Open letter to Mr. Pujitha S.B.Jayasundara, Inspector General of Police of Sri Lanka.

By Charles.S.Perera

Mr.Pujitha S.B.Jayasundara,

Inspector General of Police,

Sri Lanka

Dear Sir,

I am presently living abroad but I am a man from a small village in Sri Lanka. Sir it is we the villagers who feel more for our country to the extent to  even shed tears in secret when we are unable to put right the wrongs that are being done to our country.

I have read you are also from  a village Mahamukalaanayaaya in Bogamuwa. That means you are a real son of the soil and must have seen youths from your village also joining the Armed Forces to fight the ruthless terrorism that we had thought for a long time was an invincible force. Many of those  Sinhala Buddhist village youth whowent to defend our country, came back in coffins, while some had gone missing, and others have escaped after sacrificing  their limbs  in the terrorist war. It was in their heroism that our country was saved and we live tody in peace and security.

But we pay only lip service to these war heroes who  are our own children. This is while those who should take responsibility for deaths, disappearances and mutilation are today demanding that our war heroes be taken before International Criminal Courts.  This had been going on ever since the elimination of terrorists and even the International Community treats our war heroes as their war criminals and the terrorists as their heroes.  This has to end without  our Government treat the terrorists and who aided abetted  them  with soft gloves, while  our war heroes are being sacrificed for a seemingly unachievable reconciliation with the Tamils- specially the TNA Tamils politicians.

The  TNA which keeps calling to take revenge from the Sri Lanka Armed Forces for the elimination of the terrorists, disappearances, violation of human rights, was a part of the terrorist equip terrorising the people  along side Prabhakaran.   In English Law it is said that you cannot go to court with blood on your hands. Therefore  neither the TNA no the Tamils of the diaspora who financed the  terrorism purchasing arms and equipment for them  terrorists cannot now  accuse the armed forces for war crimes when they were a part of the terrorists aiding  and abetting the terrorists.

In 2001 the LTTE during the heights of its ruthless terror against the people, wanted a political arm  to defend and be their spokes persons in the Parliament and outside the terrorists controlled areas.  Terrorist leader Prabhakaran selected the present set of TNA Parliamentarians. They set up an alliance along with Tamil Political parties such as  ACTC (All Ceylon Tamil Congress), the EPRLF (Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front), TELO (Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization), TULF (Tamil United Liberation Front).

Thereafter  TNA under Sampanthan of ITAK declared that the  LTTE is the sole representative of the Tamil people, Ananda Sangaree of TULF who disagreed  left the Alliance and TNA became the political arm of the terrorists.

The activities of TNA since then had been organised by the terrorist leader and for all intents and purposes TNA was a part of the LTTE terrorist set up.  Please see the article by Ms.Shenali Waduge in the Lankaweb entitled: Haul TNA to Court for links with LTTE terrorists & Separatist Demands- http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2019/03/25/haul-tna-to-court-for-links-with-ltte-terrorists-separatist-demands/

 -for details of the involvement of TNA with  terrorism since 2001 to date even after the elimination of terrorism.

After elimination of terrorism in May,2009,  the then Government of ¨President Mahinda Rajapakse should have disbanded the TNA but for whatever reason  it had not been done and we are today suffering the consequence of that failure.

Dear Sir, since 2001 TNA which  had been involved with the terrorists and terrorism never raised a voice against  the savagery of the terrorists and their massacres of innocent villagers, passengers of busses and trains and mass killings by placing claymore bombs in markets and public places, and assassination of many political figures and officers of the Armed Forces and the Police. 

In their silence through out the period of terrorism the TNA and its members were aiding and abetting terrorists in those massacres, assassinations, without directly participating in  the bloody savagery of the terrorists.

Even today the TNA Parliamentarians continue in terrorising the  newly settled Sinhala people in the villages calling for their identity cads and property Deeds. Recently  a group of Tamils  supported by some TNA politicians occupied the Mulathiu Nayaru Khandha Ancient Buddhist temple on the Pongal Day , threatened the resident monk Venerable Kolamba  Medalankara Kiththi Nayaka thero, and even dug a foundation for a Kovil in the temple premises.

Though no killing had been done this too amounts to a terrorist activity, to frighten  persons and make them leave the area in fear  for life.

These TNA politicians continue to criticise and condemn Sri Lanka in international forums and contact foreign countries  complaining about imagined discriminations against the Tamils by the Government calling for their assistance to  win  separate rights and priviledes to the Tamil people and to cooperate  with them for the setting up of a separate Tamil only Province in the North and East. Their statements against the Government are in breach of the Constitution and amounts to criminal defamation

Despite these activities which are  in contravention of the Constitution, the law is not being applied against the TNA Parliamentarians. They are not even been called to the Police Stations and warned against making such statements.

Most often when questioned as to why the TNA Parliamentarians are not taken to custody when they make seditious and libellous statements, authorities cite  an on going reconciliation, and state that the law is kept silent not to hamper  the reconciliation process.

The reconciliation is not a one sided activity. If TNA wants the other communities of Sri Lanka to reconcile with the Tamil Community they should reciprocate these acts of reconciliation by he Government. But so far they   continue to make more demands without making any advance towards reconciliation with the Sinhala.

The Tamil people are kept silent by threat, and made to follow the TNA through fear of them and fear of retaliation. If the Law is applied to the TNA politicians and make them understand that they are not outside the law of the country, the ordinary Tamil people will trust in  law and order and act freely without blindly following the TNA MPs  through fear and for favour.

One Mr.Jayantha Liyanage of  Sinhala Mahasabha once filed an FR action against the TNA, but the courts advised that as there was a move for reconciliation with Tamils   it is good that the legal action is not taken against them for the moment.

