by, Professor Nishan C. Wijesinha

First of all, it is highly important to note, that after the incorporation of the 

Dutch East India Trading Company (VOC), on the 20th of March 1602; thereafter 

soon afterwards, within a month and ten days; on the 2nd of May 1602, the Dutch Admiral Joris van Spilbergen’s arrival in Batticaloa, with three ships from the Dutch port of Veere.

It should be pointed out here, that, although, through the passages of time vivid changes occurred in the body of Ceylon; yet it sustained itself as the trader’s paradise of the Indian Ocean; with its remarkable “Thearavada Trading Economy”.

This is the reason, which led the Dutch, to arrive in Batticaloa, the very moment after they incorporated the Dutch East India Trading Company as mentioned above.

From 1602 to 1706, a hundred years later, the corruption builds up, as the reigning Dutch Governor Simons, destroyed the core essence of the Dutch role 

in Ceylon, with the 1706 Dutch Codification of the Tesawalami regulation, giving 

predominance to the Malabar caste of the Tamil people as the indigenous Tamil people, of the Northern Province of Ceylon; which gave them hope of a Tamil Eelam State.

The embodiment of its practice was preserved in the unique monuments which I have managed through great and profound struggle to take it to my custody from it’s hideout in the Nainativu Nagapooshani Amman Kovil.

The total history of it and my intentions of its preservations for public homage and education is given by me separately; in another message.

සිංහල දීප ජාතික පෙරමුණ විරෝධයක

Ven. Ampitiye Sumanarathana Thero

Patali Champika Ranawaka

Somar Wijayadasa Courtesy The Island

Kuru as a cadet sergeant and Queen’s Scout meeting the Queen at India’s 1961 Republic Day.

A talented son of Sri Lanka, Dr. Mahinda Kurukulasuriya (1942-2025) passed away peacefully in Vientiane, Laos on 29 January 2025 – with his daughter Liza by his side. According to his wishes, a three-day memorial service was held in a Buddhist temple in Vientiane, Laos.

Among close friends, he was fondly referred to as ‘Kuru” and as Dr. Kuru” among his professional colleagues.

He was born in 1942 to a wealthy family in Nakulugamuwa. His father owned the Ruhunu Transit Bus Company that was nationalized in 1957.

Kuru had his Education at Mahinda College, Galle, where he excelled in studies, sports, and athletics. In 1961, as a Cadet and a Queen’s Scout, he had the rare opportunity to greet Queen Elizabeth II at the Republic Day Celebrations in New Delhi.

After a 13-year hiatus of losing cricket matches to Richmond College, in 1962, Mahinda College under Kuru’s captaincy won a memorable victory against Richmond.

In 1962, he won a Scholarship to pursue engineering studies at the Moscow State University. That same year, I met Kuru in Moscow, and we forged a friendship that lasted 65 years.

Kuru married his University batch-mate Elena – an amiable person who also completed her Ph.D. and the rare Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degrees along with Kuru. She predeceased him in 2015 leaving two equally brilliant daughters who live in Europe.

Kuru’s education abroad opened up the world for him to explore. Upon his graduation in 1968, he returned to Sri Lanka and worked for the River Valleys Development Board (RVDB). From 1971-1976, he and his wife Elena were appointed as water engineers in Zambia. They returned to Moscow and completed their Ph.D.’s. Kuru returned to Sri Lanka in 1979 and worked for the Mahaweli River Development.

Later, he worked on United Nations assignments as a senior engineer and Program Manager in Zaire, Congo, Maldives, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos. He was fluent in English, Russian, French, Burmese, Khmer and Thai, and he excelled in his UN assignments.

In 2006, he garnered another Ph.D. from the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture of the Peradeniya University. Over the years, he wrote several books, including his memoirs One Drop of my Sweet Sweat”.

Upon his mandatory UN retirement, the Government of Laos – aware of Kuru’s technical expertise, commitment and integrity – persuaded Kuru to lead several key development projects in Laos. It allowed Kuru to continue working with the perks of a UN official, and the Government took good care of him as he was away from his native Sri Lanka, and his beloved family. He had many Laotian friends.

Above all, he was kind and friendly to everyone he knew. Despite many achievements, Kuru was the most virtuous and unassuming person I came across in my life.

Kuru is survived by his sisters Indra and Lalita, daughters Angelika and Liza, and his wife Seuth and his son Souminta.

His family and friends will miss him dearly. Yet, we shall cherish his memory forever.

May he attain the supreme bliss of Nirvana.

Somar Wijayadasa

Courtesy The Sunday Island

Justice and National Integration Minister Harshana Nanayakkara informed Parliament on Thursday (20) that armed officers will be deployed inside courtrooms to ensure the security of special detainees during proceedings.

Responding to a question from Kalutara District NDF MP Rohitha Abeygunawardena, the Minister highlighted that the absence of armed officers within courtrooms poses a security risk. He noted incidents of individuals disguising themselves as lawyers, emphasizing the urgent need for enhanced security measures.

A special committee will be formed to engage with key stakeholders, including the Judicial Service Commission, the police, and the Bar Association, to implement armed security when necessary. Additionally, advanced screening procedures will be introduced to further bolster courtroom safety. The government also aims to improve the welfare of prison officers, including aligning their salaries with those of the police service.

As part of broader judicial reforms, an amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code will be introduced, allowing detainees to testify via video link, reducing the need for their physical presence in court, the Minister said.

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර්

LTTE සංවිධානය ඇතුළු ත්‍රස්තවාදී සංවිධාන 15ක් තහනම් කරමින් අතිවිශේෂ ගැසට් නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කර තිබේ. 

ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යංශ ලේකම් සම්පත් තුයියකොන්තා මහතාගේ අත්සනින් යුතුව මෙම අතිවිශේෂ ගැසට් නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කර ඇත.

මෙලෙස තහනමට ලක් වූ සංවිධාන, ත්‍රස්තවාදය හා සම්බන්ධ ක්‍රියාකාරකම් සඳහා වරින්වර මුදල් සැපයීම සිදු කර ඇති බව සදහන් වේ.

ඒ අනුව එම සංවිධානවන මූල්‍ය වත්කම් සහා ආර්ථික සම්පත් තහනමට ලක්කර ඇත.

මීට අමතරව ත්‍රස්තවාදය හා සම්බන්ධ පුද්ගලයන් 222කගේ නාම ලේඛනයක් ද මෙම අතිවිශේෂ ගැසට් පත්‍රය මගින් ප්‍රකාශයට පත් කර තිබේ.

තහනම් කළ ත්‍රස්තවාදී සංවිධාන 15

1 ද්‍රවිඩ ඊලාම් විමුක්ති කොටි සංවිධානය

2 දෙමළ පුනරුත්ථාපන සංවිධානය

3 දෙමළ සම්බන්ධීකරණ කමිටුව

4 ලෝක දෙමළ ව්‍යාපාරය

5 දේශසීමා ඉක්ම වූ දෙමළ ඊලම් රාජ්‍යය 

6 ලෝක දෙමළ සහනසාධක අරමුදල

7 මූලස්ථාන කණ්ඩායම

8 ජාතික තව්හිද් ජමාත්

9 ජමාතේ මිලාතේ ඊබ්‍රාහීම්

10 විලයාත් අස් සෙයිලානි

11 කැනේඩියානු දෙමළ ජාතික කවුන්සිලය

12 ද්‍රවිඩ තරුණ සංවිධානය

13 දාරුල් අදර් අත්තබවියා

14 ශ්‍රී ලංකා ඉස්ලාමීය ශිෂ්‍ය ව්‍යාපාරය

15 සේව් ද පර්ල්ස් 

Courtesy The Daily Mirror

• The causes behind these crimes range from gang-related activities to deep-seated personal disputes
• In response to the rise in criminal activities, Police said they had implemented various measures to address the escalating crime rates   

By DARSHANA SANJEEWA BALASURIYA   

Shortly after the shocking murder of underworld drug lord ‘Ganemulla Sanjeewa’ inside the Colombo Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday morning which left the government rocked over a serious security lapse, and the tragic death of two innocent children and their father in Middeniya, killings have continued to plague the country with three deaths reported within the past 48 hours.   

Despite ongoing efforts by authorities to combat crime, and the tightening of security islandwide, Sri Lanka’s crime rates have soared, leaving numerous families devastated by senseless violence.   

The causes behind these tragedies range from gang-related activities to deep-seated personal disputes, but the consequences remain the same, as innocent lives are also lost.   

On Thursday, 24 hours after the devastating murders in court and Middeniya, a 29-year-old man from Kadawatha was shot and killed in Moganwatta, Ja-Ela. The police are investigating the motive behind the shooting and working to identify the suspects involved. This shooting marks the sixteenth of the year, concerning the persistent issue of gun violence in the country.  Police said that seven of the 16 shooting incidents were due to personal disputes, while 13 persons were killed in shootings connected to organised crime. Police have arrested more than 35 suspects in relation to these incidents so far.   

In a separate incident on Thursday in Nittambuwa, a married couple was severely injured after being hacked in front of a grocery store. The victims, a 43-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman were attacked while they were shopping. The suspect fled the scene in the same three-wheeler the couple had arrived in.   

