C. Wijeyawickrema

(A respected journalist, DBS Jeyaraj, operating from Canada, makes suggestions from time to time on how to solve the ‘Tamil issue’ in Sri Lanka. Jeyaraj presents himself as a Tamil Moderate. If you just take R Premadasa’s (and now Ranil W’s) servant cum master Paskaralingam as a test case, no sane person could believe that there are Tamil moderate souls in Sri Lanka, meaning Tamils who will refuse a Tamil state with a UNO flag, if it is possible within their life time. Jeyaraj revolves around the ‘F’ solution, just like Anandasangaree’s ‘Indian F” solution in the past. But is he willing to come out of the Tamil homeland in east myth of SJV Chevanayagam? During Mrs. Chandrika’s package deal days, Neelan Thiruchelvam, a symbol of Tamil Moderatism, did not want to accept the Pondicheri model (other ethnic enclaves within) as a compromise to mono-ethnic Tamil N-E region. He did not want a moth-eaten like Tamil homeland.

Jeyarj’s latest proposal (February 25, 2019, Daily Mirror), this time promoting a Supreme Court three-judge decision dated August 4, 2017, on a thesis that federalism is not separatism,” needs a critical analysis, because the judges’ illogical thesis was based on their lack of knowledge in history and geography of the island and their poor understanding of local and world politics and geopolitics.

Before that, readers need to be aware of a previous attempt made by Jeyaraj and a reply sent to him requesting him (dbsjeyaraj@yahoo.com) to print it on his website so that his readers get an opportunity to see the other side of the story. If Jeyaraj is sincere in his quest for a peaceful Sri Lanka unbroken, I cannot understand why he is afraid of a dialogue. Fortunately, that reply was printed on Lankaweb on February 13, 2014).

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Mr. DBS Jeyaraj under the title, Sixty-six Years of Independent Sri Lanka and the Tamil State of Mind,” (6 February 2014) on his own website, an essay that he says was, an updated version of the DBS Jeyaraj Column article that appeared in the Daily Mirror of February 2nd 2013, appeals moderate Sinhala and Tamil people to find a third way to live amicably in the island of Sri Lanka. DBSJ says there are three schools of thought clashing, hegemonism, secessionism and pluralism… the Sinhala hardliners want Sinhala-Buddhist domination. They see this country as theirs alone. Others are excluded or reduced to subservient status in this ‘Chinthana.’….the Tamil hardliners want a separate state for the north-east known as Tamil Eelam. Just as Sinhala hawks say Sri Lanka is for the Sinhalese, these Tamil hawks say Tamil Eelam is for the Tamils…”  …..A state for the dominant ethnicity within, excludes by definition, other ethnicities living within these real or imaginary borders. Both these ideas have brought about disunity, violence and destruction. The nation bled profusely, and the country diminished drastically.

The third idea is that of establishing an egalitarian and plural society where all children of this country can live together in amity and fraternity. It incorporates a vision where no one will claim superior rights on the basis of belonging to the majority race/religion or claim exclusive rights to their historic habitat…..Power will not be confined to Colombo but shared with the periphery. All people regardless of race, religion, caste or creed will have their say and a role to play…”

Tamil Obama

Lakshman Kadiragamar’s and Jeyaraj Fernando Pullai’s funerals showed that a Tamil Obama in Sri Lanka is not an impossible idea. Both of them were given Buddhist funeral rites by monks came from all over the island despite the fact that they both were Christians by birth. Take Arun Tambimuttu’s case. What Sinhala Buddhist voter will not vote for him as he is not telling anything different from what the Bodu Bala Sena has been telling for the past two years? Except for a few adjustments needed DBSJ is advocating a position that I have been writing for the past 15 years or so. Sri Lanka has a third way, if it can get rid of the two political camps under SLFP and UNP. These two parties destroyed Sri Lanka, so said the monks Ven. Walpola Rahula and Ven. Balangoda Anandamaitreeya. The third way is based on reasonableness which is also the Buddhist way.  This must be the way that two Indian ex-presidents meant when they said that solutions to world’s problems could be found from Buddhism.”

The Tamil state of mind that DBSJ presented was based on facts he considered true and relevant. There are other facts that one can list which would modify what DBSJ used to interpret his side of the story of Sinhala-Tamil drama. Suffice it to say that the black-white ruling class in Sri Lanka converted a Buddhist-Christian clash into a Sinhala-Tamil clash so that the black-whites could thrive while the country goes down. Local black-whites are supported by global black-whites who use R2P, HR, pluralism and Interfaith as tools of exploitation. Living in peace with minority communities should not make a majority a minority, and if pluralism means that, then pluralism will not work. As the army commander Sarath Fonseka once clarified, Sri Lanka is the country of the Sinhala Buddhists. Minorities could live with equal rights and equal opportunities, but they cannot make unreasonable demands.” This is a good Buddhist approach.

For example, a pluralism pioneer France is however, not ready to deny that France is the country of the French, just like Norway is not ready to deny that Norway is the homeland of the Norwegians. Pluralism should mean a majority allowing a minority to live with equal rights and equal opportunities like the majority and no discrimination based on religion or language. But this had to be governed by the doctrine of reasonableness. A Muslim woman should not expect a right to cover her face with only two hole and walk in public street in a crime-filled, bomb-carrying country because that is not reasonable. Same way a national anthem or a national flag is a symbol that cannot be dismembered with translations. The Indian national anthem cannot be sung in Tamil or Telegu. Then it is not a national anthem. The Indian national flag has a Buddhist symbol and not a cross or a crescent moon. Hindus, Muslims and Christians cannot modify it.

Sri Lanka’s two problems

Sri Lanka has two problems created by the black-white politicians of green, red and blue colors. One is mismanagement of economy, or their inability to change the colonial economic system. In 1948 there was a majority and a minority. That was Sinhala and Tamil-speaking majority and an English-speaking minority. Then there was a rich Colombo crowd and the poor villagers. The 1962 coup represented the minority. 1971 JVP insurrection represented the majority. Rather than learning lessons from these, the politicians who came to power tried to keep in power by dismembering constitutions at first, and changing constitutions, and changing parliamentary to executive presidency thinking that they outsmarted the opponents. Today the country is in a big mess, because these changes gave rise to an evil triangle, the politician, officer and the NGO.

The other is the ethnic problem. There are two aspects to this. First is the fear of Sinhala people that Tamil Nad will grab Sri Lanka. Statement by SJV Chelvanayagam, GG Ponnambalam created this fear which during Dudley Senanayaka’s time came as DMK threat in immigration and Indian Tamil areas in upcountry. 1976 Vaddukoddai resolution and the behavior of the leader of the opposition Amirthalingam added more fear and then came Prabhakaran. Today the fear is even worse with western white countries trying to break the country into two. Then we have the second aspect, Tamil political leaders looking for recognition for them, and in that process creating a thing called; Tamils have aspirations. Tamil politicians living in Colombo talk about it. Whatever its origin, one has to accept that they need a reasonable geographical area for them to promote these aspirations. When Ven. Maduluwave Sobhitha asked Kumar Ponnambalam to name any item that the Sinhalese have but Tamils do not, he thought for a while and said, Tamils have aspirations.” Tamils have a source region just 22 miles of shallow sea away. The only real estate for the 16 million Sinhala people in a 6 billion world is this tiny island.

The reasonable solution to this ethnic problem is to remove Sinhala fear and to allow fairly reasonable geographical areas for the Tamils to engage in their aspirations. One immediate requirement is that Sinhala and Tamil should be taught to school children from grade three. If a solution to these two needs could also handle the first problem of mismanagement so much the better. If the solution also takes care of the ecological problems and global warming related environmental threats, then it will be perfect. If it could be in agreement with Buddhist and Hindu principles people will be happy.

I presented such a solution for consideration by LLRC and when I read between the lines of LLRC report I see it written there. The problem was that Lalith Weeratunga who was asked to examine it did not see it in the LLRC report or in the documents forwarded to him by me directly and indirectly. Instead a Divi Neguma thing came, and Geneva March 2014 is a direct result of this bad behavior of the top government officer. If Sri Lanka is to remain as one country, if Sri Lanka wants to come out of mismanagement and does not want to get labeled as a corrupt, crime-ridden land, I think it had to follow a solution like what I have suggested.

Here is the solution in brief:

1.Demarcate GSN units in Sri Lanka as lowest level ecological units.

Rpremdasa increased them from 4,000 to 14,000, god only knows why. But following the trinity of village-water tank-temple in ancient Sri Lanka, an ecology/hydrology-based GSN unit is an innocent/pragmatic gift that rulers can grant to people. Engineer D.L.O Mendis recently documented that this kind of eco villages were part of both Jaffna and dry zone farming communities.

2. Empower a ten-member committee elected on non-political party basis to run the basic daily affairs of the unit (if one unit is too small due to geographical reasons then combine them as needed. This should not surprise anybody as under the Gami Diriya program this method of empowerment has been in practice, yes despite the anger and jealousy of local and national politician crooks.

3.Because Sri Lanka has 103 river basins, use these GSN units to create Seven River Basin Regions for Sri Lanka.  See the map attached. This map has seven units so that Jaffna region gets one large basin area for them to feel that there is territory for aspirations to grow.

This division gives a sea face to each region, all of equal size and most importantly, because it is language-blind, western white countries or Tamil Nad or Prabhakaran remnants in New York or London cannot talk of a homeland based on the eastern province. That takes away the fear of Sinhala people.

At GSN level there will be so many Tamil units, Muslim units and mixed units who can also think of aspirations at that level. The beauty is that no one unit can become a threat to another unit. They will learn to respect others because, if one unit acts selfishly then the other units will also act selfishly, and both will be in trouble.

4. When one looks at problems of living that people are facing today, they are not big complex problems.  How to dispose garbage, how to control Dengue, water supply, water pollution, basic health and basic education, how to get a birth certificate, how to prevent GSN asking bribes or school principal asking sex bribe; these can be easily and effectively handled at the local level. This way 70% of peoples’ basic issues can be transferred to local units, which is what people want, empowerment, not devolution of powers to provincial politicians.  13A method has proven to be a disaster with sex and beauty has become now the hot selling item for council candidacy.
5. Because the basic unit is an ecological/hydrological unit they can be combined to represent an electorate or district-size units before becoming one of the Seven River Basins. Thus, this horizontal division can go upward administratively with representatives sitting at a separate national body.
6. What should be done at the national/central government level to allow minority participation, if more is needed than what is proposed by item 5, such as a new constitution for the country, this GSN system can remain intact, without political interferences.

I hope DBSJ print this essay on his website.

Seven River Basins

Yalpanam Raja Rata Dambadeni Mahaveli Deegavaapi Kelani Ruhunu (Compare this map with the nine-province map which cuts all major rivers into artificial pieces).

Cwije77@outlook.com

Open letter to the Ambassadors/ Permanent Representatives of 48 Member States of the Human Rights Council From Global Sri Lankan Forum Executive Committee.

Dear Sirs,

Appoint a commission to investigate wrong doing in OISL report in Sri Lanka

There exists a threat to the world peace and security by the Human Rights Council Resolution 30/1 by giving impunity to the terrorism, by not defining the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a terrorist organization and by not asking an international criminal investigation for the perpetrators of financing terrorism in Sri Lanka. The Human Rights Council did not respect and fulfill his obligations to the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy and most importantly the right to life.

In the United Nations ”Security Council Resolution 1315”  dated 14^th  August 2000, in the preamble paragraph no. 5 on Sierra Leone, it is written that:

Recalling that the Special Representative of the Secretary-General appended to his signature             of the Lomé Agreement a statement that the United Nations holds the understanding that the amnesty provisions of the Agreement shall not apply to international crimes of genocide, crimes against           humanity, war crimes and other serious violations of international humanitarian law.”

The Human Rights Council Resolution no. 25/1 of 9^th April 2014, Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka”, in paragraph 9, defined the situation of the past armed conflict in Sri Lanka as combat terrorism”.

OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) which was formed by the Human Rights Council Resolution 25/1 had changed the definition of the past armed conflict without any explanation and authority from the Human Rights Council from combat terrorism” to an internal armed conflict” in his report in paragraph 1141.

In paragraphs 168 and 661 of the OISL report, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was defined as a non-state armed group but not as a terrorist organization even if in the report accepted war crimes and crimes against humanity of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LLTE) were well written such as:

Expelling Muslim and Sinhalese communities, conducting assassinations and attacks on civilian targets, unlawful killings, abduction and forced recruitment, recruitment of children and use in hostilities, impact of hostilities on civilians and civilian objects, control of movement, denial of humanitarian assistances.”

OISL report also had created a paper so-called genocide in Sri Lanka by the breach of the Guidance and Practice of the Commissions of Inquiry and Fact-Finding Missions on International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law” (https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/CoI_Guidance_and_Practice.pdf).

The OISL report used religious discrimination by using a suspicious religious source for the base as the proof of the so-called paper work genocide without taking into account of the United Nations bodies’ reports in Sri Lanka. To protect the honor, pride and the prestige of the Human Rights Council and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, a special investigation should be open for the reporters of the OISL report. Any breach of the Guidance and Practice of the Commissions of Inquiry and Fact-Finding Missions on International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law” by the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, staff can never be under the immunities for the reporters to protect the United Nations.

The Human Rights Council Resolution 30/1 must be defined as an international wrongful act of an international organization. The international community has an obligation not to recognize as lawful the Resolution 30/1 unless the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is to be defined as terrorist and an international criminal investigation for the perpetrators of financing terrorism in Sri Lanka to be opened by the Human Rights Council with a new resolution.

It is an erga omnes partes responsibility not only to the today’s or future governments of Sri Lanka but as well to the international community as a whole to not to recognize as lawful the Human Rights Council Resolution 30/1 to protect right to life, the raison d’être of the United Nations as well should ask a special investigation for the reporters of the OISL report from the Human Rights Council on the following matters:

1. Any breach of the Guidance and Practice of the Commissions of Inquiry and Fact-Finding Missions on International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law” by the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, staff,
2. Giving impunity to the terrorism, by not defining the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a terrorist organization vide the Human Rights Council Resolution 30/1,
3. On what basis that OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) which was formed by the Human Rights Council Resolution 25/1 had changed the definition of the past armed conflict without any explanation and authority from the Human Rights Council from combat terrorism” to an internal armed conflict” in his report in paragraph 1141.

We highly appreciated if Your Excellency raise this matter at the UNHRC General Assembly and requested form a Special Commission  investigate above issue and correct them if that is found incorrect.

You may communicate with Mr. Eric Makawitage, the President of GSLF- Switzerland. His contact no is 0041 78 709 33 48 and email is makawe@bluewin.ch.

Yasas Dharmadasa
Hon. Secretary  for Ex. Comm                       

Eric Makawitage
President, GSLF- Swizerland

Senaka Rajapaksha
President, GSLF- Poland                                

 Harsha Perera
President, GSLF- Australia                                                                                

Lalith Premalal
President, GSLF- Ireland  

Prasanga Jayamanna
President, GSLF- United Kingdom                     

කේ.ඞී. ලාල්කාන්ත  සභාපති  ජාතික වෘත්තීය සමිති මධ්‍යස්ථානය

ගුරු අයිතීන් දිනා ගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් ලංකා ගුරු සේවා සංගමය සංවිධානය කළ උද්ඝෝෂණයට ඉසුරුපාය අසලදී අද දින ම්ලේච්ඡු පොලිස් ප‍්‍රහාරයක් එල්ල කර ඇති අතර එම ප‍්‍රහාරය ජාතික වෘත්තීය සමිති මධ්‍යස්ථාය ලෙස අප පිළිකුලෙන් යුතුව හෙළා දකින්නෙමු.
එම ප‍්‍රහාරයෙන් ගුරුවරුන් පිරිසක් තුවාල ලබා ඇති අතර අසාධ්‍ය තත්වයේ වූ ගුරුවරයෙකු කොළඹ ජාතික රෝහලට ඇතුළත් කොට ඇත.
තමන්ගේ අයිතීන් වෙනුවෙන් පමණක් නොව අනාගත දරු පරපුරේ අභිවෘද්ධිය උදෙසා ඔවුන් යහපත් පුරවැසියන් කිරීම අරමුණු කරගත් ඉතා වැදගත් භූමිකාවකට පණ පොවන ගුරුවරු හට පොලීසිය ලවා එල්ල කරන ලද මෙම ප‍්‍රහාරය මගිින් තහවුරු වන්නේ ආණ්ඩුව අයිතීන් ඉල්ලා සටන් කරන ජනතාවට සලකනු ලබන්නේ කෙසේද යන්නයි. සංවිධානය වීමේ සහ අදහස් ප‍්‍රකාශ කිරීමේ අයිතිය රටේ මූලික නීතියක් පවා තහවුරු කර තිබියදී මේ ආකාරයට පාලකයන් කටයුතු කිරීම නින්දා සහගතය.
වසර ගණනාවක් තිස්සේ තම ඉල්ලීම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් ආණ්ඩුව අවධානය නොකළ බැවින් අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශය ඉදිරිපිටට පැමිණ තම ගැටලූවලට විසඳුම් ලබන ලෙස බලකරමින් පවත්වන ලද මෙම උද්ඝෝෂණය ගුරුවරුන්ගේ ප‍්‍රජාතන්ත‍්‍රවාදී අයිතියක් බව අපි පිළිගනිමු. එම නිසා එම ප‍්‍රජාතන්ත‍්‍රවාදී අයිතියට අත තැබීමට පාලකයකුට ඉඩක් නැති බව අවධාරණය කරන අප මෙම ප‍්‍රහාරය වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුවේ අනාගත ක‍්‍රියාකාරීත්වය පිළිබඳව පණිවුඩයක් ලෙස අප සලකන්නෙමු. එබැවින් මෙම මර්දනකාරී ක‍්‍රියා පිළිවෙත වහාම අකුලාගන්නා ලෙසට ආණ්ඩුවට බලකරන අතර ජනතාවගේ ප‍්‍රජාතන්ත‍්‍රවාදී අයිතිය උල්ලංඝනය කරමින් ආණ්ඩුව කටයුතු කරන්නේ නම් වැඩකරන ජනතාව ප‍්‍රමුඛ පොදු ජනතාවගේ ප‍්‍රජාතන්ත‍්‍රවාදී අයිතිය ආරක්‍ෂා කිරීම වෙනුවෙන් ආණ්ඩුවට එරෙහිව ගත හැකි ඉහළම ක‍්‍රියාමාර්ග ගන්නා බවද අවධාරණය කිරීමට කැමැත්තෙමි. රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහලාගේ සහ අකිල විරාජ්ලාගේ ප‍්‍රජාතන්ත‍්‍රවාදී භාවිතාව පිළිබඳ රටේ සමස්ත ගුරු පරපුර අවධියෙන් සිටිය යුතු බවද අප මෙහිදී අවධාරණය කරන්නෙමු.
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පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී කනක හේරත් මහතා

පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ජානක වක්කුමුර මහතා

පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී කාංචන විජේසේකර මහතා

පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී කනක හේරත් මහතා

පහුගිය කාලයේම ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ ඇතුළු පක්ෂවල පුලුල් සන්ධානයක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් සාකච්ඡා වුනා. ඊයේ වෙනකොට ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනෙන් මේ සාකච්ඡා සදහා අපේ පක්ෂයේ සභාපති මහාචාර්ය ජි. එල්. පීරිස් මහතා, හිටපු අමාත්‍ය පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ඩලස් අලහප්පරෙුම මහතාත්, ජ්‍යෙස්ඨ කතිකාචාර්ය ජගත් වැල්ලවත්ත මහතාත් පත්කරලා තියෙනවා. එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය ගෙදර යවන වැඩපිළිවෙලක් සදහා පුලුල් සන්ධානයක අවහ්‍යතාවය  අද තිබෙනවා. ඉතිහාසයේ සිද්ධවුනු වැරදි නැවතත් සිදුනොවන ආකාරයෙන් සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ ප්‍රමුඛත්වයෙන් තියලා මෙම සන්ධානය ගොඩ නගන්න කියලා අපි සාකච්ඡාවලට සම්බන්ධ වෙන සියලු දෙනාගෙන් විශේෂ ඉල්ලීමක් කරනවා. පසුගිය වසරේ 19 වෙනි සංශෝධනය ගෙන විට අපි ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය ලෙස ඊට විරැද්ධත්වය ප්‍රකාශ කළා. විධායක ජනාධිපතිධූරය අහෝසි කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙනුත් ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ වැඩිදෙනෙක් සිටින්නේ විරුද්ධවයි. විධායක ජනාධිපතික්‍රමය අහෝසි කිරීමේ වැඩ පිළිවෙල සම්බන්ධයෙන් නැවත සලකා බලන්න කියලා අපි ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා. හැමදාම එකට හිටපු ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ කණ්ඩාඩායම තුළ භේදයක්තිබුනේ නැහැ. අපිව මර්ධනය කරද්දිත් අපි කණෟඩායමක් ලෙස ඊට මුහුණ දුන්නා. ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ විධායක ජනාධිපතිධූරය අහෝසි කරන 20 වැනි සංශෝධනය ඉදිරිපත් කරලා අපේ කණ්ඩායම කැඩීමයි බලාපොරොත්තු වෙන්නේ. අද වෙද්දි එජාපයේ නායකයෝම කියනවා එහි ඉන්න ලොම් හැලුනු නායකයින්ට ජනධිපතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත් වෙලා ජය ගන්න බැරි බව. ජවිපේ නායකයෝ එජාපයට තවත් කඩේ යන්න බැරි බව දන්නවා.  දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානයත් රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාට ජයගන්න බැරි බව දන්නවා. ඒකනිසයි ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ කණෟඩායම බේද කරන්න උත්සාහ කරන්නේ. මේක තමයි මේ අයගේ උපාය මාර්ගය.

1977න් පස්සේ බහුතරයක් ඇතිව ආණ්ඩු පිහිටවලා තියෙන්නේ අවස්ථා දෙකකදි පමණයි. 1989 හා 2010දියි. එවැනි තත්ත්වයකින් රට පාලනය වුනේ විධායක ජනාධිපති බලතල සහිතවයි. 2004 බලයට පත්වෙලා එදා කතානායකවරයෙක් තෝරා ගන්න හැකියාවක් ඒ රජයට තිබුනේ නැහැ. එහෙම වෙලත් යුද්ධය ජයගන්න මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට හැකිවුනා වගේම එදා රජය ස්ථිර රජයක් ලෙස කටයුතු කළා. 19 වැනි සං‌ශෝධනය ගෙනඒම තුළින්මවිධායකය ව්‍යව්සථාදායකය අධීකර ණය අතර අවුල් ඇති වෙලා. ජනාධීපතිවරයාට මැතිවරණයක් තියන්න බැරි තත්ත්වයක්, කොමිෂන් සබා පිස්සුවෙන් වගේ කටයුතු කරන තත්ත්වයක් ඇති වෙලා. ජනාධිපතිතුමා කියන විදියට එතුමාට බැදුම්කර හොරුන්ව අල්ල ගන්නවත් බැරි තත්ත්වයක් ඇතිවෙලා තියෙන්නේ. ජනාධිපතිධූරය නැති වුන දවසට ජනාධිවරයා රූකඩයක් වෙනවා. ජනාධිපතිවරයා පළාත්වලට පත්කරන ආන්ඩුකාරවරයා ජනාධීපතිවරයා හා සමානම රූකඩයක් බවට පත්වෙනවා. අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ කියනවා 19 වැනි සංශෝධනය නිසාලු මාකදුරේ මදූෂ්ව ඇල්ලුවේ. පෙබරවාරි 04 වැනිදා අපි නිදහස සමරනවා වගේ පෙබරවාරි 27 වැනිදාට ජනතාව මහ බැංකු මංකොල්ලය සමරනවා. 19 වැනි සංශෝධනය ගෙනත් මදූෂ්ව අල්ලගන්න පුලුවන් වුනාට අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්‍රන්ව අල්ලගන්න තවම බැරිවුනාද කියලා අපි අගමැතිවරයාගෙන් අහනවා. මේ රජය මහා බැංකුමංකොල්ලය හා සමාන මංකොල්ලයක් තමයි ඊ.ටී.අයි මංකොල්ලයත්. මේ නිසා ජනතාව විශාල ගැටලුවකට මුහුණ දීලා ඉන්න නිසා කඩිනමින් විසදුමක් දෙන්න කියලා අපි ජනාධිපතිවරයාගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා.

මානව හිමිකම් කොමිෂමෙන් ඇමරිකාව ඉවත් වුනත් ඇමරිකාව එක්ක අත් වැල් බැදගෙන වාර්තාව දුන්න ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජයට එයින් ඉවත් වෙන්න බැහැ. හරියට නිවට කරණවෑමියා දැකලා එලුවෝ රැවුල් කපන්න ඇහුවා වගේ. පහුගිය දවස්වල ඉන්දියාවෙන් ගිහින් පකිස්ථානයේ බෝම්බ ප්‍රහාරයක් සිදුකරනවා. අපේ රටේ එහෙම දෙයක් වුනානම් අපේ රටේ ඉන්න නායකයෝ රණවිරැවන්ව අරන් ගිහින් භාරදෙයි. ජිනීවා සමුලුවට ගිහින් රට පාවා දුන්නේ මංගල සමරවිර ඇමැතිවරයායි. ජෝන් අමරතුංග මහතාගේ වසර 40 දේශපාලන ජිවිතය සැමරුවේ කාදිනල්තුමාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන්. මේ විදියට මංගල සමරවිර ඇමැතිවරයාගේ 30 වසරක දේශපාලන ජිවිතය සමරන්නත් සූදානම් වෙනවා. ඔහු අපේ රණවිරුවන් දංගඩෙියට ගෙනියන්න හදන සමන්තා පවර්ස් කියන කාන්තාවගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයනේ තමයි සමරන්න හදන්නේ.  මංගල සමරවිරට ඡන්දය දුන්න අයත් මෙවැන්නෙක් අපේ නායකයා කර ගැනිම ගැන දුක්විය යුතුයි. 

රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ අගමැතිවරයා රන්ජන් රාමනායකට පක්ෂය ආරක්ෂාවන පරිදි කටයුතු කරන්නයි කියලා තියෙනවා. මේක තමයි ඇත්ත. මොන හොරකම වුනත් අවසානයේදී සියලු දෙනා නිර්දෝෂී වෙනවා. අද වෙද්දි කොකේන් කමිටුවෙන් සියලු දෙනා නිර්දෝෂී කරලා. එදා අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්‍රන්ව නිර්දෝශ කළා වගේමයි.

කෑගල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ 2001 සිට පාර්ලිමේන්තුව නියෝජනය කරන වත්මන් රාජ්‍ය ඇමැතිවරයෙක්ට මාවනැල්ල ආසනයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස්වෙන්න කියලා එක්මසත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ සභාපතිවරයා බලපැම් කරනවා. දේශපාලන නායකයෝ කිසිකෙනෙක්ට මාවනැල්ලෙන් කෑගල්ලෙන් නැගිටින්න බැරිවුනා. දේශපාලනයෙන් ඉදිරියට යන්නේනැතිව කකුලෙන් අදින එජාප පාක්ෂිකයින්ට අපිත් එක්ක අත්වැල් බාදගන්නයි කියලා ආරාධනා කරනවා.

පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ජානක වක්කුඹුර මහතා මේ ආන්ඩුව කමිටු කිහිපයක් පත් කරලා තියෙනවා. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ හැසිරිම සම්බන්ධයෙනුත් කමිටුවක් පත්කරලා තියෙනවා. රන්ජන් රාමනායක ඇමැතිවරයාගේ හැසීර්ම සම්බන්දයෙන් බලන්න. පළමුවෙන් කිව්වා කැබිනට් ඇමැතිවරු කොකේන් ගහනවාකිව්වා. ඊට පස්සෙ පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ දෙගොල්ලොම කියලා. ඊටත් පස්සේ කිව්වා හිටපු ඇමැතිවරු කියලා. වැඩිපුරම ඉන්නේ ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ අයලු. කිසිම ඇමැතිවරයෙක් නැහැකිව්වත් අපිට දැන් ඒකත් පිළිගන්න වෙලා. රන්ජන් රාමනායක කියපු දේ දැන් කමිටුවෙන් ප්‍රතික්ෂේප වෙලා. කතානායකවරයාගේ වගකිම මන්ත්‍රීවරු 225 දෙනා වෙනුවෙන් විශේෂ කමිටුවක් පත්කරලා, රන්ජන් රාමනායකගේ හඩපට ටික අරගෙන ගෙන රන්ජන් රාමනායකට විරුද්ධව පරික්ෂණයක් කරලා දඩුවම් කිරිමයි. මුලු ලෝකෙටම කෙකේන් ගහන අය පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ඉන්නවා කියපු මොහුට විරුද්ධව දඩුවම් දෙන්න අවශ්‍යයි. එජාපයේ කමිටුවක් පත්කරලා ඔවුන් නිදහස් කියලා වැඩක් නැහැ. මේ සිද්ධිය ලොකෙට ගිහින් ඉවරයි. හරියට පරික්ෂණයක් කරලා දඩුවම්කළ යුතුයි. ආන්ඩුව ඇතුලෙන් හොක්කට ගහනවා කියපුවාම කියපු දේ වෙනස් වෙනවා.

අපි මේ කමිටුවල දේවල් පිලිගන්නේ නැහැ. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කමිටුවක්පත්කරලා ඒකේ ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ සියලු දෙනාම ඉන්නවාලු. එතන ගහගත්ත එජාප පිරිස කමිටුවෙන් ඉවත් කරලා. දුලිප් වෙදආරච්චි පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සරම උස්සලා පෙන්නුවා. ඒකපාර්ලිමේන්තුවට අපහාසයක් නෙවෙයිද. ඒකාබද්ධවිපක්ෂයේ අයට විතරක් පරීක්ෂණ කරන්නේ නැතිව සියලු දෙනාට එරෙහිව පියවර ගන්න අවහ්‍යයි.

මහ බැංකු හොරකම අගමැතිවරයා සුද්ධ කළා. දැන් ජනාධිපතිතුමාකියනවා මේ ආන්ඩුව ඉන්න කල් බැදුම්කර හොරුන්ට දඩුවම් දෙන්න බැහැලු. ඒකියන්නේ හොරුටික ඉන්නේ ආන්ඩුවේ. ඒක නිසයි අපි කියන්නේ ඇත්ත හොරුන්ට දඩුවම් දෙන්න මේ ආන්ඩුව‌ෙ ගදර යවන්න කියලා. පහුගිය කාලේ විවිධ සංවිධාන තිබුනා. ඒ අය මේසම්බන්ධයෙන් වචනයක් කියන්නේ නැහැ.මේ ආන්ඩුව තියෙනකල් මහ බැංකු හොරුන්ට දඩුවම් දෙන්න බැහැ. මොවුන් ගෙදර යවලා සැබෑ හොරුන්ට දඩුවම් දෙන්න එකතු වෙන්න.

මුල්‍ය අපරාධ ක‌ොට්ඨාශය නීති විරෝධීව හැදුවේ ඒකාබද්ධවිපක්ෂයට දඩුවම් දෙන්න. එහි ස්ථානාධිපතිවරයා විශ්‍රාම යද්දි කියනවා එතුමා චූදිතයින්ට තොරතුරු දුන්න බව. අපි මෙය කිව්වේ වේලාසන. මේක ආන්ඩුවේ වුවමනාවන් ඉෂ්ඨ කරන තැනක් වෙලා තිබුනා. මේකත් පොලීසිය. මේ පොලීසය මගින් ආණ්ඩුව කලේ මර්ධනය. ගාල්ල සිද්ධිය අපේ කාලයේ වුනානම් පොලිස්පති අයින් වෙන්න කියනවා. අපේ කාලයේ පොලිස්පතිතුමා ඉල්ලා අස්විමක්වුනා.

මධ්‍යෙයෙන් ගාල්ලේ සිද්ධිය හෙලිනොකලා නම් දරුවෝ වෙනුවෙන් කවුරුත් ඉදිරිපත් නොවුනානම් මේ සිද්ධිය යටපත් වෙනවා. ඒ නිසා මාධ්‍යයට අපි ස්තූති වන්ත වෙනවා. පොලීසිය වැරැද්දක් කළාම අයිතිකාරයෙක් නැහැ. මේ ආන්ඩුව මර්දන කාරිව මිනිස්සු බයකරන වැඩපිළිවෙලක් ගෙනියන්නේ ඡන්දයක් ළග නිසයි. ජනාධිපතිවරණයට පෙර නව ආන්ඩු ක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවක් සම්මත කරන්න බැහැ. ආන්ඩුවට තියෙන්නේ 103යි. විධායක ජනාධිපතිකම අහෝසි කරන්නේ ජනාමත විචාරණයකින්. ඒ නිසා කෙරෙන්නේ නැති දේවල් කතා නොකර කරන්න තියෙන දේ කරමු. ආන්ඩුව පලාත් සභා මැතිවරණය තියන්නේ නැහැ. එන්නේ ජනාධිපතිවරණය. එතෙක් ආන්ඩුව අල්ලා ගෙන යාමයි කරන්නේ. ඒ නිසා ආන්ඩුව ගෙදර යවන්න එකතු වෙන්න කියලා අපි විපක්ෂයේ සියලු දෙනාට කියනවා. ආන්ඩුවෙන් රුපියල් 1000 අරන් දෙනවා කියපු දිගම්බරන් අතුලු කට්ටිය ඒක අරන් දුන්නාද. හැමදාම කදුකරයේ මිනිස්සු රවටනවා. දැන් ඉල්ලා අස්වෙන්න කියලා අපි ඒ අයට කියනවා. ඔය ඇමැතිවරුන්ට ඔ්නේ රගපාන්න විතරයි. මේ අය 1000 අරන් දෙන්නෙත් නැහැ. ඇමැතිකම් අත අරින්නෙත් නැහැ.

ලංගම පාඩු ලබන ආයතනයක් වෙලා. සුදුස්සාට සුදුසු තැන දෙන්න අවශයයි. අලුතින් ආන්ඩුව පත්වුනාට පස්සේ හැම ඩිපොවෙම අයට උසස්විම දෙනවා. රස්සාවෙන් දොට්ට දාපු අයට පත්වීමත් එක්ක උසස්වීම් දෙනවා. දැන් ලංගම බස් රථ රාශියක් දුවන්නේ නැහැ. අද කළවානේ ඩිපොවේ පඩි ගෙවා ගන්න බැහැ. ආදායම පක්ෂ 7ක් විතර තිබුණ එක ලක්ෂ 4ට අඩුවෙලා. බස් පාරේ දිව්වේ නැත්නම් ආදායමක් නැහැ. එජාප පාක්ෂිකයාට සලකනවා කිව්වානේ. දැන් මේකරන්නේ ඒක තමයි. නිත්‍යාණූකූලව උසස්වීම් දෙන්න අවශ්‍ය අයට උසස්වීම් දුන්නට කමක් නැහැ. වහාම පරික්ෂණයක් කරලා සුදුසු අයට පත්විම් දෙන්න කියලා අපි ජනාධිපතිවරයාගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා.

මේ අයවැයෙන් කිසිවක් බලාපොරොත්තු වෙන්න එපා. ගල් වැලි සියලු දේ වැඩි වෙලා. සාමාන්‍යයෙන් ගෙයක් හදන්න බලාපොරොත්තුවක් තියන් හිටපු අය ගේ බලාපොරොත්තු නැතිවෙලා. මේ අයවැයෙන් ආන්ඩුව ගෙදර යවමු කියලා අපි සියලු දෙනාගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා

පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී කාංචන විජේසේකර මහතා

න්‍යස්ටික බලවතුන් දෙදෙනෙක් වෙන දකුණු ආසියානු කලාපෙය් ඉන්දියාව හා පකිස්ථානය අතර ප්‍රශ්නයක් ඇතිවෙලා. අපි සිවිල් යුද්ධයක අත් දැකීම් විදලා තියෙනවා. මේ රට වල් දෙක අතර යුද්ධයක් ඇති වුනොත් අපිටත් එහි ප්‍රථිපල භුක්ති විදින්න වෙනවා. මේ ආන්ඩුව මත්තල ගුවන් තොටුපල ඉන්දියාවට දෙන්න හැදුවා. ඉන්දියාව චිනය ඇමරිකාව අතර තියෙන බල අරගලයේ ප්‍රතිඵල අපිට භුක්ති විදින්න  වෙන බව අපි එදා කිව්වා. මත්තල ගුවන් තොටුපල ඉන්දියාවට දීමේ කටයුතු වේගවත් කරන්න සූදානමක් තියෙනවා නම් මේ අවස්ථාව ඊට යොදා ගෙන න්‍යෂ්ඨික පොරයෝ මධ්‍යස්ථානයක් බවට අපේ රට පත්කරන්න එපා කියලා අපි ආන්ඩුවෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා.

මහ බැංකු වංචාවට අවුරුදු 4යි. ජනාධිපති කොමිෂමේ වාර්තාව පිට වෙලත් වසරක්. බැදුම්කර විවාදය තාවකාලිකව තරක කරලත් වසරක් වෙනවා. විවාදය නතර වුන තැන ඉදන් අරඹන්න. අයවැයෙන් පසු පළමු සතියේස මේ වාර්තාව විවාදයටගන්න. මේ වාර්තවේ පිටුගණනාවක් අතුදහන් බවට චෝදනාවක් තියෙනවා. ඒ පිටු පාර්ලිමේන්තුවටඉදිරිපත් කරන්න කියලා අපි ඉ්ලලා සිටිනවා. අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්‍රන්ට ආරක්ෂාව දුන්නේ ගඅහමැතිවරයා. විදේශ ගමන් බලපත්‍රය අහෝසිකරලා හෝ ඔහු මෙරට රදවා ගන්න පියවර නොගත්ත නිසා දැන් ඔහු විදෙස්ගත වෙලා තියෙනවා.

ජවිපෙන් මහ බැංකු වංචාව ගැන අගමැතිවරයාට චෝදනා කරනවා. මෙවැනි අගමැතිවරයෙක් ඉන්න බව දැනගෙන අගමැතිවරයාට එරෙහි විශෟවාසභංග යෝජනවාට අත්සන් කලේ නැහැ. ආන්ඩුව වෙනස් වුනාම නැවතත් රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ පත් කරන්න කියලා දුවන් ගියේ විජිත හේරත් මන්ත්‍රීවරයා. දූසිතයින් ආරක්ෂා කරන්නේ ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණයි.

අද ජිවන වියදම වැඩිවෙලා. ත්‍රස්තවාදින් මහ බැංකුවට කළ ප්‍රහාරයෙන් ජිව.ත 91ක් අපිට අහිමි වුනා. මේ ආන්ඩුවෙන් වුනප්‍රහාරයෙන් සෑමපුරවැසියෙක්ම වසර 30ක් යනතුරු ණයකාරයෝ වෙලා. පහුගිය ැයවැයෙන් වගේම මේ අයවැයෙනුත් විවිධ යෝජනා එයි. 2018 වසරේ අයවැයෙන් ඉදිරිපත් කරපු යෝජනා කීයද ඉටුකලේ. සිමෙන්තිවල වැඩි කරපු මුදල අඩු කරන්න තඅසාහයක් ගනියි.  මේ සියලු දේ කරන්නේ මැතිවරණයක් ඉලක්ක කරගෙන. බැදුම්කර චූදිතයින් අත් අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඒ මුදල් පියවා ගන්නේ නැත්නම් මේ කිසිම පොරොන්දුවක් යථාර්ථයක් වෙන්නේ නැහැ.

මංගල සමරවිර ඇමැතිවරයාගේ 30 වසරක දේශපාලන ජීවිතයට සුබ පතනවා. එතුමා පහුගිය කාලයේ ගත්ත තින්දු තීරණ දිහා බලද්දි බරපතල කලු පැල්ලමක් එල්ල වන තැනක් තියෙනවා. 2015 දි ඇමරිකානු තානාපතිවරිය සමන්තා පවර් එක්ක යෝජනාවක් ගෙනාවා. මේක අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩලයට හෝ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ගෙනාවේ නැහැ. අද වෙද්දි ඇමරිකාව මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයෙන් ඉවත් වෙලා. ඒනිසා ජනාධිපතිවරයාගෙනුත් ආන්ඩුවෙනුත් අපි ඉල්ලීමක් කරලා තියෙනවා. එක්සත් ජාතින්ගේ සැසිවාරයේදී ලිඛිත ඉල්ලීමක් කරන්න මේ යෝජනාවෙන් ලංකාව පාර්ශවකාරයෙක් විදියටඉල්ලා අස්වෙනබවට. මංගල සමරවීරටත් පුලුවන් සමන්තා පවර් ඉදිරියේ ඒ සම යෝජනාව ඉවත් කරන බව හෝ එතුමාගේ කතාවේදි කළ හැකියි.

විධායක ජනාධිපතිධූරය ඉවත්කිරිමේ යෝජනාවක් ඇවිත් තියෙනවා. ජනාධිපතිවරණයට අදාලව ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ නිර්වචනය ක් තියෙනවා. ඒ අනුව ඊළග ජනාධිපතිවරණය දෙසැම්බර් 09ත් නොවැම්බර් 09ත් අතර පැවැත්විය යුතුයි. ඔක්තෝම්බර් 05 වැනිදා වෙද්දි ජනාධිපතිවරණය කැදවීමේනිවේදනය නිකුත් කළ යුතුයි. ඔක්තෝම්බර් 05 සිට නොවැම්බර් 05 දක්වා නාමයෝජනා කැදවන්න අවශ්‍යයි. ජනාධිපතිවරණය අහෝසිකිරීමේ යෝජනාව ගේන්නෙත් මැතිවරණය කල් දා ගන්නයි. මේක ප්‍රායෝගික නැති හිස් යෝජනාවක්. මෙහෙම යෝජනාවක් ගේනවා නම් ඇත්තටම කොකේන් ගහපු කෙනෙක්. විධායක ජනාධිපතික්‍රමය අහෝසි කිරිම ගැන අපිට සාකච්ඡා කරන්න පුලුවන්. මේ ආන්ඩුවට ඒ ගැන සාකච්ඡාවක් කරන්න ජන වරමක් නැහැ. අලුත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවකදී අපි මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් සාකච්ඡා කරමු. අපි විපක්ෂයේ කණෟඩායමක් විදියට හිතන්නේ විධායක ජනාධිපතිධූරය අහෝසි කිරීමට විරුද්ධවයි ඡන්දය දෙන්නේ. ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය නියෝජනයකරන අයගෙන් සියයට 90ට වැඩි පිරිසක් මේ යෝජනාව මේ මොහොතේ ගෙනාවොත් පරාජය කරන්න සූදානම්.

ඩි. වි චානක මන්ත්‍රීවරයොගේ වාහනයට අනිතික දෙයක් දමන්න ගිය බවට පැමිණිලි ඉදිරිපත් වෙනවා. විපක්ෂයේ මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ට මෙවැනි අවධානමක් තියෙන නිසා ආරක්ෂාව තහවුරු කරන්නයි ඒ පැමිනිල්ලෙන් ඉල්ලා තිබුනා.

මිට මාස කිහිපයක පෙර සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස නිවාස අරමුදලේ මුදල් මගින් තමන්ගේ ප්‍රතිරුපය නංවා ගැනීමට කරන දේවල් සම්බන්ධයෙන් එලිවුනා. ඒ එලි කිරිම කිරීමෙන් පසුව චානක මන්ත්‍රීවරයා මත්කුඩු වලට සම්බන්ධබව හැගෙන පුකාශයක් සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස කලා. මේ නිසා අපිට සැකයක් තියෙනවා. නිතීඥවරු කණ්ඩායමක් පසුගිය දවස්වල සිදුවුන ඝාතන සම්බන්ධයෙන් චානක මන්තී්‍රවරයා සම්බන්ධයි කියන්න උත්සාහ කරනවා. ඒ මාධ්‍ය හමුව පැවැත්වෙන්නෙ ්සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස ඇමැතිවරයා වෙනුවෙනුයි. චානක මන්ත්‍රීවරයා ඉලක්ක කරගෙන කිසියම් වැඩපිළීවෙලක් දියත් වෙන බවයි පෙන්නේ. ඒනිසා විපක්ෂයේ මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ගේ ආරක්ෂාව තහවුරු කරන්න. මේ විදියට චෝදනා එල්ල කරලා විපක්ෂයෙ දේශපාලනයින් දඩයම් කරන්න හදන්නේ. මන්ත්‍රිවරු 54ක් කළහකාරි ලෙස හැසිරැනු බවට චෝදනා එල්ල වුනා. එහි එජාප මන්ත්‍රීවරු එක්කෙනයි. කතානායකවරයාගේ බෑනාමයි එතුමගේ පිටුපස්සේ හිටියේ. හරින් ප්‍රනාන්දුත් අපි දැක්කා. එජාපයේ මන්ත්‍රීවරු20ට වැඩි පිරිසක් කතානායක පුටුව අසලට ආවා. බෑනා පුටුව අසලට එනවා දැක්කේ නැද්ද. පිහි අරන් ආවා දැක්කේ නැද්ද. මේක ඒකපාර්ශ්වික වාර්තාවක්. නැවතත් කමිටුවක් පත්කරලා ස්වාධින පරික්ෂණයක් කරන්නයි කියලා අපි ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා.

මාධ්‍ය – ඔබලාගේ ආන්ඩුවකදි මහ බැංකු බැදුම්කර සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් නිතිය ක්‍රියාත්මක කරනවාද

අපේ ආන්ඩුවකදි පලමු කාර්යය විදියටමහ බැංකු මංකොල්ලය ගැන චෝදාන ලැබු සියලු දෙනා නිතිය හමුවට ගේනවා.

මාධ්‍ය – අර්ජුන ඇලෝසියස් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ පුතාගේ මගුල් ගෙදර යනවා. නිතිය කියාත්මක වෙයිද

කාංචන විජේසේකර – අපිත් මගුල් දගදර හිටියා. ඔය කියන කෙනා දැක්කේ නැහැ. රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ අගමැතිවරයාත් මගුල් ගෙදර ආවා. අපේ රජයක් සමයේ නිතිය ක්‍රියාත්මක නොවෙයි කියලා අපි හිතන්නේ නැහැ. නමුත් එවැනි දෙයක් නොවුනොත් අපි තරුණ මන්ත්‍රිවරු විදියට ආන්ඩුව පොළඹවන නීතිය ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන තැනට

මාධ්‍ය – පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ ජනාධිපතිවරණ අපේක්ෂකයෙක් මැතිවරණයට ගේන්න පුලුවන්ද

කාංචන විජේසේකර – ස්ථිර වශයෙන්ම අපේ ජනාධිපතිවරණ අපේක්ෂකයෙක් ගේනවා. ජලස් අලහප්පෙරුම මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයනේ කමිටුවක් පත්කරලා තියෙනවා. අපේ බහුතරයක මතය වෙලා තියෙන්නේ පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ අපේක්ෂකයෙක් පොහොට්ටුව ලකුණින් ඉදිරිපත්විය යුතු බවයි.

මාධ්‍ය – පුලුල් සන්ධානයේදී ශ්‍රිලනීප අපේක්ෂකයෙක් අවොත්

කාංචන විජේසේකර – පුලුල් සන්ධානයේ වැඩි බලයක් පොදුජන පෙරමුණට හිමිවිය යුතුයි. අද පළාත් පාලන ආයතනවලින් ,පළාත් සභාවල වගේම පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ බහුතරය තියෙන්නේ පොදුජන පෙරමුණට. අපි ඉතිහාසයේ සන්ධාන දැකලා තියෙනවානේ. එජනිස ප්‍රධාන පාර්ශවකරු වුනෙත්, පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ ප්‍රධාන පාර්ශ්වකරු වුනෙත් ශ්‍රීලනීපය. අපේක්ෂකයා ඉදිරිපත් වුනේ ශ්‍රීලනිපයෙන්. ඒ වගේ දැන් ගොඩ නැගෙන පුලුල් සන්ධානය ඇතුලේ අපේක්ෂකයා තේරීමේ කටයුත්ත භාරවෙන්නේ පොදුජන පෙරමුණට.

මාධ්‍ය – පොදුජන පෙරමුණට ඒ අවස්ථාව ලැබුනේ නැත්නම්

කාංචන ජයසේකර – ඒක ඒ වෙලාවට බලමු

මාධ්‍ය – බැදුම්කර හොරුන්ගේ ලයිස්තුව තියෙන්නේ ජනාධිපතිතුමා ළගනේ.

කාංචන ජයසේකර – ඒක අපිටත් ගැටලුවක්. අපිත් කියන්නේ හංගල තියෙන ලයිස්තුව එළියට දාන්න කියලයි. කතානායකවරයාට ලේඛණය ලැබුනේ නැහැලු. පිටු ගානක් අඩු බව හෙළි වෙලා තියෙන්නේ. කවුරු හංගගෙන ඉන්න කෙනා එලි කරන්න අවශ්‍යයි.

By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island

The 19th Amendment led to the setting up of the following independent Commissions with the stated objective of depoliticising the conduct of the day-to-day affairs of the government.

The Election Commission

The Public Service Commission

The National Police Commission

The Audit Service Commission

The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka

The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption

The Finance Commission

The Delimitation Commission

The National Procurement Commission.

Article 41B (6) of the present Constitution, as amended by the 19th Amendment, states that all these commissions other than the Election Commission, shall be responsible and answerable to Parliament. Thus, according to Article 41B (6), which appears in Chapter 7 of the Constitution dealing specifically with the Constitutional Council, the Elections Commission will be the only independent Commission that will NOT be responsible to Parliament.

However, Article 104 B (3) of the Constitution, which was also introduced by the 19th Amendment which falls under Chapter 9 of the Constitution, dealing specifically with the Elections Commission, states as follows: “The (Elections) Commission shall be responsible and answerable to Parliament in accordance with the provisions of the Standing Orders of Parliament for the exercise, performance and discharge of its powers, duties and functions and shall forward to Parliament for each calendar year a report of its activities for such year.”

So, which one of these provisions is true? Is the Elections Commission responsible to Parliament or not? Under Article 41 B (6) the Elections Commission is not responsible to Parliament. Under Article 104 B(3) it is not only responsible to Parliament but also required to report annually to Parliament on its activities. Personally, this writer would prefer 104 B (3) because all Commissions dealing with public affairs should be responsible and answerable to the supreme legislature of this country. If I remember correctly, at the committee stage of the 19th Amendment Bill, Prof. Tissa Vitharana put up a fight to get these Commissions made responsible and answerable to Parliament. However, because of contradictory provisions in the Constitution, today no one knows whether the Elections Commission is responsible to Parliament or not.

When the question of the President’s power to dissolve Parliament went before the Supreme Court, it was held that while Article 33 (2)(c) conferred the power to dissolve Parliament on the President, the manner in which it was supposed to be done was laid out in Article 70(1) and that this was buttressed by the provisions in Article 48(2) which referred only to Article 70(1). If the question of whether the Elections Commission is responsible to Parliament or not goes before the SC, it will not be that easy to solve it. Article 104 B (3) says, ‘It is’, and Article 41 B (6) says ‘It is not’. How is the SC to decide between such provisions, by tossing a coin?

The legality of a legally invalid meeting

Under Article 103 (1) of the Constitution as amended by the 19th Amendment, the Elections Commission consists of three members appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Constitutional Council. Article 104 (1) states that the quorum for any meeting of the Commission shall be three members. It is what comes after this that would have many people scratching their heads.

Article 104 (2) (a) states that the Chairman of the Commission shall preside at all meetings of the Commission and in the absence of the Chairman, a member elected by the members present from amongst themselves shall preside. (However, the Chairman is only one of three members on the Elections Commission. Since three members are required for a quorum, If the Chairman is absent, there will be no quorum and a meeting of the Elections Commission cannot be held legally. What then is the point in having a provision in the Constitution saying that in the absence of the Chairman, a member elected by the members present from amongst themselves shall preside at such meeting?

Article 104 (2) (b) states that the decisions of the commission shall be by a majority of the members present and voting and in the event of an equality of votes, the Chairman or the member presiding at the meeting shall have a casting vote. (This is a meaningless provision because if a decision is to be taken by a majority vote, it will always have to be a two to one decision and any talk of a casting vote for the Chairman makes no sense.)

Article 104 (3) has a mind-numbing provision. What it says is that the Elections Commission ‘shall have power to act notwithstanding any vacancy in the membership of the Commission, and no act or proceeding or decision of the Commission shall be invalid or be deemed to be invalid by reason only of such vacancy or any defect in the appointment of a member’. (Can anyone even imagine the implications of such a provision? The Elections Commission consists of only three members and the quorum is three members. No meeting of the Elections Commission can take place legally without the quorum. Yet Article 104 (3) clearly states that the Elections Commission ‘shall have power to act notwithstanding any vacancy in its membership and no act or proceeding or decision of the Commission shall be invalid or be deemed to be invalid by reason only of such vacancy. What Article 104 (3) is saying, in other words, is that an illegal meeting of the Elections Commission without a quorum, will still be legally binding and valid.)

This develops further in Article 104 A (a) and (b) of the Constitution, which states that no court shall have the power or jurisdiction to entertain or hear or decide or call in question on any ground and in any manner whatsoever, any decision, direction or act of the Elections Commission, made or done or purported to have been made or done under the Constitution or under any law relating to the holding of an election or the conduct of a Referendum as the case may be, which decisions, directions or acts shall be final and conclusive; and that no suit or prosecution or other proceeding shall lie against any member or officer of the Commission for any act or thing which in good faith is done or purported to be done by him in the performance of his duties or the discharge of his functions under the Constitution or under any law relating to the holding of an election or the conduct of a Referendum as the case may be.

Under Article 104 A, the only instances in which the Elections Commission can be taken to courts will be over fundamental rights issues under Article 126 of the Constitution, the writ jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal which in the case of the Elections Commission will be exercised by the Supreme Court and not by the Court of Appeal, and with regard to petitions pertaining to the conducting of presidential elections, referendums or appeals relating to election petitions pertaining to parliamentary elections.

Thus, no one knows whether the Elections Commission, which was set up under the 19th Amendment is responsible to Parliament or not. And there is a question mark over the legality of meetings of the Elections Commission when one member is absent. One provision of the Constitution says that such a meeting will not be valid in law while another provision says that such meetings will be fully valid and cannot be called into question in a court of law.

The Elections Commission is arguably the most important of the independent commissions because it presides over the process of electing governments into power. Can any country afford to have such constitutional uncertainties in relation to such a body? But that’s Sri Lanka under the 19 th Amendment.

It’s not surprising that there is much talk of drug addiction and substance abuse among MPs in Parliament. In the opinion of this writer, the first people to be tested for substance abuse should be the drafters of the 19th Amendment and the drafters of the proposed new Constitution.

දෙනගම ධම්මික රණවීර උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම

වසර හතරක් තිස්සේ බැඳුම්කර හොරුන්ට දඬුවම් කිරීමට වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව කර අරින නිසා අනාගත ආණ්ඩුවකින් හෝ ඔවුන් හෙළිදරව් කොට දඬුවම් පැමිණවීමට අනිවාර්යයෙන් සිදුකළ යුතු බව ආචාර්ය නාලක ගොඩහේවා ප්‍රකාශ කළේය.

ඔහු එම අදහස් පළ කළේ පසුගියදා (25දා) පිටකෝට්ටේ පිහිටි වියත්මඟ කාර්යාලයේදී පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදීය.

එහිදී නාලක ගොඩහේවා මහතා මෙසේද පැවැසීය.

අද වන විට ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථිකය ඉතාමත් අර්බුද අවස්ථාවකයි තිබෙන්නේ. 2014 වන විට ආසියාවේ චීනයට පමණක් දෙවැනි වූ ආර්ථික වර්ධන වේගයක් තිබූ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව අද අවසානය වීමට ඇෆ්ගනිස්තාන ආර්ථික වර්ධන වේගය හා තරග කරනවා.