But this is not correct any more as the law should be applied when it is broken or in the process of being broken. What is the use of a police force Sir, if you are absent in the North and allow the TNA politicians go free despite their criminal  activities that hamper peace security and freedom of the people.

TNA Parliamentarians Shritharan’s  recent statement that Gotabhaya Rajapakse had killed over 140,000 Tamils  which is false and therefore a statement of criminal defamation.  It is not  acceptable that he is allowed to go free after making such seditious statements. He should be called to the Police Station and warned not to make such false accusations which makes him liable for criminal prosecution.

There is no reconciliation in  the police allowing these TNA Parliamentarians to break the law, and still go free.  The Police should call Shritharan to the police station  to warn  him about making such statements of criminal defamation, and warn him against making such statements in future.

I do not intend to write more as you may already be aware of these unlawful activities and pronouncements of the TNA Parliamentarians. They are citizens of Sri Lanka and the laws of the country should be applied to them as well, no matter whether there is an ongoing reconciliation process.

As a member of the Public I implore you not to be a onlooker of breach of law and order by the TNA Parliamentarians,  and request you to intervene to make them understand that they  too should respect the law.

Yours Sincerely,

Charles.S.Perera

Copy to: President of Sri Lanka Mr. Maithripala Sirisena,

              Leader of the Opposition  of the Parliament of Sri Lanka:Mr.Mahinda Rajapakse

              Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe

How Sincere and Politically Honest is President Maithripala Sirisena ?

On the 26^th October,2018 President Sirisena sacked  his Prime Monster Ranil Wickramasinghe and appointed Mahinda Rajapakse as his Prime Minister.

What was his motive ? Was it because he had no other solution  or was it because  he regretted what he did   in November 2014 by leaving the SLFP to become the Common Presidential Candidate of the Opposition ? 

If he did that to rectify that error knowing that Mahinda Rajapakse is a real patriot and a dependable leader to run the government of the  country which is being mismanaged and  being gradually divided and destroyed by an ambition egocentric power crazy  agent of the West-Ranil Wickramasinghe as the Prime Minister.

Then the President Sirisena  was sincere and he had really  regretted the mismanagement of the country and its finance by Ranil Wickramasinghe and his UNP click since the change took place on the 9^th January,2015.  It also means that the President  did not pardon Ranil W-the PM, for once again carrying out a second Bond Scam in 2016, despite the exposure of his Yahapalanaya as a fraudulent set up to swindle the finances of the Country.

Of course the judiciary which is an arm of Ranil Wickramasinghe and the UNP  awaiting the applause of the West, did what the President did not expect and helped Ranil Wickramasinghe and the UNP to continue with  their  changing of the aspects of ancient Sinhala Buddhist  Sri Lanka  as a measure of reconciliation to give the Tamil politicians what they want, and get the approval of the West.

However, this unexpected change of heart of the President Sirisena had a  negative effect on the  opposition, specially the newly formed political party the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna. SLPP which  had gone beyond  every one’s expectation  to become the most popular political party which sealed the end of the popularity of the SLFP, and became a challenge to UNP.

But since the most undemocratic and unconstitutional decision of the Judiciary, which prohibited the President from dissolving the Parliament before four and a half years, Ranil Wickramasinghe and the UNP has settled into continue its destruction of the ancient Sri Lanka to replace it with a modern Sri Lanka with Tamils getting more power over the Sinhala majority, and the West is able to do what ever they want with the country as they have become the decisive force of the future of Sri Lanka under UNP. 

The UNP has again become a party sponsoring a resolution now being proposed  by UK against Sri Lanka. It has now been approved at the UN Human Rights Council lead by Mme Michelle  Bachelet who knows next to nothing about Sri Lanka, except what she had read along with  the fiction  Darusman War Report, and updated by Samantha Powers, Navi Pillai and Zeid Al-Hussain, The President has not been able stop it.

President Sirisen’s powers are being restricted and Ranil , Karu Jayasuriya and UNP have made of him an isolated President without power in the Cabinet and the Parliament controlled by Ranil Wickramasinghe, his friend Karu Jayasuriya the Speaker , Lakshman Kiriella UNP Leader of the House, Mangala Samaraweera Minister of Finance.

The President Maithripala Sirisena  has even become powerless in the SLFP with the appointment of  Dayasiri Jayasekara, and allowing , Duminda Dissanayake and Mahinda Amaraweera  to make statements without the President Sirisena’s consent  against the SLPP and the left by further  isolating the President Maithripala Sirisena.  If the President is sincere about a change and wants to be with Mahinda Rajapakse, why does  not he say so and counter the statements being made by  the Secretaries of the SLFP and UPFA ?

The UNP tries to benefit from every thing putting the blame even on patriotic acts of the President and the Joint opposition. The change of government on the 26^th October 2018 what ever the seven judges of the Supreme Court said was democratic and Constitutional. The Supreme Court misinterpreted the Constitution. With that ,  the UNP tries to profit from it saying that it was the result of a conspiracy.

That 51 days of the short government of Mahinda Rajapakse showed how the country could be ruled positively looking after the welfare of the people. But for UNP  it was the period that reversed the progress of the country. But Ranil and UNP are only  trying  to fool the people  who knows there had been  no progress what so ever under the Yahapalanaya government and that it was the very reason why the President Sirisena changed heart to appoint the man he betrayed as the Prime Minister.

UNP cannot fool the people all the time , nor can the JVP with all their big talks with a 20^th Amendment fool the people once again. They will not even get six seats the next time . Ratana Hamuduruva is equally a traitor like Champika Ranavaka. They cannot change the thinking of the people any more.That is for sure.

But the President Mithripala Sirisena is a mystery . What does he really want ? 

