{"id":42352,"date":"2015-03-16T14:13:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T21:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=42352"},"modified":"2015-03-16T14:13:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T21:13:42","slug":"sinhalese-please-wake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/03\/16\/sinhalese-please-wake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Sinhalese, Please Wake-up!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Silva<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Before\u00a0 MR eradicated terrorism, it was not safe to travel in Sri Lanka. People who went to work in the morning were not sure if they could go home alive. Assets of the country such as transformers, power lines, transport vehicles \u00a0and railway tracks were being destroyed regularly. School children, Police officers and our brave soldiers were \u00a0getting killed regularly.\u00a0 For 30 years, various governments tried to defeat terrorism but failed. LTTE spy network was so powerful and efficient that they knew the decisions of the government within a short time. There was no money for development as money was spent to defend the country. Before MR, violence, fear and lawlessness was common. \u00a0\u00a0Such\u00a0 was the chaos in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

. In such a situation, \u00a0\u00a0MR could not save the country on his own. He needed trusted people around him. So, MR\u2019s family contributed to saving the country, specially GR. MR defeated terrorism that was\u00a0 funded by foreign countries, in 3 years. In a nutshell, without MR and GR, the country would have been a south Indian colony.\u00a0 MR saved the country in 3 years and undertook development projects what others could not do in 30 years. There were reports of excesses by Namal. Certainly, if true, such thongs should not \u00a0be\u00a0 allowed. However, there appears to be a well funded and organised propaganda warfare against MR\u00a0 and family. Propaganda warfare depends on a tiny bit of truth \u00a0and lot of lies and deception. It appears that a massive propaganda warfare\u00a0 campaign has been conducted against MR\u00a0 and family. Patriots need to be able to separate the truth from propaganda warfare. It appears that a foreign funded regime change has taken place and some suspect that\u00a0 the present gang is\u00a0 perhaps a gang of foreign puppets.<\/p>\n

There has to be a post mortem on MR\u2019s defeat and lessons learnt. Rule of law and press freedom are vital for development and must be safeguarded.<\/p>\n

South Indian racist Tamils were as jubilant as the Sinhala Buddhists who\u00a0 voted out MR. Sinhala Buddhists were saved by SWRD, after centuries of suppression by imperialists.\u00a0 As gratitude, a Sinhala Buddist monk killed him. I wonder if this is the way some Sinhala Buddhists show appreciations to those that save them ?\u00a0 The\u00a0 Sinhala Buddhists did an act similar to Turkeys voting for Christmas. I\u00a0 believe, \u00a0thinking mehod \u00a0of Sinhala Buddhists need to change to shred the \u2018modaya\u2019 image. They need to be aware of the surroundings, aware of external threats, engage in economic activities generating wealth rather than aiming to \u00a0give up desires and aim for extinction (Nirvana). In short we have to develop skills needed to survive in a real, globalised, dangerous competitive world, full of evil greedy people and who are trained and brain washed\u00a0 to be greedy. We can no longer live as frogs in a well. In my view, giving up desires and seeking extinction are questionable ancient Indian myths that even Indians do not believe in.<\/p>\n

The very basics of survival is first to have a desire\u00a0 to survive and live. We need to understand the threats and opportunities from the environment we live in. We have to be aware of plots hatched by South Indians and Indians in general.\u00a0 We need not be anti Indians \u00a0or hostile to Indians, but we have to be able to defend ourselves in case they turn nasty. \u00a0Remember they have been nasty in the past and have unleashed terrorism on us that destroyed a generation. \u00a0Learning lessons from the past would be useful. As there are serious threats for the survival of Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, there ought to be a non racist\u00a0 organisation to protect the rights of the Sinhalese \u00a0\u00a0from global threats from Western imperialists, global racist Tamils and Indians. The\u00a0 Sinhalese \u00a0are the true minority, in a global context. Now, with globalisation, we live in a highly competitive dangerous world and blindly following Indian \u2018isms\u2019, giving up desires and seeking extinction is absolutely dangerous. Giving up desires will make a person automatically less efficient and less productive and nature will wipe out such persons, as the rule in nature is Darwinist survival of the fittest. The\u00a0 only time giving up desires is therapeutic is, if you are so weak and ill and cannot do any thing. It is\u00a0 a fact that we live in a highly dangerous, competitive world full of suffering , where only the fittest will survive. So if we want to survive, end suffering, we need to develop survival and competitive skills and have the desire and the will to survive, rather than aim for extinction (Nirvana). If we do nothing, then\u00a0 we will reach extinction as\u00a0 is happening already. It is time that Sinhalese develop critical thinking skills and use their head, shake off the modaya image and stop believing dead Indian myths and \u2018isms\u2019, that even Indians do not believe. It is far better to develop skills so as to enable Sinhalese to compete fairly and legally, rather than seek a non existent imaginary Nirvana. Anyone with no desires will not survive in the real world and nature will eliminate that person. Indians dumped ancient myths after the Nalanda debacle. It is time to think critically rather than rely on blind faith and chase a non existent Nirvana\u00a0 We have to however fully respect\u00a0 and safeguard\u00a0 Buddhism as our cultural heritage.<\/p>\n

