By Suranimala –
Most people would wonder whether President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has flipped his lid by appointing the dastardly discredited monk Gnanasara to head a task force to ensure the One Country-One Law. First up, I would ask Justice Minister, formerly the legal representative of the then Secretary of State, Ali Sabry, if he has lost all of his marbles upstairs or if he like many others simply wish to get into the records as Chief Justice, Minister, Army Commander, Governor of Central Bank, Attorney General, et al? Mark my words, this lot will be reviled as the worst imposters who sold out for personal glory to get into the record books. History will record this chapter with warts and all and expose this lot as the dregs that sold out for personal glory. Short-lived but recorded in posterity as charlatans.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Bhikku Gnanasara has a chequered history. He was charged for drunken driving. Convicted for Contempt of Court. Never you mind, a Presidential pardon does not make him innocent. Only pardoned. Not by Court. The International community has a set standards and laws which is accepted universally. Our own laws can make a President above the law. This will be viewed with extreme aversion by many a democratic nation. His proclamations to pardon convicted murderers and other offenders though written into the Constitution of Sri Lanka need not and will not be accepted in toto by the rest of the World. It only reflects the state of this nation. Poorly or otherwise. Never with cause for pride.
Are we to consider that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed Bhikku Gnanasara in a fit of amnesia? As a joke? Being playful? No. This is serious business. No sensible person let alone docile Sri Lankans would accept this appointment whether they voted for President Rajapaksa at the last Presidential election or not. THEN WHY?
Consider, the Easter Sunday attack was said to have the hand of a “Maha Mola Karu” or mastermind guiding the murderous operation via the indoctrinated extremists. Evidence of such was led before the Commission of Inquiry which has been suppressed. So, if there was mastermind, such person is yet mingling amongst the gullible Sinahala Buddhist population who does not realise that he is neither a Sinhala-Buddhist nor a civilian.
So, here’s my take. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is no spring chicken when it comes to intrigue and operations to reach a goal, whatever it takes to do so. He has said as much to many. Words such as “If I have to go from point A to B, I will bombard everything in my wake to get there”. These words were uttered during the war with the LTTE but nevertheless said; Mens Rea.
What if? Simply, what if Bhikku Gnanasara was done to in the near future? Would it be could be an extremist lunatic? Or could it be a “Maha Molakaru“? Who would be blamed? Who would gain politically or otherwise? Would not the gullible Sinhala Buddhists rally around to save the nation and Buddhism one more time? Think deep who would benefit?
I would also leave a word of caution to would be politicians, with a mistaken notion think such a “Maha Molakaru” can be made use of to ride into power by cultivating, associating or even fancy an idea that he/she is getting the best out of such association. Remember Babu?
AYATHURAY RAJASINGAM / October 29, 2021
Association with the convicted criminals is a dangerous exercise. Gotabhaya may be smart, but Gnanasara Thero is a snake and don’t know when it will sting. Both Gotabhaya Rajapakse and Gnanasara Thero are ignorant of the rich Buddhist Philosophies and Teachings. I am sorry to make this statement that eventually Gotabhaya Rajapaksa will be the victim of Gnanasaro Thero and his companions.
/
leelagemalli / October 29, 2021
Srilanka s virathu aka Ghanasara and his actions to come will make the nation a racial one(no second to Myanmar) widening the gap between the communities. I have no respect anyone who considers Ghabasara as a “monk”. This govt came into being through dead bodies and racial acts against minorities. And it ll lose its popularity drastically through headless decisions. May good srilankes be blessed , may uneducated masses be awake !!!
☹😐😐😐😐😐☹☹
/
leelagemalli / October 29, 2021
Please watch this below… this is over to you.
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cueil-C-Qf8
–
what more worst can it be ?
/
Mahila / November 2, 2021
LLM,
Good morning.
I agree with your sentiments and the video.
However, on deep reflection on the matter and how it has panned out, HE has only appointed a Task Force to recommend a process, not to compile a set of laws.
My thinking is HE is trying to inveigle the great protagonist to spell out in a incontrovertible document, what their (his and his acolytes) thoughts are?
Then address the issue with clarity and sense, so that the protagonist do not complain any insufficiency in the changes at all, as always happens with such individuals!
/
leelagemalli / October 29, 2021
It is high time your domestic dog to allow wearing ” SIVURU- Sanga constume” so that srilanken buddhists could finally stay away from fake monks such as Ghanarasara.
