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The latest show in town for all matters concerning the law. Today’s topic – Sri Lanka cannot compromise at the UNHRC sessions Guest : Former permanent representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Tamara Kunanayakam,
අළුත්ගම ඓතිහාසික කන්දේ විහාරයට ගිය ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා කන්දේවිහාරාධිපති සහ ඇමරිකාවේ ෆ්ලොරීඩා බෞද්ධ විහාරාධිපති කීර්ති ශ්රී වාගීස්වර විනයාචාර්ය ගෞරව ශාස්ත්රෙව්දී පූජ්ය කොක්කාවිට විපුලසාර නාහිමියන් ඊයේ 2021.02.13 පස්වරුවේ බැහැ දැක ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තේය.
කළුතර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ හා බෙන්තර වලල්ලාවිට කෝරළයේ ප්රධාන සංඝනායක ධූරය ද හොබවන පූජ්ය කොක්කාවිට විපුලසාර නාහිමියන්ට නමස්කාර කරමින් පළමුව පිරිකර පූජා කළ අග්රාමාත්යතුමා නාහිමියන්ගේ සුව දුක් විමසා සිටියේය.
රටේ පවතින තත්ත්වය හමුවේ ධර්මානුකූල පිළිවෙත් ක්රියාත්මක කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් කොක්කාවිට විපුලසාර නාහිමියෝ මෙහි දී අග්රාමාත්යතුමාට අනුශාසනාවක් කළහ.
අනතුරුව අග්රාමාත්යතුමා ඓතිහාසික කන්දේවිහාරය වැඳ පුදා ගත්තේය.
මෙම අවස්ථාවට රාජ්ය අමාත්ය පියල් නිශාන් මහතා ඇතුළු ප්රාදේශීය මහජන නියෝජිතයන් හා බැතිමතුන් පිරිසක් එක්ව සිටියහ.
ආණ්ඩුවක් පිහිටුවලා ඒ ආණ්ඩුවෙන් පුළුවන් තරම් ප්රයෝජනය ගැනීම ජනතාව සතු වගකීමක් යැයි ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ 2021.02.13 පස්වරුවේ අවධාරණය කළේය.
රුපියල් කෝටි 14ක වියදමෙන් මහල් හතරකින් යුතුව ඉදිකළ බේරුවල ප්රාදේශිය සභා බහු කාර්ය ගොඩනැගිල්ල විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමින් අග්රාමාත්යතුමා මේ බව කියා සිටියේය.
අග්රාමාත්යතුමා කළ සම්පූර්ණ කතාව මෙසේය.
දීර්ඝ කතා කිහිපයක් ඔබ ඇහුම්කම් දුන්නා. කියන්න උවමනා සියලු දේ අපේ ඇමතිතුමත් කිව්වා. ඒ කෙසේවෙතත් මේ බේරුවල ප්රාදේශිය සභා බහු කාර්ය ගොඩනැගිල්ල විවෘත කරන්න අවස්ථාවක් ලැබුණ එක ගැන මම සන්තෝෂ වෙනවා. අපි ගමකට සේවය කරනවා නම් ඒ සේවය ලබා ගන්නා තැන හොඳට තියෙන්න ඕන කියලයි අපි විශ්වාස කරන්නෙ.
සේවයක් කරන්න සේවය කරන ස්ථානය බලපානවා. අද සභාපතිතුමාට නව ගොඩනැගිල්ලක් ලැබිලා තියෙනයා. මෙහි එන ජනතාවට වුණත් ඉන්න තැනක් තියෙනවා. ඒ නිසා හොඳ පරිසරයක් තුළ ඉඳගෙන තම සේවාව කරන්න මෙහි සේවකයන්ට පුළුවන් කම තිබෙනවා. සේවාව ලබා ගන්නා තැනත්තාටත් ඒ පහසුව ලැබෙනවා.
මේ වගේ සභාපතිවරයෙක් ගැන අපි සන්තෝෂ වෙනවා. මොකද තමන්ට රජයෙන් සහ අනෙකුත් අංශවලින් ගත හැකි හැම උදව්වක්ම අරගෙන තම ප්රදේශය සංවර්ධනය කරන්න ගරු ඇමතිතුමන්ලා, මන්ත්රිතුමන්ලා සමඟ එකතු වෙලා මෙතුමා කටයුතු කරලා තියෙනවා.
අපි අද වෙනකොට ආණ්ඩු බලය අරගෙන අවුරුද්දක් වගේ කෙටි කාලයක්. හාමුදුරුවනේ ඒ කාලයෙනුත් මාස හතරක් වගේ තමයි ආණ්ඩුව කරන්න පුළුවන් උනේ. අනෙක් කාලය ගැන පසුගිය කාලයේ තිබුණ තත්ත්වය ගැන අමුතුවෙන් කියන්න අවශ්යය නැහැ.
කෙසේ වෙතත් අද විශේෂයෙන් නගරයට වඩා ගම පිළිබඳව කටයුතු කරන්න අපි සියලු දෙනා මහන්සි වෙනවා. ගමට නගරයේ තිබෙන පහසුකම් ලබා දීම අපේ වගකීමක් හා යුතුකමක්. ඒ කාර්ය අපි ඉටු කරනවා.
කෙනෙකුට වතුර ටික, විදුලිය, මහා මාර්ග ලබා දෙන්න පුළුවන් නම් සියලු කටයුතු වලින් ගමක් දියුණු කරන්න පුළුවන් කම තියෙනවා. එමගින් පළාතක් දියුණු කරන්න පුළුවන්කම තියෙනවා. ඒ කාර්යභාරයට අප මුල් තැන දී කටයුතු කරනවා.
විශේෂයෙන් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිතුමා පැය 15 ක් විතර වැඩ කරන නායකයෙක්. ඇත්ත කියන්න ඕන එච්චර නම් මම වැඩ කරන්නෙ නැහැ. නමුත් එතුමා ඉඳගෙන මේ සියලු ආයතන ගැන, පළාත් පාලන ආයතන ගැන, අවබෝධයක් ඇතිව තමයි තමන්ගෙ වැඩපිළිවෙළ ඉදිරියට ක්රියාත්මක කරන්නෙ. ඒ නිසා අපි ඉන් ප්රයෝජනය ගන්න ඕන.
ආණ්ඩුවක් පිහිටුවලා ඒ ආණ්ඩුවෙන් පුළුවන් තරම් ප්රයෝජනය ගැනීම ජනතාව සතු වගකීමක් ලෙස මම දකිනවා. එහෙම නැතිව ඇමතිවරු පත්කරලා, මන්ත්රිවරු පත්කරලා, සභාවක් ගොඩ නගලා, මන්ත්රිවරු පත්කළා දැන් අපට වැඩේ කෙරෙයි කියලා පැත්තකට වෙලා ඉන්න ගියොත් ඉන් පළාතට වගේම තමන්ටත් පාඩුවක් වෙන්නෙ.
ඒ නිසා තමන් පත් කරන මන්ත්රිවරයා, තමන් පත් කරන සභාපතිවරයා, තමන්ගේ දේශපාලන නායකයෙකු ලෙස පත්කරගත්තට පස්සෙ ඔබේ වගකීම තමයි ඔහුගෙන් හෝ ඇයගෙන් ප්රදේශය සඳහා ඔවුන් ලවා වැඩකරවා ගැනීම, එය කර ගැනීමේ අයිතිය ඔබට තියෙනවා. ඒ අයිතිය ඔබ පාවිච්චි කරයි කියන විශ්වාසය අපට තියෙනවා.
තමන්ගෙ පළාත දියුණු වුණොත් තමයි අවට තිබෙන අනෙක් පළාත් දියුණු කරන්න පුළුවන් වෙන්නෙ. ඒ නිසා මම සංන්තෝෂ වෙනවා මේ ස්ථානයට ඇවිල්ලා මේ කටයුත්තට සම්බන්ධ වෙන්න අවස්ථාවක් ලැබීම පිළිබඳව. ඔබ සියලු දෙනාටම සුබ අනාගතයක් වේවා ! යැයි අග්රාමාත්යතුමා පැවැසීය.
මෙම අවස්ථාවට රාජ්ය අමාත්යවරුන්වන පියල් නිශාන්ත, ජයන්ත සමරවීර, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රිවරුන්වන අනූප පැස්කුවෙල්, සංජීව එදිරිමාන්න, මර්ජාන් ෆලීල්, බස්නාහිර පළාත් හිටපු මහ ඇමැති ඉසුරු දේවප්රිය, බේරුවල ප්රාදේශිය සභාවේ සභාපති මේනක විමලරත්න ඇතුළු ප්රාදේශීය සභා මන්ත්රිවරුන් හා ප්රදේශවාසීන් පිරිසක් එක්ව සිටියහ.
අෙ`ග් වාඩිවී කණ කෑම්, භාදා, දුෂ්කරතා, කුමන්ත්රණ, සියල්ල මැද යළිත් දේශ හිතෛෂී ප්රගතිශීලී බලවේගය වෙත ආණ්ඩු බලය ලැබී ඇති බවත්, ඉතිහාසයේ සිදුවූවාක් මෙන් එම ජයග්රහණය ආපසු හැරවීමට ඉඩ නොතබා, ආණ්ඩුව තුළ සිටින ඇතැමුන් හැටනව ලක්ෂයක් ජනතාව මේ ජයග්රහණයෙන් ආපේක්ෂා කරන්නේ කුමක්ද යන්න විවෘත මනසින් යුතුව කියවාගතයුතුව ඇතැයි ගුදම් පහසුකම්, බහාලූම් අංගන, වරාය සැපයුම් පහසුකම් සහ බෝට්ටු හා නැව් කර්මාන්ත සවර්ධන රාජ්ය අමාත්ය ජයන්ත සමරවීර මහතා ප්රකාශකර සිටියේය.
ඒ මහතා මේ බව ප්රකාශ කලේ දිවන්ගත ආතර්
වී. දියෙස් මැතිතුමාගේ 135 වන ජන්ම දින
සමරුවට එක්වෙමිනි.
එහිදී ජයන්ත සමරවීර
මැතිතුමා මෙසේද ප්රකාශකර සිටියේය.
‘‘ මේ බලවේගය කියන්නෙ ආතර් වී. දියෙස් මැතිතුමන්
නියෝජනය කරන බලවේගය. එතුම බලාපොරොත්තු වුන බලවේගය. එතුමා රටට අවශ්ය වන්නේ කුමන
විදියෙ බලවේගයක්ද, ඒ බලවේගයේ පදනම් දැක්ම කුමක්ද, අධිරාජ්යවාදින්ගෙ
න්යායපත්රය සැකසෙන්නෙ කොයි විදියටද කියන එක නිවැරදිව අවබෝධ කරගෙන හිටියා. ඒ
නිසා තමයි ඞී. එස්. සේනානායක මහත්තය සුද්දන්ට පාවඩ එලල ඊනියා නිදහස පිලිගනිද්දි, දියෙස්
මැති තුමා තමන්ගෙ ලේ වලින් ලිපියක් ලියමින් අහන්නෙ ‘‘ ඞී. එස්. මේ සැබෑ නිදහස
නෙමෙයි. රාජ්ය පරිපාලන කටයුතු වලින් අපේ සංස්කෘතිය පිටමන් කරනවනම් ඒක සැබෑ
නිදහසක් වෙන්නෙ කොහොමද ?’’ කියල. ඒ විතරක් නෙමෙයි එතුමා තමන්ගෙ හිතමිතුරෙක්
වුන, එතෙක් නිදහස් සටනෙ තමන් එක්ක හිටිය, ඒ
වනවිට රටේ අග්රාමාත්යවරය වුන ඞී.එස්. සේනානායක මහත්තයට ලියනව ‘‘ඞී. එස්.
