International Community’s unceasing effort to help terrorism in Sri Lanka has been laid bare

The personalities of the International Community who did not speak a word when the ruthless terrorists during their height of power were assassinating our Presidents, Ministers, Members of the Parliament, the Officers of the Security forces, innocent civilians, kidnapping children, and destroying our airports, have now come out in force to defend these very same terrorists who are being eliminated by our armed forces, who have so far carried out military operations to rid the country of the terrorist without causing damage to the Tamil Civilians in the areas that were under their control.

It is no surprise that Robert Evans EU Parliamentarian who was a vociferous defender of the terrorists comes out again accusing the Government Forces for killing civilians. The CNN seems to have taken over from the BBC the defence of terrorists, publishing articles from the terrorist website TamilNet, accusing the government of “genocide”. Sweden and Canada too have joined the fray to defend the terrorists.

The true situation is that the terrorists who are now cornered in a small territory,

are keeping by force about 50 to 100 thousand of the Tamil Civilians as a human shield to avoid the Government Forces from opening artillery fire. They are not listening to any one to release the captive Tamil population, for fear that if the captives are released the government forces will capture the territory to end terrorism for good in Sri Lanka.

This opportunity for the International Community to intervene on behalf of the terrorists was planned by the terrorists, who were being systematically eliminated by the Government Forces. The military operations were successful and the Government forces are on the verge of ending terrorism, by “chasing” the terrorists now cornered into a small area of 20 square metre in Mulativu . The terrorists are aware that their days are numbered, and their reign of terror of the past 30 years will soon come to an end.

In the mean time they had been cut off from their former benefactors in the International Community. As a means to escape from their isolation, the cunning terrorists devised a plan to draw the attention of the International Community to them by herding about 50, 000 civilians (according to a Catholic Priest who had escaped from the area) along with them to Mulativu jungles where they are now holed up, keeping them as a human shield to protect themselves from the artillery fire of the Government forces.

They now use these innocent civilians by placing their heavy guns among them and opening artillery fire at the Government forces. They shoot at Tamil civilians trying to escape from them into government controlled areas, and complain that the civilians had been shot at by the Government Forces. They recently targeted the hospital, and accused the Government Forces for the damage caused and the deaths of the patients.

The personnel from the ICRC, who do not investigate as to who shot into the hospitals, repeat what others say accusing the Government Forces. This is just what the terrorists expected to happen. Robert Evans who had been a pro terrorists investigator, always ready to attack the Government, is capitalising the situation continuing his ancient practice of defending the terrorists.

In Sri Lanka the International Community has been laid bare of its secret plan to keep the independent nations struggling for their development in its grip making them dependent on it for their economic and technological development. An example is the EU holding up GSP+ benefits to Sri Lanka.

That is how the International Community wants to keep the developing nations of the world under control using them as buffer states, using their territories for the installation of their military defence systems for their protection, and using their soil for the excavation of mineral deposits, and using them as their markets for weapons of war to encourage the internecine wars that would keep the developing countries always poor and dependent on the rich nations of the west.

The discoveries in the terrorist controlled areas in Sri Lanka which have being liberated by the Armed Forces of the Government, are evidence of the extent of participation of the members of the International Community to help the terrorists to develop the infrastructure necessary for a separate Tamil State in the North.


A generator Presented or sold to the terrorists by the Danish INGOs

The numerous INGOs who had come to Sri Lanka after the tsunami, had been qualified engineers, technicians. They had deliberately helped the terrorists to break away the north east of Sri Lanka to set up their own Independent State.

In order to facilitate this object, and carry out a successful warfare against the Government Forces, the pseudo INGOs from the West had been constructing seven air strips in Kilinochchi and Mulativu. They had provided the terrorists with the technical know how for the construction of boats, submergible suicide boats.





They had also set up highly sophisticate telecommunication centres, supplied air planes, and constructed several luxury bunkers as comfortable living quarters.



Under the pretext of helping the people affected by the tsunami the pseudo INGOs had handed over to the terrorists, heavy earth moving machinery to dig moats, build earth bunds, and construct underground bunkers.

The Government had no control over these INGOs as they were in the areas controlled by the terrorists, and they had a free hand to make the Sri Lanka terrorists a strong anti-government force. The outside walls of the bunkers had been protected against artillery fire not by stacking sand bags against the walls, but by stacking bags of rice received as foreign aid and transported to the terrorists controlled areas by the Government to feed the people.

A well thought out action plan by the Western pseudo INGOs had been prepared for the terrorists to set up an Independent State. While the European technicians were preparing the infrastructure necessary for an independent state, their Counterparts, the Ambassadors of UK, USA, Netherland, Germany, Switzerland, India and still unknown numbers of them, had been enrolling the services of various International Agencies such as the UNHRC, ICRC, Amnesty International, Human right Activists, US Senators, Former Ambassadors , and even a US Attorney, to stop the Sovereign State of Sri Lanka from carrying out a successful military operation against the terrorists.

They accused the Government of Sri Lanka of violation of Human Rights, and for genocide, They accused the Government Forces for opening artillery fire at Civilians, and continuously called Government of Sri Lanka to enter into a negotiated peace settlement with the terrorists, while they cried from house tops that terrorists have no place around their negotiating tables.

The Foreign media, BBC, Reuters, AFP, CNN, the News Media in the USA, Boston Post, International Herald Tribune , New York Times , defended the terrorists, relying on the reports in the Terrorist websites, while refusing to believe the Government with the stock phrase that the Government Statements cannot be verified as the journalists are not allowed in to war zones. Nevertheless, they believe any version of the situation given by the terrorists lock, stock and barrel.

