Ceylon Chamber expresses deep concern over US tariffs

April 3rd, 2025

Courtesy Adaderana

The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) today expresses deep concern over the imposition of a 44% tariff on Sri Lankan exports to the United States.

US President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs yesterday on major trade partners, including China and the European Union.

With the US accounting for approximately USD 3 billion in exports and 25% of Sri Lanka’s total merchandise export, this development poses a significant challenge to the country’s trade and economic stability,” the chamber said in a statement. 

Additionally, broader global trade disruptions could slow economic growth, affecting overall demand in key export markets such as the US and the EU, it warned. 

The CCC said it appreciates the President of Sri Lanka setting up a committee to evaluate the impact of the US tariffs and provide solutions to mitigate potential risks to the export sector. 

Since we are halfway through the IMF Extended Fund Facility programme and navigating a tight fiscal space, it is vital that Sri Lanka is able to negotiate down from the high tariff band.” 

The Ceylon Chamber said it is an opportune moment for the Government to relook at its tariff structure and implement measures that will improve trade facilitation and improve the ease of doing business.  

The Ceylon Chamber said it remains committed to working closely with the Government to develop a coordinated and strategic response to mitigate the potential economic impact of these tariffs. 

We urge all stakeholders to collaborate in ensuring that Sri Lanka’s trade interests are safeguarded, while actively pursuing diplomatic and policy-driven solutions to sustain and strengthen its export sector,” the statement added.

Sri Lanka’s crackdown on street dogs for India PM’s visit sparks protest

April 3rd, 2025

Courtesy Adaderana

Sri Lankan animal rights activists marched on Thursday to protest the round-up of stray dogs a day ahead of a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

Authorities in Colombo and the Buddhist pilgrim city of Anuradhapura have reportedly deployed dog catchers to impound hounds ahead of Modi’s visit, which begins on Friday.

Many of Colombo’s strays are beloved by their adopted neighbourhoods despite lacking formal owners — and are dubbed community” canines rather than street dogs.

Around a dozen protesters from the Rally for Animal Rights and Environment (RARE) waved placards outside President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s office in Colombo after submitting a petition to India’s high commission. 

Stop the cruel removal of our community dogs,” one placard read.

Protesters said that many of the dogs in public parks had been vaccinated and neutered and were cared for by locals and animal welfare groups.

How can Sri Lanka promote tourism when we are a country known for animal cruelty?” another placard read.

Protesters urged New Delhi’s intervention to prevent the cruel and unnecessary removal of these dogs”, saying that the round-up of dogs would create displacement, suffering, and potential harm”.

Modi is set to receive an official welcome at Colombo’s Independence Square, where dog catchers are reported to have been busy in this week.

He is also set to visit Anuradhapura to pay homage to the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi Tree, a sacred bo tree grown from a cutting brought from the holy Bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya, India.

Source: AFP

–Agencies 

මචන් කියලා ශේප් වෙන්න බෑ මචන්

April 3rd, 2025

Madyawediya

අමෙරිකාවෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට 44%ක දැවැන්ත තීරු බද්දක් පනවද්දී අද කොළඹ කොටස් වෙළඳපොළ පහළ ගිය හැටි

April 3rd, 2025

ජනපති අනුර ට්‍රම්ප්ට කෑ ගසයි ? වහාම බදු අඩුවෙන ලකුණු ?

April 3rd, 2025

Iraj Show

දැන්වත් අවදි වෙන්න | ඇමරිකානු නව තීරු බදුවලින් වන හෙළිදරව්ව

April 3rd, 2025

Harsha de Silva

Sri Lanka’s Sovereignty at risk : India’s geopolitical checkmates

April 2nd, 2025

Shenali D Waduge

Are Sri Lanka’s govts, policy advisors & close coterie living in a delusional world thinking that a takeover of a country only happens via invasions as took place under Portuguese, Dutch, British ruling Sri Lanka from 1505-1972? Have they not noticed or kept track of the manner India is building its stronghold over Sri Lanka diplomatically/politically, economically, strategically, culturally and aligned to a new Arkhand Bharath – unified subcontinent including Sri Lanka under India?

Sri Lanka’s relations with India has both positive & negative aspects. Though Buddha was not born in India but in present Nepal, it was King Ashoka who sent his son who became Mihindu thero to propagate Buddhism in Sri Lanka while his daughter Sangamitta Therani brought the sacred Bo Sapling placed in Sri Maha Bodhiya, Anuradhapura.

The Sinhale kings held diplomatic/trade relations with Indian rulers though Sri Lanka suffered 17 invasions from South India. The present tensions arise from the settlements of these invasions, the colonial settler schemes by Portuguese, Dutch & British.

Sri Lanka’s distrust with India primarily follows the secret training of Sri Lankan Tamil militants on Indian soil that resulted in a 30 year bloodshed, while India used the militancy to force Sri Lanka to sign the Indo-Lanka Pact in 1987, amend Sri Lanka’s Constitution & insert clauses with historical falsehoods not in the interest of Tamils but to use the Tamil card & fortify Indian interests in Sri Lanka’s North & East.

The dispatch of Indian Peace Keepers was part of the plan though they were unceremoniously sent back by then President Premadasa who met his waterloo 3 years after IPKF was sent back.

The majority of Sri Lankans continue to blame India for the 30 year terrorism in particular their memories of how India prevented the capture of Prabakaran & whisked him off to safety in Delhi in 1987 by Indian helicopters. Sri Lankans hold India accountable for every death LTTE committed since 1987.

Another thorn is the fishing issue where internationally banned bottom trawlers are coming in their thousands from South India to illegally fish on Sri Lanka’s territorial waters & also systematically ruining the marine bed/ecosystem which will sooner than later deprive Sri Lankan fishermen in coastal areas a means of livelihood.

Majority of Sri Lankans also hold India accountable for using the concern for Tamils” to justify interfering in Sri Lanka’s internal affairs, even influencing how Tamils cast their vote. The manner India is exerting undue pressure is even beginning to annoy Tamils in the North as well.

Sri Lankans are also angered with India given its lack of support at the UNHRC resolutions against Sri Lanka, given India’s initial role in fostering & harboring terrorism on Indian soil. This angst is further strengthened by the realization that the Islamic suicide bombers were also frequent visitors to India prior to carrying out their mass suicide.

Another area where Sri Lankans fault India is the bullying it exerts diplomatically preventing Sri Lanka building relations with its historical friends like China, Cuba, Russia, Pakistan. Though they may be strategic rivals of India, they have never used Sri Lanka against India. Ironically, while India plots to overthrow Sri Lankan governments for building closer relations with China, India is increasing its investments & business relations with China.

The sincerity with which Emperor Ashoka functioned can never be compared or achieved by post-independent Indian leaders. On the contrary, Buddhism is being craftily used as a soft power foreign policy tool while at the same time forcing Sri Lanka to create a pro-Hindu bogus & solely mythical Ramayana Trail officially to attract Indians to Sri Lanka with real intents kept hidden.

Unfortunately, Sri Lanka’s politicians concentrating only on securing and enjoying power, devoid of Statesmanship are ignoring the manner that India is subtly devoring Sri Lanka into its sphere of influence, initially as a counterbalance to China but in reality to fortify its global importance across the Indian Ocean region. India is doing so economically, via imports/exports, investments, strategic support, credit lines & aid, infrastructure projects, religious/cultural collaborations, stakes in airports/ports/harbors that hold the key to an island nation, humanitarian aid, defense & energy pacts.

How has India been exerting its influence over Sri Lanka since defeat of LTTE in May 2009?

At all times, the trick is to realize that over dependency is hara kiri for Sri Lanka.

How India will wrest control over Sri Lanka –

Economically – India’s economic influence is a key soft power strategic tool

Sri Lanka’s dependency on trade with India Indian imports/exports /transshipment trade – petroleum, textiles, machinery, chemicals, food, cement.

India being a critical provider to Sri Lanka’s energy security means any disruption will impact Sri Lanka. Imagine if India STOPS sending petroleum, textiles, machinery, chemicals, foodstuff etc if Sri Lanka does not comply to India’s demands, what will Sri Lanka do?

Indian investments & credit lines means Sri Lanka is bound by conditions imposed by India where the money given has to be spent on buying goods from India thus inking Sri Lanka’s dependency further.

The loans India has given Sri Lanka can be used as political leverage against Sri Lanka demanding Sri Lanka makes foreign policy decisions to India’s advantage or settle loans.

Manipulation of trade agreements in favor of India as well as influencing clauses beneficial to India is no secret. India could also adjust” or revoke” terms of the trade agreements with India which will impact Sri Lankan businesses relying on Indian markets & causing turmoil internally.

Debt leverage should also be a concern & Sri Lanka’s politicians should not forget how India cut off electricity to Bangladesh due to non payment. Sri Lanka is signing an MOU with India to share electricity grid – will the scenario that happened to Bangladesh not occur to Sri Lanka, in such a scenario what do Sri Lanka’s politicians propose to do?

With India’s insistence to sign ECTA the service agreement that enables Indians to work, live & reside in Sri Lanka as well as employ members of Indian families to work in Indian companies operating in Sri Lanka is clearly a means of flooding Sri Lanka with millions of Indians who are unemployed & would result in a demographic catastrophe as well as place Sri Lanka’s resources (land, water, food etc) in a significantly vulnerable state.

Though Sri Lanka’s leaders have failed to realize Sri Lanka’s importance as an island in the Indian Ocean is due to its location & to self-protect & strengthen that advantage, Sri Lanka has been happily giving away the keys to Sri Lanka to entities that can use the airports/ports/harbors to even block anything entering or leaving Sri Lanka. In such a scenario how vulnerable will Sri Lanka & its citizens be?

The economic leverage India holds over Sri Lanka should be a serious concern in view of India’s action against Nepal during the 2015 economic embargo closing all entry/exit points to food, petrol, medical needs of Nepal that goes through India. This took place for several months resulting in China having to drop essentials via plane. The reason for the Indian embargo was Nepals refusal to include provisions in Nepals new constitution that India demanded. This scenario has very close links to Sri Lanka & politicians cannot ignore this possibility happening to Sri Lanka as well. India as supplier can easily decide to reduce” or delay shipments” of essential goods (food, fuel, medicines, electricity supply etc) to Sri Lanka if Sri Lanka refuses to do as India says or adopts policies India does not like.

Cultural/Religious influence & Soft Power diplomacy: while profaning reverence to Buddhism it is no secret that hundreds of Siva Lingams have arrived to replace the ancient Buddhist structures in the North & East. Vaddamana Pabbatha vihara demolition & erection of a siva lingam is a perfect example with the remaining Buddhist theros under tremendous pressure & harassment by hired racists while the calls to close army camps in the North & remove the military is to subtly remove the Sinhala Buddhist presence from the North & East leaving India to dictate how the 2 provinces are run. Part of PM Modi’s itinerary is a meditation session in Trincomalee’s Gokanna Temple which is being presented as a hindu kovil. There can be no cultural & religious collaboration if beneath the façade, attempts are foot to erase the Buddhist identity of Sri Lanka.

Defense/military/counter terrorism cooperation: Hereto it must not be forgotten how India clandestinely trained Tamil militancy against the Sri Lankan Govt that resulted in 30 years of bloodshed. Not stopping there the recent Islamic mass suicide bombers were also frequent visitors to South India before carrying out their suicide attacks. When Indo-Lanka Accord required Indian Naval to stop terrorism, LTTE was openly travelling to Tamil Nadu & using it as a logistics hub while Indian Navy looked on. Innumerable illegal smuggling is taking place via Kerala to Sri Lanka. While India is also demanding Kachchetivu island ignoring all the official documents that clearly places it under Sri Lanka’s territory. These are no actions of a friend”.

India’s heavy investments in infrastructure/ports/airports/roads/rail etc means India has the power to exert tremendous influence over Sri Lanka at every level. Sri Lanka’s politicians and advisors & the foreign ministry as well as secretaries & senior public officials are to be held accountable from not looking into the interests of Sri Lanka’s sovereignty & territorial integrity when finalizing agreements.

Thus, in short India’s control over Sri Lanka is taking place under these themes & the following choke points.

  1. Trade Leverage – reducing supply to SL of essential goods (fuel, food, medicines) / revoke trade benefits under trade agreements
  2. Financial Assistance/Credit lines – cut credit lines / cut financial aid & destabilize Sri Lanka’s economy / without debt relief/loans
  3. Debt leverage – withhold debt restructuring / block favorable loan terms
  4. Infrastructure control – delay/withdraw investments in infrastructure projects / limit involvement in strategic projects like ports/airports/harbors
  5. Energy leverage – limit or cut off fuel & energy supplies & create economic crisis / cut energy supply as done to Bangladesh
  6. Labor market leverage – restrict Indian labor to impact industries relying on foreign workers
  7. Link aid to policy – demand Sri Lanka favor ethno-religious groups favorable to India
  8. Economic sanctions/trade barriers – impose tariffs / trade restrictions on SL exports to India / revoke trade preferences to destroy Sri Lankan industries.
  9. Humanitarian Air – withhold humanitarian aid during crisis / limit cultural & educational collaborations
  10. Influence world financial institutions – pressure IMF/WB to withhold support for Sri Lanka unless it aligns to India’s interests.
  11. Influence its military presence – increasing Indian defense collaborations & influence Sri Lanka’s defense policies
  12. Indian Ocean Shipping lanes – results in India limiting Sri Lanka’s access to critical maritime routes/prevent foreign military access
  13. Defense pacts – India can force dependency via defense aid”
  14. Manipulate Sri Lanka’s foreign policy – India can pressure Sri Lanka to limit its military and economic ties with China,

India cannot dictate who Sri Lanka has economic relations with. Sri Lanka must clearly state that Sri Lanka will decide what is advantageous to Sri Lanka. When the question of European sanctions against Russia arose, India chose not to join & instead bought fuel at a cheap rate & sold it at higher rate to Europe! Though India was threatened with sanctions, India’s External Affairs was very clear about India’s policy. If India holds carrots for investments & trade, Sri Lanka must pursue & sign the free trade agreement with China. Sri Lanka must also expand its trade partners and not rely solely on India. The main fault line has been Sri Lanka’s dependency on imports & lethargy for domestic production & self-sufficiency. Such will automatically reduce dependency on imports & threats from India.

What is stopping Sri Lanka from voicing policy as clearly as Mrs. Bandaranaike who continues to be mentioned with respect for her ability to mean what she says & say what she means. Sri Lanka’s leaders have failed to follow her policy of non-alignment which won her friends from all corners of the world & she continues to be spoken highly unlike any of Sri Lanka’s leaders. Another key pillar Sri Lanka has failed & needs to leverage is the domestic governance vis a vis policy in handling domestic matters without allowing foreign interventions/influence & appeasing to foreign dictates. Sri Lanka must also learn to place its foot down on the cultural colonialism that is taking place alongside the digital colonialism wherein Sri Lanka’s identity is being subtly erased without a whimper.

Are Sri Lanka’s corporates, professionals, Trade Unions, 3 main pillars governing Sri Lanka, Public Servants, not worried or concerned about these scenarios or have they already been compromised to the enemy?

Sri Lanka’s politicians, policy advisors cannot be ignorant of these ground realities. If so what have they done to avert any national catastrophe as a result of over dependence on India instead of signing more agreements sealing Sri Lanka’s fate? How can Sri Lanka overcome Indian pressure & assert more independence in its foreign & domestic policies?

Shenali D Waduge

Whither Clean Sri Lanka: The decline in road safety, and the proliferation of waste dumping

April 2nd, 2025

By Raj Gonsalkorale

Considering the instances where proliferation of waste dumping is increasing, and the ongoing deaths and injuries  due to maniacal driving by bus drivers, and others, one cannot but feel that the much-publicized Clean Sri Lanka concept has not yet got off ground as desired.  The government needs to lift their game or refrain from giving people hope in anticipation of action that follows words

The following are a few illustrative examples of what should not be happening now. They demonstrate how some people do not care for others, and they question the impact so far of Clean Sri Lanka within the society.

