Some held portfolios during the thick of LTTE terror. Some held portfolios that could have stopped LTTE terror. Some held portfolios but simply watched LTTE carnage in silent. All of them did nothing to end the suffering 20million populace suffered when LTTE bombed and committed acts of terror. All of them woke up only after LTTE was militarily defeated or on the verge of defeat and all of them are now demanding answers for how the war was fought completely erasing their inaction during LTTE terror. What are these desperados’ really up to? What should UN Member States read from these actions? When a UN that did nothing to stop terror suddenly comes out with the rule books AFTER the terror is over, it only showcases the UN system is being used to CREATE A PRECEDENCE with Sri Lanka as a guinea pig. The Third World must rally behind Sri Lanka not for anything else, but to safeguard their own nations from becoming target of UN bullies if their attempt to subjugate Sri Lanka into the UN succeeds.

The laws of war and justice was re-written according to geopolitical demands with 9/11. Thereafter, concepts, formulas and templates took the form of what suited powerful nations & their political agendas. So accountability, justice, human rights, democracy, freedoms etc came to be determined on what suited their agendas. The UN system and NGO network became the mechanisms used to fast forward these objectives.

Those who did nothing to stop Rwanda genocide – where actual dead bodies was seen to count cannot talk about any invisible genocide in Sri Lanka – where accusers have failed to present names of 40,000 dead.

Those who did nothing when the Libyan Leader was killed in front of the whole world and watched by the world’s most powerful nation whose officials simply laughed at his death – cannot talk about justice or accountability.

Those who after destroying Libya went on to destroy Syria, bombing a country to the stone age, with goal to dislodge its leader, cannot send petitions against Sri Lanka, if they simply sat in their official chair and did nothing against it using the powers of their office.

Those that watch the suffering of the Iraqi’s Afghans, Darfur, and those who know how ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Qaeda etc are funded and trained cannot just take Sri Lanka’s Armed Forces and demand their penalization and ridicule on the world stage.

Those who are watching Yemen’s humanitarian sorrow, the malnutrition children, the hungry adults and pass the buck because of the countries involved in it are too powerful have no moral right to be only pointing fingers at Sri Lanka because it is a small nation with weak leaders.

https://chrgj.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Sowing-the-Seeds-of-Conflict.pdf

Name	Role / Member	Tenure
1.      Juan Manuel Santos	The EldersFormer President of ColombiaNobel Peace Prize Winner	2010 – 20182016

Former UNHRC heads

Name	Role / Member	Tenure
2.      Mary Robinson	The EldersFormer President of IrelandFormer UNHRC Head	1990 – 19971997 – 2002
3.      Louise Arbour	Former UNHRC Head	2004 – 2008
4.      Navanethem Pillay	Former UNHRC Head	2008 – 2014
5.      Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein	Former UNHRC Head	2014 – 2018

Former Special Rapporteur mandate-holders 

Name	Role / Member	Tenure
6.      Charles Petrie	Former United Nations Assistant Secretary- General, Head, Secretary General’s Internal Review Panel on United Nation’s Actions in Sri Lanka	2012
7.      Philip Alston	Former Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions	2004 – 2010
8.      Manfred Nowak	Former Special Rapporteur on torture & other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment	2004 – 2010
9.      Gay MacDougall	Former Special Rapporteur on minority issues	2005 – 2011
10.   Jan Eliasson	Deputy Secretary General UN	2012 – 2016
11.   Adama Dieng	Former Special Adviser to UNSG on the Prevention of Genocide	2012 – 2020
12.   Christof Heyns	Former Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions	2010 – 2016
13.   Juan E. Mendez	Former Special Rapporteur on torture & other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment	2010 – 2016
14.   Ben Emmerson	Former Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism	2011 – 2017
15.   Maina Kiai	Former Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association	2011 – 2017
16.   Pablo de Greiff	Former Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation, and guarantees of non-recurrence	2012-2018
17.   David Kaye	Former Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression	2014 – 2020

Privately commissioned Panel by UNSG

18.   Marzuki Darusman 19.   Steven Ratner 20.   Yasmin Sooka

Secretary General’s Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka

2010-2011

Juan Manuel Santos 

Leader of Colombia from 2010-2018

Colombia’s conflict began in May 1964 between FARC rebels & Columbian Govt/Army and ended in 2016 the same time Juan Santos was awarded Nobel Peace Prize for bringing to end 50 years of conflict that claimed over 220,000 lives majority civilian and has displaced 5million (almost half being children) – between 1985 and 2012 creating worlds 2^ndlargest IDPs.

By 2003, U.S. involvement in Colombia meant 40 U.S. agencies and 4,500 people, including contractors, working from U.S. Embassy in Bogota, the the largest U.S. embassy in the world.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/12/21/covert-action-in-colombia/

In 2019, UN itself says 85 rebels killed after 2016 Peace Deal https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46726118

Mary Robinson

First woman President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights days before LTTE blew up MV Cordiality ship killing 5 Chinese crew members. What did she do against LTTE? Chair of The Elders, member of Club Madrid, Has links to Eric Solheim who appointed her Chairman of Development Assistance Committee in 2016. In December 1997 after her visit to Rwanda as UNHRC head the Rwandan govt accused her of ‘blatant distortions’ https://www.irishtimes.com/news/robinson-accused-of-distortions-1.135772

Louise Arbour

Appointed Chief Prosecutor for Rwanda & Yugoslavia. Her indictment of a sitting head – Serbian Leader Milosevic made history though he was exonerated of war crimes only after his controversial death in a prison. As UNHRC head she visited Sri Lanka in 2007 October. Since 2009 she was President of International Crisis Group. It was during her period as UNHRC head that LTTE increased recruitment of child soldiers and even assassinated Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister – Lakshman Kadiragamar all during an internationally mediate cease fire agreement. What did she do to question LTTE accountability?

Navanethem Pillay

As an ethnic Tamil, it was only right that she recused herself from handing Sri Lanka, which she did not. Her statements foretell the biased nature of her actions against Sri Lanka during her tenure as UNHRC head. When she appears on Mullaiwaikkal Memorials distorting her on statements, this proves the case.

Tamil ethnic bias and potential conflict of interest disqualifies Navi Pillay from conducting investigations against Sri Lanka

https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/open-letter-to-un-former-unhrc-head-navi-pillays-bias-exposed-investigate-her-role-as-unhrc-head-remove-bogus-charges-against-sri-lanka/

Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein

Violated Article 2.7 of UN Charter by interfering in domestic jurisdiction of Sri Lanka – asking to demilitarize and commenting on Sri Lanka’s judiciary.

ZEID COMMITS (POSSIBLE) CONTEMPT OF COURT AGAINST THE SRI LANKA JUDICIARY

Charles Petrie

Another report leaked like the Darusman Report, attempting to shed crocodile tears of UN failing to stop a non-existent carnage, whereas UN actually failed to bring peace to Sri Lanka over 30 years. Petrie should have written about the UN failure to stop LTTE terrorism. Petrie was a UN Official in Rwanda when UN simply abandoned Rwanda. Ironically, he was made UN envoy to Burma! Petrie also headed a Norwegian funded project Myanmar Peace Support Initiative”All hotspots for Western geopolitics!

https://www.onlanka.com/news/telling-the-truth-un-failed-20million-sri-lankans-not-the-ghost-estimates.html

Petrie resigned from the UN at the end of 2010 but in March 2012 appointed by Ban Ki Moon to do an internal review of UN’s action in Sri Lanka. This report was leaked probably because it was shedding crocodile tears about UN failing the civilians in the final phase without crying over UN failure over 30 years to prevent LTTE terror.

Philip Alston

Ban Ki Moon private panel included only one source for alleging ‘executions’by GoSL troops presented by C4 and Alston’s report attaching 3 technical expert reports – from an US forensic analyst Jeff Spiyack who says that there is no way to confirm solely from recordings the identity of the victims or shooters.

Manfred Nowak

Visited Sri Lanka 1 to 8 October 2007.

Gay MacDougall

American lawyer and Board Member of George Soros Open Society

Jan Eliasson

UN Deputy Secretary-General http://www.eyesrilanka.com/2013/12/20/jan-eliasson-even-the-un-security-council-unsc-failed-on-the-sri-lankan-issue/

Adama Dieng

This expert on genocide may like to redefine what genocide is as per political agenda. Where do you have mass murders in this modern era similar to the atrocities committed during colonial times?

https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/08/1070402

Christof Heyns

Joined Alston in claiming C4 videos were authentic but did not provide evidence to prove so.

Juan E. Mendez

Arrived in SL in 2016 and voiced concern over arrests of LTTE.

http://www.ft.lk/article/540790/UN-concerned-over-manner-of-arrest-of-ex-LTTE-activists

Handled case by Lasantha Wickrematunga’s daughter against Gotabaya Rajapakse filed in US. https://cja.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/49-2-Declaration-of-Juan-E-Mendez.pdf

Ben Emmerson

Another UN official overstepping mandate & violating Article 2.7 of UN Charter – demanding repealing of PTA, release of hardcore LTTE, Emmerson defended Ramush Haradinaj, the former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

Maina Kiai

a Kenyan lawyer and member of HRW since 2018 was also in Amnesty International in 2001. Regular recipient of letters from LTTE fronts

Pablo de Greiff

Columbian lawyer but dual citizen of US. Joined International Centre for Transitional Justice in 2001.  Delivered a lecture on Transitional Justice” on 20 October 2017 at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute and when Pablo speaks at a TGTE webinar what else is there to say! https://www.srilankacampaign.org/live-webinar-sri-lanka-quest-for-justice-rule-of-law-democratic-rights/

David Kaye

Was one of the 5 signatories to seek justice for Dharisha Bastian & her computer! http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/70310

Marzuki Darusman

Head of the privately commissioned UNSG panel of experts that declared LTTE a ‘disciplined outfit’

Darusman was also appointed by Ban Ki to report on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto – that too ended up a pass the buck report.

Steven Ratner 

Also a member of the privately commissioned UNSG panel of experts.  TGTE extensively quotes Ratner https://issuu.com/tgte/docs/chogm_2013_booklet_by_tgte

Yasmin Sooka

Also a member of the privately commissioned UNSG panel of experts and thereafter became the ‘comrade’ of LTTE fronts appearing at their events. Though paid by EU to look into affairs of South Africa/Africans she is preoccupied with Sri Lanka and its military. Her reports churned out for UN sessions are all without evidence and hype only.

Thus 20 personalities linked to the UN system have put aside all other conflicts, all other human rights or humanitarian issues and is only bothered about Sri Lanka. We want to know why? We want to know what propels them to be so obsessed with Sri Lanka ONLY AFTER they all watched Sri Lanka suffer 30 years of terrorism & DID NOTHING TO STOP LTTE TERROR?

How dare they talk about justice & accountability when they ignored 30 years people suffered under LTTE.

Out of the blue, when the Sri Lanka Armed Forces ended 30 years of terror, how dare they enter holding the rules of war when they chose to ignore all laws that LTTE flouted when they committed pre-meditated murder. They cannot simply brush 30years of terror aside and demand truth and justice for a period they wish to control and dictate to governments.

The fact that their very claim for 40,000 dead has fallen flat with their setting of the Missing Persons Commission which has not got any 40,000 dead names!

This looks nothing but a desperate attempt by UN officials (serving & former) to cover up their follies and biases. When they single out only Sri Lanka where not a bomb has gone off or LTTE suicide attempt occurring since LTTE defeat in May 2009, it baffles all of us as to why these officials are so obsessed with Sri Lanka. This needs serious attention. None of the allegations made have concrete evidence to prove anything beyond doubt.

What are they all up to?

Why are they using Sri Lanka to try to create a precedent?

This is why the third world UN membership should not allow such a precedence to be created using Sri Lanka as a guinea pig.

Shenali D Waduge

H. L. D. Mahindapala

The increasing interventionist role of the UN and its agencies, mainly the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), in the domestic affairs of Sri Lanka, seen especially in the unwarranted excesses listed in the latest Michelle Bachelet’s report, threatening, for instance, to report Sri Lanka to ICJ, should come under unrelenting scrutiny to expose its (1) disproportionate scrutiny and intervention in the domestic affairs particularly when M. A. Sumanthiran says that progress has been made though not  to their satisfaction; (2) partisan selectivity manipulated by pro-Tamil/LTTE agents abroad, including TNA, NGOs, INGOs, etc. (All these players have been complicit in one form or another, by word or by deed,  in appeasing the Tamil Pol Pot killing his own people) and (3) politicisation to appease the Big Brothers who are engaged in  twisting the arm of Sri Lanka to serve the urgent interests in combatting and containing China.   

So, when Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, pretend to be the moral high priestess supervising all that is not to her liking on earth, she must be told in no uncertain terms that in burying the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), the immediate  predecessor to UNHRC, Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General, quite  rightly pinpointed that it was put six feet under because meddlesome interlopers like Bachelet overstepped their mark and violated the three evils mentioned above. She must also be reminded that the  new UNHRC was established not  for the  likes of  Bachelets to go back to the rotten old ways of the buried UNCHR but to hold the balance and steer human rights justly, even-handedly and proportionately to achieve the long-term interests of the  human rights of all and  not just those who are vindictively waging a war in Geneva to get even with the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) for crushing Tamil terrorists banned by the world. 

Take the case of M.A. Sumanthiran, the current holy cow of  Tamil politics, manipulating with the American Ambassadress, Alaina B. Teplitz, to fix Sri Lanka in the coming session of UNHRC on human rights principles. Not so long  ago he was on the other side, going on his bended to Velupillai Prabhakaran. During that time, he no qualms in pledging his loyalty to him as the supreme leader of the Tamils when he knew that he had killed more Tamils than any other. To this day he has not apologised to the Tamil people for collaborating with the Tamil Pol Pot and willingly being a part of his killing machine. At least Adolf Eichmann had a rather tenuous excuse for being a part of Hitler’s killing machine. He claimed that he was only a cog in the wheel of the Nazi system and he  had no choice. He said he was merely carrying out orders. But Sumanthiram had a choice. There was no compulsion for him to be an integral part of the Prabhakaran’s killing machine. He did it on his own, voluntarily, agreeing to be a partner in war crimes and crimes against humanity, particularly the crimes against his fellow Tamils.

For instance, did he once go with a Tamil parent to Tamil Chelvam, to plead for the life of an abducted  schoolgirl or school boy? He is a lawyer. Did he  ever file a case in the Prabhakaran’s court complaining about the violation of the  fundamental rights of Tamils in his quasi-state? Did he go to the American Ambassador and put pressure on him/her to protect the dignity, justice, equality and peace of the Tamils denied by his sole representative of the Tamils”?  Today, he says that truth will set him free, quoting the Bible. True. So when will he liberate himself from the web of lies in  which he is trapped and walk as a free man? Also, will the American Ambassadress hold the hand of Prabhakaran’s partner in war crimes and crimes against humanity and escort him to Geneva for him to pose as champion of human rights?  

Both of them will find themselves quite at home because UNHRC is built on lies, biases and frauds. John Bolton, the arch conservative, was right when he said that US did not have sufficient confidence to be able to say that HRC wold be better than its predecessor.” (p.56 – The United Nations Human Rights Council, Rosa Freedman, Routledge). He added: If the UN Secretariat building in New York lost ten storeys, it wouldn’t make a little bit of difference.” (ibid – p. 156). In any case, the UN and its agencies have been taken over from time to time by war criminals, liars, frauds, sex maniacs, morally blind hypocrites, etc that one more going from Jaffna will not make much of a difference to UN’s moral failure to be a universal instrument for peace, justice and the security of imperilled man.

A quick glance at some facts will reveal why humanity cannot  depend on the UN as an instrument  for the overall good of man:

Fact 1: Between 1972 and 1981 the UN – the highest instrumentality set up to protect human rights – was run by a war criminal: Kurt Waldheim. As lieutenant in  the  Nazi killing machine he operated in Greece where more than 60,000 were deported to Jewish  death camps. had no qualms. Waldheim served as Secretary – General for two terms. Is this  the institution that is now pointing a finger at Sri Lanka?

Fact 2: On February 5, 2005 Colin  Powell, Secretary of State for Bush, deliberately lied to the Security Council, saying that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction from inspectors and  refusing  to disarm.  The unpardonable immorality of the UN-sanctioned lies  diminishes the credibility of  the UN making accusations against other countries. In the case of Sri Lanka its worse. A case is constructed against Sri Lanka by the three hand-picked characters sitting  in New York and collecting  the evidence of accusers whose names will not be revealed for the next thirty years. What credibility or justice will there be in a case built out of anonymous  accusers whose identity will not be revealed for the next thirty years?