The Local News media, such as the Sunday Leader , and all its publications, Sirasa TV, Lakbima, Daily Mirror, the Numerous websites, TamilNet, Tamil Week, TransCurrent, Sri Lanka Guardian, Lankadissent were making pro terrorist and anti-Government, reports. The Anti war lobbyists Jehan Perera, Kumar Rupasinghe, Pakiyasothy, Kumar David, Wickramabahu and the numerous writers from the Tamil diaspora, greatly helped the Western anti- Sri Lanka forces.

It is time that the Sri Lankan Politicians, the Local anti-war lobby, the Sri Lanka Tamil diaspora, adopt a different attitude to Sri Lanka at least now. The Sri Lanka Tamil diaspora must get rid of its “1983 mindset”, and understand that the Sinhala people in Sri Lanka to-day do not fall into their image of the “1983” model.

The terrorists tried in many ways possible to create a situation for a Sinhala backlash targeting the innocent Tamil people in the South, taking their anger on them for the atrocities being committed by the terrorists. But the Sinhala people are neither supremacists nor chauvinists and they do not hate the Tamil people or the Muslim. The Sinhala people will be only too glad to live side by side with the Tamil Community with a fraternal acceptance.

The Tamil diaspora should not continue to sow their seeds of hatred of the Sinhala people. The anti Government and anti Sinhala statements are often made to the foreign press without knowing the true situation in Sri Lanka. The recent interview given by Maya”Mia” Arulpragasam to Tavis Smiley of PBS, is wrong in all respects even the population figure she had given is wrong. It is regrettable because these false statements do not give the true factsof the situation in Sri Lanka to uninformed reader.

David Miliband has also carried with him a situation report of Sri Lanka given to him by the pro-terrorist Tamils in London, who are a part of his vote bank, to the US Secretary of State
Ms.Hillary Clinton. M.Miliband has probably not informed the US Secretary of State that the Government of Sri Lanka has already provided a no fire Zone for the Civilians to escape from the terrorists, to enable their safe conduct to Government areas. The government also gave the terrorists 48 hours to release the people to the Safety Zone. But the terrorists had fired into the crowds that had escaped from their captivity into the safety zone wounding many of them.

The terrorists cannot be trusted to honour a cease fire period as they will spring a surprise during the period to attack the Government Forces and create a situation where the Tamil civilians will be put into danger. The Government is quite aware of the situation and is not short of strategies to save the Civilians unharmed from the terrorists.

Therefore, the International Community, and the US Secretary of State should have confidence in the Sovereign State of Sri Lanka to acts on its own and save the people and terminate terrorism from Sri Lanka.

On the other hand the US Secretary of State should complement the Government and its Forces for an excellent work they have done so far to terminate terrorism from Sri Lanka.

We have confidence in our Armed Forces. They will take Tamil Civilians away from terrorists, and we pray for their success and safety.

The Government Forces have fought a winning battle against the terrorists, but the same cannot be said of the governments battle against judicial decisions.

However, UNP has at last realised that not to give credit to the President and the Government for the successful military operations against the terrorists, would be like the ostrich trying to hide its head in the sand.

BBC too writes of the success of the Government forces against the terrorists, pointing out that the Government may have difficulty in holding on to territories it had captured from the “rebels” . That of course is the problem of the Government and its Armed Forces. A government which carried out a successful military operation against the terrorists, should know better how to deal with the residual terrorist elements attempting a guerrilla war.

The Government Forces have come a long way since its pre-CFA status of a out dated armed force. It has now acquired experience. It is able to plan new strategies and carry them out effectively. The Armed Forces also know the territory as much as the terrorists, and learnt in the hardest way possible the conditions under which they have to carry out their operations.

Taking into consideration these facts the terrorists who may have shown resilience in the past when the their fortunes were better, even with most of their heavy weapons and cadres intact, may find it difficult this time to spring a surprise. The terrorists who have lost control of smaller towns and villages in the areas which were under their control, if they are of sound mind will not revert back to guerrilla warfare. If they do it will be to face utter disaster.

Therefore, the BBC, the Tamil diaspora in UK, and B.Nadesan the terrorist spokesman are living in a fools paradise hoping for a bounce back of the terrorists to achieve any victory.

BBC has to satisfy the Tamil diaspora based in London, therefore as an aside BBC says , “….Many Tamils here warned that the capture of territory from the rebels alone will not end the ethnic conflict and that they need a political solution for a lasting peace “.

But neither the BBC nor its benefactors the UK based Tamil diaspora seems to understand nothing about the ordinary Tamil people of Sri Lanka. These people do not want a political solution. The political solution is what the Tamil diaspora, the Tamil politicians , and the richer Tamils who do not know what to do with their money and would like to play a part in politics want.

The ordinary Tamil people as much as their counter parts among the Sinhala and the Muslims want, better living conditions, health services, employment, education for their children, and above all peace.

That cannot come automatically by dispersing political rights. Therefore, instead of devolution of power, the Sinhala, the Tamils and the Muslims who had been suffering for a long time under terror, fear and uncertainty of what the tomorrow will bring, should find ways and means to unite the people setting aside their differences, and put every hand to the wheel for development of the country and bring the prosperity that had escaped us.