Mirihana marshlands being filled by organised groups – https://www.dailymirror.lk/recomended-news/Mirihana-marshlands-being-filled-by-organised-groups/277-305756

Illustrative waste dump in residential area at Ratnajothi Mawatha, Nawala

Bus Crash in Warakapola: 40 Injured, 1 in Critical Condition https://www.newsfirst.lk/2025/03/22/bus-crash-in-warakapola-40-injured-1-in-critical-condition

Bus falls down precipice: seven dead, 20 injured

Seven passengers were killed and 20 were injured when a bus skidded off the road and fell down a precipice at 13th mile post on the Moneragala-Badulla Road at Passara this morning, said the Police https://archives1.dailynews.lk/tags/bus-accident

COLOMBO (News 1st) – Five people have died in separate road accidents reported across the country within the past 24 hours.

Two people, aged 53 and 46, died while two others sustained injuries following a collision between a three-wheeler and a car in Edaduwawa, Peradeniya. Meanwhile, a couple from Paragahakotuwa, died in a motorcycle accident along the Kuliyapitiya-Hettipola road in Kadawalagedara.

In a separate incident, a 58-year-old pottery vendor from Thimbiriwewa, Wariyapola, was fatally struck by a bus in Bambaragammana along the Wariyapola-Puttalam road.  The bus driver has been taken into custody.

https://www.newsfirst.lk/2025/03/31/five-killed-in-road-accidents-within-24-hours

In two previous articles titled, Clean Sri Lanka – cleansing the soul of the country”  (https://www.ft.lk/columns/ Clean-Sri-Lanka-cleansing-the-soul-of-the-country/4-772164), and Buses do not kill; bus drivers do: One dies every 3 hours in road accidents” https://www.ft.lk/columns/Buses-do-not-kill-bus-drivers-do–One-dies-every-3-hours-in-road-accidents/4-773051), the writer drew the attention of readers to the broader concept on Clean Sri Lanka as outlined by President Dissanayake when he stated This endeavour goes beyond merely cleaning up the environment. It aspires to restore the deeply eroded and deteriorated social and environmental fabric of our motherland. We aim to create cleanliness and rejuvenation across all sectors of society” unveiling the Clean Sri Lanka initiative on 1 January 2025

The President mentioned a three-step plan which he stated is much more than a physical cleanliness of the country. It is in fact cleansing the soul of the country and restoring the lost values of society and the country. The Presidents full speech has been reported widely (https://www.ft.lk/top-story/President-promises-new-economic-policy-framework/26-771307https://www.ft.lk/top-story/President-promises-new-economic-policy-framework/26-771307.

The President of the country cannot single handedly lead and manage a huge initiative such as the Clean Sri Lanka project which requires a substantial cultural shift in how people think, and their value system. It is a project that involves or should involve the entire country. While the Clean Sri Lanka website alludes to this, it is not clear as to how this is to be achieved. Tasks and responsibilities should be devolved through discussion and agreement, not just to the political establishment and the government sector but even to the non-government sector including religious institutions. It is important however not to raise expectations too high in the short-term knowing the enormity of challenges that requires a major mindset change that is needed to think differently about what Clean Sri Lanka really means. Raising peoples hopes and aspirations too high in the short term and promising a mountain and delivering a mole hill is inadvisable from a context broader than this project for the President and the government as scepticism about promises could become widespread and undermine good intent.

Unsafe roads and mounting deaths and injuries from road accidents

The article titled Buses do not kill; bus drivers do: One dies every 3 hours in road accidents https://www.ft.lk/columns/Buses-do-not-kill – bus-drivers-do– One-dies-every-3-hours-in-road-accidents/4-773051, highlighted the high road crash fatality and injury rates on Sri Lanka’s roads and how they were  undermining the economic growth of the country.  Better driving and respecting others on the road including pedestrians needs to be seen from the context of what values people hold as they are what will lead to respect and kindness to others. Reckless driving is the opposite of that.

It was pointed out that the estimated annual road crash deaths per capita in Sri Lanka was twice the average rate in high-income countries and five times that of the best performing countries in the world. Available data indicated an average of 38,000 crashes annually which result in around 3,000 fatalities and 8,000 serious injuries.

Sri Lanka has the worst road fatality rate among its immediate neighbours in the South Asia region as reported by the World Bank (Delivering Road Safety in Sri Lanka Leadership Priorities and Initiatives to 2030-International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank 2020 -https://openknowledge. worldbank.org /server/api/core/bitstreams/562748cf-426a-5645-95a2-d1dc2fe0f6d9/content)

Errant drivers, both bus drivers, truck drivers, three-wheel drivers and private vehicle drivers, have made driving and being passengers in vehicles unsafe for them and others on the road. A recent incident where such a driver speeding at more than 160 KM killed a father and mother travelling in the vehicle, leaving three children orphaned illustrates how the mind of some people works and how distant they are from kindness and concern for the safety of others. While the police appear to be checking driving licences, revenue documents and insurance papers, it is not clear whether speeding and errant driving is within the radar of the Police judging by the performance of some drivers of buses, trucks, cars, three wheelers and motor bikes. The question now perhaps is whether the community cares about these, whether officials care about these, whether the Police care about these and whether politicians really care about these pressing issues.

If errant and irresponsible driving continues unabated and the law enforcement officials do not take action to punish such drivers, it may not be long before the patience of a frustrated public who are at the receiving end of such inhuman behaviour wears thin and they take matters into their own hands. Another Aragalaya might be brewing unless firm action is taken to arrest the decline in road safety arising from reckless driving.

Sri Lanka pledges $1M in humanitarian aid to Myanmar relief efforts

April 2nd, 2025

Courtesy Adaderana

Sri Lanka pledges $1M in humanitarian aid to Myanmar relief efforts

The Government of Sri Lanka has pledged USD 1 million in humanitarian aid to assist ongoing relief and recovery efforts in Myanmar, in the aftermath of devastating earthquake. 

In addition, preparations are underway to deploy medical teams and provide health sector assistance to support those affected on the ground, said Arun Hemachandra, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

People of Myanmar has confronted immense hardships due to the devastating earthquake which occurred on March 28, 2025 and according to international media reports of the death toll has exceeded 2,700. 

Furthermore, it has been reported that a large number of individuals are missing while, a large number of individuals who experienced accidents due to the devastation are being hospitalized and treated. 

Accordingly, the Cabinet Spokesperson said today that considering the long term close relationship between the two nations as two Buddhist states, the Cabinet of Ministers has decided to render contribution of Sri Lankan people as follows for providing relief to the Myanmar people: 

• Providing financial assistance of USD One Million 
• The dry rations collected with the guidance of Buddhist Theros to be transported immediately to the Myanmar people with the mediation of the Government. 
• A group of relief services comprised of medical officers and other members of health staff to be stationed on alert for immediate departure to Myanmar at any time.

Ministerial Committee appointed to study sanctions imposed by UK on 4 Sri Lankans

April 2nd, 2025

Courtesy Adaderana

The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to appoint a committee comprised of ministers to submit a report with recommendations to the Cabinet of Ministers related to the decisions taken by the United Kingdom to impose sanctions on 4 Sri Lankan individuals including General Shavendra Silva recently.

Cabinet Spokesman Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa said the attention of the Cabinet of Ministers have been drawn on the decisions taken by the UK government to impose sanctions on 4 Sri Lankan individuals recently.

He stated that therefore, the Cabinet of Ministers has decided to appoint a committee comprised of ministers to submit a report with recommendations to the Cabinet of Ministers on the further measures to be taken after studying the facts in the regard and to empower the committee to obtain service of any officer/intellect deemed to have subject expertise in the relevant field and considered essential.

The committee is comprised of ministers with the following composition:

• Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism, Vijitha Herath

• Minister of Justice and National Integrity, Harshana Nanayakkara 

• Deputy Minister of Defence, Aruna Jayasekara 

බුදු පිළිමයක් පින්තාරු කරන්නත් තහනම් රටක්? යාපනේ වෙසෙන සිංහලයන්ගේ දුක

April 2nd, 2025

Colombo Today

Is the gazetted “22” to correct an error in the 19th ammendment to the Constitution being hidden from the people because the terms of President Anura and “Malimawa” Parliament are 6 years?

April 2nd, 2025

Aruna Laksiri Unawatuna B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col), AAL, Coordinator, Dr. Thilaka Padma Subasinghe Memorial Legal Education Program

Some people have forgotten that a President said at the opening of the New Court Complex in Galle that there is an error in the 19th Amendment to the Constitution brought in 2015 regarding  the presidential and parliamentary terms of office and that it was due to an oversight by a certain legal expert and that he would apologize to the people for it.

Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, Attorney General Parinda Ranasinghe, other judges and government officials were seated in that audience.

Also, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution Bill has been gazetted and published on 18th of July  2024
under Article 78 of the Constitution with the approval of the Attorney General to correct the error in the Constitution.

The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution Bill seeks to correct the error in Article 83 of the Constitution as follows.

“Article 83 of the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is hereby amended in paragraph (b)
thereof, by the substitution for the words “to over six years,”, of the words “to over five years,”

Accordingly, it is clear that the term of office of President Anura Dissanayake and the Malima Parliament is 6 years and has not been correctly amended to 5 years.

Because when a Constitution Amendment Bill was gazetted under Article 78 of the Constitution, it (Bill) was also the opinion of the Attorney General.

Accordingly, the position of the Attorney General is that there is an error in Article 83 of the current Constitution and it should be corrected.

The Attorney General noticed the error in Article 83 of the Constitution after several citizens filed cases in the Supreme Court about this error and paid lakhs of ruppess as court fees for it.

Translation of the Article
19වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයේ වරදක් නිවැරදි කිරීමට ගැසට් කළ 22 ජනතාවගෙන් සඟවන්නේ අනුර ජනාධිපතිගේ සහමාළිමාපාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ධූර කාල වසර 6ක් වන නිසාද?

http://neethiyalk.blogspot.com/2025/04/19-22-6.html?m=1

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Aruna Laksiri Unawatuna B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col), AAL, Coordinator, Dr. Thilaka Padma Subasinghe Memorial Legal Education Program. (2025.03.31)

19වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයේ වරදක් නිවැරදි කිරීමට ගැසට් කළ “22” ජනතාවගෙන් සඟවන්නේ අනුර ජනාධිපතිගේ සහ “මාළිමා” පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ධූර කාල වසර 6ක් වන නිසාද?

April 2nd, 2025

නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) සමායෝජක, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන.

19වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයේ වරදක් නිවැරදි කිරීමට ගැසට් කළ “22” ජනතාවගෙන් සඟවන්නේ අනුර ජනාධිපතිගේ සහමාළිමාපාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ධූර කාල වසර 6ක් වන නිසාද?

2015 දී ගෙනා 19වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයේ ජනාධිපති සහ පාර්ලිමේන්තු ධූරකාලයේ දෝෂයක් පවතින හෙයින් එය එක්තරා නීති විශාරදයකුගේ අතපසුවීමක් බවත් එයට ජනතාවගෙන් සමාව ගන්නා බවත් ගාල්ල අලුත් අධිකරණ සංකීර්ණය විවෘත කරන අවස්ථාවේ ජනාධිපතිවරයෙකු පැවසුවා සමහරුන්ට අමතක වී ඇත.

ඒ වේදිකාවේ ජයන්ත ජයසූරිය අගවිනිසුරුද, පාරින්ද රණසිංහ නීතිපතිද, තවත් විනිසුරුවරුන්ද, රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ද අසුන්ගෙන සිටියේය.

එසේම ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ පවතින ඒ වැරැද්ද නිවැරදි කිරීමට නීතිපතිගේ අනුමැතියෙන් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 78 වන ව්‍යවස්ථාව යටතේ 22වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පතද මේ වන විට 2024.07.18 දින නිකුත් කළ ගැසට් පත්‍රයේ පළ කර ඇත.

22වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පත මගින් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 83 වන ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ පවතින වැරැද්ද නිවැරදි කිරීමට ක්‍රියා ඇත්තේ මෙසේය.

ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 83 වන ව්‍යවස්ථාව, ඒ ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ (ආ) ඡේදයේධූර කාලය සාවුරුද්දක් ඉක්මවා දීර්ඝ කරන්නා වූ නැතහොත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව පවත්නා කාලය සාවුරුද්දක් ඉක්මවායන වචන වෙනුවටධූර කාලය පස් අවුරුද්දක් ඉක්මවා දීර්ඝ කරන්නා වූ නැතහොත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව පවත්නා කාලය පස් අවුරුද්දක් ඉක්මවායන වචන ආදේශ කිරීමෙන් මෙයින් සංශෝධනය කරනු ලැබේ.

ඒ අනුව පැහැදිලි වන්නේ අනුර දිසානායක ජනාධිපතිගේ සහ මාළිමා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ධූර කාලය වසර 6ක් බවත් එය නිවැරදිව වසර 5ක් වී නැති බවයි.

මන්ද යත් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 78වන ව්‍යවස්ථාව යටතේ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පතක් ගැසට් කළ අවස්ථාවක එය නීතිපතිගේ මතයද වේ.

ඒ අනුව වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 83වන ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ දෝෂයක් පවතින බවත් එය නිවැරදි විය යුතුය යන්න නීතිපතිගේ ස්ථාවරයයි.

ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ පවතින 83වන ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ වැරැද්ද නීතිපතිට පෙනුනේ මේ වැරැද්ද ගැන පුරවැසියන් කිහිප දෙනෙකු ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ නඩු පවරා ඒ වෙනුවෙන් ලකෂ ගණනින් නඩු ගාස්තු ගෙවීමෙන් පසුය.

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True Eid lies in continuing good deeds and sustaining Ramadan’s virtues – Ahmadiyya Khalifa

April 2nd, 2025

by A. Abdul Aziz Sri Lanka Correspondent, Al Hakam, London.

(Given below is an excerpt of the Eid-ul-Fitr Sermon delivered at Mubarak Mosque, Islamabad, Tilford, UK, by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Supreme Head of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, on 31 March, 2025, gave a discourse on True Eid lies in continuing good deeds and sustaining Ramadan’s virtues:

A large gathering of Ahmadis – men, women, and children – assembled in Islamabad to offer Eid-ul-Fitr 2025 prayer behind their beloved Imam, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (Khalifatul Masih V) and to listen to his sermon.  

Following the Eid prayer, Ahmadiyya Khalifa recited first Arabic part of the Sermon and First Chapter of Holy Quran and said:

After Ramadan concluded we are celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr – a day of joy. This joy stems from the good deeds we performed during Ramadan and the commitments we made and renewed to continue on the path of righteousness.    

However, Eid is not merely a day of celebration; it is also a day of reaffirming our pledge to uphold and sustain the virtuous practices we observed throughout Ramadan. Only then will this truly be an Eid in its fullest and most meaningful sense.”

Ahmadiyya Khalifa (may Allah be his Helper) explained that a true believer is the one whom the Promised Messiah Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, peace be upon him, described as someone who remains steadfast in righteousness, resolving to continue performing good deeds and abstaining from evil. Merely refraining from wrongdoing is not true piety; rather, the essence of righteousness lies in the consistent practice of virtue. Hence, on this blessed day of Eid, we reaffirm our commitment to uphold the lessons we learned during Ramadan. We pledge to continue fulfilling the obligations of serving humanity (huquq-ul-ibad) just as we did throughout the month of fasting. And it is in the joy of making this solemn commitment that we celebrate this day of Eid.

Ahmadiyya Khalifa said, This Eid thus serves as an opportunity to remind us of our commitments.” He said therefore, we should not spend this day merely in play, amusement, and wearing new clothes. Rather, we must reflect on the lesson that Eid brings for us – that we must continue practicing righteousness. We must fulfil both our duties to Allah the Almighty and our obligations towards His creation.

Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad said:

Today, we must make this pledge, for it is this very commitment that has brought us together here on the day of Eid. We have gathered to reaffirm our dedication, just as we do every Eid. The steps we took towards righteousness during Ramadan must now continue to advance even further. It is in this spirit that we are assembled here today – both to pray and to rejoice.

Wearing new clothes or enjoying good food is not the true essence of joy. Rather, real happiness lies in renewing our resolve to uphold the good deeds that Allah the Almighty enabled us to perform. Our joy will only be genuine if we remain steadfast in this commitment. Our true Eid will be when we sustain these virtues, continuously progressing forward in righteousness, in accordance with our abilities.”

His Holiness continued to say, if we fail to uphold this commitment, then the joy we experience today on Eid will be merely fleeting, leaving no lasting impact on our spiritual lives. Eating, drinking, and simply going through life hold no real significance – for even worldly people live in the same manner, and even animals fulfill these basic needs. Such things are not worthy of mention; true significance lies in sustaining the righteousness we cultivated during Ramadan.

A believer – and a true Ahmadi – benefits only when they undergo a pure transformation within themselves and firmly resolve to make these righteous changes a permanent part of their lives. Otherwise, there will be no difference between an Ahmadi and a non-Ahmadi, Ahmadiyya Khalifa added.

Ahmadiyya Founder Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad The Promised Messiahstated: 

If no transformation is taking place within you, then what distinguishes you from others? In such a case, you are committing a double sin: first, the sin of breaking your pledge, and second, the sin of failing to reform yourself.”

Therefore, on this day, we must reflect on whether we truly find ourselves prepared to fulfill this commitment. Are we sincerely striving to uphold the promises we have made to Allah the Almighty?    

Ahmadiyya Khalifa explained in detail on this topic and continued to say, that, If we have truly gained something from this experience [of Ramadan], then it should lead us to develop a deep connection with God. The real expression of celebrating Eid with true joy lies in the recognition that we have indeed attained this nearness to Him.” 

The Holy Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said that Allah the Almighty experiences immense joy when His servants walk on the path of righteousness. He gave the example of a man who loses his laden camel in the desert. After tirelessly searching for it, he finally gives up, exhausted, and lies down to rest. In this state of despair, he falls asleep. Upon waking, he finds his camel standing right before him. The happiness he feels in that moment is immense. Yet, Allah the Almighty experiences even greater joy when His servant turns back to Him in repentance and strives to attain His nearness.    

Similarly, the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, also stated that just as a mother rejoices upon finding her lost child, Allah the Almighty is overjoyed when a person returns to Him.    

Ahmadiyya Supreme Head highlighted that during Ramadan, those among us who sincerely strove to please Allah and sought to attain Him will continue to receive His grace and blessings, as He has promised.    

Thus, our celebration of Eid should be accompanied by the reflection that during Ramadan, we abstained from many evils and adopted virtues, humbling ourselves in complete devotion to Allah. The true Eid for us was the day we sought refuge in Him. 

His Holiness said that today, in accordance with His command, we are celebrating this joy collectively. However, if a spark of divine love is ignited in a person’s heart through sincere repentance, it will expand into a radiant light, illuminating the heart and protecting one from sin. Gradually, all of their actions and deeds will be carried out solely for the pleasure of Allah. When a person reaches this state, their surroundings are also positively affected – their spouse, children, and those around them benefit. This, in turn, fosters a peaceful and spiritually uplifting environment. And this is precisely the purpose of human creation as defined by Allah the Almighty.    

May Allah enable us to fulfil this purpose. May we become those who establish prayer with sincerity.

Let us continue to pray for all Ahmadis, that Allah may envelop them in His grace. There are many Ahmadis across the world who are suffering unjust persecution, such as in Pakistan, where they are deprived even of their right to offer Eid prayers freely. May Allah grant them the opportunity to experience true Eid, allowing them both to develop a closer relationship with Him and to celebrate outwardly in peace. May He enable them to worship freely and fulfil the rights of others. May they continue to attract His blessings. Many Ahmadis, out of fear, were forced to change their prayer locations and schedules for Eid today. In some places, such as Karachi, Ahmadis were even prevented from offering prayers. Rather than stopping the aggressors, authorities instead locked our mosques. May Allah swiftly hold such opponents accountable.    

Let us pray for the children of martyrs, that Allah may strengthen their faith and continue granting them the blessings earned by their forebears’ sacrifices.    

Ahmadiyya Supreme Head also drew Ahmadis attention to remember the wider Muslim Ummah (community) in our prayers. They are currently facing great hardships, as the forces of falsehood are exerting all their power to harm them. However, many Muslims themselves are weak in faith. May Allah strengthen their faith so they may escape these forces of Dajjal. The only true solution for them is to turn towards Allah. May He grant them the wisdom to recognise and accept the Promised Messiah, peace be on him, whom He has sent in this era, so that they may attain true happiness.

Towards the end, Ahmadiyya Khalifa led the congregation in silent prayer, then conveyed ‘Eid Mubarak’ to Ahmadis across the world.

WHAT HAPPENED TO AHIMSA? From Ahimsa to Democracy and Non-Alignment to Gender Ideology

April 1st, 2025

Manuka Wijesinghe.

It has been said that the great emperor Ashoka, seeing the immense bloodshed he had caused in the battle of Kalinga, filled with great remorse had introduced a new public policy; Ahimsa; ‘do no harm to living beings.’

Ahimsa was inspired by the idea that all living beings, possessing the spark of divine energy should not be harmed. Ahimsa is the seed that gave birth to the Jainism. On the other hand, we have been taught that the emperor Ashoka, filled with compassion after Kalinga, had converted to Buddhism and sent missionaries to surrounding kingdoms in order to spread the idea of ahimsa; non-violence.

It is immaterial if Ashoka was a Jain or a Buddhist, for ‘Ahimsa’ is noble and the foundation upon which the greatest pacifist religious philosophies of Jainism and Buddhism were built.

Yet, let us consider another angle. What if emperor Ashoka had adopted the policy of non-violence, not due to compassion but so as to make passive the neighboring kingdoms, so none would take revenge upon him? Or wage war against him?

Despite reason of motivation, Ahimsa was a noble decree. If not; history’s noblest. For two thousand years Ahimsa had been our Asian moral code. Even the many satyagrahas or passive resistance, with which Gandhi resisted the British empire were guided by the principle of Ahimsa.

Ahimsa is the first of Buddhism’s five precepts and it was the codex of the non-aligned movement, which was built upon the idea of Pancasila; the five precepts of Buddhism. These precepts, applied to geo-politics was understood as – Mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, Mutual non-aggression, Mutual non-interference in domestic affairs, Equality and mutual benefit and Peaceful co-existence.

These were the five cardinal features of the non-aligned movement founded in Bandung, Indonesia, by the Muslim head of the Indonesian state, President Sukarno, who insisted that ‘ahimsa’ should be the binding that held the non-aligned nations together.

The non-aligned movement was born, not immediately after the great war, but during the Cold War when it was evident that the west, unlike emperor Ashoka, was filled neither with remorse nor compassion, but continued to proliferate their military industrial complex; killing machines, in a new and imagined state of Cold War. And, into its black hole of Soviet bashing, idealism killing, lies, hate, propaganda and avarice, the third world was expected to gravitate.

The non-aligned movement was the grid that prevented this gravitational pull.

Unlike Asia and other third world nations, Europe has been a slaughter house for most of history. The United States has been a slaughter house, even in pre-history. But, after the second world war, when Europe was broke, its youth killed and crippled and Britain and its western alliances had won the war, not for their moral goodness, but for the superiority of their weapons and the sacrifice of human pawns, conscripted from the colonies and slaughtered in millions, for a war that had been caused by the most enlightened and industrialized of western nations; Germany, belatedly satiating its desire for colonial expansion, Lebensraum; living space, only then, when the Germans began moving east did Allies declare a war. Not because Hitler did anything extraordinary, for what he did was what the British, Belgians, French and Dutch had been doing in the colonies for most of modern history, but he was a contender in the colonial gambit. He had to be stopped before he conquered the vast terrain of natural resources in the Soviet homelands. He was stopped, not by the Allies but by the ten million Soviets who laid down their lives for Allied victory.   

When the second world war ended the colonies had come of age. Furthermore, the colonial powers had reached their financial limits and could no longer execute direct influence in the colonies. Then, upon an idea of the US president, the United Nations (UN) was established for the purpose of preventing future wars. The UN charter required that member states maintain international peace and security, uphold international law, achieve higher standards of living for citizens and maintain human rights and fundamental freedom for all without distinction.

The member states had long realized that the achievement of higher living standards for citizens could be won, only with decolonization. Hence, in 1960, the UN general assembly passed Resolution 1514(XV), declaring the granting of Independence to colonial countries and people. Former subjects were about to get the same rights as their masters. ‘Equal rights and the self determination of people’ was the modern world’s Ahimsa.

But, was its intent the same?

It was not. Deceiving the recently independent nations with democratic and equal rights rhetoric, the west continued to do what they always did; siphon the wealth of nations though privately owned foreign companies and corrupt native elites. Along with it, their modus operandi, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) began the weaponization of religion.

The United Nations had a noble charter, but even its General Secretary’s hands were tied by its western veto powers. While the first general director paid lip service to the charter, its second general director, Dag Hammarskjöld, opposing the will of the imperial powers attempted to ensure the correct and just decolonization procedure so that new nations would have the fiscal reserves to survive.

In the bitter battle that erupted in Congo, when former imperialists sabotaged a legitimate election, refused to cede the most lucrative copper and cobalt mines and had its elected leader, Patrice Lumumba kidnapped and killed, Dag Hammarskjöld did everything contained in the UN charter to enable the peaceful birth of the new republic of Congo. For that, he was killed. (1)

Dag Hammarskjöld’s murder was the proof that the colonial game, despite the United Nations had not ended. The western veto powers were stronger than the united voice of the third world nations. And their fine words, Democracy, human rights and equality to all races; mere sophistry.

Is the west inherently evil?   

By 1977, with the beginning of our neo-liberal adventure, many of the founders of the non- aligned movement had been deposed by militaries funded and trained by the CIA. And our own mother of non-alignement, Sirimavo, was about to be removed of her civic rights.

Yet, had Ceylon been spared?

Five years after the first non-aligned summit in Bandung, Indonesia, in 1959, we lost a Prime Minister to an assassin’s bullet. This Prime Minister, in contrast to his predecessors was a Socialist. Coincidentally, it was the fear of Communism and its milder version of Socialism against which the United States built its military industrial complex, under the pretext of the Cold War, began the funding of clandestine CIA operations such as the USAID, the Asia Foundation and many more. Their intention was that social equality, which is enshrined in Communist theory, should never prevail. And the best weapon to oppose it was the weaponization of religion.

In this context, let us consider, if Ven. Talduwa Somarama, the monk who assassinated the Prime Ministers. Had truly abandoned Ahimsa or had he merely been weaponized, as Buddhist monks had been, in South East Asia, during the Cold War? (2) 

Would a Buddhist monk have abandoned ahimsa, merely because the Prime Minister wanted to give parity of language to the Tamil regions?   In 1959, had language been a reason to kill? And if, who would have manipulated a monk’s mind that he would desecrate the very foundation upon which the Buddha’s dharma had been constructed? The order into which he had been ordained since the young age of fourteen. Would such a man kill a man at the age of 46? Would he so desecrate Buddhism, when the foundation of his very existence was Ahimsa? Or had he been indoctrinated and instigated in the cold war weaponization of Buddhism?

The famous Buddha Jayanthi of 1956, which manifested a birthdate for the Buddha, did not manifest from astrologers or soothsayers born in India or Ceylon. That birthdate was concocted by the CIA funded Asia foundation. (3) CIA and its operations were aimed at undermining traditional society. Its weaponization of religion frayed people and faiths which had coexisted amicably in mutual respect and reverence. The Buddha Jayanti created racial disharmony and a belligerent monkhood to whom chauvinistic nationalism was of greater importance than ahimsa.

Or, was Talduwa Somarama indoctrinated through his close association to Ven. Buddharakhita, the chief incumbent of the Kelaniya temple, whose main functionaries were pro American political actors of Ceylon’s United National Party?

A village monk, how much did Talduwa Somarama know of geo politics? Would he have killed a Prime Minister for an issue such as the parity of language for minorities when the Prime Minister had done something far greater for us? SWRD Bandaranaike had rid the British from their naval base in Trincomalee and returned the Trincomalee harbour back us. Could it not be perceived that the monk had been used as a pawn in a perceived threat of Socialism in Ceylon?

That what cannot be denied is that when the Buddhist monks, including Talduwa Somarama were assembled at Rosmead place, the Prime Minister’s residence, the last person to have seen the Prime Minister had been Bernhard Gufler; the US ambassador. Gufler had worked as a career officer for the US foreign service and after the second world war been instrumental in the winning over of Nazi Prisoners of War to serve American and European (Allied) interests in Europe and East Germany. He arrived in Ceylon, shortly after SWRD’s victory, when it was perceived that Ceylon, under the new Prime Minister was turning left. Gufler was no ordinary ambassador, he was an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary. In other words, an officer of the highest rank, clearly on a special mission. As ambassador James J. Lowenstein, in his interview with ambassador Dennis Kux describes his time in Ceylon, when he was just a political officer,

‘Ambassador Lampton Berry rarely came to office and was replaced by a career officer by the name of Bernhard Gufler, a German expert but had been the deputy commissioner of the mission before. He knew everybody in the place. He knew the country well.’

‘He (Gufler) had begun life in the foreign service. He was one of the people who were originally trained in Russian…..’

‘I went with Gufler to the Prime Minister as a note taker When I got there he said, ´´I don’t think I will take a note taker, stay in the car and wait for me.’’. He went in and came out and we left Bandaranaike’s house. As we drove out, there was a popping sound. When we got back to the embassy a friend from British mission, who was their intelligence said to me, ‘Chap’s been shot’. I said, ‘what chap?’. He said, ‘The PM old boy’. I said, ‘Really, that’s impossible, we just saw him’. ‘Well’, he said, ‘He was shot right after you saw him.’ And indeed, he was. I think Gufler was the last person who saw him alive, I can’t imagine anybody else could have gotten in there between Gufler’s departure and the time of that shot. ‘

Had SWRD’s murder been an American and British plan of action?

On answering the question as to what the US’ issues were in Ceylon. Löwenstein states,

‘I would say benign neglect. The issues were cold war issues. Chinese presence. Chinese and Russian economic and political penetration, the cultural wars, non-alignment’

It was believed that the death of the Prime Minister would hail the UNP back to power, the UNP members who SWRD called ‘Black Englishmen’. But, contrary to expectation SWRD’s widow became the new Prime Minister.  She may have faulted in leadership, but she did not return Trincomalee to the former colonial masters nor did she distance herself from non-alignment. Her loyalty to non- alignment’s charter ensured that India did not intervene in our local issues, despite local unrest. We were trusted and respected neighbours.   

But, seven years later, one of SWRD’s ‘white Englishmen’ won the election. JR Jayawardane. His nickname was Yankee Dickey. With no hesitation, JR began to destroyed that what an independent post-colonial nation had worked hard to achieve and to sustain; national sovereignty with mutual friendship with bordering countries.

Firstly, he handed Trincomalee to a US proxy; a Singaporean company.

Then he allowed for the operation of the voice of America in Sri Lanka.

Then, in utmost secrecy, in 1978, just a few months following his victory, he sent his finance minister Ronnie de Mel to Washington, USA, to hammer the first nail on the coffin of non-alignment.

In Memorandum of Conversation 482; Sri Lanka’s finance Minster’s call on the secretary;

‘De Mel sates that Jayawardane’s government has adopted a pragmatic and practical policy in many areas and the time had now come for it to be more practical and pragmatic in its foreign policy. It has studied with great care, president Carter’s State of the Union message. Particularly the reference to the US’ desire to cooperate with States of South Asian region’

Furthermore he states, While Sri Lanka would remained basically non-aligned it now wished to play a different role in the area…..It could play a useful role in working out some form of consultative process amongst them in the face of Soviet aggression…..

