By Jehan Perera –
Jehan Perera
The ongoing session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva is proof enough that the international quest for justice and accountability in Sri Lanka is continuing. UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Turk who presented the annual report noted that “In Sri Lanka, although the government has regrettably rejected aspects of the Council’s resolutions related to accountability, it has continued to engage with our presence on the ground. Sri Lanka has received a dozen visits by mandate holders in the past decade and I encourage the authorities to implement their recommendations.” The change in the presidency from Gotabaya Rajapaksa to Ranil Wickremesinghe has made no difference to the expectations of the international community and to the demands placed on the government.
Coinciding with the events unfolding at the UNHRC session in Geneva, there was a launch of a report on the past investigations into mass graves and on missing persons in Sri Lanka by five leading civil society organisations. Civil society activist Brito Fernando, long time founder of Families of the Missing said that “After three decades and twenty attempted exhumations, only a handful of bodies have ever been identified and returned to families. We all know tens of thousands of bodies lie in shallow graves all over the island, so we can’t describe this dismal rate of progress as bad luck – it’s a clear lack of political will.” There has been significant media coverage of this event which reflect the pain and agony of those who suffered the loss of their loved ones during the war—and also during the JVP insurrection which also has left a legacy of mass graves.
One of the most positive features of the post-war period has been the willingness of the media to take up controversial issues of human rights violations. The Island newspaper not only gave front page coverage to the launch of the publication on the missing persons, it also clarified with the Canadian mission in Colombo regarding the stance of its government on the charge of genocide leveled against the Sri Lankan government. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pointed out that the Canadian Parliament in May 2022 unanimously adopted a motion to make May 18 Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day. The Canadian High Commission reiterated that this statement to mark the first Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day reflected the Canadian stand and that Canada will not stop advocating for the rights of the victims and survivors of the Sri Lanka conflict, as well as for all in Sri Lanka who continue to face hardship.
UPHILL TASK
The government’s position has been that it is continuing its focus on the long-term measures towards reconciliation and accountability within the framework of the constitution and that it opposes international mechanisms that would erode national sovereignty. Since the first UNHRC resolution brought against Sri Lanka in 2009, the year the war ended bloodily on the military battlefield, successive governments have either sought to defeat them, and indeed succeeded the first time when then ambassador Dr Dayan Jayatilleka led the Sri Lankan team in Geneva. But when the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa failed to implement the promises it had made, including the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission it had set up, the tide turned and Sri Lanka was at the receiving end of more resolutions.
The only time that the Sri Lankan government sought to collaborate with the international community on the issue of UNHRC resolutions was when (then) Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe led the government in 2015 and agreed to co-sponsor the updated resolution. The government accepted a range of recommendations, ranging from the vetting of security forces personnel, getting those accused of human rights violations to be removed from the security forces and setting up special courts with international participation to look into questions of accountability. During that period the government made some attempts to deal with issues facing the people, such as returning land to them and reducing the military role in civilian life. But institutions it set up, such as the Office on Missing Persons soon lost credibility due to the limited nature of their work. There was resistance to probing the past from within the governmental system and larger society itself who saw, and continue to see, the security forces as having performed a necessary service to the country to end the war and preserve its unity and sovereignty.
A few months ago, the international media reported that in Spain volunteers and forensic archaeologists exhumed 53 bodies from shallow graves in the Basque town of Orduna that were dug in 1941, as part of a process of healing the country’s wounds from the dictatorship era. More than 500,000 people were killed during the 1936-1939 Spanish civil war. Historians estimate more than 100,000 people remain missing, many in unmarked mass graves. It took the government more than 80 years to approve a law in 2020 to finance exhumations from the unmarked graves as part of a wider effort to find out the truth about the dictatorship’s crimes and heal wounds still open four decades after former President Francisco Franco’s death. To this day, Spain continues to have unhealed wounds and divisions from its civil war that have contributed to Basque separatism.