During the past thirty years of suffering under terrorism, Sri Lanka had no time to out grow from its differences, and forget the scarce of the wounds of past events. The end of terrorism should be turned into a period of reconciliation to bind all Communities together as companions of the suffering that had been inflicted upon them by an unwanted terrorism.

Unless that past is forgotten and forgiven we cannot build a better future. It is with unity built on love and trust that we could forge the people and the country towards development and progress.

When the terrorists were herding the unfortunate Tamil civil population in to their dens in Mulativu to serve as human shields, they hoped that the International Community may move into help the Tamil Civilians thus giving a respite for the terrorists to prepare for an assault against the Government Forces.

The Tamil diaspora are not short of ideas to throw a life line to the terrorists. Making this an opportunity to blame the Sinhala Buddhists, as Chauvinists, the Tamil diaspora asks the President to call for UN intervention.

It is not the Tamil diaspore to give directions to the President. The President Mahinda Rajapakse did not ask any one for their advice and knows exactly what he is doing. The last thing to do is to call for UN intervention. Our army is quite capable of rising to the occation to do what is necessary without causing damage to the Tamil Civilians taken as hostage by the ruthless vermin of terrorists.

From what the Government Forces have achieved so far we can trust them to continue their humanitarian operations while eliminating the terrorist forever. We pray for the strength and safety of the Government Forces and wish them all success in their endeavour.

Bruce Fein US Attorney for the terrorists, at the Bar

Bruce Fein the Attorney for the LTTE terrorist Front Group called the US Tamil Group, says that he has selected Sarath Fonseka and Gotabhaya Rajapkse, one as a citizen and the other as a permanent resident alien for whom USA is responsible as moral, and legal matters, for genocide prosecution under the United State Genocide Accountability Act of 2007.

But the hitch is that the Act requires that the offense is committed in whole or in part within the United States, and if the genocide had been committed outside USA, conduct required for the offence should have occurred.

Let us first examine what is, genocide. Genocide is a word made up to mean "race killing", introduced by a Polish scholar Rafael Lemkin, who thought it inacceptable that there is no law to punish as a criminal offence, the violence aimed to obliterate a human community not because for something they have done but because of who they are in belonging to a religious community, ethnic clan, or a racial group.

Lemkin carried out a campaign to make "genocide" a punishable offence in International Law. It resulted in it being accepted by the UN General Assembly in 1948
as a Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. It all began as a result of the holocaust in which millions of Jews, and Gypsies were systematically massacred in gas chamber, by the German Nazi Regime under Hitler, whose intention was to eliminate the Jewish race .

Nevertheless, it took forty years for the US Congress to ratify the UN Convention, enacting in 1988,the Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1987, known as the Proxmire Act, after Senator William Proxmire. The length of time taken by USA to make the enactment shows that the accusation for genocide is fraught with danger, and the holocaust was only one of its kind. And an atrocious one at that, which we wish with all our hearts will never repeat itself.

Therefore, Bruce Fein's attempt to accuse Army Commander Mr. Sarath Fonseka and Defence Secretary Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapakse for genocide and bring them before an American Court of Justice is a fanciful idea put out to fool the terrorist Front Group, which has engaged him at a substantial retainer.

Just because the United States has its Genocide Accountability Act of 2007, does not mean that Attorneys like Bruce Fein could accuse any one for this offence and bring him before an American Court of Justice under the GAA.

There are certain requirements to accuse someone for genocide, which under the Act are called the conduct required for the acts to become genocide under the GAA.

There are in fact five acts constituting genocide when committed with genocidal intent. They are:

1. Killing members of a religious community, an ethnic clan or a racial group;

2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of a religious community, an ethnic clan or a racial group

3. Deliberately inflicting on members of a religious community, an ethnic clan or a racial group, conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction;

4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within members of a religious community, an ethnic clan or a racial group

5. Forcibly transferring children of members of a religious community, an ethnic clan or a racial group, to another religious community, an ethnic clan or a racial group.

The Commander of the Army Mr. Sarath Fonseka, and the Defence Secretary Mr.Gotabhaya Rajapakse, have been engaged by the President of Sri Lanka, to take military action against a group of terrorists in the North and East of the Country, who kill, maim, kidnap, torture, massacre Tamil, Muslim and Sinhala civilians, kill their opponents, and murder politician using suicide bombs, and claymore explosives , with a view to end terrorism in Sri Lanka.

The terrorist are of Tamil Origin. But they live apart from the Tamil Civilian Communities in the North using them as their resource for forced "recruitment" of children, and conscript the physically able elders , for their fighting cadre, and keep the rest as a protective shield.

The Tamil population is quite apart from the terrorists, not accepting them as their representatives, or hold voluntary allegiance to them. Therefore, in removing the terrorists from their occupied territories in military action, the Government Armed Forces are not removing the Tamil people who are the rightful citizens of Sri Lanka. The Tamil Community enjoys freedom and all the privileges common to all citizens of Sri Lanka of whatever Community.

The Tamil Community is not restricted to the North and East. Well over 50 percent of them live in the South with the Sinhala, the Muslim, and the other Communities. Therefore, there is no war or intimidation against the Tamil population for their ethnicity, religion or race.

If Bruce Fein has to indict any one on his false notion of "genocide", it has to be the President of Sri Lanka, and not the Army Commander and the Defence Secretary of the Government, because, they act on the orders of the President, who is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

If Bruce Fein dares indict the President of the Government of Sri Lanka, for "Genocide" , then he has to indict the people of Sri Lanka as a whole including those Tamils, Muslims, Sinhala and others, who voted to elect democratically the President, going on his election manifesto, where he has promised the people to put and end to three decades of terrorism.