Police suspect that the attack was due to a financial dispute. The couple’s son sold cashew nuts on buses along the Kandy-Colombo Road, and the suspect is believed to have had an argument with the family over money. The suspect had reportedly threatened to kill the entire family because of the financial disagreement. 

 
Meanwhile, in another incident in Welimada, a 52-year-old man was fatally stabbed at Ambagasdowa. The victim had been working as a tree cutter and had offered to cut down a tree at Thawalampala Vidyalaya for free. Initial investigations have revealed that he was stabbed after an argument escalated when the suspects inquired about the reason for cutting down the tree without charging any money. After being rushed to Badulla Teaching Hospital, the victim succumbed to his injuries.   

Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the stabbing while the Ambagasdowa Police are conducting investigations.   

In response to the rise in criminal activities, Police said they had implemented various measures to address the escalating crime rates.   

Last week, Police said they had taken measures to establish a Central Crimes Investigation Bureau (CCIB) in order to increase the efficiency of the investigation of cases under the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).   
Police said that the new bureau will oversee investigations into a range of crimes, including the Illegal Assets Investigation Unit, Homicide and Organised Crime Investigation Unit, Financial and Commercial Crime Unit, Computer Crime Investigation Unit, Human Trafficking, Smuggling and Maritime Crime Investigation Unit, as well as the Criminal Intelligence and Intelligence Analysis Unit. 

(Additional reporting by Nishantha Kumara & Pushpakumara Mallawarachchi)

Courtesy Adaderana

Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Priyantha Weerasuriya stated that criminal activities in the Western and Southern provinces have increased. 

However, he assured that security has now been strengthened in these provinces.

He made these remarks during a special press conference held at the Government Information Department today (22).

The Acting IGP also noted that the Sri Lanka Police have taken steps to ensure security within court premises in the country. 

While police officers have been deployed outside the courts, he clarified that no police officers are assigned for security within the court premises. 

However, a private security agency is currently responsible for internal security, and discussions will be held with relevant authorities to address this issue, he said.

Furthermore, the Acting IGP revealed that criminal gangs continue to be led from foreign countries, emphasizing that such gangs no longer receive political protection. 

He also pointed out that in the past, criminals operated freely under political patronage.

Highlighting an increase in crimes since 2023, the Acting IGP stated that criminal activities are being orchestrated not only from abroad but also from within prisons. 

To counter this, security operations within prisons have been intensified, he said.

Additionally, he disclosed that some criminals attempt to flee the country not only by air but also via sea route. 

However, he assured that the Navy and Coast Guard have heightened operations to prevent such attempts and apprehend the fugitives.

Madyawediya

Country singer and Republican press secretary Alexis Wilkins attended Kash Patel’s swearing-in as FBI director. Patel, confirmed by the Senate in a 51-49 vote, took the oath in the presence of his girlfriend Wilkins, who shared the moment on social media. Wilkins, a PragerU contributor and political commentator, has gained prominence in conservative circles through her work and public appearances.

Indian-origin Kash Patel has been confirmed as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Patel, a loyalist of US President Donald Trump took over after winning the Senate vote 51-49. Dan Scavino, Trump’s assistant and White House Deputy Chief of Staff congratulated Kaash Patel in Bollywood style. Watch this video for more information.

By Sena Thoradeniya

Julie Jiyoon Chung (aka Chung Ji-yoon), the Korean- American US Ambassador to Sri Lanka is unperturbed  and carrying on regardless (reminding us the 1961 British comedy film Carry on Regardless”), even after the recent events in America:  viz. President Trump’s executive order  curtailing USAID aid, Elon Musk’s remarks on the USAID and his DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) working to take control over the USAID and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s dismantling (or bring it under the control of State Department ) of USAID and in Sri Lanka, protests in front of the US Embassy in Colombo demanding Julie Chung Go Home” and Recall Julie Chung”,  accusing her promoting LGBTQ activities in Sri Lanka, violating diplomatic protocols, using USAID funds for undermining Sri Lanka’s sovereignty and her role in regime change in Sri Lanka respectively.

Chung works like a street urchin who repeats what (he) was accustomed to do despite receiving brickbats from the urban populace.

On the 13 February 2025, Chung posted in her X account Trump’s executive order issued on 12 February, establishing a unified, clear voice for America’s foreign relations, aligning diplomacy with America’s interests (President Donald J Trump   establishes one voice for America’s Foreign Relations”).

Following day, on the Valentine’s Day Chung met with Namal Rajapaksa, another SLPP MP and a group of ex-SLPP parliamentarians.  Her message after this meeting echoes Trump’s latest executive order.  This has not been read correctly by the followers of SLPP who hailed this meeting as a victory for them.

Although Namal Rajapaksa says in his X message that they briefed Ambassador Chung on SLPP’s proposal for a Parliamentary Select Committee to investigate the use of USAID funds by both registered and unregistered NGOs in Sri Lanka with a focus on ensuring transparency in the allocation of US taxpayer resources”, Chung does not mention anything about this Parliamentary Select Committee. Its absurd Namal worrying about ensuring transparency in the allocation of US taxpayer resources”! 

He was not concerned with how US funds were disbursed to Galle Face protest, setting fire to over 43 houses of SLPP supporters by the NPP goons and the ouster of Gotabhaya regime.

A wrong interpretation was given by Namal’s supporters to this meeting, that Chung has apologized (for what?) and made a confession with tearful and swollen eyes.  

Chung in her X message posted on 14 February says, Met today with Namal Rajapaksa and SLPP officials as part of our cross-party outreach.” No mention about Namal’s proposal for a Parliamentary Select Committee to investigate the use of USAID funds by both registered and unregistered NGOs in Sri Lanka.  This message was a very brief one compared to her messages she had posted after meeting with NPP Ministers and even NPP minions.

Is she a woman who apologizes and confesses? It’s a fantasy of those who had not studied her diplomatic career.

Chung was posted to Sri Lanka immediately after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenal Moise. As US Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Chung met with Moise a few days before his assassination. Chung and Victoria Nuland were accused for the assassination of Moise. If GR did not vacate the Presidential House at the correct time he would have been lynched as Gadhafi by the US funded protesters.

Giving all of them a thundering knock Chung in her web page included a Sinhala video clip of NPP Deputy Minister Chaturanga Abeysinghe dated 15 February, Julie Chung told me that even those in SLPP have benefitted from USAID funds”. Abeysinghe in this video clip whilst lauding the USAID says that the SLPPers went around the country using USAID funds. Abeysinghe does not mention when and on what occasion Chung had revealed this to him.

This is a clear indication of Chung – NPP nexus working together to achieve her shared priorities”.

According to our records Chung met with Abeysinghe on 11 February, to learn more about NPP’s plans to build a strong resilient economy” and to create a more level playing field”. Chung may have told him about SLPP being benefitted from USAID funds” on this occasion or on some other occasion she met with him before the elections, if what the NPPer says is true.

It was not a new revelation for those who followed the activities of the Sri Lankan Women Parliamentary Caucus’ study tour” to New Zealand funded by USAID and National Democratic Institute (NDI). Among the tour party were NPP’s Harini Amarasuriya, SJB’s Thalatha Atukorale and Rohini Kumari Wijeratna, SLPP’s Sudharshani Fernandopulle, Geetha Kumarasinghe, Pavithradevi Wanniararchchi, Kokila Gunewardena, Muditha Prisanthi, Rajika Wickremasinghe, Manjula Dissanayake and GR’s Viyathmaga political bombardier”Seetha Arambepola, who shredded ACSA and SOFA into pieces at Viyathmaga  and Eliya meetings and the Secretary General of Parliament, wife of GR’s Legal Director and some women parliament officers.  Before their departure and upon arrival Chung entertained them. In this tour they all discardedtheir sarees and osariyas and dressed in denim like Harini Amarasuriya. We have written about this in August 2023.

Namal’s acolytes participating in YouTube interviews and TV talk shows and in their Facebook posts, openly admit how they were benefitted from USAID and US State Department training programmes and at present from a Dutch programme on maritime security. According to them, all foreign aid agencies work for the benefit of Sri Lanka and say that they should be thanked for the great service they render, that they are closely working with Indian, American and Western diplomatic missions. Cheerfully they say that LGBTIQ issue does not concern them.  

Namal Rajapaksa will never become a national leader if he continues to keep this type of people as his mentors.

So NPP’s Abeysinghe needs not worry about revealing how the SLPP benefitted from the US largess. Namal’s acolytes say both NPPers and them were such beneficiaries. 

Chung on 17 February in her X message welcomed the recent interest about the US ongoing global review and realignment of US foreign assistance.” As Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said (foreign aid) exists for the purpose of advancing the national interest of the United States. Every dollar we will spend as long as I’m Secretary of State and as long as President Trump is in the White House is going to be a dollar that’s advancing our national interests. So, we’re not going to eliminate foreign aid. We’re going to have foreign aid that works”.

So, if any sceptic thought that the US is going to eliminate foreign aid is mistaken to the core. What is happening now is a global review and realignment of US foreign assistance.” Foreign assistance will be given for the purpose of advancing the national interest of the United States”. Every dollar will be spent advancing national interests of the US.