.
If I were coming from minority, then I would have run amok.
–
We curse GHANASARA or the like criminals hidden behind Sanga costumes. SRILANKEBNS OF ALL FORM- PLEASE WAKE UP::: and fight for your basic rights.
.
☹😐😐😐😐😐☹☹☹😐😐😐😐😐☹☹☹😐😐😐😐😐☹☹☹😐😐😐😐😐☹☹
/
nimal fernando / October 29, 2021
Now you know ………. whose instructions/commands good ol’ Ganasara was carrying out …….. the burning of Muslim business/shops …….. burning/terrorising Muslim villages/towns ……….
–
–
I like Gota …… he is transparent ……. doesn’t have the skill or the need for deception …….. doesn’t color his hair ……. doesn’t wear the red crap around the neck ……..
–
What you see is what you get.
–
My kinda guy!
/
Mahila / October 30, 2021
Absolute Sense
/
Dinuk / October 29, 2021
The Sinhala Buddhist Los Angeles Diaspora has been Weaponized against the people of Lanka.
Why are the USAID funded Colombo NGO ladies silent about Basil and Goat’s US CIA LA ROOTS, rather than the Rajapaksa dessicration and abomination against Buddhism with Gnyanasara ?
The US Citizen Rajapaksa brothers are following CIA orders to WEAPONIZE RELIGIOUS IDENTITY POLITICS to cover up and distract from the Pfizer Vaccine Corruption racket and the Covid-19 OTH operation and steal of the Kerawelapitiya Power plant by US New Fortress, while Black Rock funded Adanai gets the Colombo Port West Terminal and visits US citizens Basil and Goat!.
The truth behind the American owned ISIS claimed Easter Sunday attacks is coming out. ” Brigadier Sallay started and nurtured both the Bodu Bala Sena and the Thowfeeq Jamath, which counted among its membership at one point, even the suicide bomber Zahran Hashim. “
During the past and present Cold War and Over the Horizon (OTH), Hybrid War, CIA has been weaponizing Buddhism and Islam in order to cause an Asian of “Clash of Civilizations” between the 2 great religions of Asia – Buddhism and Islam and destroy the rise of Asia as the economic growth hub of the world.
Divide and Rule, COLONIZE and Loot is the US-ISIS project, by weaponizing religion and diasporas.
/
chiv / October 29, 2021
Well said Suranimala. With this appointment country has stamped it self as yet another failed bankrupt nation.
/
chiv / October 29, 2021
There are some nice pictures for the starving Lankan public in today’s news. Namal taking morbidly obese Prassana on ATV ride at recently inaugurated sand dunes adventure sports club within PC. Sounds like North Korean lunatic playing Nintendo while his people are sick and starving. Also a formula 1 track is coming up in Humpbangthota which will be another monument as in India.
/
chiv / October 29, 2021
Remember Damn Daham Sirisena another brat from Lanka , says “only SLFP and it’s leadership can bring back the faith in Lankan political system” . If you haven’t had enough of tragicomedy do not worry, there is plenty to come. Poor off springs have been waiting so long for their turn.
/
Ashan / October 29, 2021
He might gather some qualifications too, like the Rajapaksa brats.
These qualifications should be investigated.
/
N. Perera / October 29, 2021
The master planner who completely wiped out LTTE and the entire LTTE leadership without any question, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and his name will remain in the entire Sinhalese Aryans living (74.9% Sinhalese) country Heladiva (Sri Lanka). The entire nation is now peaceful and not a single bomb exploded during this time.
/
Simon / October 29, 2021
N.Perera: “Not a single Bomb” – Very true to the thinking of “6.9 million”. Now we are “Bombarded” on a daily basis with the most lethal weapon: The “Economic Bombs: – Rising (on a daily basis) the unbearable Cost of Living, Scarcity of consumer goods, Dwindling Foreign Reserves, Sale of National Resources and Assets, Collapse of the Education System, A very likely and a certain collapse of the Maha Season Food Supply, etc… etc….. that will be EASILY forgotten of that “Not a single Bomb” you speak of. So better for the “War Heroes” to realize this “WAR” against “Empty Stomaches” and “Hopes” for a Better Life is a different “Ball Game”. The “War Heroes” are fighting a different “War” in quite “Unfamiliar Territory” and sure lose, if not already “LOST”.