But, that being a mere argument to show the absurdity of Bruce Fein's pretentious , " I have prepared an approximately 400+ page model indictment etc.", it has to be pointed out to him, that the length of his model indictment has nothing to do with the fact of genocide he claims fall within the GAA.

Bruce Fein is challenged to answer how military action, which had been proceeded by several attempts for peace negotiation with the world's most ruthless terrorist group, banned by 33 countries of the International Community, could be "genocide" in terms of the GAA, if this group of terrorists does not fall within the definition of the Act, as constituting genocide committed with genecidal intent, on members of a religious community, an ethnic clan or a racial group. They are terrorists and therefore, not members of a religious community, an ethnic clan, or a racial group.

Bruce Fein in making out a group of ruthless terrorist for his purposes as an " ethnic clan or a racial group" is attempting to make travesty of the law that Polish Scholar Rafael Lemkin and the U.S.Senator William Proxmire fought so hard, first to integrate into a UN Convention and, then to have it ratified as a US Legislative Act.

Al-Queida, and the Talibans are groups of terrorists moved by religious fervour. Therefore, does Bruce Fein consider, that the American war against terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan in which according to Opinion Research Business Survey in 2007, a total of 1,033,000 Iraqis alone had met with violent death, genocide under the Genocide Accountability Act ?

Bruce Fein, may perhaps have heard the quotation attributed to Abraham Lincoln, that you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. Well if you know it, please apply it to your self.

With your 400+ page Model Indictment, you can fool your retainers the US Tamil Group, but not the honourable Justices of the United States Courts of Justice . They will see through your plea for justice for a group of terrorists, as an Attorney's brief to earn his retention fee, as the devil's advocate.

In fact tables may be turned on Bruce Fein, being accused by the US Court of Justice under US Patriotic Act against terrorism, for aiding and abetting a terrorist group in Sri Lankan which has been banned in USA, by taking a brief from the terrorist proxy US Tamil Group , and for false accusation with a view to hinder the execution of its lawful duties of providing defence and security , and to bring disrepute to a Sovereign State for its just war against terrorism.

It is not worth even writing to meet Bruce Fein's arguments, stuffed with incoherent reference to Mahavamasa, Buddhism and Dharmapala, which may have come strait from Narapalasinghams rigmaroles dished out to pro terrorist websites.

Fein's Model Indictment may have been good material for Molière, who was a French playwright considered as one of the greatest masters of comedy, to write a play such as Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur, (Tartuffe or the Hypocrite), L'Avare ou l'École du mensonge (The Miser or the School of falsehood), or Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Middle Class Gentleman). It would be a great success on a French stage.

Other than that there seems to be no great interest in Fein's Model Indictment of 400+ pages. Meeting him for a debate will only be giving credence to a lopsided brief of an Attorney, which is best left to whither on the imaginary branch where it began to grow.

Thank you Mr. President, Commanders of Armed Forces, Defence Secretary, and the Brave Soldiers of the Infantry, Navy, and the Air Force.

Thank you our Brave Armed Forces, you have done what lot of people both local and International thought would be an impossible task, which they pontificated should be settled not by an impossible military solution, but by both parties entering into a negotiated settlement.

They little knew the heroism of the Sinhala Soldiers. They won the war against terrorism for all of us Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim and all other Communities who have made this land their home.

Why is it necessary to celebrate the capture of Mulativu ?

Because it is the last bastion of the Terrorists, and this victory marks the end of nearly thirty years of terrorism.





Because it is the end of the suffering of thousands of poor Tamil Civilians, who had been kept as a human shield by the terrorists, to protect themselves from the bombardments and artillery fire of the Sri Lanka Government Forces.

Because it is also the end of the comedy that had been enacted by Karunanidhi and his jokers Vaiko, Nedumaran and all the rest, trying to force the hand of the Central Government of India to call for a cease fire , to save the terrorists, and give them a new lease of life.

Because it is the end of thirty years of terrorism , helped by Norway, UK, Germany , the International Community, UNHRC, Human Right Watch, Amnesty International, Bruce Fein, Blakes, and Chilcotts.

Because it is the end of the International Community , their Agents, Agencies, and our neighbour India calling the Sovereign State of Sri Lanka, to sit with the terrorist for a negotiated peace settlement.

Because it is, also to tell the world –the International Community that we the Sri Lankans are a Nation to be reckoned with, a nation that has the potential to be great, an ability to go through” hell” to find the “heaven” we seek. It is symbolical of the determination of the people of this country to reach a pre-set target under what ever dangers, and road blocks there may be.

Because, we are a Nation that has the courage, and the force to advance, and not to retreat.



In this victory we have lost many a brave heroes who dedicated their lives to give the people -the children of mother Lanka, a “tomorrow” which is free from fear, and uncertainty. A “tomorrow” for us to build a lasting fraternity to unite as Sri Lankans without separating our selves as Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim or else. A “tomorrow” when we would stand together as a Nation with the same hope and the same dream, and to tell our selves that we will never again allow our hopes, and dignity of a Nation be destroyed by a terrorism of any sort.

