Prof S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) based on the mandate it received established “OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL).” As a part of this, on 21 July 2025, there was a 15-page report on enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka released. The relevant Mandates werebreceived by 1) The Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence; 2) The Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances; 3) The Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and 4) The Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers.
The report is a good reminder of what the Sri Lankan state does and gets away with. It also reminds us how horrid our state is, and how many important reports like this in the English language tend not to force their attention upon us the public.
The report’s purpose is to “bring to the attention of your Excellency’s Government [I,e., the government of President A.K. Dissanayake [AKD]] “information [the authors of the report] received concerning the prolonged failure to investigate effectively, prosecute and punish those responsible for gross human rights violations, including extra-judicial executions and enforced disappearances, within the context of the Sri Lankan civil war.”
In particular, the report highlights the following high-profile cases: Trinco 5, ACF, Navy 11, White flags, Channel 4, Mullaitivu mass grave and the Chemmani mass graves each of which involves multiple victims.
Wasantha Karannagoda and Gotabaya Rejapaksa: Consistency?
Today under AKD, many are being investigated, charged and jailed for their crimes against the people of Sri Lanka.
Unfortunately, there is no consistency on who is jailed upon conviction. While all who are credibly accused and arrested, like Ranil Wickremesinghe, must face the music, some who are being prosecuted appear to have the system on their side. Gotabaya Rajapaksa seems happily free while Karannagoda has seen feeble efforts against him to bring him to book. Both seem to be heroes among the Sinhalese for the murders they are accused of, as if the accusation of killing Tamils even for the venal purpose of collecting ransom makes one great in Sri Lanka.
To be sure, even these two men who are accused of the brutal murder of Tamils, have been sanctioned by the US and Canada. As a Tamil, I firmly believe that we as a community will never receive justice through investigations under the Sri Lankan state. I have seen obviously planted press stories on the Chemmany massacre claiming that facts leading to conviction will be brought out only when Sinhalese soldiers are in charge of investigations, devoting to such stories far more column-inches well above the norm. The Bar Association condemned Darusman’s 2011 Report to the UN Secretary General on the Mulllaitivu massacre even before it was released, with eminent Tamil lawyers present at the meeting allowing the condemnation to be unanimous!
Sri Lankan justice does not exist for Tamils. Credible justice will come only when foreign participants play a strong and moderating role.
The OISL Report
As seen in the report, “14 individuals including Naval Commander Karannagoda were indicted in 2019. The charges against Karannagoda were dropped in 2021.
In 2023, the Attorney-General decided not to implement the decision of a Commission of Inquiry to drop charges and went ahead with prosecutions. In March 2025, two Supreme Court judges [namely Dilip Nawaz and Priyantha Fernando], recused themselves from a case involving former Sri Lankan Navy Commander Wasantha Karannagoda, citing “personal reasons”. The UNP Protested that Mr. Jaywardene “was Basil Rajapaksa’s [that is Mahinda Rajapaksa’s. brother’s] personal lawyer at the time he was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2014 A newly appointed bench is expected to re-hear the case on 15 September 2025.”
That recusal in March 2025, led to a further six-month delay in a trial already delayed by the AG’s inconsistent and unexplained flipflops. On 15 Sept. when the Supreme Court took up the case, it postponed the hearing to 30 Jan. 2026. Karannagoda seems well-looked after, comfortably ensconsed in impunity.
While the Report cites a Commission of Inquiry for why the AG Charged Karannagoda, no major newspaper seems to have carried it. The Asian Mirror with little known of who owns it, waffles a little (15 Sept. 15) and says that “In 2019, the Attorney General filed indictments before the Colombo Permanent High Court Trial-at-Bar against 14 individuals, including former Navy Commander Wasantha Karannagoda and members of the Navy’s intelligence unit, [and that] during proceedings, the Attorney General decided to drop Karannagoda’s name from the list of accused, despite previously naming him a suspect based on what the petitioners say was sufficient evidence.”
Since when does the AG file charges based on what private individuals say? To frame charges initially the AG must have had evidence against Karannagoda. It stinks of a coverup by the Deep State in collusion with the weaker sections of the press and the judiciary, increasingly being tools of Sinhalese nationalism.
The Commission of Inquiry
Interestingly, we discern a dirty nexus between Karannagoda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The unnamed Commission that made the charges by the Attorney General to be dropped suddenly on grounds of lack of evidence after concluding there was sufficient evidence to charge Karannagoda, was none other than “The Presidential Commission on Political Victimization.” This commission was appointed (that is its members hand-picked) by Gotabaya in January 2020, “to investigate ‘political victimization’ under the previous government.
The irony is that Gotabaya himself is cited by the OISL Report as ordering the army to shoot surrendering LTTE personnel who were indeed shot dead following his orders. He therefore had much at stake in founding this Godforsaken, evil Commission to ensure that he himself is not charged based on the precedent set by Karannagoda’s acquittal!
The Commission’s mandate was used to intervene in ongoing court cases, particularly those involving military officials accused of human rights abuses and corrupt practices in military and aircraft purchases, wrote Human Rights Watch (30 April 2021). The Commission effectively blocked the prosecution against Karannagoda and other military figures.
The three members of the Commission bathed in everlasting ignominy flowing fm their report are Retired Supreme Court Judge Upali Abeyratne (chairman), Retired Court of Appeal Judge Daya Chandrasiri Jayatilleka, and Retired Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chandra Fernando.
That tar brush of shameful ignominy resulted from August 2024 when the Supreme Court nullified the findings of the report. For that cover-up report by the 3 Commissioners, one is reminded of Sir (Saint) Thomas More’s rebuke to his protégé Richard Rich who was made Attorney for Wales for the false witness he provided to Henry VIII against More. Asked More of Rich, “It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world… but for Wales?”
Where are the three commissioners today? What was their Welsh post if any?
It is equally edifying to Sri Lanka as a nation to do a parallel inquiry into why the two supreme court judges recused themselves, keeping in mind that Attorney-at-law Nagananda Kodituwakku has formally charged most SC judges with corruption, and when he demanded that they recuse themselves from his cases, they all refused. A thick judicial skin indeed!
As if in vengeance, Kodituwakku’s ability to practice law has been curtailed, just the way Justices Sarath Silva and Shiranee Tilakawardane suspended the late Elmore Perera citing his rude body language. It is on record that Tilakawardane with N.E. Dissanayake signed “I do” to the vulgar and contemptible “Helping Hambantota” judgement in which Chief Justice Sarath Silva effectively boasted of doing Mahinda Rajapaksa a favour and thereby demeaned the judiciary at the highest levels. As CIABOC goes after bribery and corruption in the judiciary, it has its work cut out or it.
In August 2021, the Attorney General’s Department announced it would not proceed with the charges against Karannagoda, leading to his acquittal.
