28 March, 2024

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Returning Land To Civilians Is A Promise That Needs Follow Up 

By Jehan Perera

Jehan Perera

Soon after his return from New York where he addressed the UN General Assembly, President Maithripala Sirisena ordered the return of all land in the Northern and Eastern provinces that are owned by the people of those areas. He issued these instructions during a meeting of the Presidential Task Force overlooking the development of the Northern and Eastern provinces. The President has instructed the Presidential Task Force to plan out a time frame and a proper structure in order to implement the project and to present its progress at the next meeting. This is in keeping with the letter and spirit of UN Human Rights Council Resolution 30/1 of October 2015. When the president announced that he would go to New York and propose a new course of action before the UN, it was assumed that he might be taking a contrary course of action. Many nationalists hoped that he might announce that Sri Lanka would withdraw its assent to that resolution that immediately became a political matter of much contestation within the country.

The co-sponsored resolution 30/ 1 which calls on Sri Lanka to implement provisions relating to transitional justice remains a subject of much criticism by the opposition. Among others, the resolution has called for the return of all military occupied land and a host of other reforms that would reduce the role of the security forces in the governance of the former war zones of the North and East. It also has many other features, relevant to transitional justice, such as making national laws be in compliance with international standards, including the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and also with regard to a constitutional settlement relating to inter-ethnic power sharing. In New York, the president limited his proposal to requesting the international community to respect Sri Lanka’s sovereignty and to appreciate the positive changes that have been taking place in the country.

There is a tendency within the country to downplay the positive changes brought about by the government and instead to focus attention on what has not changed. This is notable both in the North and South of the country. What the government has achieved in terms of the Rule of Law, end to enforced disappearances and killings, and the amicable working relations the government has with the political representatives of the ethnic minorities, is a break with the past. In this context, the anticipated meeting between President Sirisena and former president Mahinda Rajapaksa is unlikely to bear much fruit, let alone bear fruit for the political coalition they are said to be negotiating on. A meeting of hearts and minds does not appear to be possible at the present time, when each of these two political rivals have to be thinking of their electoral prospects.

Incompatible Partners 

President Sirisena’s declaration that all civilian land will be returned to the people, whether it happens or not, is an indicator that the current thinking of the president and former president are too far apart to be bridged. Former president Rajapaksa continues to hold to the old stance that cost him the presidential election of 2015. The unwavering stance of the former president has been that the forces of national division are on rise, traitors are becoming more prominent, and that the unity of the country is at stake. He has also held that the hard fought military victory over the LTTE in 2009 is being surrendered by the current government which is overly subservient to the international community. He has also affirmed that he will not have any alliance with those who are traitors. President Sirisena’s recent call for the return of all land held by the military in the North and East of the country is at variance with the former president’s exhortations.

With the president ordering the return of land to the Tamil civilians from whom it was taken away, the room for the president and former president to even stand together on the same political platform is remote. However, it is worth noting that the return of military occupied land has been taking place even prior to the change of government in 2015. The previous government also returned land to the people. But neither they nor the present government have been able to resolve the issue. If not for the personality clash it would seem that there is a widespread consensus among the more liberal members of parliament and the national polity and the intelligentsia of the country that this ethnic conflict needs to be brought to a mutually acceptable end.

The problem for the president is that his words have suffered a crisis of confidence. This year alone the president has promised to return the land in January, March and August at different platforms. Three years ago the president visited the North and made a passionate promise to return all land back to the people within six months. But now another two years have elapsed and the job has yet to be done. This has been at the cost of the president’s credibility with the very people who turned out in their numbers to give one of the highest proportions of voter participation at a presidential elections in the North and East and where he swept the polls. With presidential elections due in less than fourteen months the president needs to be more serious this time.

No Future

However, the government needs to go further than simply returning the land to the people if it is to do justice by them and win their hearts and minds. Last week I was in Myliddy in the Jaffna peninsula which is near the high security zones of Palaly airport and Kankesanthurai harbour. This was one of the first areas of land to be taken over the military nearly three decades ago. It has also been one the last areas to be handed back to its civilian owners within the last year. As it is near to the high security zones of the airport and harbor, the people believe that the military did not intend to return this land to them at all. In 2012, three years after the war had ended, bulldozers entered the land and completely flattened all remaining buildings, which in any event had become dilapidated due to being vacant for close to three decades.