A question arises here whether Sri Lankan recipients of US aid received those for the purpose of advancing the national interests of Sri Lanka or as pawns used in US power games in furtherance of US national interests.

With this license of Marco Rubio, Chung recommenced her meetings with NPP Ministers and Deputies.

Now we continue from our earlier article posted on February 14.

It’s a delusion if someone thinks that Chung under Trump will stop interfering with the internal affairs of Sri Lanka and her destabilization process in the above context.

On February 18 she met with the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports and his Deputy, the latter a prominent figure in Galle Face charade. US-Sri Lanka friendship, mutual commitment, empowering youth, fostering sports excellence, merit -based achievement were the hackneyed words used in her message. Investing in youth development and the Nextgen” is a long-term strategy Chung envisages.

On February 20 she met with the Minister of Rural Development, Social Security and Community Empowerment and discussed how the government will support rural communities” and US-Sri Lanka partnership.

On the same day she met with the Leader of the Opposition as a part of her cross-party outreach”. Meeting with Namal Rajapaksa she posted the same as part of our cross-party outreach.” So, there is nothing significant for Namal’s hurrah boys to celebrate.

Thus, Chung has met with (including Anura Kumara and Harini Amarasuriya), 20 Cabinet Ministers, 4 Deputy Ministers, 4 NPP MPs, 4 key Secretaries, 2 Speakers (one disgraced), 3 NPP appointed Governors and JVP General Secretary since the formation of the NPP government.

February 19 was a great day to Chung. As the modern Viceroy of Sri Lanka, she met with Sri Lanka’s Tri-services commanders to discuss the strengths of US-Sri Lanka security partnership including maritime response. Ensuring the Indo-Pacific remains secure with open maritime routes” was Chung’s focus.

Can a Sri Lankan Ambassador/ High Commissioner meet with Tri-services commanders of any country as Chung does? Sri Lankan Tri-services commanders meeting with Chung and discussing vital security issues with her is intolerable. These Tri-services commanders cannot meet with Chung without the full blessings of Anura Kumara, the Commander-in-Chief. It is a pathetic affair, playing with national and maritime security.

Chung can vindicate herself as she had acted according to Trump’s executive order issued on 12 February, establishing a unified, clear voice for America’s foreign relations, aligning diplomacy with America’s interests and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s directive for the purpose of advancing the national interest of the United States. Every dollar she had spent here was a dollar that’s advancing US national interests, she can claim.

Chung will remain in Sri Lanka until her successor Elizabeth Kathryn Horst, a nominee of Joe Biden, currently the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asia (ACA)assumes duties as the US Ambassador in Sri Lanka.It is wishful thinking that Chung will be recalled. Horst served as the Deputy Economic Counsellor in Kyiv, Ukraine during the 2014 Ukraine Colour Revolution”.

Americans are good at selecting the RIGHT person for the RIGHT place at the RIGHT time. First it was Chung with Haiti experience. This time Horst with Ukraine experience!

Anura Kumara has appointed an NPP supporter, a doctoral student attached to an obscure Scottish University as the High Commissioner in London! New Delhi, Beijing, London and Washington are the key diplomatic postings in the foreign service of Sri Lanka!  That’s the difference between Trump and Anura Kumara, who is following the footsteps of his predecessors!

Shenali Waduge

තිස්ස විහාරය : ජාතිවාදීන් වන්නේ ගජෙන්ද්‍රකුමර් පොන්නම්බලම් හා ඔහුගේ සියා හා පියා මිස – සිංහලයන් නොවේ

ගජෙන්ද්‍රකුමර් පොන්නම්බලම් යනු ජි ජි පොන්නම්බලම්ගේ (G G Ponnambalam) මුනුබුරාය, කුමාර් පොන්නම්බලම්ගේ (Kumar Ponnambalam) පුතාය.

සමස්ත ලංකා දෙමළ කොංග්‍රසය අගෝස්තු 29, 1944 පිහිටවන ලදී. නිදහස දීමට පෙර 50-50 ඉල්ලු ජි ජි පොන්නම්බලම්, එය බ්‍රිතාන්‍යසෝල්බරි කොමිසම (Soulbury Commission) ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කරන ලදී.

18% නියෝජනය කරන දෙමල ජනතාවට 50% අයිතිවාසිකම් දිය නොහැක ලෙසයි.

දෙමල ත්‍රස්තවාදීන් 1988 මාලදිවයිනට (Maldives) කඩාවදී එරට බලය අත්පත් කිරීමට තැත් කල විට මොහුගේ පියා ඒ පුවත දැනගත්විගසම අපිටම කියා දෙමල රාජ්‍යක් ලැබූ බව” ප්‍රීතියෙන් ප්‍රකාශ කල බව එවකට මාධ්‍යයේ ප්‍රසිද්ධ විය.

මොහුගේ පක්ෂය දෙමළ ජාතික ජනතා පෙරමුණ (Tamil National People’s Front) ආධාරකරුවන් හා වෙනත් ආධාරකරුවන් සමග ඇවිත්නදුන්කෙර්නි වද්දමාන පබ්බත විහාරය විනාස කොට ශිව ලිංගයක් තැන්පත් කල පක්ෂයකි.

තිස්ස රජ මහා විහාරට අයත් ඉඩම් මීට වඩා විශාල වශයෙන් තිබිය යුතු අතර, බ්‍රිතාන්‍යන් විසින් උවමනාවෙන්ම උතුරේ යාපනයේබෞද්ධ සිද්ධස්ථාන විනාස කොට හින්දු කෝවිල් 300 පමණ සැදීමේදී හා මුලුන් මලබාර්වරුන් (Malabars from India) ලෙස හැදින්වූඋදවියට මෙම ඉඩම් ලබා දී නමුත්, 1956 දී මිනින්දෝරු දෙපාර්ත්තමේන්තුවේ අගලේ සිතියමේ අනුව මෙම විහාරයට අක්කර 20 පමණක්තිබු බව පැහැදිලිය.

1958 ජාතිවාදී දෙමල අන්තවාදීන් විසින් සිංහල ජනතාව පලවා හරිම නිසා එම විහාර වනගත වී ඇත.

කෙසේ වෙතත් 1971 නගර සැලැස්ම (Town Plan) අනුව එහි අත්හරින ලද පන්සල හැටියට අක්කර 14, පෙර්චස් 5.79 ප්‍රමාණයක් තිස්සවිහරට තිබු බව තහවරු වී ඇත.

මේ සම්බන්දව 2024 මිනින්දෝරු දෙපාර්තුමේන්තුව කරන ලද මැනීම් වලදී මෙම විහාරයට අයත් අක්කර 14 නැවත තහවරු කර ඇත.

පුද්ගලික ඉඩම් යයි පවසන ලද කිහිපදෙනකුගේ ඔප්පු – ප්‍රකාශන ඔප්පු වේ – ඒවා නීත්‍යානුකුල නොවන අතර – ඒවා හොර ඔප්පු ලෙසඅපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තුමේන්තුව මගින් පරීක්ෂණ කොට මෙම හොර ඔප්පු ලිවීම පිළිබද නීතිමය පියවර ගත යුතුය.

මෙම ඉඩම් මංකොල්ල හොර ඔප්පු මගින් උතුර හා නැගෙනහිර රාජ්‍ය ඉඩම් හා විහාරස්ථාන, හා අතීත සිංහලයන්ට තිබු ඉඩම් මෙසේහොර ඔප්පු ලියමින් මන්කොල්ලට විරුද්ධ නීතිමය පියවර ගත යුතුය.

මේ සිදුව ඇත්තේ, යුධ හමුදාව දෙමල ඉඩම් මන්කොල්ලකමක් නොකරන අතර, සිදුව ඇත්තේ යුධ හමුදාව විසින් පවතින ආණ්ඩුවේඋවමනාව මත තිස්ස විහාර සතු සාංගික දේපල / ඉඩම් – දෙමල ජනතාවට පැවරීමයි.

බෞද්ධ සම්මේලනය පැහැදිලිව තම ස්ථාවරය ඉඩම් සම්බන්දව යාපන දිස්ත්‍රික් ලේකම්ට හා වලිකාමන් ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම්ට ලිකිතනිත්‍යානු තත්වය පැහැදිලිව දන්වා ඇති අතර කිසිම හේතුවක් මත බුද්ධ සාසනයට අයත් ඉඩම් අන්සතු කල නොහැකි අතර පවතිනරජයන්ගේ උවමනාවන් මත සංහිදියාව නමින් හෝ බටහිර රටවල බලපෑම් මත මේ වන කොට විහාරයට අයත් ඉඩම් වලින් ලබා දී ඇති ඉඩම් වල පදිංචි කර ජනතාව වෙනත් ස්ථාන වල පදිංචි කොට විහාරයට සතු ඉඩම් වල බුක්තිය රාජ්‍යයේ ව්‍යවස්තානුකුලව රජයේ වගකීම වන අතර එම තත්වය උල්ලංගනය කිරීමට කිසිම දේශපාලන බල අධිකාරියකට, යුධ හමුදාවට හෝ කිසිම රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරියෙකුට කල නොහැක.