2014 වන විට තිස් අවුරුදු බැඳුම්කරවල පොලී අනුපාත තිබුණෙ 10%ට වඩා අඩු අගයක. ඒත් 2015 පෙබරවාරි මාසයේ බැඳුම්කර වෙන්දේසියේදී එය 12.5% දක්වා ඉහළ දැම්මා. ඒ නිසා රටේ සමස්ත පොලී අනුපාතය 3%කින් පමණ ඉහළ ගියා. ඒ වන විට දේශීය රාජ්‍ය ණය රුපියල් ටි්‍රලියන 3.5ක් තිබුණා. ඒ සියල්ලෙන්ම පොලී අනුපාතය ඉහළ ගියා. ඒ නිසා පළමුවන මාසය තුළ පමණක් රුපියල් බිලියන 50ක පමණ පාඩුවක් එනම් කටුනායක අධිවේගී මාර්ගය තැනීමට වැයවූ මුදලට සමාන මුදලක් රටට පාඩු වුණා. ආර්ථිකයට සිදුවූ සමස්ත පාඩුව රුපියල් බිලියන 280ක් පමණ වේ යැයි එම අවස්ථාවේ ගණන් බලා තිබුණා.

රට පුරා බැංකුවල පොලී අනුපාතය වැඩි වීම නිසා ජනතාවට බැංකුවකින්, මූල්‍ය ආයතනයකින් හෝ ලීසිං ආයතනයකින් හෝ ණයක් ගැනීමේදී වැඩි පොලියක් ගෙවන්න සිදු වුණා. මෙහි ප්‍රතිඵලය වූයේ ව්‍යාපාරිකයන්ට ඔවුන්ට තමන් සපයන භාණ්ඩ හා සේවාවල මිල ඉහළ දැමීමට සිදුවීමයි. මෙහි ප්‍රතිඵලය ලෙස ජනතාව අතර මුදල් හිඟයක් ඇති වුණා. මේ අනුව රටේ මුදල් සංසරණය අඩු වුණා. ව්‍යාපාර දුර්වල වුණා.

අනෙක් අතට හොරකම හා ආණ්ඩුව අතර සම්බන්ධකම් තිබුණු නිසා ආයෝජකයන්ගේ විශ්වාසය බිඳ වැටුණා. ඔවුන් කොටස් වෙළෙඳපොළෙන් හා මූල්‍ය වෙළෙඳපොළෙන් ඔවුන්ගේ ආයෝජන ඉවත් කර ගන්නට පටන් ගත්තා. ඩොලර් බිලියන ගණන් මේ අනුව රටින් පිට වුණා. එය රුපියලේ අගයට බලපෑවා. ලංකාවේ රුපියල කඩා වැටෙන්න පටන් ගත්තා.

2015 වන විට ආසියාවේ තිබූ ශක්තිමත්ම මුදල් ඒකකයක් වන රුපියල අද ආසියාවේ පමණක් නොවේ මුළු ලෝකයේම දුර්වල මුදල් ඒකකයක් වී අවසන්.

රුපියල කඩා වැටීම වළක්වන්න රජය ආනයන සීමාවන් දමන්නට යෑම නිසා ආනයන ව්‍යාපාර කඩා වැටුණා. ඉන් සිදුවූයේ රේගුව හරහා රජයට ලැබෙමින් තිබූ විශාල ආදායමක් රටට අහිමි වීමයි.

ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ හිටපු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල්
ජනාධිපති බැඳුම්කර කොමිසමකින් පවා සාක්ෂි ඉදිරිපත් වී තිබුණත් මහ මොළකරුවන් නිදැල්ලේසිටිනවා. බැඳුම්කර ක්‍රමවේදය වෙනස් කිරීමට අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්‍රන් මහ බැංකු අධිපතිට උපදෙස් දුන් රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ අගමැතිවරයා තවම නිදැල්ලේ ඉන්නවා. මේ රටේ නීතිය පිළිබඳව විශාල කම්පාවකුයි මේ නිසා ඇතිවෙන්නේ.

බැඳුම්කර කොමිසමේ සාමාජික විනිසුරුවරයකුගේ දියණියක් අගමැති කාර්යාලයේ වැඩ කළ බව පුවත්පත්වල වාර්තා වී තිබුණා. ප්‍රසන්න ජයවර්ධන නමැති සාමාජික විනිසුරුවරයා කියා තිබුණා තම දියණිය වැඩ කළේ ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිපත්ති අමාත්‍යාංශයේ කියලා. එම පත්වීම සිදුවී තිබෙන්නේ ජනාධිපති කොමිසම වැඩ පටන්ගත් පසුවයි. ළබැඳියාවන් අතර ප්‍රශ්නයක් එහි ඇති වී තිබෙනවා. මේවා හරහා අපට බලාපොරොත්තු වෙන්න බැහැ යුක්තිය ඉටුවේවි කියලා.

අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ බැඳුම්කර මගඩියට සම්බන්ධ බවට කරුණු 16ක් ඉදිරිපත් කළ හැකියි.

බැඳුම්කර නිකුත් කරන ක්‍රමවේදය වෙනස් කරන ලෙස අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්‍රන්ට කීවේ තමා යැයි ප්‍රසිද්ධියේ පිළිගැනීම මඟින් තහවුරු වන්නේ තාක්ෂණික දැනුමක් නැති අගමැතිවරයා කර ඇත්තේ බලය අයුතු ලෙස භාවිත කිරීමක්. නැඟී එන ජනතා විරෝධය මැඬලීමට එජාප නීතිඥයන් තිදෙනකුගෙන් යුත් කමිටුවක් පත් කිරීම, 2015 මාර්තු 17 අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්‍රන්ට සහාය පළ කරමින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී කතා කිරීම, කෝප් කමිටුව මහ බැංකු කොල්ලය ගැන සොයා බලන්නට තීරණය කරන විට එහි එක් සාමාජිකයකු ඉවත් කොට සුජීව සේනසිංහ ඊට පත් කිරීම, සුජීව සේනසිංහ ලවා පොතක් ලියවා අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්‍රන්ගේ ක්‍රියාකලාපය සාධාරණීකරණය කිරීම, ඩිව් ගුණසේකරගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් යුතු කෝප් කමිටුවේදී එජාප මන්ත්‍රිවරුන් ලවා අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්‍රන් ආරක්ෂා කරවීම, ඩිව් ගුණසේකර කෝප් කමිටු වාර්තාව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට සූදානම් වෙද්දී ජනාධිපති ලවා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවා හැරීමද ඒ අතර ප්‍රබල චෝදනා වෙනවා.

ඊට අමතරව ඩිව් ගුණසේකරගේ කෝප් කමිටු වාර්තාව මහජනතාවට නිකුත් කිරීම වැළැක්වීමට සුජීව සේනසිංහ ලවා අධිකරණ තීන්දුවක් ගැනීම හා එම තීන්දුව වර්ණනා කිරීම, සුජීව සේනසිංහගේ සභාපතිත්වයෙන් යුතු කෝප් කමිටු වාර්තාව දුර්වල කිරීමට ෆුට් නෝට් යෙදවීම, මහ බැංකු නිලධාරීන් විසින් ෆුට් නෝට්වලට එරෙහිව ඉදිරිපත් කළ විරෝධතා ඉල්ලා අස්කරගන්නා ලෙස බලපෑම් කිරීම, දෙවැනි වරටත් අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්‍රන් මහ බැංකු අධිපති කිරීමට උත්සාහ ගැනීම සහ එය අසාර්ථක වන විට අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්‍රන්ට උපදේශක තනතුරක් දීම, ඉන්පසුව මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශයේ උපදේශක තනතුරක් දීමට උත්සාහ ගැනීම එම චෝදනා වෙයි.

Dr Sudath Gunasekara

1 Defying the President’s order in sacking him and illegally occupying the Temple Trees there after and thereby misusing State property.

2  Calling for and canvassing international intervention in  the present crisis.

3 Conspiring to overthraw the legitimately appointed Cabinet and the Government by the President, and acting against public interest  and causing political, social and economic  brake down  to the country and thereby causing billions of losses to the country

4 Engaging in conspiracies and coups against the legitimate government, the Head of the State, the people and the country with foreign Diplomats by regularly summoning them to Temple Trees and conspiring with them to overthraw the Government and thereby committing high treason against the State.

5 Engaging in conspiracies to divide the coutry in to ethnic enclaves  such as Tamil  North, East and Central and Muslim south East by enacting a  new Constitution on Nov 6th 2018  that was averted thanks to the swift and timely actions of the President.

6  Signin illegal treaties and agreements with Foreing countries even without Cabinet approval that are detrimental to   national interest, its economy  and security, selling nation’s Ports, Harbours Airports and lands to foreigners.

7Appointing Paskaralingam, a man who was deprived of his civil rights, as Advisor to the Ministry of Finance  and  Arjun Mahendran as another Advisor to the Prime Minister after he was removed as Governor Central Bank

8 Leasing out Hambantota Port for 99 years to China.

9 Acts of treason he has committed against the State as Prime Minister, by conspiring to rob the CB   by getting appointed Arjun Mahendran as the Governor etc inspite of your objections and hiding  him in Singapore after the job was done, and protecteing him without   allowing the authorities to arrest him ( I opine he got him appointed as the Governor knowing very well that  Sri Lankan Government canno get him once he is back in Singapore as Singapore has not sing the exradition documents).

No sooner RW is arrested following chain of reactions will follow.

1The majority  for the Government in Parliament will cease to exist thereafter as the UNP will be  left leaderless

2 Karu Jayasuriya want be able to conduct UNP properganda  work at State expense   under the guise of  conducting sessions in Parliament.

3 Karu J, the UNP Speaker (rather the Speaker for the UNP in  Parliament) who made the Parliament a big joke and a mockery and after that has converted it to a UNP Head quaters, will have to leave as Speaher and give up his ambition to be futrure President and making his son-inlaw the Prime Minister.

4 The UNP will be left leaderless and will run into disarray beyond recovery.

5 Sajith, Navin, Rajitha, Ravi and even Champaka will begin quarrelling for its leadership and it will split in to pieces and that will be the end of the UNP as a political party and it will become a forgotten chapter of the political history of this country therafter unsung and  unwept

6 Whoever wins the leadership of the transitory UNP those disgruntled will join MR’s Government consolidating its majority until the next election comes and even thereafter consolidating  political satability in the country.

7 Political destitutes like the JVP and Hela Urumaya (Champika brand) and cancerous communal  day dreamers who depend on UNP for their survival will disappear in to political wilderness.

8 Thereafter even the Courts will be compelled to accept MR as the legitimate Prime MInister

MR then can go on either until the 4 and ½ year period ban imposed by the 19 A   is complete or in the event of the SC decides dissolution is in order, then he can request the President to issue a new Gazette  fixing the new date for General elections  and go for elections. Then he will definitely get  get the 2/3 in Parliament, if not more so that he will have a strong Government under which he can gor for a new constitution,  incorporating all the aspirations of the Bhumiputras, fully restoring the independence, sovereignty and freedom we lost to the British in 1815.

Whatever election that follows, I can predict the UNP will get routed out like in 1956 . The maximum number of seats it could get will be around 30,  if they limit the number of seats 196 to represent the 196 elctorates (and have the elections on the electoral basis abolishing the proportional and manapa systems),  after abolishing the so-called National list, the heaven  of political ring worms who eat in to the pith of the democratic tree, who  have converted representative democracy in to a big joke in this country.  If the existing preferance system is  abolished and the qualifying percentage is also increased to the original 12 % as it existed before, the Muslim and Tamil who opt to contest alone  might together get about 20  seats  and I can guarentee the anachronistic and politically cancerous JVP  (the Jatiya Vinasa kirime Pakshaya)  will get none.

(I also annex  the first article I posted  on 15.2.2018 under this subject as to  show why I repeatedly  make this request  from the President)

Punish all those who have masterminded the Central Bank gang robbery ASAP.

Posted on February 15th, 2018 (published in Lankaweb)

Dr Sudath Gunasekara

15.2.2018.

As I was listening to yesterday’s (14) 7 pm Hiru news bulletin, I saw Dr. P. Mahanamahewa explaining in detail how to deal with Arjuna Mahendaran in case if he does not turn up at the CID Office before the 15th. Today is 15th but still Mahendran, the third accused as I have stated before has not turned up.  Leaving aside the legal intricacies, my question is, are we going to leave it at that and  forget the trilions of immediate losses caused to the country and all the serious  spill over                      effects on the country’s econonomy for decades to come. Suppose he never comes back and escape the Sri Lankan Government, then what next?

If that happens on whom are we going to fix responsibility regarding this mega robbery which has completely ruined a nation with spillover effects on the nation’s ailing economy for decades and generations to come?

How the conspiracy was hatched and carried out AND BY WHOM

The whole country knows it was Ranil Wickramasinha who brought Arjuna Mahendran to Sri Lanka and got him appointed as the Governor of the Central Bank in spite of strong objections raised by the President, as the Head of the State

It was he who went to Singapore and invited him to come offering the Governorship of the CBlong beofore e Presidential election

It was he who got the CB under him as pre-planned from the Finance Ministry.

It was he who took full responsibility for his selection and insisted that Mahendran should be appointed, when the President objected for his request to appoint his buddy

Taking the Central Bank under him from the Finance Ministry was the first step in this mega conspiracy and crime committed by Ranil to ensure that this mega robbery will be carried out to its perfection with impunity.

I have no doubt Ranil did all this knowing that Mahendaran was not even a citizen of this country and therefore he cannot be taken to task by the Government of this country  once he send him out after the job is over. This clearly proves beyond all reasonable doubts that Ranil was the master mind behind the CB scam and he is the man who planned and got it implemented immaculately from the beginning to the end.

Therefore he is definitely the Accused no 1 in this mega robbery.

When the matter was raised in Parliament it was Ranil who defended him in the House on 17th March 2015

It was also Ranil who introduced the new system of Bond auctions as revealed by Arjuna Mahendran before the commission in his evidence

It was also Ranil who got the President to dissolve Parliament in August 2015 a day before the Dew Gunasekara COPE Report was to be presented to Parliament and thereby criminally avoided the Report being debated in Parliament.

(This lapse led to the second Bond Scam the subject of the present debate)

He also appointed his own commission of Party lawyers and got Mahendran exonerated before the President appointed his own Commission

Then he also wanted Mahendran appointed for a Second term which the President refused and got Coomaraswamy appointed  (Even that I dont think has made a     diference    as he is the brother of Radhika Comaraswamy another front line international agitator against the sinhahala Buddhists)

After that Ranil appointed Mahendran to another high post under his Ministry disregarding and ignoring his highly questionable role in the CB scam and also ignoring the President, probably thinking that it was he who got Mr Sirisena elected as the President, which is partly true.

When he was asked to give evidence before the Commission he got the Commissioners to send him a list of questions to be asked AT THE INQUIRY in advance carefully prepared, so that he can come prepared to answer them, perhaps designed to exonerate him.  (This is like the Commissioner of Examinations sending the Question papers to a candidate and accepting his answer scripts at the examiners home and pass him with distinction).

He also got Ravi Karunanayaka the Finance Minister his confidante and Deputy Leader of the UNP to instruct all State Banks to bid at the auction at lower interest rate ( 9.5%) so that Ajun Aloysius, who was perhaps advised in advance either by Mahendran his father-in-law who was living with him in his home  or jointly by Ranil and Mahendran asked  him to quote 12.5 % interest as pre-planned.

He was also responsible for increasing the 10 Billion to 40 Billion as Mahendran has revealed in his evidence before the Commission

It was also he who got Sujiiva Serasinha, the Author of the famous Book on CB SCAM, appointed to the COPE as a member.

 It was  RWwho spear headed the 19th Amendment that reduced the powers of the President including the most crucial one, the power the Presdent       had to dissolve Parliament

It was also he who sent Mahendran to Singapore when dark clouds were gathering over the sky.

(It is beyond comprehension how and why a suspect of such a crime was allowed to leave the country, unless there was some powerful intervention behind it). Ranil should know better than anybody else as to how he left Katunayaka Airport without any problem. Ranil knows better than any if Mahendran is arrested and grilled by the CID and by people like Dappula Livera and Kodagoda he will spill out all the beans and the entire gang of Alibaba and 40 thieves and all others who have jointly conspired, aided and abetted in different ways assigned to them by the leader, like writing books, adding foot notes and those benefitted directly or indirectly will be exposed.

He also has taken full responsibility in Parliament and before the President as well for all actions of Mahendraran which makes him responsible before the law for all crimes Mahendaran  has committed.

In this backdrop I don’t think this man will ever come to Sri Lanka. The perpetrators must have done their homework so that he could be kept in hiding safely forever.

Why can’t the President or law enforcing authorities take action against Ranil taking these commitments as serious crimes he has committed against the State and take action accordingly?

Of cause one could argue that he cannot be treated under that law as he has not duly singed a bond in court to that effect. Can’t it be accepted as a verbal bond under common law interpreting all what he has done as commissions and omissions against public interest?   I am sure what I have said here could be converted to legal jargon to frame the charges

Therefore the citizens of this country who are the owners of the Central Bank should demand the President to at least now arrest the Golden brain, whoever it is, that conspired, planned and executed this crime with a gang of thieves and who is also doing everything he could, under the sun to protect Mahendran his erstwhile friend for nothing but shear political and personal gain. I don’t think anybody needs to name him. The President should know it better than anybody else. So I leave it to him to decide. I do not know whether he will take the correct decision. But as responsible citizens it is our duty by the country and its people to raise these issues for public debate. If he takes the correct decision on this issue at least now I have no doubt that he will at least partially emerge out of the abysmal political mire in to which he has fallen, not because of anybody else’s fault, but only of his own fault and lapses and lack of far sight.  It will also open the doors for an entirely a new political culture in this country, free from corruption and misgovernment, which the people of this country have been desperately dreaming for decades.

As I rate it under these circumstances

The First accused is Ranil Wickramasinha

Second Arjun Mahendran and

Third Ravi Karunanayaka

I leave it to the AG to list the others in order.

The President has to take the lead  in this matter  more than any other as the Head of the State,  in  time as he is also partly responsible for most of these crimes committed by RW. More importantly at least before he is gunned down by these elments going by serious statements issued by  different people, an imminent dager on Presidents life iin the making, with or without foreign intervention Therefore the President must act immediately before RW and his cohort take the lead.

RW should be knowing it better than anybody else that it is he who will get appointed as the President of the country if Maitri is eleminated. So it hangs on as to who will be the first . It is as simple as that. The President should realize this precarious situation at least now and arrest RW immediately and institute legal action against him for the crimes he has already committed against the nation.to prevent this catastrophy.

It is only the direct intervention by the President   that can save the contry from this national disaster.

Those of you who read this will know many more involvements and finer points than I have stated here. I beg your pardon for shortcomings in this note and readers are free to add their own.

Note: The background for his selection as GCB.

Mahendrans are Ranil’s Family friends and strong UNP supporters. Mahendran is also said to be his school mate at Royal. He was appointed to several posts includinf the Sri Lanka  Ayojana Mandalaya,  even in 2001 when Ranil became PM. During that time RW also appointed Charless Mahendran, Ajun’s farther to the UN.  While he was there he is supposed to have given some vital secret information to Ranil bypassing Chandrika, over which Chandrika got damn annoyed and dissolved the Parliament making room for the 2004 General Elections that routed Ranil’s Government and sent him to the opposition.

It is in this back drop one has to understand as to why Ranil brought Mahendran to the Central Bank

9 Responses to Why doesn’t the Government arrest Ranil immediately on the serious findings of the Bond Commission Report in addition to the following unlawful and un-Constitutional actions and crimes”

    Hiranthe Says:

December 12th, 2018 at 7:25 pm

Nothing happens like that in this land Dr. Sudath G.

We were waiting for the publication of the Bond Scam report after declaration by My3. Don’t know what happened to that issue? Already 2 weeks are getting over after that statement of My3.

Was it a drama meant for only misleading public?

    Cerberus Says:

December 12th, 2018 at 7:59 pm

    Dr. Sudath Gunasekera, It is strange that the verdict delivered in the Batalanda case to remove Ranil’s civil rights was never implemented. Wonder why? Also, I find it strange that the Bond Commission report found everyone guilty except the man who obviously masterminded the whole operation. Ranil brought Paskaralingam from U.K and appointed him as the head of the Treasury, Ranil brought an alien Arjun Mahendran and appointed him as the Governor of the Central Bank, and yet the Bond Commission finds only Arjun Mahendran and Aloysius and a few others who collected money from Arjun guilty. Yet the UNP Govt investigated MR Govt for three years and even got help from the FBI and CIA to find so-called MR’s billions stashed away in Dubai. They never found anything. Finally in desperation to find something against MR they made such a fuss about MR Govt distributing ‘Sil Redi’ before the election and jailed 70-year-old gentleman Mr. Lalith Weeratunge to 5 years hard labor in jail for this so-called crime even though MR said that Mr. Weeratunge was acting on his orders. Mr. Weeratunge was a Govt servant with impeccable character and morality. It is really true that we are in the Kali Yuga where everything is upside down.

    Caesar Says:

December 12th, 2018 at 10:02 pm

  The Multiparty democracy imposed on us by West is a total failure.    We need a King and Sinhela Legal system to develop and protect our Country, Nation and Buddha Saasana.

Corrupt set of judges who serve the West. India, RAW, CIA, LTTE, UNP, TNA should be wiped out and Kingdom rule is called in, on site execution method is deployed. All traitors go to hell.

There are no other solutions !

Utter waste of time and resources.

Caesar Says:    December 12th, 2018 at 10:12 pm

Ranil and Wife’s religion !

Timing is not right to arrest the Butterfly. International community will explode the news. Lets wait for the Supreme Court decision. Lets not make the Butterfly a HERO. Even if there is a general election, he should not be arrested, instead bring him before CID frequently as possible. Once the Butterfly is defeated, arrest him. Probably, what happened to Buddharakkitha will happen to the Butterfly. Lets wait.    Randeniyage Says:

December 13th, 2018 at 4:50 am

Because Mahinda and Ranil are good friends.

    Charles Says:

December 13th, 2018 at 6:37 am

Sudath Remember I have expressed my doubts about the bona fides of these Judges. They are either from UNP back ground or definitely wants to please the West. They are unpatriotic and distincly against the Ordinary Sinhala attitudes.

It was after working together with Ranil for three and half years that the President said that he would not want to work with Ranil even if the 225 MPs were to sign a petition in favour of Ranil. It is because he knows now through experience to what extent Ranil is a dangerous man. It is still the followers of SLFP,UPFA,SLPP that are quiet and silent while the UNP Bathgottas and foolish JVP which shout and run down the Presidetn and Rajapakses.

Ananda-USA Says:

December 14th, 2018 at 1:07 am

This ENTIRE FIASCO of Mis-Governance shows only ONE THING: That Sri Lanka’s Constitution, AMENDED many times to suit political convenience of unprincipled leaders is NOW UNABLE TO DEFEND & PROTECT Sri Lanka’s National Interests which go ABOVE & BEYOND Democracy” considerations! The CURRENT CONSTITUTION is now an EXISTENTIAL THREAT to Sri Lanka’s VERY SURVIVAL as a Sovereign Nation

The CONSTITUTIONAL SAFEGUARDS for Sri Lanka’s National INTEGRITY and the SECURITY of its People has been TRADED IN for a watered-down Western Style Democracy that the West DICTATES to preserve their interests while the INALIENABLE RIGHTS of Sri Lankans are FLOUTED by their PAID STOOGES in all 3 branches of Government!

We, the PATRIOTIC CITIZENS of Sri Lanka must TAKE CONTROL of our Motherland before it is LOST FOREVER! We MUST STRENGTTHEN the National Government, and the EXECUTIVE PRESIDENCY FURTHER, while ELIMINATING ALL Sub-National Governments except city, town and village local governments, We must REPEAL both the 19th and 13th Amendments to the Constitution!

We must ELIMINATE the PM’s post as UNNECESSARY and DUPLICATIVE; the Speaker’s post is sufficient to conduct the LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS of the Parliament. The Parliament MUST NOT HAVE ANY EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATION ROLE; its business should be SOLELY to LEGISLATE and to Aend as needed ad Approve the BUDGET as presented to it by the EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT in charge of a CABINET of MINISTERS who report SOLELY to him.

If the CURRENT FIASCOO has SHOWN ANYTHING, it is that it is a FATAL MISTAKE to DIVIDE the powers of the EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT between a WEAKEEED PRESIDENT and an EXECUTIVE Prime Minister! That experiment HAS NOW BEEN demonstrably proved to be UNWORKABLE, FLAWED from the VERY START and a NEAR-FATAL DISASTER!

We must HALT the ECTA and Singapore Agreements NOW! We must IMMEDIATELY MOVE to take back ALL STRATEGIC National Assets . like our Ports, Airports, Banks, Hospitals, Teaching Institutions, Highways, Refineries, Factories, Petroleum Tank Farms, Construction Companies, Real Estate, etc. As far as possible, we must award our National Development Contracts to Companies that are owned at least 60% by Sri Lankan citizens.

Sri Lanka’s ENEMIES, both WITHIN and WITHOUT, will be within a STONE’s THROW of achieving their MACHIAVELIAN DESIGNS should Hitapu PARA-GATHI AGA-MATHI Ranil Wikunanasighe, and his SEPARATIST Alies in the TNA and the SLMC cimb back into the SEAT of Power, with the EVER-OPPORTUNISTIC and SUPREMELY UNPATRIOTIC JVP enthusiastically pushing the 20th Amendment to strike the FINAL NAILS into NOW SUPINE Mother Lanka’s heaving BREAST!

I havew said it before, and I will say it again: President Sirisea shhould not back down ONE-INCH; he should SUSPEND the Parliament and SHUT IT DOWN under armed forces protection, DECLARE an EMERGENCY and IMPOSE Martia Law; EXPEL Ranil from the Temple Trees, charge him with Trespassing on Government Property and seek DAMAGES both Real and Punitive; and MOST IMPORTANTLY MOVE to HOLD a GEERAL Parliamentary ELECTION to DETERMINE the WILL of the PEOPLE!

NEVER HAND the Government back to the ACCOMPLISHED CROOKS and TRAITORS of Ranil Baba ad his 40-Thieves without the SUPPPORT of the VOTERS of Sri Lanka!

Cerberus Says:

December 14th, 2018 at 12:38 pm

Agree with ‘Caesar’ that the Multiparty Democracy imposed on us by the West is a total failure. Today, in some of the Middle East countries there are governments with a King like in the olden times or benevolent dictators. So long as these countries toe the Power Bloc lines, they are allowed to govern. If they move away from them, then suddenly they will become the bad people” and will be eliminated. Sri Lanka fought the terror war and managed to do all the development work with help from mainly the Chinese Govt who give help with no strings attached. Yet while some in the West do not like Sri Lanka moving too closely with the East they do not and cannot give us much help at all. As they say in Sinhala බල්ලා පිදුරු කන්නෙත් නැ කන ගොනාට කන්න දෙන්නෙත් නැ”.

Instead of Western-style democracy which does not seem to work well even in the USA or the UK, we might, with some alterations, adopt the Chinese model which appears to work well. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_China

Instead of one King, we could have a Governing body made up of at least 10 senior, educated, well known patriotic leaders, with experience and good character and ethics. We can have elections similar to the local government or the provincial elections and then choose a group of such 10 people who are mature, educated and with good character and morality and form a Council to govern the country along with a Cabinet of Ministers. The Governing Council formed by the UNP was a body with the worst scum bags. As a result unlike the current multi-party system where all the energy is wasted in hot air blasting each other in the Parliament, the group of 10 could work together to solve the problems of the country. We can see how fast China has come up while most of the Western democracies are floundering. India adopted the multi-party system and today they are also floundering. When the colonized countries freed them colonizers left behind a Trojan horse for each country to experiment which was the multi-party democratic system. You can see the net result. Even the Legal bodies appear to have the Western mindset and cannot think in the local context.

