One of the often made allegations against the present government of its critics is that how the former army commander Sarath Foneska who is considered to be a true war hero is treated with many years of prison terms while at the same time how Karuna or Vinyagamoorty Muralitharan, the former Eastern Commander of LTTE who is accused of carrying out several civilian massacres and fought against the armed forces for many years is treated with a deputy minister position of the present government being offered with all the privileges. A fair and neutral assessment is needed to judge how valid this allegation against the government is. In order to do a balanced assessment we shouldn't confine not only to the contribution made by the each individual for the final war against terrorism but also to the contribution they made after the war for the wellbeing of the country.
It is an undisputable fact the defection of Karuana who was an asset to Prabhakran to fight against Sri Lanka's armed forces was a monumental loss to LTTE's war machine in terms of losing a successful leader, falling into the hands of the enemy his knowledge about in and out about the organization and the area he was controlling and eventually losing sizable number of combatants along with a large stock of arms. The contribution made by Karuna, a diehard and deadly leader of the most ruthless terrorist organization by renouncing the violence and joining the democratic process of the country which was rejected by his former organization as Tamil people's oppressor is also monumental. Even a diehard LTTE supporter must have taken aback by his move thinking how outside world would think about the futility and the relevancy of the fight that they were waging at an enormous cost to their people. This must have certainly prompted to think many an outside people who matter to Sri Lankan affaires that the desire that some of the LTTE fighters and Tamil people were yearning for to live under a democratic system of governance. So the Karuna's defection and then his joining to Sri Lanka's democratic process have indeed been a turning point in Sri Lanka's successful war against terrorism. Karuna is indeed responsible for many crimes. So are the many Ex-LTTE combatants released and being rehabilitated. Who knows whether some of those former LTTE carders will become ministers of the country in the future?
Former army commander Sartha Fonseka indeed took the reins of the army at a very critical juncture when Sri Lankan armed forces finally decided to push the military option to win the peace when LTTE rejected other 'peaceful solutions'. While his contribution as the army commander in the successful war against terrorism can never be underestimated the contributions made by many other individuals may perhaps many times bigger than what Fonseka did. First and foremost, it is the correct political leadership given by the president Rajapaksha that made the war possible. His all predecessors succumbed to the so called international pressure and had almost given half of the country to a terrorist organization in a platter for more than two decades. The wars his predecessors waged were half –hearted that ultimately resulted in losing many lives and property. It was his rock solid political leadership and the determination that gave demoralized armed forces a fresh breathing air which resulted in swelling in the numbers for recruitment to form almost 08 divisions in the army in less than one year time. The strategic leadership and guidance given by the Defense Secretary while being the connecting chord between the armed forces and the president have indeed been legendry. Army would have never even imagined in winning a war had the contribution from the Navy, Air Force and the Police not been at the country's disposal. It was the Navy with extremely limited resources that caused a massive hemorrhage to the LTTE: destroying the LTTE's massive well-oiled arms supply machine. It was indeed one of the turning points of the war against terrorism. No need of elaborating the mammoth and legendry role played by the air force with again extremely less resources. And again the both forces were headed by battle hardened highly successful officers. So it was a galaxy of factors that led to the war victory. Sarath Fonseka was not alone 'The Factor' as many claim for the victory. So the conditions were such that absence of Sarath Fonseka as the army commander would have not made a big difference.
Now it is pertinent to assess the role played by SF after the war with regard to country's wellbeing. How have some of his actions contributed to the country's future? SF's 'White Flag' charge was indeed life giving oxygen to the LTTE rump which had been literally down with the LTTE's decimation. The international witch hunt for alleged 'war crimes' sat in motion with this false 'White Flag' charge. The massive propaganda machine of the LTTE with its huge resources at its disposal was fully activated to rally against Sri Lanka in several fronts: from buying the anti-Sri Lankan politicians from the West and the USA to produce fabricated films by media organizations who were waiting to settle some scores with the Sri Lankan government. All sundry of anti Sri Lankan characters led by INGO bosses whose terms in the country were not extended due to their shady deals with the LTTE have been forefront in their campaign against Sri Lanka. The 'White Flag' charge was the stepping stone for the 'Darusman Report'. The massive effort being made to haul up Sri Lankan leaders and the armed forces members in the international war crime tribunals is at the full swing. The negative image that Sri Lankan has to bear due to SF's antics is massive and will continue to go on for many years to come.
