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‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’

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e-Con e-News 08-14 February 2026

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How the English colonial government imposed compound interest on Sri Lanka, & how this enabled the wholesale ‘legal’ robbery of land from rural Sinhala people – is a most fascinating tale. This ee newsletter’s muse, SBD de Silva, started to relate this story to us, before he passed away in 2018. We are sad to say we should have hounded him further on this subject but failed to do so. Certain reasons of mortality and other urgencies intervened, plus his heroic stubbornness to stick to whatever his intellectual priorities were at a time when his mortal days were limiting his earthly focus, held us back.

     The more humane Sinhala tradition, he recalled, was of charging simple interest on debts, which meant if you could not repay a loan on time, you could pay later without being entangled into greater bondage, and lifetime and next-life vassalage, while losing your land and means of production. But the English would not have it under their rule. And why would they! It is therefore no wonder the English bestowed upon the country & its economy, the most impoverished peasantry in Asia.

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Compound (verb) – 1) make up (a composite whole);

constitute; mix or combine; calculate (interest)

on previously accumulated interest.

2) make (something bad) worse;

intensify the negative aspects of…

– Oxford English Dictionary

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Did the English government machinery (corrupt officials, judiciary) in the Eastern Province conspire with Muslim traders to enforce compound interest? SBD wished us to pursue this research, warning that the subject was fraught, for we had to ensure we did not encourage solely communal interpretations. For behind this thorny trap crouches the colonial master in subterfuge, who has other deeper aims in mind. We did try to pursue this matter with various social scientists and lawyers as he asked us to do, but to no avail. As SBD noted, social science has become a big business, and our intellects have more interest (moreover a compound interest) in other trivialities, than the political economy of entrapment & mass murder.

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‘Microfinance companies & moneylenders…

have dispossessed over 2.8 million women

of their gold, household assets & savings.’

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We recalled SBD’s insights while reading Amali Wedagedera’s recent essay, ‘The Regulatory Assault on Community Credit’ (see ee Focus). Wedagedera points to the ‘acute agrarian debt crisis’ and wonders why access to finance has become a ‘market-driven privilege’. Governments, she records, have been ‘allies of big finance in jettisoning people’s right to organise community credit’, with the legal machinery in tow. Yet, is this new?

‘By 2021, over 200 women had committed

suicide due to unpayable debt.’

Wedagedera’s immediate target is the new Microfinance & Credit Regulatory Authority Bill. She says it ‘functions as a legal enclosure, denying age-old community practices for creating & controlling credit.’ How old are these practices? She does not say. But, it turns out this recent legislative Bill has been stipulated by a $200mn Asian Development Bank (ADB) loan!

‘It is ironic that a Government in debt distress

uses an ADB loan to undermine the very

foundation of community resilience.’

Again, not new. The ADB, the IMF, the World Bank, operate in not-so-mysterious ways, their not-so-miraculous shylocksmithery to perform. Indeed the media report that banks have been accumulating billions at the expense of everybody else, even while they sing the joys of ‘small’ (MSMEs, etc) business, which they are bankrupting:

In the 2023-4 financial year, total banking sector profits

before tax have recorded an estimated Rs762bn

Indeed, the Central Bank governor, who is eager to play the role of ‘optimist conjuror’, pumps out anodynes for the optics – ‘the operation is a great success’, while the merchants and their chartered accountants declare their performances in glowing superlatives, extolling their ‘transparency’, ‘accountability’, ‘governance’, ‘sustainability’, ‘integrity’, ‘excellence’, ‘trust’ and ‘innovation’ (see ee Who’s Who, Tax Evasion Mafia Awards). Other less-publicized reports diagnose, ‘The patient is almost dead’!

     Wedagedera also exposes the pernicious role played by the so-called Credit Information Bureau (CRIB), whose ‘credit histories’ seek to entrap over 90% of low-income people (who have no steady formal income). CRIB is targeting mutual aid & women’s societies. Rather than elaborating on our own traditions of collective control, such as ‘a fistful of rice’, which she curiously limits to ‘more than 30 years’, Wedagedera upholds ‘the right of communities to collectively organise credit’ in the 2018 UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants & Others Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP), & other UN declarations, which ‘recognise communal rights to land, seeds, & financial self-determination’. The UN itself needs some spinal instrument to ensure its right to determine its own fate, rather than being a toothless tool of the imperialist countries.

     Wedagedera exposes the real aim of the international financial institutions: to dismantle communal rights, which are ‘the last bastion of resilience against a predatory economic order’. There is a need to also link this to the overall impoverishment of the cultivator, the prevention of monetization and commercialization of harvests, and the consequent obstruction of rural industrialization and the role played by Anglo-American (US & Canadian) and European ‘development banks’ who are fronts for their industrial conglomerates, and hide behind ‘local’ finance companies that claim to be Sri Lankan.

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After pursuing a ship across 2 oceans and 10,000s of miles, the USA’s Indo-Pacific Command intercepted & boarded the Suezmax tanker Aquila II in the Indian Ocean by Sri Lanka on 9 February, unreported by media in Sri Lanka. The vessel was carrying ~700,000 barrels of crude oil from the Caribbean. The US has already seized 5 other tankers in 8 weeks. The stolen oil will be sold under a program the US has branded the ‘Great Energy Deal.’

     Last week, the US got a Panama court to snatch back Panama’s ports from their HK-owned operators: CK Hutchison has had a signed, paid-up contract for over28 years, a pact recently renewed. This eviction ruling comes after the US government declared they would send in armed troops to grab the Panama Canal (see ee Random Notes).

     This week, a US-linked medium reported that the Singapore government (within which Rockefeller’s Exxon is a major ‘influencer’) is calling for more control over the Malacca Straits. So is it only a matter of time before the US, with India wagging its tail behind, demands further control over Sri Lanka.

The‘Straits of Malacca & Singapore handle approximately

one-third of global traded goods & more than 80,000 vessel

transits annually, making them an unavoidable gateway

between the Indian Ocean & South China Sea.’

– ee Sovereignty, Singapore Calls for Global Action

as Shadow Fleet Pressures Strategic Straits

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The imperialist media is thus pushing ‘for the [further] militarization of the Quad states – US, Japan, Australia & India – against China & Russia in the Indian & Pacific Oceans, and the Straits of Malacca connecting them’. All of this perhaps leads up to what the new US ambassador to Sri Lanka Eric Meyer (pronounced ‘meeya’, like retail gangster Meyer Lansky) meant when he told their Senate in December 2025, ‘Sri Lanka’s strategic location makes it a focal point for US efforts to promote a free & open Indo-Pacific…’

     And so it has come to pass, though we know not for how long, scurrying about like pissu kumbi on hyper methamphetamines, the USA & its killer poodles (England, EU, Japan, et al) are casing the oceans, enacting their frenetic dance of death, by bombing defenceless fishing boats & pirating flagged ships. They claim they are hunting down drug dealers & ‘rogue’ oil tankers across the world, even as they are stealing oil from Venezuela & Iraq & Syria, denying oil to Cuba to strangle it, and threatening ‘oil-rich’ Iran with annihilation. We are being provided with free & expensive lessons in real time – ‘coming to you live’ – politricks.

     The English and their Indian merchant sects turned the Indian Ocean into a massive maritime route for the most lucrative commerce of the 19^th century: the English opium trade enforced on China by war. The USA now, seemingly ready to spark another more worldly & deadlier war, seeks to deny fuel to China, to thwart that East Asian country’s longer-term industrialization as well as obstruct Russia from selling oil, even while imposing more expensive US-sourced oil on our countries, seeking to stick their fingers on the triggers of gas pumps. As we have noted before, these policies do not emanate solely from the brow of any orange clown, but from the studious intent of the North Atlantic’s ruling capitalist classes, led by the such luminaries as Rockefeller’s Exxon corporation.  

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ee continues our perennial call for the modern (machine-making-machine) industrialization of our country. We reproduce an essay which goes to great lengths to show how & why manufacturing is the only way for Sri Lanka to transform its economy. However, the deadly (some may call it farcical) scenarios we witness today on the high seas, shows that it is not enough to elucidate the need for modern industrialization, but also expose who or what is preventing the obvious route our economy should take, and why & how they keep sabotaging these plans, and how we may overcome them?

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‘Services are not a derived activity any more, they are not add-ons

to agriculture & industry. They are the glue that binds them.’

– University of Peradeniya Senior Professor of Economics

OG Dayaratna-Banda (ee Economists, Prof Indraratna Oration)

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‘Why Developing Countries Can’t Skip Industrialization’ is the main ee Focus this week, by Jostein Hauge. The many dizzying panaceas prescribed, and the fleeting fashions paraded by economists on their academic and media catwalks, seek to bypass the fundamental need for manufacturing. Indeed, these economists in the merchant media are ‘hired gunmen’ or ‘hitmen’ of the merchant cabal. The good professor Dayaratne-Banda mentions the glue but dares not elaborate on the word ‘manufacture’, let alone highlight modern (machine-making-machine) industrial production. Like others, he instead promotes services, exports, etc., etc. Hauge however describes the unique qualities of manufacture (mechanization & chemical processing, ‘one product leading to another’, innovation) and lists the countries that have transformed themselves, especially China & Vietnam. Importantly, he counters the current fears spread by capitalists that automation automatically leads to job losses. He takes on bugaboos about China crowding out other countries’ industrialization. He also lists the decline experienced by those countries, which have been deindustrialized.

     Haugeis a Cambridge professor of development who sometimes loosely uses indicators like ‘growth’ and terms such as ‘development’ (a term created by Unilever as a polite euphemism for ‘colonial’) and ‘job creation’. ‘Growth’ for what? SBD de Silva would ask, and what kind of jobs? Hauge is also a big fan of ‘exports’ leading to innovation.

     We recall Marx’s emphasis that modern industrialization is not handicraft or manufacture (assembly) but machine making machines. Someone should tell Cambridge, andeven better, tell our Colombo professors & columnists (of the 5^th variety) that the overwhelming priority for imperialism is the prevention of industrialization. Which reminds that this week saw yet another chapter in the US drama being enacted in North Africa’s Libya, with the son of previously (2011) murdered Muammar Qaddafi, Saif Al-Islam Qaddafi also being murdered. And here are his last words:

‘For the people whom you said they were martyred in 2011,

was it for this? Is it that we can’t dig a well in Sirte without the

permission of the Turks, the US Ambassador, English Ambassador,

& French Ambassador? Why didn’t you say that you wanted all

of this from the beginning without the 1,000s being killed &

the 500 billion that Libya wasted, and all this destruction resulting

in orphans and widows.’– Saif Al-Islam Qaddafi’s Last Message:

Another Tale of Imperialist Treason

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‘There is in capitalism an immanent tendency to stifle,

suffocate & push back the full realization of the

developmental potential of rival capitalisms.’

– SBD De Silva

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The mercenary preoccupations of ‘celebrated’ economists in the perpetual, daily & weekly news media can be understood more clearly by reading ee’s muse, SBD de Silva, and his 1982 classic The Political Economy of Underdevelopment. We continue Chapter 7, ‘Plantations & their Metropolitan Orientation’. He begins by pointing out that: ‘the dominance of merchant capital and the export-import bias were common to all countries of the periphery’. Merchant capital’s domination over absentee production capital enabled it to grab much of the surplus value from production, export & import in plantation economies, first implanted in Southern Europe & the Mediterranean, then the Americas (including the Caribbean) and Asia.

An official inquiry in Sri Lanka in 1923 reported that

the standard of food consumption among plantation

labour ‘compare [&] favourably with the jail diet’

‘With the plantations, the Europeans began to organize production overseas’, and this involved active underdevelopment of non-settler colonies, ensuring their clear divergence from the industrialized economies. Underdeveloped countries had to rely on more shipping, produce more valuable goods and consume more imported manufactures. Settler colonies, however, competed with England and produced their own substitutes, including modern technologies.

     Meanwhile, plantation economies, were forcibly turned into markets for manufactured goods, and this complemented the rise of industrial capitalism in Europe, which lived off the processing of raw materials from non-settler colonies. Plantations also precluded high wage levels, and higher productivity, and depended on their super-exploitation and oppression, reducing the incomes of all workers in the society. England also prevented the export of raw materials from their non-settler colonies to other countries to prevent development of local processing technologies, and thus increased political control. So much for free trade.

     Meanwhile, the purposeful ignorance of reality & history, leads to misuse of such terms as plantations & planters as symbols of status:

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‘The plantation was not a feudal remnant but a highly rationalized system

of labor extraction. Enslaved people were measured, monitored, disciplined

& coerced with extraordinary precision. Output quotas, time discipline,

surveillance & punishment were not incidental features of slavery; they were

its operational logic. Long before the factory perfected these techniques

under the guise of free labor, the plantation had already demonstrated how

human beings could be transformed into units of productive capacity,

driven beyond endurance in the name of profit.’

(see ee Quotes)

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Such deliberate ignorance leads to exaggerations of what English justice is all about. England, this week, announced, that it cutting off journalist access to English court records. English media are kept ignorant of most trials, and only certain trials are publicized (see ee Quotes, English Delay Justice). Court records are however one of the main ‘public’ sources of real data, as they can reveal information otherwise encrypted, disguised or concealed, especially when big thieves fight each other, the truth can emerge. There are therefore different categories of news, with most real news hidden away. ee News is largely a festeringgarbage dump of the weekly public news in English, mostly written about Sri Lanka – but it is also strewn with a few real jewels & some rare ‘found art’.

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We recalled this week, certain key words such as ‘class’, ‘political organizations’, and political parties:

• Marx on Class – ‘In 18^th Brumaire (Sect VII) Marx gave this negative definition of a fully constituted class: ‘In so far as millions of families live under economic conditions of existence that separate their mode of life, their interests & their culture from those of the other classes, and put them in hostile opposition to the latter, they form a class. In so far as there is merely a local interconnection among these smallholding peasants, and the identity of their interests begets no community, no national bond, & no political organization among them, they do not form a class’.’ – Tom Bottommore, Dictionary of Marxist Thought, 1991

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• In Class, for Class – ‘Economic conditions had in the first place transformed the mass of the people into workers. The domination of capital created the common situation & common interests of this class. Thus, this mass is already a class in relation to capital, but not yet a class for itself. In the struggle, of which we have only indicated a few phases, this mass unites and forms itself into a class for itself. The interests which it defends become class interests.’ – Karl Marx, Poverty of Philosophy, Ch2, Sect5

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• Early English Class Organizations – ‘On March 27, 1846 [2 years before the English genocide in Sri Lanka – ee], the House of Commons voted to repeal the Corn Laws by a vote of 327 to 229. The repeal of the import duties on corn (meaning cereals including wheat, oats, barley) was one of the most significant economic events of the 19^th century… The Anti-Corn Law League was the most advanced political organization that England had ever seen… The League was administered from its headquarters in Newall’s Buildings in Manchester, where a large staff was separated into a number of departments – the League Council, a cashier’s office, a publication office, and an electoral office being the most important. The League’s activities were highly centralized. All but the most routine expenditures were authorized by a vote of the League Council. The League employed over 800 people in 1843 engaged solely in the publication & distribution of tracts. Also, numerous salaried lecturers were employed who addressed mass meetings. The League substantially subsidized a number of newspapers in order to assure favorable reporting & editorials. Most important were the League’s extensive electoral activities. The legal qualification for voting was simply the presence of a man’s name on the electoral register, reflecting the appropriate property-owning qualification. The League devoted enormous efforts & funds both to challenging the voting qualifications of protectionists and to padding the registers with the names of League members by purchasing qualification. In short, the League functioned as a highly efficient, well financed, & pragmatic political organization.’ – ‘Ideology, Interest Groups, & the Repeal of the Corn Laws’, Gary M Anderson & Robert D Tollison

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• Marx Teaches Us to Value: When Thieves Fight – ‘The time just before the repeal of the Corn Laws threw new light on the condition of the agricultural laborers. On the one hand, it was to the interest of the middle-class agitators to prove how little the Corn Laws protected the actual producers of the corn. On the other hand, the industrial bourgeoisie foamed with sullen rage at the denunciations of the factory system by the landed aristocracy, at the pretended sympathy with the woes of the factory operatives, of those utterly corrupt, heartless & genteel loafers, and at their diplomatic zeal for factory legislation.

     It is an old English proverb that when thieves fall out, honest men come by their own, and, in fact, the noisy, passionate quarrel between the 2 fractions of the ruling class about the question, which of the 2 exploited the laborers the more shamefully, was on each hand the midwife of the truth. Earl Shaftesbury, then Lord Ashley, was commander-in-chief in the aristocratic, philanthropic, anti-factory campaign. He was, therefore, in 1845, a favorite subject in the revelations of the Morning Chronicle on the condition of the agricultural laborers. This journal, then the most important Liberal organ, sent special commissioners into the agricultural districts, who did not content themselves with mere general descriptions & statistics, but published the names both of the laboring families examined and of their landlords. The following list gives the wages paid in 3 villages in the neighborhood of Blanford, Wimbourne, and Poole. The villages are the property of Mr G. Bankes and of the Earl of Shaftesbury. It will be noted that, just like Bankes, this low church pope, this head of English pietists, pockets a great part of the miserable wages of the laborers under the pretext of house-rent.

     The repeal of the Corn Laws gave a marvelous impulse most extensive scale, new methods of stall-feeding, and of the artificial cultivation of green crops, introduction of mechanical manuring apparatus, new treatment of clay soils, increased use of numeral manures, employment of the steam-engine, and of all kinds of new machinery, more intensive cultivation generally, characterized this epoch. Mr Pusey, Chairman of the Royal Agricultural Society, declares that the (relative) expenses of farming have been reduced nearly one half by the introduction of new machinery.’ (Marx, Capital, Vol 1, Chapter 25)

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Contents:

US Threatens to Grab Malacca Straits – Is Sri Lanka Next?

Shenali D Waduge

While the world debates the dangerous outcomes of ‘digital education,’ in Sri Lanka a silent campaign is underway. Educationists, policymakers, and self-proclaimed experts—often in partnership with international agencies including the UN—are promoting a plan that will digitalize the learning of 4 million Sri Lankan children. But whose interests are truly being served? Are these so-called educationists genuinely safeguarding the nation’s future, or are they conduits for foreign agendas seeking to reshape the identity, culture, and values of Sri Lankan youth?

Evidence now confirms what society is experiencing. A 2026 scientific assessment presented to the U.S. Congress by neuroscientist Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath confirms something unprecedented in modern history: Gen Z is the first generation to perform worse cognitively and academically than their parents. This assessment was presented before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, based on cross-national longitudinal cognitive testing data covering over 80 countries, making it one of the most comprehensive global analyses of generational cognitive performance ever conducted.

According to Horvath’s testimony, Gen Z underperforms across:

• attention
• memory
• literacy
• numeracy
• executive function
• general IQ

His research across 80 countries shows a clear trend:

When digital technology becomes dominant in classrooms, cognitive performance declines”.

This mistake is exactly what Sri Lanka’s education ministry is proposing to do starting April 2026.

If Sri Lanka proceeds down this path, it risks institutionalizing the same cognitive decline now documented across Western education systems, repeating their mistakes instead of learning from their failures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd-_VDYit3U – Doctor Jared Cooney Horvath on How Screen Time Hurts Kids’ Cognitive Development. Sri Lanka’s education ministry must listen to this especially parents.

https://nypost.com/2026/02/07/us-news/gen-z-the-first-generation-officially-dubbed-dumber-than-the-last

The core cause:

• excessive screen exposure + technology-mediated learning replacing deep human-led learning.

This is not opinion.

This is neuroscience and global academic data.

THIS CONFIRMS A DEEPER CIVILIZATIONAL CRISIS

Gen Z is the first generation since standardized cognitive testing began in the 1800s to perform worse than their parents

Declines were recorded in:

• Attention
• Memory
• Literacy
• Numeracy
• Executive function
• General IQ

The primary cause identified:

Overexposure to digital technology in education + algorithm-driven learning environments

This scientific finding perfectly aligns with what we are witnessing socially, psychologically, emotionally, and culturally:

Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath: Even in schools, it doesn’t matter what the size of the screen is…and it doesn’t matter who bought it…All of these things are also going to hurt learning, which in turn are going to hurt our kids’ cognitive development.”

