Dr. Sudath Gunasekara
5..8.2019
Fifty Demands for all political Parties and aspirant leaders who intend contesting next General Election
Introduction
It is a foregone
conclusion that there is no Government in this country today, in spite of the
fact that there is a President, a Prime Minister, (of cause fighting each other
and eternally at loggerheads, leading a cat’s and dog’s life at the expense of
the country) with 9 Governors, all political rejects and misfits some of whom
are sworn communal terrorists and others who are messing up governance and
public life in the country, again at people’s expense, (California State USA, 6
times bigger than this country has only 1 Governor), nearly 157 Ministers (112
Central Government (until recently), and 45 Ministers with 5 Chief Ministers in
the Provincial Councils), with nearly 700 PC Members, and 336 Pradesiya Sabhas
with 8825 Members, maintained at
enormous cost, bleeding the nation, with facilities and privileges not heard or
given to politicians anywhere in the world. Moreover for every 16 people in
this country we have 1 public servant (1/16) and for every 2235 people we have
1 politician (1/2235) all serving themselves and not people at all, who
maintain them.
Thus we have the
top heaviest and most corrupt political machinery and an inefficient, lethargic
and servile public service for any country in the world that has no concern for
the country or the people who maintain all these wasteful institutions and
parasites, plagued with thousands of liars and thieves.
Isn’t this total
anarchy and naked day light gang robbery of a nation by corrupt politicians and
their supporters, with impunity?
Furthermore even
the Judiciary, the machinery of Public Service (except the Armed forces) too has
failed to win the confidence of the general public due to serious
politicization. So much so today this country has almost become a failed State where
top anarchy reigns.
In fact this had
been the state of governance ever since this Government was installed in power
in January 2015. The so-called Public Service today also has got reduced to the
level of a domestic service of the political party in power, with very few
exceptions found once in a blue moon. The situation is getting aggravated every
day as all political parties are concerned only in vote hunting to remain in
power.
Therefore the
crying need to seriously address and arrest this grievous national problem
immediately before the country collapses completely beyond redemption.
In order to
achieve this noble objective, which, I consider will be a historic land mark in
the political history of this country, I propose below a comprehensive list of
50 steps needed to be taken immediately to arrest this appalling situation and
make this country once again the Pearl of the Indian Ocean, as it had been in
the past, by converting it to a dynamic, vibrant and prosperous status. For
this we need a strong and patriotic government that can fulfill the native people’s
aspirations. With this objective in view, using the 1956 experience, I present
the following proposal for all patriotic people to think seriously.
The following
recipe is based on burning aspirations of the native Sinhala majority who has
been discriminated and sidelined by all political parties for 70 years since
the so-called Independence in 1948. It is a complete departure from the
conventional manifestoes of political parties presented by them to grab
people’s votes only to fulfill their own vicious and selfish ends. It is a
people’s people’s manifesto, prepared after consultation with a wide cross
section of people where the people demand and command the politician and
political parties for the first time in the history of elections in this
country to accept and openly agree to fulfill their demands if they want their
votes.
The Blue Print of a People’s Election Manifesto for
the next General election
1 To replace an
utterly corrupt, disastrous, treacherous and non-functioning government, by the
politicians, for the politicians and of the politicians and their families,
cronies and their government servants, with a “True Yahapaalanaya” by
the people, of the people and for the good of the people and to set up a
Civilization State” as Martin Jacques
proposed in his When China Rules the World” (2009), based on our own
indigenous systems of governance headed by an honourable set of Statesmen
and True Public Servants, who love the
country, its people and their culture.
2 To take the
reins of power of Governance in to the hands of 75% Sinhala majority and end
the tyranny of minority politics in this country, which has ruined this country
since 1948 while ensuring minority rights and their due place in this country.
3 To ban all
Political Parties named after ethnic, religious, regional or divisive basis
like Federal, TNA, TELO, SLMS, TC and EPRLF or any other like who go against
the Non-negotiable conditions of the Sri Lankan State. (See Annex 1 for the 15
Non-negotiable conditions)
4 To end the age
of keeping everything in the hands of corrupt politicians by getting the
politicians to implement an election manifesto prepared by the people like in
1956, instead of hitherto prevailed practice of politicians imposing their
election manifestos to get the votes and get their things done, while ruining
the country.