The only real leader of proven value who has emerged through it all in the last 15 years is MR. If we look at the parties what have they achieved? The SLFP under SWRD brought the Sinhala language Act overnight which was an impediment for the Sinhala people emerging from nearly 500 yrs of colonization. He also brought in the Tamil Language Act to put Tamil on as a National language. The Tamil and Muslim people were able to get their education in English while the Sinhala students could not. Under Chandrika, the SLFP did not do much since Ranil was the PM. Except for the UNP under JR who launched the Mahaweli project, the free trade zones, etc, and the houses for villagers under Pres Premadasa, after the traitor, Ranil took over the UNP, he did nothing for the country. All the time he was in the Opposition, he went around the world I think at taxpayer cost and kept on bringing the country down where ever he went. It is the same with the JVP who were slaughtered by the UNP. During that time it was MR who went to the UN to plead on behalf of the innocent village youths who were being rounded up and killed by the likes of Ranil and the miserable UNP gang. Yet today the JVP has forgotten the past. At the last election in Jan 2015, Anura Kumara was the most vociferous with absurd lies against MR & his family such the golden horses and fleets of Lamborghini’s. The campaign led by the UNP to win elections through bribery and lies were successful. The people suffered later with the new govt led by Ranil and the UNP in many ways with heavy taxes and cost of living etc and felt so much remorse that they went in busloads to invite MR back to politics.

During MR’s time, he achieved a great deal.. His main task was the elimination of the LTTE after 30 years in spite of the opposition from various foreign countries. He built up the infrastructure all over the country and rebuilt most of the infrastructure that had been destroyed all over the country and mainly in North and East by the LTTE. In spite of all the work done by MR, the Tamils voted against MR. For the last three years, the UNP created a coalition government with the SLFP and nothing was achieved even though a lot of money was borrowed. The Bond scam pulled off by Ranil has cost the country billions. Most of the poor people’s EPF was taken by Ranil’s buddies. The MPs were bribed with tax-free luxury vehicles and given large increases in salaries, plus bonuses & allowances. That is how the infamous 19A was passed. The Speaker during this time did not accept the majority group which was the UPFA as the Opposition instead gave the Opposition party leader post to the TNA which had only 16 seats.

Now that the Supreme Court has ruled against Maithri’s dissolution of the Parliament, our people will have to be very vigilant. Ranil and the JVP managed to pass the 19A by trickery and fooling the foolish MPs. Ranil introduced electronic voting in the Parliament which is not used even in the West. They nearly managed to pass the new Constitution which would have broken up the country into 9 pieces as our former Colonizers wanted. It was stopped thanks to MR and the vigilance of the Joint Opposition.

We pray that Ranil does not become the new Prime Minister. We hope that even if he is that he is not allowed to do too much damage. His main policy has been always to destroy the country through crash and sell” and according to the Batalanda report has got killed many Sinhalese youths at the Batalanda torture chambers.

Sudath Gunasekara 

27. 2. 2019.

The decision of the committee on the parliamentary squabble conveyed to the House by the Speaker reminds me of the proverbial Kekille Rajjuruwanage nadu teenduwa. I read Udaya Gammanpila has said it is politically biased. Any pottaya who has seen how the brawl flared and ended up will, I have no doubt, will agree with his comments.

As for me I see a bigger blunder in this whole episode as the inquiring committee has completely failed,   forgotten or deliberately neglected to look in to the main cause behind this incident. In my opinion the main cause of the whole tragedy lies in the hands of the speaker who mismanaged the whole situation right from the beginning to end, as the man in the Chair. Had he acted impartially as the Speaker of the House ‘as a Judge sitting on the bench ’this unfortunate incident would never have happened or at least could have been avoided

Looking at how things have been mismanaged at the Parliament by the Speaker in the past few months openly taking the side of Ranil to protect him and their Government as he thinks, even an uneducated   ordinary person with common sense will know that he is not impartial. And he is compelled to conclude that the main reason behind this sad episode was the dictatorial and biased attitude of the Chair. In spite of this obvious situation the committee decision appears to have completely forgotten the basic principle of cause and effect theory and decided to punish the wrong party. Having seen the episode on the screen many times I don’t for a moment say all what the members involved did were correct. But my observation is that it has exonerated the main culprit, the Speaker. Obviously the main cause of this indecent and uncivilized brawl inside the nation’s lawmaking body which is supposed to be the most august Assembly of the country is the fault of the Speaker, the King in the thrown. When the King paraded the streets naked on the elephant thinking that he is wearing the most valuable clothe in the world woven by his royal weaves in the past(Setambara patasaluwa) only a tiny tot standing naked by the road  side hanging on to his mother’s hand saw the nakedness, but never the King. So it is even true of today, when it comes to power and Kings. On that day the House went down to the level of a fish market or even worse than that, a disgrace to the country as it was televised all over the world. Even that these Kings didn’t notice.

Justice must not only be done but it must also seem to be done. It is only then the ordinary but prudent masses will see it as justice and respect and accept it as true justice. Therefore I think the present decision should be varied. Either punish all from top to bottom including the man who created this scene or decide it inside the House, with an open apology by all responsible and an undertaking to not to repeat this kind of ugly incidents inside the house in future, without leaving it to go down in history as another black mark for this Parliament that has already gone down in books as the most disgraceful one   we ever had in this country.  That is how an ordinary Head Master of a village school would decide, I think.

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්

             මෙරට දැනට ඉතිරිව පවතින පැරණිතම වංශ කතාව දීප වංශයයි.එයට අමතරව මහාවංශය ථූප වංශය ආදී වංශ කතා මෙන්ම රජාවලිය පූජාවලිය දළදා පූජවලිය රාජාවලිය ආදී ඉතිහාසයට සම්බන්ධ කතා ප්‍රවෘත්ති රාශියක් අප සතුව ඇත්තේය.මහාවංශයට ලියූ මහාවංශ ටීකාව රාජ රත්නාකරය එළු දළදා වංශය දළදා සිරිත ආදී විස්තරාත්මක ග්‍රන්ථ සමූහයකින් නිර්මිත සිංහල බෞද්ධ ඉතිහාසයට රජෙක් නුවූ කාලයක් නැත තරම්ය. ලංකාවේ රාජ නාමාවලිය විස්තර කරමින් රචනා කරන ලද රාජාවලිය මගින් කියැවෙන්නේ ලංකාවේ රාජ වංශය ශ්‍රී වික්‍රම රාජසිංහයන් ගෙන් අවසන් වන බවයි.එහෙත් ඉන් පසුව එංගලන්තයේ පස් වන ජෝර්ජ් රජු ලංකාවේ ද රජු බවට පත් වෙයි.එංගලන්ත කිරීටයෙන් රට නිදහස් වූ පසු ලංකාවට අහිමි වූ සිංහල රාජාවලිය යලි ඇරඹෙන්නට අවශ්‍යව තිබුණි. එහෙත් එය සිදු නුවුණි. ඒ වෙනුවට එංගලන්ත රැජිනට වග කිව හැකි දේශීය අගමැති වරයෙකු රටේ පාලකයා වශයෙන් පත් විය.

        1815 වර්ෂයේ දී උඩරට නිළමේ වරු සහ එංගලන්ත ආණ්ඩුව විසින් අත්සන් කරන ලද ගිවිසුමෙන් සංකේතවත් වූයේ බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය රජු ලංකාවේ රජු වශයෙන් පිළිගන්නා බවද ඔහු වෙනුවෙන් ලංකාව පාලනය කරලීමට දේශීය ප්‍රභූ පැලැන්තියෙන් පුද්ගලයෙකු පත් විය යුතු බවත්ය. නිසැකවම ඒ තනතුර බලාපොරොත්තු වූයේ ඇහැලේපොල අදිකාරම් තුමාය. නමුත් ඉංග්‍රීසි ආණ්ඩුවේ ඉක්මන් කමත් ලංකාවේ රදළවරුන්ගේ අසමගියත් නිසා දෙපිරිස අතර වූ අසහනය වර්ධනය වී මහා අරලයක් බවට පත් විය. එහි අවසාන ප්‍රතිඵලය වූයේ ඇහැලේපොල අදිකාරම් තුමා මුරිසියට පිටිවහල් කර ඉංග්‍රිසි ආණ්ඩුකාර වරයෙකු රටේ පාලකයා බවට පත් වීමයි. වර්ෂ 133 කට පසුව ලංකාවේ ප්‍රභූ පැලැන්තිය ඉල්ලූ ස්වදේශ පාලනය ඔවුන්ට ලැබුණි.නමුත් ඔවුහු සාම්ප්‍රදායික උඩරට මුල් ඇඳුමින් සැරසුණ ප්‍රභූ වරු නුවූහ. ටයි කෝට් ටොප් හැටි පැළඳි ඉංග්‍රීසි ආණ්ඩුවට සුවච වූ රදළ පැලැන්තියක් වූහ.මේ නිසා 1815 දී අපට අහිමි වූ රාජ්‍ය නායකත්වය ඉන් නොලැබුණි. ලංකාවට නොගැලපෙන පාර්ලිමේන්තු ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදයත් පක්ෂ ක්‍රමයත් නිසා රටේ ප්‍රධාන බහුතරය දෙකට බෙදුණි. රටේ නායකත්වයට එන අගමැති වරයා එක් මැතිවරණ කොට්ඨාශයක් නියෝජනය කරන පක්ෂ නායකයෙකු බවට පත් විය. එම තත්ත්වය මත ඔහු පෙර රජවරුන් මෙන් බුද්ධ ශාසනයේ ආරක්ෂකයා නොවීය. භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා පිරිසක්  අගමැති ඩී.එස්. සේනානනායක මහතා හමු වූ අවස්ථාවේ ඔහු පවසන ලද්දේ දැන් පුරා විද්‍යාව මගින් අපි කරන්නේ බුද්ධ ශාසනයට අයත් දේ සුරැකීම  නොවේ දැයි ඇසීය. මොකද ඔය තරම් හදිසි යයි ඔහු අසන්නට පෙළ ඹුණේ තමාට ඉහළින් ධවල අධිරාජිනියක් සිටින නිසාය.

     1948 අපට නාමික නිදහසක් ලැබුණේ මේ කරුණු නිසාවෙනි.නමුත් එහි සැබෑ තත්ත්වය වටහා නොගත් දේශීය බලවේග 1952 දී බණ්ඩාරනායක මහතා වටා ගොනු වී නව දේශපාලන බලයක් නිර්මාණය කරලන්නට උත්සුක වූයේ නිදහස අපේක්ෂාවෙනි. සිංහලය ට රාජය භාෂා තත්ත්වය ලබා ගැනීම අධ්‍යාපනය නිදහස් කිරීම පුද්ගලික අංශයේ ඒකාධිකාරය බිඳ හෙලමින් සමූපාකාරය ශක්තිමත් කරලීම වතු ජනසතු කිරීම ආදී අරමුණු එවකට විය. මෙම අරමුණු යම් තරමකින් ඉටු කරගන්නට හැකිවුවද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවකට වග කියන අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය වරයෙකුට එම සීමාවෙන් පිට පැනිය නොහැකි විය. හැටේ දශකයේ දී සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිණියගේ මූලිකත්වයෙන් තබන ලද ප්‍රගතිශීලී පියවරයන් සියල්ල එකල ඇයට තිබූ විදේශ සවි ශක්තියෙන් කළ කී දෑ විය. නමුත් සෝවියට් සංගමය දුර්වල වූ විට ඇයගේ බලයත් ක්‍රමානුකූල ලෙසට අව පාතයට ලක් විය.මේ නිසා රටේ සාමය නැති කිරීමට විදේශීය බලවේග විසින් කළ කුමන්ත්‍රණයේ ප්‍රතිපලය වූයේ උතුරේ දෙමළ ජාතිවාදය නව වටයකින් ආරම්භ වීමයි. හැත්තෑව දශකයේ මැතිණිය ගේ බලය දුර්වල කොට ජේ.ආර්. ජයවර්ධන මහතා බලයට පත් වූ පසුව ඔහුටද කොටි ත්‍රස්තවාදයට මුහුණ දෙන්නට සිදු විය.මේ පීඩනයට සෘජුවම මුහුණ දීමට නම් රටේ විධායකයක් පැවතිය යුතු බවට ජේආර්. විශ්වාසය පළ කලේය. එක් මැතිවරණ කොට්ඨාශයකින් ජයග්‍රහණය කරන පුද්ගලයෙකු රටේ නායකත්වයට පත් වීමට වඩා මුලු රටම එක මැතිවරණ කොට්ඨෘශයක් ලෙසට ගෙන විධාකයක් පත් කර ගැනීමෙන් රට ශක්තිමත් වන බවට ඔහු අවංකවම කල්පනා කරන්නට ඇත. මේ වෑයම මත ඔහුගේ පෞද්ගලික අභිප්‍රායන් තිබුණද පෙර කී අරමුණු මගින් ඔහු මෙහෙයවූ බව කල්පනා කළ හැකිය.නමුත් ඔහුට වැරදුන තැන නම් විධායක බලය සහිතව ඇමරිකන් ගැති ප්‍රතිපත්තියක් අනුගමනය කරමින් විවෘත ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිපත්තීන් මත රට මෙහෙයවීමට වෑයම් කරලීමයි.දේශීය බලවේග ඔහුගෙන් ඈත් වූයේ එබැවිනි.

             කෙසේ වෙතත් මෙරට රාජ්‍ය පාලනය සමග බුද්ධ ශාසනය බැඳී පවතී. විශේෂයෙන්ම රාජ්‍යත්වයට පත් වන්නා දළදා වහන්සේ සමග අවියෝජනීය සම්බන්ධයක් පවත්වාගෙන යා යුතු වෙයි.දළදා භාරකරු වූ කීරවැල්ල පරපුරේ ඇත්තන් අනුමත ඔවුන්ගේ පරපුරේ කුමරියක් අග බිසව බවට පත් විය යුතුය. මේ චාරිත්‍රය විමලධර්මසූරිය රජු දක්වාම අඛණ්ඩව පැවතුණි. නමුත් සෙනරත් රජු ගේ කාලයේ දී දෙනවක මායාදුන්නේ රජු හා ඇති වූ හබය නිසා බොහෝ රාජකීයන් නිලතල හැරදා වන වැදුණි.එමි නිසා සෙනරත් ගේ පුත් දෙවනි රාජසිංහ විසින් කීලරවැල්ලේ ඥාතීන් සතුව තිබූ දළදා භාරකාරත්වය කීරවැල්ල පරපුරට නෑකම් ඇති භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලාට පවරා දුනි. වසර දහස් ගණනක් තිස්සේ කිත්සිරිමෙවන් රජ දවස සිට පැවති සම්ප්‍රදායක් මෙලෙස අවසන් විය. එහි ප්‍රතිඵලය වූයේ ඉන්පසු පැමිණි රජවරු මදුරාපුරයෙන් රාජ කන්‍යාවන් ගෙන ඒමට පෙළඹීමයි.එම නිසා රාජකීයත්වයක් නොමැති වඩුග නායක් පෙළතකට රටේ රජකම හිමි විය. මේ බල අරගලයේ අවසාන ප්‍රතිඵලය වූයේ 1815 වර්ෂයේ දී  රට ඉංග්‍රීසීන් සතු වීමයි.

     රාජ නීතියෙහි පදනම දශ රාජධර්මයයි.  ලංකාවේ රජ්ජුරුවන් වහන්සේ ගේ තනි කැමැත්තට ඕනෑ වූ දෙයක් කරන්ඩ පුලුවන්ද යන්න ප්‍රශ්ණයක් වශයෙන් ෆැල්ක් ලන්දේසි ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයා විමසූ කල්හි එවක සිටි මල්වතු මහ නා හිමියන්  දුන් පිළිතුර මෙසේය. ‘රජ්ජුරුවන් වහන්සේ ලෝක නීතිය යන පුරාතන පැවති නඩු අනඩු සිරිත් චාරිත්‍ර දැනීමද ධර්ම නීතිය යන ආගම පුරාගම දැනීමද යන මෙසේ  මහත් වූ නුවණ ඇති පණ්ඩිත කෙනෙක් ය. තමන්ගේ කැමැත්තට තීන්දු කරන්ඩ පුලුවන් රාජ්ජේ කාරණාවලුත් ඇත. අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩලයෙන්ද රට වාසීන්ගෙන්ද හොඳ හැටි විචාරා කරන දේත් බොහෝ දේ ඇත.   මේ රාජ නියමයට පදනම් වී ඇත්තේ දශ රාජ ධර්මයයි. එය එම ලියවිල්ලේ සඳහන් කර ඇත්තේ මෙසේය. දන්දීමය සිල් රැකීමය තෑගි දීමය සෘජු භාවය මැදහත් බවය තපස් ඇති බවය. ක්‍රෝධ නොකිරීමය ක්ෂමා වීමය අවිරුද්ධ බවය. දන්දීම නම් ශ්‍රමණ බ්‍රාහ්මණාදීන්ට යාචකයින්ට බත් පිළි ආදිය දීමය. සිල් රැකීම නම් නොකඩ කොට ආගම දැරීමය. ත්‍යාගි බව නම් කෙත්වත් ආදී උතුම් වස්තු දීමය.සෘජු බව නම් සිත වංක චාටු නැති බවය. මැදහත් බව නම් සියල්ලන්ම එකසැටි බවය. තපස් ඇති බව නම් රූප ශබ්දය ගන්ධය රසය ස්පර්ශය යන මෙකී ඇලුම් පසේ පැවති තෘෂ්ණාව මැඩ පැවැත්වීමය. ක්‍රොධ නොකිරිම නම් නිරපරාධ අයට වද නොයෙදීමය. ක්ෂමා වීම නම් නොවිචාරා වරදට නොකිපීමය. අවිරුද්ධ බව නම් සියලු අය විරුද්ද නැති බවය. ’

                 මෙහිදී පැහැදිලිවන්නේ රටේ නිතිය යුක්ති ධර්මය අනුව තීරණයවී ඇති බවයි. පෙර පූර්වාදර්ශ ද ගණන් ගන්නා නමුත් යුක්ති ධර්මය එහිදී ප්‍රධාන බවන බව පැහැදිලිය. රජු දේවත්වයෙන් සැලකීමද බෝසත් ගුණ යෙන් යුතු වීමද කල යුතු බව සම්ප්‍රදායක් විය. නුවර නාථ දේවාලය ඉදිරියේ පැවති රාජ අභිෂේකයේ දී දශ රාජ ධර්මය රකින්නට දිවුරුම් දීමෙන් ඒ බැව් සනාථ වේ. එසේ නොවුනහොත් තමන්ගේ හිස සත්කඩකට පැලේවා යයි ද රජු කියයි. මේ නිසා ලංකාවේ  රාජ්‍යත්වය වනාහි හිතුවක්කාර පාලනයක සංකේතයක් ලෙසට සැලකීම වැරදිය. නමුත් වර්තමාන නියෝජිත ප්‍රජාතන්තුවාදයේ පදනම මත පිහිටවූ විධායක ජනාධිපති තනතුර ඒකාධිපති තනතුරක් ලෙසට කලක් මතවාදයකට ලක් විය.ඒ නිසා එය අහෝසි කරලන්නට ජන මතයක්ද ඇති විය. එහෙත් කොටි සමග පැවති මහා සටනේ දී එම තනතුරේ ආනුභාවයෙන් රටේ සාමය ඇති කරලන්නට සමත් වූ බව කවුරුත් දනී. පෙර පැවති රජ තනතුරම නොවුණද රටේ නායකයෙකු සිටින බව දැනෙන්නේ ජනපති වරයෙකු එම ධූරය හොබවන විටයි.එකම අඩුව නම් වත්මන් ජනපති වරයා සෘජුවම බුද්ධ ශාසනයේ ආරක්ෂකයා දළදා වහන්සේට වග කියන පුද්ගලයා වශයෙන් පෙනී නොසිටීමයි.වර්තමානයේ නැවතත් මෙම තනතුර අහෝසී කරලීමට මතවාදයක් ඇති වෙමින් පවතී. පළාත් සභා අහෝසි කළහොත් එම තනතුර අහෝසි විය යුතු බවද ඇතැමුන් ගේ මතයයි. එහෙත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට වග කියන අගමැති වරයෙකුට ජනතාව ගේ චන්ද කොට්ඨාශයකින් තේරී පත්වන අගමැති වරයෙකුට දළදා වහන්සේට හෝ බුද්ධශාසනයට වග කිව නොහැකිය. එය 1948 වර්ෂයේ සිටම අප අත් දැක ඇත්තෙමු. හම නිසා කුමන හේතුවක් මත වුවද ජනපති තනතුර අහෝසි නොකළ යුතුය. නමුත් එම තනතුර දශරාජ ධර්මයෙන් පාලනය වන දළදා වහන්සේට වග කියන තනතුරක් බවට පත් කරලීමට අපට හැකියාවක් ඇත. ඒ සඳහා අවවාද අනුශාසනා කරලීමට මහා විහාරය ඇතුළු භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලාට අවස්ථාව තිබේ.

Palitha Senanayake

M/S Samantha Power

Ex Senior Director of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights

Of the US National Security Council

Dear madam,

Human Rights Violations by Sri Lankan forces

The greatest friend of TRUTH is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice,
and her constant companion is Humility.”

Considering the damage you have done to this country and its image during your time in office, with allegations of human rights violation by its forces, on evidently inflated statistics, it is indeed unfortunate that we Sri Lankan’s cannot welcome you whole heartedly in to this country for your key note address at Minister Mangala Samaraweera’s political milestone event. However, it is with the fervent understanding that we could sought out facts relating to the conflict that ended 2009 and the events thereafter, that we decided to address this letter to you so that you may view those events in a truer and a more realistic perspective for the benefit of US policy and that of this country.

Any visitor to this country today will observe that Colombo has a few high rises and its infrastructure has tremendously improved and continue to do so, vis a vis the situation pre- 2009. The country as a whole, has recorded gains in every sphere including improved tourist arrivals, a new and better road network, new investments and in general buoyancy of life all-round. If it is the North and the East (for whose rights the LTTE claimed they were fighting) you are concerned about; the life is bubbling again in those areas with schools functioning, business and industry thriving, new buildings coming up and most importantly it has been possible to elect representatives to local governing councils after 34 years. There are no child soldiers, deserted and bullet ridden houses, cemeteries for heroes and suicide bombers stalking freely.

Therefore, any well-wisher of the country in particular and a humanitarian in general would welcome the present situation of hope and peace in Sri Lanka as against the sheer hopelessness and misery that existed before. Realistically, had the LTTE not been eliminated in 2009 it would have accounted for well over another 30,000- 40,000 Sri Lankan lives during the period 2009-2019 continuing with that situation where human rights accountability of the country in general would have been blurred and very casual. Thus, it is in this present context of things that we have to perceive all these allegations made against the anti-terrorist operation of the forces as vengeful and is smacking of an ulterior motive, especially when the statistics backed to make those allegations are based on the claims made by those very organisations that funded and propagated the LTTE during the thirty + years of its operations. This is particularly of significance to this whole issue because the LTTE survived for 34 years as the best organized and the most ruthless terrorist group in the world (your State department report in 2001), particularly due to the nurturing it received in the hands of its funding and propaganda/ lobbying wings that are alive and active even today.   To be realistic, the devious methods, modus-operands and subtle propaganda of this Diaspora groups have been relentless, purposeful and irresistible to the international compared to the successive SL Government that lacked a clear cut policy on terrorist funding and control.

The bone of contention of these human rights allegations against the Sri Lankan force is the deaths of 40, 000 civilians who are alleged to have perished during the last phase of this conflict when the LTTE surrounded its armed operations with human shields. This figure is primarily based on the Dharusman report that concluded its findings based on the evidence submitted by the propagandist of the LTTE devoid of exercising an iota of an acceptable method of verification. What intrigue us here is that why you and the international community should base their findings on this Dharusman report which was merely a report called by the then UN General Secretary for his personal purposes, compiled by questionable persons and based on one-sided evidence, when first-hand information was available to you and the others of the international community through their Defence attaché of the respective embassies.

Lord Naseby, a member of the British House of Lords, in his findings on the casualties during the last phase of the conflict had revealed to the British Parliament that both the US and the British Defence attaché’s had documented deaths between 7000 to 8000 persons( including the non- uniformed cadres of the LTTE) during the subject period an therefore the 40,000 deaths claimed by the Dharusman report is not tenable. Further, the Sri Lankan Government in the face of these allegations in the international forums commissioned its Department of Census and statistics to carry out a detail assignment to ascertain the number of deaths that had happened during the subject period. This assignment demographically covered the entire northern and the Eastern provinces, with each GS division by operatives of those provinces ( Grama sevakas, School teachers and other Government servants). This information was then collated and compiled and made in to a report as is done normally by the department for all other areas of the country. This report too surmised that the number of missing persons (presumed dead as claimed by family members and by Grama Sevakas) is in the region of 8,000 persons. This report incidentally, was the result of the verified information submitted by the Grama Sevakas (the village level administrative officer) of the areas that the Dharusman report claimed provided them with second or third hand information to their report.  Therefore it now appears that the dead according to the Dharusman report is far in excess of those who ever lived in those areas.

What makes these allegations really prejudicial is, when those have to be viewed in the light of how the LTTE conducted its operations and propaganda revolving around civilians for 30 years and also in the light of the international law that makes human shields of military targets by terrorist operatives culpable.

In addition to all this it is reliably learnt that the American State department  on Human rights headed by you in consultation with Messrs Richard Armitage, US Deputy Secretary of State and Messrs Roberto Blake, US Under Secretary for South Asian affairs,  wanted the anti- terrorist drive of the Sri Lankan Government suspended as far back as February 2009 and when the Sri Lankan government did not acced to your request you had a meeting in the State Department with those two offices and decided to bring War Crimes charges against Sri Lanka.  We are in possession of proof to prove this point and therefore it now appears that this Human rights violations have been charges concocted even before the time these violations were said to have been committed, as a punishment for the Sri Lankan Government for not obeying your orders.

There is something that is definitely paradoxical with regard to the advocacy and practice in human rights by the US State department as we could observe from their conduct in world affairs. Colossal mistakes have been made in this regard by the US in recent times, during your tenure, in Syria and in Yemen where the consequences have far outweighed the declared good intentions. Sir Winston Churchill was on record making the statement that, ‘You can expect the Americans to do what is right in world affairs after they have exhausted all other avenues available’.  This seemingly tenable comment could be attributed, partly to the fact that there is an inherent egoistic element of being the only super power in the world and partly due to the propaganda campaigns and lobbying conducted by interest elements directed at the US to achieve their questionable ends. Whichever the case it is in the case of Sri Lankan forces, the present stance taken by US will not auger well against elimination or terrorism, for the Sri Lankan forces and for the US policy.

The recent US ambassador to UN Ms Nikkei Hailey left her seat recently at the UNHRC calling it a ‘Cesspit of political bias’.  We Sri Lankans couldn’t agree more with her on that but however the irony is, when US’s own activities have contributed to make it what she correctly opined it to be.

With best regards

Yours sincerely

Palitha Senanayake

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ඊ.ටී.අයි. ගනුදෙනුව පූර්ණ විනිවිදභාවයකින් තොර, අවශ්‍ය කිසිදු විශ්ලේෂණයක් නිසියාකාරයෙන් සිදු නොවූ ගනුදෙනුවක් හෙයින් එම ගනුදෙනුව නවතා දැමීමට සිදුවන බව ප්‍රකාශ කරමින් ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා ඊයේ (26දා) ජාතික ආර්ථික සභාව රැස්වූ අවස්ථාවේදී එම තීන්දුවට හවුල් වූ ආර්ථික සභාවේ සියලු දෙනා දැඩි ලෙස දෝෂ දර්ශනයට ලක් කොට තිබේ.