Full video here: https://www.c-span.org/program/senate…

This testimony directly challenges the global push especially by the UN to introduce digitize classrooms under the false promise of modernization.

The study of 80 nations shows, that early digital immersion weakens learning, memory consolidation, and impacts long-term intellectual development.

https://thefederalist.com/2026/02/13/gen-z-is-dumber-thanks-to-adults-saturating-their-lives-with-screens

For the first time in modern history, a generation is showing visible decline in:

They were born into:

• hyper-technology
• ideological overload
• identity crisis
• dopamine-driven digital ecosystems
• entitlement culture – right-oriented
• collapsing family authority & declining morals/values of young parents

The result is:

• anxiety
• depression
• identity confusion
• social anger
• protest addiction
• emotional fragility

This is civilizational failure, not generational failure.

WHAT THE ANCIENTS BUILT — AND WHY IT LASTED

Ancient civilizations across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe built societies on:

• duty before rights
• discipline before comfort
• wisdom before information
• family before state
• identity before ideology
• morality before law

They understood a fundamental truth:

• Strong individuals create strong families.
• Strong families create strong societies.
• Strong societies create lasting civilizations.

This truth is being systematically broken

They mastered:

• irrigation
• mathematics
• astronomy
• medicine
• governance
• architecture
• philosophy
• education

But not before they mastered the human mind.

They knew:

Civilization collapses not when technology fails,
but when character, discipline, and identity collapse.

These are qualities we see lacking in Gen Z today. It is no fault of theirs, it is because the educational system, university apparatus and even society has moved away from these value-based criteria.

Media and communication channels have much to shoulder blame.

They used their  power of reach to misinform – misguide and misdirect people.

WHAT WE HAVE TODAY — AND WHY IT IS FAILING

We have:

• Artificial Intelligence without human wisdom
• biotechnology
• infinite data
• instant communication

Yet we also have:

• record anxiety
• rising depression
• identity chaos
• collapsing family structures
• emotional immaturity
• ideological extremism

We built smart machines — but made weaker humans.

That is not progress.
That is civilizational imbalance.

TECHNOLOGY WITHOUT HUMANITY IS WORTHLESS

This is not an anti-technology argument — it is a pro-human argument.

Dr. Horvath’s research proves:

Technology does not elevate human intelligence.
When misused, it degrades cognitive development.

Technology was meant to:

• strengthen thinking
• deepen learning
• enhance relationships
• increase productivity

Instead, it:

• replaced thinking
• shortened attention spans
• rewired dopamine systems
• weakened memory
• replaced human interaction

Gen Z became the first generation raised inside algorithms.

Technology did not adapt to them.
Their brains adapted to technology.

This produced:

• shallow thinking
• emotional volatility
• impulse-driven behavior
• poor resilience
• fragile attention
• Inability to critically assess and analyse – often resulting in going with the flow/trend

Smart tech + weak humans = civilizational suicide.

History shows that civilizations collapse not from lack of innovation, but from erosion of human discipline, character, and moral coherence.

IDENTITY ENGINEERING: THE MOST DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT OF OUR AGE

For all of history, civilizations understood:

• Sex is biological.
• Gender expression is cultural.
• Identity is anchored in reality.

Today, global ideological movements seek to:

• blur biological sex
• destabilize natural identity
• normalize identity confusion
• replace biology with ideology

This is presented as freedom.

But psychologically, it creates:

• confusion
• anxiety
• instability
• emotional distress

Instead of teaching children:

You are complete as you are,

they are taught:

You must question your own biology.

This destabilizes the deepest foundation of mental health — identity certainty, feeling sense of belonging and they are led to paths that will destroy them – physically & psychologically.

No society can maintain psychological stability when it systematically teaches children to distrust their own biology.

CHILDHOOD MEDICALIZATION: WHEN ACTIVISM BECOMES INDUSTRY

Children naturally experience:

• emotional turbulence
• identity questioning
• body discomfort during puberty – hormonal changes
• psychological exploration

These phases were once guided by:

• parental wisdom
• patience
• maturity
• cultural stability

Today, ideology increasingly:

• labels confusion
• medicalizes development
• politicizes identity
• introduces irreversible interventions

This creates:

• lifelong medical dependency
• irreversible biological changes
• psychological regret
• emotional trauma

When pharmaceutical systems, surgical industries, media sensationalism, corporate branding, and ideological activism merge, children and childhood becomes a marketplace.

This is not compassion.
This is institutionalized recklessness – targeting the child.

Future generations will judge this era not by its technological achievements, but by how recklessly it experimented on children in the name of ideology and profit.

CLASSROOM IDEOLOGY: CSE & IDENTITY POLITICS IN EDUCATION

Schools once existed to teach:

• literacy
• logic
• discipline
• ethics
• critical thinking

Now, classrooms increasingly transmit:

• identity ideology
• sexual frameworks
• political activism
• emotional validation culture

This:

• confuses childhood development
• destabilizes identity formation
• weakens parental authority
• politicizes education

Education must build minds — not manufacture identities.

The role of education is intellectual empowerment, not psychological engineering.

The adults too are now targets.

DEI & CORPORATE IDEOLOGY: CONTROL THROUGH COMPLIANCE

DEI frameworks increasingly:

• enforce ideological conformity
• silence biological discussion
• punish dissent
• override scientific debate

This transforms:

• workplaces into ideological zones
• corporations into moral police
• society into psychological control systems

True inclusion respects:

• diversity of thought
• scientific inquiry
• open debate

Not ideological obedience.

A society that silences biological and scientific truth destroys its own capacity for rational governance.

THE DESTRUCTION OF FEMININITY & MASCULINITY

Masculinity built:

• courage
• leadership
• protection
• sacrifice
• resilience

Femininity built:

• emotional intelligence
• compassion
• nurturing
• stability
• moral grounding

Civilizations flourished because both worked together. Complimented each other. Today, it has been made fashionable to compete against each other.

Today, ideology:

• attacks masculinity – attempts to neutralize masculine traits
• destabilizes femininity – attempts to remove the softer side of the female
• encourages biological rejection
• reframes natural roles as oppression – attempts to relocate women out of the home.

This creates:

• confused boys
• insecure girls
• unstable families
• fragile societies

A civilization that erases sexual identity erases its own foundation.

When natural human complementarity is replaced by ideological conflict, family stability collapses, and social fragmentation accelerates.

FROM DUTY TO ENTITLEMENT: HOW CHARACTER COLLAPSED

Ancient societies taught:

• duty before rights
• responsibility before privilege
• restraint before freedom

Modern culture teaches:

• rights before duty
• entitlement before effort
• validation before discipline

This reversal produced:

• grievance culture
• protest addiction
• anger escalation
• street violence
• chronic dissatisfaction – always blaming others not shortcomings of oneself.

When people believe:

• Society owes me,

but never ask:

• What do I owe society? frustration becomes inevitable.

That frustration explodes into:

• protests
• riots
• confrontation
• destruction

WHY GEN Z IS PROTESTING MORE THAN ANY GENERATION

Because they were raised on:

• entitlement
• emotional indulgence
• ideological grievance
• instant gratification

Not on:

• resilience
• discipline
• responsibility
• effort

When expectations are infinite and responsibility is zero, anger becomes unavoidable.

The so-called youth-led” protests in Nepal, Bangladesh even Sri Lanka show how shortsighted their reactions are – destroying what the taxpayers eventually have to pay to rebuild, taking more loans, paying more interest when most of them don’t even have a job to take accountability themselves for the destruction they caused. Would any employer wish to employ reactionary-destructive youth?

Economic development requires stable, disciplined, accountable youth — not emotionally volatile ideological activists.

THE COLLAPSE OF FAMILY AUTHORITY

Parents once shaped children.

Now:

• social media shapes children
• influencers replace parents
• ideology replaces tradition
• algorithms replace wisdom
• Bills are being brought to punish the teachers and parents!

Family authority collapsed.
Children destabilized.
Social order weakened.

No civilization survives when the family collapses.

Every major civilizational collapse in history — Roman, Greek, Persian, Mayan — was preceded by family disintegration, moral erosion, and identity destabilization.

This is why pro-life must never be compromised.

WHY GEN Z FAILED WHERE THEIR PARENTS DID NOT

Not because Gen Z is weak —
but because their psychological environment was corrupted.

Their parents grew up with:

• discipline
• limits
• struggle
• responsibility

Gen Z grew up with:

• unlimited stimulation
• emotional overvalidation
• identity confusion
• ideological saturation

This destroyed:

• patience
• resilience
• emotional strength
• mental discipline

THE CIVILIZATIONAL RESET WE NEED

We must return to fundamentals.

Back to:

• duty before rights
• discipline before indulgence
• family before ideology
• biology before politics
• wisdom before information
• humanity before technology

This is not regression.
This is civilizational survival.

THE CORE CIVILIZATIONAL TRUTH

Technology cannot save a civilization that has lost its soul.
Ideology cannot replace biological reality.
Rights cannot replace responsibility.
Progress cannot erase wisdom.

Our ancestors built civilizations that lasted centuries.
We are building systems that may not survive decades.

Gen Z is not broken.

The civilization shaping them is.

And unless we restore:

• discipline
• identity clarity
• parental authority
• wisdom-based education
• moral grounding
• human-centered technology

we will not raise stronger generations —
we will accelerate civilizational collapse.

Before Sri Lanka entrusts its children to a digital classroom designed abroad, we must question the authority of those promoting it. Education is not merely about technology—it is about identity, history, heritage, values, and sovereignty. The push for digital education, disguised as progress, risks turning millions of young minds into passive recipients of foreign narratives. The politicians and so-called educationists championing this rollout must be held accountable: for every child, every lesson, every byte delivered under this scheme could reshape the soul of a nation into a generation severed from its roots, its culture, and its critical thinking, molding children into obedient consumers of globalized agendas rather than proud inheritors and defenders of Sri Lanka’s identity and heritage.

Shenali D Waduge

Shenali D Waduge

Since March 1997, Senaka Weeraratna has waged one of the most persistent, solitary intellectual justice campaigns in modern sport — appealing locally and internationally for recognition as the author of the ‘Player – Referral’ system, today globally known as the Decision Review System (DRS). It began with a letter to the ‘Australian’ (National Newspaper of Australia) dated March 25, 1997. First adopted by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2008 as the Decision Review System (DRS), it replaced the “umpire’s decision is final” rule with a system allowing players to challenge on-field calls using technology.

For nearly three decades, his appeals crossed continents, institutions, cricket boards, editors, officials, and administrators. They were supported by documented evidence, first publication records, and formal submissions. Yet, despite the strength of the claim and the clarity of proof, institutional silence prevailed.

As a result, a revolutionary idea that transformed cricket adjudication forever — restoring fairness, accuracy, and justice — was allowed to circulate globally without its creator receiving an iota of rightful recognition or due compensation in the royalties.

This silence did not arise from absence of merit. It arose from institutional inertia, personal jealousy, and systemic resistance to acknowledging authorship outside traditional Western power centres. In South Asian terms, this can only be described as eersiyaawa” — envy-driven obstruction, a cultural malaise that prevents collective advancement by suppressing individual excellence.

As a result, a revolutionary idea that transformed cricket adjudication forever — restoring fairness, accuracy, and justice — was allowed to circulate globally without its creator receiving rightful recognition. Even umpires have failed to acknowledge its merit.

A lone struggle against institutional walls

Weeraratna’s campaign was extraordinary not only for its intellectual depth, but for its longevity and moral clarity. Alone, without institutional backing, he wrote to cricket boards, journalists, administrators, lawyers, international bodies, and governments. His writings appeared in leading international newspapers, and formal representations were submitted to Sri Lanka Cricket and the ICC.

Yet decision-makers remained unmoved. Sympathy replaced action. Praise replaced recognition. Polite acknowledgement replaced justice. Even 

This reveals a deeper problem: the inability of institutions to honour intellectual originality when it originates from outside entrenched power structures.

Why this moment is different — and urgent

Today, Senaka Weeraratna approaches 80 years of age.

The world of cricket, meanwhile, is undergoing a profound power shift:

·      South Asia now dominates global cricket revenues

·      Asian audiences drive broadcast markets

·      Asian teams define competitive standards

·      Asian players dominate performance metrics

Cricket’s economic, cultural, and moral centre of gravity has shifted East.

Yet intellectual recognition remains locked in old colonial hierarchies.

This contradiction can no longer be sustained.

From a Sri Lankan claim to a South Asian responsibility

This is no longer a private grievance or a national claim.

It is now a South Asian civilisational responsibility.

South Asia must spearhead this recognition because:

·      The innovation originated here

·      The beneficiaries are global

·      The denial reflects historical power imbalance

·      The silence enables continued intellectual marginalisation

To allow this injustice to persist is to accept a subordinate intellectual identity, where South Asian innovation is consumed but not credited.

Why recognition matters beyond One Man

This campaign is not about personal glorification.

It is about:

·      Restoring truth to cricket history

·      Correcting global intellectual records

·      Establishing ethical norms of authorship

·      Ensuring future Asian innovators are not erased

If Senaka Weeraratna’s authorship is denied despite documented evidence and international publication, what hope remains for the next South Asian innovator?

The DRS was not merely a technical adjustment.

It was a moral innovation — introducing justice, accountability, and transparency into a sport governed for over a century by unchallengeable authority.

This ethical architecture originated in Sri Lanka, from a legal mind trained in justice, fairness, and moral responsibility.

To deny that origin is to deny cricket’s own ethical foundation.

A Call to South Asian Leaders

This moment demands leadership.

Political leaders, cricket boards, legal communities, scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals across India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Nepal must now jointly act.

They must:

·      Demand formal ICC recognition

·      Insist on historical correction

·      Mobilize public opinion

·      Restore intellectual justice

Time must not be allowed to become another instrument of denial.

History Still Awaits Correction

Almost three decades ago, one Sri Lankan gave cricket its most transformative innovation which is now used across all sports.

Today, almost three decades later, South Asia must give him what institutions denied — truth, recognition, and justice.

If South Asia cannot protect its own intellectual pioneers, it forfeits its moral right to global leadership in cricket.

The time for hesitation is over.

The time for collective action is now.

Shenali D Waduge

Submitted by: Sarath Obeysekera Chairman / Marine & Offshore Engineering Specialist EDB Advisory Board Member

Strategic Inclusion of Trincomalee Offshore Engineering & Marine Hub in the National Export Development Plan (2025–2029)

Submitted by:

Sarath Obeysekera

Chairman / Marine & Offshore Engineering Specialist

EDB Advisory Board Member

To:

Hon. Minister of Industries

Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

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1. Purpose

This paper seeks to highlight a critical strategic omission in the draft National Export Development Plan (NEDP 2025–2029):

The absence of a clearly defined high-value offshore engineering and marine industrial development strategy centered in Trincomalee, specifically the proposed development of the Clappenburg area as an Offshore Engineering Hub.

This project has the potential to:

• Attract substantial Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
• Reverse brain drain
• Position Sri Lanka as an Indian Ocean offshore engineering center
• Generate high-value export earnings
• Support energy security and maritime industrialization

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2. Strategic Gap in the NEDP

The NEDP identifies:

• Marine-based industries (including boatbuilding)
• Logistics and transshipment development
• Port-led industrial growth
• Knowledge-intensive exports
• FDI-linked export expansion

However, it does not explicitly address:

• Offshore oil & gas engineering services
• Offshore renewable energy fabrication
• FPSO conversion and repair
• Subsea engineering services
• Offshore rig repair and marine heavy engineering

While Sri Lanka Ports Authority and port expansion initiatives are mentioned, there is no targeted strategy to leverage Trincomalee’s natural deep-water advantage for high-value offshore engineering activities.

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3. Why Trincomalee is Strategically Unique

3.1 Natural Deep-Water Advantage

Trincomalee Harbour is one of the finest natural deep-water harbours in the world. It offers:

• Deep draft suitable for offshore rigs and heavy marine structures
• Calm waters ideal for fabrication and floating dock operations
• Large available land bank for industrial estate development
• Strategic proximity to Bay of Bengal energy routes

Unlike Colombo, which is primarily a transshipment hub, Trincomalee can become a production-based maritime industrial cluster.

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4. Proposed Development: Clappenburg Offshore Engineering Hub

The proposal submitted through the EDB Advisory Board recommends:

Development of Clappenburg Area as:

• Offshore fabrication yard
• Rig repair and refurbishment center
• Subsea structure manufacturing facility
• Offshore renewable (wind) foundation fabrication base
• LNG and marine energy service zone

This aligns directly with:

• NEDP Strategic Objective 1 (Logistics & Hub Operations)
• Strategic Objective 3 (Export-oriented FDI)
• Strategic Objective 6 (Skills & Innovation)

Yet it remains unrecognized as a national flagship project.

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5. Economic Impact Potential

5.1 Foreign Direct Investment

High-value offshore engineering projects typically attract:

• USD 200–500 million initial FDI
• Technology transfer partnerships
• Global EPC contractor participation

Countries such as:

• Singapore
• Vietnam
• Malaysia

have leveraged offshore engineering to move from low-value manufacturing to high-value marine industrialization.

Sri Lanka can follow a similar pathway.

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5.2 Brain Drain Reversal

Sri Lanka produces:

• Naval architects
• Marine engineers
• Welding technologists
• Offshore structural engineers
• NDT specialists

Many migrate due to lack of high-value domestic projects.

Establishing an offshore engineering hub would:

• Retain skilled engineers
• Create high-paying technical jobs
• Encourage diaspora return
• Strengthen NVQ and TVET marine specialization

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5.3 Export Revenue

Offshore engineering services generate:

• Project-based USD inflows
• Long-term service contracts
• Regional Bay of Bengal energy support services

This aligns with NEDP’s goal of reaching USD 36 billion exports by 2030.

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6. Geopolitical and Strategic Relevance

The Bay of Bengal is emerging as a major energy and maritime zone.

India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and ASEAN countries are expanding:

• Offshore gas exploration
• Floating LNG
• Offshore wind

Sri Lanka must strategically position Trincomalee before regional competitors dominate this niche.

Failure to act will leave Sri Lanka limited to low-margin transshipment activities.

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7. Policy Recommendations

1. Immediate Inclusion in NEDP

Explicitly identify:

Trincomalee Offshore Engineering & Marine Industrial Hub” as a flagship project.

2. Call for International RFP

Through EDB and BOI, issue a global RFP for:

• Strategic marine engineering partners
• Offshore yard developers
• Energy EPC firms

3. Establish Special Marine SEZ

Designate Clappenburg as:

• Marine & Offshore SEZ
• With tax and duty facilitation
• Simplified customs regime
• Fast-track approvals

4. Institutional Coordination

Create a Joint Task Force involving:

• Ministry of Industries
• EDB
• BOI
• SLPA
• Ministry of Energy

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8. Conclusion

The NEDP rightly emphasizes logistics, digital exports, and diversification. However, it underestimates Sri Lanka’s potential to move into high-value offshore engineering and marine heavy industry.

Developing Clappenburg in Trincomalee is not merely a regional development project.

Sri Lanka News

In February 2026, the Sri Lankan government officially withdrew its support for a campaign aimed at promoting the country as an inclusive destination for LGBTQ+ tourists. This reversal followed intense pressure from influential religious leaders, including senior Buddhist monks and the head of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka. 

The decision impacted the following areas:

• Policy Withdrawal: The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) rescinded a letter of support for a project proposed by the advocacy group Equal Ground, which sought to market the island as a safe and welcoming destination for diverse travellers.
• Religious Opposition: Prominent figures, such as Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith and leaders of the three main Buddhist monastic chapters, argued that promoting such tourism undermined the nation’s moral and cultural heritage.
• Legal Context: The Attorney General confirmed the withdrawal during a court hearing for a writ petition filed by citizens who claimed the initiative was unconstitutional and encouraged “unethical” behaviour.
• Impact on Image: While tourism officials originally viewed the project as a way to diversify markets and boost foreign exchange, the government ultimately prioritised alignment with national traditional values. 

Would you like more details on the current safety advisories for travelers or information on Sri Lanka’s general tourism targets for 2026?