/
leelagemalli / October 29, 2021
Mr Simon,
.
NP is another slave that would do anything on behalf of Rajapakshe criminals.
:
The surname RAJAPAKSHE will become a derogotary term in the near future….. this is what our FAKE monks and 6.9 millions of VOTERs expected…
/
N. Perera / October 30, 2021
Thanks to Gotabaya, LTTE is now dead dogs. Their mouths closed now Where is their Vaddokkodai resolution? Where is 13A. Where are now LTTE leaders now? Where is RAJA-VIRODHI SAMBANDAN NOW? Dias-Poda still barking for nothing.
/
Mahila / October 30, 2021
NP,
Its only 2 and half years. Await with baited breath as there is another half yet to go to complete the term!
Hope and pray every one would be safe, sound and fed to stop starvation!!
/
GATAM / October 29, 2021
Sorry Lanka’s banking system is about to collapse.
Do not send foreign currency to Sorry Lanka for 3 months. Discourage tourists from visiting Sorry Lanka because a useless vaccine has been given to the people.
Do not buy government bonds. They will be defaulted.
/
GATAM / October 29, 2021
Everyone must help bring down the racist, murderous and corrupt Rajafucksa regime.
Bring the Rajafucksa sucker down!
/
Ajith / October 29, 2021
“History will record this chapter with warts and all and expose this lot as the dregs that sold out for personal glory.”
Sri Lanka made several histories within a short period of time. How many riots? How many armed wars? How many people massacred? How many people lost their limbs? How many properties and national cultural institutions were burnt? Now Criminal gangs became kings of this nation with two third majority! Do we need that pathetic situation in a country which was blessed by Lord Buddha, Lord Siva, Lord Allah, Lord Jesus? Still do you want Buddhist Fundamentalism to eradicate Buddhism?
/
Raj-UK / October 29, 2021
Lets celebrate the birth of a Buddhist Taliban with the Buddhist equivalence to sharia law. If the extremist mullahs of Iran can influence the governing of the country why not the same in SL?
/
Buddhist1 / October 29, 2021
Did Gnanasara the Thug of a Monk threaten Rajapakses that he will divulge the involvement of the Rajapakses in the bombing if he is taken before the courts as ordered by the President’s Easter Bombing Commission? Did this happen? Is that the reason why Gota (as President is now taking advice from Basil and Mahinda) appointed the thug as a Chair of the Presidential Task Force? Is this possible? I have this question because we all know how Mahinda won the Presidential election by bribing Prabaharan to block Tamils from voting. Easter attack could be a similar move.
In any case, all the opposition MPs must openly declare that they will not be attending the Parliament if any of the bills that have been amended or recommended or reviewed by this task force is presented to the Parliament. Even if such a bill is passed by only the Pohottuwa MPs the credibility of such a bill in the eyes of the public and the international community would be severely tainted. Doesn’t Sri Lanka already have a bad name at the UN?
People should stop recognizing Gnanasara as a Thero or a Buddhist Monk. Just because a Thug wears the yellow robe he cannot be a True Monk. He is a convicted ciriminal.
/
Svenson / October 29, 2021
Raj-UK why not indeed. If the Tamils can have a low caste thug like VP to run their lives why can’t the Sinhalese do the same? That is what they have done, is it not?
.
By the way the ‘extremist mullahs of Iran’ do not influence the governing of the country, they actually govern it.
/
Nathan / October 30, 2021
Svenson,
– a low caste thug. Where did you learn such a dirty word. It is a blot on your character!
/
Svenson / November 1, 2021
Nathan sorry if it offends you. I learned it from the many Tamils posting anti-Sinhala hatred in these columns, Pandi Kutti for example.
/
Nathan / November 1, 2021
Svenson,
Unlearn quickly. The stain may still remain, but not be that stark!
/
Simon / October 29, 2021
The writer ends the article: “Remember Babu”. At my age, I would say: “Remember BUDDHARAKKITHA”.
/
Mahila / October 30, 2021
Simon,
Buddharakkitha was the man behind the scene true but i would add Talduwe Somarama Thero, who was shot and injured whilst running away from the scene of the event and gallowed!