There was no such thing as basically non-aligned. Either one was non-aligned or not. And, Sri Lanka, was not facing, either in 1978 or in the years before, any kind of Soviet aggression. The Soviets had always assisted us in education, culture, commerce and industry. 

De Mel’s words as communicated by the foreign office states, President Jayawardane was prepared to take the initiative and that Sri Lanka was prepared to be responsive to Carter’s State of the Union address regarding the United States ‘’pursuing the possibility of gaining access to military facilities in the region in times of trouble’’ and in the event of open confrontation Sri Lanka would have ‘Only one friend, the United States.

That was an outright betrayal non-alignment. Yet, it does not end there.  

JR’s Sri Lanka was prepared to give the US access to naval and other facilities.

And finally, special emphasis was laid on the importace that the offer be kept secret. For a leak cold be damaging to the JR Jayawardane government.

JR’s betrayal damaged, not the government, but the nation and its people forever.

Paddy lands were confiscated and made into free trade zones. These zones had no labour movements, worker rights nor compensation for physical injury.  We became Asia’s Chile for in 1973, the Chilean Prime Minister Salvador Allende was assassinated by the CIA so that the United States could execute its Neo-Liberal agenda. It was a reign of terror with disappearances and torture, made possible by the military junta, with whom US and Chilean elite economists, executing the neo-liberal plan collaborated. They were known as the Chicago boys.

Was the purpose of Ronnie de Mel’s visit to Washington so that JR could implement the same Neo-Liberal agenda in our country? Was he preparing for a reign of terror too?

Yet, would we take it lightly if we were told that our government was building up its military arsenal against us? We would not. But what they planned could be done, through deception, by making us believe that the Tamil minority was preparing to create a separate Tamil state on our island.

And that is what the JR’s government did. They created ethnic conflict.

For the spread of lies and ethnic hatred, the Voice of America and the recently founded television stations proved its worth. Thus, ethnic harmony was shredded apart for the fruition of the Neo-Liberal plan; privatization, deregulation and the transfer of assets and control from the government sector to the private. Into the hands of JR’s clique; the neophyte Sinhala Buddhists who would achieve their objectives through the murder and the forced migration of our traditional urban traders; the Tamil trading communities.

The Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) was brought into being in 1979. Military medals and decorations created in 1981. A military Junta was being born, recruited only from Sinhala youth, who were indoctrinated into believing that Tamils, with whom we had shared this island since the birth of time, were our enemies. And had to be killed.

JR bragged a Dharmishta society. But it had no ahimsa. 

When the Colombo blew up in flames, JR’s goons and thugs, who were brought in by Sri Lanka transport board vehicles, burned Colombo with election lists in their hands. They knew which homes, shops, factories, stores and restaurants was Tamil owned and which were not. The burned, only those that were Tamil.

Our civil war no accident. It was not because 13 soldiers had been killed. It was planned.

When a friend of mine questioned the director of the Indian Research and Analysis wing (RAW) as to why India supported Tamil terrorism. His answer was, ‘Because your President aligned himself to the USA.’

When JR betrayed non-alignment, he created a volcano which has been erupting since fifty years. And our religion, born from the compassion of Mahavira and the Buddha, lost ahimsa.

By the time his war ended 100,000 civilians, 50 thousand fighters, 27,000 thousand cadres, 28,000 army personnel, 1000 policemen, and 60,000 suspected subverts captured, killed and disappeared. Satya; truth, was elusive, for the PTA act had no transparency, no justice and no law.

Neo Liberalism has turned inwards – it is killing its children

Now, having destroyed a multitude of sovereign nations for a Neo-Liberal agenda, while propagating an apparition called Democracy, neo- liberalism has now turned inwards and begun the destruction of the human future. Its children.

This is the religion of gender ideology. Gender ideology is not science, it is a religious cult spread through the fanatical fervour of privately funded Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) in the pockets of the American financial institutions and the super rich. This ideology is nudging children towards the delusional belief that sexual identity is like a yo-yo and could be changed at whim, through medical intervention.

I have written about it, in an essay titled ‘Live not by lives’, which was intended, not for those who have decided to undergo sexual transition as adults, but for parents who are too gullible as to not realize that this ideology has nothing to do with human rights advocacy, but is a crime against the child.

‘Live Not by Lies’ was met with abuse and anger. I have lost friends and have been condemned as a white Christian, although I am neither for merely declaring that the human species has two distinct genders. Most of us have eyes to see and a brain to think. Indeed, there is the rare hermaphrodite, but that is caused by natural privation, not because nature decided to have a third sex.

Parents are losing fast against this ideology for most online platforms, peer pressure and well-funded NGO crusaders, such as the USAID, the EU, the Family planning and Psychiatric Associations are crusading for the transitioning of children. Gender fluidity is not a natural compulsion, it is a digitally advocated surrealist ideology. It could belong to a Dali painting or a science fiction movie, but it is not reality. And when made reality, is accompanied with incredible pain and harm. It is a dangerous fad that inevitably leads to puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, mastectomies, castration, cosmetic surgeries and finally, to a life of pain killer and anti-depressants and sterility.

In our country, a mother’s movement is striving to bring awareness. And indeed, as expected, they are being denounced. No man is unflawed. None of these mothers claim to be unflawed, but they have gathered, from many walks of life, as mothers, in the effort to inform the general public about the harm done to our children with the fallacies being taught in schools, under the subject of sex education. Today’s sex education claims that the human species has more than two sexes and sex is not designed at birth. But by choice. And a child has the freedom to make that choice.

But what is a price of that freedom of choice?

We need to practice ‘ahimsa’ towards our children.

But those who dare to speak are targeted as homophobes and anti-gays. They are not anti-gay; they merely want to protect children. Homosexuality has been accepted in our society and some of the most creative and artistic people are of the gay community. No one are against them, on the contrary they are loved, respected and even adulated; for their brilliance, wit and creativity.

That what is happening with the gender ideology is an insult to homosexuality too. That they too are being nudged, no longer to be happy about loving a person of the same sex, but to transition his physical form so as to become a medically and surgically manipulated trans male or a trans woman.

Again, an adult has the capacity to reason and apply that reason to the decisions he or she makes. If he decides for a life of a transgender, it is the choice he has made after receiving the necessary information regarding causal effects of his decision. A minor does not belong to this category. A minor (mostly under 18 years of age) is legally incompetent and unable to enter contracts and handle his own affairs. Hence, unfit to make life changing decisions for not comprehending the consequences of his decisions. We have a duty to protect them.

The youth who are leaning towards transitioning know no history, no medicine nor the debilitating consequences of medical intervention.  They live in a world of science fiction, especially accentuated in the years of Covid policy and lock downs. These policies, ordered by the WHO and implemented by sovereign nations, disassociated children from friends, peers, families, activities, play and sports. Instead of calming them, policies pushed them towards computer screens where tech companies highlighted their fears, heightened their depression and nudged them towards digital platforms advocating trans gender ideologies as a way out of lock down misery.

Covid policy was a crime against everyman, but those who suffered the most were children. Their world ceased to be real and was made surreal. Their lives ceased to be based on empirical reality, instead; digital reality. Thereby, they lost touch with their parents and elders.

It was no accident. It was deliberate, orchestrated and planned. To create a generation of miserable and fearful children, susceptible to all the temptations of the medical industrial complex.

Such evil ideologies never came from the east. We are the regions that have born and cultivated ahimsa. But, since our economic deprivation we are forced, not only to take the west’s monies but to adopt their ideologies too. A Colombo 7 kid recently said to me, ‘gender ideology is good, it represents the rights of those who are stoned in our country for being gay’.

This kid goes to an international school, does not speak his parent’s mother tongue, orders Uber food instead of dining with family and spends his holidays in boutique and 5-star hotels and abroad. How would he know any normal man in this country, leave alone who is being stoned or lynched for being gay? This kid is disassociated from reality. He does not know that homosexuality was not considered a deprivation in our countries (we are not the prudish Chistian west) but an attribute. In a country that is still in awe of the arts, the gay community has been our finest artists. Furthermore, the occasional transvestite parties were places many loved to attend. They were lively, happy and carefree. While parenthood filled one with the burden of duty, gayness preserved the filigran beauty of the human creation.

Again, my argument is not brandishing adults who make informed choices, but children. How many of us have not, in school days, not been attracted to the same sex? What we used to call a crush? Like we got into it, we got out of it. Some of us became straight, a few gay. And some of us, despite early crushes, became parents and continued the species. And those crushes, happy memories of the age of childhood.

Today, there is no more age of childhood.

A child with a crush on another child of the same sex, before confiding in a parent or a friend, he checks out on internet what it means to have a crush on the same sex. Algorithms direct him to platforms which nudges him or her to think, that he could be gender fluid. That biological sex does not count. That the X and Y chromosome, the depositors of biological sex, is a lie. He is already self-diagnosed before being sent to a therapist. And then therapist then continues the charade. Parents are rendered helpless.

Biology does count. The whole edifice of gender theory is based on the fabricated research of a man named John Money whose own psychological trauma dealing with a violent father made him hate the male sex. He performed the castration of male babies when they could have lived lives as homosexuals or even straight, with a prescription of hormones that activated the pituitary gland in cases of retarded primary genitalia. John Money, the lore of Gender Theory and its dire consequences leading to the suicide and death of healthy children can be read and understood in John Colapinto’s book, ‘As nature made him.’  

What are we doing to our children? Are we removing them of agency? Are we no longer raising them through storytelling, play acting and reading so they may discern between reality and fantasy. Wherever I speak to the young, they are all in the trap of therapy. These kids are not mentally diseases, they are ordinary children whose anxieties are normal.

Recently I met a child whose anxiety had risen shorty before an exam. The parents, instead of descending from their high horse of parental ambition and placating the child, send the child to therapist. Thus, indicating to the child, that his natural instinct is a state of disease. Kids do not need therapists, they need play.

The therapist is dependent on an imagined diseased state of mind for his income. In the case of this child, he recommended psychiatric consultation which led to the prescription of brain altering, addictive psychiatric drugs. Drugs were followed by further therapy. Exams have always stressed children. Parents of yester year, instead of creating disease out of a natural state, encouraged children to go out and play and to do what kids usually did. This was the best stress remover. The child did not lose his agency, but created within him the power to overcome stressful situations. That was the first lesson of endurance.

Or, a child goes to a foreign university and has difficulty finding friends. He calls his parents saying he has no friends The parents, instead of urging him to join some kind of activity group, where he could meet likeminded, recommends therapy. If everything in life has been digitized and reduced, that what has done a reverse turn has been psychiatric diagnosis.

Psychiatric disease are not pathologies, they are inventions.  The DSM, or the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is not science, it is fiction. There, everything we once considered to be normal has now been categorized as disease. Shyness, introversion, apprehension, anxiousness, melancholia, loneliness. These are not fixed states, they are like the ebb and flow of the tides, normal and fluctuating sentiments, now considered psychiatric disorders. That poor child who just left an Asian family to go to a Canadian university, for the inability to make immediate friends is diagnosed as having social anxiety disorder, limited exposure to situations conductive to meeting people disorder and low self-esteem disorder. And since the child is now at the receiving end of drugs, his personality is bound to change and in little time would be diagnosed as a schizoid personality and prescribed even more detrimental psychiatric drugs. The chances that this child would return to his former self, is slim.

No one who goes to a foreign country makes friends immediately. Friendship requires time, effort and above all; will. Parental recommendation of therapy instead of joining a club or an activity group in which the child may participate is a supreme indication of their incompetence and the ease with which they transfer a child’s agency to a complete stranger.

Strangers do not know children, parents do.    

As Thomas Zsasz, the Hungarian American psychiatrist says, ‘The mental health apparatus of today is a gigantic apparatus of molestation. And its greatest victims are children.’

Do parents have no more influence on their children, are they no longer a child’s guide or seers? Have they been so disempowered by the digital revolution that they are unable to recollect the wisdom they received from mothers and grandmothers?

What is a woman? A woman is not just a birthing person as inclusive language (language of gender ideology) claims. A mother is far more; she is infinite. For us in the east, born into a heritage of ancient Vedic and puranic wisdom, creation occurs due to the moon’s interaction with the sun. The sun, while it is a symbol of male activity, the moon represents the mind, emotion, calm and intuition; the feminine principle.

The feminine principle is the seed that gives life to the male principle.

This feminine principle is, in the puranas, known as Jyoti; light.

She is none other than the supreme feminine goddess, Parvati, sitting in the middle of the Jyotilingam surrounded by the 7 rishis; the saptarishis or the seven seers. As Parashara, the author of Hora shastra; the science of Vedic astrology says, ‘each Rishi represents the energy of the 7 planets; Its intelligence and its rasa.’ Rasa is not merely taste, it is an essential life defining attribute. And Paravati, the divine mother is called Jyoti or light, for she absorbs the light of the seven Rishis. Jyoti in her maternal form is Saraswati. ‘Sa’, meaning all, ‘Rasa’, meaning quality and ‘Wati’, the possessor of the divine rasa.

That is the mother. And it is the rasa she receives from the Saptarishis she gives to her child through her nadi; pulse. 

The mother is light. She is the light which dispels darkness. In a mother, agni burns and it is its light that she emanates from her right eye as dharma, from the left as compassion, while her third eye, the ajna, is rooted in satya; truth.

She knows if her child is a girl or a boy. And when in doubt, she has the ability to dispel the darkness of doubt. That is ahimsa. A mother must accept responsibility. She must know that our ancient wisdom has, the many clues to a child’s distress. It is sometimes easily explained through the movements of the planets. One only needs to wait for them to pass, as distress is likely to pass.

The Cyberspace that controls and grabs children is a maze created and controlled by those to whom the confusion, mutilation and the sterility of children are of material advantage. To whom it brings profit. ‘Follow the trail of money’ says the journalist Jennifer Bilek in her book, ‘Transsexual, Transgender, Transhuman’.

Instead of falling into the hollow rhetoric of social justice, one must, if one’s intent is saving the life of children, seek truth. Truth is not contained cyberspace. Cyberspace that that what is controlled by algorithms developed for maximum profit. It is a space that denounces those who do not sway from truth as right-wing extremists, religious fanatics and Nazis. Saving a child from the injuries he causes to himself for he is just too young to know is not right-wing extremism. That is ahimsa. Do no harm.

The history of medicine has two theories. Miasma and Germ theory. Miasma theory is that of fortifying the immune system through nutrition while reducing the body from exposure to toxins. Germ theory blames microbial pathogens to be the cause of disease and creates poisons to kill it. The totalitarian activity around the recent Covid industry is the evidence of the conquest of germ theory upon public health. The nudging and transitioning of children towards self-damaging puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, castration, top and bottom surgeries is the continuation of germ theory on a mental level. It is the antithesis of ahimsa; our Asian heritage which loves children.

Manuka Wijesinghe. 31.3.25

(1) Who killed Hammarskjold, Susan Williams (2) Cold War Monks, Eugene Ford (3) Freedom’s Laboratory, Andra Wolf (4) The Carter Documents 

Further Reading.

Bad Therapy by Abigail Shreir. Transnation by Miriam Grossman, Transgender by Jennifer Bilek. Trans by Helen Joyce. 

Praise to ex-president Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe!

April 1st, 2025

Rohana R. Wasala

In the despicable absence of an urgent practical response on the part of the JVP Anura Kumara Dissanayake-led NPP government to the devastating 28th March earthquake in Myanmar, Hon. ex-president Ranil Wickremasinghe has made a very timely and sensible proposal regarding how to assist our disaster stricken fellow humans in that country. Hon. ex-president Mr. Wickremasinghe! Thank you very much for saving, at least to some extent, Sri Lanka’s still unsullied reputation as a sovereign state populated by a most humane and hospitable people. You have again demonstrated your remarkable ability to emerge as an able state level troubleshooter at critical moments, this time though, just by being a mentor. It is a pity that you don’t think of adopting a more universally acceptable, less anglophile version of principled politics that will endear  you to the general electorate and induce the true patriots of the country to elect you to the hot seat, where you will have the chance to show your true colours! 