By Eng. Sarath Obeysekera

In 1984, I returned to Sri Lanka after working in Norway’s oil and gas industry, bringing with me experience in advanced welding technologies and offshore engineering. I joined the then state-controlled Colombo Dockyard PLC as a consulting engineer with one objective: to upgrade our industrial capability to international standards.

During that period, we introduced modern welding systems, supported hydropower projects, constructed oil storage tanks, and strengthened fabrication standards. In 1989, I was invited to head the Civil Engineering Corporation, where I further modernized operational systems.

When the Japanese took over Colombo Dockyard, I was reappointed as expatriate CEO. From 1994 to 2001, we elevated Sri Lanka’s shipbuilding technology to a new level before I returned to the UK and Norway to rejoin the oil and gas sector.

But my heart was always in Sri Lanka.

The Galle Harbour Opportunity That Slipped Away

In 2013, I returned to find Galle Harbour idling—an underutilized national asset with immense potential. I proposed developing a yacht building and repair yard. After obtaining Cabinet approval, a Saudi investor commenced development.

However, due to unforeseen religious concerns, the investor withdrew. Subsequently, the Sri Lanka Ports Authority cancelled our agreement and evicted us. A strategic maritime development initiative collapsed—not due to lack of vision or funding, but due to institutional rigidity.

More than 13 years later, Galle Harbour continues to idle.

Mutwal: A Shipyard Born, Then Abandoned

Determined not to give up, I shifted focus to Mutwal (Modera), reviving an idle shipyard with Malaysian investment under MTD Walkers. Thus was born Walkers Colombo Shipyard. We provided a USD 750,000 bond to SLPA and again sought to redevelop Galle.

The proposal was rejected. Years of effort were neutralized. During the economic depression, delayed lease payments led the Ceylon Fishery Harbours Corporation to terminate our lease. Today, the Mutwal yard is silent. Equipment rusts where opportunity once stood.

Trincomalee: Another Vision in Limbo

Later, I was appointed Advisor by the Export Development Board to develop Sri Lanka’s offshore industry. I identified Trincomalee as a strategic maritime and offshore hub. After extensive groundwork, a Cabinet paper was prepared and presented to the Committee of Development Ministers.

Months have passed. No decision.

Investors and professionals who bring international experience are left in a perpetual state of uncertainty.

The Real Crisis: Implementation Failure

Sri Lanka does not lack talent.

Sri Lanka does not lack strategic location.

Sri Lanka does not lack presidential vision.

What it lacks is coordinated execution.

Ministries operate in silos. Approvals move from pillar to post. Agencies such as YDA and CEA take years to grant permissions for initiatives that could generate employment, foreign direct investment (FDI), and technology transfer.

For the past two years, I have been attempting to establish an Advanced Welding Academy in Galle—a center that could transform vocational training and equip our youth with globally competitive skills in welding, fabrication, and offshore construction.

Yet, approvals remain pending.

A Call for Industrial Reform

If Sri Lanka is serious about attracting FDI and developing high-value industries, we must:

• Fast-track strategic industrial approvals.
• Protect investors who bring technology and global markets.
• Establish a single-window clearance system.
• Empower technically competent leadership within ministries.
• Recognize vocational training as a national priority.

Shipbuilding, offshore engineering, and advanced fabrication are not small industries. They are strategic national assets. Countries like Norway, Singapore, and South Korea built prosperity through maritime and industrial excellence.

Sri Lanka has the geography. It has the talent. What it lacks is decisive execution.

After four decades of contributing locally and internationally, I remain committed to building industrial capacity in my motherland. But frustration grows when national assets lie idle while investors and professionals are driven away.

It is time for Sri Lanka to decide:

Will we continue to let opportunity rust — or will we build the future?

Regards

Dr Sarath Obeysekera

Rohan Abeygunawardena

• The Mother of All Cricket Rivalries in Asia”

After weeks of uncertainty, the first-round match between India and Pakistan of the 2026 T20 will be played today at Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.

The match is among the most-watched sporting events in the world, attracting hundreds of millions of viewers globally. Past high-profile matches (such as ICC World Cup or T20 World Cup clashes) have also drawn over 300–400 million viewers worldwide, making this rivalry one of the most watched in cricket history. Consequently, it exceeds many other global sporting events.

There was political controversy and reports that Pakistan’s government initially instructed its team to boycott the match against India. This caused major uncertainty over whether the classic rivalry fixture would take place.

The controversy began when Bangladesh withdrew from the World Cup earlier, citing safety concerns about playing in India. Instead of addressing their concerns, the ICC replaced Bangladesh with Scotland. Pakistan’s government and cricket leadership believed this move was unfair. As a show of support and solidarity with Bangladesh, and accusing the ICC of double standards, Pakistan refused to play India.

Sri Lanka faced a similar situation when some countries refused or hesitated to tour Sri Lanka, citing security concerns during the 1996 Cricket World Cup. However, they were not removed from the tournament. The ICC sent an independent security delegation to Sri Lanka, conducted risk assessments of venues, hotels, and transportation routes, and consulted with local authorities and foreign security experts.

After several days of negotiations involving the ICC, PCB, Bangladesh Cricket Board, and government officials—including Sri Lanka’s—Pakistan reversed the boycott decision. The main reason for this change was ICC assurances that Bangladesh would face no penalties for withdrawing.

Additionally, Sri Lanka’s president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, played a visible diplomatic role in encouraging Pakistan to reverse its boycott and play the India match in Colombo. It is reported that he personally called Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and urged him to reconsider Pakistan’s boycott decision, stressing the importance of the match going ahead. It is also reported that the Sri Lankan president has reminded the Pakistani prime minister that when Australia and the West Indies refused to travel to Colombo, citing security risks during the 1996 World Cup, the two arch-rivals, India and Pakistan, agreed to play an exhibition match in Colombo, affirming their trust in Sri Lanka and offering a lifeline to its tournament ambitions.

Pakistan then changed their stance and agreed to play the match, ensuring the fixture would proceed.

• When Pakistan Team Wanted To Pull Out Of First Sri Lanka-Pakistan Test Series

Pakistan’s first tour of Sri Lanka after Sri Lanka achieved Test status was in February 1986. The first test was at Asgiriya, where Sri Lanka lost by innings. Before the second test on March 14 at CCC, the President of the Board of Control, Gamini Dissanayake, was determined to secure a series victory. He called a meeting with officials and players to share his ambition.

The second test began at the CCC grounds. Pakistan was bowled out for 132 in the first innings, while Sri Lanka scored 273. In the second innings, Pakistan scored 172, and Sri Lanka needed only 33 runs to win. Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets.

Pakistan players, led by Imran Khan, were unhappy with many umpiring decisions. At the time, there was no neutral umpiring, and Sri Lankan umpires officiated. There was also no Decision Review System (DRS). After the second test, Pakistani players and the captain asked officials to cancel the series. The Pakistan manager contacted their Board of Control officials, who sent a senior official to discuss with Sri Lankan officials and diplomatically withdraw the team.

The Pakistani official first spoke with the vice president of the Board of Control for Cricket, Ian Pieris (former Sri Lanka cricketer and Cambridge blue), then with the president.

Nearly two hours of talks yielded no favourable outcome. Gamini Dissanayake then called President J.R. Jayewardene, briefed him on the situation, and JRJ, a cricket fan, invited them to his residence at Ward Place.”

JRJ listened to both sides and then quietly walked to his land phone and dialled. When someone answered, he said, Your Excellency, these 22 fools in flannels are trying to disrupt the good relations between our countries. Therefore, I am ordering the Pakistan team to stay and continue the game.”

The Pakistani president at the time, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, spoke to the Pakistan official over the phone. He assured President J.R. Jayewardene that they would continue the tour.

The third test was played at The Oval and resulted in a draw, marking Sri Lanka’s first series draw. Thus Sri Lanka drew a series for the first time after attaining test status.

Pakistan won the 5 match ODI series 2 – 0.

If J.R. Jayewardene were living today, he would have called the limited-over and T20 teams these twenty-two fools in multi-coloured pyjamas.”

• Sri Lankans Contribution to World of Cricket, on Field and Off the Field.

Sri Lankans have made significant contributions to the world of cricket. In the 1996 World Cup matches, Sanath Jayasuriya and Romesh Kaluwitharana transformed the first 15 overs from a survival phase” into a weapon with their ultra-aggressive opening batting.

Sri Lankan world cup winning Captain Arjuna Ranatunga, who challenged umpiring norms and player authority, helped create the world’s best spinner – the great Muttiah Muralitharan, who redefined what spin bowling could be. He is widely considered the greatest spinner of all time, holding the record for the most Test wickets (800) and 534 ODI wickets.

Off the field, the Sri Lankan fan contribution to cricket culture includes the famous high-energy brass band style Papare” music.

Most notably, Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratne proposed the concept of the Player Referral System (now commonly called the Decision Review System – DRS) in 1997. This system was introduced to review controversial decisions made by on-field umpires regarding whether the batsman was correctly dismissed.

Senaka Weeraratne, known as the father of UDRS or DRS, has yet to receive adequate recognition from the ICC. I appeal to all cricket fans to pressure the ICC to be fair and avoid any double standards.

Rohan Abeygunawardena

(Writer could be contacted on abeyrohan@gmail.com)

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Billboard in front of the US Interest Section in Havana. Wikimedia. CC BY-SA 3.0

Born in crisis, strengthened by rejection, Cuba once again faces economic asphyxiation by Washington, which is moving in for the kill after sixty-seven years of attacking the island.*

Since the triumph of their revolution in 1959, Cubans have infuriated U.S. leaders with their specialized genius in overcoming catastrophe, whether it take the form of a hurricane, flood, invasion, hijacking, chemical attack, biological attack, or economic warfare. 

In the same year, 1959 another geostrategic island in the Indian Ocean, Ceylon saw her first Socialist Prime Minister, S.W.R.D Bandaranaike assassinated in Operation Colombo as the Cold War escalated between the West and the de-colonizing Global South escalated against Leftists.

Between disasters, they eat, drink, dance, and make merry in Cuba.

Today with the second coming of Trump, the abduction of Nicolas Maduro, and the cutting off of Venezuelan oil to Havana, they face a very familiar ratcheting up of imperial sadism to make them beg for relief.
Bus stops stand empty and fewer cars and pedestrians circulate in the street. Lack of fuel is palpable, and many gas stations have shut down. Air Canada is suspending service to the island.

Families turn to wood and coal for cooking amidst the constant power outages. Emergency restrictions mandate a four-day work week, reduced transport between provinces, the closing of main tourist facilities, shorter school days, and reduced in-person attendance requirements at universities.
But somehow life flows on in Havana, and there’s plenty to do. Near the train station on the boardwalk, people fish. When night falls, neighborhoods fill with young people engaged in cultural projects, or playing soccer or basketball.

A 32-year-old Cuban woman named Yadira expressed a key part of the national psychology well to journalist Louis Hernandez Navarro recently in the Mexican daily La Jornada. Two years ago, she left the island hoping to reach the United States, leaving her nine-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son with their grandparents. She never made it to the U.S. and had to stay in Mexico City, working in a fish shop in the Nonoalco market. Now she’s back in Havana. 

However far from home I may be,” she says, there’s a little piece of me still in Cuba, and I don’t just mean my children . . ..  I wouldn’t want anything bad to happen to my country. I don’t like politics, but what we are experiencing with Trump goes beyond politics. How come someone who isn’t even Cuban has to come and decide how we have to live?”

Navarro observes that those now counting on precipitating a regime change” by strangling the life of Cuba, forget how intimate the bonds with one’s native country are, how quickly even the apolitical like Yadira can be provoked into fierce resistance. It is a foolish but frequent forgetting.

He goes on to note that now is not the first time that the end of the Cuban revolution was said to be at hand. In 1991, Argentine journalist Andres Oppenheimer published the book, Castro’s Final Hour,” the product of a six-month stay in Cuba and five-hundred interviews with high officials and government opponents.

A contributor to the Miami Herald and CNN, Oppenheimer lives in the United States and enjoys close ties to the Cuban exile community in Miami. According to Navarro, the book describes what the author took to be the imminent collapse of Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution after three decades in power.

But the much yearned-for outcome quickly evaporated. Confident forecasts of the prompt and inevitable disintegration of the Cuban government, written as the Iron Curtain” was falling and the USSR vanishing, turned out to be a mirage. Promiscuously spread as a kind of Gospel in newspapers and on TV, the predictions remained unfulfilled. Fidel Castro stubbornly lived another 25 years, was succeeded in power by his brother Raul, who, in turn, was succeeded by Miguel Diaz-Canel.

Thirty-five years later, U.S. military aggression against Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro have revived the prophecy of impending doom for the Cuban revolution. The fantasy feeds on extrapolations from the importance that Chavismo” had for the survival of revolutionary politics on the island, leaping to easy conclusions that Communist rule will abruptly collapse.

It is certainly true that in Hugo Chavez’s time, up to a hundred thousand barrels of Venezuelan oil a day were distributed to Cuba, and after the economic siege against the Maduro government was imposed (2021-2025), the figure plummeted to thirty thousand barrels a day, a severe blow to the island’s economy. Today, Havana only has about 40,000 of the 100,000 daily barrels it needs, while implementation of its plan to promote renewable forms of energy so as to rely less on fossil fuels advances at a slower pace than the country’s growing needs.

To make matters worse, Trump has tightened the energy blockade, threatening to charge tariffs on countries daring to supply Cuba with fuel. This has profoundly negative consequences for public health, food, and, of course, daily life. Cubans were already suffering frequent power outages, as well as scarcity and deprivation on a scale not seen since the special period” of economic crisis after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, but now must withstand almost constant shut-downs. On many parts of the island outages last more than half the day.

But does that mean that the collapse of the Cuban government is imminent or that regime change” is about to occur?  Cuba’s Deputy Prime Minister Oscar Perez-Oliva Fraga says absolutely not: This is an opportunity and a challenge that we have no doubt we will overcome. We are not going to collapse.”

Pointing to the determination of so many resisting Cubans and the social cohesion born of rejecting Trump’s crude interventionism, Navarro claims announcements of the end of the Cuban revolution are no more than a phantom born of the yearnings of Cuba-haters for redemption and of Trump to win votes for the upcoming mid-term elections.

In order to breathe life into the idea that regime change has legs, various news platforms in the Washington orbit have recently spread the message that Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called the United States to request a serious dialogue, which, so it was said, represented a change of stance by the Cuban government towards the United States, provoked by Trump’s absurd January 29 declaration** proclaiming tiny Cuba a threat to the national security of the United States, and warning of retaliation

But in reality there was no change of stance, just the umpteenth invitation for dialogue and understanding to prevail between the two countries, on a base of equality and mutual respect, which Cuba has always insisted on.

From Cuba’s point of view, the latest phase of U.S. attacks on the island started with the extermination campaign in Gaza and the world paralysis that let it proceed, which encouraged delusions of omnipotence in Washington.

Now Donald Trump wants to impose hunger on Cubans to make them renounce socialism, which is not at all a new idea. Like his predecessors in the Oval Office, he doesn’t want there to be a base for anti-imperial politics anywhere in the world, much less just ninety miles away from the U.S.

Cuba, after all, once sent hundreds of thousands of its troops thousands of miles from home to humiliate white South Africa on the battlefield. Its withering advance in southwestern Angola and electrifying defeat of apartheid forces at Cuito Cuanavale featuring Cuban mastery of the skies were key events in bringing down the loathesome regime. Nelson Mandela said the Cuban victory at Cuito Cuanavale destroyed the myth of the invincibility of the white oppressor [and] inspired the fighting masses of South Africa . . . Cuito Cuanavale was the turning point for the liberation of our continent – and of my people – from the scourge of apartheid.” 

On his first trip outside Africa Mandela made a point of visiting Havana in July, 1991 to deliver a message of gratitude in person to the Cuban people: We come here with a sense of the great debt that is owed the Cuban people. What other country can point to a record of greater selflessness than Cuba has displayed in its relations to Africa?”

The U.S. defined Mandela as a terrorist until 2008, and regards Havana as a terrorist regime right now.

Madness. Meanwhile, on the ground in Cuba, against the wind and a rising reactionary tide, a proud and resilient people, survivors of a thousand betrayals and besieged by a vile blockade, defiantly survives.

Notes.

*This imperial arrogance dates as far back as Thomas Jefferson, who wanted to annex Cuba.

 ** Addressing Threats To The United States By The Government Of Cuba” www.whitehouse.gov

Sources

Luis Hernandez Navarro, Cuba: a society forged in crises: we have endured them all” La Jornada, February 7, 2026 (Spanish)

Gabriela Vera Lopes, A Solidarity That Takes Risks and Puts Our Bodies On The Line is Indispensable,” February 6, 2026, www.rebelion.org (Spanish) 

From blackouts to food shortages: How U.S. blockade is crippling life in Cuba,” Al Jazeera, February 8, 2026

Ignacio Ramonet & Fidel Castro, Fidel Castro – My Life (Scribner, 2006) pps. 316-25

Piero Gleijeses, Visions of Freedom – Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa 1976-1991, (University of North Carolina, 2013, pps. 519, 526

By Moiz Mustafa Courtesy Daily Mirror

Colombo, Feb. 14 (Daily Mirror) – In Sri Lanka, tea and coffee are not lifestyle accessories. They are part of who we are. The first cup at dawn steadies the morning. The mid-afternoon brew carries conversations across office tables and village verandas. The evening cup slows the day down. So when global headlines began declaring that two or three cups a day could lower the risk of dementia, it was never going to be ignored here.

The renewed attention comes from one of the largest long-term investigations into caffeine and brain health ever conducted. Researchers analysing data from 131,821 participants in the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study in the United States tracked volunteers for up to 43 years. The findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggest that people who regularly consumed caffeinated coffee or tea had a 15 to 20 per cent lower risk of developing dementia compared to those who rarely drank either beverage.

The numbers are striking. Participants who consumed the highest amounts of caffeinated coffee showed an 18 per cent lower dementia risk. Those who drank one to two cups of caffeinated tea daily also demonstrated a meaningful reduction in risk. The most consistent benefit appeared among individuals drinking two to three cups of caffeinated coffee per day or one to two cups of tea. Importantly, decaffeinated coffee showed no significant association with lower dementia risk, pointing to caffeine as a possible key factor.

Beyond diagnosis alone, habitual coffee drinkers in the study performed better on objective cognitive tests and reported less subjective cognitive decline over time. These details matter because dementia is not a single event but a gradual process that unfolds over years.

Another major body of evidence from the United Kingdom strengthens the conversation. Data from the UK Biobank, which followed more than 365,000 adults aged 50 to 74 for an average of 11 years, found that moderate tea and coffee consumption was associated with lower risks of dementia and stroke. Taken together, these large-scale cohort studies have pushed caffeine and cognitive health into the global spotlight.

Why Tea and Coffee may support brain health

Scientists believe the explanation lies in the chemistry of the cup. Tea and coffee contain polyphenols and antioxidants that may reduce inflammation and combat oxidative stress, both of which contribute to brain ageing. Caffeine itself has been linked to improved vascular function and a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, a condition strongly associated with increased dementia risk.

Healthy blood vessels are essential for a healthy brain. When circulation is compromised, cognitive decline often follows. The possibility that moderate caffeine intake may support vascular health offers one biological pathway that could explain the observed associations.

However, it is crucial to be clear. These are observational studies. They show correlation, not proof of cause and effect. Researchers cannot say that drinking coffee or tea directly prevents dementia. Other lifestyle factors may influence the results. For example, individuals who avoid caffeine sometimes do so because of existing health issues such as hypertension, which itself increases dementia risk. Separating these variables completely is challenging.

Dementia in Sri Lanka: A growing concern

For Sri Lanka, the conversation is urgent. An estimated 200,000 Sri Lankans are currently living with dementia, and that number is expected to rise significantly as the population ages. Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders already account for thousands of deaths annually. Yet dementia often remains hidden behind closed doors, quietly managed by families who view memory loss as an inevitable part of ageing rather than a medical condition requiring structured care.

