By Jehan Perera –
Jehan Perera
The government’s greatest success has been to make the two most serious problems facing the country invisible and perhaps irrelevant to those at the top of the economic pyramid, including the international community. The government is able to show statistics that the economy has begun to recover. Growth in the last quarter is positive at 1.6 percent. It is anticipated that this growth will continue into the future. However, there is another set of statistics that tell the story that poverty levels have doubled to 25 percent, a quarter of the population, over this period. The signs of growth are visible in the Christmas décor that the Director of Customs has said is the highest expenditure on imports at present after the embargo on them was lifted. The suffering of hungry and malnourished people remains invisible.
The other major problem, the ethnic conflict, which gave rise to three decades of war has receded into the background not seen but bubbling underneath. It is not seen by the either the government or the majority of people as a burning problem that requires urgent attention. It seemed to be different when President Ranil Wickremesinghe pledged to solve the ethnic conflict by Independence Day, February 4, in honour of Sri Lanka’s 75th independence anniversary. But he was not the first to have made this type of promise. There were promises before too, when the war had ended and the international community was putting pressure for a quick political solution. They threatened sanctions such as taking away the EU’s GSP Plus tax concession, which they did take away for three years to the cost of Sri Lanka’s economy.
The government appears to have a plan to deal with the international community on issues of accountability and to the prolonged failure to reach a political solution to the ethnic conflict. On the one hand, it is going ahead with a plan to set in motion a truth and reconciliation commission by the time the next UN session on human rights is held in March. The government has already set up an interim secretariat for the TRC which is engaged in preparatory work for the commission. On the other hand, the government is also giving an indication that it is keen on solving the ethnic conflict through a political solution. The Himalaya declaration by a section of the Tamil Diaspora and some Buddhist monks may provide a broad framework for such a solution. In the past the Tamil Diaspora and Buddhist clergy have been seen as the ‘spoilers’ on either side of the divide. Any attempt at a meeting of minds needs to be seen as a possibility or a potential solution and may be considered on its own merits.
International Support
According to media reports the United States has declared its support for the ongoing Global Tamil Forum (GTF) initiative facilitated by a section of civil society to pursue a fresh dialogue with the government and other political parties meant to reach a post-war consensus on a lasting reconciliation. After having met the GTF delegation, led by its UK-based spokesperson Suren Surendiran and representatives of the Sangha for a Better Sri Lanka at the American Embassy on Dec 12, US Ambassador Julie Chung said that the US welcomed their initiative to expand cross-community understanding and seek lasting reconciliation. Unfortunately, though perhaps understandably, even this initiative is seen as a ploy by the Tamil people and Diaspora who feel they have been left out of the equation.
Come September 2024, the UN Human Rights Council will decide on whether or not to continue with the resolution on Sri Lanka. The government will be in a strong position to overcome the sanctions so far put on it by the UN system. The ongoing wars in Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Palestine and the horrendous human rights violations taking place there may be cited by the government as reasons for de-emphasising their attention on Sri Lanka. In addition, the government will be able to point to the plethora of reconciliation mechanisms it has instituted or is in the process of setting up. The world order based on the protection of civilians regardless of the provocation needs to be rebuilt, and not at the cost of ignoring past violations as urged by the international community with regard to Sri Lanka. South Africa has been virtually alone in pressing charges against Israel in the International Criminal Court for war crimes.
However, in the north and east apart from economic hardships the people face the double burden of being treated unequally, which is the equivalent of being discriminated against. Speaking in the Parliament in August this year President Ranil Wickremesinghe called on the members to collectively advance the implementation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. The Amendment passed in 1987, created the Provincial Councils in Sri Lanka and also made Sinhala and Tamil the official languages of the country and declared English the “link language”. Despite the Tamil language being elevated to an official language in 1987, the people in the Tamil-majority north and east continue to get letters from the government in Sinhala.
When Tamil speaking people go to the police stations in the north and east, they have to deal with their statements being recorded in Sinhala by the Sinhala police officers which they do not understand. The numbers of senior officers in the north and east who are not familiar with the Tamil language is according to people living there on the increase which does not help to reduce tensions or gain confidence regarding the government’s commitment to equality to the Tamil speaking people. The situation is a replay a hundred years later of the plight of the Sinhala villager in Leonard Woolfe’s classic novel “Village in the Jungle” who had British justice meted out in the English language he did not understand. There are numerous other examples that can be given.
Change Wanted
The problem for the government is that despite the optics of normalcy the ground realities for people are harsh. Although prices have risen three-fold in the course of the past year, incomes of most people have not increased at all and many have not been able to even hold their jobs. A new UNDP report says top 1 percent of Sri Lankans own 31 percent of the total personal wealth in the country while bottom 50 percent only own less than 4 percent. It also says 33.4 percent of the populace grappling with vulnerability and deprivation concerning debt-related metrics. For households seeking funds for consumption, the primary sources of debt include pawning (31.1 percent), money lenders (24 percent), and banks (23.5 percent). These hardships would be conveyed to the children whose educational facilities are being cut, and who are hungry for food at night and would contribute to an increase of militancy in their minds against the government that is not looking after their interests.
