Bhante Y. Wimala

Dear friends and students,

The new year 2019 has arrived. It is that time again to take a few moments to relax, reflect and make some positive choices.

Following are my affirmations for 2019. Please join me.

1. I will not allow the negativity of others to pollute my mind or disturb me.

Every negative thought is a painful thought. Negativity breeds suffering. We often run into and sometimes we are surrounded by people who are frustrated, angry, and bitter about politicians, injustice, violence in the world and one thing or another. If we are not prepared and do not have clear guidelines for ourselves, it is so easy for them to pollute our minds and disturb us with their negativity.
Be prepared to stop yourself from getting drawn into such dialogues or situations. Be prepared to walk away politely. Be prepared to disconnect or find a reason to change the topic. If everything else fails, remind yourself of the power of your own mind to control your reactions and positively engage them. Refuse to allow the anxiety  of others to disturb you.
2. I will try my best to become a more kind and loving person.

The warmth of kindness and love is universal. When you feel truly loving or kind, you do not even have to tell others. They feel it. Not only humans — even animals and plants — can feel your loving kind thoughts. Whenever you feel genuine love or kindness, you feel a sense of comfort and fulfilment inside you, a kind of comfort that nobody can give you.
By becoming more kind and loving, you nurture yourself while nurturing others around you. The kindness and love help you to bring the best of you into the day. Remember to be kind as often as you can. Ask yourself, am I a loving person? How can I become a more loving person? So your second affirmation is I will remember to try my best to nurture the love and kindness in my heart in the year 2019.”

3. I will try my best to face all my challenges and problems calmly and patiently.

Challenges and problems are a normal part of normal life. You know very well that you do not solve any problem by worrying about it. Worrying about anything simply adds more burden to the problem or challenge. Then why worry? It is simply a habit, a habitual trigger in your mind. The affirmation above will help you to train the mind not to worry and understand that worrying about a problem or challenge does not solve any problem. By remaining calm and becoming patient in the midst of challenges or problems, you can carefully choose an appropriate action and avoid getting stressed.

Thought alone is not enough. Let us bring these thoughts into action and get results in the year 2019. I wish you success in your efforts to bring positive changes into your life.

May you be well and happy.

Bhante Y. Wimala

Prevention of women entering Temples by Orthodox Hindus in Kerala.

This kind of discrimination against women and also lower castes happens all the time in Tamil Nadu and also especially in Northern Sri Lankan Kovils and Temples. But such things are hardly reported. Before the rise of the LTTE, there were protests in Mavattipuram and other places in Sri Lankan Temples where low-caste people were not allowed entry.  The ITAK party opposed liberalizing temple entry while the Marxist leader Shanmugathasan led the protests. During the LTTE wars, the Tigers militarized and used women for their objectives, often using them as expendable and easily controllable carder who can be used as suicide bombers.

After the war, old caste traditions and orthodoxy have once again began to creep back, with Norther Provincial leaders like Wigneswaran strongly encouraging orthodoxy. But things are stirring up in Kerala and other parts of India.

Unfortunately, Sri Lanka’s  “civil society” types and  “human rights” NGOs are dominated by members of the upper caste Jaffna Orthodoxy. Even the Catholic church memebers in Jaffna are caste and orthodoxy dominated, with burials in the chruchyard determined by caste.

Unlike in India, the feminist movement among women in Sri Lanka is quite inactive against these issues. Instead, Tamil human rights famininists  unleash their ire in Geneva.

Zwei Frauen trotzen der Mauer aus Hindu-Männern

Here is a rough translation of a German language report .

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Two women defy the wall of men forbidding Temple entry for Women in Kerala

Under police protection and in the dark, they made it: Two women arrived in a Hindu temple in the south of India – and so demanded their right to equal treatment. The conflict has been smoldering for months.

In the shelter of darkness, two women in India have entered one of the holiest Hindu shrines, claiming their right to equal treatment. According to authorities, they secretly entered the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala state under police protection shortly before sunrise and later left the sanctuary undetected. They were thus able to bypass the extremist Hindus, who have for weeks transformed the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala into a fortress and withheld women.
Two women arrive at the Hindu temple in the state of Kerala in southern India.

[Photo” Two women arrive at the Hindu temple in the state of Kerala in southern India.]

On video footage can be seen how the two women in black robes with lowered heads rush into the temple. They did not come to the temple via the “18 holy steps” but through the personnel access, they reported afterwards.

Head Priest orders “cleansing ritual”
The action of the two women caused violent protests by arch-conservative Hindus – the Sabarimala Temple is one of their most sacred temples. The supreme priest ordered the temple to be shut down for a cleansing ritual. After an hour he was reopened.

The extremist Hindus oppose the lifting of the women’s ban on visiting the country’s Supreme Court. According to tradition, women between the ages of ten and fifty cannot enter the gilded temple because the deity worshipped there is considered unmarried and believers fear a “seduction” of the god by women’s vile. The ban was informal for many years and became law in 1972. However, in September 2018, India’s Supreme Court declared that the practice violated the constitutionally guaranteed equal treatment of men and women.

Violent riots
Many women then tried to reach the mountain shrine of the god Ayyappa. However, they had been deterred by angry Hindu activists. There were riots between supporters of the ban and the police in October, and around 2,000 people were arrested. Again, there were  violent protests against the action of women. In front of the parliament in Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram, there were violent clashes. The police used tear gas, water cannons and stun grenades against the protesters. Protests were also reported from other cities in the state

Recently, tens of thousands of women in Kerala had formed a mile long human chain to protest against the Temple ban and to promote gender justice. According to the Communist Party of Kerala, 5.5 million women came together for the protests. The news of the two women who had access to the temple was received enthusiastically by the solidarity movement.

Opposition to court decision
Even legally, the dispute continues. Numerous conservative Hindu movements and the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi object to the Supreme Court’s decision. They challenge the verdict on the grounds that it ignores the traditional belief that Ayyappa lived in celibacy. For January 22, a court hearing of the opponents of the judgment is provided.

Since India is again ruled by Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP, conservative and fundamentalist Hindus have been buoyant. The conflict over the South Indian temple is therefore also indicative of the identity politics with which they make mood. Not only does the BJP seek to give new meaning to the ancient Indian cultural and religious heritage, it also borders on India’s other religious communities, whether Muslim, Christian, Jain or Parse. Equal rights for women are also considered fundamental. This strategy should also shape the election campaign of the Hindu nationalists: this year, the Indians determine a new parliament, the BJP wants to remain  in power by what ever means.

Stanley Perera Melbourne, Australia.

It is absolute truth that kids eat free in Australia.  Kids have pets and there are bank accounts for the pets and and pets hospitals and pets cemetries in Australia.  It is also absolute truth that kids and their pets are Australian’s national treasure.  Kids go to school and pets go to obedience classes and get toilet trained.  When those kids grow up those entitlements and inheritanced enjoyed in their childhood are transferred to their kids.  That is the Australian National heritage enjoyed by Australians with dignity, honesty and integrity.  In my days if an English man was called a liar, he would commit suicide.  It was that truthful an Englishman those days.  In the modern day the English Prime Minister Tony Blair  was called Blair the liar by the English public when Tony Blair said a pack of lies about Sadam Husein.  As a reward Tony Blair was made the lifetime president of the Middle east peace board by Little Bush with enormous amounts of perks.  Blair’s wife was called Flats lady.

225 KIDS ALSO EAT FREE IN ISLAN NATION OF SRI LANKA

It is absolute truth that 225 kids eat free 5 course meals all day and all night 24 hours of the in in this beautiful Island Nation of Sri Lanka.  They are issued with duty free luxury BMW permits every year instead of a pet.  It is not only His,but also a Her’s.  So His’s and Her’s Luxury BMWs.  One for the master(luxury bullet proof), two for the kids and none for the naughty kids who say no to the 19A.  Majority of those kids never went to a school.  They carry knives to the play scool.  They pour water on to the class teacher’s chair, fortunately it was not that electric chair made in the USA.  Some kids call the class teach who is also a kid “Karumaya”.  One kid threw urine mixed with chilli powder which got into the eye of another kid and this kid was crying his eyes out and screaming his head off danawo “danawo, danawo”.  Some people though it was a real act of kids and some people thought it was the play school drama.  Unlike in Australian kids, these 225 Siri Lankan kids are housed in 7 star luxury hotel in the tiny little island in Diyawanna.  It is absolute truth that tose 225 Siri Lankan kids never grow up, nover go to school and never do a job.  All they do twddile their thumbs, picking their noses and arses and thinking day and night how to rob the banks.  Those duty free luxury car permis once every year come with a no repay bank loans not exceeding 500 million rupees.  The Ambassadors visit the head of the kids from time to time to check the health and welfare of the kids.  Those Ambassados in the public gallery applause whenever the class teacher discipline the kids at the play scool.  Those dispora appointed Ambassados’s main job is to puppeteer the puppet kids play school.  The head of the kids is a thug.  Some people call him Mr. Batalanda.  Some people call him white skinned Ambusados’s boot licker.  All the people call him mid night.  That is becuse when all the kids go to sleep the thug of the kids pass 19A 40A, 33A and all the As that comes to his mind.  Some people call him an arch crook.  Somebody said he is butter fly.  Pople also call those 225 kids “free loaders”.  Part 11 to be continued.

Stanley Perera

Melbourne, Australia.

Stanley Perera Melbourne, Australia.

Elon Musc the American Billioner was preparing a capsule to rescue the Thai boys from the cave. This pommy guy who was a cave rescuer said the American can stick his capsule where it hurts.  In response to that tounge lashing American billioner Elon Musc said that pedo guy.  As I did not know what it meant by pedo guy, I asked this Aussie guy what the meaning of pedo guy.  The Aussie guy said to me ” those Pommy Guys and Aussie Guys go to Thailand to sleep with boys are called pedo guys.  So that pedo guy the cave digger sued American billioner Elon Musc for deformation of caracter.  Elon Musc said “I am not denying.  I said what I know about the pommie guy.  He sleeps with Thai boys.  Such people are called pedo guys”.  What are you going to do about it?  So the pedo guy had to shut his face.

The other day  In a public speech the Siri Lankan President said ” that man is a butterfly”.  As I did not know the meaning of butterfly, I asked a young Siri Lankan lass what it meant by Butterfly.  This young Siri Lankan lass told me it is the three letter word starting with G”.  Oh it is the god I said .  No dumb dumb three letter word starting with ga.

Oh, it is gal.  No idiot it is gay.  I still cannot understand what it really means gay.  Let me tell you in simple language man, she said “it is the man sleeping with a man”.  Then I asked the young Siri Lankan lass what is the difference between the gay guy and pedo guy.  The lass said the pedo guy is the guy who sleeps with the boys and gay guy is the guy who sleeps with a guy.  I am confused it is like the Siri Lankan constitution and 19A,33A, and 40 a,b.c. which can be translated either this way or that way but not both ways.  I asked this Siri Lankan lass what is this homo.  This lass told me I don’t no man I am a les girl. I am confused and confused like the Siri Lankan constition.  God save my Siri Lanka.  My Siri Lanka is in the hands of a bunch of gay guys and pedo guys with les guys.  Where is the nearest mental assylum?  I want to book a room in there.  Before I get there I will find out if there are any pedo guys,gay guys and les guys.  Don’t worry myself all the residents and doctors including nurses are pedo guys, gay guys and les guys.

Stanley Perera

Melbourne, Australia.

උපතිස්ස පෙරේරා උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම

අප හිටපු ජනාධිපතිතුමන්ට යුද ජයග්‍රහණයට ගරුත්වය ලබා දිය යුතුයි. ඉදිරියේදී එතුමන්ට එම ගරුත්වය ලබා දෙමින්, මගේ සුරතින් ඔහුගේ නමින් ගම්මානයක් ඉදිකරන්නට කටයුතු කරනවා යැයි, සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතා පැවැසීය.

එස්.ඩබ්ලිව්. ආර්.ඩී. බණ්ඩාරනායක මහතාගේ සහ චන්ද්‍රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායකගේ නමින්ද ගම්මාන ඉදිකරන බවත්, දේශපාලන කුහකකම් හෝ වෛරය හදවතේ තියා ගනිමින් තමා කටයුතු නොකරන බවත් පැවැසීය.
ජාති, ආගම්, පක්ෂ, පාට නොබලා පැය 24ම දින 365ම, ජනතාවට සේවය කිරීම තම බලාපොරොත්තුව බවත් ජනපති ප්‍රමුඛ මැති සභයේ 225 දෙනා රටේ ලක්ෂ 210ක් වූ ජනතාවගේ භාරකරුවන් මිස අයිතිකරුවන් නොවන බවත් පොහොට්ටුවේ පිරිස් රටේ ජනතාව වහලුන් යැයි සිතා කටයුතු කරන්නේ ඔවුන් රටේ අයිතිකරුවන් යැයි සිතන නිසා බවත් පැවැසීය.

පුත්තලම දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ කරුවලගස්වැව, පහළ පුලියන්කුලමේ ඉදිවූ ‘රන්වියන්පුර’ උදා ගම්මානය ජනතා අයිතියට පත් කිරීම වෙනුවෙන් පැවැති උත්සවයේදී නිවාස, ඉදිකිරීම් සහ සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මෙසේද පැවැසීය.

මෙම උදා ගම්මානය විවෘත කිරීමට තිබුණේ පසුගිය ඔක්තෝබර් මස 31 වැනිදායි. නමුත් ඔක්තෝබර් 26 වැනිදා අපේ රටේ දේශපාලන ඛේදවාචකයක් සිදු වුණා. මෙම ඛේදවාචකය සිදු නොවී පසුගිය දින 52ක කාලය තුළත් අපේ ආණ්ඩුව තිබුණා නම් මේ වන විට නව ගම්මාන 150ක් පමණ ආරම්භ කර ඉඩම් හා නිවාස නොමැති ලක්ෂ සංඛ්‍යාත ජනතාවට ආධාර උපකාර කරන්නට තිබුණා. නමුත් අද සිදු වී තිබෙන්නේ කුමක්ද? දින 52ක් නැවතී තිබූ සංවර්ධනය හා ජනතා සේවාව දැන් අප වහා දියත් කළ යුතුයි.

මීට සති කිහිපයකට පෙර ජනාධිපතිතුමන්ටත් හොරෙන් පොහොට්ටුවේ නායකතුමා මන්ත්‍රිවරුන්ට පොහොට්ටු පක්ෂයේ සාමාජිකත්වය ලබා දුන්නා. එසේ කටයුතු කළ ඔවුන් ‘අපි පොහොට්ටුවේ නෙවෙයි අපි එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධානයේ’ කියා අද කියනවා. පොහොට්ටුවේ සාමාජිකත්වය ලබාගෙන තමන්ගේ මුහුණු පොතේ පණිවුඩ නිකුත් කළා. නමුත් මේ පිළිබඳව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී නීත්‍යනුකූල ලෙස ප්‍රශ්න කරන විට ඔවුන්ගේ පාණ්ඩුකම්බල ශෛලාසන රත්වෙනවා. ඔවුන් දැන් ප්‍රකාශ කළොත් පොහොට්ටුවේ බව ඔවුන්ගේ මන්ත්‍රිකම අහෝසි වෙනවා. මෙයින් අපට විශාල පාඩමක් ඉගෙන ගැනීමට තිබෙනවා. අපි පක්ෂය සහ පාක්ෂිකයා අපේ අනාගතය උදෙසා කිසිවිට පාවා නොදිය යුතුයි.

සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාසටත්, කරු ජයසූරියටත් අවස්ථා රැසකදී අගමැති ධුරය භාරගන්න කිව්වා කියා පසුගියදා ජනාධිපතිතුමාම ප්‍රකාශ කළා. එය සත්‍යයක්. මට දහ වරකට වඩා එය කිව්වා. එම ඉල්ලීම පිළිබඳව ජනාධිපතිතුමන්ට මා අගෞරවයක් නොකර වැඩ කළ යුතුයි.

අප එක දිනක් තුළ ගම්මාන 85ක වැඩ කටයුතු ආරම්භ කරනු ලැබුවා. කවුරුන් හෝ අභියෝග කරනු ලබනවා නම් මුල්ගල් තැබූ ගම්මාන 85 පිළිබඳව අවශ්‍ය ලියකියවිලි මා සතුව මේ මොහොතේ තිබෙනවා. ජාති, ආගම්, පක්ෂ, පාට, පන්ති භේදයන් මට වැදගත් වන්නේ නැහැ. එකම සුදුසුකම වන්නේ ඉඩමක් නොමැතිකම, නිවෙසක් නොමැතිකමයි.

මගේ පියාණන්ද භේද බින්නවලින් තොරව නිවාස ඉදිකළ නිසා රටේ මහනගර සභාවක මන්ත්‍රිවරයකු ලෙස සිට එතුමා ජනාධිපති වුණා. අපේ වැඩසටහනේ මුල්තැන ලබා දෙනුයේ මිනිසත්කමටයි. එක්කෙනකු, දෙදෙනකු වැරැදි කළාට මා සූදානම් නෑ මාධ්‍යයට විවේචන ඉදිරිපත් කරන්නට.

Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror

While assuming duties as Deputy Minister of Social Empowerment, Palitha Thewarapperuma said yesterday among the many mistakes done by President Maithirpala Sirisena, the biggest was to promote Sarath Fonseka to the rank of Field Marshal.

He said Fonseka did not have qualifications to be promoted to that post and Sri Lanka was fortunate that he was not elected as president.

“When I assumed duties as the deputy minister of the Wildlife Ministry, I thought I was so lucky to work under a war hero like Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka. But I gradually realised that he was not the person he appeared to be,” the deputy minister said. I suffered a lot because of Sarath Fonseka. I was sentenced to prison for 400 days. My party membership was suspended. He did not even have the courtesy to ask me what happened.”

He said they had helped him unconditionally when he was nominated as the common candidate during the election and that he was personally involved in re-erecting elephant fences because Fonseka was not concerned about such issues.

“Fonseka has said I will not be nominated but it is Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the party who will decide whether to nominate me or not. It is none of his business. I secured 1.8 million votes. Fonseka got only 2,000 votes. It is clear who should be given nominations,” the deputy minister said.

He said I was removed from my post because of a wise decision taken by the Prime Minister.
If the Prime Minister has taken that decision, he should be responsible for the human-elephant conflict and should be answerable to the people. Fonseka ruined the funds of the Wildlife ministry and had done nothing for the country. Fonseka has also claimed that my family used vehicles belonging to the ministry. My family has not even seen my ministerial vehicle. The truth behind this whole drama is that Fonseka is not ready to accept that I have worked hard in the ministry. Now he is mad and crying because of not having a ministerial post. I can offer my Social Empowerment Deputy Minister’s post if he wants,” the deputy minister said.

Ajith Siriwardane Courtesy The Daily Mirror

Former Minister and Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka said today he would not allow deputy minister Palitha Thewarapperuma to come to parliament alleging that he was engaged in corrupt activities such as sand mining.

Mr. Fonseka told a news conference that he received fewer votes at the 2015 general election than Thewarapperuma as he did not want to enter parliament but to act as an anti-Rajapaksa force and added that if Thewarapperuma contested under a minority party, he would not receive votes of even his family members.

Responding to the allegation that Mr. Fonseka was keeping kith and kin as his personnel staff, he said Mr. Thevarapperuma had no moral right to talk about it and added that he had a right to keep anyone in his personnel staff.

He alleged that Mr. Thewarapperuma had begun politics as a Kasippu’ smuggler and said he was known as Naiwadiye Palitha”.

He was now engaged in sand smuggling. I will take action against this person. I will teach him a good lesson. I will teach him what political decency is,” he said.

Mr. Fonseka said Mr. Thewarrapperuma was a navy deserter and he began politics as the driver of Anil Munasinghe and then joined Kumara Welgama, who kicked him out.

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror

A government formed by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) will launch a fresh probe on the Central Bank bond scam after formulating a separate court, MP Mahinda Yapa Abeywardane said yesterday.

When asked about his comment over Colombo Chief Magistrate granting bail on Arjun Aloysius and Kasun Palisena, who are allegedly involved in the bond scam, the MP said the government wants to conceal the bond scam.

“This issue is unlikely to be solved. We hope to establish a separate court and start a new probe under a government of ours,” he told a news briefing held at the SLPP office.

Meanwhile, he said the current government was formed by the elements which wished to see the country divided.

“The ambition of these elements is to weaken the government and divide the country. As the SLPP, we will not allow this to happen,” he said.

MP Kanaka Herath, who also addressed the news briefing, requested President Maithripala Sirisena to remove the National List MPs of the SLFP who joined the government.

“National List MPs came to parliament because of the sacrifices we made. Therefore, we also have a right about the posts of these MPs.They are in parliament thanks to the hard work of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa during the election campaign. They have betrayed the party now,” he said.

Geethanjana Kudaligamage

Our system is rigged beyond repair. It is a fact. When a system is rigged beyond recognition by a bunch of charlatans and robber barons, the last thing we need is to see rewriting our supreme document of the law of the land by them. Therefore, we shall keep the Executive presidency as much as they hate it and trash it. If we need to rewrite our constitution, of course we may need to do it eventually, let us wait until the right time and right people comes. Those who rigged the system have taken the task of rewriting and changing the laws into their hand right now so they can change it in their favor. So, we ask them, please hands off our constitution! We don’t trust you fellas!

Before Yahapalanaya began, I wasn’t quite contented to write anything about constitutional affairs. Because I thought I was an artist and wasn’t well versed about that area therefore shouldn’t touch such an extremely ‘obnoxious’ field usually kept exclusively for ‘Kalu coat Karayas. Then I was under the impression that one needs to have some background knowledge to touch our constitution.

However, things radically changed. After realizing that our politicians had handled our constitution, the likes of Sambandan and Anura Kumara who were holding high caliber positions in the parliament such as ‘Opposition Leader’ and the ‘Chief Opposition Whip’ respectively, without even knowing kindergarten mathematics, why shouldn’t I? I mean, they didn’t even know what was the greater number among 6,16 and 95, both of them thought 16 and 6 were greater than 95. Not only that, they handled our constitution with such an ease similar to that of an uneducated Nattamy who handled his ‘Race Kole’ (රේස් කොළේ) with incredible comfort. If that is the situation of the folks who are now messing with our constitution, and if that is such an easy thing like reading the ‘race kole’ (රේස් කොළේ) by ‘math-illiterate’ Anura and Sambandan, hell, why shouldn’t I also touch constitutional affairs I thought? Thanks to Anura and Sambandan, I know the secret of reading our constitution now; you must hold it like a race kole (රේස් කොළේ). It’s simple as such.

The twentieth amendment is already in the pipeline. Elderly politician Sambandan looks so excited to see mother Lanka being left defenseless. Anura Kumara acting as the facilitator for this heinous crime, appeared to be enjoying it. As he chuckles when he speaks about the constitution, people ponder if he is really having a mental disorder lately. The main objective of this legal circus is to change our political system entirely to accommodate the path for the division of the nation just to satisfy Sambandan, sumanthiran, Ranil Wickramasinghe, Anura Kumara, NGOs and the click.

However, they want to annul people’s sovereign rights without going for a referendum. Actually, they are trying to pickpocket the approval for the bill through the parliament, to steal something valuable for the people of Sri Lanka without asking for their consent.

According to 1978 constitution, people have entrusted their sovereign rights at Executive president, and if the nation needs to repeal it, then a referendum is required. However, they have brought 19^th without going for a referendum creating a bad precedence for future changes, to do anything in future as well. So who are the victims here? The ordinary masses are the victims here. We are being trashed by all the politicians left and right.

We must identify all the charlatans in the parliament who will vote for this bill instead of asking the question whether or not this is unconstitutional to strip sovereign rights of people without asking their consensus for it. This is the biggest crime after the 13^th amendment. But still they identify themselves as champions of democracy. Is this democratic for Ranil and Anura?

Following links will take you to the current constitution of Sri Lanka (as amended up to 15^th May, 2015) and the next link to the bill of twentieth amendment. To understand the 20^th bill, one has to compare the constitution because, I think by purpose, the 20^th never provide an addendum explaining the changes.

file:///C:/Users/kudal/Desktop/constitution%20of%20Sri%20Lanka%20after%2019th.pdf

http://srilankabrief.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Twentieth-Amendment-to-the-Constitution-English.pdf

The 20^th amendment is presented in such a manner, as I said, it doesn’t even provide an addendum explaining the reason why those amendment are needed for the country. For instance, it says…

29. Article 93 of the Constitution is hereby amended by the omission of the words of the President of the Republic and”. (No explanation, addendum or side notes)

30. Article 94 of the Constitution is hereby repealed.” (No explanation, addendum or side notes)

This way of presentation makes the ordinary person to compare 1978 constitution with 20^th amendment. Then there is no addendum explaining why we need these constitutional changes. It is pretty clear this confusion is also the part of the design. The constitution is the supreme document of the law of the land, therefore it is more important for the ordinary people than the politicians or lawyers. It is therefore responsibility of the authorities to provide a comprehensive addendum. But they have avoided it. Why? Because all they want is to throw sand into public eyes. It is also doubtful if JVP membership or in that matter, even the leadership is well aware of the true weight of the 20^th to the nation. The biggest deceitful thing is the new practice of secret vote in the chamber. What is the reason for people’s representatives need to vote secretly? What kind of democracy is that? To hide from whom? Don’t they know that people have the right to know what their representatives do in the parliament? Isn’t this entire circus is aimed to cheat the masses?

The reason why we have to write about 20^th amendment and its related issues with EP is because legal experts do not care about it. And we have found that majority of lawyers in the parliament have violated the ethics of their profession. I haven’t seen any of these lawyers coming to Lipton circle to protest against 20^th amendment or abrogation of presidency since they see through it and understand the disasters that is looming. The legal professionals know it better than the laymen who doesn’t know the impact of the constitutional law.

I haven’t seen constitutional lawyers debating each other in the media about abrogating EP or the dangers of 20^th amendment, other than sporadically publishing one or two articles in the media. If they do, they can bring public awareness about the dangers that are pending in the pipeline. I haven’t seen our eminent legal professionals filing fundamental rights cases in the supreme courts against 20^th amendment and about the consequences of abrogating EP while having 13^th amendment and provincial councils functioning. Well, maybe they do not trust the legal system since they know about it better than us. Majority of lawyers in the parliament want to bring 20^th amendment to destroy the country.

The most troublesome issue is that none of the advocates of the 20^th amendment never have given any attention to the reason why Elamists also advocating the abrogation of executive presidency. Why they throw 330 million rupees or 2 million Dollars per vote in the parliament, to pay who is willing to vote for the bill. I won’t be surprised if a secret voting is conducted for this bill. Some of these lawyers maybe do not want to see through it perhaps because they are also part of the conspiracy. Or maybe money makes them mute. Otherwise their explanations would be balanced addressing all aspects of the problem including the dangers of eventual division of the nation.

Democracy would be good if our political culture is sacrosanct and pious; and our politicians are virtuous, honest and ethical. Democracy might be a disaster for a society full of corrupt charlatans, thieves and robber barons. The concept of democracy invented in Greece about 2500 years ago when people had never heard of corrupt form of predatory capitalism, and they had never seen Dollars falling from the sky, above all they had never heard of a fifth column working day and night to destroy a country. When the concept of democracy was invented in Greece, they had an economy based on barter system and there were no politicians capable of breaking central banks in politics. They never had heard of backdoor dealings, nor had they known about bribing representatives to switch sides. They never had offshore banking facilities to hide stolen wealth. When we have offshore banking, a system created by western powers to maintain this corrupt global political culture, that can function above the laws, and where democracy become a mockery. That is the reason why they recommend us to go back to Westminster system, because it serves them better and they can manipulate it far greater than EP system.

Westminster parliamentary system is a colonial recommendation for us to adapt as our political system of our government. Masters never recommend anything virtuously for the slaves to eventually become completely independent from the master’s yoke. That kind of Samaritan masters only found in fairy tales that Ranil Wickramasinghe might have heard in his bedtime stories. Definitely J.R. Jayawardene might have heard of that type of masters in his bedtime stories for sure, since his nanny was an English woman. The colonialists groomed this baby JRJ from the time he was in the womb to destroy his country later in 61 years. He met the expectations of his class obligations. Same goes with SWRD. Although S.W.R.D was also groomed in the same manner, but gone off track therefore they killed him.

If the proponents of 20^th amendment have sanctimonious objectives, why do they want to avoid referendum? Why is this fear and horror about people? Is that the democracy that has been perpetuated for Sri Lanka? Isn’t it an unalienable right of the people to decide what is right for them? If they are the angels or the guardians of Democracy, then why are they so frightened of people’s verdict? For me, it is a valid question to ask. But it doesn’t seem to be so valid for Ranil and Anura Kumara and some other folks. May be the kind of democracy they know is much advance than what we know about.

Please watch this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nebAwGOYAXA&app=desktop

Please see following videos as well.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=analysis+of+20th+amendment+in+sri+lanka&&view=detail&mid=6771BF9E367AD2DF7CB96771BF9E367AD2DF7CB9&&FORM=VDRVRV

Pivithuru Hela Urumaya statement

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What other politicians have to say about 20th

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Former president J. R. Jayawardene has left huge scars in the psych of the nation so it is easy for anyone to anthropomorphize/personify Executive presidency with JRJ. For that reason, the promoters of abrogating EP talk a lot about JRJ’s wrong doings to win the hearts of people to hide the real agenda behind the entire project. What all the front runners who are promoting the abrogation of the Executive Presidency and the rosy things they are telling us about 20^th amendment is pretty interesting. Of course, they are! It reminded me Arthur Koestler’s famous saying about statistics.” Statistics (20^th amendment) is like a string bikini; what it reveals is interesting but what it hides is significant’ actually, what these people are hiding from us is so significant, and of greater value for us.

Be cautious mother Lanka. Raise your voice and tell them your verdict loud and clear. The last thing we need is to see these charlatans rewriting our supreme document of the law of the land. Hands off our constitution” Period!  

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island

January 1, 2019, 9:16 pm
Speaker Karu Jayasuriya recently asserted that the relationship between President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe turned sour in the run up to the last local government polls in Feb 2018. Jayasuriya said so addressing religious leaders at his official residence, on Dec 26, 2018.

A statement issued by the Speaker’s Office, on Dec 28, 2018 quoted Jayasuriya as having said that he, at every possible opportunity, intervened to improve the situation as he realized the disastrous consequences of such a clash. Claiming that he realized the danger at an early stage, Jayasuriya confirmed President Sirisena offered him the premiership on several occasions.

Jayasuriya emphasized that he didn’t want to accept the premiership as they received a mandate for Sirisena to be the President and Wickremesinghe to be Prime Minister.

The Speaker’s Office statement, issued in Sinhala, dealt with issues at hand, particularly the proposed abolition of the executive presidency.

Unfortunately, Jayasuriya has conveniently forgotten the circumstances, leading to the damaging battle between Sirisena and Wickremesinghe. Those present there, on the invitation of Jayasuriya, refrained from reminding the gathering what was the mother of all yahapalana problems.

Nothing can be further from the truth than Jayasuriya’s claim that Sirisena – Wickremesinghe relations turned sour in the run up to the last local government polls. Obviously, Jayasuriya has turned a blind eye to the bond scam, perpetrated on the morning of Feb 27, 2015, allegedly by the then Governor of the Central Bank, Singaporean Arjuna Mahendran, and his son-in-law, Arjun Aloysius, the owner of primary dealer Perpetual Treasuries Limited (PTL). The UNP has been accused of providing the political backing for the heist.

The first bond scam, perpetrated 50 days after the last presidential election, is the mother of all problems for the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government. The new administration never really recovered from the unprecedented treasury bond scam, though President Sirisena went out of his way to protect the interests of the UNP, for about a year.

At the time of the first bond scam, Jayasuriya functioned as Minister of Public Administration, Democratic Governance and Buddha Sasana. Chamal Rajapaksa was the Speaker. Jayasuriya cannot be unaware how the treasury bond scam caused a massive rift between the UNP and the SLFP, both in and outside parliament. The crisis created by the treasury bond scam certainly caused a debilitating setback to the 100-day government and gave a turbo boost to the group led by twice President, Mahinda Rajapaksa. The UNP should examine the impact of the first treasury bond scam, on the 100-day government, and how the second fraud, committed in late March 2016, ruined everything. At the time of the second bond scam, Jayasuriya was the Speaker and, therefore, he knew the deterioration of the UNP-SLFP relationship long before the Feb 2018 local government polls.

Chronology of events

Let me mention key events relating to the ‘mother of all problems’ against the backdrop of the Presidential Secretariat accusing parliament of deliberately thwarting an accelerated investigation into the treasury bond scam. Following a meeting at the Presidential Secretariat on Dec 21, 2018, President Sirisena had with senior officials involved in the treasury bond scams probe, the media was told how the relevant Parliamentary oversight Committee deliberately sabotaged President Sirisena’s efforts to have those responsible for treasury bond scams punished. President Sirisena cannot, under any circumstances, absolve himself of the responsibility for the second far bigger bond scam perpetrated, due to him dissolving parliament on the night of June 26, 2015 to prevent the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) Chief Dew Gunasekera from presenting the report on the first scam.

Jan. 8, 2015: Presidential election

Jan.9, 2015: Maithripala Sirisena sworn in as President

Jan.9, 2015: Ranil Wickremesinghe sworn in as Prime Minister

Jan.23, 2015: Then Finance Minister Ravi K recommended Arjuna Mahendan as Governor, CBSL

Jan. 26, 2015: President Sirisena appointed Singaporean Mahendran as Governor, CBSL.

Feb. 26, 2015: Mahendran met ministers, Ravi K, Kabir H and UNP Chairman Malik S at CBSL, allegedly to discuss a massive fund requirement of Rs 18 bn (All three politicians were present when President Sirisena lambasted the UNP over treasury bond scams on Dec 16, 2018 at the Presidential Secretariat. PM Wickremesinghe and Mrs Wickremesinghe were also present.)

