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හිටපු අමාත්ය ආරුමුගම් තොන්ඩමන් මහතාගේ අභාවය වෙනුවෙන් හැඬීම සදහා කාන්තාවන් පිරිසක් පුහුණු කරන අයුරු දැක්වෙන වීඩියෝවක් සමාජජාලාවල හුවමාරු වෙයි.
අවමගුල අවස්ථාවේ හැඬීමට පෙර මහ පාරේ ඒ සදහා පුරුදු කරන අයුරු එකී වීඩියෝවේ දැක්වෙයි.
Colombo, May 31 (newsin.asia): People of Colombo had their first open air entertainment after the two-month lockdown on May 30.
Young people thronged the Ratmalana domestic airport in over 600 cars to listen to the popular singing duo, Bathiya and Santhush.
At dusk, the stage was lit up and youngsters waved torches and danced to the strains of popular Sri Lankan numbers.
The police ensured that people remained near their vehicles and social distance was maintained.
Charges depended on the size of the vehicle, with the lowest ticket being Rs.5000, for a car that can accommodate four people; and a vehicle which can accommodate 6 to 8 people, Rs.7000.
The proceeds of the concert, organized as part of the Restart Sri Lanka” campaign, will go to the President’s COVID relief fund Itukama”.
Another concert is planned for June1.
(Photos: A.Hapuarachchi/Xinhua)
Tourists will be required to carry a ‘Covid-19-free certificate,’ says tourism ministry secretary .
Sri Lanka plans to reopen its tourism sector in mid-June by allowing only small groups of visitors to begin with, a local newspaper quoted a senior tourism ministry official as saying.
A limited number of small groups from around the world would be allowed to visit and stay in approved five-star hotels that have put strict safety measures in place, Tourism Ministry Secretary S Hettiaarachchi said, according to a report in the Sunday Times.
The tourists will be required to carry a Covid-19-free certificate issued either by their governments or a reputed agency,” he said, adding that tourists would also need to wait on arrival at the airport for coronavirus testing.
Individual travellers will still not be allowed to enter the country for now. The official did not mention how many people in a group could visit.
Sri Lanka reported another 20 cases of the virus on Saturday, taking the total number of cases so far to 1,613, including 10 deaths.
The country attracted around 2 million tourists last year and the sector contributes around 11 per cent to the nation’s gross domestic product.
The Sunday Times said President Rajapaksa had discussed the proposals at a meeting on May 19 with representatives of the tourism industry.
The main tourist season typically begins in around November.
If the government approves the plan, Bandaranaike International Airport and Mattala International Airport, which have been closed under coronavirus restrictions, would partially reopen. Testing facilities would be set up at the airports and private hospitals are expected to provide assistance to tourists as part of the plans, according to the newspaper report.
The tourists will not be allowed to get off buses midway (between journeys) and will be able only to visit selected destinations where they could avoid crowds,” Hettiaarachchi said.
Popular sites such as the Yala national park, Udawalawe, Arugam Bay, Trincomalee and selected beach areas would be among those open for the tourists, whose temperatures would be monitored daily, the report said.
Two fresh cases of coronavirus have been confirmed as of 11.00 pm today (31), as the total count of infections in the country moved up to 1,633.
These new patients have been identified as a naval personnel, the Ministry of Health said.
Earlier today (31), 11 other individuals – 2 from Sri Lanka Navy and 9 returnees from overseas –were confirmed to have contracted the virus.
Accordingly, a total of 13 new COVID-19 cases have been detected so far within the day.
Meanwhile, twenty patients who had been receiving treatment for the virus were discharged from their respective hospitals today (31) as the tally of recoveries in the country reached 801.
A total of 822 active cases are under medical care at selected hospitals across the island, according to the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry.
Sri Lanka reported its 10th COVID-19 death on May 25 as a 51-year-old woman who had arrived in the country from Kuwait succumbed to the disease.
The Public Health Inspectors Union of Sri Lanka, yesterday, warned that legal action would be taken against those who organised the funeral proceedings of former Minister Arumugam Thondaman, if any person who had taken part in the festivities became infected with coronavirus.
“We received information that someone, connected to the Thondaman family, has called the Director General of Health Services, Dr. Anil Jasinghe, and attempted to intimidate him,” President of the PHIs’ Union, Upul Rohana said. This follows the decision to impose curfew, in Nuwara-Eliya, and restrict mass gatherings, connected to the funeral, he said. “Not only are these people using a corpse as part of their election campaign, they are also attempting to intimidate a senior government servant, who is doing his job. They think they are above the law.
The entire nation was aware that some people, affiliated to the late minister’s party, violated health guidelines and acted irresponsibly. At a time when the threat, posed by COVID-19, was not over, all Sri Lankans must condemn such irresponsible behaviour, Rohana said.
“Those who organised the funeral violated the health guidelines. they held vehicle parades and violated physical distancing rule. This has created a bad precedent. This can very well undo all the hard work by health and security forces personnel, government servants and the general public. (RK
In a heartfelt monologue following the killing of George Floyd, the South African comedian says the social contract between black Americans and society has been broken time and time again
South African comedian Trevor Noah said “police in American are looting black bodies” as unrest throughout the U.S. continues in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.
In an 18-minute video released by The Daily Show,” Noah reiterated that there is no “right way” to protest, alluding to the criticisms many have voiced regarding the violence that has taken place amid some of the demonstrations.
“When people burn things…they say it’s not the right way…it’s never the right way to protest because that is what protest is. It cannot be right because you are protesting against the thing that is stopping you,” Noah says.
Try to imagine how it must feel for black Americans when they watch themselves being looted every single day,” Noah said. Because that’s fundamentally what’s happening in America. Police in America are looting black bodies. And I know someone might think that’s an extreme phrase, but it’s not.”- Advertisment –
Nationwide protests over police violence against African Americans broke out after a video circulated showing Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin using his knee to hold Floyd down for nearly nine minutes. From Minneapolis, Atlanta, and Houston to New York, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles, demonstrations have ranged from people peacefully blocking roads to violent clashes with officers.
How many George Floyds are there that don’t die? How many men are having knees put on their necks? How many Sandra Blands are out there being tossed around?” asked Noah. It doesn’t make the news because it’s not grim enough. It doesn’t even get us anymore. It’s only the deaths, the gruesome deaths, that stick out,” Noah added.
But imagine to yourself if you grew up in a community where every day someone had their knee on your neck?” he added. If every day someone was out there oppressing you, every single day, you tell me what that does to you as a society, as a community, as a group of people and when you know it’s happening because of the color of your skin.”
As looting and mayhem gripped the streets of Dallas, Texas, a mob descended on a man allegedly defending his neighborhood with a long blade. Punched, kicked and pelted with rocks, the man was left mangled and bloody.
Lawlessness continued to reign supreme in Dallas on Saturday night, five days after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked nationwide protests and riots. Following an afternoon of mostly peaceful protests, nightfall saw a spree of vandalism and looting in downtown Dallas.
In one shocking and graphic video captured by Blaze TV’s Elijah Schaffer, a man was set upon by a mob, after allegedly rushing rioters with a large machete or sword. He was quickly surrounded and beaten with rocks, fists, boots, and a skateboard.
Little is known about what set off the incident, but Schaffer claimed that the man attempted to defend a shop” from the mob, who responded by attacking him. Another angle shows the mob pelting him with rocks before he made an ill-fated attempt to rush the crowd.
Two Chicago police officers were surrounded by protesters on Saturday — and then briefly dragged through the street.Ditch the fake news ==> Click here to get news you can trust sent right to your inbox. It’s free!
Video footage of the incident shows two Chicago police officers attempting to arrest a protester. However, the officers were greatly outnumbered and surrounding demonstrators quickly attacked them.
The footage shows protesters hit and drag the officers, one of whom, a female officer, was dragged about 10 feet through the street.
A third officer then rushed into the chaotic scene to protect his fellow officers. But the protesters also attacked him, throwing various projectiles and fluids at the officers.
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In a video captured by CBS46, a young Black couple can be seen being pulled over by Atlanta law enforcement officers because they were reportedly out after curfew, only to be shot with Tasers, then pulled from the car and put in restraints after being yanked out of their car.
Atlanta joined a host of cities to institute a curfew as protests over the killing of George Floyd have swept across the country, leading to clashes with police.
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Nations around the world have watched in horror at the five days of civil unrest in the United States following the death of a black man being detained by police. But they have not been surprised.Racism-tinged events no longer startle even America’s closest allies, though many have watched coverage of the often-violent protests with growing unease.
Burning cars and riot police in the US featured on newspaper front pages around the globe today – bumping news of the COVID-19 pandemic to second-tier status in some places.George Floyd died on May 25 in Minneapolis after a white police officer pressed a knee into his neck. It was the latest in a series of deaths of black men and women at the hands of police in America.Thousands gathered in central London on Sunday (local time) to offer support for American demonstrators. Chanting “No justice! No peace!” and waving placards with the words “How many more?” at Trafalgar Square, the protesters ignored UK government rules banning crowds because of the pandemic. Police didn’t stop them.Demonstrators then marched to the US Embassy, where a long line of officers surrounded the building. Several hundred sat in the street and waved placardsThe US Embassy in Berlin was the scene of protests on Saturday evening under the motto: “Justice for George Floyd”. Police said the gathering, organised through social media, was larger than expected but reported no arrests.
Germany’s top-selling Bild newspaper on Sunday carried the sensational headline “This killer-cop set America ablaze” with an arrow pointing to a photo of now-fired police officer Derek Chauvin, who has been charged with third-degree murder in Floyd’s death, with his knee on Floyd’s neck. The newspaper’s story reported “scenes like out of a civil war”.In Italy, the Corriere della Sera newspaper’s senior US correspondent Massimo Gaggi wrote that the reaction to Floyd’s killing was “different” than previous cases of black Americans killed by police and the ensuring violence.”There are exasperated black movements that no longer preach nonviolent resistance,” Gaggi wrote, noting the Minnesota governor’s warning that “anarchist and white supremacy groups are trying to fuel the chaos”.In countries with authoritarian governments, state-controlled media have been highlighting the chaos and violence of the US demonstrations, in part to undermine American officials’ criticism of their own nations.In China, the protests are being viewed through the prism of US government criticism of China’s crackdown on anti-government protests in Hong Kong.
Hu Xijin, the editor of the state-owned Global Times newspaper, tweeted that US officials can now see protests out their own windows: “I want to ask Speaker Pelosi and Secretary Pompeo: Should Beijing support protests in the US, like you glorified rioters in Hong Kong?”Hua Chunying, a Chinese Foreign ministry spokeswoman, pointed out America’s racial unrest by tweeting “I can’t breathe”, which Floyd said before his death.In Iran, which has violently put down nationwide demonstrations by killing hundreds, arresting thousands and disrupting internet access to the outside world, state television has repeatedly aired images of the US unrest.One TV anchor discussed “a horrible scene from New York, where police attacked protesters”.Another state TV message accused US police agencies in Washington of “setting fire to cars and attacking protesters”, without offering any evidence.
Russia also expressed a lack of shock.”This incident is far from the first in a series of lawless conduct and unjustified violence from US law enforcement,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.”American police commit such high-profile crimes all too often.”There also have been expressions of solidarity with the demonstrators.Over the weekend, Lebanese anti-government protesters flooded social media with tweets sympathetic to US protesters, using the hashtag #Americarevolts.That’s a play on the slogan for Lebanon’s protest movement – Lebanon revolts – which erupted on October 17 last year. Within 24 hours, the hashtag #Americanrevolts became the No. 1 trending tag in Lebanon.In another expression of solidarity with American protesters, about 150 people marched through central Jerusalem on Saturday to protest the shooting death by Israeli police of an unarmed, autistic Palestinian man earlier in the day.Israeli police mistakenly suspected that the man, Iyad Halak, was carrying a weapon. When he failed to obey orders to stop, officers opened fire.Reported with Associated Press.
