By C. Wijeyawickrema –
Wigneswaran’s mouth
I know two Sinhala women who married Tamils, both without the approval of their Sinhala parents that one could perhaps describe as love is blind kind of eloping. In one case the Tamil side decided to have a Hindu marriage ceremony. It began with a private Hindu custom of bathing the naked body of the bride by the groom’s close relatives. I am not sure if this was done because the bride was a Sinhala Buddhist. This Hindu marriage, however, did not prevent her from functioning as a Buddhist, if she so wished, unlike a marriage performed at a Christian church. This one example that I knew gave me unnecessary concern when I saw a news report of a declaration made by NPC CM Wigneswaran ( W) at an AG meeting of Sarvodaya at Moratuwa. He allegedly said that “he likes Sinhala people but not Sinhalization.”
Wigneswaran
Politicians make all kinds of false statements or half-truth to fool people. For example, Karunasena Kodituwakku, a former UNP education minister said recently (Divayina, December 31), that it was the UNP which created the free education in Sri Lanka. In the first place there was no UNP in 1945, when CWW Kannangara as minister of education under the Donoughmore System got the law passed by the State Council. The second thing was that DS Senanayake was dead against “free education.” He and all those who later became the UNP opposed granting the voting right to people in 1931. The rumor was that CWWK had to wait until DSS was out of the country to present the education bill (Ref. De Silva, K. M. 1981. A history of Sri Lanka. London: C. Hurst. p.472-474).
Wigneswaran marriages-Sinhalization as genocide
W had two Sinhala-Tamil marriages under his watch, by his two sons. Were they performed according to Hindu customs with bathing brides or were they according to Sinhala or Marxist methods? In any case did they make his sons Sinhalized? The poor Tamil in Jaffna does not know these and W is poisoning their minds. W who grew up in Colombo as a boy can do better to get rid of Tamil separatism and erase Tamil suspicions from those Tamils who still think Sinhalaya as their enemies. But instead, W is doing exactly what SJV Chelvanayagam did. SJVC forbade Tamils to learn Sinhala but gave private tuition so that his children could learn Sinhala!
In Tibet there was/is a fear of Chinese marrying Tibetan women and thus converting Tibet into a Chinese region. Similar fears were there in Viet Nam about Chinese marrying Viet Nam women. Such government-promoted policies are considered as genocide of a race. Sri Lankan has no policy of promoting Sinhala soldiers to marry Tamil girls. Instead, what we see is some love-struck soldiers marrying similarly love-struck Tamil girls. With W becoming a grandfather of mixed Tamil-Sinhala products, as a politician he has to explain if genocide is working with his W descendants either on the Tamil path or the Sinhala path; because, Sinhalization or Tamilization can take place only by way of such genocidal means. Since W has used the term genocide publicly he should make a public statement disapproving Tamil girls marrying Sinhala boys. This is the only way he is morally right in using the term Sinhalization.
No homelands
But if he is thinking that only he and his Tamils can live in any part of Sri Lanka with equal rights but Sinhalyas cannot live in any part of the country he will end up as a failed and miserable Colombo Tamil. Most probably he thinks this is possible because RanilW, under his infamous CFA 2002, allowed exactly that: Prabakaran black cats and suicide bombers could roam any part of the island but the army was restricted to the South. There is no way that a Tamil self-determined unit coming up in Sri Lanka because 55% Tamils live outside NP and EP.
If Tamils world over want a separate country for them with a UNO seat they should try it in Tamil Nad. W should not become entangled with this idea and instead, he should try to help poor Tamils to overcome their day to day problems, a result of 30 years of suffering under the dictatorship and murder by Prabakaran. The more W uses platforms like the Sarvodaya’s and make stupid statements, the more he make it difficult even for the UNP to lend him support.
EP is an artificial demarcation and therefore, it cannot be used as a boundary for an organic entity that can be called a homeland. Think of Kurdish people. What is their homeland? Kurdish people are now under so many states: Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria etc. A Kurdistan is a dream, but it can be identified as an organic unit, despite the large extent of the land area coming within it. If, for the sake of argument one wants to try to demarcate a Tamil homeland are in the EP, it will be limited to a coastal strip and to a few towns. Even the Muslims are claiming the Potuvil area as their homeland! If this is upheld then Beruwala and Akurana will also be Muslim homelands!