This is why the global research resonates locally. We are one of the world’s most recognised tea-producing nations. Tea is woven into our identity. Coffee culture is expanding rapidly in urban centres. But our context is unique. Sri Lankan tea is often strong, sweet and prepared with milk. Dietary patterns, genetics, healthcare access and lifestyle behaviours differ from the Western populations studied.

At present, Sri Lanka does not have large-scale national research specifically examining tea or coffee consumption and dementia risk within our own communities. That gap highlights the need for local scientific inquiry before drawing firm conclusions tailored to our population.

The Real takeaway for Sri Lankans

So should Sri Lankans start counting cups as a form of brain insurance? Not quite. The evidence suggests moderation is key. Two to three cups of caffeinated coffee or one to two cups of tea per day appears to be the range associated with lower dementia risk in international studies. More is not necessarily better. Excess caffeine can disrupt sleep and increase anxiety, both of which negatively affect cognitive health.

Brain protection does not come from a single habit. It comes from a pattern of living. Regular physical activity, quality sleep, controlling blood pressure and diabetes, maintaining social connections and keeping the mind intellectually active all play powerful roles in reducing dementia risk. A cup of tea shared with friends may support brain health not only because of its antioxidants, but because of the conversation and connection that accompany it.

The global research has not delivered a miracle cure. What it has delivered is a reminder. Everyday habits matter. Lifestyle choices accumulate over decades. And sometimes the rituals we cherish may carry benefits beyond comfort.

In Sri Lanka, the kettle will continue to boil. The real question is whether we use these moments to talk openly about dementia, support ageing parents with dignity, and invest in healthier futures. If a simple cup of tea or coffee sparks that awareness, then it may already be contributing more to brain health than any headline alone can capture.

For a clearer understanding of what the research really means, explore our concise 2-minute AI explainer. Click here

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Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) National Organizer and Member of Parliament Namal Rajapaksa, stated that a Presidential Commission should be appointed to investigate the ‘Aragalaya’ protest movement and the foreign funding it allegedly received.

He made these remarks while addressing the media at the SLPP party headquarters in Nelum Mawatha yesterday (13).

Expressing his views on this further, Namal Rajapaksa claimed:

Certain individuals sacrificed a life to achieve their own political objectives under the guise of the ‘Aragalaya’. A group of youth were sent to the gallows. Those who appeared on mainstream media giving advice and inciting people—urging them to take to the streets and attack while promising to take care of the consequences—are now in power, while those young people have ended up at the gallows.”

Shenali D Waduge

Why is it important to go back in time to understand the root causes of every country unable to rise from its colonial past? Why have these nations that have self-sustained themselves for centuries during times when there were no imports or exports, dollar transactions now crippled in debt? While modern conflicts preach about accountability & acknowledgment, there is little or no such by the very entities that engineered, institutionalized, politicized selective and privileged policies that constitute the symptoms behind most of today’s global conflicts. Without understanding this background, people are made to believe the Sinhalese & Tamils have been enemies. Sri Lanka’s civilization is far beyond the 443 years western colonials occupied the island or the over 200 years of South Indian invader rule.

1. Portuguese Period (1505–1658) – Malabars as Foreign Settlers

Portuguese chroniclers consistently labeled Tamil-speaking populations as Malabares”, migrants from South India, not indigenous.

Fernao de Queiroz (1687):

• The Chingalas are the natural inhabitants and ancient possessors of the island.”
• The Malabars are foreigners who came from the coast of India, settling principally in the northern parts.”
• The kingdom of Jaffnapatam was formed by Malabars who crossed over from the Coromandel coast.”

João Ribeiro (1685):

• The Chingalas are the true natives of the land.”
• The Malabars came from the Coromandel coast and settled in Jaffna.”

Key point: No Portuguese source ever recognizes Tamils as indigenous.

2. Dutch Period (1658–1796) – Consolidating Migrant Status

Philippus Baldaeus (1672):

• The Chingalese are the proper natives of the island.”
• The Malabars crossed over from the coast of India and established settlements in the north.”

Francois Valentyn (1726):

• The Sinhalese have inhabited the island from the most ancient times.”
• The Malabars are immigrants from South India who formed colonies in Jaffna.”

Dutch records confirm importation of thousands of Malabars, and explicitly did not recognize them as natives.

3. British Period (1796–1948) – Institutionalizing Artificial Identities

Robert Knox (1681):

• These people are the native inhabitants of the island.” (Sinhalese)

Captain Robert Percival (1803):

• The Malabars are foreign settlers, differing in every respect from the native inhabitants.”

Sir James Emerson Tennent (1859):

• The Sinhalese constitute the aboriginal population of the island.”
• The Malabars derive their origin from Southern India.”

Casie Chitty (1834):

• The Tamils of Ceylon are descendants of Malabars who migrated from Southern India.”

George Turnour (1837):

• The Sinhalese monarchy and civilization existed centuries before South Indian invasions.”

Creation of Ceylon Tamil” – 20th Century Administrative Rebranding

Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam (1901):

The term ‘Malabar’ gave the impression that they were foreigners.”

1911 Census (E.B. Denham, British Administration):

For the first time:

• Ceylon Tamils (localized identity)
• Indian Tamils (indentured laborers)

Before 1911, Tamils were Malabars, classified by occupation, caste, or origin, with no political or territorial identity.

After 1911, administrative labels → political identity → communal consciousness → territorial claims → separatist ideology.

British policies imported over 1 million Indian Tamils as plantation laborers, officially Indian Tamils,” temporary and stateless.

Questioning the Colonial Census – The Ceylon Tamil” Construct

Understanding how artificial ethnic identities were created requires examining the timeline of censuses in Ceylon and the emergence of Ceylon Tamil”.

1. Pre-1911 Censuses – No Ceylon Tamil” Category

Census Year	Classification of Tamils	Notes
1824	Malabars, Sinhalese, Moors, Europeans	Earliest British population survey; Tamils called Malabars, no political identity
1871	Low-country Sinhalese, Kandyan Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors, Malays, Europeans	First scientific census; Tamils grouped as a single category
1881	Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors, Europeans	Tamils not subdivided; identity based on language/caste, not political or territorial claim
1891	Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors, Europeans	No separate Ceylon Tamil” or territorial identity
1901	Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors, Europeans	Classification remained consistent; census purely descriptive

Observation: Until 1911, there was no administrative distinction between local Tamil settlers (Malabars) and other groups.

There was no Ceylon Tamil” identity, no political or territorial implication, only linguistic/caste-based categorization.

Census of 1911 – The Turning Point

Compiler: E. B. Denham, Census Superintendent

Publication: Census of Ceylon, 1911, Volume I – General Report (Government Press, Colombo, 1912)

Racial Classification Introduced for the First Time:

• Ceylon Tamils(local Tamil-speaking population)
• Indian Tamils(indentured plantation laborers from South India)

Significance: This was a completely new political-racial construct. Administrative convenience became a political identity, laying the foundation for communal consciousness, representation, and eventual territorial claims.

Questions Raised by the 1911 Census

1. Why did the British suddenly create Ceylon Tamil” in 1911?

• Previous censuses did not distinguish between Malabars and other Tamil-speaking populations.
• The label had no historical or indigenous basis.

2. Was this merely administrative, or intentionally political?

• Census categories are often neutral, but here the creation of a separate racial-political identityenabled later communal representation and territorial claims.

3. Impact on subsequent politics and separatism:

• This administrative act directly influenced the formation of:
• Federal Party (ITAK)
• TULF political platform
• Vaddukoddai Resolution
• LTTE separatist ideology

4. Historical legitimacy and public perception:

• Can a 20th-century colonial administrative categoryoverride centuries of historical, social, and cultural realities?
• How did the census reframe the narrativeof Sinhalese-Tamil relations, presenting artificial divisions as natural or historical?

Key Observations

Before 1911: Tamils were classified as Malabars — migrants from South India, not a politically or territorially distinct population.

1911 Census: Introduced Ceylon Tamil” for the first time — a politically engineered identity.

Consequence: Administrative convenience → political identity → communal mobilization → separatist ideology.

Takeaway: The very foundation of the Ceylon Tamil” identity used in later political movements originates in a single colonial census, not in historical continuity or indigenous ethnicity.

From Ceylon Tamil” to Separatist Politics: The Colonial Roots of Secessionist Demands

Step	Action	Outcome
1911 Census	Created Ceylon Tamil”	Admin → Political identity
1949 ITAK	Federal Party	Territorial claims
1976 TULF	Vaddukoddai Resolution	Sovereign Tamil Eelam claim
1987 Accord	Provincial autonomy	Partial political legitimacy
LTTE	Armed secession	Northern/Eastern provinces claimed
Diaspora	Global advocacy	International lobbying citing artificial identity

1. Artificial Identity: Ceylon Tamil” (1911 Census)

• Pre-1911: Tamils wereMalabars, migrants from South India; no political or territorial identity.
• 1911 Census:British created Ceylon Tamil” and Indian Tamil” as separate categories.
• Result: Administrative convenience →political identity → communal consciousness → territorial claim.

This act institutionalized division, setting the stage for ethnic mobilization.

2. ITAK & TULF – Political Consolidation of Identity

• Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK, 1949)– Federal Party
  • Directlybuilt upon the Ceylon Tamil” administrative identity.
  • Political goal:federal state for Ceylon Tamils.
• Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF, 1976)
  • Adopted ITAK’s platform.
  • Vaddukoddai Resolution (1976):

Called for a sovereign Tamil Eelam, claiming the northern and eastern provinces based on Tamil majority populations.

The Tamil-speaking people of the North and East have a right to self-determination and to establish a sovereign Tamil Eelam.” – Vaddukoddai Resolution, 1976

Observation: The legal/administrative recognition of Ceylon Tamils in 1911 was the first step in creating a population category that later justified claims for territorial self-determination.

3. Indo-Lanka Accord (1987) – State Recognition of Tamil Political Identity

• Accord wording emphasizedTamil-speaking population of the north and east” and provincial devolution.
• Intended as a compromise: provincial autonomy for areas dominated byCeylon Tamils.
• Consequence: Even limited devolutionrecognized a politically distinct Tamil entity, echoing the 1911 census’s artificial separation.

The Tamil-speaking population of the Northern and Eastern provinces shall have devolved powers, and their distinct identity shall be recognized.” – Indo-Lanka Accord, 1987

4. LTTE Demands – Militarization of Artificial Identity

• LTTE used theCeylon Tamil identity to claim:
  • Entirenorthern and eastern provinces as a Tamil homeland.
  • Exclusive rights based on ethnic majority,” ignoring historical Sinhalese presence.
• Territorial claims inVaddukoddai Resolution and later LTTE manifestos directly trace back to the recognition of Ceylon Tamils as a separate group.

Without the 1911 administrative identity, the ideological foundation for such territorial demands would have lacked legitimacy.

5. Diaspora Advocacy – Global Amplification

• Diaspora groups (Europe, North America, Australia) continue to:
  • Claim rights forCeylon Tamils
  • Lobby UN, EU, and human rights forums using thehistorical political identity of Ceylon Tamil”.
• Examples of demands:
  • Recognition of Tamil Eelam.
  • Autonomy or federal guarantees fornorthern and eastern provinces.
• International intervention citingCeylon Tamil oppression”, framing Sinhalese as the majority oppressor.

This demonstrates colonial administrative classification → local political identity → militant claims → global diaspora advocacy.

6. Summary – The Causal Chain

Step	Description	Effect
1911 Census	Creation of Ceylon Tamil” identity	Administrative identity → Political identity
ITAK (1949) & TULF (1976)	Federalist political platform	Territorial claims, Vaddukoddai Resolution
Indo-Lanka Accord (1987)	Limited devolution	State-level recognition of distinct political Tamil identity
LTTE (1980s–2009)	Armed separatist demands	Northern & Eastern provinces claimed as Tamil homeland
Diaspora Groups	International advocacy	Global lobbying, human rights campaigns

Diaspora Statements on Self‑Determination and Tamil Eelam

From a public Tamil diaspora press release calling for recognition of Tamil self‑determination and political solutions:

We Tamils have been fighting for over seventy years for self‑determination. We are a nation of people living in the merged North and East in the island of Ceylon. We have our right to determine our own destiny… successively suppressed… amounting to genocide.”
— Statement by Tamil diaspora advocacy groups, urging UN recognition, an internationally monitored referendum for people in northern/eastern provinces and their descendants, and recognition of Tamil territories not governed by Tamils.

The State of Tamil Eelam shall consist of the people of the Northern and Eastern provinces… and ensure full and equal rights of citizenship… Tamil shall be the language of the State…”

— Translated extracts from TULF political platform.

The North was under South Indian invader rule but that ruler never extended to present East.

Invader rule does not constitute ethnic homeland” and if invaders never ruled Eastern Province, how can this so-called Tamil Eelam include entire Eastern Province too.

The entire separatist and territorial movement, from ITAK/TULF to LTTE and diaspora activism, originates from a 20th-century colonial administrative act — the artificial categorization of Ceylon Tamil” in 1911.

International Law

• Territorial Integrity:UN Charter Article 2(4) prohibits secession without consent.
• Right to Self-Determination:Only applies to historically oppressed or indigenous people, not administrative constructs.
• Colonial Responsibility:Shows colonial census categories led to long-term conflicts.
• Diaspora / External Recognition:International recognition cannot override historical and legal realities.

Understanding these roots is essential to seeing through modern narratives of ancient ethnic enmity” and recognizing how colonial and neocolonial policies engineered divisions for administrative convenience and political control.

Shenali D Waduge

Dr Sarath Obeysekera

My wife and I recently arrived in Colombo from Singapore on a late-night flight. As dual citizens, I hold both a Sri Lankan passport and a British passport. As is my usual practice, I presented both passports to the immigration officer, since officers typically request to see them.

To my surprise, the officer stated that his system did not show that I was a dual citizen. He was holding my British passport and said, Your dual citizenship is not indicated, and you cannot enter.” I immediately informed him that I had also handed over my Sri Lankan passport, where my dual citizenship status is clearly mentioned.

He appeared hesitant to proceed with stamping the passports. My wife and I were already very tired due to a delayed UL flight and it was well past midnight. Despite my natural frustration in such situations, I remained calm and asked him what needed to be done. He responded that this was a system problem.”

I explained that I am a citizen of this country, holding a valid Sri Lankan passport, and that I have traveled in and out of Sri Lanka many times over the years without facing such an issue. This was the first time I encountered such difficulty.

Fortunately, the lady officer seated next to him, wearing a headscarf, intervened and advised him to allow us to enter. Eventually, he said he would enter into the system” that I am a dual citizen. I remarked that if there was a system requirement, immigration authorities should have updated such records 10–15 years ago, given that my dual citizenship is long-standing.

After some further processing, he finally stamped both passports and allowed us to enter.

This experience raises some questions:
• Why was a valid Sri Lankan passport not sufficient proof of citizenship?
• Why was dual citizenship information apparently missing from the system?
• Are dual citizens at risk of unnecessary inconvenience due to database gaps?
• Was this simply inexperience, or something else?

As senior citizens arriving late at night, we did not expect to face uncertainty about entry into our own country.

I sincerely hope the relevant authorities review such procedures to ensure that dual citizens are treated with clarity, efficiency, and respect.

I repatriated back for to my own motherland and getting my foreign pension in Sri Lanka and contributing to our national coffers I expect better treatment

—
Sarath Obeysekera

Regards

Dr Sarath Obeysekera

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පෘතුගීසීන් විසින් සොරකම් කරන ලදැයි කියන, අවුරුදු 500කට අධික කාලයක් නොදිරා පවතින තොටගමුවේ ශ්‍රී රාහුල හිමියන්ගේ අභිරහස් දේහය පිළිබඳව ඔබ විශ්වාස කරනවාද? ලංකාවේ ස්වර්ණමය කෝට්ටේ යුගයේ බැබලුණු ෂඩ් භාෂා පරමේශ්වර, මහා පඬිවර තොටගමුවේ ශ්‍රී රාහුල හාමුදුරුවන්ගේ දේහය අදටත් ඉන්දියාවේ ගෝවේ පෞරාණික දේවස්ථානයක සුරක්ෂිතව ඇති බවට ජනප්‍රවාදයක් පවතිනවා. මේ නොදිරන දේහයේ රහස සහ එහි ඇති සිංහල කවිය පිටුපස සැඟවුණු සත්‍යය කුමක්ද? ගුප්ත විද්‍යාඥ රොෂාන් චානක තිසේරා මහතා සහ අංගම්පොර ශිල්පී අජන්ත මහන්තාරච්චි මහතා මේ අභිරහස හෙළි කර ගැනීම සඳහා ගෝවේ බලා පිටත්ව ගියා. දස වසරකට වරක් ප්‍රදර්ශනය කෙරෙන මෙම දේහය ඔවුන් දැක බලාගත් ආකාරය, ඔවුන් දුටු සත්‍යය සහ ඒ පිළිබඳව ඔවුන් කළ පර්යේෂණ මේ වීඩියෝවෙන් ඔබට ඉදිරිපත් කරනවා. ශ්‍රී රාහුල හිමියන්ට මහා දැනුමක් ලැබුණු සරස්වතී තෛලය, උන්වහන්සේගේ නොදිරන දේහය සහ පෘතුගීසීන් විසින් එය ගෝවේට ගෙන ගිය ආකාරය පිළිබඳ පුදුම සහගත තොරතුරු මෙහි අන්තර්ගතයි. දකුණු අතේ ඇති සිංහල කවියේ අභිරහස, දේහයේ කොටස් ලෝකයේ විවිධ ප්‍රදේශවලට යැවූ ආකාරය සහ ඊළඟට දේහය ප්‍රදර්ශනය කරන්නේ කවදාද යන්න පිළිබඳව සියලු තොරතුරු දැන ගැනීමට මේ වීඩියෝව නරඹන්න! මෙය හුදෙක් ජනප්‍රවාදයක් පමණක්ද? නැතිනම් සත්‍යයක්ද? ඔබේ අදහස් පහතින් Comment කරන්න! අපේ Channel එක Subscribe කරන්නත් අමතක කරන්න එපා! Do you believe in the mysterious, undecayed body of Thotagamuve Sri Rahula Thera, said to have been stolen by the Portuguese over 500 years ago? Legend has it that the body of the revered scholar Thotagamuve Sri Rahula Thera, who shone brightly during Sri Lanka’s golden Kotte era, is still preserved in an ancient church in Goa, India. What is the truth behind this undecayed body and the Sinhala poem found on it? Mystic and entrepreneur Roshan Chanaka Thisera, along with Angampora martial artist Ajantha Mahantharachchi, embarked on a journey to Goa to uncover this mystery. This video presents their experience of witnessing the body, which is displayed once every ten years, the truths they discovered, and their ongoing research. This video contains astonishing information about the Saraswathi oil that bestowed immense knowledge upon Sri Rahula Thera, the enigma of his undecayed body, and how the Portuguese allegedly took it to Goa. Watch this video to learn all about the mystery of the Sinhala poem on his right hand, how parts of the body were sent to various parts of the world, and when the body will next be exhibited! Is this merely a legend, or is there a truth to it? 

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0:00 – 0:50: හැඳින්වීම: අභිරහස් දේහය සහ ගෝවේ සැඟවුණු කතාව (Hook) 

0:50 – 3:42: කෝට්ටේ යුගය සහ රාහුල හිමියන්ගේ මහා පඬිත්වය.

 3:42 – 3:46: රාහුල හිමියන්ගේ දැනුමේ රහස: සරස්වතී තෛලය සහ වීදාගම හිමියන්. 

3:46 – 4:42: නොදිරන දේහයේ අභිරහස සහ පෘතුගීසීන්ගේ පැහැර ගැනීම. 

4:42 – 5:34: සත්‍යය සොයා ගිය ගමන: රොෂාන් චානක සහ අජන්ත මහන්තාරච්චි ගෝවේදී.

 5:34 – 6:40: දේහයේ සැබෑ ස්වභාවය: ඔවුන් දුටු දේ. 

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The Vietnamese Buddhist Monk Ven. Pannakara Thero is on the Global centre stage today. His Walk for Peace in the USA lasting 108 Days across 8 States has raised the stature of Vietnam in the Buddhist World to an unparalleled high level. He has brought world attention to a cause of Buddhism –

in the USA  – ‘ Declare Vesak a National Holiday ‘  without firing a single bullet without using a gun without an iota of violence. 