MAGIC BULLET
The binding elements in any society are justice and accountability in which people feel they are treated fairly and will have justice if they are not treated so especially by the government. The international community is led by Western countries that have achieved high levels of development and prosperity. The western countries have created societies that work in the interests of their people and are just to them to a greater rather than lesser extent. Therefore, the guidelines they hold out to Sri Lanka ought to be followed as we lag behind in development, justice and prosperity. In her oral update to the UNHRC, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif noted that “What is needed is a coherent plan that connects the different elements of truth, redress, memorialisation, accountability and creates the right enabling environment for a successful and sustainable transitional justice process.”
The government’s response to these pressures from the international community is to revive and strengthen the mechanisms already in place such as the Office on Missing Persons. Under new leadership the OMP is building its capacity with support from both the international community and CSOs. The government is also continuing the process of returning land to the people. This is accompanied by efforts to increase the role of the Office for Reparations in offering financial and symbolic compensation to families of the missing and victims of human rights violations. But the main instrument in the government’s arsenal appears to be the proposed Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The TRC draft is to be shared with the diplomatic community by next month. Minister of Justice Dr Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has said that once the TRC draft receives parliamentary approval, it will be implemented by December 2023.
According to Tamil leaders who have seen the draft of the proposal, the TRC will not provide the solution to the problem of accountability. It does not include holding perpetrators of crimes to account. Such a level of accountability cannot be expected at this time when those leading the government both openly and covertly are those who played key roles in suppressing the insurrections of the past. It is not reasonable to expect government leaders to self-indict themselves or to pave the way to such indictments and prosecutions. Any targeting of the security forces will also lead to a division in society, much like has existed in Spain over the past 80 years, and can lead to the popular vote going against such a government leadership. Indeed, this happened in 2019, when former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa made the rejection of the co-sponsored UNHRC resolution his battle cry and swept into power on ethnic majority Sinhalese votes.
The role of a TRC at the present time will need to be accepted as a limited one, in which the truth will be ascertained, both what happened to the missing persons as individuals and addressing the accusation of genocide in the larger picture which is gaining international traction with the passage of time. There is a great need to create awareness about the past, both in Sri Lanka and abroad, in order not to repeat the mistakes of the past. The TRC will not be the magic bullet or provide the answer to the UNHRC resolutions which will need to be addressed In multiple other ways in a process of change. Sincerity needs to accompany that process.
Thiru / June 27, 2023
Sinhalese-Buddhist supremacists, Crooks, liars, war criminals, committers of genocide, led by an opportunist cunning fox forming a Truth and Reconciliation Commission is neither going to find the truth nor prepared for reconciliation with Tamils. TRC will only buy them time until injustices inflicted on Tamils will be forgotten by the international community.
Reality on the ground in the North-East ongoing genocide (Tamil land grabbing to be given free to Sinhalese, erasing of historical artifacts, etc.) in different forms. More countries ought to realize Sri Lanka’s intentions and bring their own justice to the Tamils subjected to ongoing genocide.
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nimal fernando / June 27, 2023
Jehan ……. you look malnourished … as if life has escaped from your eyes.
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Yond Jehan has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. ………. Hope the NGO’s feed ye soon.
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chiv / June 27, 2023
JP, losing popular vote or position is not an excuse for perpetrators, to be, not accountable. Even with change in governments the SB mentality will not change. I understand, a person elected by 6.9 million SB will not go against their wishes. But isn’t it how most ethnic cleansing occur, where majority go after the minority. Are we doing this to satisfy others / Geneva or to really heal old wounds and unite as a country to overcome crisis. TRC is just another eye wash and Wijedasa is “mother of all crooks”.
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Captain Morgan / June 27, 2023
“Such a level of accountability cannot be expected at this time when those leading the government both openly and covertly are those who played key roles in suppressing the insurrections of the past. It is not reasonable to expect government leaders to self-indict themselves or to pave the way to such indictments and prosecutions.”
After humming and hawing for more than 10 years, the tightrope artiste has at last reluctantly admitted his position and the government’s position. Why did it take him so long to spill the beans? Just playing for time, one must assume!