හිතාමතා වාර්ගික අගතිය (racial prejudice) බෞද්ධ සිද්ධස්ථානවලට කරන විනාශය 1983 ජුලි 20 දින එවකට සිටි සිරිල් මැතිවු Cyril Mathew ඇමති UNESCO පෙත්සමක් මගින් දන්වන ලදී.

ඊට අමතරව 1978 සන්සෝනි කොමිසම (Sansoni Commission) වාර්තාවේද උතුරු නැගෙනහිර බෞද්ධ සිද්ධස්ථාන වලට සිදු වනවිනාශය හේතුකොට ගෙන ඒවා ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට රජයට නිර්දේශ කරන ලදී. ඊට අමතර බෞද්ධ වන්දනාකරුවන්ව ආරක්ෂා දීමට පියවරගත යුහ්ටු බවට එම නිර්දේශයේ තව දුරටත් සදහන් කොට ඇත.

පාර්ලිමේන්තු වරප්‍රසාදවලට හැංගි මේ වන විට ගජෙන්ද්‍රකුම පොන්නම්බලම් මන්ත්‍රීවරයා මඩකලපුවේ දිවුල්පතානේ පාරම්පරික සිංහලජනතාව එම ප්‍රදේශවලින් පලවා හැරීමට උත්සාහ කරන ලදී.

අන්ත ජාතිවාදීන් වනුයේ ඔහු හා ඔහුගේ පියා හා ඔහුගේ සීයා මිස බෞද්ධ සම්මේලනයේ නිමල් චන්ද්‍ර වාකිෂ්ට නොවන බව ඉහත කරුණුවලින් පැහැදිලි වේ.

Shenali Waduge

On 6 February 2025 abusing parliamentary privileges Gajendra Ponnambalam representing the TNPF eloquently uttered falsehoods while Parliament sat & listened primarily due to their own ignorance of history & facts. Leaving aside the string of falsehoods that were uttered, not one MP chose to even interrupt & defend the Sinhalese against the charge of racism” hurled upon them. In times where misinformation, disinformation & fact checkers” jump to defend the guilty, it becomes a grueling task to present the facts to those willing to accept facts.

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How many are aware of G G Ponnambalam? He formed the All Ceylon Tamil Congress in August 1944 (4 years before independence).

https://elections.gov.lk/web/wp-content/uploads/pdf/pol_party_list/Constitution/01_01_Ahila%20Ilankai%20Thamil%20Congress.pdfThe Election Commission has only the Tamil version of its constitution & though RTI requests for English translations have been made they have failed to do so.

When G G Ponnambalam requested 50-50 representation the British Governor Lord Soulbury refused request claiming it was a mockery of democracy when an ethnic group before 18% sought 50% representation in par with an ethnic group that was over 70%. The 50-50 demand highlights the selfish nature of Tamil separatism & racism.

The ACTC joined ITAK in 1971 to form Tamil United Front which became TULF in 1976.

ACTC was also part of the LTTE-backed TNA & contested in 2001 & 2004 under TNA umbrella. ACTC left TNA after LTTE was defeated & grandson Gajendra formed TNPF in 2010.

An interesting event took place in 1988 when LTTE boats attempted an unsuccessful coup in Maldives. The response to this by Kumar Ponnambalam as per then media was to happily declare we have got a Tamil state of our own”. The thinking of separatists is highlighted once more.

G G Ponnambalam passed away in 1977 while his Kumar Ponnambalam was assassinated by the LTTE on 5 January 2000.

What everyone must bear in mind is that the quest for a separate Tamil only state was sought not by LTTE but by the Tamil politicians far before even independence. These were all Tamils that belonged to the Malabars of India’s souther coast. When looking at the present Greater Eelam quest, we should compare this to the Malabar-political demands from 50-50, to Tamil Nation by ITAK, to calls to take up arms in 1976 to armed Tamil militancy that was launched with Indian assistance & resulted in 30 years of terror till they were militarily defeated in May 2009.

People must be intelligent enough to join the dots & the demands.

Taking what is not theirs, demanding what is not theirs, destroying what is not theirs appears to run in their DNA.

Similarly, the supporters of this grandson, joined by groups of other vandals forcibly entered the ancient Vaddamana Pabbatha vihara and destroyed the Buddhist heritage while installing a shiva lingam as a symbolic gesture that the Buddhist heritage site now belonged to Malabar Hindus.

Historical data by Western colonials that referred to settler colonization schemes launched by them bringing Malabars from South India to settle in Sri Lanka while pushing the Sinhalese out of North & East suffices to question the ground on which present day Tamil politicians are claiming North & East as theirs”. Their roots will only take them back to Malabar Coast.

The present debate surrounding Tissa Raja Maha Vihara reveals that the lands belonging to the temple were larger than what is available at present as the British had destroyed Buddhist shrines and had given the lands to Malabars from India while building 300 hindu temples.

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According to the 1956 Survey Department map, the temple had 20 acres.

In 1958, the Sinhalese were drive out of North by racist Tamil extremists leaving the temple & temple lands neglected and full of shrubs.

The Town Plan of 1971 re-established Tissa Vihara had 14 acres 5.79 perches.

In 2024 area had been re-surveyed & the 14 acres belonging to the temple had been re-confirmed by the survey department.

The MP hiding behind parliamentary privileges claims the lands are private” but his claims of these lands being private” are purely based on declaration deeds” which are not valid or legal.

This is a good opportunity for these deeds to be taken & investigated by the CID & other relevant authorities for fraud & legal steps must be taken against those presenting falsified declaration deeds.

Thus, what can be seen & should be understood by all is that the claims to private lands are all based on bogus declaration deeds” and wild allegations in parliament while using social media outlets to spread lies.

Theft of lands fraudulently cannot & should not be taken lightly as the issue has gone out of hand & legal measures must be taken for the theft of temple lands in the North & East & lands that belong to the Sinhalese in the past.

The MP also made unfair claims against the armed forces & it must be corrected that the armed forces have never plundered any lands but the armed forces have been faciiating bogus reconciliation drives spearheaded by numerous governments simply to please certain quarters that enjoy blowing steam to scare governments into bowing down to their demands. The armed forces has no authority to be handing over lands to anyone at the behest of governments.

The All Ceylon Buddhist Congress has correctly presented the legal position regarding the land to the Jaffna District Secretary & the Valikaman Divisional Secretary regarding the ongoing situation.

What has to be reiterated is that lands belonging to the Buddha Sasana cannot be alienated for any reason & no government cowing to foreign governments or foreign envoys using bogus reconciliation has any right to give away Buddha Sasana lands. If people have been wrongfully settled in lands belonging to the Temple, the government must take action to resettle the people in lands that are not contentiousl

The vandalism and extremism against Sinhala Buddhist heritage sites in the North is nothing anyone can deny or negate.

On 20 July 1983 then Minister Cyril Mathew presented with photos the vandalism & destruction by Tamil racists to Buddhist shrines in the North & East of Sri Lanka to UNESCO.

Prior to this the 1978 Sansoni Commission report is another example of setting the story straight & correcting the lies of Tamil politicians like Ponnambalam.

The Commission recommended to the government to protect Buddhist shrines due to the attempts to destroy them in the 

North & East while further recommending that measures be taken to protect the Buddhist pilgrims visiting North & East.

For the Commission headed by Justice Sansoni to make such recommendations proves that intentional & premeditated destruction of Buddhist sites had been taking place for decades. Have governments followed this recommendation?

Hiding behind parliamentary privileges MP Ponnambalam has recently been involved in attempting to chase away Sinhalese living in Divulapatana, in Batticoloa district. Having been involved in such racism, he has the audacity to call others racists.

What is obviously clear is that the racism that prevailed in his grandfather & father is definitely running in his veins. Such people are quick to call others racist” to hide their own racism which is why he is pointing fingers at the head of the ACBC Mr. Chandra Nimal Wakista & hurling abuse at him.

It is for the people to identify the true racists & put facts in proper perspective.
Shenali D Waduge

By Rohana R. Wasala

Continued from Monday, February 17, 2025

When I am formulated, sprawling on a pin” (from T.S. Eliot’s poem ‘The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock’ first published 1915)

In moments of self-reflection, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake probably feels the way Prufrock does, helplessly exposed to the probing, judgemental gaze of the public  like an anaesthetised insect, say a cockroach, pinned down on a dissecting table in a school science lab. There are a number of  similarities and dissimilarities that can be discerned between the fictional Prufrock and the real Dissanayake, such as those in relation to their culturedness or lack of it and self conscious pretences. But this is no time for a lecture on English poetry.. 

I ended Part II with the question (as rephrased) whether the JVP/NPP (Malimawa) members believe that all ordinary Sri Lankans approve of their method of combating corruption, while also sharing their deeply negative view of 76 years of post-independence national development, with equal conviction and commitment. The obvious answer is that the Malimawans do believe so. But the reality is not what they believe. The reality is that growing numbers of ordinary Sri Lankans have begun to think that the Malimawans are not actually serious about eliminating  corruption, for they seem to be beholden to certain sleazy big businessmen for having contributed lavish  funds to the JVP party coffers, and that they are succumbing to the neoliberal (open market) economic policies introduced 47 years ago that they then fought tooth and nail, even shedding their blood. They are now doing the exact opposite of what they promised. 

