha, Samaga Ekweemek natha.” Which means that a cold piece of iron does not fuse with a hot iron. The contrived relationship between MS and RW which was brought about by the not too honest broker CBK was a forced liaison between two persons of contrasting cultural backgrounds. It was essentially a liaison between a rustic Sinhala speaking peasant and an English eduacated, suave urbane mahaththaya’ who was blatantly manipulative. It could not have lasted very long.

MS, who was peeved with the denial of the premiership and alleged obstruction from Basil R over his pet projects, was an easy prey for the scheming RW and CBK. RW wanted a convenient cat’s paw and CBK had been holding a long term grudge to settle against MR. This was a golden opportunity to get even. CBK and RW were also key players in the Western game of evil, of Regime Change. The two objectives coincided perfectly.

It was a matter of time when the peasant who was gifted with a keen native wisdom and in the terms of Premadasa ‘hondata themparadu wechcha realized the malevolent intentions of the urbane mahaththaya’ and the scheming broker.

 Early signs of controversy surfaced in the implementation of the Manifesto and the 100 Day Work Programme. While the Manifesto was the sacred text of MS, the 100 Day Programme was the grand strategy of RW.

In the MS Manifesto it was envisaged that the 100 Day Programme will be implemented through a National government comprising the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the United National Party, Jatika Hela Urumaya and people’s representatives all other political parties.

Note that Sri Lanka Freedom Party had the pride of place of being cited first as a participants of the National Govt. What really happened was when in accordance with the election promise RW was made the Prime Minister, he formed his government primarily with the members of the UNP. A few unimportant Ministries were offered to the SLFP to call it a National Government.

 In the all important Chapter of the Way Forward” the MS Manifesto indicated the implementation of three key changes i.e.

a)abolition of the Executive Presidential System with unlimited power;

b)amending the electoral system;

c)abolition of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution and replace it with the establishment of independent Commissions.

 In the implementation of the promise to abolish the Executive Presidential system MS stated that he would take into account the proposals of Venerable Sobhitha and Venerable Rathana. He said in passing that he would also consider the changes proposed to these proposals by the United National Party.

MS qualified the above statements by adding that he will not touch any Constitutional Article that could be changed only with the approval at a Referendum.

While RW is a lawyer and an expert on Constitutional issues he ignored the wish of MS of not even to ‘touch’ amendments which require a referendum went ahead in an attempt to usurp the powers of the President and make himself an Executive Prime Minister. The Supreme Court turned down this stab in the back.

The second step in the Manifesto of MS was the abolition of the preferential system at elections and to ensure the existence of at least one MP in each electorate.

RW conveniently pushed this aside to the back burner and gave priority to the 19^th Amendment which combined the chopping of the powers of the President and the establishment of independent Commissions.

 RW also gave the same treatment to the proposed Right to Information Act and the Audit Act.

 The Manifesto of MS did not envisage a witch hunt to go after all cases of bribery and corruption. His proposal was to punish those responsible for technical offences in such projects irrespective of the status of the offenders.”

But RW found that indiscriminate hora” chase was the best line of attack to get political mileage and appointed an illegal Financial Crime Investigation Division (FCID)directly under a Cabinet sub committee chaired by him.

When the Central Bank Bond scam was revealed, RW appointed his own committee of investigation, when it should have been a Presidential Commission.

RW is not a person who likes to consult others than his own close clique of friends. One reason that MS broke away from Mahinda was he could not tolerate Mahinda changing his pet proposals. When so many aberrations were contrived by RW in the program of MS there was no surprise that the worm would turn.

And turn it did. The native wisdom of the peasant saw through the disingenuous maneuvers of RW and CBK.

 ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න

සියම් නිකායේ අලුත් මහනායක හිමියන්  ගේ නමට ගැල පෙන තරම් වත් මොලයක්  තියනවා  නම්  වසර තිහක් තිස්සේ  මිනීමරු ප්‍රභාකරන් නිසා විශේෂයෙන් සිංහල බෞද්ධයන් වින්ද දුක  දන සිටිය යුතුය . පට්ටම් ලැබෙන කොට රටත් බුදුසසුනත් ජාතියත් කුඩුපට්ටම් වෙන හැටි අමතක වෙන එක නම්   භයානක ලෙඩක් . හාමුදුරුවනේ  දළදා මාලිගාවට බෝම්බ ගහපු   එකත්  අමතකද .ඒ ල.ගම ඉඳලත් . ස්රිමහ බෝධිය නම් තියෙන්නේ ඈතනේ

   මේ ප්‍රභාකරන් ඇතුළු කොටින්නඩ යෙන් රට බෙරගත්තු  මහින්ද නැවත එන එක හොද   නැත රනිල් නැවත එනෙක හොඳය කියන්නේ මැරිලා ඉපදිලාද . රනිල්  ඇතුළු එජාපය  60,000 ක් පමණ සිංහලයන් මරණ කොටත් ඔබ  හිටියේ රටේ නොවෙයද.

මිලේනියම් සිටි  පාවාදී බුද්ධි අංශය සුනුවිසුනු කර ජනපාතිනියටත් මැති  ඇමතිවරුන්ටත් හොරෙන් කොටි සමග හොර ගිවිසුම් ගසා උන් ට යුධ තොග ගන්නේ සපයා සිංහල හමුදාව   විනාශ කිරීමට රනිල් කටයුතු කල හැටි  නොදන්නා  භික්ෂුවක් සාෂණයේ ඇත්නම්  ඒ සාෂණයට දෙය්යන්ගේම පිහිටය් .

මහින්දගේ වැරදි 100 ක් නම් රනිල් ඇතුළු  සගයින්ගේ වැරදි ලක්ෂයකි  ඒවාත් රට ට ද්‍රෝහිවීමේ වැරදිය  මහින්දට ඇත්තේ  සනාත නොවූ මුල්‍ය වන්චාය . 

මහින්ද මුදල් වංචා කලාම මොකද  හාමුදුරුවරුත් රටට විතරක් නොවෙය තමන් ඉන්න සාෂනයටත් ද්‍රෝහී වෙන කොට . මගේ දරුවෙක් මගේ සියලු සේසතම විනාශ කලත් මටනම් කමක් නැහැ රටම  පාවා නොදී … මේවා නොදන්නවානම්  අස්ගිරි ලේඛ කාධිකාරී  මදග්ගම  ධම්මානන්ද හාමුදුරුවන්ගෙන් හරි අහගන්න  ලොකු කම් හිතට නොගෙන .

මාලිගාවේ  පොකුණේ ඉබ්බෝ  වෙලා ඉපදෙන්නේ කවුද කියලා දන්නවද . ඒ තමය්  සාෂනෙට ද්රෝහි වූ  අ ය. සාෂනේටය් රටටය් ජාතියටය් සේරටම ද්‍රෝහිවූ   අය ඉපදෙන්නේ  රොඩී ගම්මාන වල  පතස් වල . මාලිගාවේ පොකුණේ ඉපදුනොත්  ආයුෂ වැඩිය්  නේ . ඒ තමය කාර්ම ශක්තිය පලදෙන හැටි .

   ජාතියේ මුරදේවතාවෝ  දැන් ඔලුවෙන් හිටගෙන . ජාතික කැක්කුමෙන් ඉස්සර  කෑ මොරදුන් මාදුලුවාවෙත්හ්  බදාපිනුම් ගැහුවනම් තිබ්බොටු  මොළ තියෙන  අ ය  මෙහෙම වීම පුදුමයකුත් නොවෙය්.

මහසෙන් රජු නැවත අදා ගත්තේ එකල සිටි  ජාතියේ මුරදේවතාවුන් වහන්සේලාය   එසේකලේ මහසෙන් ජාතිය රට ආරක්ෂා කරන  එඩිතර පුත්‍රයෙක් නිසය්  මහසේන්ගේ වැරදි දර්ශනය නිසා එයා ලවා  සොලීන්ට කත අදින  පෙන්දෙක් රජ කරවනවාට වඩා මහසෙන් ප්‍රතිසන්ස් කරණය කර යලි කැඳවීම හොඳ බව   ඒ රත්‍රන් මොලවලට වැටහුනා .

බ හිරයන් නිසා වැඩියෙන්ම විනාශ වුනේ උඩ රටය් අද උඩරට මුස්ලිම් වරුන්ටත් ඉන් දීය දෙමළුන් ටත්  අයිතිවෙලා . මේ විනාශය කල බට හිරයන්ට කත්  නොඇද  පාලනය
 කල එකම පාලකයා මහින්දය් 

  ඩී . එස්  1948 දී ආණ්ඩුව සරණං ගච්චාමි කියන්න එපා හාමුදුරුවනේ ”” කිව්වා මතකද 1815 ගිවිසුමේත්  බුදු සසුන රජු විසින් රැකියා යුතුබව තිබියදීත්  එදා ඩී  . එස් මෙහෙම  කියන කොට  එයා”  ජාතියේ පියා”’ ද නැත්නම් ජාතියේ අලුගොසුවාද ‘එයාම නේද  නිදහස් අද්යාපනයට විරුධ්ධවී ‘   මේක කලොත් ගස්ගෙඩි  කඩා  ගන්නවත් එකෙක් හොයා ගන්න බැරිවෙය් ”කිව්වේ .

අනිත් හැම එජා පෙ  නායකයන්ටම   වඩාරටට  ද්‍රෝහිකම්කල රනිල්  නැවත ගෙන්වා ගැනීම මහින්ද ගෙන්වා ගැනීමට වඩා හොඳය කියන්නේ   සාශනේ රකින්නද ,,,පඬු  හැලිය  රකින්නද  ‘

පළාත් සභා ඇතිකර 13 අ  ගෙනවිත් මෙරටට  බෙදුම් වාදය  නීතිගත කලේ එජාපය නොවෙයද .       අනේ හිමියනේ ඒ ක   හරි ශෝක්ද .ජො ලිද .  අස්ගිරියේ වැඩවිසූ පලිපාන චන්දා නන්ද නා හිමියන්ගෙන් පසු  මේ යට මොකද වුනේ  සාශනේ විනාශ වෙන්නේ    මේ  අ   ය අතින් මය බෞද්ධයෙක් නොවන රනිල්   සාශනේ දියුනුකරය්  බලාගෙන් ඉන්න . හොඳේ !ජාතික ගීයට කෙලවපු  කොඩියටත් කෙලවපු න නැටුම අවසන් කරන්නේ පඬු  හැ ලියත් පෙරලා දමලය්  එවිට ලොගුවවත් දාගන්න බැරිය නේද .

                                  හිතේ මාරුවට මෙහෙම ලිව්වාට  මා කරෙහි කිසිවෙකු අමනාප නොවේවා වැඩි දෙනෙක් කරන්නේ  කොලේ වහල ගැහීමය්  ඒවා කරකර ඉන්න දැන් වෙලාවක් නැහැ  පිරිත් නුලෙන් සනීපකරන්න බැරි  ලෙඩ ක් දැන් ජාතියට වැළඳිලා   විශාල මහනුවර යක්කු පෙරේත පිසාචයෝ එලවන්න  කරපු පිරිත් දේශනය වාගේ   මහා පරි මාන  ව්‍යාපෘතියක්    දැන් ඔබ වහන්සේලාගෙන් අවශ්ශය්  එ  ජාප මුස්ලිම් දෙමල . පිසාච  එකමුතුවෙන් සිංහල බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතිය රක ගැනීමට නම්

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මට ද්‍රෝහියා කියා බණින එයාලා …මේ ආණ්ඩුව හදාගෙන රටට කල ද්‍රෝහිකම් අමතක වෙලා යනුවෙන් ජනපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා අද උදැසන සිය උපදේශකයන් සමග පවසා තිබේ.අද උදැසන ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් කරනවා කී විශේෂ ප්‍රකාශය සම්බන්ධයෙන් දිගින් දිගටම එජාපයේ ප්‍රභලයන් දුරකථනය ඔස්සේ විමසිම් කර ඇති අතර එජාප ප්‍රභයන් කිහිප දෙනෙකුම මෛත්‍රීට ද්‍රෝහියා” යනුවෙන් අමතා තිබේ.

එයට පිළිතුරු දෙමින් මෛත්‍රී ජනපති මේ බව පැවසු අප විශේෂ වාර්තාකරු සදහන් කළා.

මේ අතර මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ හිටපු ජනාධිපති සන්ධානයෙන් නාම යෝජනා දීමත් සමග ස්ථිර වශයෙන්ම සන්ධාන ආණ්ඩුවක් හැදෙන බව  ජනාධිපති මෛත‍‍්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා පවසා තිබේ.ජනාධිපතිවරයා සන්ධාන පක්‍ෂ නායකයන් හමු වූ අවස්ථාවේ මේ බව පවසා තිබේ.

හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍‍්‍රී දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා මේ බව කියා සිටියේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාපජෂක්‍ මහතා විසින් කොළඹදී කැඳවා තිබූ සන්ධාන මන්ත‍‍්‍රී හමුවේදීය.

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 2015 ජනවාරි 8 වැනි දා ඝාතනය කෙරුණු ශ්‍රී ල නි ප ජූලි 8 වැනි දා ආදාහනය කෙරිණි. මෙහි පහත පළවන්නේ ඒ ඝාතනය 1959 දී සිදු වූ බණ්ඩාරනායක ඝාතනය සමග සංසන්දනය කෙරෙමින් ලියූ ලිපියකි. 1959 දී බණ්ඩාරනායක මහතා ඝාතනය කෙරුණ ද ශ්‍රී ල නි ප ඝාතනය නො කෙරිණි. ඉන්පසුව ද ශ්‍රී ල නි ප ප්‍රමුඛ සංධාන බලයට පත්විණි. 1977 දී ජේ ආර් ජයවර්ධන බලයට පත් වී බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිණියගේ ප්‍රජා අයිතිවාසිකම්  නැති කිරීමෙන් පසුව ද ශ්‍රී ල නි ප ඝාතනය ඝාතනය කිරීමට නො හැකි විණි. 

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යහපාලකයෝ රට බෙදන හැටි දයාන් මුල සිට අගටම කියයි.. [Video]

ඉල්ලා අස්වෙනවා කිවුවේ විහිලූවට.. මං පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට තරඟ කරනවා.. – හරීන්

හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාපජක්‍ෂ මහතා සහ ජනාධිපති මෛත‍්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා එක් වුවහොත් තමන් දේශපාලනයෙන් සමුගන්නා බව කීවද එසේ නොකරන බව ඌව මහ ඇමති හරීන් ප‍්‍රනාන්දු මහතා පවසයි.

‘පක්ෂ මාරුව දතක් ගලවනවාට වඩා ලේසි වැඩක්ලු‘රාජිත ගැන ඩලස් කියයි

දේශපාලනයට පැමිණිදා සිට අද වනතුරු ඔහු 9 වරක් පක්ෂ මාරු කර ඇතැයිද, ලංකා සම සමාජ පක්ෂය, ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය, මහජන පක්ෂය, බහුජන නිදහස් පෙරමුණ යන පක්ෂ නියෝජනය කළ ඔහු නැවත ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයටත්, නැවත එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයටත්, නැවත ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයට පැමිණ යළි එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයට පැමිණ සිටී.

සෝමවංශ ඉල්ලන්න පෙරමුණක් නොමැතිව අසරණ වෙයි

ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණෙන් ඉවත් වු සෝමවංශ අමරසිංහ මහතා ඇතුළු පිරිසක් ජනතා සේවක පක්ෂය නමින් නව පක්ෂයක් පිහිටුවා ගනු ලැබු අතර ඉදිරි පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයට මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා සමඟ එක්ව සංධානයෙන් තරඟ කිරීමට සාකච්ඡාකර තිබුණද මෛත්‍රීපාර්ශවය එජාපයට පැනීම නිසා අතරමංවූ අමරසිංහ මහතා මැතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත් නොවී ස්වාධීනව කටයුතු කිරීමට තීරණය කළ බව පැවසීය.

රාජිත, චම්පික, අර්ජුන එජාපයෙන් නාමයෝජනා අත්සන් තබති..Champika,Rajitha,Arjuna,Hirunika sign from UNP

එක්සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂය යටතේ අලියා ලකණින් ඉදිරි මැතිවණයට තරඟ කිරීමට රාජිත සේනාරත්න, චම්පික රණවක, අර්ජුන රණතුංග යන ඇමතිවරුන්ද අතුරලියේ රතන හිමියන්ද නාමයෝජනා අත්සන් තබා තිබේ.ඒ අනුව රාජිත සේනාරත්න කළුරින්, චම්පික රණවක කොළඹින්, අර්ජුණ රණතුංග ගම්පහින්ද අලියා ලකුණින් තරඟ වදී JHU General Secretary Champika Ranawaka, Rajitha Senaratne, Arjuna Ranatunga and Hirunika Premachandra have signed their nomination papers for the forthcoming General Elections from UNP. Accordingly, Ranawaka and Hirunika will contest from the Colombo District, Senaratne from Kalutara and Ranatunga from the Gampaha District. –

එජාපයට යන්න ගිය පිරිසක් නවතී..

