{"id":44536,"date":"2015-06-07T07:58:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T14:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=44536"},"modified":"2015-06-07T07:58:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T14:58:45","slug":"open-letter-to-hon-maithripala-sirisena-president-of-sri-lanka-and-hon-justice-c-v-wigneswaran-chief-minister-of-the-northern-provincecity-of-jaffna-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/06\/07\/open-letter-to-hon-maithripala-sirisena-president-of-sri-lanka-and-hon-justice-c-v-wigneswaran-chief-minister-of-the-northern-provincecity-of-jaffna-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"OPEN LETTER to Hon. Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka and Hon. Justice C.V. Wigneswaran, Chief Minister of the Northern Province,City of Jaffna, Sri Lanka."},"content":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe\u00a0Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

7 June 2015<\/p>\n

OPEN LETTER to\u00a0Hon.\u00a0 Justice C.V. Wigneswaran, \u00a0 Chief Minister of the Northern Province, City of Jaffna,\u00a0Sri Lanka. and \u00a0to\u00a0Hon. Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Dear\u00a0 Justice Wigneswaran:<\/p>\n

I have been following your story of acting your cry-baby antics reporting to international Sri Lanka- interfering visitors about how your Tamil people in the north are not being treated well as a minority Tamil community by the Sri Lanka government.\u00a0 Ha!\u00a0 What poppycock.<\/p>\n

I live in Canada, and I don\u2019t think that neither you nor your Tamil people know how lucky you lot are.\u00a0 Every First Nation person in Canada would want to move heaven and earth just to exchange places with you lot, especially with those 295,873 Tamil refugees who were rescued by the mainly Sinhalese Sri Lankan Army\u00a0 by\u00a0 19th<\/sup> May, 2009, at the end of the 30-year long Eelam War.\u00a0 Remember, these Tamil refugees were herded like unwashed cattle not by the majority Sinhalese, but by your brethren, the ruthless Tamil Tiger terrorists, as a human shield for 30 months moving them under a scorching hot sun from the west coast to the east coast of the island.<\/p>\n

These Canadian First Nation peoples would have loved to have had enjoyed the luxury of getting fed three hearty meals \u2013 breakfast, lunch and dinner every day for almost three years and not having to spend a single penny to pay for these meals.\u00a0\u00a0 And you Chief Minister, you are sly and cunning like a fox, not to tell your international\u00a0 \u2018it\u2019s-not-their-business-probing visitors, I am glad and thankful to the Government of Sri Lanka and mainly the majority Sinhalese people for preparing a million meals a day to sustain my people.\u00a0 And that Sir, most certainly was not an act of Tamil genocide.\u00a0 It was far from it.\u00a0 This shows true compassion by the majority Sinhalese people, and\u00a0 also the Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s government respecting\u00a0 human rights\u00a0 by not letting my people starve to death.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>You are a disingenuous Tamil, aren\u2019t you, Wigneswaran?\u00a0 Where the heck is your honesty?\u00a0\u00a0 Your blood red Third eye between your eyebrows is no help for you to see reality on the ground and around you.\u00a0\u00a0 Try changing your blood red Third eye to a compassionate Buddha\u2019s saffron-yellow, which might help you to see the truth.\u00a0 I am a Buddhist.\u00a0\u00a0 And Wigneswaran you lie and you croak like a yellow-bellied frog\u00a0 in a muddy-puddle in Killinochchi, when you see Foreign officials walk towards you.\u00a0 And then you call on them begging for international action against the Sri Lankan government\u2019s program of settling Sinhalese families on Tamil owned land forcibly appropriated by the military.<\/p>\n

For Pete\u2019s sake, don\u2019t discard your legal-cloak of intelligence.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t you know that the Sri Lankan troops are stationed for a specific reason around the island?\u00a0 Not just in the Jaffna peninsula?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s for national security, to safeguard its sovereign territory and all of its peoples.\u00a0 You cannot fault and penalize any government for that sensibility.\u00a0 Stop pretending that you are dumb, because you are just not.<\/p>\n