එහිදී ගැනුම්කාර සමාගම වන පෙටිගෝ කියන ආයතනය කුමක්ද? මේ ආයතනය ගැන සෙව්වේ නැද්ද? සෙව්වේ නැත්තේ ඇයි? සුභාෂ්කරන් අලිරාජාට මේක දෙන්න තීරණය කළේ කොහොමද? ඔහු ගැන නොසොයා මේ ගනුදෙනුව සිදුකළේ ඇයි? රටේ මිනිසුන්ගේ සල්ලි නේද? මේ වගේ ආයෝජනය කරලා තියෙන්නේ. අලිරාජලාට මේ ගනුදෙනුව කරන්න සල්ලි කොහෙන්ද කියලා සොයා බැලුවේ නැත්තේ ඇයි? යනාදී වශයෙන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා සිදු කළ දීර්ඝ ප්‍රශ්න කිරීම් හමුවේ එහි සාමාජිකයන් නිරුත්තර වී තිබේ.

එහිදී ජනාධිපතිවරයා ආර්ථික සභාව හමුවේ කියා ඇත්තේ කිසිදු සොයා බැලීමකින් තොරව මෙවැනි ඩීල් ස¼දහා එළැඹීම ගැටලුවක් බවත් මෙසේ යන්නට හැරියහොත් මෙය රටටම බලපාන ප්‍රශ්නයක් වනු ඇති බවත්ය.

ගැනුම්කාර විදේශීය සමාගම එම ගනුදෙනුව ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 60කට සිදුකිරීමට එකඟ වෙද්දී දේශීය සමාගම එය ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 61කට මිලදී ගැනීමට එකඟ වී තිබෙනවා නේද? යනුවෙන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා ප්‍රශ්න කිරීමේදී අදාළ පාර්ශ්ව එවැනි දේශීය සමාගමක් ඉදිරිපත් නොවූ බව පවසා තිබේ.

එහිදී ජනාධිපතිවරයා මේ සම්බන්ධව දීර්ඝව ප්‍රශ්න කරමින් විමසා ඇත්තේ එම දේශීය සමාගමට කිසිදු දැනුවත් කිරීමක් හෝ නොකරමින් එම ගනුදෙනුව ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 75කට විදේශීය සමාගමක් වෙත පැවැරුවේ කෙසේ ද යන්න ගැනය. එහිදීද ආර්ථික සභාවේ සියලු දෙනා නිරුත්තර වී තිබේ.

එසේම එම ගනුදෙනුවේදී ආයෝජනය කළ යුතු ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 12 සම්බන්ධවත් පෙබරවාරි 22 වන විට ගෙවිය යුතුව පවතින ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 16ක මුදල සම්බන්ධවත් ජනාධිපතිවරයා සිදු කළ ප්‍රශ්න කිරීම්වලදී අදාළ පාර්ශ්වවලට නිහඬ වීම හැර අන් විකල්පයක් නොවී තිබේ.

එසේම පසුගිය පෙබරවාරි 22 වැනිදා (සිකුරාදා) ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව ස්වර්ණමහල් ෆයිනෑන්ෂියල් සර්විසස් පෞද්ගලික සමාගම මිලට ගත යුතු නැති බව දන්වා සුභාෂ්කරන් අලිරාජාට ලිපියක් යොමු කළේ ඇයි ද යන්න ජනාධිපතිවරයා එහිදී ප්‍රශ්න කර ඇති අතර එහිදී ද අදාළ පාර්ශ්වයන්ට නිහඬ වීම හැර අන් විකල්පයක් තිබී නැත.

මහ බැංකුව තැන්පත්කරුවන්ගේ දෘෂ්ටි කෝණයෙන් බලන්නේ නම් ස්වර්ණමහල් ෆයිනෑන්ෂියල් සර්විසස් සමාගම ඔවුන් අදාළ ගනුදෙනුවෙන් ඉවත් කර ගැනීමට කටයුතු කිරීම අතරම විශාල පරස්පරතාවක් පවතී.

එයින් පෙනී යන්නේ මහ බැංකුව මේ ගනුදෙනුව දෙස බලා ඇත්තේ තැන්පත්කරුවන්ගේ දෘෂ්ටිකෝණයෙන් නොව වෙනත් කෝණයකින් බවයි.

මේ අතර එදිරිසිංහ ට්‍රස්ට් ඉන්වෙස්ට්මන් ETI ආයතනයේ තැන්පත්කරුවන්ට කඩිනමින් සහන සැලැසීමේ අවශ්‍යතාව ඊයේ (26දා) පැවැති ජාතික ආර්ථික සභාවේදී ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා විසින් අවධාරණය කළ බව ජනාධිපති මාධ්‍ය අංශය නිකුත් කළ නිවේදනයක දැක්වේ.

ඊ.ටී.අයි. මූල්‍ය සමාගමේ වත්කම් අලෙවි කිරීමේ ගනුදෙනුව පිළිබඳ ජාතික ආර්ථික සභාවේ විශේෂ අවධානය යොමු කර ඇති අතර එම ගනුදෙනුව සලකා බැලූ ජාතික ආර්ථික සභාව විසින් ඒ සඳහා වූ නිර්දේශද ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති බවත් 2015 – 2018 කාලය තුළ දේශීය සමාගම් 2ක් සහ විදේශ සමාගමක් ඊ.ටී.අයි. සමාගම මිලදී ගැනීමට කැමැත්ත පළ කර ඇති නමුත් දේශීය සමාගම් සමඟ ප්‍රමාණවත් තරම් පාරදෘශ්‍යභාවයකින් කටයුතු කර තිබේ ද යන්න පිළිබ¼ද අපැහැදිලි බවත් ජාතික ආර්ථික සභාවේ අවධානයට ලක්වී ඇති බව ගනුදෙනුවේදී තැන්පත්කරුවන්ට ගෙවීම් සඳහා උපරිම මුදලක් ලබා ගැනීම පිණිස නිසි කේවල් කිරීමක් සිදු කළේ ද යන්න අපැහැදිලි බවත් එහිදී විශේෂයෙන් අවධානයට ලක් වූ බවත් ජනාධිපති මාධ්‍ය අංශය නිවේදනය සඳහන්ය.

තවද ඉදිරිපත් වූ එම සමාගම් 3ටම ලන්සු තැබීම සඳහා සමාන අවස්ථාවන් ලබා දුන්නේද යන්න අවිනිශ්චිත බවට ද ජාතික ආර්ථික සභාවේ නිරීක්‍ෂණයට ලක් වී ඇත.

අදාළ තැන්පත්කරුවන්ට සහන සැලසීම සඳහා එම සමාගමේ වත්කම් අලෙවි කිරීමේ ගනුදෙනුවක් ද මේ වන විට සිදුවන අතර එම ගනුදෙනුව පිළිබඳ මෙහිදී විමර්ශනයට ලක් වී ඇති බවද මේ වන විට ඊ.ටී.අයි. සමාගමේ තැන්පත්වලින් 20%ක් නැවත එම තැන්පත් කරුවන්ට ලබා දී තිබෙන බව ද තවත් 10%ක් නුදුරේදීම ලබා දිය හැකි වන බවටත් අපේක්‍ෂා කරන බව ද මහ බැංකුවේ අදහස වී තිබේ යැයි ද නිවේදනයේ දැක්වේ.

මේ අවස්ථාවට පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක, රාජිත සේනාරත්න, අර්ජුන රණතුංග, රිෂාඩ් බදුර්දීන්, දයා ගමගේ යන ඇමැතිවරු ද ජාතික ආර්ථික සභාවේ මහ ලේකම් මහාචාර්ය ලලිත් සමරකෝන්, මහ බැංකු අධිපති ආචාර්ය ඉන්ද්‍රජිත් කුමාරස්වාමි මහත්වරුන් ඇතුළු පිරිසක් ද සහභාගි වී තිබේ.

ඊයේ (26දා) ජාතික ආර්ථික සභාවේදී මෙවැනි වාතාවරණයක් උද්ගත වෙද්දී පසුගිය වකවානුවේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව ඊ.ටී.අයි. ගනුදෙනුව සම්බන්ධව විටින් විට මාධ්‍ය නිවේදන නිකුත් කරමින් පැවැසුවේ එම ගනුදෙනුව ඊ.ටී.අයි. ෆිනෑන්ස් ලිමිටඩ් ආයතනය සහ ගැනුම්කරුවන් අතර පවතින ගනුදෙනුවක් බවය. එසේ නම් ජනාධිපතිවරයා සිදුකළ ප්‍රශ්න කිරීම්වලදී ජාතික ආර්ථික සභාවේ ඊට අදාළ සාමාජිකයන් නිරුත්තර වීම තුළ ඇත්තේ සැබෑ තත්ත්වය ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව වසන් කිරීමේ යථාර්ථය නොවේද?

එසේම ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව දිගින් දිගටම නිකුත් කළ නිවේදනවල සඳහන් කළේ ඔවුන් තැන්පත්කරුවන්ගේ දෘෂ්ටි කෝණයෙන් බලා මීට මැදිහත් වූ බවයි.

එය එසේ වූවා නම් අද වන විටත් මේ ගනුදෙනුව හරහා තැන්පත්කරුවන්ටම පමණක් ගැටලුවලට මුහුණ දීමට සිදුවන්නේ කෙසේද?

මේ අතර ස්වර්ණමහල් ෆයිනෑන්ෂියල් සර්විසස් සමාගම මිලට ගත යුතු නැතැයි පවසා අලිරාජාට මහ බැංකුව ලිපියක් යැවූයේ ඇයිද යන්න බරපතළ ගැටලුවකි.

මහ බැංකුව 22දා මාධ්‍ය වෙත නිවේදනයක් එවමින් සිදු කළ පැහැදිලි කිරීමකදී පවසා ඇත්තේ එම ගැනුම්කාර සමාගම එක්සත් ජනපද ඩොලර් මිලියන 16ක මුදල 2018/10/25 වන දින මෙරට බැංකුවකට එවන ලද නමුත් මේ ගනුදෙනුව ගැන පැවැති අපැහැදිලි තත්ත්වයක් නිසා එම මුදල් ආපසු ගෙන්වා ගත් බවයි. එහෙත් එම මුදල මේ මස අවසන් වීමට පෙර නැවත එවීමට කටයුතු කරන බව දැනුම් දී ඇති බවද මහ බැංකුව එම පැහැදිලි කිරීමෙන් ප්‍රකාශ කර තිබිණි.

මේ සමාගම ගෙවිය යුතු මුදල් ගෙවීම පමා වීමට වක්‍රාකාරයෙන් මෙසේ සුදු හුනු ගෑමට පෙලඹෙන මහ බැංකුවට අද පෙබරවාරි 27 එනම් පෙබරවාරි මස අවසන් වීමට තව ඇත්තේ එක් දිනයක් බව අපි සිහිපත් කරන්නෙමු. මේ ගනුදෙනුව දෙස බැලීමේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව නිතරම ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 05ක් සඟවා ගෙවීමට පවතින්නේ ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 16ක් බව සඳහන් කළ අතර අප වෙත හෙළි වී ඇති තොරතුරු අනුව මේ ගනුදෙනුවට අදාළ ඩොලර් මිලියන 05ක මුදලක් මෙරට පිරිසක් අතර බෙදී ගොස් ඇති බව වාර්තා වේ.

එම ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 05න් ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 03ක මුදලක් ටොරින්ටන් ප්‍රදේශය ආශ්‍රිතව පදිංචි විශ්‍රාමික ප්‍රබල දේශපාලන චරිතයක් අතට පත්ව ඇති බවද හෙළි වී තිබේ.

ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 54ක් ගෙවීමෙන් පසුව එම ගැනුම්කාර සමාගම ගෙවිය යුතුව පවතින්නේ ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 16ක මුදලක් බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව පවසන අතරම එවැනි ගෙවීමක් කිරීමට තිබියදීම ඊ.ටී.අයි. ෆිනෑන්ස් සමාගමේ වත්කම් එම ගැනුම්කාර සමාගමට පවරා දී තිබේ. එහිදී එම වත්කම්වලින් උපයන මුදලින් ගෙවිය යුතු මුදල පියවීමට එම සමාගමට ඉඩ හසර වෙන්කරමින් ඔවුන් කෙරෙහි පවතින ළබැඳියාවේ ප්‍රමාණය සමාජයට මහ බැංකුව හෙළි කර තිබේ.

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දකුණු පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයාගේ නියෝගයකට අනුව දරුවකු පාසලට ඇතුලත් කර නොගත් ගාල්ල කලාප අධ්‍යාපන අධ්‍යක්‍ෂිකාවට වහාම ක්‍රීයාත්මක වන පරිදි දඩුවම් ස්ථාන මාරුවක් ලබා දී තිබෙන බව ගාල්ල කළාප අධ්‍යාපන කාර්යාලයට සම්බන්ධ ආරංචි මාර්ග සදහන් කරයි.

පන්තිකාමරයක සිටිය යුතු උපරිම ශිෂ්‍ය සංඛ්‍යාය ඉක්මවා සිසුන් බදවා ගැනීමට නොහැකි තත්ත්වයක් තිබිය දී අධ්‍යාපන චක්‍රලේඛන උල්ලංඝනය කරමින් ගාල්ල ප්‍රදේශයේ ජනප්‍රියක පාසලකට ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයාගේ රියදුරකුගේ දියණියක් මෙසේ ඇතුලත් කර ගැනීම ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කිරිම හේතුවෙන් ස්ථාන මාරුව ලබා දී තිබෙන බව දැන ගන්නට තිබේ.

ගාල්ල කලාප අධ්‍යාපන අධ්‍යක්‍ෂිකා එස් පි චන්ද්‍රවතී මහත්මියට ගාල්ල කලාපයේ සිට තංගල්ල කලාපයට  මෙම ස්ථාන මාරුව ලබා දී තිබේ. ඇය 2018 පෙබරවාරි 08 අම්බලන්ගොඩ කලාප අධ්‍යාපන අධ්‍යක්‍ෂිකාව ලෙස සේවය කරමින් සිටිය දී  ගාල්ල අධ්‍යාපන කලාපයට ස්ථාන මාරුකර වසරක් ඉක්ම යෑමට මත්තෙන් මෙම ස්ථාන මාරුව ලබා දී තිබේ.

ගාල්ල, අනුලාදේවි බාලිකා විද්‍යාලයට සිය රියදුරකුගේ දරුවකු ඇතුලත් කර ගන්නා ලෙස දකුණූ පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයා එම විද්‍යාලයේ විදුහල්පතිනියට අවස්ථා කිහිපයක දීම දුරකථනයෙන් බලපෑම් කර ඇති බවත් අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශයේ චක්‍රලේඛනය අනුව කිසි සේත්ම එවැනි කටයුත්තක් තමන්ට සිදුකල නොහැකි බව විදුහල්පතිවරිය ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයාට පවසා ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් කලාප අධ්‍යාපන අධ්‍යක්‍ෂකවරියද දැනුවත් කර ඇත.

ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයාගේ ඉල්ලීම ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කිරිමට හේතු වශයෙන් විදුහල්පතිවරිය ඔහුට පවසා ඇත්තේ අදාල ශ්‍රේණියට කිසිසේත්ම දරුවකු ඇතුලත් කර ගැනිමට නොහැකි බවයි. 10 වන ශ්‍රේණියේ කාණ්ඩ පන්ති කාමර 05 ක් තිබෙන බවත් එම සෑම පන්තියකම දරුවන් 52 බැගින් සිටින බවද ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයාට විදුහල්පතිනිය පවසා ඇත.

පසුව ගාල්ල කලාප අධ්‍යාපන අධ්‍යක්‍ෂිකාවටද මෙම දැනුම් දීම ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයා විසින් කර තිබෙන අතර කලාප අධ්‍යාපන අධ්‍යක්ෂිකාව, ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයාටද මෙම තත්ත්වය දැනුම් දී ඉල්ලීම ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කර ඇත. ඊට ටික දිනකට පසු ගාල්ල කළාප අධ්‍යාපන අධ්‍යක්ෂවරිය තංගල්ල කොට්ඨාශයට ස්ථාන මාරු කරමින්  මෙම ස්ථාන මාරුව ලැබී ඇති අතර ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයාගේ ඉල්ලීම ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කිරීම මෙයට හේතු වී ඇතැයි ගාල්ල කලාප අධ්‍යාපන කාර්යාල සේවක සේවිකාවෝ ප්‍රකාශ කරති.

මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් දකුණූ පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතාගෙන් කල විමසීමේදී මෙසේ පැවසීය.

ඔය කියන කාරණාව සම්පුර්ණ ඇත්ත. මම නියෝගයක් දුන්න එම පාසලට දරුවකු ඇතුලත් කර ගන්න කියල. ඊට හේතු රැසක් තිබෙනවා. එකක් තමයි, සීමාව ඉක්මවා පන්තිවලට දරුවන් ඇතුලත් කර ගැනිම බරපතල වරදක්. එවැනි වැරදි කරපු විදුහල්පතිනියට තවත් එක් සිසුවියක් ඇතුලත් කර ගැනිම සුඑ දෙයක්. ඒකයි මම බලපෑම් කලේ. එහෙම කලේ ජාතික ප්‍රතිප්තතියක් අනුව පන්තිකමරයක සිටිය යුතු සිසු දරු දැරියන් සංඛ්‍යාවේ සීමාව නියමිත ලෙස පවත්වාගෙන යාමට අවවාදයක් ලෙසයි. ඒවත් මාධ්‍යයෙන් හෙලි විය යුතුමයි. ඔය කියන පාසලේ විදුහල්පතිනියට මම අවස්ථා කිහිපයකදී ම කිව්ව මේ දරුව පාසලට ඇතුලත් කර ගන්න කියලා. එයා හැමදාම කලේ මුදලට දරුවන් ඇතුලත් කර ගැනිම. ඒ නිසා තමයි අල්ලස් දැලට කොටුවෙලා ඇයට නීතිය ඉදිරියටත් යන්නට සිදු වුණේ.

මෙම දරුවා එම පාසලට ඇතුලත් කර ගැනිම ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කිරිම සහ විදුහල්පතිනියගේ ක්‍රියා කලාපය ගැන කියන්න මා ගාල්ල  කලාප අධ්‍යාපන අධ්‍යක්‍ෂිකාව සහ පළාත් අධ්‍යාපන ලේකම් ඇතුලු නිලධාරින් පිරිසක් මගේ කාර්යාලයට ගෙන්වාගෙන සියලු විස්තර පැවසුවා. පසුව කලාප අධ්‍යාපන අධ්‍යක්‍ෂිකාව හරහා විදුහල්පතිනියට දුරකථන ඇමතුමක් ලබා දී එම දරුවා ඇතුලත් කර ගන්නට කීවා. දරුවා සමඟ දරුවාගේ පියා ගියවිට තමුසෙ ආණ්ඩුකාරයා හමුවෙලා ඉහලින් දරුවෝ පාසලට දාගන්නයි, හදන්නෙ. අද නම් හමුවෙන්න බැහැ, දවස් දෙකකට පස්සෙ එන්නැයි සැරෙන් කියල එදා  ඒ තාත්තා ආපහු  එවල තිබුණා.

පන්තියක සිටිය යුතු සිසු දරුවන් සංඛ්‍යාව ගැන මා හොදින් දැනගෙන හිටියා. ඒ පාසලේ හැම පන්තියකම දරුවන් 50 කට වැඩි පිරිසක් අදටත් ඉන්නවා. ඒ වැඩිපුර ගන්න දරුවන් හැම කෙනාගෙන්ම මුදල් අරගෙන තිබෙන බව අධ්‍යාපන  නිලධාරින්ට මා කරුණු පහදා දුන්නා. මේ වැඬේ කරන්න අධ්‍යාපන ලේකම්ට පැවරීමෙන් පසු ලේකම්වරයා හා පළාත් අධ්‍යාපන අධ්‍යක්‍ෂකවරයා එම පාසලට යවා විදුහල්පතිනියට බලකර පන්තියේ නාමලේඛනයට එම ළමයාගේ නම ඇතුලත් කර සිසුවිය පාසලට ඇතුලත් කිරීමට දකුණූ පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයා හැටියට මට සිදුවුනා. ඒකයි  ඇත්ත කතාව.

ඒක බලය අනිසි ලෙස පාවිච්චි කිරිමක් නොව, සිසු දරුවන් පාසලකට ඇතුලත් කර ගන්නා සීමාව ඉක්මවා කටයුතු කිරීමට පියවර ගත් විදුහල්පතිනියට පාඩමක් උගන්වා සෙසු විදුහල්පතිවරුන්ටත් එම පාසල්වල කටයුතු කරන ආකාරය ගැන තමන් හොද අවබෝධයකින් සිටින බවට උදාහරණයක් ලෙස පෙන්විමට මෙම පියවර ගත්තා යැයි කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා පැවසීය.

විශේෂයෙන්ම තමන්ගේ වගකීමෙන් බැහැර වෙන්නට කිසිම නිලධාරිනියකුට බැහැ. හරියට ඒ වගකීම ඉටු කලානම් ගාල්ල කලාප අධ්‍යාපන අධ්‍යක්‍ෂිකාව ඒ ගැන දැන ගෙන ඉන්න ඕනෑ. ඔය කියන පාසලේ 10 වන ශ්‍රේණියේ එක් පන්තිකාමරයක සිසුවියන් 50 කට වැඩිය ඉන්න නිසයි, මම කිව්වේ තවත් ළමයෙක් ඇතුලත් කර ගන්න කියල. මේ දුර්වලකම් එක්කෙනෙකුගේ පිට පටවල වගකීමෙන් බැහැර වෙන්න බෑ කියල ගාල්ලේ අධ්‍යක්‍ෂිකාව දැනගන්න ඕනෑ. තමන්ගෙ වගකීම නිසි ලෙස ඉටුකර නැති බව මේ කාරණාවෙන් පැහැදිලි නේද ?

ගාල්ල කලාප අධ්‍යාපන අධ්‍යක්‍ෂිකාව දක්ෂ නිලධාරිනියක්. ඒක මම හොදින් දන්නවා. අම්බලන්ගොඩ කලාපයේ ඉතා දක්ෂ ලෙස පරිපාලන කටයුතු කරල දරුවන්ගේ අධ්‍යාපන මට්ටම මෙන්ම ගුරු තුලන පරිපාලන මෙන්ම විශ්‍රාම ලේඛන වැටුප් වර්ධන නිසි ලෙස කඩිනමින් සකස් කරපු දක්ෂ නිලධාරිනියක් බව මම හොදින් දන්නවා. මෙතුමියට ස්ථාන මාරුවක් දීම  හෝ නොදීම පලාත් අධ්‍යාපන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ වැඩක්. මා මේකට කිසිම සම්බන්ධයක් නැතැයි ද ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයා වැඩි දුරටත් සදහන් කළේය.

මේ දක්ෂ නිලධාරිනියට ස්ථාන මාරුවක් ලැබෙන්නේ දුර්වලතා බොහොමයක් ඇති අධ්‍යාපන කලාපයකට. ඒකෙ තිබෙන පාසල්වල වැඩ කටයුතු බොහොමයක් අඩාල වෙලා. පරිපාලන කටයුතු ශක්තිමත්ව කරගෙන යන්න දක්ෂ නිලධාරිනියක් ලෙස තංගල්ල කලාපයට දැනට ගාල්ලේ සිටින මෙම  කලාප අධ්‍යාපන අධ්‍යක්‍ෂිකාවට ස්ථාන මාරුවක් ලබා දීමේ අසාධාරණයක් නැති බවද දකුණු පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා සදහන් කළේය.

Sri Lanka NGO News

According to the sources from the regional education office, the regional Director of Education of Galle has been transferred with immediate effect by the Governor of the Southern Province, for refusing to accept his  undue influence to get his driver’s daughter admitted to the school.

It has been revealed that a daughter of the Governor’s driver was refused admission to a popular school in Galle due to possible violation of educational circulars which limits the maximum number of students in the class. Despite,  the anti-corruption kingpin who became a Southern Governor was still insisting on accepting the child to the school.

Consequently. the Galle Regional  Director of Education, Sajith Chandrawathi was transferred from the Galle district to the Tangalle district within a year since she was appointed to the Galle Education district only  on February 08, 2018,

The Report says many occasions the governor had been trying to influence the Principal of the school over the phone and exerted undue pressure to get his driver’s daughter admitted to the school but the Principal has point blankly refused his request on the basis of the circular issued by the department of education which limits the maximum number of students to 52 for each class.

In response to a query the Southern Province Governor Keerthi Tennakoon, said this allegation is totally true. I ordered that the child should  be admitted to the school. There are many reasons. One is that it is a serious mistake to include children in excess of the limit. But once the limit  is exceeded inclusion of one more student to such a class is not a wrongdoing. That’s why I pressed.

By: Paul Goble Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 16 Issue: 26

One of Vladimir Putin’s earliest proposed mega-projects—first announced on September 12, 2000—calls for the creation of a North-South transportation corridor linking Russia with the Caspian littoral states, including Iran, as well as India and Sri Lanka. Such a transit network would permit these countries to bypass the Suez Canal on the way to Europe and could become the basis for expanded Russian influence in Central and South Asia. But over the intervening 18 years, this project, like many others championed by Putin, has remained largely unfulfilled. The stumbling blocks to its realizations have included conflicts of interest among the countries it intends to unite along with the failure to complete a central link for this corridor—the railway line from Russia through Azerbaijan to Iran. Furthermore, it has been overshadowed by simultaneous efforts (Russian, Chinese and European) to develop an East-West corridor between the Pacific Rim states and Europe.

Nonetheless, there are now signs that Moscow may be once again turning to this project and that it is finding a more positive response among the other countries that would have to be involved if it is to become a success. First of all, the agreement on the delimitation of the Caspian Sea by its littoral states (Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Iran), signed last year, has reduced many of the tensions that existed among them and made possible an expansion of Russian influence not only on the sea itself but also in the coastal countries. In turn, this has opened the way for greater cooperation between Moscow, Ashgabat, Baku and Tehran in particular for developing rail and highways that could support a North-South corridor (Politexpert.net, February 23, 2019; Windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com and, December 5, 2018).

Moreover, Western sanctions on Russia—and China’s unwillingness to challenge many of them—have made trade and expanded political relations with other outcast countries like Iran even more important to Moscow. As a result, Tehran is now seeking $5 billion in credits from Moscow to develop its links to Russia’s proposed corridor, a request that Russia appears likely to meet (Moscow-baku.ru, February 20, 2019). One indication of this new tilt to the south is that the North-South corridor is now being listed as one of the 13 top priorities of the Russian government, a dramatic change from most of the last decade, when it was not mentioned at all (Moskovsky Komsomoloets, February 24).

And perhaps most importantly, as far as Russia’s policies are concerned, Moscow is showing that it views the North-South corridor as integral to its involvement in the East-West one. Not only could the former be used as an extension of the latter, but such a combined approach gives the Russian authorities more options and leverage in Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. Notably, these two Caspian countries are heavily invested in East–West oil and natural gas flows that Europe is interested in; but those flows could turn more in Russia’s direction if the North-South corridor becomes a reality. And if those Caspian-basin energy exports increasingly start passing via Russian territory, this would allow Moscow to undercut the West’s influence in these two countries as well as other parts of the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Toward that goal, Russia—with Turkmenistan’s now-enthusiastic support—is actively promoting the first Caspian economic forum to be held in Ashgabat in August. The event is slated to focus on the development of transportation networks through and around the Caspian, including not just the East-West transit of hydrocarbons but the North-South corridor. The latter, importantly, will carry many other types of goods between these countries and Russia, thus helping Moscow to maintain or even expand its influence in the region (Trend.az, February 26).

All this has led Russian commentators to suggest that the completion of the North-South corridor is likely to be fast tracked in the coming months and reemerge as an important part of Russia’s geo-economic and geopolitical policies (Casp-geo.ru, February 22). But the proximate cause of this boomlet” of attention may not be from the above-mentioned trends, all of which have been the subject of off-and-on discussions in Moscow and the capitals along the North-South route. Rather it is due to the increased attention this development is now receiving from another quarter—India. In early February, Indian media reported that Delhi signed a memorandum of understanding with Moscow to put the development of infrastructure for the North-South corridor on an accelerated basis, with India providing much of the funding (India Times, February 5).

That would give India certain advantages relative to its competitor China and might even shift the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean littoral. Iran has already reacted: A week ago, its parliament voted to expand cooperation with Russia in a variety of areas, including nuclear energy, railroads and highways, pipelines and its Caspian port of Enzeli. All these transit links and strategic infrastructure elements can help push forward the completion of the long-talked-about North-South corridor project (Iran.ru, February 19).