There was a tremendous demand for a Government by the SLPP before the President’s  change of heart in October,2018. But thereafter  this trend has  weakened to a certain extent .  And contradictory statements are being made by Dayasiri Jayasekara, Mahinda Wimalaweera, and Duminda Dissanayake. But the Prersident Maithripala Sirisena has not made any statement with regard to these controversial statements  of the SLFP , and UPFA Secretaries. 

If the intention of the President Maithripala Sirisena in the interest of Sri Lanka is to get rid of Ranil and UNP the dangerous cancker that is eating into the flesh and the system of Sri Lanka, he should then be prepared to sacrifice his own personal ambitions of another period of Presidency, and support a presidential candidate from the opposition supported by the SLPP and SLFP and the rest of their allied parties.

He should make his intention clear and inform the SLFP and UPFA to fall in line with SLPP without making unnecessary demands. The defeat of UNP under any Presidential Candidate should be the primary objective of the SLFP, SLPP and the rest.  It will be difficult if the opposition is divided between two Presidential Candidates.  Therefore it is time that the President Maithripala Sirisena issues a statement of his intention without further delay..

President Maithripala Sirisena has won the respect of the people since he sacked  Ranil Wickramasinghe as his Prime Minister. The Present Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe is a valueless skeleton. If the President Maithripala Sirisena makes  clear his intention to step down for the sake of the one Common Candidate of the SLPP and SLFP and others, he will retire as a loved and a respected President of Sri Lanka for life.  But if he were to contest and  get defeated he will not be able to retire so respectfully and loved by the people.

Ranil and UNP are prepared to sacrifice any historical and cultural values of the people to reconcile with the Tamil Politicians.  And the President seems  to be giving in by distributing lands and appointing a Tamil Governor etc. to the North.  But the TNA has not ceased to accuse Sri Lanka in one way or another demanding their rights with the intention of forming a Tamil only Province combining North and East. 

The TNA  is a child conceived and prepared for the role of protecting the terrorists and be their spoke persons by  the terrorist leader Prabhakaran. They have no right to make excessive demands from the Government and above all prepare the Constitution  for Sri Lanka. They really have no large following of ordinary Tamil people. Those who  vote to who ever they ask do so through fear of the TNA and its members.

One of  President Mahinda Rajapake’s errors committed during his regime was not disbanding the TNA and take  action to imprison the members of the TNA as most of the other terrorists taken into custody after the defeat of terrorism.

Sumanthiram now says that if the government does not set up a Hybrid Court as demanded by the US Resolution 30/1, he would take the Sri Lanka armed forces before the International Court.  The President should not allowed Smanthiran to  make those statements , and warn of the consequenses he might have to face.

This is the time that President Maithripala Sirisena should pounce upon them  by appointing a Presidential Commission to inquire into the activities of the members of the TNA during terrorism and after the elimination of terrorism.  It has become imperative as the TNA which is very much responsible for the massacres committed by the terrorists and even the assassination of Tamil and Sinhala Political leaders and late Mr. Lakshman Kadirgamar.

They now have a  magnificient time as “king makers” and the writers of a new Constitution to Sri Lanka. Enough of that. Lets face it, the time has come for the President to stand up and appoint a Commission  to inquire into the activities of TNA during and after terrorism. That will silent them and the ordinary Tamil people knowing that “ the dogs have been tied”, will vote for parties other than that of TNA, Wignesvaran  etc, They may prefer voting to candidates from SLPP or SLFP.

While Sri Lanka Tamils do not want Buddhisisation of North, a Portuguese Buddhist Monks initiates Buddhisisation of Portugal.

Tamil People of Visvamaduva weeps for departying Colonel Ratnapriya Bandu

Suren Raghavan, immediately after being appointed as the Governor of Northern Province announced  that he is against Buddhisisation of the North.

Well he is not alone, there are many more Tamil politicians still with their Dravidian instincts like that of  animals, such as the TNA MP the Christian Tamil Sumandiran, who wants to distance Tamils and Jaffna Tamils from the teachings of  the Compassionate  Buddha.

But this stupid statement coming from a Governor of a Province is not tolerable. A Governor is the representative of the President of Sri Lanka in the respective Province. He should be the uniting force that brings the people-the Communities in to the national fold. He should be a symbol of unity in the Province to bring the people  together, not to separate them.

The Governor Suren Raghavn has a Doctorate  in Federalism, that does not put him into the category of an intellectual, as much as Wignesvaran, who had spent all his professional life as a Judge dealing with thieves and criminals who have rubbed off their  evil thinking  to Wignesvaran.

Therefore these ignorant morons have no minds to think positively and constructively. They do not know what a priviledge it is to live  in the land sanctified   by the visit of the Compassionate  Buddha long before the Dravidians had even heard of Jaffna- Jaffna -the land of the Nagas.

These unfortunate Tamils are ignorant that today  learned men all over the world- academicians, scientists and psychiatrists  are awakening to the teachings of the  Buddha, and accepting the teachings and setting up temples and Buddhist Centres of Buddhist Studies in USA,  Europe and in far away Africa.

Suren Raghavan when he is planning to stop Buddhisisation of  Jaffna, a group of savage Dravidians in Mulathivu occupied the Mulathivu Nayaru Khandha Ancient Buddhist Temple on the Pongal day, threatened the resident monk Venerable Kolamba Medalankara Kiththi Nayaka thero and dug a foundatiuon for a Kovil in the Temple premises. In which century are they ? Are  there  civilised people living in the North?

http://divaina.com/sunday/index.php/visheshanga1/7975-2019-01-17-09-04-54

It is interesting in this context to see what is happening in Portugal. A Portuguese man who is ordained  as a  Buddhist Monk Ajhan Dhammiko,  understanding the great teachings of the Buddha, considering that the Portuguese had  wronged the Sri Lankans by converting them to Christianity, has built  a Buddhist Monastery  called Sumedharama which  spreads out over 25 acres of land in Lisbon, wants to compensate Sri Lanka  for the wrongs done to the people of Sri Lanka by the Portuguese, by spreading the teachings of Buddha in Portugal.

