{"id":86242,"date":"2019-03-09T00:08:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T06:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=86242"},"modified":"2019-03-08T17:07:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T00:07:17","slug":"mannar-grave-yard-and-human-right-violation-of-the-dutch-and-tamils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/03\/09\/mannar-grave-yard-and-human-right-violation-of-the-dutch-and-tamils\/","title":{"rendered":"MANNAR GRAVE YARD AND HUMAN RIGHT VIOLATION OF THE DUTCH AND TAMILS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There is no doubt that the grave yard uncovered by Sri Lanka\u2019s government in Mannar, was a sacrifice of Catholic faith during the Dutch era.\u00a0 When we attended to Catholic festivals in the Madu Church in the past, the incident was publicly memorised by the Catholic Church and special prayers were conducted by the Catholic Church on account of these martyrs.\u00a0 I think late Chilaw Catholic Bishop, Reverend Edmond Peiris conducted historical studies on this martyrdom. Most probably these martyrs were lower caste Tamils, who converted to Catholic religion against the suppress of the high caste Vellalala people in Jaffna. Buddhists were not associated with this crime against humanity and they demonstrated an exemplary standard.<\/p>\n<p>As we understood, the Dutch administration directly supported to kill innocent Catholics and Hindu Tamils (so-called Tamil provincial administrator, Sankili and his supporters) also extended the support to the Dutch administration for this type of killing.<\/p>\n<p>If we further trace the history a Catholic Convent in Manner was very famous during the Portuguese era.\u00a0 Princes Dona Katarina who was a daughter of King Karaliyadde, was studied in that convent and it is believed that King Rajasinghe the Second also studied there.\u00a0 He was fluent in prot\u00e9g\u00e9es and the Dutch languages. King Karalliyadde also died in Mannar suffering from smallpox epidemic and he may have buried in the same grave yard.<\/p>\n<p>This might be a case for the crime against humanity of the Dutch rulers and high caste Tamils.<\/p>\n<p>It is required to further investigate with documents.\u00a0 The government of Sri Lanka should not coverup this and disclose to the United Nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS There is no doubt that the grave yard uncovered by Sri Lanka\u2019s government in Mannar, was a sacrifice of Catholic faith during the Dutch era.\u00a0 When we attended to Catholic festivals in the Madu Church in the past, the incident was publicly memorised by the Catholic Church and special prayers were conducted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86242","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=86242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}