{"id":69045,"date":"2017-08-18T16:51:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T23:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=69045"},"modified":"2017-08-18T16:51:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T23:51:35","slug":"wrong-perception-of-sinhala-buddhist-imperialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/08\/18\/wrong-perception-of-sinhala-buddhist-imperialism\/","title":{"rendered":"WRONG PERCEPTION OF SINHALA BUDDHIST IMPERIALISM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ranjith Soysa\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

To:<\/strong>US Secretary of State. <secretary@state.gov><\/a>, US Embassy Sri Lanka <colomboacs@state.gov><\/a><\/p>\n

Dear Sirs<\/p>\n

According to Tamil Guardian of 17 Aug 2017, US State Dept International Religious Freedom report for 2015 has reported that the Buddha statues inNorth and East of Sri Lanka creates the perception of\u00a0 Sinhala Buddhist imperialism!<\/p>\n

The above conclusion is not only\u00a0 misleading but also, malicious.You would no doubt agree that the term “Imperialism”\u00a0 cannot be applied to any activity conducted in countries such as Sri Lanka but of course can be identified with many of questionable acts perpetrated by the Western countries such\u00a0 as the UK, France, Belgium. Holland and the United States of America.<\/p>\n

The use of the misnomer by you would have arisen unconsciously through the historical and contemporary activity patterns of the USA.\u00a0When you speak of Buddha statues in the North and the East, can you recollect the number of Buddha statues of recent origin apart from the statues which were there for hundreds of years when the country was ruled by\u00a0the ancient kings.<\/p>\n

The number of statues constructed within last 50 years definitely will NOT exceed 100. But. during last 50 years there was a movement of the population and the positioning of the armed forces which is reflected in the population of Sinhala Buddhists, Sinhala Christians, Tamil Hindus, Tamil Christians and Muslims. As an example about 60 % of the Tamil population of the North has migrated to the Western and Central provinces during the last 30 years.<\/p>\n

In short, in every province there is a mixture of different ethnic and religious groups.In the North and the East apart from civilian Sinhalese there is substantial number of Sinhalese Buddhists in the armed forces stationed in their camps.<\/p>\n

As a result of the\u00a0 situation outlined, the number of new Buddhist temples, Christian churches, Hindu kovils and Muslim mosques have come\u00a0 up in all parts of the country,In fact, there are many\u00a0 new mosques in all parts of the countries and increased number of Hindu Kovils in the Western and Central provinces,\u00a0For the USA to act as a blind bat and to ignore the building of many new places of worship and to concentrate its attention in counting ONLY the new Buddha statues in the North and the East is due opting to give voice to the separatists and the terrorists to realize their objective of mono -ethnic project for the North and the East.<\/p>\n

Whilethe USA is proclaiming from the housetop her blinkered perceptions of Sri Lanka and the Buddha statues in the North and the East, ironically there is spate virulent and very ugly riots taking place in a number of cities in the USA concerning the\u00a0 statues built for her slave masters. The USA ‘s\u00a0misdirected attempts to hang other countries higher than Gilderoy’s kite\u00a0have come home!\u00a0PHYSICIAN\u00a0 HEAL\u00a0 THYSELF\u00a0Ranjith Soysa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ranjith Soysa\u00a0 To:US Secretary of State. <secretary@state.gov>, US Embassy Sri Lanka <colomboacs@state.gov> Dear Sirs According to Tamil Guardian of 17 Aug 2017, US State Dept International Religious Freedom report for 2015 has reported that the Buddha statues inNorth and East of Sri Lanka creates the perception of\u00a0 Sinhala Buddhist imperialism! The above conclusion is not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-security","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69045","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=69045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}