So the damage caused by the SF to his motherland after the war has undone in many folds what he has done for contributing to winning the war. Many machinations by anti-Sri Lankan forces are well underway to make use SF to destabilize the country. Karuna who joined the democratic process of the country continue to help his community in particular and the country in general for their wellbeing.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Are Indian and Chinese militaries in a tussle to become closer to Sri Lankan military?
Military ties between China and Sri Lanka were largely confined to the supply of arms, naval crafts and aircrafts by the former during the last four to five decades. The training stints given to Sri Lankan military personnel in the Chinese military academies were not as large as Indian and Pakistani military academies have been offering to SL. However, with the beginning of president Rajapaksha's tenure there has been a marked increase of training stints offered to SL armed forces personnel in the Chinese military academies. So PLA's General's visit obviously indicates that there will be a further increased opportunities to SL military personnel to train in PLA's academies.
Though Military ties between India and Sri Lanka has been historically close the disastrous policies adopted by the Indian governments towards Sri Lanka have made Indian military less friendly to Sri Lankans. They include Indian military's involvement in training LTTE carders in India, aggression by Indian air force and navy violating Sri Lanka's air space and its seas respectively to force JR Jayawardana government to stop successful Vadamarachchi military campaign which saved Prabhakaran to wage the terrorism for further 20 years, sending Indian army (IPKF) to force upon us the so called 'Political Solution' and finally refusal to sell necessary weaponry to the marooned 40,000 troops in the besieged Jaffana peninsula and instead willing to provide vessels to a near impossible evacuation mission.
On the other hand Chinese government including PLA has been one of the few countries which were steadfastly behind Sri Lanka's successful military campaign against terrorism. Apart from being the biggest arms supplier to Sri Lanka China had been regularly supplying arms without any hindrance though many countries including India refused to do so.
It seems Sri Lankan armed forces and PLA have opened a new chapter in their relationship with the two countries' military ties further strengthened. However, we are yet to see the reaction by the Indian government to this strengthened military ties between China and SL. If India indeed does react it may be overt or covert or may be a combination of both. India's reaction to perceived SL's closeness to the US ie training LTTE cadres in India was of course covert though it became overt later.
‘In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace’-Sun Tzu
In his legendry book 'The art of war', written two and half thousand years ago Sun Tzu said above words. It seems there is no better time than the time that we are passing now matches the relevancy of his wisdom to present day Sri Lanka. The consistency with which we followed and adopted to win the peace defeating terrorism should be as same as during the present day peace time too in the event of a future instability in the country that might be ignited by the vested interested many a forces at play here and abroad. There should be no stone unturned in the event of Sri Lanka facing such an eventuality.
Shamindra Ferdinando of 'The Island' in an article titled 'Focus on post-war challenges SLN 61st anniversary today' on 08th of December underscores this necessary preparedness on the part of Sri Lankan armed forces in general and the SL Navy in particular .
The utter foolish policies adopted by the previous regimes by not equipping the navy, the first line of defense of the country, as per the requirements to face the challenges posed by the LTTE during last two decades cost Sri Lankan dearly giving LTTE terrorists a field day. The poorly equipped navy plus denying the resources to it by turning a blind eye of its requirements specially during Ranil Wickramasinha's tenure not only prolonged the war but also dragged the country's development many decades behind with monumental damages to the lives and the properties. The following quote from the article that quotes President Chandrika Kumaratunga highlights the plight with which we were faced with.
Several years ago the Jane's Defence quoted former President Chandrika Kumaratunga as having said "If we had upgraded our navy earlier, the problem of Tamil separatist terrorism would not have taken the present form."
Apart from the threats posed to the country's defense by the forces locally and abroad hell bent to destabilize the peaceful environment enjoyed by its citizens, our forces should be prepared to face our growing economic interests too as highlighted in his article by Shamindra Ferdinando as follows.
'The gradual expansion of operations by pirates operating off Somalia, oil and gas exploration in the sea bed of Mannar, people smuggling and poaching remain formidable challenges. The navy will have to adopt a result oriented strategy to tackle these issues.'
Some of the strategies recommended by Sun Tzu in his legendry book have been applied by our strategists too in the war against terrorism though it is not known whether they have ever read it. So the need of the hour is the preparedness for any eventuality with necessary resources being amply provided to our forces as Sun Tzu's wisdom has never proved wrong!