These people are like the person who borrows a large sum of money, keeps on promising to repay it, repeatedly gives excuses, and drags the matter on for several years, only to eventually confess that he cannot repay the loan!
This is why the affected parties have always called upon for external mediation.
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Nathan / June 27, 2023
I am looking at,
‘The government has been continuing its focus on the long-term measures towards reconciliation and accountability within the framework of the constitution’,
and,
‘it opposes international mechanisms that would erode national sovereignty’.
What a great hiding place, the Constitution is!
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Mahila / June 28, 2023
Nathan,
“IT OPPOSES INTERNATIONAL MECHANISMS THAT WOULD ERODE NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY’!
What a great hiding place, the Constitution is!”
Question, “ERODE NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY”?? WHOSE??
When dumbfounded idiosyncratic RULERS govern one forgets the basic precepts of DEMOCRACY – both Ruled and CONVENIENTLY Rulers!
Sovereignty lies solely with people, and with objective of defending/sustaining sovereignty in TRUST to 3 pillars of Democracy – Executive, Justice, and Legislature!!! 4th pillar INDEPENDENT MEDIA, Enlighten Sovereign people, any Transgression or Possibility thereof!!?? Watch Dog!!
Resplendent, thrice blessed Island, all 4 pillars have crumbled due autocratic, arbitrary and unconscionable acts by Politicians!!?? Voted to Power – unscrupulous, so-called emancipated voters, having bribed – grant – 5000 Rupees, ¼ bottle GAL and Chicken Biryani!!??
2nd Republican Constitution by ‘INCREDIBLE’ JRJ, Uncle Nephew Party!? His prodigal Nephew enjoys his Presidency/Perks!!!???
Mention FORETHOUGHT!!??? My FOOT!!!??
Worse happened, 1st Republican Constitution, by Marxist, Leninist Bolshevik Colvin R De Silva (despite politically denouncing ‘Religion’ – “OPIUM OF THE MASSES”), incorporated PRIMACY AND/OR SUPREMACY to Buddhism!!!???
That’s Growing problem – Athana, Methana, Hithana, Natana and Gnanasara Saffron robed, make one and all Dance and Jive all types of Moves!!!???
Final Purpose, STARVE, DEPRIVE and hold to RANSOM, the masses – PURPOSE AGGRANDISEMENT
RELIGIOUSAND POLITICAL ANCHORS!!!???
2600+ YEARS PREDATES GREEKS’ PHILOSOPHY
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Mahila / June 28, 2023
Nathan,
Whatever, anyone adduces, “Sri Lankan democracy is the GREATEST CIVILISATION IN THE WORLD, SURPASSES even that of Greece”!!???
When that’s the situation or “elitist wishful thinking”, why should this country, Blessed Thrice, following Buddhist precepts to the letter – some detractors may claim it to be not pure Buddhist but connoted Sinhala Buddhist adventure without basis!!??
This Supreme Buddhist Nation, built and Practicing, NOBLE Buddhist Principles, aided by 2600+ years of CULTURE and CIVILISATION ever have to follow any, “International Mechanisms” and educated on Humanitarianism by any other!!!???
WE ARE SUPREME IN ALL ASPECTS OF MATTER AND MIND!!!
WE DON’T NEED TUITION EVER FROM ANYONE!!!??
Not even from HE President, with thanks, who these days seem inclined to be generous in providing “TUITION” on all aspect of HUMANITIES, which probably was admittedly and is his favourite subject from College days!!!