In 2023, the United States sanctioned Karannagoda for gross human rights violations and prohibited him and his wife from entering the US.
In 2025, the UK also sanctioned Karannagoda for serious human rights violations. Pictured here are Admiral Karannagoda and his protectors, the Rajapaksa brothers. These two also have been sanctioned with travel bans.
Karannagoda Flanked by the Rajapaksa Brothers, his Masters and Guardians
Onus on President AK Dissanayake to Put Big Criminals behind Bars
People like Mahindananda Aluthgamage and Nalin Fernando, S.M. Chandrasena , Sathasivam Viyalenderan , Rajitha Senaratne, Shasheendra Rajapaksa, Keheliya Rambukwella , A.H.M. Fowzie et al. have already faced the courts. President
AKD is doing right. Let him proceed.
However, while Arjun Aloysius is being dealt with, prosecuting Ranil Wickremesinghe seems a lukewarm effort when we know little about the Central Bank Scandal and CIBOC’s going after Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake seemingly paying for an apartment involving Aloysius. And Arjuna Mahendran?
Charging Ranil, it seems to me is tokenism when there are far bigger crimes to investigate and bigger fish to net.
Everything Fortuitous or Divinely Providential for Karannagoda
AKD needs to explain honestly unlike his sixers about an immediate boat service from Mannar to Talaimannar and a stadium in Jaffna with no funds or water or environmental clearance clearance.The tendency to hit boundaries and sixers, is seen in his hit about the stadium on 1 Sept 2025 just a week before the UNHRC hearings on Sri Lanka – not to mention the prividential date of 15 Sept for Karannagoda’s trial also in the middle of the UNHRC which then again fortuitouly gets postponed to 30 January with no loss to Karannagoda! But AKD himself seems to be pulling wool over our eyes. What is happening to the Central Bank scandal? To his minister of finance and UNP colleague Ravi Karunanayake for a case filed on 17th May 2024 for accepting an apartment from Arjun Aloysius, a director of a primary dealer company.
And the really big fish, the Rajapaksa brothers against whom there seems to be much evidence for those who care to look; not least in diverting an aircraft to carry a puppy, the misuse costing a lot more than what Ranil is accused of misusing on his stop-over in London, however wrong that was. And the OISL report’s contention that Gotabaya ordered surrendering LTTE people to be shot and that they were?
Justice must be blind and its decisions repeatable – not saying enough evidence one day and the opposite the next. Let us get these investigations behind us and move on to building a nation where equality is the most supreme value that we cherish.
Ajith / September 30, 2025
AKD wants Tamil Diaspora to invest in Sri Lanka but he does want to share the power with Tamil people. AKD do not want to bring a new constitution now until for another two years. In UNHCR They argue that Lanka did not do any crimes against Tamil people and their war is against Terrorism. What is the guarantee that NPP will not cheat after three years of economic recovery? As long as the special status to Buddhism remains in the constitution, there is a strong possibility that AKD to cheat Tamils again because Buddhism is an influential power of the Buddhist Sinhalese.
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SJ / September 30, 2025
Are Tamil elite leaders willing to share power with Hill Country Tamils and Muslims?
Are they ready to share power with their own people?
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Rohan25 / October 1, 2025
They have, for perceived economic and political benefits, now denied their actual immigrant South Indian Tamil descent and heritage and claim a blanket Arab origin and heritage, which they hardly have and are now trying to take over the ancient Tamil east from its original Eelam Tamil owners, who once took pity on them and gave them refuge, a few centuries ago and have joined with the illegal Sinhalese settlers who have been settled in the Tamil east in the last 70 years by the Sinhalese state to deny the Tamils in the east everything. You are fully aware of this, but as usual, still try to come here and deliberately lie and misinform. It is not the Tamils but the Muslims who do not want to share any power with the Tamils in the east, and in the name of Islam and a fake Arab origin, which everyone knows, they hardly have are trying to steal the Tamil east from its rightful owners, whilst shedding crocodile tears about the plight of the Palestinian Arabs and what the Israelis are trying to do to them.
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SebastianSR / October 4, 2025
The Muslims and Hindu Tamils were presecuted by the the portuguese and the Dutch. The Muslims were more rigid in holding to their beliefs than Hindus and Buddhists took refug in the Kandyan Kingdom. King Senerat (1604-1635) and Rajasimha II (1635-1687) settled them in the East. Senerat settled large numbers of Tamils and Muslims in Dighavapi-Batticaloa. In 1614 Dom Pedro Betancor burnt the mosque located at Pannaithurai, Jaffna and OUR LADY VICTORY church was built. The Muslims and Hindus under Yogi ‘‘Sikanthar’’ fough the army of Philip Olivera in 1621. They faced invasions of Jaffna by Bragansa in 1560 and Mandonza on Kolumbuthurai in 1591. The Muslims, Hindu-Tamils and Sinhalese Buddhists were all united against the genocidal enslaught of medieval Christianity.
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Rohan25 / October 1, 2025
They have a right to live in peace, dignity and practice their religion in the east as fellow Tamils, but have no right to convert the ancient Tamil east into some fake Arab Salafist Islamic state, especially when they have no historical claim to this land. Arrived as refugees claiming to be Tamil and now trying to steal it from its original Tamil owners in the name of Islam and Arabism. The island has, from ancient times, been home to Sinhalese, Tamil, Buddhist, and Hindu communities. Not to Arab Muslims, especially fake ones whose ancestors migrated from Tamil South India a few centuries ago.
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Rohan25 / October 1, 2025
Further more than 90% of the Indian origin Tamils live in the Central highlands and are a majority in the Nuwara Eliya district.. Very few live in the Tamil North and East. So how can the Tamils share power with them when they live in different parts of the island. It is the Sinhalese who refuse to share power with them and not the Tamils. Please do not distort.
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SJ / October 1, 2025
Rohi
“According to the 2001 census of Sri Lanka, population of Nuwara Eliya district is 703,610, of which 50.57% are Tamils of Indian origin, 40.17% Sinhalese, 6.55% native Sri Lankan Tamils and 2.35% Sri Lankan Moors.” (Source Wikipedia)
Some 90%!
Are you not tired of telling stupid lies?
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Have you not heard of the way HCT have been treated in parts of the NP where they settled since the 1970s?
Those who settled in the Vanni and Kilinochchi are not integrated with settlers from Jaffna.
Denigratory terms ‘thottakkaattaan” and “vadakkaththaiyaan” are used liberally to run them down.
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Ask the HCTs why they do not trust Jaffna Tamil leaders.
They were exploited by the LTTE as cannon fodder the same way Tamils of “lower caste” were.
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BTW, many HCTs had moved out of the highlands in recent decades to Colombo and other urban areas.
Ask someone to check in a supermarket in Colombo.