Feb 27, 2015: First bond scam perpetrated. Within hours, those who mattered knew how PTL had carried out the operation in connivance with Mahendran. The PTL is a fully owned subsidiary of Perpetual Capital (Pvt) Limited, owned by Geoffrey Joseph Aloysius and Arjun Joseph Aloysius. The Central Bank was under the purview of Premier Wickremesinghe, though previously it functioned under the Finance Ministry.

Massive media coverage of the bond scam sent shock waves through the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government. President Sirisena directed his party to lodge a complaint with the CIABOC. The high profile institution, handling of that particular inquiry, should be examined for obvious reasons.

March 10, 2015: Wickremesinghe, following consultations with Sirisena, appointed a three-member committee to probe the issuance of treasury bonds. The committee comprised those considered UNP loyalists i.e. attorney-at-law Gamini Pitipana, attorney-at-law Mahesh Kalugampitiya and attorney-at-law Chandimal Mendis. (Wickremesinghe thereby thwarted Sirisena from appointing a Commission by naming his own)

May 21, 2015: The Joint Opposition requested Speaker Chamal R to call a special debate on the bond scam.

May 22, 2015: Special Sub Committee of CoPE appointed to probe the Feb 27, 2015 issuance of treasury bonds. The 13-member Sub Committee had its inaugural meeting on the same day under the chairmanship of Dew Gunasekera.

The committee comprised Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) and General Secretary of the Communist Party, D.E.W. Gunasekera, UPFA MP Susil Premajayantha, Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine Rajitha Senaratne, UPFA MP Lasantha Alagiyawanna, Democratic National Alliance MP Sunil Handunetti, Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation Arjuna Ranatunga, UPFA MP Hassan Ali, Deputy Minister of Highways and Investment Promotion Eran Wickramaratna, Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, Deputy Minister of Justice Sujeewa Senasinghe, UPFA MP Weerakumara Dissanyake, Illankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) MP E. Saravanapavan and State Minister of Child Development Rosy Senanayake (Sujeewa Senasinghe was later exposed as one of those lawmakers to receive money from the PTL. Senasinghe recently received a promotion with his appointment as a non-cabinet minister).

Parliament had never before appointed a special committee comprising members of COPE to investigate a specific allegation against a senior state official.

May 26, 2015: Probe commenced with Treasury Secretary Dr. R.H.S. Samaratunga and Director General, Department of Treasury M.S.D. Ranasiri being questioned (Later it was revealed Samaratunga took part in a discussion when Ravi K issued controversial directives to state bank officials pertaining to issuance of treasury bonds).

June 18, 23, 2015: CoPE questioned Mahendran. The Singaporean was the last to appear before the committee.

June 25, 2015: Wickremesinghe alleged CoPE denied him of an opportunity to appear before the watchdog. (In terms of the Standing Orders, ministers cannot be summoned before COPE.  Parliament is yet to make required amendments to allow ministers to appear before the watchdog committee. Jayasuriya, as well as leaders of all political parties, represented in parliament, owed an explanation as to why changes weren’t made so far)

June 26, 2015: Sirisena dissolved parliament to thwart CoPE presenting its report on treasury bond scam. General election set for Aug. 17, 2015. (President Sirisena paid a very heavy price for his action).

The dissolution prevented the CoPE Chairman Dew Gunasekera from presenting his report on the first treasury bond scam. In a related action, UNP Deputy Justice Minister Sujeewa Senasinghe moved court to bar Gunasekera from releasing his report to the media.

The writer sought an explanation from Gunasekera, in January this year, at a media briefing, as to the responsibility of Sirisena and the SLFP in the second bond scam, perpetrated on March 29, 2016. Asked whether, a far bigger second treasury bond scam could have been prevented if not for the dissolution of parliament in June 2015; Gunasekera said that question should be posed to President Sirisena as he had done so.

Much respected veteran politician Gunasekera explained the unacceptable growth achieved by PTL at the briefing held at the Communist Party headquarters, Borella. “Let me explain the phenomenal growth of PTL since its establishment in 2013 during the previous administration. Having launched operations with Rs. 300 mn as capital, how could PTL manage to obtain Rs. 11 bn in profits in such a short period?”

June 28, 2015: The writer in an exclusive story based on Dew Gunasekera’s suppressed report headlined ‘COPE inquiry finds Mahendran had intervened in bond issue’ in the June 28 edition of The Sunday Island dealt with Mahendran’s clear complicity in the first scam.

The report drew an angry reaction from the UNP in the wake of Sirasa giving heavy coverage to The Sunday Island report. The ruling party insisted that it be given immediate opportunity to counter The Sunday Island report. Senasinghe and Mahendran told the writer there was no basis for the Dew Gunasekera report. Senasinghe flayed Dew Gunasekera for playing politics and making a despicable bid to undermine the UNP for the advantage of a section of the SLFP (Bond scam: UNP rejects COPE report as biased with strap line ‘Govt. MPs did not endorse the document’-The Island, June 29, 2015).

July 3, 2015: Dew Gunasekera declared that Sirisena could take tangible action on what he called ‘dossier of evidence’ produced by his committee. Gunasekera asserted that Sirisena could call for a copy of the 447-page report from the Secretary General of parliament W.B.D. Dissanayake. The writer covered the briefing at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute where the Communist Party chief explained how those responsible for the worst financial scam here could be dealt with (COPE bond scam probe: Prez can act on evidence-The Island, July 4, 2015). President Sirisena choose not to do anything. He was determined to ensure the UNP’s victory at the parliamentary polls. The President, obviously believed in continuing with his marriage of convenience with the UNP at any cost.

Aug. 17, 2015: Parliamentary polls.

Sept. 4, 2015:– Malik Samawickrema appointed Development Strategies and International Trade Minister in spite of him never being in parliament or at any level of political structure (Local Government or Provincial Council). Jayasuriya appointed as the Speaker.

Nov. 27, 2016: COPE reconstituted with JVP MP Sunil Handunetti as its Chairman.

March 29, 2016: Second far bigger bond scam perpetrated. The Central Bank was still under Premier Wickremesinghe. Jayasuriya functioned as the Speaker at the time of the second fraudulent transaction. The COPE, headed by Handunetti, was inquiring into the first treasury bond scam. Some UNPers in Handunetti’s committee later that year tried to interfere with the final report. Hope readers hadn’t forgotten about the so-called ‘foot note’ gang.

June 29, 2016: Sirisena visited the CBSL much to the discomfort of Wickremesinghe and Mahendran. Recently, President Sirisena revealed how Wickremesinghe tried to discourage him from visiting CBSL.

July 2, 2016: Renowned economist Dr. Indrajith Coomaraswamy succeed Mahendran as Governor of CBSL after Wickremesinghe made an abortive bid, with the support of Karunanayake, to secure Sirisena’s approval for Charitha Ratwatte to be appointed to the post. But disgraced Mahendran remained in Wickremesinghe’s entourage.

January 27, 2017: Sirisena appoints P-CoI consisting of Supreme Court Judges Kankanithanthri T. Chitrasiri and Prasanna Sujeewa Jayawardena and former Senior Deputy Auditor General Kandasamy Velupillai to probe bond scams.

Aug. 2, 2017: Karunanayake humiliated at P-CoI over the lease of a fifth-floor super luxury condominium apartment at the Monarch Residencies that was allegedly paid for by Arjun Aloysius.

Aug. 10, 2017: Foreign Minister Karunanayake resigned in the wake of shocking revelations at the P-CoI. Karunanayake received the foreign ministry portfolio on May 25, 2017. Karunanayake switched portfolios with Mangala Samaraweera. This took place amidst accusations as regards Samaraweera’s handling of the accountability process. Samaraweera earned the public wrath for co-spnsoring Geneva Resolution though it was a policy decision of the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government. The SLFP cannot absolve itself of the responsibility for the Geneva Resolution adopted on Oct 1, 2015.

Nov 16, 2017: Evidence at the Bond Commission revealed how Arjun Aloysius had been in touch with some members of the COPE during its hearings.

Aloysius had spoken a total of 227 times to Sujeewa Senasinghe, 18 times with Dayasiri Jayasekara, 176 times with Harshana Rajakaruna and 73 times to Hector Appuhamy during the period commencing January 2015.

Nov 20, 2017: Wickremesinghe received kid glove treatment at P-CoI with AG Jayantha Jayasuriya assigned to question him. But Wickremesinghe’s affidavits received by P-CoI in response to questions sent to him by the P-CoI and the AG’s department and PM’s responses to AG Jayasuriya established the UNP’s leader’s complicity and failure to thwart the scams beyond doubt. However, Wickremesinghe and the UNP have repeatedly denied involvement whatsoever in bond scams.

Dec 30, 2017: P-CoI report handed over to Sirisena.

Jan. 4, 2018: Sirisena addressed the nation regarding the P-CoI report. Sirisena mounted a devastating attack on the UNP over treasury bond scams in the run-up to the Feb. 10 local government polls. Sirisena’s strategy caused heavy damage to the UNP at the Feb. 10 polls. Sirisena’s relationship with Wickremesinghe suffered irreparable damage due to Sirisena’s verbal attacks. Jayasuriya recent remarks at a meeting with religious leaders meant that the senior UNPer had conveniently forgotten what led to Sirisena’s attacks on Wickremesinghe in the run up to the local government polls in Feb 2018.

Feb 04, 2018: Arjun Aloysius and Chief Executive Officer of PTL Kasun Palisena arrested. They are still in remand pending investigations.

Feb. 10, 2018: UNP and SLFP suffered debilitating setbacks at the long delayed local government polls. Their sidekick JVP too suffered heavy defeat.

Feb. 19, 2018: Constitutional expert Dr. Jayampathy Wickremaratne, on behalf of the United Left Front (ULF) asserted Wickremesinghe role in bond scams – the third primary reason for the humiliating defeat suffered at the Feb. 10 polls.

March 28, 2018: Sirisena removed Central Bank and the Securities and Exchange Commission from Wickremesinghe’s purview -1,125 days after the first bond scam and 727 days after the second bond scam. President Sirisena owned an explanation as to why he waited so long to act.

April 04, 2018: Wickremesinghe comfortably defeats a No-Confidence Motion (NCM) moved by the Joint Opposition and the SLFP against him by a majority of 46 votes. A total of 122 voted against the NCM, 76 for and 26 abstained (24 SLFP lawmakers and two CWC).

Strangely throughout this period, Western powers conveniently refrained from publicly commenting on the bond scam though they worked overtime to discredit the previous Rajapaksa administration with the US pledging to help Sri Lanka recover stolen funds. India also pledged to assist yahapalana efforts.

In fact, the current political leadership certainly owed an explanation to the public as to how Mahendran, Aloysius and PTL CEO Kasun Palisena had committed the second bond scam, 13 months after the first. Obviously, they had been so sure that nothing could go wrong. Most probably, they believed Mahendran was going to have his own term as the Governor after having completed the period allocated to his predecessor Ajith Nivard Cabraal. Cabraal quit immediately after the Jan 2015 presidential polls.

The public should be grateful to former CBSL Senior Deputy Governor Dr W. A. Wijewardena, and the media for relentlessly pursuing the treasury bond scams.

Primary dealer PTL receiving prior information as regards the CBSL’s last minute decision to issue treasury bonds to the value of Rs. 20 bn in spite of its initial call for bids for only Rs 1 bn worth of 30-year treasury bonds has been established beyond doubt now.

Treasury bond scams fallout

Treasury bond scams and the UNP’s determination to pursue neo-liberal economic policies ruined the Sirisena-led administration. Jayasuriya’s comment on the deterioration of President Sirisena’s relationship with Wickremesinghe meant their reluctance to come to terms with the undeniable truth. The President had no option but to explore the possibility of replacing Wichremesinghe with Sajith Premadasa, Karu Jayasuriya, or Ranjith Madduma Bandara, due to disruption of his political alliance with the UNP leader. President Sirisena had the guts to declare, in the presence of Mahinda Rajapaksa that he swore in the former President as the Premier as three UNPers refused to accept the challenge. Although Wickremesinghe managed to secure his premiership back on Dec 16, 2018, President Sirisena seems hell bent on pursuing the treasury bond scam probe. The Presidential Secretariat statement the writer referred at the top of this piece is evidence that President Sirisena intends to go the whole hog. President Sirisena, having rapped the parliament for blocking his efforts to expedite the judicial process against those responsible for treasury bond scams, demanded that those responsible pursue the matter without further delay. The Presidential Secretariat also pointed out the failure on the part of Singapore to extradite Mahendran in spite of Sri Lanka making a formal request.

With presidential and parliamentary polls scheduled for 2019 and 2020 in addition to Provincial Council polls, treasury bond scams will certainly dominate the media, certainly much to the disappointment of those determined to hush up the GREAT CENTRAL BANK ROBBERY.

(To be continued on January 09)

චාර්ල්ස් එස් පෙරේරා විසින්

සමහරක් ඇන් ජී ඕ කාරයොයි ජනතාවිමුක්ති පෙරමුනේ ගොයියෝයි එක අච්චුවේ වක්කරපු රුකඩ වගේ. උන් ඔක්කොම දැන් කතාකරනවා  ඔක්තෝබර් 26වැනිදායින් ආරම්භ වී දෙසැම්බර් 16 වැනිදා දක්වා දින 51ක කාලය අඳුරේ විනාශයක් බවත්  ඒ යුගයට වග කිව යුත්තන් සොයා ඒ අයට විරුද්ධව නීතිමය කටයුතුතු කලයුතුබව.

ඇන් ජී ඕ කාරයොයි ජනතාවිමුක්ති පෙරමුනේවිනාශකාරී මාර්කස් වාදියෝයි  හිතාගෙන ඉන්නේ ස්වාධීන කියාගන්න  අභියාචනාධිකරණයෙ  හා ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයෙ නඩුකාරයෝ උන් ගෙනයන විනාශකාරී දේශපාලනයේ සහකරයෝ හැටියටයි.  ජනාධිපති සිරිසෙන මැතිතුමාට  හෝ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාට විරුද්ධව නඩු පැවරුවොත් ඒ  නඩුකාර මඩුලු  අනුමානයක් නැතිව ඔවුන්ට විරුද්ධව නීතිමය ක්‍රියාවක් ගැනීමට සුදානම්යයි ඇන් ජී ඕ කාරයොයි ජනතාවිමුක්ති පෙරමුනේවිනාශකාරී මාර්කස් වාදියෝයි  හිතා සිටිනවා.

ඇන් ජී ඕ හා ජනතාවිමුක්ති පෙරමුනේ රුකඩයෝ  කියන්නේ මේ 51 දවසක කාලයේ සිදුවුයේ සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන නිර්මාණය කල අර්බුදයක් කියල. අපි මේ ලිපියට ගත්තේ කේ ඩබ්ලියු ජනරංජන කියන  ඇන් ජී ඕ රූකඩයෙක් ඔවුන්ගේ පත්තරයකට ලියපු ලිපියක්.

ඇත්ත වශයෙන්ම ලංකාවේ අධිකරණය දෙශීය  නීතියත් ජනතාවත් අතර ඇති සම්භන්ධය අවභෝධකරනොගත් නීතියේ අකුරුවල හැංගිලා ඉන්න නීතියේ මානුෂික දර්ශනය ගැන හොයාබලන්න නොදන්නා  සමාජයෙන් ඈත්වුනු මිනුස්සු කොටසක්.

මෙය ලියන මා එංගලන්තයේ ලින්කන්ස් ඉන් නමැති නීති සමාජයේ බැරිස්ටර් වරයෙක්කමි. එහිදී නීති ශිෂ්ෂයන් වශයෙන් අපි  වින්ඩ්සර් පාර්ක්හි පිහිටා තියෙන චේම්බර් ලොජ් හි සමහරක්  සති අන්තවල හමුවෙනවා. එහිදී එංගලන්තයේ ප්‍රසිද්ධ ලෝර්ඩ් ඩේනින් ලෝර්ඩ් රස්සෙල් වැනි විනිෂචයකාරවරුන් අපට නීතිමය දේශනා පවත්වනවා.

ඔවුන් අපට නිතර කිවූ දෙයක් තමා නීතිය හැදෑරුවායින් පසු නීතියට අදාල පසුබිම සෙවිය යුත්තේ නීතිය අදාලවෙන මිනිසුන්ගෙන්, ඔවුන් ජීවත්වන පරිසරයෙන්  කියලා, කෙනෙක් වරදකරුවෙක් වශයෙන් උසාවියට ඉදිර්පත්කලාම  ඔහු වරදකාරයෙක් හැටියට බලන්න එපා.  ඔහු ඒ වරද කිරීමට පෙලම්බවුන හේතු හොයන්ට කියල ඔහු හැදුණු පරිසරය බලන්න කියලා. නීතියේ අකුරට යටනොවී එයින් පැනනගින මානුෂික ප්‍රශ්න මොනවාද හොයන්න ඕනේ.

අපේ අධිකරණය එතරම් උසස් ව හිතලද තීන්දු ගන්නේ? එතරම් විශිෂ්ට නීතිමය තීරණ ගැනීමේ දක්ෂතාවයක් බවක් මෑතක  අභියාචනාධිකරණයෙ  හා ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයෙ විනිසුරු මඩුලු ජනාධිපතිතුමා පාරලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවීම පිළිබඳව  හා පාරලිමේන්තුව නාඩගමක්කරගෙන  පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරු 122 ඉදිරිපත් කල විශ්වාෂභන්ග යෝජනාව පිළිගෙන කරපු  නීති විපර්යාශයෙන් එහෙම අධිකරන දක්ෂතාවක් දුටුවෙ නෑ.

