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Shenali D Waduge

Subject: UNHRC Mandate Overreach and the Dangerous Precedent Using Sri Lanka

Excellency,

I write to respectfully draw the attention of the African Union to an issue of grave concern that extends far beyond Sri Lanka and directly impacts the sovereignty and security of all nations represented in the African Union.

1. Precedent of UNHRC Overreach

Following the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009—an armed terrorist group continuing to be proscribed in over 30 countries—the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has consistently targeted Sri Lanka with intrusive mandates and politically motivated resolutions.

These actions have gone far beyond the Council’s founding mandate of impartial human rights promotion and protection.

Sri Lanka has been transformed into a precedent-setting case, where domestic counter-terrorism operations were redefined internationally as war crimes,” and politically driven reports were used to interfere in sovereign governance.

It must be noted that during nearly three decades of LTTE terrorism, the UNHRC did not pass a single resolution to protect civilians, call for accountability from the LTTE, or even recognize the scale of atrocities committed. Yet immediately following the military defeat of the LTTE in May 2009, Sri Lanka became the target of a sustained campaign of resolutions, special sessions, and monitoring mandates — creating an unprecedented imbalance

This dangerous precedent can be replicated against any nation that successfully combats terrorism or resists externally driven agendas.

• Rights of Governments to Defend Against Terror

Under both international law and domestic constitution, sovereign governments have the right—and indeed the duty—to deploy their national armed forces to safeguard citizens against terrorism and separatism.

Sri Lanka’s Armed Forces, acting under the authority of its elected government, defeated the LTTE in 2009, thereby ending three decades of terror, mass killings, forced child recruitment, suicide bombings, and ethnic cleansing.

To now criminalize a State for protecting its citizens is to negate the very principles of state sovereignty enshrined in the UN Charter.

• Vendetta Driven by Political Agendas

The campaign against Sri Lanka within the UNHRC has been fueled by:

• Politically influenced reports(Darusman Panel, OISL, High Commissioners’ reports) lacking transparency and legal basis.
• Selective use of NGO submissions and diaspora lobbyinglinked to former terrorist networks.
• High Commissioners exceeding their mandate since 2009, issuing accusatory reports that are neither impartial nor evidence-based.

Instead of closing a painful chapter of terrorism, Sri Lanka has been subjected to continuous cycles of scrutiny and resolutions, wasting UN resources and undermining reconciliation.

After LTTE’s Defeat (2009–2025):

1. 2009 (Special Session S-11/1):Adopted Assistance to Sri Lanka” resolution — later politicized and weaponized.
2. 2012 (19/2):Shifted focus to alleged accountability” of Sri Lanka’s armed forces.
3. 2013 (22/1):Intensified monitoring of Sri Lanka.
4. 2014 (25/1):Authorized OHCHR investigation” (OISL), unprecedentedly outside Sri Lanka.
5. 2015 (30/1):Endorsed intrusive hybrid accountability” model undermining sovereignty.
6. 2017 (34/1):Extended monitoring mandate.
7. 2019 (40/1):Renewed intrusive international monitoring.
8. 2021 (46/1):Established so-called evidence-gathering mechanism” (illegal precedent).
9. 2022 (51/1):Further extended the evidence mechanism.
10. 2024 (55/1):Renewed mandate again, showing institutional bias.
11. 2025 (A/HRC/60/21):High Commissioner’s Report (Aug 2025 visit to Colombo) – making intrusive demands such as:
12. Legalizing same-sex marriage(a demand far outside UNHRC’s human rights mandate).
13. Expanding universal jurisdiction” mechanisms to target Sri Lanka’s military and civilian leadership.
14. Calling for a Tribunal against Sri Lankabased on unproven allegations.

Meanwhile, note: the United States, which initially spearheaded these resolutions, has since withdrawn from the UNHRC — describing it as a cesspool of political bias.”

Total: 11 Resolutions in 16 years — all AFTER Sri Lanka defeated terrorism.

Not a single LTTE attack after May 2009 yet endless Resolutions

Sri Lanka continues to face an unprecedented campaign of punitive resolutions, setting a dangerous precedent that any Global South nation defeating terrorism would also face.

Vast UN resources are being wasted re-litigating a conflict that is long over, instead of addressing urgent global crises.

Most recently, in August 2025, the UN High Commissioner released A/HRC/60/21, and during his visit to Sri Lanka, went so far as to press the government to legalize same-sex marriage — a demand entirely unrelated to the country’s 30-year battle against terrorism. The report also repeated familiar allegations on accountability, calling to remove counter terrorism laws, change Sri Lanka’s constitution while ignoring the decades of terrorism unleashed by the LTTE. These demands represent a dangerous precedent of UN interference in internal social, cultural, and religious values — and are not limited to Sri Lanka. If unchallenged, the same intrusive conditions may be imposed on African and Global South nations, disregarding their traditions, constitutions, and the will of their people.

ohchr.org – A/HRC/60/21

• Risks to Africa and the Global South

What has been imposed on Sri Lanka sets a clear precedent that will be later applied to African nations:

• If your governments attempt to eliminate terrorism, they too could be accused of excesses.”
• If your militaries safeguard territorial integrity, they too could face selective accountability resolutions.”
• If external actors seek geopolitical leverage, UNHRC could be used as the platform for pressure and intervention. It would be made legal using Sri Lanka precedent.

The African continent, with its proud history of anti-colonial struggle, must be vigilant that the same mechanisms used against Sri Lanka are not deployed against Africa.

• Call for African Union Support

Sri Lanka respectfully seeks the solidarity of the African Union in:

• Questioning the legalityof UNHRC’s mandate overreach and biased reports since 2009.
• Defending the right of sovereign nationsto protect themselves from terrorism without facing international vilification.
• Calling for an investigation into the UNHRC processon Sri Lanka since 2009, including the conduct of its High Commissioners.
• Standing with Sri Lanka at the UN/UNHRCas a matter of principle, knowing that defending one state today safeguards all states tomorrow.

Excellency,
Sri Lanka’s case is not Sri Lanka’s alone. It is a precedent that threatens every member of the Global South.

I urge the African Union to recognize the pattern, question the misuse of the UNHRC, and extend principled support to Sri Lanka.

Respectfully,
Shenali D Waduge

Sri Lanka

Political Analyst

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UNHRC Report on Sri Lanka (A/HRC/60/21.2025) – Mandate abuse & High Commissioners Overreach Exposed

• Sri Lanka vs. UNHRC: How High Commissioners Abused Mandates, Exceeded Authority, and Politicized Human Rights”
  Discusses how UNHRC High Commissioners have overstepped their authority and politicized human rights issues concerning Sri Lanka.

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From Victory to Vilification – The Unfinished War Against Sri Lanka’s Defenders

1. Non-Binding but Deadly: How UNHRC Resolution A/HRC/60/21 (2025) Could Destroy Sri Lanka’s Sovereignty”
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‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’

e-Con e-News 17-23 August 2025

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Blessed are the children for they

shall inherit the national debt…

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‘Sri Lanka is expected to face a heavy external debt

repayment burden over the next decade.’

 – see ee Quotes, UN OHCHR

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US & Indian warships sail in & sail out of Colombo & Trincomalee, singing, ‘Free & Open!, Free & Open!’ While England, playing the role of white-faced ‘good cop’ (vs the US red-faced ‘bad cop’ threatening 20% tariffs), promises to allow exporters tariff-free access to their market. They also airily announce they have struck a deal on ‘our’ debt. Though we apparently had better pay them back by 2028. (With typical barefaced transparency – hypocrisy? – the English High Commission promises, ‘The full text of the agreement will be published in the Treaty Series in due course’).

     Again, why don’t the English tell us now, how much Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) royalties, the ‘rag trade’ pays England, and for what?  Pins? Needles? Threads? Is this what all this week’s English largesse is about? English multinationals (MNCs) were heavily involved in setting up the ‘garment’ business in Sri Lanka in the 1980s. And for sure, the English media, with or without AI, cannot dare calculate and pay what they owe us, after over 200 years of colonial violence. ‘In due course’ of course!

     Then there’s the UN – hijacked of its mandate to represent all the nations of the world – holding us to standards their white overseers simply shunt aside. A warmongering EU (with the UN in tow) keeps busy sending overpaid white emissaries, singing ‘Rule-based Order! Rule-based Order!’, while acquiring suntans along the way, threatening to shut off our ‘privileged’ access to their markets. Instead of protecting our own market, we find out from Japan’s Nikkei this week (see ee Quotes), that we are aiding Japan’s auto industry, by buying their old cars at inflated prices, so Japanese citizens can sport new cars every few years, selling their old jalopies at a profit, while keeping their home market & auto factories buzzing.

     After having fully hyped an export-based economy, the USA & EU, through their agents in the IMF & World Bank, while dangling open markets etc, they are now preventing countries like ours – which can be made subject to their arbitrary export tariffs at any time – from compensating for our losses in exports. One way is to enlarge our own home market (see ee Quotes, Patnaik). Yet, expanding our (especially, the rural) home market, to enable consumption of locally produced goods, is only possible through greater government spending, says Indian economist Prabhat Patnaik, via financing, either through a fiscal deficit or by a tax on the wealthy. But, both are prohibited by the IMF (aka USA aka Wall Street). So, what’s a state that cannot push-start its own economy supposed to do?

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• The government is perhaps trying to compete for a putative Nobel Peace Prize? – which yet another warmongering US President has laid claim to. They are apparently truthifying & reconciling history – though not by handcuffing any corporate executive or chartered accountants. English MNCs – Standard Chartered, Unilever, Citibank, Ceylon Tobacco, CIC, HSBC, etc – who have turbo-charged our underdevelopment, and are the true repositories of our bloodied history – are still proudly cruising the streets, monopolizing billboards & ads proudly proclaiming Diversity, Inclusiveness & Equality (DIE! indeed)

     In the last few weeks, the government has arrested a Navy Commander, an IGP, and a former President & PM, along with several former ministry officials, while threatening further arrests of cantankerous opposition politicians & officials. Unable to take the former PM/President on about such matters as Batalanda & the Bondscam, which can easily backfire, they have settled on a doctored travel coupon by yet more academics hungry to acquire yet another accolade from yet another English degree factory…

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How many know the US government derailed India’s 1^st National Industrial Plan? They first hyped a fake crisis that announced India would be on the edge of starvation by 1966? A US Ford Foundation (FF) team had been parachuted into India (in 1959), without even an invitation by India’s government. Using doctored statistics on population & foodgrains production, the FF projected an imminent & ‘ominous’ food crisis & mass starvation in 7 years (1966). Laughably, unscientifically, they extrapolated the only available statistics from 15 years earlier (1951). The Ford Team only spent a few weeks in India, but then issued an instant report, which was force-multiplied in the English media, showering images of ‘starving’ Indians across the world.

