{"id":112880,"date":"2021-03-22T01:25:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T07:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=112880"},"modified":"2021-03-21T18:08:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T01:08:10","slug":"the-geneva-game-and-the-13th-amendment-a-geographical-analysis-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/22\/the-geneva-game-and-the-13th-amendment-a-geographical-analysis-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"The Geneva game and the 13th Amendment: a geographical analysis -Part- I"},"content":{"rendered":"

To: Expert committee to draft a new constitution (RC)<\/em><\/span>
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

What\nwe are doing now is dodging the issue of 13A, and criticising the 13A, which is\nvery clearly part of their bottom-line.<\/strong> Instead, we are offering them\nstrategic parts of our infrastructure like the East Container Terminal or the\nWest Container Terminal, instead of dealing with the main issue<\/strong>, which\nis the 13A. It would seem like India would abstain yet again,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                             <\/em>Dayan  Jayatilleka, www.themorning.lk<\/a>, March 7, 2021<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pasku bomb\ncommission (PBC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who could have\nexpected that a set of lawyers (aka PBC) commissioned to explore who were\nbehind the Easter Sunday bombing, \nexploding instead, their own <religious> bomb, against the Sinhala\nBuddhists? The Cardinal says the report is incomplete. The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS)\nleader Ven. Gnanasara says he will write a book to demonstrate how PBC report\nis a copy, almost verbatim,  of the\nevidence given by him. Sarath Fonseka, who should have been the minister\nhandling security in the yahapalana cabal, says his  separate report attached to the parliamentary\nselect committee report on the Pasku massacre, which was a cover-up to white\nwash the suspected Muslim ministers in the government from blame, had already\ndone the job that the PBC report has reinvented! Someone said that the\nparliamentary sectoral oversight committee on national security, chaired by\nMalith Jayathilake, with JVP, TNA (Sumanthiran) and two Muslim members on it,\nrecommended remedial actions which PBC has replicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PBC and BBS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I plan to write\na separate essay on why PBC lawyers < hooked>  BBS to its report in such damaging tone,\ngoing to the extreme of recommending punitive action against the BBS monk. PBC\nlawyers thus gave the local and foreign anti-Buddhist lobby enough fodder to\nblame the Sri Lankan Buddhists as culprits of the Easter Sunday attack,\ndiverting attention away from Islam-ISIS-Wahabi-Arabic connections behind it.\nOne reason for this grave mistake, intentionally or unknowingly committed, is\nthat PBC lawyers’ lack knowledge about Buddhism and about the Koran and\ndifferent interpretations given to numerous sentences printed in it, with regard\nto promoting and propagating Islam. Therefore, there is a real danger in\nentrusting lawyers who have nothing but court experience, within an adversarial\nsystem of litigation, who do not know the history or geography of the country,\nto write reports affecting the destiny of Sinhale, which has 2,600 years of\ncontinuous recorded  heritage.  Logical or legal does not always mean just\nand fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Committee to\ndraft a new constitution (2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This PBC\ndebacle makes me worry about what is in store for the country with regard to\nthe death-trap called the 13th<\/sup> Amendment. According to Ven. Elle\nGunawansa, a constitution is a collection of individual letters (akuru godak<\/em>)!\nOne can write the holiest constitution in the world, but in the hands of unholy\nmen (in Buddhism panchaskandas<\/em> inflicted with Loba-Dvesa-Moha)<\/em>,\nit becomes like a bundle of papers used by fish vendors to wrap fish.\nConsidering how the black-white political establishment abused laws, law-making\nprocess, executing and adjudicating it, I am not interested in knowing what\ncomes out as another draft constitutional document, unless it proposes an\noverhaul of the entire Euro-centric \ngovernance system, operated by black-white politician class since 1948.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rule of\nlaw, freedom of speech, democracy, separation of powers, an independent\njudiciary and an impartial public service are all romantic fairy tales in books\nnot just in ex-colonies but in most capitalist representative democracies in\nthe world. In this context, the life and death issue for the Sinhala nation is\nhow the Romesh Committee is going handle the 13-A hot political potato. This is\nnot a complex issue anyway, if one takes a historical-geographical approach\n(history is past geography). There are two population divisions in the country.  