{"id":71624,"date":"2017-11-14T23:56:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T05:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=71624"},"modified":"2017-11-14T16:46:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T23:46:34","slug":"sinhala-buddhists-have-to-re-assert-sinhala-buddhist-rights-and-priviledges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/11\/14\/sinhala-buddhists-have-to-re-assert-sinhala-buddhist-rights-and-priviledges\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinhala\u00a0 Buddhists have to re-assert Sinhala Buddhist Rights and Priviledges."},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Let any one call the Sinhala Buddhists of Sri Lanka \u00a0Sinhala Chauvinists, racists or nationalists. The Sinhala should openly show their pride of being Sinhala, and should not hesitate to rise to defend their rights and priviledges as the people of their Island home.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The time has come for the Sinhala to shout loud \u00a0to drown the dissenting voices and assert our Sinhala Buddhist rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If any one is to write a Constitution to Sri Lanka it is the right of the Sinhala still a majority in the country to do so, and no one besides them has the right to say how it is to be written and what it should contain.<\/p>\n

The whole Island from north to South and West to East belong to the Sinhala Buddhists and those Tamils and Muslims who the Sinhala have accepted as their fellow citizens.<\/p>\n

For over 500 years the Sinhala Buddhist voice was\u00a0 silenced by the advent of Colonialism. Our spiritual philosophy the Buddhism by far the greatest of all religions and religious philosophies, was pushed behind into the shadows of foreign religions invented by foreign conquerors for \u00a0political purposes to allow them to rule over conquered \u00a0people with guns and soldiers, legend and myth, and angels\u00a0 and demons.<\/p>\n

Hinduism is an old philosophy, but its spirituality had been mutilated\u00a0 with idols of gods of human form and animal heads, multitude of arms and heads, and\u00a0 male Lingam washed in milk, and bloody sacrifice of harmless animals to keep \u00a0the poor Tamils bound to the religion\u00a0 through fear, and temptation for\u00a0 rewards for macabre forms of worship.<\/p>\n

The Bibles and the Testament are by those who have not seen the God, but said by the seventy odd prophets in the Bible to have only heard His voice.<\/p>\n

Buddhism is a philosophy founded by a man who developed the mind to find a teaching to liberate all beings, human and animal from suffering , spread a teaching of universal love , compassion and peace to the world.<\/p>\n

This civilised Sinhala\u00a0 culture \u00a0based on the teachings of the Compassionate Buddha was drowned in the muddy waters of a strange \u00a0civilisation introduced through Christian missionaries who followed the conquerors with their guns.<\/p>\n

It was only in 1956 that a revival of the Sinhala Buddhist culture was attempted by a brave man -SWRD Bandaranayake, but unfortunately the Indian Tamils who by then had become Sri Lanka Tamils called him a Nationalist, racist\u00a0 and a Sinhala chauvinist, and all his good intention to create a one nation of Sri Lankans speaking the same language, singing the same national anthem, in the shade of one flag was dissipated\u00a0 in the wake of the demoniac racist call for fifty- fifty and a federal constitution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Indian Tamils of Chola and Pandiyan origin won the day sounding the death knell of a Sinhala Buddhist emancipation.<\/p>\n

The Independence of 1948 again buried the Sinhala Buddhist culture in the\u00a0 mixture of an Indian Tamil race defined as\u00a0 a Sri Lankan Tamil minority . For over 2500 years despite\u00a0 the later mixture of the Indian Tamils of Chola and Pandiya dynasties, this Land remains largely the land\u00a0 of the Sinhala Buddhists.<\/p>\n

Since the first Tamil incursions into Sri Lanka to kill, plunder and ransack our country, Sri Lanka had been a doomed country.<\/p>\n

The Buddhist culture had made Sinhala people tolerant, generous\u00a0 and benign. The Tamils benefitted from this Sinhala National characteristic, but their political motivated leaders-the Tamil Politicians, put to test this\u00a0 tolerant \u00a0Sinhala characteristic to demand equal rights and more political power in areas where they had settled down in large numbers. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The lethargy of successive Sinhala governments, giving into every demands made by the Tamil Politicians, made the Tamil politicians believe that the Sinhala were na\u00efve and stupid( modayas). This culminated in a thirty years of terrorism by the Tamils to advance their demand for a separate Eelam State.<\/p>\n

In this thirty year war of terrorism the people who suffered most were the thousands of innocent Tamil civilians, old and young men,\u00a0 women, and children. They \u00a0were reduced to utter poverty, suffering \u00a0with no proper food to eat, dress to wear, without proper sanitary conditions, \u00a0forcefully driven like\u00a0 cattle from place to place to be the human shields of the Tamil terrorists against the Sri Lanka Armed Forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Armed Forces on the other hand \u00a0made great effort to end terrorism with least damage to civilians\u00a0 whose lives were being held to ransom by the Tamil terrorists making of them \u00a0a human shield to protect them-selves.<\/p>\n