So far the government has been successful in continuing to rule the country in much the same way with the same set of ministers who were driven out of office by the Aragalaya protest movement. It is worth noting that the UN in its latest Human Development Report for 2024 listed Sri Lanka as one of the three nations that stood out in Asia and the Pacific in showing agility in governance. Sri Lanka is listed alongside India and Philippines in demonstrating speed and efficiency in responding to new information, unexpected events. The report pointed out Sri Lanka created an enabling environment for different actors to come together and lobby for change and said that collective action helped uphold democratic values and enabled a peaceful transition to a new government. They failed to point out that the government did not hold elections when they were due.
The government is skillful in projecting an image that any change of government, such as through the electoral process, could lead to a reversal of the economic gains. Both the main opposition party leaders have said that they will renegotiate the IMF agreement. This is not necessarily a departure from agreement with the IMF. Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said they would reach an agreement with the IMF so as not to burden the people. In particular, the government has been skillful in dividing the economic classes and getting the support of the upper and middle classes by catering to their fear of change and desire to retain the good life. But the reality on the ground is that the people in the country want a change. They too want a piece of the cake and not words alone which Queen Marie Antoinette of France offered to the hungry and angry masses before the French Revolution swept her and her class away.
Ruchira / December 19, 2023
Lies, damned lies and statistics!
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As long as the economic success is measured by the narrow metrics of growth and per capita GDP, there will be other aspects of the society that would receive step-motherly treatment.
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The fact that there will be loosers and winners under capitalist neo liberal economies is accepted. Hence the inclusion of social safety nets in the broader social contract.
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The launch of Aswasuma, which the article has not mentioned, could be shown as a sign that the government is addressing the wellbeing of the economically marginalised, and its intention to do the same; regardless of the effectiveness of the measures taken to this end, and/or the facts that indicates the ground realities contrary to their effectiveness.
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It is not only poverty that has increased but also the ensuing malnutrition, which may have consequences lasting for generations.
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A fact and a phenomenon the IMF and other international stakeholders would happily ignore, as long as the government falls in line with the other broader reforms along the agendas of such parties, the same way the upper echelons of the local society ignores predicaments of these marginalised sections.
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Ruchira / December 19, 2023
Continued..
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There won’t be any pressures or sanctions from these international parties to reduce poverty or resulting effects, contrary to the manner in which they respond to the ethnic problem.
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Hence these economically marginalised groups are left without a political voice or power, both on the local stage as well as on the international arena.
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All the more reason why the country needs change in the form of what the author of the article alludes to, or which I believe he alludes to towards the end.
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Lasantha Pethiyagoda / December 20, 2023
The IMF and other western powers and lenders would like Sri Lanka to be eternally in debt and dependent on them as a poor country. They do not want a genuinely committed govt that seeks to develop the land and its people. They want a certain level of corruption in the system that will accept their personal bribes to influence high officials in maintaining an inefficient and destructive system. That is why they give credit to the gangs of thieves that have ruled sri lanka for many decades and frown on a party like the NPP or even the Aragalaya. With poverty in the country set to reach 50% of the population in 2024 from the present 37% there is no hope other than a concerted people’s movement to wrest back control from the parasitic political class which rewards grand criminals while punishing the genuinely committed rights activists.
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Ruchira / December 20, 2023
Sadly true. US led international monetary fund and the global finacial system are designed by default maintain western hegemony over former colonies.
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gamini / December 20, 2023
There is no country in the world or a society that has been born rich or powerful. It is the people who have guided societies and countries to become rich and powerful. Various ‘isms’ as Communism, Socialism has been adopted by societies against Capitalism to have alleviated Poverty. At the end of the day in stark contrast, it is Capitalism that has succeeded in raising countries to be Rich and Powerful and not Socialism and Communism. In Socialism and Communism Open Market Economies have been shunned and the State has been empowered to operate the Country’s Economy, while in Capitalism, the generation of wealth for the country has been left in the hands of the Private Sector. For the last three decades or so the Cradles of Communism Russia and Socialism China has shifted their stance to Capitalist Structures to develop their countries allowing the Private Sector
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SJ / December 21, 2023
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Communism and socialism are not about relieving poverty.
They concern the cause of many other social ills.
They concern the private ownership of means of production and the control that the owners have on the state.
Capitalism had a hundred years ago recycled itself as imperialism and now super-imperialism.
That is what matters
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Sinhala_Man / December 23, 2023
Dear SJ,
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I’m doing something that is quite daring given the fearsome reputation that you have on CT.
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Please first listen to these 28 minutes in English. I have so far heard only half of the 28 minutes, but I made a comment on the YouTube after listening only to three minutes.
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Having listened to this, please look at what I have told Cicero here:
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https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/is-true-system-change-in-sri-lanka-only-a-fantasy/
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This request is being made in the interest not only of economy, but also to avoid confusion, and to promote consistency.