නඩුතීන්දුවක් විවේචනය කිරීමේ  හෝ ප්‍රෂනකිරීමේ අයිතියක් හැම කෙනේකුටම තියනවා. 2018 දෙසැම්බර 13 වනදා ශ්‍රීලංකා ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයෙ නව දෙනෙකුගෙන් යුත් විනසුරු මඩුල්ල  දුන් නඩුතීන්දුව මුලුලොකයේම ව්‍යවස්ථාව පිළිබඳව දුන් නඩුතීන්දුවල ඉතාමත් අපැහැදිලි ජනතාවගේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍ර අය්තිවාසිකම් උදුරාදැමු ලකා ඉතිහාසයේ කළු අකුරෙන් ලියවෙන නඩුතීන්දුවකි.

ශ්‍රී ලංකා ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 19වන සංශෝධනය නිසා  ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ පෙරතුබු වගන්ති අවලන්ගුවී නොමැත. එබැවින් අලුතින් එක්කරනලද සංශෝධනයක් පරික්ශාකිරිමෙදි අවශ්‍යයෙන්ම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ අනිත්  වගන්ති  කොතරම්දුරට සංශෝධනවලට බලපානවාදැයි බැලීමට  මොලයක් ඇති ඕනෑම නීතීඥ වරයෙකු දැන සිටිය යුතුය.

19වන සංසෝධනයේ 70වන වගන්තිය  සම්පුර්ණයෙන්ම අපි දන්නා  ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදයට පටහැනිය. සම්පුර්ණ 19වන සංශෝධනය  සකසා තිබෙන්නේ රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ සහ ඔහුගේ අනුගාමිකයන් විසින් රාජපක්ස පවුලට දේශපාලනයට නැවත පැමිණීමේ දොරටු  වසාදමා එක්සත්ජාතිකපක්ෂයේ ආඥාදායකත්වයක් ස්ඨාපීත කිරීම සඳහාය.

එහි එන 19වන සංශෝධනය අවුරුදු  හතරහමාරක් යනතුරු මැතිවරණයක් පැවතිවිය නොහැකිය යන 70 වන වගන්තිය  ලෝකයේ කොයි රටකවත් නැති ප්‍රජාචන්ද්‍රවාදයට පටහැනි වගන්තියක්.

එයින් මිදී අපි දන්න ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍ර වාදය නැවත ජනතාවට ලබාදීමට තුබු 70 වන වගන්තියෙන් වාරනයකළ නොහැකි  33වන වගන්තිය ජනාධිපතිතුමන්ට දේශපාලන අර්භුධයකදී ජනතාවගේ ස්වාධිපත්‍යයට ඉඩදී මැතිවරණයකට යාමේ එකම බලය පවත්නේ මේ 33වන වගන්තියේය.

මෙය දුටු නීති දෙපාරතමේන්තුවේ නීතිවේදීන් ජනාධිතුමා පාරලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවාහැරීමට ගත් තීරණයට විරුද්ධව ගොනුකළ විරෝධතා අහකදැමිය යුතුය යන නිර්දේශය ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත්කලේය. නමුත් ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයෙ විනුසුරුමන්ඩලයට එය අවභෝධකරගැනීමට අපහසු බවයි ඔවුන් දෙසමබර  13වනදා ඒ විනිශ්චය  විනසූරු මඩුල්ලේ එක  බාධක මොලයක්  අවුරුදු හතරහමාරකට විසුරුවන්නට බැරියයි මහා හයියෙන් කීයන අතරමගම  ප්‍රකාශයට පත්කළේ .

මේ විනිසුරු මන්ඩලය හිතන්න ඇති ඒ නඩු තීන්දුව පරාජයකලේ ජනාධිපති සිරිසේනගෙයි මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේයි බලාපොරොත්තු යයි කියා  වෙන්න ඇති.  නමුත් එයින් පරාජයට  පත්වුයේ අර නඩුකාරයන් වැඩිය හිතන්නේනැති ලන්කාවේ වැඩියක් සිටින  අවුරුදු තුනහමාරක යහපාලනය නිසා අගහිගකමින් මිරිකී දුකින් සිටි දුප්පත් ජනතාවගේ බලාපොරෝත්තු බව ඒ නඩුකර හාමුදුරුගොල්ල නොදත්තෝය.

මේ ඇන් ජී ඕ හා ජනතාවිමුක්ති පෙරමුනේ රුකඩයනට රට දැය ආගම ගැන හැගීමක් හෝ  අවුරුදු තුනහමාරක යහපාලනය නිසා අගහිගකමින් මිරිකී දුකින් සිටි දුප්පත් ජනතාව  ගැන සොයාබැලීමට උවමනාවක් නැත.

ඇන් ජී ඕ රුකඩයන්ට නම් මහජනතාව ගැන කැක්කුමක් ඇත්තේම නැ. උන්ට උවමනා විදේශිකයන්ට හා දේමළ දයස්පොරාවට කත් ඇදීමයි. ජනතාවිමුක්ති පෙරමුනේ මාර්කස් වාදියෝ උන්ට බලයට එන්ට කදීම අවස්තාවක් පහලවෙලා තියෙනවායයි සිතාගෙන බලලෝභයෙන් අන්ධවෙලා 20 වන සංසෝධනයක් කරපින්නගෙන දෙමල සන්ධානයයි එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයයි එක්ක කරන බලය තහවුරු කර  ගැනීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙල නිසා පීඩාවිඳින ජනතාව ගැන සොයාබැලීමට වෙලාවක් නැ.

මේ අධමයන්ට  රටේ  ජනතාවගේ හිතුම් පැතුම් ගැන අබමල් රෙනුවකතරම් වත් දැනීමක් නැ. ඒ නිසයි මුන් කියන්නේ ඔක්තොම්බර  26වනදා පටන් ගෙන දෙසැම්බර 13වනදා අවසන්උන දවස් 51 අඳුරේ විනාශ උන  කාලයක් කියන්නේ.

 අවුරුදු තුනහමාරක් තිස්සේ මේ රට අගාදියට ඇද දමමින් බැංකු මංකොල්ල කාගෙන ජනතාවට බදුබර පටෝලා,රටේ ආදායම් මාර්ග විකුනල, රටේ ආරක්ෂක හමුදාව යුදාපරධකාරයෝ හැටියට ඇමෙරිකාවට පාවාදීල,සින්ගප්පුරුවත් එක්ක වෙළඳ ගිවිසුමකින් අපේ රට ලෝකයේ කුණුකසල ගොඩබාන දුපතක් බවට පත් කරලා,  රටේ ෆෙදෙරල් ව්‍යවස්ථාවකට පාරකපල,  බුද්ධාගම නැතිකරලා, රට අදුරුයුගයකට ඈදදාළ කරගෙන ගිය වැඩපිළිවෙල නවත්වන්න ඔක්තොම්බර 26වනැ දා ගත් පියවර පෙරලා අධිකරණයත් නොමග යවාගෙ රට විනාශයට පත් කරන එකද ඇන් ජී ඕ හා ජනතාවිමුක්ති පෙරමුනේ රුකඩයෝ  රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහගේ නැවත අගමැති වීමෙන් ලැබුවා කියන ඔවුන්ගේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍ර වාදී නිදහස ?

අපේ රට විනාශකරන්න විදෙශිකයින්ගෙ ඩොලර් සල්ලි වලට  රටට ද්‍රෝහිකම්  කරන ඇන් ජී ඕ හා ජනතාවිමුක්ති පෙරමුනේ රුකඩයෝ  ඔක්තොම්බර 26 වනදා සිට ජනතාව ලද නිදහස බෙල්ල තදකරන මිනිහෙක් ඒ මිනීමරුවාගෙන් බෙරාගත්තාම ලබන නිදහසක් මරණ බියෙන් මිදීමෙන් ලබන සහනයක්  හා සමාන සතුටක්  ඒ ඔක්තොම්බර 26වනදා මහින්ද රාජපක්ස මැතිතුමා අගමැතිවෙලා එ විගසම ජනතාවට ලබා දුන්න සහන ගොඩ නිසා එදා ජනතාව ලැබුවා.  ඒ සතුට  ජනතාවට ඇති උනෙ ආයෙත් නිදහසේ  සතුටින් ජීවත් වීමට සහනයක් ලැබුනාය යන බලාපොරොත්තුව ජනතාව තුල ඇතිවීමෙන්.

නමුත් මේ ඇන් ජී ඕ හා ජනතාවිමුක්ති පෙරමුනේ අධමයන්ට පෙනෙන්නේ ඔක්තොම්බර  26වනදා ලැබුවේ අඳුරු කාලයක් හැටියට. ඒ අදුරුකාලය ඇත්තෙන්ම ලැබුනේ ඇන් ජී ඕ හා ජනතාවිමුක්ති පෙරමුනේ උන්ටයි. උන්වගේම අධම අධිකරණයක් නිසා එදා අපේ රටේ ජනතාව ලැබූ සතුට කෙටිකාලකට සීමා උනා.

එදා ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයෙ නඩු තීන්දුව ජනතා පක්ෂපාතී තීන්දුවක් වුයේ නම් අද පවතින දෙශපාලන අර්භුධ හා  වෙන්ටයන රටේ විනාශය ගැන කිසුදු බයක් නැතිව ජනතාවට අවශ්‍ය සහනාධාර ලබාදී රට යන දේශද්‍රෝහි,  විනාශකාරී මග වෙනස්කර  නැවතත් රටේ සාමය, ආරක්ෂාව ඇතිකර  දියුණුවේ මාර්ගයෙ  යනගමනක සළකුණු පිබිදෙන්නට ඉඩ ප්‍රස්තාවක් තිබුණි.

එක්සත් ජාතික පාක්ෂිකයෝ මහා හයියෙන් කියනවා උන්  ලංකාව ලෝකයේ පිළිගත් රටක් කලාය ප්‍රජාතන්තන්ත්‍රවාදය ස්ථාපිත කලාය අධිකරණය ස්වාධිනකලාය කියල නමුත් ඔවුන් ප්‍රජාතන්තන්ත්‍රවාදය කෙලෙසුවා මෙන්ම අධිකරණයත් ඔවුන්ගේ මෙවලමක් කරගෙන ඇති බවනම් මුළුමහත් ජනතාවම දන්නවා.

පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවාහැරලා චන්දයකට  ගියානම් එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය පරදින බවත් රනිල් වීක්‍රමසිංහට නැවත අගමැතිවෙන්න බැරි නිසාත් එක්සත් ජාතික පාක්ෂිකයෝ කියන නිදහස් අධිකරණය පුංචි උපකාරයක් දුන්බවක් තමයි අපි දෙසැම්බර 13වනදා දුටුවේ.  තවත්  අභියාචනාධිකරණයෙන් නඩු තීන්දුවක් බලාපොරුන්තුවෙනවා  බලමුකෝ කෙතරම් දුරට නිදහස්  ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී නඩු තීන්දුවක් ලැබෙයිද කියලා.

ලලිත් පියුම් පෙරේරා ලේකම් යුක්තියට හඬක්

පසුගිය ඔක්තෝම්බර් 26 වැනිදා සිදුවු ආණ්ඩු පෙරළියත් සමගම රාජ්‍ය මාධ්‍ය ආයතනයන්හි පාලනාධිකාරීන් විසින් සිදුකළ දුෂණ, වංචා සහ අක‍්‍රමිකතා රැුසක් අනාවරණය විය. එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ නැවතත් බලයට පැමිණීමත්් සම`ගම එ.ජා.ප රජය සමයේ චෝදනාවන්ට ලක් වූ සභාපතිවරුන් ප‍්‍රමුඛ පාළනාධිකාරිය රජයේ මාධ්‍ය ආයතනවල වැඩ අරඹා තිබේ.

මේ අතරතුර ස්වාධීන රූපවාහිනී මාධ්‍ය ජාලයේ හිටපු පාළනාධිකාරිය එම මාධ්‍ය ජාලයට අයත් ස්ථාවර තැන්පතු මුදලින් රුපියල් කෝටි 64 ක් ලබා ගෙන අනවශ්‍ය ලෙස වියදම් කොට මුල්‍ය අක‍්‍රමිකතාවක් සිදු කර ඇතැයි යන චෝදනාවත් සම`ගින් සේවකයින් වෘත්තීය සමිති ක‍්‍රියාමාර්ගයකට යොමුව තිබේ.
එවැනි පරිසරයක නව වසර උදාවත් සම`ග ස්වාධීන රූපවාහිනී මාධ්‍ය ජාලයේ දුෂණ වංචාවන්ට විරුද්ධ සේවකයන් 13 දෙනකුගේ වැඩ තහනම් කෙරිනි. තවත් සේවකයන් 40 දෙනකුට ආසන්න පිරිසක් වැඩ තහනමට ලක්කිරීමේ සූදානමක් ඇති බවද පැවසෙයි.

වැඩ තහනමට ලක් වු ස්වාධීන රූපවාහිනී සේවයේ සේවකයන් 13 දෙනා වහාම ක‍්‍රියාත්මක වන පරිදි යළි සේවයේ පිහිටුවන ලෙසත් සේවක මර්ධනය වහා නවතන ලෙසත් අප අවධාරණය කරමු.

එමෙන්ම ස්වාධීන රුපවාහිනී සේවයේ සිදුව ඇතැයි කියන මුල්‍ය වංචාවන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් විදිමත් පරීක්ෂණයක් පැවැත්විය යුතු බවද දැඩිව අවධාරණය කරමු.

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පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්තී‍්‍ර බන්ධුල ගුණවර්ධන මහතා

ගලබොඩ ඥාණීස්සර හිමියන්ට සෙත් පැතීමේ බෝධීපූජා පින්කමට පක්ෂ පාට බේදයෙන් තොරව ජනාධිපති මෛතී‍්‍රපාල සිරිසේන මහතා, විපක්ෂ නායක මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා, සජිත් පේ‍්‍රමදාස මහතා, හර්ෂ ද සිල්වා වැනි පිරිස් සහභාගි වුනා. එහිදී මම මාධ්‍ය මර්ධනය සම්බන්ධව ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ අවධානය යොමුකළා.

ආණ්ඩුව බලයටපත් වීමෙන් පස්සේ මාධ්‍ය මර්ධනයක් දියත් වෙනවා. මාධ්‍ය ආයතන බොහෝමයක් කලූ මාධ්‍ය ආයතන ලෙස අගමැතිවරයා කළ ප‍්‍රකාශයත් සමගයි මේ මර්ධනය ඇරඹුනේ. දිගින් දිගටම රාජ්‍ය මාධ්‍ය ආයතනවලට බලපැම් එල්ල වුනා. ස්වාධීන රූපවාහිනි සේවකයින් විශාල පිරිසක් වැඩ තහනමට ලක්කරලා. තනතුරු වෙනස් කිරිම් හා බ`දවා ගැනීම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් සේවකයින් විරුද්ධවීම නිසයි මෙහෙම වෙලා තියෙන්නේ.

කුමන දේශපාලන මතයක් දැරුවත් ප‍්‍රජාතන්ත‍්‍රවාදය තුල මාධ්‍ය නිදහස අපි ගරු කළ යුතුයි. අපේ රටේ මාධ්‍ය භාරකාරත්වය මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශය යටතේ තිබීම නිදහස් මාධ්‍යයට හිතකර නැහැ. මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශය යටතේ රාජ්‍ය බැංකු, රාජ්‍ය රක්ෂණ ආයතන, ලොතරැුයි වැනි දේ තියෙන්නේ මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශය යටතෙයි. මේවා එදිනෙදා ප‍්‍රචාරණය අවශ්‍ය දේවල්. මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශය යටතේ තියෙන දැන්වීම් මාධ්‍ය ආයතනවලට නොදී සිටිම මගින් බලපෑම් කිරීමේ හැකියාව තියෙනවා.

ඒ ආයතනවලට රජයට හීලෑ වීමට සිදුවෙනවා. එය ජනතාවට හිලෑ විමක් නෙවෙයි. මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශය ඛන්ජ තෙල් මිල සූත‍්‍රය හදුන්වාදෙන අවස්ථාවේ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ රජයට මඩ ගහන්න දැන්විම් පළ කලා. මම ඊට විරුද්ධව අධිරණයට පෙත්සමක් ඉදිරිපත් කළා. මහජනයාගේ බදු මුදල් භාවිතා කරලා වැරදි තොරතුරු ප‍්‍රචාරණය කිරීම සාධාරණ හා යුක්ති සහගත වෙන්නේ නැහැ. එය ජනතා මුදල් අවභාවිතයක්. ඒ නිසා අපි ඉල්ලා සිටින්නේ අගමැතිතුමත් මුදල් ඇමැතිතුමත් ජනමාධ්‍ය සම්බන්ධ ආයතනත් මාධ්‍යයට සිය රාජකාරී නිදහසේ කරගෙන යාමට ඉඩදිය යුතුයි.