In a very bold move, the Acting District Judge and Magistrate of Vavuniya has written an open letter virtually demanding a Member of Parliament to resign from his political party but what is more alarming is that she is making her position as ‘We, the Tamils of Tamil Eelam’.Since when has she been employed by this utopian Tamil Eelam”? Isn’t she paid to uphold the Constitution of Sri Lanka by the Government of Sri Lanka? She is, thus, bound by the oath she has taken to function in her role. The President of Sri Lanka, the country’s Chief Justice, Judicial Services Commission, BASL, must immediately respond and demand this Acting District Judge & Magistrate of Vavuniya who has been an attorney since 1981 show cause and offer explanation. Inaction, by those tasked to discipline public officials and ensure they are accountable for their public roles, would end up in every public servant also boldly castigating each other publicly. This is unacceptable & unethical behavior for a public servant. A biased judge/magistrate sets a bad image to Sri Lanka’s judiciary. No Judge while in office can play politics. She cannot express personal views on controversial matters while sitting in office.
They say Justice is Blind because the deliverer of justice is not supposed to take sides.
The Judiciary is one of the 3 main pillars of democracy tasked to be the judge and to deliver justice. But when an appointed judge or anyone functioning in similar role like a magistrate shows partiality, bias and espouses to promote an entity that remains banned in Sri Lanka and an entity that had to be militarily defeated by sacrificing 30,000 soldiers, the Government and the apparatus tasked to look into the ethical performance of those under its pillar, cannot ignore and turn a blind eye without taking action.
She is bound by the oath she has taken. Rules and regulations cannot be confined to just paper. Action must be taken for those that flout the rules. By her actions she has self-exposed herself to be not neutral. How can a judge/magistrate perform in their roles if they show bias? She has completely smeared the image of the judiciary.
It is astonishing that a sitting magistrate & judge is bold enough to write an article titled TNA spokesperson Sumanthiran should resign from the TNA immediately”which was published by a social media website on 26 May 2020. The author is Manomany Sathasivam sitting Acting District Judge & Magistrate in Vavuniya.
We, the Tamils of Tamil Eelam”she writes – now where is this? As far as we know she is a citizen of Sri Lanka and a public servant & employee of Sri Lanka.
These very lines suffice to call for an explanation.
When and who appointed her as the flag bearer of Tamil Eelam’.
We …. have been constantly betrayed by the traitors in our own community’.
‘We have no tolerance and cannot suffer from these disloyal actions any longer’ –
As a public servant and a sitting judge/magistrate can she be speaking for one community? This seriously questions her cases since becoming an attorney in 1981!
She goes on to ask former MP M A Sumanthiran to resign not only from his post as spokesperson but to leave TNA ‘forthwith’.
Who is she to demand a MP to resign from a political party?
Who is she to demand TNA to sack him?
Who is she to tell the TNA that it must ‘honor the wishes of the people and remove him (Sumanthiran)’?
Her tirade also sets to rest controversies regarding how TNA was formed and who formed it. She clearly links LTTE with TNA.
Can a magistrate & acting district judge make public outbursts of the nature being done in castigating an elected Member of Parliament and apparently praising an outfit taking up arms to separate Sri Lanka and create a Tamil Eelam of which she describes ‘We,
What is the issue an Acting District Judge & Vavuniya Magistratehas with M. A. Sumanthiran? These are her allegations against Sumanthiran
Her tirade against Sumanthiran concludes by saying he is not a leader of his community because he has not bothered to voice the ‘views of his own people’. Not voicing the views of his own people she attributes to his 8 May 2020 interview where according to this acting judge and magistrate he ‘bluntly lied about the formation of the TNA’ and ‘vulgarized the armed liberation struggle of the Tamils’ while saying he accepted the lion flag and national anthem.
She provides a list of other Tamils who are also attacking Sumanthiran and their statements are being shown to showcase that we are living among people who wish to continue LTTE separatism, who are drumming separatism, who are venerating mass murderers and terrorists and who are unafraid to publicly say so simply because the law is not being used against them. They are all making a mockery out of the law against terrorism and separatism in Sri Lanka and as ordinary people we are really shocked that they can boldly make such statements and get away.
https://www.tamilguardian.com/content/sumanthiran-bows-head-prabhakaran-criticism-mounts
She makes a major faux pas by referring to former Chief Minister of the Northern Province C V Wigneswaran as CHIEF JUSTICE – being in the legal profession this is totally unacceptable. C V Wigneswaran was NEVER a Chief Justice – he was however a Supreme Court judge.
This article written by a sitting judge/magistrate is replete in questions as it is virtually mocking the Executive/Judicial pillars taunting them to respond. They should because no public servant in particular those tasked to judge the law can flout the law and demean the oath they have taken to uphold the constitution. The superiors to whom she is accountable must seek response and explanation.
This is a very bad and ugly precedent if no action is taken for it questions the judgements and the CJ, Judicial Services Commission, BASL and even the President must make a statement on this. No public servant can flout the constitution.
Shenali D Waduge
Engr. Kanthar Balanathan, Australia DipEE (UK), Grad Cert (Rel-Eng-Monash), Dip Bus& Adm(Finance-Massey), CEng. MIEE(UK) Former Specialist Engineer Power & Control NRG-GPS, Australia
The author of this article is a Tamil who was displeased and peeved to live in the North of SriLanka, left the island in 1977 to have a peaceful life overseas. Even before that while studying in the UK I came across some lawyers and youths being members of EROS (Elam Research Organisation). Their objective I understood was to research and conclude whether Elam is economically viable as a separate country. This was in 1967/68. It was a loss to understand as to why SL did not take any legal action. No information was available after that as it was a secretive organisation. Perhaps this EROS converted itself into EROS later headed by Balakumar.
Tamil race is a race which does not satisfy itself economically, politically, socially and in prestige. Every fellow thinks that he is prodigious although he/she may be an illiterate and a coolie. One of the key weakness of the Tamil race is the Dowry that they need to give their daughters to give in marriage. This policy by default introduces weakness in their vision and mission and goal at work and profession. The need for them to work is for money and do not have job satisfaction or need to develop abreast of technological advancement. The Sinhalas cut corners to accumulate funds to elevate their status and enter politics. However, most of the Tamil people who can talk cut corners and take the shortest route to accumulate funds for politics and dowry. No politician in SL can vouch that he has not strayed from honesty and kept away from bribery and corruption. Maybe that’s human nature. However, there are honest professionals and politicians.
For example, former Supreme Court Judge Mr CV Vigneswaran is a man who can confidently and audaciously vouch for honesty as beyond doubt it is presumed that he is a man for honesty and integrity. We respect his audacity. One honest man with high integrity in the Tamil race.
Tamil Diaspora Organisations
Readers who do not understand Tamil are kindly requested to get a translation. This is the worse form of corruption in the history of the UK operation.
IBC is an honest media with high reputation and integrity among the Tamil media. IBC is also an educative, corrective and unravelling corrupt practice among the media.
Tamils in the name of Tami Eelam and self-determination have formed some compost organisations and Forums with an intent to swindle funds and become rich. Ordinary illiterates and coolies do not understand this motive of the bandits. Hence it’s a pathway for the culprits to further their finances.
Tamils should understand that finally, the end product is nothing but loss of life and wealth of poor mass.
98% of politicians are either corrupt or corruptible.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In the biological sense, race does not exist.” ― Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
A riot is the language of the unheard.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
Victoria Tamil Association (Formerly Ceylon Tamil Association & Eelam Tamil Association) in Melbourne has received following funding arrangements according to its sources to build Victorian Tamil Community Center at a cost of $4,53 million including $500,000 from the Victorian Labor Government and $350,000 from a Shorten Labor Federal Government.
TONY BURKE MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND WATER SHADOW MINISTER FOR CITIZENSHIP AND MULTICULTURAL AUSTRALIA SHADOW MINISTER FOR THE ARTS MEMBER FOR WATSON said some time ago that Labor will build Victorian Tamil Community Centre. While the Victorian Tamil Association formerly Tamil Association & Eelam Association is a registered charity “the Victorian Tamils Community Unit Trust fund was set up to finance the venture and to offer a role and provide the members of the Tamil Community an avenue to be active participants in the vision and venture.
The Victorian Tamil Community Centre (VTCC) is owned by the Victorian Tamils Community Centre Unit Trust. The trustee of the Unit Trust fund is a Proprietary Limited Company. The members of the Tamil Community were invited to become investors in this trust and many have done so. The investors in this trust fund are the owners of the property in proportion to the value of their monetary investment in the Trust fund”.
The interested parties query whether the Association still carries the name Eelam, a separate country for which the Tamil Tigers fought for 30 years and also whether it is in order for an approved registered charity to plan to pay dividends to the would-be investors.
Sri Lanka has now become the killing fields of rare and exotic animals
There is no end in sight for poor animals.
Last year ( 2019) alone 384 elephants died mostly at the hands of humans.
The British killed 10, 000 wild elephants during the heyday of the British Raj.
With a dwindling number – only 3000 elephants living in the country today, it is only a matter of time say within 10 to 20 years before the last elephant becomes extinct in Sri Lanka.
Then elephants will exist only in cyberspace to remind posterity of the rich wildlife heritage we had.
No one except a handful is worried about the plight of elephants and other animals.
They like the Black Leopard which died yesterday (May 29) die cursing the inhumanity of human beings.
Has a curse fallen on Sri Lanka?
We need strong moral leadership in the country similar to the one offered by Mahatma Gandhi of India, that will give voice to the voiceless and articulate the pain and suffering of innocent animals, and restore to them their dignity.
Senaka Weeraratna
The author had ambitious to write about history during his working career as an Electrical Engineer/Works Engineer (Elect) from 1969 to Feb 1977 at Kankesan Cement Works (KCW). It is the right time now that I come forward to present them in a concise article format. The reason being that by hiding activities the world will not change and in particular the North is like a jungle dominated by a certain group of people only and others are treated quite indifferently & indecently. Discrimination & Oppression prevails in the North only. It is good to unravel certain hidden dirty qualities among our Tamils in the North. That’s the nature among the Tamils in the North. In India workers and officers are treated indifferently; no courteousness, gallantry & regard for working class. Those Tamils who read this article shall understand their quality and correct themselves to have a positive progressive Tamil race or else the Tamil race will dissolve into any other race(s). No wonder why some Sinhalese do not like Tamils.
I commenced my wring career on the 5th of December 1965 with the Department of Govt. Govt. Electrical Undertakings (DGEU). My career ended with the DGEU in September 1967 while working as a shift Officer at the Inginiyagala Power Station. During the period 5-12-1965 to 09/1967, I enjoyed my work as the environment was friendly and the Sinhala people were quite helpful and friendly. It was a totally friendly technical environment. However, my professional life at KCW was shifted to be a detrimental oppressive and discriminatory life while at KCW. Although I asked for Puttalam, CCC Posted me to KCW.
In my working career at KCW, the Works Manager (WM) position was held by Tamils up to 1974. The organisation was in shambles. One WM arrives direct from Udupiddy at 8 am and then leaves sharp on the dot at 4 pm. He never stepped foot inside the factory at any instant. He was a Civil Engineer who was seconded for service from the Department of Highways or so. The only WM we had who was quite competent and capable was A. Francis, who was a Mechanical Engineer, however, he left the organisation in 1971, however, he was quite rude with his staff.
Late in 1974, a dynamic and energetic leader (Pat Vithanage) came as the Works Manager, appointed by Mr A. Elkaduwa, who was the Chairman of Ceylon Cement Corporation. After Pat Vithanage (WM) came to the works people behaved differently and were near decent, however, behind the back not at all courteous and honest. The staff had a quite ethnic hatred towards Pat. Pat was decent and professional and had a top managerial capability and people acted with courtesy towards him and the engineers.
This article will unstitch & loosen the dirty politics of the workers and engineers at KCW, although KCW does not exist now, the people in the North shall learn from this as to how they shall treat others and work.