Fact 3: UN-sanctioned naval cordon thrown around Iraq killed 600,000 children and when Madeleine Albright, America’s State Secretary, was asked whether the price was worth for achieving the aims of the West in Iraq she replied that the price was worth it. This figure of 600,000 amounts  to more than all the children killed in Hiroshima. UNHRC is crying its heart out, wringing its hands, on an unverified figure of 40,000 dead between September 2008 and May 2009. Leaving all other factors out, at least on the principle of proportionality will Bachelet report Albright to the ICJ? She can do it because there is no statute  of limitation for crimes against humanity. Will she do it?

Fact 4: Derek Halliday, former Assistant Secretary General of UN in charge of Humanitarian Operation in Iraq  said that the West is waging a war through UN on the people of Iraq, with results that you do not expect to see in a war fought under Geneva conventions. We are targeting civilians… its monstrous situation for UN, for the Western world, for all who are part of some democratic  system and the implementation  of economic sanctions”. Halliday calls it genocide and believes when history books are written the Security Council, the UN, Washington and London will be ’slaughtered’ for their actions (British Medical Journal – March 11,  2000. John Pilger’s documentary Paying the Price – the killing of the children of Iraq.)

Fact 5 : Under UN Security Council Resolution 819 Srebrenica enclave was declared a safe area by UN. The safety status was extended to Sarajevo, Zepa Gorazde, Tuzla Bihac. All cities were placed under UN peacekeeping units UNPROFOR. Member states who voted for it were for political reasons not willing to take necessary steps to ensure the security of the safe areas When the Muslims of Srebrenica were panicking fearing the imminent attacks from Serbs the overall UN Commander rushed and assured the Muslims that they are safe because they are under the protection of UN forces. The next day under the very eyes of the of UN forces commanded by a Dutch unit 8,000 Muslim men and boys were massacred in a pre-planned genocidal attack. Dutch state was found liable in Dutch supreme court and the Hague district court of failing to do enough to prevent more than 300 deaths. (Wikipedia).

In the Darusman report the GOSL is accused of firing into zones declared as No Fire Zones. This is denied by the GOSL. But let’s assume that it did happen. Unwittingly the Darusman report provides the answer. It says that the LTTE placed  military equipment where civilians were to provoke fire from GOSL forces. GOSL forces did not rush into the No Fire Zone to launch a genocidal attack under the blind eyes of the UN. It was reacting to provocative fire from the LTTE. This is different from UN forces turning a blind eye to the genocidal attack  on Muslims who were in the UN protected Safe  Zone. If anything near to what happened in Srebrenica happened in the No fire Zone in the last days of the 33-year-old war Ms. Bachelet’s would have danced by now her politicised Cancan in Geneva without  knickers.

The overall pattern emerging from her irate report indicates that she in cahoots  with the NGOs, anti-Sri Lankan Western powers who overlook – and even defend – the violations of  human rights of their allies, the Tamil diaspora, India with  its pinch-the-baby-and-rock-the-cradle policy – all of which is taking UNHRC down the very same path that led to the burial of UNCHR.

To understand the inexcusable immorality on which the whole attack on Sri Lanka is based one has to look at the framework on which it stands. Organised Tamil violence against the democratically elected began officially when the Vellala elite declared war in the Vadukoddai Resolution on May 14, 1976 urging the Tamil youth to take up arms and never rest until they achieve Eelam. Since then they have financed it, mobilised cadres for it, internationalised it, lobbied and raised funds for Tamil terrorism in  every available corner  of earth for it, manufactured theories and excuses for violations of human rights and  crimes against humanity, glorified war crimes, triumphantly hailed every killing and/or massacre that led to territorial gains, demonised or eliminated any potential rivals including  the cream of Tamil elite, justified the suppression of all liberties that denied the dignity, justice, liberty, and peace etc. This war ran for 33-years with the backing of  the Diaspora, local elite and even at time with the support of India who never fails to profess eternal friendship with Sri Lanka. It ended on May 19, 2009.

Now here comes the irony of ironies. In its infinite wisdom UN pundits picks only eight months out of 33 years to accuse Sri Lanka in the main of violating human rights and subjecting Sri Lanka only to disproportionate and severe strictures and judgment of the UNHRC and UN. The unanswered – and even the unasked — question why limit the judgment on a war of 33 years to the last eight months only? On what logic? On what rationale? And who was it who drew up the dates? For what reasons?

The dates were arbitrarily determined by the three UN zombies sitting in New York for their convenience. They were not  after serving justice or peace, or human rights, or the truth. They were out to pick bits and piece from wherever they could, stitch them together as credible evidence” and hang Sri Lanka at the end of their rope. Apart from their personal convenience there is a grand design behind  it. It was the only way they could eliminate all the other responsible actors in originating, causing, promoting, financing, and directing a needless war and pin it exclusively on Sri Lanka.  It provided the rationale for the whole world to gang up against Sri Lanka as the only culprit responsible for the 40,000 (a figure picked out of the skies) that died in the  last days of the war.

This arbitrary dating avoids (1) the key issue of crimes against peace committed by the Tamil leadership under the Charter of the Nuremburg Tribunal principle where they planned and conspired and made preparations for waging a war of aggression – the principle under which the Nazi war criminals were tried and sentenced – in passing  the Vadukoddai Resolution on May 14, 1976 declaring war against the democratically elected government of Sri Lanka; (2) the interventionist role of India which engaged in deliberately pursuing a policy of aggression in recruiting, training, financing and directing Tamil terrorist to destabilise a friendly neighbour violating universally accepted international law ; (3) the guilt of Western nations which provided safe havens for agents of Tamil terrorist to raise funds and propagandize terrorism violating Resolution 1373 of the UN ; (d) war crimes and crimes  against humanity committed by the IPKF in massacring patients, doctors, nurses  in the Jaffna Hospital etc., (e) the issue of safe havens given in Western countries to LTTE agents who had directly aided and abetted the violations of human rights  and been an active part of the killing machine of Tamil terrorists (.e.g Adele Balasingham and V. Rudrakumaran, lawyer of Prabhakaran) (f) the refusal to give information on LTTE agents hiding in Western havens as refugees , thereby hampering the overall attempt to bring justice and reconciliation based finding the truth, etc. 

It is the responsibility of the Ms. Bachelet’s, if her office is genuinely concerned about dealing with human rights issues to help the GOSL with these issues instead of passing the  buck to GOSL on every minor issue. For instance, it is immoral for her to limit her investigations arbitrarily only to the last eight months of a 33-year-old war. If truth finding is vital for reconciliation and peace then revisiting the past – the entire length and breadth – is imperative to arrive at a fair and reasonable judgment. If she sits in Geneva like the Darusman zombies in New York and continues to pass judgment impulsively, with eyes wide shut, is will be doing a disservice to the reputation and viability of UNHRC. Even at this stage she has to take a holistic view of the crisis and be fair by all parties.

UNHRC has been battered by all sides. It has been used mainly by US to wipe its feet whenever it decides to get out or come in. Her task is to lift the UNHRC to  a new level of respectability and acceptability. Can she do it? Can she make a difference? Her latest report indicates that  she has the capacity to act only like the monkey dancing to the organ grinders behind her.

There is no great achievement in becoming a Dittohead to the paymasters. Any mug could do it. It is Ms. Michelle Batchelet’s turn to write a new chapter to the UNHRC. She should, for instance, go back to  the beginning and start from the Declaration of War by the Tamils against the  democratically elected state and see how it went all the way to Nandikadal. The Declaration of War took place in Vadukoddai and though it’s a short  distance as the crow flies to Nandikadal where the war ended it took 33 years.

How fair is it, Madam, to judge a journey of 33 years with  the events of only last eight months, eh? Can it serve truth and justice? Doesn’t it all come back the original sins of selectivity and  politicisation? You didn’t break through the glass ceiling just to follow in the footsteps of the male chauvinists, did you Madam?

By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP/SLPP Stalwart, Member of Viyathmaga and Convener – “The Muslim Voice”, February 20th., 2021.

A visit by Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa to Islamabad in the near future, can pave the way for Pakistan’s engagement in Sri Lanka for the betterment of both brotherly Nations.

Pakistan is a good friend of Prime Minister Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa, President Gotabaya Rajapksa, Basil Rajapaksa and the Sinhalese Nation of Sri Lanka where the minority communities had lived in “Peace and Harmony”, if not for the problems the Minorities created themselves for political greed and selfishness.

Sri Lankan majority community will never forget the UNSTINTING SUPPORT Pakistan gave Sri Lanka in the war against the most ruthless terrorist group the LTTE organization and to defeat the so-called Tamil Tigers. The communication between PM Imran Khan and HE. Mahinda Rajapaksa is much appreciated and welcome by the Muslims of Sri Lanka at this moment of history making in our “Maathruboomiya”. HE. Mahinda Rajapaksa should accept any invitation that maybe extended my PM Imran Khan during his official visit to PM Mahinda Rajapaksa to make an official vist to Pakistan (Islamabad) at the earliest. Pakistan investments should be encouraged and more trade between the two brotherly nations should prosper as a result of the new frienmdship extended, while we maint an Equilibrium in international relations with our neighbour India. Pakistan investments should be encouraged and more trade between the two brotherly nations should prosper as a result of the new friendship extended, while we maintain an Equilibrium in international relations with our neighbours. With regards to bilateral relations, this is the correct moment for Pakistan to extend all support and assistance to Sri Lanka to get through with the budened debt crisis that the country is facing presently. 

Pakistan should also offer more educational scholarships to Sri Lankans in educations, especially in the technical trades and animal husbandry and designate more experts in the field of Technical experts in agriculture and especially in animal husbandry and “Dairy Farming”. Pakistan should come forward to take over and “turn around” the large “Dairy Farms” that the West, Australia and NewZealand has dumped on Sri Lanka under the pretext of assisting to increase milk production, but really sold thousands of cattle (milk cows) that are NOT Acclimatized to the weather conditions of Sri Lanka. 

They have been sold to Sri Lanka at large prices on strict country to country loans and fraudulent deals, one of the causes of Sri Lanka’s present debt crisis. This is how the West operate bilaterally  to criple the economy of growing nations like Sri Lanka. Pakistan with a track record of having developed the dairy indusrty to become one of the largest diary industrial producers out beating even European countries with having the 3rd., largest cattle breed in the world, should come forward to assist Sri Lanka to follow their foot-steps in the dairy industry. The Sahiwal and the Red Sindhi breeds may suit Sri Lanka the best and Pakistan should try to introduce these breeds to help Sri Lanka’s Dairy Industry. Unlike the production systems in the developed countries, milk production systems in Pakistan represent smallholding with subsistence- or market-oriented-level farming followed by peri-urban or commercial-level farming. This can be an answer to failing Diary Indusrty of Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka governments plans to import around 1 million milking cattle heads in the coming 4 years, it has been revealed by the The Task Force is responsible for reviving the economy and eradication of poverty while paying special attention to the challenges posed and opportunities emerged in Sri Lanka in the wake of COVID – 19 outbreak. This Task Force is headed by the Former Minister Basil Rajapaksa.

Pakistan has also to make sure that no undesirable persons enter Sri Lanka, with the assistance of the Sri Lankan security forces and the Immigration authorities and help Sri Lanka to prevent the flow of drugs into Sri Lanka by nefarious characters operating through Pakistan soil. While it is very much appreciated taht HE. PM Imra Khan is visiting Sri Lanka on the 22nd., of February 2021 on a two day official visit, a visit by Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa to Islamabad in the near future, can pave the way for Pakistan’s engagement in Sri Lanka for the betterment of both brotherly Nations.

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය

භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා ඇතුළු අනෙකුත් ආගමික නායකයන්ට කඩිනමින් කොවිඩ්-19 එන්නත ලබා දෙන්නැයි ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද ‍රාජපක්ෂ මහතා උපදෙස් දී ඇත.

ඒ අනුව මහනුවර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලාට කොවිඩ් එන්නත ලබා දීම අද 2021.02.20 දිනයේ ආරම්භ කරනු ලැබේ.

පූජ්‍ය පක්ෂයට කඩිනමින්  එන්නත් ලබාදීමට කටයුතු කරන ලෙස අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා බුද්ධශාසන, ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම් මහාචාර්ය කපිල ගුණවර්ධන මහතාට උපදෙස් ලබා දී තිබේ.

ඒ අනුව කඩිනමින් එම එන්නත් දිවයිනම ආවරණය වන පරිදි සියලුම භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා ඇතුළු අනෙකුත් ආගමික නායකයන්ට ලබා දෙනු ඇත.

මෙම වැඩපිළිවෙළ යටතේ බදුල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලාට කොවිඩ් එන්නත ලබාදීම හෙට දිනයේ ආරම්භ වීමට නියමිතය.

Courtesy Ceylon Today

The Minister of Education Professor G.L. Peiris states that the report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the Easter Sunday Attack will be publicised.

He stated this at a press conference held in Colombo today (15),

The Minister of Education also acknowledged that the Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has stated that he will seek international support if justice is not served, therefore a copy of the report will be submitted to him as well.

by Jamila Husain Courtesy NewsIn.Asia

Colombo, February 20 (Daily Mirror) – Following complaints that several people who were not under the ‘vulnerable groups’ had received the Astra Zeneca vaccinations against COVID-19 in recent days, health officials at a meeting yesterday decided to get tough and strictly implement the programme according to the groups officially allocated.

A senior health official told the Daily Mirror yesterday that since the vaccination programme had opened out, especially to the vulnerable groups in the Western Province this week, several individuals who were not under the ‘vulnerable group’ had received the vaccination, eventually leaving out those who urgently require it.

Following these complaints, health officials have decided to implement the programme strictly from today and will begin to vaccinate those above the age of 60 years who are on the third priority list. Vaccination programmes will also begin among the workforce aged 30 to 60 as they are said to be the worst affected by the COVID-19 while the highest mortality rate was reported among those above the age of 60.

Meanwhile, health officials have insisted that despite being vaccinated, the transmission of the COVID-19 virus would not halt and people were urged to practice all health guidelines.

Officials said there was a possibility that a vaccinated person could contract the virus again but the vaccine would help develop the antibodies to fight the virus within.

Therefore we urge people to strictly adhere to the health guidelines even after being vaccinated and urge everyone to get vaccinated once the vaccines are available,” the official said. (Jamila Husain)

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සාමාන්‍ය පෙළ විභාගය හෝ සමත් නැති අයට පාස්කු ඉරුදින ත්‍රස්ත ප්‍රහාරයට වගකිවයුත්තන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් තීරණ ගැනීමට ඉඩදිය නොහැකි බව අගරදගුරු අති උතුම් මැල්කම් කාදිනල් රංජිත් හිමිපාණන් පවසයි.

උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව කියාසිටියේ, නව කමිටුවට එරෙහිව කටුවාපිය සාන්ත සෙබස්තියන් දේවස්ථානය වෙත කාදිනල් හිමියන් අද (20) හදිසියේ පැමිණි අවස්ථාවේ දීය.

උන්වහන්සේගේ පැමිණිම සැලවු ප්‍රදේශවාසින් පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයට යුක්තිය ඉල්ලා මඟ දෙපස රැස්ව සිටියේය.

අපිට ඕනේ සාධාරණය. රජය නිහඬ ඇයි? තවත් කමිටු පත්කරන්න එපා. අපේ දරුවෝ දෙමව්පියෝ ගොඩාක් මැරිලා තියෙන්නේ. අපි ඔබ වහන්සේ සමඟ ඉන්නවා.ඔබ වහන්සේව තනි කරන්නේ නෑ. ඔබ වහන්සේ කාටත් බියවෙන්න එපා. සත්‍යය කතා කරන්න. මේ රජය කරන බොරුව අනිවාර්යෙන්ම මිනිස්සුන්ට පෙන්නන්න ඕනේ. අපි තාමත් අඬනවා. යනුවෙන් ජනතාව පැවසීය.