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Rohan25 / October 2, 2025
You and your group of friends can call me by all sorts of names and insult and abuse me, but the stubborn fact remains that it is not the island’s Tamils or their elite who are refusing or wanting not to share power with any other people, but it is the Sinhalese and the fake Arab converted Dravidian South Indian immigrant Tamil Muslims, who arrived in the east as refugees a few centuries ago, claiming to be persecuted Tamil Muslims and were given refuge, on that basis and now denying that their Tamils and are trying with Sinhalese help to steal the ancient Tamil east for a fake Arab Salafist Islamic state, for themselves. Strange, they hate their actual Tamil ethnicity and heritage and want to worship everything remotely connected to the Arabs in the name of Islam, but used to go to the West and claim a refugee status as Tamils and not as Muslims or Arabs, they downplay their religious and fake Arab identity as they know it will be a disadvantage to them
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SJ / October 2, 2025
It is you who calls people all manner of names and insults people of other identities.
Your bigotry does attract adverse comment.
Rohi, help yourself by trying to cure the illness, and you may see a difference in how people perceive you.
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Rohan25 / October 3, 2025
Only bigots are you and your gang, who come here attacking anyone asking for justice for the island’s Tamils, calling them racists, bigots( sic). Since when has asking for justice and just rights for a marginalised people been equated with racism, maybe for Sinhalese racists and bigots and their supporters. Giving lame excuses to justify the state-sponsored racism against the island Tamils . Leave power sharing, you can see how racist the Sri Lankan establishment is towards the island’s Tamils, even in granting space in a book fair, even under this current government. Tamil is supposed to be a national language and an official language in par with Sinhalese and the first language of 25% of the island’s population, yet see how the Sinhalese-dominated bureaucracy and elite try to suppress and destroy Tamil. You and your friends, one seems to be missing, will make some lame excuse for this too and try to blame it on the Tamils
https://www.dailymirror.lk/opinion/Tamil-book-publishers-express-concern-over-double-standards/231-321238
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SebastianSR / October 4, 2025
This is to cancel the bold fonts that have accidentally appeared.
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SebastianSR / October 4, 2025
“but the stubborn fact remains that it is not the island’s Tamils or their elite who are refusing or wanting not to share power with any other people” –
That statement goes against the facts:
The Vaddukkoddai resolution (1976), and the resolutions passed by Wigneswarn’s Provincial Council (2013-2018) insisted on Tamil self-determination and NOT power sharing. Even in recent TNA leadership Tussells, Sumanthiran lost to a more die-har “non-compromiser” with the Sinhalese. The various power-sharing and Federal propsals (e.g., Premadasa and Hameed, with Balasingham), Oslo, with SLGovt and Balasingham, etc, were rejected by Tamil leaders who wanted self-rule AND the right to maintain an armed Tamil fighting force. (Hamas is also refusing to disarm for peace, even for a separate Palastinian state).
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Rohan25 / October 2, 2025
Any sane person, taking one look at their South Indian Dravidian looks, will never believe they are Arabs, Iranians or Moors from North Africa. Their fake claim to the east over the head of the native indigenous Tamil Hindus and even the far older Tamilised Hindu Vedda of the east is the biggest joke. This is like Arab and other Islamic refugees in Europe now trying to claim Islamic homelands in various parts of Europe, after a few generations over the heads of the native white Europeans. What makes it worse in the east is that they are ethnically of Tamil heritage and arrived here as refugees, claiming to be Tamil, and were taken pity and given refuge a few centuries ago as fellow Tamils but are now denying this and are trying now conniving with the Sinhalese settlers in the east and the Sri Lankan state to destroy the ancient Tamil history, heritage and the Tamil language in the east, which is their too, in the name of Islam and a fake Arab origin. You can screech and deride me, but this is a fact.
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SJ / October 2, 2025
“You can screech and deride me, “
I really like you because you make me laugh.
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Rohan25 / October 2, 2025
Yes, there are regional and cultural differences between native indigenous ethnic Sri Lankan Tamils and Indian origin Tamils on the island and in India. They use various terms for us, like Ceylonee, in a very sneering manner, which is more insulting and derogatory, and we call them Vadakathaiyan, which is far less derogatory. Vadakthaiyan means the person from the north, nothing else, as they live north of us. This is the reason Tamils call Telugus Vadugar and the Telugu language Vadugu, meaning the northern people. They call us Aravalu, and the ancient Western Chera Tamil origin Malayali call all Tamils as Pandi, in a sneering manner, as during ancient times the Tamil Cheras and Pandians were enemies. Even other ethnicities have regional names and differences. Ask LS what the southern English call the English from the north and midlands, and the term Sasanack, which is used derogatively by the highland Scots, to describe the lowland Scots. Using these terms does not mean the native Tamils look down on the Indian origin Tamils or refuse to share power with them. Anyway, at the moment, they largely live in different parts of the island, and most of them hardly meet each other, let alone share power.
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SebastianSR / October 4, 2025
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LankaScot / October 5, 2025
Hello Rohan,
The word in Gaelic for the English is ” Sasannach”. The word in Welsh is “Sais”.
Both are derived from the Term Saxon. Living on the Shropshire border near Wales I heard the term used very often, but not in a Derogatory way. The weekly Livestock Auctions in Oswestry attracted many Welsh Farmers.
As for using “Sassenach” as a Derogatory term; I have heard it used for the English, but we would never use it for Lowlanders. There is a Scottish Surname Inglis that obviously means of English Origin, just like Wallace means of Welsh Origin
As for what Southerners call people from the Midlands or North I have only heard “Geordies” or “Scousers” referring to people from Newcastle and Liverpool, but they are used generally and not in a Derogatory way. Londoners tend to see anyone outside London as Provincials.
Best regards
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Rohan25 / October 2, 2025
Yes, there are regional and cultural differences between native indigenous ethnic Sri Lankan Tamils and Indian origin Tamils on the island and in India. They use various terms for us, like Ceylonee, in a very sneering manner, which is more insulting and derogatory, and we call them Vadakathaiyan, which is far less derogatory. Vadakthaiyan means the person from the north, nothing else, as they live north of us. This is the reason Tamils call Telugus Vadugar and the Telugu language Vadugu, meaning the northern people. They call us Aravalu, and the ancient Western Chera Tamil origin Malayali call all Tamils as Pandi, in a sneering manner, as during ancient times the Tamil Cheras and Pandians were enemies. Even other ethnicities have regional names and differences. Ask LS what the southern English call the English from the north and midlands, and the term Sasanack, which is used derogatively by the highland Scots, to describe the lowland Scots.
