{"id":147039,"date":"2025-01-01T17:55:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T00:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=147039"},"modified":"2025-01-01T18:03:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T01:03:57","slug":"an-open-letter-to-president-anura-kumara-supporting-the-question-by-shenali-waduge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/01\/01\/an-open-letter-to-president-anura-kumara-supporting-the-question-by-shenali-waduge\/","title":{"rendered":"AN OPEN\u00a0LETTER to President Anura Kumara Supporting the Question by Shenali Waduge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) 2066 Kings Grove&nbsp;&nbsp;Crescent . Ottawa&nbsp; . Ontario , K1J G1 . Canada<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>I January 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>OPEN&nbsp;LETTER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rt. Hon Anura Kumara Dissanayake<br>Leader&nbsp;of the National People&#8217;s Power&nbsp;(NPP)<br>President of Sri Lanka<br>President&#8217;s Secretariat<br>Colombo&nbsp;1<br>Sri Lanka<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1st January 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear President Dissanayake::<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Re: the article by SHENALI\u00a0 D. WADUGE (28 December\u00a02024) &#8216;ANURA KUMARA\u00a0 AS JVP LEADER &amp; ANURA KUMARA\u00a0 AS PRESIDENT &#8211;\u00a0WHERE, WILL HE TAKE SRI LANKA?<\/strong><\/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=\"zbtpYDsvPI\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/12\/28\/anura-kumara-as-jvp-leader-anura-kumara-as-president-where-will-he-take-sri-lanka\/\">Anura Kumara as JVP leader &amp; Anura Kumara as President \u2013 Where will he take Sri Lanka?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Anura Kumara as JVP leader &amp; Anura Kumara as President \u2013 Where will he take Sri Lanka?&#8221; &#8212; LankaWeb.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/12\/28\/anura-kumara-as-jvp-leader-anura-kumara-as-president-where-will-he-take-sri-lanka\/embed\/#?secret=GNvowuX5Jn#?secret=zbtpYDsvPI\" data-secret=\"zbtpYDsvPI\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This interesting\u00a0and valid article\u00a0was crowned\u00a0with\u00a0colour\u00a0photographs\u00a0of you with the<\/strong> <strong>Indian President\u00a0and the Highest Representatives of the US and China, in Sri Lanka.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Embedded in the article she states<strong> &#8220;..<em>..While the old guard disappointed&nbsp;the nation&nbsp;by<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>the&nbsp;selfish governance, how far a new &amp; inexperienced Parliament can handle the hawks &amp; eagles&nbsp;both locally and internationally has to be a cause for concern.&#8221; <\/em><\/strong><em>I endorse that statement to be<\/em> <em>absolutely correct.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I mentioned&nbsp;my concern to you in my letter of December 10, 2024, in which I said:<\/em><strong> &#8220;<em>I also want you&nbsp;to be&nbsp;aware of the Greeks&nbsp;who will come to you bringing Gifts.&nbsp; Be&nbsp;careful as&nbsp;you are precious to<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>the&nbsp;people at home and abroad&#8230;.<\/em><\/strong><em>&#8221;&nbsp; Greeks especially&nbsp;wearing&nbsp;silk turbans.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I notice that the first&nbsp;photo crowning&nbsp;that&nbsp;article is of you with India&#8217;s President&nbsp;shaking hands.The rightful&nbsp;thing to do&nbsp;but I&nbsp;cringed.&nbsp; This is the President of the same India who trained the Tamil&nbsp;Tigers In 32 military camps and&nbsp;sent them back to destabilize Sri Lanka in jackboots,&nbsp;&nbsp;khaki fatigues&nbsp;and cradling&nbsp; Kalashnikovs&nbsp;like babies in their arms,  and with garlands of live bullets around&nbsp;their&nbsp;necks as if doing their&nbsp;<strong><em>Haro-hara<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;Kavadi dance&nbsp;entering a sacred Kovil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then all that happened in the 1970s,&nbsp;and&nbsp; 80s.&nbsp; &nbsp;Perhaps the brotherly love of good neighbours&nbsp;have reformed&nbsp;themselves to be loving, caring and spoon-feeding Love to their younger Brother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I am going to take this opportunity to inform you of part of my compendium&nbsp;that your &#8220;research&nbsp;staff&#8221; <strong>(NOT of the&nbsp;Ministry of<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Foreign&nbsp;Affairs)&nbsp; <\/strong>could brief you after reading&nbsp;<strong>about&nbsp;the Once-upon-a-Time India&#8217;s <\/strong>brotherly&nbsp;love on its southern &#8220;Tear drop&#8221; neighbour..&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are letters authored&nbsp;by me to expose the flip side of India&#8217;s&nbsp;involvement in&nbsp; the Tamil Eelam War, which was a necessary evil, to inform&nbsp;of my TRUTH to Sri Lanka-Watching Canadians who had been brainwashed by the Canadian-separatist&nbsp;Tamils and&nbsp;their sympathizing bloc-vote soliciting, Canadian&nbsp;Liberal, Conservative and&nbsp;NDP&nbsp;parliamentarians, and newspapers to provide&nbsp;the flip&nbsp;side of the&nbsp; TRUTH of the Eelam War.&nbsp; And the meddling India&#8217;s involvement which Sri Lanka&#8217;s High Commission&nbsp;in Ottawa shied away&nbsp;to talk of , due to Diplomatic neighbourly niceties &#8230;&nbsp;<strong><em>&#8221; no you don&#8217;t ruffle India&#8217;s&#8217; Lord Vishnu&#8217;s-peacock feathers which has&nbsp; a<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>tangible&nbsp;connection&nbsp;with the divine.