එයට පිළිතුරු දෙමින් කාදිනල් හිමියන් පවසා සිටියේ, ඔයාලා විතරක් නෙමෙයි අපිත් අඬනවා. එහෙම කිසිම අසාධාරණයක් කරන්න ඉඩ තියෙන්නේ නෑ. පාස්කු කොමිසමේ වාර්තාව අපි ඉල්ලුවා. ඒක ලැබෙනකල් මම ඉන්නේ. නමුත් කමිටු තාලා තමන්ට අවශ්‍යයි කියන දේ තෝරා ගැනීමේ ප්‍රතිපත්තිය අපි පිළිගන්නේ නෑ. අපි ඉල්ලන්නේ මේ වාර්තාව සම්පූර්ණයෙන් එළදරව් කරන්න. වාර්තාවේ තියෙන සමහර දේවල් හංගන්න එපා. එතකොට අපි තීරණය ගන්නම් කරන්න ඕනේ දේ. යම් ආකාරයට රජය බයවෙලා මේක හංගනවා කියලා හැඟීමක් අපිට එනවා. කමිටුව අපි පිළිගන්නේ නෑ. නිලධාරින් ටික දෙනෙක්ව හිරේ දාලා මේකට පිටුපසින් ඉන්න බලවේග හංගන්න දෙන්න බෑ.

ප්‍රශ්නය – මේකේ විසඳුම් ලැබුණේ නැතිනම් මොකද්ද හිමියනි ඊළඟ පියවර?

අපි කිව්වා නේ අපි ජාත්‍යන්තරයට යනවා.

ප්‍රශ්නය – ඔබ වහන්සේ වතිකානුවේ පාප් වහන්සේව දැනුවත් කරලා තියෙනවා ද මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් ?

උන් වහන්සේලා දන්නවා. උන් වහන්සේලා සමග සාකච්ඡා කරලා තියෙන්නේ. ඒ වගේම විවිධ සංවිධාන තියෙනවා අපේ ජාත්‍යන්තර ඒවට කරුණු ඉදිරිපත් කරන්න අපි ලෑස්තියි.

අනතුරුව කටුවාපිටිය දේවස්ථානය වෙත පැමිණි කාදිනල් හිමිපාණන් එහිදි ද ප්‍රදේශවාසි ජනතාව සමඟ සාකච්ඡාවක නිරත විය.

ඔයාලා බය වෙන්න එපා. අපි ඔක්කෝම මෙතෙන ඉන්නේ ඒකට යි. කමිටුවලින් කරන්නේ සමහර යෝජනා යටපත් කරලා අනිත් යෝජනා විතරක් ඉදිරියට ගේනවා. අපි බලාපොරොත්තු වෙන්නේ පිටකොන්දක් තියෙන නායකයෙක් ව. අපේ නායකත්වයෙන් වැඩක් නෑ කියන කියන දේට ඔලුව පාත්කරන්න ගියාම.ඔයාලගේ පැත්තේ මම ඉන්නේ. පාලනය වැරදියට කරනවා නම් අපි ඒකට විවේචනය කරනවා. උගත් මිනිස්සු 5කගෙන් සමන්විත කොමිසම දුන්න විනිශ්චය දුන්නේ ඒ කරුණු ඉෂ්ඨ කරන්න. ඒ නිසා O/L පාස් නැති මිනිස්සුන්ට මේක තීරණය කරන්න ඉඩදෙන්න බෑ.

මේ අතර සහරාන් හෂීම්ගෙන් ත්‍රස්ත පුහුණුව ලැබූ වයස අවුරුදු 24ක තරුණියක් මාවනැල්ලේදී ත්‍රස්ත විමර්ශන කොට්ඨාසයේ අත්අඩංගුවට පත්ව තිබේ.

පාස්කු ඉරුදින ප්‍රහාර මාලාව එල්ල කළ සහරාන් හෂීම් ඇතුළු ත්‍රස්තවාදීන් සමඟ සමීප සම්බන්ධතා පැවැත්වූ තරුණියක් ඊයේ මාවනැල්ල හිඟුල ප්‍රදේශයේදී අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනුණි.

ඒ ත්‍රස්ත විමර්ශන කොට්ඨාසය විසිනි. අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත්තේ මොහොමඩ් ඊබ්‍රාහිම් සහිඩා නම් 24 හැවිරිදි තරුණියකි.

ඇය මාවනැල්ල බුදු පිළිමවලට පහර දීමේ සිද්ධියේ ප්‍රධාන සැකකරුවන් වන මොහොමඩ් ඊබ්‍රාහිම් සාදික් අබ්දුල් හක් සහ මොහොමඩ් ඊබ්‍රාහිම් ෂාහිඩ් අබ්දුල් හක් යන දෙදෙනාගේ නැගණියයි.

ත්‍රස්ත ප්‍රහාරයෙන් සතියකට පසු මෙම හක් සහෝදරයින් දෙදෙනා ගම්පොල පාවහන් වෙළෙඳසැලක් තුළ සැඟව සිටියදී අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනුණු අතර ඉන් පසු අවස්ථාවකදී ඔවුන්ගේ පියා ද අත්අඩංගුවට පත්විය.

ඔවුන් මේ වන විට රිමාන්ඩ් භාරයේ සිටින අතර ඊයේ අත්අඩංගුවට පත් තරුණිය ද ප්‍රහාරය එල්ල වූ කාලයේදී ආරක්ෂක අංශවල ප්‍රශ්න කිරීම්වලට ලක්ව ඇති බව වාර්තා වේ.

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror

Those who don’t have even basic education shouldn’t be allowed to decide and act on the recommendations by the Presidential Commission of inquiries (PCoI) on Easter Sunday attacks, Archbishop of Colombo, His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said today.

Cardinal Ranjith who joined a protest staged by the Catholics of Katuwapitiya together with the clergy, said it is the Attorney General who should decide and act on the recommendations made by the Presidential commission.

“Those who have not got through the ordinary level exam cannot be allowed to make such decisions” the Cardinal said.

“The government should publish the PCoI report soon. We are suspicious as to why the government is reluctant to do so,” he added.

Cardinal Ranjith reiterated that he would have to seek the assistance of international institutions, if action is not taken against those who are responsible for the attack. (Yohan Perera)

Courtesy Adaderana

Sri Lanka has reported 02 more coronavirus-related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (February 20).

As per the Department of Government Information, both victims are male patients.

The new deaths bring the number of COVID-19 related deaths witnessed in Sri Lanka to 435 in total.

Courtesy Adaderana

Sri Lanka has registered 271 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (February 20), the Ministry of Health confirmed.

Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 528 new positive cases of COVID-19 within the day.

As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed so far in the country now stands at 79,480.

Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 73,456 earlier today, as 890 more patients regained health.

However, 5,589 active cases are still under medical care at selected hospitals and treatment centers located across the island.

Total lives claimed by the pandemic outbreak sits at 435 at present.

Courtesy Adaderana

Sri Lanka is prepared to face the Core Group’s resolution to be presented at the upcoming session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, says Minister of Foreign Affairs Dinesh Gunawardena.

His remarks came during the Ada Derana ‘Big Focus’ talk show earlier today (February 20).

Issuing a statement yesterday, the Core Group on Sri Lanka – consisting of UK, Canada, Germany, North Macedonia, Malawi, and Montenegro – revealed its plans to take forward a further resolution to promote reconciliation, accountability and human rights in the island nation.

They stressed that there is an ‘ongoing importance’ of addressing Sri Lanka in the Human Rights Council.

The Core Group reiterated that more needs to be done to address the ‘harmful legacies of war’ and build sustainable peace in Sri Lanka.

Meanwhile, the facts in favor of the resolution put forward by the High Commissioner for Human Rights can never be implemented in accordance with the Constitution of this country, said Minister Gunawardena.

He mentioned this with regard to the report published by the UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet in late January, calling for an International Criminal Court investigation into Sri Lanka’s Tamil separatist conflict and sanctions on military officials accused of war crimes.

Gunawardena pointed out that there can be no foreign judges in the courts of Sri Lanka.

Speaking on allies who would stand with Sri Lanka to oppose such a resolution, the Foreign Minister said, Forty-seven countries represent the Human Rights Council. Out of these 47, countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have given a very friendly response towards Sri Lanka. So far, the vast majority have exchanged views with us. However, we have not yet seen the final draft of this.”

Courtesy Adaderana

A young woman, who attended classes conducted by the ringleader of Easter Sunday terror attacks in 2019 Zahran Hashim, has been taken into custody yesterday (February 19).

The 24-year-old was identified as a resident of Hingula in Mawanella, Police Spokesperson DIG Ajith Rohana said.

She was arrested in a joint raid carried out by the officers of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and Terrorism Investigation Division (TID).

Police spokesperson said the TID had received information pertaining to Zahran Hashim’s training camps for women. Probing the matter further, TID officers on December 07 last year had arrested six women who had received such training.

Interrogations into the arrestees have revealed that another woman had attended the classes led by Zahran Hashim, he said further.

The suspect is currently held in the custody of the TID, according to reports.

By M D P DISSANAYAKE (FCMA-UK, CPA-Aust), CGMA, PhD)

The President Gotabaya team has been on the job since September  last year, with a new Parliament.  Their tasks, activities, funding and target time lines have been  gazetted and explained at length.

BEST AND WORST PERFORMERS:

From the public eye, apart from the President and Prime Minister, the Health Minister Mrs Pavithra Devi Wanniarchchi handled an extremely difficult role, continued her functions without a break, co-ordinating  highly qualified medical professional, without entering into arguments.  She is a role model, a well qualified lawyer, who was humble to listen and learn with educated personnel in their specialised profession, without causing destructive conflicts. Quite a unique Lady when compared with some Loose Cannons in the Cabinet ( at least 3 of them)  who  simply provide headlines to media on issues outside their assigned responsibilities.  She has proved her credentials as an Effective Leader to fit into much higher ministerial roles in the near future.

HALF-YEARLY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION:

The President need to review the  results of the tasks performed by all cabinet and non-cabinet ministers.  Matters should not be allowed for the individual ministers or groups/camps to behave in the same way as they did behave in the past.   On the overall performances of the previous Mahinda Cabinet, the positive results were produced by none other than Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse, with his brothers Gotabaya and Basil.  .  The lack of direct involvement of Mr Basil Rajapakse is impeding the progress, whilst the absence of  Effective Managers in the Cabinet causing heavy workload for the President, a handful of  indisciplined  cabinet ministers are creating mayhem  at the top. 

With the exception of Mrs Pavithra Devi, there are no other cabinet ministers with runs on the board, although  there appears to be no lack of Cheer Leaders!  

The Performance Evaluation and recommendations should best be handled by a team of independent Management Consultants, to eliminate complaints of  political bias.  The fees to be paid to the Management Consultants will be an investment, the experts will  identify strengths and weaknesses of the team in making their recommendations.

GUTTER POLITICS:

Many coalition governments worldwide failed to deliver their commitments to the public due to gutter politics of minor parties.  There is untested wisdom that minor parties played a pivotal role in bringing the governments into power.  The most recent cases in Sri Lanka, involving (a) dual citizenship, (b) ECT agreement with India, (c) SLPP leadership etc. were few examples. Their next direct conflict will arise when new draft constitution is released.  Basically, minor parties are eager to increase their vote base, hence they attempt to portray that they are king-makers.   Some of the issues, such as SLPP Leadership is none of their business.  Appointing a minor party leader/Minister as Media Spokesperson for Cabinet was a mistake and need to be corrected,

LEADERSHIP:

The public is somewhat disappointed with the President Gotabaya as well.  He has been over cautious thus far, he need to come out of the Shell and deliver the service the public is demanding.  Not everyone will like the President, but he must Lead and the public will throw their support for changing Gutter Politics.

The Prime Minister of Singapore has established four guidelines to evaluate the performances of Ministers.  They are:

a.      Abrupt ministerial change

b.      A good minister is pro-active and entrepreneurial

c.      Not every minister is equal and they know it

d.      Ministers answer for mistakes but it should be kept in perspective

e.      Not all ministers will succeed

f.        Exists have to be handled with dignity and decorum

In outlining above guidelines, the PM Lee said: There is a doctrine, it is a collective responsibility; all ministers are party to this. And all ministers are held to account ultimately when we go to the next General Election and the public is the final judge of the government’s record.”

(Ref.Mothership.sg)

The Coalition Governments are here to stay, world-wide. Managing each partner is a task of the Leader. The Leader must  support each partner Logistically and Financially to achieve the desired results. The Leader at frequent intervals must demand Results from each partner in the coalition,

Whilst retaining those who bring Constructive Conflicts to the table, the Leader must cut deadwood consisting of groups creating Destructive Conflicts,  at the first available opportunity.

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS

Unconfirmed reports from India indicated that some people have expressed concern about the news that the BJP is willing to be opened a branch in Sri Lanka, and how it impacts politics in Sri Lanka may be an unexpected change of the nature of political issues in Sri Lanka, and many people have different points of view about the decision of the Bharathiya Janatha Party in India. The operating BJP in Sri Lanka might be a problem for various community groups in Sri Lanka.  The opening of a branch office in other countries may be considered a democratic opportunity by many Western countries. It is a normal adventure as in the UK, the USA, Canada, and other countries where opened branch offices of political parties of other countries. For example, some registered political parties in Sri Lanka maintain branch offices in the UK.  The way of operation usually subject to the country’s intelligence operations and legal provisions, and if the political party believes in democracy and its fundamental process is based on democratic principles it may not be a matter to agitate against such a decision.

What is the legal aspect in Sri Lanka regarding the opening of an office of BJP?  The decision of BJP is subject to the law of Sri Lanka and India cannot violate the law like Mr.Rajiv Gandi did pawing dhal to Jaffna. If any organization wants to do politics in Sri Lanka it needs political and legal clearance from Sri Lanka, as well as India. Such a decision should be under the legal provisions (constitutional, legislative, and judge-made) of Sri Lanka. The Commissioner of Election has legal authority and has power to indicates if any political party wants to participate in an election to elect representatives it needs legal clearance in which the process needs to complete several conditions. For example, Mr.Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was an American citizen, had to get legal clearance before a contest in the presidential election held in 2019. If BJP can accomplish such conditions it might be able to register as a political party to operate in Sri Lanka.

In the meantime, the Commissioner of Election has expressed his opinion that BJP cannot do and Nepal has rejected the BJP intention, the unconfirmed news reported about the BJP plan has published in print media in the region. News in the Indian sub-continent is covered with the taste of sweet and savor, and this news also may an exaggeration of manipulated opinion. People of Sri Lanka know that a crow did vomit on a person who was resting under a tree, it may publicize as thousand of crows were vomiting on the man. This is how exaggerating a small incident in the Indian sub-continent.   

The most rigid condition for BJP is finding members who actively willing to participate in the political process. Many Sri Lanka individuals without ethnic differences participate in politics to gain personal advantages. India has competitive politics and other political parties than BJP may willing to open branches in Sri Lanka if it works well.  As people fully aware, BJP is not a political party that has been operating since the era of the State Council in Sri Lanka, and if it is a truth that BJP wants to engage in active politics in Sri Lanka it should begin the process now. During the July riots in 1983, Mrs. Indira Gandi expressed that India concerns on issues of the Tamil Community in Sri Lanka as this community has links to South Indian Tamils. Sinhala, Tamil, and Muslim communities in Sri Lanka have links to India not only the basis of the beginning of such communities but also the communities that share the Indian cultural heritage and values.

What is the constitution of the BJP and what are the conditions to be a member of the BJP are other questions associate with the main question  Sinhala people have no idea about these points. The BJP would have investigated these issues before expressed its willingness to operate or participate in politics, and my view is BJP wants to be an unofficial organization to influence politics in Sri Lanka. The major reason is, it may be a factor to attract Tamilnadu voters’ supports in the next election.

Indian political parties had been influenced in Sri Lanka since before independence and to what extend BJP has been an agency in Sri Lanka needed considering many documents.  BJP was a part of the Congress Party until Mr. Lal Bahadul Sastri’s death, and when Mrs. Indira Gandi became the Chairperson of the Congress Party BJP germinated Indian soil encompassing conservative politicians in India and SLFP in Sri Lanka associated with the Congress Party and UNP indirectly associated with BJP.  When Mr.Moraji Desai visited Sri Lanka in the early 1970s, the personal conversation between Mr.Moraji Desai and Mr.J.R. Jayawardane had gone to ears of the Indira Gandi who reacted to the conversation was a public secret in Sri Lanka, and the origin of LTTE was contributed by this story, was gossip in Sri Lanka. 

When BJP and the congress party working together many positive policy decisions were made, the most remarkable action was the nationalization of foreign banks in India. Regarding foreign policy, India aligned with the Soviet Union at that time, and India also played a police role in the Indian ocean, and the transfer of power from Congress to BJP changed the Indian policy toward Sri Lanka. The fundamental friendship between India and Sri Lanka has not been changed despite the savor experience encountered during the past several decades.