Remarkably the people who had returned to their homes to find nothing remaining, not even the boundaries that separated their properties, did not show any sign of racial hatred to the ethnic Sinhalese in their midst. This is a phenomenon that most who go to the North and East would experience, that there remains goodwill and the children will be friendly which shows that their parents have not taught them to hate. But surely within their hearts there would be bitter feelings, perhaps directed more at those institutions that failed them than at individuals. The destruction of their homes, places of religious worship, convents, schools, and even cemeteries has scarred them. They even said that cesspits had been connected to the remaining wells preventing them from using the water. These are the wounds that need to be healed.

The resettled people need to be helped and the Sri Lankan state needs to show it cares. They are being helped by numerous state agencies, and civil society and international organisations. But it is only the government that can make the heavy investments in infrastructure that are urgently needed at this time. When asked to rank their top five priorities in terms of their material lives, the people gave public transport, access to nearby schools, hospitals, job opportunities, water and electricity as their priority concerns. As an example of the hardship of their daily lives, they said that to get the nearest primary school they had to walk two and a half kilometers and the nearest secondary school was twelve kilometers away. They said that the military had put up a board two weeks ago saying “No future without forgiveness.” There is also a need for repentance, reparations and justice for forgiveness, that ideal state, to become a reality.

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    Dr. Jehan: For 3 years Swaminathan wanted to build pre-fab metal houses from a french company for a billion rupees. The people in the north for 3 years have been suffering because of UNP’s Corruption Racket the most glaring of which is Bondscam.
    At the root of the 30 year war was economic injustice and discrimination due to politician’s hate speech, corruption and the absence of meritocracy.
    And as long as the same corrupt UNP that uses attacks on minorities to Divide, Distract and Rule and LOOT with failed neo-liberal policies there is no hope.
    UNP organized the 1983 riots as well as the 2018 anti-Muslim riots is in power people will not heal. Of course you are right that SLFP and Mahinda Jarapassa and his family are equally racist and criminal and culpable of violating rights.

    But Jehan Perera Where is the Report on the inquiry into the Anti-Muslim riots in April this year?
    Why are you and you Human Rights industry silent about any lack of investigation and arrest of those responsible for anti-Muslim violence and hate speech. Mahasohon Balakaya leader Amith had connections to DIG and CID intelligence so he is being protected. The riots were organized via Facebook and social media by Bondscam Ranil’s foreign backers to distract civil society from Bondscam Ranil’s Financial Crimes at Central Bank and need for him to be impeached. Sri Lanka needs to get rid of Ranil and Mahinda who he protects and this generation of corrupt politician.

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      Laxmi, TNA has been fully supporting UNP’s corruption racket, playing ball for past 3 years with New Constitution talk shops. TNA has taken duty free permits, bribes etc. from Bondscam Ranil.
      Rather than making it their highest priority to ensure that homes for war affected folk are build properly and efficiently, and exposing Swaminathan properly TNA have kicked the ball – the housing problem or years.

      The TNA’s new constitution is a huge waste of time and resources, mainly to pander to Tamil Diaspora to distract from the real problems of Tamils who are suffering without proper homes in northeast. A new constitution is the Fake Reconciliation agenda of Donors and NGO like Jehan’s..

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        Jehan: Dont’ you think that Sira should simply sack Bondscam Ranil and his Royal college looters of Lanka who have crashed the economy and rupee, and rather ask Sajith Premadasa to form a new UNP Govt.????

        The fake news industry to distract people from the crashing rupee and economic crisis and inequality due to US-Japan currency manipulation to benefit America First and Global 1 percent, is in high gear these days in Lanka with lots Fake News and Fake reconciliation talk shows on a New constitution and constitutional courts..

        Also, there is the fake news story re. a plot against Sira and Gota by the same DIG CID who had links to Amith of Mahasohon Balakaya that attacked Muslims to protect Bondscam Ranil. This is to distract and confuse Sira further.