දැනට අතුරු සම්මත ගිනුමක් පමණයි සම්මත වුනේ. එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය ඇතුලූ ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ, දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානය දිගින් දිගටම කිව්වේ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට බහුතරය නැති බවයි. අපේ කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයට වැඩ තහනම් කිරීමකුත් සිද්ධ වුනා. මමත් වැඩ තහනමට ලක්වුනු කැබිනට් මණ්ඩල ඇමැතිවරයෙක් වුනා. මුදල් පනතකට දන්න සිල්ප පෙන්නලා වැඩිම ඡුන්ද පෙන්වනවා. එහෙම කරලත් ගත්තේ 102යි. ඒකෙන් දෙමල සන්ධානයේ ඡුන්ද ටික අයින් වුනාම තියෙන්නේ 88යි. ලෝකෙටම පේනවා මේ ආණ්ඩුවට බහුතරය නැති බව.

තෙවරක් තෙල් මිල අඩු කිරීම, පොහොර සහනාධෘරයව, වැසී යන කර්මාන්ත වැසී යාම වැලැක්වීමේ බදු සහන වගේ දේවල් අපේ කෙටි කාලීන ආණ්ඩුවෙන් ලබා දුන්නා. ඉදිරියේ ගේන්න නියමිත අයවැයෙන් සහන දෙන්න නම් ඩොලරයට ගෙවිය යුතු මුදල් රුපියල් 200ක් විම කෙසේ හෝ නතර කර ගත යුතුයි. ඩොලරයට ගෙවිය යුතු මිල රුපියල් 200 වුනොත් ආනයනය කරන සියලූ භාණ්ඩවල වැඩිපුර රුපියල් ගණනක් ගෙවන්න වෙනවා. අයවැයෙන් මොන සහන දුන්නත් ජිවත්වීමට අරගලයක යෙදෙන ජනතාව පිඩනයට ලක්වෙනවා. අයවැයෙන් සහනයක් දෙන්න නම් රුපියලේ අගය පාලනය කළ යුතුයි.
කරටි කඩන ලෙස ඉහළ ගොස් තිබෙන ණය පොලී අනුපාතය පහළ හෙළලා තනි ඉලක්කමක අගයකට ගෙනා යුතුයි. නැත්නම් භාණ්ඩවල නිෂ්පාදන වියදම, බෙදා හැරීමේ වියදම් ඉහළ යනවා. අද විශාල ආර්ථික ප‍්‍රශ්නය වෙලා තියෙන්නේ පොලී අනුපාතය ඉහළ යාම. මේ නිසා සමහර ව්‍යවසාය අංශ කඩා වැටිලා ව්‍යවසායකයෝ සියදිවි නසාගන්න තත්ත්වයක් ඇති වෙලා.

රාජ්‍ය අයවැය ලේඛණ හ`ිගය අඩුම තරමේ දළ දේශීය නිෂ්පාදනයේ ප‍්‍රතිශතවක් ලෙස 4% මට්ටමකවත් පවත්වා ගෙන යා යුතුයි. නැත්නම් මුදල් අච්චු ගහන්න වෙලා මිල උද්දමනයක් ඇති වෙනවා.

සිංගප්පූරු නිදහස් වෙලෙ`ද ගිවිසුම වගේ රටට අහිතකර ගිවිසුම් කි‍්‍රයාත්මක වීම වැලැක්විය යුතුයි. ඒක නොකලොත් ස්වාජාතිකයෝ වැනසිලා විජාතිකයෝ විතරක් වැජඹෙනවා. අනවශ්‍ය රාජ්‍ය වියදම් කපා හැරීම තුළින් අයවැය පරතරය අඩු කර ගැනීිමට අවධානය යොමු කළ යුතුයි. රාජ්‍ය බැංකු හා පොදු දේපල විකිණීම නතර කළ යුතුයි. මේ කොන්දේසී ඉටු නොකළොත් ජනතාවට ඇත්තට සහනයක් ලැබෙන්නේ නැහැ. එවැනි න්‍යායත්මක හා ප‍්‍රායෝගික ආර්ථිකය හැසිරවීමේ වැඩ පිීළවෙලක් නැතුව ඉදිරිපත් කරන අයවැය පුරසාරමක් විතරයි.

එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය ඇමැතිකම්වලට පොරෙකනවා මිස ජනතාවගේ ප‍්‍රශ්න විස`දන්නේ නැහැ.

පාර්ලිමේන්තු එස්. එම්. චන්ද්‍රසේන මහතා
යුද්ධය අවසාන කාලයේදී ත‍්‍රස්තවාදීන් සිවිල් ජනතාව කොටු කරගෙන, මුදාගත් ප‍්‍රදේශවලට එන්න නොදී කොටුකර ගෙන හිටියා. ඒ වෙලාවේ අපේ හමුදාවන් ජනතාව මුදාගෙන ඕමන්තේ හරහා රැු`දවුම් කර`දවුරුවලට ගේන වෙලාවේ ඔවුන් හිටියේ ඇවිදින ඇටසැකිලි වෙලා. මහින්ද රාජප්කෂ ජනාධිපතිතුමා මට කතා කරලා කිව්වා ලක්ෂ තුනකට විතර කන්න නැහැ. ඉක්මනට ජනතාවට අවශ්‍ය කෑම සූදානම් කරන්න කිව්වා. මම පන්සල්, වෙළ`ද ව්‍යාපාර දැනුම්වත් කරලා සිවිල් වැසියන්ට ජිවත් වෙන්න අවශ්‍ය ආහාර සැපයීිම කළා. සටනෙන් ආබාධිත වුනු රණවිරුවන්ගේ ගෙවල්වලින් පවා ඒ වෙලාවේ ආහාර දුන්නා.

ඒ විදියට අපෙත් සහායෙන් යුද හමුදාව ජිවිත පරදුවට තියාගෙන සිවිල් ජනතාව නැවත පදිංචි කරලා විදුලිය දීලා, වැව් අමුණුහදලා, රෝහල් හ`දලා, රේල් පාර හ`දද්දි හමුදාව අනුපමේය සේවයක් කළා. එදා සයනයිඞ් කරල ළමයින්ගේ කරේ බැදලා තිබුනේ. ජිවිතයක් තිබුනේ නැහැ. ඒ ජිවිත යථා තත්ත්වයට ගේන්න හමුදාව පියවර ගත්ත විදියටම පසුගියදා ගංවතුර වෙලාවෙත් ආරක්ෂක සේනා මැදිහත් වුනා. උතුරේ ජනතාවට ඒ වෙලාවේ පිහිටට හිටියේ හමුදාවන් විතරයි. විග්නේස්වරන්, සුම්න්දිරන්, දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානය ඒ වෙලාවේ ආවේ නැහැ. හරි නම් හමුදාවට උපහාර කරන්න ඕනේ. ඒ වුනාට විග්නේස්වරන් කිව්වා යුද අපරාදවලින් බේරෙන්න හමුදාව මෙහෙම ක බව කිව්වා. සිංහල හමුදාව කියලා එකක් නැහැ. ශී‍්‍ර ලංකා යුද හමුදාවයි ඉන්නේ.

විග්නේෂ්වරන්ලා පළාත් සභාවට දීපු මුදල්වලින් ජනතාවට වැඩක් කලේ නැතිව ඒ මුදල් ආයෙත් ආවා.
රාජ්‍ය දේපළ විකුණලා රට අන්ත අසරණ කරපු එජාප ආණ්ඩුව රකින්න නම් දෙමළ ජාතික සංධානය පෙරමුණ ගන්නවා. ජාතිවාදය වපුරන්නේ නැතිව දේශපාලනය කරන්න කියලයි අපි ඉල්ලා සිටින්නේ.

මම වනජිවි ඇමැතිවරයා ලෙස කටයුතු කරපු කාලයේ නිලධාරින් එක්ක සහායෙන් වන අලින්ගෙ ප‍්‍රශ්නවලට විසදුම් දෙන්න අවශ්‍ය පියවර ගත්තා. නමුත් ඒ කිසිවක් තවමත් අවසන් වෙලා නැහැ. හැබැයි පහුගිය කාලයේ වන ජිවි ඇමැතිවරු දෙන්නා කියා ගත්ත දේවල් අපි දැක්කා. වන අලින්ගෙන් ජනතාවට විශාල ප‍්‍රශ්න ඇති වෙලා. මිනිස්සු මරණවා. ගොවිතැන් පාලූ වෙනවා. එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය ඇමැතිකම්වලට පොරෙකනවා මිස ජනතාවගේ ප‍්‍රශ්න විසදන්නේ නැහැ. ආණ්ඩුව ඇතුලේ තියෙන සටන වෙනම කරන්න. ජනතාවගේ ප‍්‍රශ්න කෙරෙහි ආණ්ඩුවේ අවධානය යොමු කරන්න.
රටේ මහ මැතිවරණයක් පවත්වලා අලූත් ආණ්ඩුවක් පත්කර ගැනීමේ අවශ්‍යතාවයක් තියෙනවා. අද පළාත් සභා නවයම ආණ්ඩුවට සහාය දෙන්නේ නැහැ. පළාත් පාලන ආයතන ටික ආණ්ඩුවට නැහැ. ජනාධිපතිතුමා ආණ්ඩුවත් එක්ක නැහැ. මෙහෙම විහිලූ නොකර ශක්තිමත් ආණ්ඩුවක් හදන්න අවස්ථාව දෙන්න කියලා අපි ආන්ඩුවෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා.

Kanthar Balanathan

Psychology of Tamil Diaspora

Just to highlight the raucous, boisterous, character of Tamils, I would like to bypass the journal on Governance and Psychology and give readers an event that happened in Sydney in November 2015. Its title: Sydney Tamils boycott Sumanthiran’s meeting in Sydney”. This has some relationships with cultural psychology and cultural neuroscience.

Well, it was not a boycott, however, it was a total gathering to threaten, intimidate, frighten, terrorise daunt, a member of the parliament of SriLanka who has travelled 8,760 km from Colombo to Sydney, and was kind enough to face a bunch of educated/non-educated hoodlums, with a view to update what was happening in SriLanka. The behavioral pattern here will enlighten readers on SriLankan Diaspora Tamil mindset, and whether they are suffering from a neurological and bipolar disorder.

The neurological characteristics of Tamils from the elite caste are as follows: They are cowards and non-kshatriyas. Kshatriyas are the warriors who defend their land. People like SJV Chelvanayagam, Amirthalingham etc are cowards, educated and cunning but they cannot face a formidable situation. Most of their offsprings are also cowards. This is the reason why the Tamil politicians pushed V. Prabakaran and the Valvettiturai (VVT) youngsters into terrorism and violence. Historically VVT people are born kshatriyas like the Karawa of the South of SriLanka. Karawa is the descendant of Kaurava of the Mahabharata.

The elite’s objective is to boss around and make the lower caste people work towards achieving their objective. If the lower caste person tends to argue or turn around then they scare into a mob attack. Two examples given is (i) Lower caste law students were beaten to death inside the Chennai Law College while the Police watched, (ii) Dalit people were beaten to death in Assam cos they asked for more wages while the police watched.

Here in November the Sydney bunch of hoodlums surrounded MAS and was shouting. What they want MAS to do was to fight with GOSL to liberate Tamil Eelam. These fools forgot to realize that they are here, some of them came by boat illegally. Some of the people were decent enough to protect MAS as he was to be assaulted by the hoodlums. The Police were called in, and I am sure Police would have arrested if anyone attempted to assault MAS.

PLEASE VIEW THE VIDEO. JUST AFTER ONE MINUTE OF START, A GUY IN BLUE SHIRT WITH A CAP SHOUTED AT MAS THAT PRABAKARAN’S REGIMENT WILL STEP FOOT in SRILANKA VERY SOON.

This is Tamil rowdy culture, giving no respect to an educated attorney, a member of parliament and a constitutional expert. This is worse than the behavior of MPs in parliament in November 2018.

The ridiculous part is that these boat idiots when they demand Tamil Eelam the MPs should fight an get it.

We should appreciate those civilized Tamils who were there protecting MAS.

To those my Sinhala friends, amigos, and comrades: Now you will realize how a Tamil MP suffers in the hands of Tamil hoodlums under democracy both in SL and overseas. If CV Vigneswaran was there on that day instead of MAS, it is to be presumed that these rowdies would not have attacked the visitor. Everything is based on caste among the dirty Tamils. CVV is related to SJVC and Ponnambalam Ramanathan.

Sydney Tamils boycott Sumanthiran’s meeting in Sydney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKsKMFcRS1o

නලීන් කුමාර නිශ්ශංක  මාධ්‍ය ලේකම්  පොදුජන මාධ්‍ය පෙරමුණ

සුපිරි මාධ්‍ය නිදහසක් ලබාදෙන බව පවසමින් බලයට පැමිණි එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ මාධ්‍ය නිදහසේ දිග පළල දැන් මැනවින් පසක් වී තිබේ. සම්මත බ`දවා ගැනීමේ පටිපාටියෙන් බැහැරව දේශපාලන හිතවත්කම්මත කරනු ලැබූ පත්වීම්වලට විරෝධය පලකළ ස්වාධීන රූපවාහිනියේ සේවකයින් 14 දෙනෙකුගේ සේවය අත්හිටුවා ඇත.
ආයතනයේ සම්පත් විනාශ කරමින් අත්තනෝමතික ලෙස ගෙන යන පරිපාලනයට, දේශපාලන පත්වීම් ලබා දීමට විරෝධය පළකරන සියලූ දෙනා ඉවත් කොට යුධ හමුදාව යොදවා ආයතනය පවත්වා ගෙන යන බවට ස්වාධින රූපවාහිනියේ සභාපතිවරයා තර්ජනය කර තිබේ.
අගමැතිවරයා ලෙස රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ යළි පත්වූ වහාම ලේක්හවුස් ආයතනයේ නව සභාපතිවරයා ලෙස වැඩභාරගත් හිටපු සභාපතිවරයා කතෘවරුන් දෙදෙනෙකුට බැණ තර්ජනය කර ඇති අතර, තවත් සේවකයින් ගණනාවක් ආයතනයෙන් එළවා දමන බවටද චෝදනා කළ සිද්ධියක් මීට පෙර වාර්තා විය.
කෙසේ වෙතත් සේවකයින්ගේ මැදිහත්වීම මත ලේක්හවුස් සේවක දඩයම වැළකී ඇතත් ආණ්ඩුවේ වැඩපිළිවෙල ගැන ජනතාවට තොරතුරු ගලායෑම වළක්වා ගැනීම මෙහි අරමුණය. රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතාට අගමැතිධූරය ලබා ගැනීම ස`දහා දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානයට පොරොන්දු වූ ෆෙඩරල් ව්‍යවස්ථාව ඒ අතර ප‍්‍රධාන කරුණකි.
මේ නිසා ආණ්ඩුවේ මාධ්‍ය මර්ධන පිළීවෙත හුදෙක් මාධ්‍යයට එල්ල වූ තර්ජනයක් නොව සමස්ත රටේම ,රටේ සියලූ දෙනා කෙරෙහිම බලපාන්නා වු ඉතා දරුණු පිළිවෙතකි.
නියමිත බ`දවා ගැනීමේ පටිපාටියෙන් තොරව කරනු ලැබූ ස්වාධින රූපවාහිනී බ`දවා ගැනීම් අකුළා ගන්නා ලෙසත් සේවය අත්හිටුවා ඇති ස්වාධින රූපවාහිනී සේවකයින් සියලූ දෙනා වහාම යළි සේවයේ පිහිටුවන ලෙසත් අපි රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහගේ මාධ්‍ය ඇමැති මංගල සමරවීරට බලකර සිටින්නෙමු.
එසේ නොවන්නේ නම් ස්වාධීන රුපවාහිනී සේවක සටනට සහාය දක්වමින් පෙරට එන ලෙස මෙරට සියලූම මාධ්‍ය මෙන්ම සියලූ වෘත්තීය සමිති සිවිල් සංවිධානවලින් ඉල්ලා සිටිමු.

නලීන් කුමාර නිශ්ශංක
මාධ්‍ය ලේකම්
පොදුජන මාධ්‍ය පෙරමුණ

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS

LTTE terrorist war was a serious problem to Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009 and the war was ended by Mahinda Rajapaksa regime. Generally, the end of civil war massively benefited to Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim and others such as foreign and domestic tourists. If Prabhakaran and his movement survived on the advices of West, the most of senior members of the parliament including TNA would not alive today.  The post-war situation seems to be talking in news media directed to a criticism on the response of the Rajapaksa regime to bloodletting terrorists rather than benefits generated from the ending of the war. The hidden objectives of criticism are to blame the patriotic behavior of Mr. Rajapaksa not listening to traps of western advocates.  Rajapaksa regime delivered the right service to people of the country as they expected and individually, each person of the country appreciates the service of the Rajapaksa regime.  There may have been willful or unknown minor mistake incurred without the will of Mr. Rajapaksa. The accurate information in the country is that people don’t concern on western oriented rubbish talks and people expect from news media to talk about political, economic, social and other issues in current environment, which generated after the Rajapaksa regime. Most misinformation created in the country during the election platforms and news media managed by mercenaries who created by NGO funds.