5 To get all
people to give up their kepuwath, meruwath UNP/ SLFP/ JVP type of blind party
political affiliations, which has divided the Sinhala people and made the
minorities the King makers, and to organize the Nation as a ‘We Sinhala
Movement’ as one mighty patriotic force that will put the country before the
party and all other petty considerations like religion and caste to unite the
nation as one formidable and undefeatable ‘Force’ and to end the minority power
of hijacking the Sinhala Buddhist nation
in to political wilderness. United we stand and divided we fall. Our failure to
understand this simple gospel truth and getting blindly trapped in the divisive
noose of party politics set by the colonial British to ruin this country are
the main reasons of our down fall as a nation.
6 To restore the
lost heritage of the Sinhala nation and the main aspects of their Independence
and identity, starting from 1505 to date, which the politicians of this country
have miserably failed to do during 71 years of so-called Independence (See
Mahanuwara Charter 2019 for details).Teaching true history of this country from
543 BC should commence immediately in all schools as a compulsory subject for
citizens to differentiate between fact and fiction.
7 To scrap the
Indian imposed 13th Amendment and Provincial Councils, a white elephant and a
curse imposed upon us by India, that has completely destabilized the once
effective and less costly District Administration and Governance in this
country, by multiplying and duplicating public institutions, number of
parasitic politicians and public servants, dividing the country in to 9
semi-federal units paving the way for permanent division of the country in to a
no return situation, wasting billions of public funds with zero benefit to the
country, that could otherwise have been gainfully spent on the development of
the country. Concurrently the abolition of Rajiv/JR Accord of July 29th 1987
that gave birth to PCC and many other serious political disasters, like 1) the
Traditional Tamil Homeland in the North and East, 2) granting Official status
to Tamil Language in this country (when it is not given even in India where
over 70 million Tamils live) and 3) granting Citizenship to all Indian Estate
labour on the plantations on an affidavit from a JP, also has to be removed
forthwith.
8 To punish all
involved in the CB mega Robbery starting from Ranil Wickramasinha, the chief
conspirator-cum schemer and the first accused ending in recovering the total
loss to the country, life imprisonment, confiscation of property and ending in
death penalty for those found guilty.
9 To cancel all
disastrous agreements entered in to by this Government with Foreign countries
to sell or lease out the nation’s assets and making prior Parliamentary
approval mandatory before signing any international agreement in future.
10 To declare
all land 5000 feet above sea level as strictly reserved forests as in the days
of the Sinhala Kings to protect the country’s geographical Heartland that
provides the source for all rivers in this country which in turn determines and
dictate the entire life system and the civilization in this Island nation: limit
all human settlements to areas below 3500 feet, to protect the physical
stability of the central hill country” of the country, thereby increasing
the water resources for agriculture, hydro- electricity, industries and
domestic use.
11 To restore
all lost rights of native Kandyan Sinhalese who fought for 443 years against
three enemy invaders Portuguese, Dutch and British to protect this nation for
us.
12 To set up a
separate Ministry for Kandyan Peasants, the Authority and the Institutions
recommended by the Kandyan Peasantry Commission of 1951, to rehabilitate them
immediately to rectify the historical injustices done to them and to abolish
the newly formed Hill country Tamil (mono) Village and Infrastructure
Development Ministry and all so-called development programmes started under it
with ADB assistance by this Government that will ultimately lead to the
formation of a permanent Indian enclave right at the centre of this country.
(These people were brought by the British after 1840, as slaves who worked for
the British to enrich the British Treasury. While toiling for their British
masters they earned their living and transferred all their savings to India
annually up to 1948). My question to Ranil and his government and all
politicians who pamper these alien people is, as to why they are giving these
lands outright and privileges to decedents of an alien slave force, while the
Kandyan Peasants, the real owners of these lands are being blatantly
discriminated.
13 To
drastically reduce the number of politicians and institutions at all levels
starting from Parliament and Ministries to an economic level the country could
afford.
14 To limit
granting Citizenship to Estate Tamils only according to Nehru-Kotalawala
Agreement of 1954 and annul all Citizenships given under any other politically
motivated treacherous agendas since 1954 and to enact strict laws on giving
citizenship to foreigners; Only those who renounce all their connections both
physically and mentally with India for good and accept this country as the land
of the Sinhala nation and agree to integrate with the native Sinhala people as
it has always happened shall be qualified to get citizenship under this. Others
have to leave either to India or Britain as they were British citizens on Feb 4th
1948.