 The resultant public dissent from these unexpected about-turns of the Malimawans could trigger  not so gentle a reaction from them; the JVP has a history of resorting to violent repression out of a sense of righteous indignation based on their own logic. A Meta/FB video critical of the government uploaded by a Ranil Wickremasinghe supporter in Matale in central Sri Lanka went viral a couple of days ago. The FB activist was expressly visited by a local member of the JVP to warn him and demand that he take down the offensive video immediately, but he refused to do so, even after the JVP’er issued a dire warning. This could be regarded as an early sign of possible, even probable, future authoritarian suppression of democratic dissent under the Malimawa administration. More serious similar cases of suppression of opposition (like the recent physical attack on a rival activist in Kamburupitiya) are becoming daily occurrences. 

Does the current performance of the NPP promise a good enough change from the Gotabhaya Rajapaksa legacy to justify their arrogant intolerance of adverse criticism?

The previous presidential and parliamentary elections held respectively on  November 16, 2019 and August 5, 2020 and won by Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the Sri Lanka Podu Peramuna (SLPP or Pohottuwa ) led by his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa  would provide an informative contrast to those held respectively on September 21 and November 13, 2024 and  won by Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the leader of the JVP/NPP (Malimawa). There was a clear-cut policy framework to be implemented in a unitary state with a single legal system based on the One Country, One Law principle. A common judicial system for the whole country was considered so important for social cohesion in the multiethnic society and  for national security that after assuming the office of president, GR appointed a presidential task force to prepare the ground for implementing the One Country One Law principle with the democratic consent of the general multiracial, multireligious multicultural public. The highest priority was given to national security. This was natural to a country just rescued from separatist terrorism. Other key election pledges included a homegrown people-focused economic development system with special attention to the semi urban and rural sectors, an independent, non-aligned foreign policy for maintaining well balanced friendly relations with other nations, a corruption-free civil administration, and a knowledge and technology-based society consisting of disciplined, law-abiding citizens committed to high moral and ethical values (as spelt out in the SLPP election manifesto of 2019). 

What the SLPP manifesto promised was a reinforcement of the successful economic policies of ten years of MR rule (2005-2014) which raised the country to the status of a middle income country with a growth rate of 7-8% by the end of 2014 in terms of World Bank assessments.. This was achieved while fighting a wasteful terror elimination war amidst powers that be throwing spanners in the works. Five years of Yahapalanaya (2015-2019) installed courtesy those sinister forces, reduced the country to penury and the growth rate down to 2-3%. Did the Malimawa manifesto promise anything different from the IMF dependent economic model followed during the Yahapalanaya? 

The JVP/NPP manifesto of 2024 did not offer as clear a vision for the future as the SLPP one of 2019. The reputedly Marxist  Malimawans promised to continue with the neoliberal economic reforms Ranil Wickremasinghe proposed in his Economic Transformation Bill of May 2024 in terms of which  …Foreign investments shall be permitted into all sectors and regions of Sri Lanka. Foreign investors shall be permitted to own one hundred per centum of the shares in entities engaged in such sectors and regions, unless otherwise determined by way of regulations made under the provision of this Part or any other written law…” in compliance with stringent IMF regulations that contra-Marxist Ranil Wickremasinghe had accepted. The budget proposals (announced February 17) are a hardly veiled confirmation of those economic policies.

 Days prior to the Budget debate, ex-MP Wimal Weerawansha, leader of the Jathika Nidahas Peramuna (National Freedom Front) who had remained a JVP member until 2008 described the JVP/NPP (Malimawa) as a left-neoliberal alliance. Essentially the Malimawa manifesto seems a virtual replication of  economic and constitutional reforms the Yahapalanaya attempted after the foreign engineered regime change of 2015 (connected, in retrospect, with the ongoing USAID controversy).

At the Independence Day ceremony named ‘Nava Yugayaka Arambuma’ (Beginning of a New Era)  held at the Independence Square in Colombo on February 04, 2025, president Anura Kumara Dissanayake declared: ‘Instead of celebrating the Independence Day with a backward look at the past, this time, we observe the day looking towards the future’. But he made passing mention of the republican change introduced in 1972 (probably only to salve his conscience). In his brief address, president Dissanayake repeated, with one important substitution, the famous Five Great Forces (Pancha Maha BalaWegaya) that the left leaning nationalist SWRD Bandaranaike, leader of the SLFP-led MEP (Mahajana Eksath Peramuna) mobilised while spearheading the historic soft revolution of 1956 (i.e., the democratic overthrow of the pro-West/rightwing UNP, that had ruled during the previous eight years). AKD left out the Sangha (Buddhist monk) Force, and included instead the Security departments (implying the security, civil defence, and police forces): Thus he briefly touched on farmers and fishers, teachers, health personnel, security forces, and workers. The deliberate exclusion of the Sangha (Buddhists monks) as an influential section of the national polity was perhaps meant to emphasise his secular credentials, his ‘secular’ approach to governance. 

This is not the first or the last time that his deliberate suppression of his own culturedness or his insensitive display of lack of it angered the ‘baiyas’, especially, the Sinhalese Buddhist majority who have no other country to proudly express and freely assert their hallowed, over two millennia old Buddhist cultural identity as a sovereign nation. His public desecration once of the ‘pirith noola’ that the Mihintale monk tied on his arm as a blessing (by tearing it off as soon as he left the monk’s presence), his dispensing with the long established ritual of singing Jayamangala Gathas by a bevy of schoolgirls at the opening of parliament, and  his curt dismissal of a monk’s offer to administer pansil as a customary blessing at the inauguration of a public party event recently at Kurunegala have not endeared him to the sensible public. AKD must get rid of his obsession with  publicly showing off his ‘secularism’ (that I am 100% sure he, his party and followers have thoroughly misconceived)  for his own good and more importantly, for the good of the country..

 It was rumoured that attempts were being made to revive the UNP by bringing the deserters back to its fold along with their leader Sajith Premadasa. At the time of writing this, the proposed reconciliation appears to have been worked through ahead of the impending Provincial Council elections. Despite this, it has also been hinted that the two groups are not likely to face the provincial council elections as a common front. One factor that would give AKD a sense of frustration in this context is: Although  the well known history of the aged politicos executing this latest manouevre who were key figures of the controversial Yahapalanaya regime (2015-19) whose unpopularity and bad governance paved the way for the resounding victory of Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the 2019 election, the voters of the North and East provinces might switch their allegiance back to Ranil and Sajith. The prospects of such attempts at bringing about a reconciliation between RW and SP succeeding looked rather dim before. But now, that is not the case. They seem to have patched up their relationship at least temporarily so as to pose a strong challenge to the NPP. This and other deft opposition moves will not augur well for the longevity of AKD’s fledgling presidency and the future functioning of his government.

 Behind the blown-up bravado that AKD attempts to maintain when abroad, he seems to be as shy as a cockroach. At home, he might be trying to fight shy of having to face the implications of the cockroach hypothesis of the efficient market theory (The cockroach hypothesis says that when a company announces bad news, more bad news is sure to follow).

But, this is only to pep you up Mr President.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them” as a character in a Shakespeare play says. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake! Please prove worthy of the greatness that you have both achieved by the dint of hard work and have also thrust upon yourself  by the maelstrom of global politics. Please make use of the unprecedented opportunity  you have won to save our  beloved Motherland without selling her and her children down the river for short term political gain. I know that you, as a genuine baiya, are patriotic and self- denying. Good Luck to you!

Concluded

Jayantha Liyanage

Date – 20. 02.2025
The President,
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights (OHCHR), Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10, OPEN LETTER
Switzerland.

Dear Sir,

THE 2025 MARCH GENEVA HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL REPORT SHOULD INCLUDE
A LIST OF THE LTTE WAR CRIMES

I refer to the report Number A/ HRC/ 57 / 19 by the OHCHR dated 22nd August 2024. I would like to make the following observations & comments by focusing on the subjects of War crimes & Crimes against humanity.
War crimes & Crimes against humanity
The report under section – III, Page 9 & 10 states that,

