Thursday, 31 July 2014
Lamborghini culture, Executive Presidency, the Villagers and village roads, and living conditions of women working in Industrial Zones.
No
body can deny the tremendous infrastructure development and economic growth of
Even
Mahinda
Rajapakse has embellished the august position he holds as the executive
President of
The
Executive Presidency- that every one of his opponents wants to abolish including a
prelate who should better occupy the
vocation for which he had been enrobed, than dabble in politics which is by all means not for which he had accepted to put on a saffron robe, fits well for
the President Mahinda Rajapakse .
There
is no one amoung the present day
politicians of
The
President Rajapakse is a very clever, political leader utilising his position not to embellish himself,
but use it to the maximum for the
welfare of his country and his people.
If not for him we would not have seen the now common innumerable lowly
manifestations shouting slogans against
the President and his government.
It was the
executive President Premadasa who armed the terrorists. It was the executive President Chandrika Kumaratunge
who treated the terrorist as equal partners
in the famous P-TOMS agreement in distributing
funds for reconstruction of tsunami
affected areas. And it was Ranil Wickramasing
not even as a President, turning
his back to the elected Executive President Chandrika Kumaratunga signed the
CFA with the terrorist leader demarcating territories to be kept under terrorist control.
But
Mahinda Rajapakse when he was elected the President knew what exactly he was
going to do. He knew how to make the
government and the Armed Forces take
responsibilities, one to govern and the
other to provide security and eliminate terrorism. He appointed able people for their proved
ability, not because they were his family members to make them partners of his
vision of
President
Mahinda Rajapakse appointed Gotabhaya Rajapakse as the Defence Secretary
not because he was his brother, but because he was a retired Lt. Colonel of
the Sri Lanka Armed Forces twice decorated by the Executive President
J.R.Jayawardhane. He could be credited
for his military experience having fought against terrorism for twenty years, and trusted more than any body else being his own
younger brother.
After
the elimination of terrorism, Mahinda
Rajapakse turned to develop the country
in a big way. As a true Leader he gave responsibility to those who were selected as his Ministers without interfering into their
work. Some of them may have erred, while
others have done well, but it is usual
that if some thing goes wrong, the blame comes to the leader.
But the
Executive President Mahinda Rajapakse withered accusation, and undeterred
changed Sri Lanka into a country well
known in the World not bound to West or East but opening itself to rich as well
as poor Sovereign States of the world as an equal without discrimination against
the forms of governments, their
religious beliefs, or for their wealth or their military strength. For that he earned the wrath of the Western
Countries. But to day
Years
after these achievements it is time to take account of what has been achieved
as well as where things have gone wrong. When things go well there is always
the tendency to continue without change, without wanting to change the old
habits. Along with progress and prosperity comes corruption, this is not
surprising in the field of politics.
President Mahind Rajapakse is not unaware of what is going on, but he being a
man who does not precipitate into action without looking at a problem from different aspects would at the end find an acceptable solution.
The Executive President
Mahinda Rajapakse never misused his executive powers, but his
opponent make mountains out of mole hills,
as there is nothing else they could
invent to make the President unpopular. They have tried and continue to try to
make an issue of drug trafficking. But drug mafia today is a global problem. No
country has so far stopped the dangerous
large scale drug business. His opponents make use of religious conflicts
involving the Sinhala Buddhist Community
and the Muslim Community .
This Muslim adventurism coming from the States of the
These
movements are not sponsored by the
Government, and so far the Government has managed to pacify the parties. The Muslims cannot ask for more privileges, like the Tamil Community had
been doing since
What
appears to be wrong in
But
we have to know when the tourism oriented development should be deviated to people oriented development to give the masses the benefit of what
It
is important that
Car
racings are good in countries where ordinary people can take part in this sport. This like Golf links
would cater to some tourists and few of
the new rich, but the larger proportion of
the people will not benefit from such sports in whatever scale they are
organised. Are these sports organised for the sake of the income they generate or because of the prestige to the country that
may come with them ?
There
are artificial off shore Islands being constructed in the South and in
With
all these tourist oriented developments Sri Lanka has had only one million tourists in 2012
compared to Phillipine’s 4.3 million tourist, Vietnam’s 6.8 million and
Indonesia 8 million tourists.
The Minister of
Transport had stated that he was buying
a fleet of Indian buses. But the
Minister has never thought of buying
small buses to ply on village roads.
The big TATA buses plying on village roads, damage the village roads
and are a nuisance for the poor villagers
using the road for their daily errands as the bus takes the whole road and some
times put the villagers in danger.