/
Simon / October 30, 2021
Mahila: That “Buddharakkitha” was the “Master Planner” and “Somarama” was the “Executioner”. Buddharakkitha tried it earlier through Wimala Wijewardane – the then Minister of Health in offering a glass of milk at the Cabinet meeting. It failed because that glass of milk containing poison was taken by C.P.de Silva – the then Minister of Land. Do you know what happened to C.P de Silva? He lost his ability to talk and from there onwards he was a “Stammering” because he managed to spit out the first sip of milk. All that was due to the refusal of “SWRD” of the “Demand” of Buddharakkitha to set up a “Shipping Co.” Immediately with that refusal “SWRD” “Nationalized” the shipping industry and set up the “Shipping Corporation”.
Interesting “Priestly” involvements in Politics. Perhaps history could repeat.
/
Indi / October 29, 2021
Oh good gracious what have we done to ourselves; the 6.9 ? Are you able to breathe freely still? I feel suffocated.
/
whywhy / October 29, 2021
There are accepted normal standards in our daily life that set limits to stay away
from bad associations whatsoever . We start it from home and schools . We all are
quite acquainted with these basics . And here in the case of this controversial Monk
being allowed or dragged into politics , kind of rogue politics is , A DELIBERATE
ATTEMPT to gain , maintain and continue in power , throwing out into dust bin all
basic norms that were learnt in childhood .Mahinda is the man behind the operation.
He is now trying to play Mr Noble by taking holy bath at Temple Trees ! GOTA and
BASIL are just distractions ! No Mahinda means , none of the rest . Picture is clear .
Any sensible , patriotic man from the US will want to distance politics from religion ,
and more specifically from Extremists ! What we have is quite the opposite ! Even a
man (Monk) outright rejected by the Buddhists themselves in election and courts ,
is being forced upon the people by the man MAHINDA brought into the ring and under
the watchful eyes of Mahinda . Not yet a word out of his mouth . What a pity !
/
Mahila / October 30, 2021
W Why,
Agreed it is stunning!
The Golden stoic silence of the patriarch is no doubt bewildering and start to wonder, whether it is an attempt at a new “Avatar”, styled and framed to fit, that of the Gentleman JRJ, Circa July 25th to 31st 1983?!
Sadly only time will tell if that is so?
No acceptance/denial given the scenario, before the event!!
/
Buddhist1 / October 31, 2021
As a Grand Father, I wonder if Gotabaya, even for a fraction of a second, would think, what his Grand Daughter would read from the history books about her Grand Father?
Rather than him being a man who turned around the country, she would read that he ruined not only the country but also the peace between various religions and communities in Sri Lanka.
/
whywhy / October 31, 2021
Buddhist 1 ,
If you go by scholars and philosophers about human nature and modern humans ,
especially those from former colonies and present day Developing Tagged
countries , with the addition of some serious personal experiences at some
considerable cost to you , it is not hard to read the pulse of False Patriots , both
leaders and followers . I make it very short without dragging you too far . You
wonder about Gota thinking of how his grand daughter would see him through
history books ! First thing , please understand that there are Millions in our
country who don’t care a hoot about a Better Life ! It is them who elected Gota .
And then Ask Gota only two very simple questions . Why did he leave Srilanka
to live in the U S ? And why did he come back from a country like U S , leaving
his family behind ? There are more questions but let him first answer these Two
with FULL HONESTY ! And Please keep in mind that WE DO NOT HAVE FAMILY
VALUES ANYMORE and THE EROSION STARTED when Manike and Silva were
FLOWN OUT to find DOLLARS for Mahinda and Gota to BUY CARS ! You think
Gota will want her GRAND DAUGHTER to read Srilankan history from the U S ?
/
Pon Lanka / October 31, 2021
Maybe a drunken shoulder appointing a drunken Thero as chairman of one country fiasco, not going the implications that would impact all Sri lankans in future.
/
Thiha / November 2, 2021
Sonic = Sallay. Sallay reported to MMK. MMK = Gotler. That is the correct lineup. Now on to how MMK (Maha Mola Karu) rules as a dictator. Non of his ministers are taken seriously. His brother the PM has been reduced to an imbecile unable to act in any matter. His second son is apparently in charge of Temple trees. Control is exerted via retired military generals who are appointed as secretary’s to all the key ministries. If the going was good then all the pohottuwas would not complain. But unfortunately that is not the case. The whole ship is sinking while more holes are being hammered thru its hull by MMK and his clueless generals. His day of rekonning is not far off. When that day dawns let us all hope the fools who voted for such a monstrosity would have suffered enough not to repeat their actions ever again.
/