{"id":121980,"date":"2022-01-09T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T01:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121980"},"modified":"2022-01-09T18:08:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T01:08:40","slug":"response-to-anura-kunaras-anti-sinhala-rhetoric-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/09\/response-to-anura-kunaras-anti-sinhala-rhetoric-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Anura Kumara’s Anti-Sinhala Rhetoric \u2013 Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

By : A.A.M.NIZAM \u2013 MATARA.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

 Q <\/strong>  If we study the\ndemocratic political history of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna we don\u2019t see a\nmajor change in the voter turnout for your party. The only time your party was\nsuccessful was in 2004 with the Chandrika Bandaranaike government. There you\nproved that your party could work without corruption. Don\u2019t you think that it\nis better for you to form an alliance with other parties. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A:We don\u2019t believe we could find solution\nto the existing issues by forming a government with any of these major parties.\nIf you consider constitutionally and traditionally you think that the power is\nvested with the President, Cabinet, Parliament and the judiciary. But they\ndon\u2019t have the power. What this Executive Presidential system created is that\nthe power is outside the real power. Under Chandrika Bandaranaike it was she,\nMano Tittawella, Tara de Mel and Balapatabendi and under Mahinda\u2019s regime it\nwas Mahinda, Lalith Weeratunga, Basil Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Then\ncame Ranil Wickremesinghe\u2019s regime and even President Maithripala was not\nthere. Ranil, Malik, Paskaralingam and Charitha Ratwatte. And during the\npresent regime it is Gotabaya, Basil and the others. So, there is no power in\nthe traditional system. These ministers even don\u2019t know what is happening\nwithin the cabinet. The ministers themselves say that cabinet papers have been\npassed without signing them. We hear the cry of ministers. So, we don\u2019t want to\nbe a part of this government. We need to start a new political culture for this\ncountry and we need to start a new journey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(These hooligans were subordinates\nof all the above referenced governments except the present government.  He is ridiculing the Ministers of these\ngovernment but he had been such a silly Minister in the Chandrika government\nblindly consenting to all her illogical and illegal activities)  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q <\/strong>  We saw some MPs have\nopenely praised your political party and your political journey. Do you think\nthere will be other politicians in these two main camps joining you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A:We are open about our political journey\nand our activities. Our journey is open to anyone who is ready to join. At the\nmoment our main target is to strengthen the Jathika Janabalawegaya. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(That means he has shrugged off\neven his party of birth JVP and now wants to strengthen the outfit called\nJathika Jana Balawegaya, the policies of which no one knows)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Q <\/strong>  We saw that one\nof the main reasons for you to leave the Chandrika Bandarnaike\u2019s government was\nyour stance on the ethnic problem. Thereafter you openly supported the war\nagainst the LTTE and defeating it militarily. But the ethnic problem has not\nbeen solved. What is your solution to the ethnic issue in Sri Lanka.?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: We believe that all citizens with\nthe religion they believe in, language they speak and the culture they\nrepresent should be treated equally. There are no second citizens. And if they\nbelieve that they want to be a part of this government they should be equal\nstakeholders of the governance. We believe that both Tamils and Muslims have\nbeen deceived promising them many things. We really believe that they are equal\nand we believe that there should be freedom for every religion and respect\nevery culture and guaranteeing the ability to communicate with your own\nlanguage in administration and accept them equally and they should be able to\ngo forward in the development of their respective areas and  be\nstakeholders of power. We believe that they should not be deceived. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Sheer humbug.  It was Somawansa\/Weerawansa JVP that\nsupported the efforts to rid the country from LTTE atrocities.  This braggart and his clan following the\nrevisionist path of Bopage has become intensively Tamil servile, which was\nclearly evident through the banners, and speeches of their 2018 joint May Day\nrally held in Jaffna.  Don\u2019t con about\nyour support for Muslims and Christians. \nWhen you were shamelessly whitewashing Sirisena\/Ranil destructive\ngovernment (SRDG), and when riots against Muslims were unleashed evidently by a\npowerful Minister of that government, the ultra-racist, pseudo-Buddhist,\nchauvinist Champika Ranawaka in places like Gintota, Amparas, Digana,\nKatugastota, Akurana etc, you and your coterie remained in stoic silence for reasons\nyou only knows,  It was alleged that the\noutfit called Mahason Balawegaya which was active in Digana was created and\nsustained by racist Ranawaka.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As regards  the Easter Sunday Carnage you never condemned\nthat horrendous incident though more than 250 innocent Christians were killed,\nand several hundred were injured.  It may\nbecause two of the suicide bombers were sons of your National List nominee, the\nbusiness tycoon and your financier Ibrahim Mohamed)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Q <\/strong>  When you say\nsharing power are you talking about a power sharing through a federal system?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: We don\u2019t believe in a federal system,\nbut we should guarantee their equal political rights and rights to hold power.\nWithout that we cannot solve this problem through a federal system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(If that is so, why you did not\noppose moves of Ranil\/Sumanthiran\/Jayampathy trio to adopt a new federal and\nsecular constitution?  