තව දුරටත් අපි දෙන්නට එකම ගමනක් නෑ. අපි වෙන්වෙන්නට කාලය ඇවිත්. ඔබ ඔබේ ගමන යන්න.
මම මගේ ගමන යන්නම්’’ කියල.
මොකක්ද එතුම කිව්ව මේ මගේ ගමන. ඒ ගමන තමයි වරායෙ
නැගෙනහිර ජැටියත් රැකගෙන, ජාතික සම්පත් විදේශිකයන්ට විකුණන එකත් නවත්තගෙන
අපි මේ යමින් ඉන්නෙ. ඒ ගමන තමයි 1952 ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය නමින් නව දේශපාලන ව්යාපාරයක්
ආරම්භ කරමින් බණ්ඩාරනායක මහත්තය ආරම්භ කරන්නෙ. එතුම ස`ග
වෙද ගුරු ගොවි කම්කරු කියල එකතු කරන්නෙ ඒ ගමනට අවශ්ය ජාතික බලවේගය. ඒ බලවේගය තමයි
1948 දි වෙච්ච වැරැද්ද නිවැරදි කරමින් 1972 ජනරජ ව්යවස්ථාව ගේන්න කටයුතු කරන්නෙ. ඒ බලවේගය තමයි බලය ලැබුන හැම
අවස්ථාවකම මේ රට ජාතික ආර්ථිකයක් දෙසට මෙහෙයවාපු බලවේගය. ඒ බලවේගය තමයි බලය නොමැති
දුෂ්කර යුගවල පාරට බැහැල, උද්ඝෝෂන කරල මේ රටේ ජාතික සම්පත් රැකගත්ත බලවේගය.
නමුත් මේ බලවේගය බලයට පත්වෙන හැම අවස්ථාවකම සතුර
කලබල වෙනව. බලයට පත්වෙන එක නවත්වන්න බැරිනම් බලයට පත්වුන පසු අවුල් වියවුල් හැදීම
ආරම්භ කරනව. කුමන්ත්රණ කරුවන්, ඇතැම් රාජ්ය නිලධාරින් යොදාගෙන ජනතා බලාපොරොත්තු
වලට පිටුපාමින් කටයුතු කරන්න අවශ්ය න්යායයන් සම්පාදනය කරල දෙනව. 1970 ආණ්ඩුව 1975 වෙනකොට බි`දවට්ටවන්නෙ ඒ විදියට. 1994 චන්ද්රිකා ආණ්ඩුව කැලෑ පාරක ගෙනියන්නෙ ඒ විදියට.
2005 දි මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාව බලයට ගේන්නෙ මම
කලින් ස`දහන් කරාපු බලවේගය. එතුම මේ රට හරි පීල්ලට
අමාරුවෙන් හරි දාගන්නව. ඒ නිසා තමයි අධිරාජ්යාවාදින්ගෙ සහය ලැබුන ම්ලේච්ඡු කොටි ත්රස්තවාදය
පරාජය කරන්න අපේ රටට පුලූවන් වෙන්නෙ. හැබැයි 2015 අවුරුද්ද වෙනකොට විශාල අවලාද ව්යාපාරයක්
දියත්කරල, එතුමව පරාජය කරන්න සතුර සමත් වෙනව. හැබැයි අවුරුදු
පහයි. මේ රටේ ජාතිකවාදී ප්රගතිශීලී බලවේග වලට පුලූවන්වෙනම යලිත් රට මුදාගැනීමේ
මාවතට අවතීර්න වෙන්න. හැටනව ලක්ෂයක ජනතා බලයකින් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා ජනාධිපති
වරයා බවට පත්වෙනනෙත් 2/3 ක බලයක් සහිත පාර්ලිමේන්තුවක් නිර්මාණය වෙමින්
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අග්රාමාත්ය වෙන්නෙත් ඒ හරහා.
අනගාරික ධර්මපාල තුමා, ආතර්
වී දියෙස් මැති තුමා, එස්.ඩබ්.ඞී.බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිතුමා,ඞී.ඒ.රාජපක්ෂ
මැතිතුමා වැන්නන් පෝෂනය කරාපු දාර්ශනික චින්තාව සහිත බලවේගය තමයි මේ හැම යුගයකම
ජාතික ආර්ථිකයක් ඉල්ලමින්, ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවක් ඉල්ලමින්, රටේ
ස්වයිරීත්වය රකින්නට බලකරමින්, රටේ අභිමානය ප්රාර්ථනා කරමින් මේ පෙරට එන්නෙ.
ඉතින් අද දවස කියන්නෙත් ඒ බලවේගය යම් ජයග්රහණයක් අත්පත් කරගෙන ආණ්ඩු බලය හොබවන
යුගයක්.
අපි කලින් ස`දහන් කරා වගේ අද මේ ජයග්රහණය ආපසු හරවන්න අෙ`ග්
ඉදන් කන කන වැඩ සිද්ධ වෙමින් යනව. මේ බලවේග එකිනෙකා කොටවල වාසිගන්න උත්සාහ කරමින්
ඉන්නව. අපි මේ හැමදෙයක් ගැනම අවබෝධයෙන් ඉන්නා බවත් මෙතනදි කියන්න ඕන.’’
පෙබරවාරි 11 වන දින පානදුර නගරයේ පිහිටුවා ඇති ආතර් වී.
දියෙස් පිළිරුවට පුෂ්පෝපහාර දැක්වීමෙන් අනතුරුව පානදුර රන්කොත් විහාරස්ථ
ධර්මශාලාවේ සමරු උත්සවය පැවති අතර ගෞරවණීය ස්වාමින් වහන්සේ ප්රමුඛව පාර්ලිමේන්තු
මන්ත්රී අනූප පැස්කුවල් මහතා, දේශහිතෛෂී ජාතික ව්යාපාරයේ මහලේකම් වෛද්ය වසන්ත
බණ්ඩාර මහතා සහ ආතර් වී. දියෙස් මහතාගේ ඥාතීන් ඇතුලූ පිරිසක් උත්සවයට සහභාගි
වී සිටියහ.
In September 1973 a Military Coup helped by the USA against Salvador Allende, President of Chili in which he died, and the suffering of the people that followed cannot be understood by any one, other than those who went through it.
So it is with Sri Lanka, no one can understand the suffering the people went through under a ruthless terrorism for 30 years. In Sri Lanka the Armed Forces were only doing its duty to protect the country and the people from an enemy who was aiming to brutalise the people to finally divide the country territorially.
This Her Excellency the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet will agree with if she were to take an unbiased objective look at the situation Sri Lanka was facing at the time.
Mme Bachelet, no one can understand the Mental Situation of His Excellency Salvador Allende the President of Chili, when Palais de la Moneda was surrounded in an Army Coup led by Pinochet supported by the USA. Was Salvador Allande assassinated or did he commlit suicide shooting himself with the gun his friend Fidel Castro had presented to him ?
President Salvador Aillende’s suffering ended with his death , but that of the Chilean people only began after his death.
Chilean People- men and women were arrested and imprisoned according to the whim and fancy of the armed forces. They were being questioned and tortured for days. All typpes of gruesome methods of torture were invented and used against the people.
One torture method, which was very commonly used, was the “grill” or “La Parrilla.” In this torture, electricity was fed from a standard wall outlet through a control box into two wires each terminating in electrodes…… The naked prisoner was stretched out and strapped onto a metal bed frame, or a set of bedsprings, and tied down. He or she was subjected to electrical shocks on several parts of the body, especially on sensitive areas like the genitals and on open wounds. (The Valech Report )
Villa Grimaldi, located in Santiago, was DINA’s (Office of the National Intelligence) most important torture center that began operating in 1974. Prisoners were interrogated for long periods of time. Once people were incarcerated on a massive scale, new places were reconditioned to hold them. The “tower” was designated as a holding center for political prisoners. There was a water tank on the top floor of the building, which included ten tight spaces where prisoners were held. These spaces were so small that victims had to enter them by crawling on their knees. The tower also included a torture chamber, where prisoners were kept in isolation. Many of them were never seen again. Food was scarce and the conditions were extremely unsanitary.
President Aillende was being accused by his enemies as a dictator, and thus prepared the ground for a Military take over of Chili.
The above facts were given to remind the UN Commissioner for Human Rights, what had gone in her own country to make her understand how difficult it is to make outsiders understand the genuine intention of an Armed Force of a country which is people friendly, and was doing its best to save the Tami civilians from a group of ruthless terrorists who were unconcerned about the suffering of the people; but only interested to set up a separate Tamil State in the North and East of this little Island.
The Sri Lanka Armed Forces never tortured the terrorists or the civilians, because such cruelty is not in their nature. But the terrorist caught the soldiers and policemen who strayed into areas under their control and tortured them.
The terrorists were determined to carry on its perilous intentions careless of the suffering of the innocent Tamil civilians consisting of young and old men, women and children, who were forcibly kept as a human shield to protect themselves from probable attacks by the Government armed forces.
However, the Armed Forces despite risking the lives of its soldiers were intent on saving the innocent Tamil people being kept by the terrorist as a human shield.
At a given moment before the final assault against the terrorists the Armed Forces decided to evacuate the Tamil Civilians serving as a human shield for the terrorists. The Armed Forces risked their lives in a most daring rescue operation perhaps carried out for the first time by any Armed Force in the World, bringing away to safety 292,000 Tamil civilians held by the terrorists as a human shield.
This episode of the evacuation of 292,000 Tamil Civilians by the SrI Lanka Armed Forces has not been mentioned by the Tamil diaspora, nor have the UNHuman Rights Commissioners have mentioned it in their reports. The Tamil civilians are still not allowed to speak freely of the kindness , friendly and human treatment they received from the Soldiers and the Officers of the Sri Lanka Government Armed Forces.
The damning annual report that is presented at the UNHR Council Session in Geneva is an accusation of the Sri lanka Armed Forces, all blame and damnation heaped on it, as the Armed Forces carried out a war against ordinary Tamil people, as if the existence of terrorism in Sri Lanka was mere imagination, and the claimed 30 years of suffering of the people of Sri Lanka under terrorism was hallucination.
To write such a report, white washing the terrorists clean, putting all the blame on the Sri Lanka Armed Forces, those in the Office of the UNHuman Rights Commission who wrote the report, may have perhaps been generously compensated by the Tamil diaspora that gather in great numbers during the UNHR Council Sessions in Geneva, shouting slogans, condemning the Government and the Armed Forces of Sri Lanka. These Diaspora personnel have easy access to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, as they have access to the UK Parliament where they even have the meetings and celebrations in it. That is how close the Tamil terrorist lobby is to the West and UK.
Therefore, Mme Michelle Bachalet considering the experience you have as a politician , your socialist background, and the suffering you yourself went through under a dictatorship in your homeland, it is important you read the Maxwell Paranagama Report presented to the UNHR Council by the Government of Sri Lanka, and revisit the report prepared by your Office before it is presented at the Geneva Session. You may perhaps make a more progressive move Mme Bachelet, by consulting the Government of Sri Lanka before the Report is presented to the UNHRCouncil Session in Geneva.
For the Sri Lankans Madam Bachelet, the Officers of the Army, Navy and Air Force, Soldiers of the Army, sailors of the Navy, the men of the Air Force, some of those who gave their lives; others who gave their limbs and still live, are all their heroes, who saved them from a probable atrocious death under terrorism, gave them peace, and provided them security.
