{"id":56969,"date":"2016-07-26T10:55:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T16:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=56969"},"modified":"2016-07-26T03:53:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T10:53:53","slug":"sri-lanka-belongs-to-sinhala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/07\/26\/sri-lanka-belongs-to-sinhala\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka belongs to Sinhala."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

France belongs to French, Germany belongs to Germans, Italy belongs to Italians,England belongs to English, India belongs to Indians. (America there is a problems because America belongs to native Americans). However, America belongs to Americans. Sri Lanka belongs to Sinhala.\u00a0 In France there are many minorities\u00a0 Algerians , Polonaise, Africans etc. But they are all French and accept the French Language, its customs and are educated in same schools for the French childen. It is the same with America, Germany, Italy, England, Spain and so on.<\/p>\n

The minorities in\u00a0 France, Germany, Italy, or England do not ask for language rights, and they all speak French the language of the country , they do not sing the French National Anthems in any other language, but in French. The minorities in France accept the French national flag. The Constitutions of these European countries\u00a0 have their\u00a0 religions written into it.\u00a0 It accepts no other Religion.\u00a0 But the minorities have the right to profess their own religion as long as it does not affect the peace and unity of the country.\u00a0 The Minorities in these countries have no political parties of their own. They join the main political parties of the country without distinction of their origin.\u00a0 The children attend same schools and there are no special schools for the minority communities.<\/p>\n

So why should it be different in Sri Lanka, which had been a country of the Sinhala from the beginning.\u00a0 The minority Tamils in reality, not according to fake history being written by\u00a0 the Tamils, came to Sri Lanka as marauders, plunderers and conquerors.\u00a0 They came and destroyed our cities and left them in ruins.<\/p>\n

There was King Elara 205 years before the present era, who\u00a0 set up a Kingdom in Anuradhapura \u00a0and ruled for 44 years until he was ousted and Sri Lanka was united under one flag by King Dutugamunu.\u00a0 And then there was Kalinga Magha in 1215 AD\u00a0 a most destructive Tamil tyrant who set up a regime in Polonnaruva and ruled\u00a0 for 12 years .\u00a0 He was\u00a0 the most destructive man who pillaged and burnt Buddhist places of worship and killed Buddhits monks and built Hindu Kovils. \u00a0He was again defeated in battle and chased away by King Vijayabahu.<\/p>\n

Tamils had been the most destructive occupiers in Sri Lanka. Even today the Sri Lanka Tamils like Sumandiran, Sampanthan, Premachandran, Shivalingam, Sumanthirant\u00a0 and so on\u00a0 are Tamils with the ancient \u00a0mentality of Tamil invaders, marauders, plunderers and destructors like Kalinga Magha.\u00a0 They will not stand for unity, development of Sri Lanka and for the preservation of its culture. They are separatists who will never accept reconciliation.<\/p>\n

In the face of the invasive minded Sri Lanka Tamils the Sinhala Buddhists should unite to protect Sri Lanka\u2019s culture, and its historic places.\u00a0 Sri Lanka governments \u00a0had been giving into the Tamils far too much and for far too long, and these ungrateful Tamils dare say that Tamils suffered genocide under Sinhala governments since 1948. This comes from a Tamil man-Wignesvaran, who was born amoung the Sinhala, studied\u00a0 with the Sinhala, lived his professional life as a judge amoung the Sinhala and married his sons to Sinhala women. How can the Sinhala people keep trusting the Tamils ?<\/p>\n

Any body who had lived long enough in Sri Lanka would know that the Tamils had not been treated differently from\u00a0 other citizens. They have been given\u00a0 all the rights enjoyed by the rest of the population. But their nature is such that they ask for more giving nothing in return to develop the country or protect it against its enemies.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Next the Muslims who \u00a0came to Sri Lanka only in the 12th<\/sup> Century. When the Muslim traders \u00a0were being driven away from the southern seas by the Portuguese, they came to the Sinhala King Rajasinghe II and asked for refuge and protection. The\u00a0 King allowed them to Settle down in the East and even\u00a0 allowed them to marry local women. The present day Muslims in Sri Lanka are the \u00a0descendents of these early Muslim settlers, who now follow the Tamils asking for separate rights, and illegally clear forest reserves to create Muslim settlements.<\/p>\n