The systematic destruction of ancient Buddhist ruins in NP and EP will not help in trying to convert EP and NP as exclusive Tamil areas. Sinhala people are angrily aware of how impotent Sinhala black-white leaders operating in Colombo allowed the robbery of sacred ruins of EP. An example is the Muhudu Maha Viharaya near Potuvil. See the loss of land area (acres) belonging to the ancient temple: 1951 = 264 à 1965 = 30 à 1980 = 20à 1990 = 15 à 2005 = 7 à 2013 = 0 .25 of an acre. Thus now it is only a quarter of an acre!
As the Burger CJ Sansoni once said, Tamils FP/TNA leaders should give up their separatist plan and live amicably with their Sinhala –in-laws (as in the case of Wigneswaran). Sooner or later Sri Lanka has to come out of the black-white control in Colombo and replace the 9 province division by a 7 river basin face. Each of the seven units will have a see front. It can be seven river basins or 20 since Sri Lanka has 103 river basins. If the present Rpremdas created 14,000 GSN units are re-demarcated according to ecology-based boundaries, they can be amalgamated under river-basin based districts or provinces. The GSN-level local governing must be given to non-political party, elected 10 people committee. Imagine how many such committees will be in the present EP and NP area with Tamils, Muslims and Sinhala people working together in harmony handling their day-to-day affairs, whether it is garbage, water, sanitation, Dengue, Kidney disease, education, cultivation etc.
The problem is that the 20,000-30,000 black-whites that the Anagarika Dharmapala mentioned in the 1940s are doing everything to prevent such people empowerment. This is what people must be informed, so that they could not be cheated by green, blue or red fake Buddhists or other saviors such as Sarath Fonseka. We must thank the Bodu Bala Sena for bringing this truth to our attention.
Ravi Perera / January 2, 2014
Suresh,
“As for his 7 river basin suggestion, I think he should get registered at the Angoda asylum forthwith. “
I think most people who believe in devolution of power to the British demarcated provinces should also get admitted to Angoda hospital
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Burning_Issue / January 2, 2014
If the British had not amalgamated the already demarcated countries, you will not see SL as a country today! Remember, the Kandians asked for autonomy well before the Tamils came up with the idea!
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Javi / January 4, 2014
He cannot see because he and his elk were transported for 500 years to work on cinnamon peeling. 500 years yes because east india company was always european because of marriages and political alliances- portugese were ruling areas in goa untill 1975.
That’s his problem with his govigaame too.
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Senaratne / January 4, 2014
What kind of a special moron are you? Tamils were transported everywhere in the world as near slave workers and not singhalese. Read, go, go on….educate your self before making an ass out of yourself and your race in public!
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Javi / January 5, 2014
Tadpole (゜゜)～ educate your self before making an ass out of yourself and your race in public!Tadpole (゜゜)～
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The only race I knew in Ceylon was horse race and later racing cars.
Bihari Bandit, If you don’t know what a dumbass is you’re really a shitfucking dumbass. (^O^)
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The Professional / January 2, 2014
It was Prof. CM Maddumabandara, former Vc of Pera who presented the River Basin based demarcation of provinces. It was published in the Island sometime ago and was also presented at the OPA. I have read in a publication by the World Bank Institute that devolution of power to natural resource poor regions is useless and in that same publication there were arguments for and against. Though connectivity would reduce the imbalance, present demarcation has created dependent provinces. Before British Raj chased out Sinhalese from plantation regions, there was no starvation in those regions. Peasants had adequate food in the surroundings. In the current National Physical Plan for the country, the central hilly region has been marked as fragile and there is a proposal for reforestation of 8000 sq.km. in the same region. Some environmentalists say it is impractical and impossible.
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shankar / January 3, 2014
I don’t know on what basis the british demarcated the nine provinces,but why should we just continue with what they had done.Why not since we have achieved independence show them that we can do it better and a river basin and sea front for each province seems a better idea than what the british did and we can show them we are superior to them in logic.Thavaraja’s idea is also good.If we reverse a CTB bus into a wall and according to the dents in it create the provinces then it is god’s will and may be perfect.I remember i won the all island modern art competition when i was in school by throwing cans of paint onto the canvas.God’s will.