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Panini Edirisinhe (NIC 483111444V) usually of Bandarawela
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gamini / December 20, 2023
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Unfortunately some of the developing countries as ours and a few in the Latin American States that embraced Socialism like Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and others have been proven failures like us, enabling Opportunists form the downtrodden to take Political Control, promising to wipe out Capitalism and distribute the wealth of the Rich, among the poor to make all equal. This enabled these Scoundrels to live in comfort as the Rulers and the rest of society to be stagnant, waiting for hand outs from the respective govts, always living in want.
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nimal fernando / December 20, 2023
Buddy Gamini,
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Have you gone paithiyam? ………. Lost your marbles?
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It has been Ol’ Uncle JR and his nephew Ranil’s capitalism that has been in operation in SL since 1978: more precisely good ol’ crony robber-baron capitalism! And it’s that exact “capitalism” that bankrupted the blooming country! There was no other “ism” in sight!!!
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Your cabbage-boy Ranil reduced the UNP to zero ……… now he is well on his way to reduce the country/people to zero!
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Wanna bet who’ll be proven correct? :)))
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old codger / December 21, 2023
Nimal,
Don’t you find it interesting that no country had or has “Communist ” or “Capitalist” in its official name? It’s “People’s Republc”, “Democratic Republic” or plain “Republic “. Why doesn’t anyone want to claim the baby?
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SJ / December 21, 2023
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The adjective communist cannot be applied to any state as communism will be a context in which there is no state.
But ‘Socialist’ is used liberally in names of states– even by this country.
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nimal fernando / December 22, 2023
OC,
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”Life has not been devised by morality: it wants deception, it lives on deception.”
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And then he turns around and asks …….. “Don”t you know it?” :))
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If anything is what it really is …….. there is no need to give it names!
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Should Lanka be named a Buddhist country? If it really was ….. wouldn’t others know by it’s peoples’ behavior?
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The mere fact it has to be named indicates it is not! …… So are the rest ……. Socialist, Democratic, ……….
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chiv / December 23, 2023
Nimal , tou said ot better than me.
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chiv / December 23, 2023
Sorry Nimal, better said than mine.
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chiv / December 22, 2023
OC , see who is advertising Democratic , Socialist , People’s republic…. blah blah . It’s like someone introducing self ( or start a comment ) stating ” I’m not a racist ” , what you think DENIAL or affirmation . Can understand “Islamic ” , but Democratic???
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Lester / December 21, 2023
“And it’s that exact “capitalism” that bankrupted the blooming country!”
No, it was the 26 year civil war that drained the country. The government had to borrow tens of billions of dollars, draining the foreign exchange reserves. At the same time, there was a brain drain, causing economic stagnation. Whatever the politicians stole or looted is nothing compared to the loss in GDP.
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nimal fernando / December 22, 2023
The war ended in 2009 ……. the country went bankrupt in 2022!
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You guys are just pathetic …… bottom of the barrel.
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Rajapakses/Ranil better find another Gobbles who is up to the task!
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old codger / December 22, 2023
Lester,
“No, it was the 26 year civil war that drained the country. “
Finally you wrote something that I agree with. But wasn’t it guys like you that wanted a war?
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leelagemalli / December 22, 2023
“And it’s that exact “capitalism” that bankrupted the blooming country!””.
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Not really Rajapakses and their stupid politics based on ” sinhala racism ” ruined this nation 🙄. Unfortunately post war politics was based on Rajapakses and their masturbation with the backing of stupid voters. If Vietnam can boom its economy why could nt we?
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And Now it became crystal clear with the verdict of country s Supreme Court who to blame. Nevertheless media mafia handled by the mlechcha Rajapakses doesn’t explain it 🤔 to the nation adequately. This country is turned out to be a hell in favour of mlechcha politics.
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Corrupted media houses in this country are the worst criminals of all.
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Where else the judgements of supreme courts are publicly ignored?????????.
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Elephant 🐘 is in the room but law and order is biased only for Rajapakses in this country..
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May ur eyes be open ✨️!!!!
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nimal fernando / December 23, 2023
Look, all you guys …… there is one itty bitty wee little thing you overlook ……. some of you are diehard Ranil supporters, some are Rajapakse supporters, some are JVP supporters ……. or haters ……
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If you read your own comments, you’ll find your comments are always slanted to protect your favorite ……. and put the blame on someone/something else.
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You are deceiving no one but yourselves! ……. Certainly not me!! I see through ye. :)))
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Shall we all resolve to be adults ……. in the New Year?
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My comments are sometimes slanted to protect Native from the wrath of women he has maligned. We all have our own peccadilloes.