Shamindra Ferdinando of 'The Island' in an article titled 'Focus on post-war challenges SLN 61st anniversary today' on 08th of December underscores this necessary preparedness on the part of Sri Lankan armed forces in general and the SL Navy in particular .
The utter foolish policies adopted by the previous regimes by not equipping the navy, the first line of defense of the country, as per the requirements to face the challenges posed by the LTTE during last two decades cost Sri Lankan dearly giving LTTE terrorists a field day. The poorly equipped navy plus denying the resources to it by turning a blind eye of its requirements specially during Ranil Wickramasinha's tenure not only prolonged the war but also dragged the country's development many decades behind with monumental damages to the lives and the properties. The following quote from the article that quotes President Chandrika Kumaratunga highlights the plight with which we were faced with.
Several years ago the Jane's Defence quoted former President Chandrika Kumaratunga as having said "If we had upgraded our navy earlier, the problem of Tamil separatist terrorism would not have taken the present form."
Apart from the threats posed to the country's defense by the forces locally and abroad hell bent to destabilize the peaceful environment enjoyed by its citizens, our forces should be prepared to face our growing economic interests too as highlighted in his article by Shamindra Ferdinando as follows.
'The gradual expansion of operations by pirates operating off Somalia, oil and gas exploration in the sea bed of Mannar, people smuggling and poaching remain formidable challenges. The navy will have to adopt a result oriented strategy to tackle these issues.'
Some of the strategies recommended by Sun Tzu in his legendry book have been applied by our strategists too in the war against terrorism though it is not known whether they have ever read it. So the need of the hour is the preparedness for any eventuality with necessary resources being amply provided to our forces as Sun Tzu's wisdom has never proved wrong!
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Peace Mudalalis now admit that LTTE violated CFA after their mentor Norway released its report on failed ‘peace’ effort in Sri Lanka.
One of the foremost Peace Mudalalis in Sri Lanka Jehan Perera now accepts that the LTTE violated Norwegian brokered failed CFA. This admission comes after Norway, Sri Lanka's Peace Mudalais' main benefactor and mentor released its report on failed 'peace' effort in Sri Lanka. So these hypocritical Dollar Kakka's waited well after two years after the conclusion of war to utter this until their mentor releases a report. When the LTTE was having a field day violating CFA these vultures did not utter a single word while it was fun for them to trumpet from roof tops with exaggerated false claims of Sri Lankan security forces violating the CFA.
Jehan Perera goes on to say
'During the entirety of the ceasefire period the LTTE kept on assassinating its opponents and violating human rights. This included killing Tamil informants, government intelligence personnel and also Tamil political leaders who belonged to other political parties. There were also the deliberate provocations where the LTTE instigated Tamil civilians to march into army camps to demonstrate against the military's presence. They also engaged in large scale forcible child recruitment. The evaluation report notes that these violations of the ceasefire, and the inability to respond to them in a credible manner, severely undermined the legitimacy of the peace process and the role of Norway in it. During much of the peace process there was an impression that the Norwegian facilitators were soft on the LTTE and more sympathetic to their concerns than to those of the Sri Lankan government.'
'They used the period of ceasefire, and the political space given to them, to build the basic features of a state of their own. They established a comprehensive bureaucracy, put up large buildings that they were proud of, and converted their guerilla force into a conventional army. They grew too attached to what they had created.'
The general public and the government should be mindful to what this Peace Vultures is up to now with this change of tone.
Jehan Perera goes on to say
'During the entirety of the ceasefire period the LTTE kept on assassinating its opponents and violating human rights. This included killing Tamil informants, government intelligence personnel and also Tamil political leaders who belonged to other political parties. There were also the deliberate provocations where the LTTE instigated Tamil civilians to march into army camps to demonstrate against the military's presence. They also engaged in large scale forcible child recruitment. The evaluation report notes that these violations of the ceasefire, and the inability to respond to them in a credible manner, severely undermined the legitimacy of the peace process and the role of Norway in it. During much of the peace process there was an impression that the Norwegian facilitators were soft on the LTTE and more sympathetic to their concerns than to those of the Sri Lankan government.'
'They used the period of ceasefire, and the political space given to them, to build the basic features of a state of their own. They established a comprehensive bureaucracy, put up large buildings that they were proud of, and converted their guerilla force into a conventional army. They grew too attached to what they had created.'
The general public and the government should be mindful to what this Peace Vultures is up to now with this change of tone.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Thank you Lefroy!