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shankar / January 3, 2014
sorry,it should be throwing paint brushes,not cans of paint.
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Javi / January 3, 2014
ideally demarcations have to follow contours and not the same as splashing paint to say I am different like Warhol.
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Burning_Issue / January 2, 2014
“It began with a private Hindu custom of bathing the naked body of the bride by the groom’s close relatives.”
I am a Hindu Tamil and I have never seen or heard of bathing the naked body of a bride. Can any one enlighten me on this? Where did this guy get this idea from?
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Thondamanaru / January 2, 2014
Lets change wording from Sinhalasisation >> SRI LANKANSISATION and solve the problem
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Parker / January 2, 2014
@Burning_Issue
“It began with a private Hindu custom of bathing the naked body of the bride by the groom’s close relatives.”
I am also a Hindu Tamil, jaffna-born, lived almost 20 yrs there. I dont know or even heard or seen or read about bathing the naked body of a bride.
Like you, I still wonder where did this guy got this idea from. Does he purposely malign tamil community?
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Piranha / January 3, 2014
Bathing of the naked bride by the groom’s relatives? Must have remembered this from his childhood when his own backward amude-wearing parents and grandparents practiced it. This chap C Wijewickrema is nothing but a shit-stirrer.
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Srilankan / January 3, 2014
The author has so far failed to reply to various comments about bathing of the naked bride. CT may call him to elucidate this by quoting reference to Hindu Customs texts. If he fails CT may ban him from the site.
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Sengodan. M / January 3, 2014
Yes, I too agree with you. CT should not permit the publication of this type of non-existing perverted claims. It is an insult to the whole community to permit such publication in the name of freedom of expression!
Sengodan. M
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Siva Sankaran Sarma / January 3, 2014
CT should not permit the publication of this type of non-existing perverted claims
If they do that this’ll be a barren place indeed, and the nutjobs will have to find somewhere else to air their nonsense about “genocide” and “ancient Tamil homelands” :D
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Sengodan. M / January 3, 2014
You are obviously a Sinhala chauvinist writing under a Tamil pseudonym.
Sengodan. M
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shankar / January 3, 2014
He is david blacker.See the D after each of his comments.
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Javi / January 4, 2014
“|”Sinhala chauvinist writing under a Tamil pseudonym”|”
not tamil pseudo but malabari (hidden menon) one meter chai of a misfit Bourgeoisie with a tight khyber pass.
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Senaratne / January 4, 2014
Well said. Spot on.freedom of expression is one thing but tarnishing and distorting facts for petty gains is another. Ring any bells? Its called going from 4000 to 40000 to 100000 being killed!
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Native Vedda / January 5, 2014
Senaratne
“Spot on.freedom of expression is one thing but tarnishing and distorting facts for petty gains is another.”
“Tamils were transported everywhere in the world as near slave workers and not singhalese.”
Now it rings a bell.
Only the Sinhala/Buddhists are allowed to tarnish and distort facts.
The reason the Tamils were transported everywhere in the world as near slave workers was that they were hard working and fitted for purpose than the lazy unreliable Sinhala/Buddhist slaves.
Even the slave masters knew that Sinhala/Buddhist slaves would be a drain on their profits.
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Native Vedda / January 5, 2014
Senaratne
Now the slave masters of Arab medieval kingdoms treat the women maids of this island worse than slaves.
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Rama / January 3, 2014
it appears this chingala geezer wiferjrelkrotsbclktra have a bath with his trousers on. this applies to his smelly family as well. i don’t know whether its a chingala custom to have a bath with clothes on. no wonder this primitive savage race stink.
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Javi / January 3, 2014
That’s because he does not bath but prefers making tea in his extend amude.
