By Raj Gonsalkorale

Actual independence for the dominion of Ceylon came on February 4, 1948, when the constitution of 1947 went into effect. The constitution provided for a bicameral legislature with a popularly elected House of Representatives and a Senate that was partly nominated and partly elected indirectly by members of the House of Representatives. A prime minister and his cabinet, chosen from the largest political group in the legislature, held collective responsibility for executive functions. The governor-general, as head of state, represented the British monarch. In matters that the constitution failed to address, the conventions of the United Kingdom were observed. The UNP had a substantial majority in the legislature and attracted support as it governed. There were, however, some basic weaknesses in the political structure. The consensus that the government represented embraced only a small fraction of the population—the English-educated Westernized elite groups that shared the values on which the structure was founded. To the great mass of Sinhalese- and Tamil-educated residents and unschooled citizens, these values appeared irrelevant and incomprehensible. The continued neglect of local culture as embodied in religion, language, and the arts created a gulf that divided the ruling elite from the ruled. Inevitably, traditionalist and revivalist movements arose to champion local values. Britannica

While the reality pertaining to the beginning of the conflict has been one thing, Sri Lankan politics and politicians on both sides, Sinhalese as well as Tamil, have opted to choose opportunism rather than what is right for the people they represent.

In the immediate period before independence and soon after, a minority on both sides, Tamils and Sinhalese, took comfort in assuming they represented the majority although in reality they were safeguarding the interests of the minority that mattered to them. The Britannica quote To the great mass of Sinhalese- and Tamil-educated residents and unschooled citizens, these values appeared irrelevant and incomprehensible” says it all. There is no running away from the truth that a fraction of the population, the English educated, land owning class governed the country and all its institutions, while the majority on both sides lived as second class citizens in their own country.

When Ceylon gained independence in 1948, less than 5% of the population was literate in English, and government offices, the courts, police stations, all functioned in English, effectively disenfranchising more than 95% of the population.

Leading Tamil politicians of the day never campaigned for the Tamil language to replace English as the working language in the country for the Tamil people. Instead, in effect, they advanced the argument that the privileged position enjoyed by English literate minority of Tamil people should not lose that privilege they saw as a right rather than a privilege.

On the other hand, SWRD Bandaranaike campaigned for the Sinhala language to replace English as the working language in government, progressively, with the Tamil language given that status in traditionally Tamil speaking areas of the country. His clear vision was for the majority of the population, and not just the elite minority, to enjoy the fruits of independence gained by the country as free citizens. The mother tongue, meaning Sinhala for the Sinhalese and Tamil for the Tamils was going to be the language of instruction in schools. However, this was planned to be implemented progressively from the mid-sixties.

Rather than travelling back in history, as that is bound to result in an endless deluge of arguments and counter arguments, the writer wishes to advance a line of thought for a role reversal, meaning, the Sinhalese to imagine they were Tamils, and for the Tamils to imagine they were Sinhalese, and to look at history as well as contemporary times, problems, issues, and solutions, from such a prism.

If the Sinhalese happened to be Tamils, how would they view their past, and their present and their future? How would they view the regular attacks on them by mobs, especially the debacle of 1983? Aided and abetted by sections of the then government, Sri Lanka unleashed an abominable attack on Tamils in July 1983. Leaving all politics aside, this attack on innocent civilians and their homes and belongings, and above all their pride, their sense of security, was never condemned by successive governments. If the Sinhala people happened to be the Tamils, how would they regard their future in the country? Will they feel safe and secure? If a government spearheads mob violence, what hope will they have with the government machinery to protect them?

What if your priceless library, repository of one of the largest collections of historical, rare, Tamil and Hindu classics is burnt by a Sinhala mob, again, at the instigation of sections of the government? A new library building cannot restore ancient historical records of Tamil philosophy, culture and literature burnt to cinders by such thugs.

It took 21 years to offer an apology to Sri Lanka’s own sons and daughters, mothers and fathers who were brutally attacked by mobs organised by people in high places and linked to the then government. Was this a genuine demonstration of remorse?

In such a climate of intimidation, how would Sinhala people react if they were Tamils?

If the coin is flipped, and Tamils were the Sinhalese, especially Sinhala Buddhists, how would they view the Sinhala Buddhist point of view?

The following are some issues that perhaps Tamils could consider wearing a Sinhala Buddhist hat, as it were. A Sinhala Buddhist perspective that prevails in regard to the longevity associated with their pre- colonial cultural and governance dominance. Historically, except for the period of the Jaffna Kingdom of around 300 years, much of the rest of history has revolved around Sinhala Buddhist dominance, of course, interspersed with non-Sinhala Kings and Queens of Indian origin during this time. If a Tamil were a Sinhalese, how would that person view this historical situation?

The Sinhala Buddhist also views the special place accorded to Buddhism due to cultural, and historical reasons, and also entertains fears that a large number of Tamils from across the Palk Straits could impact on the Buddhist heritage in the country. A fear exists that over 70 million in Tamil Nadu is a threat to the 15 million Sinhala Buddhists in Sri Lanka. The influence of Tamil Nadu politics in Sri Lankan issues of course is well known and has been a dominant factor in the Indian government’s policy towards Sri Lanka. 

Another factor that has perhaps prevented an amicable solution to the ethnic conflict has been what Sinhala Buddhists regard as an unsubstantiated claim about what is touted by the Tamils as their homeland in the island, the Northern and Eastern provinces. While there may have been sporadic settlements from time to time, there is no evidence, archaeological or otherwise to identify the Eastern province as part of a Tamil homeland.

In fact it is recorded that Hugh Cleghorn, the first colonial secretary, having never set foot in the North or the East, had recorded an official minute to the effect that the Northern and Eastern regions were occupied by people who were different, culturally, linguistically and by religion to the people in the rest of the country.

Historian K M De Silva states in his publication The Traditional Homelands” of the Tamils: Separatist Ideology in Sri Lanka: A Historical Appraisal” that quote,” the entire claim had been structured on one single minute prepared in June 1799 by Hugh Cleghorn, a British Academic who had been in the island in the early years of the British rule as a political trouble shooter and who later had become the Colonial Secretary for Sri Lank” unquote.

De Silva goes onto say, quote It is this noting that the Tamil separatists have used ad infinitum to drive home their point about their traditional homeland. It should have been obvious to them that Cleghorn’ s knowledge about Sri Lanka was abysmally poor for he traced the origin of the Sinhalese to Thailand,” unquote

A related fear arising from this spurious claim of a Tamil homeland, is the extent of the claimed homeland, being more than 25% of the land area of the island, and more than 50% of the sea front of the country with less than 10% of the population of the country living in this land mass.

It would be useful for this discussion, if Tamil people could think of themselves as Sinhalese, especially Sinhala Buddhists for the reasons given, and consider these factors from such a perspective.

The suggested role reversal approach may hopefully enable both sides to the conflict to see their positions from the others perspective, and people themselves, not politicians, may be able to better understand each other’s position and arrive at some consensus as to how both sides could move forward.

It would benefit the people of the country greatly if the historical position and the origin of this politician made conflict as described in the Britannica, The continued neglect of local culture as embodied in religion, language, and the arts created a gulf that divided the ruling elite from the ruled. Inevitably, traditionalist and revivalist movements arose to champion local values”, could be presented, impartially and objectively, so that subsequent developments may be viewed contextually by all parties.

This has never happened in the past, and finding a solution has been left to politicians, who in fact created this conflict in the first place, letting it simmer even after 73 years of independence.

While the reasons for mistrust felt by both communities are many and not limited to the above mentioned issues, it needs to be recognised that these issues are the reactions to the beginning of the conflict, not the cause of the original conflict. 

The LTTE, the war, UNHRC resolutions, the proposed US Congress resolution, are all reactions to a festering wound, and none of them represent a solution to the core issues that created the conflict in the first place.

Politicians on both sides have their constituencies to consider, and both constituencies have their own power bases. There can never be a solution unless these power bases agree to such a solution. It is impossible to see how this could happen as these power bases are only interested in safeguarding themselves and their power, and in regard to the conflict, the hardening of their individual positions have in fact strengthened their power bases.

Sri Lankans, both Sinhalese and Tamils, through their political representatives, and in the case of Tamils, sections of the Diaspora, have provided the bullets for various entities in the world to fire at Sri Lanka. A mechanism will have to be found for the people concerned to work out a solution and cease distributing these bullets. If is left to the politicians, whatever they come up as a solution will only result in creating another problem, as for them, the conflict is like a beggar’s wound. If it heals, the beggar will have no reason to beg for, and so, consequently, it can never heal.

Shenali D Waduge

India created Bangladesh out of East Pakistan. It took just 13 days. 73million Bangladeshi’s were given ‘independence’. So, the question is why didn’t India do the same to the Sikhs demanding ‘Khalistan’ or the Tamils demanding Tamil Eelam whether it was in Tamil Nadu or Sri Lanka’s North? Why is the West so pumped up to create ‘micro independent states’ that provide it strategic geopolitical advantage – Kosovo, South Sudan, East Timor are just some examples? What can we make out from Resolution 413 presented to US Congress by a handful of US Congressmen linked to LTTE Diaspora or the ridiculous Bills getting passed by LTTE lobbies in Canada? What do Tamils the world over read from these developments? The crux of the problem is that the same ethnic group (Tamils) are demanding a Homeland in 2 different countries using the same definitions to claim self-determination/separate state. How can this be allowed? To solve this, the question of where Tamils originally evolved needs to be answered and that leaves the homeland nowhere else but in Tamil Nadu.

What is a homeland? 

A homeland is a person’s native land of origin. It is where their ethnic group evolved. Generally, every ethnic group has their own country –the Japanese have Japan, the Chinese have China, the French have France, the Germans have Germany etc. Pakistan was divided along ethnic lines and became a state for Muslims, while India” did not become a Hindu state. Unfortunately, when India was created in 1947 combining princely states and autonomous areas of which Tamil Nadu was one, Tamils were not given their demand of a separate independent Tamil State. They only got a separate federal state. That grudge against the North Indians by South Indians remain to this day.

Unfortunately, with 70million Tamils living in Tamil Nadu alone and with over 80million Tamils living all over the world including Sri Lanka, Tamils are the world’s biggest ethnic group without a homeland to call for itself. 

Evolution of Man & creation of ethnic groups

If we are in acceptance of the out of Africa theory, we are in unison that man evolved from Africa and spread out to all corners of the world and with time creating different groups of people who varied by their skin colour, features, geographical location, cultures, traditions etc. These groups later became codified as ‘ethnic’ groups by colonial rulers who went further to define them as ‘minorities’ ‘majority’. So if we are having problems with how people have been classified and categorized first blame the British!

While people are a mixture from the African gene, they went on to create themselves into numerous ethnic groups. Sinhalese are also a mixture but Sinhalese as an ethnic group with its own language, culture etc evolved in Sri Lanka and there are no Sinhalese anywhere else in the world and definitely Vijaya was not Sinhalese to claim the Sinhalese descend from India. Sinhalese are the only ethnic group that evolved in Sri Lanka and can claim the entirety of the island as its homeland. There are Sinhalese living in all parts of the world but their roots are in Sri Lanka.

There are Tamils living in all corners of the world. Most of these Tamils were plucked from South India and shipped off to the Caribbean, South Africa, Far East etc by the Colonials, in particular the Colonial British. During colonial rule in then Ceylon, the Portuguese, Dutch and British did the same by bringing scores of Tamils as indentured labor to Sri Lanka. There have been 18 invasions from South India and many would have decided to stay on in Sri Lanka too.

Now we come to the most important question.

Where did Tamils originate. Where did they evolve as an ethnic group? Is it in South India or Sri Lanka? If anyone claims Sri Lanka, they must also answer how there are over 70million Tamils in India while there are less than 3m Tamils in Sri Lanka.

So the most important question to be answered is where did Tamils evolve from, for that is where Tamils in the Caribbean can call their Homeland, where Tamils in South Africa can call their Homeland, where Tamils all around the world can call their homeland – where their original roots are. They may live in another country, they may hold citizenship in another country but where did their people originate? This is the golden question to answer. This is where Tamil Eelam has to be declared. This is why the self-determination quest started in India with several secession movements that were quelled by the Indian government until they found an escape by palming of India’s headache to Sri Lanka by arming Sri Lankan Tamils to claim a separate state called Tamil Eelam.

Does India want Tamils to have a Homeland & Does India want it created in Tamil Nadu or Sri Lanka?