But this uninformed ignorant Raghavan  speaks of Buddhism as a plague with which he does not want to infect his people in the North. Raghavan is also a Christian with a special devotion to Jesus , who according to some historians was in India,  and was  perhaps a disciple of the Buddha. Is Suren Raghavan a civilised man ?

It is not strange that Sri Lankan Tamil politicians have an aversion to Buddha and his teachings, as  their mental development has still not gone beyond their ancestral Dravidian instinct to understand the greatness of the teachings of the Buddha. Hence they rejects Buddhism  as a blind man kicks a jewel he steps on while walking, not knowing what it is.

Therefore Raghavan as much as other anti Buddhists Tamils amoung the TNA MPs having the same Dravidian Genes still do not know the value of the Buddha and his teachings. They prefer the blood soaked floors of Kali Temples, to a clean peaceful simplicity of a Buddhist temple.

Having primitive Dravidian genes is not a disease or an unsurmountable handicap, but the Tamil politicians thrive living with this  undeveloped mindsets and do not allow the poor Tamils to rise above these ethnic handicaps. These Tamils activists be they TNA politicians or of other political or non political groups are all the same.

Therefore, it is best that the Sinhala people who wants a true unity with the Tamil Community think even for an instance they have found hope for such a unity in  Arun of the AAWA Group, because it was evident from the interview with him carried out by the Derana TV that he is a big farce, a trickster, he is not  different from the Tamil politicians from the North or the Tamils of the diaspora..

The ordinary Tamils are beautiful people. We know many like Muralitharan, Kanthar Balanathan , and  Dr. Nadesan from Australia who are wonderful people who like to have close contact with Sinhala people and even accept and respect Buddhism. ( I have visited Jaffna where I met my friend Radha Manohar , and his family and friends who received  me with sincere affection. I do not want to hurt their sensitivity by any of what I have written against the Tamil Politicians and their ilk).

The ordinary Tamil people in the North  cannot be ruled out as anti Sinhala Buddhists. It is the Tamil politicians of the TNA who keep the ordinary Tamil people from demonstrating  their affection to the Sinhala people.

It was seen recently where the villagers of Visvamaduma in Jaffna gathered to bid farewell to Colonel Ratnapriya Bandu who was leaving the Military Camp on transfer. The people surrounded him weeping and lamenting. They garlanded him and held onto him as he was one of their beloved elder relative.  Suren Raghavan should goto Visvamaduva and ask the villagers what was the reason for them to show such warm affection to that Sinhala Military officer.

The politically motivated Tamils are ready to reproach  and accuse the Sinhala political leaders and the Afrmy, but none comes forward to speak gratefully of them, who had helped the ordinary Tamil people to live peacefully and in security having saved them from the clutches of terrorism.

It is not too late for Governor Raghavan  to learn a little about the teachings of the  Buddha if he wants  to be a suitable man to be the Governor of the Northern Province.

During the time of the Most Compassionate Buddha in India there were 62 different philosophies in the North of India . The South was where the Dravidians had been chased   by the advancing Aryans.  The Dravidians or the Tamils had more primitive religious worships and it was later that a cannibalised  form of  Hinduism came to be practiced; prominent amoung them the worship of  Goddess Kali. 

There is no mention of the Buddha Visiting South India.  Even today the Tamils,  except the Dalits,   have not accepted the teachings of the Buddha. The Tamils of Jaffna do not seem to know that the Compassionate Buddha had visited Jaffna.

They prefer their primitive religious practicesn and  insult and despise the great teachings with which they have been priviledged to live side by side. Even though the decorated Mandapas of  Hindu Temple in  North India are beautifully crafted, the Gopurams of  Hindu Kovils in South India and in Sri Lanka are ugly and frightful with large eyed, big bellied, large breasted fantasy figures of Yakshas and Yakshanis.

There were very few Buddhist in South India when Venerable Buddhaghosa was engaged to translate into Pali the commentaries to the teachings of the Buddha made in Sinhala by great Buddhist monks  and perhaps Noble Arahaths. 

That was perhaps a mistake done by Venerable Revata Maha Thero of Mahavihara. Perhaps Venerable Buddhaghosa did a good translation of those Commentaries and prepared the Visuddhimagga. But no one could  verify what he had included in it and what he had not. 

Venerable Buddhaghiosa before he became a Buddhist monk, was a South Indian Hindu who was learned in the Vedic literature, therefore there is no doubt that he had  included in Visuddhimagga his own Hindu views as for instances the 40 objects of meditation which had not been mentioned by the Buddha in his discourses such as Maha Satipatthana Sutta.

All the Commentaries  in Sinhala had been handed over to Venerable Buddhaghosa giving him a carte blanche  for their translation. Mahavihara Bikkhus had trusted him and no one had even been given to assist him. Therefore it is questionable whether Ven. Buddhagosa read and understood correctly the Sinhala commentaries.

There is no way to verify the correctness  of the Pali text of Ven. Buddhaghosa by comparing it to the original Sinhala commentaries as it is said that Venerable Buddhaghosa after writing the Visuddhimagga burnt all Sinhala commentaries that had been handed over to him, without leaving any trace of them.  That was a great act of betrayal as those original commentaries were of immense importance. 

That is how South Indian mentality worked even at that time.  Destruction of Buddhism is in the genes of the Tamils. Venerable Buddhaghosa  should have respected the ancient Sinhala Commentaries and handed them  back to Mahavihara. But he probably wanted credit for himself for what is  written in  the Visuddhimagga..