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Mallaiyuran / December 20, 2023
Gamini the ultra-Sinhala Buddhist UNPyer, could you tell me the history of the dirty UNP leaving the industries really independent? Isn’t the donkey, Hindu, Catholic, Buddhist, anti-Muslimism, Telugu, Tamils, English, Sinhala Nayakar Bandaram who started the destruction to the economy by dismantling the labor force in the Estate, which were feeding you with the free rice. The stamina you gained from the free rice only made out and destroyed the country’s economy in 1956 and 1958, isn’t it. Siri Ma O gave a free hand in the 1970s to North East do farming; they set the example of how to do home gardening. Then came the rascal Junious Richard Catholic Buddhists. In 1977 lorry after lorry, which was carrying Tamils’ produce was stopped in Thambuththegama, Anuradhapura, Maho, Mathawatchia…drivers and cleaners were hacked to death. Those small merchants’ lorries were set on fire. The ugly Sinhala Buddhist Insurance Companies refused a penny for these fully insured vehicles (They must have paid for the lorries and the vegetables they carried inside). The widows went bankrupt and sold their houses and jewelry to pay lease for the lorries that did not exist for Colombo Sinhala Buddhist finance companies. By the time of Evil, Sampanthan Aiyya refused to endorse Evil for CC, instead supported a SLFPyer. Though Tamils are mainly Capitalists’, after Junius Rascal Richard, SLFP gained ground among Tamils, until Old Rowdy.
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Mallaiyuran / December 20, 2023
Who cares about your Capitalism when the UNP was the most destructive party to the country’s economy by using the UNP Kaadaies to set up fire for the country wide businesses and commercial organizations. When the country was burning, JR said Sinhalese would be happy only if they had strangulated Tamils more. What Kind of Murderism, Genosidism is that? Now you are taking a $3B IMF loan against $85B debt, to keep China outside of Langkang. So as soon as the second tranche is approved China wants to bring one more of its spy ships to its harbor in Hangbangtota to prove that its authority & domination cannot be challenged by the IMF. Is this a true Capitalism – Socialism war or this a war set up by the Sinhala Buddhist to reap maximum commission from these super powers? UNP, in all its terms, has been systematically safeguarding all kinds of criminal- Genociders, money Laundered, corrupted commission demanding bureaucrats, Economic criminals……Are you trying to white wash the congenital criminal nature of the UNP by associating them with capitalism? With his capitalistic concepts, can you name one industry Junious Rascal Richard developed in the North East. It is said when Valaiththodam Sr was eliminated by LTTEyes, all over south they celebrated with Kiri bath and firecrackers. Which part of the Mahavamsa lines out your of capitalism?
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gamini / December 21, 2023
Mallaiyuran,
JRJ nor the UNP just killed innocent Tamils or for that matter any citizen before. The stage was set by Banda with his Sinhala Buddhist Policy and his wife Sirima had standardized education preventing Tamil youth from furthering their education. Now this was long before JRJ took the reigns in ’77 and after that, it was only JRJ that introduced the liberties, with changes to education, introducing TV and IT knowledge and opportunity for all citizens without discrimination , although some of the earlier restrictions, yet remained that could not be addressed immediately without antagonize the Sinhala Buddhists the majority. JRJ also allowed without discrimination for every citizen to travel abroad for studies or for Medical reasons, with an allowance of Five Hundred Sterling Pounds buying the Air Ticket paying in local currency, a facility that was denied to the average citizen before ’77. While JRJ was focusing on development of the country to all it’s citizen, that the LTTE commenced it’s Murderous activity after Killing Alfred Duraiappah in ’75, ambushed and killed 13 Police personnel in ’83, where the majority killed were Sinhalese, baring Nicholas Bastianpillai a young SI, who was a close friend of mine that triggered the riots that followed.
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Mallaiyuran / December 20, 2023
Whether you like it or not, at this time of the history of Langkang, there is nothing left in the hands of Sinhala Buddhists or foreign countries like America, China, India…… The Protesters were put out by the UNP-SLFP Union. Every humanly imaginable technique that is to save the Wildlife Sanctuary, SinhaLE Langkang is watered out or exhausted. If anybody can end the criminal UNP-SLFP union and bring the country back to democracy, the magic code lies only within the hand of Anura. When he wins, he can do what the people want, or he can join the UNP-SLFP rascal and make him like President Putin.
Wipe out the UNP; Hell with your kind of capitalism!
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SJ / December 21, 2023
“Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and others “
Do you have any idea of the bullying by the US that they have suffered for decades?
Cuba has a far superior heath and education regime than the US. There is far less abject poverty in several of the ‘failed’ countries than in the US despite is massive stolen wealth.
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Mallaiyuran / December 21, 2023
” Do you have any idea of the bullying by the US “
You are a well frog sitting in UOJ and supporting Vasanthi to write political campaign for Old Rowdy Genocide King! Ukraine is paying the price for being near Russia. Argentina, which was listed by communists as the next country to join BRICS, is now putting its hand on its head not knowing a path to show the path to China.
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Douglas / December 20, 2023
I said, many times and in many of my comments on this page that the time has come to COMPLETELY OVERHAUL our “SYSTEMS” of (1) Measurements and (2) Governance.
(2) Measurements of “GROWTH” as indicators in “GDP, BALANCES, RATIOS, RATES” and a host of other terminology in “Statistics” has failed to PORTRAIT what we are as “Individuals”, “Country” and a “Nation”. All those “Terminologies” have only helped the crooked Politicians and Bureaucrats to capture power and survive. So it is time to CHANGE to: GROSS NATIONAL HAPPYNESS – GNP
(2) Governance: The present “CULTURE” of “ESCAPISM” (practiced by all in Governance) from “Responsibility” and “Accountability” has to CHANGE to: INESCAPABILITY from Responsibility and Accountability.