India created Bangladesh but India will not allow Khalistan for Sikhs and Tamil Eelam for Tamils in either Tamil Nadu or Sri Lanka. Mother Indira Gandhi created Bhindrawale & Prabakaran, Sikh bodyguards killed Indira and son Rajiv was killed by LTTE. 9m of the 30m Sikhs live in Punjab. The Punjab Accord signed by Rajiv in 1985 failed in 1987.  It is noteworthy how LTTE Diaspora in Canada have tapped some Canadian Sikhs to lobby for them and India should take note of this development and the foreign hands behind this!

https://www.onlanka.com/news/indo-lanka-accord-and-the-punjab-accord-india-fooled-sikhs-and-is-now-fooling-tamils.html

It is clear that India does not wish to and will not allow a breakaway of South India’s Tamil Nadu losing 130,058 km² area to have it declared a separate independent & sovereign state of Tamils out of India’s Central Government control.

Then why force Sri Lanka to sign Indo-Lanka Accord in 1987, create the useless Provincial Council system, merge two provinces (north & east), handpick 2 Sri Lankan Tamil poodles (Mahaththaya – LTTE’s Deputy and Varatharaja Perumal who declared unilateral declaration of independence) and even send an Indian Peace Keeping Force?

At least now Tamils should understand that India did all this not to help Tamils create any Tamil Eelam. India used Tamils for India’s geopolitical goals.India continues to use Tamils just as foreign intel are using LTTE Diaspora.

When foreign countries have banned LTTE, why are they not taking action against the pro-LTTE groups openly operating in their countries? Why did they use the previous government to deproscribe a select number of banned LTTE groups? These are all part of their larger plan to which LTTE Diaspora have no option but to take part in or have their shop closed & have their international money making network nullified in the process. So naturally, they are playing their role perfectly.

So India and Sri Lanka must take cognizance of the developments taking place building the foundation for 2 objectives – break up of India as that would be aligned to the quest to create micro states and it is a quicker way to their 2 main targets – China & Russia. The other objective if Eelam is created in Sri Lanka is to create another Israel in South Asia for West.

The break-up of India has been earmarked & openly declared in 1998 by US Congressmen Edolphus Towns.

At least the Tamils in Sri Lanka should look at the situation beyond the hype and propaganda and realize that their home in Sri Lanka remains amongst the communities living in Sri Lanka sans any mono-ethno linguistic separate enclave and they must finally raise their voice to say they do not wish to separate Sri Lanka & desire to live in peace with all the communities of Sri Lanka. Let the LTTE Diaspora and anyone else wanting to create separate states carve these out in the countries that fund these campaigns!

Sri Lanka’s Tamils must now boldly say ‘No to Separating Sri Lanka’ & ‘No to Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka”

Shenali D Waduge

Asoka Yapa 

As a resident of Canada for over 50 years I have seen perhaps more than my share of Ceylon/Sri Lanka diplomatic representation in Ottawa and Toronto. It is said that career officers make better envoys than political appointees but, in my experience, this is not always the case. Vernon Mendis, part of the ‘old guard’ of the Ceylon diplomatic corps, had formidable gravitas and was a highly successful high commissioner in Ottawa. But so was Ernest Corea, eminent newspaperman, a political appointee who was named H.C. by the J. R. Jayawardena government. His networking skills and public speaking facility are legendary. More recently, Geetha de Silva and Chitranganee Wagiswara, career officers, graced the post and served with distinction.

The late Bandula Jayasekera, another newspaperman, was appointed Consul General in Toronto by the Mahinda Rajapakse government around 2007, if memory serves. This was a time of great ructions by the Eelam-supporting Tamils in Canada, most of whom lived in the Toronto. The LTTE’s glory days were long over and the Sri Lanka Army’s brilliant tactical decisions and battlefield successes were chasing the LTTE leadership and thousands of human shields into smaller and smaller cordons. In Toronto, the focus of LTTE activism was to take the military pressure off of Prabhakaran and his terrorists and the Toronto supporters stopped at nothing to effect that.

They gathered in their thousands on the streets displaying Tiger flags, spewing forth propaganda at full volume, the goal being to bring political pressure on Canada’s famously corruptible politicians to call off the Sri Lanka Army. I remember returning home from work and trying to make my way through myriads of Eelamists gathered at the entrance to transport hubs. On TV and Canadian radio there was a constant barrage of anti-Sri Lanka propaganda by well trained Tamil and local ‘hired guns’ to smear the Sri Lankan govt. (an effort that continues to this day). Poor communications strategies of the Sri Lankan govt. made things worse. Eelamist argy-bargy culminated in their halting all traffic on the Gardiner Expressway, the major highway into and out of Toronto.

In the midst of all this mayhem stood Bandula Jayasekera. But he hardly stood still. Death threats he got many, right from the start of his tenure. Those seem only to encourage his fighting spirit. Bomb threats accompanied every event Bandula organized. TV interviews here, radio interviews there; he got so many of these media requests that he asked some of us in the Sri Lankan community to speak on his behalf — which we did happily. Assailed as Bandula was and fighting resolutely like Macaulay’s Horatius at the bridge his only help came from the patriotic community; the diplomatic fort in Ottawa, helmed by a man who told the Toronto Star newspaper that he got the plum so that he could be ‘close to his family’ in Canada offered not a whit of help.

We have had excellent diplomats serve Sri Lanka in Ottawa. But in the five decades I have lived in Canada, our motherland never had such a lionhearted defender at her service as Bandula Jayasekera. It was fortuitous that Bandula served when he did because the challenges Sri Lanka faced in Toronto were monumental. Sri Lanka’s reputation was being shredded by Eelam propagandists, past masters at ‘fake news’. Tamils who opposed Eelam — there were thousands — were being attacked physically, financially, and psychologically. Sinhalese children were targeted at Toronto schools. A Sinhalese-owned restaurant in Brampton was bombed. None of this fazed Bandula the Brave Fighter.

I think I speak for tens of thousands of patriotic Sri Lankans in Toronto when I say that we are so glad that this courageous young man was there to assist us at the moment we needed him. His bravery ran deep. The way he faced death amazed all of us. It was truly exemplary. My wife Fiona and I are truly privileged to have been his friends, sometimes confidantes even. How cruel it is that this accomplished warrior was cut down in the prime of his life. With his many talents — writer, television broadcaster, scholar, diplomat — what more he could have achieved had he got more time! We in Canada mourn him.

Shenali D Waduge

They say people living in glass houses should not throw stones. Canada has been one of the staunchest proponents of unsubstantiated allegations against Sri Lanka, simply because a handful of LTTE lobbyists have learnt the art of influencing them through means only they would know &unlikely to admit. In accusing Sri Lanka of genocide and what not, we would expect the accusers to be squeaky clean. Not so…. daily skeletons (pun intended) are coming out of graves of children killed. These are not just one or two incidents but systematic & planned killings & abuse of indigenous children. It certainly dampens the fictitious image Canada tries to portray itself and should remind Canada without cleaning its own backyard, Canada should not try to clean others. It should also wake Canada up to some ground realities of molly-cuddling with terrorists also.

Canada is a created country. Canada was established in 1867. Canada’s history is therefore just 154years. That is less than the years the Portuguese ruled parts of Sri Lanka!

Though the whites took claim over Canada, Canada was inhabited by indigenous people for over 12,000 years.

Canada that is demanding Sri Lanka remove its penal codes, internal laws etc continues the 1876 passed Indian Act. The Act allows the Canadian government to define who an ‘Indian’ is, after which you gain ‘Status’. Canada that boasts about equality still decides who they call an ‘Indian’ and gives status to and linked to the ‘rights’ they enjoy ! The Indian Act does not include the Metis & Inuit people, who are known as ‘non-Status Indians’ and yes, Canada dictates how Sri Lanka treats its ‘minorities’.

The Canada that accuses Sri Lanka of disenfranchising the Indian Tamils imported by colonials, have denied Status Indians their legal & ancestral identities via Canada’s Indian Act! First Nations women lost their Indian Status if they married a non-Status man Their children suffered too! The Indian Act also denied First Nations women from voting & running for elections. But Canada has no problem with LTTE proxies running for elections! Status Indians could vote only in 1960! Sri Lanka’s Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the world’s first female PM in 1960!

The Canada that demands rehabilitated LTTE be inducted into the armed forces & police, denies Inuits & Metis women serving the Canadian armed forces, getting college & university degrees or becoming a professional (doctor/lawyer) How many know what happened to Indigenous Tommy Prince, who inspite becoming a decorated Canadian war hero, faced systematic racism after returning to his ‘home’. Not only was he not able to vote but he was not treated like the other white veterans. Shocking!

In their own habitat they were declared ‘citizens’ only in 1951, in their homeland their land was usurped and made to live on ‘reserved’ land and until early 1900s they had to even get permission to leave these areas with passes. These reserve areas still exist & are governed by the Indian Act – no wonder Canada is supporting LTTE to usurp land & create a bogus homeland!

The Residential School system to ‘solve’ the Indian problem and force indigenous to assimilate was another example of the ‘white man’s burden’ having usurped and stolen lands belonging to others and then determining who rules & on whose terms! These schools were operational from 1600s far before Canada per se was created! The Residential School in Saskatchewan closed only in 1996.

Here’s how Canada ASSIMILATED indigenous Indians

• Children between 4-16years were forcibly removed from their families & communities & segregated by gender
• Children were malnourished, made vulnerable to diseases
• Children were sexually abused & subject to various experimental brain tests
• These schools remain federally funded (not provincially) and are under-funded & not given same care as others.
• Indigenous systems of healing was criminalized and prohibited by Amendments to the Indian Act in late 19^th& 20^th

Canada that demands Truth & Reconciliation in Sri Lanka must answer to whether the problems of the indigenous people of Canada has been solved after Canada’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission as well as the National inquiry into Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women???

Canada’s TRC declared the indigenous school system ‘cultural genocide’. So what has Canada done to reverse this 6 years after? TRC commissioners Murray Sinclair, Wilton Littlechild and Marie Wilson are not very happy.

Canada that demands transparency from Sri Lanka was caught hiding evidence https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2014/1/6/canada-accused-of-hiding-child-abuse-evidenceBut evidence keeps popping up https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-01/childrens-bodies-kamloops-indian-residential-school-trudeau/100180332which is why we refuse to fall prey to the LTTE funded global propaganda accusing Sri Lanka of killing 40,000 people and we wish to instead simply ask those making the allegations to name these 40,000 dead, give some form of identity, prove where they lived, show the police complaints filed by their families. Without any of these and no skeletons even, the Sri Lanka’s National Army cannot be accused of killing people who did not exist. Of course the Sri Lankan Armed Forces do not have to apologize for killing LTTE during hostilities.

Between 1836 and 1996, Canada operated 139 residential schools in Canada. An estimated 6000 children are said to have died in these schools. The TRC requested $1.5M to find mass graves at residential schools but the federal government denied the money in 2009 – Oh the very year LTTE was defeated by Sri Lanka! Why don’t the LTTE Diaspora holding positions in Canada question the Canadian government and fight for truth & justice for Canadian Indians?

The indigenous people living in the country called Canada have suffered much. The irony and the issue is that Canada preaches to other countries of the world while hiding and not attempting to remove the racism, segregations and other stigma that aboriginals continue to suffer from. We find this highly hypocritical given that Canada uses its envoys and international officials to issue highly offensive statements to less powerful nations on how they should govern their countries when Canada is doing the opposite back home!

We can only ask Canada to take out its TRC report and look at how justice can be given to the indigenous natives before trying to create separate homelands in other countries for terrorists and their supporters living in Canada, holding Canadian passports & unlikely to ever live in a ‘Eelam homeland’, Canada wants to help create for them. But Canada is more than welcome to help create Eelam in Canada given that more Canadian Tamils demand Eelam living in Canada than the handful of isolated voices heard elsewhere.

Shenali D Waduge

KAMALIKA PIERIS

 Eelam war IV, which started in June 2006, was the LTTE‘s ‘final war’ to establish   Eelam, using conventional warfare across large swathes of land, intermixed with guerilla methods.  It was a high intensity, military confrontation across a vast battlefield. The warring was almost continuous, with few short pauses.

Eelam war IV was a Civil War, a protracted armed confrontation between the state and a   non-state army, sustained by a secessionist movement.  It was not Terrorism” nor was it a War of liberation”.  The intention was to partition the country, creating the littoral state of Eelam, leaving the rest land locked.

This war did not come as a surprise. It had been brewing for some time. Tamil politicians   launched a new political party in December 1949, Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK).  The word ‘arasu’ could mean kingdom/government/administration/state. A.J Wilson   made it clear that their ‘Tamil arasu”   meant an ‘autonomous Tamil state’ and   that ‘Illankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi ‘meant ‘Ceylon Tamil State Party”.

Modern International law uses the term Non-international armed conflict” (NIAC) instead of ‘Civil War’.   In a Non-international armed conflict” the country’s Security Forces should be confronted within its own territory by an organized armed group operating under an effective command structure, having the capacity to carry out sustained and concerted military operations and exercising control over a part of country.  The confrontation must reach a high level of intensity.

In addition, the non state group must have access to weapons, to recruits and to military training. It must have the ability to plan and carry out military operations, as well as the ability to negotiate agreements, including cease-fire or peace accords.