        Fake news, No justice, no investigative reporting, crashing economy due to US-Japan currency manipulation with IMF to crash Lankan rupee and keep Lanka in debt trap and control economic policy space and development agenda against China.
        Long live Miracle of Modayas!

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    Land is returned to the civilians with lots of fanfare and then , after a week or two, may be even a month it is again , taken over by the armed forces with some sort of flimsy excuse that it is needed for security purposes. If not it will be the Department of Land/Forestry stating that this land is now being rezoned. Failing all this , the department of Archaeology arrives here accompanied by Buddhist monks with all the necessary fanfare , claiming that these lands , were ancient Sinhalese Buddhist lands( sic) and there is evidence of this and pretend to start digging , cordoning all these lands and barring the legal owners from entering these land but not rabid Buddhist monks planting Budda statues. Even ancient Hindu temples and their lands or not spared. They plant Buddhist artefacts and then pretend to find them and claim , there is proof that all these lands were Sinhalese during ancient times( but no history of Sinhalese ever living in these lands , even from their Mahavamsa fable) . The Occupying Sinhalese armed forces, the Department of Forestry/Land and Archaeological department all full of hardline Sinhalese extremists . closely coordinate and are in cohorts with each other , to plunder these ancient Tamil lands , that were part of the Tamil Jaffna kingdom or the eastern Vannimanai chiefdoms,. many privately owned by Tamils, under some excuse or other, security. rezoning or fake proof /history of imagined Sinhalese Buddhist presence in these lands and hand these lands to , Sinhalese colonists from South.

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    contd: After the defeat of the LTTE , they are now trying to revive the plot hatched by Mahaveli Department , headed by the late Gamini Dissanaicke , who under the guise of Mahaveli development wanted colonise large swathes of Tamil lands in the north and east with Sinhalese and only leave the Jaffna, killnochchi and northern Mullativu as Tamil majority in vastly reduced Northern province , that will be only Tamil. All other areas to be made Sinhalese majority. Vavuniya , Trincomallee, Mannar, Southern Mullaitivu now called Welioya( this is what they trying hard to do to Mullaitivu). Tamil majority Batticlaoa and largely Tamil Muslim coastal Amparai to be merged as one province but separated from the vastly reduced in area northern Province by newly created Sinhalese majority district by the colonists. These were called Maduru Oya , Weli Oya and I think Yan Oya or some other Oya schemes and was kept top secret but was leaked out and was stopped and then the 30 year war with LTTE started and all these Tamil lands were saved. They are now reviving this under another guise but the same diabolical scheme. Instead reconciling and creating peace and prosperity , all most Sinhalese think is how destroy the island’s Tamil , their language , identity and history and steal their lands. They will even sleep with devil ( Hindia or China ) sell and destroy the island to achieve this.

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    Jehan if your only land /house for taken away from you say for 8 years (since the end of conflict), in some cases more than 20 to 30 years what is the chances of yours and your families survival. Thousands of innocent people are facing this simple question without any answers. The actual answer is “When there is no will there is no way”. There is no point in having extensive discussions, commissions, meetings, Geneva visits and all other eye wash (SHAM)

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      Yes, Chingkallams have ,been talking and talking from the time of independence with the Thamizh , or pretending to talk , whilst using the armed forces , police and state resources to steal more and more Tamil lands. It started with Amparai then Pattipallai Aru( Gal Oya) then went to Kanatalai , Komaran kadavai, Allai and many other areas in Trincomallee , then Manal Aru ( Weli Oya) in Mullaitive and many other places. All the time talking or pretending to talk but stealing more and more Thamizh lands , whilst talking and when you come to next pretend talks , Chingkallams say now too late, we have stolen all these lands from you during the last talks , as there was no solution , to our hoodwink pretend talks, that we do to hoodwink the world and buy more time to steal more Thamizh lands for Chingkallams. Now these lands are not Thamizh anymore but Chingkallam and cannot be returned or taken into account but we can still talk or pretend to talk, with regards to the remaining Thamizh lands , as we need more time to steal them too, whilst we talk and until everything is stolen and there is nothing to talk of. This is what they have been doing and are still doing . Talk, Talk or pretend to talk but no walk or pretend to walk towards a solution, as they keep on stealing Thamizh lands during their pretend talks and until there is no more and then there will be no more talk. Thamizh were 28% at the time of independence now reduced to 16% during all the pretend talk in the last 60 years. 30% -40% of Thamizh land stolen during the past 60 years and still talking to steal the remaining 60-70%