The ordinary people of Myanmar (formerly called Burma) are remarkably humble, polite and kind-hearted just like our fellow ordinary Sri Lankans. There’s a natural cultural affinity between us two peoples because we have been sharing the same Theravada Buddhist religious culture for many centuries, especially from the 4th century CE, when Buddhism started making gradual inroads into the Irrawaddy Valley through trade with India. Whereas Buddhism almost completely disappeared from India, it flourished in Sri Lanka and Burma. Nearly 88% of the 55 million present Myanmar population profess Buddhism, which compares to 72% of the 22 million population in Sri Lanka. Wickremasinghe has been mindful enough to take a glance at the historicity of close Myanmar-Sri Lanka relations. And he didn’t mince his words while giving some details.

At the beginning of his statement in this connection (which I listened to in a video today, April 1, 2025), Ranil Wickremasinghe said that our government has expressed its sorrow (but little else, as could be understood in the context). Countries near and far from Myanmar including even partly affected Thailand, and India, China, and distant Australia have already provided emergency assistance.  Referring to the special connection we have with Myanmar as a fellow Theravada Buddhist country, he said that both the Amarapura and Ramanna nikayas brought the vital higher ordination ritual from there.We must help Myanmar especially because of this historic relationship. 

When Nepal, the birthplace of the Buddha, had an earthquake in 2015, we sent an army team to help. On that occasion, Sri Lanka was the second country to provide relief, India being the first, with China becoming the third country to come to Nepal’s help. Today, India, Thailand, Malaysia,  China and Australia have dispatched aid by now.  Last year Sri Lanka gave 1 million US Dollars for Gazan refugees, he remembered. So, we need to take a (meaningful) step now.

Wickremasinghe proposed that the army medical corps be sent to Myanmar immediately to set up a temporary hospital there. The necessary drugs and other materials may be collected from Buddhist and non-Buddhist donors in Colombo and other areas.

Emphasizing the ancient friendly relationship between Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Wickremasinghe mentioned that King Alaung Sithu I (of the Pagan Dynasty, 1090-1167 CE) sent help to (Prince Keerthi who later became) King Vijayabahu the Great (1055-1110 CE) to defeat and drive away from the island the occupying Cholas after a 17 year long military campaign. The grateful Lankan monarch Vijayabahu, during his reign, offered the Thihoshin Pagoda (name meaning ‘Lord of Lanka’ pagoda, according to Wikipedia) and a golden Buddha image to the Myanmar king. (This pagoda is situated in Pakokku in the Magway region, which is one of the six regions affected by the recent earthquake. I am unable to say whether it remains undamaged. Though the monument was initiated during Vijayabahu’s lifetime, the construction was completed during the reign of King Alaung Sithu I {Wikipedia}).

Wickremasinghe, in his statement, added that it was after this that a strong connection between Sri Lanka and Myanmar started. In some Buddhist temples in Myanmar there are paintings done by ancient Lankan painters, illustrating Jataka stories (Buddhist Birth stories). Among these, Wickremasinghe mentioned, there is a painting depicting the duel between (the occupying Chola king of Anuradhapura) Elara and (his young native challenger from Ruhuna prince) Dutugemunu. (Although Wickremasinghe did not talk about it, a fact well known is that there is a copy of our Mahavamsa in Myanmar. In reporting the ex-president’s speech, I have added my own information and information from other sources. I have put this within parentheses)

Let’s hope Hon. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is wise enough to derive some benefit from his predecessor’s mentoring in the name of our beloved Motherland.  

Rohana R. Wasala

සම සෞඛ්‍ය උපාධිධාරීන්ට එරෙහිව සිදුකල පහරදීම දැඩි පිළිකුලෙන් යුතුව හෙලා දැකීම සහ එම උපාධිධාරීන් කඩිනමින් රාජ්‍ය සේවයට බඳවා ගැනීම‍

April 1st, 2025

 Lesantha Chathuranga

මගේ අංකය: JCPSM/Gen/2025 (14)
දිනය: 2025.03.31

අතිගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමා
ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා
ගරු සෞඛ්‍ය හා ජනමාධ්‍ය අමාත්‍යතුමා
ගරු සෞඛ්‍ය හා ජනමාධ්‍ය නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යතුමා
සෞඛ්‍ය ලේකම්තුමා
සෞඛ්‍ය සේවා අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල්තුමා
අතිරේක ලේකම්තුමා (පාලන) II

සම සෞඛ්‍ය උපාධිධාරීන්ට එරෙහිව සිදුකල පහරදීම දැඩි පිළිකුලෙන් යුතුව හෙලා දැකීම සහ එම උපාධිධාරීන් කඩිනමින් රාජ්‍ය සේවයට බඳවා ගැනීම‍.


අධ්‍යාපන පොදු සහතික පත්‍ර උසස් පෙළ විභාගයේ ඉතාමත්ම ඉහල තරඟතාරී ප්‍රතිඵල මත විශ්ව විද්‍යාල වරම් ලැබ තම ජීවිතයේ වටිනාම කාලයෙන් අවරුදු 5ක් පමණ කැප කරමින් රාජ්‍ය සෞඛ්‍ය සේවාවේ අවශ්‍යතායට ගැළපෙන ඉහලම අධ්‍යාපන සුදුසුකම් සපුරාගත් මෙම සම සෞඛ්‍ය උපාධිධාරීන් තවත් අවුරුදු 5ක පමණ කාලයක් පුරා මෙරට සෞඛ්‍ය සේවාව විසින්ම නොසලකා හැරීම දෛවයේ සරදමකි.  

තවද, මෙලෙස තම ජීවිතයේ දශකයකට ආසන්න කාලයක් මෙම බලාපොරොත්තුව වෙනුවෙන් කටයුතු කල මෙම උපාධිධාරීන් සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයීය නිලධාරීවාදය මත ප්‍රමාද වෙමින් තිබෙන තම රැකියා අවස්ථාව ලබා දෙන ලෙස පසුගිය වසර කිහිපය මුළුල්ලේ සිදුකල සාධාරණ ඉල්ලීම් කිහිපයකට අදාල විසඳුම් නොමැතිවීමට ප්‍රතිචාර ලෙස ආරම්භ කල සාමකාමී විරෝධතාවය හමුවේ හෝ ඔවුන්ගේ ගැටළුවට අදාල නිසි විසඳුම් ලබාදීම වෙනුවට ඉතා මර්ධනකාරී ලෙස සිදුකල පහරදීම දැඩි පිළිකුලෙන් යුතුව හෙලා දකිමු.

සම සෞඛ්‍ය උපාධිධාරීන් සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයෙන් සිදු කරන ඉල්ලීම් ඉටු කිරීම සඳහා සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයට සෘජු වගකීමක් පවතින අතරම එය මීට වසර 25කට පමණ පෙර එවකට පැවති රජය සිදුකරනු ලැබූ ව්‍යුහාත්මක වෙසනකට අදාල ප්‍රතිපත්තිමය එකඟතාවයකි. එබැවින් සම සෞඛ්‍ය උපාධිධාරීන්ගේ ගැටළුව විසඳීම සඳහා සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයටත් රජයටත් මීට වඩා සක්‍රිය දායකත්වයක් ලබා දිය හැකි බව අප දැඩි ලෙස විශ්වාස කරමු.

නමුත් නිලධාරීවාදය මත ගොඩනැගී ඇති ප්‍රතිරෝධය මත ක්‍රියාත්මක වූ ඒකපාර්ශ්වික තීන්දු මත එය අපේක්ෂිත මට්ටමින් සිදූ නොවීම හේතුවෙන් අනාගතය පුරෝකථනය කරමින් මෙවන් තත්වයක් ඇති නොවීම සඳහා පිළියම් යෝජනා කරමින් කටයුතු කල පරිපූරක වෛද්‍ය වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ ඒකාබද්ධ බල මණ්ඩලය සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය සමඟ මේ පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා ගණනාවක් සිදුකර ඇත. තම පෞද්ගලික උඩඟු කම පෙරදැරිව එම සාකච්ඡා වලට අදාල එඟතාවයන් ක්‍රියාත්මක නොකිරීමටත් එම ප්‍රතිපත්තිමය එකඟතාවයන් රාජ්‍ය සේවා කොමිෂන් සභාව මඟින් හෝ අභියෝගයට ලක් කිරීමටත්, නැවත හැරවීමට කටයුතු කල සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශ නිලධාරීන් මෙම ගැටළුවට අදාල චූදිතයන් විය යුතු බව අප සෘජුව පෙන්වා දෙමු.

තවද වර්තමාන රජය බලයට පත්වීමට ආසන්න අවධියේදී විවිධ පාර්ශ්වයන්ගේ මැදිහත්වීම හරහා මෙම සිසුන් වෙත ලබා දුන් ප්‍රායෝගික නොවන අමුතු ආකාරයේ පොරොන්දු මත 2024 පෙබරවාරි මාසයට ආසන්න කාලයකදී සීමාවාසික පුහුණුවට ඇතුලත් වීමේ අවස්ථාව පවා මඟහැර ගැනීමට ඔවුන් පොළොඹවනු ලැබීය.

එබැවින් ශිෂ්‍ය ව්‍යාපාර සහ වෘත්තීය සමිති පිළිබඳ මනා සංවේදනය සහිත ජාතික ජන බලවේග රජය හමුවේ මෙම සිසුන්ගේ ගැටළුව කෙරෙහි ඉතා සාධනීය ප්‍රතිචාර දැක්වීමක් සිදු විය යුතු වුවත් වර්තමාන සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යවරයා සමඟ පැවති මුල් සාකච්ඡාවේදීම 2024 වර්ෂයේ පැවති තත්වයටම ඔවුන් ඇද දැමීමත්, අවසානයේ එම විසඳුමට එකඟ වන ලෙස ඔවුන්ට බලපෑම් කිරීමත්, විරෝධතාවය හමුවේ දරුණු ලෙස මර්ධනයට ලක් කිරීමත්, ශිෂ්‍ය ක්‍රියාකාරීන් නීතිය හමුවේ වැරදි කරුවන් ලෙස හංවඩු ගැසීමත්, ඔවුන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගනිමින් දරුණු අපරාධකරුවන් හා සමානව ප්‍රතිචාර දැක්වීමත් සිදුකර ඇත.

කෙසේ නමුත් සෞඛ්‍ය සේවාවේ අත්‍යාවශ්‍ය කාර්යභාරයකට වගකියන පරිපූරක වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ සහ හෙද නිලධාරීන්ගේ ශිෂ්‍ය ප්‍රජාව වන මෙම සම සෞඛ්‍ය උපාධිධාරීන්ගේ  ගැටළුව විසඳීම සඳහා අප කෙටිකාලීන හා දීර්ඝකාලීන ලෙස වන පහත විසඳුම් යෝජනා කරමු.
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අදාල කෙටි කාලීන විසඳුම්:

  1. සියළුම සම සෞඛ්‍ය උපාධිධාරීන් සීමාවාසික පුහුණුවට ඇතුලත් කර ගැනීම. මීට අදාල ප්‍රතිපත්තිමය එකඟතාව මේ වන විටත් ලැබී ඇතත් මෙතෙක් මෙම කටයුත්ත ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීම සඳහා සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශ නිළධාරීන්ගේ කිසිඳු සාධණීය මැදිහත්වීමත් ලැබී නොමැත. එබැවින් සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යවරයා ලෙස හා වර්තමාන රජය ලෙස ඒ පිළිබඳ සෘජු තීරණයක් ලබා ගත යුතු බව අප ඉතා ඕනෑ කමින් පෙන්වා දෙමු. අවශ්‍ය ප්‍රතිපාදන සපයා ගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් පහත යෝජනාව ඉදිරිපත් කරමු.
  2. අපගේ දැඩි බලපෑම හමුවේ පරිපූරක වෛද්‍ය සේවාවට අදාල වෛද්‍ය රසායනාගාර විද්‍යාඥ ඩිප්ලෝමාධාරීන් පුහුණු කිරීම 2018 වසරේ සිට අත්හිටුවා ගැනීමට අපට හැකිවූ අතර මේ වන විට සමස්ථ පරිපූරක වෛද්‍ය සේවාවටම අදාල ඩිප්ලෝමා පුහුණු පාඨමාලාවන්ද අත්හිටුවීමට කටයුතු කර ඇත. ඒ හරහා සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශ වැය ශීර්ෂය යටතේ වන සැලකිය යුතු ප්‍රතිපාදන ප්‍රමාණයක් ඉතිරි කිරීමට වෘත්තීය සංගම් ලෙස අප කටයුතු කර ඇති බැවින් එම ඩිප්ලෝමා පුහුණු ප්‍රතිපාදන භාවිතා කරමින් මේ වන විට පරිපූරක වෛද්‍ය සේවාවට අදාලව සුදුසුකම් සපුරා ඇති සියළුම සම සෞඛ්‍ය උපාධිධාරීන් සීමාවාසික පුහුණුවට බඳවා ගැනීම. අපගේ නිරීක්ෂණයන්ට අනූව නිලධාරීන්ගේ අකමැත්ත හැර වෙනත් කිසිඳු බාධාවක් ඊට එරෙහිව නොමැති බවද පෙන්වා දෙමු.
  3. සීමාවාසික පුහුණුවට වෙනත් නම් හඳුන්වා නොදෙමින් එය සීමාවාසික පුහුණුව ලෙසින්ම ලබා දීම. මීට අදාලවද නිලධාරීන්ගේ අකමැත්ත හැර වෙනත් කිසිඳු බාධාවක් ඊට එරෙහිව නොමැති බවද පෙන්වා දෙමු.
  4. සම සෞඛ්‍ය උපාධිධාරීන්ගේ සීමාවාසික පුහුණු දීමනාව ලෙස පරිපූරක වෛද්‍ය ඩිප්ලෝමාධාරීන්ගේ හා හෙද ඩිප්ලෝමාධාරීන්ගේ අභ්‍යාසලාභී පුහූණු දීමනාව ලබා දීමේ අසාධාරණ ප්‍රතිපත්තිය වෙනුවට වෛද්‍ය උපාධිධාරීන්ගේ සීමාවාසික පුහුණුවට අදාල දීමනාවේ අගය තීරණය කල නිර්ණායක මතම පදනම්ව සම සෞඛ්‍ය උපාධිධාරීන්ගේ සීමාවාසික පුහුණු දීමනාවට අදාල අගය තීරණය කිරීම.
  5. පරිපූරක වෛද්‍ය සේවාවට අදාලව වසර 10කට අධික කාලයක් තිස්සේ යාවත්කාලීන නොවෙමින් පවතින අනුමත නිළධාරීන් සංඛ්‍යාව කඩිනමින් යාවත්කාලීන කිරීම. කාර්යමණ්ඩලය සමාලෝචනයන් අත්හිටුවීම එවක රජය විසින් ගනු ලැබූ තීරණයක් වන බැවින් ඊට අදාල ප්‍රතිතීන්දුවද වර්තමාන රජය විසින්ම ලබා ගත යුතු බව පෙන්වා දෙමු.