Therefore, they are happy to see army personnel occupying responsible posts in the administration of the government , because they can trust them and the soldiers are there to help them whenever they are faced with natural disasters. The Armed Forces gave them peace and security, now they assure their protection. The people of Sri Lanka do not consider having them working in government administration a militarisation. The Armed Forces are actively helping the people in the pandemic. For the people of Sri Lanka the Tri Armed Forces are a source of strength.
The people are happy to have their war heroes taking responsibility in the administration of the country, their country whichthey saved from its enemies.
The British were said to have been Gentlemen. But that was a long time ago. When the US wanted to declare war against Iraq, Tony Blair the Prime Minister of the UK prepared a false document to say that Iraq was producing Weapons of Mass destruction. The USA declared war against Iraq on Tony Blair’s false report. Iraq was bombed, turned to rubble. American and British Forces occupied Iraq and searched, but they found no weapons of Mass destruction anywhere in Iraq.
Now it is this Britain that is leading the Core Group.
It is not surprising that the UK has announced that it, along with Germany, Canada Macedonia and Montenegro, is forming a Core Group to present another resolution to replace the US Resolution 30/1 from which Sri Lanka withdrew its sponsorship. Now a Core Group with bloody hands. The UK which has committed violation of human rights throughout its imperial past massacred people in some areas in Sri Lanka killing all males above 18 years, and burnt villages. It had been so even in other countries it colonised including in India. Canada continues to violate human rights of its own first citizens, the native Indians, kept strictly in reservations meant for them . Germany we do not know why it joined the Core Group unless it wants to own Naazi Holocaust. Macedonia and Montenegro are like puppies running after adopted masters.
Yasmina Sooka who was one of the three member Darusman Committee that wrote the false Darusman Report, keeps yelling accusations against the Officers of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces each time they are offered a responsible position in the Government, is probably paid by the Tamil Diaspora and now doing it for a living.
The Armed Forces of Sri Lanka cannot be compared to any other armed force of the world. The equipment our Armed Forces have is only that required to protect the country and its people. To help the people in any natural calamities the country may face such as floods, a tsunami; a pandemic like the Covid-19, or other unforeseen situations. We have no material for heavy bombardment or equipment for toture chambers. Our Armed Forces serve as a peacetime Army constructing Temples, reconstructing ancient places of worship which are our National Heritage, Churches or homes damaged in wind and flood. Even help in emergency construction of roads, hospitals and buildings of utility value. They even engage in farming, hoteliary, or special transport services using boats.
The retired Army Officers with special training in Administrations are appointed where their experience could be made use of elsewhere. This is useful to a developing country such as ours as frugal use of the economy is a need.
The members of our Armed Forces consist mainly of Buddhists, who are kind and serviceable. Those of other religions are reliable and religious.
Therefore the men of our armed forces should not be seen as undesirables, but as respectable persons worthy of serving Sri Lanka which is their country, or if needed serve in any country in the world which requires honourable men of good moral conduct.
It is only the Tamil diaspora abroad, the Tamil politicians who represented the terrorists in Sri Lanka Parliament, acted as a voice of the terrorists, who still lead the Tamil political groups to setup a separate Tamil State, that carry damaging false propaganda against the Armed Forces and retired members of the Armed Forces who now help in administration.
It is the USA that helped in the Chili army coup against the Government of Salvadore Aillande, which leads the western countries such as the UK led Core Group against Sri Lanka. It is supported by the Tamil Diaspora and the local Tamil politicians. It is they who are behind these accusations which you have supported in your report to be presented at the next UN High Commissioners Human Rights Council Sessions in Geneva.
Madam Michelle Bachelet as a Socialiist yourself, and twice the President of Chili, in view of what has been written above, it is necessary that you revisit your report, and perhaps consult the Government of Sri Lanka before you present your greatly exaggerated report to the Council Session in March,2021.
Mahinda Gunasekera Tambrook Drive Agincourt, ON M1W 3L9
Dear Madam Jean Yip,
MP Gary Anandasangaree’s baseless campaign to push for a Mono-Ethnic Separate State in the North and East of Sri Lanka
I am a resident of Scarborough-Agincourt for the past 38 years having migrated to Canada in 1975. I understand that MP Gary
Anandasangaree who is a member of the Liberal Party caucus has arranged a Zoom meeting for parliamentarians on the 10th of
February to canvass support for a resolution on Sri Lanka aimed at establishing a Mono-Ethnic Separate State encompassing 35
percent of the island’s land area and 60 percent of the coastline and adjacent territorial waters for Tamils numbering approximately
5 percent resident in the region. Majority of the Tamils in the range of 55 – 58 percent live outside the region in mixed ethnic
surroundings cohabiting peacefully with the Sinhalese, Muslims, Malays, Indian Tamils, and Burghers living in the rest of the country.
The Tamil community which stood at 12 percent in 1981 has declined to around 10.5 percent with a million or more immigrating
mainly to western countries, while the Sinhalese are around 75 percent, with the Muslims accounting for about 9 percent, the
Indian Tamils brought in by the British in the 19th and 20th centuries for work on plantations making up about 5.5 percent and the
balance 0.5 percent made up of Malays, Burghers and others. Gary A seems to be more interested in creating a separate state for
Tamils in Sri Lanka than the welfare of Canadians and the advancement of Canada although elected to Canada’s parliament.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which was designated an international terrorist movement by the UNSC in September 2001
has been described as the most ruthless terrorist group by the FBI, and similarly proscribed by Canada in April 2006. Canada also banned
the World Tamil Movement (WTM) designating them a terrorist group in 2008, as they were found to be raising funds for the LTTE’s terrorist
activities. Soon after a new organization called the Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) was formed with new faces while the activists of the WTM
operated from behind the scenes. Gary A claims to be the Legal Advisor to the CTC, and has been among the first to meet with former LTTE
cadres and supporters who came by boat to Vancouver to seek asylum in Canada aboard the Ocean Princess and Sun Sea apparently to coach
them to navigate the legal procedures prior to grant of refugee status.
Following the adoption of a motion by the extremist Tamil political parties in 1972 called the ‘Vadukkodai Resolution’ to set up a separate
state called “Eelam”, where they envisaged the youth to take up arms, violence spread throughout the areas predominantly settled by Tamils
with the youth targeting and killing unarmed police officers, local politicians, the Mayor of Jaffna, needing the introduction of emergency
regulations. India which had close ties to the Soviet Bloc at the time did not like Sri Lanka building ties to the USA with broadcasting rights
being granted to the Voice of America. India the regional power stepped in to arm, train and fund the Tamil guerrilla groups in Indian military
bases in order to destabilize her tiny neighbour Sri Lanka. The LTTE led by Velupillai Prabhakaran engaged in internecine warfare with the other
Tamil rebel groups killing large numbers to gain ascendancy of the separatist armed warfare. With the funding received from India, Tamilnadu
and expat Tamils, the LTTE grew into a formidable fighting force with a land army, naval wing called the Sea Tigers, a large fleet of ocean going
vessels to transport and store armaments, a miniature night time bombing air force, a squadron of 600-750 suicide bombers, Over five thousand
abducted and conscripted Child Soldiers used as storm troopers in unceasing waves many of them under 15 years making it a war crime, and a trained people’s army of around 12,000 called the Makkal Padai.
In addition to money raised through human smuggling, drug smuggling, passport fraud and other illicit activities, the LTTE amassed a huge war
chest by extorting Tamil individuals and businesses sums extending from $5,000 to $100,000 to launch their so called final war of liberation at
the end of 2005.( Refer: https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/03/14/funding-final-war/ltte-intimidation-and-extortion-tamil-diaspora ). The LTTE
cut off drinking and irrigation water to 30,000 families dependant on waters from the Mavil Aru in July 2006. The Sri Lankan authorities sought
to have the water restored with the intervention of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission made up of Nordic representatives, but as they failed to
have the LTTE resume the water supplies from the sluice gate even after two weeks, the Sri Lankan authorities were compelled to take military
action to compel the LTTE forces to withdraw. The withdrawing LTTE forces next threatened Sri Lanka’s naval base at Trincomalee thereby
extending the military confrontation to other regions as well. The Sri Lankan Army succeeded in forcing the LTTE forces spread out throughout
the north and east to retreat from their strongholds. The retreating LTTE forces compelled the Tamil civilians living in the regions usurped by
them to accompany them from the northwest coast to their final stronghold in the northeast in Mullivaikkal. They used the Tamil civilians to
exploit them for their labour, conscript them to replace fallen cadre and serve as a human shield in the final battleground which is a war crime.
The ICRA reported that over 50 percent of the LTTE fighting cadres battled in civilian attire thereby blurring the distinction between innocent
civilians and their armed fighters. The LTTE did not allow the civilians to move out of their area of control despite Sri Lanka declaring two 48
hour ceasefires in February and April 2009, and even fired on those Tamil civilians that attempted to flee to safety including artillery fire and
suicide attacks to keep them from abandoning the LTTE fighters. This is confirmed in dispatches sent by Britain’s Military Attache in Colombo,
Colonel Anthony Gash in his reports submitted to the UK Government’s Foreign Office, according to the presentation by Lord Naseby in the
British House of Lords. Col. A. Gash has estimated a total of around 7000 deaths of which 25 percent or more is attributed to the LTTE shooting
at fleeing civilians and not the hundreds of thousands claimed by LTTE supporters. The military action taken against the LTTE was successfully
concluded on May 19, 2009.
The UNSG appointed a Panel of three led by Marzuki Darussman on his own accord without the sanction of the UNGA or the UNSC which reported that 40,000 had been killed during the latter
stages from January 1 to May 18, 2009 without distinguishing between LTTE fighters and civilians. The panel admitted that their report did not meet the standards of a UN report and based their
conclusions on what they claimed are “Credible Allegations”. They claimed that tens of thousands had perished during the latter stages in 2009 which they estimated at 40,000 without
distinguishing between LTTE cadres and genuine civilians. The UNSG’s panel of experts recommended that their one sided report prepared from their offices in New York without visiting Sri
Lanka be locked away for the next 20 years till the year 2031.
ICRC which ferried injured for treatment stated the total WIA was 18,439. The injured normally is 2-3 times the KIA which makes the injured total to be between 80,000 and 120,000. Gordon
Weiss the UN Spokesperson in Colombo claimed a total of 7721 deaths to May 13, 2009 based on verified information gathered from UN/INGO employees, doctors and pastors within the
battleground. In his book titled ‘The Cage’ he claimed 40,000 deaths with an eye to profit from sales to the over one million Tamil expats living in the west.
The Tamilnet a propaganda arm of the LTTE reported a total of 7398 deaths. The GOSL carried out a census in 2012 using teachers and public
servants from the Tamil community as enumerators to arrive at a figure of 7432 deaths. Lord Naseby revealed in the UK House of Lords that
according to the British Military Attache, Col. Anton Gash, the total killed was about 7000. Amnesty estimated 10,000 deaths while the US
embassy fixed the death toll at 5,000. The Pro-LTTE groups, Yasmin Sooka of ITPJ, and Frances Harrison reported deaths in excess of 100,000
without a shred of evidence. Amnesty and HRW commissioned a report from AAAS to study the satellite imagery of the final battleground
where they determined a total of 1346 burial spots in three sites within the Civilian Safety Zone which did not support the alleged high
casualty figures.
295,873 persons including 12,000 former LTTE fighters plus a further 594 child soldiers were rescued, provided medical attention and place in
welfare/rehabilitation camps before being released following the demining of their villages.
