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Posted byee ink.<\/a>Uncategorized<\/a>Tags:China<\/a>, India<\/a>, Indian Ocean<\/a>, Iran<\/a>, Pakistan<\/a>, politics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Before you study the economics, study the economists!<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

e-Con e-News 12-18 April 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A man dressed like Jesus Christ caused panic in Negombo\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018People should act intelligently and should not get deceived by<\/p>\n\n\n\n

impostors,\u2019 [pleaded the Catholic Church] on the report of a certain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

foreigner who was going around in Negombo dressed like Jesus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christ. This man caused havoc by going into churches in Negombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had gone to the Katuwapitiya Church during the service & had<\/p>\n\n\n\n

caused panic. A villager said the people rushed towards him when<\/p>\n\n\n\n

he appeared & had worshipped him. He had then gone to the Grand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Street Church. The priests at Grand St Church had then called the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

police. The police had apparently deported him from Sri Lanka.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 see ee Media<\/strong><\/em>, SL Catholics should not get deceived by impostors<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tourists & leaders & officials from the most expensive countries in the world, are cosplaying as whitened saviours. They may not be the heretics<\/em>, the much-revered economist GVS de Silva was referring to, in his 1973 classic, Some Heretical Thoughts on Economic Development <\/em>(SHTED<\/em>), which ee<\/em><\/strong> Focus <\/em><\/strong>begins to reproduce this week. GVS stated that truer heresies are needed when the dominant \u2018orthodox\u2019 economic theories and their much-celebrated exponents fail to understand and solve the country\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018& as our member countries navigate this moment of uncertainty,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we are helping them think ahead so they can handle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

any form of turbulence. We love our membership.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva (see ee Quotes<\/strong><\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018The US Department of the Treasury is 0.5 miles from<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the IMF & the World Bank headquarters, all near the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White House. The US Pentagon is 5 miles from the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World Bank & IMF, & 3-4 miles away from the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US Treasury building in Washington, DC.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GVS de Silva was writing in 1973, just after a mainly agricultural Vietnam<\/strong> was left in horrific devastation yet united as never before, after defeating a massive US military invasion<\/strong> of their country, having before that, fought off Japan & France, all industrialized economies \u2013 all at great cost. GVS, recording their heroic struggle, recalled the need for heresies, at a moment in 1973 when Sri Lanka\u2019s still import-dependent economy, 25 years after \u2018independence\u2019, was still to recover. Lanka had only just become a \u2018republic\u2019 (after the JVP\u2019s 1st<\/sup> insurrection), and was about to receive another shock from West Asia\u2019s OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), increasing oil prices by 400%, after the USA\u2019s Yom Kippur War<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018& yet, during the quarter century since Independence,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we have been going round in circles, & today we are<\/p>\n\n\n\n

confronted with every conceivable problem that<\/p>\n\n\n\n

an underdeveloped country could possibly face.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Architect of the monumental Paddy Lands Act<\/em><\/strong> (sabotaged by a judge in London, which still had jurisdiction over SL in 1958, 10 years after \u2018independence\u2019), GVS de Silva recalled \u2018the English, when they left, handed over to us a totally dependent economy\u2019 (see ee Focus<\/em><\/strong>). Yet, instead of healing the country, bringing urban & rural together, our misleaders kept trying \u2018exceedingly hard to make the English language, culture & traditions our own\u2019 \u2013 anxious \u2018to keep up with the International Joneses<\/em>\u2019, worshipping at their smelly toes. We keep yearning to transform Colombo into a ghetto-ridden New York, or a concrete Singapore<\/em>. He called for us to first regain our sanity & then our freedom<\/strong> (PS: the English Joneses, as far as we know, are mostly colonized Welshman, still showing off their pale thigh muscles and bumping their brains together, not to liberate themselves from English rules, but to play rugby \u2013 ee<\/em><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018International firm to conduct forensic audit<\/p>\n\n\n\n

into NDB internal fraud\u2019 \u2013 CBSL: <\/strong>Ada Derana<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Forensic audit with foreign experts of NDB fraud<\/p>\n\n\n\n

soon, Central Bank says\u2019 \u2013Sunday <\/em>Times Online<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Sri Lanka\u2019s NDB, central bank to engage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