The alleged insider dealings and alleged fraud involving blatant abuse of power of the new Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran to help his son-in-law Arjun Aloysius has to be investigated and brought to the notice of the public as the money involved is massive. Any investigation has to be carried out by unbiased investigators.<\/p>\n

War crimes<\/strong><\/p>\n

The LTTE terrorists were funded and trained by India. Western countries allowed bogus refugees into their countries and turned a blind eye to terrorist fund raising. Was this done intentionally\u00a0\u00a0 to destabilise Sri Labnka ? Indian sponsoring of LTTE terrorism is generally believed to be the intension of Indians to destabilise Sri Lanka. Our prime goal should be to be aware of external threats and opportunities and not blindly follow dead Indian \u2018isms\u2019 that even Indians have dumped. Instead of a war crimes investigation Sri Lanka should ask for compensation from the \u00a0Indians as well as those that funded the terrorists for the pain and suffering\u00a0 of the Sri Lankans. Remember dollar and Kent farm and thousands of atrocities by LTTE terrorists.\u00a0 Is it a crime to stop terrorism? What about nuclear bombing of Japan and incineration of Dresden ? Killing of over million people in Iraq in a naked act of aggression, under false pretexts of weapons of mass destruction ?<\/p>\n

Funds for Tamil terrorism was raised in Western countries who turned a blind eye for fund raising. Tamil terrorists were initially trained and funded by India. Western Imperialists were pro LTTE and anti Sri Lanka. Only true friends who did not believe LTTE propaganda were Pakistan and China. Now RW appear to be embracing our enemies and antagonising our friends.<\/p>\n

Let me quote Dr Lakputra \u00a0President Mahinda Rajapakse had to fight not only against the Tamil terrorists, but also against a global might of countries which depended on the blood money and the votes of the pro-LTTE and many local traitors and NGOs. . MR had the vision to build the Hambanthota harbour. Under his rule foundations were put in place \u00a0for economic development of the country.\u00a0 It would \u00a0be true to say that there were some corrupt ministers. It would have been better to expose the corrupt ministers than to vote off the leader who saved us.<\/p>\n

We have to accept that Sri Lanka is a multicultural country and all citizens need to work in a collaborative manner for the common good of all citizens. It is rather sad that some Tamils behave in a racist manner and Sinhalese need to defend themselves from racists. There are many good Tamils and we need to be aware of it and work with them in a collaborative manner for common good.<\/p>\n

If the country is allowed to disintegrate, there will be no peace in Sri Lanka, as was the case in Japan and China when several war lords ruled different parts of the country. \u00a0If\u00a0 the \u00a013A is implemented, the country will lead to disintegration. \u00a0RW wants a collection of war lords to\u00a0 run the country and soon war lords will be running their own areas. Wake up Singhalese ! wake up!, enough of the deep slumber.<\/p>\n

There are reports that Sirisena is plotting against MR with India. There are reports that say Sirisena will fully implement the 13 A. People need to act to stop these acts happening. Implementing the 13A would be the end of Sinhalese in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

How can the Sinhalese stop this gang \u00a0from destroying the Sinhalese and Sri Lanka. Corruption, abuse of power and nepotism of the gang need to be documented and exposed and widely circulated using social media.\u00a0 Aleady we know about the central bank corruption allegations. The people in villages may have to be informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ben Silva Before\u00a0 MR eradicated terrorism, it was not safe to travel in Sri Lanka. People who went to work in the morning were not sure if they could go home alive. Assets of the country such as transformers, power lines, transport vehicles \u00a0and railway tracks were being destroyed regularly. School children, Police officers and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ben-silva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42352","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=42352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}