     The Ford Team demanded that all earlier economic priorities for industrialization be shunted aside and superseded by their agricultural plan aka ‘Grow More Food’. They called for using scarce foreign exchange to import expensive fertilizer & high-yielding hybrid varieties (which the English media soon hyped as a lovely ‘Green Revolution’ vs a scary ‘Red Revolution’). The FF claimed that profits would come more quickly than thru investments in heavy industry or large irrigation projects.

     These US-funded ‘experts’ thus ‘advised’ against ‘the great Indian planner Mahalanobis’ strategy that had prioritised ‘self-reliance’,’ says economist Patnaik (Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, a member of a free India’s first Planning Commission, founded the Indian Statistical Institute). Patnaik’s ‘79^th I-Day: Imperialism & Open Bullying of India’ alerted ee to a witty and critical response to those US experts’ statistical fabrications to sabotage industrialization (‘Ploughing the Plan under’, see ee Focus).

     Sri Lanka’s striving to industrialize, too, has been undermined in many other ways. Indeed, after the attempted 1962 coup & successful destabilization of the 1960-64 Sirimavo Bandaranaike government, the Dudley Senanayake government imposed the 1^st of 17 IMF programs on the economy, & in 1968, abetted by the World Bank, also launched the Ford Foundation’s Indian ‘Grow More Food’ campaign in Ceylon.

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• The US Ford Foundation, while promoting their ‘Starving Indian’ meme, was at that same time financing a scaremongering ‘missile gap’, to ignite an ‘arms race’, well-funded by the so-called liberal US Presidents JF Kennedy & LB Johnson. They claimed it was a necessary reaction to the USSR’s launching of Sputnik, the first satellite put into orbit, in 1957. This was also a time when the whites were mongering rumors about the famines & mass starvation caused by China’s industrial resurgence policy, known as the Great Leap Forward. The English authors of ‘Ploughing the Plan under’ (see ee Focus), critical of the FF Report, call these US ‘experts’ opposing Indian industrialization, ‘a bench of amateurs’! And indeed, Sri Lanka continues to be ruled by such fly-by-night ‘amateurs’ from various ‘development’ (aka colonial) banks & agencies, who apparently divert our local banks & finance companies into funding micro, small & medium enterprises (MSMEs) rather than heavy industry…

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This ee Focus also continues reproducing SBD de Silva’s 1^st chapter of his classic The Political Economy of Underdevelopment (PEU). This excerpt contrasts the different powers of the state machineries in settler & nonsettler colonies. The state was far more active (genocidal?) in the settler colonies, where the ‘social and economic ties of the natives’ had to be ‘relentlessly’ severed, and a white settler working class was nurtured & advanced to build modern industry. In the nonsettler colonies (also genocidal, but unable to fully defeat the resistance), ‘state intervention was aimed far more at obtaining captive markets for the metropolitan economy’. De Silva shows how it was made easier for Africans to link to Europe than to their own neighbours in adjoining villages and/or countries. He also provided extensive examples of how the plantations damaged the village economy in Sri Lanka, targeting irrigation systems, with roads & rails to serve the expat planter than the villager. SBD also shows how nonsettler infrastructure programs contributed to ‘deindustrialization’, with tariff polices & transport networks uprooting indigenous manufactures, exposing them to foreign competition, promoting exports at the expense of production for the home market…

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• The USA once boasted ‘the world’s largest demographic armoury’. We don’t know if it is still so. Recently, the English media briefly highlighted the state of statistics in the US, after their government sacked the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for publishing a poor July ‘non-farm payroll report’. Most international media were critical of the firing, citing the usual bull about ‘independence’. But all such stats are highly political, and are chiefly meant to serve the ruling powers. The present US administration however insists they have created many jobs, through their own initiatives – tariff & other, to protect their industries – and that their salaried number-crunchers are lying. (SBD de Silva always mentioned Karl Marx’s fulsome praise for the English Factory Inspectors, who fearlessly provided statistics on industrialization; but this ‘transparency’ was due to a still-powerful rural aristocracy who was doing battle with the rising industrial capitalists!)

     In January 2024, the New York Times reported how ‘a highly inappropriate communication’ by a BLS staff economist, had revealed ‘material nonpublic’, ie, highly secret, information to a select group of ‘Super Users – banks & hedge funds, about how new inflation figures were being computed. Such highly technical details inspire forecasters competing to extrapolate inflation figures to ‘100ths of a percentage point’. These estimates are then used by investors to place bets on huge chunks of securities that are indexed to inflation or interest rates. NYTimes named such ‘Super Users’ as including Barclays (English), Nomura (Japanese), BNP Paribas (French), Millennium Capital Partners (English), Breven Howard (EU, Cayman, US), Citadel; while Bloomberg added the USA’s JP Morgan, BlackRock & Moore Capital.

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• All these ‘capital pools’ deploy hefty budgets to bribe public officials for ‘insider’ information, even while the capitalist media spends a lot of ink on proclaiming the supposed ‘independence’of state-salaried officials, who apparently have no class interests. A recent claim is made by Kumari Jayawardena in her co-authored book (excerpted in the Island) in describing her father-in-law NU Jayawardena’s role as Deputy Governor of the new Central Bank. The CBSL was formulated & run by a US citizen, John Exter (see ee Focus). NU & Exter were both apparently lovers of the so-called ‘free market’ and wanted a monetary authority ‘independent’ of the ‘political and electoral concerns of politicians’. How really democratic is this? we are led to wonder. As Hayek’s Bastards – a new book on the ’Austrian School’ of economists that have now come to dominate countries – notes, such ideologues are opposed to democracy and highly misanthropist, white supremacist to the core (see ee Quotes).

     There are many questions about Kumari Jayawardena’s take on the parliamentary debates over the then new Central Bank, while the snippets provided of NM Perera and Colvin R de Silva’s speeches should inspire further research. We have not read the records in the Hansard (has it gone digital yet?). Her excerpts portray the Trotskyist MPs as safeguarding the technical competency required to run the bank of banks. Yet, economics is not just about rates & numbers & things. Such inanimate abstractions are also only products of humans, of living & dead labor. SBD de Silva (to whom this blog is dedicated) always insisted that the Central Bank, where he once worked, has always opposed the independence of the country, ie, was against the aspirations of the majority of the people:

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‘Sterling companies in Sri Lanka continued to function outside the legal

framework of the country even after it had achieved its independence.

The agency houses in 1964, when called upon by the Central Bank to

make available for examination, for exchange control purposes, their

service agreements with the plantation companies, declined on the

grounds that they were not legally obliged to do so.’

– SBD de Silva, PEU

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Capitalist media love to label themselves ‘independent’ & ‘free’. They also claim a monopoly over which institutions only they can rate as ‘independent’ & ‘free’. China has just released their 2025 report on the state of human rights in the USA. Their account highlights the capitalist control of electoral machinery in the US, and the suppression of eligible, particularly African & other darker American voters. Not much has changed in 100 years, as when we read Gustavus Myers’ 1917 History of Tammany Hall, that famous New York NGO – that ‘charitable & benevolent corporation’ – which was a cover for a deadly political machine. Tammany’s control of the media by corporations & their politicians is the subject of this ee’s excerpt, continuing our peek into the history of the Big Man in local US politics; how early capitalism and the monopoly of power requires ‘tender providence over the newspapers’, maintaining several editors & journalists on a municipal or corporate payroll.The Big Man’s ‘greatest success ‘ is in ‘averting public clamor’, manipulating hype and occasional charity, which the Big Man has to appear too humble to lay claim to, refusing a statue in his honor, etc (see ee Focus).

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• Korea was in the local news this week, with an update on a recent incident where a Sri Lankan worker at a brick factory in Naju, South Jeolla Province, was bound to a forklift truck with wrapping tape (see ee Worker, Video showing SL worker moved by forklift prompts action from South Korea police). Those US-invaded southern lands now boast the world’s lowest birth rate, not reproducing themselves fast enough – a side effect of a subordinated modernization. To fill growing gaps in ‘unskilled’ labor, US-Korea is relying on both legal & illegal migrant workers. So, what has happened to industrialization in those lands?

     This ee Focus also reproduces Jim Glassman & Young-Jin Choi’s take on ‘The Chaebol & the US Military-Industrial Complex: Cold War Geopolitical Economy & South Korean Industrialization’. Rather than looking into industrial policies and personalities as most researchers into US-occupied Korea have done, they explore the role played by US military offshore procurement (OSP), to feed the US wars on China, Korea & Vietnam, to explain rapid industrial transformation in colonized East Asia. The US war on Korea inspired a ‘flood of new orders for Toyota trucks’, and was referred to as ‘Toyota’s salvation’, and ‘Divine Aid’. During the US war on Vietnam, military contracts accounted for 26% of Hyundai’s construction revenues and 77% of its total profits, 1963-66 (see ee Focus).

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• The Australian government once complained, to the Sri Lankan government of John Kotelawala, that a Central Bank employee (SBD de Silva) studying for his Master’s Degree in Melbourne had been asked to speak at a Communist Party meeting to oppose the US war on Korea in the 1950s. De Silva insisted he had only attended the meeting to learn about what was being said, and had then been put upon, as the only Asian there, to speak about the horrific US (& English & Australian, etc) war. Kotelawala is supposed to have shrugged off the Aussie police report, saying we can’t keep getting rid of employees at the whim of foreign governments (After all, he had just deported the US journalist Rhoda Miller de Silva as a Communist). But it was more Korea’s economy, particularly the US-occupied part, that interested SBD de Silva. He did not accept that it is geopolitics alone that accounts for US-occupied Korea’s rather skewed development (the famed Samsung brand was nurtured under the Japanese colonialism… Most Koreans in the south have officially abandoned the faith and culture of their ancestors, whereas in the North, a prouder people perhaps cannot be found on this earth).

     As a seeming exception to SBD de Silva’s division of the world into genocidal settler & non-settler countries, the capitalist development of Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore ‘occurred without their disengagement from the centre’, coming ‘close to transforming their economies, while transferring surpluses to various metropolitan centres.’ While noting that:

‘After encouraging the decolonization movement, the USA

later organized the suppression of national forces

wanting a complete break in centre-periphery relations.

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After 1945, US capital ‘feverishly’ propped up ‘Western Europe and to a lesser extent Japan, Taiwan & South Korea, as bastions against the onrush of communism’, enabling a ‘postwar reconstruction boom… unprecedented in capitalism’s history… underpinned by a very high level of spending on arms and by rapid technological innovation which yielded a crop of new products and raised productivity levels in several existing branches of industry’.