There are several laws which applied to non-international armed conflicts. Firstly, Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, secondly, Additional Protocol II of 1977,  and lastly, the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court, (1998, 2002) which includes the items held in Common Article 3.

Two sets of Human Rights laws have also been thrown into the arena, namely, ‘International Human Rights Law’ (IHRL) and ‘International Humanitarian Law’ (IHL). The International Committee of the Red Cross is the custodian of IHL. IHRL   is for peace time violations   of human rights while IHL is for those engaged in war. Analysts point out that Eelam war must be judged in terms of International Humanitarian Law.  However, UNHRC has included both IHRL and IHL in its 2021 Resolution on Sri Lanka.

 Sri Lanka has signed Common Article 3 but has not signed Additional Protocol II or the Rome Statute. The most important of these for Sri Lanka was Additional Protocol II, 1977 to the Geneva conventions.

 This is the only regulation that is of any use to a government engaged in civil war, said analysts. This Protocol supports the right of governments to preserve national unity, protect territory, and maintain law and order in a civil war situation. This Protocol prohibits others from meddling in the war or interfering with any actions the government chooses to take on the matter. The Protocol said,

1. Nothing in this Protocol shall be invoked for the purpose of affecting the sovereignty of a State or the responsibility of the government, by all legitimate means, to maintain or re-establish law and order in the State or to defend the national unity and territorial integrity of the State.

2. Nothing in this Protocol shall be invoked as a justification for intervening, directly or indirectly, for any reason whatever, in the armed conflict or in the internal or external affairs of the High Contracting Party in the territory of which that conflict occurs. 

3. Civilians shall enjoy the protection afforded by this Part, unless and for such time as they take a direct part in hostilities.

As of July 2020, the Protocol had been ratified by 169 countries,  however, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kiribati, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tuvalu have not signed the Protocol.

Sri Lanka has not signed this Protocol and therefore cannot make use of these valuable clauses.  When asked why Sri Lanka did not sign, officials have no answer, said Nihal Jayawickrema.  Observers ask, was it deliberate? The present trumped up ‘war crimes’ charges are due to this omission.

The conflict in Sri Lanka is a Non –international armed conflict as defined by the ICC for Yugoslavia. However, the government of Sri Lanka has not recognized the Eelam war as a Non international armed conflict, observed Laksiri Mendis . Laksiri has done legislative drafting in many Commonwealth countries.

The government of Sri Lanka has failed  to say at the UNHRC sessions,  in Geneva,  that the Eelam  War was a non-international armed conflict,  and that it comes under Additional Protocol II of 1977. This  is a serious shortcoming on the part of successive governments, observed Neville Ladduwahetty.  

Successive Sri Lanka  governments have been reluctant to categorize the conflict as an ‘armed conflict’ said Ladduwahetty. This is despite the fact that the  Government of Sri Lanka signed a Ceasefire Agreement   with the LTTE which gave the LTTE control over territory which was then identified as ‘LTTE controlled areas’ . The ICRC in Sri Lanka  joined in this, and never referred to LTTE fighters as ‘combatants’. The land held by the LTTE  was referred to as ‘uncleared areas’ added analysts.

The last phase of the war should have been classified by Sri Lanka as an Armed Conflict, said analysts.    All high level commentators, such as Desmond de Silva, said that   this phase was  an Armed Conflict. An Armed Conflict  is protected from HR charges  because it comes under the rules of war.

 Instead of  using the term Armed Conflict,  the Mahinda Rajapaksa government called   the  last phase of Eelam War IV a Humanitarian mission”.  The last word they should have used was ‘Humanitarian’.  When asked why they did this, Gotabaya Rajapaksa  said ‘it was just a name we used. It had nothing to do with Human Rights. We were  rescuing people as well as fighting.    Of course it was not ‘just a name we used.’ It has been deliberately introduced by someone  and thoughtlessly accepted by  those in charge. ( Continued)

Pathfinder Foundation

The Pathfinder Foundation (PF) in collaboration with the Washington based Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) held a virtual meeting in January, 2021 to pursue improved bilateral relations between the US and Sri Lanka. The discussions broadly focused on economic and relations and with a better understanding of the ground situation of the US administration. The report on the discussion presented by Mr. Bernard Goonathilaka to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the President Secretariat.

The objective of the initiative was to provide President Joe Biden administration with a better understanding of the ground situation prevailing in Sri Lanka; challenges, opportunities and priorities that may impact on the US – Sri Lanka bilateral relationship. The discussions broadly focused on economic relations covering trade, investment, science and technology cooperation; strategic and security cooperation; and political and common values.

The Sri Lankan delegation was headed by Bernard Goonetilleke, Chairman-Pathfinder Foundation and former Ambassador to the U.S.  Other members included H.M.G.S. Palihakkara – Former Foreign Secretary, Ambassador & Permanent Representative to the U.N; Dr. Rohan Perera – Former Legal Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & PRUN, New York; Prof. Rohan Gunaratne – S. Rajaratnam School of Int. Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Prof. Rohan Samarajiva – Chair, LIRNEasia & former Chairman of ICT;  Dr. Indirajit Coomaraswamy –  Former Governor, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Distinguished Fellow – PF; Waruna Karunatilake – Former Chairman, Independent Committee for Digitalization of Television in Sri Lanka and Senior journalist; and Chathuka Senanayake, Director, Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies.

 Amb. Robert O. Blake Jr., former Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs under the Obama Administration and Ambassador to Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Indonesia, headed the US delegation comprising former senior government officials, representatives of civil society etc. The U.S. team included Alyssa Ayres – Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia; Nisha Biswal – President, U.S. India Business Council, Senior Vice President for South Asia, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, former Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia; Sajit Gandhi – Senior Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Nilanthi Samaranayake – Director, Strategy and Policy Analysis, Center for Naval Analysis; John Sifton – Asia Advocacy Director,  Human Rights Watch; Knox Thames – Visiting Expert, US Institute of Peace, Senior Fellow, Institute for Global Engagement and Alice Wells – International Government Relations Adviser, ExxonMobil, former Acting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia.

Following the dialogue, each team produced a report comprising vital areas of the relationship and made recommendations to further develop bilateral relations. Mr. Bernard Goonathilaka, Chairman, PF in picture the event of the report handed over to the President at the President Secretariat on 02^nd June 2021

Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Bangkok

To Commemorate the Vesak Day-2021 (2564 B.E.), the telecast of the international award-winning True Little Monk” (“True Plookpanya”), documentary series was launched on the Vesak Full Moon Poya Day, 26 May 2021 (2564 B.E. on Haritha TV during the Buddha Rashmi” National Vesak Programme 2021 held at the Gangaramaya Temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The 31-episode series is being telecast for the first time in Sri Lanka in collaboration with True Corporation PLC, Sri Lanka Embassy and Permanent Mission in Thailand, the Ministry of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs, and the Sri Lanka Prime Minister’s Office.The documentary was showcased with Sinhala subtitles. It was the very first translation of the documentary to a foreign language.

In 2018, True Little monk year 7” started with 12 Thai boys. Later the project expanded with the inclusion of 12 other boys from different nationalities around the world, for international audiences and the documentary was titled as True Little Monk: A Wisdom Training Programme for Novices”. During the four week creation period of the documentary, all 24 boys studied Dhamma and the essence of Buddhism through age appropriate learning method in line with monastic practices at Wat Nog Pah Pong, a forest monastery established by Phra Bodhinyanathera (Chan Subhaddo).

Authorizing the broadcast of True Little Monks” for 12 months, starting 26 May 2021 in Sri Lanka, Chief Excellence Center and Education Officer of True Corporation PLC, Thailand Dr. Naetchanok Wipatasinlapin, stated that It is our wish that we are able to reach out to all audiences in Sri Lanka who are looking for true inner peace and happiness in their lives and hope that the True Little Monk” programme will be beneficial, and bring happiness to their lives as it does the Thai audience”

Since the first telecast in 2012, True Little Monk,” the innovative Dhamma documentary has received comment, praises and encouragement from both domestic and international audiences. The Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards (2013 and 2016, Award Winner for Educational TV Programme Category), The Telly Awards (2015, 2017, and 2018 Award Winner for the Religious/Spiritual TV Show Category), Asian Academy Creative Awards (2018, Award Winner for Best Children’s Programme Category (Thailand)), TV Gold Awards (2017, Award Winner for the TV Programme for Youths Category), Nataraj Awards (2015-2017, Award for the Best Children Programme Category), and Chor Sa-ard Awards (2014- 2016 and 2018, Award for TV Programme Category) are the awards received for the documentary locally and internationally.

On 29 and 30 May 2020, after the launch of the documentary in Sri Lanka, the True TV and Thai News Network (TNN) channels as well as online media Matichon, Siamrath, and Today Line in Thailand, gave nationwide due publicity for the launch.

Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Bangkok 01 June, 202

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය

ෆොන්ටෙරා ආයතනය ඉහළ කාර්යය සාධනයක් සහිත  ක්‍රීඩකයින් හැටදෙනා සඳහා ලබාදෙන රුපියල් 25,000ක  මාසික පෝෂණ දීමනාව පිරිනැමීමේ සමාරම්භය  තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන්  අද (02) දින ටොරින්ටන් පරිශ්‍රයේ දී පැවැත්විණි.

එක් එක් ක්‍රීඩා සංගම් හරහා තෝරාගැනීමේ තරග පවත්වා මළල ක්‍රීඩා, බර ඉසිලීම, බොක්සිං, ජූඩෝ, බැඩ්මින්ටන්, පිහිනුම් සහ පැරා ක්‍රීඩාවලට අදාළව  උසස් දක්ෂතා සංචිතය නියෝජනය කරන ක්‍රීඩක ක්‍රීඩිකාවන් ගණන 60 දෙනෙකි.

අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මගපෙන්වීම අනුව අපේ රටේ ක්‍රීඩාව ඉහළ නැංවීම සඳහා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශය, ක්‍රීඩා සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, ජාතික ක්‍රීඩා සභාව එක්ව කෙටිකාලීන, මධ්‍යකාලීන හා දිගුකාලීන වැඩපිළිවෙලක් ක්‍රියාත්මකය.

ක්‍රීඩක ක්‍රීඩිකාවන්ගේ පෝෂණ අවශ්‍යතා හඳුනාගෙන සුදුසුකම්ලත් පෝෂණ වෛද්‍යවරයකුගේ නිර්දේශ මත නිසි උපදෙස් ලබාගනිමින් මෙම පෝෂණ දීමනාව පිරිනමයි.

ඒ සඳහා මසකට එක්  ක්‍රීඩකයකු සඳහා  වැයවන රුපියල් 25,000/- ක් පමණ වූ මුදල ක්‍රීඩකයන් 60දෙනා සඳහාම වසරක් පුරාවටම මූල්‍යමය වශයෙන් ක්‍රීඩා සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව වෙත ලබාදීමට ෆොන්ටේරා සමාගම ඉදිරිපත් වී සිටියි.

සැළසුම්ගතව ක්‍රියාත්මක වන මෙම ව්‍යාපෘතිය හරහා ක්‍රීඩක ක්‍රීඩිකාවන් වෘත්තීය මට්ටමින් පමණක් නොව පෝෂණ මට්ටමින් ද සවිමත් කර අපේ රටේ ක්‍රීඩාව රනින් ජයග්‍රහණය කිරීම ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශයේ සැළසුම වී තිබේ.

මෙම අවස්ථාවට රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ශෙහාන් සේමසිංහ, ක්‍රීඩා සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල් අමල් එදිරිසූරිය,ජාතික ක්‍රීඩා සභාවේ උසස් දක්ෂතා සහිත ක්‍රීඩකයන් හඳුනා ගැනීමේ කමිටුවේ සභාපති සංජීව වික්‍රමනායක, ජාතික ක්‍රීඩා සභාවේ සාමාජික යෂ්වන්ත් මුත්තෙට්ටුවගම, ෆොන්ටේරා සමාගම නියෝජනය කරමින් දිනිත් පතිරණ මහත්වරු ඇතුළු නිලධාරී මහත්ම මහත්මීහු පිරිසක් සහභාගි වූහ.

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය,

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ජපාන තානාපති සුගියාමා අකිරා මහතා මෙරට ජිම්නාස්ටික් ක්‍රීඩාව ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා අවශ්‍ය ක්‍රීඩා උපකරණ තොගයක් තරුණ  හා ක්‍රීඩා  අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා වෙත ඊයේ (31) දින‌යේ දී පරිත්‍යාග කළේය.

කොළඹ ටොරින්ටන් කායවර්ධන මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ දී මෙසේ භාර දුන් ජිමිනාස්ටික් උපකරණ තොගය එම අවස්ථාවේ දීම අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජක්ෂ මහතා විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජිම්නාස්ටික් සංගමයේ ලේකම් ආර්.ඒ.කේ.ජීවන්ත මහතාට ප්‍රදානය කරන ලදි.

