{"id":75115,"date":"2018-02-25T16:55:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T23:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=75115"},"modified":"2018-02-25T16:55:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T23:55:06","slug":"samapanthans-hog-shearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/02\/25\/samapanthans-hog-shearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Samapanthan&#8217;s Hog-shearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>RANJITH SOYSA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Mr Sampanathan presenting his views on the recent LG elections did cast his bonnet over the windmills with his remarks on the Eelam bud. No sensible, person will even believe that the references made by the LPPP to the proposed destructive constitution would have planted the seed of the Eelam in the minds of the some Tamil people as the history of Eelam goes back to the divide and rule of the British. The privileged Tamils of Vellala clan kept on complaining about the perceived discrimination suffered by the Tamils and were enjoying disproportionate advantages.<\/p>\n<p>Followed by the demand for 50-50 the communal minded Tamil leaders even unsuccessfully attempted postpone the independence of Lanka having submitted \u00a0a petition to\u00a0 the Soulbury \u00a0commission \u00a0Then, no sooner, Sri Lanka was granted the independence the Tamil Arasu Kacchi which meant Tamil State Party was formed in 1949 by S.J.V Chelvanayagam.<\/p>\n<p>The Eelam plant was given a double dose of fertilizer in May 1976 with the adoption of Vaddukodai resolution by then Tamil political leaders demanding a Tamil Eelam and passing on the struggle to the youths for an armed insurrection, The final phase was when Prabahakaran failed in his attempt to strengthen the plant resorting to brutal terrorism. This is the story of the Eelam plant which occupies a special place in the minds of some Tamils<\/p>\n<p>But, the remarks made by the LPPR leaders on the constitution are \u00a0very relevant to the majority of Sri Lankans who believe in a stable and strong Sri Lanka. The proposals for the new constitution will only weaken the centre allowing separatist forces to assume de facto control over land, resources and governance. The citizens have heard the call to stand united against the proposed constitution among other factors loud and clear and they have marked their opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Mr S, a man of one book is merely recreating an old tale. As they say converts will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RANJITH SOYSA Mr Sampanathan presenting his views on the recent LG elections did cast his bonnet over the windmills with his remarks on the Eelam bud. No sensible, person will even believe that the references made by the LPPP to the proposed destructive constitution would have planted the seed of the Eelam in the minds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75115","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=75115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}