{"id":77844,"date":"2018-05-29T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=77844"},"modified":"2018-05-29T15:00:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T22:00:05","slug":"removing-wesak-from-the-wesak-vaishakha-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/05\/29\/removing-wesak-from-the-wesak-vaishakha-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing Wesak from the (Wesak) Vaishakha month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ramanie de Zoysa<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Dear editor,<\/p>\n

Today is Wesak full moon day; it is Wesak for the United Nations and it is Wesak for the other few Buddhist countries \u2013 namely Thailand, Myanmar and Laos- but not for Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan Buddhists have been conned into removing Wesak from the full moon day of May- is this to accommodate the growing aggression of the 12 Muslim ministers within the NGO paid Sri Lankan Government? Sri Lanka Muslim is now offended by the Buddha statutes by the roadside\u00a0and pirith chanting in the temples\u00a0while no one condemns the use of loudspeakers to do the call to prayer\u00a05 times a day. Quran demand that idol worshipers\u00a0be beheaded during Ramazan – is this the precursor\u00a0to that?<\/p>\n

Day of Vesak Observances<\/h2>\n

Holiday currently only shown for years 2000\u20132049.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Weekday<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nDate<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nYear<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nName<\/strong><\/td>\nHoliday Type<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Thu<\/td>\nMay 27<\/td>\n2010<\/td>\nDay of Vesak<\/td>\nUnited Nations observance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue<\/td>\nMay 17<\/td>\n2011<\/td>\nDay of Vesak<\/td>\nUnited Nations observance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sun<\/td>\nMay 6<\/td>\n2012<\/td>\nDay of Vesak<\/td>\nUnited Nations observance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sat<\/td>\nMay 25<\/td>\n2013<\/td>\nDay of Vesak<\/td>\nUnited Nations observance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue<\/td>\nMay 13<\/td>\n2014<\/td>\nDay of Vesak<\/td>\nUnited Nations observance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mon<\/td>\nJun 1<\/td>\n2015<\/td>\nDay of Vesak<\/td>\nUnited Nations observance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri<\/td>\nMay 20<\/td>\n2016<\/td>\nDay of Vesak<\/td>\nUnited Nations observance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wed<\/td>\nMay 10<\/td>\n2017<\/td>\nDay of Vesak<\/td>\nUnited Nations observance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue<\/td>\nMay 29<\/td>\n2018<\/td>\nDay of Vesak<\/td>\nUnited Nations observance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sun<\/td>\nMay 19<\/td>\n2019<\/td>\nDay of Vesak<\/td>\nUnited Nations observance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Sri Lankan citizenry that was on a mission to remove the leader who delivered freedom from terror have gone silent. We took the release of Tiger terrorists from prisons without a whimper; we said nothing while most of our war heroes were sent to prison some on death row for killing Tiger terrorists; our silence was deafening when army camps were dismantled and land handed over to Tigers (some returned from hiding overseas); more silence when Buddhist priests were hounded and thrown in jail; tails were between our legs when the Provincial Councils started banning the erection of Buddhist temples in the North or East or even when roadside Buddha statues were being routed in the rest of the country for fear of Muslims being ‘offended’; we have nothing to say when out heritage landmarks in the North and East are being dozered; we pretend not to hear when the native rain forests are being sold to Islamic colonisers from the Middle East; Sinhala youth such Amith Weerasinghe has been jailed for ‘racism’ and has been brutally beaten up in secret for the crime of speaking up about the Islamic rape and colonisation of the Sinhala country. 20th amendment to the Constitution is being hauled in to remove the only obstacle to carving out the country into Eelaam and the Eastern Caliphate. In short, we are more or less where we were when the Tamil terrorists were pummeling us in their heyday!<\/p>\n

What do we do as Sinhala Buddhists to protect our land, people and culture?<\/p>\n

We need to start from the beginning- we need to start with Mavil Aru and end in Nadikadal- again!<\/p>\n

Mavil Aru today has a different name- its Colombo! and the address is C\/-o the Parliament. Let’s start with the two enemy chiefs- Ranil and Maithree!<\/p>\n

Ramanie de Zoysa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ramanie de Zoysa Dear editor, Today is Wesak full moon day; it is Wesak for the United Nations and it is Wesak for the other few Buddhist countries \u2013 namely Thailand, Myanmar and Laos- but not for Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan Buddhists have been conned into removing Wesak from the full moon day of May- […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramanie-de-zoysa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77844","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=77844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}