The above CHANGES are the DEMANDS of the people. That is the “ARAGALAYA”.
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Ajith / December 21, 2023
Douglas,
How do you know that the time has come to completely overhaul our systems? For me people are not ready to move an inch from the current position? Can you give some examples that shows changes?
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Douglas / December 21, 2023
Ajith: Examples of “Changes” are given in my comment. Please refer to (1) Political Culture and (2) Governance.
As of now, (according to opinion polls) “56%” have desired the “Change”.
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leelagemalli / December 22, 2023
People stay stuck to stupid thinking nevertheless Douglas or the like dreamers hope so.MY SURPRISE IS HE PERMANENTLY LIVES IN SL.NPP 😒 should rather work on changing the conditioned mindset of the very people.
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First of all, people should realise the gravity of the economic fall, they are pushed in.
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SLPP CONVENTION opened the eyes of masses that people still talk high about overly corrupted Rajapakse criminals.
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JVP led NPP is out of their mind even if 30% of the population accessed to social media believe only hope would be to give a chance to NPP.
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gamini / December 21, 2023
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Thus had not for the ambush carried out by the LTTE the grievances of the Tamils, could have been settled amicably, with the passage of time, which would have been a prudent step in the right direction rather than the Tamil Political Leadership trying to appeace the Tamil Youth, who had taken arms for a revolt at the behest of Indian interest, that trained and armed the LTTE. So remember well, that it was not JRJ who initiated Violence first, but it was the LTTE after the JVP baptized this once Peaceful country in ’71, with Murderous, Brutal Violence. You are talking as if JRJ clapped with one hand.
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SJ / December 21, 2023
“Thus had not for the ambush carried out by the LTTE the grievances of the Tamils, could have been settled amicably, with the passage of time,”
Passage of time a very open ended thing, than can be measured in days, weeks, months, years or even decades as in the case of Palestine and centuries as in the case of indigenous people in the Americas and Australia.
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With no apology for whatever the LTTE did,one has to understand the intention of JRJ. He declared “If you want peace you have peace. If you want war you have war.” That was in 1977 in response to Amirthalingam protesting about violence against Tamils in 1977.
hat led to communal tensions cannot be easily pinned on a convenient scapegoat.
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True that India took advantage of the Tamil youth, but that was after JRJ provoked India with a hostile foreign policy decision. Can we say that India instigated the communal tensions?
The answer is closer to home.
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Blaming the JVP or the Tamil nationalists are no answers to the problems that led to their birth and growth. Certainly they were not the creators of the problems.
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All of us can do with some serious soul searching.
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Native Vedda / December 21, 2023
“All of us can do with some serious soul searching.”
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Lets buy the alternative Bible “Mao’s Little Red Book” and recite from morning till night. Maybe Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, …..
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“Blaming the JVP or the Tamil nationalists are no answers to the problems that led to their birth and growth. “
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However JVP and LTTE kept the flame going, with great support from their respective b**** carriers. JVP still does it by rejecting all kind of initiatives to democratise the state, holding state Accountable for war crimes, … still living the past, …. ….
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SJ should join the VP’s ***** carriers in condemning initiative regarding Himalayan Declaration.
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Lester / December 22, 2023
SJ,
Even if Tamils had succeeded in achieving a separate state, it would not be a prosperous one. Gandhi family is very powerful in India, they would ensure a global boycott. The so-called “Eelam” would resemble Cuba or Syria. So Rajapakse did all Tamils a favor by putting an end to the LTTE.
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chiv / December 23, 2023
By helping Tamils he left SB Lanka worse than Cuba and Syria.
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chiv / December 23, 2023
To repeat what Knox said. ” they mistook (their) cunning for intelligence”.
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Mallaiyuran / December 22, 2023
Gamini,
Sorry Gamini for your misunderstanding of me that if I stress one thing in one comment then it was taken as I have praised all other Sinhala Buddhists Majority’s Tamil Genocide actions. As a matter of participating in public discussion, at times, I must try to stick to certain points, they are being highlighted at that session. I have repeatedly said here UNP’s unfaithful leader Don Stephen, after Sir. Pon Ramanathan came back from London having had released him from prison, which he got for his part in organizing Muslim-Sinhalese Riots in 1915, cheated Ramanathan on the agreement of Colombo representation for Tamil. Kanagara’s 1944 initiation of nationalizing schools was to bring numerous & massive structural Tamils schools under the Sinhala Buddhists’ hand to destroy the Tamil leadership in education. He was the one, against Local & international opinion, brought China’s free rice for Estate Workers rubber pact. The Federal Party opposed these days. UNP is the main destroyer of Tamils. Tamils are not responsible if you cannot undo any damages Appe Aanduwas did for Tami because you personally feel Sinhalese are antagonized. That is not an explanation. That is not any international law. As they were ruling the Tamils, they have to pay for damages and reparation costs during recovery. That has to be decided on by an international forum.