Today the voice of those Tamils who suffered as a human shield of the terrorists, is not heard, \u00a0drowned by the loud voices of TNA politicians and the likes of Sivajilingam, Sumanthiran, Wigneswaran, \u00a0calling for devolution of \u00a0political power without\u00a0 attending to the needs of \u00a0those Tamil civilians<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

These Tamil civilians who really suffered under Tamil terrorism, continue to live with their psychological wounds and traumatism caused by the Tamil terrorists, which the Sinhala Soldiers greatly assuaged through their kind attention and helping the exodus of these poor civilians kept as captives by the Tamil terrorists who were using them as a human shield.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hypocrisy of the USA , the West , the EU and the UN has not helped post-terrorist\u00a0 Sri Lanka to settle disputes amoung Communities, create Communal unity , and establish permanent peace and security despite the suffering the people of \u00a0all Communities went through during the ruthless Tamil terrorism.<\/p>\n

Today, \u00a0these \u00a0hypocrite, arrogant West are planning to divide Sri Lanka between Sinhala, Tamils and Muslims forcing the government to write a federal Constitution, \u00a0because a separated, weakened Sri Lanka is what they want to checkmate Chinese and Russian influence in the southern seas.<\/p>\n

The change of regime in 2015, \u00a0actively supported by the Foreign forces, and the setting up of a UNP- and the right wing SLFP regime misnamed Yahapalanaya, \u00a0have only made matters worse. The development of the country economically, socially, and culturally has been bought to a standstill without\u00a0 a definite plan for the \u00a0development of the country.<\/p>\n

The Communities have been broken up and the Tamil Politicians and Tamil separatist movements have been encouraged\u00a0 by the Western Forces, to make continuous \u00a0separatist demands, and the Government is being forced to give more and more political concessions to Tamil politicians \u00a0for a pseudo reconciliation with the Tamil Community giving them an advantage over the Sinhala majority Community for an eventual\u00a0 setting up of a separatist\u00a0 Tamil Eelam State.<\/p>\n

The initiative taken by the so called Yahapalanaya Government to write a new Constitution to Sri Lanka would irreparably distort the sovereignty of Sri Lanka making it lose the Constitutional\u00a0 protection provided to Buddhist religion, which is Sri Lanka\u2019s\u00a0 national identity.<\/p>\n

The Tamil politicians taking advantage of the weakness of the Yahapalanay government and the allegiance of the Chandrika- Sirisena-Ranil trio of the Yahapalanaya\u00a0 to the West are moving to destroy the hard won \u00a0rights and priviledges of the Sinhala Majority Community initiated by SWRD Bandaranayake with his \u00a0political vision of a united country, \u00a0giving\u00a0 power to the five forces-sanga, guru, veda, govi, kamkaru, of which the country is comprised.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the past we had our great patriotic leaders like H L.Mettananada, P de S. Kularatne , Dr.Malalasekar, Venerable Henpitagedara Gnanaseeha Maha thero , Venerable Madihe Pannasiha Maha thero and so on to fight for the revival of Sinhala Buddhist Culture.<\/p>\n

They organised the Buddhist National Movement to fight against the enemies of\u00a0 Buddhism.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.lhmettananda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Buddhist-National-Movement.pdf<\/p>\n

But today the Sinhala Buddhists have failed to build a sufficiently large and forceful Buddhist revival group. The Bodu Bala Sena was in a way such an effort to revive the Buddhist National Movement which has been discouraged in the farce of reconciliation\u201d- a curse upon Sri Lanka.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today anti Sri Lanka forces are harnessing the Sinhala writers,\u00a0 academicians, and others under a shower of NGO freely distributed American dollars \u2013a weapon of mass destruction, \u00a0\u00a0to destroy the Sinhala Buddhist National Heritage in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Are we to watch this disaster taking place before our eyes doing nothing for fear of being called Sinhala Chauvinists, Nationalist or Racists, remaining \u00a0mere spectators\u00a0 watching Sri Lanka this country of the Sinhala Buddhists sinking like a Titanic into a sea of political disaster<\/strong> ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera Let any one call the Sinhala Buddhists of Sri Lanka \u00a0Sinhala Chauvinists, racists or nationalists. The Sinhala should openly show their pride of being Sinhala, and should not hesitate to rise to defend their rights and priviledges as the people of their Island home. The time has come for the Sinhala to shout […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71624","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=71624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}