Those who support 13-A and those who oppose\nit. The supporters can be identified as black-whites. The black-white\nphenomenon started from 1551, when the Sinhale got its first and last Catholic\nking. Those who oppose  it in 1987 and\nnow in 2021 are Sinhala Buddhists. If there is even a remote possibility for a\nTamil country with a UN seat and a Tamil flag, one cannot expect  the existence of  Tamil saints, even if they have Sinhala married\npartners, to oppose 13-A. Few people know that Lakshman Kadiragamar and Jeyaraj\nFernandopulle supported the federal idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nChristian-Buddhist conflict began with the building of a church on the premises\nthe Kotte Raja Maha Vihara, sponsored by the Catholic king. Since then the\nSinhala Christians always stood with the foreigner on many conflicts that took\nplace between the white rulers and the temple (the Sinhala Buddhists). Now in\nMarch 2021 there is a conflict between USA, India and some ex-colonial masters\ndetermined to balkanize the country on one hand and the temple (the Sinhala\nBuddhists) on the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Balkanization\nof Sinhale<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Romesh de\nSilva committee is a team of lawyers, except one, who is a geographer with\nrepute. There is one lawyer known for his patriotic stand to protect the\ncountry from disintegrating. The other seven members are lawyers, and their\nviews on social, political issues  are\nunknown by the people for whom they are preparing a constitutional draft. Who\nreally selected them for this task, why there are no others with other academic\nqualifications, instead of the same old method why not at least one erudite\nmonk on the committee, are some questions asked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Were they\npolitical robots or have they expressed their views on socio-economic problems\nor on any other burning issue in Sri Lanka by way of research essays or\nnewspaper articles? How many of them had exposure to history, geography, global\ngeopolitics and  civics and especially\nthe black-white politics in the country. For example, if PBC knew that after\nthe pasku bombing, even Hisbulla and Asath Sally, among other Muslim leaders,\npublicly requested president Sirisena to release Ven. Gnanasara from prison,\nits report would not have treated the monk so cruelly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MCC Trojan\nhorse and the Geneva route<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tissa Vitharana\nAPRC majority report in the past  had as\nsignatories  a Christians husband-wife\nteam, and nobody knows who selected them for that onerous task, on what\ngrounds. My dilemma is whether the  seven\nlawyers on the Romesh Committee are in a position to see the trees as well as\nthe forest. For example, could they see that the entire UNHRC drama against Sri\nLanka is nothing but a determined effort to get the 13th<\/sup> Amendment\nimplemented in full. This is what Dayan Jayatilleka, the foreign affairs\nconsultant to Sajith Premadasa, tells the world, as quoted above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Dayan hides\nmany more as the father of 13-A plus project in Sri Lanka since the days that\nhe had to escape to India with Vartharaja Perumal, the IPKF puppet. USA and UK\nare not interested in human rights or war crimes. They want to use UNHRC to get\nwhat they lost by way of an MCC trick\/bait. If 13-A plus is snatched  by hook or by crook, then US and India could\nuse Trinco severally or jointly to try to control China, with a future Colombo\ngovernment struck in the mud. Trinco is not just a large natural harbor, it has\nunder sea troughs (geologic faults) so deep that nuclear submarines can hide in\nthem safe from enemy detection. Thinking of air warfare and land military\nbases, Sri Lanka is the location with the lowest gravity on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romesh\nCommittee (RC) and Geography<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History is past\ngeography of a country. We need to know history to understand the present and\nplan for the future. Learning from history means the ability to take a holistic\napproach, not tunnel vision. In the past I have written so many essays against\nthe 13-A path which was rejected by Prabhakaran, SLFP and the Sinhala\nBuddhists. It had the backing of Christians, Marxists, Tamil politicians and\nsome Sinhala black-white politicians. In this essay, with my limited understanding  of the topic, I am taking a short\ngeographical analysis especially for the benefit of the 8 lawyers of the RC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Point of no\nreturn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The section of\nthe population supporting 13-A has had different aims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are three\ncategories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

