{"id":117820,"date":"2021-09-04T17:01:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T00:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117820"},"modified":"2021-09-04T17:03:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T00:03:34","slug":"open-letter-to-tna-mp-m-a-sumanithiran-parliament-of-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/04\/open-letter-to-tna-mp-m-a-sumanithiran-parliament-of-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"OPEN LETTER to  TNA  MP M.A. Sumanithiran Parliament of Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) Ottawa, Canada<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>(<a href=\"mailto:sumanithiran_m@parliament.lk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sumanithiran_m@parliament.lk<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear M.A. Sumanithiran:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is this that I read in a <strong><em>The Island Online <\/em><\/strong>&#8211;\nnews copy of 27 August 2021, that&nbsp; <strong><em>\u201dSumanithiran wants US as\nmediator here\u201d&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/em><\/strong>Sweet Mother of Jesus, Oh Great!&nbsp; Are\nyou Nuts or what, Sumanithiran?\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shucks&#8230;I noticed that the photographer that took your portrait which appeared with that news item had made you take off your \u2018Dunce cap\u2019.\u00a0 Pity!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Suman, <\/strong>you are not talking of the same US that failed as a mediator\u201d\nwith guns and bullets in Vietnam, gave up and pulled out as a\nmediator.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you talking of the same US&nbsp; that failed as a Mediator\nwith guns and bullets in Afghanistan and just pulled out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shish, <strong>Suman<\/strong>, are you Nuts or What?&nbsp; You are not\ntalking of the same US whose Madeleine Albright, the United States Secretary of\nState,&nbsp; was forthright when she admitted killing 600,000 children was <strong>worth\nit\u201d<\/strong> in Iraq when the US went to war on a lie. Come on&nbsp; <strong>Suman<\/strong>. &nbsp;\nDid you take a good shot of a potent Jaffna-Toddy with your Dosai breakfast\nrather than a good cup of Orange Pekoe Tea when you made that statement?&nbsp;\nYou were a bit tipsy, weren\u2019t you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You said <strong><em>The government should present a solution to issues\nfaced by the Tamil people in the North and East.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; Tell me, <strong>Suman<\/strong>,\nwhat issues\u201d are you talking about?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought you all erased all the Tamil issues once and for all\nwhen you ethnically cleansed the North and East between 1971 and1981 when you\nall terrorized and kicked out 27,000 Sinhalese people who had lived there for\ngenerations.&nbsp; Right, <strong>Suman! <\/strong>Did you forget to tell the US\nAmbassador Alaina B Teplitz that you Tamils managed to&nbsp; happily wipe out\nall Sinhalese businesses in the North and East with that ethnic cleansing. We\nin the North and East do not have <strong><em>Kamala Kopi Kades, Perera Bread\nBoutiques<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Silva Spice Mills,<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>Araliya Vetti\nEmporium<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>&nbsp;Asoka Rice and Curry Huts, etc. any more\u201d&nbsp; <\/em><\/strong>Did\nyou?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And\u00a0 did\u00a0 you gloat the existence of the\u00a0 unhampered Tamil &#8211;<strong>lingam\u201d<\/strong> businesses in\u00a0 Colombo\u2019s capital region like &#8211; Jothi<strong>lingam<\/strong> Jewellers, Sunthara<strong>lingam <\/strong>Hardware Stores, Ganesha<strong>lingam<\/strong> Sari Emporium, Paskaralingam Insurance,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sothilingam Thosai Boutique, Maha<strong>lingam<\/strong> Spices, et cetera.\nAll these Tamil businesses being patronized by the majority Sinhalese\npeoples.