News media in Sri Lanka is too much looking for information on the past war issues which are irrelevant to present and the future despite the war-related issues in history.  There may have been many issues that are needed to be discussed by relevant authorities and let them to do it without influencing to current politics in the country and make attention of the public to current issues in the modern era. It appears that news media has ignored them and looking for dead rats misleading the public.

There were many wars after 1950, in which many countries involved and such wars are regarded as historical events and only a few historians do research on such wars and look for information on past events. Why media in Sri Lanka too concern about the past events ignoring modern events? I feel that it is a strategy of people, who lost opportunities from the ending of the war. These people may include Sinhala, Tamil. Muslim and NGO people.  The current experience in Myanmar show that Western-based presents and grants were purposed to change Ms. Awun San Suki, but she never betrayed the country for financial or non-financial advantages

Ms. Awunsan Suki was forced to Western ideology, but she has not changed and stands like a concrete pillar disregarding previous appreciations from Western countries and Korea. That is the truth.  Mr. Rajapaksa also stands like a concrete pillar disregarding outside pressure and he is the most popular politician at the grassroots level. A political commentator in Sunday Times recently mentioned that West is still believing that Mr Rajapaksa has the grass-root level popularity and the reported information of political leaders in new year day showed the politicians are in trouble waters except Mr. Rajapaksa.

Sri Lanka’s government, opposition and minor parties such as TNA too concern on historical matters but many countries where involved in wars are not concerned with the past events and if there is something need to do domestically or internationally, they do them silently and do not use as points to focus in political platforms and major points in media.

According to information I found, media personnel are lowest paid employees are in Sri Lanka except few and many of them are hungry for information to report and make something.  They go behind politicians and look for words to report with a view to make some money for living. Several print publications are already closed and the readers of the available print and electronic media are limited to less than 500 people in the entire country where there is more than 21 million population.  Therefore, many media are depending on advertisements especially from the government.

Sri Lanka has fundamental political, economic, social, cultural, governance, religious problems. Why media suppose to ignore such issues to give awareness to public and generate right opinion to policy makers.  Giving priority for redundant issues reflect the stupidity of media in Sri Lanka, but media in many countries are powerful as they cogent in right things.

KAMALIKA PIERIS

The Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters (Amendment) Bill was passed amidst chaos in Parliament on 9.8.2018, reported the media. The Bill was passed with 95 members voting for it and 31 against. There was one amendment which was passed with 97 members voting for and 24 against.

The Joint Opposition including former President Mahinda Rajapaksa voted against it. Rajapaksa’s participation in the vote was a notable feature as he has been absent during the voting time of almost all Bills brought into the present Parliament, observed the media.

The Cabinet had granted approval to amend the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, No.25 of 2002, for identifying the offences relating to Money Laundering and the necessity of criminalizing the offences related to bribery outlined in Article 16 of the Convention of the United Nations against Bribery and Corruption. It was also necessary to take into account recent developments pertaining to computer systems and data related criminal offences, and the international obligations of Sri Lanka.

However, Rajapaksa and the Joint Opposition thought otherwise. Rajapaksa had claimed that the amendments proposed to the Act are clearly aimed at assisting foreign courts in the trial of Sri Lankans for offences allegedly committed in Sri Lanka.

I present three sets of overlapping comments on the dangers of this Bill by the respected journalist, C.A.Chandraprema, Retired Navy Chief of Staff and ex-UPFA MP Dr. Sarath Weerasekera and Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Chandraprema commented on the Bill in March 2018. We see that the Bill to amend the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, No. 25 of 2002 seeks to repeal entire sections of the original law and replace them with new provisions, said Chandraprema.( Sunday Island  27.5.18 p 11)

The original Act applied only to specified Commonwealth countries and countries that had signed agreements with Sri Lanka to render mutual assistance in criminal matters. However, the proposed amendment seeks widen the scope of the Act by making it applicable to every country that is a party to an international Convention relating to mutual assistance in criminal matters, to which Sri Lanka has also  become a party.

The Act is to be made applicable even to a country which has not entered into any agreement with Sri Lanka for mutual assistance in criminal matters, when the Minister in charge of the subject decides to extend and obtain assistance from that country. The original Act applies only to sovereign nations. The Amendment will make the Act applicable to organizations associated with combating international crime as well, which will of course automatically be applicable to the International Criminal Court.

The objectives of the original Act have been expanded to include such matters as the infringement of intellectual property and cybercrime but this appears to be a cover for the actual purpose of the Bill.

This Bill seeks to make documentary evidence obtained in a specified country admissible in a judicial proceeding; and also to make admissible evidence led from a specified country through video conferencing technology.

Another new feature in the amending Bill is that the Central Authority in Sri Lanka (the Secretary to the Ministry of Justice) can authorize any other officer not below the rank of a Senior Assistant Secretary, to act on his behalf in the Central Authority for the purpose of this Act and the Central Authority can also designate competent authorities (which can be a law enforcement authority) who will process information to requests as directed by the Central Authority.

The Central Authority is also enjoined to ensure prompt action in respect of all requests from abroad and to have a dedicated unit to maintain a proper system to manage incoming and outgoing requests. Requests can also be forwarded by electronic means directly to the relevant competent authority through the appropriate authority of a specified country or specified organization. Such competent authority shall, then immediately proceed to implement the request after forwarding a copy of the relevant request to the Central Authority.

There is the additional provision that no court in Sri Lanka may reject a request on the grounds that the Central Authority did not receive such request directly from the appropriate authority of a specified country or specified organization.

A new section has been added to the original law, enjoining the Central Authority and the officers holding delegated authority from him, including the competent authorities, to strict confidentiality with regard to requests made under this Act. If confidentiality cannot be upheld, the appropriate authority of a specified country or specified organization will be informed and this foreign body will then determine whether the request should nevertheless be executed.

Any person who fails to comply with this confidentiality requirement commits an offence and the High Court of the Province can impose a fine on that person ranging from a minimum of Rs. 100,000 to a maximum of Rs. five million. Needless to say the Right to Information law will not apply to anything done under this amended Act.

This Bill makes Sri Lanka completely open to all foreign states and organizations,   through this process of the granting of assistance in investigations and judicial proceedings connected with criminal matters.

Chandraprema says these amendments are being brought in a specific context. This government has already established the Office of Missing Persons which though described as an ‘office’, is really a tribunal for all practical purposes, which can examine witnesses, issue summons and hold hearings. While the investigative mechanism has thus been set up in the form of the OMP, the government has also passed the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance Act No: 5 of 2018 which makes applicable in Sri Lanka, the provisions of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance which has been signed and ratified by the Sri Lankan government.

Even though the name of this international convention would convey the impression that it has something to do with preventing enforced disappearances, its actual purpose is punitive. But the punitive measures contemplated by this International Convention cannot be implemented without the facilities that will be extended by the proposed amendment to the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, No. 25 of 2002.

It is in that context that we have to view the changes contemplated to the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, No. 25 of 2002. On the one hand the number of foreign countries coming within the ambit of the original Act has been expanded to include every country that is a party to an international Convention relating to mutual assistance in criminal matters, to which Sri Lanka has become a party.

The proposed provisions to allow the Secretary to the Ministry of Justice to authorize officers below him to act on his behalf, and also to designate competent authorities (which can be a law enforcement authority) to ensure prompt action in respect of all requests from abroad and to have a dedicated unit to maintain a proper system to manage incoming and outgoing requests shows that this is the final set up necessary to begin the war crimes investigation that international sponsors of the Yahapalana government have been angling for.

The proposed amendment to the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, No. 25 of 2002 indicate that the Sri Lankan side is being prepared to handle a large volume of requests from overseas. Instead of having a local tribunal with foreign judges what Yahapalana has done is to enable foreign judges in foreign tribunals to take action against Sri Lankans with the full cooperation of the Sri Lankan government.

The OMP does the local investigation, the International Convention against Enforced Disappearances confers jurisdiction on foreign nations and indirectly on the ICC as well to hear Sri Lankan cases and this Mutual Assistance Bill seeks to put in place the remaining requirements by making it incumbent on the Sri Lankan authorities to comply with requests for information, documents, witnesses and the like made by foreign governments and international organizations to carry out criminal investigations or prosecutions of Sri Lankan individuals.

This entire set up beginning with the OMP and ending with the mechanisms to be set up under the proposed amendment to Act No: 25 of 2002 will operate under a shroud of secrecy with the Right to Information Act rendered inoperative in relation to action taken under those laws, concluded Chandraprema.

Retired Navy Chief of Staff and ex-UPFA MP Dr. Sarath Weerasekera, also spoke against the Bill at a press conference called by ‘Eliya’. He urged the government to withdraw the Bill He called it an attempt by the government to betray the country and its armed forces. (Island 13.6.18 p 4). The government gazetted the amended Act when the attention of the public was focused on flood situation triggered by heavy rains, he said.

The original Act applied only to specified Commonwealth countries and some other countries, but the proposed amendment would make it applicable to many other countries as well as to organizations associated with combating international crime.

“The Act is applicable to every country that is a party to an international convention relating to mutual assistance in criminal matters, to which Sri Lanka has become a party as well as even to a country which has not entered into any agreement with Sri Lanka for mutual assistance in criminal matters if the Minister-in-Charge of the subject decides to extend and obtain assistance from that country.

According to the original act, an accused for any sort of offence could be sent to any other country or institution only if that person agreed. Also, the country had a right to reject such request from any other country, if the said offence was not an offence under the Sri Lankan law. But through the proposed amendments, Sri Lanka would not be able to do so. Even though the government promised that there would be no international courts or judges, the proposed bill would allow not only foreign judges but also foreign investigators into Sri Lanka.

“By amending the Act, the government would open up Sri Lankans who are alleged to have been involved in causing enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka to international jurisdiction. He also pointed out the connection between OMP Bill, the Enforced Disappearances Bill, and now the amended Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act,

Former President and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, Mahinda Rajapaksa, in one of the most scathing attacks on the current government yesterday accused it of being as committed and enthusiastic in their betrayal of the country as never before in its long history. (Island 18.6.18 p 1)

On May 18 this year, on the very anniversary of the victory against the LTTE, the government gazetted the Bill to amend the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act of 2002 at a moment when the people were preoccupied with the floods that affected many parts of the country. This country has had its share of traitors in its long history, but never anyone as committed and enthusiastic in their betrayal as the present government, said Rajapaksa.

The Bill to amend Act No: 25 of 2002 will repeal and replace entire sections of the original Act and substantially change its character, Rajapaksa said. The purpose of the original law was to facilitate cooperation between Sri Lanka and specified foreign countries in locating and identifying witnesses or suspects, the service of documents on such persons, the examination of witnesses, the obtaining of evidence, execution of requests for search and seizure, temporarily transferring a person in custody to appear as a witness, facilitation of the personal appearance of witnesses, the location of the proceeds of any criminal activity, and enforcing orders for the freezing of property, etc.

The earlier law applied only to specified Commonwealth countries and to other countries that had signed agreements with Sri Lanka to render mutual assistance in criminal matters. The proposed amendment will widen the applicability of the Act to every country that is a party to any International Convention that involves criminal matters. Though the original Act applied only to states, the proposed amendment will make it applicable to international organizations such as the International Criminal Court as well.

Another new feature in the amended Bill is that the Central Authority in Sri Lanka (the Secretary to the Ministry of Justice) can authorize any other officer not below the rank of a Senior Assistant Secretary, to act on his behalf of the Central Authority for the purpose of this Act. The Central Authority is given the power to designate competent authorities (which can be a law enforcement authority) who will process information to request as directed by the Central Authority.

The administrative machinery to respond expeditiously to requests from overseas is also to be expanded. It will also make documentary evidence and evidence obtained through video conferencing from persons resident in foreign countries admissible in judicial proceedings.

The proposed legislation complements two previous laws introduced by the present government – the Office of Missing Persons Act and the Act relating to the International Convention on Enforced Disappearances. Without the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters amendment Act, No. 25 of 2002 it would not be possible to prosecute Sri Lankans in foreign courts for offences allegedly committed in Sri Lanka. There has to be a mechanism to obtain evidence from Sri Lanka.

The amendments proposed to the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act of 2002 are clearly aimed at assisting foreign courts in the trial of Sri Lankans for offences allegedly committed in Sri Lanka.  This is the latest betrayal by the Yahapalana government. The manner in which this government has been implementing the demands of their foreign patrons should also be taken note of by the public.

I wish to add that these actions by the Yahapalana government show how carefully and thoroughly things have been thought out and planned. These changes would have been planned along ago, abroad, and kept aside, to be used once   regime change took place. It shows also, how far the west, probably USA, is prepared to go to extract their revenge from the armed forces that defeated their precious LTTE. Lastly, we now see that there is a solid block of MPs in Parliament, mainly UNP I suppose, who are prepared to vote blindly for laws which will injure their own people.

Dr Sudath Gunasekara

  “Gazette on subject purview of ministers raises questions” A news item. Dec 31 (FT)

Minister of Public Enterprise, Kandyan Heritage and Kandy Development Lakshman Kiriella has four State institutions allocated to his ministry. These institutions include the Ceylon Ceramics Corporation, Kahagolla Engineering Service Company Ltd., BCC Lanka Ltd. and State Resources Management Corporation.

An interesting fact which is highlighted here is even though Minister Kiriella also holds office as the Minister of Kandyan Heritage and Kandy Development, no relevant institutions have been allocated to fall under his purview”

Monday, 31 December 2018)

According to this news item, even though., it appears to be an error I am glad that Minister Kiriella has not been allocated those subjects even by mistake. Any way I dont believe that it is a mistake, going by the manner in which Ministries are been formed, named and subjects are been allocated these days in this country. I wonder whether that is also a part of the scientific naming of MInistries of this Governmnet.Whatever the reasons may  be, I believe god may have beconed the President and PM not to include these subjects in Miniter Kiriella’s list or later god on his own deleted it, after inclusion byMS under pressure from RW, as he knows best that these subjects should never be  given to this intruder and pretender, Kiriella, for he knows that it would be the death knell of the people called Kandayns Sinhalese; I mean the Sinhala people who live in the hill country and its pheriphery.

What ever it is, let the fools ponder, on these flimsy matters, while the Gods will look after the Kandyan Sinhala peasants who had been a betrayed and forgotten set of people in this country by all Governments and politicians in this country since 1948.Coming back to the subject of allocation of subjects to Ministers, what is important from the angle of a Minister is neither the number of institutions that are given to him, nor the name of the Ministry but  the facilities that come with it and how much money one can make out of it. The nubmber of Ministries and Ministers is also not decided by any rational  planning of its functions or exigencies of service to people but merely on the dictates of political reasons to keep the bunch satisfied to maintain the majority in Parliament. That is why  when there are no subjects to be allocated then they  are named as either Minister Without Portfolio or Minister of Special Services, accompanied with all facilities normally made available to any Cabinet Minister. I can understand appointing Deputy or Junior Ministers to Cabinet Ministers. But still I am confused as to why they have another set of parasites called non- Cabinet Ministers while you are already having 40 Deputy Ministers whom I believe are also Non-Cabinet Ministers. The only explnation possible is that this political gamble is done only to pacify MPP in a devious manner to keep them bribed and tied to the party to maintain the required majority in Parliament to make laws for their own betterment.

In Minister Laksman Kiriella’s case, in my opinon, it is a very good thing these two subjects of  ‘Kandyan Heritage and Kandy Development” are not given to him for the following reasons.

In the first place he is neither a Kandyan ( though he pretends to be one)  nor a politician who loves the people who are called Kandyans who live in the Kandyan territory under dippressed and appalling conditions in the secluded valley bottoms after they were being deprived of their native lands by the British plunderers when they openend up the hill country forests to plant Coffee and Tea in the 19th century, or on the degraded hill slopes after the invaders are gone even  without minimum basic facilties, buried and soaked in abject poverty and missery. Mr Kiriella’s main objective was to collect Tamil votes on the estates for the UNP and in the General election.

In my experience he has been a number one betrayer and traitor as far as the Kandyans are concerned. For example he was the man who took Ranil Wickramasinha all over the plantation Raj for the 2015 elections, promissing lands for Indian estate Tamils to build houses and for agriculture and won all the seats there in that election.  If not for these election promises he made and also for Ranil the  Prime Ministerial candidate being taken round, makin another of High Schools with lab facilities for A level students of these Tamils, how could a man who got only 53,000 votes at the 2010 elections from the whole of  Kandy District bagged almost 200 000 votes for the UNP, to win all the seats in the hill country areas  in 2015 creating a record, as I have pointed out many a time even before. I presume out of this 200 000 votes at least 150 000 are Tamil. If not for this unpatriotic and trecherous action on his part the UNPatriotic UNP would never have bagged the entire hill country that was the Motherland of the Kandyan Sinhalese, as it had been for thousands of years. By this dastardly act he has not only deprived the Kandyans of thousands of their ancestral land for ever but also set a very serious precedent that will serve as a lever to remove all the Sinhalese from the central hill country,-the geographical Heartland  (HADABIMA as I have named it in 1991) of this Island nation, that decides the survival of the entire life system and the civilization of this country. If you dont call this a treacherous  and criminal betrayal of the Kandyans by him, then  I do not know by what other name one should call it

No government should ever give the Kandyan Heritage and Kandy Development  Ministry to any man or woman who doesnt know who Kandyan Peasants and their problems are and also who does not undersatand critical role of the Central it had played over  millennia  and continue to do so  in protecting the entire life system and the civilization of this country

Collecting nearly 200 000 Tamil votes for himself and the UNP at the expence of the Sinhala nation in the 2015 General election is the epic record  he has kept in his entire political carrier. I ask him as to what service he has renderred to the neglected, forgotten and betrayed sector of the native Sinhala patriots who had sacrificed all what they had and died in tens of thousands  between 1505=1948 fighting against Portuguese, Dutch and the British,  to protect our motherland for you and me and the posterity, other than this betrayal of a nation?