More to the point Wigneswaran. What\u2019s so special about you Tamils?\u00a0 The bottom line Wigneswaran is that the Sri Lankan Government is within its sovereign rights to station troops where it likes and when it likes through out the island based on the needs of national security.\u00a0 And its time that you and your Tamil people learn to live with that reality as the majority Sinhalese have. There shouldn\u2019t be any if\u2019s and buts\u201d.<\/p>\n

Anyway Wigneswaran, what is wrong with that, when 75% of the prime real-estate\u00a0 in Wellawatta a suburb of the capital Colombo, is owned by your Tamils\u00a0 and not wanting to rent\u00a0 the annexes to the Sinhalese.\u00a0 Phew!\u00a0\u00a0 I call this ethnic cleansing.\u00a0 What would you call it, Wigneswaran?\u00a0 You have the legal brain and not me.\u00a0 But then, the majority Sinhalese, whether\u00a0 persons of the military or non-military have every right to settle and live in the north as much\u00a0 as your Tamil people have claimed their rights to settle and live in every nook and corner\u00a0 in that beautiful island, which also happens to be my homeland as much as yours.\u00a0 And 40% of the population of the capital Colombo happens to be the people\u00a0from your ethnic-tribe.\u00a0 And you complain.\u00a0 What\u2019s wrong with you Wigneswaran?<\/p>\n

Do you know what, Wigneswaran!\u00a0 If my grandmother was still alive, I would have put her on to you.\u00a0 She wouldn\u2019t have cared two fried shrimps curled on top of two masala-wade\u2019s as to who you are.\u00a0 For sure, she would have dragged you by your ear to the nearest sink and forced you to wash your mouth with carbolic soap to cleanse it so that you would speak the truth from then on.<\/p>\n

Let me, as a Sinhalese, sing to you Wigneswaran with an apology to Woody Guthrie an adaptation of his song This Land is Your Land:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This land is my land this land is your land as said<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

From Point Pedro to the south coast\u2019s Dondra Head,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

From the toddy palm gardens to the Galle harbour waters<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And this land was made for me and you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As I walked up that A9 highway<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I saw above me that endless blue skyway:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I saw below valleys filled with Tea gardens<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And this land was made for me and you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

No living Tamil can ever stop me<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As I go walking up A9 to the North<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And no Tamil can ever\u00a0turn me\u00a0back<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

At Omantai the gateway to the North<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As this land was made for me and you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

You know Wigneswaran, you have a legal mind, that certainly doesn\u2019t mean that you can decipher from what is a lie and what is a truth.\u00a0 Your third red eye between your eye-brows is certainly betraying you.<\/p>\n

Here is the reason why I told you that you and your Tamil people should count your lucky stars to be well treated as a minority community in Sri Lanka.\u00a0 I mentioned to you earlier that the Canadian First Nation peoples would love to exchange places with you lucky Tamils.\u00a0\u00a0 And their children would move heaven and earth to have an education like your Tamil children.\u00a0 Here is a revelation for you Chief Minister of the North.\u00a0 After reading this story I hope you will stop croaking\u00a0 your gripes like a yellow bellied frog with your complaints\u00a0 about not been treated well as a minority community in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

This story was reported in The Ottawa Citizen<\/em> of June 2, 2015, bylined Tom Spears.<\/p>\n

I grew up in a fearful life, says Vernon Jacks, who was sexually abused for three years at a residential school in British Columbia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the long nights he would think: When is it going to happen again? Oh, here it comes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jacks the Chief of the Tseycum First Nation in British Columbia, told his story Monday as thousands of native people from across the country have converged on Ottawa for the conclusion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission\u2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n

An Indian agent came to Jacks\u00a0 grandmother in 1951 and said he had to attend school or she would go to jail.\u00a0 She cried and cried and cried.\u201d\u00a0 He remained in the residential system until 1960, when he ran<\/strong><\/p>\n

away at age 17.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He told his grandmother that he wouldn\u2019t go back because I was getting raped and beaten up.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Laying there with someone walking toward you, you can tell what time it is,\u201d he said.\u00a0 You know what\u2019s going to happen.\u00a0 A fellow doing something to you, fondling you, all hours of the night.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Different men on staff forced him to have oral sex and anal sex, which was the shock of a lifetime.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>That story is a reality check for you Chief Minister, Justice C.V.Wigneswaran.\u00a0 Your minority Tamil children didn\u2019t have to experience those despicable-sickening acts in Sri Lanka, and you have the gall to complain about the Sri Lankan government to your goody-two shoes foreign western government visiting nosey-Parkers.\u00a0 Give me a break, Wigneswaran!<\/p>\n