     The ‘East Asian tigers’ had been hyped by the English media as a ‘newly industrializing’ (NIC) model for Sri Lanka. However, SBD felt there were other internal factors, ‘contingent upon specific elements, both historical and fortuitous’ that prevented its experience being transferred to Sri Lanka. There had also been a  ‘mobilization of surplus rural labour within the confines of the rural economy’, even as  US military spending, military employment and export platforms had helped ‘spread purchasing power and an upgrading of technical skills, etc.’

     More importantly, there had been ‘a partial reorientation of the traditional landlords from a rentier class to a predominantly entrepreneurial one; from rent & interest as a basis of income to profits’. Land reforms were successful also due to ‘the weakness of merchant & usurers’ capital in the rural districts’: ‘In many underdeveloped countries it is the dominance of merchant capital that makes the agrarian problem less amenable to a conventional land reform; landlordism, being totally functionless, is more easily eradicated than merchant capital which, though unproductive, plays a necessary role in the day-to-day functioning of the village economy.’

     SBD de Silva also pointed to the role played by Japanese colonialism in Korea, which was of a very different order than the English species…

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So we asked a US AI app: ‘Does Sri Lanka owe England or does England owe Sri Lanka?’ AI answered thus: ‘The relationship between Sri Lanka and England is complex, shaped by colonial history, economics, and diplomacy. Here’s a breakdown to clarify the question of who owes whom”: Sri Lanka was colonized by the English (1796-1948). During this time, vast resources were extracted – land, labor, tea, rubber, and minerals – benefiting the English Empire. Many historians argue that England owes a historical moral or reparative debt to former colonies like Sri Lanka for the economic exploitation, cultural disruption, and long-term structural disadvantages left behind. Conclusion: On moral and historical grounds, one could argue England owes Sri Lanka…’

• The State of the Unspoken – The media has clutched onto Artificial Intelligence (AI) as their latest hole-filler for their yawning vacuity. Yet for AI to work in Sri Lanka and for Sri Lankans, it has to account for the ‘Abstract Sri Lankan’, ie, the collective ‘natural’ intelligence of tens of millions of people, predominantly cultivators & workers, and mainly Sinhala & Buddhist, who throughout the millennia and centuries have shaped this country, through innovation & resistance.

     This collective intelligence is largely off-grid, and will yet not be included, in any ‘artificial’ ‘big data’, ‘blockchain’ or ‘cloud’ reservoir, dominated by the imperialist (II), settler & non-settler colonial intelligence (CI) and mass information circuits. We put ‘natural’ in quotes, since the natural is mixed up with a lot of not-so-natural matters. All any alien AI would do is reinforce the ruling amnesia. The ideas that rule the people are the ideas of the ruling class, and ideas here are shaped by an import-export non-settler plantation colony, dominated by merchants & moneylenders, who are fronts for mostly US, English & European multinational banks & corporations. Money is made here through ‘commissions’ & ‘commissioners’, who prevent local production even while gaming access to importing goods & services is but another way to exact ‘rents’, or ‘commissions’. The English High Commissioner could very easily be called the High Rentier, for how much IPR & other royalties the English have extracted from Sri Lanka, is also concealed. Much vital data & information is classified, or held behind forbidden or high paywalls. As the USA’s BLS fiasco reveals: some get their news hot, hot & fresh– pre-news! What is publicly served to most people, is stale and whitewashed, fake & cold, olds, olds – with any real information, days, if not weeks, if not years old – all long past their use-by expiry date…

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Contents:

Why AI Can’t Work in Sri Lanka…Yet

මාධ්‍ය අංශය, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන

ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 23, 79, 80, 83 වන ව්‍යවස්ථා අනුව කතානායකවරයාට හෝ ජනාධිපතිවරයාට සහතිකය යෙදිය නොහැකි ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂා පරිවර්තන පනත් නීති ලෙස භාවිතා කිරීම වළක්වන ලෙස සහ ව්‍යවස්ථාපිත යුතුකම ඉටුකිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් අවධානය යොමු කරමින් නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තු කතානායක ජනාධිපති ලේකම්, ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය, ගාලුමුවදොර, කොළඹ 01. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ මහ ලේකම්, පාර්ලිමේන්තුව, ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර, කෝට්ටේ, සභාපති, ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කොමිෂන් සභාව, අංක 14, ආර්. ඒ. ද මෙල් මාවත, කොළඹ 04., ලේකම්, අධිකරණ අමාත්‍යාංශය, අංක 19, ශ්‍රී සංඝරාජ මාවත, කොළඹ 10., ලේකම්, අධිකරණ සේවා කොමිෂන් සභාව, අලුත්කඩේ, කොළඹ 12, රෙජිස්ට්‍රාර්, අභියාචනාධිකරණය, අලුත්කඩේ, කොළඹ 12.,නීති කෙටුම්පත් සම්පාදක, නීති කෙටුම්පත් සම්පාදක දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, අධිකරණ මාවත,කොළඹ 12.,සභාපති, ශ්‍රී ලංකා නීතීඥ සංගමය, මිහිදු මාවත, අලුත්කඩේ, කොළඹ 12.වෙත 2025 අගෝස්තු 21 දින ලිඛිතව දැනුම් දී ඇත.

ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙන් ඇති ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 83 වන ව්‍යස්ථාවේ (ආ) ඡේදය නිවැරදිව ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවට පරිවර්තනය කිරීම සදහා ජනාධිපතිතුමා දැනුවත් කර අදාල නිවැරදි කිරීම සදහා අවශ්‍ය කටයුතු සළසා දෙන ලෙස ජනාධිපති ලේකම්තුමා වෙත මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාවේ සභාපති ආනන්ද  රත්නායක මහතා විසින් දැනුම් දී ඇති බව ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ හිලක්, 2025.08.18 දින ලංකාදීප පුවත්පතේ මුල් පිටුව මගින් වාර්තා කර ඇත.

ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 23, 79, 80, 83 ව්‍යවස්ථා අනුව කතානායකවරයාට හෝ ජනාධිපතිවරයාට සහතිකය යෙදිය නොහැකි ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂා පරිවර්තන පනත් නීති ලෙස භාවිතා කිරීම වළක්වන ලෙස සහ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ හතරවන උපලේඛනය සහ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව ආරක්ෂා කොට අනුගමනය කිරීමේ යුතුකම සම්බන්ධයෙන් සහ 2024 අංක 8 දරන අධිකරණයකට, විනිශ්චය අධිකාරයකට හෝ ආයතනයකට අපහාස කිරීම පනත සම්බන්ධයෙන්ද අවධානය යොමු කරන ලෙසත් නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන මහතා විසින් කතානායක, ජනාධිපති ලේකම්, පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ මහ ලේකම්,  සභාපති, ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කොමිෂන් සභාව,  ලේකම්, අධිකරණ අමාත්‍යාංශය, ලේකම්, අධිකරණ සේවා කොමිෂන් සභාව, අලුත්කඩේ, රෙජිස්ට්‍රාර්, අභියාචනාධිකරණය,නීති කෙටුම්පත් සම්පාදක,සභාපති, ශ්‍රී ලංකා නීතීඥ සංගමය වෙත දැන්වීම් යොමු කර ඇති හෙයින් මෙම කාරණාව තවදුරටත් නොදන්නා බව පැවසීමේ හැකියාවක් අදාල පාර්ශවයන්ට නොමැත.

එසේ හෙයින් තවදුරටත් නීති ලෙස සැළකෙන සිංහල හෝ දෙමළ භාෂා පනත් (අනනුකූල විට සිංහල භාෂා පාඨය බලාත්මක) අධිකරණයට හෝ නෛතික කටයුතුවලදී ඉදිරිපත් නොකර කතානායක සහතිකය නොමැති ඉංග්‍රීසි පරිවර්තන පනත් අධිකරණයට හෝ නෛතික කටයුතු වලදී යොදා ගන්නා අයට එරෙහිව  නඩු පවරනු ලැබීමේ අවස්ථා මතු වෙයි.

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ලංකාවේ සෑම ප්‍රභූ පවුලකටම ඥාති සබඳතා ඇති,ලංකාවේ අධ්‍යාපනය වෙනුවෙන් ඉහළම පහසුකම් ලබා දුන් ඔහු,

1977 වසරේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු ගමන ඇරඹූ රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ගැන නොදන්න අයට.

ශ්‍රී ලාංකේය දේශපාලන ඉතිහාසය දෙස ආපසු හැරී බැලූ කල්හි ශ්‍රී ලංකාව වෙනුවෙන් නොනිමි මෙහෙවරක් කළ පුද්ගලයකු පිළිබදව විශේෂයෙන්ම සදහන් කල යුතුය. ඔහු නමින් රනිල් ශ්‍රියාන් වික්‍රමසිංහ නම් වෙයි.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව වෙනුවෙන් අසීමිත වැඩ කොටසක් කළ නිසාදෝ ඵල ඇති රුකටම ගල්ගසනු නියමය සනාථ කරනුවස් ශ්‍රී ලංකා දේශපාලනය ඉතිහාසය තුල ඔහු තරම් නින්දා, අපහාස, අවලාද , කුණුහරුප ඇසූ තවකෙකු බිහිවී නොමැත. බිහි වන්නේද නැත.

තම තමන්ගේ පටු අරමුණු පසක්කරලණු වස්, වික්‍රමසිංහයන් රටෙහි මුල් පුටුවට යාම වළක්වාලන්නට ඔවුන් මෙතරම්ම අවලාද නගන්නේ ඔහු රටට මේතරම්ම වැඩ කොටසක් කල නිසාද? මේ පිළිබද සොයාගිය ගමනේදී මට හමුවූ තොරතුරු බිදක් පහතින් පෙලගස්වමි. 1977 සිට ඔහු දරා ඇති තනතුරැ කිහිපයක් මෙසේය.

* විදේශ කටයුතු නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය

* මිනිස්බල උපයෝගිතා නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය

* තරුණ කටයුතු හා රැකී රක්ෂා අමාත්‍ය

* අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍ය

* කර්මාන්ත අමාත්‍ය

* විද්‍යා හා තාක්ෂණ අමාත්‍ය

* ආර්ථික සංවර්ධන අමාත්‍ය

* පාර්ලිමේන්තු සභානායක

* එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ නායක

* විපක්ෂනායක

* සිව්වරක් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය

එසේම ඔහු තම මවුබිම වෙනුවෙන් ඉටුකල අතිවිශිෂ්ඨ සේවයෙන් බිදක් පහතින් දක්වමි.

01. දකුණු ආසියාවේ විශාලතම තරුණසේවා මධ්‍යස්ථානය මහරගම ගොඩනැගීය.

02. යෞවන යෞවනියන් බලගැන්වීම උදෙසා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ විශාලතම තරුණ සංවිධානය යෞවන සමාජ” ආරම්භ කරන ලදී.