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    in this govt promises are meant to be broken
    ask eddie
    are you living in sri lanka or elsewhere

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    Maithri says “I don’t mean what I say- it means just the opposite,”

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    Sinhala political leadership always threaten Sinhalese with security. There was not a single security threat from outside to Srilanka. Srilanka had rebellions from both Sinhalese and Tamil militants against Sinhalese leadership which is the fundamental threat to Srilanka. Srilanka signed an agreement with India and invited Indian military to oppress its own citizens during both Sinhala and Tamil youth rebellion. Rajapakse invited China and handed over lots of land to secure his power. Ranil Government did the same and now every citizen is in debt for China, India and USA. There is not a Sinhalesse leadership who is willing to talk about the rights of Sinhalese or Tamils who oppressed by the political leadership in this land. Every leader Srilanka had invested in many western countries and they are prepared to run away this land if a real threat to this country. They create fear among Sinhalese in order to rob this country and keep the people in continuous poverty.

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    The language/religion-divide creators would never have anticipated that the issue of lands occupied by the Armed Services will turn out to be a vote catcher.
    During the civil war the Armed Services occupied civilian properties for ‘reasons of security’. MR encouraged the Armed Services to go into business ventures and turned a blind eye to the land grabbing to continue after the civil war ended.
    Lankan Armed Services has evolved into an autonomous mono-ethnic body. They are in a position to flout GoSL instruction to release the properties back to the owners.
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    The MR-team is the win-win. Even thoughts of releasing the lands back has been made ‘unpatriotic. The loyalty of the Armed Services is a bonus.
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    The present GoSL have decided “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”.

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    Before Sira went to UN, the TNA CM, Mr Wigneswaran demanded that the Government release all Lands from Jaffna to Pasikuda to Tamils…

    Jaffna to Pasikuda is a long way, because I did that trip last X Mas along the the Coast..
    And it is Pristine Real Estate which must be worth God Knows how much, when Dr Ranil brings in the ETCA.

    How come Sinhala People have no such Land even Inland , let alone along the Coast where the Real Estate costs Big Bux …

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      How come? Because all these lands are Thamizh lands from ancient times and not Chingkallam land. Chingkallams also have pristine beautiful beaches along the western and southern coasts and beautiful mountain scenarios in the central highlands, Chingkallam also occupy the fertile 70% land mass, whilst the Thamizh areas are all in the dry zone. Then Thamizh also can ask how come Chingkallams have all these scenic pristine beautiful lands and we do not? Do not post garbage, just for the sake of posting something anti Thamizh.

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        Where did you get those figures mate?
        Most of that 70 % you are referring to, wouldn’t have a little patch of Grass let alone Land…

        Haven’t you heard the 5 Million among them, who live on less than half the Price of a Latte, you blokes have every morning in Kanada and else where…

        Yahapalanistas and their Bosses who look after you are of course a different story..
        Have you heard about Balangoda Man?.
        UNP Stalwart Lucky Kirra’s Missus owned 40,000 Acres there…
        And Kirra himself had 10,000 Acres in Kandy…..

        Most probably you have got our Chingalams all mixed up..
        Now please don’t tell me Balangoda Man was a Thamizah who came from Hindia….

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          Balangoda man was a Mongoloid- Austro Asiatic. They spoke an Austro Asiatic language. A lot of their words still remain in Vadda , Ancient Helaand Sinhala falk spoken language. Atha, Kakula, Bada, Homba Kata Muna, Gaha , Kola, Dola, Bola, Gala, are few examples.
          Tamils are mainly Caucasoid race whose ancestry can be traced back to Ethiopia, Mideast – Elam Empire of modern Iran.
          Its our own foolishness that has let Tamils to shit on us stealing our own past and identity.