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Palmsquirrell / January 3, 2014
” Instead, what we see is some love-struck soldiers marrying similarly love-struck Tamil girls. “
Tamil girls are marrying Sinhala men because the former are poor and Tamil men were slaughtered by Sinhala men. So yes it is genocide through the bedroom because the 2 sides (Tamil women and Sinhala men) are not on equal footing as Tamils women are the conquered and the Sinhala men the conquerers . It has been the policy of invaders to always kill off the conquered males and take the conquered women as wives as a final solution to the ethnic problem between the conquerer and the conquered.
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sach / January 4, 2014
OMG! is it true? did vasu really do that to Wiggie? Or Vasu you trampled on Wiggie and let your daughter rape his son!
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Palmsquirrell / January 3, 2014
” The poor Tamil in Jaffna does not know these and W is poisoning their minds. W who grew up in Colombo as a boy can do better to get rid of Tamil separatism and erase Tamil suspicions from those Tamils who still think Sinhalaya as their enemies. “
The writer is talking like he gives a fig about the poor Jaffna Tamil, when his modus operandi is to keep Tamils ignorant of the fact that Sinhalization is ongoing and most insidious is the Sinhala soldiers marrying poor Tamil women. Tamils in Jaffna and the East aren’t ignorant like the writer implies; they are aware of the threat posed by Sinhala men marrying Tamil women.
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sach / January 4, 2014
Inter racial marriages are a common thing in SL. If SL tamils are really against Sinhala soldiers marrying Tamil girls I think you should ask wiggie to issue a fatwa against it.
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Javi / January 3, 2014
“|”He and all those who later became the UNP opposed granting the voting right to people in 1931. “|”
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Wije the scrounge of free education trying to play his guudu but unfortunately his bollocks have been eaten by the southern pigs while trying to relieve himself. (^O^)
The Sinhalese did not fight for independence or in WW2 against the fascist Japanese but did hide in Tamil Nadu Lungi and spy for them like the other Theravada Buddhist Thailand.
Similarly, the Sinhala kallathonies had no say in 1931 to the granting of franchise for all to vote but just the British Raj firmly established at Calcutta. At the same time Chinese women received the right to divorce.
Fortunately the Sinhalese kallathonies are not Japanese to stay away from apologising for the `cause` of racial persecution and JVP terror symptoms before the Tamil terror symptoms.
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Lanka Liar / January 3, 2014
Wijewickrema Sri Lanka offers free and compulsory education. How come you escaped it
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chandra / January 4, 2014
LL
He did get a free education.
It was a waste of tax payers money as quite evident from this article.
Cwije- I love you mate but get your head out of your a$$
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S. Makenthiran / January 4, 2014
Wijeyawickrema is writing nonsense. Hindu brides are never bathed naked. No Tamil objects to Singhalese or Muslims buying property in NorhEast. What we do not want is Singhalese grabbing Tamil lands and houses and government colonising Tamil lands by Singhalese.
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Saro / January 4, 2014
The CT might have published this article to balance the usual high quality with this illogical third grade. First there is no Hindu custom of bathing the bride naked or clothed by close relatives of the groom. Another absurdity is trying to relate Mr Wicneswaran’s statement of intent and policy with a private matter. Any woman Sinhalese or otherwise marrying a man who may follow a different religion is a private matter and no political leader can be responsible to the manner the purported ceremonies are held.
The learned judge is qualified to make the statement that he “is not against Sinhalese but against Sinhalamisation” as his child married into Sinhalese community with his blessing and at the same time against Rajapakse brothers changing Tamil names of villages, roads and notice boards into Sinhalese and government sponsorship of Sinhalese settlements in areas dominated by Tamil speaking people.
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kali / January 4, 2014
Wijeyawickrema,
You bloody ignorant idiot. Afer redaing the first Pargraph which is CRAP I didnt even bother to read the rest. But let me put the record straight of the bits I have read.
Where did you get your stupid information that before the marriage the bride sits infron of everyone to be given a naked bath. How insulting this is for a Woman Tamil or Sinhalse. You might practice that in your House because you are half Animal.
As for your other rubbish about Tamils Living in any Part of the Island and Sinhalse not having the Right to live in any part of the Country let me explain.
Even an idiot like you should be able to understand that we are a minority in Sinhala Buddhist Country where you control everything from Ruling, Controlling Army , Navy Airforce and the Police so we cannot colonise the South. The reason why the Tamils are in the South is because we dont have anything in the North because since independance you lot deliberatley neglected the North and the North accounts for 5% of the GDP.