36. This year, Sri Lanka marks 15 years since the end of the devasting civil war. During its 30-year duration, persistent and grave human rights violations and abuses were committed by both security forces and the LTTE. The United Nations previously established that there are reasonable grounds to believe that grave violations of human rights, war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed during the conflict. To date, the Government has rarely even acknowledged the serious violations that occurred in the conflict or provided victims with adequate redress”.
    SJP’s response the above statement
    The report while admitting, that grave violations of human rights, war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed by both security forces and the LTTE during the conflict has failed to mention about any incidences of the LTTE war crimes and crimes against humanity. Instead, the report was totally dedicated to put the entire blame on the Sri Lankan Government’s security forces by ignoring the LTTE’s genocide against the Sri Lankan civilians by exploding bombs in crowded areas, killing pilgrims in religious sites intentionally with no military value in order to achieve its military objectives. It was the LTTE that started the killing culture of its rivals with the assassination of the then member of Parliament Mr. Alfred Duraappa in the year 1975. Thereafter the LTTE started eliminating its rival Tamil terrorist groups in order to achieve its supremacy before it started to target the ordinary civilians, mainly the Sinhala villages.
    Also, the report failed to mention the fact that while the LTTE was committing acts of war crimes, the respective Sri Lankan Governments continued to maintain the government’s administrative structure in the LTTE occupied areas. The Government paid salaries to the Tamil government servants and sent food, medicines and other household items to the LTTE held areas and the best part of it were taken by the LTTE.
    Can the next report mention any example in human history where a group of fighters eating food given by their enemy and boosting about their military invincibility? Therefore, the said report failed to appreciate such humanitarian acts by the respective Sri Lankan governments but the drafters of the report continued to display their dislike of the Sri Lankan government & its security forces.
    (1)
    The report while mentioning about the 30-year period of the armed conflict failed to mention about the LTTE’s inhuman, barbaric, cowardice acts of terrorism.
    Here are a few incidences of such acts.
    (1). Murdering of about 120 Buddhist pilgrims in cold blood – (Annexure – 1).
    (2). Exploding a bomb near the Temple of Tooth – (Annexure – 2).
    (3). Exploding a bomb in front of the Central Bank (Annexure – 3).
    (4). Attacking Katunayake civilian airports which killed even western tourists (Annexure – 4).
    (5). Exploding a bomb inside a civilian bus at Kebethigollawa (Annexure – 5) .
    The following list is attached to imclude in the next Geneva Report
    A booklet published by the late foreign minister, Mr. Mangala Samaraweera containing the LTTE attacks on civilians from the year 1984 to 1994. It was published in 1996 February 29th under Sudu Nelum Movement.
    Under the International Humanitarian Law, attacking civilians intentionally in order to achieve an objective during an armed conflict constitute a war crime & a crime against humanity.
    Therefore, I, the general secretary of Sinhaladeepa Jathika Peramuna political party respectfully request the Human Rights Council in Geneva to include the above lists as a part of the next Geneva Report on Sri Lanka due in March 2025.
    (2)
    THE ACTS OF LTTE WAR CRIMES THAT THE DRAFTERS OF THE RESPECTIVE GENEVA REPORTS FAILED TO SEE
    

Dr. Sarath Panduwawala and Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge

Metabolic psychiatry is a new field in psychiatry, and it examines mental health issues associated with metabolic dysfunction. Current evidence indicates an association between metabolic dysfunction in the brain and mental illness (Smith, 2024).

Metabolic syndrome also has a huge impact on mental health. The metabolic syndrome, which is connected with abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high serum triglycerides, and low serum high-density lipoprotein, has an impact on mental health parameters. Although metabolic syndrome is associated with the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, it can cause psychiatric morbidity (Bolton et al., 2013).

Clinical evidence indicates that psychiatric conditions have increased risk for metabolic syndrome (Penninx & Lange, 2018). According to Ho and colleagues (2014), the cause of metabolic syndrome in psychiatric patients is likely to be multifactorial, and psychotropic drugs such as second-generation antipsychotics and mood stabilizers are established risk factors. Antipsychotic-induced weight gain is an existing problem in treating psychiatric patients. Mood stabilizers, particularly lithium and sodium valproate, have been associated with metabolic syndrome (Chang et al., 2009). 

Takeuchi and team (2009) state that metabolic syndrome is associated with increased prevalence of depressive disorder and depressive symptoms, and prevalence ranges from 36 to 50%. Tricyclic antidepressants can cause insulin resistance and hypertriglyceridemia, and patients can experience substantial weight gain (Chokka, Tancer & Yeragani, 2006).

The patients with bipolar disorder have a higher risk of metabolic syndrome than the general population (Chi et al., 2013). As described by Kim and team (2007), dysregulation of the HPA axis with subsequent glucocorticoid resistance, impaired glucose tolerance and insulin resistance, dysregulation of the sympathetic nervous system, and increased pro-inflammatory cytokine production across both phases of bipolar disorder could cause significant negative effects on metabolism. 

Schizophrenia is associated with a greater risk of diabetes mellitus (de Hert et al 2009). Metabolic syndrome is common among people with schizophrenia, and the prevalence is around 5 times higher than that in the general population (Ho et al., 2014).

Yaffe and team (2004) elucidate that metabolic syndrome is associated with cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s disease, and vascular dementia, and the effects could be due to neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, impaired glucose metabolism, and impairment of vascular reactivity. Therefore, identifying and treating metabolic dysfunction in psychiatric patients are essential. Promoting healthy lifestyle practices, diet modification, moderate exercise, and weight management are crucial.

Metabolic Psychiatry discusses the ways to evade the risk of premature mortality in psychiatric patients. The metabolic approach to mental health treatment is imperative. According to Greenblatt (2023), metabolic psychiatry focuses on the removal of processed foods and refined carbohydrates, often implementing a ketogenic diet for the metabolic benefits. The brain chemistry can be changed with optimal nutrition. 

(Dr. Sarath Panduwawala is a retired Consultant Psychiatrist who served as a visiting psychiatrist of the Sri Lanka Army.  Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge is a medical doctor and a Psychologist also a member of the (APA) American Psychological Association)

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KayyyWild

Courtesy The Island

Sajith

Opposition and SJB Leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday called on the government to ensure increased security for judges, as well as the public, and especially journalists.

Premadasa said that protection must be given to journalists such as Chamuditha Samarawickrama acing threats at present.

Referring to Tuesday’s shooting inside a courthouse, the Opposition Leader said: I request the government not to withdraw security provided to judges. I also request them to make more efforts to ensure public safety,” he said.

Courtesy The Island

Two shooting incidents could not be described as collapse of national security, Minister of Public Security Ananda Wijepala told Parliament yesterday.

Making a special statement to the House, Minister Wijepala said: We regret these unfortunate incidents. The government has taken severe measures following these incidents. The investigations are in progress and I assure you that there is no threat to national security.”

Those who now clamour about national security during the times they ruled the country, media institutions were on fire, journalists were killed. Two incidents would not amount to a threat to national security,” he said.

He said the suspect arrested in connection to the Wednesday’s shooting inside a Colombo Court Complex has been identified as Samindu Dilshan Piyumanga Kandanaarachchi, a resident of Maharagama.

The suspect was arrested in Palaviya, Puttalam Wednesday evening. This suspect has been found to be involved in several murders reported in the last two weeks,” he said.

The Public Security Minister said that the driver of the van used by the gunman to flee to Puttalam was also arrested, along with the vehicle. The minister said that investigations were underway to apprehend a woman said to be involved in aiding the shooting in which underworld kingpin Ganemulla Sanjeewa was killed.

He said that the incident was a result of continuous disputes between underworld gangs and did not cause any threats to national security or public safety.

These are incidents that have been repeatedly occurring due to clashes related to underworld activities and organized criminals. Such incidents have been reported for a long time in this country. This isolated incident should not be considered a threat to national security,” he said.

Courtesy The Daily Mirror

Colombo, Feb 21 (Daily Mirror) – A man was shot dead this afternoon at Galpotta Junction, Kotahena, in a targeted attack carried out by two assailants on a motorcycle, police said.

The gunmen fled the scene immediately after the attack. 

Kotahena Police have launched an investigation into the incident.

Courtesy The Daily Mirror

Colombo, Feb 21 (Daily Mirror) – A shooting attempt in the Negombo area failed this afternoon when the gunman’s firearm malfunctioned, police said.

The intended target was the eldest son of Chaminda, alias ‘Miris Anthony’, and the attack was allegedly planned near a shop owned by the family.  

According to police, two individuals on a motorcycle approached the location and attempted to open fire. However, the weapon failed to discharge prompting the suspects to escape the scene.  

Authorities have launched an investigation to identify and apprehend the suspects.

Courtesy Hiru News

මෙවර කන්නයේ දී වී මෙට්‍රික් ටොන් මිලියන 26ක අස්වැන්නක් අපේක්ෂා කරත් එය මිලදී ගැනීම සඳහා රුපියල් බිලියන 325ක් අවශ්‍ය නමුත් රජය වී මිලදී ගැනීමට රුපියල් බිලියන 5ක් වෙන්කර කයිවාරු ගසන බව සහල් ව්‍යාපාරික ඩඩ්ලි සිරිසේන පවසනවා.

ව්‍යාපාරික ප්‍රජාව සහ ආර්ථික විශ්ලේෂකයන් සමඟ කොළඹ සංවිධානය කර තිබූ පශ්චාත් අයවැය සංවාද සභාවකදී අදහස් දක්වමිනුයි ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කර සිටියේ.

එහි දී ඔහු පැවසුවේ, “මම හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයෙකුගේ මල්ලි කෙනෙක්. ඒ නිසා වැඩ සිද්ධවෙන විදිහ ගැන දන්නවා. මේ හැම දේශපාලනඥයකුටම රටේ ප්‍රශ්න විසඳන්න නෙවෙයි ඕන. රටේ ප්‍රශ්න ඇතිකරන්නයි ඕන. රටේ කන්න සහල් නෑ, පොල් නෑ, මොකක්ද මේ ? මාෆියාව කියලා තමන්ගේ නොහැකියාව, බැරිකම, නොදැනුවත්කම වහගන්න හදනවා. දැන් බලන්න පෞද්ගලික අංශයේ සේවක වැටුප් වැඩිවීම රුපියල් 30000ක් කියන්නේ මොකක්ද ? රුපියල් 30000ක් දීලා මිනිස්සු තියාගන්න පුළුවන් ද ? ඕක අයවැයෙන් කියන්න දෙයක්ද ? මොනවද මේ මෝඩ කතා ?