But these present day assailants of Buddhism do not understand that it is Buddhism that Identifies Sri Lanka.  Suren Raghavan says that the terrorist war was a one-sided victory. All victories are one sided and there is nothing intellectual about his pronouncement.  He calls the present situation a period of “victors justice” .

Perhaps the appointment of  Suren Raghavan was another attempt in reconciliation which has badly  misfired. It is better that a Sinhala Buddhist is appointed as the Governor of the Northern Province and remove Suren Raghavan as he is a misfit as a Governor of the Nothern Province . 

The ordinary Tamils in the North and East will certainly prefer to have a Sinhala Buddhist as their Governor as they can expect justice and a fair deal from a Sinhala Buddhist Governor. It is only the extremist Tamil politicians that would  protest against a Sinhala Buddhist as a Governor in the North or East.

සේනා දළඹු වසංගතය මේ ආණ්ඩුවෙ ගමන නතර නොකලොත් අද නීතියේ සරනවත් නැති ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට වියහැකි විනාශය පිළිබඳව අද්දෘශ්‍යමාන බලවේගයක අනතුරු හැඟවීමක්ද ?

බඩඉරිඟු වගාව විශාලවශයෙන් විනාශකර අනිකුත් වගාවනුත් අනතුරට දමමින් පැතිරීගිය සේනා දළඹු වන් නැතිකරන්නේ හෝ මර්ධනයකරන්නේ කෙසේදැයි  නොදැනුවත්ව අපේ ගොවිජනතාව  පසුගිය කාලයෙ මහත් සේ කම්පාවී සිටියෝය. ඒ උවදුර සැලකිය යුතු ප්‍රමාණයකට  හෝ අඩුවී ඇති බවක් දැනගන්නට තිබේ.

නමුත් හැම අංශයෙකින්ම  ක්‍රියාත්මක වුයෙ  මේ සේනා දළඹුවන්  මරා විනාශයකිරීම සඳහා ගතයුතු  පියවරල් සෙවීමකි . කිසිවෙක් මේ සඳහා බෞද්ධමය පිළිවෙතක් යෝජනා නොකළේය. සමහරක්විට එවැනි යෝජනාවක්  කිරීමත් මේ දියුණුවී ඇති විද්‍යා හා තාක්ෂනයුගයේ සිනහවට භාජනවීමටද හේතුවිය හැකිය. 

නමුත් අපේ ලංකාව පින්වත්  රටක් බව සමහරක් සිදුවීම් නිසා තේරුම් ගතනොහැකි බැවින් අප ඒගැන සැලකිලි  නොවන්නේමූ.  අපේ රට මුහුණු පා තුබූ අනතුරුදායක අවස්ථාවලදී අපරට බෙරගන්න හිතාගන්න නොපුළුවන් ධය්ර්යයකින් යුත් පුද්ගලයෙක් හෝ අපුරු සිදුවීමක්  හෝ හේතුවී ඒ අනතුරෙන් ගැලවෙනවා. දළඳා මාලිගාවටත් බෝම්බ ප්‍රහාරයක් එල්ලකළ අවස්ථාවේ අපි කර කියාගන්න දෙයක් නොමැතිව අසරණව සිටියා. ඊට පසුව ඇතිවූ සුනාමියෙන් මහත් විනාශයක් සිදුඋනා. ඒ කාලකන්නි කාලය අවසන් උනේ ත්‍රස්තවාදය අවසන්වී රට නව තම දියුනුවක්කරා ගෙන යාමට හැකියාවක් ඇති බෞද්ධ නායකයින්ගේ අවතීරණයෙන්.

අදත් අපේ රට එදා  සුනාමියට පෙරතුබු අසරණ කාලකන්නි කාලයකටයි ප්‍රවිෂ්ටවී සිටින්නේ.  කරකියාගන්න දෙයක් නොමැතිව නීතියේ සරණ වත්  නොමැති අවස්තාවකයි සේනා දළඹු ප්‍රවාහය ඇතිවී තිබෙන්නේ. අද්දෘශ්‍යමාන බලවේගයක  අවධානය ශ්‍රී ලංකාව අනතුරුදායක අවස්ථාවක මුහුනපාසිටින විට ඇතිවෙනබවක් ගැන කීවොත් සමහරෙක් සිනහාවෙනවා ඇති. 

වරක් පල්ලෙකැලේ භාවනා මද්‍යස්ථානයකදී අවධානය යොමුවූ දෙයක් නිසා  ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආරක්ෂාවට අදෘශ්‍යමාන බලවේග පවතින බවහිතාගන්නට හැකියාවක් මේ ලියන මට ඇතිඋනා.  එබැවින් මේ කොයිබට යන්නේදැයි  නොදැන යන රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ අගමැතිතුමාගේ ආණ්ඩුවෙ ගමන නතර නොකලොත් එය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ විනාශය වෙන්න පුලුවෙනි. සමහරක් විට මේ සේනා දළඹු ප්‍රවාහය සුනාමිය වැනි  අනතුරු හැඟවීමක්  විය හැකි නොවේද?

එබැවින් මේ සේනා දළඹු වසංගතයෙන් ගොඩ ඒමට ඒ සතුන් මැරීමට වඩා අපේ බුදුරජානන්වහන්සේ ජීවත්ව සිටියෙදී උන්වහන්සේ  සියලු භය දුරුකිරීමට උපයෝගීකරගත් ක්‍රමයක් යොදාගතහොත් සුදුසු නොවන්නේද ? 