The
opposition parties cry loud about commissions on development projects. They have forgotten selling public
enterprises to private individual for
amounts far lower than their real value, what happened to the difference
in cash values of those enterprises. DS
Senanayake was supposed to have kept
with him documents showing the underhand dealings of his Cabinet of Ministers
including that of G.G.Ponnambalam’s tractor deal which he brandished when they were troublesome.
There was
recently a report in
Therefore,
Minister Champika Ranawaka’s
raising of danger signals in good faith
has to be taken seriously into
consideration by the President and the Government and make amends.
Monday, 28 July 2014
How morally clean are UK, US politicians demanding investigation into Sri Lanka’s rightful war against terrorism ?
Andy
Coulson, David Cameron’s former Director
of Communication who was hired to write
his biography along with Lord Ashcroft has been jailed for 18 months for
phone hacking an illegal practice under the British Law. Later Cameron
apologised for the appointment.
Though phone hacking is ruled an illegal practice in UK , in USA the President Barrack Obama has
been caught practicing this illegal practice. It was reported that,
“President Barack Obama was dragged into the trans-Atlantic spying row after it was claimed he personally authorised the monitoring of Angela Merkel’s phone three years ago.
“President Barack Obama was dragged into the trans-Atlantic spying row after it was claimed he personally authorised the monitoring of Angela Merkel’s phone three years ago.
The president allegedly allowed US intelligence
to listen to calls from the German Chancellor’s mobile phone after he
was briefed on the operation by Keith Alexander, director of the National
Security Agency .”
The USA
National Security Agency has admitted to monitoring telephone conversations of
35 world leaders. After the revelation
of this American practice e Angela Merkel
the Chancellor of Germany burst out in anger ,
and is said to have called USA President Obama directly to say, “that she unmistakably disapproves of and
views as completely unacceptable such practices, if the indications are
authenticated, this would be a serious breach of confidence. Such practices
have to be halted immediately."
Obama has admitted the illegal method utilised by his
Agency, and said “….that her phone is not being monitored now – and will
not be in future.” But the US has
pointedly declined to discuss the NSA’s actions in the past.
Even France had resorted to this illegal phone
tapping though not to the extent of USA . “John Kerry, the US
secretary of state, received a dose of European fury this weekend when he
visited Paris and Rome . The trip was arranged to discuss the
Middle East peace process, the Syrian civil war and Iran ’s nuclear programme. Instead,
he was confronted by outrage over the scale of US surveillance operations.
“The magnitude of the eavesdropping is what
shocked us,” said Bernard Kouchner, a former French foreign minister, in a
radio interview. “Let’s be honest, we eavesdrop too. Everyone is listening to
everyone else. But we don’t have the same means as the United States , which makes us
jealous.” (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/10407282/Barack-Obama-approved-tapping-Angela-Merkels-phone-3-years-ago.html)
That is not all. The USA
and UK law makers cannot
claim to be morally clean, when they accuse Sri Lanka armed forces for
violation of human rights and using rape as an arm, while they hide behind them the accusations levelled against them not for small crimes but for the most
degrading crime of child sex.
On 5 July, 2014 The Times Home Correspondent Richard Ford reported on “ Investigation
launched into Whitehall child sex dossier. The Prime Minister David Cameron had asked
the Home Office to carry out a review into what happened to the dossier
detailing an alleged paedophile network at Westminster .
Apparently the file
named “Dickens Dossier” had
volatilised. Mark Sedwill the Permanent Secretary at the Home Office had
commissioned a review to find out what happened to the file “ Dickens
Dossier” which had been handed over to Lord Brittan by Geoffrey Dickens. The review was carried out and released
without publicity by the Home Office.
The review had in conclusion said that the so called “Dickens Dossier”
had not, however been retained “in line
with departmental policy” and that it had been destroyed, though the material from the dossier was referred to the Metropolitan Police and the then director of public
prosecution. That is how the mother of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth
deals with matters with regard to
serious allegations against the Members of
Her Majesty’s Parliament.
In
another report it is said, that numerous
high ranking British Politicians are
being investigated for their involvement in an extensive paedophile ring. And adds that
the full scope of the scandal in the UK
can’t be fully appreciated without looking at the other side of the Atlantic . The
report adds, “it wasn't
that long ago that those who claimed that there was a massive pedophile ring
involving officials in the highest levels of government were written off as
conspiracy theorists and kooks. That is no longer the case, at least in the U.K. It turns
out that this so called conspiracy theory was not true, and is finally being
officially investigated.”
