{"id":110599,"date":"2021-01-10T18:44:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T01:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110599"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:44:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T01:44:29","slug":"sri-lankas-evil-triangle-is-it-possible-to-educate-austin-fernando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/10\/sri-lankas-evil-triangle-is-it-possible-to-educate-austin-fernando\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Evil Triangle- Is it possible to \u2018Educate\u2019 Austin Fernando?"},"content":{"rendered":"

C. Wijeyawickrema, B.A. (Hons.), LL.B., M.A., Ph.D.<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Dear\nMr. Austin Fernando:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank\nyou very much for your response (Jan. 2) to my previous essay  titled, Attempts to\nexhume the provincial council cadaver: a reply to Mr. Austin Fernando,\u201d\n(Lankaweb, Dec. 31). However, I am not happy with your decision to stop our\nexchange, because it appears to me that you did miss my message. The attachment\nto my message in Sinhala is simple and clear, and it identified you as a\ndevolution\u201d thief. You are a cool disciple of the boisterous Dayan Jayatilleke,\nin a different panchakanda.<\/em> What I expected from you was a rational\njustification for the Devolution Nirvana of yours, because on this same topic,\nDJ never answered several lists of questions sent to him by me over the past\ndecade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DJ cannot see the devolution danger because his panchaskanda<\/em> is wrapped in a Christian-Marxist skin. A comment on\nmy essay in English in the Lankaweb, states that you are a man of Catholic\nAction, now dormant. He connects you with one Paul Perera (who was this man?)\nto a Mahaveli land settlement incident in the 1980s. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith\nmost probably blocked the prevailing ideological struggle against the Buddhist\ncivilizational roots in the Island, raised recently by Mrs. Chandrika, Rossie\nthe Mayor and Mangala, the self-appointed redeemer of pristine Buddhism for the\nworld. Incidentally, these fit perfectly with Vigneswaran\u2019s theory of the five\nShiva Lingams brought in pre-historic times to bless the island. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\njoining of words by you in your reply, – unexplainable, compounded, confusion\u201d-\nreminds me the strategy Dayan Jayatilleke used to escape, when he got cornered\nby a challenger.  He even told those who\nopposed his ideas to go and learn English. Once I sent him an educational reply\ntitled, English with a smile!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nexpected that you offer us a reasoned\/seasoned justification explaining why you\nselected the devolution path. I drew your attention to 7 selected essays\ndemolishing this devolution panacea such as giving police powers ladder to\nseparatist monkeys. The late H. L. de Silva, P.C. (Island, 9\/6\/2007) and Dr. G.\nH. Pieris (Island, Sept. 8-15, 2005) provided more than enough facts as to why\nthe federal option is suicidal. Hence, you have a duty to let us know they were\nwrong, and you are correct. In other words, why do you think that the 13-A is\nnot a death-trap, and it helps the poor, innocent Tamil villager, not the\nEelam-bound Tamil politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a way Dayan is direct in his blind commitment. See\nwhat Dayan, the unofficial father of 13-A plus project, says on this subject (Colombo\nTelegraph Jan. 7, 2021): <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/em>As for my appointment [as SajithP\u2019s foreign affairs consultant]\nbeing a slap in the face of the Tamil constituency\u201d, that\u2019s a laugh. I would\nlike my critics to point out a single Sinhalese or even Tamil or Muslim in the\npublic sphere who has been a more consistent advocate and defender of the\nprinciple of devolution, the 13th<\/sup> amendment\nand the Provincial Council system and opponent of those who wish to abolish or\ntruncate that system. No Sinhalese in the public domain has been attacked more\nby the Sinhala racist Right over decades, on precisely this issue, than I have.\nIt is this stand of mine, including in Geneva, that caused Minister Weerasekara\nto suggest in the pages of the Daily FT that in the good old days I would have\nbeen spiked to death\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026. I have, of course,\nalso critiqued the utterly unrealistic Tamil effort to push beyond the 13th<\/sup> amendment towards a post-unitary new\nConstitution, an effort which sank the UNP government. As the Press statement\nof the remarks of visiting Indian External affairs Minister, Dr Jaishankar\nshows, his specific and concrete \u2018marker\u2019 reference was to the 13th<\/sup> amendment.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dayan\u2019s delusion is\nno different from the delusion that SWRD found in SJVC in 1958. How could a\nsane person say that devolution within the framework of 13-A plus is the end of\nany Eelam dream, despite a ton of hard evidence available against his theory?  