ඉදිරි මහ මැතිවරණය සඳහා තරඟ වැදීමට එක්සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂය සමඟ අද දිනයේ ගිවිසුම්ගත වීමට සූදානමින් සිටින බව වාර්තා වූ කණ්ඩායමෙන් බොහෝ පිරිසක් එම තීරණය අතහැර දමා තිබේ. ඒ අනුව දුමින්ද දිසානායක, පියසේන ගමගේ, එස්බී දිසානායක, සුදර්ශනී ප්‍රනාන්දු පුල්ලෙ, විජය දහනායක, නියෝන්මාල් පෙරේරා, අර්ල් ගුණසේකර එසේ සිය තීරණය වෙනස් කරගෙන තිබේ

උං ටික ගිය එක ලොකු දෙයක්.. හිටියනම් මහ ලෙඩක්.. – වෙල්ගම

මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතාගේ පැමිණීමට විරුද්ධව එජාපය හා එක්වන්නේ එදාද මහින්දට විරුද්ව වැඩ කල අයම යයි හිටපු මන්ත‍්‍රී කුමාර වෙල්ගම මහතා පවසයි.ඔවුන් ගියාට වඩා හිටියානම් ප‍්‍රශ්ණයක් බවද ඔහු කියා සිටියේය.

චම්පික අද සිට යූඑන්පී කාරයෙක්..

චම්පික රණවක, රාජිත සේනාරත්න ඇමතිරුන් පිරිසක් අද දිනයේ නිල වශයෙන් එක්සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂය හා සන්ධානගත වීමට නියමිතය.

අපි දින්නාම යාපනයේ සියළු පොලීසි වසා දමනවා.. – එජාප ඇමතිනිය කියයි..

එන මැතිවණයෙන් එක්සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂය බලයට පත් වුවහොත් යාපනයේ සියළු පොලිස් ස්ථාන වසා දමන බව එජාප යාපනය දිස්ත‍්‍රික් අපේක්‍ෂිකා නියෝජ්‍ය ඇමතිනී විජයකලා මහේෂ්වරන් මහත්මිය පවසයි. ඇය මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේ තම නාම යෝජනා සඳහා අත්සන් තැබීමෙන් අනතුරුව මාධ්‍ය අමතමිනි.

දුමින්ද ට නාමයෝජනා ඉල්ලා ශ්‍රීලනිපය වටලයි

හිටපු මන්ත්‍රී දුමින්ද සිල්වා හට ඉදිරි මහා මැතිවරණය සඳහා නාමයෝජනා ලබා දෙන ලෙස ඉල්ලා පිරිසක් මේ වන විට ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්‍ෂ මුලස්ථානය ඉදිරිපිට උද්ඝෝෂණයක නිරත වී සිටී.

අර්ජුන, රාජිත, එම්.කේ.ඩී.එස්. එජාපයට

රාජිත සේනාරත්න, අර්ජුන රණතුංග සහ තමන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයෙන් ඉවත්ව එළඹෙන මහ මැතිවරණයේදී එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයෙන් තරඟ කරන බව හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී එම්.කේ.ඩී.එස්. ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි.

Hirunika to contest under ‘elephant’ symbol -Rajitha confirms new alliance with UNP

UPFA Western Provincial Council member Hirunika Premachandra has reportedly signed nominations to contest the upcoming parliamentary election from the United National Front for Good Governance, the UNP-led political alliance. Rajitha stated that for this purpose a group of former UPFA parliamentarians including him have decided to contest the forthcoming General Election under the United National Front for Good Governance.

අමුනුගම, රෙජිනෝල්ඩ් කුරේ දේශපාලනයෙන් සමුගනී

ජාතික දේශපාලනයට ඒමට මුදල් නැතැදිය ඔහු කීවේය.

ලක්‍ෂ 62ට එරෙහි වෙන්න ජනපතිට බෑ.. රටට වින කල මහින්දලා නැවත එන බව පේනවා..-මල්වතු මහ නායක තිබ්බටුවාවේ ශ‍්‍රී සුමංගල නාහිමියෝ

‘ජනපති ලක්ෂ 62ක් වූ ජනමතයට එරෙහි නොවී රට ආපස්සට නොව පෙරට ගෙනයෑමේ නිවැරැදි තීන්දුවක් ගනීවි යැයි ජනතාව බලාපොරොත්තුවෙන් සිටිනවා. රටට වින කළ පරණ නඬේ නැවත එන බව පේන්න තියෙනවා.

එජාප සමුළු යෝජනාව අනුමතයි.. චම්පික ඇතූළු ශ‍්‍රිලනිප කොටසක් සමඟ සන්ධානගත වෙයි..​UNP approves ‘United National Front for Good Governance’ 

ඉදිරි මහ මැතිවණය සඳහා පෙරමුණක් ලෙස සන්ධානගත වී තරඟ වැදීමට අද පැවැත්වෙන සමුළුවට ඉදිරිපත් වූ යෝජනාව ඒකමතිකව සම්මත විය.ඒ අනුව ශ‍්‍රිලනිපයෝ කොටසක් හා චම්පික රණවක, රතන හිමි ආදීන් සමඟ වන ඒකාබද්ද පෙරමුණ ගොඩනැගෙනු ඇත.The UNP today approved the United National Front for Good Governance, a new alliance with sections of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) to contest at the forthcoming General Elections under the elephant symbol.

මහින්ද මට වඩා එක මනාපයක් ගත්තොත් දේශපාලනයෙන් ඉවත්වෙනවා

මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මෙන් නෝන්ඩි වුණු නායකයෙකු ඉතිහාසයේ කොහේවත් නැතිව ඇතැයි හිටපු අධිකරණ නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය සුජීව සේනසිංහ මහතා පවසයි. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ශ්‍රීලනිපයෙන් හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්‍රීක්කය සඳහා නාමයෝජනා ලබා නොදුන්නේ සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතාට බියෙන් බවත්, බියක් නැතිනම් කොළඹ දිස්ත්‍රීක්කයට හෝ නාමයෝජනා ලබාදිය යුතුව තිබුණු බව සේනසිංහ මහතා කියා සිටියේය. එහෙත් ඔහු කුමන දිස්ත්‍රීක්කයෙන් නාමයෝජනා ලබාදුන්නද තමාට වැඩියෙන් එක මනාපයක් හෝ ලබාගතහොත් තමන් දේශපාලනයෙන් ඉවත්වන බවට සේනසිංහ මහතා අභියෝග කළේය

I will quit politics if Mahinda gets a vote more than me – Sujeewa

Former Deputy Minister of Justice Sujeewa Senasinghe today vowed to leave politics forever, if former President Mahinda Rajapaksa obtains even a single vote more than him at the forthcoming General Election.

MS allies break ranks

Disappointed by the decision to nominate former President Mahinda Rajapaksa as a candidate at the upcoming polls, the political leaders who backed President Maithripala Sirisena decided on Friday to quit the United People’s Freedom Alliance and initiate a dialogue with the United National Party (UNP), the Daily Mirror learns.Political figures including Ministers Rajitha Senaratne, Patali Champika Ranawaka, Duminda Dissanayake and Arjuna Ranatunga had met the President on Friday and announced their decision.

ශ‍්‍රීලනිපයේ රොත්තක් චම්පිකත් එක්ක එජාපයට පනින්න සූදානම්…

ඉදිරි පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණය සඳහා එක්සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂය යටතේ තරඟ වැදීමට තරඟ වැදීමට හිටපු ශ‍්‍රීලනිප මන්ත‍්‍රී පිරිසක් සාකච්චා පවත්වමින් සිටී. ඇමති චම්පික රණවක විසින් පිහිටුවා ගන්නා ලද යහපාලන පෙරමුණ යටතේ එජාපයට එක්වීමට තීරණය කර ඇති එම පිරිස මේ වන විට සාකච්චා පවත්වමින් සිටින්නේ එජාප ආණ්ඩුුවක් යටතේ තමනට ලැබෙන තනතුරු සම්බන්ධයෙනි. මෙසේ සාකච්චා  කරමින් සිටින කිසිවෙකුත් මේ දක්වා සන්ධාන නාමයෝජනා සඳහා සිය අත්සන් තබා නැත. රාජිත සේනාරත්න, අර්ජුන රණතුංග, එස්.බී. දිසානායක, සුදර්ශනී ප‍්‍රනාන්දු පුල්ලේ, හේමාල් ගුණසේකර, නියෝන්මාල් පෙරේරා, එම්.කේ.ඞී.එස්. ගුණවර්ධන, විජය දහනායක, අර්ල් ගුණසේකර, සරත් අමුණුගම, දුමින්ද දිසානායක සහ අතුරලියේ රතක හිමි, චම්පික රණවක මෙසේ සාකච්චා කරමින් සිටිතැයි කියැවේ.

චම්පික-රතන හිමි යහපාලන පෙරමුණ සමඟ තනිවේ..

ඉදිරි මැතිවරණයේදී අතුරලියේ රතන හිමියන් සහ ඇමති චම්පික රණවක මහතා මෑතකදී පිහිටුවන ලද එක්සත් යහපාලන ජාතික පෙරමුණෙන් තනිවම තරග කිරීමට තීරණය කර ඇත. ඔවුන් මෙම තීරණය ගෙන ඇත්තේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට හා චෝදනා එල්ලවූවන් පිරිසකට නාමයෝජනා ලබාදීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයා තීරණය කිරීම නිසාය. ඔවුන් එම නව පජෂය යටතේ සියලූ දිස්ත‍්‍රික්ක වෙනුවෙන් නාමයෝජනා සැකසිමේ නිරතව සිටී.

ෆොන්සේකා පවුලම මැතිවරණයට.. කොළඹින් ෆොන්සේකා, ගම්පහින් අනෝමා, දුව ජාතික ලයිස්තුවෙන්, බෑනාත් කොළඹින්

‘රතුඉර’ පේ‍්‍රක්‍ෂක ප‍්‍රශ්ණයෙන් කිරිඇල්ලට මල පනී.. තර්කය බිඳුනා කියා ස්වර්ණවාහිනියටත් බැණ වදී.. [Video]

වැවිලි කර්මාන්ත ඇමති ලක්‍ෂමන් කිරිඇල්ල මහතා පසුගියදා සහභාගී වූ ස්වර්ණවාහිනී රතුඉර වැඩසටහනේදී පේ‍්‍රක්‍ෂකයෙකු විසින් නැගූ පැනයක් නිසා විශාල ලෙස කලබලයකට පත් විය.

හොඳට මතක තියාගන්න, මහින්දට පිලේ අය විතරක් පාර්ලිමේන්තු යවන්න – වෙල්ගම 

මහින්දගේ ලක්‍ෂ 58න් පාර්ලිමේන්තු පනින්නට හිරුණිකා, අර්ජුන සන්ධාන ලයිස්තුවේ..?

ඉදිරි පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවණයට තරඟ කිරීම සඳහා ඇමති අර්ජුණ රණතුංග හා පළාත් සභා මන්ත‍්‍රීනී හිරුණිකා පේ‍්‍රමචන්ද්‍රද එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධාන ලයිස්තුවට ඇතුළත්ව සිටී. අර්ජුන ගම්පහ දිස්ත‍්‍රික්කයෙන් තරඟ වදින අතර හිරුණිකා කොළඹ දිස්ත‍්‍රික්කයෙන් තරඟ වදී.

මෛත්‍රී තමුසේ ද්‍රෝහියෙක් වෙයි කියා මම කොහෙත්ම හිතුවේ නෑ  චෞර චන්ද්‍රිකා ජනපතිට බැන ලන්ඩනයට පලා යයි

මෛත්‍රී තමුසේ කරපු මේ මහා පාවාදීමෙන් මේ රට ලේ විලක් වෙනවා. තමුසේ මේ වගේ ද්‍රෝහියෙක් වේවි කියා මොහොතකටවත් හිතුනා නම් මං තමුසෙව පොදු අපේක්ෂකයා කරවන්නේ නැතැයි මෛත්‍රීපාල ජනපතිගේ මුහුණටම බැන වැදුනු හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනිය චන්ද්‍රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක කුමාරතුංග දැඩි කලකිරීමට ලක්ව ඊයේ රාත්‍රී ලන්ඩනය බලා පිටත්ව ගිය බවට වෙබ් අඩවියක් වාර්තා කර සිටී.

Rathana brokered Maithri-Mahinda union!

The highly controversial reunion between Maithripala Sirisena and Mahinda Rajapaksa had been brokered by Athuraliye Rathana Thera, convener of Pivithuru Hetak organization, reports say.

අර්බුදය නිමයි කැපුනේ නම් 4 යි

විමල් වීරවංශ හා සුසිල් ප්‍රේමජයන්ත කොළඹට තරග කරන අතර කොළඹ නායකයා වන්නේ සුසිල්ය.එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ හිටපු මහ ලේකම් තිස්ස අත්තනායක හා මව්බිමz පුවත් ආයතනයේ හිමිකාර හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ටිරාන් අලස් එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානයේ ජාතික ලැයිස්තුවට නම්කර ඇතැයිද වාර්තාවනවා.මේ අනුව සන්ධානයේ මහින්ද පිල මෛත්‍රී පිලට එල්ලකළ පීඩනය හමුවේ කළු ලැයිස්තුවේ සිටි 20 අද වනවිට 4 කට බැස ඇති බවත් නාම යෝජනා නොලැඛෙන්නේ එම 4 දෙනාට බවත් අනෙක් හිටපු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් සියල්ලටම නාම යෝජනා ලැබී ඇති බවත් වාර්තා වුණා.එම 4 දෙනා වන්නේ, සජින් වාස් ගුණවර්ධන, දුමින්ද සිල්වා, මර්වින් සිල්වා හා සරණ ගුණවර්ධන යන හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ය.

මහින්ද සුභ මොහොතින් අත්සන තබයි.. කුරුණෑගලින් සටනට ඒම සහතිකයි..

ඉදිරි පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයට තරඟ කිරීම සඳහා හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සිය නාමයෝජනා පත‍්‍රයට අත්සන් තබා තිබේ.ඒ මහතා එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානය යටතේ කුරුණෑගල දිස්ත‍්‍රික්කයෙන් තරග  කිරීම සඳහා එසේ නාමයෝජනා පත්‍රයට අත්සන් තැබූ බව කොළඹදී පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක විමල් වීරවංශ කියා සිටියේය.

රතන හිමි අද තීන්දුවක් ගනී..

හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී පූජ්‍ය අතුරලියේ රතන හිමියන් ඉදිරි මහ මැතිවරණයේ ගන්නා ස්ථාවරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අද දිනයේ විශේෂ ප‍්‍රකාශයන් සිදු කිරීමට යයි. අද පෙරවරුවේ කොලඹදී කැඳවන ලද මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී මෙම ස්ථාවරය ප‍්‍රකාශ කරන බව එහිමියෝ කීහ.

දින 100යට පෙර සහ පසු…….රනිල්ගේ සොහොන් ලකුණු මතුවේ….

මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා අගමැති කිරීම සදහා පැවති සටනේ පුරෝගාමී  නායකයෙකු වන බස්නාහිර පළාත් මහ ඇමති ප‍්‍රසන්න රණතුංග මහතා ගම්පහ නාමයෝජනා ලයිස්තුවෙන් ඉවත් කරන ලෙස උපදෙස් ලැබී ඇත.දිනේෂ්, විමල්, වාසු, ගම්මන්පිල ඇතුළු පක්‍ෂ නායකයින් හා හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතාට හිතවාදී ශ‍්‍රිලනිප හිටපු මන්ත‍්‍රී පිරිසක් සහභාගී විශේෂ මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් හෙට නාරාහේන්පිට අභයරාමයේදී පැවැත්වෙයි.පවතින දේශපාලන තත්වය සම්බන්ධයෙන් එහිදී විශේෂ ප‍්‍රකාශයක් සිදු කරනු ඇතැයිද පැවසේ.

වාර්තා වන ආකාරයට චන්ද්‍රිකා කුමාරතුංග හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනියගේ උවමනාව ඇනුව මෛතී‍්‍රපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් මේ පිළිබදව නාමයෝජනා කමිටුවට අද දහවල් උපදෙස් ලබා දී ඇත. ඒ අනුව ඉදිරි මහ මැතිවරණයේදී බස්නාහිර පළාත් ප‍්‍රධාන අමාත්‍ය ප‍්‍රසන්න රණතුංග මහතාට ගම්පහ දිස්ති‍්‍රක්කයෙන්, සන්ධානයෙන් තරග වැදීම සදහා නාමයෝජනා නොලැබී යාමේ අවධානමක් මතුව තිබේ.

‘මහින්දට කොන්දේසි නෑ‘ : ‘දෙන්නාම එකම වේදිකාවට එ්වි‘-සන්ධානයේ මහ ලේකම් සුසිල් ප්‍රේම්ජයන්ත්

මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ හිටපු ජනපති ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ සන්ධානයෙන් මහ මැතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත් වන බවත් පක්ෂ සභාපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන ජනපති ඔහුට කිසිම කොන්දේසියක් පනවා නැති බවත් සන්ධානයේ මහ ලේකම් සුසිල් ප්‍රේම්ජයන්ත් මහතා අද (8) ශ්‍රීලනිප මූලස්ථානයේ පුවත්පත් සාකච්ඡාවකදී ප්‍රකාශ කළේය.