To deal with the complex questions of international law relating to internal armed conflicts, the Justice Maxwell Paranagama Commission was assisted by a panel of globally recognized legal
luminaries headed by Sir Desmond de Silva,QC. (UK), Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice, QC. (UK) and Professor David M. Crane (USA), who had earlier been appointed by the UN to prosecute cases
filed against those tried for HR and IHL violations before the ICC. This panel was assisted by Mr. Rodney Dixon, QC.(UK), Prof. Michael Newton (USA), Prof. Nina Jorgensen (Harvard,USA),
Commander William Fenrick (Canada), and Maj. Gen. Sir John Holmes former Commander of the SAS (UK) who looked at the military aspects to determine if the loss of civilian life could be
deemed as collateral damage if it occurs in the performance of a military necessity and proportionality in terms of IHL. In fact, I do not believe that the strategic difficulties of resolving the last
phase of the war have been fully appreciated by military strategists until relatively recently” he says. Holmes concludes, on the evidence, that the SLA’s operations, in broad terms, were
proportionate in the circumstances”.
Following the conclusion of the military action, Sri Lanka undertook a massive rehabilitation and reconcilation program, some aspects of which are noted below for your information:
(1) Over 300,000 resettled in 3 years
<https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/download/?url=Fh2XB3>
(2) 92% of the land cleared of mines
<https://reliefweb.int/report/sri-lanka/sri-lanka-declares-first-district-safe-landmines-thanks-work-mag-deminers>
(3) 12,500 former terrorist fighters rehabilitated
<https://reliefweb.int/report/sri-lanka/rehabilitation-ex-ltte-cadres-nearing-completion>
(4) Not a single bombing took place in the island after 2009
(5) 594 Child soldiers rehabilitated
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuW9c0ufiHY>
(6) Economic boom in the region, with GDP growth of 27% in 2011 and 22% in 2012
(7) Over 360 km of roads rebuilt, rail links restored laying 150 km of track, plus over 1,000 schools rebuilt.
<https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/30303/restore-war-torn-sri-lankan-infrastructure.pdf>
(8) Democracy returned to North after decades , with Provincial and local council elections being held
<https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-41626420090808>
Sri Lanka holds first post-war polls in north
N. Parameswaran
Sri Lanka on Saturday held the first elections in 11 years in two towns at
the edge of the area formerly ruled b...
<https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-41626420090808>
If further information is needed, please contact me or the Sri Lanka United National Association of Canada (SLUNA).
Yours sincerely,
Mahinda Gunasekera
Tel. (416) 498-0783
නීතිය හැමෝට ම සමානව ක්රියාත්මක වෙන්න ඕන කියලා ලිබරල් අදහස්වලින් කියැවෙනවා. නීති ගොඩක් තියෙනවා නම් මේක කරන්නේ කොහොම ද කියලා අපේ ලිබ්බෝ කියන්නේ නෑ. අපේ ලිබ්බෝ වටේ අඳුරු තැන් ගොඩක් තියෙනවා. ඉතින් ඒ අයට එක රටක් – එක නීතියක්” කියන හඬ ඇහෙන්නේ නෑ. අපේ ලිබ්බෝ කියන්නේ මහ කුහක පිරිසක් හින්දා අපි ඒ ගැන වදවෙන්න ඕනත් නෑ.
අපිට අවශ්ය එක නීතිය” මොකක්ද? ඒ, රෝම – ලන්දේසි නීතිය ද? අපි එහෙම හිතනවා නම් ඒක අපේ ලොකු අවුලක්.
රටකට තමන්ගේ ම කියලා නීතියක් හදාගන්න බැරි නම් ඒක ලොකු අඩුවක්. අපේ රටට හැබෑ නිදහසක් ලබා ගන්න ඕන නම් අපි මේ ටයි-කෝට් නීතියෙන් ගැලවෙන්න ඕන. අපේ අවශ්යතාවලට ගැලපෙන නීති ක්රමයක් අපි හදාගන්න ඕන. මේක තමයි ජාතිකවාදී අදහස්වල ඉන්න අයගේ අරමුණ විය යුත්තේ. ඒ විදිහට අපි හදා ගන්න නීතිය තමයි අපේ එක නීතිය” විය යුත්තේ.
මේක එක දවසකින් සාක්ෂාත් කරගන්න පුළුවන් අරමුණක් නෙවෙයි. මේ සඳහා කාලයක් ගත වෙනවා. ඒ සඳහා අවශ්ය අධ්යයන කටයුතු, පර්යේෂණ කටයුතු කාලයක් තිස්සේ කරන්න ඕන.
ඒ කොහොම වුනත්, මේ අරමුණ ඇති කරගන්න නම් මහ කාලයක් අවශ්ය වෙන්නේ නෑ. මුලින් ම කරන්න ඕන මේ අරමුණ පිහිටුවා ගන්න එක. අරමුණ පිහිටුවා ගත්තාට පස්සේ ඒ පැත්තට යන ගමන ආරම්භ කරන්න පුළුවන්.
ඒත් එහෙම ගමනක් යන බවක් පේන්න නෑ. සිංහලෙන් නීතිය උගන්නන එකත් නවත්තනවා නම් එහෙම ගමනක් යන්නේ කොහොම ද? ඇත්තෙන්ම මේ ගමන යන්න නම් නීති විද්යාලයේ පාලි උගන්නන්නත් වෙනවා. අපේ පැරැණි මූලාශ්ර, විනය පිටකය, ඒ සඳහා ලියැවුණු අටුවා ටීකා හදාරන්න වෙනවා. ඒ වගේ ම, බෞද්ධ රටක නීතියෙන් අපේක්ෂා කරන්නේ මොකක්ද කියන කාරණය පැහැදිළි කරගන්න වෙනවා.
මෙහෙම වැඩක් ගැන හිතන්නෙවත් නැති තැනක අපේ නීතියක් හැදෙන්නේ නෑ. ඉතින් රෝම – ලන්දේසි නීතිය ආනයනය කළා වගේ ම ෂරියා නීතිය ආනයනය කරන්නත් අපිට සිද්ද වෙයි.
ජනරජයේ බලය තියෙන්නේ ජනතාවට. ඒ බලය ජනතා පරමාධිපත්යය විදිහට හඳුන්වලා තියෙනවා. ඒ බලයට ඇතුළත් කරුණු හතරක් ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ තියෙනවා. ඒ කරුණු හතර ඉදිරිපත් කරලා තියෙන්නේ වචන දොළහකින්. ඒ, මේ විදිහට.
1. ජනතාවගේ ව්යවස්ථාදායක බලය
2. ජනතාවගේ විධායක බලය
3. ජනතාවගේ අධිකරණ බලය
4. ජනතාවගේ ඡන්ද බලය
ජනතාවගේ අධිකරණ බලයට අදාළ විධායක කාර්යයක් ඉටුකිරීමට අධිකරණ ඇමැති කෙනෙක් පත් කරනවා. ඒ ඇමැතිවරයා සමස්ත ජනතාවට ම අදාළ දේ කරන කෙනෙක් වෙන්න ඕන. එක පිරිසක් ගැන විතරක් නිතර ම කතා කරන, ඒ වෙනුවෙන් විතරක් පෙනී ඉන්න කෙනෙක්ට ඒ රාජකාරිය පවරන්න හොඳ නෑ.
දැන් ඒ රාජකාරිය පවරලා තියෙන අලි සබ්රි මහත්තයා මේ කාරණය තේරුම් ගත්ත කෙනෙක් නෙවෙයි. එතුමා සමස්ත ජනතාවගේ නීති අවශ්යතා ගැන කතා කරන කෙනෙක් නෙවෙයි. ඉතින් මේ සඳහා සුදුසු කෙනෙක් පත් කරන එක ආණ්ඩුවේ වගකීමක්. අලි සබ්රි මහත්තයාට මුස්ලිම් කටයුතු ඇමැති ධුරය ගැලපෙන බව පේනවා. ඉතින් එතුමාට ඒ රාජකාරිය පවරන්න පුළුවන්.
ශ්රී ලංකා ජනරජය බුද්ධාගමට ප්රමුඛස්ථානය පිරිනමලා තියෙනවා. ඒ වගේ ම, බුද්ධ ශාසනය සුරක්ෂිත කරලා පෝෂණය කිරීම රජයේ වගකීමක් බවටත් පත් කරලා තියෙනවා. විහාර සහ දේවාලගම් පනත” අදාළ වෙන්නේ මේ වගකීම ඉටු කරන්න. දැන් ඉන්න අධිකරණ ඇමැතිවරයා ඒ ගැන දන්නේ නැතිනම් ඒකෙන් කියැවෙන්නේ මේ තනතුර දරන්න ඔහු නුසුදුසුයි කියන එක.
ඉතින් මේ වෙලාවේ මුලින් ම කරන්න ඕන අධිකරණ ඇමැතිකමට සුදුස්සෙක් පත් කරන එක. රටටට අවශ්ය එක නීතිය” මොකක්ද කියලා අපිට ඊට පස්සේ හිතන්න පුළුවන්.
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති
Two American scholars recently debunked the myth of the Chinese “debt trap,” saying that exhaustive research shows that Chinese banks have never actually seized an asset from any country and are willing to restructure the terms of existing loans.
They called the Chinese debt-trap narrative “a lie, and a powerful one.” Deborah Brautigam, one of the authors of the research, published their findings in The Atlantic along with a professor from Harvard Business School last week.
For years, there has been an anecdotal myth saying that China inveigles poorer countries to take loans that they can’t afford to build expensive infrastructure, and when they can’t pay back the loan, China would try to take control of those assets from borrowers, according to the paper.
One such myth is that a Chinese firm pushed Sri Lanka to borrow money for the construction of Hambantota port, and a Chinese firm eventually took over the port when Sri Lanka defaulted on the debt.
However, the academics found it to be a lie. According to the research paper, around two decades ago, a Canadian company, then a Danish company both explored the feasibility of building the port at Hambantota, a city in the southern tip of Sri Lanka. They didn’t move forward due to a variety of reasons. Then Sri Lanka’s government approached the U.S. and India with the plan of building a port there, and both denied. Meanwhile, China Harbor Group learned the Sri Lanka government’s hope, and won the contract, backed by China Eximbank.
Sri Lanka’s debt burden soared since the government embarked on a debt-financed push to build and improve the country’s infrastructure after the civil war came to an end in 2009. According to The Atlantic, of the $4.5 billion in debt service Sri Lanka would pay in 2017, only five percent was because of Hambantota, and the central bank governors under both Rajapaksa and Sirisena said that “Hambantota, and Chinese finance in general, was not the source of the country’s financial distress.”
When responding to former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence worrying that Hambantota could become a “forward military base” for China, the report explained that Hambantota’s location is strategic only from a business perspective. “The port is cut into the coast to avoid the Indian Ocean’s heavy swells, and its narrow channel allows only one ship to enter or exit at a time, typically with the aid of a tugboat. In the event of a military conflict, naval vessels stationed there would be proverbial fish in a barrel,” the report says.
The Atlantic mentioned that companies from other countries have also benefited from Chinese-financed projects. For instance, Meghraj, an Indian-led company, joined the UK-based engineering firm Atkins in an international consortium to write the long-term plan for Hambantota Port and for the development of a new business zone.
As for authors, one is Deborah Brautigam, a professor of International Political Economy at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University while the other one is Meg Rithmire, an associate professor at Harvard Business School.
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) today confirmed that its leader and Leader of the Opposition, Sajith Premadasa had met former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe a few days ago.
