{"id":60017,"date":"2016-10-23T14:09:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=60017"},"modified":"2016-10-23T14:09:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:09:11","slug":"gosl-delisted-ltte-fronts-have-not-changed-sowing-seeds-of-disharmony-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/10\/23\/gosl-delisted-ltte-fronts-have-not-changed-sowing-seeds-of-disharmony-again\/","title":{"rendered":"GOSL delisted LTTE fronts have not changed – sowing seeds of Disharmony again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shenali D Waduge<\/b><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The Sri Lankan government by a extraordinary gazette in November 2015 delisted 8 organizations that had been listed in 2014 as LTTE fronts supplying material support to the LTTE under UNSC Resolution 1373. The reason for the delisting was given as in the spirit of reconciliation. The Foreign Minister\u2019s response was that there was no tangible evidence to link these groups to LTTE & meant to only “build up the hysteria about the LTTE regrouping\u201d. Alas, Reconciliation has reached stupendous heights. Now these delisted groups are launching books titled “<\/span><\/span><\/b>Proliferating Buddhist Structures in Tamil Homeland sowing the seeds of Disharmony<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/b>” <\/span><\/span><\/b>once again<\/span> <\/b>steering a propaganda of lies from foreign climes where these members are all foreign citizens having forfeited their Sri Lankan citizenship.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Global Tamil Forum (GTF),<\/p>\n

2.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/b>British Tamil Forum (BTF), <\/b><\/p>\n

3.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>National Council of Canadian Tamils (NCCT),<\/p>\n

4.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Tamil Youth Organization (TYO),<\/p>\n

5.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>World Tamil Coordinating Committee (WTCC),<\/p>\n

6.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC),<\/p>\n

7.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/b>Australian Tamil Congress (ATC), and <\/b><\/p>\n

8.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Tamil National Council (TNC)<\/p>\n

In April 2014 16 LTTE fronts and over 400 individuals were declared LTTE fronts incorporating UNSC Resolution 1373. No country where these organizations and most of these individuals are domiciled investigated them for LTTE links and providing material support. Therefore, the legal case filed to list them as LTTE fronts remain valid until investigations are held to claim the contrary.<\/b><\/span> In such a scenario it is precarious that these very entities are canvassing and lobbying the UNHRC to release LTTE cadres, reduce military in the North & East, repeal the PTA, change country laws, stop Sinhala colonization which has now been elevated to stop Buddhisization. Look at their websites and the statements issued to realize where all these demands are going. Release LTTE cadres, give amnesty to LTTE cadres who have fled, remove all military presence in areas where LTTE prevailed \u2013 remove Sinhalese villagers \u2013 dilute country\u2019s terror laws, weaken the country\u2019s new constitution and separatism will become automatic.<\/span><\/p>\n

They say a tiger never changes its stripes. Proven correct by the latest jaunt \u2013 a book launch by the British Tamil Forum in the UK on 24<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup> October 2016, at the <\/span>Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, Westminster, London SW1A 2LW.<\/span> Entrance is free.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/proliferating-buddhist-structures-in-tamil-home-land-book-launch-event-tickets-28459476059?aff=erellivmlt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-Y30QX8th_Q<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/05\/30\/buddhism-in-ancient-jaffna\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Not stopping there another delisted LTTE front \u2013 Australian Tamil Congress also launched the same book on 23<\/span>rd<\/span><\/sup> October 2016 at the Toowong Senior Citizens Hall, in Australia. Refugee Action Collective organizers of the event have inserted a footnote that the event is about <\/span>Sri Lankan government has been using Buddhism as a political weapon against the Tamils\u201d \u2013 Buddhism is the most non-violent religion\/philosophy in the world. It is the only religion that treats all sentient beings including animals with humanity and compassion. Unlike the Abrahamic religions there is not one word in any of the Buddhist texts that speaks a word of violence, war or killing except in self-defence. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is a pity that these delisted entities living in foreign countries, holding foreign passports are again upto mischief not allowing the citizens of the country they left to live in peace and take care of their affairs on their own. Even Britain and its citizens have issues, no country in the world does not have issues. Look at the issues coming out of America during elections. Is the solution to divide nations along ethnic and linguistic lines while at the same time preaching peaceful CO-EXISTENCE? The UN tried ethno-linguistic divisions with both Kosovo and South Sudan and both these experiments have proven miserable failures. Intervention & occupations have not solved anything too \u2013 Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Somalia, Haiti are all excellent examples. Unnecessarily civilians are getting killed, even US soldiers, British Troops and NATO soldiers are getting killed for illegal wars most of which have been based on lies. <\/span><\/p>\n

