{"id":93850,"date":"2019-10-13T15:56:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T22:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93850"},"modified":"2019-10-13T15:56:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T22:56:57","slug":"malaysias-approach-to-neo-ltte-groups-and-the-break-down-of-justice-at-mullaitivu-neeraviyadi-pillayar-kovil-and-buddhist-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/13\/malaysias-approach-to-neo-ltte-groups-and-the-break-down-of-justice-at-mullaitivu-neeraviyadi-pillayar-kovil-and-buddhist-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia’s approach to neo-LTTE groups and the break-down of justice at Mullaitivu Neeraviyadi Pillayar Kovil and Buddhist temple."},"content":{"rendered":"

Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

News reports (e.g., Island 12-Oct-2019) tell us how the Malaysian anti-terrorist unit is handling nascent Neo-LTTE groups when it arrested seven operatives including two members of parliament (Law makers).

Malaysian\u00a0 news reports the arrests of seven LTTE operatives in Malaysia. Two Malaysian Tamil lawmakers are among the seven arrested. Bukit Aman Special Branch Counter-terrorism Division (E8) principal assistant director, Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay says,
To the police, it does not matter who the individual is. Anyone found to be involved in terrorism activities, regardless of their political party, religion, race, if there is evidence that they are involved in terrorism activities, we will arrest them,\u201d


Two of the people arrested were those who had attacked the Sri Lankan high commissioner in 2016.\u00a0 Others had pro-LTTE material, or attempted to organize Hero’s day\u00a0 to commemorate Prabhakaran\u201d.

Mr. Sampanthan, and also Mr. Wigneswarn since 2013, and many other TNA law makers had made\u00a0 statements eulogizing Prabhakaran and\u00a0 pushed the Ideology of the late Terrorist leader. Hero’s day celebrations have been held repeatedly. Last year a UNP law maker stated that the LTTE has to be revived. Such statements would have landed these law makers in Jail if they had been in Malaysia.
So we see how the law of this country is being applied, even in regard to an extremely serious offence equivalent to propagating the ideology of Prabhakaran.

This break down in law seems to be a part of the rule of the TNA in the North. But now, Mr. Sampanthan has raised the issue of the cremation of a Buddhist monk in an area contested by a Palliyar Kovil and a Buddhist Temple. A judge in Mullative has rules against it although the cremation had been done, without even waiting for the judgment, by trying to make it a fait accompli.

How can Mr. Sampanthan and other TNA leaders now come to Colombo and complain in Parliament saying that the law is not obeyed? If they themselves can break the law with impunity in promoting Prabhakaran’s ideology at every public meeting they hold,\u00a0 their complaints ring hollow. How can the lawyers of the Northern Province protest in unison when they keep mum about the break down in law tantamount to treason as seen by the people in the south? This is what the foreign funded NGOs in Colombo claim to be Sinhala-Buddhist\u201d hegemony!

The heavy-handed Bodu-Bala-Sena\u201d of\u00a0 Ven. Gnanasara displays the very antithesis of the behavior expected from a Buddhist monk who is expected to be calm, disciplined, always practicing compassion even to his enemies, and even under provocation. So the BBS is simply a political force.

According to an article in the Sunday Island by its political correspondent Chandraperuma, the BBS is also an NGO with initial links to Champika Ranawaka and the West. It is alleged to be\u00a0 initially funded and supported by the Nordic peace makers\u201d and the US. The US granted Gnanasara a five-year visa and invited him over to visit the US, after his visit to Norway.


So, was the Palliyar Kovil-Temple incident staged to create anger and discord at the dawn of a presidential election? Is this a way of saying, this is what will happen under a Sinhala-Buddhist dominated\u201d Gotabhaya government?

To classify all actions that someone\u00a0 doesn’t like as Sinhala-Buddhist\u201d actions is\u00a0 similar to tarring all blacks as criminals, or all Scots as stingy, et, etc., i.e., a racist mind\u00a0 set where one group is identified.
However, such actions (desecrating temples, chopping of the heads of Buddha statues, sticking Tridents\u00a0 on\u00a0 ruined Stupas) are found among other groups as well, and they are NOT group actions. Unfortunately all you have to is to read some of the rantings that you find in Ground-Views or Colombo Telegraph to see that racism directed against Sinhala Buddhists is alive and well in Sri Lanka.

Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada News reports (e.g., Island 12-Oct-2019) tell us how the Malaysian anti-terrorist unit is handling nascent Neo-LTTE groups when it arrested seven operatives including two members of parliament (Law makers). Malaysian\u00a0 news reports the arrests of seven LTTE operatives in Malaysia. Two Malaysian Tamil lawmakers are among the seven arrested. Bukit Aman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodhi-dhanapala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93850","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=93850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}