&nbsp; Did you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought you all erased all the <strong>Tamil issues<\/strong> once and for\nall when you all ethnically cleansed the Jaffna University campus of 400\nSinhalese lecturers and undergraduates&nbsp; when they were stoned and chased\nSouth in a convoy of police and army escorted buses on 13th August 1977. &nbsp;\nAll this was while your Tamil undergraduates were languishing well in the\nportals of Southern University campuses, attending lectures in lecture theatres\nwith their Sinhalese, Muslim and Burgher buddies.&nbsp; Right <strong>Suman<\/strong>?&nbsp;\nDon\u2019t you feel lucky, <strong>Suman<\/strong>, that your people&nbsp; got the cake and ate\nall of it too without sharing it. Rotten buggers, you Tamils!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I live in Ottawa, and if you ever visit Ottawa, I\u2019d love to break\nbread with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought you all erased all the <strong>Tamil issues <\/strong>when you\nTamils evicted 90,000 Muslims in October 1990, giving them 48 hours to leave,\nmaking Idi Amin look like an angel when he gave Ugandan-Indians three months to\nget out of Uganda. <strong>Suman<\/strong>, did you not tell the US Ambassador how your\nTamils bull-horned all the Muslims in the Districts of Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu,\nMannar, Vavuniya and Jaffna to leave the North and East of Sri Lanka in 48\nhours.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you not tell the US Ambassador how you Tamil buggers assembled all Muslims from Puthukudiruppu, Dharapuram, Uppukulam and Erukkalampiddy on the beaches without food, water or sanitation facilities and forced them to begin their outward journey.\u00a0 Did you not tell her, and with that you got<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>rid of all your Tamil issues.\u00a0 What\u00a0 <strong><em>Tamil issues<\/em><\/strong> are you talking about, <strong>Suman<\/strong>? Tell me, this Sinhalese Buddhist wants to know.\u00a0 And let the US Ambassador be Judge and Jury to figure out whether You, M.A. Sumanithiran, is a member of the Tamil\u00a0 \u2018ethnic cleansing\u2019 Gang who think they are <em>paragons-of-virtue, lilly white and smelling Gingelly-oil misted red roses.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What <strong><em>Tamil issues<\/em><\/strong> are you talking of <strong><em>Suman?<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;\nDid you not tell the US Ambassador, how lucky you Tamils were that the Hindu\nGods and Goddess <strong><em>Vishnu, Ganesh, Hanuman, Lakshmi, Durga, Sarasvath<\/em><\/strong>i\nand others answered your prayers and poojas while sitting on Tamil Tiger\ngun-powder-kegs prior to July 24, 1983, wanting&nbsp; riots to happen.&nbsp;\nHow the Western nations opened their flood gates, for your Tamil people to fly\nout of Sri Lanka\u2019s&nbsp; cuckoo-nests, in&nbsp; black clouds of wings and\nfeathers thumbing their noses at their Mother India where 75 million of your\npeople live. &nbsp; That&nbsp; you were lucky Tamils that 85% of theTamils who\nlanded on Canadian soil seeking&nbsp; Convention refugee status, didn&#8217;t have\na&nbsp; Snowball chance in Hell if they had tried to immigrate to Canada\nlegitimately on the Immgration Point System.&nbsp; Did you share this Fact with\nthe US Ambassador?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really doubt that you did.&nbsp; Let her know <strong>Suman.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So thousands of your Tamils landed on the soils of Canada where I\nlive, crying and belly-aching,&nbsp; claiming&nbsp; that you all have been\ndiscriminated against and persecuted\u201d by the majority Sinhalese in Sri Lanka..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Suman<\/strong>, did you forget to tell the US Ambassador that you Tamils were\nthe <em>King-pins<\/em> and&nbsp; 24-carat Gold l necklace laden <em>Queen Bees <\/em>,\nwho enjoyed the<strong><em> Privileged minority\u201d&nbsp; status <\/em><\/strong>of 10% of the\npopulation during the 450-years of colonial rule, and reducing the 74 percent\nmajority Sinhalese as the <strong><em>wronged majority.<\/em><\/strong>\u2019 Come on <strong><em>Suman&#8230;<\/em><\/strong>did\nyou really forget? Come..on..<strong><em>Suman<\/em><\/strong> give this Buddhist-Sinhalese a\nbreak!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whoa&#8230;whoa&#8230;whoa&#8230;..<strong>Suman<\/strong>,\u00a0 all that was a damn lie, wasn\u2019t it?