‘මහින්ද කුරුණෑගලින්මයි‘

හිටපු ජනපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ නියත වශයෙන්ම සන්ධානයෙන් කුරුණෑගලට තරග කරනු ඇතැයි හිටපු විපක්ෂ නායක නිමල් සිරිපාල ද සිල්වා මහතා අද (8) ඌව පරණගම ආසන බල මණ්ඩල රැස්වීමේදී කීවේය.

හිටපු අගවිනිසුරු සන්ධාන ලයිස්තුවෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට..?

ඉදිරි පාර්ලිමේන්තු මහැතිවණයේදී එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධාන ජාතික ලයිස්තුවට හිටපු අගවිනිසුරු සරත් එන් ද සිල්වා මහතා නම් කෙරෙනු ඇතැයි වාර්තා වෙයි.

ඒ සඳහා පක්ෂයේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨයන්ගේ විරෝධතාවක් නොමැති බවද දැනගන්නට ඇත.

රට පුරා සන්ධාන කාර්යාල.. සියල්ල මහින්දගේ රුවින් සැරසේ..

සන්ධානයෙන් තරග කිරීමට හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා තීරණය කිරීමත් සමග සන්ධාන අපේක්ෂකයන්ගේ ප‍්‍රචාරක කටයුතු මෙහෙයවීමට ප‍්‍රධාන මැතිවරණ මෙහෙයුම් කාර්යාලයක් ඇතුළු ප‍්‍රාදේශීය කාර්යාල පිහිටුවා ඇතැයි මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මැතිවරණ මෙහෙයුම් මණ්ඩලය පවසයි.

හිටපු හමුදාපති මහින්ද සමඟ මැතිවරණයට..?

හිටපු හමුදාපති දයා රත්නායක මහතා එළැඹෙන මහ මැතිවණයේදී එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්දානයෙන් තරඟ වැදීමට ඉඩ ඇති බව ආරංචි මාර්ග සඳහන් කරයි.

චම්පික ගියාට මං සන්ධානයේ.. – රතන හිමි.

ඉදිරි මැතිවරණය සඳහා එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානයෙන් ඉදිරිපත් වීමට තමන් වහන්සේ සූදානම් යයි පූජ්‍ය අතුරලියේ රතන හිමියන් පවසති.

කොළඹදී මාධ්‍ය අමතමින් උන් වහන්සේ මේ අදහස් පල කලහ

Another Deputy Minister  of MY3 Government refuses to contest the election

SLFP Matara Chief Organiser and Deputy Minister Sanath Jayasuriya said today that he will not be contesting the upcoming parliamentary election due to personal reasons.

Never had corruptions during CBK’s term-President

President Maithripala Sirisena speaking at a function to mark the 70th birthday of former president Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga said yesterday that Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga did everything for the country without corruption and fraud.

Three Pro MY3 SLFP ministers to contest from UNP

Lands Minister M.K.D.S. Gunawardena,Ports and Shipping Minister Arjuna Ranatunga and Cultural Affairs Minister Nandimithra Ekanayake are considering contesting the forthcoming general elections from the United National Party, after having discussions with former president Chandrika Kumaratunga about their future political arrangements, according political sources. They have decided not to contest as SLFPers, if Mahinda Rajapaksa contests as a UPFAnominee, as they had supported Maithripala Sirisena at the last presidential election.

UNPයට රිංගන්න ගිය අතරමං නන්දිමිත්‍ර ඒකනායකට මාතලේ එජාප ලැයිස්තුවෙන් දොර වැසේ. තවත් අතරමං වේ.

සංස්කෘතික රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය නන්දිමිත්‍ර ඒකනායක මහතාට මෙවර මහ මැතිවරණයේදී එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ මාතලේ දිස්ත්‍රික්කයෙන් නාම යෝජනා ලබා නොදෙන ලෙස යෝජනාවක් සම්මත කරගෙන තිබෙනවා.එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ මාතලේ දිස්ත්‍රික් බල මණ්ඩල රැස්වීමේදී එම යෝජනාව සම්මත කර ගැනීමට කටයුතු කර ඇති බවයි වාර්තා වුණේ.මාතලේ දිස්ත්‍රික් එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ නායක, මහවැලි සංවර්ධන හා පරිසර නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය වසන්ත අළුවිහාරේ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් එම බලමණ්ඩල රැස්වීම පැවැති බව සඳහන්.මාතලේ ප්‍රාදේශීය සභාවේ හිටපු විපක්ෂ නායක, ගාමිණී කොස්තා මහතා කළ අදාළ යෝජනාව ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති අතර එය ස්ථිර කර ඇත්තේ උකුවෙල ප්‍රාදේශීය සභා මන්ත්‍රී එම්.රාජා මහතා විසින්.අදාළ යෝජනාව ඉදිරියේදී පක්ෂ නායක, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා වෙත භාරදීමට නියමිතයි

කෝකටත් කියා මහින්ද සූදානම්.. වෙනම පක්‍ෂයකිනුත් නාම යෝජනා සැකසේ..Mahinda keeps option B Open

හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා තමන් ඇතළු කණ්ඩායමට එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානයෙන් නාම යෝජනා ලබාදීමේදී යම් ගැටළුකාරී තත්වයක් ඇති වුවහොත් ඉදිරි මැතිවණයට වෙනම පක්ෂයකින් තරඟ වැදීම සඳහා කටයුතු සූදානම් කරමින් ඇතැයි ආරංචි මාර්ග පවසයි.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa is preparing a fallback option of contesting through a third party with his supporters if he faces a complicated situation with UPFA nominations.

ඒ සඳහා වූ නාමයෝජනා ලැයිස්තු සකස් කරමින් පවතින්නේ යයිද එම ආරංචි මාර්ග කියා සිටී.

Sirisena-Chandrika-Ranil Alliance In Offing

By By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy The New Indina Express

COLOMBO: Following the grant of the United Peoples’ Freedom Alliance (UPFA) parliamentary election ticket to former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, his rival and serving President Maithripala Sirisena is set to form an anti-Rajapaksa alliance with UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and former President Chandrika Kumaratunga.

This was evident on Sunday when Sirisena and Wickremesinghe attended Kumaratunga’s 70 th.birthday celebrations and spoke about Kumaratunga’s contribution to Sri Lanka in glowing terms.

While the function was attended by key supporters of Sirisena and Wickremesinghe, supporters of Rajapaksa were conspicuously absent.

Speaking on the occassion, Sirisena praised Kumaratunga for not being corrupt and for promoting ethnic reconciliation when she was Lankan President from 1995 to 2005.He was indirectly contrasting her with Rajapaksa who had become known for being corrupt and being against ethnic reconciliation.

Sirisena also praised Kumaratunga for the respect she enjoyed internationally, the kind of respect Rajapksa did not get from the international community.

Sirisena openly acknowledged that it was due to the recommendation of Kumaratunga that he had become the common opposition candidate backed by the UNP in the January 2015 Presidential election.

Wickremesinghe recalled the long ties his family had had with Kumaratunga’s family and the way the two of them worked to make Sirisena Lankan President and bring about a “revolution” in the country.

Sirisena had made it quite obvious that he gave the UPFA ticket to Rajapaksa against his will when he spoke at a function in Matara recently.

He promised that he would not let down the revolution that he had ushered in in January.He said he was still committed to ridding the country of family rule and corruption by which he meant the “Rajapaksa Raj.”

According to informed sources, the Sirisena-Ranil-Chandrika group will fight the August 17 parliamentary polls as an alliance with the “Swan” as the symbol- their symbol for the Presidential election.

This means that Sirisena will be breaking away from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the UPFA along with other anti-Rajapaksa elements.His continuation in the two outfits had become untenable after the General Secretaries of the two outfits opted to side with Rajapaksa along with the majority of the outfits’  leaders and members.

The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU ),an anti-Rajapaksa party, announced on sunday that it has quit the UPFA.

මෛත‍්‍රීවාදීහු ශ‍්‍රිලනිපය හැරයති.. හංසයාගෙන් මැතිවරණයට..

හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතාට ඉදිරි මැතිවරණයේදී එජනිසයෙන් නාම යෝජනා ලබා දීමට ගෙන ඇති තීරණයට විරෝධය පළ කරමින් ශ්‍රීලනිප මන්ත්‍රීවරු පිරිසක්‌ හංසයා ලකුණින් තරග කිරීමට තීරණය කර ඇතැයි දේශපාලන ආරංචි මාර්ග සඳහන් කරයි.

පසුගිය ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී පොදු අපේක්‍ෂක මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා ජයග්‍රහණය කිරීම සඳහා කැප වී ක්‍රියා කළ මන්ත්‍රීවරු පිරිසක්‌ ද ඇතුළු දේශපාලන නියෝජිතයන් මෙම තීරණය ගෙන ඇතැයි වාර්තා වේ.

ශ්‍රීලනිප පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරු, හිටපු ඇමැතිවරු සහ පළාත් පාලන නියෝජිතයෝ කිහිපදෙනෙක්‌ මෙම තීරණය ගෙන ඇත.

– දිවයින

චන්ද්‍රිකාගේ ශ‍්‍රිලනිප පළුව සන්ධානය හැර යයි.. එජාපයෙන් මැතිවරණයට..?

ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්‍ෂයේ මෛත‍්‍රී හිතවාදී මන්ත‍්‍රීවරුන් පිරිසක් එන මහ මැතිවරණය සඳහා එක්සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂය යටතේ පෙරමුණක් ලෙස තරඟ කිරීමේ සූදානමක් ඇතැයි දේශපාලන ආරංචි මාර්ග වාර්තා කරයි.

මේ අතර ඊයේ පස්වරුවේද මෙම මන්ත‍්‍රී පිරිස හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනි චන්ද්‍රිකා කුමාරතුංග මහත්මියගේ නිවසේදී රැස්වී ඉදිරි දේශපාලන ක‍්‍රියාමාර්ග ගැන සාකච්චා කර තිබේ.

JHU withdraws from UPFA

The Daily Mirror

Jathka Hela Urumaya (JHU) said today that it had decided to withdraw from the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and was to contest the forthcoming General elections from a separate platform pushing for good-governance and democracy.

JHU General Secretary Patali Champika Ranawaka addressing a media briefing said the Central Committee of the party had decided to contest the elections from a new party, which was to be formed.(Piyumi Fonseka) –

See more at: http://www.dailymirror.lk/78399/jhu-withdraws-from-upfa#sthash.W1N3hhvr.dpuf

අප්පච්චී අහස පොලොව ගුගුරුවාගෙන එයි.. හෙළ උරුමය යළි දෙකඩයි.. රතන හිමි ශ‍්‍රිලනිප ජාතික ලයිස්තුවට පනින්න යයි..

එක්සත් යහපාලන ජාතික පෙරමුණ ලෙස අද පස්වරුවේ හදිසි මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී වෙනස් කරන ලද ජාතික හෙළ උරුමය මේ වන වන විට දෙකඩ වීමක් සිදුව ඇති බව වාර්තා වෙයි.

චම්පික රණවක මහතා විසින් හෙළ උරුමය වළ දමා බිහි කරන ලද නව පක්‍ෂයට රතන හිමියන් ඇතුළු කන්ඩායමක් විරුද්ද වීමෙන් මෙම තත්වය පැන නැගී තිබේ. එම පිරිස සාකච්චා කරමින් ඇත්තේ ශ‍්‍රීලනිපයට ඇතුළු වී රතන හිමියන් ජාතික ලයිස්තුවටත්, අනෙක් පිරිස ශ‍්‍රීලනිපයෙන් දිස්ත‍්‍රික් අපේක්‍ෂක ධුරත් ලබා ගැනීමටයි.

ඇමති චම්පික රණවක නියෝජනය කරන මතයේ නිශාන්ත වර්ණසිංහ, අනුරඅදුද ප‍්‍රදීප් ආදීහු සිටින අතර  ඕමල්පේ සෝපිත හිමියන් දෙපාර්ශ්වය සමථයකට පත් කිරීම සඳහා දැඩි උත්සාහයක් දරමින් සිටිති. ඒ සඳහා මේ වන විටත් රාජගිරියේ පිහිටි රතන හිමිගේ සඳහන් බවනේ විශේෂ සාකච්චාවක් පැවැත්වෙමින් තිබේ.

මහින්දට දුන්නේ එජාපය කම්බා හොර නිසා… ඉදිරි සන්ධාන ආණ්ඩුවේ මහින්ද චින්නය නොව මෛත‍්‍රීපාලනයයි..

පැවති සන්ධාන රජයට වඩා එජාපය හොරකම් කරන බව තේරුම් ගත් නිසා හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයාට සන්ධානයෙන් නාම යෝජනා දීමට ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා කටයුතු කලේ යයි ඇමැති එස්.බී. දිසානායක මහතා පවසයි.

කෙසේ වෙතත් ඉදිරියේදී පත්වන සන්ධාන රජයේ ක‍්‍රියාත්මක වන්නේ මහින්ද චින්තනය නොව මෛත‍්‍රීපාලනය යයිද පවසන ඇමතිවරයා ඉදිරියේදී පත්වන ශ්‍රීලනිපය ප්‍රමුඛ නව ආණ්ඩුව යටතේ මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන ජනපතිගේ වැඩපිළිවෙළ ඉදිරියට ගෙන යන බවත් මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතාට අපේක්ෂකත්වය දීමෙන් ශ්‍රීලනිපය දෙකඩ වීම වැලකුණු බවත් සඳහන් කරයි.

අප්පච්චී දෙගොඩ තලාගෙන එයි.. අර්ජුනත් එජාපයට පනී…

 Nawinne crosses over

Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran received tough tuition” from the US State Department during talks last Thursday, the Sunday Times learns.  He was asked to soften his ‘genocide’ rhetoric and instead work with the Central Government in matters relating to reconciliation and the development of the province.

The Chief Minister is on a tour of the United States and Britain. He had, however, obtained permission from President Maithripala Sirisena for the visit and informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as protocol demanded. His office deemed it as a private visit on the invitation of the Federation of Tamil Sangams (organisations) in North America.

In the US, Chief Minister Wigneswaran had met Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Biswal. It is learnt that he had been told to work towards reconciliation, reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Northern Province rather than up his rhetoric on genocide charges. He had been told that it was the best chance for him to work with the Sirisena-Ranil Wickremesinghe Government.

In the US, the Tamil American Peace Initiative (TAPI) had hired a lobbying firm, Podesta Group, to handle the visit. Among other things, it has got an article under the Chief Minister’s name in The Hill — a Congress blog which is a forum for Congressmen and policy professionals. In that article titled Sri Lanka: Seize the opportunity for true reform”, Chief Minister Wigneswaran criticises the Government’s inaction to release the full list of political prisoners and calls upon leaders in the US to urge President Sirisena to undertake meaningful reforms, demilitarization and returning all ‘Tamil lands’…”.

TAPI had also arranged a Sri Lanka Ethnic and Religious Freedom Caucus in the US House of Representatives with Congressman Bill Johnson presiding. Chief Minister Wigneswaran attended this closed door meeting. Mr. Wigneswaran also obtained meetings at the World Bank. No details of the meeting were available. In Colombo, questions were raised over the issue of a Chief Minister holding direct discussions with international lending agencies. Confirming that the Chief Minister’s office had requested a meeting at the Bank while he was in the US capital, the Colombo office of the Bank said, The World Bank would always respond positively for meeting requests of this nature. The Sri Lanka Country Director is currently in Washington and she and the Regional Vice President would be meeting him”.They added that the objective or reasons for the meeting have not been communicated.

However, the Chief Minister’s office said that prior to his departure Northern Provincial Ministers had given him project proposals which he would be taking with him for discussions with the Sri Lankan American Diaspora in the US and seeking their assistance to invest in the Northern Province.

Prior to visiting Washington, the Chief Minister is learnt to have visited key US cities Los Angeles and New York. Addressing a FeTNA (Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America) 2015 event in California, he spoke of the sweet honey like sound of the Tamil language”, and praised the ‘Tamil Diaspora’ in the US for their involvement in the growth of the language and their interest in defending the Tamil speaking people. Unfortunately, he said in Britain the new generation of those of Sri Lankan Tamil origin hardly spoke the language.

He praised the genocide resolution passed by the Northern Provincial Council and said it served as an archive of genocidal acts committed against the Tamil people. He said the ‘canton’ model in Switzerland was successful and provincial self-rule was important in Sri Lanka for the people of the North within a Federal system.

Nirmalan Karthikeyan, a former official of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and National Peace Council member, is accompanying the Chief Minister on his US tour. He holds an Australia passport and functions as ‘Diary Secretary, Executive Assistant and Advisor to the Chief Minister’. During the last round of peace talks between the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE, he was a member of the LTTE team.

Chief Minister Wigneswaran rejected a meeting with the self-anointed ‘Prime Minister’ of the ‘Tamil Eelam Government in Exile’, New York based lawyer R. Rudrakumaran and a delegation from the TGTE. En route to the US, the Chief Minister had stopped over in Britain where, despite his visit being classified as ‘private’, he has been given an official engagement with Hugo Swire, the Minister of State for Commonwealth at the Foreign Office. He entertained him for dinner as well.
A request for a meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron has been politely turned down.