The Muslims should if they are a grateful people \u00a0be more close to the Sinhala people. But it is the Muslims leaders like Rauf \u00a0Hakhim, and Rishad Baduieen who \u00a0take the lead in helping the Muslims to occupy \u00a0ancient ruins like the Kurugala caves and clear \u00a0the Wilpattu\u00a0 Natural Forest reserves. These are \u00a0parts of our national heritage, which belong to every one. But showing no respect to these national heritage to preserve and protect it shows that the Muslims like the Tamils have no patriotic loyalty to Sri Lanka. They are also turning out to be a party to Tamil invasive mentality who want to divide the motherland for the satisfaction of their racial demands.<\/p>\n

There cannot be any reconciliation with these two communities who are evidently anti-reconciliation. Under these circumstances it is difficult to understand why USA and the Western countries keep on demanding reconciliation.\u00a0 If there is to be a reconciliation these two communities should\u00a0 relinquish their anti reconciliatory demands, and take an oath of allegiance to a unitary Sri Lanka, and renounce their separatist demands for federalist constitution or a separate province for one\u00a0 ethnic group. <\/strong><\/p>\n

There was an interesting discussion in Derana TV Aluth Paralimenthuwa with Attorney Ali Sabri amoung others. President\u2019s Counsel Ali Sabri said that for real reconciliation Sri Lanka should be like it was before separate Schools for ethnic communities were opened. He said that had even asked Zahira College to give 10 percent of admission to students from other communities.<\/p>\n

That was true studying in the same school where you had children from Sinhala , Tamil and Muslim communities there was a communal unity unimaginable today. I the writer still has school friends in Madawala, and when \u00a0we meet we do not fail to hug each other to the utter surprise of other Muslims present\u00a0 that had not known that unity.<\/p>\n

But I cannot accept what Ali Sabri said was genuine. I feel it was only for the TV Cameras. In reality Muslims \u00a0have changed and care less whether Sinhala is the majority.<\/p>\n

In that same Dererna TV discussion the senior journalist\u00a0 Mohan Samaranayake said that we cannot claim that Sri Lanka is the land of Sinhala Buddhists as Buddha himself had refused ownership of any thing.\u00a0 But the Buddha was the enlightened Compassionate one that belongs to all beings without race or colour. We are still unenlightened beings and as Sinhala we cannot \u00a0refuse that Sri Lanka is the land of the Sinhala and all others are citizens of that land most welcome and accepted as equals, provided they do not claim ownership to the whole of Sri Lanka or parts of it.<\/p>\n

The President Sirisena likes to make speeches. But if he does not keep surveying his Prime Minister and the UNP who are slowly preparing to sell the country to USA, the West and India with his ego centric attitude getting into the shoes of a pseudo Dictator, Sirisena will not have a country to lead as its President. Maithripala\u00a0 is\u00a0 not aware that Ranil has reappointed his buddy\u201d Arjun Mahendran the sacked Governor of Central Bank to another high post in the Government.<\/p>\n

The self satisfied Maithripala Sirisena does not know that his Prime Minister has give six acres of prime land in Colombo for the construction of an American military base for its Marine Forces. Ranil Wickramasinghe \u00a0is also proposing to \u00a0lease half of the oil containers in Trincomalee to India.\u00a0 Ranil Wickrmasinghe who cares less for Sri Lanka its culture or Buddhist religion, is planning to become the executive Prime Minister and the President in 2020.<\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena the President who is blissfully ignorant of his Prime Minister\u2019s deals with USA, the West and India \u00a0has\u00a0 asked the National Integration and Reconciliation Ministry to draw up a draft national policy on integration and reconciliation.\u00a0 Maithripala cannot understand that the Tamils in Sri Lanka do not want reconciliation. Further proof of this comes from the\u00a0 Jaffna University students savagely assaulting the Sinhala undergraduates<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Now Sirisena is planning how to stop the Pada Yatra\u201d the foot walk\u201d \u00a0proposed by the Joint Opposition.\u00a0 He says that his dissent with the former President began with the Moragaskanda Project.\u00a0 Maithripala Sirisena who cannot control his anger and hatred is not fit to lead Sri Lanka as its President.<\/p>\n