Was it because\nthat you considered anything and everything done by Ranil as perfect and\nflawless?)<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We proposed a common mechanism. But the rulers\ndidn\u2019t do that because within a common mechanism they would not have been able\nto rob from the antigen tests, bringing down Sri Lankans from abroad, or even\nbuying necessary medicine and medical equipment. So there is no use in talking\nabout a common mechanism with these leaders”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 (This was an indirect criticism\nof the Corona Control Programme.  It\nseems that you and all your coterie has taken proper precaution and protection\nagainst the pandemic and that was why you none of your coterie got affected by\nthe pandemic when members of all other political parties got infected and some\neven died. )<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Q <\/strong>  What about the\nProvincial Council system?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Provincial Council system is now in the\nConstitutional system. PC system is a failed system of administration and it is\na failure in the national crisis also. But if those people believe that it is\ntheir right, hence the PC system has to exist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shame! Now shamelessly state that\nthe PC system has to exist.  It was your\noriginal party JVP that was highly critical about PC system, boycotted the\nfirst PC elections, killed candidates of other parties who submitted\nnominations for the first PC election, organized anti-PC demonstrations\nthroughout the country, and even mustered students to boycott their class and\nparticipate in demonstrations to shout the slogan Palaath Saba Apita Epa\u201d\nwhich many students unknowing the meaning of the slogan shouted as Palaa Baba\nApita Epa\u201d.  More than all these things\nyour party killed the popular politician Vijaya Kumaratunga because he was an\nardent supporter of PCs)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Q <\/strong>  Regarding the\nwar there are allegations that a large number of human lives were lost. As a\nresult every year the country is facing a challenge from UN Human Rights\nCouncil in Geneva. Do you think the decision the JVP took to support the war\nwas right? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A:During the war we should have thought\nmore seriously about the difficulties faced by the ordinary Tamil civilians. As\na Left-wing political movement, we failed in our responsibilities. We have a\nself-analysis on that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Here, he clearly exposes his Tamil\nservile policies.  Why he is only\nconcerned about Tamil victims alleged to have been killed by the security\nforces when his much adored LTTE too killed Tamils.  It is said that the Tamils killed by the LTTE\nwas more than the Tamils happened to get killed by the security forces.  Why he and his hooligans are least concerned\nabout the destitute family members Sinhalese and Muslims inhumanly killed by\nthe LTTE barbarians at Habarana, Kattankudy, Polonnaruwa,\nAranthalawa,Anuradhapura and other numerous places and family members of 600\nPolice officers who surrendered to them on the instructions stupid President\nR.Premadasa?)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Q <\/strong>  Do you think\nthat you should make a public aplogy for what happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A:We are an active political movement.\nDuring a war the military and the government are working as one unit. In a war\nordinary civilians get caught in the crossfires and there are loss of lives. As\na left-wing orgnisation we should have thought about this more seriously and we\nshould have been more cautious. We admit that our failure to concentrate on\nthese issues were shortcomings on our part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Again, yanne koheda, Malle pol\nresponse.  Even thousand apologies will\nnot erase the atrocities caused by them to the educated youth, other people and\nthe state properties of this country)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Q <\/strong>  Will set aside\nthe two major parties. But if the political parties representing the minorities\nwant to join with you then what is your view?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A:We are open. We believe that we should\nbe united not only with the Sinhala leaders, but Tamils and Muslims too. We\nneed a power comprising all leaders. We want to build a power that we share\nequally with the Tamils and the Muslims. It is not only the traditional\nleaders, but there could be new leaders from these communities. It is not a\npower that forces them from above. So, we are openly inviting the Tamils and\nthe Muslims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nWe don\u2019t believe in a Sinhala only power and administration. Our admiration\nwill be a one that represents all communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(It seems that you envisage that\nthrough an anti-Sinhala rhetoric you can attract other communities to your\nfold.  That will never happen.  Everyone knows who you are and what you are\nfor.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Q <\/strong>  Anyway there is\na belief among the people that the JVP is a Sinhala Buddhist organization? Or\nis this the impression that some of your former leaders who left you portrayed?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A:We cannot take responsibility of those\nwho left us. But there could be a justifiable suspicion about our orgnaization,\nbut we stood on the side of the truth when attacks on Muslim minorities took\nplace in Aluthgama, Digana and other places and even during the Easter Sunday\nattacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Don\u2019t keep on thinking that y ou\ncan change your colours from time to time like a chameleon and with your\ndouble-tomhued talks you can fool the people. \nNo need to elaborate further as a detailed response has been given in\nresponse to an earlier Q&A in this same article)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We stood by justice. We know many leaders\nstood based on their votes, but we were not worried about votes. We would stand\nby any ethnic community which is being suppressed. 