03. ලෝකයේ අනිකුත් රටවල්ද ක්‍රියාවට නංවන ලද යොවුන් පුරය” ආරම්භ කළේය.

04. ලක්දෙරණේ කලාකරුවන් බිහිකරණුවස් මහනුවර ගලහ ප්‍රදේශයයේ බෙල්වුඩ් රුපවාහිනී ගම්මානය බිහිකරන ලදී.

05. ජාතික යෞවන ක්‍රීඩා උළෙල ආරම්භ කරන්න ලදී.

06. චිට් ක්‍රමයට ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ අධ්‍යාපන ක්ෂේත්‍රයට ගුරුවරුන් බදවා ගැනීම අවසන් කරමින් විද්‍යා පීඨ නවයක් බිහිකර පාසල් සදහා ගුරුවරුන් බදවා ගැනීමේ නව ක්‍රමයක් ආරම්භ කරන ලදී.

• නිල්වලා

• පස්දුන්රට

• මහවැලි

• සියනෑ

• නිට්ටබුව ශාරිපුත්ත

• ඌව

• හාපිටිගම

• ශ්‍රී පාද

• අඩ්ලච්ච්න

07. H.S.C. හා H.H.C. යන පැරණි විභාග ක්‍රම සියල්ල ඉවත්කර අන්තර්ජාතිකව පිළිගත් අ.පො.ස. සාමාන්‍ය පෙළ හා අ.පො.ස. උසස් පෙළ ( G.C.E. O/L හා G.C.E. A/L ) විභාග ක්‍රමයන් ලක්දෙරණට හදුන්වා දීම.

08. අනුබද්ධ විශ්ව විද්‍යාල සංකල්පය ඇති කොට දිවයිනේ සියලූම අනුබද්ධ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයන් බිහි කිරීම. (පසුව ඒවා රාජ්‍ය විශ්ව විද්‍යාල බවට උසස් විය)

09. නොමිලේ පාසල් පෙළපොත් ලබාදීමට කටයුතු කිරීම

10. පාසල් ක්‍රීඩා නංවාලීම සදහා දිස්ත්‍රික් මට්ටමින් ක්‍රීඩා පුහුණු මධ්‍යස්ථාන ආරම්භ කිරීම.

11. ජාතික පාසල් ක්‍රීඩා උළෙල ආරම්භ කිරීම .

12. ඉංග්‍රීසි උගැන්වීමට ඇති ගුරු හිගය නවතාලීමට ගුරුවරුන් 8500 ක් ඩේලික් නමැති ඉංග්‍රීසි පුහුණුව සදහා අනුයුක්ත කොට පාසල්වලට අනුයුක්ත කිරීම.

13. විද්‍යා විෂය උගැන්වීමට ඇති ගුරු හිගය අවම කිරීමට උපාධි ගුරුවරු 3292 ක් ද, උසස්පෙළ විද්‍යා විෂය සමත් ගුරුවරු 4305ක් ද බදවා ගැනීම.

14. උසස් පෙළ විද්‍යා විෂයන් උගන්වන පාසල් සංඛ්‍යාව 40% කින් වර්ධනය කිරීම .

15. අපොස උපෙ උගන්වන පාසල් 60% කින් වර්ධනය කිරීම.

16. පොකුරු පාසල් ක්‍රමය හෙවත් පර්ෂද පාසල් ක්‍රමය ආරම්භ කිරීම.

17. අධ්‍යාපන කොමිසම පිහිටුවාලීම.

18. 1970 දී ආරම්භ කරනලද ජාතික ආධුනිකත්ව මණ්ඩලය ප්‍රතිව්‍යුහගත කිරීම.

19. බත්තරමුල්ලේ ඉසුරුපාය අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යංශය ගොඩනැගීම.

( මේ සදහා නම තබන ලද්දේද රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහයන්ය.)

20. අධ්‍යාපනයට අවශ්‍ය ප්‍රතිපත්ති සැකසීමට මහරගම ජාතික අධ්‍යාපන ආයතනය ආරම්භ කිරීම

21. බණ්ඩාරවෙල ක්‍රීඩා හා තාක්ෂණික පුහුණු විද්‍යාලය බිහි කිරීම.

22. 1983 දී ජර්මානු ආධාර ඇතිව මොරටුවේ ජාතික ආධුනිකත්ව පුහුණු කිරීමේ ආයතනය ඉදිකිරිම.

23. 1985 දී කටුනායක තාක්ෂණික ශිල්පින් පුහුණු කිරීමේ ආයතනය බිහි කිරිම. (.I.)

24. මෝටර් රථ කාර්මික විද්‍යාව ඉගැන්වීමට මෝටර් රථ යාන්ත්‍රික පුහුණු ආයතනය කොළඹ ඔරුගොඩවත්තේ ඉදිකිරීම.

25. කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය නගා සිටුවීම සදහා කුණ්ඩසාලේ ජාතික කෘෂිකර්ම පාසල පිහිටුවීම.

26. 1990 දී ජාතික ආධුනිකත්ව හා කර්මාන්ත පුහුණු අධිකාරිය පිහිටුවීම.

27. 1984 වෛද්‍ය විද්‍යා පශ්චාත් උපාධි ආයතනය පිහිටුවාලීම.

28. 1986 පුරාවිද්‍යා පශ්චාත් උපාධි ආයතනය පිහිටුවාලීම.

29. 1986 කළමනාකරණ පශ්චාත් උපාධි ආයතනය පිහිටුවාලීම.

30. 1987 ලක්දෙරණෙහි සියලූම ඒකීය පාසල් ජාතික පාසල් බවට පරිවර්තනය කිරීම.

31. වහල් ගෝත්‍රිකයන්ගේ දැඩි විරෝධතාවයන් මැද පරිඝනකය ලක්දෙරණට හදුන්වා දීම.

32. විරුද්ධවාදීන් හූ කියා කෑමොර දෙද්දී ඒ සියලූම බාධාවක් මැඩගෙන ජංගම දුරකතනය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට හදුන්වාදීම.

33. “ඉන්ටර්නෙට් මිනිසුන්ට කන්නද” කියා ඇසූ

ගෝත්‍රික ප්‍රතිවාදීන්ගේ සියලූම විරෝධතා බිදහෙලමින්, අන්තර්ජාලය ලොවට බිහිවී වසරක් යාමට ප්‍රථම එය ලක්දෙරණට හදුන්වා දී අන්තර්ජාලය භාවිතා කරන දකුණු ආසියාවේ පළමු රට බවට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පත් කිරීම.

34. පරිගණක විද්‍යායතනය අරම්භ කිරීම.

35. ශ්‍රීලංකාවේ දෙවන අපනයන සැලසුම් කලාපය

(නිදහස් වෙළද කලාපය ) බියගම පිහිටුවමින් එවකට 22160 කට රැකියා ලබාදීම.

36. 1991 දි ශ්‍රිලංකාවේ තෙවන අපනයන සැලසුම් කලාපය (නිදහස් වෙළද කලාපය ) කොග්ගල පිහිටුවමින් එවකට 5714 කට රැකියා ලබාදීම.

37. යුධ හමුදාව සතු විශාලතම රෙජිමේන්තුව වූ ජාතික ආරක්ෂක බලකාය ආරම්භ කිරීම.

38. කොටි ත්‍රස්ථාවාදීන් බියෙන් සසල කල දිගුදුර විහිදුම් බලකාය ශ්‍රී ලංකා යුධ හමුදාවට නිර්මාණය කර දීම.

39. යුධ සමයේදී කොටි ත්‍රස්ථවාදීන්ගේ අවි ආයුධ

රැගත් නැවු සියල්ලක්ම මුහුදේ ගිල්වමින් මුලුමහත්

මුහුදු ප්‍රදේශයේම සිය අණසක පතුරුවාලූ සමුදුර

නෞකාව නාවික හමුදාවට ලබාගැනීම.

40. LTTE සංවිධානය දෙකඩ කරමින් කරුණා අම්මාන් රජයට සහය පළකරණ ලෙස හදාගස්වා මුලු LTTE සංවිධානයම දුර්වල කොට අඩපණ කර දැමීම.

41. සාම සාකච්චා මුවාවෙන් ඒ අතරතුර යුධ හමුදා නිළදාරීන්ට විදේශීය පුහුණුව ලබාදී යුධ හමුදාවේ වැඩිම ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණයක් සිදුකොට ඕනෑම යුද්ධයකට මුහුණ දිය හැකි ප්‍රබල යුධ හමුදාවක් බවට ශ්‍රී ලංකා යුධ හමුදාව පත් කිරීම.

42. බලයට පත්වූ සැනින් යුරෝපා රටවල් තුල නැවතත් කොටි තහනම ඇති කිරීම.

43. යුරෝපා මත්ස්‍ය තහනම ඉවත් කිරීම.

44. එකල ඔහු විසින් ඉතා අසීරුවෙන් ලබාගෙන තිබූ, දූෂිත පාලකයින් විසින් රටට අහිමි කල GSP+ බදු සහනය දෙවන වරටත් ඔහු විසින්ම රටට හිමි කර ගැනීම.

45. සෑම පාසල් දරුවෙක් සදහාම වසර 13 ක අධ්‍යාපනය අනිවාර්ය කිර්ම.

46. සියලූම රාජ්‍ය හා පෞද්ගලික පාසල් ශිෂ්‍ය ශිෂ්‍යාවන්ට “සුරක්ෂා” නමින් ලක්ෂ දෙකක රක්ෂණ ආවරණයක් නොමිලේ ලබා දී එවැනි රක්ෂණ ආවරණයක් නොමිලේ ලබාදුන් දකුණු ආසියාවේ පළමු රට බවට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පත් කිරීම.

47. අඬපනව ගිය පිරිවෙන් අධ්‍යාපනයට නව මධ්‍යස්ථාන ඇති කරදෙමින් භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා සදහා විධිමත් අධ්‍යාපන මාලාවක් සකක්කර දීම.

48. සෑම විහාරස්ථානයකම සංවර්ධන කටයුතු සදහා මුදල් වෙන්කර දීම.

49. ප්‍රතිවාදීන්ගේ සියලූම විරෝධතා බිදහෙලමින් “සුවසැරිය” ගිලන් රථ සේවය ලක්දෙරණට හදුන්වා දීම.

50. ගම්පෙරළිය වැඩසටහන ආරම්භ කර ඒ තුලින් සෑම ගම්මානයක්ම ඉතා විශාල වේගවත් සංවර්ධනයක් කරා ගෙන යෑම.

51. නිවාස හා ඉදිකිරීම් අමාත්‍යංශය සදහා අදහාගත නොහැකි තරම් ප්‍රථිපාදන වෙන්කර දෙමින් දිවයිනේ සියලූම නිවාස නොමැති ජනතාව වෙනුවෙන් “ගම් උදාව”

වැඩසටහන මගින් නිවාසා ලබා දීමට කටයුතු කිරීම.