\u00a0 When your Tamils were flying out in search of greener pastures and roads paved with gold in the West, Sri Lanka\u2019s Attorney General; the Inspector General of Police, and 6 out of 10 Deputy Inspector Generals of Police were Tamils like you; and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and several Justices were Tamils and so were the High Commissioners and Ambassadors in the UK, Brussels\u00a0 France and China were Tamils.\u00a0 Hmmmm.\u00a0 Discriminated you call this.\u00a0 Ha!&#8230;my foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You know what Suman, if my Mother was alive, she would have taken\nthe Tamil-podiyan\u201d by your ear to the nearest sink and got you to wash your\nmouth with carbolic soap to cleanse your mouth for lying<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Suman,<\/strong>&nbsp; you told US Ambassador Alaina B.Teplitz that <strong><em>&#8230;&#8230;Provincial&nbsp;\nCouncil system was not enough to resolve the issues faced by the Tamils in the\nNorth and East and that both provinces should be merged and administered by the\nTamil people.\u201d&nbsp; <\/em><\/strong>You must be joking&nbsp; <strong>Su-MAN!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madam Teplitz, don&#8217;t listen to this guy who has not told you as\nyet, the difficulties the North and East Provinces might have and will have\nbecause of&nbsp; their <strong>superior caste <\/strong>peoples in the North and the <strong>inferior\ncaste<\/strong> peoples in the Eastern Province.&nbsp; No Tamil politician has\nbrought this&nbsp; Fact to the open and explained about the <strong>caste systems <\/strong>that\nrule the psyche of their existence , and what would possibly happen&nbsp; after\nmerging the two communities, when the <strong>\u2018upper caste Tamil\u2019<\/strong>&nbsp;\n(Vellalar) in the North&nbsp; is bound to look down upon the Eastern <strong>\u2018lower\ncaste Tamils\u2019 <\/strong>(Karaiyar).&nbsp; That is the rub Madam.&nbsp; The caste\nsystem still has strong social and religious ties among these Northern and\nEastern Sri Lankan Tamils\u2026.<strong><em>Haro..Hara!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madam Taplitz, for God\u2019s&nbsp; sake don\u2019t be the Architect\nof&nbsp; <strong><em>partition and divisive Tamil politics<\/em><\/strong> as you saw what\nhappened in India in 1947.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ask Karuna Amman, the former Tamil Tiger Commander of the Eastern Province\u00a0 why he broke away from\u00a0 the Tamil Tiger Prabhakaran\u2019s terrorist gang and Army.\u00a0 Ask him.\u00a0 He will reveal to you what Sumanthiran has kept the secrets Tamil Socio-politics and their elementary facts of\u00a0 possible bloody machete collisions between the Tamils of the North and\u00a0 the Tamils in the East..\u00a0 It will be ughly as Sin.\u00a0 It won&#8217;t\u00a0 be nice .Mark my word Madam Taplitz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Suman<\/strong>, when I was invited to give a brief on Tamil&nbsp; Eelam\nterrorism to the Sub-Commitee of the&nbsp; Canadian-Parliament on Public\nSecurity.&nbsp; MP Jim Abbott a committee member asked me &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Mr. Weerasinghe, it does seem that Tamil Tiger terrorists wanting<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>their separate State&nbsp; Eelam is a complex issue that we\nCanadians don\u2019t understand.&nbsp; Am I right with this assumption?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You know Mr. Abbot, you are absolutely right with this\nassumption.&nbsp; This<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tamil Terrorist war has been going on for almost 20 years.&nbsp; You\nnor I nor your Parliamentary colleagues have heard or discussed the Caste\nSystem politics that is part and parcel of this Separatist War.&nbsp; Caste\nSystem in Sri Lanka is a <\/strong>pseudo-slavery system. &nbsp; The bottom line\nis, no low caste Tamil from the Eastern&nbsp; Province is going to take orders\nfrom the Upper Caste Tamils from the Northern Province,\u2019Merger. That is the\nreality. No Tamilman from the East will stand up in attention and throw his\nhand-towel over his left shoulder in respect to an Upper-caste Tamil from the\nNorth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madam, the US does not need another Vietnam in your hands.&nbsp;\nThis war will not be fought with bamboo sticks,&nbsp; catapults and\nstones&nbsp; It will be fought with an armoury of sophisticated war\nweapons.