We owe this victory to one man, and his determination to eliminate terrorism from Sri Lanka for ever. “Defeat” was written in large letters every where he turned,. Nevertheless, he placed his unwavering trust in his Commander of the Army Sarath Foneseka, and the Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse, and the Brave Armed Forces of the Infantry, Navy and the Air Force, and entrusted them with the task of carrying out military operations with a view to eliminate the well armed ruthless force of terrorists, no one thought the Government Forces would ever be able to defeat. This man with the undaunted determination to eliminate terrorism from his beloved Mother Lanka is the President Mahinda Rajapakse.



We also celebrate the Victory of the capture of Mulativu, to show our gratitude to the President Mahinda Rajapakse, the Brave Armed Forces, and to remember those heroes that gave their lives in the battle against the terrorists.



We also remember those valliant Soldiers and Officers who gave their lives in 1996 in their brave effort to save Mullativu from being captured by the terrorists.


Colonel A.F.Lafir who died in the battle field in Mulativu on 18 July,1996

However, it is difficult for us not to give a thought to those Tamil youth who gave their lives to a cause which was not theirs, but that of a murderous psychopath, mislead or forced to fight “his war”. We recognise the bravery of those who risked their lives, and those who gave theirs, for a cause which they were made to believe was theirs.

In this celebration of the Victory we should also hope that our youths should never be mislead by an individual or a group, to make them a party to break away our motherland, to make a homeland to any group or a community, as we should stand united now as never before to always defend our motherland to keep it a unitary state.

There is no need for an All Party Representative Committee

The President set up the APRC probably to stop the International Community from interfering in to Sri Lanka during the course of its effort to eliminate terrorism. International Community is more concerned in preserving its own interest, and the ability to dictate terms to developing countries, holding their wealth and high technology as the proverbial carrot before a donkey..

The developing countries are, for the International Community, a market for their arms and ammunition, and export industry. Through out the last thirty years when Sri Lanka was suffering under terrorism, the Sri Lanka Tamil diaspora provided the terrorists with financial aid, and the International Community gave them the moral support, enhancing their military capacity, while incessantly demanding the Sovereign Governments of Sri Lanka to negotiate with the terrorists for a peace settlement.

Furthermore, the International Community preferred to keep the developing countries poor and dependent on them so that they could use their territories for setting up their military surveillance equipments, and make them their military buffer states to protect their own territories from any enemy attack. In a way like the terroriss keeping the civilians in Mulativu as human shields !

The International Community kept up a resounding chorus, with Blakes, Chilcotts, and Evans taking up the refrain, to force the government to find a political solution to terrorism and calling both parties-the Government and the terrorists to negotiate for a peace settlement. But behind our backs, they raised their strident voices to say that the terrorists have no place to sit around their negotiating tables.

Without even a glimpse of support from the International Community for the government of Sri Lanka in its fight against terrorism, Sri Lanka Armed Forces have proved themselves far more resourceful, dedicated and stronger, than even the well equipped foreign forces, to fight to the end , a group of ruthless terrorists, furnished with modern military equipment with the financial aid provided by the Tamil diaspora, moral support by the International Community, and equipped with war like material and communication equipment from Norway.

The APRC was a means the government adopted to keep in check the interfering “wolves in sheep clothing”- the International Community. Now the Government of Sri Lanka has almost eliminated the menace, the canker of terrorism that had eaten into our country, it is time to find ways and means to stop terrorism from ever raising its ugly head amidst us once again.

For this purpose the APRC is ill equipped. This could only be done by a broad policy to unite the communities, which is an exercise in the change of mental attitude to the problem. The word “ethnic problem” should be eliminated from our vocabulary, that was introduced to us by the interfering western “do gooders” . There is no need for power sharing. If there are elements insisting for power sharing they are doing that to create a state of division among us, so that we the three main communities in Sri Lanka will be kept apart from one another for ever. The political power is provided in the constitution to be shared by all citizens of Sri Lanka without dividing them as Sinhala, Tamils and Muslims.

The APRC is a symbol of division, therefore, it should be scrapped forth with and if necessary a Committee set up to draw up plans to mix the Communities, without destroying their cultural identities. There should not be any areas specifically reserved for one community. There should be a healthy distribution of the population, all over Sri Lanka.

The International Community can help, not by telling us what we should or should not do, but by giving us the material necessary to build our Nation, modernising its communication systems, providing assistance to develop technology, access to clean water , and help to improve health and sanitary conditions of the country.

Priority should be given to implement the teaching of Sinhala, Tamil and English, in all schools. More Universities should be opened to enable opportunities of higher education, to all. Politically the country would be more united if there is a two party political system, so that all citizens could be members of these two political parties without reference to their communal identity. The present constitutions of the political parties should be amended to meet this new situation.

The UNP having a leadership without a progressive political vision for the future would unfortunately be a stumbling block for such a dialogue. It is time that this Old Party changes its leadership in the interest of the country and the Party itself, to become more democratic. The only vision it projects now is trying all means possible to oust the government in place with the motive of coming into political power. They are least concerned with the country, or the unity of the people. UNPers are working for short term political interests. UNP is conservative to the core living within its old shell.

It is may be a person like Mr. Rukman Senanayake, who is more sensible to the interest of the country as a whole, could perhaps give the old UNP a more meaningful political status, to compete with the UPFA, as a uniting force . We cannot expect any thing better than what he is from Rauff Hakim, a person making the Muslim Congress a platform for his own personal political aggrandisement.

Mano Ganeshan, and Anura Kumara Dissanayake are using the antigovernment role, hoping to win popularity among the people, which seem to have escaped from their clutches. Thondaman, though he remains with the UPFA has no political charisma to influence the people.