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Rohan25 / October 2, 2025
Using these terms does not mean the native Tamils look down on the Indian origin Tamils or refuse to share power with them. Anyway, at the moment, they largely live in different parts of the island, and most of them hardly meet each other, let alone share power. The native Tamils have always tried to help the destitute Indian Tamils from the hill country by trying to settle them in the north and east, and give them land, especially in the Vanni and Trincomale, but the Sinhalese Sri Lankan state did not want any of this happening, the truth. During the Srimavo era, as well as the JR era, they sent the armed forces and forcibly removed them from the north and east, despite being citizens of the island and dumped them again in estate areas to be destitute, poor and landless, at the mercy of the Sinhalese. They wanted these areas for state-sponsored Sinhalese settlement, to deliberately change the demography. One good example is the Manal Aru area, now renamed Weli Oya in the Mullaitheevu district.
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Rohan25 / October 2, 2025
These poor landless Indian origin Tamils were settled in 19 ancient Tamil villages there. The JR government in the 1990s used the army to ethnically cleanse all these Tamil villages, forcibly chase the entire Tamil population from this region, both native and Indian origin and settled the region with Sinhalese criminals and thugs from the south and renamed the area Weli Oya, a littoral Sinhalese translation of the ancient Tamil name Manal Aru. Funny, the Sinhalese words Weli, derived from Tamil Veli, a sandy open space and Oya( river or rivulet) from Tamil Oyaval or Odai, meaning a river or rivulet. Please do not distort the truth. Even upper caste Sinhalese, especially the Kandyans, used extremely derogatory terms to call the recently Sinhalised South Indian Tamil origin coastal Karawa, Salagama, Durawa and other service castes, calling them ” Demala Jarawa” meaning the Tamil dirt. This means they are now refusing to share power with them? Maybe this was the main cause of the JVP uprising. Most of the JVP cadre were largely from these Sinhalese castes and communities of recent South Indian Tamil immigrant origin. This is the reason the Govigamma elite treated them brutally and harshly, including your heroine, the Radala Hamine. Very silent about this
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SJ / October 2, 2025
Is there any animal with seven sore thumbs?
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Mallaiyuran / October 3, 2025
Jaffna Man only put your face here. Can you put your hands and feet so we can count those and conform, even one in the Lala country descents has what you ask?
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SJ / October 4, 2025
An overdose last evening?
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Ajith / October 1, 2025
“Are they ready to share power with their own people?”
Are you a Sinhalese? I am sure that they are ready to share the power with their own people.
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SJ / October 1, 2025
Has one to be a Sinhalese to ask a valid question?
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Rohan25 / October 2, 2025
One does not have to be a Sinhalese to question this, but these questions, constantly coming from you, a deliberate apologist for state-sponsored Sinhalese racism against the island’s Tamils and fake Arab Islamic extremism against the island’s Tamils by the so-called South Indian immigrant origin Sri Lankan Moors, need to be questioned. As you love to deliberately distort and misinform. Hope you get the gist as to why we question you.
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SJ / October 2, 2025
Rohi,
I know that every racist bigot has a grudge against me, and I relish it.
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Jit / October 1, 2025
“….AKD wants Tamil Diaspora to invest in Sri Lanka but he does want to share the power with Tamil people….”
Don’t you understand that you say the same thing in every comment on every article every day!!
Its sooo…boring…..in Latin they call it Ad nauseam.
You harp on the same string everyday – “AKD doesn’t want o share power with Tamil people”
So power sharing is the almighty magic medicine water to all illnesses, ailments and problems N&E Tamils face everyday?
Have you heard any Tamil investor saying that they will only invest if and when ‘power is shared’??
Or do you believe the Tamil diaspora will invest only if ‘power is shared’? Lol!!
Because, be it Tamil or Sinhalese or anyone else, they only want profits for their investment whether power is shared or not.
They mean business – no one comes here to do charity work!!
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Ajith / October 1, 2025
“Don’t you understand that you say the same thing in every comment on every article every day!!”
I understand that I am saying same thing in every comment because that is very important reality which happened over the past seven decades.
The NPP President AKD in his speech clearly said in his speech at UN said the same thing. Look at it.
“Religious extremism and racism have been major causes of wars and conflicts, bringing suffering to millions of people.”
if you think the business is the only important why should AKD ask Tamil diaspora to invest?
It is the business that brought Arjuna Mahendran to rob the Central Bank and Nirupama Rajapaksa and her Tamil husband businessmen Thirukkumar Nadesan of Pandora papers.
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SebastianSR / October 2, 2025
(Continued from previous part) What the Tamils need to do is to follow the example of the Jewish people in USA. Although they are a small minority, and even face discrimination, their elites control the financial sector and even the US government. That is the strategy that the Tamils must follow, instead of wasting energy on acrimony. In the 1950s to 1970s Tamils were the leaders of business, finance and professions. Instead of consolidating that we decided to pit a mere 5-10% of the population against a majority of some 80% of the population in a 30 year war of attrition, and LOST the game, & annihilated ourselves. State terror, and Prabha’s terror sent many Tamils to exile. The diaspora (Prof. Hoole is part of it) is not constructive, but still wagimg war with1970s mindset, fired by revange. We saw it in Geneva recently Diaspora groups said the LTTE must bear arms! Also collect/extort money? Recruit tamils as soldiers? Create more Karannnagodas?
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SebastianSR / October 2, 2025
Tamils as a group. or any other group has to acquire POWER if it is to be heard and obeyed. In every country, it is normal for the Majority to get away with blue murder (look at any Western country or our neighbour India). Is Prof. Hoole so naive as to not to know all this? He has read the Bible and so knows that there is always a Chosen race, and within it a chosen few who enjoy special privileges, even in God’s Plan of things. If the Tamils have been the majority, I think we would have been much worse and more atrocious in bending the law and using terror. Prabhakaran and his lieutenants bumped off anyone they wanted to bump off during the war. Similarly, the Sinhalese leaders and their lieutemants clearly followed the same principle, but to a much lesser degree. Old Jaffna society was utterly caste ridden and oppressive; after the Eelam wars, casteism is again coming back – as noted in a scholalrly paper by, e.g., Ahilan Kadirgamar who says that “Caste structure weakened by war-time displacement is strengthening by stealth as public silence on caste relations prevails”. So, how can be constructive? (continued)
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Mallaiyuran / October 3, 2025
Tamils as a group. or any other group has to acquire POWER if it is to be heard and obeyed.
Tamils, like any other group, must acquire power if they are to be acknowledged, respected, and able to influence outcomes. Possessing power is essential for a community to have its voice heard and its interests addressed. When Langkang was a democratic, market Economy, secular country, under Colonialist Britain, Tamils had achieved it and the jealous ones were crying that Tamils are favored by Colonialist. So just for your info, your convoluted sarcasm in only make you look silly. The Tamils will redo of the past when they build their status in Canada and UK. Still, your preaching for Tamils to remain visible is inconsistent, resulting in contradictions. Your criticism directed at America for being a colonial power is never retraced, though. However, your cry implies that the American government functions as a democracy and operates with a market-driven economy. Additionally, the separation of church and state in America means that talented individuals can gain influence and wealth through merit and entrepreneurship.