Courtesy Ceylon Today

Former parliamentarian Dullas Alahapperuma has received a death threat today (13) while returning from the District Secretariat after handing over the Matara district nominations for UPFA, Southern Provincial Councilor Kanchana Wijesekara told Ceylon Today Online.

Former Chairman of the Weligama Pradeshiya Sabha Dikkumburage Kulaweera has threatened Dullas saying that he will be dead by tomorrow morning if he does politics in the Matara district.

Mr. Wijesekara further said that this threat was made in front of police and media personnel. He further said that he made a complaint to the Matara police regarding the incident.

Editorial The Nation

Ranil Wickremesinghe is a politician.  Yes, not a statesman.  A politician, let us reiterate.  The next election and not the next generation is what fascinates him.  Like other politicians from other parties of course, leaders included.  Yes, like Mahinda Rajapaksa and Maithripala Sirisena.  Ranil Wickremesinghe is a lawyer.  He is not just a politician but a seasoned one.  So when he says that D.E.W. Gunasekera, then Chairman of COPE, was out of order in releasing a draft of the COPE Report on the Central Bank bond issue, we have to take note.

Wickremesinghe’s argument is that after Parliament was dissolved, COPE ceased to exist and therefore has no legal standing.  Consequently nothing that ‘DEW’ or anyone else in COPE says about any ‘COPE affairs’ is incompetent and irrelevant.  DEW, for his part, has promised to respond.

Wickremesinghe claims that it’s not only DEW who is guilty of the ‘contravention of the Parliament Powers and Privileges Act’ but newspapers and other media that had published sections or the entirety of the ‘draft report’.  His argument, apart from COPE ceasing to exist, is that some COPE members were not present when COPE deliberated because they were busy politicking.

It is strange that Parliament was dissolved before the COPE could conclude its deliberations.  It is strange that Wickremesinghe and the UNP campaigned tirelessly for a dissolution and that this campaign intensified as word got out that the COPE report could constitute damning indictment of key members of the UNP.

All this is of course ‘politics as usual’.  What is disturbing in the Prime Minister’s complaint to the Secretary General of Parliament is his attack on the media.  He has referred to a newspaper by name for contravening, like DEW, the Parliament Powers and Privileges Act.  On earlier occasions too he has seen fit to vilify media institutions and journalists.  This, even as he lambasted political opponents for doing pretty much the same thing.

Wickremesinghe, in the fairytale days of the Maithripala Sirisena election campaign and into several weeks of post-victory euphoria talked about media freedom.  Only one concrete fact has emerged in the five and a half months when Wickremesinghe operated as though he was ruling the country as Sirisena’s proxy: the inability to move a single muscle to get the Right to Information Act passed.

His agitation about the COPE, therefore, should not mask Wickremesinghe’s latent, sorry very real, antipathy towards media freedom.  The Chairman of his party, let us not forget, is reported to have instructed all state media (now UNP-controlled) to toe the party line.  That directive most probably was endorsed by the Party Leader.

What all this shows is Wickremesinghe’s true media policy, stripped of rhetoric readily lapped up by Rajapaksa-haters and rights advocates who make a living talking about rights and freedoms.

The letter to the Secretary General of Parliament regarding the COPE report therefore has to be read as a gag-seek in view of possible negative impact on the UNP campaign.  It’s about power and privilege, yes, but not of the kind he refers to and certainly not of any diminishing of these things.

Mahinda Rajapaksa could have graduated into a statesman, but didn’t.  Wickremesinghe, especially after helping Sirisena defeat Rajapaksa on a ‘yahapaalana-pledge’ was even better positioned to advance.  He has not.

Daya M. from Australia

Mahinda and his supporters should consider the following suggestions in drafting their Election Manifesto:

The following recommendations, if promised to implement in the next term of government, will ensure a resounding victory for UPFA at the coming election:

• As suggested by the veteran Tamil politician Dr. Anandasangaree some months ago, the Tamil ethnic problem, as well as the Muslim problem, can be solved easily by enshrining a bill of rights in the constitution which guarantees equal rights to every citizen of Sri Lanka irrespective of religion, race, caste or gender.
• Promise to bring in anti-discrimination legislation criminalising discrimination based on religion, race, caste or gender. Australian anti-discrimination legislation can be copied and hence, western countries and human rights advocates will become powerless to criticise Sri Lanka. Then the Tamil politicians will have no legs to stand on.
• Promise to appoint an independent and powerful commission to oversee this legislation.
• Promise to get rid of the 13^th amendment and abolish the Provincial Council system, which then becomes superfluous. The demands of Tamils for devolution of power to provinces and the colossal waste of money and corruption due to provincial councils can be eliminated.
• With the money saved from abolishing the provincial councils higher salaries can be promised to public servants, including teachers.
• Promise the voting public that a new constitution amendment will be enacted incorporating the anti-discrimination legislation while abolishing the 13^th amendment.
• Also promise to enact the 20^th amendment which got stalled during the last Parliament.
• Promise to uphold law and order impartially (unlike the UNP), run a clean administration and not repeat the mistakes of the past of not keeping a tight reign on some errant members of the party.

If these recommendations are followed and forcefully communicated to the voters, MR and UPFA will win the election by a thumping majority. I earnestly hope that someone in MR’s camp of UPFA will read this and convey the message to MR and the members of his inner circle.

Stanley Perera reporting from Hingurakgoda.

This is the absolute truth conveyed to the writer by Shaaminda Rathnayake, the chairman of Hingurakgoda Pradeshiya Saba formerly for seven years as the coordinating officer in the infra structure development in the North and East and numerous other organisations to deal with Sinhalese, Muslim and Tamil Communities.  Shaminda is in his middleage and been with Mahinda Rajapakse from his time as the Minister, Opposition leader, Prime Minister and as the President.

Shaminda was the only person who was authorised to sign letters on behalf of Mahinda Rajapakse.  Shaminda is going about in the area on a motor bicycle, very simple and down to earth family man.  The picked up very valuble information to clear the minds of the public against the political propaganda.

Did Tiran Allas carry a truck load of currency notes to the Terrorist leader to stop Tamils in the North and East from voting in the Presidential election?  The answer to that was ABSOLUTELY NOT’.

THERE IS NO TRUTH IN IT.  THIS IS THE REAL STORY.

During the time of those 29 years, the hotels in Colombo supplied information to LTTE.  Three thousand five hundred Sinhalese youth occupied all those hotels and paid their room charges.  They kept saying in public that they are going to North and East to rig the votes in the Presidential election.  The flights to Jaffna were also booked.  Some of them were planning to travel by busses also.  When this information was revealed to Tamil Terrorist Leader and Veloo stopped the Tamils from voting in the Presidential election.  Only one man voted and his finger was chopped of by the Tamil Terrorist leader.

That is the naked truth and there was no money or bribery involved.

The master plan was a success.

The Tamil Terrorist troops were well known to be bare footed LTTE soldiers.  They had not seen in their lifetime the shoes worn by the South.  When Shaminda visited the LTTE those barefooted soldiers were surprised and they had a great liking for the shoes and were anxious to come to the South and enjoy the lifestyle of people in the South.

Lot of them wanted to leave LTTE.  Some of them were ofcourse brain washed and were in vengence with the South.  Those LTTE soldiers never knew to shower under the shower rose.  They took shower in their clothes they were wearing.  Oh my lord when I heard of this my heart fell into my stomach.  I am so sad that those young people never seen shoes in their life time and leading a life of wild animals.

Daya Master, Prabha Master and numerous other Masters were very fiendly with Shaminda.  Same with lot of Tamil people.  They welcomed Shaminda with open arms.  They were waiting for Shaminda’s next visit.

They even told Shaminda not to visit certain other Tamil people as they were racists.  Shaminda says that all the Tamil people are not bad people.  There are good Tamils and there are a small community of bad and very bad Tamils.  Prabha Master and all other masters did not know how to consume alcholol (arrack).  They pour on whole glass of arrack and gulp in one go.  WE southerners call it carter’s dose.

After the second glass they fall asleep.

Now I can remember the incident at Anuradhapura some years ago.  I checked into a Anuradhapura hotel and I said to the room boy to take a drink of my bottle of jin.  The room boy poured a drink into a tall glass up to the brim and said he will take it to the kitchen and drink.  Immediately thereafter the room boy returned to my room and said he likes another drink.  I got damn wild and chased him out of my room.  If I had offered him the second drink my whole bottle of jin would have been over.  So not only Prabha Master and Daya Master our ROOM MASTERS are also the same.

In concluding this letter one thing is for sure WE ARE ONLY HUMAN.

LET US PRACTICE LIVE AND LET LIVE PHILOSOPHY”  THERE ARE VERY GOOD,

GOOD, BAD AND VERY BAD PEOPLE AMONGST US.

Shenali D Waduge

A Sri Lankan attorney has attempted to put together a case study that depicts a very sinister move by the UN to subvert international laws and create precedents that would detrimentally affect other nations as well. Taking the reports of the UN Secretary General’s Panel of Experts, the Human Rights Council as well as the Human Rights Commissioners oral reports and recommendations, Dharshan Weerasekera shows that not only is there an illegality involved in the manner three resolutions led to a call for an international investigation but highlights how resolutions and reports that started out being about the last phase of the war ended up maligning Sri Lanka on a plethora of non-conflict related other matters that should have been dealt through the other UN systems in existence. Dharshan presents a solid case for a Sri Lankan citizen to pursue legal action against the UN, the UN Human Rights Council and the Human Rights Commissioner for the subversion of justice and international laws.

Dharshan Weerasekera’s first book ‘The UN’s Relentless Pursuit of Sri Lanka’ combined 3 essays on the resolutions of 2012,2013 and 2014 that appeared in the Foreign Policy Journal. The present book relooks at the 3 resolutions alongside the Panel of Expert Reports as well as the Sri Lankan Government’s own domestic mechanism the LLRC (Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission) and the National Action Plan.

The author takes the reader through the timeline of events starting out with how a 30 year conflict ended in May 2009. He also points out to the manner that rebel groups are often connected to foreign interests and funded and cites the case of ISIS. It is a known fact that while Tamil militants were initially trained by India in the 1970s the LTTE became a surrogate of the West thereafter as seen by the manner Indian former PM Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in India.

How is it then that immediately following the May 2009 defeat of the LTTE which led to a Germany-led Resolution at the UNHRC against Sri Lanka ultimately ended up with a counter-resolution favourable to Sri Lanka commending the nation for eliminating terrorism and wishing Sri Lanka for the daunting post-war challenges. This resolution confirms that LTTE kept hostages against their will and that the GOSL liberated tens of thousands of citizens kept by the LTTE.

How did commendations and well-wishes by the UNHRC turn into successive resolutions calling for international investigations? Dharshan Weerasekera takes us to 23 May 2009 days after the conflict ended with the arrival of the UN Secretary General whose joint statement continues to be repeated as confirmation of agreement by the GOSL to conduct an international investigation. However citing the joint statement itself

the Secretary General underlined the importance of an accountability process for addressing violations of international humanitarian law & human rights law, the GOSL will take measures to address those grievances”.

These lines do not show the GOSL agreeing to conduct any such domestic investigation.

However, obviously due to relentless pressures brought upon by Western governments, threats of cutting aid and other under hand tactics diplomatically used the GOSL consented to implementing in March 2010 the LLRC. However, in June 2010 the UNSG appoints a 3 member panel to appraise him of the last phase of Sri Lanka’s conflict.

What readers are required to take note of is that the POE appointed by the UNSG was outside the UN General Assembly and UN Security Council and was a panel appointed in his personal capacity of UNSG to appraise him. This then leads any to ask how such a personal appraisal led to become the foundation on which successive resolutions against Sri Lanka and became quoted by the UN Human Rights Commissioner herself in her 3 reports advocating an investigation against Sri Lanka.

Moreover, Dharshan Weerasekera also highlights that the POE was never officially tabled at the UNHRC officially giving Sri Lanka the right to defend itself.

Dharshan Weerasekera also shows that despite the March 2014 resolution advocating an international investigation in terms of vote while 23 members voted to authorize the investigation, 12 voted against and 12 abstained and the 12 abstentions cannot be taken as being favourable and these included India while the Pakistan ambassador reminded the Council that paragraph 10 of the resolution was inconsistent with the principles of the UN Charter and said that the resolution was about ‘politics’ and not human rights and that it was a ‘crass example of hypocrisy and double-standards’.

The book takes us through the argument that while the GOSL appointed the LLRC and from that took recommendations to draw up a National Action Plan, if the Human Rights Council or the High Commissioner knew of allegations that were not included into the LLRC what they should have rightly done was to give evidence of these allegations and officially requested the GOSL to look into them. Without presenting the allegations, giving the evidence for these allegations or from where they emerged the Council or the High Commissioner has no right to chide Sri Lanka and bring about resolutions accusing the GOSL for not looking into these ‘credible allegations’. When looking at the resolutions together, as advised by Dharshan Weerasekera, it reveals how Sri Lanka is being accused of not investigating credible allegations but not being told what these allegations are with evidence.

The author takes us back to the POE’s 5 charges: indiscriminate killing, shelling of hospitals, depriving civilians in the conflict-zone of humanitarian assistance, human rights violations suffered by victims and survivors of the conflict including IDPs and suspect LTTE cadres, human rights violations outside the conflict zone including against media and other critics (the last being totally outside the mandate)

The author highlights how POE in accusing the GOSL of not providing humanitarian assistance to civilians cites only the UN/WFP convoys taking 7435 metric tons  of food and claiming that was insufficient for the civilians but purposely omits the parallel food convoys of ICRC/GOSL that transported 534,227 metric tons of food.

The author also takes us to the Panels sole source for alleging ‘executions’ against GOSL as being the Channel 4 videos which the POE presents alongside the report by Special Rapporteur Philip Alston whose report attaches 3 technical expert report one being from an American forensic analyst Jeff S Spivack who writes that ‘there is no way to confirm solely from the recordings the identity of the potential victims or the shooters. Neither whether the shooters were actually Sri Lankan military members as opposed to Tamils dressed in Sri Lankan military uniforms’. If so, as the author rightly questions why did the POE conclude that footage showed summary executions of prisoners by ‘Sri Lankan soldiers’. As the author rightly concludes these are serious credibility issues against the POE report.

The author next takes the reader to the LLRC which recommends investigation to see individual perpetrators (rank & file soldiers) can be prosecuted and punished and was not about incriminating the acts to a chain of command (Command Responsibility) and LLRC concludes that the ‘Security forces had not deliberately targeted the civilians in the NFZs’ and reconfirms that ‘offences of a few cannot be allowed to tarnish the honor of the many who upheld the finest traditions of service’. LLRC recommendations were to probe the 7 possible incidents of indiscriminate and/or deliberate killings plus the C4 videos only to see if individual perpetrators could be prosecuted. LLRC also recommended to investigate incidents of shelling of hospitals and inadequacy of medical supplies to the conflict zone.

While these were the areas covered by both the LLRC and the POE, nevertheless the High Commissioner and the Councils reports have taken a whole new dimension to what should remain confined to the last phase of the conflict. The High Commissioner cites 2 cases mentioned in the POE – Trincomalee killing of 5 students, Action against Hunger. Col. Ramesh is mentioned under white flag, Issaipriya is mentioned in POE under C4 video.

However, she also brings out cases not mentioned in the POE – the name of Balachandran Prabakaran, How is it that Jeff Spivack the expert consulted by Philip Alston did not cover this?

While the author reiterates that the High Commissioners sole evidence for the allegation on white flag is a newspaper article only!

What the author argues is that the High Commissioner can only demand the GOSL to investigate what is recommended in the LLRC. The Council or the Commissioner cannot with each year add issues to reports and plug it to the POE or initial resolutions and indict the GOSL and charge Sri Lanka for war crimes as is being done. Paragraph 10 that the Pakistan Ambassador refers to says that the High Commissioners recommendations for ongoing violations are the immediate reason for the investigation’ but is there such a situation of ongoing violations to necessitate an international investigation? Moreover as the author rightly points out she did not initially quote ‘ongoing violations’ to require investigation why is she resorting to that argument now? All these show that in the absence of a prima facie case for an international investigation the High Commissioner and the Council are grasping at straws to validate the recommendation for an international investigation.

What readers are compelled to look at as advised by the author is that calls for the involvement of the Human Rights Council and to conduct investigations to ongoing violations of human rights laws are when there are situations that involve killing hundreds of people, causing immense property damage and as examples the author cites – Israel-Palestine /Congo /Darfur / Libya / Syria / Ivory Coast.