Unfortunately, in Sri Lanka the intellectuals have failed to influence the ordinary people for a meaningful union of interests to enable them to become a Nation of Sri Lankans, beyond their Communal identity. Izeth Hussain speaks highly of Lasantha Wickramatunga as an Icon of Democracy, one feels that it would not be long before he identifies Prabhakaran too as another Icon.

Patriotism- a writer in a pro terrorists website says, is the refuge of scoundrels. This same writer quotes at length from President Obama’s speech without touching on his call for unity, – we are a people of common hope , no matter what faith we believe in, no matter where we come from, no matter what we are, we are people of a common hope , a common dream. President Obama also said “…….loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true……”.

Others quote Pastor Niemoller, Menken, mention Hitler, and Nazism, falling one over the other to discredit the President, the Government and the Sri Lanka Army.

One would say that it is a good sign that they are holding all their guns levelled at the President Mahinda Rajapakse because it at least shows, that it was he who brought significant changes to Sri Lanka after 30 years , nay after 60 years. None of these anti-President ghouls seem to like change, they like to live in the dark pit of horror under terrorists. But how discouraging it must be to the President Mahinda Rajapakse, after having given to the people a country free of terrorism, he is still accused of abductions, murders and enrichment.

They, the opposition to the Government , the media, numerous pro terrorist websites run by the members of the Tamil diaspora, former USA Ambassadors, German Ambassador and now the German Foreign Minister are all trying to make a new hero of Lasantha Wikramatunga, already made an Icon of Democracy by a former diplomat Izeth Hussain. They may even contribute to put up a statue of him taller than that of SWRD, DS Senanayake, and all the rest.

There are six US Ambassadors writing to the President to safeguard the interest of the people, and the media. What do they think ? There is nothing else the President Mahinda Rajapakse wants to do.. He had always defended the people, and what greater defence of the people is their when he fought a war to eliminate the terrorists not allowing the ordinary civilians in the terrorists held areas to suffer from bombardments or artillery fire by the Sri Lanka Army. That did not happen in Iraq or Afghanistan. The Six former US Ambassadors to Sri Lanka should take note.

The President Mahinda Rajapakse has no lessons to learn from any one, let alone the former USA Ambassadors, Gordon Brown, or German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. These people were not heard of when the terrorists were in the rampage, killing the best of our Sri Lankan Leaders, like Lakshman Kadirgamar. They come out to defend the Sri Lanka Media, and mourn the death of an Editor unknown to the ordinary mass of people, indirectly trying to help a “handful “ of terrorists cornered in a 400 sq meter of land in Mulativu.

May be the Sri Lanka Police Force is slow in acting against street murders, and find the murderers , but it will soon be found that the Government or the Government Forces have no hand in these assassinations. The people of Sri Lanka is in a state of psychological turmoil after being freed from a thirty years of ,suffering under a ruthless group of terrorists, and a sudden spate of assassination of journalists, and civilians in suicide bombs explosions.

The world - Germany, UK and the rest of the International Community should let Sri Lanka sort out things on its own, and find solutions to pressing problems, as the President Mahinda Rajapaksa, his Government, and the Sri Lanka Armed Forces, with the able Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse , have found the solution to terrorism in their own way. We are a Nation of intelligent people and what ever differences we have, we are able to find solutions to our own problems. But we should be left alone without being interfered by the Western “do gooders” , whatever is there intention.

In our President Mr.Mahinda Rajapakse we have one of the most wise leaders any country would be proud to have. When he was accused for all types of crimes from bribery to assassinations, he did not attack those who accused him. When Norwegians openly helped the terrorists, the President did not show any animosity, and received the Norwegians without any sign of anger. When the Opposition leader carried on street manifestations accusing he and his family, for political corruption, he did not retort and received the opposition leader very amiably. He is human , calm and undisturbed. He is quite capable of taking correct decisions. He stands like a rock in the midst of winds, rains, fires and storms.

I hope that he will find the irrelevance of the APRC, and see the absence of an ethnic problem, and initiate a dialogue with all concerned to make Sri Lanka a land of an undivided people.

What really is the "ethnic problem" in Sri Lanka ?

There is supposed to be an “ethnic problem” in Sri Lanka. But no body has so far said what is the “ethnic problem” . To solve this still untold ethnic problem, the President of Sri Lanka has appointed an All Party Representative Committee to make proposals for power sharing. But how can power sharing solve a non-existent “ ethnic problem”

Under the British Colonial Rule, all the important government positions were handed over to the Tamils and Muslims, and the Sinhala who were the majority was pushed to the background. It was however the Sinhala majority who spearheaded anti-Colonial movements to liberate the people from an unfriendly Colonial Rule, who were corrupting the people through Missionaries, setting up their schools, and propagating their religion.

Some of our people, under threat, or lured by offer of jobs, and various other facilities, were converted to their religion , making them discard those of their own. The result of the introduction of this new religion was the corruption of our own culture, and the way of living.










The later freedom movements of Sri Lanka (Ceylon), were supported by the educated upper class Tamils. After Independence, the activities of the Marxist movements by the Western Educated Sinhala intelligentsia , and then the election of S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike as the Prime Minister of a SLFP government, called for radical changes in the British Colonial administrative system that had followed Independence. The Sinhala people who had so far been pushed to the back ground by the British Rulers under their divide and rule policy, demanded their due place in the Administration, and education.