At least
forty British MPs are said to be implicated in this damning affair. Investigations had started after a scandal which centered around
rape and child abuse accusations against
BBC presenter Sir Jimmy Savile who died in 2011. The victims of Savile
had testified that the abuse involved an
organised paedophile ring which was operated out of the BBC.
In
another turn of events the British Police claims that they have overwhelming
evidence that Jimmy Savile’s friend former British MP Sir Cyril Smith had
physically abused young boys in the 1960s.
The report states that as it is too late to bring Jimmy Savile and Cyril Smith, as they are both dead the question is
whether the rest of the ring will be prosecuted.
The article poses the
important question : “You think this high powered pedophilia network only operated in the U.K. ?
I've got news for you, the United
States government has been covering up their
own pedophile network for decades. As in the U.K. case, the evidence surfaced
years ago but nothing was ever done.”
The article presents three videos.
The first video prepared for the Discovery Channel was so damaging that it was not allowed to air it in the US . The second
which showed “ The thousands of Pentagon
employees implicated in a child pornography sting operation. That case was
mysteriously dropped and never mentioned again.”
The last video is: “The NSA whistleblower Russel Tice exposed the
fact that news organizations, the State Department, high ranking military
officials and members of Congress and the Senate were being spied on
extensively for years. (This may seem unrelated at first, but listen carefully
to what Tice says, and consider the implications.)
Put it all together and a very
ominous picture emerges.”
The reporter ends the article
saying, “Each and every one of these predators are compromised in such a way,
that whoever holds evidence that could expose them, would have total control
over their actions. You would own them.
We generally think of blackmail as a
means of extracting money, but to have the goods on a senator, an MP or a
president is far more valuable. If you have the political elite, media, and the
intelligence agencies under your thumb, anything is possible.
This is how you create puppets that
are willing to start wars for you.”
Perhaps UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights Navi Pillai should have
appointed an International Investigation
team “with names undisclosed” to probe into the scandal !
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Is that which happened in Aluthgama-Beruwala a coming back of the Ghosts of the Past ?
It was still a British Colony
called Ceylon .
There were two Muslim Communities, one the Mohammadan Communities which
Consisted of those who had settled down in Sri Lanka for Centuries and learnt the necessity of living in peace with
the Sinhala respecting their religious
observances, and the other the “Hambayas”,
immigrants from the East Coast of South
India. They were not permanent settlers
and did not intermarry from other Mohammadan Communities in Sri Lanka . They were there strictly for trade. The prosperous Hambayas rebuilt and enlarged
the Mosques in Gampola and Kandy
for the Mohammadan Communities.
The British Colonial rulers could
not eliminate or reduced to a minimum
significance the native Sinhala people, as they did with the indigenous population
in Canada ,
Australia and New Zealand ,
and the American immigrants did in USA with the native Indians.
In 1912 in the British Colonial
Ceylon the Buddhists were preparing to celebrate their Buddhist Esala Perahera
in August, 1912, conducting the
procession through all the streets of Kandy . The Hambayas informed the Police that they objected
to the Esala Perahera of the Sinhala Buddhists passing past their newly built
Mosque with the beating of drums, the blowing of horns, and the cheering of the crowds.
The Government Agent Mr.Saxton
ordered the police to mark off the area of the Mosque, and inform the Basnayake
Nilame of the Buddhist
Temple that in
conducting the Esala Perahera through
the streets no drums or other musical instruments should be played when going
past the Hambayas’mosque indicated by the sign posts. Surprised by this unexpected turn of event,
the trustees of the Temple
stopped all preparations for the conduct of the perahera, and complained to the
District Court that the order of the Government Agent is against the Convention of 1815.
The DJ of Kandy Paul E.Peiris ruled that the Order
of the Government Agent was against the Convention and the Temple has the right to conduct the
procession with elephants, playing drums and other musical instruments even in
the streets where the Mosque had been built.
The Government Agent through the
Attorney General appealed against the judgement of the DJ. The Supreme court
heard the case.
On the 15 January,1915, during the
period before the Judgement of the Supreme Court was delivered, a Buddhist
procession carrying a statue of a Buddha was going past a Muslim school
improvised as a Mosque in Telliagamuwa village where the majority of the
inhabitants were Mohammadans. The
Mohammadans attacked the Buddhists and damaged the Statue. The Kurunegala police arrested 14
Mohammadans and produced them before the
Police Magistrate charged with rioting and being members of an unlawful
assembly. Further hearing was fixed for
the 2 February, 1915.