SJB MP Gayantha Karunatilleka who was responding to a question raised by journalists at a press conference confirmed that there was a meeting between Mr. Premadasa and Mr. Wickremesinghe and said the duo discussed the report of the Presidential Commission on political victimisation.
There was a discussion with the UNP at the highest level. However, according to my knowledge, the discussion has been centred on the report of the Presidential Commission on political victimisation and how to face the political consequences regarding same,” Mr. Karunatilleka said.
The arrangement is to deal with the presidential commission together and to make a common call for the tabling of documents in Parliament without delay,” he added.
It was reported that Mr. Premadasa had met Mr. Wickremesinghe at the latter’s residence and had discussed forming a broad political alliance.(Yohan Perera)
Former Speaker of Parliament W.J.M. Lokubandara has passed away today (February 14) at the age of 81, his family sources said.
He was under medical care for Covid-19 at the Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH) at the time of his passing.
Earlier this month, it was revealed that the former speaker had tested positive for novel coronavirus.
A lawyer by profession, Lokubandara embarked on his political career in 1977 after being elected as a Member of Parliament representing the United National Party.
He was appointed as the Cabinet Minister of Cultural Affairs, Education and Media in 1989.
Following the UNP’s defeat in the parliamentary election in 1994, Lokubandara became the Chief Opposition Whip of the House.
He was the Cabinet Minister of Justice, Law Reforms, National Integration and Buddha Sasana in the UNP administration which was formed in 2001.
Lokubandara also served as the 16th Speaker of Parliament from 2004 to 2019.
Total COVID-19 deaths reported in Sri Lanka climbed to 397 on Sunday (February 14) as seven more persons were confirmed to have fallen victim to the virus.
According to the Department of Government Information, one of the deceased is an 85-year-old man from Gothatuwa area. He was transferred from a private hospital in Colombo to National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) where he passed away today. The cause of death was cited as COVID-19 pneumonia, blood poisoning and kidney disease.
A 72-year-old female from Angoda area also died today due to shock from blood poisoning, COVID-19 pneumonia and complications of kidney disease. According to reports, she was transferred from Colombo National Hospital to Homagama Base Hospital after testing positive for the virus.
Meanwhile, a 65-year-old woman from Kurunegala succumbed to the virus on Saturday (February 13). She was receiving treatment at Teaching Hospital in Kurunegala before being transferred to the Homagama Base Hospital. The cause of death was reported as acute liver failure with Covid-19 virus and blood poisoning.
Further, a 60-year-old woman who was residing in Mahawela died on February 11 while receiving treatment at the Matale District Hospital. She has fallen victim to hart infection, heart failure and Covid-19 pneumonia.
Another woman, 82, from Peradeniya also died of novel coronavirus infection on February 11. She had been under medical care at Theldeniya Base Hospital at the time of her passing. The cause of death was recorded as acute blood poisoning with Covid-19 infection.
A 51-year-old woman from Gampola is also among the most recent Covid-19 related fatalities. She passed away on Saturday (February 13) while being treated at the Theldeniya Base Hospital for Covid-19 pneumonia.
The last victim, is a 79-year-old woman from Jaffna who fell victim to acute Covid-19 pneumonia on January 28. She was under medical care at the Theldeniya Base Hospital, the Government Information Department said.
Sri Lanka registered 444 new positive cases of COVID-19 today (February 14) as total novel coronavirus infections reported within the day reached 801.
Department of Government Information says the new infections are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster.
The new development has pushed the country’s confirmed COVID-19 cases count to 75,654.
According to COVID-19 figures, 6,568 active cases are still under medical care at selected hospitals and treatment centres.
Meanwhile, total recoveries reported in the country now stand at 68,696.
Sri Lanka has also witnessed 390 fatalities due to the outbreak of the pandemic.
The Attorney General has been forwarded information regarding the filing of charges against 30 persons involved in the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks, says Minister of Public Security Sarath Weerasekera.
Speaking to journalists in Colombo, he stated that 251 suspects have been remanded in connection with the attacks.
The cardinal has a responsibility towards the Catholic people. We understand his need.
We have provided information to the attorney general about 30 murders and conspiracies. The cases will be filed only after the report of the Presidential Commission goes to the Attorney General. Once we commence legal action, people will understand how we work.”
The decisions that can be taken by the police have already been taken, Weerasekara pointed out.
The Minister further said, Geneva has always been against us. Our only relief is that we have withdrawn from the 30/1 resolution. Therefore, many countries will be in support of us.
This time, 5 countries are bringing a resolution against us. We hope to bring a counter-proposal to that.”
It is true the Sinhalese are an ethnic majority in Sri Lanka, but it is also true that the Sinhalese are the only ethnic group in the world. The Tamils & Muslim may be ethnic minorities in Sri Lanka but there are 76million Tamils living in all parts of the world with 72million Tamils living in Tamil Nadu alone while only 2.2million Tamils live in Sri Lanka. Of the 1.8billion Muslims the world over, 1.9million Muslims live in Sri Lanka. So the Sinhalese who are just over 15million are the real MINORITY against 76million Tamils and 1.8billion Muslims. This reality is something that’s Lanka’s political framework must be aware of. It is the reason why protective measures for Sinhalese are needed. While Tamils and Muslims have plenty of nations to welcome them, there is no place or protection for the Sinhalese other than Sri Lanka. Therefore, these hard facts must be presented internationally to secure the protection for the Sinhalese as an ethnic minority facing endanger of its lands, its language, culture, Buddhist heritage etc.
While this island is home to all, that the people of the world are mixed following the out of Africa theory is accepted – however, it is only the Sinhalese who has evolved as a separate ethnic group with an exclusive language, culture, tradition & ruled of the entirety of this island. No other ethnic group can claim to have evolved in Sri Lanka other than the Sinhalese. The veddahs remain part of a tribal group from ancient times. The Tamils have their roots and evolution in Tamil Nadu, while the Muslims were allowed to settle down after arriving as traders.
The Sinhale kings ruled under the banner of the tenets of Buddhism following the Dasa Raja Dhamma. The pristine place was given to Buddhist values and incorporated into how the Kings ruled. It is to be noted that the palaces of the Kings were built at a level lower than the Tooth Relic of Buddha in all of the Sinhale civilizational kingdoms. The sacred tooth relic that was enshrined in a magnificent structure was always given pride of place above the King. This showcased the prominence given to Buddhism even by the Kings that ruled our island nation.
Sinhalese DID NOT EVOLVE from Vijaya. This is the first lesson for Sinhalese to learn.
The collage from images of Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka – temple and medieval capital of Ceylon at Sri Lanka
With the advent of colonial rule, the place enshrined to Buddhism was subtly usurped. Therefore, various means and modes were applied to replace Buddhism by other faiths. That larger plan prevails still. The Christian/Catholic Action/new faith cults & Islamic fundamentalism are the present day challenges for Sri Lanka. All these have billions of followers, billions of dollar funding and subtle methods to brainwash people to become their foot soldiers. Thus, the protection of Buddhism, Buddhist heritage, Buddhist land, Buddhist architecture complimentary with the identity of the Sinhalese is also a must.
There is a well-funded psychological operation to make Sinhalese feel inferior. Programs are heavily funded to make Sinhalese feel ashamed of being Sinhalese, there are campaigns that laugh at our proud history, our inventions, our exclusive traditions and our unique cultures. These in turn are subtly put into efforts to remove the place of Sinhalese, Buddhism from are history books, from being spoken of and venerated. All these are subtle attempts to denationalize the Sinhalese from defending their nation.
Thus the school text books need to be immediately changed, history must return to bring back the proud history of our nation. The Buddhist temples and Daham Pasal must reawaken the pride in our children. The universities and academics must invest in more academic papers on the proud history of the Sinhalese and showcase to the world their civilization. It is the Sinhalese who built the world’s only man made irrigation works that are still a puzzle even to the greatest of modern engineers. The modern engineers are even puzzled at how our Vesak pandols are lit!
The Sinhala language, writings are one of the prettiest in the world and needs to be protected and nurtured. If there are only 15million Sinhalese – this necessitates the global protection of the Sinhala language & its writings.
So in reality, it is the Sinhalese who are the real minority. It is the Sinhalese who are discriminated even in their own country where they are the majority. How is this possible?
When a developing nation, full of a political framework and system that is corrupt enough of avenues are open to on the guise of ‘development assistance/aid’ push agendas inimical to the Sinhalese.
The 1.3billion Catholic/Christian faith exerts power through Western governments, EU bloc nations inside the UN where trade is controlled by them and threats on the camouflage of human rights etc are used while these governments send faith-based NGOs to convert and brainwash the people preying on the poor to follow their prayers!
The 1.8billion Islamic/Muslim work may be divided by sects but when it comes forwarding their expansionist agenda, these OIC nations always flock together to protect their own first while using the billions of funding to change country laws and systems to their advantage. In a corrupt system these changes are a piece of cake!
Then we have what should be Hindu India, where an entire state comprises 72million Tamils who uses this power to exert pressure on Sri Lanka while its government uses this Tamil state to claim they only want to protect Tamil interest.
So we have Western nations/Catholic/Christian entities protecting their people in Sri Lanka,
India claiming to protect Tamils in Sri Lanka & over 50 nations of the OIC/Islamic nations exerting pressures to protect the Muslims in Sri Lanka – the question the Sinhalese must now ask themselves is – WHO WILL PROTECT THE SINHALESE? WHO IS COMING FORWARD TO PROTECT THE SINHALESE?
In the absence of any other nation or international group, shouldn’t Sinhalese campaign to protect themselves and protect their history & heritage? Something for all Sinhalese to seriously think about. What all Sinhalese must first do is to be PROUD of BEING A SINHALESE and not think that being proud of being a SINHALESE is something that looks down on others as this is the feeling funded campaigns are trying to infuse into Sinhalese.
Shenali D Waduge
Colombo, February 12: Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Adm.Jayanath Colombage has told Xinhua that Chinese investments will create job opportunities for locals and that Sri Lanka is keen on reaping the benefits of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Sri Lanka will also look to boost local production in order to join the global supply chain,” he said in a recent interview to the Chinese news agency.
Following the COVID-19 outbreak, Sri Lanka closed its borders in March last year in order to prevent a further spread. Since then, its tourism industry has suffered severe setbacks with a halt in tourist arrivals.
In order to revive the economy, Colombage said, Sri Lanka will pay more attention to the ocean as he believed that Sri Lanka has the great potential to be a maritime hub in the Indian Ocean.
In that, I see the Belt and Road Initiative as a great prospect for Sri Lanka to be more connected to the global supply chain.”
Sri Lanka has three deep water ports, which are viewed by Colombage as the country’s biggest assets.
So we need to benefit from that. We need to benefit economically from the Belt and Road Initiative. We need to develop our maritime-related infrastructure,” he said.
COVID Containment
China has helped Sri Lanka in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and the island country now looks forward to furthering its ties with China in order to recover from the pandemic, Foreign Secretary Colombage said.
2021 will be a very challenging year for countries including Sri Lanka due to the fight against the pandemic, and Sri Lanka now needs the support of its friends more than in any other years in history. China has already assisted Sri Lanka since the first local COVID-19 patient was detected in March last year. Since then, China has sent medical assistance such as surgical masks, personal protective equipment, and surgical gloves in large quantities to the country’s health authorities,” Colombage said.
This has helped Sri Lanka in its battle against the pandemic,” he pointed out.
China has fought the virus very effectively as it has begun producing vaccines in large quantities and is helping other countries by donating vaccines. China is going to give us a large number of vaccines and arrangements are being made. I was told these vaccines will arrive here soon. That is a really great gesture. We need more support in this battle against the COVID-19.”