The upper class Tamils who had until then enjoyed the special privileges provided to them by the British Colonial Rulers, found themselves loosing their pre-independent position in the Sri Lankan social hierarchy. S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike swept on a wave of popularity hastened to give back to the Sinhala people their rights and privileges denied to them by the British Colonial Rulers, passed legislation to make Sinhala the Official language with Tamil as the second language. This angered the Tamil upper class Vellalah Politician who were already smarting under the loss of the privileges enjoyed by them.

Later on, after the assassination of the Prime Minister Mr. S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike , his widowed wife Ms.Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the Prime Minister. With new developments after the Independence, the upper class Tamil politicians held back the emancipation of ordinary Tamil people from their bondage to the educated upper class Tamils, by discouraging them from supporting Sinhala political parties such as the Lanka Sama Samaja Party and the Communist Party, by carrying out false propaganda against the left Political Movement.

In the mean time the free education system commenced by Mr.C.W.W.Kannangara began to give results. Many Central Schools were established and large numbers of students from all levels of the society were being educated. But yet Sri Lanka had only two Universities one in Colombo and the other in Peradeniya. These Universities could not accommodate the large influx of students seeking University education.

To overcome this difficulty the Government adopted a system of admission to Universities on a population basis, which was not favourable to students from the minority communities. This fact added to the Sinhala being declared the official language, deepened the growing discontent of the Tamil politicians, who set up the people against the government.

This situation could have been stopped, if the government had acted thoughtfully by adopting a more accommodating government policy, such as making both Tamil and Sinhala Languages compulsory subjects in the school curriculum for all students. The government could have provided crash courses to Tamil public servants to learn to speak Sinhala, and the Sinhala public servants to speak Tamil.

With regard to admission to Universities, the government could have taken steps to open more Universities, and Open Universities to admit all students seeking higher education. These facilities could now be provided and the two main problems that concern the ordinary people of all the Communities could be solved, without entering into an APRC.

These are not really “ ethnic problems”, but situations that had been allowed to grow without being attended, in the development stage of Sri Lanka as an Independent Sovereign State. The problem was amplified by the politicians seeking political mileage on these issues.

It was this political rivalry between the Tamil politicians, and the government that eventually resulted in a group of youths from under privileged non-Vellalah caste taking up arms against the government and their upper class Vellalah political mentors to set up a separate State for the Tamils.





They were used by India and trained as terrorists to keep Sri Lanka from developing into a dominant Island in the Indian Ocean, a challenge to India in South Asia. However, the leader of the terrorists is of the Tamil fisher caste, a low caste, in the Hindu caste system.



The Tamil politicians who do not want a separate Tamil Homeland, but more political power to administer the Tamil dominated areas are trying to reap benefits from the situation resulting from the language Issue, and that of the admission of Students to the Universities on a percentage basis, projecting it as an “ethnic problem” purely for political reasons.

This same “ethnic issue” is being used by the terrorists to attract the attention of the International Community which knows nothing at all about the “ethnic” problem of Sri Lanka, or how it started. They do not make any attempt to understand what it is all about, and merely call the government to find a solution to the problem !

However, the “ethnic problem” is prominently exposed to the public view, by the Tamil politicians , the International Community, the Human Rights activists, and the Amnesty International, as an un-surmountable problem, which could be solved only by negotiations for “power sharing”. This power sharing is a call by the ambitious Tamil politicians.



The ordinary Tamil people want only to have access to education, employment, more contact with the people of other communities, and the ability to use their own language in their contact with the government administration ,and justice. Above all they want a peaceful existence with their compatriots.



The Tamil diaspora, supporting the terrorists in Sri Lanka to separate a part of Sri Lanka as a homeland for the Tamils also justify the call for a separate State by the terrorists, as a solution for the non-existent “ethnic problem”.

Therefore, in reality there is no ethnic problem in Sri Lanka, but an attempt to divide the country and keep the Communities apart haggling for a bone of contention called the “ethnic problem”

Sri Lanka belongs to the Sinhala, and Sinhala belong to Sri Lanka.

I am a Sinhala and therefore I say that Sri Lanka belongs to the Sinhala and the Sinhala belong to Sri Lanka.




But it does not stop a Tamil or a Muslim from Sri Lanka to say that, Sri Lanka belongs to them and they belong to Sri Lanka. It is in that expression of belonging, that the Unity of all those who live in Sri Lanka could be built. Because Sri Lanka is the “ precious possession “ of all of us, be they Sinhala, Tamil or Muslim.

But, it is not turning round to accuse a Sinhala , Tamil or a Muslim acclaiming that “sense of possession” a supremacist, or a racist that we could unite to build a Nation of Sri Lankans.

People like Narapalasingham, or Krishnaraja - who wrote the Tamil view on Mahavamsa in the Muslim Guardian, read the Mahavamsa not to learn more about their compatriots, but to steal from them their history, and their culture, to interpret and write their own history condemning the Sinhala, in praising the Tamils.

They stand to gain nothing from the exercise, except to create deeper clefts, between the two communities. Krishnaraja goes beyond interpreting the written document, to read into the mind of the writer of the Mahavamsa. If the exercise gives them some sort of ego centric joy it is no harm, but beyond their joy they create strong barriers between communities that hinder the progress and development of a country.

It is far better for these historians, the journalists, and web masters in the internet, to exploit their talent in writing to bring the three major community into a united whole, rather than put them asunder by re-writing history to cover up an imagined racial supremacy of one community, to establish the supremacy of another.