Why BJP wants to engage in politics in Sri Lanka? It is a broader question that needs to analyze from different points of view. When Mr.S.Thondaman was doing politics he had a strong association with Indian politics. Political influence and relationship between Indian and Sri Lanka had been at different levels and late professor Paranavithana indicated that King Vijayabahu, who initiated the Polonnaruva kingdom associated with Kalinga Desh in India, and King Parakrama Bahu was a son of Princes Ratnavali and his father was an Indian Prince and King Nissanka Malla was a Son-in-Law of King Parakrama Bahu.

The relationship between India and Sri Lanka generated advantages as well as disadvantages to Sri Lanka.  The style of BJP looking at Sri Lanka seems to be varied and the biggest advantage of BJP is that it is against dividing Sri Lanka and the use of Sri Lanka as a base to create problems in India. Norway and other European countries had a different opinion and  Mr.Rohana Wijeweera stated in the 1970s that Ms. Jean Kerk Patrick stated in Trincomalee that the US had an intention to divide India into four parts.

India massively influenced Tamil Political Parties not only to Mr.Thondaman’s party but also to other Tamil parties in North and East. The congress party influenced Sinhala political parties.  The provincial council system introduced in the late 1980s was a clear reflection that Indian attitudes and influences are working in Sri Lanka.  India wants to use foreign aids to make political influences on Sri Lanka, however, it has no economic power to pour a massive sum of foreign money in Sri Lanka as in the way China is doing.        

Another significant point is if China wants to open a branch of the Chinese Communist Party in line with BJP, the government of Sri Lanka should allow it if it opens to BJP for playing politics in Sri Lanka. Politics in the Indian region is a complicated mechanism that many people have difficulty to understanding and many times playing politics is disgusted matter to many people. BJP has been playing politics in Sri Lanka since the 1970s and the best example was the presidential election in 2015.

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්

මෙරට පවතින වර්තමාන නීතියට අදාළව නීති අධ්‍යාපනය සංස්ථාගත කිරීම ආරම්භ කරන ලද්දේ වර්ෂ 1873 දී පමණය.නීති අධ්‍යයන සභාව පිහිටුවා 1874 දී ලෝකොලෝජිය ආරම්භ කර ඇත.ඉන්පසු 1889 උසාවි භාෂා පනත ප්‍රකාරව කටයුතු කර ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ හොඳ පිළිගැනීමක් ඇති.දක්ෂ දැනුමක් ඇති අය වෙනුවෙන් බැරිස්ටර්වරුන් සහ ප්‍රොක්ටර්වරුන් වශයෙන් බඳවා ගැනීමට 1900 දරණ ආඥාව මගින්   සංස්ථාගත නීති අධ්‍යයන සභාවක් පිහිටුවන ලදහ.එංගලන්ත ක්‍රමයේ රෝම ලන්දේසි නීතිය හැදෑරීම පිණිස ලංකාවේ ඉඩ ප්‍රස්ථා සැලසීම මෙහි අරමුණ විය. මෙම සභාවට සාමාජිකයන් සත් දෙනෙකු නම් කරන ලදහ.

             විසිවන සියවස ආරම්භ කාල වකවානුවේ එංගලන්තයට ගොස් බැරිස්ටර් විභාගයට හිඳ යළි මෙරට පැමිණි සිංහලයන්ට සිංහල බසින් වැඩ කළ නොහැකි විය. ඔවුහු සිංහල ගැමියන් ඉදිරියේ උජාරුවෙන් ඉංගිරිසියෙන් නඩු ඇසූහ.අහිංසක ගැමියා ඔවුන් කියන දේ කුමක් දැයි නොදැන නිරුත්තරව සිටියහ. ලෙනාඩ් වුල්ෆ් රචනා කල විලේජ් ඉන්ද ජන්ගල් නම් කතාවේ සිළිඳු නම් ගැමියා මුහුණ දෙන්නේ එම ගැටළුවටයි. සංස්ථාපිත නීති අධ්‍යයන සභාව විසින් නැවත උත්සාහ කරන ලද්දේ ඉංග්‍රීසි අධ්‍යාපනයෙන් සකස් කරන ලද නීතිඥයෙකු බිහි කරලීම පිණිසය. 1948 වර්ෂයේ දී ස්වදේශිකයන්ට බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය ආණ්ඩුවෙන් යම් දේශපාලන නිදහසක් ලැබුණද ඉංග්‍රීසි නීතියෙන් ගැලවීමක් නොවුණි. 1815 න් පසු ස්ථාපිත වූ සියලුම නීති දිගටම ක්‍රියාත්මක විය. ඒ අනුව උසාවි වල වැඩ කටයුතු දිගටම සිදු කරන ලද්දේ ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙනි.නීතිය උගන්වනු ලැබූයේ දී ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙනි.1960 බලයට පත් වූ සිරිමා බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිණිය විසින් යටත් විජිත බැමී රාශියක් බිඳ හෙළීමට කටයුතු කළද ඇයගේ මුල් දේශපාලන කාලවකවානුවේ දී නීති ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණයකට අත ගැසිය නොහැකි විය.1970 දී යලි බලයට පත් වූ ඇය ගේ ආණ්ඩුවේ අධීකරණ ඇමතිවරයා වූ ෆීල්ක්ස් ඩයස් බණ්ඩාරනායක මහතා විසින් 1973 අංක 44 පණත මගින් 1900 ආඥා පනත තුළ පවතින ස්වභාවය අවලංගු කොට 1974 අංක 06 යටතේ (ගැසට් අංක 104/2 ) අධිකරණ ඇමතිවරයාගේ බලතල සහිත නීති අධ්‍යයන සභාවක් පිහිටුවන ලදී. ඒ අනුව මෙතෙක් එංගලන්තයේ ස්කොට්ලන්තයේ සහ අයර්ලන්තයේ නීති බැඳීමෙන් මෙරට නීති විද්‍යාලය යම්තරමකින් වෙනස් විය.මෙම නිදහස් වීමත් සමගම නීති විද්‍යාලයේ අධ්‍යාපනය සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් ලැබ දීමටද විභාග වලට ඉදිරිපත් වීමේදී සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් ඉදිරිපත් වීමට හැකිවන පරිදද  අවස්ථාවක් ලැබුණි.ඉන්පසු 1993 දී  (1993 අංක 44 ) පනතක් මගින් යලි නීති අධ්‍යයන සභාව වෙනස් කර ඇත. ඒ අනුව අධිකරණ ඇමතිවරයා විසින් පත් කරන නියෝජිතයන් ගණන 07 දෙනෙකු බවට පත් කර ඇත. එහිදී නීතිපති අග විනිසුරු ඇතුලු 07 දෙනාට අමතරව ඇමතිවරයා විසින් පත් කර නියෝජිතයන්ද 07 දෙනෙකු විය.මේ කාලයේ නීති විද්‍යාලයේ ප්‍රවේශ විභාගයට  ඉදිරිපත් වීමේ දී තමන්ට රිසි භාෂාවකින් ඉදිරිපත් වීමට අවස්ථාවද සලසා දී ඇත.

         2005 වසරේදී මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා බලයට පත් වී තිස්වසරක කොටි ත්‍රස්තවාදය අවසන් කර නන්දිකඩාල් කලපුවේ දී ප්‍රභාකරන් පරලොව යැවූ නමුත් ඊලාම් මතවාදය අවසන් නොවුණි. ඊලාම් වාදීන් විදෙස් වල සිට සංවිධානය වූ අතර මුස්ලිම් අන්තවාදීන් ආණ්ඩුව තුළ සිට සංවිධානය විය. ඒ අනුව රවුෆ් හකීම් අධිකරණ ඇමතිවරයා බවට පත් විය.  මුස්ලිම් චන්ද කේවල් කිරීමේ ප්‍රතිඵලයක් වශයෙන් එය සිදුවිය.

මේ ඇමතිවරයා සහ නීති අධ්‍යපාන සභාවේ සෙසු සාමාජිකයන් එකතු වී 2010 වසරේ දී ගත් තීන්දුවක් මගින් නීති විදුහලේ අධ්‍යාපන කටයුතු ඉංග්‍රීසි බසින් පමණක් කළ යුතු බවට නීතියක් සම්මත කර ගන්නා ලද්දේය. ඒ කාලයේ ඒ තීරණයට එරෙහිව නැග ආ විරෝධය වඩා ප්‍රබල නොවුණි.නමුත් සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් සහ දෙමළ භාෂාවෙන් විභාග වලට පෙනී සිටීමේ  අයිතිය එහිදී නැති කළ නොහැකි විය.ඒ සඳහා අගනා සේවයක් කරන ලද්දේ  ශිරාණි බණ්ඩාරනායක මහත්මියයි. හකීම් ඇමතිවරයා නීති විභාගයේ ප්‍රශ්ණ පත්‍ර යම් උපක්‍රමයකින් පිට කළ බවට ඒ කාලයේ රාවයක් පැතිරුණි. කෙසේ වෙතත් ඒ වසරේ නීති විද්‍යාලයට ඇතුලත් වූ මුස්ලිම් සිසුන් ගේ ප්‍රමාණය 150 කට වඩා ඉතා අධීක විය.

     ලංකාවේ නීතිය සැබවින්ම සැමට එක සමාන නොවේ. ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂා ආධිපත්‍යය එයට එක හේතුවක් ලෙසට සැලකිය හැකිය. උසාවියක පවතින නඩු විභාගයකදී තවමත් ඒ තත්වය සාමාන්‍ය ජනතාවට බලපාන බව සත්‍යයකි.උපරිමාධිකරණයේ  සියලු නඩු ඇසෙන්නේ තවමත් ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂවෙනි. හිටපු අධිකරණ ඇමතිවරයෙකු වූ දේවනායගම් මහතා උපරිමාධිකරණ භාෂාව පිළිබඳ නීති සංශෝධනයක් සකස් කලේය.එම උසාවි වලින් ලැබෙන නඩු තීන්දු වල පිටපත් පවා ලැබෙන්නේ ඉංග්‍රීසි   භාෂාවෙනි.පාර්ලිමේන්තුව වෙත යැවෙන්නේද ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙනි.පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් හට පරිශීලනය කරන්නට ලැබෙන නඩු ලියවිලිද ඇත්තේ ඉංග්‍රීසි  භාෂාවෙනි. මේ නිසා යම් ගැටළුවකදී බොහෝ මන්ත්‍රී වරු නිශ්ශබ්දව අසා සිටිති.20 වන සංශෝධනය සභා සම්මත කරලීමේ දී අලි සබ්‍රි අධිකරණ ඇමතිවරාය තම කතාව කරන ලද්දේ ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙනි.  19 සංශෝධනය තුළ තිබූ එක් අහිතකර වගන්තියක් වූයේ ජාතික ආණ්ඩුවක් පිළිබඳ සංකල්පයයි.20 ගෙන ඒමේ මූලික අදහස වූයේ 19 අහෝසි කරලීමයි.එවිට ජාතික ආණ්ඩු සංකල්පයද අහෝසි වේ. නමුත් අලි සබ්‍රි අධිකරණ ඇමතිවරයා මේ වගන්තිය ඉතාමත් සූක්ෂමව 20 සංශෝධනයටද ඇතුලත් කරන ලදී.ඉංග්‍රීසි බසින් කළ මෙම වංචාව උසාවි පරිශ්‍රයන්හිද කළ හැකිය.නීති ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ භාවිතා කරන පාරිභාෂික වචන බොහෝ දෙනා නොදනිති.එවැනි තත්වයක් තූළ ඉංග්‍රීසි කතා කරන විනිසුරුවන් අතින් බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය යටත් විජිත සමයේ මෙන්ම පශ්චාත් යටත් විජිත සමයේ ද සාමාන්‍ය ජනතාවට වූ අසාධාරණ කම් බොහෝ වේ.

       2010 වසරේ හකීම් අමැතිවරයා සහ නීති අධ්‍යයන සභාව එකතු වී නීති විදුහලේ අධ්‍යාපනය සිංහල බසින් ලැබීමේ අයිතිය සිංහල සිසුන් වෙත අහිමි කලා සේම වර්තමාන අධිකරණ අමතිවරයාද සිය බලතල අතට ගෙන නීති අද්‍යයන සභාව සමග එකතු වී සිංහල බසින් නීති විභාගය ලීවීමේ 2020/12/30 ගැසට්ටුව මගින් අහිමි කර තිබේ. මේ ක්‍රියාව ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 3, 4(ඇ), 4(ඈ), 9, 21, 23(4), 24 ,27(6), 27 (10) යන වගන්ති උල්ලංඝණය කර තිබේ.සිංහල ජනතාවගේ මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් කඩ කර තිබේ. නීතිඥ අරුණ උණවටුන මහතා මේ වන විටත් නීති අධ්‍යයන සභාවට විරුද්ධව සිවිල් හා දේශපාලන අයිතිවාසිකම් පණත යටතේ පොලිස්පති වරයාට පැමිණිල්ලක්ද ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත.පසුගිය දිනක පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සභා ගැබේ සිටි පාර්ලිමෙන්තු මන්ත්‍රී යදාමිණී ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අධිකරණ ඇමතිවරයාගේන් ප්‍රශ්ණයක් විමසන ලදී.එනම් උපරිමාධිකරණයේ නඩු තීන්දු සිංහල බසින් ලබා ගැනීම පිළිබඳවයි. එසේම පාර්ලිමෙන්තු මන්ත්‍රී  අනුප පැස්කුවල් මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තු කටයුතු ලේකම් වරයාට ලිපියක් යවමින් දන්වා සිට ඇත්තේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ලබා දෙ නඩු තීන්දු වල සිංහල පාරිවර්තනයක් ලබා දෙන ලෙසටයි. නමුත් අධීකරණ ඇමතිවරයා මේ ප්‍රශ්ණ වලට විසඳුම් දෙනු වෙනුවට සිංහල භාෂා අයිතිය සම්පූර්ණයෙන් අවසන් කිරීමට පිඹුරුපත් සකස් කරමින් සිටී.

  බද්යුදීන් හිස්බුල්ලා වැනි මුස්ලිම් අන්තවාදී දේශපාලකයන් එකතු වී මුස්ලිම් අන්තවාදය පෝෂණය කරමින් මනුෂ්‍ය ඝාතනයකට තල්ලු කරන ලද්දේ කුමන චින්තනයකින්ද එම චින්තනයේම රැඳී සිටින පුද්ගලයෙකු අධීකරණ ඇමතිවරයා බවට පත් වූ විට සිදුවන ශෝචනීය තත්වය අද ඇස් පනා විට තහවුරු වෙමින් පවතී.ජනපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මහනුවර දී මහා විහාරීය මහ නායක හිමිවරු බැහැ දැකගත් අවස්ථාවේ දී උන්වහන්සේලාගෙන් විශේෂ ඉල්ලීමක් විය.  අධිකරණ ඇමති කම අලිසබ්‍රි මහතාට නො‌දෙන ලෙසට උන්වහන්සේලා කරුණු දක්වමින් කියා සිටි බව දැන ගන්නට ඇත.නමුත් ඒ හඬට කන්නුදුන් ජනපතිවරයා නුසුදුස්සෙකු අධිකරණ ඇමතිකරමින් සිංහල ජාතියම පමණක් නොව තමනුත් අනතුරට පත් කරවා තිබේ.අධිකරණ ඇමතිගේ මූලධර්මවාදී ක්‍රියා එකින් එක දැන් හෙළි වෙමින් පවතින බැවින් එදා මහානායක ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේලා දැක්වූ අදහස් තහවුරු වෙමින් පවතී. මේ භයානක තත්වය වහා වෙනස් නොකළහොත් සිංහල හා දෙමළ  භාෂා දෙකම අහෝසි වී ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂෘව සහ අරාබි භාෂාව පමණක් මේ රටේ ප්‍රධාන භාෂා වීම වැලැක්විය නොහැකිය.මේ ආණ්ඩුව පාර කපන්නේ එයටදැයි සොයන්නට හැටනව ලක්ෂයක සිංහලයන් අවදියෙන් සිටිය යුතුය.

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති

ජනරජයක පරමාධිපත්‍යය හිමිවන්නේ ජනතාවට ය. ජනතා පරමාධිපත්‍යය බලය ලෙසින් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව තුළ එය හඳුන්වා දී තිබේ. දැනට අප රටෙහි පවතින ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන් කියැවෙන පරිදි පරමාධිපත්‍යයට පාලන බලතල, මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් සහ ඡන්ද බලය අයත් වන්නේ ය.

ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන් ප්‍රකාශ කොට පිළිගනු ලබන මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් ගණනාවක් වෙයි. එවායින් සිතීමේ, හෘදය සාක්ෂියේ සහ ආගමික නිදහස; වධ හිංසාවලින් නිදහස; සර්ව සාධාරණත්වයේ අයිතිවාසිකම; අත්තනෝමතිකව සිරභාරයට ගැනීමෙන්, රඳවා තබා ගැනීමෙන් සහ දඬුවම් කිරීමෙන් නිදහස සහ අතීතයට බලපාන දණ්ඩන නීති පැනවීම තහනම් කිරීම; භාෂණයේ, රැස්වීමේ, සමාගමයේ, රැකියාවේ සහ යාම් ඊම් යනාදියේ නිදහස; සහ තොරතුරු වෙත ප‍්‍රවේශ වීමේ අයිතිවාසිකම ආවරණය වෙයි. මේ සියල්ල ම ශ්‍රී ලාංකික පුරවැසියන් සතු පුද්ගලික මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් ය. මෙකී පුද්ගලික මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් ජනතා පරමාධිපත්‍යය තුළට අයත් කර තිබේ.

කෙසේ වුව ද, ජනතාව සතුවන්නේ තනි තනිව උක්ත මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් භුක්ති විඳීමට ඒ ඒ පුද්ගලයාට ඇති හිමිකම පමණක් නොවේ. ජනතාවට හිමි පොදු අයිතිවාසිකම් විශාල ප්‍රමාණයක් ද වෙයි. සංස්කෘතික හිමිකම් ඒ අතරින් මූලික වෙයි. දෙවැනි ජනරජ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 14 වැනි ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ (1) වැනි අනු ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ (ඊ) ඡේදයෙන් දක්වා ඇත්තේ එවැනි හිමිකමකි. සෑම පුරවැසියකුට ම, එකලාව හෝ අන් අය හා සමග හෝ ස්වකීය සංස්කෘතිය භුක්ති විඳීමේ හා වැඩි දියුණු කිරීමේ නිදහසට සහ ස්වකීය භාෂාව භාවිත කිරීමේ නිදහසට හිමිකමක් ඇති” බව එයින් කියැවෙයි.

සංස්කෘතිය භුක්ති විඳීම, වැඩි දියුණු කිරීම සහ භාෂාව භාවිතා කිරීම යනු බොහෝ විට පුරවැසියන් විසින් සාමූහිකව කරනු ලබන පොදු කටයුතු වෙයි. උක්ත අනු ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ (ඉ) ඡේදයෙන් කියැවෙන ආගම ඇදහීමේ, පිළිපැදීමේ, ප්‍රගුණ කිරීමේ සහ ඉගැන්වීමේ නිදහස ද එ වැනි ම සාමූහික කාර්යයකි. හුදු පුද්ගලික ආශාවක් මුල් කරගෙන කෙරෙන දිනපොත් ලිවීමක් වැනි කටයුත්තක් හැරෙන්නට භාෂාව භාවිතා කෙරෙන්නේ සාමූහිකව ය. සංස්කෘතික සේවනය සහ එහි පෝෂණය වෙනුවෙන් දායකවීම ද එ බඳු ය. යම් යම් විශේෂිත පසුබිම් තුළ ආගමක් පුද්ගලික ව ඇදැහිය හැකි වුව ද බොහෝ විට ඒ ආශ්‍රිත කටයුතු ද සාමූහිකව සිදු කෙරෙයි. ආගමක් ඉගැන්වීම පමණක් නොව අනෙකුත් සියළු ඉගැන්වීම් කටයුතු තනි පුද්ගල සීමාව ඉක්මවා කෙරෙන කාර්යයන් වේ.

කෙසේ වුව ද, සංස්කෘතික සහ ආගමික කාර්යයන්ට අදාළ උක්ත සාමූහික හිමිකම් අපගේ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව තුළ අර්ථ දක්වා ඇත්තේ පුද්ගලික මානව හිමිකම් වශයෙනි. මෙය ඉතාමත් පැහැදිළිව ම උක්ත හිමිකම්වල සාමූහික ස්වභාවය නො සළකා හැර කළ කාර්යයකි.

එහෙයින් මෙම අඩුව සම්පූර්ණ කර ජනතා පරමාධිපත්‍යය අර්ථ දැක්විය යුත්තේ ය. පරමාධිපත්‍යයට ජනතාවගේ පාලන බලතල, සාමූහික අයිතිවාසිකම්,, මූලික පුද්ගලික අයිතිවාසිකම් සහ ඡන්ද බලය ඇතුළත් වන්නේ ය” යනුවෙන් මෙයට අදාළ ව්‍යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය විය යුත්තේ ය.

අවුරුදු දහස් ගණනක් තුළ කළ කැපවීම්වල ප්‍රතිඵලයක් ලෙසින් හොඳින් සුරක්‍ෂිත කොට, පෝෂණ කළ ශාසනික උරුමයක් අප සතුව තිබේ. මෙම ශාසනික උරුමය අපගේ සාමූහික අයිතිවාසිකමකි. නිරන්තරයෙන් ම අප කරා එන සතුරු උපද්‍රව, අභ්‍යන්තරික පිරිහීම්, සහ ඒ හේතුවෙන් සිදු ව තිබෙන නො සළකා හැරීම් නිසා ශාසනයෙහි සුරක්‍ෂිත බව අභියෝගයට ලක්වෙයි. එ කී අභියෝග මධ්‍යයෙහි ම අපි අපේ ශාසනික උරුමය ආරක්‍ෂා කොට පෝෂණය කිරීමට සාමුහික ව කැපැ වී සිටිමු.

බුද්ධ ශාසනය සුරක්ෂිත කොට පෝෂණය කිරීම රජයේ වගකීම විය යුත්තේ ය” යන වගකීම ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවට ඇතුළත් කර ඇත්තේ එයින් ජනතාවගේ සාමූහික අවශ්‍යතාවක් නිරූපණය වන බැවිනි. මෙහි රජය” වශයෙන් දක්වා ඇත්තේ ජනරජය ය. ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙහි 1 වැනි ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන් ම ඒ බව දක්වා තිබේ. ජනරජයේ වගකීමක් යනු ජනතාවගේ සාමූහික වගකීමකි. ජනරජයේ ආණ්ඩුව යනු උක්ත වගකීමේ යම් ප්‍රමාණයක් නියෝජනය කරවීම උදෙසා ජනතාව විසින් තෝරා පත් කරගනු ලබන පාලන ආයතනයයි.

රාජ්‍යයක් බිහිවන්නේ සාමූහික සංස්කෘතික අරමුණු මුල් කරගෙන ය. මෙම ලිපි මාලාව තුළ ඒ බැව් නිරන්තරයෙන් අවධාරණය කර තිබේ. බුද්ධ ශාසනය සුරක්‍ෂිත කර පෝෂණය කිරීම අපගේ මූලික ම සාමූහික සංස්කෘතික අරමුණයි. එහෙයින්, ඒ මත පදනම් වී ජනතා පරමාධිපත්‍යය අර්ථ දැක්වීමේ හැකියාවක් අපට තිබිය යුතු ය. බෞද්ධ ජනරජ ප්‍රවාදය” නම් මෙම ලිපි පෙළ ලියන්නේ ඒ සඳහා කෙරෙන මුල පිරීමක් වශයෙනි. මෙම මූලික හඳුනාගැනීම් මත පදනම් වීමෙන් සහ ජනරංජනය පිළිබඳ බෞද්ධ ඉගැන්වීම් ද, අදාළ බෞද්ධ ඇගැයීම් ද ඇසුරු කරගෙන ශ්‍රී ලංකා රාජ්‍යය ගොඩ නැංවිය යුතු ආකාරය අපි ඉදිරි ලිපිවලින් සාකච්ඡා කරමු.

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මහනුවර ශ්‍රී දළදා මාළිගාවට පැමිණි ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.02.19 දින පෙරවරුවේ දළදා සමිඳුන් වැඳ ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තේය.

ශ්‍රී දළදා මාළිගාවට පැමිණි අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා දියවඩන නිළමේ තැන්පත් ප්‍රදීප් නිලංග දෑල මහතා විසින් පිළිගනු ලැබීය. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා ශ්‍රී දළදා වහන්සේ වැඳ ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තේ ඉන් අනතුරුවය.

දළදා මාළිගාව වැඳ පුදා ගැනීමෙන් අනතුරුව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මල්වතු මහ විහාර පාර්ශවයේ මහනායක අතිපූජ්‍ය තිබ්බටුවාවේ ශ්‍රී සිද්ධාර්ථ සුමංගල මහනාහිමියන් බැහැදැක ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තේය. 

එහිදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මල්වතු පාර්ශවයේ අනුනායක දිඹුල්කුඹුරේ ශ්‍රී සරණංකර විමලධම්ම අනු නාහිමි සහ මල්වතු පාර්ශ්වයේ අනුනායක නියංගොඩ විජිතසිරි අනු නාහිමි බැහැදක උන්වහන්සේලාගේ සුව දුක් විමසා බැලුවේය.

ඉන් අනතුරුව අස්ගිරි මහ විහාරයට ගිය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අස්ගිරි මහ විහාර පාර්ශ්වයේ මහ නායක වරකාගොඩ ධම්මසිද්ධි ශ්‍රී පඤ්ඤානන්ද ඥානරතනාභිධාන මහ නාහිමියන් බැහැ දැක ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තේය.

මෙම අවස්ථාවට අස්ගිරි මහ විහාරීය කාරක සංඝ සභික බදුලු මුතියංගන රජ මහා විහාරාධිපති ආචාර්ය මුරුද්දෙනියේ ධම්මරතන නාහිමියෝ ද වැඩ සිටියහ.

අස්ගිරි ගෙඩිගේ රජමහා විහාරයට ගිය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා අස්ගිරි පාර්ශවයේ අනු නායක වෙඬරුවේ උපාලි අනු නාහිමි බැහැදැක ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තේය.

මෙම අවස්ථාවට අස්ගිරි සංඝ සභාවේ කාරක සංඝ සභික රංගිරි දඹුලු රජමහ විහාරාධිපති ආචාර්ය ගොඩගම මංගල නාහිමියෝ ද වැඩ සිටියහ.

මේ අතර අස්ගිරි මහා විහාර මහා පිරිවෙන වෙත ගිය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මහනුවර අස්ගිරි මහ පිරිවෙනේ පරිවෙනාධිපති, අස්ගිරි පාර්ශ්වයේ නියෝජ්‍ය ලේඛකාධිකාරි ශ්‍රාස්ත්‍රපති නාරම්පනාවේ ආනන්ද නාහිමි බැහැ දැක ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තේය.

අනතුරුව පේරාදෙණිය ගැටඹේ රාජෝපවනාරාමයට ගිය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා විහාරාධිපති ශ්‍රී ලංකා රාමඤ්ඤ මහා නිකායේ ජේෂ්ඨ කාරක සංඝ සභික කැප්පිටියාගොඩ සිරිවිමල නා හිමියන් බැහැදැක ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තේය.

අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ මෙම අගමික වතාවත්වලට රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය දිලුම් අමුණුගම, මධ්‍යම පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර නීතිඥ ලලිත් යූ ගමගේ, දියවඩන නිළමේ ප්‍රදීප් නිලංග දෑල, මහනුවර විෂ්ණු දේවාලයේ බස්නායක නිළමේ මහේන් රත්වත්තේ මහත්වරු ඇතුළු මහජන නියෝජිතයන් පිරිසක් එක්ව සිටියහ.

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia

Colombo, February 19 (newsin.asia): A three-day international conference on Buddhist Philosophy and its Role in Inculcating Values among Youth” concluded on February 19.Held in the virtual mode, the conference had participants from 29 countries including Sri Lanka.

It was organized in the virtual mode by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and the Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development. It was inaugurated by the Indian Minister of State for Youth Affairs & Sports, Minority Affairs Kiren Rijiju.

The objectives of the conference were to disseminate the core values of Buddhist philosophy, its culture and its relevance for instilling in the youth ethical and moral values.

In his inaugural address the Minister Rijiju said that by 2030, India will be amongst the youngest nations in the world and fostering national and time-honored values among its youth is one of the key priorities of youth development of India. Rijiju dwelt on the Three Universal Truths, Four Noble Truths, The Five Precepts and The Eightfold Paths of Buddhist philosophy and mentioned that this is the best foundation for world peace, for equitable use of natural resources, and for proper care of the environment.

The inaugural session was also addressed by Director General, ICCR and senior officials from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

The inaugural session was followed by addresses by other distinguished persons, including Ven. Gathare Chandananda Thero of the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies in University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka on the topic, Role of Buddhist Philosophy behind Positive Mental Health”. Ven. Thero is an eminent educationist. His address  was appreciated by all participants.

The 2nd and 3rd days of the conference included addresses by other eminent persons on various topics related to Buddhism, including an address by Dr. Rajitha P. Kumara of the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies at University of Kelaniya on ‘Early Buddhist Theory of Cognitive Development and its influence on the Individual’ and by Ven. Pusselle Wineetha Thero on ‘Influence of Buddhist philosophy among the Youth of Sri Lanka’. 

The shared heritage of Buddhism is one of the strongest and most abiding links between India and Sri Lanka. In order to further deepen people-to-people linkages between our two countries in the sphere of Buddhism, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced, during the Virtual Bilateral Summit held in September 2020, India’s grant assistance of US$ 15 million for promotion of Buddhist ties in the two countries. Its utilization is being worked out in discussions with the Government of Sri Lanka and other relevant stakeholders, the Indian High Commission said in a release.

Courtesy NDTV

In January, under India’s neighbourhood first policy, Sri Lanka received 500,000 doses of free vaccines. They were administered as a priority to frontline health workers and members of the Armed forces.

Colombo: 

Sri Lanka will purchase 10 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from India, officials told news agency Press Trust of India.

In January, under India’s neighbourhood first policy, Sri Lanka received 500,000 doses of free vaccines. They were administered as a priority to frontline health workers and members of the Armed forces.

The State Pharmaceutical Corporation has signed the order with Serum Institute of India (SII) for 10 million doses, officials said. This agreement has been approved by the Attorney General on Monday.

Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield is being manufactured by Pune-based Serum Institute. The SII has collaborated with Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for making the vaccine.

Earlier this week, the vaccination was extended to the general public and MPs.

About 250,000 out of 500,000 Oxford-AstraZeneca Covishield vaccines have been administered so far, General Shavendra Silva, the Army chief who heads the COVID-19 prevention operations said on Friday.

He said, the WHO has assured Sri Lanka that it would provide vaccines for 20 per cent of the local population free of charge. He added that China and Russia had also agreed to donate vaccines to the local population.

The Indian Army and the Russian military have also agreed to provide a quantity of vaccines to the Sri Lankan military.

Sri Lanka has recorded 78,420 cases by last night with 71,000 of them having recovered. At least 430 deaths have been recorded since the outbreak in mid-March last year.

India is one of the world’s biggest drugmakers and an increasing number of countries have already approached it for procuring coronavirus vaccines.

India has sent consignments of domestically produced coronavirus vaccines under grant assistance to Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Mauritius and Seychelles.PromotedListen to the latest songs, only on JioSaavn.com

It is also undertaking commercial supplies of the doses to a number of countries, including Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Brazil and Morocco.

Anthony B. Kim  Courtesy The Daily Signal

peaking on the 73rd Independence Day of Sri Lanka on Feb. 4, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa observed: The foundation of our citizen-centric economic policy is that the true potential of the economy cannot be unleashed without economic freedom.”

He further noted that to achieve the government’s aims of eliminating poverty, providing equal opportunity for improvement of all citizens, and developing domestic businesses, we require a clean and efficient public service.”

Indeed, advancing economic freedom matters critically to Sri Lanka, a vital logistics and trade hub in the Indian Ocean and an important U.S. partner in the region that should not be overlooked.

According to The Heritage Foundation’s annual Index of Economic Freedom, Sri Lanka’s economic freedom score is 57.4, making its economy only the 112th freest in the latest edition of the index. The island economy is ranked just 24th among the 42 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, and its overall score is well below the regional and world averages.