Of course, given how many players are involved, the difficulties of reaching agreements among them and then implementing those agreements, the possibility remains that all of this will fall apart before it is realized. But there is enough movement now, after a long period of neglect, that none of the major powers can afford to ignore the chance that the North-South corridor will be completed at last, with all the economic and political consequences that could have (see EDM, April 24, 2017; August 1, 2017; November 9, 2017).

President tells why Bond Scam perpetrators can’t be punished (English)

Courtesy Adaderana

Sri Lanka plans to issue free visa for several selected countries in a bid to attract tourists while this proposal has received Cabinet approval.

The government says that it has been observed that there is a significant drop in tourist arrivals during the period from April to October compared to other months of the year.

However, Sri Lanka is planning on attracting more Buddhist tourists as there are a host of religious and cultural events such as Vesak and Poson festivals as well as Esala Perahera during the period from May to August.

Buddhist countries such as Thailand use a similar method in order to attract Buddhist tourists, the statement said.

Considering this situation, it was proposed to issue visas free of charge for tourists from Thailand for a period of 6 months from April 01, 2019 aimed at increasing the number of arrivals within this period.

Minister of Tourism Development, Wildlife and Christian Religious Affairs John Amaratunga had presented a proposal to also provide this facility to tourists from countries of the EU, the UK, Australia, South Korea, Canada, USA, Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand.

The proposal has been granted approval by the Cabinet of Ministers.

KAMALIKA PIERIS

Revised 13.3.19

A huge government apparatus has been created to deliver the Tamil language to a reluctant and disinterested population.  An Official Languages Commission was established in 1991 by the Official Languages Commission Act No. 18 of 1991.  The Commission is composed of six members, of whom only the Chairman serves in a full-time capacity.  The Commissioner of the Official Languages Department is Secretary to the Commission.

The Commission has four objectives. The first objective is to recommend principles of policy on the use of the official languages and to monitor and supervise compliance with the provisions of the Constitution on language in Chapter IV of the 1978 Constitution. Secondly, to take all such actions and measures as are necessary to use the official languages (Sinhala and Tamil) and the link language (English) in accordance with the spirit and intent of Chapter IV. Thirdly to promote the appreciation of the official languages in regard to their status, equality and right of use (i.e. awareness creation). Fourthly, to conduct investigations in regard to complaints on violations of language rights and take remedial action.

The Commission can do ‘all such other things’ necessary for the attainment of the objectives of the Commission. This includes initiating reviews of any regulations, directives, or administrative practices which affect the language policy and commissioning studies and policy papers.

The Department of Official Languages, established in 1956 to implement the Official Language Act No.33 of 1956.  was thereafter given the task of implementing the 1978 language policy. The Commissioner of Official Languages is the   head of the Department. The Department had to improve the language skills of government servants, provide translation services to the government, and compile glossaries, language textbooks and dictionaries. A Language School was set up in 1998 in the Department with Norwegian Aid, in conjunction with the National Integration Project of the Ministry of Justice. This school was to conduct advanced courses in English, Tamil and Sinhala. However, in October 1998 the Department advertised recruitment for the advanced English/Tamil courses only.

Around 2008, the Official Languages Commission had recommended   restructuring the Official Languages Department to become primary institution for accelerated language training of public officers. The Department should henceforth have four main tasks, i. language training in Sinhala, Tamil and English ii. training in languages of smaller linguistic minorities such as Malay and Malayalam, and languages useful for employment inside and outside of Sri Lanka iii. official translations and iv. compilation of glossaries directly related to law and public administration. the Department should become a statutory institution enjoying a degree of autonomy from government and be recast as a national languages institution. It  should also be the designated authority  for of glossaries, dictionaries and standardization of terminology.

National Institute of Language Education and Training (NILET) was established by Act No 26 of 2007 to help implement the Trilingual Policy, by training language teachers to teach Sinhala/ Tamil/ English languages.  The Institute conducts teacher training courses, island wide. A residential institute for language training was set up in Agalawatte for training trainers and creating trilingual public officers. This Training Centre had a 250   seat auditorium, a language lab for 30, and a hostel for 60.

The Institute offers certificate and Diploma courses on teaching the second language. It has drawn up syllabuses for teaching Sinhala, Tamil, English.  Special programs and training courses for public officers were drawn up, including part time and short term 12 day training courses. The Institute broadcasts Language Training programs on 08 radio channels. It also conducts language training courses in Sinhala, Tamil and English for translators, interpreters and stenographers.

The Official Languages Commission, The Department of Official Languages and National Institute of Language Education and Training are today under the Ministry of National integration and Official languages .

This Ministry is busily at work, to create a trilingual society in Sri Lanka .The annual report for 2016 records its activities. To start with, this Ministry has a ‘Policy Development Division’ which is engaged in   formulating language policies. These policies are intended to create the necessary environment for bilingualisation of the public service, to empower the public with regard to implementation of the Official Languages Policy and to   establish a positive mindset among the public on popularizing and promotion of languages.

Bilingual Facilitation Cells have been set up in all 72 bilingual Divisional Secretariats in order to provide a service to the public in the language of their preference.  There is also a Trilingual dictionary which is online.

The Ministry has also initiated ‘Language Plans.’  Work has started on language plans of the following five Ministries, Justice, Parliamentary Reforms and Mass Media, Home Affairs, Public Administration and Management, Law and Order and Prison Reforms. Language plans are also in preparation for 24 District Secretariats. Model language plans and trained language plan officers are available for this task.

The Ministry has initiated Awareness creation programmes” for Government institutions, to create awareness of the Official Languages Policy and the services offered by the Ministry. These programmes were intended to create awareness about the responsibility of public officers in implementing the official language policy. The legal aspect was not forgotten.

They were made aware of the circulars related to the Official Languages Policy, their       responsibility in defending the language rights of public. The problems these officers faced in implementing the Official Languages Policy were discussed and solutions provided. Specific awareness creation programmes were provided for public officers in identified fields. Awareness creation programmes were held in 18 DS areas in 2016.

Language Promotion Circles” were established by the Official Languages Commission in order to create a trilingual public service in Sri Lanka by developing the knowledge, attitudes and understanding of school children regarding the language policy. Ministry of Education issued Circular No. 01/2015 with regard establishment of Language Promotion Circles in schools. In terms of this circular, schools have to carry out specific activities such as displaying all boards within school in trilingual, preparing invitation for ceremonies in trilingual. Commission expects to establish Language Promotion Circles in the schools Island wide.

The Official Languages Department continues to train and examine public officers. In 2016, training programmes were provided at  the Divisional Secretariats of  Arachchikattuwa, Aturaliya, Badulla,Elpitiya, Gampaha, Gampola, Kebithigollewa, Kegalle, Kurunegala,  onaragala,Nochchyagama,Ratnapura,Ruwanwella,Tamankaduwa, Tawalama,  Ukuluwa and Welikanda. Also Polonnaruwa general Hospital. The courses were all for Tamil language.

The Official Language Department conducts written and oral tests for language proficiency of government servants. The result sheet is made available. Listening tests via modern facilities were conducted in the office premises. Oral tests, based on the results of the listening tests, have been held at provincial level.

10,000 Spoken Tamil Books and 5000 Written Tamil Books were printed in2016. 5000 Tamil Books –Level I and 9775 Tamil Books –level II were also printed for the Language Proficiency Examination for Government Servants. As well as 8 textbooks for Sinhala and Tamil Language learning in schools.

In order to give a helping hand in writing official letters in the government institutions, a book called Rajakari Lipi Sampaadanayata Athwelak” has been published giving the mistakes that should be avoided in writing official letters.

There is a special focus on Police and railway officers. Police officers were given awareness programmes. A four day’s training course ws given for 35 announcers in the Department of Railway.  Complaints have been received from time to time by Official Languages Commission that the announcements are not done in trilingual and therefore a training course on trilingual announcements was conducted after having several discussions with officers in the Department of Railway.

Language audits are conducted by the Official Languages Commission to   see whether the language provisions are carried out by bilingual Divisional Secretariats and Police Stations. The objective was to support the language rights of public via proper implementation of the Official Languages Policy in Government institutions. In these language audits,  the use of official languages is physically checked and recommendations with regard to non-compliancesare issued to the  head of the institution and a follow up done. Forty four language audits were conducted by Official Languages Commission in 2016. 16 DS and14 police stations were examined.

The Language audit looked at the following to see whether the trilingual policy as followed:  i. All boards displayed for public within premises of the institution (name boards, information boards, instruction board) ii. All documents used for public service iii.Awareness with regard to the official languages policy iv.  Communication ability of officers v. Sinhala/Tamil language training courses vi. Language proficiency of officers vii.Special matters relevant to the institution (E.g.: recording complaints at Police Stations, issuing certificates in official languages at the office of Births/Marriages/Deaths Registrar).

Official Languages Commission was also expected to investigate public complaints; this was one of its ‘key tasks.’ One hundred thirty three complaints were received by Commission in 2016. The annual report gave two examples.  A complaint received with regard to the name boards pertain torules of lanes displayed for public by Colombo Traffic Police Division were only in Sinhala and English languages and this was inquired from the Inspector General of Police. The relevant boards have been prepared in trilingual and displayed for public. Spellings of the digital name board in Colombo Fort Railway station were incorrect and it has been corrected.  (continued)

By Chandre Dharmawardana

Some  technicians dressed like surgeons in an operating theater are working in a vast tower sealed from the environment. It is full of hydroponic shelves, lights, pumps and small robots  controlled by  clusters of computers. This is  ultra high-tech  agriculture (UHTA). We are in a modern agro-factory tower that has replaced the farm with its soil, pests, pesticides, droughts and floods. Inspired by space agro-technology, it has no soil. It  uses  95% LESS WATER than conventional high-intensity agriculture (HIA) popularized by the Green Revolution”.

This is not science fiction (see figure).  Such  commercial UHT plants supply the markets since 2004 in New Jersy, USA. Similar agro-plants are being set up right inside city centers, within minutes to local markets, cutting transportation and warehousing.

When low-intensity agriculture (LIA), e.g.,organic agriculture (OA) or traditional agriculture  had reached the end of their tether, and when the world was at the brink of huge famines, HIA with its green revolution rescued the world. Now the green revolution itself is old technology, and a new UHT revolution is dawning, not only to feed the humans, but also to rescue the threat to the environment caused by the phenomenal  human assault on the ecosystem.

AVERTING THE HUMAN-MADE MASS EXTINCTION.

In a previous article (Lankaweb: https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2019/02/19/how-a-menaced-humanity-facing-a-threatened-environment-turns-to-ludicrous-remedies/ or Island 19-02-2019) we examined how a menaced humanity facing a threatened environment foolishly  turns to ludicrous remedies based on going back to an imagined glorious past of plenty”  using  traditional farming or organic agriculture. In reality, such technologies failed to feed the masses even in ancient times, when the populations were small.   In Sri Lanka, even if all the tea, rubber and coconut lands could be converted to paddy fields, the Organic Agriculture harvests would still leave 75% of Sri Lankans starving.

Populations in developing countries increased by a factor of five since WWII, vastly encroaching  wilderness habitat and  triggering a man-made mass extinction of species, further aggravated by agrochemical overuse. In this they merely joined the developed countries that pushed the industrial revolution using the wealth created  by slavery that set up  vast monoculture of crops that assaulted  the ecosystem.

In Sri Lanka, some 600K hectares are under tea cultivation, (http://www.statistics.gov.lk/agriculture/tea/all.pdf),  about 600K under paddy,, and another 600K are used for rubber and coconut taken together. Forest cover had taken devastating hits with each giant irrigation and ‘colonization’ scheme starting from GalOya. The destruction of  Sri Lankan wild elephants by their loss of  habitat due to these ‘colonization schemes’ is merely the tip of the iceberg. Similarly, Europe is reeling from a rapid and disastrous loss of species,  wild bees and other pollinating insects. This is  mainly due to habitat loss and possibly to  increased use of pesticides like neo-nicotinoids.

Given the magnitude of the problem, it is imperative to reclaim the wilderness habitat for Nature. The HIA-green-revolution  enabled us to use 1/5th the land and water for feeding compared to traditional agriculture (enabling us to feed fives times many mouths).  The new UHTA is already capable of reducing  the needed land extend to a mere 1/500 of HIA, and 1/2500 of organic agriculture.  All the 600,000 hectare of paddy can be eventually reduced to 1200 hectares of  grow towers.   All the tea plantations can be eventually replaced by  a few hundred grow towers clustered around an airport for direct export. All the tea land can be returned to jungle.

Grow-towers are cut of from the environment and cause no negative effects. As the amounts of light, humidity and temperature inside the agro-towers  are internally controlled, weather and seasons are irrelevant to its agriculture. Pests or weeds cannot enter the structure; so no pesticides are used. While conventional agriculture (CA) has an output of 5-10 times that of  organic agriculture (OA), experimental UHT plants have achieved 400 times more output than CA and perhaps 2000-3000  times more harvest than OA for the same amount of water and land use. These bumper harvests ensure competitive prices. The  products grown without soil are cleaner than from OA crops that  bio-accumulate toxins usually present in most soils.

Phenomics is the study of all observable characteristics of an organism. These characteristics (phenotypes) associated with a plant, such as the chemistry, color, genetic code, size, and so on. At AeroFarms Dr. April Caroll  determines growth  algorithms for plants growing  under computer control. These farmers – the likes of Dr Caroll  form  a  team of high-tech scientists drawn from artificial intelligence to molecular biology and plant physiology.

While some 400 plant types have been successfully tested, one may ask, how can you grow fruits and plants which need pollination?  While the green-revolution HIA used hybrid seeds, today we can redesign  whole plants and insects. Captive bumble bees and other pollinator insects, genetically modified or  not, may be used inside dedicated grow towers to pollinate tomatoes or blue berries. The possibilities are endless.

Nevertheless, many intermediate models that straddle the full indoor growth towers and the high-tech outdoor farms will be the norm for a decade. French vineyards are already experimenting with drone-controlled robotic farming. The robots are like little rovers designed for the exploration of Mars, equipped with sensors that  test the soil nutrients,  microorganisms  etc. at each plant  and spurt out the optimal amounts of moisture, salts, pesticides, or organic matter as needed. Such vineyards, controlled by artificial-intelligence algorithms based on phenomics  use less than a hundredth of  the agrochemicals usually employed.  These outdoor farms need to get away from being single-crop monocultures.

STUMBLING BLOCKS.

However, there are significant stumbling blocks to adopting UHTA.

1. Public Fear of agri-foods.

The public is frightened by technology.  Modern Luddites have re-named the foods from biotechnology and genetic engineering to be Frankenfoods”. In India where the green-revolution took successful root, Vanadana Shiva and her likes have become street-heroes fighting” agrochemical multinationals and GM foods. They  prevented the introduction of golden rice”, a rice that  carries a Vitamin -A gene from carrots, thereby preventing blindness among millions who take simple rice diets. Golden rice was not made by multinationals, but by Indian scientists  using minimal genetic manipulation. And yet  false propaganda against it succeeded. A public that has been happily eating North American GM soya for decades banned GM golden rice!

In Sri Lanka,  France or California we have a glyphosate saga” illustrating how  public fear translates into irrational actions against a very safe herbicide. It is probably the only substance whose safety has been checked continuously and rigorously for roughly a quarter century on nearly 90,000 members of farming communities (US govt. Health study, Andreotti et al., 2017). These farmers  used glyphosate intensely, and without adverse health effects when compared to the general public.

The public is completely lacking in a quantitative sense of the order of magnitude of hazards and healh risks. For instance, French consumers refuse to believe that the alcohol in wine is a WHO-classified class-I toxin. It is  present at 10% level, but legislate against glyphosate  present at 0.0000001% level! Glyhosate is only a class-II (PROBABLE) hazard similar to that of desinfectant soaps, while class-I toxins like alcohol  are  CERTAIN  hazards..

However, when famine looms near,  as it must when current agricultural technology gets over-whelmed, such public opposition will evaporate. Politicians will rally to it,  and the new designer crops and UHTA will find its place just as the green-revolution-HIA was accepted by India against the opposition of many local lobbies.

1. Increased Energy Needs.

Another big hurdle that UHT agriculture will face is its energy needs. While increased-efficiency solar panels will help, the environmentally cleanest and cheapest source is  from new  nuclear plants. Conventional nuclear reactors cost  $7 billion or more.  But modern mini-reactors with little or no moving parts are much cheaper and meet high standards of safety (Science, vol. 363, issue 6429, p 806, 2019).  Nuclear is already the largest source of zero-carbon energy in the Western world, and the second-largest source worldwide (after hydro-power). Developing nuclear power is essential to avert global warming and also to power new UHT agricultural systems.  Besides the existing 450 reactors, some 70 new nuclear plants are under construction, mostly in China.

The public fears nuclear energy, but a comparison of the death-print” from different energy sources shows it  to be the safest although a high hazard. The death-print” is the number of people killed per unit of energy (say, per trillion kWH). Coal is the worst, and nuclear is  the best even after including the death toll from uranium mining and all accidents and not just the spectacular ones like Fukushima.  Using WHO and other data, the death-print figures are:  coal (170,000), oil (36,000), Biomass (24,000), Natural gas (4,000), hydro (1,400), solar (440),  and nuclear (90).

A major problem for the nuclear industry is its  hazardous radio-active waste products. These contribute to the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The lasting solution to this is the BREEDER reactor.  These  burn nuclear waste to produce a final non-radioactive product like lead. France was the initial leader, but its socialist government shut the research decades ago, under pressure from the anti-nuclear Green lobby. Today, only five or six are operating: three in Russia, one each in China, India and USA.

These  4^th generation  nuclear reactor are economical, safe,  produces negligible waste matter, terrorist proof and avoid nuclear proliferation. The present author favours the duel-fluid reactor (DFR) designs (see Figure) where the nuclear fuel is input as a molten salt, while the coolant is a liquid metal (e.g., lead). Such reactors using thorium is an attractive possibility for  Sri Lanka that  has thorium-rich monozite sands. After the initial start up, depending on neutron economy and fuel mixture, DFR will produce its own fissile fuel!

The needed technology can be transferred to Sri Lanka  via a  partner nation. In comparison, oil exploration in the Palk Straits is very disadvantageous to a small country not only because of irreparable oil-spill accidents, but also because oil  is a magnet for powerful countries that subjugate small countries for their oil. We see this in the Middle East, Nigeria and Latin America.

1. Fear of loss of employment.

Each wave of technology, especially in labour intensive sectors like agriculture poses the specter of unemployment. But as jobs disappear, many new jobs are created, although at a higher technical level.  Productive societies can afford to pay a universal basic salary to everyone irrespective of employment, as envisaged in some rich Nordic countries.

IMMEDIATE STEPS TO AVERT ECOLOGICAL DISASTER.

While cutting-edge energy and agricultural solutions are being implemented,  immediate steps to avert tragedy are also needed. We cannot go back to traditional farming, or to cherished  Gama-Weva-Pansala” (Village-Reservoir-Temple ) aka Panchayat” models because such models imply massive habitat encroachment and low prosperity.

Some essential steps to be immediately implemented are:

1. Reduction of habitat loss and diversification of monocultures.

Protecting biodiversity requires  preventing  habitat loss and giving land back to nature.  All homesteads, farmers and plantations should convert 10-15% of their land  to manged  wilderness.  Wilderness belts should be linked to larger conservation  areas. Highways need  underpasses for  animal crossings, linking ecological areas.  Low-intensity farmland should be returned to jungle. Urban sprawl should be shrunk into dense high-rise living.

2. Facing climate change

If  governments execute the minimum proposals of  climate summits, there is indeed a chance to avert famines, inundations by the sea,  irreversible damage to the ice caps, Himalayas and  environmental hot spots.  Moving away from meat, diary, and organic foods is essential for the reduction of green house gases. The production of meat or milk needs much pasture lands, water, and release greenhouse gases (GG). Organic farming increases GG  and causes soil erosion.

Air travel produces a lot of garbage, unrecyclable plastic  and  GG. Air transport should be replaced by ultra-fast electric trains moving close to supersonic speeds.

3. Recycling to reduce environmental impact, & educating the public.

Burning of plastics and  toxic garbage etc have to be controlled, and proper waste management and clean air and water management  should be a top priority. Education  about ecosystems should begin in schools itself, but it run the risk of hijacking by lobby groups (like Organic food  vendors), NGOs pushing some agenda, and even politically powerful Psychics peddling, say, God Natha. Hence curricula needs  tight control  by  academic and professional bodies.

4. Alternative energies.

The shift away from fossil fuels to alternatives, boosting nuclear energy are a must. Irrigation projects with no concern for the total ecology should be stopped. Solar panels and wind turbines should not compete with the habitat for flora and fauna.

5. Maximum use of modern agriculture and biotechnology.

Scientific agriculture drawing from the very frontier of knowledge, and not going back to the past is essential to minimize the use of land and water.  Unwanted entry of agrochemicals into the eco-sphere should be controlled using WHO guidelines. Where there is doubt about safety, the precautionary principle of constraint and control” rather than the method of ban and banish”, should be used.

6. Enforcement of environmental legislation.

In Sri Lanka there are strict environmental laws. Unfortunately, they seem to be  quite irrelevant to all sorts of  favoured companies or individuals  backed by politicians. So the rule of law must be enforced.

In conclusion,  optimism, cutting-edge technology based on good science, and the fight against fake science are the essential winning factor in  the battle to safeguard the ecosystem

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D.

Tambiah got his 1992 book banned in Sri Lanka because of this cover page. By using this picture of a socially active Buddhist monk, Tambiah insulted the 2500-year robe-based Buddhist civilizational foundation in the island. The monk was a freedom fighter against the semi- dictatorial regimes of JR Jayawardena and R Premadasa.  In 2014, American embassy in Colombo lured the same monk to float a regime change in Sri Lanka.

Two anti-Bodu Bala Sena governors 

The behavior of two brand new governors, Azath Salley and Suren Raghavan, reminds one of the Sinhala expressions, pudana kotama kaapi yaka (the devil ate the offering before the offer was done). Of the two, Azath’s rash interference in the Dhamma school issue at Anula Vidyala, Nugegoda, could be described as a case of what happens when a neckless of gems is tied on a lizard’s neck. He should have ordered Rosy Senanayaka to replace the Buddha statute that she had allegedly removed from the Colombo mayor’s office because now he has constitutional power to correct it. But we know that Azath has been a notoriously anti-Bodu Bala Sena man.

Buddhist Zionism

The story of Raghavan is different. He is now denying that he spoke about a Buddhisaization of North and East. Before the Ceylon Today reporter came forward to ‘certify’ that Raghavan did not say so to her, Raghavan himself gave a clarification. He said the mistake occurred in translating his interview conducted in English into Sinhala and Tamil. But can there be smoke without fire? On top of this ‘error’ comes Raghavan’s demand for police and land powers under 13-A. Then comes TNA’s Sumanthiran’s sudden disclosure that there will be one minister for the development of NP and EP.  I decided to look for background information about Raghavan, after witnessing these dramatic developments, because this new NP governor gives the impression that he is in a hurry to get on with the unfinished business of Wigneswaran.

The Naaga Deepa temple monks think Raghavan is an excellent selection for the job, but my search indicates otherwise. I hope someone did not give president Sirisena a dead-rope, to sabotage the conciliation work now in progress in Jaffna by appointing a Tamil just because he is a Tamil. Reginald Cooray and the previous governors were popular among people, disliked by TNA politicians. Unwise, short-sighted decisions expecting to win over the hearts and minds of Tamil people via separatist TNA politicians cannot bring lasting peace.  Each such act is interpreted as one more victory on the path to separation. Wigneswaran praised the new governor because he is a Tamil. A cancer cannot be cured by feeding it. IKMs-controlled (international king makers) Sinhala black-white politicians think this bribing will work to get them Tamil vote.  Just like ex-JVP Marxist Reginald Cooray has lately uncovered that Wigneswaran is a racist separatist, sooner than later the black-white operators in Colombo will realize if Raghavan is a messenger of peace or not.

Unlike Suren Raghavan, Brother Charles, did not cross the ford in England where oxen used to wade, so he does not have a Ph.D. But as HLD Mahindapala once pointed out any ox can still pass through this ford to any center, including the center for Buddhist studies. That is why I think Raghavan should watch the two Kandula programs of the 8^th grade school dropout Brother Charles, held in Jaffna and London respectively.  Both shows by this Catholic, non-Sinhala social worker are Dharmic and Rule of Law answers to separatist Jaffna politics and Eelamist Tamil diaspora. Raghavan is wearing both shoes.

Long time ago (1958?), as a young sociology graduate, Stanley Jeyaraj Tambiah, decided to ignore caste oppression problems in Jaffna, where Math professor Sunderalingam was preventing low caste Hindus entering Kovils. Instead, he decided to go to Thailand with a Christian scholarship to analyze the intricacies of the Theravada Buddhism. He was disturbed by the title, Betrayal of Buddhism, of the 1956 report of Buddhist Commission of Inquiry, and went on a crusade to produce a book titled, Buddhism Betrayed in 1992. The Marxist Kumari Jayawardena provided the devil looking facial picture of the monk Maduluvawe Sobhita for the cover of the book; her late husband Lal provided UNU-Wider funds from Norway for printing and volunteered to write a forward. When he was alive, I challenged Tambiah about several falsehoods in his book, and I answered the stupid question he asked in his book, Why do Buddhists kill?” as well.

The quotation below from a recent Raghavan essay (Groundviews, 1/15/2013) gives a clear picture of his efforts to copy the Tambiah track.

….I have argued elsewhere (as several other scholars before me), that the modern Sinhala Saṅgha have become more of a brand of political activists with utterly ill prepared and under–discoursed ideologies. It is a serious ethnoreligious development that reshapes the total state and its social structure creating serious democratic deficit.  During the last century, especially in the post independent era, Sinhala Saṅgha have become more Bhumi Putras than Buddha Putras (Amunugama 1991) this has led to the Betrayal of Buddhism within (Tambiah 1992). They attempt to contribute to the Work of Kings (Seneviratne 1999)   than to advance dhamma, because their Present is always in the Past (Kemper 1991). The Colors of   their Robes (Abeysekara 2002) are more of a symbol of caste, regional and theological divisional identities than the symbol of a renouncer life. Their contribution to the Conflict and Violence in Lanka (Deegalle 2006) only endorsed in a military solution to the ethnic crisis causing more death and suffering. Because according to them, Redesigning Democracy for Sinhala Buddhism (Rāghavan 2014) is based on their bodily reactions to the ontological insecurities that are present around them…”

Tambiah and his disciples, however, did not talk about a Buddhist Zionism. But according to Raghavan, in 1948 two Zionist states came into existence; Israel and Ceylon. Both based on the purity of the land. He links his crazy idea with about 50 songs Ven. Elle Gunawansa wrote praising the soldiers at war in the 1990s! Blaming Buddhist monks for the ills of black-white rule is a popular sport among the Tambiah crowd. For example, HL Seneviratne thought Vens. Walpola Rahula and Yakkaduwe Pragnarama were responsible for the plight of Sri Lanka. Recently, he proposed, that young monks should take the lead for a revolutionary course correction of the role of the Sanga fraternity. Because, he thinks that the golden era existed before 1956, was ruined by the political monks. Raghavan also blames monks for the saga that (began in 1923 or so and) ended in May18, 2009. On this Dayan Jayatileka replied pointing out why Prabakaran lost irrespective of the involvement of the monks in just war psychology. Yes, monks played a major role in defeating the this war is not winnable” propaganda.

In 2013, Raghavan called the military victory of 2009 over the Tigers ‘repugnant.’ Dayan Jayatileka identified Raghavan as an employee of the anti-Sinhala Buddhist CBK faction. Now in 2019 as governor of NP, Ragahavan is not a changed man. His first interviews are about the spread of Buddhism in the East and North and about getting land and police powers. Raghavan like Wigneswaran before him proves the hypothesis that there are only two types of Tamils in Sri Lanka; poor Tamils and Eelam Tamils. There are no Moderate Tamils. They jumped over the fence at the right time. The best example was Paskaralingam who acted as the trusted servant cum master of RPremadasa, who left the country the day after RP was killed to join the LTTE agents in Australia. DBS Jeyaraj, K T Rajasingham (Asian Tribune website), Rajan Phillips, Pakiyasoothy, Kumar David are other examples. Michael Roberts in Australia gave a reluctant hint of this idea when Jane Russel in London opened his eyes to this fact.