මෙසේ ප්‍රදානය කළ ජිමිනාස්ටික් උපකරණ අතර Vaulting Table, a Runway for Vaulting Table, Vaulting Boards, Landing Mat, a Safety Collar for Vaulting Board and a Mat for Hands අන්තර්ගත ය.

මෙරට ජිම්නාස්ටික් ක්‍රීඩාව ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා ජපානයේ දැනුම හා අත්දැකීම් හුවමාරු කරගැනීමට අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ජපානයෙන් කළ ඉල්ලීමකට ප්‍රතිචාර දක්වමින් ජපාන ජිම්නාස්ටික් සංගමය මෙම ප්‍රදානය කර තිබේ.

ජිම්නාස්ටික් ක්‍රීඩාව හා බැඳී පවතින දිගුකාලීන සමීප සබඳතාවක් ජපානය සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව අතර පවතින අතර 2006 වර්ෂයේ සිට ජපාන පුහුණුකරුවන් විසින් ශ්‍රී ලාංකික ක්‍රීඩක ක්‍රීඩිකාවන් පුහුණු කිරීම ඒ අතර කැපී පෙනෙයි.

මෙවැනි පසුබිමක් තුළ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජිම්නාස්ටික් ක්‍රීඩිකා මිල්කා ගෙහානි ද සිල්වා මෙනවිය ජපානයේ ටෝකියෝ හි පැවැත්වෙන ඔලිම්පික් තරගාවලිය සඳහා අවශ්‍ය වන සුදුසුකම් සපුරාලීමට සමත් වූවාය.

ජාත්‍යන්තර ඔලිම්පික් කමිටුවේ ප්‍රතිපාදන යටතේ ජපානයෙහි ශිෂ්‍යත්වයක් ලබාගැනීමට සමත් වූ ගෙහානි ද සිල්වා මෙනවිය ටෝකියෝ නුවර දී විශේෂ පුහුණුවීම්වල නිරතවන අතර ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජිම්නාස්ටික් ඉතිහාසයේ පළමු වතාවට  ඔලිම්පික් තරගාවලියක දී  ජිම්නාස්ටික් ඉසව්වෙන් මාතෘ භූමිය නියෝජනය කිරීමට ඇය සූදානමින් සිටින්නීය.

ටෝකියෝ‍ ඔලිම්පික් සහ පැරාලිම්පික් තරගාවලීන් සඳහා දෙමසකටත් අඩු කලක් තිබිය දී මෙවැනි ක්‍රීඩා උපකරණ තොගයක් පරිත්‍යාග කිරීමෙන් සංකේතවත් වනුයේ ගෝලීය අභියෝගයක් වන කොවිඩ්  – 19 තත්ත්වය යටතේ පවා ජපානය  ක්‍රීඩා ක්ෂේත්‍රය ඔස්සේ සිය මිත්‍රත්වයේ බැඳීම තව දුරටත් ශක්තිමත් කිරීම සඳහා කරනු ලබන නොනිමි කැපවීමයි.

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය

Sputnik V Vaccine

GENERAL INFORMATION

Sputnik V is the world’s first registered vaccine based on a well-studied human adenoviral vector-based platform. Sputnik V is already registered in more than 65 countries.

The ongoing Sputnik V post-registration clinical trial in Russia involved more than 31,000 volunteers. Phase 3 clinical trials of Sputnik V have been conducting in the UAE, India, Venezuela and Belarus.

Sputnik V is one of the three vaccines in the world with efficacy of over 90%. The Vaccine’s efficacy is confirmed at 91.6% based on the analysis of data on 19,866 volunteers, who received both the first and second doses of the Sputnik V vaccine or placebo at the final control point of 78 confirmed COVID-19 cases.

According to analysis of data from 3.8 million vaccinated persons in Russia Sputnik V demonstrates 97.6% efficacy.

RDIF jointly with partners and manufacturers is ramping up the production of Sputnik V. The cost of one dose of the vaccine for international markets is less than $10 (Sputnik V is a two dose vaccine). The vaccine can be stored at a temperature of +2 to +8 degrees Celsius, which allows for easy distribution worldwide, including hard-to-reach regions.

The vaccine supplies for the global market will be produced by RDIF’s international partners in India, Brazil, China, South Korea and other countries.

This website has been created to provide accurate and up-to-date information about Sputnik V.

Russian Health Ministry registration certificate

The vaccine is named after the first Soviet space satellite. The launch of Sputnik-1 in 1957 reinvigorated space research around the world, creating a so called Sputnik moment” for the global community.

The Russian Ministry of Health, the Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund) announce that Sputnik Light, a single dose COVID-19 vaccine, has received authorization for use in Russia.

Sputnik Light is the first component (recombinant human adenovirus serotype number 26 (rAd26)) of Sputnik V – the world’s first registered vaccine against coronavirus.

The single dose Sputnik Light vaccine demonstrated 79.4% efficacy according to analyzed data taken from 28 days after the injection was administered as part of Russia’s mass vaccination program between 5 December 2020 and 15 April 2021.

An efficacy level of almost 80% is higher than that of many two-dose vaccines.

Sputnik Light has proven effective against all new strains of coronavirus, as demonstrated by the Gamaleya Center during laboratory tests.

Phase I/II of the Safety and Immunogenicity Study of the Sputnik Light vaccine has demonstrated that:

• Sputnik Light can elicit the development of antigen specific IgG antibodies in 96.9% of individuals on the 28th day after vaccination;
• The Sputnik Light vaccine elicits the development of virus neutralizing antibodies in 91.67% of individuals on the 28th day post immunization;
• Cellular immune response against the S Protein of SARS-CoV-2 develops in 100% of volunteers on the 10th day;
• The immunization of individuals with pre-existing immunity against SARS-CoV-2 with Sputnik Light can elicit the increase of the level of antigen specific IgG antibodies by more than 40x in 100% of subjects 10 days after immunization;
• No serious adverse events were registered after vaccination with Sputnik Light.

The two dose Sputnik V vaccine remains the main vaccination tool.

https://sputnikvaccine.com/about-vaccine/

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්

ජුනි මස 2 දින රජයේ ප්‍රවෘත්ති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ පැවති පුවත්පත් සාකච්ඡාවේදී රාජ්‍ය ඖෂධ නීතිගත සංස්ථාවේ සභාපති විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය ප්‍රසන්න ගුණසේන මහතා පැවසුවේ චීන රජයෙන් නොමිලේ ලබාදුන් සයිනොෆාර්ම් භාවිතා කිරීම පුද්ගලයන් කිහිප දෙනෙකුගේ ක්‍රියාකාරීත්වය නිසා මාස ගණනක් ප්‍රමාද වූ බවයි.

ඒ නිසි වේලාවට ලබා දුන්නේනම් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට සිංහල අවුරුද්දට පෙර සයිනොෆාර්ම් එන්නත් මිලියන කිහිපයක් ලබා ගැනීමට හැකියාව තිබු බවත් එය වැළකීම නිසා කොරෝනා තුන්වෙනි රැල්ලක් ඇතිවීම පාලනය කර ගැනීමට නොහැකි වූ බවත්ය. සයිනොෆාර්ම් එන්නත භාවිතය වැලැක්වූ බවට ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් චෝදනාව එල්ල වී ඇත්තේ වෛද්‍යවරු සුළුතරයක් නියෝජනය කරන වෘත්තීය සමිතියක ප්‍රධානියෙක් වෙතයි.

මේ අතර එම පුද්ගලයාම රුසියානු ස්පුට්නික් එන්නත භාවිතය වැළකීමටද සක්‍රීයව කටයුතු කරන බව චෝදනාවක් එල්ල වී ඇත.

ස්පුට්නික් එන්නතේ පළමු මාත්‍රාව පමණක් 50,000 තොගයක් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ලබා දීම නිසා එම තොගය ජනතාවට ලබා ජනතාවට ලබා දෙන්නේ ද නැති ද යන්න පිළිබඳව නිර්දේශයක් ලබා දෙන ලෙස සෞඛ්‍ය සේවා අධ්‍යක්‍ෂක ජනරාල්වරයා තාක්ෂණ කමිටුවක් පත් කළේය.

නියෝජ්‍ය සෞඛ්‍ය සේවා අධ්‍යක්‍ෂක වෛද්‍ය එම් ආර්නෝල්ඩ්, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානයේ ජාතික වැඩසටහන් නිලධාරී වෛද්‍ය නාලිකා ගුණවර්ධන, වසංගත රෝග පිළිබඳ විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය හසිත තිසේරා, ප්‍රතිශක්තිකරණ විද්‍යාව පිළිබඳ විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍යවරුන් වන මහාචාර්ය නීලිකා මලවිගේ සහ විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය ඩී දසනායක යන මහත්වරු මෙම කමිටුවට අයත් වූහ.

ගෝලීය වසංගතය හමුවේ එන්නත් මාත්‍රා දෙකකින් එකක් පමණක් ලබාදීමට වුව කටයුතු කළ යුතු බවට ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානය ලබාදී ඇති නිර්දේශය ද පදනම් කරගෙන මෙම කමිටුව නිර්දේශ කළේ ස්පුට්නික් මාත්‍රා 50,000 මෙරට ජනතාවට ලබා දිය යුතු බවයි. ඒ අනුව මහනුවර දිස්ත්‍රික්යේ එන්නත්කරන වැඩපිළිවෙළ ආරම්භ විය.

කෙසේ වෙතත් පෙර කී විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍යවරයා ප්‍රකාශ කරන්නේ මේ ආකාරයෙනි ආකාරයෙන් ස්පුට්නික් ඒක මාත්‍රාවක් හෝ ලබා දීම නරක, අදූරදර්ශී, සදාචාර විරෝධී ක්‍රියාවක් බවයි. ඔහු මේ අදහස ස්ථාන ගණනාවකදී ප්‍රකාශ කර ස්පුට්නික් එන්නත්කරණය අඩාල කිරීමට උත්සාහ දරා ඇත.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කොවිඩ් රෝගයට එරෙහි එන්නත්කරණය අඩාල කිරීමට දිගින් දිගට කටයුතු කරන මොහුගේ ක්‍රියා කලාපය පිලිබඳ විධිමත් පරීක්ෂණයක් කරන ලෙස රජයේ වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය මේ වන විටත් ඉල්ලීමක් කර ඇත. මෙකී වෛද්‍යවරයා හිටපු සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යවරයෙකුගේ සමීපතමයෙක් බවද පැවසේ.

මේ අතර අදාල පුද්ගලයා එන්නත් පිලිබඳ කමිටුවේ තව දුරටත් රදවා ගැනීම ගැන ජාතික ඖෂධ නියාමන අධිකාරියේ නව සභාපති වෛද්‍ය රසිත විජේවන්ත මහතා ද දැඩි විවේචනයට ලක්ව ඇත.

– repoter

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්

නිරෝධායනය සඳහා යොමු කරන ලද නිරූපණ ශිල්පිනී පියුමි හංසමාලි නිරෝධායන මධ්‍යස්ථානයක් කරා ගෙන යද්දී බස් රථය තුළ දැඩි ආවේගශීලීව අදහස් දක්වමින් අන්තර්ජාලයට වීඩියෝවක් මුදා හැර තිබේ.

ඉන් ඇය කියා සිටින්නේ තමන් ඇතුළු කණ්ඩායම කොළඹ ආසන්න හෝටලයක නිරෝධායන සඳහා අවස්ථාව ඉල්ලා සිටියදී ඒ සඳහා අවස්ථාව නොදී කොළඹින් බැහැර බණ්ඩාරවෙල ප්‍රදේශයේ නිරෝධායන මධ්‍යස්ථානයට ගෙන යමින් සිටින බවයි.

https://www.facebook.com/piumi.hansamali.3/videos/3826014397526465/?t=0

තමන් සමග රෝගී වූ පුද්ගලයෙකු ද සිටින බවත් ඔහු රෝහල්ගත කිරිමක් හෝ නොකරන බවටද ඇය චෝදනා කරයි.

චන්දිමාල් ජයසිංහ, පියුමි හංසමාලි ඇතුළු පහළොස් දෙනකු මෙසේ නිරෝධායනයට යොමුකර ඇත්තේ පසුගියදා ෂැංග්‍රිලා හෝටලයේ දී නිරෝධායන නීති උල්ලංඝණය කරමින් සාදයක් පැවැත්වීම හේතුවෙනි.

මෙම සියලු දෙනාම පොලිසිය විසින් අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීමෙන් පසු අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් කළ අතර ඔවුන් ඇප මත මුදා හරිනු ලැබීය.

නමුත් නිරෝධායන නීති අනුව ඔවුන් සියලු දෙනා නිරෝධායන සඳහා යොමු කර තිබේ.

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror

The Advisory Committee on Communicable Diseases of the Health Ministry has recommended that pregnant women should only be vaccinated with the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine, Deputy Director General of Health Services Dr. Hemantha Herath told the Daily Mirror.