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Mallaiyuran / October 3, 2025
In contrast, Langkang experienced bankruptcy, which is attributed to its failed democratic structure, socialist policies, and the dominance of “Sinhala Buddhists.” There were annual celebrations of pogroms until Leader Pirapaharan eliminated it with his tit-for-tat and until that Sinhala Buddhists have engaged in acts of looting, arson, and the depositing of stolen funds in foreign nations. It is suggested that constitutional changes, specifically removing Section 9, could enable the country to surpass its adversaries, such as the American Jewish community. The United States boasts 1,140 billionaires, while Israel has 50. This difference is viewed as evidence that Israeli Jews have achieved greater economic success and influence compared to American Jews. Then why do feel jealous of American Jews?
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Mallaiyuran / October 3, 2025
Tamils have not achieved the same level of performance in America as they have in other countries that serve as safe havens for refugees, such as Canada or the UK. During the exodus following Black July 1983, the American government listened to figures like Kadirgamar and Rohan Gunaratne, leading to the prosecution of Tamils. As a result, more Tamils migrated to the UK and Canada, where they were able to establish stronger communities and networks of influence.
There are questions regarding the different treatment of Tamil and Sinhala Buddhist migrants. For example, when Australia attacked Tamil refugees on ships, visas were still issued to Sinhala Buddhists seeking to migrate. Additionally, when David Cameron visited Langkang, he played cricket with Murali, while the Australian Prime Minister went jogging with the “Playboy Minister,” highlighting distinct diplomatic and political gestures.
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nimal fernando / September 30, 2025
Gotabaya Rajapaksa is a national hero …… he kept Colombo safe by murdering on mere suspicion …….. kidnapping and dumping bodies in surrounding paddy fields. Ol’ Prabakararn couldn’t set off a single bomb in Colombo.
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There was an urban insurgency in El Salvador ……. it was overcome by kidnapping and murdering most of the urban youth on mere suspicion.
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Good ol’ Nethanayahoo is overcoming his insurgency …….. by bombing it away to smithereens ……… to Biblical times ……… killing all the young that can be a future threat ……….. for DTG to return and take over.
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Killing is a natural phenomenon in the ol’ animal kingdom.
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So what else is new? …… Has Native stopped being an animal …….. left and forsaken the animal kingdom?
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old codger / October 1, 2025
Nimal,
“Killing is a natural phenomenon in the ol’ animal kingdom.”
I always ask devout vegetarians trying convert me :”Why do you guys have those two pointed canine teeth in your mouths like the rest of us?”
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nimal fernando / October 1, 2025
“There was no discount. PTL sold the bonds at a markup, say for 13 billion (?)
The EPF managers are interested in long-yielding bonds, so they are assured of 11% (1.1 billion) every year till 2044. They are happy.”
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OC,
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Comments are closed in the other place ….. so I’m posting this here.
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If PTL sold at a mark-up to the EPF ….. the interest EPF is getting will be less than 11% ……. the interest rate depends on the price the bonds were bought at. If a 100 bond is bought for 200 the interest would be halved.
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Let’s leave out who lost the money: it conjure up different connotations that people object to :))) …….. So the PTL profit was made/paid from/by the EPF.
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If they got 100 for their 100 bond …… there was no bank robbery/heist …… because the bank didn’t lose anything.
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That’s what I couldn’t figure out ……. from the info out there.
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As I suspected all along, it was the EPF that paid the “profit” ……. not the bank.
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old codger / October 2, 2025
Nimal,
“As I suspected all along, it was the EPF that paid the “profit” ……. not the bank.”
No, not all. I think the EPF bought a lot of them, but not all.
“. If a 100 bond is bought for 200 the interest would be halved.”
No, it isn’t that high, up to 2%
“the interest rate depends on the price the bonds were bought at”
No, the coupon rate is paid by the government and is fixed. But you’re right, the effective rate is less.
But this is the point:
Aloysius sold 10 bn worth of bonds for 14 bn to various people in six months. What’s in it for the buyers? They have 30 years worth of interest at 1.1 billion . Total 33 bn. And they can encash the bonds in 2044 for 10 bn.
So, they’ve gained access to 33 bn (over time) AND their money back by paying Aloysius 4 bn today.
Aloysius himself made 4 bn in 6 months
The BOC made 700 mn in 6 months.
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old codger / October 2, 2025
Nimal,
With the benefit of foresight, even I would have invested.🙂
Long ago, when banks, finance companies, etc were less computerised and interlinked, I noticed that a certain reputed Finnce company was offering 22% interest while my bank was offering loans at 16% against an NRFC deposit. So, I got a couple of million from the bank, put it in the company for a year, and walked home with the 6% difference .
Now, don’t ask me where my profit came from, OK?
Pity it can’t be done nowadays.
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nimal fernando / October 2, 2025
OC,
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I feel we come to this discussion about bonds with two different mindsets.
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Here, there is a very active bond market where bonds are bought and sold – like shares – every minute. It seems, over there, there is no active bond market: the rupee denominated bonds are nothing more than glorified fixed deposits; whoever buys them hold on till maturity.
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Here the price of bonds track the prevailing interest rate. If the coupon-rate is higher than the interest rate the price of the bond will rise and vice versa.
Some bonds are held just overnight: there are trillions of dollars in pension-funds, endowments etc. chasing tiny percentages. When trillions are invested tiny fractions of percentages add up to billions.
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From what jit has written, I gather there are two types of bonds – dollar denominated ISBs and rupee denominated local bonds.
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EPF is the largest pot of gold in Lanka: larger than the combined value of all the companies in the Colombo stock exchange.
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That’s why it’s such an attraction for the moral.
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I feel the present government should break it free from the CB and let a truly independent body run it. It’s easier said than done …… but with long prison sentences looming people will start thinking twice ……..
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old codger / October 2, 2025
Nimal,
“Here, there is a very active bond market where bonds are bought and sold – like shares – every minute. It seems, over there, there is no active bond market: the rupee denominated bonds are nothing more than glorified fixed deposits”
True. Another thing, when interest rates fall, the stock market booms,, as it doing now.
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old codger / October 2, 2025
Nimal,
Here is a website with all the ISBs Sri Lanka has offered:
https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=CSELK%3AHNB.N0000
Just type “Sri Lanka bonds” in the search bar.
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nimal fernando / October 3, 2025
Thanks, OC.
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Naman / September 30, 2025
What makes the Tamils[ local/abroad ] get MOST disgusted with GoSL is the way Tamils are differentially treated judicially & economically. Funds allocated to the development of the North & East areas do not match those for the rest of the country. All the Tamils EXPECT the GoSL bring in the NEW constitution that will be fair to them. The government could keep the special status given to Buddhism in the constitution but make sure they PRACTICE it sincerely without violence and hatred. The new constitution should ensure the protection of minorities right to develop their cultural & religious identities. Meritocracy Pragmatism and Honesty [MPH] should be ingrained in the governance.