Tamil people are happy with the army and police, and a Ragahavan will be a taxpayer funded new cancer spoiling the goodwill already established by the security forces. Tamil people need a governor concerned with their welfare and not a shadow politician who wrote a dissertation misinterpreting the role of Buddhist monks in the island, thus promoting hate between Tamils and Buddhists. In the past, Dayan Jayatileka noted the shallow socio-political knowledge of Raghavan, and if he learns anything from Brother Charles, he will work with Buddhist monks to protect the destruction of Buddhist ancient temples and archaeological sites by separatist politicians.

Naaga Deepa monks ought to ask from Raghavan, how TNA politicians could forcibly enter the Gurukanda purana Rajamaha Viharaya at Nairu, Mulathive and try to build a Kovil in temple land as soon as he became the governor, unless they are now encouraged by the new Tamil governor’s negative attitude on Buddhism in the North and East    As part of his continuing education I would invite him to visit the Lankaweb, website to learn about the tolerable attitude Buddhists have toward minorities. It was the Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim black-whites who destroyed Sri Lanka, ethnically, economically and ecologically. Raghavan must work to protect low caste Tamils from Tamil versus Tamil discrimination. Meeting religious leaders on eradicating the drug problem is not a bad idea, but harmony is more important to build conciliation. Raghavan should protect and preserve ancient Buddhist ruins at least because of their tourism value.

Sri Lanka has no ethnic problem. Sri Lanka has but a mismanagement problem starting from the 1920s. The spatial inequality, equal access to opportunity is the problem affecting Tamil, Muslims and Sinhalese. In the city of Colombo, the rich are the Tamils and Muslims. Go to a private hospital, you see few Sinhala patients. Go to the general hospital, you see it filled with Sinhala patients. In Muslim majority areas such as Batticaloa, Sinhala people face discrimination from the local GSN upwards. Even the Sinhala local police officers harass them after taking bribes from Muslim/Tamil agents.

13-A must be abolished. Instead people must be empowered at local level. Local units must be re-demarcated based on ecology as in New Zealand. Sri Lanka has 103 rivers and river basins, wewas or underground water basins must be identified as political/administrative units. Language or religion should not be used for this purpose. Nearly 350 local government units could be re-demarcated to become natural units. An action plan on this basis was presented to the LLRC in 2010.

http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2013/03/bodu-bala-sena-and-llrc-buddhist-self.html

Because Raghavan is so angry with the Bodu Bala Sena movement, I hope the above link would help him to understand it better. Brother Charles and Bodu Bala Sena tells the same story. BBS is asking the politicians to implement the Buddhist Commission Report of 2002. Conciliation is not a magic carpet to block foreign anti-Buddhist invasions such as Wahabism, Christian fundamentalism, Tamil diaspora separatism and geopolitics of exploitation of poor countries by global corporations.

The governor of NP, if he got a Ph.D. by doing research on Buddhist monks, and if he is concerned with the welfare of Tamil people has a choice. Is he going to listen to Sumanthiran who is now titled as the savior of Tamils in Jaffna (how many had this title in the past? SJV Chelvanayagam was called the Tamil Moses) or is he going to listen to the president of Hindu Federation of Sri Lanka, Arunkanthan, who is appealing president Sirisena to release the BBS monk from a prison? Everyone knows that the AG department, Police and Bar Association agents and a JVP lawyer got him fixed as promised by Mrs. CBK to put bala sena in balu kuudu.

Cwije77@outlook.com

by Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island

February 26, 2019, 11:02 pm
President Sirisena’s comments on the Constitutional Council (CC) and the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka have elicited both supportive and negative responses from several quarters. This note is not on whether the President had grounds to say what he did or not. Instead, it is to set the record straight as far as the two institutioans are concerned. In addition, since the CC and its offshoots, the Independent commissions, have been hailed as major achievements in support of the rule of law under the 19th Amendment, it is absolutely necessary that the CC and the institutions it creates adhere to the rule of law and practices of good governance.

THE CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL

The Speaker as the Chairman of the CC addressed Parliament, on 25th January 2019 and made the following statement: “I informed on that occasion that I had tabled on 08. 12. 2016 in Parliament a report containing the guidelines followed by the Constitutional council submitting nominations for appointing members of the Independent Commissions laid down in Article 41(b) of the Constitution and in approving the nominees sent to us by the President for appointing persons to positions stipulated in Article 41 (c) of the Constitution … In addition to that, the report containing the aforesaid guidelines will be tabled in Parliament tomorrow for the information of Hon. Members…It shall be mentioned that seniority, integrity, independence and impartiality of persons are considered in addition to the said guidelines in appointing persons to respective positions”.

The plea by the Speaker cited above would have been superfluous had the CC followed the provisions in the Constitution under the 19th Amendment as stated in Articles 41E (4); (6) and 41G (1); (3) since they collectively require the CC to adhere to them.

Article 41 E (4) states: “The Council shall endeavor to make every recommendation, approval or decision it is required to make by unanimous decision, and in the absence of an unanimous decision, no recommendation, approval or decision made by the Council shall be valid, unless supported by not less than five members of the Council present at such meeting”.

Article 41 E (6) states: “The procedure in regard to meetings of the Council and the transaction of business at such meetings shall be determined by the Council, including procedures to be followed in regard to the recommendation or approval of persons suitable for any appointment under Article 41 B or Article 41 C”.

Article 41 G (3) states: “The Council shall have the power to make rules relating to the performance and discharge of its duties and functions. All such rules shall be published in the Gazette and be placed before Parliament within three months of such publication”. In addition, Article 41 G (1) requires the CC to forward reports of their activities to the President every three months.

In regard to guidelines, seniority has become an issue. If the CC had assigned weightage to the qualities they were looking for, when they developed guildines, this would have been a non-issue. The lack of such procedures has made the guidelines for selection open to question.

Had the CC gazetted the guidelines “relating to their performance and discharge of their duties and functions” and placed them before Parliament, the Speaker could have used them instead of attempting to explain to Parliament that the charges made by the President against the CC are baseless. The fact that he did not do so means that there are serious shortcomings in the manner the CC conducts its business.

The CC was created to curb the arbitrariness of executive action. Therefore, if such an institution is to fulfil the purposes for which it was created, it has to gazette and place before Parliament the parameters that guide its operations. Else, it amounts to replacing the arbitrariness of an individual with that of an institution whose decisions are final and cannot be challenged. In such an event, who should be held accountable for such omissions? Is it the Secretary General of the Council or the three civil society members? If they cannot ensure that due process is followed, they should resign in protest.

THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF SRI LANKA

Addressing the critical statements by the President, the HRCSL stated:

” …it is due to the independence of the Council and the trust placed in the Council that in 2016 the United Nations designated the HRCSL to vet the SriLankan military and police officers for deployment to Peace Keepingmissions. We consider the fact that HRCSL is the only national institution selected to undertake the vetting process amongst all countriesthat supply troops for Peacekeeping missions as a triumph for Sri Lanka”.

The highly exaggerated claim that the United Nations sought out the HRCSL and “designated the HRCSL” is far from how the HRCSL came to be associated with the vetting process, judging from what the Chair of the HRCSL stated during the course of an interview with The Sunday Times of July 22, 2018. TheChair is reported therein to have stated:

‘Vetting (screening) does not come under the HRC mandate, outlined in theparent statute. In 2016, however, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) wrote to the Commission and requested it to take on the task. Vetting was earlier carried out by the UN. But the MFA said that Sri Lanka was the first to be invited to do it locally’. “The Foreign Ministry’s position was the Human Rights Commission was the obvious choice as it was an independent institution now under the 19th Amendment and had the credibility to take it on “, Dr. Udagama said.’ (Ibid)

The admission cited above claiming that the UN singled out the HRC of Sri Lanka is stretching the truth. What really happened was that the MFA passed a hot potato to a reluctant HRCSL to undertake the task despite its scope being beyond its mandate.

The task undertaken by the Commission is that: ‘All Member States that nominate or provide personnel to serve with the UN must screen and certify that such personnel have not committed, or are alleged to have committed, criminal offences and/or violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. Those who seek to serve with the UN must attest the same and, where necessary provide relevant information. The processes by which this can be done are outlined in Decision 2012/18 of the UN Secretary General’s Policy Committee’ (IPS, April 22, 2018).

“Having admitted that the task assigned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is beyond the mandate of the HRCSL, which according to Act No. 21 of 1996 that set up the Human Rights Commission, is limited to “rights declared and recognized by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”, the question is whether the HRCSL has the competence to certify that the personnel they clear have not committed, or are alleged to have committed criminal offences and/or violations of international humanitarian law, and if they do not, how credible would be their clearance”? (Ladduwahetty, Screening of peacekeeping personnel from Sri Lanka, The Island, July 24, 2018).

“The context in which the HRCSL should conduct its screening/vetting should be that of an armed conflict since the conflict in Sri Lanka was an armed conflict that was conducted under conditions of a declared emergency. Therefore, the applicable law is international humanitarian law; a fact acknowledged by the UN Secretary General’s Panel of Experts and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. Consequently, human rights are derogated except for laws that are recognized by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which are Articles 6 -right to life, Article 7 – prohibition of torture and Article 8 – slavery. Therefore, the issue is whether HRCSL has the competence to evaluate whether humanitarian law violations were committed during the armed conflict and thereafter until normalcy was restored” (ibid).

The HRCSL in its response claims that it has met with all the “stakeholders” and developed a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) in June 2018, and furthermore that the UN has informed them that the vetting process could resume from December 2018. Since the request from the Foreign Ministry was in 2016, the question that follows is why it took the HRCSL until June2018 to develop an Operating Procedure. An even more pertinent question is whether the SOP was published (gazetted) and approved by Parliament or any other competent authority in keeping with practices of good governance.

CONCLUSION

It is evident from the foregoing that the primary cause for criticism against the Constitutional Council is that it has not met constitutional provisions of gazetting its guidelines and placing them before Parliament. As for the HRCSL, if it has not published the Standard Operating Procedure, the guidelines for selecting peacekeeping personnel will remain opaque. The arbitrariness common to both reflects arrogance; they seem to think that they and only they know what is best for Sri Lanka and no one else should know how they conduct their operations. The plea of the public is that both institutions have an obligation to the people who have a right to know how they operate because they are not above the law.

Punsara Amarasinghe  Institute of Law and Politics Scuola Superiore Sant Anna Pisa, Italy

The political and social upheaval of 1956 has been always received mixed reactions in Sri Lankan society. For some it was the monumental event in post-colonial Ceylon that common man disrupted the social and cultural hegemony which was predominantly consisted of Colombo based English speaking elites .For some it was just the beginning of all the despicable political acts in in country’s post independent history where gullible common man became the victim of political chicanery and implementations of 1956 such as the promulgating Sinhalese as official language curtailed the ethnic homogeneity in the island resulting tension between Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority which eventually paved the path to the bloodiest civil war lasted for 30 years . Nevertheless, assessing the character of the man behind the events of 1956 has always been another tiresome task as his personality remains an enigmatic riddle.

The thing I must do is to apologize to you for speaking to you in English. Owing to my long absence from my country, I am not sufficiently fluent in Sinhalese to be able to address you in Sinhalese. That is a fault that can be easily remedied. What is more important is that my heart should be sound. And I can assure you my heart is Sinhalese to the core”

Those were the words uttered by the architect of 1956 revolution in post independent Ceylon, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike after returning to the island in 1925 as a graduate from Christ Church in Oxford. Understanding his mind would be the horrendous task that one can face in examining the political project led by this man in post independent Ceylon. This was problem regarding ascertaining the genuineness of most of the post-colonial leaders in South Asia from Nehru of India to Bhutto of Pakistan. Having grown under British colonial influence with privilege Oxbridge education all of them had discontents with those English ethos, struggled to embrace the nationalist sentiments while trying to understand the native culture, yet, all of them were deeply attached to the British cultural values in their private domains. This peculiarity compelled Nehru to describe himself as the last Englishman to rule India. However, the case with Bandaranaike was rather a different one and it was more or less about a journey of man who sought a platform to be superior. Perhaps his personality can be an interesting model for Lacanian psychoanalysis with the dozens of strange actions left behind his character. Famous biography of SWRD Bandaranaike written by James Manner in 1988 has revealed how Bandaranayake was groomed since his childhood days to become maha mudliyar which happened to be the highest office held by a native under British rule in Ceylon and Bandaranaike-Obeyasekere families had dominance over holding this position for generations as most loyal servants to British colonial rulers. SWRD’s father maha mudaliyar Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike’s auto biography Remembered Yesterdays” probably a ghost written work has been forgotten today, but its detailed picture on the lavish life style of maha mudliyar is more than enough to assess the childhood of SWRD in early 20^th century Ceylon. In examining the seeds of ambitions sparked in Bandaranaike’s mind to maintain his authority and to be dominant that one should look at how he spent his childhood under the tutelage of British tutors in Horagolla. Bandaranaike’s early childhood education was confined to his ancestral home in Horagolla where two British resident tutors named A.E Radford and Henry Young provided him the elementary lessons. However, memories written by SWRD in later years convinces the reader that his childhood education under British tutors at home was filled with anxiety and disappointments as both tutors tried to nourish SWRD under their own ideals. The brief time he spent at S. Thomas’ Mutwal was another crucial juncture in molding his early years under Warden Stone’s guidance. His contemporaries had admitted that young Bandaranaike was given a special privilege being the son of maha mudaliyar and he was boarded at Warden’s bungalow. However, the honored life style he received in Ceylon was vanished after he began his undergraduate years at Oxford, where he was a mere wag and none of his upper class Ceylon heritage guarantied him any place. Moreover, his flair for classics was scornfully discouraged by his tutor at Christ Church; Oxford who advised Bandaranaike to be cautious with his choice of classics as it was manly confined to the boys came from British public schools such as Eton and Harrow. Memories of Oxford were serialized in Ceylon Causerie magazine after SWRD returned to Ceylon and it depicts the discontents he encountered with at Oxford. The man who appeared to be the silver tongued orator of Asia and Diyasena” for common man in 1956 had not forgotten his rich elite upbringings in his Oxford Memories. Though his narrative was begun with a sense of cultural dislocation, he did not forget to include some references to his privileged background. For instance, at the beginning of his account SWRD Bandaranaike tells It was not just an accident that my name was entered by my father in the books of Christ Church, about ten years before I actually went up”.  Another interesting event showing Bandaranaike’s enigma in his personality was the anomaly he continued to uphold regarding his position on India. After acquiring his mastery as an orator at Oxford Union his fervent criticism of British rule in India often brought his fame as a debater at Oxford. The magisterial oratorical triumph he witnessed at Oxford happened to be a speech he delivered at a debate on British rule in India where he defended the proposition that indefinite continuance of British rule in India is a violation of British political ideals. Later Bandaranaike expressed how strongly his speech captured the audience as the applause he received lasted for few minutes. He compared the British love of freedom to the pictures of the Italian Renaissance and culminated his speech by saying where you find a thread of golden light pervading the whole work; it is in the air, it dances in the eyes of men and women, it flickers in their hair, and is woven in the very texture of their flesh. And the thread of golden light which illumines forever the life of this people is their love of freedom and free institutions…’ Having expressed such an ardor on liberating India from British rule, yet Bandaranaike had a distant relation with Indians and its culture at Oxford. His memories provide evidence that Bandaranaike seemed to have abhorred Indian social life at Oxford, perhaps in order to prevent him being marginalized on the basis of race or colour. However this duplicity was rather paradoxical and he was not the first Lankan to pretend to be more pro Indian while simultaneously keeping a disinterest in Indian society, because Dharmapala did the same in Japan by introducing himself as a representative of Indian Buddhism.

The anglophile nature of Bandaranaike was not entirely an outcome of his Oxford experience as Nehru and Butto. More than his exposition to English culture, his ambition sparked since his childhood to be the superior over others may have been a crucial factor throughout his double standing political career. Before I am their equal I must first be their superior” this was the very words he uttered and committed to the core before acquiring his glory at Oxford, however his Oxford glamor was slightly marred when his hope to become the president of Oxford Union was ruined at the union election. In examining SWRD Bandaranaike’s childhood and his days at Oxford, that one can easily identify the roots of social cultural anomalies he maintained in later political career. His attraction for native Sinhalese culture was akin to Jawaharlal Nehru’s effort to embrace Indian culture, yet Nehru had his higher nourishment from Gandhi, whereas there is no direct link to demonstrate whether Bandaranaike was influenced by Dharmapala directly in carving his entry to Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism.  In the writings of Gunadasa Amarasekere, Amarasekara had often regarded Dharmapala as the founder of Sinhala nationalist revival and Bandaranayke as his successor. But it is doubtful to examine whether those nationalist sentiments propounded by Dharmapala actually played a key role in Bandaranaike’s psyche. All in all SWRD Bandaranaike’s character remains a mystery that gives no clue to identify his vision. Perhaps the expression used by his class classmate at S.Thomas’ Canon R.F de Saram when SWRD Bandaranaike was invited to S.Thomas’ College prize giving as chief guest in 1958 may be the apt words to introduce him to the future.

This is said to be the age of the common man. It May be so. But it is certainly also the age of the Demagogue. the man with the loud voice and fluent vocabulary and specious tongue who debases his gifts by devoting them to misrepresentation of facts, the stirring up of hatred, the vilifying of persons and causes to which he is opposed the man with much cleverness but little wisdom who is prepared to sacrifice the peace and prosperity of the country to the gaining of some petty personal or party triumph”.

NIMAL LEWKE Former Commandant STF Courtesy The Island

It has been reported that drug dealer Makandure Madush had plans to smuggle in a specialized weapon, M 39 rifle to the country. Although I do not think much about this drug dealer and his detection was given huge publicity, and at the same time his name was linked to a plan to assassinate the VVIP. I have tried to impress, the leadership of this country that a strong intelligence unit is of paramount importance to govern this country, protection of assets, and safety of the nation, but I did not get a proper response.

When you say intelligence, the information you collect is analyzed by knowledgeable, experienced, committed people and they will developed intelligence to take appropriate action.

Coming back to the weapon, what is the background of this drug dealer and is it true he was planning to smuggle an M 39 rifle? One wonders, from where he got expert knowledge and the idea to look for such a sophisticated, latest weapon used by none other than US Marines. If this is true, the security hierarchy has a huge task to get to the bottom of it, and find out all details about this so called plan to assassinate the VVIP.

M 39 Marksman rifle is used by US Marines and they used it in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Although, it is from the M16 family, which we used in the STF and British special forces, this is a higher caliber 7.62 nato caliber ammunition, with an effective range of 800m and a maximum firing range of 4000m.

These cartridges are more powerful than any M 16 amo, and are used by marine scout snipers on special missions.

Since the special features of this weapon, one wonders, how come a drug dealer has selected it, and who advised him on this purchase? This is matter that worth investigating?

In 1963 when John F Kennedy was assassinated by a sniper, he used an Italian sniper rifle called Caracan, which I believe is a bolt action weapon. Even with a gun of that nature he managed to get the target very accurately. This special weapon has the capability of mounting sniper day scope with a telescope site, due to the fact that it uses long-range ammunition. This is a light weight accurate system, utilizing a cartridge more powerful than the M 16 standard, and it has the capability of mounting night vision.

Considering recent reports appeared in newspapers, although we do not have access to the defence circle, we had immense experience during the 30 years of war where we came across many sophisticated firearms, munitions and various tactics of terrorists. Surely the people in authority to protect the nation and its leadership will give top priority to intelligence, VIP security and overall national security. This is a very important matter for the defence authority, which must go deep into before it is too late.

“Do not forget VIP Security is a highly sophisticated subject,” which need careful planning and analyzing the situation accordingly. Mr. Kadirgamar’s case was a classic example.

By Shamindra Ferdinando

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Chairman Prof. G.L. Peiris, yesterday, alleged that the proposed Counter Terrorism Bill would encourage those still pursuing a separatist agenda.

Instead of countering the threat of terrorism, it would definitely facilitate the terrorism project, the former External Affairs Minister told a media briefing at Nelum Mawatha Office of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Prof. Peiris regretted that the incumbent government was purposely undermining national security.

Prof. Peiris said that the proposed Counter Terrorism Bill was being introduced in place of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) in compliance with the Geneva Resolution co-sponsored by Sri Lanka in Oct 2015. In March, 2017, Geneva granted Sri Lanka two more years to fully implement its UNHRC obligations including the abolition of the PTA, Prof. Peiris said, alleging that the proposed law was meant to protect terrorists and those promoting terrorism.

Prof. Peiris challenged the architects of the new Bill to explain why Section 72 empowered the Attorney General to delay serving indictment for a period of 10 years.

In terms of Section 77, if an indictment was served, it could be recalled right up to the moment of the delivering of a judgment, Prof. Peiris said. The provision for the Attorney General to accept an apology or/and offering to do community service in lieu of prosecution was nothing but a joke, the former law Professor said.

Prof. Peiris said that a statement issued following the conclusion of Sri Lanka-EU talks, Sri Lanka had reaffirmed its commitments made to implement 27 conventions on human and labour rights, environment and good governance in order to benefit from the GSP+ scheme. In this context, while acknowledging that the new draft legislation was now being considered by Parliament, the EU had reiterated the need to repeal and replace the PTA in order to bring counter-terrorism legislation in line with international standards, Prof. Peiris said.

Prof. Peiris also criticised the need for the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka and the IGP to be informed as regards arrests made in terms of the new law.

The new law was meant to mollycoddle terrorists, the former FM alleged. However, the proposed law could be applied selectively to target trade unions, student community and even the media, the SLPP leader said. Prof. Peiris explained how Sub Section c, d and f under Section 3 could he exploited to prosecute those opposed to the incumbent government.

Responding to a query, Prof. Peiris explained those accused of causing damage to public property or infrastructure could face terrorism charges. The SLPP leader also revealed that journalists, too, could be targeted using certain provisions on the basis of them providing information to those responsible for causing damages to public property.

Prof. Peiris alleged that the provision for remanding of a suspect in case he or she declined to answer questions violated the Article 13 Sub Article 5 of the Constitution. The new law challenged the presumption of innocence until proven guilty enshrined in Constitution, Prof. Peiris said.

KAMALIKA PIERIS

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga appears to have been the first President to take an interest in entrenching the Tamil language in the island. President Kumaratunga had issued a letter on June 1997 to the Cabinet and senior public officials regarding non-compliance with the Official Languages Policy,

Six specific directions were issued which had to be implemented within two months. The Minister handling the subject was to personally supervise the matter and report on action taken within one month.

The directions    issued in this 1997 letter were as follows. All regulations, legal provisions and information to be available in all three languages,  all forms to be printed in all three languages,  all letters from the public to be replied in the language in which it is received or at least with an English translation,  all name-boards of public institutions and other signage to be displayed in all three language,  all vacancies for Sinhala – to – Tamil translators and Tamil typists to be filled and temporary staff recruited for this purpose where permanent cadre do not exist.  Also, a senior official in each institution to be charged with responsibility for implementation of the official languages policy.

These instructions are of a minimal nature as far as the implementation of the language policy is concerned, said the Tamil lobby  and in any case, the circular was not implemented by the Ministerial Secretaries and Heads of Departments to whom it was addressed.

In 1999 President Kumaratunge directed that all District Secretariat divisions where there are over 20% Tamils,  be declared bilingual divisions, where languages of administration have to be both Sinhala and Tamil. In these divisions Tamils can transact government business in Tamil  and Tamil will also be the language of record. This instruction was a triumph for the Tamil language lobby. Tamil had   become an additional language of administration outside of North and East.

The first bilingual divisions were twelve divisions in the districts of Badulla and Nuwara Eliya. In Badulla district 41 DS divisions were declared bilingual. 29 other divisional secretariats in six districts, where there were more than 30% Tamil speaking peoples, were thereafter designated as bilingual administrative divisions. These included areas where the Tamil speaking population is as high as over 70 percent as at Nuwara Eliya and Ambagamuwa (Nuwara Eliya district) and Kalpitiya and Puttalam (Puttalam district).

In 2005 Official Languages Commission   recommended that another forty-three D. S. divisions in thirteen districts be declared bi-lingual DS divisions.  The districts were in Ampara, Anuradhapura, Colombo, Gampaha, Kandy, Kegalle, Kurunegala, Matale, Matara, Polonnaruwa, Ratnapura, Trincomalee and Vavuniya. A further 29 will be gazetted shortly said DEW Gunasekera in 2008. This covers all bilingual areas in the Island in terms of the ethnic wise population.

The watchful Tamil lobby complained in 2008 that there were no objective criteria by which these areas were   designated as bilingual divisions .No minimum threshold of Tamil speakers appear to have been used in the selection of areas. Two divisions in Badulla district with fewer than 15 percent Tamil speakers were taken whereas several divisions where the Tamil speaking population average 30 percent (including Matale, Rattota and Ukuwela (Matale district) Kuliyapitiya (Kurunegala district) and Lankapura and Welikanda (Polonnaruwa district) are omitted.

Devanesan Nesiah was asked in 1999 to make recommendations for use of Tamil in these DS     divisions. His recommendations were not followed and he repeated them in 2012. Here are his recommendations.

Nesiah wanted the various A.G.A. Divisions categorized in terms of the language composition of the population as follows: (i) Not less than 87 ½ % Sinhala speaking (ii) Not less than 87 ½ % Tamil speaking (iii) Not less than 50 % Sinhala speaking and not less than 12 ½ % Tamil speaking (iv) Not less than 50 % Tamil speaking and not less than 12 ½ % Sinhala speaking.

Public officers in were also to be graded into six levels according to their language proficiency:

(1) Officers fully proficient and who can correspond in Sinhala (this will comprise mostly but not exclusively those whose mother tongue is Sinhala; a special high level proficiency examination could be prescribed for those whose mother tongue is not Sinhala)

(2) Officers fully proficient and who can correspond in Tamil (this will comprise mostly but not exclusively those whose mother tongue is Tamil; a special high level proficiency examination could be prescribed for those whose mother tongue is not Tamil)

(3) Officers fully proficient and who can correspond in English (a high level proficiency examination could be prescribed for this purpose)

(4) Officers who have passed the prescribed proficiency examinations in Sinhala   other than the special high level examination referred to in (1) above. (This will comprise mostly those whose mother tongue is Tamil)

(5) Officers who have passed the prescribed proficiency examinations in Tamil other than the special high level examination referred to in (2) above. (This will comprise mostly those whose mother tongue is Sinhala)

(6) Officers not included in (3) above but with minimum proficiency in English (Proficiency examinations could be prescribed for this purpose)

Nesiah then suggested that that every A.G.A. Division classified under (i) should have staff in all cadre grades of at least 50% of (1), 10% of (2), 10% of (3) and 15% of (5). All the Divisions of Colombo District excluding the Colombo A.G.A. Division would fall into this category,

Every A.G.A. Division classified under (ii) should have staff in all cadre grades of at least 50% of (2), 10% of (1), 10% of (3) and 15% of (4). All the divisions of Batticaloa district would fall into the category and would require a minimum of 10% Sinhala speaking staff to meet the recommended norm.

Every A.G.A. Division classified under (iii) should have staff in all cadre grades of at least 50% of (1), 25% of (2) and 10% of (3). Colombo A.G.A. Division would fall into this category and would require a minimum of 25% Tamil speaking staff to meet the recommended norm.

Every A.G.A. Division classified under (iv) should have staff in all cadre grades at least 50% of (2), 25% of (1) and 10% of (3). Nuwara Eliya A.G.A. Division would fall into this category.  Nesiah also suggested that similar norms be prescribed in respect of each Municipal and Urban Council administration based on the linguistic composition of the population within the Council limits.