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Things may be changing, however. Over the past five years, the Sri Lankan economy has gradually moved toward a more urbanized economy built around manufacturing and services sectors. Still, the economy has been confined to the rank of mostly unfree” in the index, reflecting various institutional shortcomings that prevent Sri Lanka from fully realizing its economic potential.

Nine of Sri Lanka’s 12 index indicators are below global average levels, particularly in the pillars of the rule of law, regulatory efficiency, and market openness.

For economic freedom to expand, as Rajapaksa pointed out in his speech, the government will need to prioritize anticorruption efforts, reduce debt, and reform the judiciary to improve its independence and integrity, along with advancing policy reforms that will strengthen Sri Lanka’s economic competitiveness and independence.

That reform process will be a vital ingredient for further enhancing U.S.-Sri Lanka bilateral relations. In a rapidly evolving Indo-Pacific theater, Washington and Colombo both have a strategic interest in ensuring the country’s rapid and peaceful development.

After signing a U.S.-Sri Lanka Trade and Investment Framework Agreement in 2002, the two countries have held regular meetings among their respective trade representatives in a joint council.

Numerous U.S. companies—including Citibank, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Coke, Hilton, Visa, and Mastercard—have ongoing business in Sri Lanka. U.S. private equity firms have made investments in the local banking and health care sectors. In 2018, General Electric won a $48 million contract to supply a dozen locomotives for Sri Lanka’s state-run railways.

Also notable is that nearly half of Sri Lanka’s sovereign bonds are currently held by U.S.-based investors, including JPMorgan Chase and Citibank, major underwriters of the sovereign fund of Sri Lanka.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corp. has cumulatively invested $118 million in Sri Lanka, and currently has $20 million invested in various development projects.

Like the rest of the world, Sri Lanka must contend with economic uncertainty brought on by the pandemic, which is wider and more complex than past economic challenges.

Without elevated and reinforced economic reforms underpinned by decisive political will, Sri Lanka’s economic livelihood will remain confined by what amounts to self-imposed economic repression.

Undoubtedly, the U.S. cannot give Sri Lanka the political will needed to transform its economy in accordance with free-market principles.

Nevertheless, by getting involved at critical moments of policy dialogue and helping where possible with the implementation of reforms, Washington can ensure that its guidance and concerns are taken into account.

That should be an integral part of America’s meaningful engagement with Sir Lanka in the years ahead. 

Courtesy The Daily Mirror

The World Health Organization (WHO) has agreed to increase the percentage of vaccines and most likely would provide at least 27% to us, Army Commander Gen. Shavendra Silva said today.

The WHO earlier assured Sri Lanka that it would provide vaccines for 20% of the local population free of charge.

In addition to it, China and Russia also agreed to donate vaccines to the local population.

Sri Lanka has also placed a purchase order of 18 million doses from India.

Moreover, Gen. Silva said the Indian Army and Russian military have agreed to provide a number of vaccines to their Sri Lankan counterparts.

Commenting on the vaccination drive, the Army chief said they will not depend on vaccines alone, but precautionary measures would be taken to control the virus.

He said the vaccination drive is being carried out specially in the areas and Grama Niladhari Divisions where the highest cases of infections are being reported. 

Also, certain percentage of vaccines are also being given to those who engage in duties close to public such those engage in garbage collection, employees working in supermarkets, courts and port workers in addition to frontline workers.

He also said more than 23,000 such persons have been vaccinated on Thursday.

The Indian government had donated 500,000 Oxford–AstraZeneca Covishield vaccine to Sri Lanka last month and about 250,000 of those vaccines have been administered so far.

Meanwhile, he said more than 96,000 Sri Lankan citizens stranded overseas have been brought back to the country since the COVID-19 virus spread globally.

He said more than 92,000 Sri Lankans were brought by air, while approximately  4,000 Sri Lankans were also brought by sea.

Gen. Silva said 9,475 Sri Lankans are being quarantined at present at several quarantine centres.

He also said the government is repatriating at least 1,000 stranded Lankans  daily to the country and more than 1,500 were to arrive from Kuwait, Italy, Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia yesterday. (Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya)

Courtesy Hiru News

The Monetary Board has issued Rules as published in the Gazette Extraordinary No. 2215/39 dated 18.02.2021 in respect of receipt of export proceeds into Sri Lanka and conversion of such export proceeds into Sri Lanka Rupees.

Accordingly, following Rules are imposed with effect from 18 February 2021 until further notice.

1. Every exporter of goods shall:
(i) receive the export proceeds in Sri Lanka in respect of all goods exported within hundred and eighty (180) days from the date of shipment, and
(ii) forthwith submit all related documentary evidence on each and every receipt of export proceeds in respect of every export of goods made, to the respective Licensed Commercial Bank or the Licensed Specialized Bank (hereinafter referred to as Licensed bank”) that receives such proceeds in Sri Lanka.

2. Every exporter of goods shall, immediately upon the receipt of such export proceeds into Sri Lanka as required under this Rule, convert twenty five per centum (25%) from and out of the total of the said exports proceeds received in Sri Lanka into Sri Lanka Rupees, through a licensed bank.

3. The requirement of converting the aforesaid twenty five per centum (25%) from and out of the export proceeds received in Sri Lanka, shall continue, until any other percentage as may be determined by the Monetary Board, from time to time.

4. All licensed banks shall be required to mandatorily monitor, strictly, the receipts of exports proceeds in Sri Lanka within the period as stipulated and the conversion of such proceeds as required in this Rule, and shall maintain all documentary evidence relating or in connection thereto.

5. All licensed banks shall submit reports to the Director of the Foreign Exchange Department of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka as may be required from time to time and provide unencumbered access to the officers of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka as may be authorized by the Governor or the Deputy Governor, as the case may be, to inspect or examine the records maintained under the Rule, and to examine and review all actions taken by such licensed banks in securing full and strict compliance with these Rule.

6. This Rule shall apply in respect of all goods exported and where the hundred and eightieth (180th) date from the date of the shipment and exports proceeds received to Sri Lanka on any date after 18 February 2021.

7. These Rules shall come into force with effect from 18 February 2021.

8. For the avoidance of any doubt, and for the purposes of these Rules, ‘Export Proceeds’ shall include such proceeds required to be repatriated, into Sri Lanka, under and in terms of the Regulations made under Section 29 read with Section 7 of the Foreign Exchange Act, No. 12 of 2017, published in the Extraordinary Gazette No. 2145/49 of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka dated 17.10.2019.

Courtesy Adaderana

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed a committee to study the report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the Easter Sunday terror attacks and the report of the Sectoral Oversight Committee (SOC) on National Security.

The committee has been tasked with extensively studying the facts and recommendations of the two reports and to provide recommendations on how to act on them, the PMD said.

The six-member committee is chaired by Minister Chamal Rajapaksa and also includes ministers Johnston Fernando, Udaya Gammanpila, Ramesh Pathirana, Prasanna Ranatunga and Rohitha Abeygunawardena.

The President’s Media Division said that the reports of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) and the Sectoral Oversight Committee will be sent to the committee by the Presidential Secretariat.

Presidential Secretariat’s Director General (Legal) Hariguptha Rohanadeera has been appointed as the Secretary to the committee.

The committee has been instructed to present its report before March 15, 2021.

Courtesy Adaderana

Sri Lanka has witnessed three new Covid-19 related deaths today (February 19), Director-General of Health Services confirmed.

Thereby, the country’s death toll from the virus has climbed to 433.

Courtesy Adaderana

Sri Lanka registered 269 more positive cases of COVID-19 today (February 19) as total novel coronavirus infections reported within the day reached 517.

Department of Government Information says 506 of today’s cases are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster.

The remaining 11 were identified as arrivals from foreign countries.

The new development has pushed the country’s confirmed COVID-19 cases count to 78,937.

According to COVID-19 figures, 5,941 active cases are still under medical care at selected hospitals and treatment centres.

Meanwhile, total recoveries reported in the country now stand at 72,566.

Sri Lanka has also witnessed 430 fatalities due to the outbreak of the pandemic.

Sri Lanka reported 248 new infections of the novel coronavirus today (February 19), Army Commander General Shavendra Silva confirmed.

We have 4 international figures serving in the international ‘justice & world peace’ system now closely associated with the TGTE. Ramsey Clark’s association with LTTE goes back to 1996, Stephen Rapp after retiring is now buddy buddy with TGTE so much so that he remembers in 2021 the former Sri Lankan defense secretary and present President of Sri Lanka telling him that he killed surrendered LTTE leaders in 2009. I killed them, I killed them, I killed them” are supposed to be the lines Rapp was told and the 72year old lawyer remembers this only in 2021 (7 years later) Mind boggling as to what else he has forgotten! Better see a doctor for dementia! Then we have a EU employee who is supposed to be paid to look into South African affairs but is 24×7 preoccupied with Sri Lanka, for someone who has never travelled to Sri Lanka, what drives Yasmin Sooka’s focus on Sri Lanka is equally mind boggling. Then there is Navi Pillay former UNHRC head now appearing on Mullaivaikkal Memorials! The four examples, highlight a clear conflict of interest, as all four are clearly linked to a party to the conflict and certainly raises their bias.

Ramsey Clark was US Attorney General in 1967.

Ramsey Clark’s association with LTTE is a long one. The same year 1997 that US designated LTTE as a foreign terrorist organization, LTTE hired Ramsey Clark to defend LTTE. Ramsey Clark was a former Attorney General under President Carter. LTTE also hired Prof. Richard Falk (Princeton University) & Prof. David Cole (Georgetown University).

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/971109/taraki.html

https://www.sangam.org/NEWSEXTRA/Challenge.htm

The judgement was given in 1999 – United States replies that a court cannot make the determination the LTTE wants because recognizing foreign states is solely entrusted to the political branches, and the United States has not recognized the LTTE. Who is the sovereign, de jure or de facto, of a territory, is not a judicial, but a political question, the determination of which by the legislative and executive departments of any government conclusively binds the judges, as well as all other officers, citizens, and subjects of that government.” Jones v. United States, 137 U.S. 202, 212-13, 11 S.Ct. 80, 34 L.Ed. 691 (1890).

http://uniset.ca/other/cs5/182F3d17.html

In 2010, a year after LTTE defeat, Prabakaran’s legal advisor sets up TGTE and appoints himself its Prime Minister. This event held at New Yorks UN Plaza hotel was attended by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark

https://www.bbc.com/sinhala/news/story/2010/10/printable/101003_tgte_government

https://www.tamilguardian.com/content/tgte-inaugurated-transnational-way-ramsey-clark-stresses-importance-history

In 2012, Ramsey Clark a former US Attorney General pays glowing tribute to Prabakaran

his achievements for the Tamil’s are legendary”

he took up arms to free the Tamils of Sri Lanka”   

Prapakaran moved from military action to a difficult diplomatic cease fire, now approaching the beginning of its fourth year, in which he revealed skills as a statesman that equal his skills as a soldier”

Earning international support and with the solid backing of the Tamil population manifested in the April 2004 elections”(reconfirms TNA = LTTE)

Prapakaran A Skilful Statesman -Ramsey Clark

In 2014, TGTE announced its new Senators

1. Mr. Ramsey Clark: Former US Attorney General: USA
2. Mr. Robert Evans: Former Member of European Parliament: UK
3. Mr. Daniel Mayan: Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM): South Sudan.
4. Dr. Brian Seneviratne: A Sinhalese Physician from Australia.
5. Mr. Roy Chetty: South Africa.
6. Mr. Gilles Piquois: Attorney – at – Law: France.
7. Mr. David Matas: Human Rights Attorney: Canada.

Rudrakumaran Announces TGTE New Senators

Ramsey Clark even delivered TGTE organized Tamil National Day of Mourning inaugural lecture in New York on 18 May 2015 at the New York Country Lawyer’s Associaiton.

https://www.einpresswire.com/article/265451890/sri-lanka-former-us-attorney-general-ramsey-clark-to-deliver-mullivaaikal-memorial-lecture-in-new-york-may-18-tgte

In October 2016 more retired international figures joined TGTE alongside Ramsey Clark. Justice K P Sivasubramaniam former Judge of the High Court of Madras India joined former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark to file a communication with the UNHR Committee against the 6^thamendment of Sri Lanka’s Constitution as violating freedom of speech and conscience guaranteed under Articles 18 and 19 of the ICCPR.

https://world.einnews.com/pr_news/351335288/a-former-us-attorney-general-a-retired-indian-justice-and-tgte-to-challenge-sri-lankan-government-at-the-united-nations

Stephen Rapp – former United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues in the Office of Global Criminal Justice.

Stephen Rapp visited Sri Lanka in 2012 & made his 2^ndvisit to Sri Lanka in 2014 in the backdrop of Navi Pillai, UK PM Cam and others on behalf of the UK headquartered Global Tamil Forum (GTF) demanding that Sri Lanka should be hauled up before an international war crimes tribunal.

Stephen Rapp – are US war crimes legal?

Stephen Rapp, are US war crimes legal?

In September 2015, JustSecurity interviewed Stephen Rapp and his words are interesting

any proposal be something that is developed in consultation with all of the communities in Sri Lanka. It cannot be something that is brought out and put into effect in order to just answer the mail from Geneva. It must answer Sri Lankans’ own need to actually deliver on accountability”

Amb. Stephen Rapp on Sri Lanka’s War Crimes Investigation

In 2016, Tamil Guardian interviews Rapp in London when he arrived to participate in the launch of the International Truth & Justice Project report. https://www.tamilguardian.com/content/we-must-be-‘tough-and-supportive’-justice-sri-lanka-–-interview-stephen-rapp

In 2017 Rapp was interviewed on genocide – but not a hum on Sri Lanka was mentioned by him

https://www.globaljusticecenter.net/blog/787-listen-to-the-fifth-episode-of-that-s-illegal

Based on this report Rapp issues a statement on 15 March 2017.

https://itjpsl.com/assets/Rapp.Statement.TJ.SriLanka.p1.pdf

The co-sponsorship 30/1 resolution demanded Sri Lanka commit to setting up 4 institutions

1. Office of Missing Persons – DONE
2. Truth & Reconciliation Commission – DONE
3. Reparations Authority – DONE
4. Special Prosecutor’s Office & Special Court with international lawyers and judges – ON PIPELINE

Rapp declares that the GoSL has to give a specific time frame and benchmarks while the special prosecutor’s office (independent of the Attorney General) must be immediately established to gather evidence & build cases for the special international court by international lawyers, international investigators & staff.

Rapp also recommends amendment to Victim & Witness Protection Act in accordance with international standards.

The best part comes in Rapp’s recommendation of Sooka

I have great confidence in the ITJP which follows the highest standards of criminal justice and is led by Yasmin Sooka of South Africa”

Clearly this establishes cordial ties with Rapp-Sooka-ITJP

https://itjpsl.com/assets/Rapp.Statement.TJ.SriLanka.p1.pdf

On 21 March 2017 Rapp is again with TGTE (remaining banned under UNSC 1373 as a LTTE Front)

http://tgte.org/?p=6847(transcript of oral statement by Rapp)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mCxdEqle3o&feature=emb_logoRapp issues statement on Sri Lanka at TGTE event

Then in March 2018 Rapp was in Geneva on invitation of TGTE to participate in TGTE side event facilitated by Manikavasagar of TGTE in Geneva titled How the international system has failed to provide accountability to mass atrocities: ongoing illegal detention, torture and sexual violence against Tamils in Sri Lanka” https://youtu.be/Pe3LBBUZpQE

https://www.uktamilnews.com/2018/03/09/former-us-war-crimes-amb-stephen-rapp-renowned-intl-lawyer-richard-rogers-to-speak-at-un-in-geneva-on-sri-lanka/

On 22 May 2020 Stephen Rapp the ‘distinguished Fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Centre for Prevention of Genocide’ and Fellow at The Hague Institute for Global Justice addressed the TGTE Parliament (in the sky) where its PM is Prabakaran’s former legal advisor! Interesting why Rapp does not mention what Gotabaya is supposed to have told him in 2014!

Rapps message  to TGTE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxekMpSWJJg

https://thetamilgazette.com/index.php/politics/10-ambassador-stephen-rapp-addresses-at-tgte-parliament

Interestingly, an open letter was sent to Rapp by Warna Hettiarachchi in 2014 demanding why he is not investigating LTTE fronts- that question is answered years later and explains why Rapp cannot investigate entities that he is associating and is a special guest of. https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2014/01/09/letter-to-stephen-rapp/

So should we be surprised that Stephen Rapp appears on 21 February 2021 in a webinar organized by the Global Tamil Forum, the Canadian Tamil Congress, Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace & Justice& Centre for Human Rights & Global Justice.