&nbsp; You bet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Madam Teplitz, don\u2019t listen to Sumanithiran.&nbsp; This\npolitician is full of&nbsp; Baloney&#8230;full of barrels of\u2019 Stinky Jardi.\u201d &nbsp;\nWhen and if the North and East Provinces merger happens, <strong>the&nbsp; single\nmulti-caste ethnic cookie will crumble much sooner than later. <\/strong>&nbsp;As we\nwill not be dealing with two different \u2018Caste\u2019 communities of lilly-white\nangels.&nbsp; Period.&nbsp; Right Sumanthiran?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Suman,<\/strong> in your address to the media in Jaffna you said, <strong><em>&#8230;Michelle\nBachelet remained at the helm of the United Nations High Commission for Human\nRights, and that was a great advantage to gain support for the proposals made\nby theTNA on issues faced by Tamils, MP Sumanithiran said.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Suman, <\/strong>you figured that one right, as the Mother Goose who is looking\nafter selfishly her Golden Eggs,in the UNHRC, , which was identified as the <strong><em>cesspool\nof political bias.  by US\u2019s Nikki Hailey,: <\/em><\/strong>TNA might have a remote\nchance in getting what she is wishing for &#8211; the mythical Eelam, if and only if,\nUNHRC proves that it is an honest and a truthful Organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But here is what bothers me with your wish <strong>Suman and the\nUNHRC&nbsp; High Commissioner who is guarding her Golden eggs selfishly. &nbsp;\nOne golden egg has been tarnished badly recently, to the point that it\nsmells&nbsp; pukey-rotten,, a really bad egg., and the UNHRC still wants to\ntell Sri Lanka, that the members of the core group are squeaky clean and are <em>Holier\nthan THou.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Suman, that\u2019s a crock full of codswallop, poppycock,\u00a0 a bunch of boloney,<\/strong> <strong>Balderdash, a hokey pokey nonsense, piffle, tosh, tommy rot, hogwash,\u00a0and out of step in the thunai-lakadi-thantha-lakadi\u00a0 Kavadi dance,<\/strong> Among the Core Group of world states that brought the resolution 46\/1, adopted on March 23, 2021\u00a0 against Sri Lanka were <strong><em>UK, Canada , Germany, Malawi, Montenegro and North Macedonia.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did I say <strong>Canada,<\/strong> who has been shown&nbsp; lately as&nbsp;\na <strong>Maestro of Genocides<\/strong>.&nbsp; A Saskatchewan First Nation says that it\nhas made the horrific and shocking discovery\u201d of hundreds of unmarked graves &#8211;\nmany believed to be children -near a former residential school. With a total expected to be over\nthree times higher than the 215 discovered recently in Kamloops, B.C, according\nto a source briefed on this file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, Sumanithiran, do you honestly believe that the Core Group\nwith this member, Canada, has a moral right, the gall and temerity to question\nSri Lanka\u2019s morality, after all they won a 30-year Tamil Tiger Terrorist War,\nwhich was well aided and abetted and greased by foreign countries like India,\nUK, Canada and a lot more.&nbsp; I let your moral compass come out with your\nanswer.&nbsp; When it happens, I\u2019d love to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me repeat what US\u2019s Nikki Haley had to say about this\nUNHRC.&nbsp; That it is a <strong>cesspool of political bias.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sumanithiran, I say <strong>Amen<\/strong>\u201d to that notion.&nbsp; <strong><em>Haro..Hara\u2026.&nbsp;\nHare Krishna&#8230;Hare&#8230;Hare Rama.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ottawa, Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) Ottawa, Canada (sumanithiran_m@parliament.lk) Dear M.A. Sumanithiran: What is this that I read in a The Island Online &#8211; news copy of 27 August 2021, that&nbsp; \u201dSumanithiran wants US as mediator here\u201d&nbsp; &nbsp; Sweet Mother of Jesus, Oh Great!&nbsp; Are you Nuts or what, Sumanithiran?\u201d. Shucks&#8230;I noticed that the photographer that took your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asoka-weerasinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117820","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=117820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}