{"id":133771,"date":"2023-04-16T14:58:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T21:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=133771"},"modified":"2023-04-16T14:58:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T21:58:57","slug":"sri-lankas-christian-colonial-dark-history-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/04\/16\/sri-lankas-christian-colonial-dark-history-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Christian Colonial Dark History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Senaka Weeraratna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sri Lanka\u2019s Christian Colonial Dark History\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VYE9P3g0WaE?start=5&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Christian Colonial Dark History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Govt. Sri Lanka must :<\/strong><br><strong>1) Inquire into Colonial Crimes committed by the three Colonial Rulers including Genocidal crimes and wholesale destruction of Buddhist Temples and illegal seizure, occupation of Buddhist Temple lands, and the prohibition of the practice of Buddhism, <\/strong><br><strong>2) Establish a Museum dedicated to remembering the freedom struggles of the people of Sri Lanka against Colonial Rule (1505 \u2013 1948), <\/strong><br><strong>3) Convene an International Conference on Colonialism jointly with former European colonies, <\/strong><br><strong>4) Teach History in our schools giving due place to the Freedom struggles, and <\/strong><br><strong>5) Demand Accountability from the Portuguese, Dutch, and British for crimes committed against both humans and non \u2013 humans e.g., the holocaust of elephants in the upcountry during British Rule, in the form of an a) Apology and Remorse b) Repentance and Atonement c) Catharsis d) Reparations e) Restitutio in Integrum (A Latin phrase meaning Restoration)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senaka Weeraratna Sri Lanka\u2019s Christian Colonial Dark History The Govt. Sri Lanka must :1) Inquire into Colonial Crimes committed by the three Colonial Rulers including Genocidal crimes and wholesale destruction of Buddhist Temples and illegal seizure, occupation of Buddhist Temple lands, and the prohibition of the practice of Buddhism, 2) Establish a Museum dedicated to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senaka-weeraratna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133771","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=133771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}