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            Aruna Bandara! Your family name Bandara is derived from the Tamil caste name Pandarar . Like most Kandyan upper castes and aristocrats you are of recent immigrant Tamil South Indian origin. Hela is the Prakritised or Pali version of one of the ancient Tamil/Dravidian name for the island Eelam/Eezham. Meaning the land of gold/metal or toddy. Even now a sheaf of metal in Tamil is called Eeyam and a vein of metal in Sinhalese is called Ilama. Toddy in Tamil is called Eera and in Sinhalese the Ee is dropped and called Ra. In Kerala there is a caste or community called the Eezhava , whose ancient Tamil Buddhist ancestors are supposed to have migrated from the island and like the word Eezham in native Tamil dialect of the island , they are closely associated with toddy tapping. No one calls them Hela people or Helava, instead the ancient Tamil term Eezhava is used. The native indigenous language of the island was Elu a simple semi Tamil Dravidian dialect. Elu as well as the Vedda language, as well as old Sinhalese or Hela ( Elu+ Prakrit) were all very close to their Tamil mother in structure and pronunciation, compared to modern Sinhalese , that has now been deliberately Sanskritised. Even now 35-40% of modern Sinhalese vocabulary is purely derived from Tamil and its alphabet ,grammar lexicon and sytax is 100% Tamil derived. Stop posting garbage under various identity.

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              Siva Sankaran Sharma

              Are you Tamil or Ahikuntikaya. No Brahamin in South India. They are in North India. So called South Indian Brahamins are Ahikuntikaya. Roaming Place to Place and showing Naga dance. that way They attracted South Indian Attention and become so called Fake Brahamin . They learnt Weda while roaming in North India. That is True. but They are Ahikuntikas or Gypsis.

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              RS
              Do you really know the origin of Bandara or Pandara?
              The daft etymology here seems to be driven by even more daft parochial attitudes.

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                Yes I do , the only daft creature here is you not me constantly making a fool of your self because of your petty nature. Baṇḍāra son of a chief or nobleman, prince, a term used only in the Kandyan provinces); prince, “Rāja kumārayā”; treasurer, “Bhāṇḍāgārikayā”; son of an up-country cultivation caste chief, Baṇḍā: son, boy, youth, son of a chief , term to call a youth of the up-country cultivation caste. Bańḍārain: king (Dhivehi/ Maldivian. Paṇṭāri: a title of the Uṭaiyār (land owner) caste amongst Tamils
                https://www.tamilmatrimony.com/community/pandaram-matrimonial.
                Come back screeching again petty person

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              Siva Sankeran Sharma Aias Brahamin

              Do you know sinhala. Have you learnt it ?????? Do you know the meaning of Bandara. It means Wave came from tummy. Elu is older than Tamil. When Darvadians came from South western part of Iran ELU existed here. Your Tamil derived from Proto Darvadian after your ancestors arrival in South part of India. Do you Know that. ?

              OK get back to Bandara : Rala or wave came from mother’s Tummy or Daru Bokka is BANDARA as per proto sinhalese or ELU. Do you know that Ahikuntikaya or so called Brahamin.

              As it originated because of his father’s action his name become his father’s name plus Bandara. here it is differed. His given name is Arunabandara. That is nothing to do with Tamil. If his father’s name is say Thilakaratne Then we can say Thilakarathna bandara. Child Fathered by Father. That is how sinhalese names is made. You are not Brahamin. Otherwise you should know all these. You must be a Ahikutikaya. not yet become Brahamin.

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                Yes we all know that your family name is Soysa . Soysas belong to the Sinhalese Salagama community , whose low caste/dalit Tamil ancestors were imported from the Coromandel coast of present day Tamil Nadu, by the Dutch colonials during the late 17Th/18TH century to work in huge Cinnamon estates in Southern Sri Lanka. Stop blabbering Elu is a semi Tamil simple Dravidian dialect and this is a face and if you do not like it stiff. His title or family name is Bandara and it originates from a Tamil title. Go and get a life racist with a low caste Indian Tamil immigrant origin,

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                  Soysa Ha.Ha.Ha……………………………………………….Ha………….

                  You are not Brahamin. Still a Ahikuntikaya

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          KASmaalam K A Sumanasekera

          “UNP Stalwart Lucky Kirra’s Missus owned 40,000 Acres there…
          And Kirra himself had 10,000 Acres in Kandy…..”