The author takes the examples cited by the High Commissioner

• Former combatants & detainees – there is no allegations of wrong doing by the GOSL in its treatment of former combatants and detainees
• Attacks on religious minorities/human rights defenders  and freedom of opinion and expression – High Commissioner states violence by Sinhala Buddhist nationalist groups led by extremist Buddhist monks and cites as source a NGO called Secretariat for Muslims’ which is a ‘lobby’ for Muslims in Sri Lanka which means its reports and statistics are automatically biased. On one statistic, it is unfair for the High Commissioner to reach a conclusion against Sinhala Buddhists
• Attack on human rights defenders – the High Commissioner says that her office continues to receive complaints of widespread harassment and intimidation. The author asks whether these have been submitted to the GOSL by her office or checked as to its credibility?
• Attacks on freedom of speech and expression – author says that 3 attacks are mentioned 2 on the offices of a Tamil newspaper Uthayan and one on the Sunday Leader but no source is cited except for the High Commissioner views. There is also no contention that these attacks were to stifle freedom of expression
• Extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary killings – the 2 incidents mentioned are Weliweriya and the Welikada prison. The sources given for the Weliweriya incident are Human Rights Watch and the Ministry of Defense Communique while the prison incident cites the NGO Centre for Policy Alternatives. The Army had appointed a court of inquiry to investigate the incident and 4 army officers were found guilty and relieved of duty. As for the Welikada incident a committee had been appointed which concluded that ‘the prisoners shot each other’.
• Mass graves – 1^st discovery in Nov 2012 near Matale with 155 skeletal remains / 2^nd discovery in December 2013 in Mannar with 52 skeletal remains. The comments on these are solely the High Commissioners own comments and no sources are cited.

Thus in reading the manner in which the High Commissioner has presented arguments for ongoing violations and the lack of credible evidence it is easy to comprehend a sinister plan to unfairly accuse Sri Lanka and draw up a case for an international investigation without a prima facie case which the author concludes is illegal and a violation of Sri Lanka’s sovereign rights under the UN Charter.

As a response the author had initially advocated that Sri Lanka seek Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice – the UN’s official court. The author advises the UNHRC or the General Assembly to request an Advisory Opinion on the legality of the Sri Lankan investigation which Dharshan Weerasekera says would compel the court to look into the entire process through which the investigation was pushed through successive resolutions by a team of the same countries using diplomatic pressures. Even traditionally friendly nations that have backed Sri Lanka can seek on behalf of Sri Lanka such an Advisory Opinion for the precedent being set using Sri Lanka will affect other nations of the General Assembly and that is what the UN Membership must be concerned about.

The UN’s subversion of international law : the Sri Lanka Story by Attorney Dharshan Weerasekera is a 135 page book that includes all of the 3 Resolutions, the key points of the UN Secretary General’s Panel of Expert Report, the GOSL’s LLRC and National Action Plan, the oral and other reports filed by the High Commissioner and provides readers a refreshing argument in simple and easy to read language of the illegality of the resolutions and the international investigation being recommended and provides a solution as well – the possibility of taking legal action against the UN, the Human Rights Commissioner and the Human Rights Council.

The book has been released and is now available in all leading bookstalls priced Rs.450

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Shenali D Waduge

Metteyya Brahmana

It appears that Ranil and the UNP had a Freudian slip when naming their new political alliance the United National Front for Good Governance, as the English word, front, is commonly defined as to serve as a cover or disguise for another activity, especially something of a disreputable or illegal nature” (Webster).  The Sri Lankan voters have already seen for seven months what Ranil and the UNP believe constitutes ‘good governance’, and it actually is quite the opposite with the largest bond fraud in the history of Sri Lanka committed by their government, and a concerted effort by Ranil and the UNP to cover up this fraud with a so-called ‘independent’ committee of UNP loyalists.

Ranil’s independent committee of UNP loyalists found when they investigated the bond fraud that the Central Bank Governor had no direct involvement in the selection of the bids for the bonds”, whereas the COPE report contained actual interviews of Central Bank staff members who specifically recalled the governor coming into their department, reviewing the bidding list, and then directing them to accept bids at the exact amount of his nephew’s bid.  This is clearly direct involvement by the governor, so Ranil’s UNP committee simply lied to the public to cover up the fraud.  And the obvious agreement between the governor and his nephew to change the interest rate from 9.5% to 12% at the last minute after all the other bids were in so only his nephew would be bidding at 12% will cost Sri Lanka ‘billions’ of extra US dollars over the lifetime of these bonds, money that could have been used for better roads, education, and healthcare.

And if this bond fraud and cover up by Ranil and the UNP is not disgusting enough, Ranil claims if he and his UNP party are elected in August he will appoint a ‘new’ independent committee, without telling us what was wrong with the last independent committee he appointed to investigate the bond fraud.  Who in their right mind would believe Ranil and the UNP when the last ‘independent’ committee deliberately lied to the public concerning the governor’s direct involvement with the placement of the bonds with his nephew’s company?  And what extreme delusion could Ranil possibly be suffering from to think his actions and those of his UNP loyalists are anything close to any notion of ‘good governance’?

But this is what ‘fronting’ means.   You put on your best face and then go pretend for the public, hoping you can fool them and make them believe the exact opposite of what is really going on.

So when you see the ‘front’ for good governance on the ballot, remember what these UNP crooks and their enablers have already done in only seven months in office.  And remember this when voting – a ‘front’ is a cover or disguise for something else that is probably disreputable or illegal, and could therefore not possibly be associated with ‘good governance’.

The nation is in crisis and the people have woken up to the dangers that are staring them in the face. The Nation State of Sri Lanka is being remorselessly dismantled to be replaced by several apartheid States, based on ethnicity.

With the swelling wave of discontent sweeping through the length and breadth of the country disillusioned UNPers are voting across party lines; they are urging others to follow suit and eschew voting for the UNP at this coming General Election; this is vital, they say, because of the brazenly anti Sri Lankan attitude of the present UNP leadership running diabolically counter to the National Security of the country; it is an attitude definitely not shared by the majority of the UNP supporters.

The Janus – faced actions of a perfidious Ranil Wickramasinghe leadership have given rise to events – now beginning to surface – which give the lie to their previous denials that they pledged secretly to India and the US to take action which would perforce lead to the break up of the country, for a mere mess of pottage of coming into power.

  The disenchanted say that to vote UNP or any one associated with them is, to endorse the break up of the Sri Lankan Nation State, to rubber stamp the creation of independent apartheid states within the island, to sacrifice Sri Lankan soldiers to American ‘Ferguson’ style justice by indicting them in ‘hybrid’ war crime tribunals, the creation of which has already been initiated by a controversial FGO (Foreign Government Organisation)  and to give WETOs (Western Extremists of Tamil Origin) dual citizenship, after the planned terrorist jamboree in Sri Lanka at year’s end.

‘Hybrid’ courts are a US manipulation of infiltrating the country’s judicial system whereby Western handpicked foreign judges sit on the bench alongside Sri Lankan judges at Sri Lankan tribunals ‘teaching’ them to interpret International law.

UNP grass rooters are entreating everyone to join the’ Save Sri Lanka’ movement by refraining from voting for anyone associated with the UNP and thereby not having to regret for 200 years the ‘Indian –American’  folly of 2015 like Sri Lankans yet do the ‘British folly’ of 1815.

A Geo-Political Analysis of Sri Lanka 2015 – (Part 1)

by Sarojini Dutt

Indian – American intelligence reported that 08 Jan 15 would provide the Indian – American axis a window of opportunity to dent the influence of China -Sri Lanka’s trusted friend – in the island Nation and in the immediate region.

Having unstintingly assisted Sri Lanka in her war against the US backed terrorists,  China took on the magnanimous role of implementing a ‘Marshal Plan’ in the war ravaged island much to the chagrin of India (the regional power) and the US that has to now share the global stage with China in the newly shaped bi – polar world.

The Indian US axis realised that if they could defeat Rajapakse at the Presidential Election on 08 Jan 15 they, the axis, could dent China’s influence on the island and in the region. With this end in view the Indian – US axis having made it extravagantly attractive for some members of the contrived opposition invested all their resources to defeat Rajapakse by a narrow margin of 224536 voters or 1.83% of those who voted.

Following the annihilation of the US backed terrorists at Nandikadal in May 2009 Sri Lanka’s friendship with China grew exponentially warmer and stronger. Sri Lanka could never forget that it was China that did not hesitate to pull out all stops to unconditionally assist Sri Lanka in her hour of need in eradicating the curse of terrorism.

When the Western countries slapped an unwarranted arms embargo on SL to stop SL’s military offensive against the terrorists, it was China and a few other genuinely friendly countries that flew in the face of the embargo caring a rap about the global bully.

The Western countries frustrated by their lack of success in forcing Sri Lanka to grovel at the feet of the terrorists then attempted, with the same objective in mind, to have military and economic sanctions imposed on the island nation through the UN Security Council; it was once again Sri Lanka’s friend and ally, China, that stood tall and unbending, using its Veto power at the Security Council.

Blocked at all turns to contrive a lasting victory for the terrorists the US then attempted in desperation in Feb 2009 at the height of the anti terrorist offensive to scrunch Sri Lanka by depriving her of a lifesaving USD 1.9 Billion loan from the IMF.

With China standing solidly behind Sri Lanka that attempt too failed; the toxic currency of the US, soiled by a US sovereign debt of 19 trillion dollars eased by printing $4.5 trillion dollar notes, was no match to the solid Chinese Yuan.

This was just before that second generation Polish migrant – boy to Britain, David Miliband, made a clumsy attempt to browbeat Sri Lanka to stop the military offensive against the terrorists and was told to take a running jump to the Indian Ocean.

Unquestionably, China played a major role in counterpoising US attempts to manipulate the terrorists into a position of strength and recognition Vis – a – Vis Sri Lanka and globally.

With the decimation of the terrorists and their leaders at the battle of Nandikadal the US lost its ‘proxy’ capability to wage war against Sri Lanka, a military capability they had possessed for nearly 30 years.

Incapable of carrying on a military offensive in the fashion it had done for three decades the US did a la Clausewitz change when it switched from a military battle arena offensive to the ‘diplomatic’ battle arena offensive, their objective remaining unchanged.

The diplomatic war took the shape of an information war targeting primarily the minds of the Sri Lankans. The US objective in the mind war was Winning the peace after losing the war”.

In the battle for the Sri Lankan mind, Sri Lanka’s enemy for 30 years, the US, sold its objective to the Sri Lankan mind by ‘advising’ Sri Lankans on ‘How to win the peace after winning the war’. The Sri Lankans swallowed the bait of their enemy hook line and sinker and the result was 08 Jan 15.

This was one area where the Sri Lankan government was underprepared; the government failed to realise that although they had vanquished the enemy militarily the enemy had adroitly changed the format of the war from force of arms to diplomacy; as Clausewitz would say, war by other means.

The US spared no money to bankroll the changed war whereas Sri Lanka was slow to grasp, respond and reallocate funds for the information war.

In Sri Lanka’s failure to grasp that subtle change in the war situation that had taken place after its glorious military victory at Nandikadal lay the primary answer to the narrow defeat the Rajapakse government suffered in Jan 2015; the government was underprepared and ill equipped to fight the war continued by the US in a new theatre of operations.

The US had a field day and their big guns in the mind war were the FGOs.

By Sudat Pasqual Courtesy  The Nation

Bloody election news; again
Upon hearing that Mahinda Rajapaksa will be contesting under the UPFA symbol, both President Sirisena and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe were rushed to the emergency ward of the National Hospital complaining of nausea, dizziness, and vomiting. Later both were seen screaming and throwing inanimate objects at a smart TV while daintily holding on to pink handkerchiefs between their right thumb and forefinger.

In a development directly linked to the threatening announcement of the dictator’s imminent return, State Pharmaceutical Corporation says that there has been a run on Colombo’s adult diaper market. The UNP General Secretary called us and ordered all available adult diapers to be delivered to Sirikotha and distributed among UNP candidates,” a thoroughly-perplexed Pharmaceutical chap stated.

Giving the official UNP reply to the former dictator’s statement that he will be contesting the upcoming general election, an offspring of Gamini Dissanayake said that the UNP, unlike the SLFP will make the dictator the prime minister in the unlikely likelihood of UNP winning the election. As for me, whoever promises me the next two TV rights deals will get my vote,” the offspring whimpered unconvincingly.

JVP Red-Green Blues
The Janatha Vedabari  Peramuna (JVP) says that they too will be doing it alone on August 17 like their new-found UNP green friends. We have received our yearly allotment of funds from North Korea and that will cover most of the campaign-related expenses. The UNP has also given our 7percent from the bond scam. So, the politburo is well positioned to visit comrade Fidel immediately after we get humiliated at the election,” the Vedabari ones said.

Greened white vans
The United National Party (UNP) has called for tenders from vehicle dealers for 50 white vans. The party will use these vans exclusively for election duty and once they had completed their designated task of terrorising the people into voting for the UNP, they will be used to abduct and transport UNP-unfriendly journalists.

Astrologers!
The former dictator of Mulana is desperately seeking an astrologer who is willing to predict even with a 25percent certainty that the dictator will not end up with eggs on his face during and after the August 17 parliamentary elections. Wambatu Dinesh and Halitosis Vasu, two of the most misleading figures hovering around the dictator, were told by a group of stargazers that there will a shortage of eggs in the country between now and August 17 because people were starting to stock up on eggs to throw at the dictator and his circus of clowns.

COPE to pay
Chairman of COPE, Dewy the Decimal Man said Deputy Minister Thambaya Sherlock Senasinghe will be paid in copper for sleeping through most of the COPE hearings and Rosy the Nosy will be paid in Manipuri saris for pretending to understand the proceedings. Decimal Man said that Deputy Eran has refused to accept any compensation stating that he felt spiritually violated after listening to so many bald-faced lies. Decimal Man further explained that Deputy Eran’s brother had to get one of his Catholic padre friends to exorcise the demon Bond from Deputy’s soul. It was apparently frightening but he is apparently fully cleansed, starched and ready to rock and roll now,” Dewy the Decimal explained.

Bond Scam 007
Prime Impostor Wickremesinghe says that he will suspend the license of Perpetual Treasuries if the born bad company fails to cough up the Rs.500 million as agreed to finance the UNP election campaign. That was our deal. We are bonded for perpetuity,” the Impostor insisted.

Freedom from Media
In a swift and decisive Goebbelsian manoeuvre, the Chairman/Dictator of the United National Party has ordered the rag sheets funded by the taxpayer to propagate and spread confirmed lies and disinformation, with a campaign of not publishing any non-UNP related news (if the said news propagated the truth and factual events).  Chairman of the rag sheets Kavan the Rat will conduct a workshop to teach his lying acolytes the finer points of lying for profit. Immediately afterwards, the Rat will travel to North Korea to share the same information with that country’s liars.

JC Weliamude, head of UNP-affiliated Hypocrisy National hailed Chairman Rat’s proactive move towards authoritarianism as a giant slippery slope for the people of Sri Lanka. Weliamude’s sentiments were endorsed by the Media Free Lanka (formerly known as the Free Media Movement), Campaign for CIA funded-Free and Fair Elections (earlier known as Campaign for Free and Fair elections), US Ambassador and the Center for America Centered Alternatives (formerly Center for Policy Alternatives).

In related subjugated media news, Five Million Rupee Man Victor Ivan has been appointed as a non-working (but obviously paid) director of Hypocrisy National.

The Chaura Kingdom of Ravaya has anointed Victor Ivan as their Emperor. He will be known as Aiyo! Ivan the Hypocrite” and will succeed his kissing cousin Chaura Savannah the Vast” who had reached the numerical age of 70 while retaining the mental maturity of a horny toad.

SLC cricket
The Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has released the names of individuals who have been appointed to various functional and non-functional committees of the disorganization. The  SLC said that they are fully committed to continuing their destructive march to financial ruin and the committee structure will closely resemble the country’s Cabinet of ministers where only the Tried, Tested and Trusted Thieves (TTTT) will be entrusted to handle areas that waste most money and the honest and hardworking professionals will be delegated to non-functional committees/ministries.

Obviously, that’s how former ministers looted the SLC and the current minister sees no reason to deviate from such an efficient method of stealing. We are also very keen to follow the tainted footsteps of our newly-suspended American brethren the United States Cricket Association (USCA). The Minister is confident that the SLC is more than capable of bettering USCA’s record of financial mismanagement,” a person wearing a tie and a toupee and eating a Chinese roll from the nearby Perera & Sons outlet said.

News from Exchange
The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) has conducted a live drill involving Rhesus monkeys to highlight their commitment to catastrophic human activity prevention. In a statement, the CSE said that Rhesus monkeys, unlike their humanoid cousins, realize the importance of systemic safety and credibility. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) of CSE said that they are confident that the system will be able to withstand even class 7 disasters like the current Governor of the Central Bank and the Minister of Finance who have been confirmed as carriers of Rhesus negative factors. The Officer said that the next phase of the training and preparation will involve terrifying the monkeys by showing videos of the Central Bank Governor and the Minister of Finance conducting activities individually as well as jointly. We did show them photos of the two and the monkeys immediately got agitated and started chirping hysterically and some started throwing objects at the offending photos and a few urinated on the photos. We are very happy because that confirms our belief that Rhesus monkeys have a highly developed sense to identify perfidious activity”, said the CIO.

In related Stacked Exchange news, Governor Rhesus Negative Bondi says that he is expecting a huge boost to the country’s black economy with the inevitable flooding of black money to fund various campaigns during the upcoming-parliamentary election. RH Negative Bondi said that he along with his son in law will pump in Rs.500 million from their ill-gotten gains to the UNP campaign and his uncle and convicted felon Raj Raj will funnel a further 500 million to the UNP campaign through the Ministry of Finance and the Union Bank. When asked to confirm his buddy Negative Bondi’s assertion, RH Negative Ravi said Yo, bro; got that right. We’ve got to counter the Seychelles funding factor of the MR campaign my man!”