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Mallaiyuran / December 22, 2023
The UNP is the only one that created racism in Ceylon. Even Solomon West Ridgeway Dias was in UNP when UNP was initiating racism with Tamils & Muslims. Yet, when Solomon was in the UNP he agreed for Federalism. He brought the Banda-Chelva fact, a step below federalism, when he was in SLFP. Only the Evil Emperor rascal stopped CBK from signing for the Rome accord. It was he who demanded recently that 13A must be downgraded without Justice and Land authority. It is the Evil who challenged on German TV that there will be no International Inquire over Old Rowdy’s Genocide.
Before I get too deep in replying to you, a word, when you discuss race relations in a public place, you have to be conscious of the subject’s sensitivity. The first thing to recognize opponents’ equality is to stop lying on a public website to prove your hidden ideas. Let see this: ” although some of the earlier restrictions still remained that could not be addressed immediately without antagonizing the Sinhala Buddhists the majority. “ What do you mean by antagonizing the Sinhala Buddhists Majority? Do you say this crowd has little big heavy asses so if you ask them to give a little change they will be antagonized? What is the meaning in your Sinhala Buddhist Majority dictionary for antagonizing.
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Mallaiyuran / December 22, 2023
Why would a Tamil asking to allow his/her to enjoy his/her basic right come in through your writing as a agonizers of Sinhala Buddhists Majority’s big asses? Is it getting in your stone head that you are antagonizing the other commentators by refusing to respect their equal rights? You are antagonizing the other commentators, aren’t you? In other words, you are trying to remind me that “If you the Tamil Pariah not obeying UNP Kadies’ orders, we will get together and wipe you with 1983 pogrom like new ones, keep it in your mind!”. Other than that, how did you interpret the “Antagonizing” by their rights they are born with? The Privy Council said that under the S29 of the constitution, Kodeeswaran’s unfair dismissal by enforcing Sinhala Only must be compensated. Did you get humiliated because there was a verdict that the majority Sinhala Buddhists are violating the country’s law antagonizing the minority? How come a race that signed the constitution from an equal status antagonized the other party by claiming that constitutional right.
https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/immediately-terminate-the-appointment-of-deshabandu-as-acting-igp-lawyers-collective-tells-ranil/comment-page-1/#comment-2475880
It is your comment here, isn’t it. Aren’t you vehemently lambasting the Lawyers Consortium for bringing out the police chief’s well-known crimes of torture in police stations, not one or two cases; there are many accusations of him
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Mallaiyuran / December 22, 2023
You are saying that these lawyers did not oppose (that is bloody lie; are you asking where the lawyers PC Saliya Pieris, PC Alagaratnam, Prof. Savitri, PC Sumanthiran, Prof. Deepika, Dr. Jayampathy ……….were when the Old Rowdy King was doing all his crimes? So, you are arguing they have lost their right now to oppose Evil’s criminal records because of missing to condemn Old Rowdy Royal. First let me ask you a question, what would you think if they had asked the Old Rowdy’s first, in their period, aren’t they going to ask what these lawyers were doing Rascal Junious Richard time to question his racist-fascist deeds? Can I ask you another question? In which UNP’s bar were you fallen and lying on the floor when these lawyers were asking questions out on the road, in the field and press during your other UNP-SLFP partner Rowdy Royal’s time?). You are white washing the Rapist Police’s chief, and warning the Sinhala lawyers that they should be not antagonized if the Evil Emperor makes criminal appointments. Is that not your point? Then how the Tamils can expect some conscience from you, who religiously believe the Tamils are your subjects. You are trying to say you secretly want to help your subjects, but you could not because there is the Sinhala Buddhist majority. Man…. What an honest mind in action!
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Mallaiyuran / December 22, 2023
“that the LTTE commenced it’s Murderous activity after Killing Alfred Duraiappah in ’75, ambushed and killed 13 Police personnel in ’83” When you concoct the story, be alive to recognize that from 1975 to 1983, there was 8 years of starting period. Couldn’t Junious Richard recognize that there was some dissatisfaction emerging within Tamils’ area and he as the president of the Tamils too, instead of saying that “starving of Tamil is the only thing that will satisfy Sinhala Buddhist Majority, he has to use the parliament’s legislative procedure to reverse the situation. Instead, he brought the 6th Amendment and hoped using the rapist army to implement 6A over the antagonized Tamils would resolve the issues. You say when Tamils are discontent, implementing 6A can only satisfy Tamils because they are subjects of UNP Kadaies, but if Junious is not passing 6th amendment, that will antagonize Sinhala Buddhists Majority? Where does this kind of logic originate from? La La jungle lion’s cave?