වරක් අපේ බුදුපියානන්වහන්සේ රජගහනුවර වැඩ සිටියදී  වේසාලිනුවර දුගී  වැසියෝ දුර්භික්ෂයක් නිසා   මරනයට පත්වෙමින්  අසරණව සිටියෝය. මළමිනී කුණුවී දුර්ගන්ධය පැතිරුනේය. වසංගතයක් ඇතිවෙමින් මහත් උපද්‍රවයකට පත්වෙමින් සිටියෝය. වේසාලිනුවර වැසියෝ බුදුපියානන්වහන්සේගේ පිළිසරණ ඉල්ලා සිටි අවස්ථාවේ උන්වහන්සේ වේසාලි නුවරට වැඩමකළේය. උන්වහන්සේගේ වැඩීමත් සමග වේසාලි නුවර  මහා වර්ෂාවකින් සේදිගියේය. 

බුදුපියානන් වහන්සේ ආනන්ද ස්වාමීන් වහසේට රතනසුත්‍රය දේශනාකර  වේසාලි නුවර ලිච්චවී වැසියන් සමග රතන සුත්‍රය සජ්ජායනා කරමින් නගරය පුරා සැරිසරන්නට කීසේක.  ආනන්ද ස්වමීන්වහන්සේද බුදුපියාණන් කී පරිදි රතන සුත්‍ර දේශනාකළේය. ඉන් පසුව සියලු ලෙඩ දුක් රෝග භය අවසන්ව ලිච්චවී වැසියන් සතුටට පත්වූයේය.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවෙ අද පවතින  බෞද්ධාගමට  අගෞරව කරමින් ගෙනයන අධර්මිෂ්ඨදේශපාලන විනාශයෙන් රටත් ජනතාවත් බේරාගැනීමටත් ආහාර වැවිලි  ගහ කොලන් ආරක්ශාකරගැනීමටත්  ලංකාවේ  හැම ගම් නියන් ගම්වල බෞද්ධ විහාර වල එකම  දවසක  එකම  වෙලාවට  රතන සුත්‍රය ප්‍රධාන සර්ව රාත්‍රික පිරිත් සන්ගායනාවකින් පසුව  පිරිත් පැන් හැම ගමක, හැම වගාවකටම ඉසීමෙන් සමහරක්විට සේනා  දළඹු උපද්‍රවය පැතිරී යෑම  නවත්වාගන්නට පුලුවන්වේදැයි සොයාබැලීම සුදුසු පිංකමක් විය හැකිය. ඒ ඇරත් එවැන්නක් කිරීම රටේ අපල දුරුකර රටට යහපතක් සඳහාද සුදුසුය. මෙය හැමෝගේම අවධානයට ලක්වේවා.

නීතීඥයෝ කියාගන්න ඇන් ජී ඕ නඩයක් ගලගොඩ අත්තේ ඥානසාර තෙරුන්වහන්සේට ජනාධිපති සමාව දිය නොයුතුයි කියනවා.

නීතිඥයෝ කියාගන්න සල්ලිවලට රට විකුනන්න තරම් ලැජ්ජාවක් නැති  ඇන් ජී ඕ  නඩයක් ජනාධිපතිතුමාට ගලගොඩ අත්තේ  ඥානසාර තෙරුන්වහන්සේට ජනාධිපති සමාව දිය නොයුතුයි කරුණු ඉදිරිපත් කරන්න බලාපොරෝත්තු වෙනවා.  උන් අතර ලංකාවට ඔරුමිත්ත නාඩු යි නම් කරන්න යෝජනාකරන ලාල් විජේනායකත් ඉන්නවා. 

මෙන්න මේ  සිංහල ජාතියේ  හතුරෝ. ලාල් විජේනායක, කේ එස් රත්නවේල්, ජේ සී වැලි අමුණ,සුදර්ශන ගුනවර්ධන , සුදත් නෙත්තසින්හ,ප්‍රභෝධා රත්නායක, හරිස්කේ සමරනයක මුන් ප්‍රජාචන්ද්‍රවාදය සඳහා පෙනීසිටින නීතිනඥයෝ කියාගන්න සල්ලිවලට රට විකුනන්න ඇන් ජී ඕ  නඩයක්. මුන්වගේම ජනතාවට මේ විනාශකාරී රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ගේ ආණ්ඩුව එළවදමන්ට ලැබුණු ප්‍රජාචන්ද්‍ර අයිතිය උදුරාගත් ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයෙ නඩුකාර හත් කට්ටලයත් ජාතියේ හතුරන් මෙන් උන්ගේ නම් ගල්වල කොටන්න ඕනේ අනාගත පරම්පරාවට දැනගන්න.

මේ නීතීඥයෝ කියාගන්න ඇන් ජී ඕ  නඩය කියනවා  ගලගොඩ අත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියන්ට ජනාධිපති සමාව ලැබීමේ අවස්තාවක් තියෙනවා  කියන ආරංචිය  පිළිබඳව කලබල යට පත්ව මේ හාමුදුරුවන්ගේ  කලබල කාරී කලහකාරී  හැසිරීම පිළිබඳව හා ජාතිවාදී බද්ද වයිරය පිළිබඳව ත් ජාතිවාදය  හා ආගම්වාදය අවුස්සන  දීර්ග ඉතිහාසයක් තියෙන නිසා  මේ හාමුදුරුවන් එක්නැලිගොඩ  නොනාමහත්මියට උසාවියේදී කල තර්ජන පිළිබඳව උසාවියට අගවුරවකිරිම සඳහා පමණක් දඬුවමක් දීම හැරුනුකොට වෙන බලවත් නීතිමය දඬුවමක් නොදීම පිළිබඳව කණගාටුවන අතර ඔහුට සමාව දීමට විරුද්ධව ජනාධිපති තුමාට කරුණු ඉදිරිපත් කරන්නට යයි.  