The coterie of former international figures also speaking now linked to the pro-LTTE groups include former UN Assistant Secretary General Charles Petrie, former UN Special Rapporteur on Transitional Justice Pablo de Greiff.

Aligning with a group party against the GoSL & Armed Forces seriously impacts their credibility.

Rapp suddenly claims then Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse admitted to killing surrendered LTTE leaders in 2009

“I Killed Them, I Killed Them”: Ex-US War Crimes Ambassador Says Gota Told Him About Surrendering LTTE Leaders

Daya Gamage has written on Stephen Rapps cover-up of US role in Rwanda in 2012 & 2014 https://umoya.org/2012/02/06/us-war-crimes-chief-stephen-rapp-in-colombo-covered-up-rwanda-genocide-to-absolve-us-culpability/

Stephen Rapp: Whitewashed Rwandan genocide to absolve US http://archives.sundayobserver.lk/2014/01/19/fea01.asp

Yasmin Sooka

She is the former EU paid Executive Director of the Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa since 2001, within which she is separately operating an entity called International Truth & Justice Project (ITJP) EU is mum on how an EU funded South African NGO can operate a project on Sri Lanka. Whether EU is funding ITJP is also unclear! But ITJP churns out reports far more than any work done on South Africa. TGTE has awarded her the 1^stNelson Mandela Memorial Award in 2017!

https://www.fhr.org.za/index.php/projects/

http://www.itjpsl.com

Ms.  Yasmin Louise Sooka

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=186151289272391

The ITJP initially said 40,000 dead and ended with 200,000 but ITJP only submitted a list of 351 missing to the Office of Missing Persons in June 2018. Why couldn’t ITJP and Sooka provide names of 40,000 or even 200,000 dead or missing?

The 2014 ITJP report was funded by the British Foreign Office through the Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales – of the 40 cases reported majority were former LTTE illegal combatants seeking asylum!

TGTE is also associated with the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace & Justice– surprise surprise Sooka is on the Advisory Council where Board members also include Callum Macrae of Channel 4. A host of other former international players are also part of this set up. Excellent retirement scheme!

Thus in March 2014, Sooka as an Advisory Council member for the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace & Justice led a petition joined by Desmond Tutu, R Sambanthan, Wigneswaran and 35 others to UNRC to set up a Commission of Inquiry against Sri Lanka.

Why is Yasmin Sooka so obsessed with Sri Lanka’s affairs?

Yasmin Sooka/ITJP blurring distinction of ‘civilian’ & slurring Sri Lanka Army when LTTE had Armed Civilian killer units.

Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry seek explanation from EU regarding job role of its employee Yasmin Sooka

https://www.sinhalanet.net/open-letter-to-the-sigrid-rausing-trust-on-yasmin-sooka-itjp

Yasmin Sooka and ITJPSL apologises to Brigadier Ravindra Dias

Can Yasmin Sooka & ITJP produce a CIVILIAN list of Missing/Dead instead of LTTE Terrorists!

Sri Lanka’s Intel head says ITJP & Sooka a threat to life – caution to Foreign MPs linked to LTTE fronts

Navi Pillay – former UNHRC head

Joining Yasmin Sooka is Navi Pillay – both from South Africa though Pillay is a lawyer of Tamil ethnic origin. Having retired, she appears on 20 May 2020 on a video message relayed to the world which has exposed her bias. She extensively quoted from a personally commissioned report that had no mandate from UNSC or UNGA and chose not to even table the personally commissioned Ban Ki Moon report in the UNHRC for Sri Lanka to formally respond. Thus the legality of OISL remains open. She has helped create a precedent where for the first time UN was investigating a conflict that had concluded. Her 2020 May speech shows her lack of sympathy for the Sinhalese & Muslims killed by LTTE and explains why she chose not to visit a single victim during her visit to Sri Lanka.

Two South African women on a witch hunt against Sri Lanka abusing their international roles

https://www.spur.asn.au/2018/02/07/has-the-head-of-ohchr-followed-the-due-process-on-sri-lanka/

https://www.facebook.com/BritishTamilsForum/posts/1912834442150847Navi Pillay featured on British Tamil Forum in May 2019

Self-admission by TGTE connecting it to the separation of Sri Lanka https://www.tgte-homeland.org/wp-content/uploads/TGTE-and-Tamil-Struggle-from-1948-to-2020-Booklet-2.pdf

TGTE has hired the following as its legal advisors – Geoffrey Robertson QC– Consultant, Justice Shah, Richard Rogers, Marie Guirad, Heather Ryan, Peter Haynes QC.

Thus the LTTE kitty is doing wonders. Excellent means for post-retirement and time pass as well as be able to continue one’s self-importance internationally at the fate of innocent victims and countries. We can imagine how much they abused their office!

It would be good to do up a list of former international figures now associated with pro-separatist LTTE fronts.

Shenali D Waduge

The LTTE Diaspora are very much in action of late. This is nothing to be surprised. Every Geneva session their adrenalin gets pumped and LTTE kitty is put to use. Several videos are being relayed of girls and boys speaking with heavy foreign accents off a prepared script about Tamil Eelam. How do they propose to create that Eelam? By packing off another set of Tamil poor and low caste children into the Vanni jungles? Do these foreign living LTTE diaspora kids know how many such Tamil children lost their youth and were denied fundamental right to education? Are these foreign living kids so wicked that they want to outsource Eelam and send another set of kids to the jungles while they enjoy life living in the West and realizing their personal dreams? Why outsource Eelam to innocent Tamils, why don’t these kids go to the Vanni themselves and fight for Eelam?

https://www.facebook.com/100001702559005/videos/3893168490749864/

Listening to these kids overseas you have to wonder what they know of the life that the Tamil child soldier went through.

Do these foreign-living Tamils reading scripts with heavy accents know that the Tamil Eelam they are demanding while living in Toronto, Texas, Tooting meant a sordid life for their counterparts back in Sri Lanka?

While these kids were happily living in foreign climes, going to play school, playgrounds and eating toffees – the Tamil child soldiers were kidnapped from their homes, the begging of their parents only meant gun shots scaring them back home, any child that fled the LTTE ‘orphanages’ were shot and killed, the only playground these kids knew were training ground that taught them how to shoot. The only sweets they bit were the cyanide capsule that spelled their death certificate if caught. So how do these foreign-living Tamils feel about the suffering of these Tamil child soldiers in the jungles of Vanni, with smelly clothes, hardly time to have a bath, wearing the same underwear for months, smelling of body odour never smelt a perfume or used a bar of soap in their little lives and never had the fortune to even enjoy a parent’s hug and kiss.

The only toy they held was the gun, the only playmates they had were the other child soldiers equally frightened and brainwashed into hating people they had never seen or known.

The foreign-living Tamils had the luxury of going to school, of taking part in prize giving’s, winning competitions, showing off their talents, singing, dancing and what not.

What did these Tamil children enjoy? The only prize giving they attended was the LTTE passing out parade where they shook hands with the mass murderer Prabakaran and was given a cyanide capsule and gun to kill. They had no opportunity to sing or dance or show off their talents. The only talent they could show off was their ability to kill and shoot people to death! Some of these children are today invalid without legs or hands. What a life that would have been for such a child.

Have the 9 girls featured in the video probably with foreign passports, probably not knowing a single town in North Sri Lanka or even where any of the LTTE camps were set up, thought of what life would have been like for teenage LTTE child soldiers in the jungles? Who stole their adolescence? Did they ever get to cut a cake for their birthday, did they have a teen party, did they ever go out for parties or watch a movie with friends or share girlish secrets? Just imagine the torment these young girls in tiger uniforms would have suffered? How many of them became sexual bait for male combatants living in bunkers for months where naturally the sexual desires would have taken the better of their orders! Why are these facts kept hidden? Even Thamilini’s book subtly brings out some of these facts which are nicely swept under the carpet.

Are these foregin-living teens not ashamed to come in public demanding Tamil Eelam which they simply want to outsource to another set of poor and low caste Tamils while they enjoy educating themselves and gaining lucrative employment overseas and enjoying the LTTE kitty which is ever expanding.

In May 2009 when LTTE was militarily defeated 11,644 LTTE combatants surrendered. They were all in civilian clothing. 4167 were married, 7375 were single, 122 were widowed and 594 were children above 12 and below 18.

These 594 LTTE child soldiers were given a Presidential Pardon and put through schools something the LTTE Diaspora would not even dream of doing. The GoSL gave them vocational training and guided them on taking a new path to the one they had been forced into by the LTTE and the LTTE diaspora. Gokulan became a singing sensation the whole country is fond of.

Sri Lanka’s Victory: LTTE turned children into child soldiers. Sri Lanka brought out the talents in child soldiers

It is pathetic to watch LTTE Diaspora kids reading off scripts demanding Tamil Eelam living overseas and unlikely to ever come to a bogus Tamil Eelam. So what is this actual game the LTTE Diaspora are playing?

Do they need to keep alive Tamil Eelam to enable more Tamil asylum seekers & refugees to foreign country on the bogus ‘discrimination’ card?

Do they need to keep alive Tamil Eelam demand to continue the nexus of international rackets they operate which has been able to even buy off corrupt foreigners

Do they need to keep alive Tamil Eelam as this is what the western governments have asked of them as it enables them to use the UN system to pressure and carry out gun-boat diplomacy against Sri Lanka – or is it a combination of all above?

We would really like to know the real reason as these foreign demands are nothing that connects with what the Tamils in Sri Lanka want. With the ever reducing number of pro-LTTE protestors in Sri Lanka and decline in TNA following, the LTTE eelam quest is as good as dead now. All that Tamils living in Sri Lanka wish to do is to have their areas develop, to enable their children to go to school, university, get a good job, own a house & car, marry and start a family. The Tamils in Sri Lanka have far bigger issues than eelam to think of – these include the drug menace, drinking fathers, abusive fathers, rape by members of their own family – why don’t the LTTE diaspora kids do some initiatives to curb these headaches that the Tamils are suffering.

If LTTE diaspora kids really want to create a Tamil Eelam – put Rudrakumaran into a tiger suit, wear tiger kits themselves and go to the Vanni jungles and experience first-hand what the Tamil child soldiers suffered for 3 decades losing their entire youth!

Then come on Instagram and tell us whether it was really worthwhile!

Shenali D Waduge

Janaki Chandraratna

The UNHRC Resolution, 30/1 – Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka, was co-sponsored by the Sri Lankan Govt., after the regime change in January 2015. It is well known that the West, in particular, United States of America (USA), had a key role in backing the regime change. The new Govt. of 2015 was a coalition of minority parties and the right wing, United National Party (UNP). The 30/1 co-sponsorship is known to be an appeasement for minor parties as well as a payback for the Western support for regime change. Currently however, many a brow is raised as to why the 30/1 Resolution had failed to achieve its objectives. Although there are many reasons for this outcome, the following are considered significant.

The lack of objectivity of UNHRC when dealing with Sri Lankan allegations is an important cause for its failure. The allegations were biased against the Sri Lankan Govt., from day one of UNHRC involvement. It should be noted that the Darusman Report, which formed the basis for the allegations, did record some of the LTTE atrocities undertaken during the war. These included, taking thousands of civilians as a human shield, point-blank shooting at civilians escaping the conflict zone, firing from military equipment stored among civilians and hospitals, using thousands of child soldiers, engaging women as suicide bombers, having civilian combatants, etc. Despite these admissions, UNHRC saw it fit to allege the terrorist carnage as the responsibility of Sri Lankan armed forces and limit the investigations to the war-end mayhem. In addition, the Govt.’s request to extend the coverage of the investigation for the entire war period, as civilian massacres of all communities, during the 30-year war, far exceeded the year-end toll; was ignored and fell on deaf ears. Although, Darusman Report claimed there were credible allegations of serious violations by armed forces, no evidence was presented for such allegations, giving rise to speculations that the allegations were spurious and UNHRC was on a witch-hunt against Sri Lankan Govt. In such circumstances it is not a surprise that UNHRC resolution, was doomed to fail, from its commencement.

The issue was further politicised by many Western member nations categorically supporting the 30/1 resolution, without any scrutiny, to be supportive of LTTE Diaspora domiciled in their electorates for polling benefits. The unconditional support of the West did encourage Tamil parties; in particular, front-end LTTE political parties such as Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to not participate in investigative commissions appointed by the Sri Lankan State but to cry foul at every turn. This was also, demonstrated by the return of the development appropriations for the Northern Provincial Council back to the Treasury, without spending on the earmarked projects. In this way the ruling LTTE parties were able to hoodwink the average Tamil constituents to believing that the Sri Lankan Govt. is not providing for northern development and the only way out is to call for a separate State. In fact with a view to the 46th session of Geneva, there has been calls for referenda in the North for a separate State. These activities demonstrate that the ultimate goal of LTTE Tamil parties is not reconciliation or resolve war crimes but to set up a separate State with Western assistance.

UNHRC’s bigoted attitude to Sri Lanka has blinded them from comprehending the fact that Tamil claims for a separate State with a 2/3 coastline for less than 12% of Tamils is not only impractical but also unachievable due to demographic and ground realities. Accommodating two states in a small island like Sri Lanka of 25,000 square miles, with the Northern State having allegiance to an emerging world power of India, a country that trained Tamil terrorists, is no doubt a recipe for eternal border surveillance and conflict. The non-LTTE Tamils, Muslims and the majority Sinhalese would definitely want to avoid such a scenario at whatever cost.

UNHRC, with its prejudiced mind has to date, continuously refused to accept Sri Lankan explanations for the inability to abide by the 30/1 Resolution. The saving of 300,000 Tamils from the LTTE human shield, re-settlement of refugees, de-mining, rehabilitation of LTTE terrorists, the unprecedented northern infra-structure development, the unconstitutionality of the co-sponsored Resolution, the non approval of the 30/1 Resolution by the Cabinet or the Parliament, Lord Nasby’s revelations in British parliament, lack of evidence of alleged atrocities, were some of the explanations presented to substantiate Govt. claims. These assertions, as usual, failed to receive any recognition with UNHRC leadership. In fact, UNHRC has not seen the post war development in Sri Lanka. Colombo has turned out be a good example of multi cultural living in the world. Many ethnic groups live in peace and harmony, running their businesses, participating in cultural and religious activities, without suicide bombers or ethnic violence of any sort after the end of the terrorist war in May 2009!

Also, UNHRC has failed or not wanted to understand the recent changes that have taken place in the Sri Lankan political settings. The overwhelming defeat of the 2015 govt. that co-sponsored the Resolution by a 3/2 majority, did present is a rejection of the 30/1 Resolution. In fact the current High Commissioner, Michelle Bachelet’s report ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’, was not a honourable presentation, as it did not even recognise the Govt. withdrawal from the 30/1, at a previous session. It was a negative political assessment of the initiatives of the new Govt., which is outside the mandate of UNHRC.

It is therefore, time for UNHRC to be practical and revisit 30/1 and present evidence, underpinning the allegations of war crimes, so that a comprehensive investigation can be undertaken to cover the entire 30 year war period, or negotiate with the Sri Lankan Govt., taking into consideration the post war developments to move the country forward as an undivided and a unified nation.

Janaki Chandraratna

C. Wijeyawikcrema, LL.B., Ph.D.

Introduction

Lemkin who lost 49 family members to the Holocaust coined the term Genocide in 1943/4. Applying his definition to past events, the first genocide took place in USA when, white man distributed blankets soaked with smallpox germs to native Americans (Red Indians). Perhaps, even before that in 1818 and 1848 genocide took place in the British colony, Ceylon. Genocide is primarily a European-Christian affair. It is also a growing organic idea in the hands of ex-colonial masters. However, what Vigneswaran is trying to do in Sri Lanka is to turn this idea upside down deploying five SIVA LINGAs brought to the island during prehistoric times. Apparently, the blessings by the LINGAs did not work. Therefore, his delusional mind jumps to 1948, and list all kinds of genocidal acts done by a Colombo government which was full of Tamil MPs, politicians, and Tamil officers of all kind, including himself. Surprising also is the fact that, SJVChelva then, or Abraham Sumanthiran and Rasamanikkam grandson from Batticaloa, now in 2021, all Christians, missed both the genocide and Siva LINGA stories of Vigneshwaran. Who will bell this cat?

Scenario-1
 If we have a black as our chief justice, how can we say there is genocide against blacks?”; If Hitler had Jews in his war cabinet how can Jews complain?” or where are the British, they created this mess [in Sri Lanka] by their divide and rule policy?” 