On the day I started work, I was walking to the electrical workshop and a man was urinating on the road (inside works). This road is been used by women and men to access their workplace and canteen. I observed that there were dozens of toiles built which were only about 20 feet away from the man who was urinating. I advised the man to urinate in the toilet and not on the road. He quietly went off and complained to his union President which was sent to the WM. Mr Francis knowns the character of the workshop people. He called me and said not to talk with any of the clowns in the mechanical workshop. I realised that the caste system came into the flow. I also comprehended that there was this caste system practised by even the COOLIES. Maybe the man (COOLIE) was related to (Filipino) SJV Chelvanayagam?
This article limits only to certain key incidents which distressed my anxiety and health. One of the WM (late Shunmuganathan), says always that he is thinking. He was sent to Germany for three-year training and came back just a few months before me. I comprehended that he did not do any modifications or solve any technical issues. He was my boss and I was certain that he was not a fit and proper person to be my boss. That’s nature and the Jaffna man’s influence based on caste and culture. He looked like a Chinese guy in appearance.
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Right from 1969, the precipitator does not work effectively and efficiently. My so-called boss always slides any outside complains to me and I had to face the public. With too much work I started to investigate the precipitator function. There were two issues faced with the Precipitator. (i) Voltage dips (VD) which were the CEB problem. Virtually I send 10-15 telegrams to the GM of the CEB about the VD. The damn CEB engineers had little clue of the issue. The issue here is that Chief Burner is a sixth or eighth standard qualified person, however, his brothers were in the Police as DIG ad SPs. So, he was influential and people do not bother him. Water must be sprayed in the fourth cyclone, however, because of the VD Burners do not spray water. The water spray equipment bends and had to cut it off to pull it out. (ii) The EHV electrode was made of barbed wires and suspended with guided weight. The dust accumulation bends the barbed wire and flashes to the cathode plate. The particular chamber has to be isolated immediately for the other chambers to function. So, the second issue here is that the electrode was not fit for the particular duty. (iii) The particles were of smaller size because of the type of grinding and sieve used. Very small particles can be carried away because of the Precipitator design not fit for purpose. Shift Chemist does not understand high-tech explanations. Wondered whether they do a sample analysis to know the Standard Deviation at various levels in the silos. Quite doubtful cos they get annoyed when asked. The Chemist workplace is like a secular lab. Most of the staff have low education.
None of the WM did anything on my advice. After Pat Vithanage assumed office, he discussed with me and asked me to prepare a comprehensive report on the issues and solution and send it to the Chairman through him, of course. I had two solutions. (i) Procure stainless steel discharge tips for at least one precipitator and install, (ii) Install SLC on the 33kV live running from Chunnakam to Kaithady at Chunnakam. This equipment will limit the fault current. The discharge tips were ordered and I left the organisation to assume duties in Feb 1977 in Nigeria. Pat and I attended a meeting with the engineers and explained the function of the SLC. The other alternative is to reroute the Chavakacheri line which is up to the CEB. None of the engineers or the Burners gave me support except Pat Vithanage and AB Elkaduwa.
The 3.3kV ID Fan motor failed once and, the culture at KCW is that any failure is shifted to the Works Engineer (WE-El). I saw one Tamil electrician throwing raw meal dust into the fan motor out of hatred against myself and Pat. The issue here was that the banding wire used was high tensile stainless steel and it can give way at high temperature. It was recommend to use high tensile epoxy tape for the banding.
Most of the staff in the Kiln section were unqualified. A few with A” level were okay, however, the other Burners including Chief Burner (late G. Joseph & Thuraisingham) were unqualified with 6th & 8th standard only. The problem here is that they cannot understand Parallax” issues. Always complain that the motor current and voltage is over limit. The meters were installed about 6.5 feet above the floor. Quite often have to explain about the parallax problem.
The gantry crane had a span of more than 60 feet, maybe. The drive shaft had several segments and they were connected by bolting the flanges. The shaft is supported by a couple of bearings which had white metal bearings. The white metal, when worn off, introduce misalignment and heavy torque friction and a heavy torque is required to turn the shaft. What is required is to machine the bearing after filling with white metal. However, the damn mechanical engineers who were incompetent did not want to do the job, however, blame the electrical section that the fuse is blowing and the overload relay is tripping. The damn mechanical engineers or what I call them as Sledge Hammers wanted a higher setting the O/L and with a higher fuse rating. So, we did it knowing what will happen. The main drive shaft breaks. It was an agony to explain the half qualified and the sledgehammers. Some Sledgehammers claim that they are from Peradeniya University and that they are superstar idiots and know everything not knowing that they lack in experience.
Similar things happen with the cement transport system. The FK Pumps. The FK pump is a screw conveyor which has a few segments coupled with flanges and supported by bearings. The Workshop guys do not do good welding to standard and the flanges fail and the motor trips. Immediately the complain comes to the WM that there is an electrical fault. Okay, as donkeys we check the motor and the circuits and come up with a clean system. We direct the plant maintenance & Workshop and advice that the welding if not up to standard, for the reason for the failure. The Superstar Peradeniya engineers argue with me. Myself being an electrical and mechanical engineer which is not known to these idiots leads them to override and bully the electrical section.
The irregularities in the supplies and Stores section: Most of the time, the welding rods are recycled through the shops to the stores again with a cut going into a team pocket. Items are bearings, domestic fuses, some cables, and consumables. Staff steel items from the stores to which some store-keepers help them. The Asst Accountant who was in charge of the stores was an incompetent person always attacking people. He resembles a Japanese or a Korean.
A couple of engineers like three were quite honest but we were afraid to talk as the Union and the staff rise against us. There were so many irregularities and frauds that happened at KCW; however, I cannot bring everything in one publication.
One example: An elec. an engineer from State Fertiliser Manufacturing Corporation (SFMC) was sent to my section for specialised training. What he did was to apply for his IEE Charter stating that he is the cement engineer and that he is the boss of the place without my understanding. I also applied and when called upon for an interview by the CTE and Mr John Pillai asked me whether I was the Cement engineer. After discussion for over 2 hours, I advised them to check with the GM of Cement. On the day in Colombo, the GM called me and said that IEE checked with him and that truth was conveyed to the IEE. GM was a Sinhalese person. I received my Charter in 1975 and believe that the SFMC engineer’s application was deferred by ten years. These are fraudulent activities by Tamils in the North.
The Head Office chairman and GMs in Colombo shall note this and be cautious as still, the North has CEB Offices and maybe branches of other Departments in the North.
My judgement and comprehension are that Pat Vithanage was the best WM in the North.
Tamils wanted a Tamil as the Governor for the NPC. GOSL should now understand as to why the people in the North need a Tamil. I comprehend that a Sinhalese SriLankan shall be appointed as the head of the NPC and in any Department in the North. I can bring out a significant volume of irregular and fraudulent practices in the North, which I cannot in this instant.
Hope the Tamils will correct themselves rather criticize others. A typical example is Arjuna Mahendran and his Son-in-Law for plundering Rs 20 Billion.
1936 දී තරුණ ඇට්ලන්ටා පුවත්පත් කතුවරියක් ඇගේ පළමු නවකතාව ප්රකාශයට පත් කලාය. එම පොත ක්ෂණික සාර්ථකත්වයක් ලැබීය. මෙම පොත තවමත් ඇමරිකාවේ වැඩියෙන්ම අලෙවි වන නවකතාව ලෙස පවතී. එය ස්කාර්ලට් ඔහාරාගේ කතාව රැගත් ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් නවකතාවයි. එය දශකයක් නිර්වචනය කළ නවකතාව විය. මෙම නවකතාව දකුණේ සහ පොදුවේ එක්සත් ජනපදය ගැන – සංස්කෘතික තොරතුරු රාශියක් ගෙන එයි. ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ්” යනු ඉතිහාස පෙළපොතක් පමණක් නොවේ – එහි හදවතේ, එය මිනිසුන් සහ ඔවුන්ගේ අභිප්රේරණයන් පිළිබඳ කතාවකි. එය ආදරය, යුද්ධය, පරිහානිය සහ ඛේදවාචකය පිළිබඳ කතාවකි. නවකතාව ලියා ඇත්තේ වසර අටක පමණ කාලයක් පුරා දිවෙන සරල රේඛීය කථා වස්තුවක් පාදක කරගෙනය. මෙම නවකතාව ප්රබන්ධ සඳහා 1936 දී පුලිට්සර් ත්යාගය දිනා ගැනීමට සමත් විය.
මෙම නවකතාව ලියූ මාග්රට් මිචෙල් කාන්තා ලේඛිකාවකි. ඇයට ශක්තිමත් ස්ත්රීවාදයක් ඇත. අපට එය නවකතාවෙන්, විශේෂයෙන් ස්කාර්ලට් වෙතින් ලබා ගත හැකිය. මෙම නවකතාව 1930 ගණන්වල ඇමරිකානු සංස්කෘතිය අධ්යයනය කිරීමට ප්රයෝජනවත් මෙවලමකි. සුළඟ සමඟ මනුෂ්යත්වය සොයා ගැනීම සම්භාව්ය නවකතාවෙන් පෙන්නුම් කරන්නේ තරඟකාරී දේශපාලන විශ්වාසයන් සඳහා පුද්ගල ජීවිත අඩු කළ නොහැකි බවයි.
මාග්රට් මිචෙල් උපත ලැබුවේ 1900 නොවැම්බර් 8 වන දින ජෝර්ජියාවේ ඇට්ලන්ටා හිදී ය. කුඩා කාලයේ දී, සිවිල් යුද්ධයේ දී හිටපු කොන්ෆෙඩරේෂන් සොල්දාදුවන්ට ඇහුම්කන් දීම ඔවුන්ගේ නිර්භීතකම හා දුෂ්කරතා පිළිබඳ කථාන්තර ඇය ශ්රවණය කලාය. හිටපු කොන්ෆෙඩරෙට්වරුන්ගේ කතන්දර ඔස්සේ ඇය තම නවකතාව ගොඩ නැගුවාය. ඇන්ටිටෙම් සටනේදී ඇගේ පියාගේ සීයා වන රසල් මිචෙල් සිවිල් යුද්ධයේදී සටන් කළ සොල්දාදුවෙකි.
1936 දී මැක්මිලන් එය මුද්රණයට ගෙන එන විට එක්සත් ජනපදය තවමත් මහා අවපාතයේ ගැඹුරු විය. ගෝලීය ආර්ථික අර්බුදයේ මෙම කාල පරිච්ඡේදය තුළ එක්සත් ජනපදයේ පුළුල් ලෙස විරැකියාව, නිවාස නැතිකම සහ අපේක්ෂා භංගත්වය ඇති විය. ගොන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් එළියට එන විට, දුක් වේදනා හා අලාභයන් තුළින් එහි නොපසුබට උත්සාහය පිළිබඳ පණිවුඩය විශාල ප්රේක්ෂක පිරිසක්, විශේෂයෙන් කාන්තාවන් අතර අනුනාද විය. බලාපොරොත්තු සුන්වූවන්ට ස්කාර්ලට්ගේ ධාවකය සහ ශක්තිය ආශ්වාදයක් විය. චිත්රපටය නිකුත් වන විට, 1939 දී ගොන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් උමතුව උච්ච විය.
ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් පොත ගෙන යන සමාජ පරිණාමයේ බලය අති විශාල හා තීව්ර වූ අතර එය පිටපත් මිලියන දහයක බෙස්ට් සෙලර් එකක් බවට පත් විය. හොලිවුඩ් නිර්මිත ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් යනු මාග්රට් මිචෙල්ගේ 1936 නවකතාවට අනුවර්තනය කරන ලද ඇමරිකානු එපික් චිත්රපටයකි.