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Siva Sankaran Sharma / June 27, 2023
With regards to this here is a good article from Al Jazeera and the duplicity of the west
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/israeli-complicity-in-sri-lanka-war-crimes-must-be-investigated/ar-AA1d5ul4?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=af53d32c49a1468cae2ccaea581cb2d3
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Mallaiyuran / June 27, 2023
Yesterday Colombo Media noted that the Evil Emperor is worried that the Ministers are not selling what he has achieved in fixing, but he only has been doing that. (People need not be explained why the 100 – 120 ministers are pampered with so many perks and are the media filled with bogus achievements of a burglar government. While this flourishing business of empty marketing is well underway, the country is falling to a new level of downturn every day). The truth is the highly paid Cinema actors, or the so-called ministers are purely created and promoted by national governments of SLFP & UNP combined, only to take care of Appe Aanduwa’s projects deceiving not the people. The country is borrowed and built a casino club, without any real production backup. Earlier, in Paris, Evil claimed India had forced an unwanted loan of $4B while Hitler King had shut off all international loans. The idea behind the master plan of the Evil Emperor is to defame India’s goodwill by giving the poor Indian citizens’ money to be stolen by Sinhala Buddhist elites. On the other hand, instead of planning and acting some benevolent action to people, he is pushing the Sinhala Buddhist ministers only to spread lies; that is, he wants the ministers to fool the Modayas that it was not the Indian Money that brought the temporary relief.
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Mallaiyuran / June 27, 2023
Guys, who are there, reading with better English, please help me to describe to those fools what their notorious government, which stole the authority from the “Protesters”, is doing to hide the path of Indian loans while claiming credit for itself. The Demolu Modaya Dr. Jaishankar is in a hidden corner trumpeting his ups in Langkang’ recovery. There is another loony in the Central Bank, he does not have even an iota of where the country is going. Dancing to Evil’s strings pulling. Our double faced Dubious Jehan PhD, who once argued that Lord Naseby needs to be used to defeat the UNHRC resolution, now says just accept the request for TRO and cheat the Tamils by portraying the real criminals as angels. This is a 100 times worse idea than Evil using Ministers who are paid out of Indian grants to undermine Indian loans. If the people are deceived about what the Indian loan did, that is India’s problem. But do the Tamils need a TRO like this, it is only to pull the wool on UNHRC & IMF’s eyes? No Tamil should participate voluntarily on any of these “day times shows”, unless they are summoned, and Aanduwa turns the TRO into a Sinhala Buddhist Only Jury court.
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Mallaiyuran / June 27, 2023
Jehan PhD shamedly proposed that the IC & Tamils should allow his Sinhala Buddhist masters molester TRO also and come to that and tell all the lies. But TRO is under oath. If Tamils were hiding commissions, they can be prosecuted additionally for telling a lie under oath. Why would any Tamils Modaya care about Sinhala Buddhists’ version of TRA and sacrifice them so IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva can give her donation without any impediments? Jehan PhD is proposing to postpone even this bogus TRO to 80 years like the way it happened in Spain. Sinhala Intellectuals never follow the good example, but always cite and follow the bad one. That is why the country was so easily bankrupt. Jehan PhD should be an inhuman beast, to suggest an idea like that while he many times visited the North East, where 100 of people protested for 5000 days for justice for them before they too die like their loved ones died at the hands of Sinhala Buddhists Appe Aanduwa.
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Mallaiyuran / June 27, 2023
What nasty criminals are all these political & NGO crooks, for even after the country has declared bankruptcy, in order to save the Genocide/ War Criminals and thieves, doing these ill intended campaigns. The famous, recent TRO is organized by Nobel Peace Prize winning activists of South Africa. That is what is in the mind of the UNHRC when proposing TRO for Langkang & Tamils. IC cannot hand over responsibility of investigation to local crooks & criminals and then come back to argue the local prestige of the criminals is not allowing the local courts system to be arrested and investigated. We are only opposing them be invested locally. Jehan May wants to put this in his puny head! IC cannot care about Langkang criminals’ local prestige or these criminals’ prestige would be hurt if they are investigated locally. IC’s investigation is what Tamils are looking for to settle their problem. If the right procedure of SA is to be followed, the leaders who committed extensive war crimes must see the international investigation before any Tamils to participate in a local TRO. We are not asking the worst criminals in Langkang to voluntarily accept that and escape nicely.