Lefroy! Thank you for your efforts to take time to read my blog. It is indeed a privilege to have my blog been read by "The Internet God". On top of all you had taken your precious time to read through Rebel of Kandy's introduction.
I would like to suggest you to use a strong toilet bowl cleaner next time around as a mouth wash! At the same time I consider it's worthwhile to re-post your post on my blog.
Regards,
I would like to suggest you to use a strong toilet bowl cleaner next time around as a mouth wash! At the same time I consider it's worthwhile to re-post your post on my blog.
Regards,
Rebel of Kandy
Our resident eunuch Rebel of Kandy has been growing even scarier
14/11/2011
This pathetic human being has been so seriously butt-fucked by monkeys in Kandy that even reading the previews of his blog entries in Kottu is a total mindfuck. Sinhala-Buddhists castrated by Muslims or Tamils, Sinhala-Buddhists burnt alive by Muslims and Tamils, Sinhala-Buddhists gang raped by Muslim mobs; this shit is hardcore man.
For public safety, this mad guy should be found and put inside a nuthouse. He's crazy and potentially dangerous, and when he farts, he also cyber-farts. Just can't stand the smell.
Maybe things would've been a little different if he ever got some action. But who wants to sleep with a farting eunuch? So he farted through his life, imagined being a rebel, and farted some more.
Rebel? What is this? Rebelling against the colour of monkey poop in Kandy? According to his own definition, to rebel is,
1. To fight against the government or to refuse to obey rules
2. To react against a feeling, action or plan
This eunuch isn't fighting against the government. He's licking its balls and taking its penis up his ass without any lubrication. When his ass isn't blocked by a penis, he farts on the opposition and pees on all Muslims and Tamils and other minorities. This guy isn't a rebel. If this guy calls himself a rebel because he reacts to a feeling, action or plan, American rednecks should call themselves rebels too. I mean they go like "those fucking immigrants", don't they?
He says that a rebel "is opposed to the political system in his country and tries to change it using force". Didn't I tell you this guy's dangerous. He's talking about genocide against the thambiyas who castrate pure Sinhala-Buddhists men with penises little longer than those of monkeys. He says a rebel is "a person who shows his disagreement with the ideas of people in authority." Does his tiny little monkey fucked noggin thinks that those poor Tamils and Muslims, who themselves have been butt fucked by Sinhalese people and their army, are in authority?
I tell you what Rebel of Kandy, keep on doing what you do: licking donkey balls and sucking the government's dick. The revolution will cum in a second.
14/11/2011
This pathetic human being has been so seriously butt-fucked by monkeys in Kandy that even reading the previews of his blog entries in Kottu is a total mindfuck. Sinhala-Buddhists castrated by Muslims or Tamils, Sinhala-Buddhists burnt alive by Muslims and Tamils, Sinhala-Buddhists gang raped by Muslim mobs; this shit is hardcore man.
For public safety, this mad guy should be found and put inside a nuthouse. He's crazy and potentially dangerous, and when he farts, he also cyber-farts. Just can't stand the smell.
Maybe things would've been a little different if he ever got some action. But who wants to sleep with a farting eunuch? So he farted through his life, imagined being a rebel, and farted some more.
Rebel? What is this? Rebelling against the colour of monkey poop in Kandy? According to his own definition, to rebel is,
1. To fight against the government or to refuse to obey rules
2. To react against a feeling, action or plan
This eunuch isn't fighting against the government. He's licking its balls and taking its penis up his ass without any lubrication. When his ass isn't blocked by a penis, he farts on the opposition and pees on all Muslims and Tamils and other minorities. This guy isn't a rebel. If this guy calls himself a rebel because he reacts to a feeling, action or plan, American rednecks should call themselves rebels too. I mean they go like "those fucking immigrants", don't they?
He says that a rebel "is opposed to the political system in his country and tries to change it using force". Didn't I tell you this guy's dangerous. He's talking about genocide against the thambiyas who castrate pure Sinhala-Buddhists men with penises little longer than those of monkeys. He says a rebel is "a person who shows his disagreement with the ideas of people in authority." Does his tiny little monkey fucked noggin thinks that those poor Tamils and Muslims, who themselves have been butt fucked by Sinhalese people and their army, are in authority?
I tell you what Rebel of Kandy, keep on doing what you do: licking donkey balls and sucking the government's dick. The revolution will cum in a second.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
SLAF paratroopers-Air Women
SLAF's women paratroopers displyed their skills recently at Katunayake Air Force base.