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are 20 from over&nbsp;hundreds of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; 1.&nbsp; <strong>Separatist terrorists rend peaceful&nbsp;isle of Sri Lanka by Asoka Wereasinghe,<\/strong> THE WINDSOR&nbsp; STAR,&nbsp; Monday, September&nbsp;10, 1984&#8242;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<strong> 2.&nbsp; &nbsp;Meddling In&nbsp;Sri Lanka by Asoka Weeeasinghe<\/strong> THE GLOBE &amp; MAIL, Toronto.8 September, 1984<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; 3.<strong>&nbsp; Sri Lanka&#8217;s Ethnic Strife&nbsp;&#8211; India&#8217; Role by Asoka Weerasinghe, T<\/strong>HE OTTAWA&nbsp;CITIZEN, December&nbsp;14, 1984<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<strong> 4.&nbsp; Neighbourly&nbsp;Relations by Asoka Weerasinghe,<\/strong>THE&nbsp; GLOBE &amp; MAIL, Monday, January 28,1985<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<strong> 5.&nbsp; Tamil Tigers by Asoka Weerasinghe<\/strong>, THE&nbsp;OTTAWA CITIZEN, Friday&nbsp;15, 1985<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; <strong>6,&nbsp; Sounds familiar by Asoka Weerasinghe,<\/strong> THE GLOBE &amp; MAIL, Friday , July19, 1985<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; <strong>7.&nbsp; Tamil Problem&nbsp;is also India&#8217;s&nbsp;by Asoka Weerasinghe,<\/strong> THE GAZETTE, Montreal ,Monday July 22, 1985<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<strong> 8,&nbsp; Sri Lanka&#8217;s fears by Asoka&nbsp;Weerasinghe, <\/strong>THE OTTAWA CITIZEN,Thursday, August 8, 1985<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; <strong>9.&nbsp; It takes two to feud by Asoka Weerasinghe,<\/strong> THE GLOBE &amp; MAIL,&nbsp; Wednesday, March 26, 1986<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>10.&nbsp; Sri Lankan woes by Asoka Weerasinghe, <\/strong>THE OTTAWA CITIZEN , Monday, May12, 1986<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>11.&nbsp; &nbsp;Sri Lanka horror by Asoka Weerasinghe, <\/strong>THE OTTAWA CITIZEN,&nbsp; Friday, May 23, 1986<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1<strong>2.&nbsp; &nbsp;Sri lanka blood by Asoka Weerasinghe,<\/strong>THE OTTAWA CITIZEN, Thursday, May 29,1986<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>13.&nbsp; &nbsp;Lankan strife by Asoka Weerasinghe,<\/strong> THE OTTAWA CITIZEN,&nbsp; Friday, June 27,1986<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>14,&nbsp; Tamils blamed by Asoka Weerasinghe, <\/strong>THE OTTAWA CITIZEN, Thursday , July 3, 1986<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>15.&nbsp; &nbsp;Maintain friendship with&nbsp;Sri Lanka by Asoka Weerasinghe ,<\/strong> THE EVENING TELEGRAM , Newfoundland,.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Thursday, October 16, 1986<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>16.&nbsp; Indian move&nbsp;by Asoka Weerasinghe,<\/strong> THE OTTAWA&nbsp;CITIZEN, Tuesday, December 2, 1986<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>17.&nbsp; Tamil bases by Asoka Weerasinghe,<\/strong>THE OTTAWA CITIZEN, Friday, December 19, 1986<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>18.&nbsp; Tamils return home by Asoka Weerasinghe,<\/strong>THE GLOBE &amp; MAIL, Monday, March 9, 1987<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>19.&nbsp; Lankan record by Asoka Weerasinghe,<\/strong> THE OTTAWA&nbsp;CITIZEN, Friday, March 13, 1987<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>20.&nbsp; Lankan murders by Asoka Weerasinghe,<\/strong> THE OTTAWA CITIZEN, Frid, May1, 1987<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear President&nbsp; Anura Kumara&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>May the New Year&nbsp; bring you warmth, love, light, wisdom, health, and strength<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>to guide you along your visionary path&nbsp;to positive and successful destinations.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope my 1970s and 80s compendium will&nbsp;&nbsp;make you understand&nbsp;the&nbsp;<strong>Once-upon-a-time<\/strong> <strong>neighbour,<\/strong> <strong>India,<\/strong>&nbsp;who tried to destabilize&nbsp;your wonderful sovereign&nbsp;nation.,Sri Lanka, who was under stress for 30 long bloody&nbsp;years,&nbsp; in which your armed forces&nbsp;won the Eelam War on 18 May 2009. They gave back 20 million of your&nbsp;people their R<strong>ight-to-Life which had been hijacked for 30 years by the Tamil&nbsp;Tiger terrorists.<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Theruwan saranai<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sincerely,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ottawa,&nbsp;&nbsp;Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) 2066 Kings Grove&nbsp;&nbsp;Crescent . Ottawa&nbsp; . Ontario , K1J G1 . Canada I January 2025 OPEN&nbsp;LETTER Rt. Hon Anura Kumara DissanayakeLeader&nbsp;of the National People&#8217;s Power&nbsp;(NPP)President of Sri LankaPresident&#8217;s SecretariatColombo&nbsp;1Sri Lanka 1st January 2025 Dear President Dissanayake:: Re: the article by SHENALI\u00a0 D. WADUGE (28 December\u00a02024) &#8216;ANURA KUMARA\u00a0 AS JVP LEADER &amp; ANURA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147039","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\/147039","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=147039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}