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Mallaiyuran / June 27, 2023
What we are telling the IC is that there is an obligation on it to act. it has responsibility; it has the authority; it has power and tools to do the job, unlike the local Sinhala Buddhists Jury only investigation; Now the IC must come with the will to prosecute the Genocide Criminal with the international laws and make the justice equal for all those who were prosecuted by those laws thus far and for the current and future criminals. Otherwise, if the IC also dares to provide impartial treatment to the victims and equal punishments for the perpetrators, it is unacceptably discriminatory for having some punished with International Human rights International Humanitarian Laws but petting and kidding with cruel Langkang criminals.
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Mallaiyuran / June 28, 2023
“Such a level of accountability cannot be expected at this time when those leading the government both openly and covertly are those who played key roles in suppressing the insurrections of the past. It is not reasonable to expect government leaders to self-indict themselves or to pave the way to such indictments and prosecutions.”
Jehan PhD mentioned about one side of the coin, the present political leadership and Rapist Army was the one carried out the genocide but stayed of short of mentioning that it was the current political leader’s earlier generation created the Tamil Genocide wars for the families’ consecutive election victories. Then disparagingly saying that after 80 years, when the leaders have faced natural death, an investigation can be carried out, not to serve justice, for white washing. Spain is not stuck in family ruling. But Langkang has set up for the family Royalties to remain in control for centuries to come. So it is not the “Investigation after 80 years, but even the political environment that existed 80 years ago is not expected to return after 80 years from now.
As under his logic, the present Sinhala leaders’ future generation cannot be removed from politics because they are current leaders’ children, Tamils expecting any justice is not practical as per Jehan PhD. So, they need to live as a separate nation, after investigation.
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Sinhala_Man / June 28, 2023
I agree with almost all that you say, dear Mallaiyuran.
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Only don’t write off the determination of some Sinhalese also to have justice being done. And don’t bring religions into all this.
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Panini Edirisinhe
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Mallaiyuran / June 28, 2023
And don’t bring religions into all this
Ha ha ha ………….
Why so? do you want to upgrade your racist name “Sinhala man ” as “Sinhala_Buddhist_Man”. (If so you are really really funny Sinhala_Buddhist_Man)_Is that why it is ailing to you me wring about the Sinhala Buddhism that is killing, looting & raping Tamils? Sinhalese Buddhism is a phrase in use worldwide. Did you ever attempt to tell the international media not to connect Sinhala Buddhism to the down rotten achievement of flourished British Ceylon?
Equally Racist
Tamil_Mallaiyuran.
(Go hell man instead of making me too jobless by forcing to reply to your silly notes)
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leelagemalli / June 29, 2023
Why couldn’t people stand up against the middle beast long ago?
Is there any politician in srilanka that fooled the nation as he did ? Why cant people come to consensus to hang the bugger and his family in public yet today ?
Who ruined our culture where some ethics were respected in 80ties and 90ties ?
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https://www.ft.lk/news/Political-leaders-pay-respect-to-Thondaman/56-700853
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SJ / June 28, 2023
Many of us, thanks to the media, romanticize the Truth and Reconciliation effort in South Africa.
It was an absolute sell out.
The wealthy White oppressors could keep their property and escape Scot free from punishment.
What does the Black man have instead since end of Apartheid, except that a few black capitalists have emerged who pose no threat to big capital in South Africa or to global capital.
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Mallaiyuran / June 28, 2023
Mr. Bumpstead has no idea why Black African Mandela government sought a reconciliation commission instead of burning all white South African’s properties, kill and rape as much as possible, snatch maximum possible number of Thalikodies and chase the remaining as refugees to Western nations like Siri Ma O and Junius Richard were doing. During Prince Zaid time, Yahapalanaya Appe Aanduwa wanted to pick up TRC out of the four-pillar transitional justice Mr. Evil Emperor signed with UNHRC (Resolution 30). Their cry was they were fighting freedom from the oppressing minority rulers on their land like the ANC fought for freedom. It looks like you are noticing that your colleague Jehan PhD is not wearing an Amude, and you are trying to wear one. But I wish Jehan PhD would return the favor in the same way to you, because you’re too naked in your anti humanistic approach of Tamils’ freedom, discounting it as an entertaining humor for you. Appe Aanduwa didn’t fantasize with TRC, rather it was trying to extract a new anti-Tamil instrument out of SA TRC. Don’t you remember your bosses Bathiudeen & Siri Ma o brought the inverse of American Affirmative Action as standardization? So don’t distract readers from PhD’s cunning logic by providing cover to his duplicity, That is the same way PhD is twisting the SA TRC to their benefits.