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whywhy / October 2, 2025
A new constitution , let it be a new constitution which treats all its
citizens with equal respect . If even now , no one is above the law
then no one is above the other . A new constitution must be a good one
that turns out to be Srilanka’s New Religion . Constitutions can do
nothing if people do not honestly respect it . Gota was elected for how
many years ? When people are pushed to take law into their hands ,
that is when whatever written in words blows out of the window .
In the recent past , it is the law makers who did all dirty works to teach
the citizen break the law and got vaporised into the thin air .
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SJ / September 30, 2025
“Credible justice will come only when foreign participants play a strong and moderating role.”
Is foreign participation a guarantee of justice?
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Why do not the Tamil leaders propose a set of criteria that will ensure fairness in locally conducted inquiries instead of screaming for foreign intervention at every turn?
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Jaffna Man / October 1, 2025
Ok. But the state will cheat with criteria.
Individuals yes, because there are indeed trustworthy Sinhalese.
The danger is it will be a foot in the door to cheat and manipulate.
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SJ / October 1, 2025
So we have preferences about who are permitted to cheat us.
Do countries invite foreigners to probe into their internal problems?
Our starting point itself is distrust.
Why do not we try a positive approach?
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Mallaiyuran / October 3, 2025
“Do countries invite foreigners to probe into their internal problems?”
Come on man, don’t be such a pompous! Judges do not probe, they are arbitrators. Langkang has contracted with many countries for probing help. They use INTERPOL too. Passing that immaturity:
It is not uncommon for nations to allow foreign observers or officials to participate in investigating or monitoring their internal affairs, especially under international mandates. For instance, individuals from Jaffna (Jaffna Man) have often been invited to various countries to serve as election referees or monitors. Such participation typically occurs under the auspices of organizations like the United Nations (UN) or the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
Sinhalese judges, too, have taken part in international investigations and legal proceedings in other countries. One notable example is the arbitration case brought by the Philippines against China before an arbitral tribunal under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). In this context, M.C.W. (Chris) Pinto, a Sri Lankan judge, initially served on the tribunal but resigned from his position in May 2013.
Neelan, the first legal PhD in Ceylon, had written constitution for countries, under UN invitation.
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Mallaiyuran / October 3, 2025
A fundamental requirement for any judge to preside over international legal matters is having proper jurisdictional authority. This principle underpins calls from Tamil groups for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to exercise its mandate in relevant situations.
Ceylon has a history of its judges serving in prominent international roles. Christopher Weeramantry, for example, was a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 1991 to 2000. More recently, Janak De Silva was sworn in as a judge of the Seychelles Court of Appeal in November 2023.
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Roxie de Abrew / October 1, 2025
The High Priests in Hill Country have warned against laying hands on the Medamulana clan. That warning appears to have been heard by the rulers.
Karannagoda is a war hero similar to the Field Marshall. Both are war crims.
Though tainted with war crimes, they cannot be touched. They are Sinhala Buddhists.
So, Jeevan, give up this futile effort and build the Eng Facs in Jaffna and Killinochchi.
The diaspora will support you there.
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Lester / October 2, 2025
“Both are war crims.”
If they are war criminals, then the Tamil Diaspora are accomplices to war crimes, ethnic cleansing, drug trafficking, and political assassinations. As this Diaspora voluntarily financed the LTTE for several decades.
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ancientbugger / October 2, 2025
In a law-driven society, the High Priests would be locked up with their acolytes the Rajapaksa criminals.
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Douglas / October 1, 2025
Everyone wants to be treated ‘EQUALLY’. But in discussing a national problem, it is divided into and classified as ‘Sinhalese’, ‘Tamil’, ‘Muslim’, and various other racial categories.
For example, in discussing the abductions and murders of the ’11’ young men, all eyes are on the ‘Tamils’, but does anyone talk of others in that group? Not really. Do you know that there was ‘ONE’ among them, a son of a ‘Sinhala’ soldier – a ‘Ranaviruwa’?
So, let us refrain from defining any crime to a particular ethenic grouping (victims) but treat it as a ‘National’ issue. All persons, the victims, citizens of this country, and all of them must receive justice on equal terms.
Now, we see a ‘Reform’ in the Judiciary, in that various categories of court cases have been classified and assigned to a court under the supervision of a ‘High Court’ judge. That would ease the case load and dispose of it without undue delay. It is hoped that these ‘High Profile’ cases will come up sooner than expected.
But still, more ‘Reforms’, particularly in various legislations, have to be done. It is disheartening to note that the relevant ‘Authorities’ (Ministry of Justice, AG & the Police) in that regard are not moving as expeditiously as expected. Because of this ‘Lethargy’, the ‘Perpetrators’ of crimes are swimming in a cold water pot. Hopefully, with the ‘Reforms’ due, the water in the pot will start to warm up.
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Ajith / October 3, 2025
“So, let us refrain from defining any crime to a particular ethenic grouping (victims) but treat it as a ‘National’ issue.”
British moved to New Zealand in latter part of 18th century same as British United various kingdoms in Sri Lanka. Under the British regime there is no Sinhala only or special status of Buddhism or executive powers or 1958 or 1983 or 2009. You can’t speak of Sri Lankan after 77 years from the so called independence only after bankruptcy. So, let us think about how we can find a solution through sharing the power with different ethnicities to feel that they are part of a nation where the central is the nation for all ethnicities not only to one community. The same law should rule for the nation which is equal to all Sri lankan should follow the devolved powers.
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SebastianSR / October 4, 2025
“Under the British regime there is no Sinhala only or special status of Buddhism
The 1815 Kandyan Treaty did grant Buddhism a special place. Hindusim in the North and East was not destroyed by Sinhalese Buddhists, but by Christian Zealots. Even today, evangelical Christianity, as well as the standard forms of Christianity manifest in the Victorian and medieval versions. The Catholic church and the Anglican chruch in Sri Lanka are still active in banning films, preventing “the flock” from reading thoughtful books (a type covert Index Librorum Prohibitorum) etc., and standing up against very modern social trend towards equality of the sexes, and so forth.
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whywhy / October 4, 2025
Douglas ,
Your first two lines reconfirm the need for equality . When people are
not treated equal , yes , divisions of all sorts erupt as a result . And then ,
the haggle starts . Not easy to win the Lost Trust or the trust that never
existed . What makes all our rulers madly running round the globe ?
Why not similar effort to make life easier among communities ? Racists
have no time for it .
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Rohan25 / October 2, 2025
An interesting video about the actual origin of Sri Lankans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkqO4ZcySCk
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SJ / October 2, 2025
“Prepare to question everything you thought you knew.”