He has created a new dimension for peaceful protests in the USA like what Mahatma Gandhi did in India in his day about 100 years ago when demanding freedom and independence from Britain by use of non – violence and satyagraha.

 All strength to the elbow of Ven. Pannakara and his travelling band of 19 Monks. He has given leadership to the cause of Buddhism at a time when the term ‘leadership’ and ‘outspokenness’ for any cause of Buddhism are virtually non – existent and conspicuous by their absence. 

Ven. Pannakara has the potential of being idolized worldwide like a Rock Star but for noble worthy causes. He has done for Buddhism with his simplicity and directness which no other Buddhist figure has done in recent times. He has become the rage that is sweeping the entire globe and touching the hearts of both Buddhists and Non – Buddhists alike. 

Being the country that has the longest history of uninterrupted Sri Lanka must unhesitatingly invite Ven. Pannakara and his band of 19 Theravada monks visit Sri Lanka to a warm welcome and as part of the oncoming Vesak Celebration. Let us Buddhists tell Ven. Pannakara and his gallant band that ‘ We and them are One’ 

Let us also use this occasion to remind the Vietnamese Buddhists that 63 years ago both the Govt. of Sri Lanka and the Buddhist Public stood by them in their hour of crisis. 

Vietnam and Sri Lanka Buddhist Ties

Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) played a pivotal role in supporting Vietnamese Buddhists during the 1963 Buddhist Crisis, providing both diplomatic pressure and grassroots solidarity. 

Key support from Sri Lanka included:

• Diplomatic Efforts: Prime Minister

Sirimavo Bandaranaike

instructed Sri Lanka’s UN Ambassador,

R. S. S. Gunawardena to raise concerns about the repression in South Vietnam.

• UN Intervention: Sri Lanka’s appeals contributed to the UN General Assembly adopting a motion on October 8, 1963, to send a fact-finding mission to investigate the situation.
• Public Demonstrations: Organizations like the Bauddha Jatika Balavegaya (BJB) led by L.H. Mettananda organized large public protests in Colombo.
• Spiritual Support: Venerable

Narada Maha Thera

undertook “Dharmaduta” missions to South Vietnam.

• Lasting Connection: Sri Lanka established strong ties with Vietnamese Buddhist leaders, a relationship that continues to this day through mutual support and cultural exchange. 

……………..

In 1963,

both the government and the people of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) provided significant moral, public, and diplomatic support to Vietnamese Buddhists during their crisis against the Ngo Dinh Diem regime. The support was driven by solidarity with fellow Buddhists facing discrimination and religious repression. 

Sri Lanka’s assistance included various actions. 

The Bauddha Jatika Balavegaya (BJB) organized public protests, including a massive rally at Ananda College, Colombo in October 1963

Prime Minister

Sirimavo Bandaranaike

directed Sri Lanka’s UN Ambassador to raise the issue internationally. These efforts, along with those of other nations, led to the UN General Assembly adopting a motion on October 8, 1963, to send a fact-finding mission to South Vietnam. A few days after the arrival of the Sri Lanka instigated UN fact – finding mission in Saigon the dictator Ngo Dinh Diem and his Government were overthrown on November 2, 1963

Religious leaders in Sri Lanka, such as Venerable

Narada Maha Thera , also expressed support. Sri Lanka also acknowledged the sacrifices of Vietnamese monks who protested the regime. This support played a role in the international response to the 1963 Buddhist Crisis. 

See also

Shenali Waduge

Remembering the martyrdom of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc on its 50th Anniversary (1963 – 2013)

https://www.onlanka.com/news/remembering-the-martyrdom-of-vietnamese-buddhist-monk-thich-quang-duc-on-its-50th-anniversary-1963-2013.html

see also

https://vufo.org.vn/Buddhist-Sangha-and-Vietnam-Sri-Lanka-Friendship-Association-Give-Gifts-to-Sri-Lankans-07-48632.html?lang=en

https://www.dailymirror.lk/front-page/Beauty-queen-turned-Bhikkhuni/238-184663

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්

ත්‍රිකුණාමල ශ්‍රී සම්බුද්ධත්ව ජයන්ති බෝධිරාජ විහාරස්ථානයේ ආගමික කටයුතු තවදුරට ත් සිදු කරන බව ත් මෙම විහාරස්ථානයට අයත් ඉඩම් හෝටලයක් ඉඳිකිරීම සඳහා පැවරීමට උත්සාහ කරමින් සිටින බව ත් බළන්ගොඩ කස්සප හිමියෝ අවධාරණය කළහ.

වර්තමාන ආණ්ඩුව ඉන්දියාව සමග ඇති කරගත් ගිවිසුම්වලට අනුව නැගෙනහිර පළාතේ ඉඩම් ඉන්දියාවට පැවරීමට උත්සාහ කරමින් සිටින බව ත් බෝධිරාජ විහාරස්ථානයේ ඉඩම ඉන්දීය ව්‍යාපාරිකයන්ට හෝටලයක් සකස් කිරීම සඳහා ලබා දීමට සැලසුම් කර තිබෙන බව ත් උන්වහන්සේ ප්‍රකාශ කළහ.

මෙම කටයුතු සිදුකිරීම සඳහා මහ සංඝරත්නය සහ හා බෞද්ධ ජනතාව බාධාවක් වී තිබෙන බව ත් මේ නිසා මහ සංඝරත්නය හා බෞද්ධ ජනතාව මර්දනය කිරීමට පොලිසියේ ඇතැම් පිරිස් හා ඇතැම් රජයේ නිලධාරීන් විවිධ කටයුතු සිදුකරමින් සිටින බව ත් බළන්ගොඩ කස්සප හිමියෝ අවධාරණය කළහ.

කොළඹ 07 බෞද්ධ මහ සම්මේලනයේදී පැවති මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාවකදී මේ බව සඳහන් කළ උන්වහන්සේ මෙසේද ප්‍රකාශ කළහ.

සියම් දේශයේ සිට උපසම්පදාව රැගෙන ආ පුණ්‍ය භූමියට බුදු පිළිමයක් තැන්පත් කර බුද්ධ ආවරණයක් සකස් කිරීම වරදක් ලෙස සිතා ආණ්ඩුව කටයුතු කරනවා.

මෙම ස්ථානයේ කාන්තාවකට අයත් ජූස් බාර් එකක් තියෙනවා කියලා මඩ බළකායන් විසින් ප්‍රචාරය කරනවා. එත් ඇත්තම සිද්ධිය තමයි මෙම විහාරස්ථාන භූමියේ වෙළෙඳසලක් තියෙනවා. ඒක විධිමත් ක්‍රමයට බදු ලබා දීලා තියෙන්නේ. හැබැයි ආණ්ඩුව නියෝජනය කරන මන්ත්‍රිවරයෙකුට පාරෙන් එහා පැත්තේ කඩයක් තියෙනවා. විහාරස්ථානයේ සිද්ධියට මහ සංඝරත්නයට පහර දෙනවා. තර්ජනය කරනවා. රණවිරුවන් ජීවිත පූජාකරලා බේරාගත් භූමිය ගිවිසුම් හතක් යටතේ ඉන්දියාවට දෙන්න යනවා. ඒත් මහ සංඝරත්නය භූමිය රැක ගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටිනවා.

ජනාධිපති කියන්නේ තාවකාලික පාලකයෙක්. ඔහු දැන ගන්න ඕනෑ මේ භූමිය ආරක්ෂා කරලා මතු පරම්පරාවට දායාද කරන්න. ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ ඒ ගැන පැහැදිලිවම සඳහන් කරලා තියෙනවා. ත්‍රිකුණාමලය දිස්ත්‍රික්කය තුළ සිංහල, මුස්ලිම් හා දෙමළ ජනතාව සමගියෙන් ජීවත්වෙනවා. එහේ කිසිම ජාතිවාදයක් නැහැ.

පැලවත්තේ මඩ බළකාය විසින් විවිධ මඩ ප්‍රචාරය කරනවා. හැබැයි මහා සංඝරත්නය එවාට නොසැලී කටයුතු කරනවා. මේ ආණ්ඩු විසින් සිංහලයාට බෞද්ධයාට කරන කුමන්ත්‍රණ නවතා දැමිය යුතුයි. එක් සිංහලයකුට පහර දෙන කොට වීර පුතුන් සිය ගණනක් මේ භූමියේ පහළ වෙනවා.

විහාරස්ථානයේ සිද්ධිය මුල් කර ගනිමින් මහ සංඝරත්නයට පහරදුන් පිරිස් සම්බන්ධයෙන් පැමිණිලි සිදුකරලා තියෙනවා. එත් ඒ පැමිණිලිවලට අනුව නීතිය ක්‍රියාත්මක වුණේ නැහැ. මේ සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසමට පැමිණිලි කරලා ඉදිරි නීතිමය කටයුතු කරන්න බලාපොරොත්තු වෙනවා.”

ඉන්දික හේවාවිතාරණ
Mawbima

Courtesy Adaderana

Minister of Ports and Civil Aviation, Anura Karunatilaka, has resigned from the Special Parliamentary Select Committee appointed to look into the release of 323 containers from the Colombo Port without being subjected to mandatory physical inspection.

The Parliamentary Select Committee, appointed to investigate and report on the release of the 323 containers without mandatory physical inspection and to submit its proposals and recommendations, convened for the third consecutive day on 11 February 2026 in Parliament under the chairmanship of Minister of Justice and National Integration, Attorney-at-Law Harshana Nanayakkara.

At the outset of the proceedings, the chair informed the Committee that Minister Karunatilaka had informed of his resignation from the membership of the committee.

He further stated that another member would be appointed in due course.

A group of officials from Sri Lanka Customs, including Director General Seevali Arukgoda, were summoned before the Committee, and evidence relating to the incident was recorded.

Courtesy Adaderana

The leader of the Sarvajana Balaya and Member of Parliament, Dilith Jayaweera, today (13) claimed that the recent incident involving a Buddha statue in Trincomalee was deliberately used by the government to create unrest in the country.

Speaking at a press briefing in Colombo, he said, We intervened to condemn this organized cultural attack being unleashed on the country. The Trincomalee incident is just one example. In reality, there have been many more serious incidents.

It is clear that this is a tool used by the government to deliberately create instability and disrupt harmony among communities. This is evident to us,” he added.

Embassy of Sri Lanka USA

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The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Washington DC welcomed the ‘Walk for Peace’ on 10 February 2026, a walk by a group of Buddhist monks throughout the United States advocating world peace which was attracted by the people of the United States and around the world. By offering traditional Sri Lankan cuisine, the Embassy joined the Dana organized by the Sri Lankan community in the DMV area held at the National United Methodist Church which was attended by over 200 Buddhist monks. The Ambassador, upon invitation by Secretary of District of Columbia Ms. Kimberly A. Basset attended the interfaith ceremony held at the Washington National Cathedral. Thousands of people were gathered around the Cathedral showing their support for the Walk for Peace. Ambassador Mahinda Samarasinghe was joined by Deputy Head of Mission Mr. Madhuka Wickramarachchi. The Head Priest and the monks stopped momentarily at the Embassy where the Ambassador offered Atapirikara and pinned the Sri Lankan flag on the robe of Ven.Pannakara. The staff of the Embassy and the Sri Lankan community offered flowers and greeted the Walk. The Embassy distributed water bottles to all the devotees on the Walk which was highly appreciated. The Ambassador, staff of the Embassy and the members of the Sri Lankan community then walked with the monks.

උපුටාගැනීම මුහුණු පොත

පෙරේදා දිනයේ මා විසින් Facebook පළ කළ සටහන හරහා මම මතු කළේ එක් ප්‍රබල ප්‍රශ්නයකි. එනම්,

“පිළිම වන්දනාව ගෝත්‍රිකයි” යැයි පැවසූ…

“මල් වට්ටි උස්සගෙන යන්නේ නැහැ” යැයි ප්‍රතිපත්ති ප්‍රකාශ කළ…

“මාධ්‍ය පිරිවරාගෙන වඳින්න යන්නේ නැහැ” යැයි කී…

හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී, වර්තමාන ජනාධිපති අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක ඇතුළු ජවිපේ නායකයන්ගේ වෙනස පිළිබඳවයි.

මේ “පරිවර්තනය” කෙතරම් දුරදිග ගොස් තිබේද?

එදා ආගමික වතාවත් ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කළ පිරිස අද නිතරම පන්සල් යති.

නිතර මහ නායක හිමියන් හමුවෙති.

දළදා වහන්සේ ප්‍රදර්ශනය කරති.

අවසානයේ ඉන්දියානු ධාතු ප්‍රදර්ශනය දක්වාම පැමිණ ඇත!

මහජන මතය කුමක්ද?

මා මතු කළ මෙම කරුණට ප්‍රතිචාර දැක්වූ ඔබගෙන් අතිබහුතරයකගේ මතය වූයේ මෙය

“බලය රැකගැනීමට කරන රංගනයක්” සහ “මහජනතාව මුළා කිරීමක්” බවයි.

ඇත්තම අනතුර රංගනයට එපිටින්!

නමුත් අප වටහා ගත යුතු සැබෑ සත්‍යය මීට වඩා භයානකය. මෙම “නිතරම පන්සල් යාම” සහ “ආගමික ප්‍රදර්ශන” පිටුපස ඇති සැබෑ අනතුර හුදෙක් දේශපාලන රංගනයක් පමණක්ම නොවේ.

එම ආගමික ආවරණය තුළින් සිදුවන්නේ

“පෙර ආණ්ඩුවලට කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය වුවත්, කර ගැනීමට නොහැකි වූ දේවල්” ඉතා සූක්ෂම ලෙස ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමයි!

“අපේ නෙවෙයි – පෙර ආණ්ඩුවල ඒව!”

වර්තමාන ජවිපේ/මාලිමා පාලනයේ නායකයන්ගෙන් අපට නිතරම අසන්නට ලැබෙන එක්තරා සුවිශේෂී කතාවක් තිබේ. එනම්, ඔවුන් වර්තමානයේ ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන ඕනෑම මතභේදාත්මක පනතක් හෝ ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණයක් “ඔවුන්ගේ ඒවා නොව පෙර ආණ්ඩුවල ඒවා” බවයි.

මෙන්න ඊට මෑතකාලීන උදාහරණ කිහිපයක්:-

අගමැති හරිනි අමරසූරිය: “මේ අධ්‍යාපන ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ අපි ගෙනාපුවා නෙවෙයි, පෙර ආණ්ඩු ගෙනාපුවා” යැයි පවසමින් මේවා සාධාරණීකරණය කරයි.

ඇමති වටගල: පසුගියදා කුලීකරුවන් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට යැයි පවසමින් ගෙන ආ පනත් කෙටුම්පත ගැන පවසන්නේද, එය “පෙර ආණ්ඩු ගෙනා එකක්” බවයි.

මේ ප්‍රකාශය පිටුපස ඇති ඇත්තම කතාව කුමක්ද?

ඔවුන් පවසන “අපේ නෙවෙයි – පෙර ආණ්ඩුවල ඒව” යන කාරණය 100% ක්ම සත්‍යයකි. මෙහි ඇති වඩාත්ම බැරෑරුම් තත්ත්වය වන්නේද එයයි.

අද අප දකින්නේ ජවිපෙ/මාලිමා ආණ්ඩුව අලුතින් යමක් නිර්මාණය කරනවාට වඩා, 2015 සිට පැවති රජයන්ට කරගත නොහැකි වූ දේ කරලියට පැමිණීමයි. එනම්,

පෙර රජයන් ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට බලාපොරොත්තු වූ නමුත් මහජන විරෝධය නිසා නතර වූ දේවල්.

විවිධ හේතූන් මත ක්‍රියාත්මක කර ගැනීමට නොහැකි වූ ගිවිසුම්.

අඩක් නිම කර තිබූ හෝ ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට ඉතිරිව තිබූ ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ ක්‍රියාවලීන්.

කෙටියෙන් පවසන්නේ නම්, එදා පාලකයන්ට ජනතා බලය හමුවේ ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට “බියක්” හෝ “බාධාවක්” තිබූ අජෙන්ඩාවන්, අද රජය විසින් කිසිදු චකිතයකින් තොරව කරට ගෙන ඇත.

මෙම ක්‍රියාවලිය තහවුරු කරන තවත් පැහැදිලි උදාහරණ කිහිපයක් පෙන්වා දෙන්නම්…

IMF වැඩපිළිවෙළ: රනිල්ටත් වඩා තදින් ජනතාව මත!

බලයට පත්වීමට ප්‍රථම අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක ප්‍රමුඛ මාලිමා පාර්ශවය පැවසුවේ රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ එකඟ වූ IMF කොන්දේසි වෙනුවට අලුතින් DSA (Debt Sustainability Analysis) එකක් සකස් කරන බවයි.

වර්තමාන තත්ත්වය: බලයට පත්වීමෙන් පසු කිසිදු වෙනසක් නැත! රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ එකඟ වූ DSA එක ඒ ආකාරයෙන්ම, ඊටත් වඩා කැපවීමෙන් වර්තමාන රජය ක්‍රියාත්මක කරමින් සිටියි.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ඉන්දියාවේ ප්‍රාන්තයක් ද? India Connectivity Plan එකේ සැබෑ හෙළිදරව්ව!

​පෙර ආණ්ඩුවලට කර ගැනීමට නොහැකි වූ, රටේ ස්වෛරීත්වය පාවා දෙන “ඉන්දු-ලංකා” සූදුව දැන් කරලියට පැමිණ ඇත.

මොකක්ද මේ India Connectivity Plan එක?

​මෙය 2014 වසරේදී ඇමරිකානු MCC ඉඩම් කොල්ලයේ නිල නියෝජිතයා වන, මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ ප්‍රධානත්වය දරන ඇමරිකානු පාත් ෆයින්ඩර් (Pathfinder) රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධානය හරහා එළිදැක්වූ ව්‍යාපෘතියකි.

​ මේ දක්වා පැමිණි ගමන් මඟ:-

​2015 යහපාලන රජය:- මෙය ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට උත්සාහ ගත් නමුත් සාර්ථක වූයේ නැත.

​ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ පාලනය:- ඇමරිකානු ඒජන්ත මිලින්ද මොරගොඩව කැබිනට් බලතල සහිතව ඉන්දියාවේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපති ලෙස පත් කරමින් මූලික අඩිතාලම දැමීය.

​රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ පාලනය:- “අරගල” කැම්පේන් එක හරහා බලයට පැමිණ, ඇමරිකානු ඉන්දු ගේම් එකේ කොටසක් ලෙස මූලික ගිවිසුම්වලට එකඟ විය.

​ මාලිමාවේ සහ අනුරගේ “පරිවර්තනය”

​බලයට පත්වීමට ප්‍රථම මෙයට දැඩි විරෝධයක් දැක්වූ ජනාධිපති අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක ප්‍රමුඛ ජවිපෙ/මාලිමා පාර්ශවය, අද ක්‍රියා කරන්නේ රටේ ස්වාධීනත්වය හදවතින්ම පාවා දුන් රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහටත් වඩා උනන්දුවෙනි!

​සිදුවූයේ කුමක්ද?

​ඉන්දියාවේ අගමැති නරේන්ද්‍ර මෝඩි ලංකාවට ගෙන්වා සම්මාන පිරිනමන ලදී.

​රනිල්ට ඉතිරි වී තිබූ සියලුම කටයුතු කිසිදු හිරිකිතයකින් තොරව නිම කිරීමට පියවර ගන්නා ලදී.

​2025/04/05 දින රටට හෙළි නොකළ අභිරහස් ගිවිසුම් 07ක් අත්සන් කරමින් රටේ ස්වෛරීත්වය සහ භෞමික අඛණ්ඩභාවය ඉන්දියාවට පාවාදීමට කටයුතු කර ඇත.

​ සාක්ෂි සහිතව සත්‍යය දැනගන්න!