Aded to this national crime there is also the story of millions of payments he is supposed to  have made to some 48 hand picked men and women of his choice for engaging in collecting votes in 2015 for him. In this backdrop I strongly suggest Kandyan Heritage and Kandy Development  Ministries  should never be given to Kiriella .It is better for him to be given a Ministry that has nothing to do with the Sinhala people in this country. Instead he should be given a ministry like Fisheries and Marine Resources.

As far as the subjects of Kandyan heritage or Kandyan Development are concernerned they should never be given to a person who does not know who the Kandyans and their problems are. They should be given only to a person who has at least seen the Report of the Kandyan Peasantry Commission of 1951 and who understand the critical importance of the central hill country that decides and dictates the very servival of the entire life system and the civilization of this country.

There is no difference between giving this  subject to Kiriella and Digambaran. Because both men serve only the Indian estate Tamils. Digambaran for inborn love for his people and political servival and perhaps for creating a Malayanadu right at the centre of Sri Lanka as their original Homeland in South India is a  virtual hell compared to this Paradise on earth and therefore they have no place to go back. Kiriella on the other  hand serve the estate Tamils  singularly to collect their votes  for his political survival, as he knows for certain that Sinhala voters will never cast their votes to him hereafter, looking at the treacheries he has committed against the Kandyan Sinhalese during this short spell in politics.

ආචාරිය සුදත් ගුණසේකර

1.1.2019.

කෑනඩාව, එන්ගලන්තය නෝවේ සහ සුවිස්ටර්ලන්තය ඔවුන්ගේ රටවල ද්විත්ව  පුරවෙසි බව ඈත්තේ දෙමල මන්ත්‍රී  වරුන්ගේ විස්තර නොදෙන බව ප්‍රකාශ කල බව පුවත්පත්වල පලවී තිබුණි.  එය ශ්‍රී ලන්කාවේ ස්වාදීනත්වයට හා නිදහසට කර ඈත්තේ බලවත් තර්ජනයක් හා අව්මානයක් බව පෙන්වාදිය යුතුය..

එබෑවින් මේ රටවල්වල තානාපතිවරුන් වහාම ජනාදිපති කාර්යාලයට ගෙන්වා ඒතානාපති වරුන් සියලුදෙනාම කරුණු විමසා  ඔවුන් සිදුකොට ඈත්ත්තේ බලවත් වරදක් බව නොපිලිගන්නේනම්  වහාම ඔවුන් මේ රටින් පිටුවහල්කොට එකී රටවල් සමන්ග ඈති තානාපතිකම් වහාම අත්හිටවිය යුතුය

Kanthar Balanathan

Before we examine the framework of Governance, let us study deep into each of the frames and the psychology of humans who go into the parliament to take over the function.

https://policyandpoliticsblog.com/2014/05/09/behaviour-change-as-psychological-governance-making-psy-citizens/

http://www.powertopersuade.org.au/blog/trust-and-governance-5-insights-from-psychology

http://nrnmind.blogspot.com/2009/08/mind-science-intelligence-perception.html

Governance

Quote (Google): The concept of “governance” is not new. … Governance refers to a process whereby elements in society wield power, authority, and influence and enact policies and decisions concerning public life and social upliftment.”

The eight characteristics of good governance?

• All men and women should have a voice in decision-making, either directly or through legitimate intermediate institutions that represent their interests.
• Rule of law.
• Transparency.
• Responsiveness.
• Consensus orientation.
• Equity.
• Effectiveness and efficiency
• Accountability

 For good governance to be in place the politicians and people who vote should be enlightened with political, and knowledge of economics, and social science. People who vote should know their candidate’s integrity, educational level and their competence in politics and governance.

Mass Communication:  is a term used to describe the academic study of the various medium by which individuals relay information through mass media to large segments of the populace at the same time. It’s understood that newspapers, magazine publishing, radio, TV, and film are those which disseminate news. Mass media denotes a section of the media which is specifically designed to reach a very large audience of a nation. The term was coined with the advent of mass circulation newspapers and magazines. The common man, which is the public”, relies on mass circulation media, newspaper because it is a competitive form of media that disseminates news to the public. The common man could afford to purchase a newspaper or go to the Community Centre and digest the information from it.

What is the integrity and reliability of the SriLankan mass media? Do they provoke violence, potential enmity between political parties, establish racial hatred among citizens? These are questions to be asked. Do they operate for profit or do they support good governance?Definitly most of the Tamil media does propogate racial conflicts.

What about the journalists? Are they racial? Do journalism promote racism, separatism, religious fanatism? Do the journalists promote racial intimidation?

Therefore, primarily good governance depends on citizens who vote for the candidates to institute good governance. Citizens and politicians shall have good perception and intelligence. Although education is a basic requirement in politics, perception and intelligence is not taught in schools. It is inborn characteristics of a person and the environment in which they were brought up.

What is Perception?

 The ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses. “the normal limits to human perception”

Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information, or the environment. Wikipedia

Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information, or the environment. Wikipedia

While our sensory receptors are constantly collecting information from the environment, it is ultimately how we interpret that information that affects how we interact with the world. Perception refers to the way sensory information is organized, interpreted, and consciously experienced. Perception involves both bottom-up and top-down processing. Bottom-up processing refers to the fact that perceptions are built from sensory input. On the other hand, how we interpret those sensations is influenced by our available knowledge, our experiences, and our thoughts. This is called top-down processing. Ref; (https://courses.lumenlearning.com/msstate-waymaker-psychology/chapter/reading-what-is-perception/)

Perception occurs in five stages: stimulation, organization, interpretation-evaluation, memory and recall.

Quote CIA: The process of perception links people to their environment and is critical to the accurate understanding of the world about us. Accurate intelligence analysis obviously requires accurate perception. Yet research into human perception demonstrates that the process is beset by many pitfalls. Moreover, the circumstances under which intelligence analysis is conducted are precisely the circumstances in which accurate perception tends to be most difficult. This chapter discusses perception in general, then applies this information to illuminate some of the difficulties of intelligence analysis. Ref: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/art5.html

To be continued

Kanthar Balanathan

What is Intelligence

The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.” an eminent man of great intelligence”

Intellect, intellect, mind, brain, brains, brainpower, powers of reasoning, judgment, understanding, comprehension, and quickness of mind.

The collection of information of military or political value. “the chief of military intelligence”

The True Meaning of Intelligence Essays. … This simple definition is often used by many common people, but a more in-depth definition is the ability to derive information, learn from experience, adapt to the environment, understand, and correctly utilize thought and reaction” (APA Dictionary of Psychology: Intelligence) …

A typical dictionary definition of intelligence is the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge.” Intelligence includes the ability to benefit from past experience, act purposefully, solve problems, and adapt to new situations. Intelligence can also be defined as the ability that intelligence tests measure.”

Separate good leaders from a bad one.

• Honesty and Integrity. …
• Inspire Others. …
• Commitment and Passion. …
• Good Communicator. …
• Decision-Making Capabilities. …
• Accountability.
• Delegation and Empowerment. …
• Creativity and Innovation.

Essential Characteristics for Good Leaders

• Courage.
• Caring.
• Optimism.
• Self-control.
• Communication.

https://www.unescap.org/sites/default/files/good-governance.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sarah_Forberger/publication/269107473_What_is_governance/links/548173090cf22525dcb61443/What-is-governance.pdf

Political Corruption

POLITICAL CORRUPTION IS THE USE OF POWERS BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS OR THEIR NETWORK CONTACTS FOR ILLEGITIMATE PRIVATE GAIN. … FORMS OF CORRUPTION VARY BUT INCLUDE BRIBERY, EXTORTION, CRONYISM, NEPOTISM, PAROCHIALISM, PATRONAGE, INFLUENCE PEDDLING, GRAFT, AND EMBEZZLEMENT.

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is an index published annually by Transparency International since 1995 which ranks countries “by their perceived levels of corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys.”^[1] The CPI generally defines corruption as “the misuse of public power for private benefit.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

The CPI Index reflects that SriLanka has an index of 36 as against 90 for Denmark in 2016.

Let us conclude who are the champions of BRIBERY, EXTORTION, CRONYISM, NEPOTISM, PAROCHIALISM, PATRONAGE, INFLUENCE PEDDLING, GRAFT, AND EMBEZZLEMENT in SriLanka?. 

To be continued

Kanthar Balanathan

SriLanka became a republic on the 22^nd May 1972.

However, the JVP insurrection was launched on the 5^th April 1971 and lasted till June 1971. To date, the root cause (RCA) of this insurrection was not released by any analysts. The revolt was under Srimavo’s government. It could be assumed that the revolt could have been driven by a foreign power to stop the republicanizing SriLanka. The only item that can be assumed is: who will financially lose if SL becomes a republic.

JVP organization was the first set of a terrorist organization that gave birth in SL. Most of the JVP terrorists ran to the UK initially and now live in Commonwealth countries. Is there a secret that the Sri Lankans do not know?

To join hands with the JVP, the second batch of terrorists (LTTE) gave birth on the 5^th May 1976.

However, Tamil New Tigers (TNT) was a militant Tamil organization founded by Velupillai Prabhakaran on May 22, 1972. This date coincides with the date on which SL became a republic. (Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_New_Tigers)

Can we interpret anything from these events of JVP/TNT/LTTE?

Right from inception, JVP has no policies, objectives, goals and no values. Even the present day they are unable to attract votes from the people but operate like a slave operating to the ruling party. Votes are split and dumped waste, which people do not understand.

Right from independence, 4^th Feb 1948, SL has been faced with the bitter unstable political and economic disorder. What is the root cause of this shortfall? Has anyone done an RCA for this cause? Its high time a student who wants a Ph.D. complete research in this area.

Is it a racial differential conflict which has inflicted into the minds of the people?

Is it a religious differential conflict which has inflicted into the minds of the people?

Is it the caste differential conflict which has inflicted into the minds of the people?

Is it the Up-country—Low country differential which has deep rooted hard into the minds of the Sinhala people?

GOSL did not follow the democratic stream right from 1948, and Tamil politicians are a main player for the downfall.

SriLanka calls itself as, DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRILANKA”.

Do the politicians practice democracy in governance? Elections are conducted on a collateral basis. Votes are bought from citizens. The recent events in November 2018 is a typical example of our environment. Ranil W stated that the people have spoken after the results from the Supreme Court. No! it is not the people who have spoken. God knows who spoke. The constitution places a hierarchy for administration. However, the Prime Minister takes control of the administration without realizing that he is not the Chief Executive.

What is a hierarchy: A hierarchy is an organizational structure in which items are ranked according to levels of importance? Most governments, corporations and organized religions are hierarchical.

Here the PM of SL does not understand the concept and the constitution. The President was treated like a FINGER-PUPPET although the President was elected the Chief Executive by the people of SriLanka. It is presumed that the President being a politically a matured person, tolerated diplomatically for some time.

Socialist: – Is there any socialism built into the governance? When pressed, he calls himself a Democratic socialist. … Webster’s dictionary defines socialism as a form of society in which government owns or controls major industries. Marxist theory says socialism is the transitional stage between capitalism and communism.

Members of the governing club make an effort and accomplish to be Capitalists, through political corruption. Most of the politician own industries in SL or through Benami overseas and do not obey, follow the regulatory measures placed through Law & Order. Every portfolio is held by a person in a dictatorial environment.

SriLanka is a REPUBLIC.

Quote from Google: A Republic is a form of government in which power resides with the people, and the government is ruled by elected leaders who govern according to laws designed to help citizens. … This form of government believes society should be ruled by its wealthiest members.

In SL the politicians think that they are the individual monarchy rulers and take decisions and implement. The Bond Scam is a typical example of several irregularities. The Corruption Perception Index reflects the integrity and honesty of our parliament. A poor MP, when elected and becomes a minister, accumulates wealth which is adequate to gain victory in the next election. If the Tax system in SriLanka is effective and have adequate power, the inspectors can audit these culprits on how they acquired the wealth.

A wide operating style exists between European MPs and SriLankan MPs. A SriLankan MP, once elected forgets that he/she is people representative to work for the people, however, they forget the people and their responsibility, and operate like stray cattle. Again, the Bond Scam is a typical example.

It is preferred that in the next general elections GOSL parties ask for a name change from the Democratic Socialist Republic of SriLanka” TO something else which is more appropriate.

Celebrate the Republican day 22^nd May rather the Independence Day celebration on the 4^{th of} February, which is meaningless. SL is on a higher level now. Rose from slavery to Republican”. Is this a valid statement? No! we still carry that slave mentality to the West. Selling lands, giving a base etc. Particularly we note that the UNP and Ranil have that slave mentality.

To be continued.

Dilrook Kannangara

Executive presidency was introduced to create an unfair advantage for the UNP as it has a lion’s share of the minority vote. This was the intention in 1978 when it was created. In a 1966 speech to the Ceylon Association for the Advancement of Science, JR Jayawardena proposed executive presidency as the UNP faced tough Sinhala opposition for coming into a governance coalition with Tamil parties ACTC and ITAK (D-C Pact). True to its purpose, executive presidency turned Sinhalese into political refugees and worthless voters in their own country. At the 2015 presidential election, 60% of Sinhala voters rejected Sirisena but it had no impact on the outcome. Sirisena easily won the race with the support of separatists, LTTE Rump, extremists and NGOs. Mahinda did his very best to appease separatists and extremists but still lost very badly for an incumbent. Mahinda is the only incumbent president to lose a presidential election.

Executive Presidency Reduced the Majority into a Minority

Presidential elections are a mockery of democracy. Majority’s rejection can become all powerful executive president and appoint the Prime Minister and the Cabinet. He can even appoint top officers of the Central Bank and government institutions. As per Singapore Principles (June 2013) to which Sirisena agreed as the Common Candidate, the heart of the national economy – the Central Bank – must remain in the hands of a Tamil. Sirisena follows it to the letter. Tamil loan mafia operates hand in glove with the Central Bank. Tamil lenders have lent loans to Vanni residents at over 20% interest rate per month and the Central Bank intervenes to settle those loans! It also obliged him to devolve more powers to Tamils beyond the current federal state of the nation.

In 1987 when India invaded the island nation, the entire parliament except one MP rejected it but the executive president surrendered the nation to Indian invaders. He agreed to advance Indian hegemonic interests into the island and turn the nation into a federal country. The word ‘unitary’ was left in the Constitution just to fool the majority. Despite the sham unitary word, Sri Lanka is an extreme federal nation since 1987 with the parliament or the president unable to take back provincial powers without all provincial councils agreeing.

Since 1994 all executive presidents and main contestants have promised even more federal (devolution) powers to the periphery. The longer executive presidency is kept, the more the nation disintegrates.

Presidential Elections During War Time

Presidential elections during war time is no equal to peacetime presidential elections. Tamils were not allowed to vote in full force during the war and the presidential election outcome changed as a result. At the 1988 presidential election voters’ turnout in the Northern Province and parts of the Eastern Province (they were merged then) were dismally low. As a result the more nationalist candidate (Premadasa) won. If Tamils voted in full force, Sirima would have won. In 1988 Sirima entered into an electoral alliance with Ponnambalam of the ACTC. Anura, Lasantha Wicrkamatunga and Ponnambalam were caught by the Indian army after visiting the LTTE to gain election support!

However, in 1994, the candidate sympathetic to the LTTE won after her main rival was killed by Tamils.

In 1999 the less separatist candidate narrowly won thanks to voting disruptions in the north. If there was no war, she could not have secured 50% and a re-run would have ensured her rival winning it. In 2005, Mahinda won with a razor thin margin. If Tamils voted in full force, the more separatist candidate would have won.

Relying on Tamils not voting at a presidential election during peacetime is foolish. Tamils always vote for the more separatist candidate.

Manipulate Just One Person and the Whole Nation Surrenders

Buying a president is far easier than buying 150 MPs. This is what happened in 1987 and many times thereafter. India used threats to buy JR Jayawardena the executive president. He then used threats of violence to get the parliament and the Supreme Court approve 13A to federalize the nation. Government MPs and their families were trapped in hotels and forced them to vote in support of 13A. The same thing happened after 2010. The president was terrorized with false war crimes allegations forcing him to shower various benefits on the Tamil community, remove military bases in the north and keep Sinhala and Muslim displaced people away from the north.