මේ කන්නයේ වී මෙට්‍රික් ටොන් මිලියන 26ක් බලාපොරොත්තු වෙනවා. එය මිලදී ගැනීමට නම් රුපියල් බිලියන 325ක් අවශ්‍යයි. රජය බිලියන 5ක් වෙන් කරලා අපිට පාට් එක දානවා. හාල් මාෆියාව නවත්වන්න කයිවාරු ගහනවා.” යනුවෙන්.

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                බත සහ බරත යනුවෙන් දෙකොටසක ජනතාවක් අතීතයේ දී සිටි බව අපේ ශිලා ලේඛන වලින් පැහැදිලිය.කුරහන් ඇතුළු කටුසර ධාන්‍ය වලින් යැපුණු ලංකාවේ ජනතාව බත්කෑම ප්‍රධාන බවට පත් කර ගන්නට ඇත්තේ බත වරුන් ගේ පැමිණීමත් සමග බවට සිතන්නට හැකිය. නිවසේ දී බත් කනවා යැයි කියන මිනිසුන් කුඹුරේ කමතේ දි ඉතාමත් ගෞරවයෙන් ඒවාට බැත යයි කිවූහ. බැත ගෙදරට ගෙන ආයේ දෙවියන්ට කොටසක් වෙන් කරමිනි. නැතිනම් කමතේම බැත සුද්ද කර වී කොටා සහල් වලින් අලුත් බත් දානයක් දීමෙන් පසුවයි.බත් සමග සංස්කෘතියක් බිහි වීම මෙරට ජනතාවගේ සභ්‍යත්වය පුළුල් කරන්නට සමත් විය. වර්තමානය වන විට ලංකාව පුරා ජනතාව බත් ප්‍රධානතම ආහාරය වශයෙන් සලකති. ඒ නිසා බත් නිසා සහල් නිසා අනවශ්‍ය ප්‍රශ්ණ ගැටුම් ඇති කර ගැනීම අපට නොහොබිනේය.ඒ අපගේ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨ සංස්කෘතියට ඉන් අවැඩක් සිදු වන බැවිනි.

       කෙසේ වෙතත් මේ වන විට බත් කන මිනිසුන්ට පොදුවේ මහත් ගැහැටක් විඳින්නට පසුබිම සැලසී තිබේ.රටේ සහල් හිඟයක් කෘතිමව නිර්මාණය වී තිබීම මීට හේතුවයි. රතු කැකුළු සහල් සහ සුදු කැකැළු සහල් විශේෂයෙන්ම හිඟ වී තිබේ.නාඩු යනුවෙන් ව්‍යවහාරයක් වෙළෙඳුන් අතර තිබුණද අතීතයේ දී ගොවි ජනතාව භාවිතා කල වචන අතර තිබුණේ කැකුළු සහ තැම්බූ සහල් සහ සම්බා සහල් යනුවෙනි. ඉන් තැම්බූ සහල් බහුලව භාවිකා වූ අතර සම්බා පරිභෝජනය රජ වාසල සහ සිටු වරුන්ට සීමා වී තිබුණි. සම්පන් යාත්‍රා මගින් ඉන්දියාවේ සිට සහ අනෙකුත් රටවලින් ගෙන්වා ගත් බැවින් සම්බා යනුවෙන් ව්‍යවහාරයක් ඇති වූ බව දැක්වේ.කයිවර සම්බා ,මුතු සම්බා, කොත්තමල්ලි සම්බා ආදී නම් අතීතයේ අපට අසන්නට පිළිවන් විය. හරිත විප්ලව ක්‍රියාවලිය සහ වී අභිජනන සංවර්ධනය නිසා සම්බා භාවිතය සහ සුදු සහල් දෙන වී වර්ගයන් ජනතාව අතර වැඩි වැඩියෙන් ප්‍රචලිත කරනු ලැබීය. රතු සහල් භාවිතය ක්‍රමයෙන් අඩු කිරීමට මේ වෑයම හේතු විය. විශේෂයෙන්ම ආපන ශාලා වල සහ හෝටල් වල ප්‍රයිඩ් රයිස් භාවිතයේ වර්ධනය නිසා විශේෂ සම්බා වර්ග අවශ්‍යතාවය වර්ධනය විය.මේ තත්වය මත මහා වාරි කලාප වල සහ මහවැලි කලාප වල සම්බා වර්ග වැඩි වැඩියෙන් වගා කිරීම තේරුම් ගත හැකිය.ඒ කලාප වල ගොවීන් යැපුම් මට්ටමේ සිට වානිජ මට්ටමට පරිවර්තනය වීම මෙයට හේතුවයි.

        ගොවියා, කම්කරුවා, ඉංජිනේරුවා, වෛද්‍යවරයා ඇතුළු සමස්ත ජනතාව ම පාරිභෝගිකයන් වෙති. ඒ සැම දෙනටම අත්‍යවශ්‍ය ආහාර මෙන්ම විවිධ භාණ්ඩ ලබා ගැනීමට සිදු වේ.ඩොලර්යේ උච්චාවචනය අනුව ආනයනික භාණ්ඩ වල මිල ඉහළ යන අතර රුපියලේ මිළ උච්චාවචනය අනුව දේශීය භාණ්ඩ වල මිළ ඉහළ පහළ යයි.ගොවිතැන අතහැර පාරි‌භෝගිකයන් බවට පත් වූ ජනතාවට මේ කාරණය තදින්ම බලපායි. ඒ නිසා වැටුප් වැඩි කර ගැනීමට ඔවුහු සටන් වදී.පහසුකම් ඇති කර ගැනීමට පෙළ ගැසෙති. මධ්‍යම පන්තියේ වර්ධනය නිසා චන්දයකින් පත්වන රජයකට නිතරම පාරිභෝගිකයාට හිස නමන්නට සිදු වේ. හඳෙන් හාල් ගෙනවිත් දෙන පොරොන්දුව සහ ධාන්‍ය රාත්තල් අටේ කතාව චන්ද වේදිකාවේ රැව් දුන්නේ මේ තත්වය නිසාය.වෙළඳ පළ ආර්ථිකය වර්ධනය නිසා මේ ගැටළුව තවත් සංකීර්ණ වී තිබේ. විපක්ෂයේ සිට පැවති ආණ්ඩු විවේචනය කරමින් සිටි ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ සාමාජිකයන් බලයට පැමිණීමෙන් පසු මහත් අර්බුදයකට පත් වූයේ ප්‍රායෝගික තත්වය අත් දකින්නට වූ බැවිනි.එම නිසා වර්තමානයේ පවතින වී අර්බුදයට නිසි පිළියමක් සෙවීම සඳහා දේශපාලන පක්ෂ කෝණයෙන් බැහැරව කටයුතු කිරීම සඳහා බලධාරීන් උනන්දු විය යුතුය.

         ස්වයංපෝෂිත ආර්ථිකයක සිටි ගොවියා පාරිභොගික භාණ්ඩ පරිහරණය කරන ලද්දේ අල්ප වශයෙනි. ඒවා මිළදී ගැනීමට ඔවුහු තල මුං කුරහන් ඇතුළු ධාන්‍ය වර්ගද කිතුල් පැණි සහ හකුරුද පුවක් ද අලෙවි කළහ.අනෙකුත් සියළුම ආහාර ඔවුහු ගමෙන්ම සපයා ගත්හ. 1977 න් පසු සිදු වූ ආර්ථික පෙරළියෙන් පසු සීඝ්‍ර ලෙස මේ තත්වය වෙනස් විය. 1972 දී වී අලෙවි මණ්ඩලය පිහිටුවනු ලැබූයේ එවකට විශාල වශයෙන් වී අස්වනු රැස් කරගත් ගොවියාට වෙලඳ පළ තුළ යම් සහතික මිළක් ලබා දීමට සහ සහල් හිඟ කාලයට පාරිභෝගිකයා ආරක්ෂා කරලීම සඳහා ආරක්ෂත තොග රැස් කිරිමටත්ය. නමුත් වෙළදපළ ආර්ථිකය වර්ධනය වීමත් සමගම රජය ව්‍යාපාරික කටයුතු වලින් ඉවත්ව වෙළඳ පළ හැසිරීමට ඉඩ සැලැස්විය යුතුය යන මතය ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදලෙන් කොන්දේසියක් ලෙසට පැමිණියහ. එහි ප්‍රතිඵලය වූයේ වී අලෙවි මණ්ඩලය වසා දැමීමට තීරණය කිරීමය. එහි ගබඩා විකුණා දැමීමට කටයුතු කිරීමය. ඉන්පසු වෙළඳ පළ වාසිය ලබා ගනිමින් වී මොල් කරුවන් දිවයින පුරාම වර්ධනය විය. ඔවුහු තම ලාභය උපරිම කර ගැනීමට ද කර්මාන්තයක් ලෙසට පවත්වා ගෙන යෑමට ද නවීන තාක්ෂණය සමග ඒකාබද්ධව ඉදිරියට ගියහ. ඒ මගින් ආර්ථිකයට ලබා දෙන දායකත්වය අති මහත්ය.නමුත් ගොවියාගේ පැත්තෙන් බලන කල්හි ඔවුන් ගේ ජීවන තත්වයේ වර්ධනයක් සිදු නොවීය. පූර්ණ කාලිනව ගොවිතැන් කොට කන්නය අවසානයේ අතට ලාභයක් ගැනීමට සිටින පිරිසට වෙනත් රැකියා සොයා යන්නට සිදු විය. එයට හේතුව ලැබෙන ආදායම ජීවත් වීමට ප්‍රමාණවත් නොවන බැවිනි.මෙම තත්වය තවදුරටත් වර්ධනය නොවිය යුත්තකි.ගොවිතැන් කරන මිනිසුන් ගේ සමෘද්ධිය සහ පාරිභෝගිකයා ගේ යහපත සැලසීම රජයේ යුතුකමකි. නමුත් තවමත් වර්තමාන කෘෂිකර්ම අමාත්‍යවරුන් අඳුරේ අතපත ගාමීන් සිටී.ආහාර ස්වෛරී භාවය සහ වෙළඳ පළ ආර්ථිකය අතර සාම්‍යයක් ඇති කිරීමට ඔවුන් අසමත් වී තිබේ.මහජන ආණ්ඩුවක වගකීම ඔවුහු පැහැර හරිමින් සිටී.