​මේවා හුදු චෝදනා නොවේ. පහත සබැඳි (Links) හරහා ගොස් වීඩියෝ සහ වාර්තා කියවා අවබෝධ කර ගන්න:-

​ 2025 ඉන්දු-ලංකා ගිවිසුම් සහ ජාතික භෞතික සැලැස්ම (විශේෂ විමර්ශන වාර්තාව)

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​ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව නම් වූ රාජ්‍යයෙහි ස්වාධීනත්වය අවසන් හුස්ම හෙළමින් ඇත…

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විකෘති අධ්‍යාපන ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ: අපේ දරුවන්ගේ අනාගතය පාවාදීමේ “කළු මෙහෙයුම”!

වර්තමානයේ සිදුවන අධ්‍යාපන ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ යනු අහම්බයක් නොව, 1981 සිට පැවත එන සහ 2018 සිට ලෝක බැංකුව හා ආසියානු සංවර්ධන බැංකුව (ADB) හරහා තල්ලු කරන සූක්ෂම සැලසුමක ප්‍රතිඵලයකි.

ඉතිහාසය සහ සැඟවුණු අතීතය

1981 ආරම්භය: එවකට අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ඉදිරිපත් කළ “අධ්‍යාපන ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ – යෝජිත ජාතික ප්‍රතිපත්තිය” (Proposals for a National Policy on Education) හෙවත් මතභේදාත්මක ධවල පත්‍රිකාව.

2015 යහපාලන උත්සාහය: ලෝක බැංකුව, IMF සහ NGO ගණනාවක උවමනාව මත පාසල් විෂය නිර්දේශයෙන් “ඉතිහාසය” විෂය ඉවත් කිරීමට එවකට ඇමති අඛිල විරාජ් කාරියවසම් උත්සාහ කළේය.

එදා විරෝධය: එදා මෙම “කළු මෙහෙයුමට” එරෙහිව ජවිපෙ ප්‍රමුඛ වෘත්තීය සමිති සහ ශිෂ්‍ය ව්‍යාපාර දැවැන්ත ලෙස වීදි බැස එය පරාජය කළහ.

මාලිමාවේ “අපූරු” පරිවර්තනය

එදා මේවාට විරුද්ධ වූ ජවිපෙ නායකයන්ම අද බලයට පත්වී, රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහටවත් කර ගැනීමට නොහැකි වූ එම විනාශකාරී ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ අගමැති හරිනි අමරසූරිය හරහා ඊටත් වඩා වේගයෙන් ක්‍රියාත්මක කරමින් සිටියි.

“පෙළ පොත” වෙනුවට “මොඩියුලය” (Module): දැවැන්ත නීතිමය සූදුවක්!

පෙළ පොතක් (Textbook) වෙනුවට මොඩියුලයක් දරුවන් අතට පත් කිරීම පිටුපස ඇත්තේ සරල වෙනසක් නොව, රටේ අධ්‍යාපන නීතිමය ව්‍යුහය මඟහැර යන දැවැන්ත සූදුවකි. මෙහි භයානක ප්‍රතිඵල දැනටමත් කරලියට පැමිණ ඇත:

අසභ්‍ය වෙබ් අඩවි සබැඳි: 6 ශ්‍රේණියේ ඉංග්‍රීසි ආධාරක මොඩියුලයේ (English Support Module) අසභ්‍ය වෙබ් අඩවි සබැඳියක් ඇතුළත් වීම හරහා මුළු රටම කම්පනයට පත් විය.

වැරදි බහුල වීම: දිනෙන් දින මෙම මොඩියුල තුළ දක්නට ලැබෙන බරපතල වැරදි ප්‍රමාණය ඉහළ යමින් පවතී.

අනාගතය අනතුරේ: මොඩියුල මාෆියාව හරහා දරුවන්ගේ අධ්‍යාපන ප්‍රමිතිය බිඳ දැමීමේ ක්‍රියාවලිය රජය විසින් හරි අපූරුවට ඉදිරියට ගෙන යනු ලබයි.

වැඩිදුර විමර්ශනය සඳහා සාක්ෂි

මෙම ඛේදවාචකය පිළිබඳ මා විසින් ලියන ලද සම්පූර්ණ විස්තර සහිත ලිපි මාලාව කියවා සත්‍යය වටහා ගන්න:-

1) අධ්‍යාපන ඇමතිවරිය සහ අගමැතිවරිය ලෙස හරිනි අමරසූරිය මෙම ඛේදවාචකයට සෘජුවම වගකිය යුතුය

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2) දරුවන් බිලිගන්න හැදූ ‘මොඩියුල මාෆියාවේ’ ප්‍රකාශය!” (අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යංශයේ ලේකම් නාලක කළුවැව විසින් සිදුකළ සම්පූර්ණ ප්‍රකාශය ඇසුරින් කල ප්‍රශ්න කිරීම)

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3) මොඩියුල මාෆියාව” සහ නීතියේ හිඩැස (පැහැදිලි කිරීම)

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4) විශේෂ මාධ්‍ය අනාවරණය

“මොඩියුල මාෆියාව” සහ ළමා පරපුරට එල්ල කළ ව්‍යවස්ථාපිත ද්‍රෝහිකම

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5) “දරුවන්ගේ අනාගතය පාවා දුන්

‘මොඩියුල’ මාෆියාවට එරෙහිව”

(කන්නංගර මැතිතුමාගේ ප්‍රකාශය)

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6) දරුවන්ගේ අතට අසභ්‍ය වෙබ් අඩවි දී “බබා වෙන්න හදන” අගමැතිනියට සහ අධ්‍යාපන ඇමතිනියට දැඩි පිළිතුරක්!

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7) විකෘති අධ්‍යාපන ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ ජනපති බලහත්කාරයෙන් දරුවන්ට ලබා දීමට දඟලන්නේ ඇයි?

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“විකෘති අධ්‍යාපන ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ වලට එරෙහිව ඇයි කවුරුත් ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට

(Supreme Court) යන්නේ නැත්තේ?”

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9) ලස්සන පිටකවරවලින් වහපු “මොඩියුල මාෆියාව”: මාලිමාවේ සූක්ෂම කැම්පේන් එකට ඔබත් හසුවෙලාද?https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17r8AvERjw/

10) දරුවන්ගේ අනාගතය සහ වගවීමේ දේශපාලනය: නිලධාරීන්ට පමණක් දඬුවම් කිරීම සෑහේද?

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11) ආර්ථික සමුලුවට ගිය හරිනිගෙ සැබෑ අරමුණ!

ස්විට්සර්ලන්තයේ ඩාවෝස් නුවරින් ඇසෙන නරක ආරංචිය…

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12) 6 ශ්‍රේණියේ ඉංග්‍රීසි මොඩියුලයට (English Module) අසභ්‍ය වෙබ් අඩවි සබැඳියක් ඇතුළත් වීම හුදෙක් වැරදීමක් හෝ අත්වැරදීමක් හෝ අතපසුවීමක් හෝ නොදැනුවත්ව හෝ සිදු වූ දෙයක් ලෙස බැහැර කළ නොහැක

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MCC හෙවත් ජාතික භෞතික සැලැස්ම: නම වෙනස් වූවත් “ඉඩම් පාවාදීම” තවමත් සක්‍රීයයි!

ඇමරිකානු MCC (Millennium Challenge Corporation) ව්‍යාපෘතියට අද වූයේ කුමක්දැයි ඔබ දන්නවාද? බොහෝ දෙනා සිතන්නේ එය නතර වී ඇති බවයි. නමුත් සත්‍යය ඊට වඩා හාත්පසින්ම වෙනස්ය.

ව්‍යාපෘතියේ ආරම්භය සහ “පෙළ ගැසීම”

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ප්‍රවාහන හා ඉඩම් පරිපාලනය වැඩිදියුණු කිරීම සඳහා යැයි පවසමින් ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 480ක ආධාර මුදලක් මේ සඳහා අනුමත විය. රටේ පුරවැසියන් සහ මාධ්‍ය මෙය දැන් අමතක කර දමා ඇතත්, දේශපාලන සිතියම තුළ එය ඉතා සූක්ෂමව ක්‍රියාත්මක වෙමින් පවතී.

2019 ජුනි 12: නම වෙනස් කළ “ගැසට්” මෙහෙයුම

2019/06/12 දින එවකට මෙගාපොලිස් අමාත්‍ය පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක විසින් “ජාතික භෞතික සැලැස්ම 2048” නමින් ගැසට් පත්‍රයක් නිකුත් කරන ලදී. මෙහි ඇති රහස නම්,

MCC ව්‍යාපෘතියට අදාළ සිතියම් (Maps) එලෙසම මෙයට ඇතුළත් කිරීම.

MCC හි අන්තර්ගත සියලු කරුණු, අකුරු සහ නම් පමණක් වෙනස් කර සූක්ෂම ලෙස ප්‍රතිස්ථාපනය කිරීම.

පාලකයන් වෙනස් වුවත් “සැලසුම” වෙනස් නොවේ!

දේශපාලන සාක්ෂරතාව ඇති පුරවැසියන් පමණක් දන්නා මෙම රහස

ව්‍යාපෘතියේ ගමන් මඟ: ආණ්ඩු මාරු වුවද නොවෙනස් වූ අරමුණ

පෙර අවධිය (ගෝඨාභය / මහින්ද පාලනය)

නිහඬ ආරම්භය: සැලසුම පිළිබඳව ප්‍රසිද්ධියේ කතා නොකර, පදනම සකස් කරමින් ව්‍යාපෘතිය නිහඬව ඉදිරියට රැගෙන යාම.

පසුගිය අවධිය (රනිල් / දිනේෂ් පාලනය):

නිල එකඟතාව: ජාත්‍යන්තර මට්ටමින් සහ ප්‍රතිපත්තිමය මට්ටමින් ඇති කරගත් එකඟතාවන් තවදුරටත් ස්ථාවර කරමින් ශක්තිමත් කිරීම.

වර්තමාන අවධිය (අනුර / හරිනි පාලනය):

පූර්ණ ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීම: පෙර ආණ්ඩු විසින් සැකසූ සියලුම සැලසුම් ඒ ආකාරයෙන්ම, කිසිදු වෙනසකින් තොරව බිම මට්ටමින් ක්‍රියාවට නැංවීම.

දැවෙන ප්‍රශ්නය: එදා මේවාට විරුද්ධ වූ ජවිපේ/මාලිමා පාර්ශවය, අද කිසිදු වෙනසකින් තොරව මෙම “ඉඩම් පාවාදීමේ සැලසුම” ඉදිරියට ගෙනයන්නේ ඇයි?

සත්‍යය තේරුම් ගැනීමට මෙම වාර්තා කියවන්න

වැඩි විස්තර සහ සාක්ෂි සඳහා මා විසින් සකස් කළ මෙම විශේෂ විමර්ශන වාර්තා පරිශීලනය කරන්න:-

1) විශේෂ පර්යේෂණ වාර්තාව

MCC හෙවත් ජාතික “භෞතික සැලැස්ම – භූ-දේශපාලනික මහා සැලසුම (2000 – 2025)”

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2) “අලි ඇතුන් ඝාතන මතින් සැකසෙන MCC හෙවත් ජාතික භෞතික සැලැස්ම”

2048/2050 https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19CMFdxSrj/

3) “2025 ඉන්දු-ලංකා ගිවිසුම් සහ MCC හෙවත් ජාතික භෞතික සැලැස්ම “(විශේෂ විමර්ශන වාර්තාව)

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4) මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ න්‍යාය සහ බලවතුන්ගේ “නිහඬ එකඟතාව” (The Silent Consensus)

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5) විධායක ජනාධිපති ක්‍රමය අහෝසි කිරීම සහ ජාතික භෞතික සැලැස්ම (MCC) අතර භූ-දේශපාලනික සම්බන්ධය(විශේෂ විශ්ලේෂණ වාර්තාව)

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6) “ගෝඨාභය – මොරගොඩ සහ “කැබිනට් බලතල” ගනුදෙනුව”(විශේෂ විමර්ශන වාර්තාව)

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7) MCC හෙවත් ජාතික භෞතික සැලැස්මෙහි කොළඹ – ත්‍රිකුණාමලය කොරිඩෝවට ජලය සැපයීමට ජනපති අනුරගේ අඩි 5000???(විශේෂ විමර්ශන වාර්තාව)

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වර්තමාන ජවිපේ මාලිමා පාලනය බුදුදහමට ප්‍රමුඛතාව, ගෞරවය, වන්දනාමානය කරන බව පෙන්වමින්, තිරය පිටුපස , MCC ඉඩම් කොල්ලය වෙනුවෙන් පහත මාරාන්තික ව්‍යාපෘති ඉදිරියට ගෙන යමින් සිටී:-

1) ඉන්දියාව සමග අභිරහස් ගිවිසුම් 07

අපේ බලශක්තිය, වරාය සහ උපායමාර්ගික සම්පත් අසල්වැසි රටට ලියා දෙන රහස් න්‍යාය පත්‍ර ක්‍රියාත්මකයි.

2) “මොන්ටානා” (MONTANA) හෙවත් මෘදු සෝෆා (Soft SOFA): රටේ ආරක්ෂාව පාවාදීමේ නිහඬ මෙහෙයුම!

​ඇමරිකානු බලපෑම් හමුවේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආරක්ෂාව සහ ස්වෛරීභාවය උකස් කරන “මොන්ටානා” සැලසුම දැන් රහසිගතවම ඉදිරියට ගලා යමින් පවතී.

ගිවිසුම්වල කළු ඉතිහාසය

2007 වසර: එවකට ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ විසින් ඇමරිකානු ACSA ගිවිසුමට ප්‍රථම වරට අත්සන් තබන ලදී.

2017 වසර: අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ විසින් වඩාත් බරපතල කරුණු ඇතුළත් කරමින් එම ACSA ගිවිසුම දීර්ඝ කරන ලදී.

වර්තමාන තත්ත්වය: සෝෆා (SOFA) වෙනුවට “මොන්ටානා” (MONTANA)

වර්තමාන ජනපති අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක ප්‍රමුඛ මාලිමා රජය අත්සන් කර MONTANA (Soft SOFA) ගිවිසුම.

මෙහි ඇති අන්තරාය කුමක්ද?

මෙයට පෙර දැඩි මහජන විරෝධයක් එල්ල වූ ඇමරිකානු සෝෆා (SOFA) ගිවිසුමේ අඩංගු බරපතල කරුණු, සෘජුවම නොවුවත් “මෘදු ලෙස” (Softly) මෙම මොන්ටානා ගිවිසුමට ඇතුළත් කර ඇති බවට සැක පළ වේ. මෙහි අවසාන ප්‍රතිඵලය වන්නේ:

මුහුද, ගුවන සහ ගොඩබිම යන සමස්ත ක්ෂේත්‍රයන් ඇමරිකානු හමුදාවන්ගේ ඕනෑම මෙහෙයුමකට විවෘතව තැබීමයි.

සැකයට තුඩු දෙන “ඇමරිකානු නිවේදනය”

මෙම ගිවිසුම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මෙරට ඇමරිකානු තානාපති කාර්යාලය විසින් නිකුත් කරන ලද නිවේදනය පදනම්ව, රටේ ස්වෛරීභාවයට එල්ල වී ඇති තර්ජනය පිළිබඳව දැඩි සැකයක් මතුව ඇත. රජය විසින් ජනතාවගෙන් වසන් කරන මෙම ක්‍රියාවලිය පිටුපස ඇති සැබෑ අරමුණ කුමක්ද?

වැඩිදුර විමර්ශනය සඳහා

මෙම ගිවිසුමෙන් රටේ ආරක්ෂාවට සිදුවන බලපෑම සහ එහි සැඟවුණු කරුණු පිළිබඳ සම්පූර්ණ විස්තර සහිත ලිපිය කියවීමට පහත සබැඳිය භාවිතා කරන්න.

සම්පූර්ණ ලිපිය මෙතැනින් කියවන්න: මාතෘ භූමියට එල්ල වන ඇමරිකානු හමුදා සෙවණැල්ල! රහසිගත US MONTANA ගිවිසුමේ සැබෑ අන්තරාය!

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3) විහාර හා දේවාලගම් පනත: සඟ සතු දේපළ පාලනය රජයට ගෙන බෞද්ධ උරුමය දුර්වල කිරීමට පිඹුරුපත් සැකසේ.

වර්තමාන මාලිමා ආණ්ඩුවේ බුද්ධ ශාසන අමාත්‍ය සුනිල් සෙනෙවි මහතා අවස්ථා ගණනාවකදී පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී මෙන්ම ඉන් පිටතදීත් විහාර හා දේවාලගම් පනත දුර්වල කිරීම පිළිබඳව අදහස් පළ කර ඇත.

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නවම් පෝදා සීලය අමතක වන විහාර හා දේවාලගම් ඉඩම් පද්ධතිය බිලිදීමේ සූදානම!

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4) ස්වභාවික සම්පත් කොල්ලය: කළු ව්‍යාපෘති සඳහා බිම් හිස් කිරීමට අලි ඇතුන් පාලනය කරමින් පරිසර විනාශයට පසුබිම හැදේ. මෙයට අදාල වැඩි විස්තර සඳහා පහත ලින්ක් එකෙහි ලිපිය සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම කියවන්න

පරිසර ඇමතිගේ ප්‍රකාශය,MCC හෙවත් ජාතික භෞතික සැලැස්ම වෙනුවෙන්ද???

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5) සංස්කෘතික විනාශය: LGBTQ වැනි බටහිර ලිබරල් මතවාද හරහා අපේ රටේ සදාචාරාත්මක සහ පවුල් සංස්ථාවේ ව්‍යුහය බිඳ දැමීම.

6) විකෘති අධ්‍යාපන ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ: ලෝක බැංකු වුවමනාවට දේශීය අනන්‍යතාවය නැති කරන අධ්‍යාපන ක්‍රමවේදය දරුවන් මත පැටවීම.

7) රට, ජාතිය සහ සම්බුද්ධ ශාසනයේ ආරක්ෂාවට තව ඉතිරි වෙලා තියෙන්නේ ව්‍යවස්ථාමය ආරක්ෂාව පමණයි. එයද ඉවත් කිරීමට කළු මෙහෙයුම් ක්‍රියාත්මකයි.

වර්තමාන 1978 ව්‍යවස්ථාව අහෝසි කර නව ව්‍යවස්ථාවක් කියමින් 2015 සිට 2019 දක්වා ක්‍රියාත්මක වූ යහපාලන රජය හරහා ප්‍රසිද්ධියට පත් වූ ඇමරිකානු ඒජන්ත මිලින්ද මොරගොඩට අයත් පාත් ෆයින්ඩර් රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධානය සැකසූ නව ව්‍යවස්ථාව නම් වූ හොර ලියවිල්ල ඇවිල්ල නැවත ගෙන ඒම.

9 ) 1978 ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 9 වන ව්‍යවස්ථාව හෙවත් බුදු දහමට ප්‍රමුඛස්ථානය, සුරක්ෂිත කොට පෝෂණය කිරීම අහෝසි කිරීම හෝ දුර්වල කිරීම හෝ නාමික කිරීම මගින් රට අනාගාමි කිරීම

10 ) විධායක ජනාධිපති ධූරය අහෝසි කිරීම හෝ දුර්වල කිරීම හෝ නාමික කිරීම මගින් විධායක අගමැති ධුරයක් නිර්මාණය කර පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ඔළු ගෙඩි හරහා රටේ ස්වාධීනත්වය, ස්වෛරී භාවය, භෞමික අඛණ්ඩතාවය, ඒකීයත්වය බරපතල අවධානමක් හෙලමින් තොරම්බල් කිරීම.

2024 බල පෙරළිය පිටුපස ඇති සැබෑ “රසායනිකය” සහ මිලින්ද මොරගොඩගේ මෙහෙයුම!

ඇමරිකානු – ඉන්දු හාම්පුතුන්ගේ “ඉන්දු-ශාන්තිකර කළු මෙහෙයුම” සහ MCC ඉඩම් කොල්ලය කරා යන ගමනේදී, වරින් වර සිදුවන බල පෙරළි පිටුපස ඇත්තේ අප නොදකින ඉතා සූක්ෂම සැලසුමකි.

අනුරගේ ආගමනය: මහජන කැමැත්තද? නැතිනම් කෘතිම නිර්මාණයක්ද?