He said since there are no sufficient data on other vaccines, the Committee had recommended only the Sinopharm vaccines will be given to pregnant mothers.

Though Army Commander announced that the pregnant woman would be given priority when giving Sinopharm vaccine in relevant areas, Dr. Herath said there are certain practical issues in giving vaccine to the pregnant women.

“The Family Health Bureau is in the process of sorting them out. There are certain checks and balances that need to be included to the circular that is to be issued soon in this regard” he said.

“As it is a very complicated process, the Family Health Bureau is still developing the guidelines,” Dr. Herath underlined.

He stressed that vaccinating pregnant mothers has not yet commenced, and added it would take some time to finalise the relevant guidelines and only after that the vaccination could be started.

Moreover, he said he had received several reports that some pregnant mothers have got the vaccines without proper approval from the Health Ministry.

The attention to vaccinate pregnant mothers has been drawn as they come under one of the high risk categories.

Against this backdrop, Army Commander Shavendra Silva today announced that they would give priority to the pregnant women, and those above 60 years of age when giving Sinopharm vaccines in the areas announced earlier from June 8. 

Courtesy Adaderana

Army Commander General Shavendra Silva says that islandwide travel restrictions will be further extended until June 14.

He stated that the travel restrictions, which are currently in effect and had been initially extended until June 07 (Monday), will now remain in force until 4.00 a.m. on June 14.

Accordingly, the islandwide travel restrictions will not be lifted on June 07, as announced previously. 

Courtesy Adaderana

hirty-nine more deaths in Sri Lanka have been attributed to the novel coronavirus infection, Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (June 02).

The latest fatalities have moved the country’s death toll to 1,566, according to Epidemiology Unit data.

The deaths have taken place between May 17 and June 01, the Department of Government Information stated.

Reportedly, 27 of them were over the age of 60.

The deceased – 19 females and 20 males – were identified as residents of Moratuwa, Muwandeniya, Matale, Borella, Badulla, Jaffna, Wahamalgollewa, Trincomalee, Gampola, Kotmale, Vavuniya, Kelaniya, Waththegama, Badalkumbura, Elpitiya, Dompe, Kattankudy 02, Wellampitiya, Wattala, Horana, Bandaragama, Maskeliya, Hatton, Watawala, Nawalapitiya, Hapugasthalawa, Kurunegala, Gampaha, Gelioya, Bogawanthalawa and Medawachchiya.

COVID pneumonia was recorded as the cause of death of majority of the victims.

Courtesy Adaderana

Daily COVID-19 cases count moved to 3,306 on Wednesday (June 02) as 738 more people were tested positive for the virus in Sri Lanka.

This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 192,547.

Government Information Department stated that the new cases reported today were associated with the New Year coronavirus cluster.

As many as 160,714 recoveries and 1,566 deaths have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the pandemic last year.

According to official data, up to 30,267 active cases are currently under medical care at designated hospitals and treatment centres.

Courtesy Adaderana

Chandimal Jayasinghe, Piyumi Hansamali and thirteen others, who were taken into custody over a party at a five-star hotel in Colombo violating quarantine laws, have been sent to Passara quarantine centre.

Accordingly, they will be under quarantine for a period of 14 days.

Thirteen individuals who were arrested for attending the party hosted by Chandimal Jayasinghe and Piumi Hansamali were been granted bail earlier today (June 02).

The arrestees – 11 males and 02 females – were produced before Colombo Additional Magistrate Bandara Nelumdeniya.

When the case was taken up, the police had made an appeal to direct the suspects to quarantine procedure through the prison, however, the additional magistrate ordered to release them on personal bails each valued at Rs. 100,000.

Fort Police Station had conducted investigations into an alleged incident in respect of a birthday party organised at a five-star hotel in the Galle Face area on the night of May 30.

On May 31, the Fort Police arrested Chandimal Jayasinghe and Piyumi Hansamali, who were produced before the Fort Magistrate and released on bail. 

Later, six persons were arrested by Fort Police yesterday (June 01) for attending the said party. In addition to that, seven more individuals were taken into custody earlier today.

Sri Lankan American Action Coalition (USA)

FOR THE ATTENTION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE

Sen. Menendez, Robert
Sen. Cardin, Benjamin
Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne
Sen. Coons, Christopher
Sen. Murphy, Christopher S.
Sen. Kaine, Tim
Sen. Markey, Edward J.
Sen. Merkley, Jeff
Sen. Booker, Cory
Sen. Schatz, Brian
Sen. Van Hollen, Chris
Sen. Risch, Jim
Sen. Rubio, Marco
Sen. Johnson, Ron
Sen. Romney, Mitt
Sen. Portman, Rob
Sen. Paul, Rand
Sen. Young, Todd
Sen. Barrasso, John A
Sen. Cruz, Ted
Sen. Rounds, Mike
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FOR THE ATTENTION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

Rep. Meeks, Gregory W.
Rep. Malinowski, Tom
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Rep. Sires, Albio
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Rep. Deutch, Theodore
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Rep. Cicilline, David N
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Rep. Castro, Joaqui
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Rep. Salazar, María Elvira

THE TRUTH ABOUT SRI LANKA –  BEFORE YOU BELIEVE STORIES OF GENOCIDE”,  MARGINALIZATION” , DISAPPEARANCES” AND FORM MISIDEMOCRACY AND THE CHOICE MADE BY THE TAMIL PEOPLE LIVING IN SRI LANKA, CONSIDER THEIR DESIRES TOO AND NOT ONLY THOSE WHO COME THROUGH YOUR DOORS TO FEED MISINFORMATION. 

THIS IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATING LEGISLATORS IN THE USA ABOUT SRI LANKA.  PLEASE READ THE ATTACHMENT. (The content below was sent as an attachment to the members of both The Congress and Senate in foreign affairs.)

HOW CAN YOU BE GUIDED BY PROXIES OF A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION AGAINST A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT THAT HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO ALL CITIZENS WHEN SUICIDE BOMBERS AND FORCED CONSCRIPTION OF CHILDREN AND TERROR TOOK PLACE FOR 30 YEARS? DID THE WESTERN POWERS EXPECT THE COUNTRY’S GOVERNMENT TO TURN THE OTHER WAY? THEY PROTECTED ALL PEOPLE BUT FACE HUMAN RIGHTS ALLEGATIONS” WITHOUT ACCURATE PROOF.

PLEASE EDUCATE YOURSELF WITH THE TRUTH BEFORE SPONSORING RESOLUTIONS AGAINST THE ONLY COUNTRY THAT DEFEATED TERRORISM AND IS ENJOYING PEACE. 

PANDERING TO THE PRO LTTE DIASPORA DOMICILED OUTSIDE SRI LANKA AMOUNTS TO MISERY FOR THE TAMIL PEOPLE LIVING IN SRI LANKA AND TO THE 17 MILLION SINHALA MAJORITY THAT ALSO INCLUDES MUSLIMS WHO WERE ETHNICALLY CLEANSED AND MURDERED BY THE LTTE.  WITHIN THE COUNTRY THE REALITY IS THAT THE MAJORITY REFERRED TO, THE SINHALA PEOPLE ARE A MINORITY IN THE WORLD WITH NO OTHER COUNTRY THAT SPEAKS THEIR LANGUAGE. THE MINORITIES REFERRED TO – TAMILS AND MUSLIMS HAVE ALMOST 6 TIMES THE POPULATION OF SRI LANKA IN OTHER COUNTRIES AROUND THE REGION.

 IF THE US PRESSES THEIR AGENDA, REMEMBER THAT THE AGENDA TO PANDER TO THE PRO TERROR PROXIES IS A PUSH TO OPRESS A WORLD MINORITY OF SINHALA PEOPLE.  TAMIL PEOPLE HAVE 60 MILLION IN TAMIL NADU ACROSS THE SEA AND THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION DOES NOT PERMIT SEPARATION BUT THEY HAD TERROR TRAINING CAMPS ON SOUTH INDIAN SITES. NOW INDIA OPPOSES ANY FURTHER TERROR ACTIVITIES AFTER THEY LOST THEIR LEADER TO SUICIDE BOMBING BY THE TAMIL TIGERS AND A WOMAN BOMBER. A MAJORITY OF THE TAMIL PEOPLE LIVING IN SRI LANKA DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THE AGENDA OF THOSE WHO COME THROUGH YOUR REVOLVING DOORS WITH CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND LIES.

WE THE PEOPLE OF SRI LANKA OPPOSE ANY PUSH AND STRONG DEMANDS BY ANY RESOLUTIONS TO TAKE AWAY THE FREEDOM AND PEACE OF OUR PEOPLE.  DO NOT OPRESS A WORLD MINORITY BASED ON MISINFORMATION.  GO TO SRI LANKA AND SEE THE GROUND SITUATION. IT CAN BE ARRANGED FOR ANY POLICY MAKERS WHO SO DESIRE.

YOU ARE CAVING INTO PRESSURE FROM THE GROUP THAT IS LOOKING TO EXPLOIT THE UNITED STATES.  OPERATING ILLEGALLY TO UNDERMINE A SOVEREIGN GOVERNMENT WITH THE TRANSNATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL ELAM (TGTE) UNDER THE RADAR, OPERATING IN THE UNITED STATES?  HOW CAN YOU IGNORE SUCH ACTIONS?  HOW CAN YOU IGNORE THE GALLEON SCANDAL INVOLVING MONEY LAUNDERING FOR THE LTTE?  HOW COULD YOU DISMISS SOME OF THE GLARING VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS THAT INCLUDED A VAST NUMBER OF TAMIL PEOPLE FORCED INTO THEIR WAR MACHINE FOR 30 YEARS . WITH SUICIDE BOMBINGS THAT TOOK THOUSANDS OF LIVES IN THE STREETS, SCHOOLS AND PLACES OF WORSHIP, TRAINS, BUSES AND THE LIST GROWS BUT THE WESTERN NATIONS IGNORE? 

HOW CAN YOU IGNORE THE FBI CLASSIFICATION OF LTTE AS THE MOST BRUTAL TERROR GROUP EVER KNOWN?  HOW CAN YOU ENTERTAIN AND BE DICTATED TO BY PROXIES OF SUCH A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION THAT IS PROSCRIBED IN THE UNITED STATES AND 31 COUNTRIES?  HOW CAN YOU CONDONE TERRORISM, IMMIGRATION, ASYLUM AND HUMAN SMUGGLING THAT HAS BECOME A BUSINESS FOR THOSE WHO COME THROUGH YOUR DOOR WITH LONG AND FALSE STORIES OF ABUSE AND MARGINALIZATION UNFOUNDED AND UNPROVEN. REFER TO THE DATA IN THE REPORT MYTH OF DISCRIMINATION” BELOW.  REFER TO THE VIDEO CLIPS OF THE LTTE BRUTALITY. LISTEN TO LORD NASEBY SPEAK IN THE  UK HOUSE OF LORDS AS PROVIDED BELOW.  WHY DOES THE UNITED STATES IGNORE SO MANY FOR SO FEW WHO HAVE AN AGENDA THAT IS THEIR SELF SEEKING RACKET OF HUMAN SMUGGLING AND ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES.

HERE’S THE DATA AND THE TRUTH.  PLEASE DO NOT LEGISLATE BY REMOTE CONTROL.  WE WARN YOU THAT YOUR ACTIONS DO NOT HELP THE POOR AND INNOCENT TAMIL PEOPLE.  YOU WILL SOON HEAR FROM THEM TOO.  THEIR VOICE WILL BE HEARD AND IT IS NOT WHAT YOU HEAR FROM THE DIASPORA THAT FINANCES POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS CLAIMING TO BE THE SAVIORS OF THE TAMIL PEOPLE.  THE TAMIL PEOPLE IN SRI LANKA HAVE NOT BEEN HEARD.  THEY NEED A VISIT FROM SOME OF YOU TO PLEASE CONTACT THE Jaffna Civil Society that will enlighten you.  These are Tamil people who have a story to tell that the United States needs to hear. Contact the Jaffna Civil Society President Arun Arulampalam on email at:

Arun Siddharth Arulanandam -President of the Jaffna Civil Society of Tamil People living in Sri Lanka.

Email:  jaffnacivilsociety@gmail.com

Mobile: + 94 77 484 2464

CLAIMS OF GENOCIDE CANNOT BE ACCEPTED WHEN THE VERY DIASPORA PROXIES WHO COME TO YOU ARE VISITING THE COUNTRY OF SRI LANKA, AND RETURNING WITH NO ATTACKS OR RISKS DUE TO RACE.  THEY OBTAINED DUAL CITIZENSHIP AND ARE LARGE SCALE PROPERTY DEVELOPERS AND BUSINESSMEN ENJOYING THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS.  IF GENOCIDE APPLIES TO SRI LANKA, HERE’S THE DEFINITION AS PER THE UNITED NATIONS.  I URGE READERS TO QUESTION WHETHER THIS APPLIES TO SRI LANKA BY A GROUND VISIT OR BY CONTACT WITH THOSE LIVING THEIR LIVES THERE.