1930 ගණන් යනු සියලු ඇමරිකානුවන්ට විශාල වෙනසක් කළ කාලයකි. මෙම කාලය තුළ ඇමරිකානුවන්ට රැඩිකල් ආර්ථික, දේශපාලන හා සමාජ වෙනස්කම් වලට අමතරව සංස්කෘතික පරමාදර්ශ, සාරධර්ම හා රුචි අරුචිකම් වලට අනුවර්තනය වීමට බල කෙරුනි. මුළු දශකයම මහා අවපාතය, එක්සත් ජනපද ඉතිහාසයේ දරුණුතම හා වඩාත්ම ප්රසිද්ධ ආර්ථික පසුබෑම සලකුණු කළේය. ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් මේ දශකය තුල උද්දීපනය වූ අතර එය ඇමරිකාවේ ප්රියතම චිත්රපටය විය.
ඇමරිකානු සිවිල් යුද්ධය හා ප්රතිසංස්කරණ යුගය මෙම චිත්රපටයෙන් නිරූපනය වෙයි. ධාවන කාලය පැය තුනක්, විනාඩි 37වූ ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් අතිශයින් ජනප්රිය වූ අතර එය එතෙක් නිපදවූ වැඩිම ආදායම උපයාගත් චිත්රපටයක් බවටද වාර්තාවක් තබා ඇත. ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් විශිෂ්ට විචාර ලබා ගත් චිත්රපටයක් විය. මෙම චිත්රපටයේ ස්කාර්ලට් ලෙස රඟපෑම වෙනුවෙන් ඉංග්රීසි නිළියක් වන විවියන් ලී විචාරකයන් ගේ අවධානයට පාත්ර විය. එසේම ක්ලාක් ගේබල්ගේ රඟපෑමද මෙහිදී කැපී පෙනුනි. 12 වන ඇකඩමි සම්මාන උළෙලේදී ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් ඇකඩමි සම්මාන ජයග්රහණ රැසක් දිනා ගත්තේය. ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් හොඳම චිත්රපටය , හොඳම නිළිය, හොඳම සහය නිළිය, හොඳම අධ්යක්ෂක, හොඳම තිර රචනය, හොඳම සිනමා නිර්මාණය, හොඳම කලා අධ්යක්ෂණය සහ හොඳම සංස්කරණය සඳහා සම්මානයට පාත්ර විය.
මාග්රට් මිචෙල් සුදු දක්ෂිණ දෘෂ්ටි කෝණයකින් දකුණු සමාජයේ කතාවක් කියන්නීය. ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් ” නවකතාවට සහ චිත්රපටයට පාදක වන්නේ ඇමරිකානු පූර්ව සහ පශ්චාත් සිවිල් යුද්දයයි. එංගලන්තයෙන් නිදහස ලබා වසර සියයකටත් අඩු කාලයකදී ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය සිවිල් යුද්ධයේ අද්දරට පැමිණියේය. මෙම භූමි ජනපද යටත් විජිත ලෙස හැඳින්වීමට පෙර සිටම උතුරේ සහ දකුණේ ආර්ථිකයන් විවිධ දිශාවන් ඔස්සේ ඉදිරියට ගොස් තිබුණි. නිෂ්පාදන හා කර්මාන්ත නාගරික වර්ධනය හා සංස්කෘතික ප්රගතිශීලිත්වය ඉදිරියට ගෙන යද්දී නූතනත්වය උතුර පාලනය කළේය. කෙසේ වෙතත්, දකුණේ, මුදල් භෝග හා වහල් ශ්රමය මත පදනම් වූ කෘෂිකාර්මික ආර්ථිකයක් ධූරාවලි වහල් සමාජයක් නිර්මාණය කළ අතර, එම ධූරාවලියේ පතුලේ වහලුන් සහ ඉහළින් මෙගා වතු හිමියන් සිටිති. එක්සත් ජනපදයේ වහල්භාවය පිළිබඳ නැගී එන ආතතීන්ට ප්රධාන සිදුවීම් තුනක් දායක වූ අතර එය සිවිල් යුද්ධය පුපුරා යාමේ උච්චතම අවස්ථාව විය. ඉදිරි දෙවසර තුළ වැඩි වියදම් සහිත මිලිටරි ජයග්රහණ කිහිපයක් හැරුණු විට, දකුණ සෑම පෙරමුණකම වේගයෙන් පහත වැටෙමින් තිබුණි. සුදු දක්ෂිණාවරුන්ට තිබුනේ කපුයායන් සහ ඔවුන් ගේ අධිමානය පමණක් බවත් එහෙත් උතුර සමුර්ධිමත්ව යුද්ධයකට මුහුණ දීමේ ශක්තියකින් යුක්ත බව පූර්ව යුද සමයේදී රීට් බට්ලර් පවසයි. එහෙත් අහංකාර දක්ෂිණාවරු එම ප්රකාශයට කිපෙති. මාග්රට් මිචෙල් දකුණේ ජනතාව නිරූපණය කරන්නේ එහි විශ්වාසයන් හා පරමාදර්ශයන් වෙනුවෙන් සටන් කොට අහිමි වූ ශිෂ්ටාචාරයක උරුමක්කාරයන් ලෙසට ය.
තරුණ යුවතියක වූ ස්කාර්ලට් ඕ හාරාට ආදර සැලසුම් තිබේ. නමුත් ඇයගේ ආදර සැලසුම් ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට පෙර සිවිල් යුද්ධය පැමිණියේ ඇගේ දොරට තට්ටු කරමිනි. යූනියන් ජෙනරාල් ෂර්මන් ජෝර්ජියාව ආක්රමණය කිරීම නිසා මාස කිහිපයකින් ඇයට ඇගේ නිවස සහ රට කඩා වැටෙන විට අසරණව බලා සිටීමට බල කෙරෙයි.
මනෝ චිකිත්සකයෙකු වන වෛද්ය චාල්ස් ඊ. මයොස් ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් නවකතාවේ මිනිස් හැඟීම් පිළිබඳ විවරණයක් කලේය. නවකතාවේ සාමාන්ය ස්වරය බොහෝ දුරට ස්කාර්ලට්ගේ සංජානනය මත පදනම් වේ. එහි ප්රේමය සඳහා ස්කාර්ලට් සහ රීට් අතර දරුණු තරඟය මෙන්ම ස්කාර්ලට් තුල පවත්නා තමා වෙත අවධානය යොමු කරවා ගැනීමට තිබෙන අධිකතර යොමුව පෙන්වයි. රෙට් බට්ලර් සහ ස්කාර්ලට් ඕ හාරා අතර සබඳතාවය රෝලකෝස්ටරයක් මෙනි. ස්කාර්ලට් ඕ හාරා – ඇය ආත්ම කේන්ද්රීය චරිතයකි. ස්කාර්ලට් විශාල ජෝර්ජියානු වතුයායක ජීවත් වන අතර බොහෝ දෙනාගේ පැසසුමට හා ආදරයට ලක්වේ. ඇය අහංකාරය, ආත්මාර්ථකාමී, එසේම අනුකම්පා විරහිත කාන්තාවකි. ඇය ඉතිහාසය පුරාම කාන්තාවන්ට ආරෝපණය කර ඇති සියලු නිෂේධාත්මක ඒකාකෘති මූර්තිමත් කරන චරිතයකි. එක් අතකින්, ඇය කැරලිකාර හා චපල, කෑදර හා උදාසීනය; අනෙක් අතට, ඇය ශක්තිමත්, අධිෂ්ඨාන සහිත සහ නොනැසී පවත්නා ආදරයක් පවත්වාගෙන යන දයාබර චරිතයකි. ඇය යුද්ධයක් තුළ ජීවත්වීමෙන් හානියට පත් චරිතයකි එහෙත් පැරණි ලෝකයේ නටබුන් මත ඇගේ නව ජීවිතය ගොඩනඟා ගැනීමට දක්ෂ වීරවරියකි.
කතාවේ චිත්තවේගීය හරය වන්නේ ස්කාර්ලට්, රීට් සහ ඈෂ්ලි අතර ප්රේම ත්රිකෝණයයි. ස්කාර්ලට් ඈෂ්ලි සමඟ අමනාප වී සිටින්නේ ඇයට ඔහුව හිමි කර ගැනීමට නොහැකි නිසාය. ඈෂ්ලි දක්ෂිණ මහත්වරුන්ගේ නැතිවූ පරමාදර්ශය නියෝජනය කරයි. ඔහු පරිණාමය වෙමින් පවතින ලෝකයක් විසින් ඉතිරි කරන ලද ව්යාකූල නයිට්වරයෙකි. ස්කාර්ලට් ඈෂ්ලි ගෙන් පලි ගැනීම සඳහා චාල්ස් හැමිල්ටන් සමග විවහා වෙයි. එහෙත් ස්කාර්ලට් තුල චාල්ස් හැමිල්ටන් පිලිබඳ ගැඹුරු හැඟීමක් නොමැත. ඔහුගේ මරණයේදී පවා ඇය සසල නොවන්නීය.
ස්කාර්ලට් අවට සිටින අයට වඩා වෙනස් වන්නේ ඇය මවගෙන් ඉගෙන ගත් සංස්කෘතික හා මානව සාරධර්ම ප්රතික්ෂේප කිරීමෙනි. දක්ෂිණ ස්ත්රීත්වයේ සම්ප්රදායන්ගෙන් බැහැර වීමට ස්කාර්ලට් හට අවසර ඇත. ඇය පැවැත්ම සඳහා ආත්මාර්ථකාමිත්වයේ භෞතික සාරධර්මවලට බැස, පැරණි සංස්කෘතියට අත්යවශ්ය වූ අනුකූලතාව සහ ගෞරවය යන සමාජ වටිනාකම් ප්රතික්ෂේප කරන්නීය. රැඩිකල් ලෙස වෙනස් වූ පශ්චාත් සිවිල් යුද්ධ ලෝකයේ පැවැත්මේ අභියෝගය භාර ගැනීමේ අධිෂ්ඨානය , ධෛර්යය සහ ප්රායෝගිකත්වය, සමහර විට මුරණ්ඩුකම පවා ඇත්තේ ස්කාර්ලට්ට පමණි. ව්යාපාර හා නායකත්වය සඳහා විශිෂ්ට දක්ෂතා ස්කාර්ලට් සතුව ඇත. යුද්ධයෙන් පසු ඇය තම පියාගේ විනාශ වූ වතුයාය යථා තත්වයට පත් කරන අතර ඇට්ලන්ටාහි ඇගේ ලී මෝල මගින් ආර්ථික සාර්ථකත්වයක් අත්කර ගන්නීය.
මාග්රට් මිචෙල් පැවසූ පරිදි, ස්කාර්ලට් ඔහාරා ලස්සන නැත, පිරිමින්ගේ අවධානයට ලක් වූයේ ඇගේ චමත්කාරය සහ විශ්වාසයයි.ස්කාර්ලට් ලෝක සාහිත්යයේ චරිතවල අතිශය පැහැදිලි අර්ථයකි. ඇය ඇමරිකානු ආත්මයේ සහ එහි සංස්කෘතියේ සැබෑ පිළිබිඹුවකි. ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් වනාහී ස්කාර්ලට්ගේ ස්ත්රීවාදී චින්තනයේ ප්රකාශනයයි.
ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ්
නවකතාවේ මෙලනියා යනු සුළඟයි; ඇය සාම්ප්රදායික, කරුණාවන්ත සහ ඉවසිලිවන්ත ය. පැරණි දකුණ සුළඟ සමඟ ගොස් ඇත. ස්කාර්ලට් එසේ නොවීය, ඇය නව ය, ඇය තීරණාත්මක හා ස්ථිර ය. ඇය පැරණි දකුණේ තරමක් විරුද්ධවාදියෙකි. මෙලනියා මාතෘත්වයේ සංස්කෘතියේ” පරමාදර්ශයන් මූර්තිමත් කරයි.