Accused felons
If we take away rapists, murderers and drug dealers from the equation, we will be left with a bunch of eminently qualified candidates who might be free thinkers. Where will we be then? The  CaFFE (Campaign for Free and Fair Elections) should consider the other side of this issue before making such irresponsible demands. All ACCUSED BUT NOT CONVICTED felons will always be welcome in my UNP,” said Prime Minister Wickremesinghe

MR told
The last dictator of Sri Lanka, Mahinda of Mulana was rushed to the nearest Vedamahattaya after he was informed that drug dealers would not be able to contest on his ticket at the August parliamentary election. How…what….when…..I’ve never won anything without them!” he was heard whimpering.

At least WE are safe”,  Halitosis Vasu and Pathola Dinesh when informed of the drug dealer decision.Sudat Pasqual is the Incompetent Authority on Irrelevant Implausible News, Kekirilanthaya

 ධර්මසිරි  සෙනෙවිරත්න

 මහාචාර්ය නලින්ද සිල්වා  ප්‍රාඥයා නෙනි  මා මේ අමතන්නේ ඔබටය් . මහින්ද මයිත්රේ සමග එකතුවී සටනට  ඒම  මහින්ද සියතින් වලකපා ගනීමකය්  සිතීම  සහ  එය ජාතික වාදීන් සහමුලින් විනාශ කිරීමට  පසුව හේතුවිය හැකියය්  ඔබ  වෙත ඇති සැකයත්  මයිත්‍රී   දේශද්‍රෝහී රනිල් අගමැති කර  කල  ද්‍රෝහිකම්වැනි දේ    මතු මත්තෙත් කල හැකියය් ඔබතුල මතු වී ඇති සැකය සාධාරණය . කෙසේ වුවත්  එවැනි දෙයක් වෙන විට ඔබ වැනි වාදීභ සිංහයන් මහින්ද අසල සිටිය යුතුය . විමල් වීරවංශ ලා ගේ  කතා  බොහෝ විට ගැලරියටත් සමගය  ඒවාත් නරකම නොවේ එකපැත්තකින් ඔහු සිටිය යුතුය . සතපහක වත් වංචාවක් නැතිව කෑල්ලෙන් කෑල්ල ගියත්  කියන දේ අභීතව කියන බුදුදහම සිංහල සංස්කෘතිය  හා රටේ ඉතිහාසය ගැනත්  මැනවින් හදාරා ඇති ඔබ   , නවීන බටහිර  විද්‍යාකා මලෝකයේ වල්මත්වී හසරක් නොදැන  සසර කතරේ අතරමන් වී සිටින අසරනයින්ටද සරනවියහැකි  තරම් ඒ නවීන බටහිර විද්‍යා අංශයෙන්ද  අ ති දක්ෂයෙකි  මේ නිසා  ඔබ මේ ආවස්තාවේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සිටිය යුතුමය  දිනේෂ් වනියවුන්ටද  ඔබ ගේ සහ ය අවශ්ශ්‍යය  මහින්ද කියන්නේ විශ්වාසකරන්නේ  මයිත්ට්‍රී ගිරයට අහුවු පුවක් ගෙඩියක් මෙන් නිසා ඔහුවත් බේරා ගෙන ඉදිරියට යායුත්ය් කියා ය. තනිව සටනාට ආවොත් පරදී ජීවිතයත් නැතිවෙයය් ඔහු බියවී ඇතුවා විය හැක එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංගමය එහි නොයෙක්  අංශ යොදා මේ දිනවල  රට බෙදීමට ත් දෙමලු නැවත පදිංචි කර උන්  නැවත සංවර්ධනය කර  සිංහලයන්ට ඉහලින් ඔසවා තබා  අතීතයේදීඉංග්‍රීසි න්   කලාක් මෙන්  කටයුතු කිරීමට  අන් කරන කටයුතු  හි බිහිසුණු වුවත් මහින්දගේ වේදිකාවල  ඒවා මිනිසුන්ටා කාවද්දන්නේ නැත   ඒ වේදිකාවල බොහෝවිට ඇත්තේ  බොරු පුරසාරම් හා නොන්ඩි අභියෝගයන්ය  සියලු සිංහල බෞද්ධයන්ට මේවා තේරුම් කර දිය හැක්කේ  ඔබවැනි අයෙකුටය .මේ සියලු බටහිර හා ඉන්දීය කුමන්ත්‍රණ  සිංහල ථෙරවාදී බුදු දහමටහා සංස්කෘතියට විරුද්ධව යය්  දන්නා ඔබ ට පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී වරයෙ.  කු  වශයෙන් මේ මතය රටපුරා  සිංහලයන්  අතරට   ගෙනයාමට අවස්ථාවා ලැ බේ. ඒ පමණක් නොව  ජනාධි පති මයිත්ත්රීටද  යම් අවාස්තාවක මේවා තේ රුම් කරදිය හැක  මහින්ද දිනු පසු මායිහ්ත්රී  අහසින් බිමට බස පොළොවේ පය ගැසූ පසු  මේවාටද ඇහුම්  කන් දෙනු ඇත . එපමණක් ද නොව තවමත් හරියට සිංහල බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතියේ   නොපිහිටා  ඉන්දියානු මිසදිටු දෙවියන් හා ඔවුන්ගේසන්ස්කෘතිය  ට ලැදියාවක්   දක්වන මහින්දටද ඔබවැනි අයගේ කල්‍යාන මිත්‍ර ඇසුර අවශ්ශ්‍යය .
කුමරතුන්ග ගේ නම  ජාතික ලැයිස්තුවට වැටුනේ ඔබ එය ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කළනිසා විය හැක  ඒ මම දන්නා කුමාරතුංග නම්   ඔහු ඕනෑම විටක  අස්වී ඔ බ ට තැනක් දෙනු ඈත . නලින් වියතාණෙනි ඔබ තාන්න මාන්න වලට කාදර අයෙක් නොවන බව අපි දනිමු  වසර 10 ක් රැකියාව අහිමිවී සිටියත් ප්‍රතිපත්ති ගරුකව දේශපාලකයන් පසුපස නො ගොස් සටන්කල ඔබ  නොසැ ලේ   න අයෙකි අද අපට අවශ්‍ය එවැනි අයය්  අපටද වඩා මහින්දට  මේ අවස්ථාවේ එවැනි ය අවශ්ශ්‍යය්

 බොහෝ දෙනෙකු ගේ අදහස ඔබ පාර්ලිමෙන්හුවේ සිටිය යුතු බවය්  මේ එය ගේ කාරුණික ආයාචනයය්  

By L. H. Mettananda Date: Circa 1954

The forces that are working today against the continuation of the Swabahsa medium beyond 8th standard are certainly not a mushroom growth. It is possible to trace their origins to the very beginnings of British rule in Ceylon. Just as the Kenya Government while engaged in the campaign to oust the Kenya Africans from the more fertile and more salubrious part of the country has found it necessary also to wipe out the tradition, language and culture of the Kenya Africans which bound them to their ancestral lands and has begun to work through the Christian missions and churches”, even so the British Government in Ceylon entrusted the education of Ceylon children to the Christian church through the ecclesiastical Department which existed from the beginning of British rule until the year 1871 and thereafter continued to shower favours on the Christian Schools in a more subtle and surreptitious manner. This change of strategy was resorted to owing to the fact Buddhist and Hindu Schools began to put in their appearance for the first time under colonial rule.

These two school organisations (a) Christian (b) Buddhist-Hindu from the stand point of their objectives are diametrically opposed to each other. Organisation (a) created a civil army and garrison every where which was more important even than the military army of occupation” – stooges of the British Government, who were loyal and became more loyal by becoming converts to Christianity. (Hansard). Organisation (b) was definitely a national organisation and it was especially concerned with the conserving of the national language and national culture, an activity that had to be carried out under the surveillance of the British raj.

How sharply these two educational bodies were once divided over the question of pursuing the study of national languages, not as a medium but as a subject of the secondary school curriculum can be seen from the illuminating evidence given by witnesses who appeared before the Education Committee of 1911 to 1912 that had been appointed to scrutinize the famous Bridges Report.

Heads of Protestant and Catholic Schools, Burghers and Europeans spoke against the study of national languages. Whereas the Heads of Buddhist and Hindu Schools as well as the prominent patriots of the day spoke in support.

CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS

St. Joseph’s College: Rev. Fr L E Bouvier, O M I , Manager of Christian Schools, Colombo:- I think that the study of the vernaculars ought not to be introduced at all into English Schools.” The very Rev. Fr C H Lytton:- (The vernaculars) will not be introduced into St. Josephs’ College.”

St. Thomas’ College: Rev. W.A. Stone, Warden:- (Vernacular Languages) have little educational value in secondary Schools.”

St. Benedicts College: Rev. Bro. Camillus, Director:- I do not consider the Vernacular Languages to be of any value in the education of the classes which attend English Schools.”

Prince of Wales’ College: Mr J G C Mendis, Principal:- In English Schools the value of the vernacular languages is practically nil, except for the illustration of diferences in idiom or the elucidation of English words and phrases.”

Holy Family Convent, Bambalapitiya: The Principal:- The introduction of the vernacular languages into the English Schools can but prevent the pupils from acquiring a proper knowledge of English. The pupils will be unable to speak English correctly, and at the same time there will be an impossibility of organising the teaching of the vernaculars.”

St. Aloysius’ College, Galle: The very Rev. Fr. The Neut S.J.Superior: The vernaculars are not educational.”

St. Anthony’s College, Kandy: The very Rev. Fr D B Beekmeyar, O S B, Manager of Catholic Schools, Kandy:- I do not think the vernacular languages should at all be introduced into English Schools, whether elementary or secondary.”

Mr. C S Schveider President, L C P A:- The mature child in whose home English is not spoken makes most rapid progress in speaking and writing English correctly and with a correct accent when placed in a boarding school, where the children are compelled to converse in English and forbidden to converse in their own vernacular.”

Mr Francis Beven:- I am strongly opposed to the vernaculars being substituted, either optionally or compulsorily, for the classical and modern languages of Europe in the higher parts of the curriculum of secondary schools. Their proper place is outside these schools.”

Mr G C Bliss :- Chairman of the Planters’ Association of Ceylon: As long as young Englishmen of good birth and with public school and University training are ready, as now, to come out to Ceylon and start Government or Mercantile and estate life and the salaries they now do, it must appear a very remote contingency that alteration in the education in schools would lead to Ceylonese being preferred.”

Mr. Arthur Alwis:- The teaching of their (Vernacular) languages in the secondary schools is of no educational value.”

BUDDHISTS & HINDU SCHOOLS

Ananda College : Mr D B Jayatilaka:- An adequate knowledge of these (vernacular) languages is an absolute necessity to get along successfully in the professions — the legal, the medical and the clerical.”

Dharmaraja College,Kandy: Mr. K.F.Billimoria, Principal:- Vernacular languages are really important for the majority of Ceylonese.”

Mahinda College Galle: Mr. F.L. Wooward, Principal:- My experience of boys who come to me from schools where the vernacular is not taught is that they lack something. They are not real, and seem to belong to neither one people nor the other.”

Hindu College, Jaffna: Mr. G.Shiva Rao, Principal:- A study of the vernacular will better enable the educated classes to reach the masses and to interpret the West to the East.”

Category (a) under the aegis of the colonial regime, walked towards the denationalisation of the anglicisation of their pupils and regarded the national languages as subversive of this two fold object.

Category (b) in spite of official frowns aimed at bridge-building between the children and their pupils culture. In the new set up, the two fold object of category (a) is dangerous and must be immediately given up. On the contrary, what the country needs today is more and more bridgebuildings between education and the people. Therefore the objective of category (b) is entitled to the highest regard of the entire nation.

Nevertheless, vested interests die hard. Yesterday, the die-hards of the Christian minority opposed the study of Vernacular” languages in English schools; today they are opposing the change over to Vernacular” languages media beyond the 8th standard. This is the way the Christian minority who now form about 9% of the population are determined to control the education of the entire nation. Kenya Government may allow that kind of thing to wipe out the language and culture of Kenya Africans in its attempt to expel them from the better parts of their country. But in free Ceylon giving the control of education to a microscopic minority cuts at the very root of democracy.

Of course, the opposition of this minority to the switch over to national language media beyond 8th standard is organised through self-appointed bodies like the Ceylon Head Masters’ Conference, The Ceylon Head Mistresses’ Association and the Ceylon Educational Association. All these self-appointed hodies have high-sounding names. But the Ceylon Head Masters’ Conference represents only 25 schools of which more than twothirds are Christian Schools; the Ceylon Head Mistresses’ Association too represents a similar number of girls’ schools and is predominantly Christian; and lastly, the Ceylon Educational Association, a survival of colonial days; representing Christian interests almost exclusively, dead some time ago, but now mysteriously brought back to life – obviously to fight the last battle for exclusive privileges for education in Ceylon. All these three associations appear to follow as their model an exclusive body like the Colombo Club” bearing a name that is democratic, but in reality an impregnable castestronghold a little England, in which dogs and natives are not allowed.”

http://www.dailymirror.lk/78445/election-financing-from-abroad-may-boost-sri-lanka-rupee-cb-governor – Election financing from abroad

EU is sending another 2.1million Euros for elections… why are foreign powers pumping so much money into this election?

Ranil says full devolution to the North

T Maheswaran says life with LTTE was better and now she says all police in North to close

Wiggy has gone to US State Dept for some tuition..

UN is asked to prepare war crimes to get nationalists out of the way…

Where is all these leading to?

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge and Professor Amy B. Wachholtz

 Abstract: This paper discusses clinical application of mediation in chronic pain. Chronic pain is an unpleasant feeling and it disrupts physical and emotional wellbeing. Chronic pain often triggers depression anxiety and addictions. Treating chronic pain could be challenging. Some therapists have proposed mediation as an alternative pain management modality. Mediation is a researched proven effective method to attenuate pain. Mediation uplifts psychosocial wellbeing. In addition mediation helps to decrease the pain-related drug utilization.

 Key Words: Chronic Pain, Meditation, Mindfulness, Vipassana Meditation

 The term Meditation” refers to a family of practices that train attention in order to heighten awareness and bring mental processes under greater voluntary control. The ultimate aims of these practices are the development of deep insight into the nature of mental processes, consciousnesses, identity, and reality, and the development of optimal states of psychological well-being and consciousness (Walsh, 1983). Meditation has been extensively practiced in many civilizations for thousands of years as a means of cultivating a state of well-being and for religious purposes (Braboszcz et al., 2010). Western theories of meditation include Jungian, Benson’s relaxation response, and transpersonal psychology (Bonadonna, 2003).

Practicing meditation was formerly thought to induce passive relaxation states primarily by producing changes in the autonomic nervous system. However, recent findings from electroencephalogram (EEG) and neuroimaging studies suggest that meditation is associated with active states of consciousness that involve cognitive restructuring, learning, and changes in the structure of the brain itself (Horowitz, 2010).Mediation has become an essential component in complementary and alternative medicine.

Recent researches suggest that meditation, which is a purely mental activity, may also induce brain plasticity (Lutz, Greischar, Rawlings, Ricard, & Davidson, 2004). Davidson and team (2003) suggest that meditation may change brain and immune function in positive ways. Meditation uplifts physical and mental health. In addition mediation helps to attenuate pain.

Meditation has been studied in populations with chronic pain. Meditation helps alter the behavioural response in chronic pain situations (Patil, 2009) as well as altering physiological autonomic responses to pain (Wachholtz & Pargament, 2005, 2008). Meditation can also decrease the use of analgesic medications during pain experiences (Wachholtz, Malone, & Pargament, 2015)Several studies have demonstrated beneficial effects of mindfulness-based interventions for both chronic and acute pain (Salomons & Kucyi, 2011). According to Kabat-Zinn  and team  (1985) some types of meditations especially  mindfulness training has shown benefit for the treatment of pain. Adding up Morone et al (2008) shown that Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program significantly improved pain symptoms and overall quality of life.

The Impact of Pain on Psychological Well-being

Pain is a sensory and emotional experience (Rajagopal, 2006).   The International Association for Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage or both. Pain is a subjective experience, and no objective tests exist to measure it (American Pain Society, 2009). Pain is a complex phenomenon that combines information from the nervous system with thoughts, emotions and social context (Henry , 2008).

Fishman (2000) provides a more patient focused definition of pain: `It is whatever the patient states it is unless proven otherwise by poor adherence to the agreed upon medical regimen. Pain is considered a major clinical, social, and economic problem in communities around the world (Henschke et al., 2015). Psychosocial and behavioural factors play a significant role in the experience, maintenance, and exacerbation of pain (Turk et al., 2008). Pain causes much suffering and disability and is frequently mistreated or undertreated (Ashburn & Staats, 1999).