global firm for forensic audit\u2019 \u2013 EconomyNext<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arrest the Bankers Before They Flee<\/strong> \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Failure of Statutory Audits: The fact that this fraud<\/p>\n\n\n\n

remained undetected for years by both internal &<\/p>\n\n\n\n

external audits points to more than a mere system glitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under Section 148 of the Companies Act No 7 of 2007<\/em>, the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

maintenance of accurate accounting records is a mandatory<\/p>\n\n\n\n

statutory duty. The deliberate bypassing or disabling of these<\/p>\n\n\n\n

controls constitutes a pre-planned financial crime.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 see ee Finance<\/em><\/strong>, The Rs13.2bn NDB Scandal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a Systemic Heist or a Lone Wolf Act?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, the board of directors & auditors<\/strong> of the National Development Bank (NDB<\/strong>), most of whom represent foreign multinationals<\/em><\/strong>, still feel the need to engage foreigners to tell us what is going on with these banks who have been announcing massive profits, while refusing to invest in modern industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018What is the robbing of a bank compared<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to the founding of a bank?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Threepenny Opera<\/em>, Bertolt Brecht<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 ee<\/em><\/strong> Focus <\/em><\/strong>begins to reproduce GVS de Silva\u2019s SHTED <\/em>this week, starting with its Preface<\/em>, because these times do resemble 1973, in many other ways. In 1973, the peasants of China\u2019s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution<\/strong> were, without hurling their nation into unpayable debt bondage to the IMF & Wall Street, etc, building their modern \u2018heavy\u2019 industrial base. And now in 2026, China is reinforcing its policy of rural revitalization:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018A country can import technologies. It can subsidise adoption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It can even produce impressive targets on paper. But it is<\/p>\n\n\n\n

something else entirely to create a living industrial ecology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