The foreign secretary said the COVID-19 has shattered the Sri Lanka’s hope for development progress.
We now really need to catch up,” Colombage said.
I think China, being one of the leading economies in the world, and the number one development partner of Sri Lanka, can help us,” he added.
Sri Lanka has registered 368 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (February 13), the Ministry of Health confirmed.
Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 796 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 74,852.
Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 67,831 earlier today, as 847 more patients regained health.
However, 6,637 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 384 at present.
Sri Lanka has reported 06 more coronavirus related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (February 13).
As per the Department of Government Information, three male patients and three female patients are among the victims.
The new deaths bring the number of COVID-19 related deaths witnessed in Sri Lanka to 390 in total.
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) says restrictions on non-essential imports including vehicles will remain in place until the balance of payment issues are resolved.
CBSL Governor Prof. W.D. Lakshman noted that the government’s interest and determination to move away from the heavy dependency on imports are significant for long-term policy approach. However, there could be some adverse impacts in the short run, he said further.
The governor’s remarks came during a press conference held yesterday (February 12) to announce recent economic policies.
There are also many clear signs of domestic industrial investment picking up, Prof. Lakshman added.
He further responded to the negative press reports on the country’s economy, revealing that 5.5% to 6% growth is expected this year due to a host of timely government measures.
CBSL governor explained a combination of factors including vaccine optimism, policy directions and decision such as import restrictions and positive interest rates have given key sectors enough relief to surge ahead this year.
The pandemic-hit tourism sector is now picking up with various incentives that have been provided and the Information Communication sector is likely to generate foreign exchange in the time to come, he elaborated.
There is also the expected global recovery,” Prof. Lakshman said adding that the IMF is predicting a 5.5% of global growth. He noted that the base effect will help Sri Lanka achieve higher growth rate by the end of this year as the country started off from a negative growth process in the previous year.
A UN member state is being accused of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity & even ‘genocide’.Sri Lanka has been the victim of an annual witch hunt sponsored by blood-money for 12 years. All of these allegations has credibility if and only if they can prove Sri Lanka intentionally killed 40,000 and the deaths are disproportionate to the military advantage legally accepted in a non-international armed conflict.Sri Lanka has given Geneva 12 years to come out with the basic requirement of 40,000 dead names. They have failed. Sri Lanka must now refuse to respond to any of the non-conflict related questions being askedfor these are traps riding on the bogey of ‘accountability & truth’. If it is accountability Sri Lanka must demand where was the UN and its apparatus for all the victims of LTTE. If its truth, Sri Lanka must take UNHRC back to the conflict & demand answers for the initial allegation of 40,000 or more dead. Sri Lanka must refuse to answer anything until UNHRC can produce credible evidence beyond a shred of doubt to prove 40,000 or more was intentionally killed by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces disproportionate to international laws. It is in taking this principled stand that Sri Lanka can turn the tables on the UNHRC.
This is the 1sttime that the UNHRC and the former UNSG chose to take up a conflict that had ended.
Sri Lanka’s conflict was 3 decades old. Why were there no resolutions seeking truth & accountability when LTTE were committing pre-meditated murder on Sinhalese, Muslims, Burghers, Tamils & even foreigners?
Why did UN, UNSG and UNHRC wake up only after Sri Lanka’s Armed Forces ended LTTE ground force on 19 May 2009?
Why are death estimates ranging from 7000 to 9000 by US State Dept (6710 casualties), UN Country Team (7714 casualties), ICRC reports, and dispatches of US & UK military attaché’s as well as census statistics by Sri Lanka not accepted?
The numbers game & the challenge to accusers
UNHRC cannot be allowed to be recommending changes and interfering into the internal affairs of a sovereign nation WITHOUT proving its allegations.
A person is born. His/her birth is registered. A national identity is issued. Grama sevaka registry has records and election registry also has records. A marriage certificate is issued at marriage. A death certificate is issued at death. Anyone missing, a police entry is lodged. All these methods have a means of verification via passport office/immigration/emigration etc.
Therefore, bring on the evidence that these 40,000 were even born, produce the police complaints by families to claim them missing, produce complaint to the Presidential Commission on Missing Persons.
Point to note is that a missing or untraceable person is not necessarily dead because they can be in hiding, they can be living in a foreign nation under a fictitious name, they may have changed their looks with cosmetic surgery. All these possibilities can be verified if foreign governments share the refugee/asylum seeker details with the Sri Lankan inteliigence services. There were reports that NGOs played a key role in sending some of these hardcore LTTE members overseas claiming to be going for training. Did they return to Sri Lanka?
All the allegations of murder being hurled against Sri Lanka’s Armed Forces makes any to think that the LTTE was keeping 300,000 Tamil civilians and handing them roses and sweets while Sri Lanka’s Armed Forces were hunting them down. How ridiculous can even the UNHRC be. They may like to count the many times the UNSG and diplomats appealed to LTTE not to shoot fleeing civilians, not to keep Tamil civilians as hostages and the manner that freed Tamil civilians cried how LTTE stole provisions sent by GoSL and ICRC to feed their combatants and the families of combatants. So clearly, LTTE gave preference to its combatants & their families and to the Tamil civilians who sided with them. Can the UNHRC come up with some numbers for these divisions?
Sri Lanka must tell UNHRC, to hold its horses and demand that the script returns to 2009, the end of a 3 decade conflict and ask UNHRC to come up with the evidence to prove its allegations.
All of the sugar-coated resolutions by UNHRC bloc nations have been aligned to fulfilling their geopolitical agendas via Sri Lanka using the May 2009 concluded conflict as ruse.
Sri Lanka should not fall for any more traps.
Sri Lanka must now demand UNHRC to come clean. No more non-conflict related items. The whole basis of this international stigma campaign against Sri Lanka taking place all over the world claiming Sri Lanka committed war crimes, crimes against humanity & even ‘genocide’ must be proved with facts not fairytales. UNHRC must remove the 20 year cap on their supposed ‘witnesses’ to see if they were even born!
NO MORE RESOLUTIONS
NO MORE RESPONSES BY SRI LANKA
Until UNHRC can prove Sri Lanka’s Armed Forces intentionally killed civilians disproportionate to the military advantage accepted in international law in a non-international armed conflict.
Prove we killed 40,000 or more or just shut up & close the case against Sri Lanka!
Shenali D Waduge
Before coming to power, members of the current government promised various policy actions to people, and now it has come the right time for evaluating such policies whether they were fulfilled or initiated to work on. This is a critical question to people as they are eager to see the performance of the government. The nature of politics in Sri Lanka is giving many promises without evaluating whether they could fulfill or ability to at least initiate them during be in power. This is the misunderstanding or misreading of the term democracy. The promises were based on the policy statement that was called a Prosperous Vision, voters had not a clear understanding of the vision and the mission that was so vague as the document didn’t specifically express what kind of work will be fulfilled. Now, the time is evaluating promises made to the public and the compact policy statement needs to allocate the corporate role to each minister.
Despite evaluating the process, the media highlights that there are conflicts among the cabinet team members that have not been expected by people when they were voting at the election. For example, Mr. Wimal Weerasinghe promised to establish an Industrial Development Bank as the country needs medium-term credits for industrial development purposes which could not be offered by trading banks with short-terms, and on-demand liabilities base. Without monitoring the promise Mr.Wimal Weerasinghe gives lorry talks on positions of Podujana Peramuna.
The policy conflicts are a common nature of the democratic system, the nature of conflicts in Sri Lanka seem to be gone beyond the limits. When investigating the elected governments since 1947 it discloses that Sri Lanka’s politics is subject to division and people don’t care whether divisions were based on the philosophical points of the parties or any other matters. People want to do work on the mission that was given at the election. The objectives and activities were not properly defined in the vision, and people have faced a giant confusion about how to evaluate the implementation of the government policy process. Many works in Sri Lanka cannot complete in a short period as they are involved in macroeconomic factors.
Is there a team to evaluate the policy process relates the prosperous vision and who are the members of the evaluating team is undisclosed truth to people, and state ministers are responsible for initiating work for the mission. Some state ministers are going behind media men to give voice cuts and others look to react for the original voice cuts. That is why Sri Lanka wants a partial dictatorship to avoid this type of joke.
The obvious nature is State and Cabinet ministers use to give voice cuts to media and they bring points that should be talked about in the darkness as they are contrary to the original statement of prosperity. The best example was the conflict between Mr. Wimal Weerasinghe and the secretary of Podujana Peramuna. Do these issues need to publish in media or they should be talked about in a closed-door room to evaluate and kids who are in grade 12 political science class know the statement of Lord Ramse McDonald that ministers, you can talk whatever in this room, but when you go out you should be abiding by one statement should express to people. It seems that the idea of co-responsibility has deteriorated among the members of the cabinet, and it could be further illustrated by a traditional saying if the fence and the embankment ate the paddy cultivation whom to complain about the problem?
In this environment, it is difficult to make a judgment on the role played by the ministers since they have been appointed to the role. There is no difference between ministers of this government and that previous government the old poet that said until the role was achieved all do misleading and the truth in the politics in Sri Lanka without difference whether they are in government side or the opposition. All lie to the public with a view to gaining power and in the democratic system rulers as well as the public are behaving like crooks as stated by Machiavelli.
It is a truth the entire world has suffered from the Covid pandemic and Mr.Gotabaya Rajapaksa has given the leadership to tackle the issues. Policy development, policy monitoring, and remedial management are equally vital actions to the government and the big bosses of the government need to engage in this role.
12 February 2021
Mr. Antony Blinken
US Secretary of State
2201 C Street NW, Room 206
Washington D.C 209520-2204
US.
Dear Mr. Blinken:
It was with special interest that I read the announcement of 8 February that the U.S. is rejoining the United Nations Human Rights Council to re-engage immediately and robustly with the body to pursue a foreign policy centered on democracy and human rights.
That is indeed a challenge and honourable on the part of President Biden’s Administration instructions.
However, Mr. Blinken, your involvement won’t be that easy to unhook, thousands and thousands and thousands of members of the Sri Lanka-Sinhalese Diaspora community from the bold words of Nikki Haley who said, that the UNHRC is a cesspool of political bias, and a self serving body that makes a mockery of Human Rights, and pulled out US being part of that body. And not even wanting to touch it with a barge pole. I am one who got hooked as she was so absolutely right.
As for USA’s record of human rights back-drop, I for one cannot forget your former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright calmly asserting that U.S. policy were worth the sacrifice of half a million Arab children during the US-Iraq war, My stomach is still doing somersaults of anger and sadness. If that is indeed the US stance on Human Rights, killing more innocent children than who died in Hiroshima during the attack of Iraq on a lie, then may God forbid!
How do you expect us to erase that from our memory? It is nice to tell us that you want to engage with the UNHRC robustly, but will you be able to win my trust? That is the bottom line Mr. Blinken after all that was said by Madeleine Albright.
The recent-American history of Human Rights is defined by the sentencing to death, the 46 year old African-American, George Perry Floyd Jr, to die in 8 minutes and 46 seconds choked by one of your ‘white’ policeman’s kneeling knee on his neck. This sentencing of death was for having passed a counterfeit $20 bill in a Minneapolis Store.
You know Mr. Blinken, you’re a Dad and so am I. What is brutal about this killing was how this Dad was not given a chance to hug one of his daughters to say ‘good-bye’ and telling her,
Listen, sweetheart, I am sorry, I did something wrong and I am sentenced to die. I am leaving you and won’t be coming home for ever. Tell Mummy, I am sorry, and that I love her genuinely and deeply, and all of you. Lead a good life angel and have fun. Be nice to Mummy. She is the best Mummy in the whole world, Give me a hug and don’t cry. And give Mummy a Hug from me when you get home. I love you and I have always loved you. Good-bye!”