Pain can be acute or chronic. Acute pain is defined as ‘pain of recent onset and probable limited duration. It usually has an identifiable temporal and causal relationship to injury or disease (Ready & Edwards, 1992). Acute pain is a universal experience and is biologically protective (Hainline, 2005). The transition from acute to chronic pain appears to occur in discrete pathophysiological and histopathological steps (Voscopoulos & Lema, 2010).

Chronic pain is defined as pain which persists a month beyond the usual course of an acute disease or a reasonable time for an injury to heal, or is associated with a chronic pathological process which causes continuous pain, or pain which recurs at intervals for months or years (Bonica ,1990). Chronic pain is a major public health issue that affects the quality of life and productivity (Burgoyne,  2007). According to Abu-Saad Huijer (2010) chronic pain is considered the most underestimated health care problem impacting quality of life.

Many chronic pain patients become preoccupied with their pain and gradually lose interest in social activities, or they may use their pain to avoid anxiety-producing situations (Ruoff & Beery ,1985).  Alba-Delgado and team (2013) hypothesized that chronic pain leads to concomitant noradrenergic impairment and mood disorders. Depression can influence pain and vice versa (Bravo et al., 2014). Morasco et al (2013) state that people with chronic pain and comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) report more severe pain and poorer quality of life than those with chronic pain alone.

Chronic pain and substance abuse go hand in hand (Wachholtz, Gonzalez, Boyer, Rosenbaum, & Ziedonis, 2011). Opioid abuse creates hyperalgesia which can also trigger opioid cravings leading to a dangerous cycle (Wachholtz, Foster, & Cheatle, 2015; Wachholtz & Gonzalez, 2014; Wachholtz, Ziedonis, & Gonzalez, 2011) Chronic pain and substance abuse are independently recognized as complex problems growing in both scope and severity. Each has its own unique difficulties that contribute to poor outcomes and partial response to treatment.   (Clark & Treisman, 2011). Moreover chronic pain imposes a heavy burden on patients and caregivers, on the health care system and on the economy (Henry,2008).

Neuroscience of Pain and Meditation

Pain is undertreated in all parts of the world (Heit, 2001). Pain is increasingly recognized, managed and treated as a disease (Siddall & Cousins, 2004). Pain is a subjective experience, and its severity can be influenced by many factors including previous experience of pain, cultural background, coping mechanisms, fear, anxiety and depression. The patient’s perception of pain therefore, is different from nociception (Mowat & Johnson, 2013).  The process of pain management starts with adequate assessment of the pain to differentiate the multiple components that comprise the pain experience- psychological, biological, social, and spiritual (Wachholtz & Makowski, 2012). Once the pain components are adequately assessed, then a multi-disciplinary pain management strategy can be developed to address pain. Generally pain management includes some form of pharmacologic methods and ideal pain management strategies also include psychological, behavioral, or complementary/alternative medicine treatments. No single therapeutic approach manages all types of pain for all types of patients under all clinical circumstances (Cole, 2002).

Often the pain management is done through medications. Medications used for the relief of pain, especially opioids, have the potential to exacerbate or reactivate preexisting addictive disorders. . In some cases, their use can be associated with the development of de novo addictive disease (Ziegler, 2005). Therefore alternative pain management modality such as mediation would help to decrease the pain-related drug utilization.

The cognitive modulation of pain is influenced by a number of factors ranging from attention, beliefs, conditioning, expectations, mood, and the regulation of emotional responses to noxious sensory events (Zeidan et al., 2012). Meditation interventions have been found to attenuate pain symptoms in both experimental and clinical settings (Teixeira  2008 ; Zeidan et al., 2010).

The primary somatosensory cortex is the area of the brain directly involved in pain processing. Zeidan and colleagues (2011) believe that meditation-induced reductions in pain intensity are associated with increased activity in the anterior cingulate cortex and anterior insula, areas involved in the cognitive regulation of nociceptive processing. In addition they considered reductions in pain unpleasantness also were associated with thalamic deactivation, which may reflect a limbic gating mechanism involved in modifying interactions between afferent input and executive-order brain areas.

Nakata  and team (2014 ) hypothesized that meditation reduces pain-related neural activity in the ACC, insula, secondary somatosensory cortex, and thalamus. According to Grant and colleagues (2010) state that extensive mental training can result in thickening of cortical regions associated with pain processing, including midcingulate cortex (MCC) and primary and secondary somatosensory cortices.

Mindfulness Meditation

Mindfulness can be considered as a universal human ability embodied to foster clear thinking and open-heartedness (Trousselard et al., 2014). Mindfulness has been described as a non-elaborative, nonjudgmental awareness” of present moment experience (Kabat-Zinn, 1990).

Mindfulness mediation seems to improve moment-to-moment awareness, acceptance and non-reactivity to thoughts, sensations, and emotions (Bishop et al., 2004). Mindfulness has been theoretically and empirically associated with psychological well-being (Keng, 2011).  

Mindfulness, the most scientifically investigated form of meditation, has been the subject of a huge growth of interest in clinical and scientific circles in recent years (Hassed, 2008). Barker (2014) views mindfulness as a popular and paradigmatic alternative healing practice within the context of contemporary medicalization trends.

As elucidated by Grossman and team (2004) mindfulness meditation has been found to improve a wide spectrum of cognitive and health outcomes. They further state that mindfulness related health benefits are associated with enhancements in cognitive control, emotion regulation, positive mood, and acceptance, each of which have been associated with pain modulation. Mindfulness meditation is the observation of bodily sensations, including pain (Sun, Kuo & Chiu 2002). Mindfulness mediation was introduced as a clinical intervention for conditions such as chronic pain and anxiety (Kabat-Zinn et al., 1992).

Mindfulness meditation has been shown to decrease the anticipation of and reactivity to pain by cultivating a sense of acceptance and nonjudgmental awareness (Brown & Jones, 2010).  A standardized mindfulness program (MBSR) contributes positively to pain management and can exert clinically relevant effects on several important dimensions in patients with long-lasting chronic pain (la Cour & Petersen, 2014).

Vipassana Meditation

The concept of mindfulness is based on Vipassana, a Buddhist meditation technique (Delgado-Pastor et al., 2013). Vipassana (‘Insight’) meditation includes paying close attention to the inner experiences (conceptual, emotional, tactile, and visceral) associated with the current state of the body, primarily in order to better develop a non-discursive awareness centered in the present moment (Goenka, 2000). Vipassanā can be cultivated by the practice that includes contemplation, introspection and observation of bodily sensations, analytic meditation and observations on life experiences like death and decomposition (Pandita , 2004).

Vipassana meditative practice involves the adoption of a mindful and receptive mental awareness, with attentional absorption on present-moment sensations in the body and meta-cognitive reframing of ongoing experience as impersonal phenomena to be observed but not reacted to Gunaratana ,2002 ; Cahn et al., 2010).

 Delgado-Pastor and colleagues (2013) report that Vipassana meditators showed increased attentional engagement after meditation and increased autonomic regulation during meditation. Pain diminution in Vipassana mediation could be could be due to autonomic regulation. Moreover Cahn and Polich (2009) suggest that   that meditation state can decrease the amplitude of neurophysiologic processes that subserve attentional engagement elicited by unexpected and distracting stimuli and therefore consistent with the aim of Vipassana meditation to reduce cognitive and emotional reactivity, the state effect of reduced P3a amplitude to distracting stimuli reflects decreased automated reactivity and evaluative processing of task irrelevant attention-demanding stimuli

Loving-kindness Meditation (LKM)

Loving-kindness meditation is a practice designed to enhance feelings of kindness and compassion for self and others. Loving-kindness meditation involves repetition of phrases of positive intention for self and others (Kearney, 2013). The literature suggests that Loving-kindness meditation is associated with an increase in positive affect and a decrease in negative affect (Hofmann, Grossman & Hinton, 2011). Shahar  and team (2014) of the view that Loving-kindness meditation may be efficacious in alleviating self-criticism, increasing self-compassion and improving depressive symptoms among self-critical individuals.

Lutz and colleagues (2008) state that compassion cultivates the desire to relieve pain and suffering for the self and others, while loving-kindness loads the mind with universal, nonreferential compassion towards oneself and other beings (Lee et al., 2012). Neuroimaging studies suggest that Loving-kindness meditation may enhance activation of brain areas that are involved in emotional processing and empathy (Hofmann et al., 2011).

Chapin and colleagues (2014) are of the view that the emergence of anger as an important predictor of chronic pain. Therefore compassion cultivation has been shown to influence emotional processing and reduce negativity bias in the contexts of emotional and physical discomfort, thus suggesting it may be beneficial as a dual treatment for pain and anger. Loving-kindness meditation is a potential healing method in chronic pain. Loving-kindness program can be beneficial in reducing pain, anger, and psychological distress in patients with persistent low back pain (Carson et al., 2005). Tonelli and  Wachholtz  (2014) report that 20-minute guided meditation session based on “loving kindness” approach participants reported a 33% decrease in pain and a 43% decrease in emotional tension.

Vedananupassana Mediation

 Vedananupassana meditation (Contemplation on Feelings) is one of the four types of Vipassana meditations. Vedananupassana consists of minutely observing feelings such as aversion and desire as well as pleasant and unpleasant ones. As described by Nyanaponika, (1962) when there are painful impulses the person dwells practicing feeling-contemplation on feelings internally, or externally, or both internally and externally.

Although pain is essential or survival pain is an ‘unpleasant sensory and emotional experience.  Pain signals often drive the individual into a behavioral response. The very attempt that the patient makes to detach and banish pain keeps pain more adhered. A growing body of research supports the notion that pain-related fear may contribute to the development of chronic pain and pain-related disability (Zale et al., 2014).

The strength and unpleasantness of pain is neither simply nor directly related to the nature and extent of tissue damage (McGrath, 1994).  Psychological factors are closely associated with pain. Situational and emotional factors intensely affect pain perceptions. By concentrating and accepting painful impulses the patient learns to manage his painful symptoms more effectively.

Vedananupassana mediation helps to transform pain by contemplating painful sensations. It edifies patients to be mindful of painful feelings and become tolerable to them. Acceptance of the painful impulses helps to reduce pain and it boosts psychological flexibility. A study done by Viane and colleagues (2004) found that acceptance was related to less attention to pain. As reported by McCracken and Velleman (2010) psychological flexibility may reduce the impact of chronic pain in patients with low to moderately complex problems outside of specialty care. In addition McCracken & -O’Brien (2010) suggest that, when people with chronic pain are willing to have undesirable psychological experiences without attempting to control them, they may function better and suffer less.

Mindfulness of the body and mindfulness of the pain help to see the true nature of pain and pain related suffering. While concentrating on pain the person realize that the sensation of pain is created by the mind. Being mindfulness of the painful sensations it helps to see different elements of pain and soothes the mind’s perception of pain. Furthermore Vedananupassana mediation is associated with greater pain tolerance. Revealing personal experiences Frezza (2008) narrates that focusing on chronic pain helped to manage painfully sensations more effectively.

Case Discussion

• LXX 36 year old combatant diagnosed with Somatoform Disorder assisted with Anapanasati Mediation or mindfulness of breathing for a period of twelve weeks. He was trained to perform meditation by an instructor form the Vipassana Meditation Center in Colombo. He was instructed to relax his body then close his eyes and to concentrate on his breathing rhythm. Gradually he was able to increase his attention span. Mr. LXX underwent three meditation sessions (each 120 min) per week. At the end of the 12^th week Mr. LXX reported significant improvement with regard to his pain. As the patient indicated his painful symptoms reduced and sleep improved over time.

• JXX 48 year old male suffered from chronic backache for nearly five years assisted to perform Vedananupassana meditation (Contemplation on Feelings). He concentrated on his painful impulses while accepting his chronic pain condition. As he performed the mediation he found that painful impulses were not frustrating as he perceived. He could mindfully sense the back pain and engage in his day-to-day activities. Following the intervention by Vedananupassana meditation Mr. JXX’s functionality improved up to a considerable level.

• SXX was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and prescribed opiates to treat her pain. Gradually her pain increased and she started self medicating with high opiate doses. Mrs. SXX‘s somatic pain and opiate usage led to a major addiction condition. She was feeling depressed and could not perform her duties effectively. She underwent Mindfulness mediation program under a trainer and after six months Mrs. SXX was able to reduce her opiate addiction and agreed to seek alternative treatments. With the mindfulness program she was able to manage her pain more effectively. In addition her negative symptoms such as anger, self loathing, and despair reduced significantly. Hence her functionality improved and Mrs. SXX was able to mange her pain and addiction fruitfully.

Conclusion 

Chronic pain is a major public health problem and it has negative consequences on quality of life and individual’s functionality. To treat pain related symptoms, mediation has been identified as a safe and cost-effective non-pharmacological method. In addition mediation helps to maintain holistic health and wellness. Clinical trials show that mediation is helpful for reducing chronic pain. Moreover a number of neurological researches specify that meditation inhibits or relieves pain perception up to a significant degree and reduces pain-related neural activity. Meditation is a safe as well as inexpensive, non-invasive method. Therefore mediation can be recommended as a self-regulation method for chronic pain.

(Professor Amy B. Wachholtz, PhD, MDiv, MS, ABPP, FACHP is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the Health Psychologist on the Psychosomatic Medicine Consult Service at UMass Memorial Medical Center )

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By NJ Thakuria

With an aim to spread the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi on peace & brotherhood among the northeastern youths, an international centre for Gandhian studies’ (ICGS) was launched on 9 July at the University of Science & Technology, Meghalaya (USTM).

Arunachal Pradesh Governor Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa while inaugurating the centre pointed out that ‘Gandhi’s thoughts are always relevant- be it in the past, the present and the future’.  He also appreciated the initiative of USTM for setting up such a unique centre.

The centre is expected to spread the vision, philosophy and teachings from the life of Mahatma Gandhi through various social, educational and cultural programmes, emphasizing upon the contemporary relevance of Father of the Nation’s thoughts and method of actions based upon the principle of truth and non-violence.

Dr Alaka Desai Sarma, a faculty of the higher educational institution, while explaining the purpose of the centre elaborated that it would provide a six-month course on Gandhian studies. The centre hopes to groom the students to work towards inclusive co-existence and conflict management, she added.

Governor Rajkhowa, in presence of  USTM chancellor M. Hoque, economist Dr Jayanta Madhav, educationist Dr Anuradha Dutta with many other dignitaries, also inaugurated an amenity centre in the university premises for the benefit of students as a place for spending leisure time as well as for taking food and beverages

By Fiona Macgregor Courtesy Myanmar Times

A visit to Myanmar by Norway’s State Secretary of Foreign Affairs has concluded with a US$1.25 million donation for humanitarian assistance in Rakhine State, but concerns remain that Norway is benefiting financially from government links made through peace process support.

Bard Glad Pedersen visited the troubled Rakhine State capital Sittwe last week where he met Chief Minister U Maung Maung Ohn and visited IDP camps for both Rohingya Muslims and ethnic Rakhine displaced by intercommunal violence.

Speaking to The Myanmar Times on July 4 after his visit, Mr Pedersen highlighted the lack of development across the state and suggested this had played an integral part in ethno-religious disputes there.

This is one of the poorest states in Myanmar and there’s no reason for this [to be the case]. They have all the opportunities in the world and this is a result of decades of distrust and that really is what we need to [address].”

Mr Pedersen said that the funding, which comes in addition to a $1.25 million pledge made in Oslo at the end of May, would go toward projects to help all sectors of the community.

[It] is important that this is beneficial for all the groups in Rakhine,” he added.

The ethnic Rakhine community has been vocal in accusing the international community of focusing relief efforts on the Rohingya population. Anger over the perceived partiality has erupted into violence that at times has forced INGO staff to leave.

Mr Pedersen did not give a clear outline on how the money would be distributed, other than through INGOs and some UN agencies. However he did say funding would be provided for Sittwe State Hospital.

That move is likely to be welcomed by the ethnic Rakhine community. However it could also prove controversial as many Rohingya patients are not able to access treatment there amid continued allegations that those who have been admitted were mistreated by staff.

Calling for the Rohingya to be given citizenship rights, saying it was not sustainable” for a large population to be without this, Mr Pedersen said Rakhine needed financial support as well as political pressure to bring about change.

It is important that the international community supports politically but also financially … reconciliation and finds solutions in Rakhine State that will allow for human rights to be respected for all people and [also] allow for citizenship for Rohingya.”

Many in Norway, home of the Nobel Peace Prize, have been critical of prize winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s choice not to call for citizenship for the Rohingya or to speak out clearly against their oppression.

Asked if he believed the National League for Democracy leader, whom he also met during his visit, should comment on the citizenship issue, Mr Pedersen replied, I think it is a responsibility for all parties to contribute to a solution that will allow for human rights to be respected for all.”

Norway, an early funder of peace process initiatives, has also played a pivotal role in paving the way for international investment in Myanmar.

Norway’s close relationship with the current government came under scrutiny after the failure of the Myanmar Peace Support Initiative (MPSI), an organisation set up in 2012 with Norwegian state funding which was seen to alienate ethnic groups for its perceived support of the Myanmar government’s agenda.

While the peace process continues to stall on numerous issues, investment has advanced apace, with Norway gaining a number of lucrative deals, most notably in the telecoms and oil sectors.

Former Norwegian ambassador to Myanmar Katja Nordgaard now holds a senior post at Telenor – the Norwegian firm that was awarded one of two sought-after international telecom deals. State oil company Statoil gained potentially lucrative rights to operate off-shore oilfields.