However, on the 2 February,1915 the
Supreme Court consisting of Judges Shaw and Sampayo delivered its judgment
reversing the Order of the DJ Paul E.Peiris, in favour of the plaintiffs the
Hambayas, and pronounced the Convention
is controlled and varied by the Police and Local Boards Ordinance. The Buddhist were in despair and cried out,
“…. Who has ever opposed us in our Kandyan Provinces except the newly arrived
Hambayas ? ”
In the meantime the Sinhala
Buddhists were preparing to Celebrate another great even the Wesak the anniversary of the Birth, Enlightenment and
the Parinibbana of the Great Buddha which fell on the 28 May, 1915. The organisers of Wesak celebrations applied
to the Government Agent for the usual licence for the Buddhist Carol
Procession. But the Hambayas objected to the issue of the licence. The Government Agent having ascertained from
Hambayas that the their Castle Hill Street Mosque will be closed at midnight on
the 28th May, issued the licence on condition that the procession
will not enter the Castle Hill Street before 12 Midnight.
At about 1
a .m the first procession with musicians in a decorated
Carol Cart turned from king Street to the Castle Hill Street . But the Mosque was open and lit up with crowds of Hambayas , Mohammadans
and Afghans standing on either side of the Street. Inspector Cooray observing the defiance of
the Mohammadans stopped the procession
going forward in to the Castle Hill street and turned it into a cross street to
avoid the Mosque altogether. The Carol
party obediently turned to the Cross street. The Mohammadans then started
clapping hands, and jeering . At that moment the Second Cart with musicians
came and proceeded into the Castle
Hill Street , then the first cart that had turned
to the Cross Street
followed the second cart into the Castle
Hill Street .
In the meantime in Gampola the
Hambayas attacked a Buddhist procession .
In Kandy
a Sinhala youth of 18 years was murdered by the Mohammadans under the indifferent eyes of the
Police. The Sinhala Buddhists were
afraid that the Mohammadans would attack the Temple of the Tooth. The Sinhala people came from villages and
gathered in Kandy to protect the Temple of the Tooth.
http://fr.scribd.com/doc/207759720/Riots-and-Martial-Law-in-Ceylon-1915
“Alarmed by what they interpreted as
a revolt against British rule, the authorities proclaimed Martial Law on June
2nd, and for three months the innocent Sinhala Buddhists were ground beneath an
iron heel as ruthless as any which marched to the battlefields of distant Europe . Influential persons were arrested without a scrap
of evidence against them, public servants were dismissed, and civilians tried
by Courts Martial after the cessation of the riots, while the ordinary Courts
of Justice were sitting uninterruptedly.”
Anagarika
Dharmapala was a voice that aroused the patriotism of the Sinhala Buddhists. He
had the good fortune to be in India at
the time of the Mohammadan –Sinhala riots, if not he would certainly have been
arrested and shot, as his frequent visits to Japan and his efforts to regain
the Buddha Gaya Temple had already made him an object of suspicion. Determined
to wreak vengeance on the Hewavitarane family, the authorities arrested the
Anagarika’s younger brother Edmund, tried him by Court Martial for treason,
found him guilty and sentenced him to penal servitude for life. He contracted
enteric fever owing to the unsanitary condition of the jail in which he was
confined, and before the end of the year he was dead .”
On Thursday, 12 June,2014, it was the Poson Poya a sacred day for the
Buddhists. Venerable Ayagama Samitha Thera of the Kurunduwatte Sri Wijayaramaya was
being driven in a vehicle to Pathiragoda
Temple to deliver a
sermon through Durga town. It was a narrow road, there was a motor cycle and a
three wheeler stopped on the middle of the road. The driver of the vehicle taking Venerable
Samith Thero tooted the horn of his vehicle to give notice of his vehicle and
asked the driver of the three wheeler and the motor cyclist to make way for him
to proceed. The Muslim youths the owner of the motor cycle and the driver
of the three wheeler then started shouting back , and pulled the
driver of the vehicle taking the priest,
out of the vehicle and hit him , the priest then got out hoping to help his
driver, then the Muslim youth beat the
Venerable Samitha thera.” The
other Muslims in the area had come to their rescue. That was the beginning of what happened that
Poson Poya day in Durga
Town .