     සැබවින්ම මෙම වී සහල් ගැටළුවට සරල විසඳුමක් අපට යෝජනා කළ හැකිය.නූතන වෙළඳ පළ බලවේග තුළ ගොවියා රැක ගැනීම සහ ආර්ථිකයට දක්වන දායකත්වය ප්‍රතිශතයක් ලෙසට ගණනය කිරීමට සැලස්වීම මෙහි අරමුණයි.වර්තමාන රජය වී වලට නිකුත් කල සහතික මිළ රුපියල් එක සිය විස්සකි. සහල් වල පාලන මිළ රුපියල් දෙසිය තිහකි.එවිට ප්‍රතිශතයක් වශයෙන් ගොවියාට ලැබෙන්නේ සියයට පණස් තුනකට ආසන්න ගණනකි..අනෙක් සියළුම ආදායම මොල් කරුවන් ට ,ප්‍රවාහනයට ,තොග වෙළන්දන්ට, සිල්ලර වෙළන්දන්නට ,ඇසුරුම් නිෂ්පාදකයන් ඇතුලු වෙළඳපළට බෙදී යයි. එයට අමතරව මොල් කරුවන්ට සමාජ ආරක්ෂණ බද්දක් ද වැට් එකක් ද ගෙවීමට බල කර තිබේ. එය සියයට විස්සකි.ඒ සියල්ලම සහල් කිලෝවට එකතු වේ.මෙය කිසිසේත්ම සාධාරණ නැත.

      වර්ෂ 1837 දී කොළඹ තේ වෙන්දේසිය ආරම්භ කරනු ලැබිණ.තේ වතු වලට ලැබිය යුතු ලාභාංශ ප්‍රතිශතය ඒ තේ වෙන්දේසියේ දී ගණනය වේ.වර්තමානය වන විට තේ දළු සඳහා සියයට 68 ක්ද තේ නිෂ්පාදකයන්ට සියයට 32 ක් ද වශයෙන් ප්‍රතිශතය තීරණය කරනු ලබයි.වෙන්දේසියේ ලබන මිළ අනුව තේ වතු හිමියන්ට සහ කුඩා තේ වතු හිමියන්ට ආදායම ලැබේ.තේ වතු වල තේ කම්හල මගින් වියළන ලද තේ කිලෝවක් එළියට එන විට සියළුම වියදම් වල ප්‍රතිශතයන් ගිණුම් ගත වේ.තේ වත්තද අතැම් විට පුද්ගලික තේ කම්හලද පවත්වාගෙන යනු ලබන්නේ ඉහත සඳහන් ප්‍රතිශතය අනුවයි.තේමණ්ඩලයේ නීති රීති අනුව වරින් වර මෙම ප්‍රතිශතය පිළිබඳ තීරණ ගනු ලබයි.

      දේශීයව සකස් කරන සහල් යම් තරමකින් අපනයනය කළද එය අපනයන මූලික කරගත් භාණ්ඩයක් නොවේ.එය දේශීය පාරිභෝගික භාණ්ඩයකි.පාරිභෝගිකයාට සහල් සපයනුයේ වෙළන්දන්ය. එතනදී වෙළඳ පල බලවේගයන්ට අවශ්‍ය ප්‍රතිශතය තිරණය නොවේ.වී සහතික මිළ මගින් ප්‍රතිශතයක් පිළිබඳ දැනුම් නොදෙන අතර ව්‍යාපාරිකයාට අවශ්‍ය ආකාරයට සහල් සහ වී මිළ තීරණය කරනු ලබයි.තේ නිෂ්පාදනයේ දී භාවිතා කරන ප්‍රතිශත ක්‍රමය වී වෙළඳ පළටත් ආදේශ කලහොත් යහපත් ප්‍රතිඵල ලැබිය හැකි බව මාගේ විශ්වාසයයි. පහත සඳහන් වගුව පරිශීලනය කරන විට දැනට ගොවියාට සහ වෙළඳ පළ බලවේග වලට ලැබෙන ආදායම් ප්‍රතිශතය පිළිබඳ යම් අවබෝධයක් ලැබිය හැකිය.සහල් පාලන මිළ රුපියල් 230 ක් ලෙසට සළකා සහ අක්කරයක අස්වැන්න(මධ්‍යන අගය ) කිලෝ 2000 ක් ලෙසට සළකා මෙම වගුව සකස් කර ඇත.එසේම අක්කරයක නිෂ්පාදන වියදම ලක්ෂ 02 ක් බව ( අම්පාර පොලොන්නරුව මඩ කලපුව  අනුරාධපුර ) දැනට තහවුරු වී තිබෙන අතර ඒ වියදම අනුව ලාභය ගණනය කර ඇත.

පූර්ණ කාලීනව ගොවිතැන් කරන ගොවියෙකුට ලැබෙන ඉහතකී ලාභය ජීවත් වීම සඳහා ප්‍රමාණවත් නොවන අතර අර්ධ කාලීනව ගොවිතැන් කොට වෙනත් රැකියාවක ද නිරත වන ගොවියෙකුට එය ප්‍රමාණවත්ය.එහෙත් ගොවියා ගොවිතැනෙහි රැඳී සිටීම ට ඉන් පෙළඹීමක් නැත. ව්‍යාපාරිකයා සිය වෙළඳ පළ තීරුව අනුව උපරිම ලාභයක් ලබා ගන්නා අතර සේවක පිරිසක් ද නඩත්තු කරමින් රජයට බදු ආදායමක් ද ලබා දෙයි.තේ නිෂ්පාදනයේ ප්‍රතිශතයන් තීරණය කරන පරිදිම සහල් වෙළෙඳ පලේ ප්‍රතිශතයන් තීරණය කළහොත් යම් සාධාරණ තත්වයක් රටේ නිර්මාණය වනවා නිසැකය.දැනට සහල් නිෂ්පාදනය මත පටවා තිබෙන අධික වැට් බදු සමාජ ආරක්ෂණ බදු ආදිය අඩු කිරීම මගින් ව්‍යාපාරිකයා ශක්තිමත් වන අතර රසායනික පොහොර භාවිතය ක්‍රමානුකූලව අඩු කර ගනිමින් කෘෂි රසායන භාවිකය ද ඉතාමත් අවම කරමින් නිෂ්පාදන වියදම සමබර කර ගැනීම ගොවියාගේ යුතුකමකි.ස්වයං බිත්තර වී නිෂ්පාදනය ද අත්‍යවශ්‍ය වේ. එසේම ඩීසල් මිළ අඩු කළහොත් සීසෑමට ගොයම් කැපීමට යන වියදම අඩු කරගත හැකිය.ගොවියාගේ පැත්තෙන් වී වෙනුවට සහල් වෙළඳ පළක් නිර්මාණය කර ගැනීමද ලාභ ඉපැයිය හැකි ප්‍රවේශයකි.වර්තමාන ආණ්ඩුවේ දළ දඩු පිළිවෙත සහ අදූර්දර්ශී ප්‍රකාශ නිසා ගොවියා සහ ව්‍යාපාරිකයා අතර ගැටුමක් නිර්මාණය කිරීම ද වී ගොවිතැනෙහි තිරසාර බවට බලවත් අනතුරකි. දැන් විපක්ෂ දේශපාලනය කරන කාලය නොවේ. රට හැදීම සඳහා යහපත් කළමනාකරණයක් සකස් කිරීමේ කාලයයි. ඒ බැව් දේශපාලකයන් මැනවින් තේරුම් ගත යුතුය.

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