15 To limit
citizenship only to persons who accept the 15 non-negotiable conditions listed
in the Mahanuwara Charter 2019, who learn the Sinhala language and who accept
and respect this country as the land of the Sinhala nation and agree not to
challenge this inalienable status at any date even in future. (Please see
Annex1)
16 To take
immediate steps to restore and protect the ancient archaeological and
historical monuments to protect the Sinhala Buddhist Civilization and culture
all over this country and pat special attention to restore all place names,
names of rivers, all damages done during the Portuguese, Dutch, British rule,
LTTE war and destruction done at present in the North, East and some areas of
the NCP
17 To allocate
all employments under Government strictly according to ethnic ratios and have
strict rules even in the private sector, to protect rights of our citizens.
18 To follow a
Non-align Foreign policy protecting the Sovereignty, freedom and Independence
of the country and to assert as an Independent nation without cowing and bowing
down to anybody.
19 To make Sri
Lanka once again the Pearl of the Indian
Ocean and the Miracle of Asia by giving
pride of place in the national economy to Agriculture, Livestock, Fishing
industry, Export promotion, Shipping and Aviation as key sectors in the economy
and thereby converting the nation’s economy to a dynamic, vibrant and strong
status.
20 to stop all
wasteful public functions such as foundation laying and opening petty projects
at state expense and talking shops (meetings) organized by and for politicians
with expensive flower decorations and also expensive pavilions etc. to exhibit
their vanity spending millions of public funds and wasting millions of valuable
man hours and to compel the politicians to go for actions at least now and stop
talking which they have done for the past 71 years and also stop forthwith all
meetings organized to hand over appointments
etc and post all such letters by post to recipients as it was done in
the past.
21 To revise the
pension scheme for all retired public servants so that every pensioner will be
placed on the same pension salary point entitled to a person retiring from the
corresponding post at present irrespective of the date on which the former has
retired, in order to do justice to nearly 600,000 pensioners, who are
struggling to keep their heads above water in terms of the historic 1985 Indian
Supreme court decision.
22 To Ban
sending slave labour (especially women) to other countries including domestic
servants to Middle East and to provide employment avenues for them locally to
stop our cultural erosion, and instead to start a program of sending skilled
professionals only, like Doctors, Engineers, Technicians and Managers etc enabling
creation of jobs for those who pass out from our Universities and technical
colleges as a major source of foreign exchange
23 To ban all
Schools under the ‘International’ labels and extremist ideologies like
Madrasa so that we will have only National
Schools that will implement the national Education policy of Sri Lanka in this
country in future, as only a broad based National Educational policy that suits
the country in the context of the new world, could lay the sound foundation
that could meet the challenges of this emerging world, for proper nation
building.
24 To Reduce
annual Public holidays (currently in the range of 125 -135) to a number not to
exceed 12 as it is accepted in most countries
25 To stop
poaching and robbing all our marine resources in our territorial waters by any
foreign country, including India that leads the game depleting our marine
resources
26 To impose
death penalty for all found guilty on all serious and anti-social crimes
starting with narcotics
27 To lay down
special qualifications for politicians. Things like impeachable character, a
Clean record, minimum educational qualifications, reasonable assets,
unassailable patriotism and character, etc + five years compulsory permanent
residence in the electorate for which he/she
seeks nomination and an upper age limit of 75 years with recall
provisions and finally to make the JRS
once again the most august assembly in the country.
28 To have a
strict code of ethics and conduct to politicians and public servants with clear
and strict performance targets, including a ban on all politicians and public
servants other than Cabinet Ministers and National level officers attending
state functions outside their areas of authority unless the chief guest invites
him/her for some special duty, as the present practices involves a wanton
wastage of enormous amounts of public funds.
29 To demand
that all politicians have to agree to work free for one year under the new
system
30 To appoint a
permanent commission to inquire in to malpractices of all politicians and high
officials from 1987 and punish those found guilty with confiscation of property
illegally acquired, removal of civil rights and any other punishment courts
deem fit for the offences committed.
31 To
restructure the present system of Government Machinery with lesser number of
public servants under 15 Ministries, Departments and Statutory Boards and
institutions that will continue as implementing agencies policies and
programmes of the Government.