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Mallaiyuran / December 22, 2023
Afred Duraiappah was, like now the rapist army successfully alluring Tamil youths in drugs, he was pushing Tamils into prostitution. Anura Bandaranaike was traveling by Air Ceylon on government money, with government bodyguards, frequently for Jaffna high class girls to be forced. But in Colombo, her elder sister’s Tamil boyfriend was murdered with a family member’s secret order. Alfred Duraiappah was hated even by Siri Ma O because he was making Anura involved with Pariah Tamil women. The Tamil families could not stop because these rascals had the Rapist Army and Rapist police protection. Activities like Duraiappah and Anura were few matters delivering a stentorian shout in Tamil youths’ ears that the armed struggle is the only action that can allow Tamil girls to lead their decent life. Duraiappah murders were said to be committed by youths who received complaints from concerned girls’ families. Sivakumaran was the one known to have attempted Duraiappah first. He was not an LTTEyer. If he had been successful, LTTE would never have been connected on Duraiappah’s issue. But Duraiappah used Rapist Police to hunt him down. So, many others are said to have engaged in the new attempts. Somebody succeeded. Not all Southerners were antagonized by the death of Duraiappah, at least Siri Ma O was happy, for having freed his son from Parai Demulo who was trying to tie him to Tamil girls.
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Mallaiyuran / December 22, 2023
Further somebody wrote here that 13 innocent, unarmed rapist police were killed by LTTE. It is because of some of these concocted stories we repeatedly ask Rapist Police and Reposit Army elders and crooked & Murderous politicians to come for an international inquiry, but they are not ready for that because they fear lying under oath? There are many incidents that took place by rapist police and the Rapist Army in the North that antagonized Tamil youths as well as elderly Tamils of North. I cannot go in detail but quickly mention a few of them. World Tamil Research Conference organizers were refused a visa by Sinhala Buddhist Appe Aanduwa to invite Tamil Nadu Speakers, that is the land where Tamil was born. Organizers were reluctant to bring the conference to Tamil Eelam, knowing the Appe Aanduwa’s troublesome nature. After the end of the conference, one day was allocated to honor the international linguistic experts who participated. Rapist Police who came from nowhere started to shoot into the participants. This action forced the whole Jaffna peninsula to descend into chaos because the Rapist police started to chase the running participants. Organizers had to secretly smuggle the participating international linguistic experts somewhere for protection. Sinhala Rapist Police action was a shame of the history of Tamil Eelam.
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Mallaiyuran / December 22, 2023
In the Chava kacheri Carnival, (organizer was well known for these talents on organizing this type of events) the Rapist Police went into Ladies’ corner and started to caress and fondle the woman folk. Organizers politely approached the Rapist police and had them vacated from Carnival ground saying as the Carnival was going very peacefully, so they didn’t need any police protection, the Rapists can go back to station. They pretended to be going, but outside they gathered together, called their team members in large numbers, came back, shot and baton charged the participants. They destroyed the Carnival equipment.
Then another one, the Sinhala Buddhists Majority Aanduwa was antagonized by Tamils voting to TULF and make it as the opposition party. Antagonized Junious Richard, immediately changed the election laws into a PR system so that Tamils never can become opposition party leaders after that. The funniest thing happened was Opposition Party Leaders were removed by a vote of No Confidence Motion in the Daytime comedy Show theater called Palace de Diyawanna Lake. (But later Sampanthar Aiyya broke the odds of Junius Richard’s calculation.) TULF was deprived of its membership after being elected by Tamil Eelam citizens, because they refused to take the oath violating their election mandate. Amirthalingam, the opposition party leaders were pushed down and beaten by the Rapist Army in “Muthaveli Stadium”, during a peaceful protest.
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Mallaiyuran / December 22, 2023
Junius Richard refused to take any action on the Rapist police who beat the opposition Leaders only because he was a Tamils, and it will antagonize the Sinhala Buddhist Majority to make the Rapist Police to enforce the country’s law. Is that why you are telling me Junious Richard could not reverse things because the Sinhala Buddhist majority would be antagonized. Comedy Thamai Gamini!
The climax was the “roundabout Premadasa’s” visit to Jaffna MC. He was well known for thuggeries using the Valaiththoda UNP Kadaies, even in Colombo. He had cut off all funding for Jaffna MC. This had created major friction between him and TULF Mayor Visvanathan (Father of the current TGTE PM). The programs for Valaiththodam Sr’s visit were organized by Colombo, sidelining the mayor. Mayor did not attend the meeting. That was a holiday, and he was not needed in the program, his absconding meeting was not any negligence of duty. Those days there was high tension in Jaffna town and surroundings. The Rapist Army was deployed all over everywhere. An undeclared curfew was in order on the town’s streets. To teach a lesson to the mayor for not acknowledging the Roundabout’s Authority of Valaiththodam, the Rapist Army was launched to set fire to South Asia’s Richest library.
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Mallaiyuran / December 22, 2023
Probably that was the last ID of Tamils superiority remaining, after Kangagra and Siri Ma O’s projects of nationalization of education and Tamils schools. Library officials went to site and were told not to put out the fire because that would antagonize their masters, the Sinhala Buddhists majority. Others were chased out of road on the undeclared curfew. Every bit of the library went into fire in front of the helpless Tamils’ eyes.