අදාල දීර්ඝකාලීන විසඳුම්:

පසුබිම: පරිපූරක වෛද්‍ය සේවාවේ එක් එක් වෘත්තීන්ට අදාලව ශ්‍රී ලංකා සුදුසුකම් රාමුවේ 6 වැනි මට්ටමේ සුදුසුකමක් වන ශාස්ත්‍රීය අගය 120 ලෙස ගැනෙන සිව් අවුරුදු ගෞරව උපාධියක් සම්පූර්ණ කරන මෙම සිසුන් සියළුම දෙනා සීමාවාසික පුහුණුවකට ඇතුලත් කර ගැනීම අත්‍යාවශ්‍ය වන අතර එය සැබවින්ම විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය විසින් කලමණාකරණය කල යුතු වේ. වෛද්‍ය උපධිධාරීන් සඳහා එලෙස සිදුකිරීමට අවශ්‍ය සියළුම ආකාරයේ සහය සහ ආශිර්වාදය ලබා දෙන මෙරට සෞඛ්‍ය සේවාව විසින්ම සම සෞඛ්‍ය උපාධීධාරීන්ගේ සීමාවාසික පුහුණුව සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය යටතේ පවත්වා ගනිමින් එහි ගුණාත්මක තත්වය හීන කිරීමත්, ජාත්‍යන්තර පිලිගැනීම අවම වන පරිදි සීමාවාසික පුහුණුවට වෙනත් නාමකරණයන් හඳුන්වා දීමත්, උපාධිධාරී බඳවා ගැනීමකට යෝග්‍ය පරිදි පවතින බඳවා ගැනීමේ පටිපාටිය සංශෝධනය නොකිරීමටත්, එම කර්තව්‍යය සඳහා ඉතාම මන්දගාමී ක්‍රියාපිළිවෙතක් අනුගමනය කිරීමත් තුල වර්තමානයේදී මෙම සම සෞඛ්‍ය උපාධිධාරීන්ගේ ගැටළුව නොවිසදිය හැකි මට්ටමේ ගැටළුවක් බවට පෙන්වා දීමටත් කටයුතු කර ඇත.

එබැවින් දීර්ඝකාලීන විසඳුම් වශයෙන් සම සෞඛ්‍ය උපාධිධාරීන්ගේ සමස්ථ ගැටළු සාකච්ඡා කර ඊට අදාල විසඳුම් යෝජනා කිරීම සඳහා පරිපූරක වෛද්‍ය වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ ඒකාබද්ධ බලමණ්ඩලයේ නිල බලය තහවුරු කෙරෙන සහ විශ්ව විද්‍යාල ප්‍රතිපාදන කොමිෂන් සභාව, සෞඛ්‍ය විද්‍යා ස්ථාවර කමිටුව, සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය, මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශය, ශ්‍රී ලංකා වෛද්‍ය සභාව වැනි පාර්ශවන් ඇතුලත් ජනාධිපති කමිටුවක් පත් කිරීමටත් මාසයක් ඇතුලත අදාල කමිටුවේ තීරණ ලබා දීමට බලය පවරමින් අදාල ජනාධිපති කමිටුව පත් කිරීමටත් කටයුතු කරන ලෙස අප යෝජනා කරමු.

මේ පිළිබඳ වන ඔබගේ කඩිනම් අවධානය ඉතා අගේ කොට සලකන අතරම අනවශ්‍ය වෘත්තීය ක්‍රියාමාර්ග වලින් තොර සාකච්ඡාමය විසඳුම් ලබා ගැනීමට අවශ්‍ය පහසුකම් සලසන ලෙසත් ඊට අදාලව අදාල සියළු පාර්ශ්වයන්ගේ සහභාගීත්වය තහවුරු කරමින් කඩිනම් සාකච්ඡාවක් ලබා දීමට කටයුතු කරන ලෙසත් ඉතා කාරුණිකව ඉල්ලා සිටිමි

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Indian PM Narenda Modi Trincomalee Gokanna Temple is a Buddhist site not a Hindu kovil

March 31st, 2025

Shenali D Waduge

PM Modi is due in Sri Lanka on 5th April, the 44th anniversary of the JVP 1strebellion. JVP will be celebrating its 50thanniversary which commenced against Indian expansionist agenda & unlikely to proceed to its 100th year on the same theme. Unfortunately, that rebellion & thereafter the one opposed to the Indo-Lanka Accord in 1987 sacrificed thousands of young patriotic lives. Nonetheless, the Tamil militancy that India armed, trained & funded was defeated in May 2009 though its separatist ideology lives on. This is evident in the takeover of a Buddhist vihara destroyed by the Colonial Portuguese & on top of which a kovil has been built. Using constitutional amendments, what LTTE could not achieve by gun, separatists attempt to achieve politically to which the present Government is seen blindly appeasing to.

Prime Minister Modi knows too well how he ascended to power on the backdrop of a dispute regarding an ancient Hindu kovil & a Muslim mosque. In Sri Lanka, we have shown greater restraint amidst the plethora of animosities against Buddhists.

Let us remind PM Modi that the Gokanna Viharaya was destroyed in 1622 by the Portuguese. This is clearly written by the Portuguese historian Queyroz in his Book, The Temporal & Spiritual Conquest of Ceylon (page 66, 67).

Constantino de sa de Noronha dismantled these Pagodes making use of their stones to build a fortalice to close the harbor to the Chinhala; The event of the destruction of this Pagode was found engraved on a stone and being attested by the Ovuidor of Ceylon after it was translated by those most learned in the ancient characters of the Sinhalas it was sent his Majasty ran as follows (manua Raja Emperor of this Lankave, erected this pagoda to the god Vidia Malmanda in era …” (according to the computation it comes to 1300 years before coming of Christ There will come a nation called Francos who will demolish it and there will be no king in this island to rebuilt it anew) This stone was placed on the gate of the fortalice, there is no doubt that translator, meant the Portuguese.

The Trincomalee stone is also referred to by Valentyn in his XVI Chapter. A copy of the inscription was sent by the Dutch to the Sinhalese court to be translated. Queyroz mention that alleged conversion by Xavier of the chief priest of Trincomalee. He says of the place that it was the Rome of the East, attracted more worship than Ramanco, Xilavarao, Canjavaro, Tripli, Tremel, Jagarnati, Vixanati. He adds that the Temple had 30,000 amunams of paddy yielding two crops a year amounting to 4000 moyos. The chief priest at the temple is spoken as Turunanse.

The grate Bay of Trincomalee has made the place famous throughout modern world in the same way as its temple had spread its renown through ancient East. It was among the marines that the shrine commanded the great veneration, and it could be seen for many miles out at sea.

To expand its naval presence the colonial British eyed Trincomalee. Distortion of history was a key part of their divide & rule policy. Thus, in a gazette issued in 1831 1.CLR 63 a letter was published falsely claiming Gokanna Temple was a Hindu kovil.

The letter is presented below:

To the Editor of the Ceylon Government Gazette.

Sir, 

Among the various monuments of Hindu antiquity found in Ceylon and which induced the late and learned Sir Willliam Jones to express an opinion that the island was peopled time out of memory Hindu race”. The temple which was stood at Trincomalee is not to be forgotten, it would have remain the present day as a venerable relic, had not misguided religious Zeal of the Portuguese razed in to the ground in 1622 to supply materials for their fortifications.

Some time ago throughout the kindness of a friend of mine, I was obligingly put in possession of a small manuscript poem composed in Tamul by a Kaviraja vorothayen (a celebrated hard among the anceiant inhabitants of the Ceylon) which though enveloped in a cloud of fabe gives and account of the origin of the origin & history of this sacred edifice. I was consequently induced to translate it, have now the pleasure of the laying the same before the public for their information.”

The main objective to the British distorting history was to distance Sinhala Buddhists from Trincomalee so they could gain greater access to Trincomalee as they identified that only Sinhala Buddhists would defend their nation & territory & all that the nation stood for. The Portuguese demolished Buddhist sacred sites & also forced Sinhalese to leave areas where these Buddhist sites were situation. Thereafter, the lands were taken by the colonials & colonial settlement of South Indian Hindus began. That Sinhalese were systematically forced to leave lands in North & East is clearly stated in colonial British administrative policies.

Thus, Portuguese, Dutch & Colonial Britain have much to account & compensate the Sinhala Buddhists who had been originally living in the North & East.

In 1806 Governor Maitland did a tour of Trincomalee’s ancient artefacts along the coastal belt with then chief justice Alexander Johnston & decided to bring South Indian Hindus & settle them in North & East areas where the Sinhalese Buddhists had been chased out. Governor Maitland considered Trincomalee the Key to Asia and that the British held the key.

Alexander Johnston was renowned for establishing the Royal Asiatic Society in England & Ireland & while in Sri Lanka, establishing the Ceylon Council & becoming its President before becoming Chief Justice. Nevertheless, he intentionally ignored mentioning the stone inscriptions in Trincomalee that Portuguese used for their fortification.

However, Paul E Pieris, civil servant & historian is on record to state that the British destroyed the stone inscriptions in Trincomalee

As per Paul E Pieris,, the Chief Priest of the Gokanna Temple & several other theros who were residing at the Temple were forcibly converted by Father Xavier. On 18 July 1827 Alexander Johnston became the Vice President of the Royal Asiatic Society & wrote An Account of an inscription found in Trincomalee, in the Island of Ceylon” and gave a detailed account of Trincomalee but chose not to recount the stone inscriptions found & completely ignoring their actions against the Sinhala Buddhists who were living in the North & East prior to colonial alien settlements.

Eventually, with the blessings of India, in 1956 the Government of Sri Lanka took the Trincomalee Port from Britain while the present kovil was quickly established by ITAK through the Municipal Council without returning it to Gokanna Buddhist Temple. R. Sambanthan played a lead role in this & the distortion of history.

Thus, when Prime Minister Modi decides to hold a Hindu meditation at this site that was forcibly taken from the Sinhala Buddhists & promoted using false history & distortion of facts, it only shows to us, that the same expansionist & divisive policies carried out by the 3 colonial rulers are being continued by India. It also nullifies the claim presented to the world by PM Modi of his great respect & veneration to Buddha & Buddhist philosophy.

Even the Great Ruvanweliseya Buddhist Temple that PM Modi is scheduled to visit was also threatened by colonial British rule. The Colbrook Commission that divided Sri Lanka to 5 provinces gave Anuradhapura to Northern administrative rule and Polonnaruwa to Eastern administrative rule.

As per Cleghorn minute, Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa was to be also included as Malabar homeland.

Thus, the threats to Kurundi Buddhist temple is nothing but another attempt to take over Buddhist sacred sites & turn them into Hindu kovils.

The British began changing their policy after the famous Panadura debates and renamed Nuwara Kalawiya as a new province. These examples require India to treat Sri Lanka as a sovereign state & not follow the same template as the colonial invaders.

When Cleghorn claimed North & East belonged to Malabars (who were from South India & brought as coolies to work in Sri Lanka by colonial rulers, & settled under colonial settlement scheme) Governor North realizing Cleghorn was writing nonsense sacked him & packed him back to England.

On 5 March 1799 Governor Sir Frederick North sent a letter to England (British East India Company Head Office 7/1/409 page)

Malabars are the inhabitants of the northern half of our territories, they are also divided in to the same as Singalese, the present disgrace of that nation at the Court of Candy, has depressed it even here, and from what I have seen, I am sure that it will be difficult, if not impossible to separate the politics of the inhabitants of these settlements, from those of the great Court as it here called”.

Is there any better explanation than the national unity that existed in then Ceylon at that time?

The Indian Economic & Social History Review 26.02.1989 magazine page 235 Prof Dagmar Helimann-Rajanayagam’s letter stated thus:

in the first year of the British rule in Ceylon, 300 temples were newly built in Jaffna”.

Journal of the Bishop of Colombo’s first visitation of Northern & eastern province of his diocese 1846”, Jaffna had only 159 villages, to erect 300 kovils was with the intent to transport Tamil Hindus from South India.

If not for Arumugam Navalar there would have been no hindu kovils with the conversions taking place. To secure Trincomalee Port, and use North as a listening post against India, Britain required to secure both North & East. The legacy of these divisive actions is what Sri Lanka is now reaping.

However, the rule of compassion that prevails yet in Sri Lanka cannot be defeated. It has survived the turmoils. The resilience remains. There is no Sinhala Tamil problem. It was only created for political gains. If at all you decide to defy the historical facts of Gokanna being a Buddhist temple & hold a Hindu meditation at least remember the factual history of the site.

History has a way of remind us the truth at one time or another. Truth will always win in the end.

Shenali D Waduge

The Supreme Court does not further inquire about Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka, and the Bill 104 Tamil Genocide Education Week Act (TGEWA) is not within provincial Jurisdiction Education under Canada’s Constitution Act s. 93

March 31st, 2025

Ottawa

The Supreme Court does not further inquire about Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka, and the Bill 104 Tamil Genocide Education Week Act (TGEWA) is not within provincial Jurisdiction Education under Canada’s Constitution Act s. 93

The Supreme Court of Canada confirmed the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision, and no further inquiries were required. The decision was released on March 27, 2025.

Both the Superior Court of Justice and Appeal Court of Ontario have not determined Tamil genocide. Supreme Court of Canada will not further inquire about Tamil genocide as such Appeal court decision will stand. Otherwise No Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka. 

Tamil terrorist group, LTTE, remained as a Terrorist organization in Canada.

Dr. Neville Hewage successfully argued against Justice Akbarali’s decision at the Ontario Appeal Court. The Appeal Court of Ontario found that Bill 104 has no educational purposes.

The Court of Appeal for Ontario delivered its landmark ruling, dismissing Justice Akbarali’s decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice regarding Bill 104, the Tamil Genocide Education Week Act (TGEWA).

The Appeal Court concluded that TGEWA is not within the provincial jurisdiction as outlined in the Constitution Act , 1867, s. 93 Education.

Paragraph (9) of the decision states […] we disagree with her (Justice Akbarali’s) characterization of the Act (TGEWA) as educative.”

Further analysis of the Appeal Court concluded in Paragraph (54): In our view, the application judge erred in characterizing the TGEWA’s pith and substance. She failed to keep the characterization and classification of the analysis distinct and to characterize the law with sufficient precision [instead …].

Most importantly, in Paragraph 76, the Appeal Court rejected the Ontario Attorney General’s argument. The Court states:  We also reject Ontario’s submission that the dominant purpose of the TGEWA is simply to educate the public about genocide.

This is a landmark victory for academics and educators in universities, colleges, and school boards.

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is a Tamil Terrorist group fighting against Sri Lanka to create a mono-ethnic state in the Northern and Eastern parts of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s military defeated the Tamil terrorist group on May 18, 2009, by eliminating its leader and its senior cadre.

Since then, all ethnic groups in Sri Lanka have been living in peace and harmony.

Bill 104 cannot be used for the purpose of education in Ontario. It can be used for self-awareness and commemorative purposes only.

November 27, 2024
Ottawa. 

MP Shaun Chen: Vote Bank Politics

Petition e5058 against Sri Lanka has no legal basis

Scarborough North MP Shaun Chen has presented the e5058 petition to the House of Commons initiated by Nirujan Gnanagunalan from Scarborough, Ontario. The petition requested that Canada should refer Sri Lanka to the International Court of Justice to investigate the alleged Tamil genocide.

The petition has been submitted to Foreign Affairs Canada. On behalf of Canada, Foreign Affairs reiterated its foreign policy position on Sri Lanka, and Canada confirmed that there was no genocide in Sri Lanka.

OCPR submitted its position to Hon. Minister Melany Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and argued that MP Chen’s petition had no legal basis and requested no further action. Please read the OCPR submission here.  

MP Shaun Chen is involved in vote bank politics to survive. Peace-loving voters in Scarborough North are expected to vote out MP Shaun Chen at the next federal election.

September 06, 2024
Ottawa

Ontario Appeal Court rules Bill 104, the Tamil Genocide Education Week Act, not under
Ontario provincial jurisdiction, Education.

Dr. Neville Hewage successfully moved his argument against Attorney General Ontario and Tamil interveners. He argued that Bill 104 has no real educative purpose under s 93 of the Constitution Act 1867.

The Court of Appeal Ontario delivered its landmark ruling dismissing Justice Akbarali’s decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against Bill 104, Tamil Genocide Education Week Act (TGEWA). The Appeal Court concluded that TGEWA is not under the provincial jurisdiction of the Constitution Act 1867, s. 93 Education.

Para (9) of the decision states […] we disagree with her (Justice Akbarali’s) characterization of the Act (TGEWA) as educative.”

Further in Para (35) of the decision,  the Appeal Court says: In brief, we conclude that the application judge mischaracterized the TGEWA by describing its pith and substance as educative.”