32 To set up an
independent professional Judiciary and a Public Service where all recruitments,
placements and promotions will be purely made on merits based on competitive
examinations. Meritocracy should be the hall mark in the seats of Government in
all these fields including politics.
33 Main features
of the new Government under the new Constitution
A
1) An
Uttareetara Purohita Saba/ Advisory Council of 17 members (see Sec. 05 of Mahanuwara Charter 2019 for details
(Instead of one Purohita in the past) as stated in the Siya Panatha
2) Uttareetara
Jatika Selasum Mandalaya/Permanent Supreme National Planning Council consisting of 10 or 15 eminent persons in
fields like Economics, Law, Finance,
Agriculture, Environment, Industry, Education, Trade and Commerce, History and
Culture of this country etc, to prepare the overall National Plan so that
politicians will have only to implement national policies after they get
elected. This will also has to be regularly evaluated, monitored and corrective
measures taken to get this programme and the broad work plan given in the
Mahanuwara Charter 2019 to be implemented by the new Government to the end
without flaws. This Council should be chaired by the Prime Minister.
3) An Executive
President elected by all the people in the country who shall be the Head of the
State, Head of the government and the Chief Commander of the Three Forces and
restore his powers removed by the 19th Amendment.
4 Prime
Minister; The Chairman of the 15 Executive Committee as stated in 6 below.
5 Jatika Rajya
Sabhava JRS/ (Parliamentto be named as JRS) of Elected Members representing 198
electorates (Abolish National list MP, District MP, Proportional and Preference
system) Five years permanent residence within the respective electorate for all
candidates should be made compulsory to get nomination.
6) Cabinet
JRS to have 15
Executive Committees whose Chairmen will form the Cabinet of 15 assisted by 15
Deputy Ministers, representing the 15 Districts that have not got a Minister.
Of the 15 Chairmen 1 will get elected as the Chairman of the Committees
(Cabinet) who will be appointed as the Prime Minister by the President. (For
details see Towards a Government without Political Parties” mentioned in
Mahanuwara Charter 2019)
7) The present
system of State machinery of Ministries and Departments with semi-government
institutions will continue, of cause reduced in number.
8 To enact a new Constitution base on our own
civilization as more fully described in Mahanuwara Charter 2019. The Constitution for any given country has to
be formulated by the Bhoomiputras who have founded the land, made the
civilization and lived there from inception of history of that land and who
treat it as their only motherland unless it had been overrun and conquered by
an alien power like in the case of
N&S Americas, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. No other outside
party such as a foreign country or institution or an invader or labourers
brought by them for their work and left behind when they left or left outs of
invaders or itinerary seasonal traders and illicit immigrants who have their
own true motherlands elsewhere, like Tamils and Muslims in this country has
absolutely no right to take part in constitution making for this country. As
such constitution making for this country is the non-negotiable prerogative and
the birth right of Sinhalese Buddhists.
(No man or woman
who is not prepared to agree to the conditions given in Annexes 1 &11 and
Charter2019, even if he/she is a Sinhala Buddhist should be appointed as a
Minister or a Deputy).
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9 To form 1)
Grama Sabha, 2) Village Councils at Korale level for villages and, Urban
Councils and Municipal Councils for Urban centers. Pradesiya Sabhas will be
abolished under this system.
34 To restore
former District and Divisional Agricultural and Coordinating Committees
to be presided
over by District and Divisional Secretaries (Disapathi and Upadisapathi)
35 To completely
reorganize and upgrade the present Grama Seva System with resident village
level officers to be named Gampathi in place of present itinerary Grama Seva
Niladhary system, transferable only within the respective divisions,
transferable once in 5 years, as both the Village officer Gampathi and the
Village formed the rock foundation of the effective administration in this
country from the inception of history, at least from 307 BC
36 To divide the
Island again in to Tun Rata with 10 districts for each totaling 30 for the
whole country. Five new districts, Mahiyanganaya, Wellavaya and Seruwavila for
Ruhunu Rata; Yapahuwa (kurunegala for
Maya Rata and Willpattuwa for Pihitirata)
37 To ban clergy
of all religions from contesting elections to Jatika Rajya Sabhava or any other
political body
38 To ban
appointing defeated politicians and members of politicians to any post under
government violating all recruitment procedures to government and
semi-government institutions or local and foreign services.