capable of reproducing & improving those technologies at scale\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The future is today<\/em><\/strong>\u2026 & China is building the future in plain sight<\/em>\u2019, insists Warwick Powell (see ee Focus<\/em><\/strong>): \u2018China has not waited for a perfect future to arrive. It has been assembling it, piece by piece, inside the present\u2019. Countries such as Sri Lanka are welcome to critically learn from the \u2018practical clues\u2019 offered by China. \u2018Development is not the privilege of a few core economies<\/strong> but can become more widely shared.\u2019 Indeed, while our still-colonial media & their merchant owners keep giving themselves awards, about this invention & that entrepreneur, China is dramatically showing that it is more a matter, as Marx taught, to create a system to invent inventors, to manufacture manufacturers, to machine machines! And the key to the future, as Lenin taught (& Laxapana DJ Wimalasurendra dared to attempt, yet was sabotaged a century ago) is electrification, which with Soviet power, adds up to communism (oooh<\/em>, that dreaded word that still haunts the world). Powell describes China\u2019s \u2018patient construction of a new energetic basis for economic life\u2019, and the need to \u2018reduce dependence on volatile hydrocarbon chokepoints\u2019. This certainly explains why the USA (& their killer pit bulls & poodles) are all in an almighty hurry to smash any attempts to do so. China is a threat indeed. A threat to the old yet dominant unequal order. It is the threat of a good example! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 <\/strong>The secret, yet not-so-secret meeting of the 99.99%-exclusively white Bilderberg Group<\/strong> (who claims to be a \u2018Shadow World Government\u2019<\/em><\/strong>) took place, minus mass-media coverage, at the USA\u2019s Salamander Washington DC hotel, from April 9-12 (see ee Random Notes<\/em><\/strong>). Those Bilderberg members who have visited Sri Lanka in the recent past, include US Admiral Samuel Paparo<\/strong>, Commander, US Indo-Pacific Command, who is in charge of realizing US plans for war on China. He visited Lanka last March (see ee<\/em><\/strong> 22 March 2025) and was welcomed by US envoy Ju Chung to \u2018Reaffirm our bilateral defense partnership with Sri Lanka\u2019. Paparo was more recently fronted by US Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Stephen Koehler<\/strong> who visited Sri Lanka from 19-21 February, just before the US ambush outside Galle of the Iranian ship Dena<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Another Bilderberg attendee was the lost-AfroGuyanese David Lammy<\/strong>, appointed England\u2019s Lord Chancellor, Secretary of State for Justice & Deputy PM. Lammy visited SL in February this year (see ee<\/em><\/strong> 21 Feb 2026). It was Lammy, who as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Affairs who, in March 2025, imposed sanctions on former Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Shavendra Silva<\/strong>, former Commander of the Navy Wasantha Karannagoda<\/strong>, former Commander of the Army Jagath Jayasuriya<\/strong>, as well as Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan<\/strong>, aka Karuna<\/em> Amman. Lammy\u2019s purported February visit was to sign an agreement on the Charter for the Global Campaign on Children\u2019s Care<\/em>. Lammy has pointedly ignored the LTTE\u2019s use of children as cannon fodder. Lammy met President Dissanayake with English High Commissioner Andrew Patrick, Principal Private Secretary Ben Archibald, Head of the Deputy PM\u2019s International Unit David Meyer, Special Adviser Fiona Meagher and Deputy Head of Mission Theresa O\u2019Mahony. It was Lammy who had to announce that England was \u2018giving up\u2019 sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in a deal that would allow people displaced decades ago to return home while England retains use of the English-US military base on Diego Garcia \u2013 the largest island in the Chagos archipelago, in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Lammy baldly claimed (he\u2019s also bald) this deal was to prevent the Indian Ocean from being used as \u2018a dangerous illegal migration route\u2019. Imagine that! The new \u2018agreement secured\u2019 the rights of England to operate a military base at Diego Garcia for at least the next 99 years. England\u2019s Foreign Office said, \u2018the status of the base will be undisputed<\/strong> and legally secure<\/strong> following a political agreement between the 2 countries\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Another Bilderberger, Poland\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs Radoslaw Sikorski<\/strong>, attended with his US wife Anne Applebaum<\/strong>: a Staff Writer with the US lip-service The Atlantic<\/em>. Sikorski visited Sri Lanka last May (see ee<\/em><\/strong> 31 May 2025). He met President AK Dissanayake, accompanied by yappy EU Ambassador Carmen Moreno. ee<\/em><\/strong> then noted that he was an apparent expert on, and sympathizer of, terrorist acts, if not a planner of terrorism himself. The visit was purportedly due to Poland\u2019s Presidency of the Council of the European Union. After \u2018some mysterious someone\u2019 blew up on 26 Sept 2022 the NordStream<\/em> pipelines supplying Russian gas to Germany, this funny Pole Sikorski infamously tweeted with an aerial photo of gas billowing to the Baltic Sea surface with a simple \u2018Thank you, USA<\/em>.\u2019 Hours later he followed up with a tweet that Ukraine & the Baltic states had opposed NordStream\u2019s construction for 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Other Bilderbergers, who have not visited Sri Lanka, publicly at least, but are linked to SL, include Dutchman Rolly van Rappard<\/strong>, Co-founder & Chair of the US Citibank agency CVC Capital Partners<\/strong>. CVC bought Ekaterra<\/strong>, the former tea division of Unilever, after the MNC\u2019s supposed withdrawal from tea plantation management in Kenya, etc, while James Finlay<\/strong>\u2019s plantations were sold to the almost-equally notorious Sri Lanka finance house LOLC<\/strong>. Another Bilderberger attendee was France\u2019s Val\u00e9rie Baudson<\/strong>, CEO of Amundi Asset Management<\/strong>. Amundi is part of a \u2018Steering Committee\u2019 of a so-called \u2018Ad-hoc Group of Bondholders\u2019 who own about 40% of $12.55bn of defaulted bonds, while a \u2018Local Consortium of Sri Lanka (LCSL)\u2019, with 11 members including banks, have around 12%. The Steering Committee is made of funds managed or advised by Amundi Asset Management, Barings<\/strong>, BlackRock <\/strong>& its subsidiaries (see ee<\/em><\/strong> 30 Nov 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018The ever-scheming European imperialists wisely placed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel where she could geographically divide the Arab world<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026& also divide the Africans against the Asians.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 ee Sovereignty<\/em><\/strong>, Zionist Logic, Malcolm X, 1964<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018In the west, nothing is true, everything is plausible\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 US Diplomat, Charles Freeman, CGTN<\/em>, 17 April<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Everything is permitted, nothing is possible\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Michel Clouscard, On \u2018Liberal\u2019 Capitalism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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     There were many real-world movers and shakers missing from that Bilderberg fete: like Kyle Haustveit, US Undersecretary for Hydrocarbons & Geothermal Energy, who recently grabbed Venezuela\u2019s oil for Rockefeller\u2019s Exxon-Chevron, and then released that country from banking sanctions (see ee Sovereignty<\/em><\/strong>, Venezuela, Chevron Signs Key Deal to Boost Energy Sector). But what is really curious is how the media plays the anti-Jew game blaming Israel for the US invasions, when in fact it is the US, EU & England that fund & feed the white settler state of Israel. True, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee<\/strong> (AIPAC<\/strong>), which lobbies US politicians, also funds the \u2018Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)<\/strong>, Hispanic Caucus<\/strong>, Asian Pacific Caucus<\/strong>, the Republican & Democratic Parties <\/strong>(see ee Who\u2019s Who<\/em><\/strong>).<\/strong> But what about the USA\u2019s Oil, Mining, Weapons, Pharma multinationals, etc., who profit massively from these wars? They fund Israel, and AIPAC just returns some of it as bribes to the USA. England & Europe and other white colonies are acting coy about their involvement in US wars. Meanwhile, \u2018German men must ask army for permission to leave the country for over 3 months under new rules.\u2019 They are all preparing for war, and want recruits\u2026 Sustainable<\/em> means sustaining if not accelerating imperialism! Worldly shadows indeed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Trump\u2019s flurry of positive claims lifted the stock market<\/strong> while<\/p>\n\n\n\n