52. “Enterprises Sri Lanka” වැඩසටහන ආරම්භ කොට දිවයිනේ සියලුම ව්‍යවසායකයන්ට ඉතා සහන පොළී යටතේ රු. 50000/= සිට කෝටි 75 ක් දක්වා ණය ලබා දීම.

53. අත්‍යවශ්‍ය බෙහෙත් ඖෂධ වල මිල ඇදහිය නොහැකි අයුරින් පහත හෙලීමට කටයුතු කිරීම.

54. ලෝකයේ ඉහළම ගුණාත්මක තත්වයෙන් හා මිලෙන් අධිකම වර්ගයෙන් යුතු ස්ටෙන්ට් (stent) සියලූම හෘද රෝගීන් සදහා නොමිලේ ලබාදීම සහ ඉහළම ගුණාත්මක භාවයෙන් යුතු අක්ෂි කාච නොමිලේ ලබාදීමට කටයුතු කිරීම.

55. තොරතුරු දැනගැනීමේ පනත හා අතුරුදන් වූවන්ගේ පනත ගෙන ඒම.

56. ස්වාධීන පොලිස් කොමිසම හා ස්වාධීන මැතිවරණ කොමිසම පිහිටුවීම.

57. තමාව පවා ඕනෑම අයෙකුට ඇතිතරම් විවේචනය කිරීමට හැකිවන පරිදි මාධ්‍ය නිදහස උපරිමයෙන් ලබා දීම.

මේ ඔහු රට වෙනුවෙන් කල සේවයෙන් බිදක් පමණි. ඔහු තරම් මේ රට වෙනුවෙන් විශාල සේවයක් කල තවත් පුද්ගලයකු ඇද්ද. නමුත් මේ රටේ කිසිදු ස්ථානයක, කිසිදු මාවතක, කිසිදු ගොඩනැගිල්ලක, කිසිදු සංවර්ධිත කටයුත්තකට ඔහු ඔහුගේ නම යොදා නැත. ඒ ඔහුගේ හැටිය.

ධනවත් පවුලක ජන්ම ලාභය ලැබූ ඔහුට දේශපාලනයෙන් කීර්තියවත් , මුදල්වත් ඉපයීමේ අවශ්‍යතාවයක් නැත. තම පරපුර සතු දේපොළ පවා පුණ්‍ය කටයුතු සදහා පරිත්‍යාග කර ඇති ඔහුට මේ රටේ දේශපාලනයෙන් උපයා ගැනීමට දෙයක් නොමැත. ජාත්‍යන්තර කීර්තියට පත් ඔහුට අලුතින් අමුණා ගන්නට බලයක් නොමැත.

ඔහු එදා මේ සියලු ව්‍යාපෘති රටට හදුන්වා දෙන විට එදා සිටි කුහකයින් ඒ සියල්ලකටම විරුද්ධ විය. නමුත් ඔහු එදා හදුන්වාදුන් සියල්ලම මිනිසුන් අද ඉතා සතුටින් භුක්‍ති විදී. අද ඔහු විසින් හදුන්වාදෙන සියලුම ව්‍යාපෘති වලටද එදා මෙන්ම අද සිටින කුහකයින් විරුද්ධව හඩ නගයි. නමුත් නුදුරු අනාගතයේදී මිනිසුන් ඒවාද සතුටින් භුක්ති විදින බව අප දනිමු. එතනදී අප දකින දෙයනම් ඔහු අවුරුදු 15 ක් 20 ක් ඉදිරියට අනාගතය දකින බවය. තුන්කල් දක්නා නුවණකින් හෙබි ඔහුව “දැක්මක් ඇති නායකයා” යනුවෙන් හදුන්වන්නේ එබැවිනි.

ඔහු මීට අවුරුදු 20 කට කලින් දුටු අනාගතය මිනිසුන් දකින්නේ අදය. ඔහු අද දකින අනාගතය මිනිසුන් දකින්නේ තව අවුරුදු 20 කට පසුය. වෙනස ඇත්තේ එතැනය. ඔහු කිසිදිනෙක ජනතා මුදල් ගසාකන ව්‍යාපෘති ක්‍රියාත්මක කලේ නැත. එසේම ජනතාව ඉල්ලන තාවකාලික සීනි බෝල පෙන්වා ජනතාව මුළා කිරීමටද ඔහු කිසි දිනෙක සූදානම් නැත.

සත්‍ය නම් ඔහු තරම් වටිනා නායකයෙක් මේ රටේ තබා අල්ලපු රටේවත් නැත. දකුණු ආසියාවේම නැත. ඔහු ගැළපෙනුයේ ජපානය, ඇමරිකාව, මහා බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය වැනි රටවල නායකත්වයටය. අවාසනාවක මහිම අප රටේ ජනතාව ඉල්ලන්නේ මෙවැනි නායකයන් නොව. ඔවුනට ඕනෑ ජඩ පාලකයෙකි.

-උපුටා ගැනීමකි-

Courtesy The Daily Mirror

Moratuwa Municipal Councillor of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), Lihini Fernando, has warned that the arrest of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe sets a dangerous precedent” for the office of the presidency in Sri Lanka.

In a statement shared on Facebook, Fernando argued that criminalizing the inherent overlap between public and private life in the presidency threatens the dignity of the highest office in the country and leaves future leaders vulnerable to political reprisals.

Future Presidents will constantly face the risk of prosecution for performing even the most ordinary personal functions while in office. A President cannot separate his private life from his public role, as his security, movements, and engagements are entirely controlled by the State,” she said.

Fernando explained that the Presidential Security Division (PSD) is constitutionally obligated to accompany a President at all times, whether attending official meetings, personal functions, or traveling overseas. She added that a separate state budget is allocated for this purpose, meaning that presidential security protocols cannot be suspended for personal activities.

Citing the case of Wickremesinghe, Fernando pointed out that after completing an official tour of the United States, the former President stopped over in London to attend his wife’s graduation. The related expenses, including airfare for his security personnel, were later treated as misuse of public funds under the Public Property Act, leading to his remand.

If that is the yardstick, then the same principle must apply to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD). He has used his official vehicle, state-provided fuel, and presidential security for visits to his mother and for attending NPP political meetings. By the same logic, those actions could also be classified as misuse of state resources,” Fernando noted.

She said that selective accountability undermines the rule of law: Either the law applies equally to all, or it becomes nothing more than a political weapon.”

Fernando further said that by convention, every movement of the President—whether official or private—is safeguarded by the PSD, as the President embodies the sovereignty of the people.

Courtesy The Daily Mirror

Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s health condition is stable, the National Hospital in Colombo confirmed today.

Speaking to the Daily Mirror, Colombo National Hospital Acting Director Dr. Pradeep Wijesinghe said His blood pressure is a bit high due to his age, but we only transferred him to the ICU as a precautionary measure,”

He is not in a critical condition,” Dr. Wijesinghe added.

Wickremesinghe was transferred to the National Hospital earlier today following medical assessments that indicated the need for specialist treatment unavailable at the prison hospital. 

He was initially admitted to the prison hospital yesterday after being remanded by court, citing multiple health complications.

Courtesy Adaderana

Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe had stated, before being arrested by officers of the Criminal Investigation Department, that he acted for the country and not for personal matters.

I acted for the country, not for personal gain. It seems today that the true face of this regime is now coming out. I do not accept any of the political activities taking place everywhere,” Ranil Wickremesinghe said.

United National Party (UNP) Deputy Leader Akila Viraj Kariyawasam released this statement to the media through a recording of Ranil Wickremesinghe, during a special press conference held in Colombo today (23).

Former President Wickremesinghe, who was placed in remand custody, was admitted to the prison hospital last night (22) on medical advice.

Courtesy Adaderana

The arrest and imprisonment of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe is an incident that will take Sri Lanka’s politics in a different direction, says Sarvajana Balaya leader, MP Dilith Jayaweera.

He made these remarks this afternoon (23), after visiting former President Wickremesinghe at the Prison Hospital.

He went to play cricket, but this government is playing ‘Elle’. They hit him with the ball and said he was out.”

According to my political reading, this will be an incident that will take our country’s politics in a new direction,” he said.

MP Jayaweera further stated that although he does not approve of Ranil Wickremesinghe’s politics, it was wrong for a President of the country to be treated in such a manner.

I will never approve of Ranil Wickremesinghe’s politics. But it is wrong for a President of this country to be treated in this way. I am not saying whether what the court did is right or wrong. What I am saying is that the chain of events leading to the judicial process and the investigation that has been conducted does not reflect well on the image of our country,” he added.

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Courtesy Hiru News

Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has been transferred from the prison hospital to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Colombo National Hospital.

A hospital spokesperson stated that Wickremesinghe was moved to the ICU due to elevated blood pressure and sugar levels, as well as severe fatigue and exhaustion.

Wickremesinghe, who is currently in remand custody until August 26, was transferred to the National Hospital for further treatment on the recommendation of a medical team from the prison hospital and other specialist doctors.

He was moved from the prison hospital to the Colombo National Hospital this afternoon (23).

Udaya Gammanpila

Udaya Gammanpila

Shenali D Waduge

Since the defeat of the LTTE in May 2009, Sri Lanka has faced continuous demands—mainly from international actors, NGOs, and local separatist lobbies—for the return of lands in the North and East said to be occupied” by the military. Much of the narrative has been driven by propaganda and not fact. Even UNHRC reports are referring to military lands”. There is no such lands. The military was primarily stationed on State land, with only a handful of private lands temporarily used for operational purposes, which were verified and returned to their rightful owners—contrary to claims that large tracts of private land remain under military control. Any remaining contentions regarding private land arise solely from claimants who cannot provide verifiable title deeds, Survey Department records, or legal documentation; Sri Lankan law requires such proof before land can be returned. It is therefore essential to separate reality from rhetoric.

There are three types of land at issue: 

1.    Private Land – belonging to individuals or institutions with legal title deeds.

2.    State Land – owned by the Republic and managed by Government on behalf of the People (about 82% of Sri Lanka’s land is State-owned).

3.    No Military Land” / No Civilian land”– a term invented by external actors. In law, it does not exist. The armed forces, as a permanent state institution, have a constitutional right to be stationed anywhere in the country, including on state land.

The term military land” appears only in UN and NGO reports—it does not exist in Sri Lankan law. The Constitution and the State Lands Ordinance make no such distinction.

By law, State land is vested in the Republic (Article 33 and Article 99 of the Constitution, State Lands Ordinance). Successive governments are only temporary custodians; they cannot permanently alienate such land without public purpose. 