\nWe don\u2019t get involved in racist politics, but we hold the flag of ethnic\nharmony. We are a party against racial disharmony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Even after cause massive\ndestructions to the country you and your hooligans claimed that you stood by\njustice.  Even after carrying out foreign\nand NGO servile activities to oust Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa due to your Mahinda\nphobiua you said you stood by justice, and then after carrying all shameless dhobi\nwork for SRDG you said you stood by justice and you still proudly commemorate\nApril 5th<\/sup> November 112th<\/sup> as Great Heroes Days without\ndenouncing the colossal harm caused to this country by those events.  This is how you claim to stand by justice)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Q <\/strong>  If you take the\nnumbers it is the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) that has the third most seats\nin the parliament. Are you ready to work with a political alliance like that? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 A:Our doors are open. We are ready\nto work with the political parties that represent the North and East of Sri\nLanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t have unrealistic day\ndreams.  No party in this country will\ncome forward to affiliate with you or enter into an alliance with you,\nincluding the parties in the North with separatist and self-rule agendas.  Everyone knows that this is the last time you\nwill be in the parliament and by next election there will be no JVP\/JJB OR\nNPP.  You have also realized this fact\nand that was why you are in a haste and you advocated at the beginning of this\narticle the need to change the government through street demonstrations without\nwaiting for the next election)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, after shamelessly making\nanti-Sinhala rhetoric this braggart has told the Meera Srinivasan, the Colombo\ncorrespondent of the Indian daily the Hindu that <\/p>\n\n\n\n

JVP and must fight together and UPDATED: NOVEMBER\n22, 2018 09:44 IST<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

apart from working with the TNA on\nkey manoeuvres in the parliament they have potential for long-term\ncollaboration. He has said that both parties have a duty to fight together and\nprotect their rights.  Dissanayake has\nsaid that the he is proposing a novel partnership between the two parties\nrepresenting the country\u2019s two main ethnic groups.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has further stated that the JVP\nand the TNA represent sections in the country\u2019s south and north that have\nsuffered most due to the actions of the repressive State. Commenting further,\nher has disclosed that as a political party, the JVP has undergone major\nideological shifts in the five decades since its founding and two groups had\nbroken away and formed away new parties. Since 2014, under his leadership the\nJVP is giving renewed vigour, visibility and expression.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commenting on the 2015 presidential\nelections, he has said that the JVP was at the forefront of opposition to Mr.\nRajapaksa and has described Mr. Mashinda Rajapaksa as a racist, and has\nexplained that the JVP, with its six MPs and along with the TNA that has 14 MPs\nnow, proved a formidable force in the 225-member Parliament. He has further\nstated that people in the north and east have been suffering the most since the\nend of the war, and both parties need a united struggle by the people of the\nsouth and north on the basis of democracy and equality and has added that they\nare working for social transformation in this country and the Northern Province\nmust also be part of that transformation as they have a common cause and they\nare committed to working together.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking about economic matters,\nDissanayake has said the neither Mr. Rajapaksa nor Mr. Wickremesinghe worked\nwith the TNA with integrity\u201d but exploited the TNA and its engagement for\ntheir own interests\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the above statements time\nis now ripe to Sinhala people together with other communities to rise against\nthis formidable enemy of theirs and Sri Lanka)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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