Further analysis of the Appeal Court concluded in Para (54): In our view, the application judge erred in characterizing the TGEWA’s pith and substance. She failed to keep the characterization and classification of the analysis distinct and to characterize the law with sufficient precision [instead …].

Most importantly, at Para (76), the Appeal Court rejected the Ontario Attorney General’s Argument. The Court states:  We also reject Ontario’s submission that the dominant purpose of the TGEWA is simply to educate the public about genocide.

This is a landmark victory for academics and educators in universities, colleges, and school boards.

In conclusion, Bill 104 cannot be used for the purpose of education in Ontario. It can be used for self-awareness and commemorative purposes only.

August 24, 2024
Ottawa. 

Patrick BrownDeception, Manipulation, a failure in public policy
Inability to differentiate foreign interference and foreign relations
Controversial City of Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown is in the spotlight due to his letter to Melany Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada.

Mr. Thushara Rodrigo, Sri Lanka consular general in Toronto, sent a letter outlining the negative impacts on the Sri Lankan community installing a Tamil Genocide Monument. Mr. Rodrigo serves Sri Lankan citizens and the diaspora, including Tamils and Sinhalese. Our research found no allegation against him discriminating against Tamils when providing consular services.

Brown’s letter claimed that Mr. Rodrigo’s letter was a foreign interference.” Ontario Centre for Policy Research (OCPR) respectfully rejects Brown’s assertion.

Contrary to his claim, our intelligence research team uncovered that Viswanathan Rudrakumaran, Prime Minister of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE), exiled in the USA, sent a letter to Mayor Brown regarding the Tamil Genocide Monument influencing municipal business.

Further, C.W. Wigneshwaran, former Chief Minister of Northern Province, Sri Lanka, also sent a letter influencing matters that interested Wigneshwaran and requested strengthening support and collaboration with Brown when conducting municipal business.

Most importantly, Mr. Brown did not complain about these letters against Viswanathan Rudrakumaran, TGTE, USA, and C. W. Wignehswaran, Sri Lanka, to the Foreign Affairs Canada, RCMP, or CSIS and did not consider them as a foreign interference.”

Contradiction
Brown’s double-standard policy contradicts the City’s procedure by-law 160-2004. Municipal Act, 2001, SO 2001, c. 25 (Municipal Act) restricts municipalities’ power. City procedure by-law cannot be used arbitrarily; otherwise, the City’s procedure by-law cannot supersede the Municipal Act.

It is evident that Brown manipulated municipal procedure by-law and engaged in vote-bank politics. Brown’s Tamil Genocide Monument violates the Municipal Act and interferes with federal prerogative power in foreign affairs.”

The Tamil terrorist group Liberation Tigers Tamil Eelam is a banned organization in Canada. The National Council of Canadian Tamils (NCCT) and the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) are also listed as terrorist organizations under United Nations Security Council resolutions 1373. However, Brown has no objection to their association and does not consider them foreign interference.”

Under the legislation Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act RSC, 1985, c. C-23,

section 2 (b) defined foreign interference as follows:
Foreign-influenced activities within or relating to Canada that are detrimental to the interests of Canada and are clandestine or deceptive or involve a threat to any person.”

Our legal analysis concluded that Mr. Rodrigo’s letter to Brown does not qualify as foreign interference,” but it is merely under foreign relations” or diplomatic relations.”

Ontario Centre for Policy research (OCPR) sent a letter to Melany Joly clarifying its position regarding Mr. Rodrigo’s letter.

Letter to Brown from Viswanathan Rudrakumaran, Prime Minister of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE)
Letter to Brown from  C.W. Wigneshwaran, former Chief Minister of Northern Province, Sri Lanka
Letter to Brown from Thushara Rodrigo, Consular General Toronto
Letter to Melany Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada from Brown
Letter to Melany Joly from OCPR

August 15, 2024
Ottawa. 

Canada to retain Tamil terrorist group Liberation Tiger of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as listed terrorist entity  

Government of Canada to retain the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) along with the World Tamil Movement (WTM) as terrorist entities.

According to the recent review, Canada maintains that the remnants of the LTTE have an international fundraising and procurement network that still exists. The review of the WTM notes that the group continues to play a facilitating role in the LTTE’s terrorist activities by fundraising on their behalf. This decision taken following a rigorous review process, reaffirms the continued threat posed by these organizations.

The Government of Canada first listed the LTTE as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code on 6 April 2006 and it is a statutory requirement to undertake a review every five years. The latest review process concluded in June 2024.

The continued listing of the LTTE by the Government of Canada is presently the third consecutive ban on the LTTE in recent times, with the extensions on proscription of the LTTE having also taken place in India and the European Union, in addition to the judgement of dismissal by the Proscribed Organizations and Appeal Commission (POAC) in the United Kingdom on the application made for the de-proscription of the LTTE in the UK, this year.

August 13, 2024
Ottawa

Court to order to remove any structures related to the Tamil genocide monument in Chinguacousy Park, Brampton

Legal proceedings have been commenced against the City of Brampton’s installation of the proposed Tamil genocide monument. Applicants alleged that the City of Brampton violated their Charter Rights and Freedoms, the Constitution Act of 1867, and the Ontario Municipal Act, 2001.

The Canadian government has confirmed that there was no Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka. Recently, the Federal court also rejected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s statement, stating that there was no Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka.

The court documents revealed that the National Council of Canadian Tamils (NCCT) is a banned terrorist organization with reference to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373, associated with the Tamil genocide monument project.

Sri Lanka successfully eliminated the leader and senior military cadre of the Tamil terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Since then, all Sri Lankans, regardless of their ethnic origin, have lived in peace and harmony.

Legal experts suggest that the court will declare all activities related to the Tamil Genocide Monument unconstitutional and violate the Ontario Municipal Act. The removal of all structures related to the Tamil Genocide monument is imminent. 

June 25, 2024
Ottawa, Ontario.

Toronto voters reject Tamil genocide: Trudeau’s liberals lost the Toronto St Paul by-election
Trudeau’s failures in foreign policy were one of the issues on the campaign trail

Conservative candidate Don Stewart has won the long-time federal Liberal stronghold of Toronto-St—Paul’s, a stunning result that raises questions about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s future.

The Liberals’ underperformance in a stronghold like this is a clear indication of the impact of Trudeau’s foreign policy failures. These failures, including a double standard policy, issuing statements on the fake Tamil genocide, inflation, the cost-of-living crisis, high home prices, and surging immigration levels, have significantly contributed to voter discontent.

June 13, 2024
Ottawa

No Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka
Canada’s Federal Court reviewed Trudeau’s statement and rejects Tamil genocide

An application was brought forward against Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for judicial review, challenging his message on Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day, issued on May 18, 2023. The primary intention of this Application is to obtain a legal position regarding the alleged Tamil genocide, whether the prime minister declared or recognized it. Canada’s top court, the Federal Court, stated as follows and rejected Tamil genocide, saying no such declaration or recognition. 

Paragraph 19 of the decision [Prime Minister Trudeau’s] Statement is not a decision or an order that gives rise to a binding obligation, nor is it conduct that affects legal rights, imposes legal obligations or causes prejudicial effects. At its core, the Statement, with reference to the House of Commons motion, encourages Canadians to reflect on the conflict” in Sri Lanka in the broader context of human rights, peace, and democracy generally.”

The federal court also discussed the legal validity of the motion brought by MP Gary Anandasangaree. The court’s position is very clear: Trudeau’s statement and MP Anandasangaree’s motion are non-binding and, therefore, have no legal impact on Canada’s official positionIt means no Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka. Judge Janet M. Fuhrer issued her decision on this matter at the Federal Court. 

අධිකරණ බලය, විධායකය සහ ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකය විසින් අපරාධ කිරීමට යොදවීම තරම් අපරාධයක් මිහිපිට තවත් නැත..!

March 31st, 2025

නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) සමායෝජක, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන. 

අධිකරණය සහ නීතීඥවරුන් අතර නෛතික ගැටුම ඇවිලුවේ විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ හිටපු අධිකරණ ඇමති ප්‍රමුඛ 2024 අංක 8 දරන අධිකරණයකට, විනිශ්චය අධිකාරයකට හෝ ආයතනයකට අපහාස කිරිමේ පනත ගෙනා කණ්ඩායමයි. ඒ 2024 අංක 8 දරන අධිකරණයකට, විනිශ්චය අධිකාරයකට හෝ ආයතනයකට අපහාස කිරිමේ පනත ගෙන එමින් අධිකරණයේ කරුණු දක්වන, නඩු පවරන නීතීඥවරුන් රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාර ගත කරවන නීති හඳුන්වා දෙමින් ය.

ස්ව්‍යං ප්‍රත්‍යක්ෂ ලෙසම සදාචාරයට පටහැණි නීති iiවන ලෝක යුද්ධය සමයේ ජර්මනියේ හිට්ලර්ගේ නාසි පාර්ලිමේන්තුව සහ විධායකය විසින් යුදෙව්වන් සංහාරය කිරීමට පනවා ගන්න ලදී. එම වර්ග සංහාර නීති පනවන ලද්දේත් ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන ලද්දේත් නිසි ක්‍රියාදාමය අනුගමනය කරමින් ය. එම නීති ජර්මනියේ අධිකරණ මාර්ගයෙන්ද ක්‍රියාත්මක කරගන්නා ලදී. විධිමත් ලෙස පැනවූ නීති අධිකරණයද ක්‍රියාත්මක කළේය.

දකුණු අප්‍රිකාව බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයන් විසින් පාලනය කළ යටත් විජිත සමයේ කලු ජාතික මැන්ඩෙලා වසර 25කට අධික කාලයක් බන්ධනාගාර ගත කරගෙන සිටියේ ඉංග්‍රීසි නීතියට අනුකූලව එරට අධිකරණ ක්‍රියාත්මක මෙමින් පවතිද්දීය.

අධිකරණ බලය විධායකය සහ ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකය විසින් අපරාධ කරවීමට යොදා ගත් අවස්ථා ලෝක ඉතිහාසයේ අදුරු පරිච්ඡේදයන් ය.

මානව හිමිකම් ආරක්ෂා කිරීම, පුද්ගල නිදහස තහවුරු කිරීම, නීතියේ පාලනය, වගවීම, යහපාලනය, අධිකරණයේ ස්වාධීනත්වය, වෘත්තීය නිදහස සහ වෘත්තීය අයිතිවාසිකම්, සාධාරණ නඩු විභාග, ඇප ලැබීමේ අයිතිය, ද‍ඬුවමක් ලෙස ප්‍රායෝගික නොවන ඇප කොන්දේසි නොපැනවීම වර්තමාන ලෝකයේ පිළිගත් සාධාරණත්ව සහ යුක්තිසහගත කාරණාවන් ය.

අධිකරණයක් විසින් දණ්ඩනයක් නියම කළ විට සාමාන්‍යයෙන් අභියාචනා අවස්ථ 2ක්වත් ලබා දීම ශිෂ්ට ලෝකය අපේක්ෂා කරයි. සාමාන්‍යයෙන් ඉහළම අධිකරණය මුල්වරට දණ්ඩන නියම නොකරන අතර එවන් අවස්ථාවකදී පහළ අධිකරණ වෙත අදාල කාරණාව විභාග කිරිමට යොමු කරයි.

දිසා අධිකරණයේ නඩු විභාගයක් පවත්වන අවස්ථාවක අපරාධයක් අනාවරණය වුවහොත් සිවිල් නඩු විධාන සංග්‍රහයේ  835වන වගන්තිය යටතේ එකී අපරාධ කාරණව අදාල මහේස්ත්‍රාත් අධිකරණයට යොමු කරයි.

චෝදනා කරන කෙනා සාක්ෂියට කැදවීමට ඉඩ නොදෙන, නියම කරන දඬුවමේ සීමාවක් නැති, වසර 2කට වඩා තැනැත්තෙක් රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කර රඳවා තබා ගත හැකි,  ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය විසින් දඬුවම් නියම කළහොත් අභියාචනා අවස්ථාවක් නැති, නීතීඥවරුන්ගේ විනය පාලනය, නීතීඥවරුන්ට එරෙහිව රීති නිකුත් කිරීම ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට වඩා පහළින් ඇති අධිකරණ, විනිශ්චය අධිකාර සහ ආයතන වලටත් පවරා ඇති 2024 අංක 8 දරන අධිකරණයකට, විනිශ්චය අධිකාරයකට හෝ ආයතනයකට අපහාස කිරිමේ පනත ස්ව්‍යංප්‍රත්‍යක්ෂ ලෙසම හෘදය සාක්ෂියට පටහැනි පනතක් බවට සමාජයේද නීතීඥවරුන් අතරද මතයක් ඇත.

එම පනත ක්‍රියාත්මක වූ අවස්ථාවේ සිටම නීතීඥවරුන් සහ අධිකරණය අතර ගැටුමක් නිර්මාණය කර ඇත.
එම පනත ක්‍රියාත්මක වීමත් සමඟ අධිකරණයේ කරුණු ඉදිරිපත් කරන නීතීඥවරුන් එකී පනත යොදාගනිමින් රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කර ඇත.

විධායක සහ ව්‍යවස්ථාදායක සාමජිකයන්ගේ පෞද්ගලික හෝ අනාගත අරමුණු පවතිනවා මෙන් අධිකරණ විනිසුරුවරුන්ගේද පෞද්ගලික හෝ අනාගත අරමුණු නොපවතින බව කිව නොහැකිය.

අධිකරණ විනිසුරුවරුන්ගේ පෞද්ගලික හෝ අනාගත අරමුණු විනිසුරු ඉදිරියේ කරුණු දක්වන්නා නොදැන සිටීම සමාවට කාරණයක් නොවනබව 2024 අංක 8 දරන අධිකරණයකට, විනිශ්චය අධිකාරයකට හෝ ආයතනයකට අපහාස කිරිමේ පනත ක්‍රියාත්මක වන ආකාරයෙන්ද එකී පනත ක්‍රියාත්මක වෙමින් නීතීඥවරුන් රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත වන ආකාරයෙන්ද පැහැදිලි වෙයි.

1968 තරම් ඈත කාලයකදී, එවකට බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයේ පරමාදර්ශයක් සහ සමහර විට අපේ කාලයේ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨතම විනිශ්චයකරු වූ ඩෙනින් සාමිවරයා අපහාස නීතිය ගැන මෙසේ පැවසීය:

අපි කිසි විටෙකත් මෙම අධිකරණ බලය අපගේම ගෞරවය ආරක්ෂා කර ගැනීමේ මාධ්‍යයක් ලෙස භාවිතා නොකරන බව මම එකවරම කියමි. එය වඩාත් ස්ථිර පදනම් මත රඳා පැවතිය යුතුය. අපට විරුද්ධව කතා කරන අය මර්දනය කිරීමට අපි එය භාවිතා නොකරමු. අපි විවේචනවලට බිය නොවෙමු, ඒ ගැන අපි අමනාප නොවෙමු.
කරන් තාපර්( ඉංදීය මාධ්‍යවේදී)

As far back as 1968, Lord Denning, then Master of the Rolls in Britain and perhaps the greatest judge of our time, said of the law of contempt:

Let me say at once that we will never use this jurisdiction as a means to uphold our own dignity. That must rest on surer foundations. Nor will we use it to suppress those who speak against us. We do not fear criticism, nor do we resent it.
Karan Thapar(Indian Journalist)

2024 අංක 8 දරන අධිකරණයකට, විනිශ්චය අධිකාරයකට හෝ ආයතනයකට අපහාස කිරිමේ පනත ක්‍රියාත්මක වීමට පෙර මෙරට විධිමත්ව අධිකරණයට අපහාස නීති ක්‍රියාත්මක විය. ඒ වෙනුවෙන් සිවිල් නඩු විධාන සංග්‍රහය, අධිකරණ සංවිධාන පනත, ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව සහ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණ මගින් නීති ඇතුළත් කර ඇත. අධිකරණයට අපහාස කළ තැනැත්තන්ට එරෙහිව නඩු විභාගද විධිමත් ලෙස ක්‍රියාත්මක විය.අධිකරණයට අසත්‍ය ප්‍රකාශ කරන නීතීඥවරයා අධිකරණයට අපහාස කරන බවට තීරණය කර එම නීතීඥවරයාට දඬුවම් කිරීම් කර ඇති බව  1993-1-SLR-243 හී වාර්තා වී ඇති ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීන්දුව අනුවද පැහැදිලිය.