You cannot come and live in the North if the intention is Colonisation as happening now.
But believe me we will change all that starting from March 2014 and when we have a change at the top in India we will unite North & East and develop and all the Tamils from the South can return Home.
By the way let me ask you a personal question do you bathe your sister naked before she get married.
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Charles Perera / January 4, 2014
These comments are dangerous. It may make some foolish people rise against the Tamils who are innocent and not racist minded from south to North and East to West before even the NATO Forces meet to discuss from where to start bombing to stop the massacres.
Thereafter who will remain and how many remain will not know and Sri Lanka will be turned to rubble by NATO forces like they did to Libya. Be happy until then my friends and spread you hatred towards the Sinhala call them modayas if you want to .
Who will have the last laugh ? It would not be the Tamils nor the Sinhala.
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Javi / January 5, 2014
“|” NATO Forces meet to discuss from where to start bombing to stop the massacres.”|”
It wont be NATO but the now grown up kids of disabled and some gone berserk Jawans of north india. Why Sooo? JR lured the Sonia and Rajive who infact had not passed out from Cambridge with his sweet talk of I hid in Tamil Nadu fighting for independence while your grandfather Nehru was in and out of jail for same. Then arranging Silva the gunner to get him but his school mate SP bodyguard was there to assist. Finally Pavement Premadasa paid the mother of all stepfathers to carry out the assassination. Who got the slum boy tit for tat?? Ha ha ha.
Come equinox the male cow will fly from the Maratha Empire (respected warriors of the continent and sub-continent much more than gurkas) that’s how Bangladesh was created in 8 days before the west could blink.
Freedom obtained through violence will remain violent. Freedom does not come in a feather bed but carries responsibilities which Sinhalese take for grunted. Freedom is always plucked!!
Karawela perera you need to take a lot shit because you are over populated Bihari Bandits.
We do it in 3 days- hanuman ki Jai!!!
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Charles Perera / January 4, 2014
Saro just to take one commentator. These commentators write without understanding a jist of what Mr. Wijewickrame is trying to convey in his articel. Try to read the article slowly and understand what is the underlying meaning the writer is trying to convey. To do that get rid of your racism,and inborn hatred, and for once try to be kind, compassionate, and humane and look at the article with some intelligence you could muster.
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Saro / January 5, 2014
Charles Perera,
In your accusation of racism, inborn hatred etc., you see yourself in the mirror. The writer of the article cannot get away rubbish that does not happen and associating a purported rites in a wedding ceremony to a noble leader of high caliber. You justify Sinhala-Buddhist domination of Sri Lankan political system from just police to the top by your defense of the writer. That is naked racism.
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Charles Perera / January 5, 2014
You know you are a racist.Sinhala have never been racists. Probably you were not even born in Sri Lanka and never lived with the Sinhala.. You cannot judge the Sinhala young man get rid of your prejudices that has come from opinion you have been fed with by equally ignorant people who had not lived with the Sinhala. Buddhists are a majority they not only dominate but influence in directing Sri Lanka towards progress, peace and happiness of all people who share Sri Lanka. You cannot understand what it is living in a foreign country where you will all ways be a foreigner even if you would become a politician where you live.
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Ravi Perera / January 5, 2014
Javi,
“First solve your inferiority complex”
Is it the sinhalese who are having the inferiority complex. No my dear it is you Tamils who have an inferiority complex.
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Ravi Perera / January 5, 2014
Javi,
“Go convert yourself to Waha-be-la so that you may offer a better life to the Sinhalese women you shamelessly send as slaves to work for aggressive camels and thereby destroy family life. All for $200 per month when its $500.”
How dare you insult the poor sinhalese women. You buggers go and live like scavengers in western countries with the dole money. You bloody curse
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Native Vedda / January 5, 2014
Ravi Perera
“How dare you insult the poor sinhalese women.”
I suppose the insult was aimed at Sinhala/Buddhist lazy men not at women who have no alternative but to work in the modern day medieval kingdoms while the sex starved men rape their own daughters and others.