Any conversion of State land into private ownership without proper procedure is unlawful.

State land is the collective property of ALL Sri Lankans (this generation & future generations), not only one ethnic community for this generation & for their next generations.

LTTE occupation ignored by the UNHRC

In late 1980s/early 1990s, the LTTE forcibly displaced Sinhalese and Muslims from Northern districts and illegally occupied their private lands/properties and state lands. These lands are rarely discussed in Geneva.

Why is the UNHRC silent on:

·       The restoration of lands seized by the LTTE?

·       The property rights of Sinhalese and Muslims who lived in the North since independence?

·       The illegal conversions of land that took place during LTTE occupation?

This one-sided focus undermines the credibility of UNHRC allegations.

UNHRC Allegations vs. Facts

UNHRC Claim: Military occupation of land prevents resettlement.”

Fact: By 2017, 70% of released land was State land, not private. 

No citizen was intentionally deprived of ownership.

UNHRC Claim: Tamil civilians cannot access their ancestral lands.”

Fact: Ownership requires title deeds under Sri Lankan law (and Thesavalamai in Jaffna). Mere claims or placards are not proof. Verified private land has already been released.

UNHRC Claim: Military bases are maintained on civilian lands.”

Fact: There is no legal category of civilian land.” 

There is Private land (returned upon verification) and State land (where the Army has every right to remain).

UNHRC Claim: Demographic changes are being engineered.”

Fact: There is no evidence of state-led demographic change. 

The real demographic shift occurred when the LTTE ethnically cleansed Sinhalese and Muslims from the North, which the UNHRC ignores.

LLRC on Land Issues

The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (2010–2011) found that:

·       Land disputes were aggravated by conflict and LTTE occupation.

·       LTTE forcibly displaced communities and illegally occupied both State and Private land.

·       Many disputes arose due to tampered deeds and lack of documentation.

·       Testimonial deeds are not valid for ownership.

·       The State has authority over State land, while verified Private land must be respected.

·       The Army should release verified Private land not needed for security, but this does not apply to State land.

Land Releases since 2009 (State vs Private)

Successive governments have released thousands of acres since 2009. 

These are presented as military-occupied lands returned to the people.” This is factually incorrect.

But the breakdown shows a different reality:

As of May 2017:

·       State land released: ~54,769 acres

·       Private land released: ~24,394 acres

·       Ratio: 69% State vs 31% Private

By Dec 2018: 

The Army reported 69,754 acres released (mix of State & Private) out of 84,523 acres used.

Illustrative releases:

·       454 acres (Private) – Thelippalai/Palaly (2016)

·       ~63,000 acres (Govt + Private) – by Mar 2024

·       40.7 acres (Private) – Jaffna, May 2025 (Army official report)

By 2017, almost 70% of all land released was State land—proving that private citizens were not deprived. 

Yet international reports continue to frame this as private dispossession.

The Core Issues:

·       No Military Land”: No Civilian Land”. A propaganda term without legal basis.

·       Private Land: Already released upon verification of deeds,  

·       State Land: Belongs to the Republic. The Army has every right to remain. Any release is a political choice, not a legal obligation.

·       Ignored Questions: Why is the UNHRC silent on LTTE land seizures, displacement of non-Tamils, and the legal procedures required for private restitution?

Why does the UNHRC ignore LTTE’s occupation of land and displacement of non-Tamils?

1.    Why has the UNHRC ignored LTTE occupation of land (both State and Private) and the displacement of Sinhalese and Muslims?

2.    Why does the UNHRC repeatedly refer to military land,” Civilian land” terms that does not exist in Sri Lankan law?

3.    Why does the UNHRC not acknowledge that the majority of land released was State land—showing the Army was never depriving private owners of their property?

4.    Why is the UNHRC silent on the legal requirement of verifying ownership (title deeds, surveys, inheritance under Thesavalamai) before private land can be restored?

Why was State Land Released?

This is the central issue. 

State lands belong to the Republic—not to any temporary government.
Governments are only custodians. 

Governments cannot cede or convert State land into private property arbitrarily.

Yet, under international pressure and NGO propaganda, successive governments released State lands unnecessarily—lands which should have been kept for security, development, or future generations.

This raises key questions:

·       Who benefited from these land releases? 

·       Who are occupying State land claiming these to be private”

·       Why was land belonging to all Sri Lankans ceded disproportionately to one community?

·       Should not State land remain available for all citizens, not privatized under pressure?

Any State land transferred into Private Land is ILLEGAL and steps must be taken to RETURN this land back to the State.

The Way Forward

·       Private land – must be returned only to verified owners through a transparent process.

·       State land – must remain with the State. The Army can be stationed anywhere lawfully.

·       Military land” – does not exist. Using the term delegitimizes the armed forces.

The land debate has been clouded by propaganda. Sri Lanka must clearly assert that:

·       State land belongs to the Republic, not any community.

·       Verified private land has already been returned.

·       Military land” Civilian land” is a myth invented to discredit the armed forces.

The UNHRC cannot demand that Sri Lanka cede State lands under the guise of occupation.” The real question is: who gained from the release of State lands that rightfully belonged to the Republic and where the Army had every right to remain?

Shenali D Waduge

 by  Rohana R. Wasala

Continued from Wednesday, August 13, 2025 

Time the West backed off and allowed the unitary state of Sri Lanka to fulfill its own destiny based on ‘peace building’. It is also time to reflect that both Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamil Hindus value, respect and venerate the lotus flower with its symbolism of purity of body, speech and mind, is it really too much to ask the religious leadership of both faiths to come together in the cause of a lasting peace? That would do more than anything to create a real paradise.

• Lord Michael Naseby, former Conservative MP and pioneer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sri Lanka in the British parliament in his book ‘SRI LANKA: Paradise Lost Paradise Regained’, Unicorn, London, 2020

Israel isn’t a paragon of democracy. But Israel is a paragon of the struggle for democratic norms under near impossible circumstances. Israel is a laboratory for democracy under extremity, and that is its value for the world.

• Yossi Klein Halevi, American-Israeli Journalist and author, (as quoted in ‘The Genius of Israel’ by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, book issued in August 2023)

Part I of this article ended with the sentence:

‘For the SB’s message of solidarity to be of any potential value for global peacemaking efforts in this conflict zone, its unequivocal denunciation of Israel should have been balanced by a similarly unambiguous condemnation of the horrific Hamas terrorism that provoked the massive Israeli military operations in Gaza that continue to this day.’

Except for that candid observation, this piece of writing should not be mistaken for any adverse criticism of the Sarvajana Balaya political alliance. I have many positive things to say about it  and its leaders. I agree with its noncommunal nationalistic politics ( which is free from its externally attributed negative connotations such as exclusivity, supremacism, tribalism, etc.). The bare  Wikipedia description of Sarvajana Balaya’s political ideology as ‘Sinhalese nationalism’ (that is, a form of ethnonationalism centred on Sinhalese Buddhist  ethnic identity, viewed through the West’s naturally prejudiced perspective) implies, quite wrongly, negatives like the abovementioned evils of exclusivity, supremacism, tribalism, and so on. In my previous writings, I have explained why I assert that the nationalism that the majority Sinhalese Buddhist community advocates and champions is a uniquely benign form of ethnonationalism (if it must be called that) which supports the human rights of all citizens irrespective of differences of every type among them, including those based on their religious and political ideologies. To derogatorily misinterpret it as ultranationalism, narrow nationalism, tribalism, etc is like giving a precisely botanical description of the Sri Maha Bodhi in Anuradhapura in a cultural discourse, dissociating it from its historical and religious significance for Sri Lanka.

Our nationalism is ethnonationalism (if you like) free from ethnocentrism, fortified with the proviso that the principle of mutual accommodation and tolerance that it fosters among diverse ethnic groups within the country based on common humanity should not be abused to violate or to undermine the legitimate interests and human rights of any community, whether it be a majority or a minority, or to endanger its cultural (maybe, even physical) survival in the multifariously turbulent world of today, sadly, further aggravated by genocidal religious extremism of different brands. 

Readers, please bear with me for showing my contempt for popular labels. I distrust them because the powers that be keep changing the definitions of the concepts that they label to suit their global designs, something you may have yourselves realised by now. Let’s be mindful, when we use them both actively and receptively. 

SB’s condemnation of Israel with no mention of Hamas terrorism, which is really at the root of the trouble, sounds unjustly prejudicial to Israelis. Israelis themselves, as Jews, have never been terrorists, but abject victims  as well as courageous challengers of mindless terrorism against them in recent history. Jews have endured violent political oppression for over two millennia (like the Sinhalese have endured foreign invasions over the same period). Their successful struggle for survival as a nation through such a long period of persecution has enabled them to evolve as a race gifted with unbeatable, humanity enhancing, intellectual faculties. The civilised nations of the world that owe them much ought to protect them in order to help save human civilization itself. 

The heartbreaking video that went viral about two weeks ago of the emaciated Israeli hostage Evyatar David (24) snatched from the Nova music festival while he was singing with friends in praise of peace – David is a guitar player – on that fateful day of October 7, 2023, made to dig his own grave in a narrow tunnel by his Hamas captors must be meant to add to the emotional distress of his family and the general Israeli public, and to persuade them to put pressure on the Israeli government to bring home the remaining hostages (20 living ‘skeletons’ like David and 30 dead corpses)  by giving in to the Hamas’s impossible demands. 

I believe that the leaders of Sarvajana Balaya (Dilith Jayaweera, Arun Siddharth, Udaya Gammanpila, Wimal Weerawansa, Channe Jayasumana) are all decent young politicians with a potentially bright future before them. Channe Jayasumana (45) MBBS, PhD, FRCP Edin is a medical doctor and internationally recognised scientific researcher; he is a university professor in pharmacology. He served as cabinet Minister of Health in 2022.  Arun Siddharth (47) is a freelance journalist, social activist and a politician with trilingual proficiency (inTamil, English and Sinhala). He is the only politician I have ever written a feature article about (Arun Siddharth the troublemaker/The Island/November 8, 2024). Wimal Weerawansa and Udaya Gammanpila are both 55 years of age. They were two of the best performing cabinet ministers during Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s presidency. Wimal Weerawansa joined the JVP quite early in his life soon after secondary education, and devoted all his time to party work. He has acquired the general knowledge that a politician needs to function effectively through practical experience and personal education. He is an orator and author in Sinhala, and a thoroughly informed politician conversant in both Sinhala and English. Udaya Gammanpila qualified as a Computer Engineer at Monash University, Australia (where he lectured for some time) and later as a lawyer at the Sri Lanka Law College, Colombo. Dilith Jayaweera (57) is a qualified lawyer (educated at the Colombo University law faculty and the Sri Lanka Law College),  media mogul, and business entrepreneur. I am sure the Muslim community is also represented in the Sarvajana Balaya through its constituent parties. The name ‘Sarvajana Balaya’ harks back to the introduction of universal suffrage or franchise (sarvajana chandabalaya) to Ceylon/Sri Lanka in 1931 under the Donoughmore Constitution, which was the first step towards inclusive and representative democracy that still operates.