Definition of Genocide as per the UN

The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.  In Sri Lanka we are looking at ALLEGATIONS of accusations of deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial group. On the other hand, the terrorists (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam – LTTE) are inaccurately named as non-state players and have escaped any accountability for destroying over 60,000 civilian lives in suicide bombings and an additional 29,000 uniformed security personnel who were acting to save civilians of all ethnicities.  Their sacrifice for peace in 2009 was not dished out based on ethnicity.  All people are relieved to see the end of an era when indiscriminate suicide bombings and mass scale killings have been almost a daily occurrence. 

As per the UN Definition Article II as it applies to the accusations of acts committed to destroy in whole or in part an ethnic group as accused, examining the acts one by one as below, it is clear that Genocide as applied to Sri Lanka by the UNHRC contradicts the UN definition to the core. The UNHRC picture is that it applies to the entire the Tamil community.

Definition according to Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, as such:

1. Killing members of the group; The LTTE participated in mass killing of their own Tamil citizens for not participating in the extremist, terrorist activities that they executed starting with killing the Mayor of Jaffna and anyone who was a dissident. We know personal stories from sibling of one such Tamil youth member who expressed objection to their criminal activities and he was murdered. There are many such cases. The JAFFNA CIVIL SOCIETY MEMBERS ARE FAMILIES THAT HAVE MORE STORIES OF ABDUCTION AND KILLING OF THEIR TAMIL FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS.
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; If there was such serious bodily harm, how can 60% of the Tamil community in Sri Lanka live in the South of the country mingling and even intermarrying with the Sinhala people among whom they live amicably. Some even express that they are more comfortable outside of the Elam” area where the caste system is predominant and intolerable. The civilians living in Sri Lanka do not want a return to the LTTE dominated separatist agenda that the US believes in as a solution.  It is to the Tamil people a return to violence as they will state fearlessly today in 2021.
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; This is absent in the country because there is equal opportunity in education, employment, business, and property ownership.  There is no infliction or physical destruction.
4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; There are no state controls set for the Tamil community in by the government or ethnic majority as controls on the population growth among the Tamil minority.
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.  Forcibly transferring children was brutal action by the LTTE when they conscripted children as young as age 10 forcibly taken from the clutches of their parents and school rooms or even abductions.  When the LTTE recruiters met with resistance from parents or teachers, they killed the adults for protecting kids.  Kids were removed dragged crying for their parents and assaulted for asking to go home.  This fits into one of the conditions in the UN definition of forcible transfer for terrorism a violation of children’s human rights. Some of these occurrences are evidenced in the supporting videos included in this document.

THE TRUTH ABOUT SRI LANKA – CHALLENGING FALSIFIED PROPAGANDA

EXPLOITING WESTERN COUNTRIES WITH LUCRATIVE ASYLUM OPPORTUNITIES USING UNVERIFIED LIES, EXPLOITING SRI LANKA FOR FREE EDUCATION, FREE HEALTHCARE, EMPLOYMENT AND FREEDOM TO OWN PROPERTY WHILE COMMITTING HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AGAINST CHILDREN AND POOR HELPLESS TAMIL PEOPLE WITH THREATS AND MASS KILLING FOR DISSENT. ELIMINATING MODERATE TAMILS IN VISIBLE INTELLECTUAL ROLES AND THE LESS POWERFUL WHO REFUSED TO BE PARTICIPANTS TO TERRORISM OR BECOME PROXIES OF TERROR TODAY.

 The war of 1983-2009 ended with peace for all people.  Twelve years later in 2021 the proxies of terror continue to bury the truth with fabricated lies offering no proof.  The USA is among 32 countries that banned the LTTE but their proxies continue to be part of the campaign against Sri Lanka while western nations including the USA are caving into proxies of terror.   

The FBI declared the LTTE one of the most brutal terror groups. The crimes committed against children is unquestioned by any Western nation or the United Nations that have become prey to pro LTTE proxy diaspora.  Their complacency is tantamount to  accepting and being pro terroism and anti democracy. The USA needs to seek the truth if it is a leader to promote democracy against all forms of proven terrorism against civilian life with suicide bombings that destroyed innocent people going about daily life.  

Sri Lanka’s suffering under domestic terror lasted almost 30 years and the real civilian victims never received justice or even a passing consideration at the UNHRC in the resolution given leadership by the USA and now UK.  It is time for the US Administration to wake up to the truth by  a desire to seek the truth and not the propaganda forced on them.  If there is a desire to do so, there is no shortage of opportunities to seek the truth about Sri Lanka.

The current situation in 2021 is that those who cry Genocide” and continue to be proxies of the terror supporting LTTE remnants operating in the US and other western nations that have banned the LTTE, continue to carry out illegal fundraising for a terrorist cause.  They however, obtained foreign citizenship, and made use of the dual citizenship privileges given by Sri Lanka and  continue to return to the Land of Genocide” that their lies provided and foreign governments fell for without verification.  Concurrently, claims of Geocide and their trips to Sri Lanka continue without opening a dictionary to figure out the true meaing of Genocide that would not permit their existence if it was the land of Genocide. 

Today, the biggest new found wealth and financing of realestate are owned by those who deceived Sri Lanka, and their host nations.  It will only be a matter of time when their power will deprive democracy to Sri Lanka due to the short sighted, unverified biases of western countries that followed their trail of lies.

Data that disproves claims of race based discrimination that became the reason for the internal insurrection that became full blown terrorism.

They Myth of Discrimination Against Tamils in Sri Lanka ACSLU-.pdf

Supporting LTTE war funding and suicide bombings with criminal activities on par with the top terror groups recognized by the United States that fails to compare the similarities to LTTE – Mackenzie Institute Canada. 

Funding Terror: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and their Criminal Activities in Canada and the Western World

Terrorism Profile – Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – The Mackenzie Institute

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Search Results for Terrorism in Canada” – The Mackenzie Institute

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LTTE attrocities – Bing   (This link is an important gateway to more information.

Extensive evidence in pictures and names of assasinated leaders and use of child soldiers. This is graphic and has evidence of the human rights violations of civilians and killings.

Ltte tamil terrorist atrocities presentation by Jaliya – issuu  – Click on this link for  DETAILS OF ASSASINATION OF TWO LEADERS – Indian Prime minister, Sri Lankan President, The Tamil Minister of Foreign Affairs in Sri Lanka and other Tamil leaders by those who were self appointed protectors of the Tamil people.

Open the link above for important information.

List of attacks attributed to the LTTE – Wikipedia

Record of LTTE Tamil Tiger atrocities through the years (sangam.org)

Link to the  LTTE atrocities and the report of the OHCHR investigation on Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka Brief

Several Videos of Child Soldiers of the LTTE in Sri Lanka

Video on Child soldiers and animals by the LTTE – Bing

Link to     LTTE atrocities surface in ‘new’ grim documentary released on sidelines of ongoing UNHRC – NewsHub

The Australian wife of the LTTE second in command who trained child soldiers and inducted them to war with cyanide capsules on their neck currently lives a luxury life, unscathed by any legal charges for aiding in use of child soldiers forcibly recruited.

Lord Naseby Addressing the House of Lords – UK – Denouncing deceit of LTTE and challenging misinformation.

https://www.facebook.com/100014618559262/posts/1115470205616921/?d=n

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Webinar on Fake Genocide Claims and Illegal Business of Human Smuggling to western countries for a fee.  Only wealthy countries are chosen for this operation for a fee.  If they were truly saving Tamil people, why not move to countries closer to Sri Lanka.  This must be recognized by the countries that have been fooled.

Fake genocide claims

Derana News item summarized:   

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1382643052111527&id=100010975358950

Link to the full webinar:

https://fb.watch/5z3hw0aika/

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Living in Fear – Stories of Child Soldiers

Child Soldiers and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka | HRW  – Link to firsthand interviews with child soldiers

Rehabilitation of LTTE Child Soldiers by the Government of Sri Lanka

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MOST IMPORTANT TO VIEW AND BE PROVIDED TO THOSE WHO ARE UNAWARE OF THE ATROCITIES AGAINST CHILDREN AND CIVILIANS

Truth Behind Dare – Documentary on LTTE Child soldiers.  (Warning:  Disturbing Scenes)

A POWERFUL DOCUMENTARY – A STORY TOLD BY THE CHILD SOLDIERS.

Truth Behind Dare Full Documentary English – Bing video

AT THE END OF VIEWING THIS PROOF, WE HOPE YOU ARE CONVINCED THAT THE TRUTH LIES IN THE PEOPLE OF SRI LANKA WHO LIVED THROUGH THE 30 YEARS AND CONTINUE TO RELIVE THE HORROR.  THE POOR TAMIL PEOPLE WHO UNDERWENT REAL HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE HANDS OF THE LTTE AND SUFFERED MURDER OF THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS INCLUDING CHILDREN HAVE NOT BEEN HEARD. THE SECURITY FORCES PROTECTED ITS PEOPLE JUST AS THE US MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM WOULD DO. THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE IN THEIR COMMITMENT TO SERVICE.

WE HOPE SANITY WILL PREVAIL AFTER VIEWING FIRST HAND EVIDENCE IN THIS DOCUMENT.

THE TRUTH MUST TRIUMPH.

Sudath Gunasekara . Mahanuwara

Ships catching fire in high sea is not an uncommon thing. But a Panamanian registered missive oil tanker carrying 270,000 Metric tons of crude oil catching fire in September 2020 in the Eastern sea. east of Sri Lanka and another giant ship carrying containers within 7 months getting completely destroyed by fire in May 2021 in the Western sea only 9.5 nautical miles from Colombo Port needs our special attention and serious investigations,

To me both these incidents pauses a big mystery in view of the following reasons.

Firstly, why they caught fire in our seas at this time in this way

2 Second, were they mere accidents or preplanned destruction plans by someone, like the LTTE Diaspora or ISIS with the connivance of anti – Sri Lankan forces who failed in their earlier attempts  to destroy this country,

3 Third, to assess the damage already done to the marine life and coastal the belt and environmental damages that would follow due to pollution and possible acid rain to the Islands water resources, vegetation, to humans and fauna and flora both in the short and long runs

4 Fourth the immediate and long run impact on the fishing industry and the fishermen by disrupting their basic livelihood.

5 Fifth the damages already done and that would follow to the national economy in time to come 

6 Sixth assess the cost of operational activities in cleaning up the coastal belts and disposing waste material etc and for purposes of claiming compensation for the  national economy from those who are responsible and finally to work out legal provisions and administrative planning to avoid such calamities at least in in future at least.

1 The oil Tanker caught fire during the North East monsoon in the Eastern sea,  where, two important ports Trinco and Oluwil are located, when the winds were blowing south westward sweeping across the Island

2 X- Press Pearl carrying a thousand of Containers containing a massive volume of toxic and chemical material caught fire in the Western sea, where the wind is blowing from the South West across the Island during this season and within 9.5 nautical miles from Colombo the major commercial port of the Island nation the nerve point of the nation’s national economy a major disruption of which is beyond all imagination.

Who is responsible for this disaster?

In this backdrop the whole nation is now left with a big mystery unsolved?

by The Sri Lanka Study Circle  (Sheets 1- 5 of 14 sheets)

Preamble

This is an open letter issued by the members of the Sri Lanka Study Circle to the former Attorney General de Livera, calling him to explain why punitive action should not be initiated against him for alleged professional malfeasance connected with the Port City Bill.

He is accused of having conducted himself in a manner that compromised the Country’s sovereignty and threatened her National Security; his alleged impropriety is more fully described in the body of this letter.

Charges levelled against Mr. de Livera

The charges levelled against you, Mr. de Livera, are:

·        Serious dereliction of duties during the time you held the post of Attorney General.

·        Bringing the post of AG and the AG’s Department, into uttermost disrepute.

·        Conducting yourself in a manner that was prejudicial to good order and departmental discipline.

·        Compromising the Constitutional role and responsibility of the Attorney General.

·        Collaborating with elements attempting to subvert the Constitution of the Country.

·        Conducting yourself in a manner unbecoming of the Attorney General of Sri Lanka.

We, the members of the Study Circle, are aware that you are no longer the AG; we therefore request you to submit an explanation expeditiously.

We opine that you owe an explanation to the people of this Republic, who had financially sustained you in the department all these years and whose benignity would contribute to your pension and sustain you during your lifetime on Earth.

If an explanation is not provided

Failure to provide an explanation, as requested in this letter, may result in the public being compelled to pursue a course of action against you which could result in the suspension of any foreign travel you may have planned, your passport being impounded, your pension and assets being frozen and punitive legal action being initiated against you, even in absentia; if you are ensconced abroad, it may compel the people to take measures to have you extradited.