          If there are landless peasants in this island how come the Land Reform Act missed these lands and the weeping widow’s too?
          Rather than jacking up your selective socialism/capitalism why didn’t you get the clan or the weeping widow to redistribute these lands to landless inhabitants of the local area?

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        Funny How could foreign Thamizh Tamils own Helayas land Hela diva When there is a Hela culture Hela ancestry Hela blood and Hela people? Balangoda Humanid was a Mongoloid. Tamils are full dark Caucasians. Much more than Sinhalese. This island is belong to original Helayas – Vadda people. Sinhalese are Related to Vaddas. You Vellala were bought here by Dutch to plant Tobacoo 200 years ago. Indigenous language of Sri Lanka is Austro Asiatic. Not Dravidian! Repeat Not Dravidian!!!

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          RitigalaJayasen

          “Funny How could foreign Thamizh Tamils own Helayas land Hela diva When there is a Hela culture Hela ancestry Hela blood and Hela people?”

          If you are obsessed with Hela everything I suggest you go back to Singapura, Venga now in Bangladesh look for Bengal Lions, you might find your cousins among them, if not Africa.

          ” Vadda people. Sinhalese are Related to Vaddas.”

          Don’t be stupid.
          My people are not that stupid to produce morons like you who want to build a complete Sinhala/Buddhist fascist mutant state.

          Are you related to loud mouth H. Raja one of the national secretaries of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

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        Aiyyo these Tamil buggers. First they say all Sinhalese are Tamils descended from S Indians, then they say the NE is a Tamil homeland and Sinhalese can’t be settled there. They say the Mahavamsa is nonsense then they quote from it to show that there was a Tamil kingdom in the North. Brainless caste ridden maaddens.

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          Paul

          When did the mutant Sinhala/Buddhist fascists condition you to wear a Mahawamsa blinkers? Or did you yourself opt for it so that you do not have to look outside a narrow view/vision or feel you have no need to pick your own brain?

          The representatives of Tamils repeatedly have said Sinhalese and Buddhists always could buy their land anywhere in the areas where they consider as their habitat provided they pay the market price. However I do think the lazy Sinhala/Buddhist fascists should not be allowed to have everything free and extend their Sinhala/Buddhists fascist ghetto into a mutant homeland.

          So you believe the origin of Sinhala people how Mahawamsa depicts? If you don’t then what are you doing to remove Sinhabahu stories from school text books? You can’t also have the cake and eat it too. But then rationality does not apply to Sinhala/Buddhist mutant history and logic.

          “They say the Mahavamsa is nonsense then they quote from it to show that there was a Tamil kingdom in the North.”

          Where did you get the idea there were other kingdoms that were purely Sinhala/Buddhists? I am yet to see reference to Sinhala/Kingdom in any of the history books, inscriptions, …………….

          You better pull your rotten bigoted head from wherever it is now if you want to know the authentic history which continues to emerge throughout the island despite the best of effort of the parochial and racist historians and one sided archaeologists.

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            Native, despite all your big talk you can show us nothing. You pose as a liberal and a pacifist but you are a war-mongering fool like most of the diaspora Tamils. There were both Tamil and Sinhala kingdoms on the island for centuries. Everybody (apart from you) knows this. Fortunately all Tamils are not racist bigots like yourself. If you want to see what an ace hypocrite looks like, look in a mirror.

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      KASmaalam K A Sumanasekera

      “Before Sira went to UN, the TNA CM, Mr Wigneswaran demanded that the Government release all Lands from Jaffna to Pasikuda to Tamils…”

      Are you demanding the inhabitant to forgo their right to own their own land/habitat and forcibly transfer it to land grabbing thieves like you? You want everything free don’t you? Next thing we will see is that you are placing yourself in front of C Wigneshwaran’s residence demanding 30 measures of free rice imported from moon.

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      Sumanaya bugger, if you want that real estate, go and buy it dumb arse

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    It is urgent that exiting market value paid or alternative land offered, choice being given to the owners.
    I too will join if a protest is organized on this demand.