Returning to the question of homeland \u2013 there is no such Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka. Tamils never evolved in Sri Lanka. Tamils evolved in British created India not Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu State is where 72million of the worlds 76million live and where the initial self-determination for a Tamil homeland began. The same ethnic group cannot claim homeland in 2 different countries. <\/span>http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/10\/07\/we-have-a-problem-can-the-same-ethnic-group-demand-homelandself-determination-in-2-different-countries\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

There are enough of historical, archaeological, hydraulic evidence to showcase that Sinhalese had a civilization in the North since 5<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup> century BC far before Tamils arrived from South India. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka is nothing but a myth – <\/span>http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/02\/20\/demolishing-the-tamil-homeland-myth<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Sri Lanka as an island nation was ruled by the Sinhale kings. The country was divided for administrative purposes only. Jaffna was a sub-kingdom under the Kotte King and thereafter the Kandy King proof of which is confirmed in the Temporal & Spiritual Conquest of Ceylon by Portuguese Father De Queyroz. <\/span>http:\/\/www.sinhalanet.net\/jaffna-was-a-kinglet-subject-to-the-kandyan-kingdom-military-expedition-under-mudaliar-attapattu-despatched-by-kandyan-king-senerath-to-defend-jaffna-tamils-from-portuguese-conquest-in-1619-is-furthe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00b7<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The East was never part of any Tamil Kingdom and was always ruled by the Kandy Kings. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The report by late Cyril Mathew sent to UNESCO in 1983 gives an excellent account of ancient Buddhist monasteries, Buddhist temples and Buddhist architectures that had been prevalent for centuries and which were targets of vandalism by Tamils in both the North & East. Destruction of cultural property is a war crime. <\/span>http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/04\/26\/unp-mp-cyril-mathew-report-to-unesco-proof-sinhalese-were-living-in-the-north-before-tamils\/<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Tamils (Malabars) brought from South India. Tamils were known as Malabars and the use of Ceylon Tamils was only after 1911. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/02\/08\/wigneswaran-should-know-eelam-ceylon-tamil-ethnicity-is-only-105-years-old\/<\/a> <\/span>http:\/\/www.sinhalanet.net\/east-is-also-ready-for-malabar-settlements-as-was-done-in-jaffna-british-viscount-torrington-writes-in-1848-ceylonsri-lanka<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The well-funded campaigns of lies and myths cannot usurp historical facts which are collaborated by foreign historians and even memos and historical writings of all 3 colonial occupiers. <\/span><\/p>\n

Book launches as the one by delisted LTTE fronts are purposely intended to confuse and fool both Western readers and gullible Sri Lankans who spare little time to read and understand the extent of Buddhist structures which remain even after consistent South Indian invasions and colonial occupiers attempted to wipe out the Buddhist history & Buddhist civilization that existed in the North and East and throughout Sri Lanka. Facts are stubborn to accept but myths and lies should never be entertained. <\/span><\/p>\n

De-listed LTTE fronts stand exposed. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Shenali D Waduge<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/09\/12\/message-for-c-v-wigneswaran-from-sinhala-youth\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 The original Jaffna – <\/span>http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/09\/07\/the-kingdom-of-jaffna\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/07\/02\/sinhala-place-names-in-ancient-jaffna\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/06\/29\/hinduism-in-british-ceylon\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/06\/19\/sinhala-and-sinhaladvipa\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0 https:\/\/lrrp.wordpress.com\/2006\/02\/01\/tamilisation-and-sinhalisatation-by-kamalika-pieris\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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