යුද්ධයට පෙර දක්ෂිණ සංස්කෘතිය අවධාරණය කරන්නේ ශක්තිමත් පිරිමි සණ්ඨාන වැදගත්කමයි. පරමාදර්ශී පීතෘමූලික දකුණු ලෝකය මිනිසුන්ගේ සිහින සෑදීමකි; සෑම දෙයක්ම ඔවුන්ගේ රුචිකත්වයට සරිලන සේ අදහස් කෙරේ. පුරුෂාධිපත්යයට සංස්කෘතිය ඉහළ වටිනාකමක් ලබා දෙයි. එහෙත් යුද්ධය සෑම දෙයක්ම වෙනස් කරයි. ‘ මීට වසර ගණනාවකට පෙර දකුණේ අපි අපේ කාන්තාවන් කාන්තාවන් බවට පත් කළෙමු. යුද්ධය පැමිණ කාන්තාවන් අවතාර බවට පත් කළේය. ඉතින් මහත්වරුනි, නමුත් ඔවුන් අවතාර ලෙස සවන් දෙන්න. ’” (ෆෝක්නර් ).
ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් නවකතාව සහ චිත්රපටය සිවිල් යුද්ධය පිළිබඳ හැඟීම්බර දෘෂ්ටියක් ඉදිරිපත් කරන අතර, එහි පරණ දකුණ” කැමල්ට්ගේ ස්ථානයට පත්වන අතර යුද්ධය කළේ දකුණ පරාජය කිරීමට හා වහලුන් නිදහස් කර ගැනීමට බව අවධාරණය කරයි. තවද මෙම චිත්රපටය යුධ විරෝධී චිත්රපටයක් ලෙසට නම් කිරීම සාවද්ය නොවේ. ස්කාලට් ඔහාරා විසින් අත් දුටු යුද්ධය විනාශයෙන් හා දරිද්රතාවයෙන් පිරී ගියේය. එය සුදු දක්ෂිණාවරුන්ගේ මෙන්ම උතුරේ යැන්කින් ගේ කෘර ක්රියා වලින් පිරී ගිය කතාවකි. ලින්කන් ගේ ජෙනරාල්වරයෙකු වූ ෂර්මන් යුද්ධයේදී මානව නීති රීතී පිලිබඳව තැකීමක් කලේ නැත. ඔහු ඇට්ලන්ටාව ගිනිබත් කලේය. තරුණයින් යුධ තර්ජනයට ප්රතිචාර දක්වන්නේ නිර්භීතව මිය යාමෙනි. කාන්තාවන් නිර්භීතව ඛේදවාචකය පිළිගෙන ඔවුන්ගේ පූර්ණ සහයෝගය ඉරණම කෙරෙහි ලබා දේ. යුද්ධය විනාශකාරී ලෙසින් පරණ දේ ඉවත දමා නව ආකාරයන් කරා ගමන් කරයි.සිවිල් යුද්ධය නිසා දකුණට අනන්යතාවය, සමාජ ව්යුහය, ජීවනෝපාය සහ අධිෂ්ඨාන ශක්තිය අහිමි වී තිබුණි.
ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් නවකතාවේ යුද කම්පන ප්රතික්රියා පෙන්වයි. ස්කාර්ලට් සිවිල් යුද්ධයේ කුරිරු සහ භයානක මුහුණුවර සියැසින් දැක්කා පමණක් නොව ඒ නිසා කම්පණයටද පත් වූවාය. පශ්චාත්-යුද කම්පනය පිළිබඳ ආඛ්යානය බොහෝ විට සාමාන්ය සුදු පුරුෂයාගේ අත්දැකීම් කෙරෙහි අවධානය යොමු කර ඇති අතර කාන්තාවන් බොහෝ විට නිශ්ශබ්ද වන අතර ඔවුන්ගේම යුද කම්පනය ගැන කතා කිරීමට බලය අහිමි වේ. පශ්චාත් කම්පන සහගත මානසික ආතතියෙන් පෙළෙන කාන්තාවන්ට නිරෝගී සබඳතා ඇති කර ගැනීමට ඇති නොහැකියාව පෙන්නුම් කළ හැකි බවත් පශ්චාත් කම්පන සහගත වර්ධනයේ එකම මාධ්යය වන්නේ අතීතය විසඳා ගැනීමට සහ ඉඩ හැරීමෙන් පසු අර්ථවත් සම්බන්ධතා සහ සම්බන්ධතා ඇති කර ගැනීම බව මනෝ චිකිත්සකයෝ විශ්වාස කරති. යුද්දය නිසා ක්ෂිතිමය අත්දැකීම් වලට ලක් වන ස්කාර්ලට් තුල මානසික වශයෙන් විපරිණාමයක් සිදුවෙයි.
මුල් කාලයේදී අධිරාජ්යවාදී ආධිපත්යය තුළ රැඳී සිටි ඇමරිකානුවන් තමන් ගේ නිදහස සටන් කිරීමෙන් ලබා ගත්තෝය. බොහෝ ඇමරිකානුවන්ට තම අයර්ලන්ත සම්භවයන් අමතක කරනු නොහැකි විය. අයර්ලන්ත මාතෘවාදය
මෙම නවකතාවෙන් දැකිය හැක. අයර්ලන්ත රුධිර බිංදුවක් ඇති ඕනෑම කෙනෙකුට ඔවුන් ජීවත් වන භූමිය ඔවුන්ගේ මව හා සමාන බව කතුවරිය කියයි. ස්කාර්ලට්ගේ අයර්ලන්ත භාවය කතුවරිය ඇතැම් අවස්ථා වලදී ඉස්මතු කරන්නීය.
එංගලන්තයෙන් නිදහස ලබා වසර සියයකටත් අඩු කාලයකදී ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය සිවිල් යුද්ධයේ අද්දරට පැමිණියේය. මෙම භූමි ජනපද යටත් විජිත ලෙස හැඳින්වීමට පෙර සිටම උතුරේ සහ දකුණේ ආර්ථිකයන් විවිධ දිශාවන් ඔස්සේ ඉදිරියට ගොස් තිබුණි. නිෂ්පාදන හා කර්මාන්ත නාගරික වර්ධනය හා සංස්කෘතික ප්රගතිශීලිත්වය ඉදිරියට ගෙන යද්දී නූතනත්වය උතුර පාලනය කළේය. සියවසකට පෙර එක්සත් ජනපදයේ ජීවන මාර්ග දෙකක් තිබුණි ඇමරිකා උතුරු මාර්ගය වූයේ වර්ධනය වන නගර සහ කාර්මීකරණය වූ අතර දකුනු ක්රමය, වහලුන් ගෙන් යුක්තවූ
කපු වගාවන් සහ දක්ෂිණ ඊගෝවෙන් සැදුනු වංශාධිපති පීතෘමූලිකත්වයේ අංගයන් ගෙන් සමන්විත විය. ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් පවතින්නේ තනිකරම දක්ෂිණ පෞද්ගලික අවකාශයකය. එහි ඇතැම් විට දකුණේ ප්රබල කොන්ෆෙඩරෙට් ස්මාරක නිරූපණය කරයි. මාග්රට් මිචෙල්ගේ නවකතාවේ බොහෝ චරිත දකුණ” දකින්නේ බටහිරින් පහළ මිසිසිපි ගඟ සහ නැගෙනහිර අත්ලාන්තික් සාගරය, උතුරේ ටෙනසි සිට මෙක්සිකෝ බොක්ක සහ දකුණින් ෆ්ලොරිඩාව යන රාජ්යයන්ය. එහෙත් නවකතාව තුලින් උතුර හා දකුණ වෙන්වීම මෝඩ ක්රියාවක් යැයි මිචෙල් සිතූ බව රීට් බට්ලර්ගේ පූර්ව පූර්ව ප්රකාශයන් මගින් සාධාරණ ලෙස පැහැදිලි කර ඇත. ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් හි වඩාත්ම මතභේදාත්මක අංගය වන්නේ චිත්රපටයේ රේස් රිලේෂන්ස් හෙවත් ජාති සබඳතා නිරූපණය කිරීමයි. නවකතාවේ කු ක්ලැක්ස් ක්ලෑන්වරුන් පිලිබඳ සත්ය නිරූපණය අවම වූවද වහල්භාවය නිරූපණය කිරීම ඍජුව පවතී. ඩී. ග්රිෆිත්ගේ 1915 චිත්රපටය සිවිල් යුද්ධය සහ ප්රතිනිර්මාණය පිළිබඳ ජාතියක උපත වීර කාව්යයේ ග්රිෆිත්, කුක් ක්ලැක්ස් ක්ලැන් නිරූපණය කළේ පශ්චාත් යුධ සමයේ දකුණේ නිර්භීත ගැළවුම්කරුවන් ලෙසටය. තෝමස් ක්රිප්ස් පැවසුවේ මිචෙල් බොහෝ දක්ෂිණ වැසියන් මෙන් ඔවුන්ගේ අප්රිකානු ඇමරිකානු සේවකයන්ට ආදරය කළ නමුත් ඒ සමඟම කු ක්ලූක්ස් ක්ලැන් ව්යාපාරයේ අවශ්යතාවය විශ්වාස කල බවයි.
සමහරක් පවසන පරිදි ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් වහල් සේවයේ අවලක්ෂණ භාවය පෙන්වන නිර්මාණයකි. ගොන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් හි නිරූපණය කර ඇති වහලුන් මූලික වශයෙන් මාමි, ප්රිස්සි බිග් සෑම් ,පීටර් සහ පෝක් වැනි පක්ෂපාත ගෘහ සේවක සේවිකාවන් ය. මැල්කම් එක්ස් පෙන්වා දෙන පරිදි ගෘහ වහලුන් කපු යායවල් වල සේවය කල වහලුන්ට වඩා උසස් කුලයකි. ගොන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් හි ගෘහ වහලුන් ප්රීතිමත් සහ හාම්පුතාට පක්ෂපාතී ආදර භක්තිය පෙන්වන්නාවූ කොටසකි. චිත්රපටය සියලු අප්රිකානු ඇමරිකානුවන් මෝඩ හා ළමා ස්වරූපයෙන් නිරූපණය කරයි. අප පිලිගත යුතු සත්ය නම් නවකතාවේ කතුවරිය වූ මාග්රට් මිචෙල් ජීවත් වූයේ ඇගේ ආදරණීය ජෝර්ජියාව පාසැල්, දුම්රිය
සහ බොහෝ පොදු ස්ථානවල කළු ජාතිකයින් සහ සුදු ජාතිකයින් වෙන් කිරීම අනිවාර්ය කරන වෙනස් ලෙස සැලකෙන ජිම් ක්රෝ නීති ක්රියාත්මක කළ කාලයක ය. පරාජිත දකුණට වහල් වතුකරයේ දින කරා ආපසු යා නොහැකි වූ මුත් වෙන් කිරීම තුළින් එහි හිටපු වහලුන්ට ඔවුන්ගේ කලින් අයිතිකරුවන්ට ප්රභේධකරණය මගින් බෙදුනු සමාජයක් බිහි කරන ලදි.
මැල්කම් එක්ස් සිය චරිතාපදානයේ ගොන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් ඔහු කුඩා කාලයේ දී නැරඹූ බවත් එය නැරඹීමෙන් පසුව ඔහුට ගැඹුරු ලැජ්ජාවක් දැනුනු බවත් සඳහන් කොට තිබේ. ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් ද ජාතිවාදයේ ලේබලය සමඟ වඩ වඩාත් කැළැල් වී ඇති අතර, සෑම වසරක් පාසාම නවකතාව වඩාත් මතභේදාත්මක වීමට හේතු වේ. නමුත් අප පිලිගත යුතු සත්යක් තිබේ . එනම් ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් කතුවරිය දැන සිටියේ දක්ෂිණ සුදු වතුකරයේ හිමිකරුගේ කතාව. ඇය හැදී වැඩුණේ සිවිල් යුද්ධයේ වෙතරානුවන් සහ හිටපු වහල් හිමියන් අතර ය – මාග්රට් මිචෙල් නිරූපණය කිරීමට පටන් ගත්තේ ඔවුන්ගේ කතාව සහ ඔවුන් වටහා ගත් ඉතිහාසයයි.වහලුන්ගේ ජීවිත නිරූපණය කිරීමේදී මාග්රට් මිචෙල් පිටස්තරයින්ගේ දෘෂ්ටිකෝණය, වහල් හිමිකරුගේ දෘෂ්ටිකෝණය ලබා දුන්නේය. මෙම දෘෂ්ටිකෝණයට විශාල වටිනාකමක් සහ වලංගු භාවයක් ඇත.