Mr. Blinken, your American robust human rights didn’t give Floyd that humanitarian last chance, and that was wicked, and that was brutal. So
much of the US, Human Rights that you are hoping to sell me.
Mr. Blinken, I didn’t know this guy. All I knew of him was that he was a Dad and an American Black. As a Dad I cried my heart out – and I wrote this therapeutic poem. I had to and I want you to read it.
Tears of Blood
(for George Floyd)
Just now a cloud
of screaming black ravens
flew over Minneapolis,
perched on the leafless trellis
of branches
of trees at the Powderhorn
Community and shed tears of blood
from their paining red eyes
and I sighed
O my brother George
O my people.
It was no more a faceless horror
that got you
it was a knee of a white-man
in a blue-serge uniform who
forced pressure
on your neck
Please
Please
I can’t breathe
Mama
Mama
I can’t breathe.”
It is this irrational white-terror
O my God
I can’t breathe
don’t kill me officer,
Come on man
I cannot breathe.”
And the clock keeps ticking’
every minute,
it is 5…6…7…8
that finally caught up with
Him and he couldn’t run.
Where is Oprah Winfrey
Martin Luther King,
Barack Obama
are you not going to give me
a spoon full of water?”
O my brother
O my people
What have you done to meet
this whiteman’s savagery’
in a country that you too
helped to build.
‘It’s my face man
I didn’t do nothing serious man
Please, please man
I can’t breathe.”
The clock counts minute 8
and 46 seconds,
and George Floyd is gone.’
He is dead!
I join the ravens singing
from the trees.
We shall overcome
Some day,
we shall overcome
some day,
O deep in my heart,
I do believe
We shall overcome
one day.”
And the ravens flew
away cawing loud
in an angry black cloud.
Brother George Floyd,
watch out for me, when
I will meet you in heaven,
Keep me a comfortable nook
and I promise I will look
forward to share my ration
of the spoon full of water.”
(Asoka Weerasinghe
2 June 2020)
Mr. Antony Blinken, when you re-engage with the United Nations Human Rights Council immediately and robustly” the alleged Human Rights violations in Sri Lanka during the last five months of the Eelam War will
be on your table for your American opinion and voting. I hope and pray that you will be robust” with Your honesty too, and ask the UNHRC members to be honest too like you:
Madam Bachelet, could you also tell me, how did the 80,000 casualties manage in a sliver of land at Nandikadal, on improvised crutches, bandaged like mummies in blood soaked bandages, and hopped over 40,000 dead Tamil bodies? Can you explain to me in detail, Madam Michelle Bachelet. We are now talking of the real Eelam war-theatre and not a surreal FairyTale War theatre. Who is it that sustained these 80,000 casualties with food and water?; Let’s be honest. Who organized these war theatre logistics. Sounds surreal to me!
Is this why Nikki Haley called your outfit a cesspool of political bias and a self serving body that makes a mockery of human rights.”
This is quite an indictment, and I believe that there is no smoke without a fire!.”
The Sri Lankan soldiers rescued, which is a recorded fact, 295.873
Tamil refugees who were used as a human shield for 6 months by the
Tamil Tiger terrorists, marching them from the west coast to the east
coast under a scorching Jaffna-Killinochchi sun, like a herd of
unwashed cattle. Why?
Madam Bachelet, if your UNHRC is the police that is monitoring world’s
human rights violations, why was it that UNHRC found it not that
important and justified to recognize an amazing act of humanitarianism
when Sri Lanka housed the 295,873 Tamils who were rescued by their
soldiers in a temporary ‘White Camp-village”, and sustained them by
preparing a million hearty meals of breakfasts, lunches and dinners
every day. Why..why not?
Is this not the very reason why Nikki Haley was bold enough to
tell the world that your United Nations Human Rights Council was a
Cesspool of political bias, and a self serving body that makes a
mockery of human rights”.
Mr. Blinken, when you announced that the US will be rejoining the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to re-engage immediately and robustly” with the body to pursue a foreign policy centered on democracy and human rights”, a light was switched on in my honest democratic psyche” and I thank you for that serendipitous moment.
The honest answers to the above probing questions will be a good start not to harass the national heroes in khaki, blue-serge and whites, of 20.5 million peoples in Sri Lanka, who gave back to them their right-to-life which had been hijacked by the Tamil Tiger terrorists who were aided and abetted by several forign countries like India, US, UK, Canada, Norway, France and so forth, for 30 bloodying years. That is no secret. And, of course,
the World Police of Human Rights, UNHRC, did nothing about it.
Mr. Blinkin, if you are honorable enough to clean the UNHRC, the cesspool of poilitical bias, who have an ingrained habit of cherry-picking their choice targets in support of their funding international clients, for them to gain support from specific groups in their countries, like the Tamils in the Greater Toronto Area in Canada, you take my word, that I will unhook myself from Nikki Haley’s strong rightful indictment of the UNHRC, and join you in your walk forward to create a Louis Armstrong world of –
The colours of the rainbow
So pretty oi the sky,
Are also on the faces
Of people going by.
I see friends shaking hands
Saying ‘how do you do’
they are really saying,
‘I love you’
What a wonderful world.”
And you can be sure of one thing, that Madam Michelle Bachelet at UNHRC won’t be in my this year’s list to send Valentine greetings to celebrate Saint Valentine’s Day in two days.
Mr. Antony Blinken, my right palm is on my heart, to show my honour and sincerity when I say to you, Congratulations on your appointment as the US Secretary of State, Good Luck and God Bless!”
Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.)
Ottawa, Canada.
The numbers of positive Covid cases have increased rapidly during past 2 months. We are fast reaching 1000 positives cases per day within next week or two.
The resources of health authorities have been stretched to near break-down levels. The public co-operation for the adherence of health and safety guidelines is waning. The security forces are overworked, arrest of persons for violating Rules are creating further unrest in the society.
A pandemic of this proportion cannot be ignored just by media announcements and police arrests. The current system need breathing space, where health and security officers need to revisit the existing policies and administrative arrangements.
In the meantime, the government must declare complete Lockdown forthwith together with offer financial and food subsidy assistance to the vast community. At least 3 weeks lockdown could possibly save the nation from disaster.
It is true nations like Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Germany have not yet imported any vaccinations, whereas a poor country like Sri Lanka has taken initial steps to look after its people. Singapore Prime Minister and the Ministers of Cabinet received the first dosage of vaccinations, quoting, we need to prove it is safe”.
The next shipment of vaccinations are not due till April-May, the government need to arrest the rapidly increasing trend by enforcing a complete Lockdown immediately. We need to bring the casualty numbers within controllable limits, whilst expediting the arrival of vaccinations.
මේ වන විට හදුනාගෙන ඇති කොවිඩ් ආසාධිතයින් ප්රමාණය ගැන සෞඛ්ය අමාත්යාංශයේ තැන් දෙකකින් නිකුත් වන සංඛ්යා ලේඛන පරස්පරයි. 2021.02. 11 දින, වසංගත රෝග අංශය නිල නිවේදන වලට අනූව, දැනට හදුනාගෙන ඇති අසාධිතයින් සංඛ්යාව 73, 116 කි. රසායනාගාර සේවාවේ වාර්ථාවලට අනුව, පළමු වරට තහවුරු කරන ලද ආසාදිතයන්ගේ සංඛ්යාව 77, 775 කි.
☝️ඊයේ දවස වනවිට පමණක් රෝගීන් 4659ක් ආගිය අතක් නැත.
☝️රසායනාගාර සේවාවේ දත්තයන්ට අනුව 2021.02.11 වෙනි දිනට නිදර්ශක 1912000 පමණ ලැබී තිබෙනවා. රෝගීන් අතට වාර්ථා ලැබිලා තිබෙන්නේ 1896000 පමණ වෙනවා. නිදර්ශක ලබාදී, තවදුරටත් පරීක්ෂණ වාර්තාවක් අපේක්ෂවෙන් සිටින සංඛ්යාව සංඛ්යාව 15000 කට වැඩිය. නමුත් වෛද්ය පර්යේශණ ආයතනයේ හැර, වෙනත් කිසිදු රසායනාගාරයක, පැය විසි හතරකට වඩා ප්රමාදවූ නිදර්ශක නැහැ.
“Potential collusion by medical profession /administrators, organisations (e.g., WHO, NIH, Medical Associations), with Big-Pharma at the expense of the public–human lives:”
While the information in the above link may exaggerate, the recommendations by the mentioned organisations against” the use of three most cost-effective therapies for COVID-19 that can save human lives (even to date), are unprofessional and immoral. Many scientists believe that they should be held accountable for the harm.
The attached figure illustrates the efficacy of one of these agents, Ivermectin in preventing COVID-19, complications, and deaths. Notably, three agents are available in all countries, have several decades of experience using these for other diseases, cheaper, and have less adverse effects than all antiviral agents and COVID-19 vaccines. Additional information is on the following links:
https://vdmeta.com/ ; https://vitamindwiki.com/ ; https://c19study.com/d
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunilwimalawansa/detail/recent-activity/
වසර 40කට පෙර පෞද්ගලීකරණය කළ බලවේග පේෂකර්ම ආයතනවල සේවකයන් තුන්දහස් තුන්සිය තිස් දෙදෙනෙකු සඳහා මාසික දීමනාවක් ලබා දීම ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2021.02.12 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී ආරම්භ විය.
1980 හා 1982 කාලය තුළ පෞද්ගලීකරණය කළ බලවේග පේෂකර්ම ආයතනවල වසර 10 කට අඩු සේවා කාලයක් හිමි සේවකයන්ට ඔවුන් ජීවත්ව සිටිනතාක් මෙලෙස මාසික දීමනාවක් හිමි වේ.
මෙම මාසික දීමනාව ලබාදීම සංකේතවත් කරමින් අග්රාමාත්යතුමා සේවකයන් කිහිපදෙනකු උදෙසා චෙක්පත් ප්රදානය කළේය.
2020 ජූලි 15 දිනැති අමාත්ය මණ්ඩල තීරණය අනුව මෙම මාසික දීමනාව ගෙවීම සඳහා රුපියල් මිලියන 95ක් මහා භාණ්ඩාගාරයෙන් පේෂකර්මාන්ත දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට නිදහස් කර ඇත.
රාජ්ය සේවයේ විශ්රාම වැටුප් අහිමිවූවන්ගේ සංගමය නියෝජනය කරමින් ජේ.එම් බිසෝමැණිකේ මිය රජය ගත් මෙම තීන්දුව සම්බන්ධයෙන් ප්රණාමය පුද කරමින් ඒ පිළිබඳ සවිස්තර වාර්තාවක් ද අග්රාමාත්යතුමාට පිළිගැන්නූවාය.
මෙහිදී අදහස් පළ කළ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා, තමන් කම්කරු අමාත්යවරයාව සිටින කාලයේ පටන් අවධානය යොමු කළ ගැටලුවකට මෙලෙස විසඳුමක් ලබා දීමට හැකිවීම ගැන ඉතා සතුටට පත්වන බව ප්රකාශ කළේය.