And this is how fortunate your Tamil children were with their schooling and education up to 1981, two years prior to the riots.\u00a0 You can read it, burn the information and use the ash to draw three finger-stripes across your forehead with a prayer that you from now on will be honest with your self and don\u2019t dare to spit at us Sinhalese.<\/p>\n

By 1981 schools in the Jaffna Educational District were well supported and qualitatively superior in comparison with the situation elsewhere in the island.\u00a0 Even in 1981, two years prior to those ugly riots kick started by your Tamil Tigers, the Jaffna Educational District had 555 Government Schools for a Tamil student population of 207, 524, where as the capital Colombo had only 251 such schools for a multi-ethnic student population of 231,690 students. The Sri Lankan Tamils enjoyed a literacy rate of 88.3% compared to 86.5% for the majority Sinhalese.\u00a0 And you have the gall and temerity to complain, croak and gripe.\u00a0 Come on, Wigneswaran give me a break!<\/p>\n

The privileged position of the Jaffna Educational District schools was evident from student facilities and amenities such as approved science laboratories.\u00a0 They were available in 41% of Jaffna schools compared to the all island average of 19.6%.<\/p>\n

So there you are, Wigneswaran.\u00a0 Are you still going to complain like a yellow bellied frog in a muddy-puddle in Killinochchi?\u00a0 Count your lucky stars, and don\u2019t be so stupid and ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Reading a news report in the TAMIL GUARDIAN, you say four years after the armed conflict, tens of thousands of Tamils remain displaced in the Northern and Eastern province as the Sri Lankan military refuses to withdraw from their residential and agricultural lands.\u00a0\u00a0 What\u2019s all that about Wigneswaran?\u00a0 You completely ignore about the lands and houses taken over by the Tamil Tigers, your brethren, in the North and East from other ethnic communities.\u00a0\u00a0 Shish, man! Don\u2019t be so dumb.<\/p>\n

These Tamil Tigers of your community were no God-damn Saints, nor were they paragons of virtue, were they now!\u00a0 These serial killer-scoundrels kicked out 100,000 Muslims in October 1990 within 24\u00a0 hours from the North and East\u00a0 and took over their houses, lands and valuable personal property, and\u00a0are still displaced after a quarter of a century.\u00a0 How come you are not crying for them Wigneswaran?\u00a0\u00a0 You Tamils ethnically cleansed 27,000 Sinhalese between 1971 and 1981, who lived for generations in the Northern peninsula, and they lost their lands and their homes and you don\u2019t cry for them either.\u00a0\u00a0 This is creepy.\u00a0 This is balderdash. This is sick, Wigneswaran.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s when I tell myself, this guy with the red third eye is an absolute sly cunning fox.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No one should believe him!<\/p>\n

I could go on and on and on, stripping every dhoti off you with facts that you will be ashamed of your self, like shedding the seven veils of Salome.\u00a0\u00a0 And I wish my grandmother was around, as you wouldn\u2019t dare try to teach her to suck eggs with this unholy caper.<\/p>\n

So please be honest. Please be judicious\u2026and don\u2019t spit at the Sinhalese as you will be spitting at me as I am Sinhalese. And you bet, I won\u2019t like it one bit and you will most certainly hear from me.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.)<\/p>\n

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Asoka Weerasinghe\u00a0Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 7 June 2015 OPEN LETTER to\u00a0Hon.\u00a0 Justice C.V. Wigneswaran, \u00a0 Chief Minister of the Northern Province, City of Jaffna,\u00a0Sri Lanka. and \u00a0to\u00a0Hon. Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka Dear\u00a0 Justice Wigneswaran: I have been following your story of acting your cry-baby antics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44536","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=44536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}