Their hearts were bleeding. One special patron, a linguist, capable in reading & writing in 30 languages, who himself were a disciple of Father Gnanapirakasam, who was a master of 75 languages, and started the new field in linguistic, the comparative studies by his research work at the same library, few hours later died of heart attack. Jaffna Tamils’ uniqueness, who had collected, edited and printed the Tamils manuscripts, like Navalar, C.W Thamotharampillai, Carol Viswanathan’s works were reduced to ashes. In Tamil they say Kazhuthai Ariyuma Karpoora Vasanai (Would a donkey know the inspiring holly scent of camphor smoke). The Rapist Army brought an era of Tamils achievements to zero. Rapists’ government’s Colombo headquarters were expecting a rebel from Tamils and had deployed a heavy army presence throughout Jaffna peninsula. This heavy concentration gave the LTTE a needed target so that in an attempt they bombed 13 Rapist Soldiers.
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Mallaiyuran / December 22, 2023
The liars in CT are trying to spread a fake opinion that unarmed police were killed. You are telling me the majority of the Rapist Soldiers died were Sinhalese. Unless you are trying to disillusion somebody here, from the start, my understanding was that the Rapist army was Sinhala Buddhist Majority, other than the first Army commander who was rewarded by queen, Anton Muthukumaru. All 13 bodies were brought to Colombo, to display and make Black July 1983 more rampant.
Can you tell me about one case in which the Sinhala Buddhist Majority government appropriately investigated police brutality on Tamil civilians, after 1948? LTTE was started after TULF, which was led by three Tamils leaders, SJV, GGP, and Thondaman. LTTE was formed to free Tamils, firstly from the Sinhala Buddhist Majority Rapist Army and Police.
“Nicholas Bastianpillai a young SI, who was a close friend of mine that triggered the riots that followed I didn’t hear about your good friend Nicholas Bastian Pillai before this. I did hear about a notorious CID Tamil Policeman known as “Inspector Bastiampillai”. CID and 4th floor were/are the hell on the earth for Tamil youths. Bastiampillai was an animal, wearing a uniform. I am not going to talk about him. All I say is hearsay. But here is a document about the Animal Bastianpillai, not Nicholas Bastianpillai, your very close friend.
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Mallaiyuran / December 22, 2023
Animal Bastian Pillai was responsible for many Tamil rapes, false arrests, tortures, false claims for achievements and many other crooked, criminal activities.
I have to digress from the main point for sec and analyze the nature of your entire info presented. There are many parts that appear to be purposely concocted to antagonize the readers, especially Tamils. I came across a Bastiampillai, Nicholas, but he is a well-respected medical specialist.
https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-nicholas-bastiampillai-3ylsn If that is what you mean, I wonder why you presented him here, unless some of the data is concocted and got mixed up. I have to conclude you did not concoct the info because you claim the person,
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Mallaiyuran / December 22, 2023
Bastian Pillai involved in the tortures and rapes of Tamil youths is your good friend. The CID policeman was known in Tamil as Bastiampillai, that is the name I am aware of existing in Tamil. But I see it is spelled in English as Bastian pillai. There is a possibility that another fake Terrism expert, who was punished by Canada for his incorrect information might have got involved in the name alteration of the name of Basti the Bastiampillai. After 1961 the Siri Ma O Rapist Army entered all North East villages and carried out its torture and brutality, Tamils lost the hope of peaceful protest and had formed ideas to resist Rapist Police and Rapist Army with arms. The Catholic Multilayer Juniors Richard never offered any special programs for Tamils who were deviated by the 1977 pogrom or 1983 pogrom. He only brought the 6th amendment to stop Tamil Parliamentarians freely to speak it in or out of Parliament. 1.5 M Tamils left as refugees and started their life as Kauppai Addikira Velai, but none received any scholarship from Junius Richard.
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Mallaiyuran / December 22, 2023
Following is from Aljazeera, an explanation about 26 years of freedom of Tamils with their oppressive government.
Ethnic tensions between the mainly Buddhist Sinhalese majority and the largely Hindu Tamil minority had long simmered, which worsened after the former colonial ruler Britain quit in 1948……………However, administrative power in 1948 fell into the hands of the Sinhalese, who began a policy of discrimination against the Tamil minority.
The Ceylon Citizenship Act of 1948 denied Tamils citizenship …….. In 1956, the Sinhala Only Act made Sinhalese the only official language of Sri Lanka. In the 1970s, importing Tamil language books, magazines and films from India’s Tamil Nadu state was also outlawed. Growing calls among Tamils for the right to self-determination were brushed aside in 1977 when the Sri Lankan government passed an amendment to the constitution (..6th , which was described by ICJ as the worst draconian law on freedom of speech of Tamils), prohibiting peaceful advocacy of independence.
Four years later, an irreversible blow to Tamil culture and history at the hands of an organized Sinhalese mob saw a library in Jaffna set on fire in 1981. More than 95,000 Tamil historical texts and manuscripts were burned to ashes.
The conflict erupted when a landmine ambush laid by Tamil rebels killed 13 Sinhalese soldiers of the Sri Lankan army in the Tamil heartland of Jaffna in the north.
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