 The main reason why I think that the SB’s Gaza response is not a smart move is because it completely ignores the elephant in the room in Sri Lanka itself: the infiltration into Sri Lanka of the global menace of the extremist IS ideology that Wijedasa Rajapaksa, a former justice minister,  revealed in parliament based on intelligence reports in 2016 during the Ranil-Maithree Yahapalana regime, that cost him his powerful cabinet portfolio. None of the other politicians in power then and hardly any in the opposition had the courage or the self-respect to pressure the administration to investigate those claims seriously and to take necessary action, which would have prevented the hideous Easter Sunday suicide bombings on April 21, 2019. Informal but similarly evidence-based exposures about the activities of Zahran Hashim and other jihadists  by some concerned young Buddhist monks and social activists of the nationalist camp outside the mainstream parties were ignored or ridiculed as hate-motivated lies; those patriotic whistleblowers were branded as mere scaremongers,and were even threatened punishment for their pains. Whatever said and done, Sarvajana Balaya is pointing towards a way out of the present existential crisis that Sri Lanka is facing, even though the national leadership that will ultimately tread that path is yet to emerge. 

In this context, it is opportune to remember that there are two legacies of inestimable value that the British colonial rulers left us at independence. These are indispensable in negotiating the current tumultuous global scene rendered politically, economically and militarily unstable, and culturally challenging, because of overdone wokeism and unnatural LGBTQIA+ rights obsession, and last but not least, types of morbid religious extremism. One of these two legacies is the system of government through parliamentary democracy, and the other is the treasure trove of the English language. (I will reserve the second for a future writeup.) 

The first, the parliamentary representative system of government, was on the brink of being toppled by the conspiratorially staged Aragalaya of 2022 creating a national emergency, but was soon restored by differently configured elected representatives within the parliament on an ad hoc basis. Signs of an engineered unhealthy religious or cultural polarisation in the society were visible as a conspicuous element during the Aragalaya, represented by a brightly illuminated Easter celebration at Galle Face on Sunday April 17, 2022, followed a month later on May 15, 2022 by a bleak Vesak Full Moon Day marked with blackened Vesak lanterns and Buddha images painted in black (as I saw in social media posts then), probably the first time such an anti Buddhist demonstration was seen in the past twenty-three centuries. The protestors were sumptuously fed, according to YouTube posts, with biryani rice from nearby restaurants. In one YouTube comment someone joked: ‘bomba gahapu unui bomba kaapu unui atara budunta erehiwa maru sahayogaya’ ‘exemplary cooperation between bombers and victims engaged in Buddha bashing’!

That symbolizes the natural result of the chain of events that followed the 2009 neutralization of separatist terrorism. Those events have, at least temporarily, turned heroes into zeros. None with an iota of brains would have by now failed to identify the smart figures who were co-opted into the grand plot by the master/mistressminds. Be that as it may, a name springs to mind that shouldn’t be forgotten at this critical moment: the late, reputedly pro-American J.R.Jayawardane, the first executive president. He was a genuine nationalist (ala D.S. Senanayake who advocated and exemplified ‘Ceylonese’ national identity). Jayawardane, in spite of his myriad lapses, used his sharp intellect and political acumen to keep Sri Lanka whole as a unitary state through the institution of executive presidency. He, quite casually, in the meantime, used his ignorable young Marxist challenger, Rohana Wijeweera, the architect of the JVP, to contain his truly worthy opponent the late Mrs Sirimavo Ratwatte Bandaranaike. Honourable Mrs Bandaranaike, who rid the country of the last vestiges of British colonial rule in 1972 by promulgating the republican constitution, became the first female prime minister of Sri Lanka. She was a nationalist of the same brand, probably even more unapologetically so. Ranil Wickremasinghe, JR’s nephew, a staunch defender of the parliamentary system, is an unostentatious nationalist who is not likely to dishonour his principled uncle’s legacy by  contributing to a process that will ultimately put an end to the independent sovereign unitary status of our beloved historic Motherland. That is my gut feeling.  Let’s keep our fingers crossed.

Concluded

National Development Bank PLC

NDB Bank proudly celebrated the 13th Executive Committee Installation Ceremony of the NDB Toastmasters Club on 6 August 2025 at the Hilton Colombo Residencies, an evening marked by leadership, fellowship, and inspiration, reflecting the Bank’s commitment to nurturing talent, empowering communication, and fostering personal and professional growth among its employees.

The ceremony was graced by Mr. Lasantha Dasanayaka, Vice President – Human Resources at NDB Bank, who attended as Chief Guest, while the Guest of Honour was distinguished Toastmaster Niroshan Nadarajah, District Director – District 82, who delivered a motivational address to the newly appointed leaders. District officials DTM Bhathiya Hettiarachchi (Program Quality Director) and DTM Piyakara Jayaratne (Club Growth Director) added their presence to the occasion.

The evening’s keynote was delivered by Toastmaster Alagan Mahalingam, CEO of Rootcode, who inspired attendees with valuable insights on leadership, growth, and the courage required to step beyond one’s comfort zone to achieve excellence.

Demonstrating the club’s active role at the District level, members DTM Tharindu de Silva (Public Relations Manager, District 82), TM Dilrukshie Mervin (Division Director – Division E), and TM Pristly Ivan (Area Director – Area E4) represented NDB Toastmasters’ remarkable talent and influence within the wider Toastmasters community.

A notable highlight of the evening was the induction of 14 new members, further strengthening the club’s future. The ceremony concluded with the appointment of TM Mohamad Fazlan as President for the term 2025/26, alongside the newly appointed Executive Committee, ready to lead the club into another successful year of communication excellence, leadership development, and fellowship.

Through platforms such as Toastmasters, NDB Bank continues to invest in its people, encouraging them to hone their skills, unlock their potential, and embody the values of excellence, teamwork, and continuous growth that define the Bank’s culture.

NDB Bank is the fourth-largest listed commercial bank in Sri Lanka. NDB was named Sri Lanka’s Best Bank for Corporates at Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2024 and was awarded Domestic Retail Bank of the Year – Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka Domestic Project Finance Bank of the Year by Asian Banking and Finance Magazine (Singapore) Awards 2024. NDB is the parent company of the NDB Group, comprising capital market subsidiary companies, together forming a unique banking and capital market services group. The Bank is committed to empowering the nation and its people through meaningful financial and advisory services powered by digital banking solutions.

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත්

අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විසින් අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් හිටපු ජනපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ අද (22) පෙරවරුවේ කොටුව මහේස්ත්‍රාත් අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් කළ අතර, ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් වන නඩු විභාගය තවමත් අධිකරණයෙහි විභාග කෙරෙමින් පවතිනවා.

මෙම ඇප නියෝගය ප්‍රකාශ කිරීම අද සවස්වරුවේ පැය භාගයට කල් තැබුණු අතර, එලෙස කල් තැබීමෙන් පසුව අධිකරණ ශාලාවේ විදුලිය විසන්ධි වීමද සිදුවූ බවයි අප අධිකරණ වාර්තාකරු සඳහන් කළේ.

විදුලි සැපයුම යථා තත්වයට පත් කර ඇති නමුත් නඩු විභාගය තවමත් යලි ආරම්භ වී නොමැති බවද ඔහු සඳහන් කළා.

අද (22) පෙරවරුවේ අත්ඩංගුවට ගැනුණු හිටපු ජනපති රනිල් වික්‍රමංහට එරෙහිව දණ්ඩ නීති සංග්‍රහයේ 386 හා 388 වගන්තිවල සඳහන් වැරදි මෙන්ම පොදු දේපළ පනත යටතේ ද චෝදනා ගොනු කෙරුණා.

එහිදී අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටි අතිරේක සොලිසිටර් ජෙනරාල් දිලීප පීරිස් අධිකරණය හමුවේ කරුණු දක්වමින් 2023 වසරේ සැප්තැම්බර් මස 22 වනදා සහ 23 යන දිනවල සැකකාර හිටපු ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ විසින් බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයේ සිදු කළ පුද්ගලික සංචාරයක් සඳහා රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 166 ක රජයේ මුදල් වැය කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මෙම විමර්ශනය ආරම්භ කළ බව සඳහන් කළා.

එහිදී මෙම සිද්ධියට අදාළව ප්‍රකාශ 33 ක් සටහන් කර ගෙන තිබෙනවා.

2023 වසරේ සැප්තැම්බර් මස 13 වනදා සිට 20 වනදා දක්වා කාල සීමාව තුළ කියුබාව සහ ඇමරිකාවේ නිල සංචාරයක නිරත වීමෙන් පසුව සැප්තැම්බර් මස 22 වනදා ඔහු පුද්ගලික සංචාරයක් සඳහා බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයට ගොස් තිබෙනවා.

සිය බිරිඳගේ සම්මානිත මහාචාර්ය පදවිය ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා ඔහු එහි ගොස් තිබෙන බව විමර්ශනවලදී අනාවරණය වී ඇතැයි අතිරේක සොලිසිටර් ජෙනරාල්වරයා පැවසුවා

එම ගමන සඳහා හිටපු ජනාධිපති සමග ඔහුගේ බිරිඳ, පුද්ගලික ලේකම් සැන්ඩ්‍රා පෙරේරා, වෛද්‍යවරයෙකු සහ පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් ඇතුළු 10 දෙනෙකු සහභාගී වී තිබෙනවා.

ඔහු මෙම සංචාරයට සහභාගී වී තිබෙන්නේ බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය රජයේ නිල ආරාධනයක් අනුව නොවෙයි.

මේ සඳහා මුදල් අනුමත කළේ ජනාධිපති ලේකම් සමන් ඒකනායක විසින්.

ඔහු මෙම අපරාධයේ ප්‍රධාන සැකකරුවකු වශයෙන් හඳුනාගෙන තිබෙන බවත් අතිරේක සොලිසිටර් ජෙනරල්වරයා සඳහන් කළා.

මෙම දින එක හමාරක සංචාරය තුළ වාහන සඳහා රුපියල් 4,475,160 ක් මුදලක්ද, වාහන අත්තිකාරම් වශයෙන් රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 14 ආසන්න මුදලක්ද, ආහාර පාන සඳහා රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 13 කට අධික මුදලක්ද, හෝටල් පහසුකම් සඳහා රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 34 කට ආසන්න මුදලක්ද, ගුවන් තොටුපොළේ අමුත්තන් පරිහරණය කරන ස්ථානය වෙන් කර ගැනීම සඳහා බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය පවුම් 6,000 මුදලක් ද වැය කර තිබෙන බවත් ඔහු පැවසුවා.