කෙසේ නමුත් ගෝන් විත් ද වින්ඩ් ඇමරිකානු සාහිත්යයේ විශිෂ්ටතම කෘතියකි. මෙම නවකතාව ඔස්සේ කතුවරිය සිවිල් යුද්ධය දකුණේ ජනතාවට විනාශකාරී අලාභ හා ජීවිත වෙනස්කම් ගෙන ආ අයුරු පෙන්වූවාය. අතීතයේ සෑම දෙයක්ම ඉරා දැමීමේ ප්රවණතාව ජෝර්ජියාවේ ඇට්ලන්ටා නගරයේ අද දක්වාම පවතින උරුමයකි. එහෙත්, ඇට්ලන්ටා වෙත සංක්රමණය වූ උතුරේ ජනතාව තමන්ගේම මාර්ග ගෙන ආ අතර, ඔවුන්ට පැරණි දකුණු සමාජය පිළිබඳ ආදර හැඟීමක් ඇති වූ අතර, එහි කොටසක් වීමට අවශ්ය විය. දකුනු ජාතිකයන් අතර, නව ආර්ථිකයට ගැළපෙන මාර්ගයක් සොයා ගත් අයට දිවි ගලවා ගැනීමට අවස්ථාවක් ඇති අතර, අතීතය දෙස බොහෝ වේලාවක් ආපසු හැරී බැලීමට කිසිවක් කළ නොහැකි අය මිය ගියහ. මෙම නවකතාවට තේමාවක් තිබේ නම් එය ප්රවර්තනය (survival) ” බව මාග්රට් මිචෙල් පැවසුවාය.
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග
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COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lankan authorities fear a fresh outbreak of coronavirus infections after thousands of mourners paid their respects to the body of a respected union leader on Saturday (May 31), defying a curfew and social distancing rules.
Large crowds were seen jostling to bid farewell to Arumugam Thondaman, the leader of a tea plantation union and a government minister.
The 55-year-old died of a heart attack on Tuesday and is due to be cremated on Sunday at Nuwara Eliya, in the country’s tea-growing highlands.
Authorities had imposed a 24-hour curfew in an unsuccessful attempt to stop crowds from visiting Thondaman’s body.
“Crowd control has been difficult. Distraught supporters have tried to push down police barriers to get into a building and pay their respects,” a police officer in the area said.
Large crowds had also gathered at the office of his Ceylon Worker’s Congress party in Colombo to view his body before the funeral procession went east for final rites.
A statement by a group of government doctors warned the funeral “could undermine public confidence in measures taken so far to contain the spread of the virus and lead to a second wave.”
The repatriation of migrant workers from the Middle East as well as other regions will be continued reassured Foreign Relations, Skills Development, Employment and Labour Relations Minister Dinesh Gunawardena.
It will be carried out in a manner sensitive to the vulnerability of these communities, particularly those who have lost legal status and/or employment in their host countries, stated the Ministry of Foreign Relations issuing a statement.
This will be done in consultation with the COVID Task Force, in view of the considerable strain presently placed on the health sector and quarantine centres following the increased number of COVID infected persons who have recently returned from Kuwait. It was noted that it is proposed to explore the possibility of getting PCR tests done prior to boarding all flights in future.
The Minister made these observations at a meeting held this evening (29 May 2020) at the Foreign Ministry attended by Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinha, Ministry of Skills Development, Employment and Labour Relations Secretary Sarath Abeygunawardana, Chairman Sri Lankan Foreign Employment Bureau (SLBFE) Kamal Ratwatte, and relevant officials of the two ministries and the SLBFE.
It was noted that according to the latest update, as at 27 May, 42,522 persons from 123 countries were seeking to return to Sri Lanka. Of these, migrant workers amounted to 34,881 of which 20,893 are living in the Middle East, while 4,961 were short term visa holders, and 2,016 were students.
Taking stock of the developments concerning those repatriated from Kuwait, it was noted that of the 466 returnees, 379 were those benefiting from the amnesty who had surrendered to the camps between 21-25 April and had been awaiting repatriation. 87 were those from Kuwaiti detention centres and prisons. Through Diplomatic Notes on 11 and 14 May 2020, prior to their eventual departure from Kuwait on two Kuwait Airways flights on 19 May, the Sri Lanka Embassy in Kuwait had requested the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait to conduct PCR tests on those being repatriated. However the Mission was informed that this would not be possible and that no passenger with COVID symptoms would be allowed to board the aircraft. It had also been stated that PCR tests had not been done on any of the returnees from other countries leaving Kuwait.
It was pointed out that at present the greatest vulnerability was in the Maldives, but particularly in Greater Male where a red alert has been declared by the Maldivian Government, which has explicitly requested foreign governments to evacuate their citizens. Of approximately 7000 presently seeking repatriation from the Maldives, almost 2000 are in Greater Male. On 14 May, 284 were repatriated and special approval had to be secured to evacuate a few medical emergency cases from outer Male. The Foreign Ministry has consulted the Maldivian authorities, who have expressed willingness for PCR tests to be done in advance on Sri Lankans to be repatriated, provided that PCR test kits and medical personnel from Sri Lanka would be made available to conduct these tests.
At the request of the COVID Task Force, the Foreign Relations Ministry has also consulted the other capitals from where repatriation flights are planned to the Middle East and elsewhere, to ascertain the possibility of conducting PCR tests prior to taking flights. It was noted that in most, PCR testing is only available for those showing serious symptoms due to limited facilities.
The SLBFE informed the meeting that to bolster the present capacity, four SLBFE training centres have been made available to the COVID Task Force for quarantine purposes in Haliella, Tangalle, Dambulla and Polonnaruwa.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the SLBFE will continue to support migrant communities abroad through the provision of dry rations and medicines, and helping with medical emergencies in their locations, while continuing to facilitate repatriation for those seeking to do so.
It was reiterated that the determination of those to be repatriated is based on vulnerability, conscious that this has changed from time to time. Starting with the initial wave of student repatriations, presently the concerned Missions strictly follow the chronological order in which the various categories – students, short term visitors and migrant workers, have registered their interest to return with the Missions.
Other than for the Maldives, where all are deemed to be equally vulnerable in Greater Male, in the 15 other stations where SLBFE officers operate, deciding who in the migrant category should be prioritized, is done by the Head of Mission/Post in consultation with the SLBFE representative attached to the respective Mission. Priority is given to those who have lost their legal status or employment.
Additionally a few exceptions with medical emergencies with documentary evidence, have been considered as special cases for repatriation. Missions have been instructed to strictly adhere to this protocol.
Senior Officer of the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) revealed Zahran Hashim’s list of reasons for choosing Sri Lanka as the location of the attack, to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the bombings that took place on Easter Sunday 2019.
Some of the reasons cited, in previously unreleased video footage of the bombers, was revenge for the Christchurch mosque shooting in New Zealand in March 2019 alleged insult to the Islamic faith and in the hope the attack could inspire more Sri Lankan Muslims to gather around the Islamic State (IS) banner.
The Presidential Commission inquiring the Easter Sunday attacks heard evidence yesterday (29) from a senior officer of the TID who investigated the bombing in Tropical Inn at Dehiwala.
The witness was first questioned as to whether prior information had been received on Jameel Mohamad, the Tropical Inn attacker, to which he replied that intelligence information signed off by IGP Pujith Jayasundara had been received by the TID on December 09, 2017.
The 3-page document had flagged Jameel Mohamed as an ISIS sympathizer and called for further investigations into his activities, with 8 investigations carried out of which relevant reports were provided to the IGP.
The Commission then questioned the witness as to the contents of the reports that were sent to the IGP who responded that the reports revealed that the suspect did not use social media and that he had also advised his colleagues to avoid using social networking sites.
Further, the reports also revealed that the suspect had met with a Sri Lankan national by the name of Nilam who later joined ISIS and lost his life as a combatant for the group in a foreign country.
The witness further stated that on April 12, 2018, the TID had recorded a statement from Jameel Mohamed, and reported the facts to the IGP.
However, the witness then revealed that the final report sent to the IGP on April 08 2019 had found no evidence that Jameel Mohamed was inclined towards extremism.
The witness then presented the commission with details of his investigations for following the attacks where after the suspect’s identification following the Tropical Inn bombing the investigating team had proceeded to the suspect’s Wellampitiya residence where a search uncovered an Apple iPad, 02 laptops, 04 DVDs and an English language book on extremism and the waging of Jihad.
During the interrogation of the suspect’s wife, she revealed that Jameel had sent her a voice message on WhatsApp on the morning of the bombing where instructed her not to contact him and told her that he had not been truthful with her and was intending to follow the path of Allah. The recording also instructed her to show the message to the Police. The witness also revealed that although the message had been deleted, officers were able to recover it later on.
When the recording was played to the Commission the attention was drawn to the voices of several children in the background. Accordingly, the Commission Chairman instructed the Government Analyst to test the background voices against the voice samples of Zahran Hashim’s daughter and Jameel Mohamed’s children as well.
The witness also revealed that the digital video recorder of the CCTV system taken into custody from the Wellampitiya residence had shown the suspect leaving the location but footage pertaining to the 19th to 21st of April 2019 had been accidentally deleted by a foreign investigator assisting the investigations at the time.
When asked if any other evidence was collected during the investigations, the witness replied that he had also received a pen drive, a hard drive and a memory card from the Akkaraipattu Police Station, containing several videos filmed by the bombers prior to the attack.
The Commission then inquired from the witness whether that any evidence were found to determine their choice of Easter Sunday as the day of the attacks to which he responded in the affirmative and revealed that the evidence contained four main reasons for the attack and an additional 10 reasons for carrying out the attack in Sri Lanka compiled by Zahran Hashim.
The four reasons for the attack were claimed as:
In addition, the other reasons for carrying out the attack in Sri Lanka are:
In addition, several other facts outlined by Zahran were also revealed in the videos. This included the belief that the sacrificing of their lives for the cause offered a direct path to paradise, could inspire more Muslims in Sri Lanka to follow the IS.
Zahran also stated that the flesh and blood that spilled through the attacks will be the seeds of the Islamic Caliphate in the country and that the attacks must be carried out targeting their opponents in India as well.
Zahran also stated that the attack is to be carried out in defense of the Muslim people and as a tribute to Allah.
Calling the bombings ‘just the beginning’, Zahran also revealed plans to carry out several group assassinations, while urging non-believers to embrace Islam or submit to religious taxation.
Zahran also warned that Sri Lanka’s Muslims will be denied paradise for their lack of adequate sacrifices when fasting and visiting Mecca.
Twenty (20) more persons have tested positive for Covid-19 (new coronavirus) infection.
So far 55 positive patients have been identified today.
The country total has increased to 1,593 according to the latest information by the Epidemiology unit of the Ministry of Health
Island wide curfew will be imposed at 10.00 pm today and will be in effect until 4.00 am on Monday 1st June.
Curfew will be effective from Monday, June 01st to Wednesday, June 3rd only between 10.00pm to 4.00am daily.
Curfew will be in force island-wide again on Thursday, June 4th and Friday, June 5th.
The president’s media division noted that thereafter commencing from Saturday the 6<sup>th</sup> of June, curfew will be in effect only from 10.00 pm to 4.00 am.
Meanwhile curfew is in effect in the Nuwara-eliya district throughout today in order to maintain social distancing.