මේ ජාතියේ හතුරෝ කියනවා ඥාණසාර හාමුදුරුවන්ට සමාව දීමෙන්  නීතිමය හා ව්‍යවස්තාමය ගැටළු ඇතිවෙනවාය කියා.  ඊට පස්සේ  උන්වහන්සේ ට විරුද්ධව ගෙන ඇති චෝදනා ගණනාවක් හා උන්වහන්සේගේ අපරාධකාරී ජාතිවාදී හැසිරීම හා අලුත්ගම කැරලි කෝලාහලවලට  තුබූ සම්භන්දය  සඳහන් කරනවා.   ඊළඟට කියනවා ජනාධිපති සමාවක් දීමේදී  මේ චෝදනා පරීක්ෂාකර නීතිපතිවරයාගෙන් හා නීතිය පිලිබඳ ඇමතිතුමියගෙන් රපොර්තුවක් ලබාගතයුතුබව, එසේ නැතුව මේ චුදිතයාට සමාව දීමෙන් එය ජනතාව උසාවිය කෙරෙහි ඇති  ගෞරවය නැතිවීමට හෙතුවියහැකි නරක ආදර්ශයක් වියහැකියයි සඳහන්කරනවා. එසේ සමාවක් දීම දඬුවමක් නොලැබීමේ  සංස්කෘතියක් බවට පත්වීමට හෙතු විය හැකියයි  පවසනවා.

මුන්  කියනවා බුද්ධසාසන අමාත්‍යවරයා නොයෙකුත් ප්‍රභූවරුන්ගේ ලියකියවිලි  සමග ඥාණසාර හිමියන්ට සමාව දෙනමෙන් ඉල්ලා ඇති ජනාධිපති තුමාට යැවු ලිපිය දැක පුදුමයට පත් උනබව . ඔවුන් කියනවා බුද්ධසාසන අමාත්‍යවරයාට එහෙම ලිපියක් යැවීමට කිසිම නීතිමය අයිතියක් නැතිලු.  උන් කියනවා මේක  තමන්ගේම  තර්ජනාත්මක හැසිරීම නිසා  දඬුවම් ලැබූ  සිරකරුවෙකු මුදාහැරීමට කරන ප්‍රයත්නයක් නිසා නීතිපති වරයාගේ දෙපාරත මෙන්තුවටත් අධිකරණයටත් බලවත් හානියක් නින්දාවක් වියහැකිලු.

මේ නිසා උන් ජනාධිපතිවරයාට කියාසිටිනවා මේ සිරකාරයා නිදහස්කිරීමෙන් එක්නැලිගොඩ ගේ අතුරුදහන් වීමේ නඩුවට හා වෙනත්  දේශපාලන නඩුවලට විශේෂයෙන්ම යුද හමූදාව සම්බන්ධ නඩුවලට  බලපාන බැවින් හා මෙවැනි සිරකරුවෙකුට නිදහස දීමෙන්  එය විත්ති කරුවන්ටත් දඬුවම් වලට වැරදිකරුවන්වී සිටින වුන්ටත් නීතිය පිළිබඳව කලකිරීමක් ඇතිවීමට හෙතිවිය හැකි නිසා   ඥාණසාර නමැති සිරකරුවාට විශේෂත්වයක් දක්වා ජනාධිපති සමාව දිය නොයුතුයි දන්වනවා.

ඥාණසාර  හිමියන්ට එහෙම  සමාවක් දුන්නොත් ඊට විරුද්ධව ජනාධිපති තුමාගේ බලය අනිසිලෙස යෙදවීමට විරුද්ධව හැම විධියෙන්ම කටයුතු කරන්න පෙලගැහෙනවායයි මේ නීතිනඥයෝ කියාගන්න සල්ලිවලට රට විකුනන්න තරම් ලැජ්ජාවක් නැති  ඇන් ජී ඕ  නඩය සඳහන් කරනවා.

මෙන්න අද රටේ නීතිය පවතින හැටි. ජාතියක් ආගමක් නැති සල්ලිවලට ඕනෑ විලි ලජ්ජා  දෙයක් කරන්න සුදානම් එක එකාට කත් අදින බොරුවට ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍ර වාදයගැන කතා කරන මෙවුන් තමා  අද ලංකාවේ නීතිය සදාචාරය සාමය ආරක්ශා කරනවා කියන බොරුවෙන් ජීවත්වෙන සිංහලයෝ, සුමන්දිරම්  සම්බන්ධන්, විග්නේස්වරන් මනෝ ගනේසන්  වැනි ද්‍රවිඩ හැත්ත උන්ගේ ද්‍රවිඩ ජාතිය ආරක්ෂාකරගෙන  රටත් දෙකඩකරන්න සුදානම් වෙනකොට මේ සිංහල කියාගන්න මෝඩ හැත්ත  ජාතිය ආගම  කිසිම චකිතයක් නැතිව දෙමළුන්ට පාවාදෙන්න සුදානම්.   මෙවුන්ටද රටට ව්‍යවස්ථාවක් හදන වගකීම බාරදීලා තියෙන්නේ ?

රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහගේ විනාශාකාරි  ආණ්ඩුව හා ආණ්ඩුවේ ගැත්තන් එළවා දමන්න සිංහල බෞද්ධ යෝ   දැන් දැන්ම පෙළගැසී සිටිය යුතුය.  මුන්ගේ දෙඩවිලිවලට කන්නොදී  ජනාධිපති තුමා ගලගොඩ අත්තේ  ඥානසාර තෙරුන්වහන්සේට ජනාධිපති සමාව දිය යුතුය. එය අපේ ආගම ජාතියට කරන යුතුකමක්.

Free Venerable Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero from Prison and ask for his pardon.

Change of Regime in 2015 was for Sri Lanka  a march backwards from progress and development in  all aspects of life beginning from the elimination of a terrorism that lasted a thirty years of untold suffering  a nation could have faced.  Above all it was a backward  march from its Sinhala Buddhist historical past, its unique identity.

