{"id":85797,"date":"2019-02-22T16:03:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T23:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=85797"},"modified":"2019-02-22T16:03:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T23:03:53","slug":"why-is-this-sudden-concern-for-bbs-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/02\/22\/why-is-this-sudden-concern-for-bbs-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is this sudden concern for BBS leader?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0C. Wijeyawickrema<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Ravi Karunanayaka, Mano Ganeshan and Asad Sally, three non-Buddhists, went to see Galagodaatte Gnanasara Thero in the prison hospital, and the dialogue ensued as reported by websites was as follows:<\/p>\n

Monk:<\/p>\n

I was sent to jail for 19 years on false charges. If you see the Video tape recording of what happened between me and the magistrate on that unfortunate day you can see how I was framed.<\/p>\n

RaviK:<\/p>\n

Please give leadership to save the country from breaking in to pieces and save Buddhism for eternity, when you come out of the prison.<\/p>\n

Why did these three politicians go to see the monk? What is the open and hidden purpose? Why were they silent when there was high expectation that the monk would be released from prison along with the other prisoners released on February 4th<\/sup>? Did they try to prevent PM Ranil\u2019s wife signing a petition against releasing the monk, which had false information?<\/p>\n

This drama reminds one of the previous one by the American ambassador visiting the Nagaviharaya, Kotte, with atapirikara <\/em>to the late Ven. Maduluwave Sobhita. Can it be a very faint, remote plan to get the monk excited for a bribe for freedom. This is not going to work, because the messengers are not honest. If they were honest, at least after the visit, they should have run to the minister of justice and watch the video tape together and request an explanation from the AG Dept why they framed the monk despite the overwhelming evidence against it.<\/p>\n

The monk is not only in prison, but two SC judges put another prison around him. When the prisoner- monk petitioned the SC, seeking permission to appeal against his conviction by the Court of Appeal (CA), the three-judge bench denied the monk his right for natural justice.\u00a0 Of the two judges who decided to deny the petition without considering its merits, one was an active anti-BBS officer of the SL Bar Association. SLBA hated BBS for some unknown reason, perhaps because BBS wants to remove the suddage neethiya,<\/em> under which lawyers are thriving.<\/p>\n

The video tape proves that the CA decision was factually wrong. There was simply no ground to decide that the monk had an intention to insult the court.<\/p>\n

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  1. CA says the monk did not apologize to the magistrate. The Video shows that he apologized not once but twice, without any conditions;<\/li>\n
  2. CA says the monk called the govt. lawyer a Video shows this was no so.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Video clip clearly shows that the monk and the magistrate had a dialogue or exchange of views. CA thought that the monk threated the judge.\u00a0 What actually took place was, when the discussion was over and the monk left the court house and\u00a0 the judge began to take up his next case on the roster, the govt. lawyer who was outside the court house came to know about the incident and went back to insist the judge to take action against the monk.\u00a0 The judge\u2019s discretion of what he wants to do was taken away from him by the govt lawyer and the JVP lawyer who was appearing for Eknaligoda\u2019s wife. They put the judge in an embarrassing situation in an open court.<\/p>\n

    This is a case Mrs. Chandrika wanting to put Bodu Bala Sena in balu kuudu. If the monk is not released soon, if a larger bench of SC is not going to re-hear this case, the monk has only one option, to go before the people\u2019s court. At the next election, he should contest while in prison. At the next presidential election, he should contest from the jail, so that voters get an opportunity to register their disapproval of this corrupt system of green, blue, SLPP and red politics.<\/p>\n

    A hand bill explaining the injustice done to him must be distributed all over the country to educate people on the facts of the case. After all, all other communities also expressed their dissent against this unfair jail term. They now know that BBS was not what dishonest politicians tried to brand it. Most of what BBS has pointed out are now burning issues in the country. Look at this: half of MPs do not have even GCE (OL) level; half of them, including the SL Bar Association, took bribe-money from Arjun Aloysius; and now half of them took money from Madush! May be wish Madush killed by the Dubai govt. so the secrets will go with him.<\/p>\n

    I think it is time for Udaya Gammanpila to join with BBS informally, because BBS is not against any non-Buddhist community. He should submit the video tape which disproves CA ruling to the parliament for record.<\/p>\n

    In a corrupt system of governance, nobody will hand over justice on a platter, you have to fight for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u00a0C. Wijeyawickrema Ravi Karunanayaka, Mano Ganeshan and Asad Sally, three non-Buddhists, went to see Galagodaatte Gnanasara Thero in the prison hospital, and the dialogue ensued as reported by websites was as follows: Monk: I was sent to jail for 19 years on false charges. If you see the Video tape recording of what happened between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-wijeyawickrema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85797","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=85797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}