You must take the shameless Sinhala/Buddhist lazy men to task not those who observe their bad behaviours.
No one in his/her right mind blame the Sinhala women.
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Charles Perera / January 5, 2014
Javi,
Tamils are suffering from a great inferiority complex. They think the Sinhala are far better than them and in order to prove to themselves that they are better than the Sinhala they hate the Sinhala call them names, say the Sinhala are racists, karawal perera, and ask for equal rights, fifty-fifty etc. They scold the Buddhism of the Sinhala, because the Tamils are worshipping idols with elephant heads, Kali a blood thirsty demon, six headed twelve armed statues of Gods, a monkey called Hanuman , and the lingam. They are not about the Giods they worship. The Sinhala even have a different respectable religion.
The Sinhala follow Buddhism , which is a clean religion a philosophy of a great man a Buddha. But all that is in the minds of the Tamils. There is no difference between the Sinhala and Tamils. The difference is in the minds of the Tamils.
See even what the Tamils write. Most of waht they write are incoherent. They cannot write simple understandable posts, because they are confused what they write are also confused.
Please try to be yourselves and every thing will be alright.
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chandra / January 6, 2014
dayam- Wijeyawrickrama- it must be hurting real bad
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D.
Introduction
The editors of Colombo Telegraph asked me to respond to the “comments” made by its readers to my essay titled, “Sinhala women without Sinhalization power.” I consider it my public duty to do this even though most comments are nonsense (noise) by anonymous people who think CT is another website like the Tamilnet (located in Canada?). I think I am the only person writing to CT about the discrimination faced by the Sinhala Buddhists in Sri Lanka both before and after 1948, and so far my essays are the only evidence CT has to erase the perception that it is not an anti-Sinhala Buddhist website. It can be an anti-MahindaR website as reveals from Tisaranee Gunasekera’s writings, but it should not be a forum for those who want to divide the island and create another South Sudan for the benefit of white global corporate powers. The readership of CT, going by the comments on my essay, is mostly like mad dogs barking at the moon as the caravan passes. This discourages spending time to respond to comments. But there is some hope as two or three readers understood what I wrote and asked others to read it slowly and carefully. The different readership tastes are clear when I consider the response given to the same essay by the Lankaweb readers. I hope CT readers visit Lankaweb also to understand the other side of the coin on Sri Lankan ethnic/separatist politics.
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shankar / January 6, 2014
“The Sinhala follow Buddhism”
Do they really?eg 58,77,81.83 riots which created the retaliation by LTTE that Lord Bhuddha would have predicted.
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Charles Perera / January 6, 2014
Shankar Please do not mix religion with mans failings. To begin with the riots in the south against the Tamils was the creation not of Buddhsits Sinhala but a reaction to utter inhuman criminality of the Tamils who killed Sinhala government officislas and Sinhala visitors in the North causing a back lash in the South. You should not blame the Sinhala Buddhists for what the Tamils forced Sinhala Buddhists to do. Buddhism is the religion. It is to help people understand what is bad and good an live accordingly. But the Sinhala Buddhists are by nature gentle, accommodating and friendly, but that does not mean they should remain silent with their arms crossed while the non-Buddhists try to attack them and hurt them and taker away what belongs to them.
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Medalankara de Choppe / January 6, 2014
JRJ came into power with a pledge to solve this problem through dialogue. From the day he came into power Tamils were killed. JRJ was a liar of the first grade.The killings of 1958 and 1983 were organised by the leaders of the country or they gave a cause to the Sinhala Buddhist to kill. SWRD did it and JRJ with his henchmen did it.The report by the Joker .A.. licker at Asgiriya on Buddhist revival is a similar attempt to create another riot.The Asgiriya idiot should be tied to a tree and horse whipped.
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Medalankara de Choppe / January 6, 2014
Colombo telegraph, you should publish the report by bath balayas on Buddhist revival which was released last month.
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ABCD / July 4, 2015
The writer here complains about the black white control of colombo. But what he doesn’t understand is that if not for the foresight of these black whites sri lanka would have become a colony of india. It is much better to follow the west because ultimately even the so called mighty indians follow the west aswell.
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