2024 වසරේ සිදුවූ අනුර කුමාර දිසානායකගේ බලප්‍රාප්තිය මහජන ඡන්දයෙන් සිදු වූ බව මුළු රටම දන්නා සත්‍යයකි. නමුත්, එම ජයග්‍රහණය සඳහා අවශ්‍ය කරන “දේශපාලන රසායනිකය” හෙවත් පසුබිම කෘතිමව නිර්මාණය කළේ කවුද?

ඒකාබද්ධ මෙහෙයුමක “නළුවන්” සහ “අධ්‍යක්ෂවරයා”

මෙම දේශපාලන රසායනිකය නිර්මාණය කිරීමේ ක්‍රියාවලිය මෙහෙයවූයේ මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ විසිනි. එම මෙහෙයුමට සෘජුව හෝ වක්‍රව දායකත්වය ලබා දුන් පිරිස අතර මෙරට ප්‍රධාන පෙළේ දේශපාලන චරිත ගණනාවක් සිටී:

ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ

මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ

බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ

රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ

පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක

සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස

කුමාර් ගුණරත්නම් ප්‍රමුඛ පෙරටුගාමීන්

ඇතුළු පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ කණ්ඩායම්

සැබෑ අනතුර: MCC සහ ඉන්දු-ශාන්තිකර අජෙන්ඩාව

මෙම බල පෙරළිය යනු හුදෙක් පාලන මාරුවක් පමණක් නොවේ. එය ඇමරිකානු සහ ඉන්දීය උවමනාවන් මත මෙරට ඉඩම් සහ සම්පත් අත්පත් කර ගැනීමේ (MCC) දීර්ඝකාලීන ගමනේ තවත් එක් තීරණාත්මක මංසන්ධියකි.

ඔබ විමසිලිමත්ද?

පාලකයන්ගේ මුහුණු සහ පක්ෂවල වර්ණ වෙනස් වුවද, පසුබිමින් ක්‍රියාත්මක වන මෙම “කළු මෙහෙයුමේ” අරමුණු වෙනස් වී නැත. මහජන ඡන්දය භාවිතා කරමින් ඔවුන් ඉටු කර ගන්නේ තමන්ගේම හාම්පුතුන්ගේ අජෙන්ඩාවන්ය.

ඉන්දීය ආශිර්වාදය පිටුපස සැඟවුණු “ඉන්දු-ලංකා” රහස් ගිවිසුම්!

2024 ජනාධිපතිවරණයටත් පෙර සිටම දිගහැරුණු මේ දේශපාලන මෙහෙයුමේ තිරය පිටුපස ඇති සත්‍යය ඔබ හරිහැටි වටහා ගත්තාද?

ඡන්දයට පෙර වූ “ඉන්දීය කැඳවීම”

2024 ජනාධිපතිවරණ සටන උණුසුම් වීමටත් පෙර, ඉන්දියාව විසින් අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක ප්‍රමුඛ මාලිමා පාර්ශවය එරටට නිල වශයෙන් කැඳවන ලදී. එහි සැබෑ අරමුණ වූයේ ඉදිරියේදී විය යුත්තේ කුමක්ද යන්න සහ ඉන්දීය අභිලාෂයන් පිළිබඳව ඔවුන්ව දැනුවත් කිරීමයි.

මාලිමා පාක්ෂිකයන්ගේ “මුළාව”

මෙරට සිටි මාලිමා ප්‍රේක්ෂකයන් සහ පාක්ෂිකයන් මෙම ඉන්දීය සංචාරය දුටුවේ ඉතා සරල අයුරිනි. ඔවුන් සිතුවේ එය “ඉන්දියාව පවා අනුරට ආශිර්වාද කරන්නාක් මෙන්” පෙනෙන සුබ නිමිත්තක් බවයි. නමුත් එය හුදු ආශිර්වාදයක් නොව, දීර්ඝකාලීන ගිවිසුම්ගත වීමක මූලාරම්භයයි.

2025/04/05: අභිරහස් ගිවිසුම් 07!

මෙම පූර්ව මැතිවරණ ගනුදෙනුවේ නියම ප්‍රතිඵලය කරළියට පැමිණියේ 2025 අප්‍රේල් 05 වනදාය.

ප්‍රතිඵලය: ජනපති අනුර සහ ඉන්දීය අගමැති මෝඩි අතර අත්සන් කරන ලද ගිවිසුම් 07ක්.

තත්ත්වය: මෙම ගිවිසුම් 07 අදටත් රටේ ජනතාවට අභිරහසකි!

එදා “ආශිර්වාදයක්” ලෙස ජනතාවට පෙන්වූ ඉන්දීය සංචාරයේ අවසාන ප්‍රතිඵලය වී ඇත්තේ, රටට හෙළි නොකළ කොන්දේසි රැසක් මත පදනම් වූ අභිරහස් ගිවිසුම් මාලාවකි.

මුහුණුවර මාලිමාව වුවත්, ක්‍රියාත්මක වන්නේ ඇමරිකානු ඉන්දීය හාම්පුතුන්ගේ අජෙන්ඩාව බව දැන් පැහැදිලි නේද?

මුහුණු වෙනස් වුවත් අරමුණ එකමය: අඛණ්ඩව ගලායන “එකම” න්‍යාය පත්‍රය!

දේශපාලන සාක්ෂරතාවයකින් යුතුව වර්තමාන තත්ත්වය දෙස බලන ඕනෑම අයෙකුට පෙනී යන එක් නොලියැවුණු සත්‍යයක් තිබේ. එනම්, බලය ලබා ගැනීමට පෙර සහ පසු අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක ප්‍රමුඛ ජවිපෙ/මාලිමා පාර්ශවයේ හැසිරීම් රටාවයි.

විමර්ශනාත්මක ඇසින් බලමු:

ජනපති වීමට පෙර: පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක කළ ප්‍රකාශ සහ පෙනී සිටි ප්‍රතිපත්ති.

ජනපති වූ පසු: ජනාධිපති අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන වැඩපිළිවෙළ සහ ඔහුගේ වර්තමාන ස්ථාවරයන්.

මෙම වෙනස ස්වාධීනව විග්‍රහ කරන විට පැහැදිලි වන්නේ, ඇමරිකානු – ඉන්දු හාම්පුතුන් සමඟ එක්ව මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ විසින් සකස් කරන ලද න්‍යාය පත්‍රය, අනුර කුමාර සහ හරිනි අමරසූරිය හරහා හරි අපූරුවට ක්‍රියාත්මක වෙමින් පවතින බවයි.

අඛණ්ඩතාවයේ දේශපාලන දම්වැල (2015 – 2024+)

පාලකයන්ගේ නම් සහ පක්ෂ වෙනස් වුවද, 2015 සිට මේ දක්වා ක්‍රියාත්මක වන්නේ එකම වැඩපිළිවෙළක දිගුවකි. එය කිසිදු වෙනසකින් තොරව ක්‍රියාත්මක වන්නේ මෙලෙසිනි:

2015: සිරිසේන – රනිල් පාලනය ආරම්භ කළ මාවත.

2019: ගෝඨාභය – මහින්ද පාලනය එය තවදුරටත් ඉදිරියට ගෙන යාම.

2022: රනිල් – දිනේෂ් පාලනය හරහා එම වැඩපිළිවෙළ ස්ථාවර කිරීම.

2024: වර්තමාන අනුර – හරිනි පාලනය හරහා එම න්‍යාය පත්‍රයම කිසිදු බාධාවකින් තොරව අපූරුවට ක්‍රියාත්මක වෙමින් පවතී.

මෙය හුදෙක් බල හුවමාරුවක් නොව, පූර්ව සැලසුම් කරන ලද ජාත්‍යන්තර න්‍යාය පත්‍රයකට අනුව සිදුවන ක්‍රියාවලියකි. ජනතාව “වෙනසක්” බලාපොරොත්තු වුවද, සිදුව ඇත්තේ පැරණි වැඩපිළිවෙළටම නව “මාලිමා” මුහුණුවරක් ලබා දීම පමණි.

“දේශපාලන සාක්ෂරතාවය යනු රැල්ලට හසු නොවී, මේ සැඟවුණු රේඛා හඳුනා ගැනීමයි.”

ඇයි මේ 2024 ඇමරිකානු – ඉන්දු ඉත්තා ලෙස අනුර කුමාර ප්‍රමුඛ NPP/ජවිපෙ තෝරාගත්තේ?

වර්තමාන දේශපාලන ක්‍රියාවලිය දෙස බලන විට නැගෙන ප්‍රබලම ප්‍රශ්නය මෙයයි. සිරිසේන, මහින්ද, ගෝඨාභය හෝ රනිල් වැනි නායකයන්ට කළ නොහැකි වූ දේ කිරීමට මාලිමාව තෝරාගත්තේ ඇයි?

සාම්ප්‍රදායික නායකයන්ට තිබූ “බාධකය”

පෙර සිටි නායකයන්ට ඇතැම් විදේශීය ව්‍යාපෘති සෘජුවම ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට නොහැකි විය. එයට හේතුව ඔවුන්ගේ ඡන්ද පදනම සමඟ දැඩිව බද්ධ වී තිබීම සහ එවකට විපක්ෂයේ භූමිකාවේ කටයුතු කරන ලද ජවිපේ ප්‍රමුඛ වෘත්ති සමිති, ශිෂ්‍ය සංගම් ඇතුළු බොහෝ කණ්ඩායම්වලින් එල්ලූ වූ විරෝධය

මෙම තත්ත්වය මත ඇතැම් තීරණ ගැනීමේදී මහජන විරෝධයට මුහුණ දීමට සිදු විය.

මාලිමාව: “විශේෂ මෙහෙයුමක්” සඳහා වූ තේරීම

නමුත් මාලිමාව කරළියට ගෙන එනු ලැබුවේ මීට වඩා වෙනස්, ඉතා සූක්ෂම “විශේෂ මෙහෙයුමක්” සඳහාය. ඔවුන් සතු සුවිශේෂී වාසිය වන්නේ ඔවුන්ගේ ‘ෆෑන් බේස්’ (Fan Base) එකයි.

න්‍යාය පත්‍රය: ඕනෑම විනාශකාරී හෝ මතභේදාත්මක තීරණයක් “ප්‍රගතිශීලී” (Progressive) යන ලේබලය යටතේ ජනගත කිරීම.

“ප්‍රගතිශීලී” ලේබලය යටතේ සිදුවන විනාශය

මාලිමා රජයේ මෙම සූක්ෂම ආවරණය තුළ පහත සඳහන් බරපතල දේවල් ඉතා පහසුවෙන් සාධාරණීකරණය කරමින් පවතී:

සමලිංගිකත්වය ප්‍රවර්ධනය: සංස්කෘතික විරෝධයකින් තොරව සමාජගත කිරීම.

බුදුදහමට ඇති ප්‍රමුඛස්ථානය (9 වැනි වගන්තිය) අහෝසි කිරීම: ජාතිකත්වයේ මුල් සිඳ දැමීම.

විධායකය දුර්වල කිරීම: රටේ තීරණ ගැනීමේ මධ්‍යගත බලය බිඳ දැමීම.

රාජ්‍ය සේවය පුද්ගලිකරණය: රාජ්‍ය සතු සම්පත් විදේශීය හාම්පුතුන්ට විවෘත කිරීම.

අද වන විට රටට එරෙහිව සිදු වන කිසිදු ගිවිසුමකට, උගුලකට එරෙහිව උද්ඝෝෂණය කිරීමට, වැඩ වර්ජනය කිරීමට හෝ විරෝධය දැක්වීමට එදා හිටපු ජවිපේ ප්‍රමුඛ වෘත්ති සමිති, ශිෂ්‍ය සංගම් ඇතුළු බොහෝ කණ්ඩායම් නැත.

සාම්ප්‍රදායික නායකයන් කළා නම් “ද්‍රෝහීකම්” ලෙස හංවඩු ගැසෙන දේ, මාලිමාව කරන විට එය “ප්‍රගතිශීලී වෙනසක්” ලෙස දකින්නට තරම් ජනතාව මුළා වී ඇත. ඇමරිකානු – ඉන්දු හාම්පුතුන් අනුර කුමාරව තෝරාගත්තේ මෙම “මානසික මෙහෙයුම” සාර්ථකව කළ හැකි නිසාමය.

මුහුණු වෙනස් – මෙහෙයුම එකමයි: “සීයගෙන්” තොර ලෝකයක් මාලිමාවට නැති හැටි!

අපේම භූමි පුත්‍රයන් පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ වී මරා ගන්නා අතරතුර, විදේශීය බලවේග තම “ඉන්දු-ශාන්තිකර කළු මෙහෙයුම” නිහඬවම නිම කරමින් සිටියි. 2015, 2019, 2022 සහ 2024 යන සෑම බල හුවමාරුවකදීම අපේ රටට අහිමි වූ දේ සහ අපට “බලහත්කාරයෙන්” පෙවූ දේ දෙස මොහොතක් විමසිලිමත්ව බලන්න.

අපෙන් ඈත් කළ “අපේ” දේ vs මනසට කැවූ “විජාතික” දේ

මෙම සැලසුම් සහගත මෙහෙයුම හරහා වසර ගණනාවක් තිස්සේ අපේ ජාතික අනන්‍යතාවය සූක්ෂම ලෙස වෙනස් කර ඇත:-

සංස්කෘතිය: අපේම වූ සංස්කෘතික අක්මුල් සහ සාරධර්ම වෙනුවට විජාතික අදහස් සහ ආකල්ප.

අභිමානය: ජාතිකත්වය සහ සැබෑ රටේ අභිමානය වෙනුවට “මෝඩ අභිමානය” (Fake Pride).

රණවිරුවන්: රණවිරුවන් පිළිබඳ ගෞරවය සහ ආදරය වෙනුවට ඔවුන් හුදු “සෙබළුන්” ලෙස ලඝු කිරීම.

රාජ්‍ය සේවය: රාජ්‍ය සේවය දියුණු කිරීම සහ ශක්තිමත් කිරීම වෙනුවට රාජ්‍ය සේවය පුද්ගලිකරණය කිරීමේ උමතුව.

ආර්ථිකය: රට ස්වයංපෝෂිත කිරීමේ අරමුණ වෙනුවට පරාධීන ආර්ථික මොඩලයන්.

රනිල්ගේ “ඉත්තා” සහ මාලිමාවේ “භූමිකාව”

ඉන්දු-ශාන්තිකර කළු මෙහෙයුමේ හොඳම ඉත්තා ලෙස සැලකෙන, මාලිමා පාක්ෂිකයන් විසින්ම “සීයා” ලෙස හඳුන්වන රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ කරගෙන ගිය වැඩපිළිවෙළට අද කුමක් සිදුවී තිබේද?

වර්තමාන ජනාධිපති අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක ප්‍රමුඛ ජවිපෙ/මාලිමා ආණ්ඩුව කරමින් සිටින්නේ එම ඇමරිකානු-ඉන්දියානු සැලසුමම කිසිදු වෙනසකින් තොරව ඉදිරියට ගෙනයාමයි. රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ඇඳි සිතියම මත මාලිමාව අද අකුරු කරමින් සිටියි.

සරලවම කිවහොත්…

“සීයගෙන් තොර ලෝකයක්, සීයගෙන් තොර ගිවිසුමක්, සීයගෙන් තොර අදහසක් මාලිමා ආණ්ඩුවට හිතාගන්නවත් බැරිය!”

මුහුණු වෙනස් – ස්ක්‍රිප්ට් එක එකමයි! පන්සල් යන “අලුත්” අනුර පිටුපස ඇති ඇත්තම රහස…

මුලින්ම මා ඔබෙන් ඇසූ ප්‍රශ්නය නැවත මතක් කරගනිමු

“පිළිම වන්දනාව ගෝත්‍රිකයි” කියපු…

“මල් වට්ටි උස්සගෙන යන්නෑ” කියපු…

“මාධ්‍ය පිරිවරාගෙන වඳින්න යන්නෑ” කියපු…

හිටපු මන්ත්‍රී අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක ඇතුළු ජවිපේ නායකයන්, අද “නිතරම පන්සල් යන, මහ නායක හිමියන් හමුවන, දළදා වහන්සේ සහ ඉන්දියානු ධාතු වඳින” තත්ත්වයට පරිවර්තනය වූයේ කෙසේද?

පිළිතුර ඇත්තේ අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මහතාගේම “අතීත ප්‍රකාශය” තුළයි!

මෙම හදිසි “ආගමික භක්තිය” පිටුපස ඇති සැබෑ රහස වටහා ගැනීමට නම්, එතුමා මන්ත්‍රීවරයෙකු ලෙස සිටියදී කළ මෙම ප්‍රකාශය දෙස බැලීම සෑහේ

“ඔබ හිතනවාද මේ රටේ ජනතාව එකතු වෙලා හදාගන්නා ආණ්ඩු මේ රටේ ජනතාවගේ ආණ්ඩු කියලා? මේ රටේ ආණ්ඩු හදන්නේ ඇමරිකානු, ඉන්දියානු සහ චීන තානාපති කාර්යාලයි. මේ ආණ්ඩු අපි හදන ආණ්ඩු නෙමෙයි. ජනතාව ඡන්දය දීලා හැදුවත්, මේ ආණ්ඩු මෙහෙයවන්නේ ඇමරිකාව, ඉන්දියාව සහ චීනයයි!”

එකම න්‍යාය පත්‍රයක තවත් එක් “සංදර්ශනයක්” පමණද?

අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මහතා එදා පවසන ලද එම තර්කයට අනුවම, වර්තමාන රජය පාලනය කරන්නේද ඇමරිකාව සහ ඉන්දියාව විසිනි. (චීනයද මේ මොහොතේ ලංකාව තුළ ඇමරිකාව සහ ඉන්දියාව සමඟ එක්ව කටයුතු කරයි).

මේ අනුව පැහැදිලි වන සත්‍යය නම්:-

ජනපති අනුර කුමාර ප්‍රමුඛ මාලිමා ආණ්ඩුව කරළියට ගෙන ආවේද 2015 සිට බලයේ සිටි පාලකයන් ගෙන ආ ඇමරිකානු – ඉන්දියානු හාම්පුතුන්ම බවයි.

මේ ක්‍රියාත්මක වන්නේ එදා සිට අඛණ්ඩව ගලා එන එකම ස්ක්‍රිප්ට් එකක් සහ එකම න්‍යාය පත්‍රයකි.

ඉතිහාසයේ අඛණ්ඩතාව (2015 – 2024+)

නායකයන් වෙනස් වුවද, හාම්පුතුන්ගේ අවශ්‍යතාවය වෙනුවෙන් එකම ක්‍රියාවලියක් ඉදිරියට ගිය අයුරු:-

“එකම ස්ක්‍රිප්ට් එක – නළුවන් පමණක් වෙනස් වූ දශකයක ගමන”

2015: [ආරම්භය] — සිරිසේන – රනිල් හවුල

2019: [මීළඟ අදියර] — ගෝඨාභය – මහින්ද හවුල

2022: [ස්ථාපනය] — රනිල් – දිනේෂ් (අරගල මෙහෙයුම හරහා)

2024: [අඛණ්ඩතාව] — අනුර – හරිනි (එම න්‍යාය පත්‍රයම ඉදිරියට)

අවසාන නිගමනය

එම “මහමොළකරුවන්ගේ” අවශ්‍යතාවය පරිදි ජවිපෙ/මාලිමා පාර්ශවය “බෞද්ධ සළුපිළි” දවටා ගත්තා මිසක්, එහි සැබෑ ප්‍රතිපත්තිමය පරිවර්තනයක් සිදුවී නොමැත. ඔවුන් කරමින් සිටින්නේ එකම න්‍යාය පත්‍රයක් වෙනුවෙන් රඟපාන තවත් එක් භූමිකාවක් පමණි.

ස්තුතියි,

Adeesha Nikeshala Isurunatha

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Author:Sarath Hemachandra M.D.