It was a paradox that the transition began by  a Buddhist monk Venerable Sobhitha thero. But once the change was initiated he did not live long enough to see the negative results coming from that change. The change came with a direct attack to Buddhism and  even today four years after the change, it is Buddhism that is still  being directly attacked.

Apart from the serious economic calamity the country faced with the government itself robbing its own Central Bank, the most negatively affected was its  legal system which has completely lost its Sri Lankan identity. Sri Lankan identity is first and foremost in its Sinhala Buddhist Culture and any direct or indirect attack of it changes the whole of what Sri Lanka is,  and if the people were to subscribe to that change we may as well call Sri Lanka hence forward Orumitta Nadu, and say good bye to the 2600 years of our historic past.

It is time at least now that we realise  the Independence from British colonial rule in  February,1948, was not regaining  our ancient values which were there before the country was colonised by  the Portuguese, then the Dutch  and finally the British. Though SWRD Bandaranaike was able to recover the ancient Sinhala national values, it was partial and Sri Lanka was never what it had been before the advent of the  Colonialists.

Seventy years after the end of colonialism, the administration, and the legal system did not change its colonial character. We have inherited a social class mentally imbibed with the colonial culture, which it values over and  above the  ancient Sinhala Buddhit culture we inherited from our forefathers. We were also impeded by Communal conflicts, from bringing  the country and the people to accept the  ancient Buddhist Cultural values including the Sinhala language we had sacrificed when we were forced  to accept foreign  values that came along with different colonial administrations from 1505.

The result is that we are still slavishly and mentally bound to English colonial values , and that is very much seen in our  legal system where the Judges still wear the English Wig and Cloak and the lawyers the black  tie , coat and the black English Cloak.  For our Universities a convocation ceremony for passing out Graduates is incomplete  without  the black cloak and the mortarboard. With these values that still mark the social status and academic achievements ancient Buddhist values have taken a backseat.

It is in this background that we have to see the change that took place on the 19 January,2015 with Ranil Wickramasinghe swearing in as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. That change pushed backwards the ancient pre-colonial values that SWRD Bandaranayake had tried to bring back, and Mahinda Rajapakse commenced to revitalise after eliminating 30 years of suffering under terrorism.

But with the change of regime in January,2015, the Colonial values have come back, while  ancient Buddhist values have been cast aboard. In 1956 SWRD initiated a change to get back the lost Sinhala Buddhist values, but he was snatched from the nation too early. Mahinda Rajapakse too helped to go a long way forward, but neither had he the time necessary  to bring changes to the Sri Lanka Legal System.

The white wigged black cloaked Speaker of the Parliament and the Judges sitting in  judgment with laws still fit for Colonial times , pay scant respect to ancient Buddhist Values  of Sri Lanka with which it was nurtured  for thousands of years,

The concept every one is equal  before the law  included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is followed to the letter by the very British white wigged judges in our  law courts. But in Sri Lanka a country marked by its  Sinhala Buddhist beginning there should have been a change in the rule of law at least with  regard to the offence of contempt of Court.

In the application of the law in Sri Lanka an exception should have been made to the Buddhist Clergy in view of the Constitutional protection given to  Buddhism  which  is the religion which  was there before the advent of the believers of Hinduism , Christianism and Islamism.

For the Sinhala Buddhists who venerates the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha, the Buddhist Monks are the third Jewel  after the Buddha and Dhamma. There is none equal to them. Therefore to hold them as criminals for a contempt of Court is an insult to the Buddha , Dhamma and Sangha the three jewels the Sinhala Buddhist majority hold sacred.

No layman has the right to accuse a Buddhist Monk for a Common Law Crime. If a Monk Commits a murder, he should first be reported to the Maha Sangha and disrobed by them before taken into Custody.   If a monk “scolds” or  “shouts” at some one in the precincts of a court, he has only spoken harsh words and it cannot be termed a crime, and a Buddhist Monk should not be  remanded or imprisoned , forcing him to disrobe on that account as he cannot be placed in the position of a layman. A Buddhist Monk has all the right  to speak in defence of his country.

In the case of a Buddhist Monk who has committed an offence , the Law should stand out side and allow the Maha Sangha to deal with the  monk. A Buddhist Monk in Sri Lanka should never be taken into custody by the police, or any accusation  made in the absense  of  the representative of the Maha Sangha.

The persons present in a British  Court got up when the Bailiff called out them to do so,  historically because the Judge carried the Bible when entering the Court, - and he was the representative of the King or Queen.  It was also to respect the Court house where the judge holds out the law.   In Sri Lanka a Buddhist Monk is above any lay person, and if he does not stand up when a judge walks in  he is not being disrespectful.

Before the change of Regime in January,2015, there was at least one occasion when a Buddhist Monk Present in Court was held for contempt of Court for not having stood up when the Judge came into the Court. These are matters that should have been settled when Sri Lanka became independent and had to organise customs and ceremonies coming down from colonial days  to suit Sri Lanka’s own cultural background.

There is no necessity for a new Constitution to Sri Lanka now. We can continue with the  1978 Constitution,  but an amendment  should be made to ascertain the protection for the Buddha Dhamma Sangha, and to provide them immunity from Law, and making it a Criminal Charge to do any act that would be an insult to Buddha, such as  defacing or damaging Buddha Statues and harm the person of a Buddhist Monk by way of insults or assaults.

In the meantime Venerable Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Maha Thero should be released from imprisonment and  an apology should be tendered   to him on behalf of the Sinhala Buddhists for all the inconveniences caused  to him and for  desecrating the Buddha Dhamma and Sangha  through his imprisonment and forcing him to disrobe during the period of his imprisonment.