In the absence of your explanation and in the unlikely event of successive Governments displaying a reluctance to initiate action against you, the people shall patiently bide their time until the opportunity is afforded when you could be brought before court to face charges. 

If perchance you have deceased by the time the opportunity is afforded to initiate action against you, the trial against you shall proceed, with your progeny being given ample opportunity to defend your name.

There shall be no time prescription in initiating charges against you. 

Why did you mislead the Government and the people?

Mr. de Livera, you are kindly requested to explain, why you misled the Government and the people and brought your department to such disrepute by assuring all stakeholders that the Port City Bill was not in violation of the Constitution when it was glaringly obvious, to even a layman, that the Bill was indeed in violation of the Constitution?

Your conduct, an enduring blotch on the office you were privileged to hold, smeared the reputation of the Department when the Supreme Court found the Bill to be in violation of the Constitution in a record 25 instances!!

If you were to plead that your ignorance of the Constitution and the law occasioned this apocalyptic faux pas in the history of the Department, it would indeed be a sad commentary on your professional ability; if that is your explanation, it is strongly suggested that you tender your resignation forthwith and walk away from the Department without your pension, hanging your head in everlasting shame.

Failed in your Constitutional responsibility

Article 77 of the Constitution makes you mandatorily the prime Legal Protector of the Constitution. You have failed miserably in your Constitutional responsibility.

When a blunder of this proportion is made by a man of your experience in the twilight of his government career, would it be unreasonable to entertain suspicions that you could possibly have been influenced politically or otherwise, especially when a ridiculous offer of a diplomatic assignment, at retirement, is made to you?

Asset declarations and Bank statements

To allay suspicions in the minds of the people (and also in the name of transparency) you are kindly requested to forward to the public, copies of your annual asset declarations for the last five years, which presumably you have already submitted, and to make available all your bank statements for public scrutiny for the same period of time.

/Contd

RANJITH SOYSA

On 31 ST May ,  SPUR -Vic Australia together with well wisheers in Australia   have jointly collected funds and handed over a Stella 100 CPAP machine with non-vent mask, with a leak Port to be able to deliver BiPap to the Hikkaduwa District Hospital. 

Exco member Keerthi. at considerable risk to himself, drove to the hospital and handed the equipment to Dr Anuradha in charge of the Accident and Emergency Services node at the hospital. Dr Himal Kalambearchchi, the consultant physician to a number  of South Coast Hospitals also attended the handover function. Dr Anuradha is dressed in green and Dr Himal is the person with the tie. 

SPUR contribution was A$4500 for this initiative.

by The Sri Lanka Study Circle (Sheets 5- 8 of 14 sheets or Part 2)

/ Contd from sheet 5 (or Part 1)

Abandoning your responsibility as AG when Messrs G L Peiris and P B Jayasundera intervened in the hearings as intervenient petitioners

You are also called upon to explain, why you acted the way you did at the Supreme Court hearings when the Port City Bill was taken up?

The Constitution of this country has specifically entrusted you with the role of ensuring that Bills placed before Parliament are not in violation of the Constitution. It is your sacred Constitutional duty to do so diligently with all the legal acumen at your disposal.

It devolves on you to defend the Constitution whenever it needs to be defended in any Judicial forum; you could be described as the helmsman of the Constitution.  

When therefore 19 persons petitioned the Court against the Constitutionality of the Bill, not only were you regulatively and constitutionally required to defend the Constitution and the interest of the Government – both objectives being mutually inclusive – but indeed you were the best person to do so considering your opinion that the Bill did not violate the Constitution in any way.

It came as a surprise, to you too it so seemed, when two members from the Government side – Messrs G L Peiris (a member of the President’s cabinet) and P B Jayasundera (the Secretary to the President) – applied to the Court for special leave to intervene in the hearing.

To many it seemed as if the sacred precincts of the Judiciary had been invaded by the Executive.

And, what was even more surprising was when, contrary to practice, these two persons had two private lawyers to represent them. Representing Mr. G L Peiris was Mr. Gamini Marapona who, we learn now, has been tipped to be the ‘Chairman’ of the Port City Commission.

Did it not cross your mind, Mr. de Livera, that this may have been a subtle attempt by these Executive minions to impose undue influence on the Judicial process?

Though not entirely convincing, your performance that followed, conveyed the impression that you were somewhat miffed by the turn of events.

But at the end you relented with hardly a bleat and permitted Messrs Peiris and Jayasundera to take on the ‘prima donna’ role while you seemingly sulked and slinked to the background. Indeed, your performance was bizarre for more reasons than one and had many, smelling a rat.

What surprised many was how easily you relented and like Esau, the biblical character, forsook your rights enshrined in the Constitution, allowing Messrs Peiris and Jayasundera from the Executive Arm of Government to take centre stage; thereby you seemed to undermine the repute of your office and your department while leaving the people of the country, in abject despair.

Theoretically, you were the person most competent to refute the arguments of the petitioners and you were the one Constitutionally entrusted with that task.

We ask you, What special interests did Messrs Peiris and Jayasundera have that you could not have taken care of?”

 And, What were your submissions and responses in Court to this intervention by the ‘Executive’ duo with their private lawyers?”

It is customary that the AG appears gratis for those on the Government side.

The implication of employing private lawyers meant that the cost of their fees would be an additional financial burden on the people; unless of course in hind sight, it is a case of these lawyers appearing pro interesse suo.

UNHRC and the establishment of a parallel AG’s department

A thought crossed our minds; it was in Geneva, just earlier this year, that the UNHRC attempted to establish a parallel AG’s Department in Sri Lanka and failed.

If anyone, holding a prominent position, intentionally undermines the repute of the AG and the Department, such conduct would only aid the Americans who are bent on establishing that parallel Attorney General’s Department in this country.

Reports are circulating that the Americans are passing Human Rights resolutions against Sri Lanka in their Senate; there are also unconfirmed reports that you are being short listed by the Americans for a post in this parallel AG’s department, the Americans wish to establish.

We would appreciate if you would, in your response, shed any light to this persisting rumour, regarding such an appointment.

/Contd

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය

වෙඩි තැබීමේ ක්‍රීඩාවෙන් ජාතික හා ජාත්‍යන්තර ජයග්‍රහණ හිමිකර ගැනීමේ අරමුණ ඇතිව ක්‍රීඩික ක්‍රීඩිකාවන්ගේ දක්ෂතා ඔප්නැංවීම සඳහා තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (01) දින ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික වෙඩි තැබීමේ ක්‍රීඩා සම්මේලනය සමඟ ගිවිසුම්ගතවෙමින් ඔවුන්ට මූල්‍ය ප්‍රදානයක් ලබා දුන්නේය.

කොහුවල අලුතින් ඉඳිවන ජාතික වෙඩි තැබීමේ මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ දී අදාළ ගිවිසුම්ගතවීම හා මූල්‍ය ප්‍රදානය සිදුවිය.

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය වෙනුවෙන් ක්‍රීඩා සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල් අමල් එදිරිසූරිය මහතා සහ  ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික වෙඩි තැබීමේ  ක්‍රීඩා සම්මේලනයේ සභාපති ශිරාන් පීරිස් මහතා අදාළ ගිවිසුමට අත්සන් තැබූහ.

වෙඩි තැබීමේ ක්‍රීඩාවේ නිරත ක්‍රීඩක ක්‍රීඩිකාවන්ගේ දක්ෂතා වැඩිදියුණු කරමින් ඔවුන්ව දිරි ගැන්වීමේ අරමුණ ඇතිව අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ උපදෙස් පරිදි රුපියල් 12,135,020/-ක මුදලක් මෙලෙස ප්‍රදානය කෙරිණි.

මහේල ජයවර්ධන මහතාගේ සභාපතිත්වයෙන් යුතු ජාතික ක්‍රීඩා සභාව සහ උසස් දක්ෂතා කමිටුව විසින් ජාතික හා ජාත්‍යන්තර ජයග්‍රහණ ලබාගත හැකි බවට නිර්දේශ කරමින් ප්‍රමුඛත්වය දිය යුතු බවට නිර්දේශ කළ ක්‍රීඩාවන්ට මූල්‍ය ආධාර ප්‍රදාන කරමින් එම ක්‍රීඩාවල ජාතික සංගම් සමඟ ගිවිසුම්ගතවීම මේ වනවිට ක්‍රියාත්මකය.

ඒ අනුව ප්‍රමුඛත්වය දිය යුතු බවට නිර්දේශ වූ ජාතික වෙඩි තැබීමේ ක්‍රීඩාව ඉහළ නැංවීමේ අරමුණ ඇතිව එක් අවුරුදු උසස් දක්ෂතා ක්‍රීඩා සංවර්ධන ව්‍යාපෘතියක් සඳහා මෙලෙස ගිවිසුම්ගතවීම හා මූල්‍ය ප්‍රදානය කිරීම සිදුවිය.

මෙම අවස්ථාව සඳහා තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශයේ, ක්‍රීඩා සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ සහ ජාතික ක්‍රීඩා සභාවේ නිලධාරින් සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික වෙඩි තැබීමේ ක්‍රීඩා සම්මේලනයේ නිලධාරී  පිරිසක් සහභාගි වූහ.

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තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය

පළමු මාත්‍රාව ලබාගත් අයට ඔවුන් ලබාගත යුතු දෙවන මාත්‍රාව සඳහා නියමිත දිනය දැනුවත් කරමින් පළමු මාත්‍රාව ලබා දුන් ස්ථානයේදීම දෙවන මාත්‍රාවත් ලබා දීමට කටයුතු කරන බව තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය.

මහනුවර, කුණ්ඩසාලේ බණ්ඩාරනායක විදුහලේ පිහිටුවා ඇති එන්නත්කරණ මධ්‍යස්ථානය නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවට එක්වෙමින් තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (01) දින මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය.

රට පුරා සිදුවන එන්නත්කරණ වැඩසටහන් නිරීක්ෂණය කිරීමේ යෙදෙන තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද දිනයේ මහනුවර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ එන්නත්කරණ වැඩසටහන් නිරීක්ෂණ කරමින් එහි කටයුතු සොයා බැලුවේය.

එහිදී අදහස් දැක්වූ අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මෙසේ ද පැවසීය.

එන්නත් පත්‍රිකාව අත්සන් කරන අවස්ථාවේදී ජනතාව ඒ ගැන දැනුවත් කිරීම ඉතාම වැදගත්. ඒ වගේම එන්නත්කරණය සිදුවන සෞඛ්‍ය බල ප්‍රදේශය, තීරණය කරන්නේ සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශය විසින්.

මහජනතාවට අවශ්‍යවන  එන්නත් ආණ්ඩුව වගකීමෙන් යුතුව මෙරටට ගෙනවිත් දෙනවා. ඒ සඳහා අවශ්‍ය මුදල් ප්‍රතිපාදන වෙන් කර ගනිමින් ජාත්‍යන්තර සබඳතා ඔස්සේ එම එන්නත් මෙරටට ගෙනවිත් දුන් පසුව සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය විසින් නිසි ක්‍රමවේදයකට අනුව ඒවා ජනතාවට ලබාදෙනවා.

අද අපි කරන්නේ එම එන්නත් ජනතාවට ලබාදීමට අවශ්‍ය පසුබිම නිර්මාණය කරදීමයි. ජනතාව ඔවුන්ට ලබා දී තිබෙන වේලාවට පැමිණ ජාතික හැදුනුම්පත ඉදිරිපත් කර එන්නත ගබාගැනීමට හැකි  වැඩ පිළිවෙලක් අපි සකස් කරලා තිබෙනවා.

සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයෙන් අදාළ එන්නත් පෝරමය නිවැරදිව පුරවාගෙන එන්නත පිළිබඳව ජනතාව නිවැරදි ලෙස දැනුවත් කරනවා. ජනතාවට මෙම එන්නත් සම්බන්ධ ගැටලු තිබෙනවා නම් සෞඛ්‍ය බලධාරීන්ගෙන් ඒ අවස්ථාවේ දීම ඒ ගැන ප්‍රශ්න කිරීමේ හැකියාව තිබෙනවා.

මෙම පෝරමය භාෂා තුනෙන්ම මුද්‍රණය කරලා තියෙනවා. භාෂා තුනම දැනුම්වත් නිලධාරින් එහි සිටිනවා. ඔවුන් සමග කතා කර  ගැටලු ඇත්නම් ඒවා නිරාකරණය කරගැනීමෙන් අනතුරුව අදාල පෝරමය අත්සන් කර එන්නත ලබාගැනීමේ හැකියාව ඔබට තිබෙනවා.