2024 අංක 8 දරන අධිකරණයකට, විනිශ්චය අධිකාරයකට හෝ ආයතනයකට අපහාස කිරිමේ පනත ඇසුරෙන් පැන නැගුනු නෛතික ගැටුමක ප්‍රතිඵලයක් ලෙස
නිවාඩු දිනක (2025.03.31) වුවත් අභියාචනාධිකරණය විවෘත කර නඩු විභාග කර තීන්දු දීමට සැළැස්වීම සිදුවිය.

මෙම කාරණා සැළකීමේදී ඒ අවලස්ස 2024 අංක 8 දරන අධිකරණයකට, විනිශ්චය අධිකාරයකට හෝ ආයතනයකට අපහාස කිරිමේ පනත ගැන තවදුරටත් විද්වත් සමාජ සංවාදයක් ඇති විය යුතුය.

නොඑසේනම් නීතීඥ ප්‍රජාවටම සහ සමාජයට නොව කිහිප දෙනෙකු පමණක් එම පනතෙන් වැරදි ලෙස ප්‍රයෝජන ගනු ඇත.

ප්‍රතිවාදී හෝ තමන් පෞද්ගලිකව අකැමැති  නීතීඥවරයා රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කරනවට කැමති ඇතැම් අයට හෝ නීති ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ ඇතැම් සාමාජිකයන්ට මෙම පනත මගින් ඒ සඳහා සහායක් ලැබෙනු ඇති බවද විද්වතුන් අතර කතිකාවක් පවතී.

අධිකරණ බලය විධායකය සහ ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකය විසින් අපරාධ කිරීමට යොදවීම තරම් අපරාධයක් මිහිපිට තවත් නැති හෙයින් ඒ සඳහා කිසිදු අවස්ථාවක් හෝ ආධාරයක් හෝ අනුබලදීමක් ලබා නොදීමට ජනතාව වගබලා ගත යුතුය.

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නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) සමායෝජක, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන. දුරකථන 0712063394 (2025.03.31)


Colombo’s skyscrapers are built to withstand earthquakes – Seismologist

March 31st, 2025

Courtesy The Daily Mirror


Colombo, March 31 (Daily Mirror) – Although Sri Lanka is not typically considered a high-seismic zone, the mushrooming skyscrapers in Colombo are safe from any unexpected earthquake, as they are built using such structural technology, a seismologist said.

With the recent Myanmar and Thailand earthquake which claimed over 1,600 lives thus far mostly due to collapsing skyscrapers, doubts among the public were not small when it comes to an unexpected catastrophe in a country of a low seismic zone.

An official from the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau (GSMB) told the Daily Mirror the highest Sri Lanka has experienced are tremors of about 3.5 magnitudes, which could barely cause any impact or damage.

However, all the modern skyscrapers which are being built presently and those that had been erected in the recent past have been constructed using the structural technology to withstand a moderate level earthquake.

GSMB Seismologist Nilmini Thaldena told the Daily Mirror both the international and local mega building contractors now consider applying earthquake resistant technology in their buildings irrespective of the fact that the country is in a low risk region.

It is an international construction standard requirement, which is now followed in Sri Lanka too and even in the most unlikely instance of an earthquake hitting the city, the Colombo skyscrapers are safe from it, the Seismologist said.

Bid to include genocide allegation against Sri Lanka in Canada’s school curriculum thwarted

March 31st, 2025

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island

Dr Hewage

Dr. Neville Hewage yesterday said that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada had determined that alleged Tamil genocide hadn’t taken place in Sri Lanka.

The academic, who successfully moved the Canadian courts, said that, therefore, the much-touted Tamil Genocide Education Week Act (TGEWA), in terms of the ruling given by the Ontario Court of Appeal and confirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada, is not within provincial Jurisdiction Education under Canada’s Constitution. Dr. Hewage said so in response to The Island query.

Declaring that the Canadian ruling was a huge victory for Sri Lanka, constantly harassed by various interested parties over unsubstantiated war crimes allegations, Dr. Hewage emphasised that alleged Tamil genocide couldn’t be in the school curriculum.

The Canadian parliament in May 2022 declared May 18 as Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day, thereby recognising the massacre of Tamils during the last phase of the war.

Responding to another query, Dr. Hewage valued the legal action at approximately $350,000 while denying any backing from the Sri Lankan government. I haven’t received any funding from the government,” Dr. Hewage said, appreciating the backing provided by the Canadian legal team.

Adjunct Professor of the Law and Justice Department Laurentian University. Sudbury, Ontario, Canada Hewage said: I did my own legal work which cost me only time and the expenses for filing.”

Dr. Hewage dismissed attempts made by the pro-LTTE lobby to propagate the lie that the Supreme Court of Canada had dismissed the challenge to Bill 104 aka TGEWA, thereby allowing education and commemorative events/efforts.

Asked to explain, Dr. Hewage pointed out that although the Ontario Superior Court of justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada had determined that Tamil genocide did not take place in Sri Lanka, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice had ruled that TGEWA is valid under the Constitution Act, 1867, s 93 Education. Recalling that the first application had been filed against the Attorney General of Ontario on June 06, 2021, Dr. Hewage said that he had moved the Ontario Court of Appeal on July 22, 2022 and that court ruled that the TGEWA was not in line with the relevant Act.

The Appeal Court had concluded that TGEWA was not within the provincial jurisdiction as outlined in the Constitution Act, 1867, s. 93 Education, Dr. Hewage said.

The bottom line was that Tamil genocide couldn’t be included in their school curriculum, Dr. Hewage said. The Canadian verdict couldn’t have come at a better time for Sri Lanka, troubled by UK sanctions on Admiral of the Fleet Wasantha Karannagoda, retired Generals, Shavendra Silva and Jagath Jayasuriya as well as one-time LTTE Ampara-Batticaloa commander Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna over war crimes allegations.

Dr. Hewage said that he had appealed to the Supreme Court on Nov 11, 2024 as he feared that the Ontario Court of Appeal could be reversed in case some other pro-LTTE party moved court and may declare plausible Tamil genocide. The academic stressed that throughout their campaign, the Sri Lankan government had not extended any help.

At the time, Dr. Hewage initiated the legal process Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the President. By the time Dr. Hewage appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, the National People’s Power (NPP) had gained power.

The development with regard to TGEWA has taken place in the wake of Jaffna-born Gary Anandasangaree receiving appointment as Justice Minister and Attorney-General of Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Minister. He has been campaigning against alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka.

Dr. Hewage said that some media and other interested parties had been working overtime to deceive the people by misinterpreting the Canadian Supreme Court decision.

The Supreme Court had confirmed the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision, and no further inquiries were required, Dr. Hewage said, adding that the pro-LTTE lobby was quite upset as both the Superior Court of Justice and the Appeal Court of Ontario had determined that Tamil genocide did not take place in Sri Lanka. Therefore, the Supreme Court of Canada will not further inquire into the Tamil genocide claim and as such the Appeal court decision will stand,” Dr. Hewage said.

සත්‍ය සෙවීමේ කොමිසම බෙදුම්වාදී මර උගුලක් – පය තබන්න එපා! ජාතික සංවිධාන 55ක අත්සනින් ලිපියක්

March 31st, 2025

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර්

සත්‍ය සෙවීමේ කොමිසම මර උගුලක් පය තබන්න එපා! ගෝලීය ශ්‍රී ලාංකික සංසදය විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද යෝජනාවක් අනුව  ජාතික සංවිධාන 55ක අත්සනින් යුතු සංදේශයක්  ත්‍රෛනිකායික මහ හිමිපාණන්වරු ප්‍රමුඛ මහා සංඝරත්නයට, ගරු ජනාධිපති තුමාට, මහජන නියෝජිතයන්ට සහ  සමස්ත පොදු ජනයා වෙත ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම සදහා අත්සන් තැබීම ඊයේ (30)  පැපිලියාන සුනේත්‍රා මහා දේවී පිරිවෙණේදී සිදුවිය. 

මහාචාර්ය පූජ්‍ය ඉඳුරාගාරේ ධම්ම රතන හිමියන්, මහාචාර්ය පූජ්‍ය මැදගොඩ අභයතිස්ස හිමිවරුගේ අනුශාසකත්වයෙන් පැවැති මෙම අවස්ථාව සදහා ආචාර්ය ගුණදාස අමරසේකර, ජ්‍යේෂ්ඨ නීතිඥ කල්‍යානන්ද තිරාණගම, වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර , විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය අනුලා විජේසුන්දර ඇතුළු පිරිසක් එක්ව සිටිහය. 

ජනපතිවරුන් 8 දෙනෙකු නොකළ, එහෙත් සූදානම් වූ, පාවාදීම ජනපති අනුර ලවා කරවා ගැනීම

March 31st, 2025

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර්

1987 ඉන්දු ලංකා ගිවිසුමට පසුව භූ දේශපාලන තලයේදී ඊට වඩා භයානක ආරක්ෂක (Defence) ගිවිසුමක් ඉන්දියාව සමඟ අත්සන් කිරීම ඉතා භයානක ආරම්භයක් බව ජාතික සංවිධාන කියයි. ඉන්දියානු අගමැති සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ජනාධිපති අතර අත්සන් කිරීමට නියමිත අවබෝධතා ගිවිසුම් 5ක් පිළිබඳව ලංකා ලීඩර් විසින් ජාතික සංවිධාන මතය විමසීමේදී වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා එසේ සඳහන් කළේය.  තවදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ ඔහු සදහන් කලේ එම ගිවිසුම් මගින් ඉතිහාසයේ කිසිදු ජනාධිපතිවරයෙකු විසින් නොකළ මහා පාවාදීමක් සිදුවන බවය. 

ඔහුට අනුව ආරක්ෂක ගිවිසුමක් මගින් ඍජුව හමුදා ක්‍රීයාකාරීත්වයට මඟ පාදන බැවින් චීනයට එරෙහිව දියත් කෙරෙන ඉන්දු – ඇමෙරිකානු යුද ක්‍රියාන්විතයේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාව උපාය මාර්ගික මර්මස්ථානයක් ලෙස බරපතළ යුදමය වාතාවරණයකට මුහුණ දීමට සිදුවේ. ඒ් අතර විදුලි පද්ධති ඒකාබද්ධ කිරීම මගින් ඩිජිටල්කරණ ක්‍රියාවලියට අදාල ගිවිසුම් මගින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ දත්ත ස්වෛරීභාවය අනතුරට ලක්වන බවද ඔහු සදහන් කරයි. මෙම තත්වය ඌරාගේ පිටේ තබා ඌරාගේ මස් කැපීමේ උපමාවට සමාන තත්වයක් බව, ඒනම් ඉන්දියානු ව්‍යාප්තවාදී මෙහෙයුමට සහ බෙදුම්වාදී මාර්ග සිතියමට එරෙහිව ජීවිත පරිත්‍යාගයෙන් සටන් කළ පක්ෂයක නායකයෙකු විසින් සිදු කරන මහා පාවාදීමක් ලෙස ඔහු හදුන්වයි.

Namal calls on AKD to question Shani, Ravi Seneviratne over Easter attacks

March 31st, 2025

Courtesy The Daily Mirror

While alleging that Shani Abeysekera, and Ravi Seneviratne have used political asylum by holding key positions in the government to avoid prosecution regarding the Easter Sunday attacks, SLPP MP Namal Rajapaksa called on the President to question them.

Individuals like former CID Director Shani Abeysekera, and former Senior DIG in charge of the CID Ravi Seneviratne, who held key positions when the Easter Sunday attacks took place, are well aware of what happened and how. The government should question them first,” he said in a public meeting.

In addition, it’s a known fact that two sons of a National List MP from the NPP were involved in one of the attacks. The government should ask him how things really happened rather than politicizing the whole issue,” he added.

He also stated that it was pointless to ask SLPP members who the culprits are when, according to him, the real culprits are within the government.

Appeals Court orders release of lawyer remanded for contempt

March 31st, 2025

Courtesy Adaderana

The Court of Appeal has ordered the release of Attorney-at-Law P. Udayangani, who was remanded by the Puttalam High Court over contempt of court charges, Ada Derana reporter said.

This order was issued by a two-member Appeals Court judge bench comprising Acting President of the Court of Appeal Justice Mohammed Thahir Laffar and Justice Priyantha Fernando, after considering a petition filed by the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, Attorney-at-Law Rajeev Amarasuriya today (31).

Meanwhile, the court also ordered the lawyer in question to appear before the Court of Appeal on April 28.

President vows recruitment of 30,000 youth to public service

March 31st, 2025

Courtesy Adaderana

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake says that 30,000 young people will be recruited into the public service, with the necessary funds already allocated for the initiative.

Speaking at a public meeting in Buttala, held in the lead-up to the local government elections, the President emphasized the government’s commitment to providing employment opportunities for the youth.

We are recruiting 30,000 new young people with talent and ability. Now the money has been allocated. I have seen that many advertisements are being published in newspapers. We will provide jobs for those who apply,” he said.

In addition to employment opportunities, President Dissanayake highlighted efforts to expand welfare support for those in need, stating, There is a group that should be receiving ‘Aswesuma’ welfare benefits but are not. We have invited applications, and now, through selection boards, we are working to provide new welfare benefits to 400,000 families by June”.

There are about 800,000 people who have received nothing. To support them, we are introducing a special food relief program where a Rs. 5,000 food bag will be made available for Rs. 2,500 through Sathosa,” he added.

The President also acknowledged disparities in financial assistance within the public sector, noting that while some employees have received salary increases and pension adjustments, there remains a significant portion of the population struggling without such benefits.

“මගේම කලිසම අගේට ඇඳගෙන ඌ උගේ වගේ යනවා….”‘අලිමංකඩ ලුණු’ ඇත්ත කතාව සාක්ෂි සහිතවම විමල් හෙළිකරයි !

March 31st, 2025

Wimal Weerawansa

Ranil calls for army doctors to be sent to Myanmar, set up medical camps

March 31st, 2025

Daily Mirror Online

Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has urged the Sri Lankan government to dispatch a medical team, including military personnel, to Myanmar to assist those affected by the recent earthquake.

Issuing a special statement, Wickremesinghe emphasized Sri Lanka’s long-standing ties with Myanmar and stressed the importance of providing humanitarian relief.

My proposal to the government is to send a medical team, including doctors from the army’s medical corps, along with essential medicines and equipment, to set up a temporary hospital in Myanmar,” he said.

Drawing parallels to Sri Lanka’s past humanitarian efforts, he recalled the country’s response to the 2015 Nepal earthquake.

When there was an earthquake in Nepal, we deployed an army team and provided the second-largest aid package after India. Today, countries like India, Thailand, Malaysia, China, and even Australia—despite being farther away—have extended assistance to Myanmar. We must also take action,” he urged.

Wickremesinghe further suggested mobilizing medical supplies from Colombo and other regions to support relief efforts, stating, We can collect the necessary medicines and send them to Myanmar. This is about maintaining our regional ties and playing a responsible role in humanitarian aid”.

The former President also referenced Sri Lanka’s past contributions to global crises, highlighting a recent donation to Gaza.

Last year, I allocated one million dollars from Sri Lanka for Gaza. Similarly, I propose that we take immediate action to support Myanmar in this time of need,” he stated.

මියන්මාර් ජනතාවට සහාය දෙන්න අපිලගේ සාදු පිණ්ඩපාතේ ගිහින් සල්ලි එකතු කරයි – Hiru News

March 31st, 2025

Hiru News


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