    Soma

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      We could do the same thing to your land and all the lands of the Chingkallams and alternate lands offered in their ancient ancestral home lands in the jungles of Odissha or the slums of Tamil Nadu. You and the rest of the Chingkalam Buddhist Fascists can join that protest.

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        How can you confiscate our properties when you are not even allowed to step on it?

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          Retarded. Late. Reginald Shemale Pererahera, our properties? Please enlighten us with your eternal wisdom.

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        You can go to your ancestral homeland Nadooo or all the way to Ethiopia. What ever you want. But This island is Helayas land. That is why this island is called Heladiva. This is Hela Tribes ancestral homeland. Land of Hela culture Hela language Hela civilization. Get the hell off my country if you do not like it.

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          RitigalaJayasen

          “You can go to your ancestral homeland Nadooo or all the way to Ethiopia.”

          Good idea.
          They will take you with them when they leave.
          Where is your මොළය (moḷaya brain) ?
          Are you sitting on it?

          “Get the hell off my country if you do not like it.”

          You could/should not ask the south Indians to leave their own country which is your natural ancestral homeland before you kallathonies arrived here and grabbed/stole my ancestral land.

          Why don’t you learn to shut your mouth and stop sitting on your brain?

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          RitigalaJayasen, heleyas land?

          Hahahahahaha………………you are one funny bugger. Keep dreaming your day dreams. It is ok to have day dreams, enjoy as much as you can. If I am going back to Tamil Nadu, then I will arrange a ticket to haul your stinking arse back to Orissa.

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          Ritigala Jayasena,

          You are trying to trigger a severe Janitorial Bran drain in SL. Who is going to do the cleaning services once they are gone?

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            Retarded Shemale Perehera bugger, yes if I take this Jayasena bugger and you back to Orissa, I agree who is going to clean the drains and toilets?

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      Soma
      You don’t have a gut to organize a protest march yourself mate. Ask your boss, he will arrange free vechicles. food and arrack (even prostitutes).

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        Ajith

        soma has b***s.
        He grows/finds them only when there is organised state sponsored riots against the minorities. It’s been a long time his wife bought any “real” real estate. soma desperately needs a riot.

        He/she/it is actively trying to provoke/encourage his/her/its fellow Sinhala/Buddhist mutant noisy fascist minority to rise against all minorities and even against Sinhala and Buddhists as well.

        We will have to build a mutant homeland in deep South and throw him and his fellow mutant in that ghetto. That would be part of the democratic settlement.

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    As a Tamil I’m utterly asahmed of and dissapointed how we Tamils (not me, the murderous Tamil LTTE) massacred so many good Sinhalese in this land of the Sinhalese

    It is a shame that Jehan is mum on this and promote division of this beautiful sri Lanka

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      Singaravelu : Singaaravelane Thevaa – sinhalavankku naathswaram oothuraya?

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    Rajash

    Punde adi

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    Jehan PhD remains as the most successful campaigner of the Old Royals and New Royals-Yahapalanaya governments. 2014 Nimalka Fernando and others were issued murder threats by Appe Aanduwa’s agents like Mervyn by the order of Old Brother Prince. Many reporters were going missing, dead or tortured. Prisoners were tortured to death like in the case of Nirmala Ruban. Old Brother Prince had a meeting to NGO to warn them to keep out of Aanduwa’s Business. Media reported that NGOs were warned in that meeting. But Jehan PhD came out and said that there is new hope and Old Brother Prince had offered to NGOs to work with them.
    When JOU students wanted Nathasuram, Jehan PhD, who went there to represent Aanduwa with Army threatened the students if they don’t follow the instruction then they will face consequence of it.
    Here is this time land releasing threat. This is a Placard Rapist Army is displaying in released lands. “ No future without forgiveness. ” Before PhD bring the threat here, he needs to know what is the meaning of the forgiveness. Should Tamil take Jehan PhDs this deal to have one or two piece of Land released? Rather Tamils should take these placards to UNHRC and insist for ICC investigation. Neither fraudulent government of Rapist army can be taught.