28 May 2020
The Editor
DIPLOMAT Magazine
Ottawa, Ontario
Dear Ms. Campbell:
Re: Visvajit Sriramrajan’s article – Post-War Sri Lanka: Fractured and Unjust forTamils.
I am surprised and disturbed that this article so rich with distortions and untruths found space in your valuable Magazine to be distributed among those in the Diplomatic Campus, and the political conscience intelligentsia in Canada. I was introduced to the magazine in the early 1990s by its founder/Editor/Publisher Bhupinder Liddar.
I note that the article is dispersed with the word ‘Advertisement’. I am not sure whether the author paid a fee to have the article pick up ink in the Diplomat Magazine. If so that’s unfortunate and it shows the power how money can buy to sell a disingenuous, unfair opinion to destroy a working Democracy, like Sri Lanka, and not giving Peace in that island nation a Chance, after a 30-year ruthless Tamil Tiger Terrorist War that haemorrhaged that island and killed over 100,000 of its peoples.
You have splashed Visvajit’s TAMIL FACT about Post-War Sri Lanka, in your Diplomat, and now I request you to juxtapose Asoka’s TAMIL TRUTH, for your valuable readers to be Judge and Jury who are interested in Sri Lankan Affairs.
Visvajit’s TAMIL post-war FACT says – This month marks 11-years since the Mullivaikkal massacre which shook the Northern Province of Sri Lanka back in 2009, with the brutal killing of nearly 50,000 Tamils over just a few days. In other words, painting the majority Sinhalese as the brutal killers”. That is unfortunate.
”Asoka’s TAMIL TRUTH says – It looks like it didn’t shake Visvajit, by the massacres of innocent unarmed Sinhalese people by the Tamil Tiger Serial Killers which was almost an everyday affair during the 30-bloodying War years. They killed 100s, not with primitive catapults, rocks and stones or with bamboo sticks as used by the Indian policemen, but with sophisticated killing war weapons like Kalashnikovs, detonating Claymore mines to shoot metal pellets into a crowd in a pizza slice formation massacring 100s of innocent Sinhalese civilians on the spot.
Like on 11 June 1990 , shooting through the heads of 700 Sinhalese policemen who had surrendered to be sent South unharmed as promised to President Premadasa, after lining them kneeling in the Vinayagapuram and Trincomalee jungles with their hands tied at their backs.
Like on 2nd June, 1987 morning, the Tamil Tigers stopped a Buddhist pilgrim bus at Aranthalawa, Ampara, after chopping Venerable Indrasara, with a machete like in a butcher shop, and shooting point blank at his 32 innocent novice monks. Shocking! Visvajit seems to have forgotten these Tamil Tiger massacres and hundreds of others. And not shocked by their brutality.
Well… well…well… Ms. Editor, do you really want to propagate such selective alleged Tamil masacres, painting the Tamil Tiger serial killers ‘lily white’. and charging the Sri Lankan Government for the alleged Brutal killings of nearly 50,000 Tamils over just a few days.
These are the incredulous numbers that the Tamil Tiger supporters are throwing at us, hoping and wishing the readers of Diplomat are a bunch of gullible fools and village twits.
For clarity of this perverse Fairy Tale, perhaps Viswajit would like to answer the following questions of mine.
Visvajit, it looks like that you are one more of Geneva’s UN’s Church basement Bingo Players pulling numbers from the air to make us believe that it was 50,000 Tamils who were massacred ‘over just a few days.” Some bleeding-hearted politicians of the West, including Canada, said it were 60,000, 70, 000,80,000, 90,000 and also 100,000. That is a lot of people to be killed, and a horrendous job to hide the bodies in a sliver of land along the Nandikadal lagoon. Are you sure there was one or two of your people who kept count of the deaths to come up with the number 50,000? To make your life easy, let’s start to count the skulls, and find 50,000 of them.
If you can’t account for 50,000 skulls let me tell it to your face, Visvajit, you are one down-right mischievous, low, Tamil Tiger terrorist supporting Humbug! Nothing more…nothing less!”
Burying of the 50,000 bodies had to be done quickly and would have been a Himalayan task. No Tamil refugee who was running for his/her life dodging Tamil Tiger’s live bullets told the world, Yes, we were made to claw the earth by the soldiers to dig large holes and trenches to bury the dead. Nor did the Red Cross, Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch tell us that there were five Backhoes digging holes and trenches feverishly, to bury the 50,000 dead. I wonder whether Visvajit was trying to fool us with his Fairy Tale of Humbuggery?
Nor were we told by any one that during the last few days of the Eelam War IV, that the air was black and had a putrid-sickening smell because the Sri Lankan soldiers wanted to get rid of the Tamil bodies quickly and were burning in pyres of tyres along the Nandikadal lagoon’s beach. Come on, give me a break, Visvajit. Your Fairy Tale seems to have a stupid and an unbelievable foolish plot. Did AI, Red Cross or Human Rights Watch tell us that they heard a constant whirring noise at night of fast moving fiberglass boats speeding to the center of the Indian Ocean, which ‘He thought were carrying dead Tamil boidies to be dumped in the middle of the Indian Ocean, all 500,000 Of them.
But then, for Visvajit’s information, no Indian Coast Guard vessel of Tamil Nadu or fishermen had picked up floating bloated human carcasses and brought them ashore along the East Coast of Tamil Nadu. So how credulous is Visvajit’s charge of Genocide against the Sri Lanka Government? If he really wanted me/us to believe him, I feel a bit charitable this afternoon, and will give him a rare chance to prove the reasons of His charge of Genocide. This is Visvajit’s lucky day.
I will give Visvajit a simple litmus test, and if he is successful, I will honestly tell him, Yes, Visvajit, I believe you that there was indeed Genocide of the Tamils with the existance of 50,000 skulls.
And if he can’t he will hear my voice clearly, and I will place on his head a crown decorated with polished charnokite and kabook Sri Lankan rocks, most suitable for the Best Tamil Genocide Humbug in Asia”.
Here is Asoka’s TAMIL TRUTH simple litmus test.
How would Visvajit reconcile with this Asoka’s TAMIL TRUTH with that of his charge of Tamil GENOCIDE.
This Asoka’s TAMIL TRUTH, I know and Visvajit knows, and so does the whole world know that on 19 May, 2009, the Tamil Tigers were annihilated militarily, on the beach sands of the Nandikadal Lagoon shores along the East coast of Sri Lanka.
The whole world knew, except the Tamil Tiger sympathisers like him, who didn’t want to know, that Sri Lankan armed forces rescued 295,873 Tamil refugees by 19 May 2009, from the clutches of the Tamil Tiger terrorist leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and his ruthless killing machine, the Tamil Tigers.
Asoka’s TAMIL TRUTH tells us that these 295,873 Tamil refugees were marched as a Human Shield from the west coast to the east coast under a scorching Jaffna-Killinochchi Sun, like unwashed cattle, for 30 long months. Most starving wanting a piece of bread and for a drop of water to quench their thirst.
When they were rescued, my weeping heart said, people like Visvajit expected the 295,873 to be bumped off the way the Tamil Tigers bumped off the 700 policemen with their hands tied at their backs and blasting their skulls with bullets bought out of funds collected by the Canadian Tamil Diaspora and stuffed into Tamil Tiger War chests in Canada. That didn’t happen.
Visvajit, don’t you see that your Fairy Tale is breaking down storyboard by storyboard, as a Tamil Separatist Tale of Humbuggery.
So what the UN Bingo players, Ban Ki-MOON, Marzuki DARUSMAN, Steven RATNER, Yasmin SOOKA, Navi PILLAY and Prince Zeid bin RA’AD, in a Geneva Church Basement were trying every permutation to come up with the number of deaths of Tamil Tigers during the last five months of the War, to hurt Sri Lanka. So came out with a variation of numbers from 40,000 to 100,000 to find the correct number of Tamils allegedly massacred by he Sinhalese soldiers defending Sri Lanka’;s sovereign real estate. The right number was always there, The UN said it was
7-3-9-8 and BINGO! And that’s the lucky number fought without a War Manual for Dummies by the UN – How to Win a War against Terrorists without Killing a Single terrorist.
If Visvajit was not aware of this he will now know after reading’
Asoka’s Tamil TRUTH: that after rescuing 295,873 Tamil refugees from the clutches of the Tamil Tigers by the compassionate Sinhalese men and women in khaki, whites and blues, who did not have a heart to bump them off, and went ahead and helped the Government to house them in temporary camps, and prepared a million (100,000) hearty breakfasts, lunches and dinners every day to sustain these Tamil refugees. And that is the Holy Truth. That was one great Classy Textbook Classic of a Compassionate Act, by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces, which was never performed before by any National Army around the world. I say to you Visvajit, make a note of it and don’t you ever forget it. The Sinhalese soldiers men and women in khaki, whites and blues saved your Tamil people with a lot of caring and
Affection.. And this is another Asoka’s TAMIL TRUTH’s
Well…I’d like to know how Visvajit Sriramrajan would reconcile with Sri Lankan Armed Forces compassionate Act, with his vulgar charge of Tamil Genocide as the grand finale of this 30-year long brutal unnecessary war by the Tamil separatists. What was despicable was that the Tamil terrorists were aided and abetted by foreign countries like India, Canada, Norway, UK, France, Demark and a few other foreign countries in the West.
And to conclude my expose of Visvajit Sriramrajan’s Liars Fairy Tale of Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka, I feel that this is Visvajit’s Lucky day,
Here is his last chance for Visvajit to defend his thesis of the Charge of Genocide of 50,000 of Tamilian people in Sri Lanka’ by the island’s armed force.
War statistics always claim that at the conclusion of every war between two countries, the number of casualties is double the number of soldiers and civilians killed. If that is indeed the norm, then, I’d like to know from Visvajit, what happened to the wounded casualties, some maimed for life, of that 100,000 people? Were they left behind by the foreign bleeding heart bullies, without crutches, to hobble their way to find their homes and their loved ones; not enough bandaids to cover their gashing, bleeding wounds exposed to the scorching Nandikadal sun; with nothing to eat or drink. With no walkers to get them to safety and no stretchers to carry the badly wounded. What happened Visvajit? They were a bunch of cruel bleeding hearts from the West,, won’t they! What happened to your Western bleeding-hearts. No one ever talks of the 100,000 casualties, not even , Geneva’s Church basement UN’s BINGO players like, Ban ki-Moon, Mazurki Darusman, Steven Ratner, Yasmin Sooka, Navi Pillai, Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad, British Labour MP for Mitcham and Morden, Siobhain McDonagh, who pulled out the number dead at 100,000 and I asked her in a letter,Tell me Siobhain what the heck did you put in your morning coffee to hallucinate so badly.” So plotting they did, juggling the numbers of Tamils killed during the last five months of the Tamil Terrorist War. To see whether they could nail Sri Lanka onto a crucifix sighting these lies. That’s the rub, and that is how the cookie crumbled.
My last bit of advice to Visvajit Sriramrajan is, just cut out your stupid charge of Genocide of the Tamils in Sri Lanka as it never happened. Don’t be so stubborn, idiotic and bullish. You won’t go anywhere with this string of baloney which is still bleeding from lies by Tamil Tiger backers like You. Don’t cut out yourself as a pathetic cardboard-Humbug. Take my brotherly advice, Pack up your Goody-two-shoes-foolishness and go home and have a peaceful sleep.
It was the Tamil separatists and politicians who were spoiling for a fight with the Sri Lankan Government and not showing any gratitude having lived for 131 years as the privileged minority” during the divided and rule policy of the British when Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was her colony, while the Sinhalese lived as the wronged majority”.
If the Tamils wanted to live by the gun, then they should be prepared to die by the gun and stop sulking and complaining through important political magazines like the Diplomat. It is that simple.