39 To stop all
special privileges to all politicians and public servants like Duty free and
official vehicles and punish all those who have misused this facility from 1987
as given in Siyapanatha item 88.
40 To abolish
the Pension rights of politicians and convert it once again to an Honourable
public service as it had been in the past and to end politics being pursued as
a fraud and a big business
41 To disqualify
politicians and all other persons including those found guilty of any
treacherous action against the State or the country. Even those who are holding
any public positions at the moment, that fall in to this category should also
be removed immediately. This should be
followed by removing civil rights, life imprisonment and confiscating illegally
acquired property in addition to any other punishment the authorities deem fit.
42 To stop all
interference by foreign countries or any foreign organization in the internal
affairs of this country and to govern only according to the wishes and
aspirations of the Bhoomiputras of this country. The age of Navi Pillay, Samantha Power, the
British Prime Minister, Geneva and all other similar organizations like Amnesty
International and UNCHR, ordering us what to do should be put to an end
immediately.
43 To Terminate
diplomatic relations with all countries that do not conform to these Sri Lankan national policies and who
consistently act against the interests
of the Sri Lanka Government and support the LTTE remnants both at Home and abroad and the so-called Tamil Diaspora operating from New York and London and many other countries.
44 all
recruitments to State jobs to be done through open competitive examinations and
viva voce with no political interference.
45 To resettle
all displaced people due to LTTE atrocities or during the war in their original
places within six months.
46 To ban all
types of Communal segregations and make the whole Island open to people of all
communities without any discrimination and to punish persons like Vignesvaran
who openly preach and act against this principle.
47 All
Universities to be made independent seats of higher learning catering to
Economic. Social and Cultural development needs of the country, subject to the
implementation of the Government’s National education policy.
48 To Minimize
foreign travel both for politicians and State Officials. Both politicians and
State officials going on foreign study tours or training should submit their
reports within one month after they return, as to what lessons they have
learnt, that could be made useful to the country, to the JRS by politicians and
by officials to the Secretary/Head of Department to the relevant Ministry/
Department.
49 Stop the
present practice of allocation of public funds to politicians either by seats
or through Decentralized budget invented for political bribing and To channel
disbursement of all public funds through State Official as it was done in the
past and to minimize financial mismanagement
50 To make the
Secretary to the Treasury and the Ministry of Finance once again the Head of
the Public service and the Secretaries to Ministries to be appointed only from
the Secretaries Service (see Siya Panatha Sec.3 for details). This will
insulate Public Service from political messing and restore independence,
discipline and quality of public service.
(For details on
each item please see relevant sections in the Mahanuwara Charter 2019).
(As no man or
woman who is not prepared to agree to these conditions is fit to be a citizen
of this country or to take to national politics or get appointed to public
service in Sinhale, no such person should be elected or appointed to any public
position).
Lastly, let
there shall be no Ambalamas (stoppages) in this “Great National Leap
Forward” until the final destination is reached!
Annex 1
The 15 non
-negotiable conditions
1 Name of the
country shall be Sinhale as it had been known at least from 543 BC up to 1972
(for 2515 years).
(All historical
and literary sources have referred to it as Sinhale, Sinhala Dveepa or Seehala
Deepa, Lakdiva or Lanka, but never as EELAM. Only ancient Malayalam people of
South India had referred to this country as EELAM by which they simply meant
the land of the Sinhala people. The country that was ceded to Britain in 1815
by the Kandyan Convention of 2nd March 1815 was Sinhale, translated to English
as Ceylon, meaning the land of the Sinhala people. Therefore that original name
of the country has to be restored. Note both Sinhale and Lanka had been used
synonymously from very ancient times to this country. The prefix Sri was added
in 1972 Constitution when they named the country as The Republic of Sri Lanka
and today it is known internationally as Sri Lanka and it has got permanently
established by now. As such it could be called either Sinhale or Sri Lanka, if
necessary after public consensus. Thereafter this country shall be known in all
languages either as Sinhale or Sri Lanka. To call it by any other name like
EELAM, Ilankai or Kalisthan thereafter will have to be declared as treason).