What we Sinhala Buddhists have been trying to\nprove with ground truths is that 13-A plus arrangement is the beginning of the\nend of Sinhale <\/em>as a Palestine in\nSouth Asia, the balkanization path. I think the Eelam strategy has not changed\nfrom the one SJVC used before 1976, little now, and more later, except that\nAmerican-Indian new love affair against China has given, Eelam-bound Tamil\npoliticians a new hope of inching towards the point of no return. This is the\nhidden meaning of Sumanthiran\u2019s words, devolve us powers that the center\ncannot take back, once given.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austin,\nit is as if you and Dayan have two identical brains! Why is that Lakshman\nKiriella, who once said, any idiot can win wars if there is money,\u201d who is now\nsuggesting in the parliament that the Romesh de Silva committee could follow\nthe Orumittanadu blueprint without trying to reinvent the wheel, also elicit a\nbrain function just like the two of you? On the topic of center-periphery\nrelations Siddharthan\u2019s committee had no recognized Sinhala Buddhist member, and\nKiriella suggests shamelessly to resurrect Siddharthan\u2019s report. He has already\nforgotten the election verdict. The hard-learned experience is that devolution\npath is a disaster with absolute certainty of a breakaway sooner than later.\nJust think about Vigneshwaran\u2019s five Shiva Lingams, mentioned in my previous\nessay. Any person genuinely concerned about peace and harmony ought to think\nabout decentralization of power to empower people at village level, instead of providing\nladders to jumping separatist monkeys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\nlearn until our death. The data we receive is converted to information, which in\nturn provides knowledge. Yes, if we get garbage in, we get garbage out. But\neven gossips play an important social role. For example, I cannot remember\nwhether the gifting of a pistol as a birthday present to a tiger boss by a defence\nsecretary, reported in a newspaper was gossip or not. Most probably you know if\nit was true or not. For example, if you are a Christian, which I did not know\nwhen I replied to your essay, I could have more easily understood your for stand\non the Orumittanadu drama. Please note the word, Orumittanadu, symbolically connects\nChandrika\u2019s package deals, Tissa Vitharana\u2019s APRC majority report, 17 and 19, and\nthe 2015-19 Yahapalana game of Ranil-Sumanthiran and Jayamapthy, all in one\nknot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nwas not interested in knowing whether you knew Chandrika or any x, y and z. It\nis about how your ideas match so well with her ideas,  and further, I did not send you a court\ndocument for you to generate your own questions and exonerate yourself. And\nthen you say < unexplainable-compounded-confusion>! Please read the 7\nessays listed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Educating\nAustin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For\nexample, if you read one of the essays numbered 2, 3, and 5 of my attachment\ndealing with Chandrika\u2019s secret 1997 balkanization plan (which Siddharthan copied\nfor the Orumittanadu thing), what I very clearly pointed out was the fact that\nChandrika was using the spatial unit called an electorate (electoral map used prior\nto 1978) for the purpose of carving out ethnic enclaves. This I called the Dangerous\nAmpare Path<\/strong>,\u201d because Ampare district happened to be the first victim\nof her political dismemberment surgery. Her formula was, if an electorate has\n50% or more voters of a particular ethnic group that electorate becomes\nqualified to be part of that ethnic Region. Thus, the new S-E region (Oluville\nregion) is a collection 3 such electorates, Potuvil, Samanture & Kalmune. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus,\nmy point, Austin, that you did not fathom was that, if the Malayanadu Indian\nTamil electorates (or Hill country combined Indian Tamil-Muslim electorates) so\nrequest they cannot be denied a region or a Pondicherry unit within a region.\nThis means, electorates with Christian\/Tamil majorities in the South are also qualified\nto make similar demands, if necessary, via appealing to Geneva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austin,\nnow tell me which sentence\/s in my essay in Sinhala confused your brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\ndo not know why you are so excited about my email being copied to the secretary\nof defence. I copied it to so many others also as blind copies. I copied it to\nSD as my way of appreciating the sacrifice he and the Hasalaka Heroes did, because\nof which you are now a happy camper in Colombo. I have been doing it on a regular\nbasis, not limited to the one email you have received. As for the American security\nmatter that you are worried, there is no need for me to come to Colombo to meet\nhim to give what you consider as a big security tip. Just listen to the Talk\nwith Sudaththa (Sudaa Creation) interview with Wijedasa Rajapaksha, MP on Jan 5,\n2021. Something which is commonsense is apparently a big spy story for you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evil\nTriangle (ET)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All\nwhat you wrote in your Dec 15 essay could be understood easily and succinctly,\nif you consider the existence of an ET. It consists of the trio – politician-officer-NGO.