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SJ / July 1, 2023
Poor sod!
Tried to do a “woof woof woof” but ended up with “yap yap yap” as usual.
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Cicero / June 28, 2023
Truth and Reconciliation is same as the bunkum relating to the Office of Missing Persons which the UNHRC has already characterised as a fraudulent body that was a mere screen to cloak the crimes of the SL authorities, It only served to give Sabry and his cronies a free ride to South Africa. Pity the South Africans want to be associated with these people in whom the public have ceased to have trust. Just let the Tamils and the Muslims go their way rather than be hamstrung by these shenanigans of Sinhala politicians who only enrich themselves. They have created so much strife. The country will be better off is all of them can be deported to Rwanda which will take them is we pay for their deportation. It will be cheaper for us to pay rather than have them steal our money.
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Sinhala_Man / June 28, 2023
Jehan,
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What reconcilliation can we have in a country ruled by a man whom nobody wants? In the absence of elections of some sort, this must be categorised as a Dictatorship.
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All statements that are made by Ranil Wickremasinghe and his Rajapaksa allies are just meant to fool non-Sri Lankans who may be concerned, some of them quite genuinely.
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The most obvious thing to do is to get the Local Government Elections conducted ASAP. All Parties have nominated candidates. It is not for any of us to tell others how they should vote. The election must, to use the worn-out cliche, be /b>”free and fair.” And it is a secret ballot.
However, I’m not keeping it secret, how I will vote – for the NPP.
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This is what its leader was saying yesterday in Perth, Australia:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrFs8fDr6cw
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Panini Edirisinhe of Bandarawela
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leelagemalli / June 28, 2023
Whatever being said and done about not holding elections people in general first need to address their essentials such as basic needs. Holding elections would nt resolve that. Besides SM ‘ s beloved leader is not at all a man with Aladin’ s wonder lamp”. And nor has he answered our long awaiting questions????????
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Sinhala_Man / June 28, 2023
“leelagemalli”,
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Given that you don’t live in Sri Lanka, on a local income, you should not be writing our “essential such as basic needs”. You know little about them. How can you possibly be aware that ” Holding elections would nt resolve that.”?
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Actually holding elections (local Government) is demanded by the Law. You once told me that you still retain a Lankan citizenship but are you registered as a “Voter”? I want you tell us the truth about that. I don’t really want to know where you’re registered, but you often tell us half truths.
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Elections have to be held whether they resolve problems or not. How dare</b> you speak on behalf of the needs of “people in general”. This is a “Reply” to this comment of yours dated “June 28, 2023”. I’m going to start on another comment which will deal with all sorts of other comments that “Human Touch” and you have been making for about six months.
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leelagemalli / June 29, 2023
Any citizen of this island nation, regardless of his or her party sympathization, should have the right to question and speak for their loved ones and his or her friends and acquaintances. That is the answer to SM’s simple question. He is the one who did not respond to our question about AKD’s special abilities if AKD becomes the next leader. This time again he raised questions in advance by saying that SM’s computer or internet connection was not working properly. Isn’t this shameless SINHALA_man?
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If you, SM, are an expert on Sri Lankan elections, you should have revealed that Gotabaya was nominated while he was an American citizen. Did you do that? You di dnot even notice that right ?
We strongly opposed Gotabhaya and his brother becoming leaders again. But your dead silence and the support of stupid people brought him to power.
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The consequences are in front of your eyes today.
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Sinhala_Man / July 1, 2023
“leelagemalli”,
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Really? My dead silence?