The Sinhala- to be more precise, the Sinhala Buddhists fought a war against Elara- an invader who had set up a kingdom, to re-establish the old Sinhala Kingdom, but they did not fight against the Tamils or the Muslims, who had been accepted by them as part of the population of the kingdom.. The racial riots of which the Sinhala are being accused, were not “against” the Tamil people, though they became victims of a political exigency of the then politicians. Even the Muslim riots before independence were not” against” the Muslim Community, but to exert the right of the Sinhala people for religious and cultural manifestations, and to infuse a sense of respect for the religion and culture of the other communities.

The Sinhala, Tamil and the Muslim Communities are a part and parcel of our country, there is no demand of “kappan” by the majority for the “right” of their being a part of the Nation. Therefore, the Sri Lanka journalists should not play into the hands of the politicians to divide the country, but stand by a democratically elected government, even if they do not agree with its politics, at least to help it in its struggle to fight an enemy of the Nation.

If the country is divided, it is the foreign countries that would make that division a handle to create greater divisions for their benefit. The Ambassador of the USA Robert Blake, the Prime Minster of UK Gordon Brown, the Ambassador of Germany Jurgen Weerth, and the Foreign Minster of India Pranab Mukherjee, have no business to interfere into our affairs , as we are no more a Colony of any one of them, but a Sovereign State responsible for our destinies.

It is the “stupidity” of Ranil Wickramsinghe of UNP, Mangala Samaraweera of SLFP(M), Rauf Hakeem of SLMC, and Anura Kumara Dissanayake of JVP, that makes it possible for the International Community to interfere into our affairs. We have lost very valuable people to terrorism, such as the late Lakshman Kadirgamar, Army Commander Janaka Perera, A.Amirthalingam,Neelan Theruchelvam, Parami Kulatunga, Kethesh Loganathn, Major Muthalif, to name a few. It is not the foreign people who have lost them. Therefore these foreign meddlers do not understand the extent of our grievance.

The Late Lasantha Wickramatunga’s assassination is very much regretted, but his journalism with an anti Buddhist twist also contributed to the division of the people of the country and enabled the foreign destructive elements to interfere into the affairs of our country.

Even Narapalasinghams, Krishnarajans, the whole lot of the Sri Lanka Tamil diaspora, and the terrorist pampering websites cannot but agree that it had been always the Sinhala Buddhists who came forward to protect the Country against divers foreign invaders from corrupting our culture and disrupting our progress, or those who attempt to tare away our social fabric, or divide the country. It had been so during the Chola, Pandiya, and other Dravidian invasions, or later on when the British Colonialists began corrupting our cultural values.

The more significant rising of the people against the British Rulers was, when the British taxed the people and forced males over 18 years to work for the construction of roads, and were disrespectful to their religion and culture. It was the Rebellion of the 1817. People were against the enslavement of the people by the British Rulers therefore they revolted. The Buddhist priests who had always taken the fore front to defend the people and the religion became the object of hostility of the British Colonial Rulers.

They took revenge from the Buddhist Priests, by changing the Clause five of the Kandyan Convention signed in 1815, which held Buddhism inviolable, and its temples and priests to be protected and maintained as before , to read that the “ priests and the ceremonies of Buddhism shall receive the respect which in former times was shown to them.”

This Rebellion of 1817 against the British began with the support of Keppetipola Maha Nilame, and led by Puran Appu, Gongalegoda Bandara, and Venerable Kudahapola Therunnanse, in Dambulla in the Matale.District. The British Army was said to have gone on rampage to stop the rebellion killing masses of people, burning their houses and looting their property. The rebellion was quelled after executing Puran Appu, Gongale Bandara and eighteen others after a summery trial. The Venerable Kudahapola Therunnanse was shot dead in his yellow robe, symbolically insulting the Buddhism the religion of the Sinhala people.

The British Colonial Rulers were the first terrorists, who terrorised the Sinhala Buddhists. The People in Matale and Kuranegala suffered the most as an aftermath of the rebellion Marshall Law was declared in the Kandy District. The British Governor resigned after a Parliamentary inquiry held in the British Parliament, found him guilty of excessive harassment of the people.

This is the same scenario that is being enacted to-day with Ranil Wickramasinghe of the UNP, Rauf Hakim of SLMC, Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the JVP, Mangala Samaraweera of the SLFP(M), and the Tamil diaspora representing the British Colonial Rulers, with the terrorists as their army.

They insult, and make false accusations against the President, the Army Commander and the Defence Secretary, as the British Army’s summery trial before executing the leaders of the Rebellion. The Sri Lanka Army is being belittled , as the British Army killed, burnt and looted the houses of the poor Sinhala people. The JHU representing the Buddhism is being subjected to a systematic character assassination, as the British executed by shooting the Venerable Kudahapola Therunnanse in his yellow robe.

This is later history than the Mahavamsa, and Narapalasingham , and Krishnaraja could learn more about the heroism of the Sinhala Buddhists, and their courageous attempts to safeguard their country, their motherland Sri Lanka , from these events recorded by the British, and now available in the British record office.

The Sinhala Buddhists then under the British Colonialism fearlessly faced the British rulers against the desecration of their religion, and forcing a foreign culture upon their people through their Missionaries. The Sinhala Buddhists did not rebel against the Colonial rulers because they were the majority , but because they had to do it, and no one else would have done it for them.

Even today, it is the Sinhala Buddhist Soldiers, under the Sinhala Buddhist Generals, and Army Officers, who are fighting to save the country from the menace of a ruthless group of terrorist.