For winning this unwinnable war”, and giving back to 20 ½ million Sri Lankan people their Right-to-Their-life which was hijacked for 30 years by the Tamil Tiger terrorists, I bow to every Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, Burgher and othe minority men and women dressed in khaki, whites and in blues saying Thank You for being an amazing family of yours and my Mother-Lanka for whom you stood tall and guarded her when she really needed you.” Thank you…Thank you..Thank you!
Sincerely,
Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.)
2066 Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1
When I heard that government intends to import cows to Sri Lanka I decided to republish my own article published Last year
I listen to President’s speech where he righty vouched to drastic take action to severe connections with any International agencies if these agencies act against our war heroes
We also have to admit that the Sri Lankan’s working and remitting foreign funds which we desperately need are also performing yeoman service to our country.
We should also consider them as heroes who support our economy
But Kuwaitis have done a very inhuman act by punishing them by sending them to Sri Lanka
Even though the Ambassador of Sri Lanka in Kuwait who was trying to whitewash the rulers
Our local hero Anil Jasinghe claims that these Lankans who were forcibly repatriated would have been infected before they were sent to Sri Lanka
H E The President should hold an inquiry and blacklist Kuwait and prohibit our workers traveling to Kuwait to work
Dr sarath obeysekera
May 29, 2020 at 3:00 pm | lanka C news
ශ්රී ලංකාවට එවීමට පෙර කුවෙට්හි රඳවාගෙන සිටි කාලය තුළ තමන්ගේ කොරෝනා පරීක්ෂාවක් සිදු නොකළ බව එරට සිට මෙරටට පැමිණි ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන් සඳහන් කරති.
Dr Sarath Obeysekera
CEO Walkers Colombo Shipyard
Colombo
Sri Lanka
The term Blended learning” is used frequently along with the term e-Learning”. Is it just another buzz word or an old wine in a new bottle?
It is relevant to review the present situation in the country with reference to computer literacy and the percentage of households owning computers in different sectors, urban, rural, estate, etc. Computer literacy/Computer ownership as a percentage (Sri Lanka: 30.1/22.2, Urban: 41.5/38.3, Rural: 28.6/19.9, Estate: 13.7/3.8), as per the published statistics.
The above statistics clearly indicate a vast disparity within the sectors in computer literacy and ownership of computers by households. Under such situation, a heavy emphasis on e-learning or technology based education could worsen the present relative social standing of rural and estate sectors. While actions need to be taken to reduce the above disparities in the longer run, it is imperative that less privileged sectors be provided with facilities such as blended learning to mitigate the disparities currently exist.
Blended learning is defined as a combination of multiple approaches to pedagogy or teaching. It is achieved through the combination of virtual and physical resources. Blended learning is a blend between e-Learning and traditional delivery methods such as traditional class rooms, printed learning material, etc.
Most learners are familiar with how teachers use different delivery methods to achieve learning outcomes, e.g. lectures, discussion groups, drills and practices, role plays, audio/video clips, computer-based tutorials, etc. Therefore, it can be said that blended learning is a new name for an old concept.
Blended learning can cater to a large cross section of learners including rural and estate sectors in achieving their learning goals by accommodating different modes of delivery, models of teaching and styles of learning. All students do not learn in just the same way nor do they have same accessibility to technology; therefore, it is important to provide different methods, media and approaches to learn the same content by different students.
With regular Internet, TV, radio, etc., it is possible to deliver educational and training content for the benefit of the learners throughout the country. The content could include material for school and university programmes, improvement of general skills such as English knowledge and computer literacy, vocational skills such as repair and maintenance of automobiles, computers, etc. However, those who are familiar with distance learning are aware of the main hardships the learners face; the lack of tutor support and feedback.
The “theory” part of the learning task can be delivered through the technology mentioned above. How can the tutor support and feedback be provided? The way to proceed may be to use a blended learning approach. It is possible to meet the above learner needs through a combination of online and face-to-face tutor support. Face-to-face tutor support can be provided at venues such as Open University’s regional centres, University of Vocational Technology, technical colleges, and other suitable public and private sector educational establishments. This is a feasible approach that would directly benefit the rural sector learners.
The learners would choose the method that suits them best based on preference, accessibility, affordability, etc. Different approaches in delivery are also necessary due to different learning contexts (traditional learning, distance learning, etc.), learner types (auditory learners, visual learners, etc.) and leaning tasks (facts, concepts, etc.). Also, when the technology is not equally accessible to the entire cross-section of learners, blended learning could provide alternatives to choose from.
The factors that influence the blend of methods and technologies used to achieve desired learning objectives include: learning context, type of learners, learning task, availability, accessibility and learner attitudes towards using technology for learning, time availability for learning, language and subject proficiency levels, pace at which learning goals are to be achieved, the pedagogical approaches.
The actual making of the ‘blend’ should be based on proper study and evaluation of the learning situation. Such study is called Instructional Design. A typical instructional design process includes five stages; Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE). The most critical of these stages is the first stage, Analysis. Analysis is the basis for design of instructions and their delivery. The Analysis stage consists of three components; analysis of learning context, the learner, and the learning task. The selection of the type of instruction and the mode of its delivery is based on the findings of the instructional analysis. Analyses of the learning context and the types of learners will provide information on: gaps in knowledge, learner background, preferred styles of learning, performance levels, language proficiency, computer literacy, access and attitude towards technology, time constraints, etc.
These findings have implications on the design and delivery of instructions. For example, if most of the learners are either auditory or visual learners, the design of instruction should include audio and video components. Similarly, if the learners are adults who work full-time or part-time, face-to-face delivery of instruction is not suitable as the primary mode of delivery. In this case the design and delivery of instruction should be made to suit a distance learning environment. Then, the question arises as to what type of distance learning is affordable. Does the learner have access to ICT where instructions can be delivered in the form of offline content or online through the Internet? If the learners have no access to ICT, then the option will be to provide the learners with print material designed for distance learning or media broadcasts. If the analysis shows that a good part of the learners have access to ICT, then the delivery of learning content should be made through both ICT, print material and/or media broadcasts. This is just an example of blending different methods of delivery of instruction to suit different types of learners and learning contexts.
Blended learning methods also become relevant when implementation of different steps in the learning process is considered. The different steps that a learner needs to go through to accomplish a learning task are known as Events of Instruction. There are nine events of instruction: Gaining attention, informing the learner of the objective, stimulating learner’s attention, stimulating recall of prior knowledge, providing learning guidance, eliciting performance, providing feedback, assessing performance, and enhancing retention and transfer. Different approaches or media could be used to achieve each event of instruction.
The type of learning task too has a bearing on the methods of delivery. Design of events of instruction varies from task to task. Providing learning guidance, eliciting performance, giving feedback, etc. will be dependent on the type of learning task and mode of delivery. Giving feedback on learner performance will be quite different in a computer-based learning environment as compared to a face-to-face learning environment. Also, intelligent tutoring systems can evaluate the learner input and suggest possible routes for solving a problem or task. It is the instructional designer’s task therefore to select the appropriate mix of media to ensure effective learning under a given learning situation.
However, the challenges associated with such an endeavour include the design and development of suitable indigenous learning content suitable for delivery through technology and design and implementation of pedagogically sound blended learning environments that will result in successful learning outcomes.
With such blended learning settings, a large portion of the country’s population including those in rural sectors can benefit from the new technology and the country can steadily move towards its vision to become a knowledge-based economy with a more equitable society.
Author:
Dr. Gamini Padmaperuma, a Chartered Professional Engineer and a former Senior Lecturer at OUSL, holds a PhD from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in Instructional Design for Computer-Based Learning. Email: gamini_pad@hotmail.com
India eager to participate in Lanka’s post COVID economic recovery, through development projects and cooperation as per Lanka’s requirements.
Colombo, May 29 (newsin.asia): The High Commissioner of India in Sri Lanka, Gopal Baglay, paid a courtesy call on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat on Friday.
Pointing out the contribution of Indian investments in Sri Lanka’s economy, the Indian High Commissioner told the Lankan President that Indian companies are ready to invest in the priority sectors identified by Government of Sri Lanka.
Building on the areas identified as mutual priorities in the tele-conversation between the President and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 23, it was agreed to accelerate India’s participation in Sri Lanka’s post COVID economic recovery, including through development partnership projects in Sri Lanka and cooperation in trade, commerce and new areas with particular reference to Sri Lanka’s requirements.
The envoy conveyed the greetings of the leadership of India to the President and the people of Sri Lanka. The High Commissioner expressed his gratitude to the President for accepting the credentials in an innovative manner via a video conference.
President Gotabaya fondly recalled his first State Visit to India in November 2019, the first overseas visit by him after assuming the office. He thanked the Government of India for assisting Sri Lanka in dealing with the COVID19 pandemic and stated that he looks forward to further strengthening all-round bilateral cooperation between India and Sri Lanka.
The High Commissioner noted that the recent high level interaction between the two countries had given a further impetus to the traditionally close and excellent relationship. Recalling Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s solidarity visit to Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the dastardly Easter Sunday attack in 2019, the High Commissioner noted the commitment of India at the highest level, as Sri Lanka’s closest maritime neighbor, to deepening its partnership with Sri Lanka for peace, prosperity and security of the two peoples.
President and the Indian High Commissioner stressed the need to expedite the implementation of already agreed joint projects for the benefit of both countries. Areas such as tertiary education, tourism, information and communication technology, agriculture and agri-based products were mentioned for enhancing bilateral cooperation.
The President and the High Commissioner also discussed ways to further expand and strengthen the ongoing close cooperation in the fields of defense and security including exchange of experience, expertise and information; and joint efforts to tackle common threats such as terrorism
The Indian High Commissioner said that India was ready to provide more opportunities for Sri Lankan scholars to study in India in their chosen fields. President Rajapaksa pointed out the need to develop people to people relations in addition to economic and trade cooperation.
Both Sri Lankan President and Indian envoy agreed in order to overcome challenges posed by COVID – 19 pandemic mutually beneficial cooperation between countries of the region should be consolidated.
The Lankan President and the High Commissioner further noted that the shared heritage of Buddhism and the civilizational links between India and Sri Lanka provide a robust platform for bringing the two peoples even closer
The Principal Advisor to the President Lalith Weeratunga was presented at the discussion.
A 24-hour curfew will be in force in Nuwara Eliya District on Saturday (30), says the President’s Media Division (PMD).
As mentioned in the updated curfew notice issued yesterday (28), a countrywide curfew will be imposed on May 31 (Sunday), the PMD said further.
From June 01 onwards, the curfew will come into force as specified in yesterday’s notice:
•Curfew will be in force island-wide throughout the day on Sunday, (May 31st).
•Curfew will be effective in all the districts from Monday (June 01) to Wednesday (June 3) only between 10.00 pm to 4.00 am daily as before.
•Curfew will be in force island-wide on Thursday (June 4) and Friday (June 5).
•From Saturday (June 6) onwards curfew will be effective in all the districts, as before, from 10.00 pm to 4.00 am daily until further notice.
Ten (10) more persons have tested positive for Covid-19 (new coronavirus) infection. All of them are returnees from overseas.
So far 28 patients have been identified today and seven (17) from the Navy and eleven (11) returnees from overseas.
The country total has increased to 1,558 according to the latest information by the Epidemiology unit of the Ministry of Health
Minister of Tourism and Aviation Services Prasanna Ranatunga stated that they have decided to conduct PCR tests on all incoming passengers from overseas will be subjected to a PCR test at the airport to ascertain for coronavirus is infection.
He said that the decision was taken when Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi and Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva made an observation visit to the Katunayake airport yesterday.
At a discussion with the President last week regarding the opening of the airport to foreign tourists from August 1, the Health Minister and other delegates visited the airport yesterday to look into the health and safety arrangements at the airport.
The Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe said that three persons who had been diagnosed with coronavirus from Kuwait were being treated at the ICU.
Meanwhile, around 5000 self-employed persons have been provided with health and safety advice at the Viharamaha Devi Park today as they commence their self-employments after the lifting of curfew in Colombo.
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