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https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/was-the-presidential-election-free-and-fair-when-colombo-returning-officer-called-sajith-premadasa-the-son-of-a-donkey-asks-prof-hoole/
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See for yourself, dear readers, how much I have said. And what LM has said. I have raised this question before. LM said that he hadn’t seen the article! How credible is that? At that time, wasn’t it ten days that we had to respond? Article on the 28th of November, last comment on the 7th of November.
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Why should we criticise the Rajapaksas? Dissolve Parliament. Can be legally If the Rajapaksas contest all will be defeated. Ranil is their guardian, and in practical terms, so is LM. I grant that LM still uses intemperate language more than me about the Rajapaksas, but what’s the use?
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As “Liger” says below, LM seems to hate the Sinhalese. As for restitution, that cannot be undertaken by individuals; that LM is personally generous, I admit.
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As for getting back money from dishonest people who have carried it abroad, that’s going to be very difficult, although efforts should be made. Ranil is concentrating on protecting them.
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Panini Edirisinhe of Bandarawela (NIC 483111444V)
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old codger / July 1, 2023
“I’m going to start on another comment which will deal with all sorts of other comments that “Human Touch” and you have been making for about six months.”
Oh gawd, not again?
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leelagemalli / June 29, 2023
SM and AKD saranang Gachchami,
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I was spending a few days in Sri Lanka last two weeks. What I got to see was positive.
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Once I traveled by intercity bus from Colombo to Kandy, where I thought the bus fare was Rs 100 less than the previous year. The condutor boy was nice and smart with his job, I offered him 500 bucks for his meals. Wherever I thought I should do some donations, I did it thinking about my mother ( she was giving anything to anyone in need saying giving is a good thing).
However, spitting through windows and playing loud music in bazaars remain the same. Nobody seems to take it serious because the survival a day is a struggle to them. Some temples abusively waste electricity while some have nothing to pay off their bills. Why on earth, rich temples refrain from doing their due in today s situation ? May pinguththaraya monks be wiser sooner than later …
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tbc
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leelagemalli / June 29, 2023
cont.
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is that the real buddhism, which should be if follow true teachings of buddha ?
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A poor woman (60 yrs) who bought a king coconut (Thambili) from a man on the street (a street seller) told a story about the “cruel nature of people today.” According to her, the people of Sri Lanka today are like devils, they have no respect for others.
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Some ignorant buggers started attacking Ranil calling him a BANKU HORA , then I asked myself, why didn’t they attack Mara and his criminal brothers in the same tone? … A bugger like one of Simon’s bazaar community scratched his ears and back.
as a sign of showing their impolite gesture. People in general dont care much about what is being telecasted in TVs.
Not even young ones are kind to my eyes today. And tourists were full in Kandy and its hotels. Life is very expensive as I compared to the previous year.
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Overall, I have only heard good things about Ranil and his current rule and many people in Kandy have praised him over and over again. However, I did not go to question anyone this time, since I am so fed up of lankens in general. I only care elderly people and street dogs today.
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Some talk about AKD but at the same time they did not forget the murderous era of 89-92 run by Mlechcha JVPs. Not many praised the middling BP, which was a good sign in my eyes.
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Sinhala_Man / July 1, 2023
Yes, LM, there are many who, like you, who hark back (automatically and irrationally) to the 88 to 91 era. These are usually people who don’t do much thinking. That it was a terrible period is admitted, and has been apologised for by the NPP.. Why doesn’t the UNP even now acknowledge that it was they who arranged the anti-Tamil pogrom of 1983?
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Also worrying is the fact that those who are comfortably off are very happy that there are no queues (well, we’re all happy about that!). These are the business people who deal with essentials, and who can keep rising prices.
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The suffering among the poorer people is terrible. That we have to pay more for electricity is true, but when is the cheating on things like that going to stop. Ranil Wickremasinghe doesn’t mind allowing his Rajapaksa supporters continuing to be corrupt. He only wants to remain President indefinitely. Terrorising the people is no way to get constructive work done.