    NPC is not a NGO & Jehan PhD went to UNHRC in 2017 to help Aanduwa, when Aanduwa was cheating with two year extension. But yet, this guy has no idea, though still he is the most successful Aanduwa’s campaigner of Aanduwa, how badly he his image is suffering. But he is telling ” The problem for the president is that his words have suffered a crisis of confidence. ” . Can somebody tell me if con artists can have image or if they care of that damn thing, can they can shine in their trade.

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    Jehan PhD though is very successful because of the ignorance of the opposite side deal with him, but he lacks novelties with his stagnant approaches. The formula he uses to mill out his campaign material essays start with a very eye catchy, confidence giving heading. Then he go for an introduction from past history like “The Sinhalese Introduces Sinhala only this brought disappointment to Tamils” or else In “The tearing off Banda – Chelva Fact gave feeling that Sinhalese not willing to work with them”. Then he insists the strength of the Sinhalese like “Lord Naseby has said the death is only 4,000 but the UN has exaggerated it as 40,000. So the government should pursue the matter with Lord Naseby. “Then he will tell that this government or this president or Prime Minister Ranil or Army or… has done a amazing job already to Tamils wellbeing, but Tamils are denying that with any faithfulness. Then, he overblows a fake, new Promise to do more. Then he ends with his threats like “No future without forgiveness.”. The material milled out on his super formula works well for Inland Modayas and external diplomats who are very fast recycled by their countries. But this is causing a very substantial damage without Jehan PhD’s any hard effort.
    Here are some cheating Jehan PhD attempting to make readers believe in this:
    1. All knows Old King and New King met at SBD’s home. CT described some kind of requests were initiated by the New Crook, but not Old Crook. Jehan PhD has to accept it.
    2. It was true that New King was preparing a speech to deliver at UN for the complete abolition of the resolution 30/1. As a matter of fact nothing secret in that because in December, 2016, In Galle in a public meeting New King had said he will get in touch with President Trump and have it withdrawn. When he got of on UN last month He told he changed the speech to satisfy UN too.

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    3. There is no truth in Jehan PhD words that the current thinking of the president and former president are too far apart First, we don’t know what the New King is currently thinking and we know that Old King also currently thinking so that is just a fraud of Jehan PhD. The whole Lankaweyan has changed all of their yesterday’s thinking today and they all promising that they will be thinking some new tomorrow. So is New King too.
    4. After New King said the Rapist Army will be withdrawn soon, HRW has released a 84 page report(Today) on the way Lankawe Rapist Army handling the Tamils’ lands. HRW understand the game New King and Jehan playing

    5. “Rapist Army withdrawing from private lands” is a newly hatched egg from Jehan PhD to prepare he to appear in UNHRC in March, 2019. But readers, Read my libs “Rapist Army withdrawing from Private lands will never – ever happen unless UN peacekeepers come in.” When UN peace keepers come in, we want Army to vacate all private properties, all public properties (Central or Provincial government buildings, Beaches, Parks, forest lands) and all commercial properties& transportation facilities like buses or trains (Only transportation police can be there. Army has to vacate all current camps which are too inside the women and children population. They have to spread all over the country according to population proportion. They will have to take lands only NPC and EPC select locations & allocate.

    All what this guy doing is by his repeated visits to North is spying the innocents there.

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    Retarded. Late. Reginald Shemale Perehera, our properties? Please enlighten us with your eternal wisdom.

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    Ask Dutch East Indian company and their Vellala employees to return lands to rightful owners.

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    What the author fails to take into account is that a politician would say and act purely for his advantage. Fairness, justice etc. will take a backstage. It is in this background that statements made prior to departure to UN, what was said at UN and what was done afterwards need be viewed. If HE believes that HE has fooled his audience, that’s all that matters.

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    Lands are property of Government. Wherever Situated. That means property of the Nation. When destributed there should be criteria. I think those should be distributed as per population ratio. Not only for tamils who came here as Dutch slaves. but it should be distributed among Locals or Adivasin community first. Then if there is any balances not needed for government usage can be distributed among others as per population ratio.That is very fair deal. That is not fair enough to Distribute among population of the other country those who brought here by colonial masters for their commercial or militery activities.Specially ones who came here as Ahikuntikas for begging. posing as Brahamins after learning few vadas.

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    Returning Land To Sinhalese would have been a better headline.

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