In 2008 Dew Gunasekera, then Minister of Constitutional Affairs and National Integration said D. S. Divisions which have been already declared to be bi-lingual areas of administration do not function in the way it should be functioning   because they lack the facilities to do so. They are unable to receive communications and to communicate and to transact business in the Tamil language. Nor are adequate facilities available to citizens to obtain copies of or extracts from or translations from any official register, record, publication or other document, in the Tamil language, Dew said.

in some of the areas where the language of administration is declared to be Tamil the police stations and other institutions dealing with security do not operate in that language for maintenance of records or for transacting business with the people of the area. If this is the case in the areas where the Tamil Language has been declared to be the language of administration it is too much to expect that the implementation of the use of Tamil language in other areas will be satisfactory, concluded Dew Gunasekera.

In 2008 or so, N. Selvakumaran  did a field study of  the implementation of Tamil as an Official language in selected  Divisional Secretariat divisions in Colombo, Nuwara Eliya, Puttalam, Trincomalee and Vavuniya.  The Divisional Secretary’s Divisions selected for the field study have been Colombo D. S. Division and Thimbirigasyaya D. S. Division in the Colombo District, Ambagamuwa D. S. Division and Nuwara Eliya D. S. Division in the Nuwara Eliya District, Mundel D. S. Division and Puttalam D. S. Division in the Puttalam District, Trincomalee Town & Gravets D. S. Division and Muttur D. S. Division in the Trincomalee District and Vavuniya D. S. Division and Vavuniya South D. S. Division in the Vavuniya District. The study concentrated on Tamil in civil administration, transport, police, law courts and health.

Selvakumaran found that in the districts of Trincomalee and Vavuniya, the Tamil language as an Official Language was satisfactorily implemented in almost all thematic areas referred to above, save some exceptions particularly in the Police department. In the Nuwara Eliya District, the civil administration in major offices such as Divisional Secretary’s Office, Grama Niladhari’s Office, Pradeshiya Sabhas, Registrars of Birth, Marriages and Deaths, Land Registry, Local Authorities, is carried out satisfactorily. This is due to the fact that a satisfactory number of Tamil speaking officers has been employed in the area. Similarly, the police stations had a satisfactory number of Tamil speaking officers, said Selvakumaran.

In the Nuwara Eliya District, the civil administration in major offices such as Divisional Secretary’s Office, Grama Niladhari’s Office, Pradeshiya Sabhas, Registrars of Birth, Marriages and Deaths, Land Registry, Local Authorities, is carried out satisfactorily. This is due to the fact that a satisfactory number of Tamil speaking officers has been employed in the area. Similarly, the police stations had a satisfactory number of Tamil speaking officers; but there seems to be some reluctance on the part of these officers to function in Tamil.

In Colombo the Attorney-General’s Department and the Legal Draftsman’s Department have adequate staff to operate in Tamil very satisfactorily, the Department of Registration of Persons, Registrar General, Health, and Post Offices provide somewhat manageable services to the Tamil speakers compared to the Departments of Police, Divisional Secretary’s offices, and Grama Niladhari offices where the state of the implementation of the Tamil language is very unsatisfactory.  Further, registration of marriages could be done in Tamil as Tamil speaking Registrars have been appointed in the Colombo district. Official translation of certificates could be obtained in Tamil. This is also the same with regard to birth and death certificates.

Police Stations in the Colombo district are not geared to record statements or question and interview witnesses/suspects in Tamil. Copies of extracts or police clearance certificates are issued to Tamil speakers in Sinhala. They are not issued in Tamil or English, as constitutionally stipulated. Police officers and soldiers, who visit homes for ‘checking and verification’ purposes, do not speak the Tamil language.  To obtain copies of records of proceedings in Tamil is also very difficult.

In the Puttalam district civil administration offices, such as District Planning Secretariat, Divisional Secretariats, Grama Niladhari offices, Registrar of Births, Election Departments, etc., have sufficient number of Tamil speaking officers. Police Stations also have adequate number of officers who are Tamil speaking, though the administration is mainly carried out in Sinhala. Records are maintained in the Sinhala language. With regard to the transport sector staff of the road transport has a satisfactory number of Tamil speaking officers. The train transport sector too is the same.

With regard to  law courts, although staff is satisfactorily representative of Tamil speaking officers, most of the documents, notices, forms, name boards, etc. are in Sinhala only. Translators are available from Sinhala to Tamil and vice versa in courts. Cases are filed in the Sinhala language and conducted in the same language. Lawyers are capable of managing their client’s cause, though clients may not understand what is taking place with regard to their cause. On the whole, the people in the area manage to transact business in the Tamil language although the government service is not fully geared to provide its services in the Tamil language, concluded Selvakumaran. (continued)

ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ මාධ්‍ය හමුව

අද (25) දින මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාවට සහභාගි වූ නියෝජිතයින් 

• පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී රෝහිත අබේගුණවර්ධන මහතා

• පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ගාමිණී ලොකුගේ මහතා

ගල්කිස්ස මුහුදු තීරයේදී ආන්ඩුවේ ප්‍රබල ඇමැතිවරයෙක්ගේ මාධ්‍ය ලේකම්වරයෙක් කුඩුත් එක්ක අහු වුනත් මාධ්‍ය ලේකම්වරයා එළියට ඇවිත් අහිංසක රියදුරා කුඩුත් එක්ක ඇතුලේ

බදුල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරයා මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය නාශක අංශයේ පොලිසියේ මහත්තයාගේ කන පලනවා. කිසිම ප්‍රශ්නයක් නැතුව මන්ත්‍රීවරයා ගෙදර යනවා.

විජයකලා මහේස්වරන් කියනවා යුද්ධය කාලෙදිවත් ඊට පස්සේ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ රජය කාලයේදීවත් යාපනයේ කුඩු තිබුනේ නැහැ. දැන් හැමතැනම කුඩු තියෙනවා.

වැරදි නොකරපු රණවිරුවන් අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් කලොත් අලප් ආණ්ඩුවක් ආවාම ඒ වැරදි කරන නිලධාරින්ට එරෙහිව පියවර ගන්නවා

පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී රෝහිත අබේගුණවර්ධන මහතා

ආරක්ෂක අංශ මගින් කොළඹ නගරයේදි ලංකාවේ විශාලතම මත්කුඩු තොගය විදියට කුඩු කිලෝ 294ක් අත් අඩංගුවට ගෙන තිබෙනවා. 2018 වසරේදි පමණක් මත්කුඩු කිලෝ 732ක් අත් අඩංගුවට ගත්ත බව වාර්තා පළ වෙනවා. දැන් 2019 වර්ෂයේ මාසයකුත් දින 24ක් තුළ මතුකුඩු කිලෝ 520ක් අත්අඩංගුවට පත්වෙලා. අපේ රට මත්කුඩු තිප්පලක් බවට පත්වෙලාකියන එකයි මෙයින් අදහස් වෙන්නේ. අපේ අනාගත තරුණ පරපුර සම්පූර්ණයෙන් මත්කුඩු වලින් විනාශ වෙලා යන තරමට කුඩු ගංකාවම වෙලා ගෙන. 

එදා අපේ රජයේ අගමැතිවරයෙකුට සම්බන්ධ ලේකම්වරයෙකුට කොළඹ වරායට ආපු කන්ටේනරයක තිබුණු කුඩු සම්බන්ධයෙන් චෝදනා එල්ල වුනා. ඒ වෙලාවේ ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුනේ නායක අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක කිව්වා ලංකාවේ ඉන්න ඔක්කොටම කන් හැන්දෙන් ගහන්න දෙන්න පුලුවන් තරමේ කුඩු ප්‍රමාණයක් ඇල්ලුවා කිව්වා. අනුර කුමාර මහත්තයෝ අපේ රජය කාලේ අල්ලපු කුඩු කන් හැන්දෙන් බෙදුවා නම් අද අල්ලන කුඩු සවලෙන් බෙදන්න පුලුවන්. මේ ආන්ඩුව ආවේ යහපාලනය ගේන්න. රටේ අපරාධ නොවෙන තත්ත්වයක් හදන්න, මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය තුරන් කරන්න, ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය ඇති කරන්න කියලා ආපු මේ ආණ්ඩුවෙයි කුඩුයි අතරේ තියෙන සම්බන්ධය මොකක්ද. ගල්කිස්ස මුහුදු තීරයේදී ආන්ඩුවේ ප්‍රබල ඇමැතිවරයෙක්ගේ මාධ්‍ය ලේකම්වරයෙක් කුඩුත් එක්ක අහු වුනත් මාධ්‍ය ලේකම්වරයා එළියට ඇවිත් අහිංසක රියදුරා කුඩුත් එක්ක ඇතුලේ. 

මාසයකට ආසන්න කාලයේදී බදුල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරයා මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය නාශක අංශයේ පොලිසියේ මහත්තයාගේ කන පලනවා. කිසිම ප්‍රශ්නයක් නැතුව මන්ත්‍රීවරයා ගෙදර යනවා. විජයකලා මහේස්වරන් කියනවා යුද්ධය කාලෙදිවත් ඊට පස්සේ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ රජය කාලයේදීවත් යාපනයේ කුඩු තිබුනේ නැහැ. දැන් හැමතැනම කුඩු තියෙනවා. මේවාට දේශපාලනඥයෝ සම්බන්ධයි කියලායි ඇය කියන්නේ. එහෙම නම් මේ සියලුදේට මේ යහපාලන ආන්ඩුවට වග කියන්න වෙනවා. මේ ආන්ඩුව නිසයි රට කුඩු තිප්පලක් වෙලා තියෙන්නේ. මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය සම්බන්ධ  වැඩපිළීවෙලට සහාය දෙන්න අපි සූදානම්.

ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේදී ලංකාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් සාකච්ඡාව ආරම්භ වෙන්න කළින් වසන්ත කරන්නාගොඩඇතුළු රණ විරුවන් 48ක් අතු අඩංගුවට අරන් ඒ දිනයට පෙර ඔවුන්ව හිර ගෙදර යවන්න සූදානම් වෙනවා. 2019 කියන්නේ යුද්ධය අවසන් වෙලා ගතවෙන 10 වැනි වසර. යුද්ධට අවසන් කලේ වීරෝධාර රණවිරැවෝ. රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහත්තයා පහුගිය දවස්වල හිටියේ කිලිනොච්චියේ. වව්නියාවේ. මන්නාරම. අගමැතිතුමනි, මතක තියාගන්න. දෙපයින් ඔහෙට යන්න පුල්වන් වුනේ හිරේදාන්න ලෑස්තිවෙන රණවිරුවන්ට පින්සිද්ධ වෙන්න. ඒ රණවිරුවට පින්සිද්ධ වෙන්න තමයි. යුද්ධය අවසන් වෙලත් වසර 10ට පස්සේ අපේ රණවිරැවන්ගේ නම් ලයිස්තුවෙන් කොටසක් දෙන්නේ රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධාන. රාජ්‍ය නෙවාන සංවිධාන ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී නම් ස්වාධීන නම් රණ විරුවෙක් ගැන කතා කලේ කවදාද. මේ රජය වුනත් රණ විරුවෙක්ගේ ප්‍රශ්නයක්ට කතා කලේ කවදද. රණ විරුවෙක්ගේ විශ්‍රාම වැටුප ගැන ආබාධිත රණ විරුවෝ ජිවත් වෙන්නේ කොහොමද ඇහුවද. මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ කට්ටිය සතුටු කරන අතරේ ඊළග ඡන්දයේදී උතුරේ ඡන්ද ටික ගන්නේ කොහොමද කියන එකයි මේ අය බලන්නේ. අතුර සතුටු කරන්න, සුමන්දිරන්ව සතුටු කරන්න කටයුතු කරන්නේ කොහොමද කියන එකයි මේ ආන්ඩුව බලන්නේ. රණවිරුවාව අපි දංගෙඩියට දැම්මා. මැතිවරණයේදි අපිට ඡන්ද මල්ල දෙන්න කියලයි මේ අය කියන්නේ. වසන්ත කරන්නාගොඩ ඇතුලු සියලුම රණ විරුවෝ තමන්ගේ යුතුකම වගකිම මාතෘභූමිය වෙනුවෙන් ඉටු කළා. ඔවුන් වෙනුවෙන් අපි පාරට බහිනවා. මේ අවුරුද්ධ තීරණාත්මක අවුරුද්දක්. අපේ රජයක් ආවාම වැරදි විදියට පෑන හසුරුවලා බි වාර්තාවන් ගහලා වැරදි නොකරපු රණවිරුවන් අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් කලොත් අලප් ආණ්ඩුවක් ආවාම ඒ වැරදි කරන නිලධාරින්ට එරෙහිව පියවර ගන්නවා. 

මේ දවස්වල රන්ජන් රාමනායක රාජ්‍ය ඇමැතිවරයාගේ කොකේන් සිද්ධිය ආන්දොලනාත්මකයි. කතානායකවරයාට නම් ලයිස්තුව දුන්න බව කියන රන්ජන් රාමනායක ගෙන් බොරු කියන්නේ කවුද අහපුවාම රන්ජන් කියන්නේ මුසාවාදා වේරමනි සික්ඛා පදං සමාදියාමි කියනවා. ඒකියන්නේ බොරු කියන්නේ කතානායකවරයා. අපිටත් පහුගිය කාලයේ කතානායකවරයාගේ හැසිරීම නිසි අපිටත් රන්ජන් කියන දේ විශ්වාස කරන්න  සිද්ධ වෙනවා. කතානායකතුමා රන්ජන් රාමනායකද, කතානායකවරයාද බොරු කියන්නේ කියලා ප්‍රකාශයක් කරයි කියලා අපි බලාපොරොත්තු වෙනවා. 

අයවැය ළග නිසා තමන්ට විනය පරික්ෂණ තියන එකක් නැහැකියලත් රන්ජන් රාමනායක කියනවා. අයවැය ඉවර වුන ගමන් රන්ජන්ට වැඩේ දෙනවා. අය වැය නිසා රන්ජන් මෙවැනි දේ කරද්දිත් නිශ්ශබ්දව ඉන්නවා නම් දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානයට කොහොම ඇද්ද. දැන් ඉගි කරනවා. ගාල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ මහත කෙනෙක්. වතුකරයේ ඇස් රතු වුන කෙනෙක්. උත්තරයට කිට්ටුවෙන් යන්න කියනවාට වඩා පුලුවන් ඉක්මනට මේ නාමාවලිය කිව්වනම් හොදයි. අපිත් කැමැතියි වැරදි කරන අය පෙන්වා දෙන්න. 

එතුමා ගිහින් ලේ දුන්න. බුද්ධික පතිරණ ලේ, මුත්‍රා, හිසකෙස් දුන්නා. රන්ංන් රාමනායක මහත්තයාට අපිත් කියනවා පුලුවන් නම් හිසකෙස් ටිකත් දෙන්න.එතකොට කොකේන් විතරක් නෙවෙයි අනික් දේවලුත් හෙළි වෙයි. පහුගිය කාලයේ අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්‍රන්ලාගෙන් සල්ලි ගත්ත අය ගැන කියවපු විදියටම මේ ගැනත් කතා වෙනවා. ඉස්සර අන්දරේ හිටියා රජතුමාව හිනස්සවන්න. සට්ටැඹීරාල හිටියා. සැට්ටඹිරාල තමයි සියලුම තැන් හේදුවේ. තව හිටියා ඇට්ටැම්ඹිරාල. ඒ කාලේ අද වගේ මුත්‍රා ලේ පරික්ෂා කිරිමක් සිද්ධ වුනේ නැහැ. රජතුමා උදේ මුත්‍රා කරපුවාම ඇට්ටම්ඹිරාල තමයි දිව ගාලා චෙක් කරලා බල්නනේ. රන්ජන් රාමනායක මහතයා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ඉන්න නිසා මේ වැඩේ බේරගන්නත් අවහ්‍ය නිසා ඇට්ටම්ඹිරාල කරපු වැඩේ කළා නම් හරි. ලොබියේ ඉදන් එන එන මන්ත්‍රීවරයාට කියලා මෙහෙම වත් විසදාගත්තොත් හොදයි. 

ජනාධිපතිධූරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් විවිධ කතිකාවන් එනවා. මේ ආන්ඩුව ඡන්ද කල් දාන්නයි හදන්නේ. පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණය ගත්තේ හරිම අමාරුවෙන්. අද වෙනකොට පළාත් සභා ඡන්දය තියන්නේ නැහැ. තොගයට පරදින බව දන්න නිසා මේ ආන්ඩුව පළාත් සභා තියන්නේ නැහැ. නව ව්‍යවස්ථාවක් ගෙනත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණය කල් දාන්න හැදුවට ඒක සම්මත වුනේ නැති නිසා අකුල ගන්න වුනා. දැන් 20 වැනි සං‌ශෝධනය ගෙනත් ජනාධිපතිධූරය අහෝසි කරන එක ගැන කියලා ජනාධිපතිවරණයත් කල් දා ගන්න හදනවා. ජනාධිපතිධූරය අහෝසි කළ යුතුයි. නමුත් මේ ඊට අවස්ථාව නෙවෙයි.ත ජනාධීපතිධූරයඅ හෝසි කරන්න කලින් පළාත් සභා සම්බන්ධයෙන් තීරණයක් ගන්න ඔ්නේ. ප්‍රභාකරන්ගේ මල්ල වගේ කෙනෙක් වැරදිලාවත් ආවොත් මොකද කරන්නේ. දැන් බලන්නේ කල් දාන්න බැරි එකම මැතිවරණය වන ජනාධිපතිවරණයත් කල් දාගන්න හදන්නේ ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුනේ බලල්ලු ලවා කොස් ඇට බාවන්නයි. තුනෙන් දෙක රටේ බහුතරය තිබුණු වෙලාවේ ඒක කර ගන්න තිබුනානේ. මේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විශ්වාස නැති පාර්ලිමේන්තුවක්.ඒ නිසා මම පුද්ගලිකව කැමැති ජනාධිපතිධූරය අහෝසි නොකරනවාටයි. ජනාධීපතිතුමාගේ පෝටෝ එකට වදින්න අවශ්‍ය අයත් මුදල්වලට පැත්ත මාරුකරපු හැටි අපි පහුගිය දවස්වල දැක්කා. එහෙම මන්ත්‍රීවරු ඉන්න පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ජනාධිපතිධූරය අහෝසි කිරීම සුදුසු නැහැ. ජනාධිපතිධූරය අහෝසි කරන්න නම් ඊළග ජනාධිපතිවරයාගෙන් පස්සේ ජනාධිපතිධූරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් රටේ කතිකාවක් ඇති කරලා රටෙන් අහලා එය කරන්න අපි ලැහැස්තියි.ආන්ඩුවේ කොටසක් වෙලා ඉන්න ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණට ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් තීරණ ගන්න බැහැ. 

පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී  ගාමිණි ලොකුගේ  මහතා

මාර්තු මාසේ ලබන්න කිට්ටුයි. මහ බැංකුව මංකොල්ල කාලා අවුරුදු තුනක් වුනත් ඒ ගැන රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ හෝ ආන්ඩුව කතා කරන්නේ නැහැ. මහ බැංකුවේ හිටපු අධිපති සිංගප්පූරුවට වෙලා ඉන්නවා. රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ගිහින් දකුනේ ප්‍රභාකරන් කෙනෙක්ව පත් කරන්න අවශ්‍ය නැහැලු. ඒ අය හිතන්නේ ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ දකුනේ ප්‍රභාකරන් කියලා. ඒ අය ගෝඨාභය මහත්තයා නිසයි අද උතුරේ ගිහින් ඒ වගේ රැස්වීම් තියන්නේ. මේ වගේ දේවල් කිව්වට ඒ අය මහ බැංකු කොල්ලය ගැනනම් කතා කරන්නේ නැහැ. 

එයාර් ලංකා එකේ මහා මංකොල්ලයක් වෙලා අද පවත්වා ගෙන යන්න බැරි තත්ත්වයක් ඇති වෙලා. රටම හොරකම් කරගන්න ගමන් ආනමඩුවට ගිහින කියනවා ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය ආරක්ෂා කරාලු. තමන්ගේ ගජ මිතුරන්ගෙන් කොමිෂන් සභානේ තියෙන්නේ. ව්‍යවස්ථාදායක සභාව පත්කර ගත්තේ කොහොමද. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහත්තයා විපක්ෂ නායක වෙනකල් ආන්ඩුවෙන් ගේන යෝජනාවලට පක්ෂව ඡන්දය දෙන්නේ කවුද. ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණයි දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානයයි. පළාත් සභා මැතිවරණ කල් දාන්න එකම දිනයක පවත්වන්න අවශ්‍යයි කිව්වාම අධීකරණය කිව්වේ ඒකට ජනමත විචාරණයක් තියන්න ඔ්නේ කියලා. ඊට පස්සේ පනතට සංශෝධනයක් ගෙනාවා. කාන්තා නියෝජනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ගෙනාව සංශෝධනය ඡන්දේ දුන්නේ ජවිපේ, දෙමළ සන්ධානයයි. ඒ අයයි ව්‍යවස්ථාදායක මණ්ඩලය පත්කලේ.දැන් අලුත් මාතෘකාවක් ගේනවා. පොන්සේකා තෙවරප්පෙරුමට බනිනවා. මහජනයාත් බලන් ඉන්නවා දෙන්න මොනවාද කියන්නේ කියලා. ඊළගට කුඩු රජා මාකදුරේ මධූෂ්. දැන් රන්ජන් රාමනායක මන්ත්‍රීවරු කොකේන් බොනවාලු. ඒ අතරේ තෙල් මිල වැඩිවෙනවා. සිමෙන්ති මිල වැඩිවෙනවා. කරුංකා රටෙන් ගෙනත් රු.10ට දුන්න පුවක් ගෙඩිය බැහැලා. ගම්මිරිස් කුරුදු මිල අඩුවෙලා. රටේ සාමාන්‍ය ස්වයං රුකියාවක් කරන් හිටපු සුලු අපනයන කරපු මිනිස්සු බිමට වැටිලා. මාධ්‍යයෙන් කියැවෙන්නේ කුඩු මදූෂ්, රංජන්ගේ කොකේන්. මහ බැංකු අධීපති සම්බන්ධයෙන් මම වගකීම බාර ගන්න බවයි රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ කිව්වේ. කෝ අද. රන්ජන් රාමනායකට උසාවියට අපහාස කිරිම සම්බන්ධයෙන් නඩුවක් තියෙනවා. තීන්දුව දෙන්නේ නැහැ. පළාත් සභා මැතිවරණය ගැන නඩුවක් දැම්මා. මැතිවරණය අවසන් වෙනකල් තීන්දුව නැහැ. මේවා සියල්ලම 19 වැනි සං‌ශෝධනයෙන් වුනේ. අපේ ආන්ඩුවක් ආවම අපි ඒ සංශෝධනය නැවත සංශෝධනය කරනවා. 

වෘත්තිය සමිතිවලට මොකද වෙන්නේ. වෘත්තිය සමිති නායකයින්ගෙන් දේශපාලන පළිගැනීම් වෙනවා. සී. ටී. බී එකේ කිසිම ඉන්ටවිව් එකක් නැතිව 5000ට උසස්වීම් දෙනවා. තරුණ සේවා සභාවේ විසිගානක් මාරුකරලා. රියදුරුව කිලිනොච්චියට මාරුකළාට වාහනයක් නැහැ. අධ්‍යාපන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ නිවාස අධිකාරියේ, ගොඩනැගිලි ද්‍රව්‍ය සංස්ථාවේ ගුවන් විදුලි සංස්ථාවේ මාරු කරනවා. ස්වාධීන රූපවාහිනියේ සිද්ධිය යන්තම් බේරගත්තා. දැන් රූපවාහිනි සංස්ථාවේ ප්‍රශ්න. අපේ ආන්ඩුවක් ඇවිත් පැය 24ක් ඇතුලත වැරදි විදියට කරන මාරුකිරීම් සියලුල අහෝසි කරනවා. නිලධාරීන් වැරදි විදියට තිරණ ගත්තොත් ඔවුන් අනිවාර්යය නිවාඩු යවලා පරික්ෂණ කරලා දඩුවම් කරන බව වගකීමෙන් කියනවා. සේවකයින්ට වෘත්තීය සමිති කරන්න අයිතියක් තියෙනවා. කම්කරු ප්‍රඥප්තිය අනුව කටයුතු කරන්න හැකියාව තියෙනවා. නිලධාරීන කැදවුවාට එන්නේ නැහැ. මේවැනි හිට්ලර් ක්‍රමයකටයි රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ රට පාලනය කරන්නේ. ඔහු තමයි උපදෙස් දෙන්නේ මේ දේවලට. අපි වෘත්තීය සමිති ව්‍යාපාරයක් විදියට මේවාට මැදිහත් වෙනවා. සේවකයින්ට බියක් සැකක් නැති වැඩ කරන්න බැරි තත්ත්වයක් තියෙන්නේ.මේ රටේ නීතිය අනුව කුඩු ගහන ඇමැතිවරු ඉන්නවා ඒ ගැන කටඋතුතර ගන්න , හොරු ඉන්නවා නම් කට උත්තර ගන්න පොලිසියට අයිතියක් තියෙනවා. ඒ කිසිවක් නැහැ. බොරු කරලා විහිලු කරලා රට දුවන්න බැරි තත්ත්වයකට පත්කරලා. 

මාධ්‍ය – ජනාධිපති ඒකකයේ ආරක්ෂක අංශයේ ප්‍රධානියාගේ පුත්‍රයෙක් පදවනලද වාහනයක ගැටීමෙන් පොලිස් නිලධාරීයෙක් තුවාල ලබා තියෙනවා. එහි ඔබේ මන්ත්‍රීවරයෙක්ගේ පුතෙකුත් ඉදලා තියෙනවා.

ගාමිනී ලොකුගේ – කතන්දරේ ඇත්ත. පොලීසිය මැදිහත් වෙලා ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් පියවර ගන්නවා. කාරෙකේ ඇමැතිවරයෙක්ගේ පුතෙක් ගිය එකට මොකද කරන්නේ. පොලිසියට ඉදිරිපත් කරන්න කියපුවාම අද උදේ පොලීසියට ඉදිරිපත් කරලා තියෙනවා. ඒකට ප්‍රශ්නයක් නැහැ. 

මාධ්‍ය – රන්ජන් රාමනායක ලේ දුන්නාට පස්සේ බුද්ධික පතිරණ ගිහින් ලේ, මුත්‍රා විතරක් නෙවෙයි හොදම දේ කියලා කෙස් පවා දෙනවා. මේ වෙද්දි ඔබලා එහෙම කළාද

ගාමිණි ලොකුගේ- අපි ශෝබනේට ඒවා කරන්නේ නැහැ. ප්‍රශ්නයක් තියෙනවා නම් අපිව පරික්ෂා කරන්න පුලුවන්. බුද්ධික පතිරණ කිරිපිටිවල උ!රු තෙල් තියෙනවා කිව්වා. රාජිත නැහැ කියනවා. සොයිසා මන්ත්‍රීවරයාත් කියනවා උ!රුතෙල් තියෙන බව . කෝ පරික්ෂණ

රෝහිතඅ බේගුණවර්ධන – රටේ තියෙන ප්‍රශ්න යට ගහ ගන්න එක එක දේවල් වෙනවා. සිංහල අවුරුද්දට ගෙදර කිරිබත් අයන කාලයක් එන්නේ .බුද්ධිය පතිරණ පටන් ගන්නවා ලේ කෙස් දෙන්න. අයවැයෙන් කෙරෙන දේවල් කැපෙන එක නෙවෙයි ප්‍රවෘත්තිය. රෝහිත කෙස් දෙන එක වගේ දේවල් ප්‍රවෘත්ති වුනාම රටේ ප්‍රශ්න අමතක වෙනවා. මේ ප්‍රකාශය කරපු මන්ත්‍රීවරයාගෙන් ප්‍රශ්න කරන්න. දැන් පළාත් සභා හිටපු මන්ත්‍රීවරයෙකුත් දැන් ගහ ගන්නවා. එයා කියනවාලු පෙති ගහන මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ව සාධක ඇතිව හෙළි කරනවාලු.