Yes. Not just them.
Also all manner of racist narratives and pseudo scientific theories dished out to us.
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Lester / October 3, 2025
Be careful. If they question the education certificates, some may be in trouble.
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LankaScot / October 3, 2025
Hello Lester,
I never thought that JRR Tolkien was a “Seer” however his prescient characterisation of Gollum matches you perfectly. So where do you hide your “precious”?
Best regards
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whywhy / October 4, 2025
LankaScot ,
Handunneththi knows how to do a saving with ” precious” items !
Hide them with Bxxxs hanging out of the rugged undie !
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SJ / October 4, 2025
Oh yes.
Have not quite a few contest your credentials on these pages?
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LankaScot / October 3, 2025
Hello SJ,
I find it difficult to figure out who funds and publishes content like this Video. It is not a Scientific Critique of the Sri Lankan Genetic History.
Race is not a criterion that is easy to pin down, neither is Ancient Ethnicity. I am a British National, not Scottish or English. We (British) are part of the United Kingdom of Gt Britain. Scotland was a Kingdom and Nation State before the Union. The Scottish King unified the Countries in 1603.
Ethnicity is also a very slippery concept when applied to past peoples that are not literate. We are all a mix of constantly changing Genetic combinations and Ethnic Allegiances depending on Migrations and Conquests.
Today we have 193 Sovereign Nation States recognised by the United Nations. Only 2 are Observer States, the Vatican (Holy See) and Palestine. Many of these States are comprised of a mix of Ethnicities, however they have agreed to cooperate to form an Internationally recognised Nation. Some Ethnic groups are not happy with the Status Quo and try to change it by various methods, some legal some not.
Best regards
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SJ / October 4, 2025
LS
The video is crap designed for voracious consumers of such stuff.
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SJ / October 2, 2025
Interesting? Rather amusing I would say, but for a nice quote:
“Prepare to question everything you thought you knew.”
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whywhy / October 4, 2025
Rohan25 ,
A Link not to be missed . Well done . Thanks .
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Jaffna Man / October 3, 2025
Part I of III
Roxie de Abrew has suggested I should focus on teaching engineering at Jaffna. I will explain why I cannot, although I would very much like to.
There was a USAB order in 2005 that effectively required my appointment as Prof/CompSci at Jaffna. The person who was asked to cover my duties as VC while I was under LTTE death-threat, got listed falsely as “Acting VC”, did not act on the order, and now is rewarded by the NPP as the Chancellor.
When I returned in 2005 with an open warrant (thanks to the EPDP) I had 2 more years of service before retirement. Although I was Senior Professor at Peradeniya, if I applied for that post, by the time the processing was over I would have reached the retirement age of 65. So I desperately applied for Senior Lecturer, an appointment that could have been made at the next Council meeting.
The VC then, Vasanthi Arasaratnam, assembled a selection committee that consisted of herself, and Sivasegaram (who joining the Sinhalese mafia charged me at Peradeniya for teaching human rights under the title “The Software Engineer and Society,” a charge that was brusquely dismissed by one of the good Sinhalese, inquiring officer, Harendra Dunuwille).
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Jaffna Man / October 3, 2025
Part II of III
Sivasegaram and all the enginering professors at Peradeniya save one good Sinhalese (Prof. EMN Ekanayake) Petitioned IESL to not admit me because they alleged I lacked ethics, was called up for an inquiry, and after hearing me advised me not to challenge them and admitted as Fellow and Chartered Engineer. Others on the selection committee were Janaka Ekanayake my former Head at Peradeniya, my student Thiruvaran and a former student of Sivasegaram’s at CEB.
They all signed off saying I am unqualified to be senior lecturer although I had my higher doctorate and was IEEE Fellow. They selected a junior chap.
Although I had been teaching electrical engineering at Michigan State every semester, these gangsters cooked up the story that I had not taught electrical there, just the way Sinhalese racists say Tamils came to Sri Lanka after the Sinhalese. To such folk, facts are irrelevant. Sivasegaram with so many conflicts lacked ethics to sit on my committee.
Two electrical heads whom I had helped (Thiruvaran and Ahilan) were too scared of the VC and Sivasegaram and the former Dean Atputharajah (now rewarded as VC Vavuniya) to help me. Even today they will not lift a finger for me.
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SebastianSR / October 4, 2025
Prof. Hoole should not be teaching engineering – he has a higher mission in Sri Lank like Savanarola of Medival Italy. He should have a National Salary and assistats in Perpetuity to go about exposing dirty linen, be it the UGC, the Anglican Church, the Jaffna University, the Elections commission, etc? He says “Although I had been teaching electrical engineering at Michigan State every semester, these gangsters cooked up the story that I had not taught electrical there, just the way Sinhalese racists say Tamils came to Sri Lanka after the Sinhalese“. The italics is how Prof. Hoole uses dynamite. Surely it was not the Sinhalese racists, but Colonial Christian Historians like Baldeaus (1672, who says“Proper natives” = Sinhalese, Tamils = immigrants), de Queroz, Emerson Tennant, and following them Father SGPerera and G. C. Mendis say that Sinhalese were the first Lankans. The Sinhalese (Mahawamsa) say they invaded around 500 BC., while “dameda” also came as horse traders. If Tamils came before, have we alsways been loosers? A Hoole type insult?
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Jaffna Man / October 3, 2025
Part III of III
Even if my not teaching EE in Michigan is true and a disqualification, Sivasegaram has to explain how he qualified to be a Visitor at Kilinochchi or professor at Peradeniya after a 15-year gap as a postdoc in London.
I cannot even go to Vavuniya even though I successfully pushed for its CS program from the UGC. The VC there has told my friends that so long as he is there I cannot step in.
Today Kilinochchi is badly short staffed. They had graduate students from the US teaching by Zoom. A subsequent dean, Prabhaharan, tried to hire me. He was told by the lecturers that if he hired me, they would refuse to carry any overload from the staff shortage. Prabhakaran left because staff there had no interest in the students, only in preserving control.
The present VC, Satkunarajah, offered me a position in Engineering Technology. Though thankful, I declined because I cannot teach well in that subject area.
So here I am. D.Sc, IEEE Fellow, Chartered Engineer, Unwanted. Tamils are ruled by selfish devils, while good Tamils must shut up and put up because we are scared of the new Prabhakarans ruling us.
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Jaffna Man / October 3, 2025
Part I of II
SJ/Prof. Sivasegaram on Trust in Inquiries:
Was it not Rohan25 who called you “a deliberate apologist for state-sponsored Sinhalese racism against the island’s Tamils”? How can I trust you when you talk of trust? See also my response to de Abrew.
Let me state cautiously that I do not trust anyone in Sri Lanka to do an honest war crimes inquiry, least of all you.