මේ වන විට දළ වශයෙන් නිවැරදි කිරීම්වලට යටත්ව ලක්ෂ 19 වැඩි ප්‍රමාණයක් පළමු හා දෙවන මාත්‍රාව ලබාගෙන තිබෙනවා. එය වයස අවුරුදු 30 ට වැඩි ජනතාවගෙන් ප්‍රතිශතයක් ලෙස ගත්තොත් 17% ක ප්‍රමාණයක්.

කඩිනමින් තවත් ලක්ෂ 30 කට මෙම එන්නත් මාත්‍රාව ලබා දෙන්න අපි කටයුතු කරනවා. ලබන සතියේ එන්නත් ලක්ෂ 15 ක් ලැබෙයි කියලා විශ්වාස කරනවා.

මේ අනුව ලෝකයේ එන්නත්කරණ වැඩසටහන් ගත්තාම අපේ රටේ ඉතාමත් සාර්ථකව මෙම කටයුත්ත සිදු වෙනවා කියලා කියන්න පුලුවන්.

ජනතාව අපේ ආණ්ඩුව පත් කරගත්තේ පැහැදිලි බලාපොරොත්තුවක් ඇතිව.ඒ අනුව අපි ජනතාව වෙනුවෙන් ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන  වැඩ කටයුතු සොයා බලනවා.

ජනතාවගේ මුදල් වියදම් කර ආණ්ඩුවෙන් ගෙන්වන මේ එන්නත් කලබලයකින් තොරව නිසි ක්‍රමවේදයකට ජනතාව වෙත ලබා දිය යුතුයි කියන ස්ථාවරයේ අපි ඉන්නවා.

සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයේ නිර්දේශයන්ට සහ සංචරණ සීමාවලට යටත්ව අපි එන්නත්කරණ මධ්‍යස්ථාන වෙත ගොස් ජනතාව වෙනුවෙන් එම ක්‍රියාවලිය පිළිබදව සොයා බලනවා.

පළමු මාත්‍රාව ලබාගත් අයට ඔවුන් ලබාගත යුතු දෙවන මාත්‍රාව සඳහා නියමිත දිනය  ඔවුන් වෙත දැනුවත් කිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව පළමු මාත්‍රාව ලබා ගත් ස්ථානයේදීම දෙවන මාත්‍රාව ලබා ගැනීමට අවශ්‍ය වැඩ කටයුතු සිදු කරගෙන යන බවත්  එහිදී අමාත්‍යවරයා ප්‍රකාශ කළේය.

මෙම අවස්ථාවට රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යවරුන්වන අනුරාධ ජයරත්න, දිලුම් අමුණුගම, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී වසන්ත යාපා බණ්ඩාර, මධ්‍යම පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර ලලිත් යූ ගමගේ මහත්වරු ඇතුළු සෞඛ්‍ය බලධාරීහු පිරිසක් සහභාගී වූහ.

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කලබල ඇතිකරමින් ඒවා මාධ්‍ය ඔස්සේ ප්‍රචාරය කරමින් ඇතමෙක් මෙම එන්නත්කරණ ක්‍රියාවලිය අසාර්ථක බව පෙන්වීමට උත්සහ කළ ද රටේ මහජනතාව එවැනි ප්‍රචාරවලට හසුනොවී සාමකාමීව පැමිණ තමන්ගෙ මධ්‍යස්ථානයෙන් එන්නත ලබා ගන්නැයි තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය.

රත්නපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ ග්‍රාමසේවා වසම් 18ක පැවති එන්නත්කරණ වැඩසටහන නිරීක්ෂණය කිරීමට එක්වූ අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඇහැළියගොඩ බුලුගහපිටිය පිරිවෙණේ දී ඊයේ (31) මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය.

එහිදී අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මෙසේ  ද කීවේය.

රටේ ජනතාවගෙන් ඉල්ලන්නේ තමන්ගේ ග්‍රාමසේවා වසමට එන්නත්කරණ වැඩසටහන එනකොට ග්‍රාමීය කමිටුව විසින් ලබාදෙන වේලාවට පැමිණ කිසිම කලබලයකින් තොරව එන්නත් ලබාගන්නා ලෙසයි.

අපි මාධ්‍යයෙන් දකිනවා සමහර පැතිවල එන්නත්කරණ වැඩසටහන්වල විශාල කලබල ඇති කරගැනීමට උත්සහ කරනවා.

නමුත් අපි එක් පැත්තකින් සතුටු වෙනවා ගම්වලට එනවිට යාපනයට යනවිට රත්නපුරයට යනවිට ගාල්ලට, මාතරට, කුරුණෑගලට යනවිට කොළඹ සමහර ප්‍රදේශවලට යනවිට ජනතාව ඉතාමත් සාමකාමීව අවබෝධයක් ඇතිව ලබාදෙන වෙලාවට පැමිණ මෙම එන්නත් ලබාගන්නවා.

මෙම එන්නත්කරණ වැඩසටහන කඩාකප්පල් කිරීමට සමහරු උත්සහ කරනවා ඇති.

කලබල ඇතිකරමින් ඒවා මාධ්‍ය හරහා ප්‍රචාරය කරමින් මෙම එන්නත්කරණය සිදු කිරිම අසාර්ථක බව පෙන්වීමට උත්සහ දරනවා ඇති. නමුත් එහෙම දෙයක් නැහැ.

යම් යම් හුදකලා සිදුවීම් සිද්ධ වෙලා තිබෙනවා. ඉදිරියට එම හුදකලා සිදුවීම් සිදුනොවිය යුතුයි කියන විශ්වාසයේ අපි ඉන්නවා.

රත්නුපර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ එන්නත්කරණ වැඩසටහන ද මේ වනවිට සාර්ථකව ක්‍රියාත්මක වේ. රත්නපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ තරුණ තරුණියන් සහ ජාතික තරුණ සේවා සභාවේ හා යෞවන සමාජයන්හි තරුණ තරුණියන් මෙන්ම ග්‍රාමීය කමිටු වලින් ඊට විශාල සහයෝගයක් හිමිය.

සෞඛ්‍ය අංශයේ නිලධාරීන්ට වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරිතුමන්ලාට සහ එම කාර්යය මණ්ලඩයට ඉතාමත් පහසුවෙන් මෙම එන්නත්කරණ වැඩසටහන සාර්ථකව කරගෙන යාමට එමගින් හැකියාව උදා වී ඇති බව අමාත්‍යවරයා මෙහිදී පෙන්වා දුන්නේය.

මෙම අවස්ථාවට රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ජානක වක්කුඹුර,සබරගමු පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර ටිකිරි කොබ්බෑකඩුව, සබරගමුව පළාත් සභාවේ සභාපති කංචන ජයරත්න මහත්වරු ඇතුළු නිලධාරී මහත්ම මහත්මීහු පිරිසක් සහභාගි වූහ. 

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය

By Miriam Berger Courtesy The Wahington Post

A crab roams a Sri Lanka beach polluted with nurdle pellets that washed ashore from burning ship MV X-Press Pearl. (Eranga Jayawardena/AP)June 1, 2021 at 4:37 p.m. GMT+1

Tons of potentially toxic debris is threatening miles of coastlines and seas around western Sri Lanka after a fire on a ship led to the leak of nitric acid and nurdles — the small, lentil-sized pellets that are melted into all kinds of plastic products.

Sri Lankan authorities are racing to clear tons of nurdles blanketing the South Asian country’s usually pristine beaches and threatening fishing industries and wildlife tens of miles away. There are additional fears that the nurdles themselves could be contaminated with chemicals from the ship.

Here’s what to know about nurdles, the granules at the heart of one of Sri Lanka’s worst environmental crises.

A burning ship covered beautiful beaches in plastic ‘snow.’ Now Sri Lanka faces an environmental disaster.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

• What are nurdles?
• How do they impact the environment?
• How can they be cleaned up?

What are nurdles?

Nurdles are the raw materials melted down to produce plastics. Each kind of plastic is composed of nurdles of different compositions and colors. When plastics are recycled, they can be turned back into nurdles and the cycle is repeated. Nurdles are often shipped all over the world in large sacks to factories, where they are turned into various plastic products.

How do they impact the environment?

Nurdles are the backbone of so much packaging we use — and of some serious health and environmental challenges.

Due to improper storage or transfer, nurdles frequently leach into bodies of water, where fish and other marine animals can mistake the pellets for food. Ingesting the nurdles, which can also absorb other chemicals, could be deadly for animals and pose a serious danger for the wider ecosystem if they become caught in food chains.

It’s an environmental disaster,” Sri Lankan marine biologist Asha de Vos told The Washington Post. She said the plastic pellets will be in our beaches for a long time to come.”

Fish in Sri Lanka are a key source of protein, and there are now major fears over the long-term health of the fishing industry. The pellets could also increase the temperature of the sand, which could in turn impact the gender makeup of turtles who lay their eggs there, de Vos said.

Authorities have warned people not to touch the nurdles as it is unclear how toxic they are.

How can they be cleaned up?

Massive efforts are underway to clear Sri Lanka’s beaches coated in nurdles that have washed up to shore. There were an estimated 78 metric tons of nurdles aboard the MV X-Press Pearl, Mongabay News reported.

It was nuts,” de Vos said. It was basically [plastic] snow on our beaches, these tiny white pellets, and piles of them.”

Authorities have already banned fishing in the area and deployed the Sri Lankan military, wearing protective gear, to remove debris from the sand and sea. Efforts by Sri Lankans to help, however, have been hampered by covid-19 restrictions on movement.

It took 7,000 volunteers to clean up a nurdles spill of a similar magnitude in Hong Kong in 2012, according to Mongabay, though in that incident there were no fears of chemical contamination.

Environmentalists have called for changes to how nurdles are stored, as they are frequently kept in sacks that can easily tear.

Our oceans are covered in microplastics, but nobody really thinks about it,” de Vos said. I hope this drives home that we are all part of this problem.”

Courtesy Adaderana

The Director-General of Health Services confirmed that Sri Lanka has reported 43 more deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday (June 01).

As per the Department of Government Information, the reported deaths had occurred between May 20 and June 01.

Accordingly, the total number of deaths due to Covid-19 infection in Sri Lanka has risen to 1,527

Courtesy Adaderana

The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 856 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 2,845.

This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 189,241.

As many as 153,371 recoveries and 1,484 deaths have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the pandemic.

The Epidemiology Unit’s data showed that 34,386 active cases are currently under medical care.

Courtesy Adaderana

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has advised to tow the fire-ravaged container ship ‘X-Press Pearl’ into deeper seas in order to prevent further marine pollution.

The President has issued these instructions to the Chairman of Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) today (June 01) at a special meeting held at the Presidential Secretariat, President’s Media Division stated.

During the meeting, the Minister of Ports and Shipping Rohitha Abeygunawardena revealed all the details on the vessel including its route from the United Arab Emirates on May 09 to the arrival near the Port of Colombo on May 19.  

The suggestion of representatives from a number of fields, including shipping and environment, was to take the vessel to the deep seas to minimize possible damage to the marine environment as the vessel was at risk of sinking. 

Accordingly, the President had given instructions to issue an immediate order to the Chairman of MEPA  to tow the vessel into the deep seas based on technical facts as well as the advice of the Attorney General.

The President had stated that the decision taken should be based solely on technical facts and not on politics.

Ministers Douglas Devananda, Mahinda Amaraweera, State Minister Kanchana Wijesekera, Nalaka Godahewa, Attorney General Sanjaya Rajaratnam, Secretary to the President P. B. Jayasundera, Defence Secretary-General (Retired) Kamal Gunaratne, Commanders of the Navy and Air Force and the officials of Ports Authority, Marine Environment Protection Authority, NARA and other line institutions had been present at the meeting.

Courtesy Adaderana

With the ban on the import of chemical fertilizer, the Ministry of Agriculture has identified the need to take immediate action to supply the required organic fertilizer for the 2021/2022 Maha Season.

Currently, there are 27 local organic fertilizer manufacturers licensed by the National Fertilizer Secretariat Office.

Considering the production capacity of 10 of them, it is possible to supply carbonic fertilizer locally for 224,000 hectares for the 2021/2022 Maha Season and to manufacture the required carbonic fertilizer for another 100,000 hectares after making available the required facilities for the identified farmers.

Accordingly, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal tabled by the Minister of Agriculture to take the following measures:

– Appointing a special procurement committee on organic fertilizer, natural minerals, and kilated herbal trace and a technical committee specialized for the relevant subject to assist the procurement committee.

– Import required carbonic fertilizer and natural mineral through the state-owned fertilizer company for 500,000 hectares of paddy cultivation on 2021/2022 Maha Season with accordance to the international competitive bidding method and distributing them through the Department of Agrarian Services.

– Import the carbonic fertilizer through the licensed companies that have permission to import fertilizer for 600,000 hectares of the other crops adhering to the recommendations of the research institutions of the relevant crops.

– Import identified specific fertilizers for non-food ornamental plants, cut flower cultivations, and non-soil cultivation through the Import License Method adhering to the recommendations of the research institutes of the relevant crops.