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In his book Concepts in Buddhism and Buddhist Philosophy: On Human Existence, Consciousness, Psychic Phenomena and Rebirth

(2024), Dr. Sarath Hemachandra explores the intersection of traditional Buddhist teachings and modern scientific views. The work provides a detailed examination of the eternal cycle of life energy and the spiritual laws governing existence 

Core Philosophical Themes

Dr. Hemachandra’s work focuses on the mechanisms of the “eternal cycle” and how practitioners can transcend it:

• Human Existence & Life Energy: The book details the “eternal cycle of life energy,” framing human existence within a continuous loop of birth and death.
• Consciousness & Rebirth: It explores the nature of consciousness as it relates to the process of rebirth, explaining how life transitions through different states of being.
• The Path to Enlightenment: Following the Noble Eightfold Path and practicing Meditation are presented as the primary means to achieve Enlightenment and cease the cycle of suffering. 

Psychic and Supernormal Phenomena

A distinct aspect of Dr. Hemachandra’s writing is the discussion of supramundane skills that arise from advanced spiritual practice: 

• Supernormal Abilities: According to the author, high levels of spiritual and intellectual development can lead to abilities such as telepathy and clairvoyance.
• Scientific Integration: The book is noted for its attempt to amalgamate these “Spiritual Laws” with contemporary scientific views, offering a unique perspective on how psychic phenomena might be understood today. 

Publication Details

• Full Title: Concepts in Buddhism and Buddhist Philosophy: On Human Existence, Consciousness, Psychic Phenomena and Rebirth.
• Author: Sarath Hemachandra, M.D..
• Release Date: The book was released in mid-2024 (various sources cite July and August 2024).
• Publisher: Published by Mindstir Media.
• Format: Available as a 206-page hardcover. 

Name of the Book:  

Concepts in Buddhism and Buddhist Philosophy 

on Human Existence, Consciousness, Psychic Phenomena, and Rebirth   

Author:Sarath Hemachandra M.D.                           

Dr Sarath Obeysekera

Ex samples Galle yacht yard, Beruwala / Mutwal boat yards, Trincomalee offshore engineering hub—all show the same failure 

1. Policy approval without policy protection

Projects are:

• Approved politically
• Launched with fanfare
• But never insulated legally or institutionally

So when:

• A port authority changes leadership
• A ministry changes
• A public corporation enforces rent mechanically
• Or a geopolitical concern arises (Trinco–India sensitivity)

Permissions get cancelled, leases revoked, or files frozen

Investors don’t fear Sri Lanka’s skills or location.

They fear reversal risk.

2. Public institutions acting in silos

• SLPA cancels permission without a national FDI lens
• CFHC sues for rent without assessing export earnings
• EDB promotes projects but cannot protect them
• Line ministries hesitate because no one owns the final decision

No single authority is accountable for project continuity.

3. Fear culture inside government

You are absolutely right here.

Today:

• Officers are more afraid of future allegations than present losses
• Do nothing” is safer than do something right”
• Files are delayed intentionally
• Decisions are pushed upward until they die quietly

This is not corruption.

This is paralysis caused by anti-corruption fear without protection for honest decisions.

Why marine & offshore projects suffer the most

Marine engineering, shipbuilding, and offshore fabrication:

• Need ports, coast, state land
• Need long-term leases
• Need foreign partners
• Need customized approvals

Which means:

• More signatures
• More exposure
• More risk for officers

So officers avoid them, even though they bring:

• USD inflows
• Skilled jobs
• Export earnings
• Strategic value

What the Committee of Development Ministers MUST do

Not another policy paper.

Not another task force.

1. Create a 

National Strategic Projects Shield

A legally binding framework where:

• Once Cabinet-approved, a project cannot be cancelled by a single agency
• Any dispute (rent, lease, compliance) goes to fast-track arbitration, not shutdown
• Port authorities, corporations, and ministries are bound by Cabinet decision

If this existed, Galle Yacht Yard would not have died

2. Introduce Good Faith Decision Protection” for officers

This is critical.

A legal provision stating:

• If an officer approves a project following approved procedures,
• Acting in good faith,
• They are personally immune from later prosecution

Without this:

• No officer will ever sign another FDI project

Singapore, UAE, Vietnam all do this quietly.

3. Single Ownership of Strategic FDI Projects

Each large FDI project must have:

• One owning ministry
• One accountable Secretary
• One empowered Project Commissioner

No SLPA vs CFHC vs EDB games.

If the project succeeds → credit

If it fails → responsibility

Right now, responsibility is diluted to zero.

4. Separate geopolitics from industrial development (Trincomalee case)

Projects cannot be frozen indefinitely because of:

• Indian sensitivities
• Strategic anxiety

Solution:

• Ring-fence civil offshore engineering, ship repair, fabrication
• Explicitly exclude military or dual-use activity
• Make it transparent and rules-based

Otherwise Trinco will remain a map location, not an economy

5. Publish a Projects Killed by Inaction” White Paper

This is uncomfortable—but necessary.

List:

• Projects approved
• Investments promised
• Jobs lost
• Forex lost
• Reasons for shutdown

Name institutions, not individuals.

Sunlight will do what sermons never did.

The uncomfortable truth

Sri Lanka does not lack:

• Investors
• Skills
• Location
• Demand

Sri Lanka lacks:

• Decision courage backed by legal protection

Until the Development Ministers protect honest decision-making, not just punish corruption,

Regards

Dr Sarath Obeysekera

Sri Lanka

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Ancient Innovations (3rd Century BC – 12th Century AD)

Ancient Sinhalese civilization is most renowned for its “Hydraulic Civilization,” featuring engineering feats that remained unmatched in the West for nearly 2,000 years. 

• Biso Kotuwa (Valve Tower): Invented in the 3rd century BC, this is the ancient equivalent of the modern valve-pit. It allowed for the regulation of water flow from massive reservoirs without the high pressure destroying the embankment.
• Jaya Ganga (Giant Canal): Built by King Dhatusena in the 5th century AD, this 87 km canal maintains an incredible gradient of just 6 inches per mile (1:10,000), a feat of precision surveying that challenges even modern engineers.
• Tank Cascade System (Ellangawa): A sustainable water management network that connected series of small and large tanks to manage silt, toxins, and water distribution, recognized today as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System.
• Wind-Powered Steel Production: As early as 300 BC, Sinhalese engineers used monsoon winds to power furnaces, producing high-quality steel exported to the Islamic world for making famous swords.
• World’s First Hospitals: Literary evidence from the 4th century BC during King Pandukabhaya’s reign marks the earliest recorded institutions dedicated specifically to the care of the sick. 

Innovations in Cricket

Sri Lanka has played a pivotal role in modernizing the sport through both technological concepts and tactical revolutions. 

• Decision Review System (DRS) Concept: The “Player Referral” concept, which is the foundation of the modern DRS, was conceived by Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna to make umpiring fairer.
• ODI Batting Revolution: In the mid-1990s, Sanath Jayasuriya and Romesh Kaluwitharana revolutionized One Day International (ODI) cricket by introducing an aggressive strategy of hitting over the infield during the first 15 overs, a tactic that led to their 1996 World Cup victory and is now a global standard.
• Bowling Techniques: Unique “slinging” actions, such as those of

Lasith Malinga

, were developed through local “beach cricket” and tennis-ball play, influencing modern limited-overs bowling. 

Modern Scientific Breakthroughs

Contemporary Sinhalese innovators continue to make significant contributions to global science and medicine. 

• Room-Temperature Superconductors:

Dr. Ranga Dias

led a team that discovered the world’s first room-temperature superconductor, a major breakthrough in physics.

• Medical Devices: Recent inventions include a Video-Laryngoscope by

Dr. Anupa Herath

and a Laparoscopic Knot Applicator by

Dr. Thilanka Ratnapala

, both receiving gold medals at international exhibitions.

• Nano-Technology:

Manju Gunawardana

patented the Nano Bulb, which uses nanoparticles to eliminate bacteria and viruses from the air to curb the spread of diseases.

• Mathematical Instruments:

Dinesh Katugampala

invented the world’s first radius meter based on his own “Square Dual Theorem” to measure the radius of any sphere or arc. 

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• Waterworld: Ancient Sinhalese Irrigation, Sri Lanka

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Buddhist monks reach Lincoln Memorial, a look back at the 2,300 mile walk for peace

Buddhism Comes to the West, by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi

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Rohan Abeygunawardena ACMA, CGMA

Some years ago, in the early nineties, when I was working for a manufacturing company, I was part of a team tasked with expanding and modernizing one of the factories. I met a technocrat from a Taiwanese company that quoted for the machinery needed for our project. I had some reservations about their ability to deliver high-quality machinery compared to a European company that also submitted a quote. However, Taiwan offer was much more attractive in terms of price. Along with my managing director, I had the opportunity to discuss the credentials of the Taiwanese company.

When I mentioned that our perception was that European machinery was superior, he replied it might have been true about ten years ago, but now they can compete with any product in the world. In the end, we chose their machinery mainly because of the price. Although I left that manufacturing company a few years later, I understood they continued working with the Taiwanese company for machinery procurement.

This particular company was German origin (FDI) and later had been given to Taiwanese CEO through a share transfer agreement.

Taiwan’s development history is very interesting. Unfortunately, they built the country during a different geopolitical environment. Sri Lanka can learn some lessons from their experience.

• History of Taiwan

I only knew that Taiwan was established by the former rulers of mainland China after Chinese civil war, and Mao Zedong was at odds with them at the time. When Sri Lanka recognised the People’s Republic of China in 1950, the official diplomatic ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan) were severed.

However since opening of Sri Lanka’s economy in 1977, trade between the two countries increased.

Taiwan is a small island nation located about 160 km off the south-eastern coast of mainland China, separated by the Taiwan Strait. It has a total land area of approximately 36,197 km². The main island is roughly 394 km (245 miles) long and 144 km (89 miles) wide. Sri Lanka is also a small island nation but has a land area 67,240 km².

Although Chinese records date back to the 3rd century CE, the island was mostly ungoverned prior to the 17th century. Portuguese sailors in 1544 were the first Europeans to record the island, naming it Ilha Formosa (“Beautiful Island”).

The Dutch took control and colonized it from 1624 to 1662. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) used Taiwan as a trading hub connecting Japan, China, and Southeast Asia, trading silk for silver and exporting local products like deer hides, sugar, and rice. They also developed the island, encouraging Chinese immigration to work on plantations and building infrastructure such as Fort Provintia.

The Spanish established a separate colony in northern Taiwan between 1626 and 1642, but the Dutch expanded their control by ousting the Spanish. Ming loyalist Koxinga (Zheng Chenggong) defeated the Dutch forces, ending their 38-year rule in 1662.

During World War II, the Japanese colonized the island and developed its infrastructure, economy, public health, and education system. They initiated a railway system in 1899, improving transportation and connectivity between the northern and southern parts of the island. Both Taiwan and Sri Lanka have similar colonial history.

On December 10, 1949, Chiang Kai-shek the leader of Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang or KMT), who ruled mainland China, arrived in Taiwan. This was following his government’s defeat by the Chinese Communist Party in the Civil War. This, and the subsequent days, represented the culmination of a massive retreat that saw a substantial portion of the then Republic of China (ROC) military, government officials, and civilians relocate to Taiwan to establish it as a base for an intended retaking of the mainland. Taiwan became ROC and mainland became People’s Republic of China (PROC) under Mao Zedong.

Since then Taiwan had been facing external threats from mainland communist China.

The Kuomintang (KMT) government ruled Taiwan under martial law since 1949 restricting civil liberties, banning new political parties, and suppressing dissent for nearly 38 years.

First major turning point toward democratization took place when the martial law was lifted on 15 July 1987. This ended many political restrictions, allowed opposition parties to organize, and opened space for civil liberties.

By 1991–1992, laws such as the Temporary Provisions Effective during the Period of Communist Rebellion were repealed, eliminating much of the legal basis for one-party authoritarian rule.

A crucial milestone came when Taiwan held its first direct presidential election on 23 March 1996.

The democratic process was further solidified in 2000, when the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the presidency, marking the first peaceful transfer of power between political parties after decades of KMT dominance.

• Comparison of Taiwan and Sri Lanka’s Economic Development

Many Sri Lankans tend to compare Sri Lanka with Singapore, a tiny city-state, when discussing the success and failures of national development. But in my opinion, Taiwan makes the right benchmark for Sri Lanka’s missed opportunity.

Taiwan and Sri Lanka looked remarkably similar in the fifties. Both were agrarian societies with large rural population and had comparable population sizes. In 1960, Sri Lanka’s per capita GDP was $ 152, and Taiwan’s was $ 149. Like Sri Lanka, Taiwan too was highly dependent on a few exports with a limited industrial base. Both had large rural populations.

• Taiwan Miracle
  • Export-led industrialization

Like in Sri Lanka from 1956 to 1977, Taiwan also pursued a system of import-substitution industrialization in the early to mid-1950s. This led to a chronic shortage of foreign exchange and stagnant growth.

The main focus sectors during this period were textiles, footwear, food processing, and simple household goods. These products were primarily made for the local market.

Premier Chen Cheng, widely regarded as a key architect of the Taiwan Miracle, brought in several technocrats to decide on policy changes while remaining the ultimate decision-maker in economic policy. K.Y. Yin was one of them and became the main architect of Taiwan’s economic policy in the 1950s. He was one of the few Taiwanese officials during that period who consistently promoted free trade.

Yin introduced a dual-rate system for the Taiwan dollar, devaluing the currency to make exports more competitive. The government began reducing import controls, simplifying procedures, and offering tax rebates on raw materials, mainly to encourage exports. By 1962, this new strategy started to show results, with manufacturing production increasing and exports of manufactured goods rising significantly.

Afterwards, the country shifted to export-led industrialization, mainly focusing on manufacturing for global markets. The first Export Processing Zone (EPZ) was established in Kaohsiung in 1965, offering infrastructure and tax benefits to export-oriented firms. This attracted Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for establishing factories in garments, electronics assembly, toys, and machinery. It enabled local managers and workers to learn new technologies and upgrade their skills. It also created numerous jobs, rapid productivity improvements, and integration into global markets.

Several more EPZs followed.

This process supported the growth of indigenous entrepreneurship, resulting in thousands of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and strong subcontracting networks.

The Taiwanese government guided industry without suffocation, protected emerging industries, but required them to export and compete—”export or perish.” Unlike Korea, Taiwan did not rely solely on large conglomerates.

Between the 1980s and early 1990s, Taiwan undertook a phase of technological upgrades. Major government initiatives included founding the ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute), similar to the CISIR (Ceylon Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research) established in 1955; creating Hsinchu Science Park in 1980; and promoting government-supported R&D mainly applied, not fundamental research.

They also encouraged overseas Taiwanese to return.

1. Education and skills

Taiwan aligned education with industry and made heavy investment in science and engineering. They linked universities directly to industry needs and established technical colleges and science parks (Hsinchu).

Sri Lanka too expanded its university system, but courses were mainly to increase arts graduates. There was no mechanism to provide higher education or technical education to youths who could not be absorbed into the state university system, creating frustration among them. Weak education policies in Sri Lanka also led to the creation of educated youth including university graduates without relevant skills who became unemployable, creating unrest.

In other words Sri Lanka produced degree holders whereas Taiwan produced engineers and technologists.

1. Institutions and governance quality

A strong, disciplined bureaucracy was created by the Taiwan government with merit-based promotion in civil service and controlled corruption (not eliminated, but contained). The officials selected were mainly technocrats and they were knowledgeable and capable of advising the government on planning of economy in terms of short-term, mid-term and long-term.

In Sri Lanka appointments were made based on loyalty, not competence, and gradually politicised public service undermining the technocrats. The frequent policy reversals also affected the national development, and after the 1970s, corruption became systemic. Over decades, this destroyed investor confidence.

1. Treatment of the private sector

The Taiwan government partnered with private firms and supported SMEs to become exporters. Institutions were created to help companies to access credit, technology and foreign markets. Firms like TSMC, Acer, and Foxconn emerged from this ecosystem. Taiwan imposed a simple rule: if you receive state support, you must export and compete internationally.

In Sri Lanka the private sector was often treated with suspicion, and nationalisations destroyed investor confidence (1960s–70s); even after liberalisation (1977), policy inconsistency remained.

•  Export culture vs import culture

Taiwan used a brutal but effective rule, i.e., firms that failed were allowed to die.

Sri Lanka adopted a completely opposite strategic industrial policy and protected firms behind tariffs and continued to protect them even if firms stayed inefficient. A typical example is loss-making state enterprises that were kept alive for politics by pumping taxpayers’ money.

Taiwanese government conditioned the mind-set of the people to ask How can we sell to the world?” On the other hand Sri Lankan mind-set created by local politicians was How can we protect our market and distribute benefits?”

That difference alone explains much of the divergence.

Taiwan commenced developing tourism in a planned, national way in 1966, with the creation of the Taiwan Tourism Bureau to increase foreign exchange earnings. In 2025 Taiwan received 8.57 million Tourists. Sri Lanka also commenced developing this sector almost at the same time.

•   Internal and External Security

Economic development cannot occur in an environment of chaos. Taiwan understood this early. Before rapid industrialisation even began, Taiwan ensured domestic stability. The government crushed armed insurgencies and criminal militias after 1949 and established tight control over armed groups. They maintained central state authority nationwide by building a disciplined police and intelligence services. They strictly enforced law and order. This created predictability, safety for investors, confidence for citizens and ability to plan long-term.

Taiwan faced a serious existential threat from Communist China. Instead of militarising the whole economy, Taiwan made a strategic choice and signed a defence alliance with the United States (1954 Mutual Defense Treaty). They hosted US military support in the region and received military aid and training. They also relied on US naval power to deter invasion.

This meant they did not need to devote all resources to the military and kept defence spending relatively stable (not crippling the economy). As a result Taiwan leaders could concentrate on economic growth.

• Disaster Management

Since Taiwan sits on the collision zone of the Eurasian and Philippine Sea plates, thousands of earthquakes occur every year. While some are minor, seven major ones have happened between 1949 and 2024. The most recent major earthquake was the 2024 Hualien earthquake, which caused significant damage across Hualien County and beyond. The worst was the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, which killed 2,415 people and injured 11,305. That quake resulted in NT$300 billion (US$10 billion) worth of damage.

Taiwan also faced eight major typhoons during the same period.

Instead of treating disasters as bad luck,” Taiwan plans its entire development assuming disasters will happen regularly, since the country sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire (earthquakes) and the typhoon belt (cyclones), and is prone to landslides and floods due to steep mountains.

Taiwan learnt from Japan and strict building codes such as base isolation, shock absorbers etc., and enforced nationwide when high-rise buildings are constructed. They use.

Result is even strong earthquakes today cause limited casualties, not mass collapse.

The Taiwan High Speed Railway, which started operation on January 5, 2007, and reaches speeds of up to 300 km/h, also includes an automatic safety system to stop all trains safely if a significant earthquake is detected.

Conclusion:

The above analysis shows that Taiwan didn’t succeed because it started rich, but because it forced itself to become globally competitive. Sri Lanka didn’t fail because it started poor, but because it prioritized political comfort over economic progress.

As a result, Sri Lanka faced a severe debt crisis and economic collapse, requiring deep structural reforms to rebuild credibility.

Sri Lanka can still follow the Taiwan Model” or development logic—not its exact historical path—but only if it accepts three hard truths:

1. Development isn’t about slogans or mega-projects.

2. Discipline matters more than democracy-driven populism.

3. Export performance must dominate domestic politics.

Taiwan’s rapid growth happened in an era with fewer competitors. Despite facing a highly competitive global market now, Sri Lanka can develop its economy to a satisfactory level within a few years if it follows these principles.

The bottom line is Taiwan currently has a per capita GDP of about US $34,000—placing it among the higher-income economies worldwide—while for Sri Lanka it’s about US $4,500 (2024 estimate).

Rohan Abeygunawardena ACMA, CGMA

(Writer could be contacted on abeyrohan@gmail.com)

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පළාත් සභා ඕනෑ කියන සංවිධාන සහ තැනැත්තෝ පළාත් සභා විධිවිධාන ඉවත් කිරීමේ / පරිච්චින්න කිරීමේ පනත් කෙටුම්පත්වලට විරුද්ධ නොවීම
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නීතීඥවරයෙකු විසිනි.