oil prices slumped. That may well have been its sole purpose:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Breaking: Just 20 minutes before Trump\u2019s announcement that<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the Strait of Hormuz was open, massive trades hit the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investors sold a combined 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures, \u200ba<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$760mn bet that oil would go down. These orders were<\/p>\n\n\n\n

much larger than anything else at the time. The traders made<\/p>\n\n\n\n

huge gains.\u2019 Soon after Trump\u2019s victory jump Iranian officials<\/p>\n\n\n\n

stepped in to counter his claims.\u2019 \u2013 see ee Sovereignty<\/em><\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump Claims Victory, Lays Grounds to Resume Fighting<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two Indian-flagged vessels attempting to sneak through the Strait of Hormuz northeast of Oman were fired at by the Iranian navy on Saturday \u2013 Indian media reports citing unnamed \u2018sources\u2019, claim no one was injured, yet they are not clear if the ships were damaged (see ee Sovereignty<\/em><\/strong>, NDTV). The 2 ships were forced to turn back. New Delhi has conveyed \u2018India\u2019s deep concern\u2019 to the Iranian ambassador. Observers claim India\u2019s foreign ministry may be ruing their government\u2019s decision to declare their \u2018eternal\u2019 support to Zionist Israel, immediately before the USA attacked Iran. Both the Indian & Sri Lankan governments have also been accused of colluding with the USA to ambush the Iranian navy training ship IRIS Dena<\/em>. India had invited the Dena<\/em> to participate in friendly exercises. Sri Lanka\u2019s National Joint Committee (NJC) has called on the government to seek compensation for both the terrible human costs and environmental damage caused by the US ambush of the unarmed Dena<\/em> just outside Sri Lanka\u2019s territorial waters and within its Exclusive Economic Zone, on 4 March (see ee Random Notes<\/em><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     India denies reports that the USA used the ceasefire negotiations to reload guided missile destroyers in India, and return to their theater of war. Once India joins the white war on West Asia, they will try to pull Sri Lanka in too. The US -India Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) is one of the 3 major foundational agreements which facilitates the exchange of logistics between military forces of the 2 nations, permitting the military forces of each country to resupply and replenish, and stage operations out of the other\u2019s military air bases, land facilities, and ports. Sri Lanka too has signed agreements on such \u2018logistics\u2019. It is unlikely Sri Lanka or India will be allowed to use US facilities to launch wars in the Atlantic or Pacific, so these agreements suggest the USA is about to drag us into their maneuvers in the ocean call Indian (for now; what we call the Golu Muhudha, and others called the Erythraean \u2013 Red \u2013 Sea).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     After creating a hornets\u2019 nest midst their annihilation in West Asia, ensuring it will take years to rebuild, the USA is slowly retreating, not into its \u2018Western Hemisphere\u2019 which it claims as exclusively its own, but further towards Sri Lanka. We cannot allow them to postpone our independence for another century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018The proprietors had a scant regard for truth & justice;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a compulsion to pay labourers for work done<\/p>\n\n\n\n