Of course there could be various versions of it, and denials. Hambayas
also had their supporters, and the Colonial police turned their heads away. Hambayas
had recruited Afghans to defend themselves against the Sinhala Buddhists. There
are already different version to
inculpate Bodu Bala Sena for what happened on the 12 June,2014. Hamabayas are not there now but may be others
like them are infiltrating into Sri
Lanka . Profiting from the situation the
opposition to government invent their own versions. They say the people had
been transported from out side.
There is nothing surprising in what happened in 1915 as Sri Lanka was
then under colonial rule, what is happening now is under a National Government
of our own which seeks unity amoung different communities.
Then we had Venerable Megettuwatte
Gunananda thero, who was ready to raise his voice against the enemies of
Buddhism and the Sinhala Culture. He was
not denounced by the Americans as they do today to Venerable Galagoda Atthe Gnanasara thero.
When Venerable Megettuwatte Gnananda Thero spoke out against the British Missionaries he was heard
by a great philanthropist and a man of wisdom in America
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, who came to Sri Lanka with
his friend Mme Blavatsky of Russian origin accepted Buddhism. What a difference from America of to-day ?
Colonel Steel Olcott and Mme Blavatsky became a great strength to the
Sinhala patriots to stop the Christian Colonial trap of converting the
natives to their religion to make them reliable servants of the of the British Crown. Colonel Olcott opened 300 Buddhist Schools in
different parts of Sri Lanka
to bring back the prestige of the Buddhist heritage of Sri Lanka and
impart education to the Sinhala Buddhists in Buddhist Schools.
Anagarika Dhammapala was influenced by this great American Olcott and his friend Mme Blavatsky. Anagarika Dhammapla saw the necessity to
awaken the Sinhala Buddhists from their lethargy and meek acceptance of their
lot under the British Missionary influence.
He used strong language to make people stop and take stock of the
situation of Buddhism and the Sinhala people. Venerable Galagoda Atthe Gnanasara
thero uses stronger language perhaps
appropriate as we have lot more dangerous people now in Sri Lanka , than the Hambayas of those days.
We also had the great patriotic
poet who came from outside, Venerable Tibet Jathika S.Mahinda thera from Sikkim in India . He wrote powerful lyrics to awaken the
Buddhists. He is venerated as a great patriot of Sri Lanka . He also spoke to Sinhala Buddhists in strong words like Galagoda
Atthe Gnanasara thero speaks to the sleeping Buddhists to awaken them and warn
them of the dangers against Buddhism and Buddhist Culture.
Later on Catholic Church started their own conversions to destroy Buddhism
and we had L.H.Mettananda who fearlessly came forward to point
out the dangers of Catholic action in Sri Lanka , and spoke out to make
the people aware of the danger to Buddhism, and the Buddhist Culture.
Buddhism and the Sinhala Buddhists were constantly under attack either
by the Muslims, or by the Christians, and there were always great patriots who came forward to save
the Country, the Sinhala Buddhists, and Buddhism. When the Tamil terrorists were almost ready
to divide Sri Lanka we
had great patriots from the South Mahinda and Gotabhaya Rajapaksas who under all odds
eliminated that disastrous monster. But we are still not free from danger. The USA
and its allies have made it their
objective to destroy the development of Sri Lanka into
a prosperous peaceful country. The Tamils and Muslims are knowingly or
unknowingly in partnership with USA and its allies to weaken the present Government
and its leadership and put in place a puppet government to carry out its
political agenda, to push back China
and Russia
seeking unchallenged global leadership.
The enemies of Sri Lanka
are now pointing their fingers of accusation against Champika Ranawaka and
Gotabhaya Rajapakse who are following in the steps of our great patriots to
awaken the Sinhala Buddhists and warn them of the return of the ghost of the
past, now more dangerous with the USA and the West to back them. Navi Pillai is one of their tools to
implicate our patriotic leaders, and
soldiers who gave their lives to bring peace to this country and gave a new
lease of Life to the Sinhala Buddhists.
Sinhala, Tamil and Muslims owe their freedom to move about and speak
freely against the government to the President Mahinda Rajapakse, Gotabhaya
Rajapakse and the Armed Forces. We also
owe much to Bodu Bala Sena, and Champika Ranawaka for speaking to the Sinhala
Buddhists as they do to awaken them and make them aware of lurking dangers.
They are doing that service to the Muslims as well as the ordinary
Muslims are not aware of the dangers from political Muslims coming from
outside. Let us unite as a nation not
accusing each other but by getting together to discus to find ways to keep away
dangers clouding the Unity of the Sri Lankan Communities
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