Look, at the government’s Isurupaya social studies text by Sinhalese. It is stated that we Tamils came as invaders and the Sinhalese as settlers (although Vijaya killed Queen Kuveni.)
The brains that wrote this are badly flawed as are the teachers who teach nonsense like this and the students brought up on this.
The Hindus are no better. When I have the infant-baptismal records of my ancestor C.W. Thamotharampillai as recorded by the American Mission, the Hindu fanatics who wrote the Tamil textbook (which my daughter was forced to listen to in a mission school), it is stated that he was born a Hindu and pretended to be a Christian for benefits. What sadism and flawed brains just like Sinhalese brains.
They write ill of Peter Percival saying he came to convert forgetting that they killed 7-8,000 Jains in Madurai for refusing to convert to Saivism. That shared Mahavamsa Mindset now states it is a legend without addressing why even today the event is celebrated in Madurai Meenaachi and other Saivite temples through thiruvilas and murals of the impalement.
The Christians are no better giving old dates for our schools in cooked up histories, even thanking God in Church for this ancient heritage as if God is fooled by such prayers.
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Native Vedda / October 3, 2025
Jaffna Man
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“How can I trust you when you talk of trust? “
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Come on Jaffna Man you got to trust him for his “steadfast allegiance”, “absolute devotion”, ….. to Mao and Sri Mao the weeping widow. What more do you expect from him?
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SebastianSR / October 4, 2025
They killed 7-8,000 Jains in Madurai for refusing to convert to Saivism
Really? Prof. Hoole should be teaching History at one of our Universties and put these new facts he has in a Magnum Opus.
The impalement of 7-8,000 Jains in Madurai, as described in the Shaivite legend, was attributed to the king, the Pandya ruler identified as Koon Pandiyan or Sundara Pandyan, at the instigation of the Shaive Hindu saint Sambandar. However, this legend is a later version of events, and early versions suggest that the Jains impaled themselves after losing a debate, rather than being “killed” by Hindus. The legend of the impalement is not mentioned in any Jain texts or in Sambanthar’s own poems or in Tamil writings for about 400 years after him. Here again Colonial Christian historians are probabaly to be blamed.
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Jaffna Man / October 4, 2025
Nehru’s favorite historian Majumdar (whose book he gifted to Indra Gandhi) beat me to it so I cannot put this story in my magnum opus.
The Meenaachi temple murals predate colonial rule. Only a flawed Indian brain can imagine that 8000 jains would sit on spears and poke them through their anus for losing a debate. Indeed, the Jain faith is far purer than the puranas where Siva seduces other people’s wives snd his wife has to catch his rotting testicles as they fall and put them up for worship. How can Jainism lose a debate to a religion where Sai Baba massages oil on the testicles of young boys and be worshiped as a God by Tamil intellectuals and even J.R. Jayawardene? Sri Lankan brains! All rotting like Siva’s testicles after being cursed by the meditating Rishi whose wife was seduced by Siva.
So who decided that the Jains lost a debate?And who is celebrating the killings even today in Saiva temple festivals annually? The American saying tell it to the marines (who are regarded as having nonworking brains) is perhaps better phrased as tell it to SebastianSR.
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SJ / October 4, 2025
JM
It was not simply a debate that led to the impaling.
Jains held control over the state and were challenged by a popular movement (the Bakthi movement of the time). There is much politics to it as an alliance that transcended caste was formed to secure success of the Saivaite campaign.
‘Decisive debates’ were not solely responsible for the outcome.
Given the way history has been recorded, one literally believing the post-debate impaling narrative also should believe the miracles performed by various sages, including ones at the royal court.
Extreme punishment of Jains was there but it was a time when the Jain clergy wielded strong political influence in two kingdoms. Harsh punishment was meted out to the sage Appar by the Jains in Pallava country, which he apparently overcame by performing miracles. Do we accept that too literally?)
What is certain is that severe persecution of Jains followed the conversion of the kings in Pallava and Pandya country.
Jainism had ceased to be the progressive scholarly faith with mass following that it was in the earlier Kalbra period.
Its fall has also to be attributed to political corruption, which would have eroded its mass base.
I do not know much about purity of faiths, but agree that Jainism was free of the shackles of Varna system. But, unlike Buddhists of the time, Jains compromised on caste hierarchy.
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SJ / October 4, 2025
SSR
The claim is repeated in Saivaite literary records.
While I have some doubt about the number, I believe that there was impaling. Let us not take escape routes like the Jains making a DIY job of it. Not very easy to do though.
There are very few Jain records after the fall of Jainism. The lack of other corroborative records is not proof that there was no punishment.
The rise of the Vaishnavite faith in the wake of the defeat of Jains is attributed by some to a mass conversion of Jains to Vaisnavaism for survival but reject Saivaism all the same.
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SJ / October 4, 2025
As for your falsehoods, you know that I have always treated them with the contempt that they deserve.
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SJ / October 4, 2025
SSR
Sorry that my response to a liar appeared below you comment.
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SJ / October 4, 2025
So it seems that you are at the same level of integrity as R25.
Nice to know.
BTW
Lester is also a good companion for you.
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Jaffna Man / October 3, 2025
Part II of II
To be sure there are good Sinhalese and Tamils too. But they are few. Who has moved to change these horrible school texts?
One person is Rajiva Wijesinghe. Under Chandrika and Dr. Tara de Mel, he had a team that included my wife at NIE’s Academic Council rewriting these books. Rajapaksa was elected and all that work was thrown out.
So good Sinhalese there might be, but they are powerless against the collective Sinhalese power base, just like the few good but cowed down Tamil folk.
In these circumstances, no Sinhalese will say the Army massacred large numbers of Tamils and no Tamil will say the LTTE did the same to Muslims and Tamils who did not accept them as sole representatives.
With double caution, I say that Europeans, despite doing similar things (as in the book “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong” by James W. Loewen) are much more cautious and have a better tradition of following written records, unlike us creating mythical facts to accomplish our status enhancement.
I would rather go by an inquiry under a western scholar whom we choose with no obligation to western powers. There are also western trained Sri Lankan scholars I trust in an inquiry like H. Keerthisena, M. Ekanayake, R. Wijesinghe, S. Pathmanathan and K. Indrapala. Locally trained? Very Risky although I am sure a few exist!
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Agnos / October 4, 2025
JM.
“There are also western trained Sri Lankan scholars I trust in an inquiry like H. Keerthisena, M. Ekanayake, R. Wijesinghe, S. Pathmanathan and K. Indrapala.”
I would trust the names on your list except for Rajiva Wijesinghe, who, in tandem with Dayan Jayatilleka, toadied up to the Rajapaksas during the war with the LTTE and denied there were any war crimes.
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SJ / October 4, 2025
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I think that he has rattled off names of a few he likes. Do not take it seriously.
I do not want to get personal, but there are more than one whose intellectual honesty I doubt.
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