එම වකවානුවේ ජනාධිපති ලේකම්වරයා විසින් නිකුත් කරන ලද චක්‍රලේඛයක් තුළින් රටේ පවතින ආර්ථික දුෂ්කරතා සැලකිල්ලට ගෙන අත්‍යවශ්‍ය වියදම් සඳහා පමණක් රාජ්‍ය මුදල් වැය කිරීමට උපදෙස් ලබාදී තිබුණු බව සඳහන් කළ අතිරේක සොලිසිටර් ජනරාල්වරයා රටේ ආර්ථික අර්බුදයක් පැවති අවස්ථාවක ඩොලරයක් සොයා ගැනීමට පවා අපහසු තත්ත්වයක් තිබූ අවස්ථාවක පාලකයා වශයෙන් මෙම සැකකරු සිය පෞද්ගලික සංචාරය සඳහා මේ ආකාරයෙන් රජයේ මුදල් වැය කිරීම සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම වැරදි ක්‍රියාවක් බවත් සඳහන් කර සිටියා.

මෙම වියදම් සඳහා පූර්ව අනුමැතිය ලබාගෙන නොමැති බවත් ඔහු කියා සිටියා.

“මෙහිදී හිටපු ජනාධිපති ලේකම්වරයා වැරදි ආකාරයෙන් කටයුතු කර තිබෙනවා. රජයේ නිලධාරීන් දේශපාලකයින්ව හරි මග යැවිය යුතුයි. ඔහුට රජයේ අරමුදල් තමන්ගේ අභිමතයට යොදාගන්න බෑ.” යනුවෙන් අතිරේක සොලිසිටර් ජනරාල්වරයා සඳහන් කළා.

“සැකකාර හිටපු ජනපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට ලබාදුන් ප්‍රකාශය තුළින් පිළිගෙන තිබෙනවා ඔහුගේ බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය සංචාරය පෞද්ගලික සංචාරයක් බව.

ඒ වගේම සැකකරුගේ පෞද්ගලික ලේකම් වශයෙන් කටයුතු කළ සැන්ඩ්‍රා පෙරේරා මහත්මිය ලබා දී ඇති කට උත්තරයේ සඳහන් කර තිබෙනවා තමන් විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යංශයට යැවූ ඉල්ලීමේ මෙම සංචාරය පෞද්ගලික සංචාරයක් වශයෙන් සඳහන් කර තිබූ බව.

එසේ නම් මෙම පුද්ගලික සංචාරය නිල සංචාරයක් බවට පරිවර්තනය කිරීමට කටයුතු කළේ කවුද? “ ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් විමර්ශන සිදු කරන බවත් අතිරේක සොලිසිටර් ජෙනරාල්වරයා සඳහන් කළා.

මෙය බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයෙන් ලැබුණු නිල ඇරයුමක් අනුව ගිය ගමනක් නොවන බවත්, රටේ ආර්ථික අර්බුදයක් පැවති අවස්ථාවක මෙවැනි වියදමක් දැරීම යුක්ති සහගතද? යන ප්‍රශ්නය මතුවන බවත් අතිරේක සොලිසිටර් ජනරාල් වරයා අධිකරණය හමුවේ විමසුවා.

“සැකකරු ප්‍රකාශ කරලා තිබෙනවා තමන්ගේ වැටුප රුපියල් ලක්ෂයක් බව. එසේ නම් මේ ආකාරයෙන් වියදමක් දරන්නේ කෙසේද?” යනුවෙන් ප්‍රශ්න කළ අතිරේක සොලිසිටර් ජෙනරාල්වරයා ජනාධිපතිවරයා යනු මහජනයාගේ භාරකරු බවත් ඔහුට අත්තනෝමතික ආකාරයෙන් මහජන මුදල් වැය කිරීමට හැකියාවක් නොමැති බවත් සඳහන් කළා.

මෙම සිද්ධියට අදාළ විමර්ශන කටයුතු අවසන් වී නොමැති අතර, ඊට අදාළව තවත් සැකකරුවන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීමට නියමිතව තිබෙන බව අතිරේක සොලිසිටර් ජෙනරාල්වරයා සඳහන් කළා.

ඒ අනුව මෙම සැකකරුගේ තත්ත්වය තරාතිරම හෝ නිලය සැලකිල්ලට නොගන්නා ලෙස අධිකරණයෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටි අතිරේක සොලිසිටර් ජනරාල් දිලිප පීරිස් ඒ අනුව මෙම සැකකරු ඇප මත මුදා හැරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් විරුද්ධ වන බවත් පැවසුවා.

ඉන් අනතුරුව රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ වෙනුවෙන් ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ අනූජ ප්‍රේමරත්න අධිකරණය හමුවේ කරුණු දක්වමින් කුරුණෑගල ප්‍රදේශයේ පදිංචි ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ ලේකම්වරයෙකු විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කළ පැමිණිල්ලකට අනුව මෙම විමර්ශනය ඇරඹී තිබෙන බව පැවසුවා.

ජාතික විගණන කාර්යාලය මගින් නිකුත් කර ඇති වාර්තාවක මෙම සංචාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් කරුණු දක්වා තිබෙන බවත්, ඒ තුළ අවිධිමත් ක්‍රියාවක් සිදුවී නොමැති බව දක්වා තිබෙන බවත් ජනාධිපති නීතිඥවරයා අධිකරණය හමුවේ කරුණු පෙන්වා දුන්නා.

එම වාර්තාව විමර්ශන නිලධාරීන් විසින් සැලකිල්ලට ගෙන නොමැති බවත්, ඒ ගැන සැලකිලිමත් වුවා නම් මෙවැනි නඩුවක් මතු නොවනු ඇති බවත් ඔහු පෙන්වා දුන්නා.

රටේ ජනාධිපතිවරයෙකුට ලැබෙන ඇරයුම් සියල්ල නිල ඇරයුම් බවත් මෙවැනි සංචාරවලට හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනි චන්ද්‍රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක කුමාරතුංග, ලක්ෂ්මන් කදිරගාමර් ,ලලිත් ඇතුළත්මුදලි වැනි නායකයින් සහභාගි වී තිබෙන බවත් පෙන්වා දුන්නා.

ජනාධිපතිවරයෙකුට සාමාන්‍ය පන්තියේ ගුවන් ටිකට් පතක් ලබාගෙන විදේශයකට ගොස් කුලී රථවල ගමන් කරමින් මිත්‍රයින්ගේ නිවාසවල නවාතැන් ගනිමින් කටයුතු කළ නොහැකි බව පෙන්වා දුන් ජනාධිපති නීතිඥවරයා එය රාජතාන්ත්‍රික තත්ත්වයක් නොවන බවත් සඳහන් කර සිටියා.

රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මෙම බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය සංචාරයට සහභාගි වූයේ බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයේ වුල්ෆ් ඇම්ටන් විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපති කාර්යාලය හරහා යොමු කළ ඇරයුමක් අනුව බවත්, ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපති කාර්යාලය හරහා ලැබුණු ඇරයුමක් නිල ඇරයුමක් නොවන්නේ කෙසේදැයි ජනාධිපති නීතිඥවරයා ප්‍රශ්න කර සිටියා.

ජනාධිපතිවරයා යනු පැය 24 ම වැඩ කරන පුද්ගලයෙකු බවත් ඔහුට මෙම ඇරයුම ලැබෙන්නේ රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ වශයෙන් නොව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ජනාධිපති වශයෙන් බවත් ඔහු පෙන්වා දුන්නා.

පැමිණිල්ල විසින් සඳහන් කළ මුදල් රෙගුලාසි අදාළ වන්නේ අමාත්‍යාංශ ලේකම්වරු සහ පළාත් සභාවල ලේකම්වරුන්ට පමණක් බවත් ජනාධිපතිවරයා, අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා, කථානායකවරයා වැනි නිල දරන්නන්ට ඒවා අදාළ නොවන බවත් ජනාධිපති නීතිඥවරයා පැවසුවා.

තම සේවාදායකයාට හෘද රෝග මෙන්ම පාලනය කළ නොහැකි දියවඩියා තත්ත්වයන් හා රුධිර පීඩන තත්ත්වයක් පවතින බවත් ඔහුගේ බිරිඳ පිළිකා රෝගී තත්ත්වයක පවතින බව පෙන්වා දුන් ජනාධිපති නීතිඥවරයා ඊට අදාළ වෛද්‍ය වාර්තා ද අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් කළා.

මෙම කරුණු සුවිශේෂී කරුණු සේ සලකා මෙම සැකකරු ඕනෑම කොන්දේසියක් යටතේ ඇපමත මුදා හැරීමේ නියෝගයක් නිකුත් කරන ලෙසත් නාධිපති නීතිඥ අනූජ ප්‍රේමරත්න වැඩිදුරටත් අධිකරණයෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටියා.

මෙම නඩු විභාගයේ අතිරේක සොලිසිටර් ජෙනරාල් දිලිප පීරිස් කරුණු ඉදිරිපත් කළ අවස්ථාවේ විත්තිය වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටි නීතිඥ ගුණරත්න වන්නිනායක ඊට මැදිහත් වී ප්‍රකාශ සිදු කිරීම නිසා නීතිඥ දෙපළ අතර උණුසුම් වාද විවාද වරින් වර හට ගැනීම දක්නට ලැබුණා.

ඒ අනුව මහේස්ත්‍රාත්වරියට අවස්ථා කීපයකදී මැදිහත් වී එම තත්ත්වය සමථයට පත්කිරීමට ද සිදුවුණා.

Courtesy Adaderana

The United National Party’s (UNP) media unit has released a copy of the officially invitation letter sent by the University of Wolverhampton to former President Ranil Wickremesinghe and his wife, Professor Maithree Wickremesinghe.

In its statement, the UNP media unit claimed that the former President had not misused state funds in relation to his visit to the United Kingdom.

Former President Wickremesinghe was arrested today (22) after arriving at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to record a statement in connection with an ongoing investigation.

Wickremesinghe was taken into custody for allegedly misusing government funds” after being questioned about a September 2023 visit to London to attend a ceremony for his wife at a British university while he was head of state.

Ranil Wickremesinghe had stopped in London in 2023 on his way back from Havana, where he attended a G77 summit.

He and his wife, Maithree, attended a University of Wolverhampton ceremony.

Wickremesinghe has maintained that his wife met her own travel expenses and that no state funds were used.

However, the Criminal Investigation Department of the police alleged that Wickremesinghe used government money for his travel on a private visit and that the state also paid his bodyguards.

The full invitation is attached below.

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