Sirisena \u00a0should take a lesson from Mahinda Rajapakse who was gentle and humble (mudu anathimani as in Karaniya metta Sutta) to offer Maithripala Sirisen the Presidency of the SLFP after he was defeated at the election. No good can come to Maithripala Sirisena if his only intention is to take revenge from the good ex-President Mahind Rajapaksa.<\/strong><\/p>\n

His assertion that his dissent with the former President \u00a0began with \u00a0the Moragaskanda issue is nonsense, because Maithripala was lured by Chandrika Kumararunga to become the Common Opposition\u00a0 Presidential candidate.\u00a0 It is greed for power, fear and an inferiority complex that has made him\u00a0 revengeful towards Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/p>\n

President Sirisena\u00a0 is making up other stories to cover up his hypocracy. Sirisena \u00a0is jealous of the \u00a0popularity of the ex Presiden Mahinda Rajapakse.Therefore, he allows Ranil Wickramasinghe pursue with his FCID to prosecute Mahinda Rajapakse and his Family, and all those he consider a danger to his popularity.<\/p>\n

The masses of the people, other than some of the English Educated Colombians, the Tamils and the Muslims,\u00a0 the bulk of te Sinhala Buddhists are with the Ex-President Mahinda Rajapakse. Mahinda Rajapakse will be theirs\u2019 and their generation\u2019s\u00a0 heroic leader. Maithripala Sirisena will never reach that height of popularity.<\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena should take stock of the situation of the Country and stop trying to please and win over the Tamils and Muslims taking away the rights of the Sinhala People. With a Prime Minster in control of the Government, this is not the time to write a new Constitution. If Prime Minister is allowed to do as he likes, he will\u00a0 have a New Constitution prepared \u00a0to conform to the wishes of USA, the West and India.<\/p>\n

Ranil\u00a0 has already his man at the head of the preparation of the Constitution-Jayampathy Wickramaratne. He is the wrong man to handle the constitution making process. He is anti Mahinda Rajapakse and pro Ranil Wickramasinghe. He has no sense of cultural and historical importance of Sinhala people in Sri Lanka. He speaks of a country acceptable to all ethnic groups.<\/p>\n

Jayamapath Wickramaratne showed even his inability to discuss calmly \u00a0and answer the \u00a0questions put to him by the journalist Favaz Shaukelali at the\u00a0 discussion in the MTV News line held\u00a0 on 22 July, 2016.\u00a0 Jayamapath Wickramaratne has no independent objective political views.<\/p>\n

The Constitution should be prepared only when the country is settled down and under a leader who could understand the importance of a Constitution for Nation building, without leaving room for separatist intentions of unpatriotic communities take away the legitimate rights of the Sinhala people to whom \u00a0Sri Lanka belongs.<\/p>\n

In writing a new constitution\u00a0 the Sinhala flag, brought down by the British colonialists to raise their Union Jack, should find its rightful place. For that the two stripes representing the Tamils and Muslims should be removed, as it is a mutilation of that Sinhala flag which was brought\u00a0 down by the British in 1815. It should also give the rightful place to the National\u00a0 Anthem, which should be sung in Sinhala.\u00a0 A new Constitution for Sri Lanka if necessary should not have the 13Amendment. It should give Sinhala Language the Official Status, and a clause to protect Buddhism.<\/p>\n

However, one does not see at all the necessity to write a new Constitution to Sri Lanka, specially now that the country is communally divided as it had never been before. The 1978 Constitution had served its purpose and it is best to continue with it with necessary amendments as and when required. <\/strong><\/p>\n

No country in the world writes a new constitution every time a new government is formed in the country after an election. Why should it be different for Sri Lanka ?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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