2 Name of the Nation of this country shall be
Sinhala as it had been in vogue at least from 543 BC up to 1948. But again the
nation could be called either Sinhala or Sri Lankan for reasons given in item 1
above. Tamils or Muslims thereafter shall not be referred to or called as
nations in this country any more. They shall be called minor communities only
(Sulujana kotas not minorities which is erroneously translated as Sulu Jati).
3 Its Ratavesiyo
(citizens) shall be known as Sinhala. Those who wish to be citizens of Sinhale
should learn the Sinhala language, Take Sinhala names, renounce all allegiance
to their country of origin and get fully integrate with the native Sinhala
society as they did in Burma in 1947. None, other than honorary citizens, who
will not comply with these requirements, shall be given full citizenship of
Sinhale. There shall be two category of Ratavesiyo under this scheme.
a) Ratavesiyo by
decent or Bhoomiputrayo: All descendants
of those who were Ratavesiyo of Sinhale
before 1815.
b) Ratavesiyo by
registration.
This includes Ratavesiyo who are registered
after accepting the conditions laid down in Annex 1 and 11 included here in,
subject to the conditions prescribed in Mahanuwara Charter 2019 item 7
regarding Rtavesibhavaya.
4 Buddhism shall
be declared the State Religion while freedom of practicing other religions,
will be guaranteed with no right to manifest or propagate as it had been done
from the beginning of history of this country up to 1815. Buddhism has to be
accepted by people of all other religions as he State religion of this country
as it had been accepted by Kings and subjects alike in the past and even in
contemporary times ‘as the main tree where all other religions are only small
branches’ as Rev Malcolm Ranjith Malcom Fernando has aptly said.
5 There shall be
one Law for the whole country for all Citizens as it had been up to 1815.
Details have to be worked out by the Bhoomiputras, based on the traditional
native laws. Simultaneously ethnic laws such as Thesawalamei (Law for Malabar
inhabitants) and (for Muslims) introduced to this country by the Dutch and
British to divide the Lankan nation shall be abolished and banned.
6 Sinhala should
be made- The official language of the State as it had been from 543 BC. Both
Tamils and Muslims can use their language. But all have to correspond in the
official language with the Government as it was done before 1815.
No one who does
not know the language of the natives, that is Sinhala, shall be given full
Ratawesibhavaya of this country
7 One country,
One Nation, One National Flag and one National Anthem concept must be enshrined
in the Constitution. It should be sung only in Sinhala as given in the
Constitution.(This will enhance and consolidate the unity and patriotism as one
nation)
8 This country
shall be declared the Historical Maathrubhumi of the Sinhala race and all other
communities have to accede to that non-debatable and non -negotiable fact of
history.
9 Sinhala people
also must have the right to live in any part of the country of their choice and
have the right to have their religious establishments like temples and shrines
just as the Tamils and Muslims currently enjoy. If anyone objects or refuses
this condition then they should leave for their motherlands in India or Arabia.
10 Sinhala
Buddhist culture has to be legally recognized as the national/dominant culture
of the Sri Lanka nation, while the freedom of practicing their own cultures for
all minor communities will be guaranteed.
11 The
international community has to honour this Sri Lankan identity
Discontinue diplomatic relations with all
countries that do not agree to these conditions and deport their Diplomatic
representatives immediately and terminate all relations with such countries
until they agree to do so.
12 This country
will not get aligned with any World power. We will strictly adhere to the
Non-aligned policy as a free, Independent and sovereign nation and will have
friendly relations with all countries. Any attempt by any country to interfere
or intervene with the internal affairs of this country will be rejected and
defeated.
13 No national
asset within the Island and its territorial waters shall be sold to or
otherwise divested in any foreign country or agency.
(All these 13 conditions are nothing but the
restoration of the legitimate rights of the Bhoomiputras of this Island as they
were there at the time of ceding this country by the Kandyan Convention in 1815
and some of them like the place of Buddhism, machinery of administration and
customs and Judicial practices were included even in the Kandyan Convention,
although most of them were outlawed by the Royal Proclamation of Nov 21 1818
unilaterally and therefore illegally by the British. These conditions should
have been restored in 1948 to make independence meaningful, but it was not
done. Therefore none of them are new. Furthermore no Tamil or Muslim can
challenge the imposition of these conditions as they themselves had been living
within that very system prior to 1815 and all rights they enjoy today were
given to them under suppression against the will of the Bhoomiputras)
Additional Conditions
14 Under this
proposal all Political Parties named after ethnicity, religion, region or
divisive basis like Federal, TNA, TELO, SLMS, TC and EPRLF or any other etc,
will have to be banned by law as they run counter to this principle. Even the Marxist parties like LSSP, CP and
JVP should be banned as their political ideologies do not suit this country.