seemed to them a strange injunction.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man who would be anointed the \u2018Father of Ceylon Planters<\/strong>\u2019, Robert Boyd Tytler, entered Ceylon from Jamaica in 1840 carrying a copy of the white French \u2018refugee\u2019 PJ Laborie<\/strong>\u2018s classic Coffee Planter of Santo Domingo<\/em> (1798). Laborie, had fled the first successful revolution by enslaved Africans in Haiti, begun in 1791. His book recommended: \u2018Punishments must be certain, immediately inflicted, proportionable to the fault, and never excessive. Racks, tortures, mayhems, mutilations, & death<\/strong> are reserved for crimes of an atrocious nature, and fall only within the province of the public magistrate<\/strong>: through perhaps more speedy executions<\/strong>, and particularly on the spot, would have more striking effect.\u2019 Laborie\u2019s book was immediately excerpted in Ceylon Miscellany<\/em> Vol 1 (1842, which included \u2018The wild elephant & the method of capturing & taming it in Ceylon\u2019) and became \u2018the authority on all that relates to Coffee planting\u2019. Thus the English transferred their expertise from the enslaved plantations of the Americas, introducing \u2018The West Indian System\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     This ee<\/em><\/strong> indeed offers a brief history of the laws governing waged workers in Sri Lanka, continuing reproduction of SBD de Silva\u2019s classic The<\/em> Political Economy of Underdevelopment. <\/em>In this Chapter 9, de Silva continues to detail how those workers hired were consistently not paid, even whipped for demanding payment. He demolished sociologists\u2019 theories about \u2018ethnicity\u2019 & \u2018indifference to money\u2019 in trying to explain the Sinhala aversion to working of the estates, and the English resort to entrapping workers from India. The Sinhala soon preferred working on contract & piecework. He pointed out that the official English reports are easier to understand than academic prevarications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     The robbery of land & mistreatment of workers led even the colonial governor & \u2018butcher of 1848\u2019 Torrington to write to the colonial secretary Lord Grey: \u2018Our plantation estates are a source of deadly hatred to the hill country people (Kandyans).\u2019 In this ee<\/em><\/strong>, SBD detailed how the English feared the planters\u2019 delays & non-payment of wages would jeopardize labour recruitment to the plantations<\/strong>, as \u2018Ceylon had got a bad name and migration had fallen\u2019 due to  indebtedness and delays in wage payments. Such practices led to the Cooly Wages Ordinance<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>of 1884, and a Commission of Inquiry in 1908. These recommended a \u2018statutory payday so as to reduce the labourer\u2019s recourse to credit\u2019 on the basis of planter\u2019s promise to pay. The robbery of wages were noted by colonial agents and police and courts, who were also fooled, or let themselves to be fooled, with workers lacking legal advice and the laws themselves full of loopholes, lacking \u2018teeth\u2019 (see ee Focus<\/em><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     We should add that, when Tytler arrived in 1840 there was a \u2018fevered cry<\/strong>\u2019 about \u2018where shall I go for land\u2019, which led to more robbery of land from the Sinhala, with the collusion of English officials: \u2018Land became a commodity to be bought and sold\u2019, and a flourishing land market was set up. The Crown Lands Ordinance Act<\/strong> (plus the 1897 Waste Lands Ordinance<\/strong> No 1) demanded people to produce land title, thus 1,000s lost their lands to judges and other officials. Access to forests and common land was also restricted, called \u2018crown\u2019 land. The Sinhala peasants were hemmed in and pauperized. Peasants started to sell chena land to speculators. 1930: 2.5 million acres of land had been robbed. Deforestation for plantations<\/strong> turned waterfalls into trickles, rivers became narrower, rain decreased, landslides increased\u2026 which reminds: Unilever, or CVC Capital, etc, should pay compensation for the erosions that enabled cyclone Ditwah\u2019s destructions\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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USA Escalates War in the Indian Ocean Seeking to Ensnare Sri Lanka<\/a><\/blockquote>