{"id":146089,"date":"2024-11-25T17:56:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T00:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=146089"},"modified":"2024-11-25T17:56:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T00:56:19","slug":"eelam-concept-is-a-vicious-colonial-invention-of-the-west-to-entice-the-tamils-in-sri-lanka-to-destroy-the-only-sinhala-buddhist-nation-on-this-planet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/11\/25\/eelam-concept-is-a-vicious-colonial-invention-of-the-west-to-entice-the-tamils-in-sri-lanka-to-destroy-the-only-sinhala-buddhist-nation-on-this-planet-2\/","title":{"rendered":"EELAM concept is a vicious colonial invention of the West to entice the Tamils in Sri Lanka to destroy the only Sinhala Buddhist nation on this planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dheshamaanya Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Ex-Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranayaka and President Mahanuwara Sinhala Baudhdha Jesta Purawesiyange\u00a0 Sanvidhanaya.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>FIRST Posted on November 7th, 2023 ( AcRevized vesion) 11.25.2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EELAM concept is a vicious colonial invention of the West to entice the Tamils in Sri Lanka to destroy the only Sinhala Buddhist nation on this planet, to realize their long term strategic and geopolitical goals in the Indo Pacific region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea of EELAM in this country is a Western colonial invention, although that word was never mentioned in their earlier correspondence. Destroying the Sinhala nation and dividing Sri Lanka between Sinhalese and Tamils was the most important strategic intrigue of British colonial policy of divide and rule that was adopted by them from the time they ceded this country, to the United Kingdom in 1815.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this search<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-lankaweb-com wp-block-embed-lankaweb-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"qWmuwb8ixt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/11\/07\/eelam-concept-is-a-vicious-colonial-invention-of-the-west-to-entice-the-tamils-in-sri-lanka-to-destroy-the-only-sinhala-buddhist-nation-on-this-planet\/\">EELAM concept is a vicious colonial invention of the West to entice the Tamils in Sri Lanka to destroy the only Sinhala Buddhist nation on this planet<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;EELAM concept is a vicious colonial invention of the West to entice the Tamils in Sri Lanka to destroy the only Sinhala Buddhist nation on this planet&#8221; &#8212; LankaWeb.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/11\/07\/eelam-concept-is-a-vicious-colonial-invention-of-the-west-to-entice-the-tamils-in-sri-lanka-to-destroy-the-only-sinhala-buddhist-nation-on-this-planet\/embed\/#?secret=6Iz7n1tlHD#?secret=qWmuwb8ixt\" data-secret=\"qWmuwb8ixt\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dheshamaanya Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Ex-Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranayaka and President Mahanuwara Sinhala Baudhdha Jesta Purawesiyange\u00a0 Sanvidhanaya. FIRST Posted on November 7th, 2023 ( AcRevized vesion) 11.25.2024 EELAM concept is a vicious colonial invention of the West to entice the Tamils in Sri Lanka to destroy the only Sinhala Buddhist nation on this planet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sudath-gunasekara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146089","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=146089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}