අපේ මේ ප්රශ්නයට වසර 40ක් පමණ ගත වෙනවා. අගමැතිතුමා ප්රමුඛ රජය කිසිදු කරදරයකින් තොරව මෙම කාර්යය ඉටු කර දුන්නා. ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් අග්රාමාත්යතුමාට උපහාර පිදිය යුතුයි. මේ ගැටලුවෙන් අසරණ වූ අපි අද වනවිට සිටියේ ඉතා අසරණ තත්ත්වයකින්. දයාසිරි ජයසේකර ඇමතිතුමාට, විමල් වීරවංශ ඇමතිතුමා ඇතුළු මේ සඳහා මැදිහත්වූ සියලු නිලධාරින්ට අපගේ ප්රණාමය පුද කරනවා යැයි රාජ්ය සේවයේ විශ්රාම වැටුප් අහිමිවූවන්ගේ සංගමයේ ලේකම් ජේ.එම් බිසෝමැණිකේ මහත්මිය පැවසුවාය.
මේ පිරිස කකුල් කැඩෙනකන් දේශපාලඥයන් ගාවට ගිහිල්ලා ඇති. අපි විපක්ෂයේ සිටින කාලයෙත් මේ ගැන කතා කළා. මේ පිරිස ලංකාව පුරාම විසිරී සිටිනවා. ලබන 28 වැනිදා වනවිට අපි මේ චෙක්පත් බෙදාදීම
අවසන් කිරීමට නියමිතයි. එතැන් සිට මෙම දීමනාව ඔවුන්ගේ බැංකු ගිණුමට බැර වෙනවා යැයි බතික් අත්යන්ත්ර රෙදි හා දේශීය ඇගළුම් නිෂ්පාදන රාජ්ය අමාත්ය දයාසිරි ජයසේකර මහතා පැවැසීය.
මාසික දීමනාව ලද සේවිකාවක මෙහි දී කවි ගයමින් අග්රාමාත්යතුමා ඇතුළු රජයට සුබ පැතුම් එක් කිරීම විශේෂත්වයකි.
මෙම අවස්ථාවට රාජ්ය අමාත්ය දයාසිරි ජයසේකර, බතික් අත්යන්ත්ර රෙදි හා දේශීය ඇගළුම් නිෂ්පාදන රාජ්ය අමාත්යංශ ලේකම් ආර්.සුනේත්රා ගුණවර්ධන, පේෂ කර්මාන්ත දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ අධ්යක්ෂ දිමුතු කුලතිලක මහත්ම මහත්මීන් සහ චෙක්පත්ලාභීන් පිරිසක් එක්ව සිටියහ.
සමස්ත ලංකා බෞද්ධ මහා සම්මේලනය විසින් බෞද්ධ හිමිකම් කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තාව ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට විජේරාම පිහිටි නිල නිවසේ දී අද 2021.02.12 දින පෙරවරුවේ භාර දෙනු ලැබුවේය.
2018 වර්ෂයේදී පොසොන් පොහෝ දින මිහින්තලා පුදබිමේ දී ස්ථාපිත කළ මෙම කොමිෂන් සභාව දිවයින පුරා වසර දෙකකට අධික කාලයක් සාක්ෂි විමසීමට ලක්කර මෙම වාර්තාව සකස් කර තිබේ.
සමස්ත ලංකා බෞද්ධ මහා සම්මේලනයේ සභාපති ජගත් සුමතිපාල මහතා විසින් අග්රාමාත්යතුමාට කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තාව භාර දුන්නේය.
එම අවස්ථාවට බෞද්ධ හිමිකම් කොමිෂන් සභාවේ සභාපති පාලිත ප්රනාන්දු මහතා (විශ්රාමික නීතිපති) ඇතුළු කොමිෂන් සභා සාමාජිකයෝ ද එක්ව සිටියහ.
මෙයට සමඟාමීව නූතන ගිහි බෞද්ධ ඉතිහාසය සහ බොදු සමුළු සියවස ග්රන්ථය ද අග්රාමාත්යතුමාට පිළිගැන්වීම සිදුවිය.
ශ්රි ලංකාවේ උරුමය මෙරට සියලු ජාතීන්ට අයත් බව පෙන්වා දුන් නව සිහල රාවය ජාතික සංවිධානයේ මහ ලේකම් මාගල්කන්දේ සුදන්ත හිමියෝ, මෙරට පුරාවිද්යාත්මක වටිනාකම් දෙමළ මාධ්ය අධ්යාපනයට ඇතුළත් කිරීම පිළිබඳව සොයා බලන්නැයි අග්රාමාත්යතුමාගෙන් මෙහිදී ඉල්ලා සිටියහ.
ඒ මොහොතේම ඊට ප්රතිචාර දැක්වූ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා, බුද්ධශාසන, ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්යංශයේ ලේකම් මහාචාර්ය කපිල ගුණවර්ධන මහතාට ජාතික උරුමයන් පිළිබඳ පරිච්ඡේදයන් දමිළ අධ්යාපනයට යොමු කිරීම ගැන සොයා බලා දන්වන්නැයි කියා සිටියේය.
මෙම අවස්ථාවට බෞද්ධ හිමිකම් කොමිෂන් සභාවේ සාමාජිකයන්වන චන්ද්ර නිමල් වාකිස්ට (විශ්රාමික නියොජ්ය පොලිස්පති), මහාචාර්ය නිමල් සිල්වා, විශේෂඥ වෛද්ය නරේන්ද්ර පිංතු, මහාචාර්ය මාලනී මැදගම මහත්ම මහත්මීන් ඇතුළු පිරිසක් එක්ව සිටියහ.
සිලෝන් කැච් (පුද්) සමාගමේ නව මත්ස්ය නිෂ්පාදනාගාරය ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සුරතින් ඊයේ 2021.02.11 දින දංකොටුවේ දී විවෘත විය.
මෙම සමාගම අමෙරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය, ජපානය, කැනඩාව, චීනය, තායිලන්තය සහ තායිවානය යන රටවලට සකස් කළ මුහුදු ආහාර අපනයනය කරන ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ප්රමුඛ අපනයන කරුවෙකි.
සිලෝන් කැච් (පුද්) සමාගමේ වාර්ෂික අපනයන ආදායම අමරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 12 කි. නව නිෂ්පාදනාගාරය විවෘත කිරීමත් සමඟ වාර්ෂිකව ආමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 15ක අදායමක් අපේක්ෂිත ය.
කාර්ය මණ්ඩලයේ150 ක් සහ 1500 කට වැඩි ධීවර ප්රජාවක් නියෝජනය වන පවුල් සඳහා මෙමඟින් සෙත සැලසෙයි.
නව නිෂ්පාදනාගාරය ආරම්භ කිරීමෙන් පසු ඉදිරි වසර 3 තුළ අපනයන ඉලක්කය පවතින සීමාව මෙන් 3 ගුණයකින් ඉහළ දැමීමට නියමිතය.
කළමනාකාර අධ්යක්ෂ ඉන්දික එල්ලාවල සහ ශ්රීජිත් ජයතුංග මහත්වරුන්ගේ කළමනාකාරීත්වය යටතේ 2016 ජුනි 15 දා මෙම සමාගමේ කටයුතු ආරම්භ වී තිබේ.
මෙම අවස්ථාවට රාජ්ය අමාත්යවරුන් වන සනත් නිශාන්ත, ලොහාන් රත්වත්තේ මහත්වරු ඇතුළු සිලෝන් කැච් (පුද්) සමාගමේ අධ්යක්ෂ මණ්ඩලය, සේවකයන් ඇතුළු පිරිසක් එක්ව සිටියහ.
පුත්තලම ආරච්චිකට්ටුව ප්රදේශයේ ස්ථාපිත කළ ලංකා සී ෆුඩ්ස් නිෂ්පාදනාගාරය ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අතින් ඊයේ 2021.02.11 දින විවෘත විය.
විදේශ වෙළෙඳ පොළ ඉලක්ක කරගනිමින් මත්ස්ය අපනයනයේ යෙදෙන ලංකා සී ෆුඩ්ස් සමාගම රැකියා 600ක් පමණ උත්පාදනය කර තිබේ.
විදෙස් වෙළෙඳපොළ ඉලක්ක කර ගනිමින් නව නිෂ්පාදනාගාරය තුළ ඉහළ ප්රමිතියෙන් යුතු මත්ස්ය සැකසුම් සිදුවන ආකාරය මෙහිදී අග්රාමාත්යතුමාගේ නිරීක්ෂණයට ලක් විය.
අපනයන ප්රමිතියෙන් යුතු ලංකා සී ෆුඩ්ස් නිෂ්පාදන ඉදිරියේ දී දේශීය පාරිභෝගිකයන් උදෙසා රට පුරා පිහිටුවන වෙළඳසැල් ජාලාවක් ඔස්සේ මිලදී ගැනීමට අවස්ථාව උදා වේ.
ලංකා සී ෆුඩ්ස් ආයතනයේ ඉදිරි දැක්ම පිළිබඳව එහි සභාපති සරත් කිත්සිරි මහතා මෙහිදී අග්රාමාත්යතුමාට පැහැදිලි කළේය.
මෙම අවස්ථාවට රාජ්ය අමාත්යවරුන් වන සනත් නිශාන්ත සහ ලොහාන් රත්වත්තේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරුන් වන චින්තක මායාදුන්නේ, අශෝක ප්රියන්ත යන මහත්වරු ඇතුළු ලංකා සී ෆුඩ්ස් නිෂ්පාදනාගාරයේ කාර්ය මණ්ඩලය එක්ව සිටියහ.
මා විසින් ලියන ලද ” Essays on Psychology ” පොතේ මනෝ විද්යා මාතෘකා ගනනාවක් පිලිබඳව ලිපි අඩංගුයි. මෙම පොත සඳහා මනෝ වෛද්ය මහාචාර්ය දයා සෝමසුන්දරම් , මනෝ වෛද්ය උපාලි පීරිස් , මනෝ වෛද්ය ලෝරන්ට් කරීලා (ප්රංශය) , මනෝ වෛද්ය රාමි ලලීල් ( ලෙබනනය) , ආචාර්ය ඇමී වචෝල්ට්ස් (ඇමරිකාව) , අචාර්ය මොන්ඩේ ඉග්වේ (නයිජීරියාව) යන විද්වතුන් සමග මා විසින් ලියන ලද ලිපිද අඩංගු වෙනවා. මේ පොතට පෙරවදන සපයන ලද්දේ පශ්චාත් ව්යසන ක්ලමථ අක්රමතාවය (PTSD ) පිලිබඳ ලෝ ප්රකට විද්වතෙකු වන මහාචාර්ය මයිකල් ලින්ඩෙන් විසින්. එම පෙරවදන පහත දැක්වේ.
” Essays on Psychology ” ග්රන්ථය ඉදිරි කාලයේදී පාඨයන් අතට පත් කිරීම සඳහා කටයුතු යොදා තිබේ.
Foreword
The book Essays on Psychology”, by Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D., is written for psychology undergrads and also people who are interested in psychology. As the title states this a compilation of essays” on a very heterogeneous spectrum of topics. There are short texts on selected mental disorders like OCD, PTSD, pain, substance abuse, or schizophrenia. There are others on treatments like EMDR, DBT, meditation, or cannabis. There are several texts on psychodynamic therapy. You can find also pathographias of Gogol, Hemingway and others. Finally there are also essays on cultural or philosophical questions. There are many topics one would not find in other psychology books, from nymphomania to matricide. More important is that the essays regularly refer to Asian concepts of mental illness and treatment, which are often unfamiliar to western readers. The book is no textbook but a stimulating book which covers new topics or gives new perspectives on well known topics. It is stimulating and can therefore be recommended if you want to widen your own horizon and if you are happy to read thoughts different from what you may read otherwise.
Prof. Dr. Michael Linden
Charité University Medicine Berlin
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