Chandrika also tried her very best to introduce her ‘package’. It failed only thanks to the parliament and the LTTE.

This is the true nature of the executive presidency. It must be abolished before further destruction is caused to the nation.

Sarath Wijesinghe   (former Ambassador to UAE and Israel)

Prins 94 years  is no more with us having sacrificed the life for the needy and downtrodden over  seventy five years as a young activist, Journalist, Leader of the villagers, Politician, writer, senior member of the Parliament  and a rare breed  as one of the most honest politicians ever in the parliamentary history as declared by none other than Sam Wijesinghe former Secretary of the Parliament and first Ombudsman a legendary in public life as   Prins is one of the honest Members of the Parliament I have ever come across. He is a great politician who will not compromise for his views on the nation and for the citizen committed to serve.” He has been a unique personality as a clean politician fought for independence of the judiciary, rule of law, human rights when the standards are miserably lowering  down to the lowest ebb – especially the rampant bribery and  corruption in the legislature and the administration with the administration of justice with laws delays and lack of proper access to justice for the litigants against which Prins fought hard in Sri Lanka and United Kingdom as an activist and patrons of many international organizations.

As a Journalist he pioneered Lankadeepa Sinhala Daily” in the capacity of  the first deputy editor under D. B. Dhanapala the great legendary Journalist Guru, and continued his career as a journals and a lawyer fearlessly until he was forced to leave Sri Lanka to flee to save his life and the family from JVP and Government death squads resulted on  deaths and disappearances of  over 60,000 deaths of Sri Lankan  youth when the world was looking the other way on mass murders and destructions by JVP and death squads by then para military forces alleged by then government on clamping terrorism engulfed the entire country in fear of deaths and destructions. Over 32 lawyers were killed including his nephew and junior lawyers by terrorists and government goons then. He was taken to UK by HE David Gladstone personally – then High Commissioner and the family was  looked after in UK by Lord Avebury – a world renewed human right activist. He has authored large number of books in Sinhala and English and the presence was felt in all courts in Sri Lanka as a senior Lawyer and a Barrister in the United Kingdom. He contributed immensely to the Sri Lankan and UK jurisprudence and the development of the international human rights and humanitarian law and practice.

Prins is a clean politician without bribery and corruption with exemplary qualities with humility for the human kind and a person dedicated to serve others a rare breed in the society today He led an exemplary family life with Dr Sriya and the three daughters who stood by him in all seasons and stormy conditions due to his political and activism on human rights. He is famous for leading a simple life and speak straight with the golden quality of the ability to walk with kings not leaving the common touch with the village villagers and the common man he loved so much. He is the last in his era of politicians of highest integrity leaving a vacuum in the society. He and his great services are ever remembered.

Sarath Wijesinghe

Sarath7@Hotmail.co.uk

By ; A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA    

Dear Lankaweb readers and all patriotic people of Sri Lanka resident in the country and in overseas

I sincerely wish a very happy, prosperous peaceful New Year in 2019, a year to be free of terrorist threats, western Indian and neo liberal subjugation and people’s uprising against attempts to colonise this country by  aliens.

The year 2019 will be different from all these years after the 2^nd liberation of Sri Lanka in 2009 as it would compel of peace loving, magnanimous Sri Lankans to face enormous threats which would include:

• Threat of  losing the sovereignty and Sri Lankan identity for ever by adoption of a federal and secular constitution under the pressurization of western, Indian and diaspora elements;
• The permanent expulsion of Sinhala and Muslim people from the North and East;
• Establishment of ISGA (Internal Self Government Authority) under which the Sri Lankan government will not be allowed to utilize any of the country’s national and natural resources and even send Mahaveli waters for the cultivation of Mahaweli areas in the East that would come under the so-called ISGA.;
• The armed forces that even helped.fed, nursed, and rescued the Tamils stranded in the recent Kilinochchi, Malative floods will unsympathetically be forced to leave North and East;
• Foreign countries, India and diaspora will share all national and natural resources in the North and East under ISGA;
• And no access for Sinhala Buddhists to visit Nagqadeepa and other Buddhist shrines in the ISGA territory, the North and East;

Given below are the ISGA Proposals for the implementation of which had been agreed by both the Victor Ivan’s bandit queen Chandrika and the paragethi koti hithrthi (foreign servile and tiger fondly) Ranil Wickremasinghe.  You may be wondering what this bogey ISGA proposals are and which would become valid under the horrendous new constitution.  In brief the ISGA consists the following: An ISGA until a final negotiated settlement is reached and implemented.

• Initially the members of the ISGA(Internal Self Governing Authority) will be appointed by the parties to this agreement with the LTTE (now the TNA, TGTE, GLF and the diaspora – the neo LTTE) appointing an absolute majority.
• Democraticelections will be held if no final negotiated settlement is reached and implemented within five years.
• The ISGA shall haveplenary power for the governance of the North and East including powers in relation to resettlement, rehabilitation, reconstruction, development, raising revenue including imposition of taxes, revenue, levies and duties, law and order, and over land.
• Any and all of its expenditures by the government of Sri Lanka or for the north and east shall be subject to the control of the ISGA.
• The ISGA shall have powers to borrowinternally and externally, provide guarantees and indemnities, receive aid directly, and engage in or regulate internal and external trade.
• The ISGA shall have direction and control over any and all administrative structures and personnel in the north and east.
• The ISGA shall have the power to alienateand determine the appropriate use of all land in the north and east that is not privately owned.
• Land occupied the armed forces of the GOSL must be immediately vacated and restored to the possession of the previous owners. The GOSL must also compensate the owners for the past dispossession of their land.
• The ISGA shall be responsible for the resettlement and rehabilitation of displaced civilians and refugees in such lands.
• The ISGA shall have control over the marine and off shore resources of the adjacent seas and the power to regulate access thereto.
• The ISGA will have control over the natural resources in the north-east region. The GOSL shall ensure that all monies due under existing agreements are paid to the ISGA.
• All future agreements concerning matters under the jurisdiction of the ISGA shall be made with the ISGA.

Meanwhile the most dangerous terrorist in the country, Sumanthiran  has told the media on 30th December 20 18 the proposed constitution will get approved prior to February 4th and 21 SLFP MPs will vote for it to make a majority of over 2/3 of the members.  The statement of this Tiger terrorist who work in close collaboration with  diaspora elements such as TGTE (Transitional Government of Tamil Eelam)’s self-appointed Prime Minister V.Rudrakumar, resident in the U.S.A   and the leader of the GTF (the Global Tamil Forum) Fr. Emmanuel resident in UK and who have become a terrorist leader more dangerous than the slain megalomaniac Prabhakaran indicates that this guy Sumanthiran has worked round the clock during the recent days indulging in soliciting the support of the SLFP members for his objective of getting somehow the proposed federal and secular constitution adopted  as this is the last chance for them to get their goals achieved through the parliament.  This terrorist who will soon be the future  TNA leader after the demise of Sambandan whose days are limited and who will be passing out his last breath soon, seems to have even  bribed to have the 21 disgruntled SLFP members as they are in the last few months of their political life and it is highly unlikely that they would get nominations from any party to contest in the next election and their getting  re-elected would be a mirage.

It was realising this fact that some of them attempted to get appointed as Ministers and this attempt miserably failed as  President Sirisena was adamant in not appointing any SLFPer as a Minister in the Ranil Wickremasinghe government. The foregoing situations may have made it easy for Sumanthiran to net these disgruntled and bleak future SLFPers at cheap rates and use them as scapegoats for getting his objectives fulfilled. . It is also reported that bandit queen Chandrika is also making all efforts to split the SLFP and make this disgruntled and politically invalid cabal servile to her whims and fancy .

The TGTE leader Rudrakumaran has clearly outlined the tasks of Tamil diaspora throughout the world and the tasks as that have been assigned to this to this local terrorist leader sumanthiran in order to achieve their  eternal objective.

Sumanthiran has said that apart from the UNP, the JEPPO leadership also extensively contributed to the new constitution which has features for amalgamating two provinces under a referendum of the people of those two provinces for such an amalgamation.  The last patriot in the JVP Mr. Somawansa Amerasinghe gone, nothing can now be expected from the JEPPOs that could contribute to the welfare of this country.  There only concern now of these scoundrels is to protect reactionary capitalists and neo liberalists instead of the suffering proletariats, and their new founder  leader Ranil and serve the sources that could fill their pockets with dollar notes.  It was a pity that several thousand youths in 1971 and nearly 100,000 youths during 1988 – 1990 sacrificed their precious life for upholding JVP policies and pave the way for a gang of robbers and quislings to reign in this country.

Under these circumstances the crucial time has come for all patriotic people, the national minded /MPs in the UNP and the national minded innocent rural members represented in the JV, all professionals, erudite persons, working and other masses in the country join together as a single body devoid of party politics, ethnicity, religiosity and other difference and demand for the abrogation of the proposed constitution and stage their Holy Hartal until the people of the country achieve the goal of saving the country from the threat that loom before all of us and vanquish terrorism from the soil of this country

Failure to get this objective achieved would result in the country getting divided into several parts and people becoming subjected to several autocratic rulers and the national and natural resources continuously plundered by foreign powers.

In an unfortunate situation if treacherous TNA, and the butterflies and the JEPPO scoundrels it will become imperative for the people to take up even arms and to rise against these anti national forces in villages, towns and work places  and complete eradicate them from this Holy Land.

Let the New Year 2019  be a  Year of Liberation from terrorism, slavery and foreign domination

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island

January 2, 2019, 12:03 pm

UNP MP Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, PC, yesterday said that the passage of the Presidential Inquiry Commission Amendment Act should be the priority for parliament in 2019.

Colombo District MP Rajapakse said that in fact the House owed an explanation as to why all political parties represented in parliament unanimously agreed to defer the vote on Presidential Inquiry Commission Amendment Act.

Rajapakse said that it was meant to empower the CIABOC (Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption) to utilize available evidence to prosecute those involved in corruption.

Responding to a query by The Island, the UNPer said that he had presented the proposed Amendment Act in parliament on Oct. 12, 2018 on behalf of President Maithripala Sirisena.

President Sirisena expected Amendment Act to be ratified fast as it was aimed at enabling the CIABOC to prosecute those allegedly involved in Treasury bond scams perpetrated in Feb 2015 and March 2016.

Rajapakse said that though the President was the head of government, the other MPs of the UNF except him had refrained from speaking during the debate.

Rajapakse challenged political parties to give one good reason why a vote was required on Presidential Inquiry Commission Amendment Act, introduced to expedite judicial process in respect of the Treasury bond scams involving disgraced primary dealer Perpetual Treasuries Ltd. (PTL). It should have been ratified unanimously if everyone had been sincere in fighting corruption, he said

Parliament is scheduled to meet on January 08, 2019.

Rajapakse alleged that in addition to the UNF, which scuttled the President’s move, none of the other recognised political parties and groups in Parliament had backed the proposed Amendment.

Now that President Sirisena had declared that the main focus in 2019 would be the introduction of a cohesive anti-corruption strategy, it would be the responsibility of Parliament to empower the CIABOC without further delay.

“Perhaps, the JO felt that it, too, could be affected by unprecedented powers given to the CIABOC.”

Rajapakse emphasised that President Sirisena’s decision to sack the UNP led administration on Oct. 26, 2018 should be examined against the backdrop of political parties represented in parliament collectively working together to thwart President Sirisena’s bid to expedite judicial inquiry into the Treasury bond scams.

The JVP had refrained from backing the vital piece of legislation though one of its MPs headed the second COPE (Committee on Public Enterprises) probe on Treasury bond scams, Rajapakse said.

Rajapakse said that he had been quite surprised when Joint Opposition Leader in parliament Dinesh Gunawardena, at that time, queried why the Amendment Act had been presented by him in his capacity as Higher Education and Cultural affairs Minister instead of Justice Minister Thalatha Atukorale.

Rajapakse said that an Act proposed by the President could be presented in parliament by any minister.

Responding to another query, Rajapakse said the President had blamed Thalatha Atukorale for deliberately delaying the Amendment Act. President Sirisena taken up the issue at a meeting at the Presidential Secretariat on Dec 16 afternoon attended by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, Rajapakse said. Ravi Karunanayake, Malik Samarawickrema and Kabir Hashim had also been present at the meeting, Rajapakse said.

It would be the responsibility of party leaders’ committee, chaired by Speaker Karu Jayasuriya to ensure the passage of the amendment unanimously or set an early date for a vote, Rajapakse said.

The President’s Counsel noted that a statement, issued by the Presidential Secretariat on Dec 21, blamed the relevant Sectoral Oversight Committee in Parliament for deliberately delaying the process.

Rajapakse explained that the Amendment would enable the CIABOC to use evidence gathered by the K.T. Chitrasena P CoI. Otherwise, the CIABOC would have to collect evidence afresh thereby prolonging the judicial investigation, Rajapakse said, adding that Parliament, instead of spearheading the anti-corruption drive, was undermining it.

Courtesy Adaderana

President Maithripala Sirisena visited the historic Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic today (31) to pay homage to the sacred Tooth Relic and secure blessings for the New Year, the President’s Media Division stated.

Later, he had visited the Malwathu Maha Viharaya and called on the Most Venerable Thibbatuwawe Sri Sumangala Maha Nayake Thero.

During this meeting, the Nayake Thero, chanting Seth Pirith, invoked blessings on the President for the New Year.

As the Mahanayaka Thero of the Asgiriya chapter has travelled overseas, the President visited the Asgiriya Gedige Rajamaha Viharaya and met with the Anunayaka Thero of the Asgiri Chapter, Venerable Wedaruwe Upali Thero.

Venerable Wedaruwe Upali Thero has also chanted Seth Pirith and invoked blessings on the President for the New Year.

President Sirisena also observed the construction works of the new ‘Dana Shala’ (a hall for almsgiving) and Archaeology Centre at the Asgiriya Gedige Rajamaha Viharaya.

Addressing the media personnel at the venue, the President said that he had named the year 2019 as a year to ‘Work without Corruption’.

The President said that all should unite to face the challenge of building the country and integrity through their conscience.

After that, the President also inquired into the wellbeing of the Mahanayake Thero of the Ramanya Maha Nikaya, Ven. Napana Pemasiri Nayaka Thero, who is currently receiving treatment at the Kandy General Hospital.

The President had then visited the Nayaka Thero at the hospital to inquire into his health condition and to wish him an immediate recovery.

Central Province Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayake, Former Minister S.B. Dissanayake were also present with the President on this occasion.

-PMD

Stanley Perera Melbourne, Australia.

My dear Sri Lankan Buddhists,

DON’T TRUST OR BELIEVE THE WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHES

For nearly four years this man Ranil Wickremasinghe did not vist the Mahanayaka theros or any other buddhist temples.  Let alone the church, mosques or Hindu Temples.  For that the people friendly Mahinda Rajapakse never failed to visit the Maha Sanga and Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith so frequently not forgetting the Hindu Temples as well.  Patriotic Sinhalayas believe Mahinda Rajapakse is their xaviour who has great leadership qualities.  80% of the Sri Lanka’s population is Sinhalayos.  Mahinda Rajapakse believes it is this Sinhalaya’s hearts and minds are important factors to rule the island nation of Sri Lanka.  Whereas, Rani l Wickremasinge believes that it is the white skinned barbarian Ambassadoze, dirty Indians, racists Tamils and Saibu nana are important to him rather than the working class Sinhala Buddhists.  Ranil’s supporters are those uppish class toffe noses in Colombo.

After Wickremasinghe got beaten up severely in the last couple of months, overnight he changed his whole behaviour in visiting maha sanga and buddhist temples and distancing himself from the racist TNA.  Wickremasinghe realised that 80% of the total population do not acknowledge the secret pact with the racists TNA,  But the cat is out of the bag.  Sinhalaya learnt in the last four years that Wickremasinghe is only a puppet manipulated by racists and bogus Tamil refugees world wide and white skinned barabarian Ambassadozes who are good in clapping hands in the gallery.

Wickremasinghe won the no confidance vote with the power of the American dollars and funds raised by the racist Tamil Dispora world wide.

Wickremasinghe jailed Buddhist monks.

Wickremasinghe jaild war heroes.

Wicremasinghe has a secret pact with the racist TNA.

Wickremasinghe planned to re-merge North and East appoint Saibu Nana as the Prime Minister of the East and  Racist Tamil Sampanthan or Vigneswaran as the Prime Minister of the North.

Wickremasinghe planned to break the Island Nation in to Nine Seperate independent states.

Wickremasinghe planned to sell Colombo Port, Palali air port and Trincomalee harbour to India.

Wickremasinghe sold Hambantota harbour to Chine and was planning to sell Hambantota air port to Chine.

Wickremasinghe planned to sell 5000 acre blocks of land in the North and East to the foreigners.

Wickremasinghe is only trying to hoodwinck buddhist votes.  Wickremasinghe is not a true buddhist.  It is only superficial.  Wickremasinghe is an anglican.  He wants you to stop eating rice and eat bacon and sausages.  This wolf is in sheep’s clothing.  Somebody said he is a butterfly.  Don’t believe this man Wickremasinghe.  He is public nuisance, a pest and a health hazard.

Stanley Perera

Melbourne, Australia.