\nThis is a model to explain what has happened to Sinhale since 1931 or 1948. The\nNGO here means all private entities, individuals, and non-governmental agencies.\nFor example, when the army captured Kilinochchi etc. it found that NGOs had not\ndone any development work for which they received heavy foreign funding. In\nIndia, these NGOs are under strict control, but in Sri Lanka black-white\npoliticians thrive sharing NGO dollars. Are you going to disagree with me if I\nsay that officers, from office janitor to ministry secretary, are all corrupt,\nexcept for a small percentage of duty-bound souls?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politicians.\nMarxists and officers are responsible for the Mismanagement and for the\nphenomenon known as the Tragedy of the Commons. Have you been to the place that\nyou people train SLAS officers from new recruits to senior officers such as\ndistrict secretaries? The entire premises stinks with toilet smell. Same with\nthe health ministry building. Please go to the link below to understand the\nRonie de Mel syndrome of public servants. It was the white civil servants who\nhad sympathy toward poor villagers and performed such dedicated service. Think\nof H. R. Freeman who became a State Council member in 1931 and 36. How many CCS\/SLAS\nguys you could count for doing any creative work or service to the nations? I\nworked under two prominent CCS officers and I know how the game had been played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\ncould guess why you wrote an irresponsible reply to my essay. President\nSirisena must be still addressing you the same way he addressed you when you\nwere the GA, and he was a lowly GS. I wonder whether you address him now calling\nhim Sir, just like M.J. Perera and Maithripala Senanayake called each other\nSir. This looks like such a trivial matter, but I wrote an essay on this topic,\nlong before President Sirisena sacked Ranil. Sirisena was either so humble or so\nlow in self-esteem to seek prior permission from Ranil to continue to call him\nSir. My question was whether Ranil and CBK in turn addressed Sirisena calling\nSir. I was so surprised to see on you tube that at the SWRD statue at Galle\nFace on Jan. 8th<\/sup> CBK revealing that Sirisena went to Sirikotha to\nobtain permission from Ranil to continue to call him Sir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nmust be honest with you in this final paragraph. You exhibited a kind of\nsuperiority complex when you tried to underestimate the value of the services\nrendered by Sarath Weerasekara and Nalin de Silva, in their respective spheres\nof influence. SLAS officers like you are robots on a train track in a tunnel,\nwith self-respect damaged by (mostly) stupid politicians. See what Anuradha\nYahampath is doing as Governor of EP and how she handles obstructive\npoliticians there (compare this with how you behaved like a puppet in public\nbefore that stupid Muslim CM). With this wounded and suppressed pride, sometimes\nunknowingly, you people float toward arrogance as an outlet to vent your\nfrustration. This must be why you treated my essay shabbily thinking to dismiss\nit with nonsensical sentences. For your information, I spent my working life\ndoing teaching and research in 11 universities and colleges, in three\ncountries. As a director institutional research\/assessment\/effectiveness, I\nhave gained an ability to penetrate one\u2019s thinking mechanism via his\/her\nwriting. My post graduate research in a new interdisciplinary field of applied\nlaw and applied geography, gave me training to test the efficacy of laws, and\nhow to make them more effective. It is with this insight that I see\nobjectively, 13-A path as a disaster to our motherland. So please read my\nessays on Lankaweb and learn, learning is what we do until our death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good\nhealth and good luck!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C.\nWijeyawickrema, B.A. (Hons.), LL.B., M.A., Ph.D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nam requesting Prabath, editor, Island newspaper to forward this reply to you as\nI do not know your email address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

C. Wijeyawickrema, B.A. (Hons.), LL.B., M.A., Ph.D. Dear Mr. Austin Fernando: Thank you very much for your response (Jan. 2) to my previous essay  titled, Attempts to exhume the provincial council cadaver: a reply to Mr. Austin Fernando,\u201d (Lankaweb, Dec. 31). However, I am not happy with your decision to stop our exchange, because it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-wijeyawickrema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}