*(1) Of course\nJRJ had to swallow it because of his unwise behavior as a senile old politician\n(fox). He put all his eggs in the American basket and got severely burnt. As a\ndictator-president he ruined everything he touched, whether it was a new\nJayawardena parliament city in a marshy land \nor a Victoria dam on top of a limestone bedrock. With his un-Buddhist\napproach to the Tamil separatist issue started in 1923\/4, he got cornered with\nno escape other than a total surrender to Dixit and Rajiv. It was the\nGovernment of India Act of 1935 copied as 13-A. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nilakantha\nSasthri, the Tamil historian once wrote that, the King Vijayabahu-I, saved\nSinhale from becoming part of Tamilnad. Similarly, JRJ saved N-E and Malayanadu\nbecoming an Indian colony, by surrendering to Dixit, because otherwise the\nIndian army with the blessings of USA would have occupied N-E, opening the door\nfor a future Eelam. By kneeling down, he could ‘fool’ the Indian strategists,\nand plant a few loopholes to negate the disastrous impact of 13-A to balkanize\nthe island. Unfortunately, presidents after him messed up and mismanaged it,\neven after a miraculous victory on May 18\/19, 2009. Instead of Prabhakaran’s\ntiger tail for 30 years, Sinhala Buddhists are now holding\nSumanthiran-Vigneswaran-Ponnambalam tails under the pressure from Indian,\nAmerican and  white politicians\nmanipulating UN agencies against them. Under these circumstances, whether a\nGotabhaya presidency could deliver its one country-one law promise depends on\nwhat RC does with regard to 13-A. We know what the Orumitthanadu draft\nproposed, copying what Mrs. Chandrika’s 2000 draft or Tissa Vitharana’s APRC\nmajority thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*(2) Apart from\nJRJ and his blind followers\/prisoners, there exists a category who believe that\nby giving TNA what it asks, peace and honey will flow all over the country.\nPerhaps this was what SWRD thought when he signed the B-C pact with\nChelvanayagam (1957) or later the Dudley-C pact (1965). Giving complete land\npowers to a set of politicians who wanted a Kosovo plan in 1949 or joined with\nthe Dravidasthan plan in Madras that began in 1917, was nothing but pure and\nsimple insanity. However, due to lack of all the information, the country has\nold and young generations (with no history or geography learning in schools)\nwho think like Siri Sangabos and Vessantaras. They are like the proverbial\ncrab  in the slowly warming water pot on\nfire. So many SLPP and SLFP members fall into this category, Vasudeva and Tissa\nVitharana included. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this\ncategory there are people who found 13-A as a gold mine to become rich and\npowerful, a lower tier of the Evil triangle (politician-officer-NGO) destroying\nthe island, a classic example of the tragedy of the commons (rob anything for\nprivate enrichment). National level somebodies use this local nobodies for\nselfish political power games. For these PC monkeys democracy is only a razor\nblade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*(3) But the\nlikes of Wickramabahu and Nirmal Ranjith Devasiri are different. They want\nTamils to have their own country. Sumanthiran and Sambandhan takes a more\ncareful, reasonable-looking approach. They want a united, not a unitary state.\nThey want power devolved in such a way that once given it cannot be taken back!\nUnder the 13-A Sri Lanka is already a federal state. On this matter, the\nsupreme court first said no and later said yes! UNP, JVP, Peratugamis, SJB of\nSajith are all in this game, knowing very well that an Eelam path is beginning\nof the end of the Sinhala Buddhist heritage in the island. Dayan Jayatillake\nleads this dishonest  pack of Rosy\nSenanayake, Jehan Perera, Pakiyasoothy, Kumar David,  Mrs. Chandrika etc., who know clearly that\nbalkanization is inevitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\nVigneswaran was given an opportunity, after Vartharaja Perumal, to run NP what\ndid he do? He passed genocide resolutions and opposed Buddha statutes as well\nas coconut toddy coming to Jaffna, while the non-vellala people continue to\nlive in abject poverty as shown by Arul Siddharthan, a Tamil Che Guerra on the\nrise, with his many videos. Even in the Diyawanna hotel, Ponnamabalam and Vigneswaran\ntalk about Tamil genocide, forgetting that TNA got Tamils to vote en masse for\nSarath Fonseka in 2010, who led the <genocidal> army to finish\nPrabakaran’s war in less than 3 years. With rapidly losing grip on innocent\nTamils in Jaffna, TNA is more delusional now than ever before.  Otherwise how could they send a letter to the\nExpert Committee (RC) with the following contradictory sentence printed in the\nisland newspaper on March 21, 2021: As already\nintimated to you orally and in writing, we are willing to evolve a settlement\nwithin the framework of a united, undivided and indivisible country: yet based\non the principle of internal self-determination resulting in maximum possible\ndevolution.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To: Expert committee to draft a new constitution (RC)C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. What we are doing now is dodging the issue of 13A, and criticising the 13A, which is very clearly part of their bottom-line. Instead, we are offering them strategic parts of our infrastructure like the East Container Terminal or the West Container Terminal, […]<\/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-112880","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\/112880","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=112880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}