The deals have led to accusations that Norway has given too much support to the Myanmar government while clear rights abuses persist.

Mr Pedersen rejected that suggestion. Our commitment is support the democratisation process in Myanmar and to support the peace process. We cannot choose between parties,” he said.

I think it’s fair to acknowledge there has been progress in many areas,” he added without elaborating.

There needs to be a modernisation of the constitution. There needs to be continued democratisation and reform and … obviously they have not been able to sign a national ceasefire agreement. They need to move on from that toward political discussion and that is related also to the election process and all parties need to contribute to this,” he said.

But he denied accusations that Norway had exchanged its interests in promoting peace with achieving financial gain.

I think that’s an unfair assessment. I don’t agree with that,” Mr Pedersen said.

For Norway this commitment has been about contributing to the peace in Myanmar. Then international companies from a wide range of countries have increased investment after sanctions have been lifted, and the regional countries have done that too. But they have to win their opportunities on competitive terms and do their business responsibly to earn trust of society.”

Some rights groups are unconvinced.

[Norway is] bending over backward to justify a business-first approach to engaging with the Burmese government while continuing to betray the democracy and human rights movement they nurtured for decades,” said David Mathieson, Human Rights Watch senior researcher on Myanmar.

Suggesting that Norway was not the only country to put self-interest and profit before principles in Burma”, Mr Mathieson said, Oslo’s rapid volte-face from critic to gushing government supporter was the most brazenly opportunistic by any measure.”

And he added, Its unswerving support for government efforts in the peace process and its criticism of ethnic civil society, often pushed by the now-defunct Norwegian-formed-and -supported MPSI, is a significant factor in the now slowed down efforts at ending the civil war. Norway’s assertion of altruism rings hollow in an environment of greed.”

Mr Pedersen said the Norwegian government was contributing this year 240 million NK ($30 million) through civil society, through confidence building, to making sure [they are] supporting the peace process … and at the end of the day it is the parties here that have to be able to progress in the peace process and carry forward with the election”.

Courtesy  Radio Free Asia

A group of nationalist Buddhist monks in Myanmar plan to set up a radio station to protect and disseminate their religion, despite fears that they will use it as a platform to foment anti-Muslim sentiment.

Members of the Committee for the Protection of Nationality and Religion, better known as Ma Ba Tha, want to use the station to spread the Buddha’s teachings in the predominantly Buddhist country, said the group’s senior monk Parmaukka.

It [setting up the radio station] is according to our discipline or code of conduct because we are doing this to protect and spread our religion, not to get involved in conflicts and hatred,” he told RFA’s Myanmar Service.

He added that Ma Ba Tha is in the process of trying to get a broadcast license and searching for a place to establish the radio station.

Buddhists monks from Thailand have thrown their support behind the project, offering to set up the station for them because they like what Ma Ba Tha has done for Buddhism in Myanmar, Parmaukka said.

Ma Ba Tha has pushed for controversial “protection of religion” laws in Myanmar and protested against ethnic minority Rohingya Muslims, whom the government refers to as Bengali” because it views them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

In May, more than 1,000 monks and other activists staged a protest in the commercial capital Yangon, urging the government not to accept the stateless Rohingya, some of whom were among the boatloads of migrants found adrift in the sea near Myanmar.

The United Nations estimates that about 130,000 ethnic Rohingya have fled Myanmar by sea since a violent and deadly clash with majority Buddhists in mid-2012. Others, who were displaced by the violence, remain housed in camps in the country’s western Rakhine state.

At the time, Parmaukka had told RFA that the monks were repeating  their call for the government to never accept the Rohingya and other boat people.

No policy of hatred

When asked if the group would use the radio station as a platform to speak out against other religions, Parmaukka said the monks do not harbor a policy of hatred, which would go against Buddhist teachings.

We don’t have any policy of hatred,” he said. According to Buddha’s teachings, we can’t even kill an ant. Our policy is a nonviolent one, and it prohibits us from killing anyone. Even when we have conflicts in our society, our policy is to resolve them in a peaceful manner. That’s why we can’t have any conflicts because of this radio station.”

But Ye Htut, the information minister and presidential spokesman, said the government would not permit the monks to create a radio station.

No, no way. We can’t allow them to do it because we don’t have a broadcast law yet,” he told a Myanmar newspaper last week, when asked whether the government planned to grant the monks a radio license.

The country’s current seven FM radio stations have joint-venture business agreements with state-owned Myanmar Radio, which is under the purview of the Ministry of Information.

Reported by Tin Aung Khine for RFA’s Myanmar Service. Translated by Khet Mar. Written in English by Roseanne Gerin.

Courtesy rfa.org (Radio Free Asia)

Lawmakers in Myanmar passed contentious legislation on Tuesday that imposes restrictions on interfaith marriages in the predominantly Buddhist country, despite opposition from rights advocates who say it discriminates against women and Muslims in the conservative, predominantly Buddhist country.

The law requires Buddhist women and men of other faiths to register their intent to marry with local authorities, who will display a public notice of the engagements. Couples can marry only if there are no objections; but if they violate the law, they could face imprisonment.

Critics have argued that the legislation does not apply the law equally to all people and flies in the face of domestic and international human rights standards.

This kind of law shouldn’t be issued by parliament because it is not an essential law for all ethnic [groups] in Myanmar; it is just a law that discriminates against ethnic people when it comes to religion,” said Zar Talam, an ethnic Chin lawmaker from the Htantlang constituency of Chin state in western Myanmar.

Proponents, however, say the law will protect Buddhist women who marry outside their faith.

This law was written for Myanmar Buddhist women who marry men from other religions so they have equal rights in marriage, divorce, inheritance and taking care of children, as well as have effective protection,” said Saw Hla Tun, a member of parliament’s Draft Law Committee.

The law is part of a series of four laws on marriage, religion, polygamy, and family planning proposed by a Buddhist organization called the Association for the Protection of Race and Religion, which is affiliated with a nationalist Buddhist monk group.

Women’s groups and civil society organizations who have opposed the measure issued a statement earlier this year, arguing that the draft law denied women the inherent rights of freedom of survival and freedom of choice.

We believe that current faith-based political activities, including the arguments against interfaith marriage currently taking place in the country, are not in accordance with the objectives of the peaceful coexistence of all faiths and the prevention of extreme violence and conflict, but are instead events and ideas designed to distract the public before the 2015 election,” the statement said, referring to the general elections scheduled for November.

Although the law does not mention any specific religion, it has prompted speculation that it could be aimed at preventing Muslims from trying to coerce Buddhist women into abandoning their faith for marriage or otherwise.

Last year, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom and New York-based Human Rights Watch condemned the four pieces of draft legislation, saying they discriminated against non-Buddhists in religious conversions, marriages, and births, and would encourage further repression and violence against Muslims and other religious minorities.

Reported by Win Naung Toe for RFA’s Myanmar Service. Translated by Khet Mar. Written in English by Roseanne Gerin.

නලින් ද සිල්වා

රනිල් පසුගිය දා පවත්වන ලද එ ජා ප සම්මේලනයේ දී විජිතපුර සටන ගැන සඳහන් කර ඇත. එය තවත් පස්දුන් කතාවකි. පස්දුන් කෝරළයෙන් පස්දීම ගැන රනිල් කළ කතාව බොහෝ දෙනාට මතක ඇතැයි සිතමි. රනිල්ට අනුව මෛත්‍රිපාල එ ජා පක්‍ෂයට විජිතපුර සටන දිනා දී ඇත. ඔහු මෙතෙක් ඒ බවක් කීවේ නැත. රනිල් කීවේ ඊනියා ජාතික ආණ්ඩු කතාවකි. එහෙත් දැන් ඔහු ප්‍රසිද්ධියේ කියන්නේ මෛත්‍රිපාල තමන්ට පික්පොකට් ආණ්ඩුවක් ලබාදීමට කටයුතු කළ බව ය. 

එකල අප විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයීය ශිෂ්‍යයන් ලෙස සිටිය දී ජනප්‍රිය වූ ගීයක කොටසක් සුළු සංශෝධනයක් සහිත ව මෙසේ ප්‍රකාශ කළ හැකි ය. 

විජිතපුර සටනට

ගොස් එන මෙතේ පාලට

හිතුනා නාන්නට 

ගොසින් පැන්නා නරා වළකට

අද මෛත්‍රිපාල නාගෙන ඇත. රනිල් සිතා සිටින්නේ අනුරාධපුර සටන හෙවත් මහා මැතිවරණය ජයගැනීමට ය. එහෙත් මෛත්‍රිපාල නැතිව රනිල්ට ජයගත හැකි මැතිවරණයක් නැත. අද ද මෛත්‍රිපාල ආධාර කරන්නේ රනිල්ට ය. එහෙත් ඒ තේරුම් කිරීමට පෙර රනිල්ගේ නොතේරුම් කම ගැන වචනයක් කිව යුතු ය. ගැමුණු කුමර් විජිතපුර සටන මෙහෙයවූයේ රට ආක්‍රමණය  කළ එළාරට විරුද්ධව ය. රනිල්ගේ හා මෛත්‍රිපාලගේ ඊනියා විජිතපුර සටන රට එක්සේසත් කළ මහින්දට විරුද්ධව ය. රනිල් සිතා සිටින්නේ විජිතපුර සටන රට එක්සේසත් කිරීමට විරුද්ධව කළ බව ද? 

මෛත්‍රිපාල ගැන සතපහක විශ්වාසයක් තැබිය නො හැකි බව අපි කිහිප වතාවක් ම කියා ඇත්තෙමු. අගොස්තු 18 වැනි දාට පසුව ඔහු කරන්නේ කුමක් ද යන්න දන්නේ ටික දෙනෙකි. ඔහු රනිල් නැවතත් පික්පොකට් අගමැති කිරීමට බලා සිටියි. ඔහු අද ශ්‍රී  ල නි ප සභාපති වුවත් ඒ නමට පමණ ය. අද ශ්‍රී ල නි ප  විධායක සභා රැස්වීමක් පැවැත්වුවහොත් නාගෙන සිටින ඔහුගේ සභාපතිකම නැතිවනු ඇත. 

එහෙත් ඒ අතර ඔහු මහින්දට ආධාර කළ අයට නාමයෝජනා දීමට තදින් විරුද්ධ වෙයි. සමන්මලී සකලසූරිය වැනි අයට නාමයෝජනා දිමට විරුද්ධ වන්නේ ඔහු ය. ඔහු සූදානම් වන්නේ අගොස්තු 18 වැනි දාට පසුව තමන්ට අවනත කර ගත හැකි මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් පිරිසක් සංධානයෙන් පත්කර ගැනීමට ය. අද වන විට කිසිම ජනබලයක් නැතිව නාගෙන සිටින මෛත්‍රිපාලට සංධාන නායකයන් යටවිය යුතු නො වේ. නාමයෝජනා ලබා දීමේ දී රටේ බලයක් නැති මෛත්‍රිපාල සංධානය විසින් නොසලකා හරිනු ලැබිය යුතු ය. 

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එක්සත්  ජනතා නිදහස් සංධානයේ කොළඹ දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ හා ගම්පහ දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ නාමයෝජනා ලැයිස්තු තවමත් සම්පූර්ණ නැත. මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ වෙනුවෙන් මුල සිට ම කටයුතු කළ කිහිප දෙනකුට ම නාමයෝජනා අහිමි වන ලකුණු පහළ වී ඇත. එයට ප්‍රධාන හේතු වන්නේ චන්ද්‍රිකාගේ හා මෛත්‍රිපාලගේ බලපෑම් යැයි වාර්තා වෙයි.

මේ දෙදෙනා ම විවිධ අවස්ථාවල ශ්‍රී ල නි පක්‍ෂයට ද්‍රෝහි වූවෝ වෙති. ඔවුන්ගේ වත්මන් ගෝල බාලයන් වන ප්රාජිත චම්පක ආදීහු බටහිර ගැති සිංහල විරෝධී එ ජා පක්‍ෂය සමග දැනටමත් සංධාන ගත වී ඇත්තාහ. එ ජා ප සංධානගත වීමෙන් පෙන්නුම් කෙරෙන්නේ ඒ පක්‍ෂයට තනිව ම තරග කර ජයග්‍රහණය කිරීමට නො හැකි බව ය. ඒ අරුතින් දැනටමත් එ ජා පක්‍ෂය  පරාජය පිළිගෙන ඇත. ඒ පක්‍ෂය සමග සංධානගත වන ප්රාජිතලා චම්පකලා දේශපාලන අනාථයෝ වෙති. 

ඔවුන්ගේ ස්වාමියා හා ස්වාමි දියණිය වූ මෛත්‍රිපාලට හා චන්ද්‍රිකාට අද රටේ ජනතා පදනමක් නැත. ඔවුන් දෙදෙනාට ම කළ හැක්කේ නූල් සූත්තර ඇදීම පමණකි. ශ්‍රී ල නි පක්‍ෂය හා එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සංධානය ඔවුන්ගේ බලපෑම්වලට යටවිය යුතු නො වේ. පක්‍ෂයෙන් ගිය පක්‍ෂයට ද්‍රෝහි වූ අයට කදසිම ඉඩක් නොදිය යුතු ය. 

ඔවුන්ගේ අවශ්‍යතාව ශ්‍රී ල නි ප හා සංධානය පරාජයන කිරීම මිස වෙනත් දෙයක් නො වේ. ඔවුන් බලපෑම් කරන දිස්ත්‍රික්ක වෙතොත් තවදුරටත් සංධානයේ  ලැයිස්තුවෙන් ඒ දිස්ත්‍රික්ක තරග කිරීම නිෂ්ඵල ක්‍රියාවකි. අද කළ යුත්තේ අඩුම තරමින් එවැනි දිස්ත්‍රික්කවල වෙනත් ලැයිස්තුවලින් මල්පොහොට්ටුවෙන් හෝ වෙනත් ලකුණකින් හෝ තරග කිරීම ය.

අද පක්‍ෂවලට වඩා මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂට රටේ වැදගත්කමක් ඇත. ජනතාව ඡන්දය දෙන්නේ මහින්දගේ පක්‍ෂයට මිස ශ්‍රී ල නි පක්‍ෂයට හෝ සංධානයට හෝ නො වේ.   

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ශ්‍රීලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ සභාපති ධුරයෙන් ඉවත්ව යාමට සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයාට සිදුවී ඇති බව වාර්තා වෙයි. චන්ද්‍රිකා ඇතුළු විදේශ බලවේගයන්ගේ තාඩන පීඩන වලට ලක් වෙමින් සිටින වත්මන් ජනාධිපතිවරයාට නිර්පාක්ෂිකව කටයුතු කරන ලෙස විදේශ රටවලින් උපදේශ ලැබී ඇති අතර නාමයෝජනා බාරදුන් පසු ශ්‍රීලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයෙන් හා එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධාන නායකත්වයෙන් ඉවත්ව නිර්පාක්ෂික ජනාධිපතිවරෙක් ලෙස කටයුතු කිරීමට සියල්ල සුදානම් වෙමින් පවතී.

එලඹෙන 17 අනුරාධපුරයෙන් ආරම්භවන එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධාන ප්‍රචාරක සමුළුවේදී මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන් හා වත්මන් ජනපති තුමන් එකම වේදිකාවකට ගෙන ඒමට සැලසුම් කොට තිබෙන අතර ඊට පෙර මෙම නායකත්වයන්ගෙන් සමුගැනීමට කටයුතු යොදා ඇත. ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ සභාපති ධුරය නැවතත් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන්ට හිමිවන අතර එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානයේ නායකත්වයද මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන්ට හිමිවනු ඇති බව වාර්තා වෙයි. ශ්‍රීලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ සභාපති ධුරයෙන් ඉවත්ව යාමට සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයාට සිදුවී ඇති බව වාර්තා වෙයි. චන්ද්‍රිකා ඇතුළු විදේශ බලවේගයන්ගේ තාඩන පීඩන වලට ලක් වෙමින් සිටින වත්මන් ජනාධිපතිවරයාට නිර්පාක්ෂිකව කටයුතු කරන ලෙස විදේශ රටවලින් උපදේශ ලැබී ඇති අතර නාමයෝජනා බාරදුන් පසු ශ්‍රීලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයෙන් හා එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධාන නායකත්වයෙන් ඉවත්ව නිර්පාක්ෂික ජනාධිපතිවරෙක් ලෙස කටයුතු කිරීමට සියල්ල සුදානම් වෙමින් පවතී. එලඹෙන 17 අනුරාධපුරයෙන් ආරම්භවන එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධාන ප්‍රචාරක සමුළුවේදී මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන් හා වත්මන් ජනපති තුමන් එකම වේදිකාවකට ගෙන ඒමට සැලසුම් කොට තිබෙන අතර ඊට පෙර මෙම නායකත්වයන්ගෙන් සමුගැනීමට කටයුතු යොදා ඇත. ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ සභාපති ධුරය නැවතත් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන්ට හිමිවන අතර එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානයේ නායකත්වයද මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන්ට හිමිවනු ඇති බව වාර්තා වෙයි.