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Panini Edirisinhe
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Liger / June 29, 2023
Jehan, as a Harvard man (congratulations, btw!) – what are your thoughts on how to address the ethnic cleansing carried out by politicans (such as JR and UNP trade unionists) as well as the funding of terrorism by ltte-supporting diaspora? Both groups undountedly have a lot of money that can be used to pay resitution towards Moor, Tamil and Sinhala (i.e. Lankan) victims of terror.
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leelagemalli / June 29, 2023
liger @
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The Harvard and Oxford men were no different when they sat down with the dogs from MEDAMULANA.
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It doesn’t matter where you got your degree from, as long as you are a Sinhalese, you don’t care much about values. This is what I learn from recent years.
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Look at GLP, Malin Seneviratne (another laptop receiver at the expense of our funds) and Dayan Jayathilake (Lapdog of MaRa), you cannot differentiate their qualities from those of Wimal Buruwanse. May you ilk be blessed with brains.
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Liger / June 30, 2023
Malli what would Leela say about your vitriol against Sinhalese? Do you hold this same view about Moors and Tamil moderates who support the unitary state and are against the ethno-terrorists (i.e. ltte/diaspora)?
As it was in the beginning, so too shall it be in the end. The numerically inferior Lankans (i.e. Sinhala, Tamil, Moor) have no choice but to stand against the Tamil monolith.
I suppose its pointless asking you but im assuming you dont think that political parties and diaspora terror-funders should pay restitution towards Lankan victims of terror then eh?
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leelagemalli / July 1, 2023
Liger,
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Although I was born in a Sinhala Buddhist family, I was different from the beginning on. That might be the reason me to have left the island long ago.
I am against calling us “Sri Lankan Sinhalese”. Also those overestimate our race is a joke for me. Wording should be removed from our passport. The common term should be “srilankens”.
So, I don’t care what community you or I belong to as long as the representatives are anti-racism. Those who sowed racial seeds and deteriorated lanken society should be hanged, that can rejuvenate the nation ( I mean Rajapakshe brothers and sons).
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The civil war against the minority rebels is over, now we all have to work as one only for a unitary state. I am also not against federalism. That I have added several times before. However, if anyone promotes barbarism, I am against being rebels, North or South. It will only destroy the future of our youth.
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Whether they are Tamils, Sinhalese, Muslims or other minorities, they should not be given a chance if they are working on divisive agendas. Enough, we fought for 35 years. It is more than enough.
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Liger / July 1, 2023
dont forget that the only people demanding federalism are ltte/diaspora. this means ethno-federalism. which means, secession.
do you know why the swiss are the only successful ethno-federalists? because the french, italians and germans have no interest in annexing the swiss cantons.
do you know why ethno-federalism is going to lead to lanka’s dismemberment? because TN and wealthy ltte diaspora want and will work for exactly that!
try reading up on ethno-federal/ethno-provincial nations – e.g. ethiopia, yugoslavia, myanmar – not a very good look now is it?
Last but not least, God Bless Lanka!!!
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Liger / July 1, 2023
Malli what would Leela say about your vitriol against Sinhalese? Do you hold this same view about Moors and Tamil moderates who support the unitary state and are against the ethno-terrorists (i.e. ltte/diaspora)?
As it was in the beginning, so too shall it be in the end. The numerically inferior Lankans (i.e. Sinhala, Tamil, Moor) have no choice but to stand against the Tamil monolith.
I suppose its pointless asking you but im assuming you dont think that political parties and diaspora terror-funders should pay restitution towards Lankan victims of terror then eh?
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leelagemalli / July 1, 2023
“I suppose its pointless asking you but im assuming you dont think that political parties and diaspora terror-funders should pay restitution towards Lankan victims of terror then eh?”
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Liger,
I think you look down on me. What caused you feel that way? This is very common to us from the comments being added by our estranged SINHALA MAN (that is why we find him -IDIOSYNCRATIC to his behaviour), however, we did not have any others in CT to act like that so far.
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