(Hearings before the subcommittee on Asian and Pacific affairs of the committee on foreign affairs, House of Representatives, 100 Congress, First session, August 6, 1987, page 1).

Note: In July 1983, when JRJ allowed UNP hooligans to loot mainly the Tamil businesses in Colombo, the chief justice was a Tamil; the IGP and his four DIGs were Tamils; the Attorney General was a Tamil, and the Leader of the Opposition was a Tamil. It was this factual truth that puzzled two impartial American congressmen.

Scenario-2

Would Hitler rescue 300,000 Jews (Tamils) used as a human shield by his enemy (Prabakaran) at the cost of lives of his German (Sinhala) soldiers, instead of firing multi-barrel guns to annihilate the enemy?  The enemy was shooting at the hostages trying to escape to the German (Sinhala) side to deter such revolt!

Scenario-3

If TNA asked Tamils to vote for Sarath Fonseka, the commander of the army accused of genocide to become their president in 2004, then what should be the new meaning of the term genocide in 2021?”

Scenario-4

If before his death SJV Chelvanayagam handed over his Gandhian struggle to Prabakaran to handle, if Amrithalingam’s ‘our boys’ who first killed Jaffna mayor Duraiyappa, later killed Amrithalingam plus Rajiv Gandhi, then how could one say the elimination of P and his war machinery with child soldiers wearing cyanide capsules given ceremoniously by Adele Balasingham who is now living in London, was genocide?”

Scenario-5

If Vigneswaran lived and thrived amongst the Sinhalese in the south for 75 years, tolerated his two sons bringing him two Sinhala daughters-in-law, benefitted having a cute little granddaughter who speaks to him and his old Marxist buddy Vasu in English, as if she is a symbol of unity in the island, how can he say there is genocide against Tamils after he becomes a Tamil politician at age 76?”

Scenario-6

If yahapalana thieves made Sambandan the Leader of the Opposition, violating every rule of decency and democracy, made him a member of the joke called the constitutional council, made him a selector of victims for political prosecution, and Sumanthiran and former terrorist D. Siddhartahn was able to prepare an Ormitthanadu thing, which was bombed last minute by a disgruntled president Sirisena, if Sumanthiran was so powerful enough to silence Kiriella – the any buffalo can win wars with money fame- shouting at him in front of Ranil in the parliament, then how is it possible for Vignesh, Ponnambalam and Sumanthiran to talk of genocide after 2015?”

Note: The factual examples above, demonstrate that in the case of Sri Lanka, either the application of the term genocide is a joke or those who talk about it are jokers, because genocide is not a water tap that one can turn on and off depending on local and foreign corrupt politics. This is message I wish to convey in this essay.

Genocide is mainly a Christian-European affair

When Hitler was killing Jews, Winston Churchill, another Jew, delivered a speech on BBC in August 1941 saying that the Nazi armies were advancing exterminating whole districts in Europe. He said, “We are in the presence of a crime without a name.” He forgot that in his colony called Ceylon it had happened twice in 1818 and 1848, and several mini ones in between. Then Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew and an international lawyer who lost all his relatives during the Nazi war decided to find a name for the crime and he coined term “genocide.” Lemkin would not have expected what was in store for his invention. It became a new tool and a new weapon in propagating ‘Eurocentric Developmentalism’ or the western hegemony in the ex-colonies using local black-white agents. In this remote-controlled colonialism, white global corporate politicians and corrupt NGO/INGO agents exploited the word as a cover for selfish purposes. Even private individuals joined in the game. For example, the American lawyer Bruce Fein used the word genocide frequently because allegedly, he got $30,000 per month from the owners of the Tamils against genocide website. Arundhati Roy feared of an impending genocide in the No Fire Zone in Sri Lanka. She has had a journalist’s crush on her hero Prabhakaran (ref. The Island, 4/28/2009, essay by Kalana Senaratne).

This use and abuse of an ‘innocent’ objective term, subsequently, for subjective separatist purposes was exposed by me in a short essay printed in the Island newspaper on May 18, 2009, just one day before, Prabakaran officially/militarily went to his cyanide heaven. That essay is copied below, and an improved Sinhala version appeared later in the Lankaweb is also linked at the end of part II. What provoked me to write a new essay now in 2021, is the sad and good developments I see in the Sri Lankan scene. How two Jaffna toddy tappers’ grandson, Arulanandan (Arun) Siddharthan, forced the Vigneswaran-GG Ponnablam-Sumanthiran-TNA clique to hide inside the Diyawanna hotel to talk about genocide is the good news. The bad news is the failure and inability of the Sinhala politicians inside the hotel to give a theoretical/ideological answer to the Tamil genocide myth. It would have been historic, if the solitary Tamil Buddhist in the hotel, the list MP, Suren Raghavan with his Buddhism doctorate from Oxford came forward to demolish this myth. When self-educated Arun employs Buddhist approach to silence genocide jokers, how long a Buddhist Raghavan could sit on the fence on this genocide game? For that matter, Sinhala panchakanda (souls) who believe that there was/is Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka must come out and use their freedom of speech now because the Geneva HR hot pan is on. I am not sure whether Michael Roberts in Australia or Wickramabahu K or Nirmal Ranjith Devasiri, the Eelam supporters in Sri Lanka, could say with a straight face that there was/is Tamil genocide in the island. So many other double game cats are there such as Jehan Perera, Pakiyasothy, DBS Jeyaraj in Canada, Rajan Philips, Kumar David, Victor Ivan, JVP lot led by Anura Kumara, Peratugaamis, French citizen Gamini Viyangoda and ex-president Sirisena’s advisor Shreelal Lakthilaka.

Genocide Tamil jokers and Buddhist Middle Path

When all the others talked and submitted documents against the Sinhala Buddhists (including even the Sri Lankan embassy) at an American Congressional Committee hearing, two congressmen silenced them by asking the questions copied above (scenario 1). But when Vigneswaran passed his genocide resolution on February 10, 2015 at the NPC, about Sinhala governments exterminating Tamils in Sri Lanka nobody was there to take this delusional bull by the horns, because Sinhala black-white politicians are selfish, timid, and self-destructive. Now on February 12, 2021 (Colombo Telegraph), Vigneswaran comes to defend Gajendra Ponnambalam (GGP) for raising the genocide joke inside the Diyawanna hotel (a.k.a. parliament) a few days ago, one or two MP panchaskandas tried to answer him giving the dictionary meaning of the word. GGP then gave his legal meaning stating he is a lawyer. Outside this ‘august’ body with ‘honorable souls’ as they themselves call each other in between filthy attacks, Arunalandan (Arun) Siddharthan (convenor, Jaffna civil organizations’ collective) in Jaffna identify GGP as an intruder from London coming to save the Tamil race. If Arun were an MP in the Diaywanna motel, he would have silenced GGP, Sumanthiran, and TNA agents all by a short speech, the way he exposes these bogus Tamil saviors on his Jaffna public meeting platforms!

Vigneswaran’s new genocide list

By allowing these Tamil Eelamist to make genocide talks in the parliament liberally, Sinhala politicians are only feeding a cancer to cure it. This Tamil genocide myth must be defeated using Buddhist principles. BBS leader Ven. Gnanasara could have done it if he were in the parliament. Vigneswaran’s genocide list given in the Colombo Telegraph is like a bottomless well. Just to give a simple example, he lists the Indian citizenship law (1949) as genocidal, forgetting that GGPonnambalam supported it! SJV Chemvalanagam invented the Tamil homeland myth and then complained against Sinhalization of the homeland. Now in 2021 Vigneswaran turns this myth upside down imagining that the entire island was a Tamil land invaded by the Sinhalese, and this is genocide! With this new interpretation, archeological ruins are Tamil ruins disrupted by Sinhala agents.  Thus, it is a waste of time to go through his genocide list.

If a Sinhalaya like him says that the stone rock in Mecca is on top of an ancient Buddhist shrine based on Buddhist literature and the Bamian Buddhas, and it is genocide which turned the tables, what would be the reaction of the western HR crowd?   But there are other cases. When Babri Masjid-Rama Temple issue in Ayodya required digging to find out the truth, what came out was the ruins of an ancient Buddhist temple. In Pollonnaruwa, the Shiva Devalas were erected on top of Buddhist temples. How would Vignesh reconcile such conflicts? According to his new 2021 definitions who did genocide to whom?

To be in competition with the stories of Lord Buddha visiting the island three times, Vignesh recently wrote a canard that in prehistoric times five Shivalingams were brought to bless Sri Lanka. Apparently, it did not work that way. Instead, today we have Buddhist temples, with 10-20 percent of their sacred space devoted to Hindu gods and goddesses. Hindus and Buddhists did not have a conflict. It was Christian Tamils living in Colombo, who created a Tamil-Sinhala language problem. Tamil who went to foreign countries on political asylum, who do mostly unskilled jobs, learned the new languages of host countries in no time. In Sri Lanka, Tamil politicians in Colombo gave Sinhala tuition to their kids but prevented poor Jaffna Tamil learning Sinhala in state schools.

Tamil homeland myth

If one were to believe that successive Sinhala governments done genocide as Vignesh and GGPonnambalam now say, it was SWRD Bandaranayake in 1958 and Dudley Senanayake in 1966 who gave a legal backing to the Tamil homeland myth. Then in 1987 JRJ made it constitutional law with his 13^th Amendment. Then came 1995-2000 Neelan-GL-Chandrika package deals, Ranil’s infamous CFA, Chandrika’s Ptoms, ISGA, Tissa Vitharana’s APRC majority report, and finally Ranil-Sumanthiran-JayampathyW’s Orumitthanadu thing. Would Hitler allow such attempts aimed at balkanization of Vignesh’s Shivalinga-blessed land?

Was it as part of genocide that both Rpremadasa and Mrs. Chandrika offered NP repeatedly to Prabakaran on a 15-year lease?  After his Oslo meeting GL Peiris was so elated because Balasingham agreed to a federal formula, he even called B as His Excellency for making a paradigm shift from Eelam demand. Premadasa made a generous genocide decision to make Tamil an Official language in NP and EP, the Sinhalese living there now must hire Tamil interpreters to communicate with government offices, GSNs, police and courts of law.

Part – II

Wigneswaran and TNA in trouble losing Tamil voter base and facing Tamil anger- Two fronts: Arulanandan Siddharthan and Tamara Kunanayakam

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Island newspaper, 2009/5/18

When is genocide not genocide?

by C. Wijeyawickrema

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean different things.”

“The question is, said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

A crime without a name

In August 1941, Winston Churchill delivered a speech on the BBC saying that the Nazi armies were advancing exterminating whole districts in Europe. He thundered, as quoted in the book, A Problem from hell: America and the age of genocide by Samantha Power (2003), “We are in the presence of a crime without a name.” Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew, and international lawyer who lost all his relatives during the Nazi war decided to find a name for the crime and coined term “genocide.” Lemkin would not have expected what was in store for his labour. Recently, white politicians and corrupt NGO agents exploited the word as a cover for selfish purposes. Even private individuals joined in the game. For example, the American lawyer Bruce Fein uses the word genocide frequently because allegedly, he gets $30,000 per month from the owners of the Tamils against genocide website. Arundhati Roy fears of an impending genocide in the No Fire Zone in Sri Lanka. She has had a journalist’s crush on her hero Prabhakaran (ref. The Island, 4/28/2009, essay by Kalana Senaratne).

White political cats

Samantha Power, another Jew, in her extremely popular book, discussed Cambodia, Iraq, Rwanda, Srebrenica and Kosovo cases of genocide in which western white politicians gave all kinds of excuses to avoid talking and acting about genocide.

These white politicians banned Prabhakaran’s terrorist outfit, in law, in their jurisdictions but allowed it to have a free hand in collecting funds and delivering weapons to Kilinochchi. Because Tamil votes were important in elections in London, Toronto, or Paris. Therefore, white politicians had no alternative but to play politics. They knew that Prabhakaran and company were guilty of genocide, but they pretended that they did not know that he practiced it.

Genocide program of Prabhakaran

The intention to eliminate or harm another human being because of the birth and existence of that human being is genocide. This meaning is hidden because, race or religion (or both) separates the perpetrator and victim. Also, in previous cases there were large numbers of victims involved.

Intention

1.birth and religion

Prabhakaran intended and did ethnic cleansing by removing Muslims giving them 2-hour notice to leave Jaffna. The number was 100,000. This notice was not required for the Sinhalese as he killed them if they remained in Jaffna. Muslims and Sinhalese were victimized because they were not Tamils. The only case we know otherwise is the Sinhala Buddhist monk who lived in Kilinochchi for 25 years!

Prabhakaran’s massacres at Arantalawa, Sri Maha Bodhi, Mosques and other places were not attacking the military but civilians. These were not isolated incidents, but there was a pattern running over his 33-year ‘rule’.

2. Acquired differences.

Power’s case study on Cambodia shows that genocide is applicable to differences in what human beings acquire after their birth. Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot killed people of their own race and religion. They were killed because after their birth they had an education, did not support communism, liked western habits, lived in suburban areas etc. This means, when Prabhakaran killed Neelan Thiruchelvam, Lakshman Kadiragamar, Jeyaraj Fernandopulle or Amirthalingam, he committed genocide because killing people of his own race (Tamil) or religion even in smaller numbers makes him guilty of genocide.

3. Human shield as a weapon

Taking Tamils as a human shield is an intentional act of destroying them for Prabhakaran’s benefit. Therefore, the name genocide should include this act of Prabhakaran at least for the past 3 months. Even if this human shield business is considered by the white politicians an act of self defence (which is allowed under the western jurisprudence) then the killing of those who wanted to escape from him must be a crime of genocide. Daya Master has revealed that about 300 people had been killed on two occasions. It may be possible to unearth mass burial sites inside CFA 2002-donated area with the help of surrendering cadres.

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තිස්සමහාරාම, පොල්ගහවැලෑන, පන්නෙගමුව පාරේ පිහිටි හොඳ හිත සිතිවිලි මන්දිර පරිශ්‍රයේ ඉදිකළ අඩි 127ක් උස හොඳ හිත නෙළුම් බුදු කුලුන” ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සුරතින් අද 2021.02.18 දින විවෘත විය.

හොඳ හිත නෙළුම් බුදු කුලුන” මස්තකයෙහි උසින් අඩි 16ක්, දිගින් අඩි 18ක් හා පළලින් අඩි 09ක් වූ ධර්මචක්‍ර මුද්‍රාවේ සමාධි බුද්ධ ප්‍රතිමාවකි. ශාසන කීර්ති ශ්‍රී කලාශූරි පුජ්‍යපාද රත්නපුරේ නන්ද හිමි මෙම බුදු පිළිම වහන්සේ නිර්මාණය කර තිබේ.

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා හොඳ හිත නෙළුම් බුදු කුලුන” විවෘත කිරීමෙන් එම පරිශ්‍රයේ සල් පැලයක් රෝපණය කළේය. අනතුරුව මහා සංඝරත්නය උදෙසා පැවැති සංඝගත දක්ෂිණාවට එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මහා සංඝරත්නයට දන් පිළිගැන්නුවේය.

බස්නාහිර පළාත් ප්‍රධාන අධිකරණ සංඝනායක නාරාහේන්පිට අභයාරාමාධිපති පුජ්‍ය මුරුත්තෙට්ටුවේ ආනන්ද නාහිමි, තිස්සමහාරාම රාජමහා විහාරාධිපති පූජ්‍ය දේවාලේගම ධර්මසේන හිමි, මහාචාර්ය මැදගොඩ අභයතිස්ස හිමි, විද්‍යෝදය පරිවෙණාධිපති පූජ්‍ය බලංගොඩ සෝභිත හිමි, නැදිගම්විල විල්පිට රාජමහා විහාරාධිපති පූජ්‍ය උයන්වත්තේ සද්ධාරාම හිමි ඇතුළු මහා සංඝරත්නය මෙම පිංකමට වැඩම කළ වදාළහ.

මෙම අවස්ථාවට දකුණු පළාත් සභාපති සෝමවංශ කෝදාගොඩ මහතා, දේශබන්දු ලංකාපුත්‍ර,දේශාභිමානී දේශමාන්‍ය  ලංකා කීර්ති මානවතිලක වර්ෂාහැන්නැදිගේ මහතා ඇතුළු එතුමාගේ පවුලේ සමාජිකයෝ සහ බැතිමතුන් පිරිසක් එක්ව සිටියහ.