There is no need to talk about the UNP or SLFP as they are also now defunct and
will die a natural death at the next election.
15 The
President, Prime Minister, Chief Justice, Speaker of the Jatika Rajya Sabhava,
IGP, and the Heads of the three Armed forces shall be always be Sinhalese and
Buddhists both by convention and Law.
16 All
recruitments to public service should be done strictly according to ethnic
ratios (Please refer to Mahanuwara Charter 2019 and Siyapanatha for details)
17 Programme of
family planning
18 Ban ethnic
and communal segregation
19 Muslims
marrying Sinhala women
20 Sending women slaves to Middle east etc.
Annex 11
The New
Sinhale/Sri Lanka Constitution should be based on the following historical
foundation and premises.
1 Historically this
country had remained the Traditional Homeland of the Sinhala Nation, at least
from 543 BC up to date.
2 Since 307 BC
it had been the only Sinhala Buddhist nation in the world.
3 Firstly,
Sinhalese Buddhists were the people who found, developed and fostered the
unique Sinhala Buddhist civilization on this Island. It was also they who
protected it from all foreign devastations firstly, the Indians, more
particularly, South Indians, starting in the 2nd century BC up to the 12th
century AD (culminated in the barbaric Maagha devastation), who razed
Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa civilizations (that ranked among the best in
ancient and medieval world) to the ground.
Secondly, it was
virtually destroyed for 443 years from 1505 to 1948 by the Portuguese, Dutch
and British invasions. In all these wars it was the Sinhala Buddhists who had
to face the brunt of the invader and die in battle in millions in defense of
their Motherland. Among the long list of brutal and savages atrocities carried
out by these invaders, shooting all those who could not be arrested, hanging
them then and there, burning down all fields, houses and barns and slaughtering
all animals of the natives to feed the soldiers of the invader could be cited
as few example of the cruel crimes carried out by these invaders.
4 The name of
the country ceded to British in 1815 was Sinhale as given in the Kandyan
Convention of March 2. 1815. Except Taprobane and Serendib all other names over
23 like Zeylan and Ceylon simply meant the Land of the Sinhala people. Even the
Tamil word EELAM means the land of the Sinhalese. This clearly shows that,
right throughout history it was the Sinhala imprint that has flourished on this
land.
5 Sinhala
Buddhists were the architects of the civilization in this country, who fought
relentlessly for millennia against the South Indian and thereafter Portuguese,
and British invaders from 1505 to 1948and died in millions in battle to defend
their motherland in the savages and brutal 1818 and 1948 especially in Uva and
Matale historic uprisings against the British. It was they who lost all their
lands in battles fighting against the enemies to defend the motherland for
posterity.
6 None of the
Tamils or Muslim at any time has supported the native Sinhalese in these wars.
Instead they took the side of the enemy and particularly the Muslims, both in
the Uva and Matale freedom struggles who supported the British by transporting
their provisions, guns and ammunitions from the harbours to the interior and by
spying against the Native Sinhalese. When Muslims were brutally murdered by
Portuguese in 1665 and when those who survived ran to the King in Kandy it was
the Sinhala King who saved them and settled in the Panampatuwa (these are the
ungrateful people now asking for a separate State in the South East)
7 In the period
of early political agitations even Tamil scholars wrote on the Sinhala Buddhist
civilization in this country and accepted that this had been the Land of the
Sinhalese from the dawn of history and they were the architects of the unique
civilization in this Island nation. See what P. Arunachalam in his Sketches of
Ceylon History (1906) and Ananda Coomaraswamy in his classic Medieval Sinhalese
(1905) wrote and concluded about the Civilization of the country. It is a
tragedy and a pity too that the present day Tamil politicians don’t understand
what these great Sri Lankans had said. I invite extreme communalists like
Sambandan, Vignesvarana and Sumanthiram to read these books and find out as to
where they should stand in this country. Instead today they all follow a
Malaysian born Catholic Tamil Chelvanayagam, who had migrated to this country
(around 1903) as a 4 year old boy who later became the Father of Ilankai Tamil
Arsukachchi idea (1947) and Grandfather of modern Tamil extremism in this
country.
8 Even as late
as 1965 K. Indrapala professor of History in his PhD ‘Thesis Dravidayan
settlement in Ceylon’ concluded that there were no Tamil settlements in the
interior of this country until the 13th century and they were confined to a
narrow coastal strip in the north and East. I am talking here on Indrapala, who wrote his PhD
Thesis in 1965 and not what he had said recently at LTTE gun point in
his “The Tamils of Sri Lanka”: (300 B.C.-1200 A.D.)-
9 All minority
races including Tamils and Muslims are thus only descendants of immigrants who
had come to this country from time to time either as traders, invaders, slaves
of colonial powers or illicit immigrants. Tamils in the North and East were
brought as slaves after 1505 by the Portuguese, Dutch and British to work in
their projects. There are very few who descend from those left behind by early
invaders. The last category is the Estate Tamils who were brought as indentured
labour by British to work on their Coffee and Tea plantations after 1840.
Therefore they were British citizens who were left behind by the British when
they left in 1948. As such none of these categories has any legitimate right to call this
country their motherland unless and until they become full citizens of this
country after learning the Language and history of the land and integrate with
the native Sinhalese. The irony is none of these people accept this country as
the land of the Sinhalese. Instead they all want separate independent and
self-ruling regions carved out from this Land. Some people like the LTTE and
their proxies have declared even war against the natives claiming the land of
the Sinhalese for 30 years. All native politicians who are supposed to have
ruled this country since 1948 are responsible for this unfortunate situation.
Appendix 111
Process of
elections
Selection and
Election of Members to the Jatika Rajya Sabha and other Sabhas
(see sec 12 Mahanuwara Charter 2019 )
Candidates at different levels shall be first
selected by the respective Councils on public consensus by Nomination by the
Council or self- application, from among qualified and distinguished persons
permanently resident within such electorates. (They also can hold a primary
election to select them). They will be elected on a non-party basis as there
will be no parties in this system, on the first past post basis on and
electoral basis thereafter. The simple criterion for selection shall be all-round
suitability to hold public position.
This system will see the real Mahasammatha principle in practice. (Since
Elections to JRS, are conducted at District levels for the purpose of electing
them, the District Council will submit the lists
There shall be 3
or 2 names for each electorate, for the JRS candidates from among whom the
voters of the respective electorate will elect 1 for the JRS
Only persons
with permanent residence within the electorate are qualified to be nominated
for any given electorate.
The persons who
come first in each electorate will go to the Jatika Rajya Sabhava.
At the
conclusion of the Election the Commissioner of Election will announce the list
of Jatika Rajya Sabha.
(Please see
Towards a Government without Political Parties; Key to a New Political Culture
in Sri Lanka for details). It may also be useful to refer to the election
process adopted during the State Council days)
All these crazy
people must learn the wisdom of Rev Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith (one of the
greatest sons of Sri Lanka in modern times} latest statement where he said
“Buddhism in this country is the big tree and other religions are only
small branches of the big tree.’ In my opinion this is by far the best
description of the Sri Lankan society made by any religious dignitary or a
historian ever. The same thing could be said with regard to ethnicity as well.
Accordingly, I will put it as “Sinhala race in this country is the big
tree and other communities are only small branches of that big tree”.
Why can’t the
Tamil and Muslim politicians, the treacherous NGOs, Colombian Sinhala
politicians and the so-called International Community (the five anti Sinhala
groups) also understand this all-time reality, and learn to live together
without quarrelling with the Sinhala people who are the true Bhoomiputras of
this land. Both Tamils and Muslim could be compared to ‘parasitic plants on a
Sinhala banyan tree’ struggling to kill it and trying to be the banyan tree.
Now the time has come for Sinhala Statesmen to compel these immigrants either
to accept this gospel truth and try to live amicably with the native Sinhalese
or leave for good for their own motherlands.
If all these
five categories could understand the wisdom of Rev Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith,
the day they do so, on that day, ends the ethnic and religious clashes in this
country.
The
end
5/8/2019
Dr Sudath
Gunasekara
Hanthana Pedesa
Mahanuwara