Curtsey-Daily Mirror on line Edition
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
A glaring feature of the whole Grease Yaka episode: an alarming degree of violence unleashed against the police and security forces in the East.
One o f the notable features of the Grease Yaka episode has been the spate of violence associated with it resulting in death of a few persons and injuring scores of people of whom the majority being the police and security forces personals. Considerable amount of damages to the properties was also caused including the vehicles belonging to police and security forces. This may be perhaps the first time in Sri Lanka similar incident caused such an unprecedented scale of violence.
Anyone who followed the whole episode would not fail to notice the fact that there has been an alarming degree of violence directed against the Police and the Security Forces in the Eastern part of the country in the areas exclusively dominated by Muslims. While the police stations in Samanthurai, Kaththankudi, Addalachchenai and Potuvil were attacked in Kinniya it was the navy camp that was at the receiving end. Almost all the cases it was very clear that attackers took the law into their hands. They demanded the alleged Grease Yakas and the attackers to the police stations and armed forces camps who were taken into custody by the police are released. They finally succeeded in getting released all of them. While in other parts of the country in which Grease Yaka incidents were reported there had been a considerable amount of cooperation by the public with the police and the security forces personnel there had been extreme level of animosity against the latter in the East by a particular community.
What does this new phenomenon indicate? Is it a mere coincidence? Or Is the law applied in the areas dominated by Muslims in the East different from the other parts of the country? Or is it a warning against security forces and the police? Or is it an indication of a turbulent outcome in store? The authorities must immediately act to see what the real reason behind this new phenomenon is. Whatever reasons behind it, the government must take every measure to nip it in the bud. History repeats itself if we do not learn lessons from it!
PS: Meanwhile the Navy had alleged the attackers' real intension was to getting rid of the navy camp from Kinniya.
Anyone who followed the whole episode would not fail to notice the fact that there has been an alarming degree of violence directed against the Police and the Security Forces in the Eastern part of the country in the areas exclusively dominated by Muslims. While the police stations in Samanthurai, Kaththankudi, Addalachchenai and Potuvil were attacked in Kinniya it was the navy camp that was at the receiving end. Almost all the cases it was very clear that attackers took the law into their hands. They demanded the alleged Grease Yakas and the attackers to the police stations and armed forces camps who were taken into custody by the police are released. They finally succeeded in getting released all of them. While in other parts of the country in which Grease Yaka incidents were reported there had been a considerable amount of cooperation by the public with the police and the security forces personnel there had been extreme level of animosity against the latter in the East by a particular community.
What does this new phenomenon indicate? Is it a mere coincidence? Or Is the law applied in the areas dominated by Muslims in the East different from the other parts of the country? Or is it a warning against security forces and the police? Or is it an indication of a turbulent outcome in store? The authorities must immediately act to see what the real reason behind this new phenomenon is. Whatever reasons behind it, the government must take every measure to nip it in the bud. History repeats itself if we do not learn lessons from it!
PS: Meanwhile the Navy had alleged the attackers' real intension was to getting rid of the navy camp from Kinniya.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Tamil Nadu Jokers!
Anyone who is not a regular viewer who happens to tune in a local Tamil TV Channel in Sri Lanka would think that the whole Tamil Nadu is a bunch of jokers. Such is the amount of crap shown on local TV channels taken from Tamil Nadu. These craps include films, mega Tele dramas, joke scenes etc, etc. But judging its politicians' behavior one would tend to think that what's shown on TV channels is indeed a true reflection of Tamil Nadu.
Take for instance of its Chief Minister herself (She is also a film star from the Tamil screen). There is hardly a day passes that she does not spit venom against Sri Lankan government supposedly concerned by the suffering of her Tamil 'brethren' in Sri Lanka. But these outbursts have turned out to be just empty rhetoric as there has so far never been any genuine effort made to alleviate the alleged suffering of her 'brethren' here. Why can't this former actress volunteer to build at least a few houses for the IDPs, If she is so genuine in her feelings for her 'brethren'? Instead, the only means of livelihoods of her 'brethren' is mercilessly denied by allowing Tamil Nadu fishermen to poach in Sri Lankan waters. She may not be unaware of the fact that her beloved 'brethren' here got the opportunity to engage in their only livelihood after gap of thirty years.
Another biggest joke scene in display is the demand for an Indian economic embargo against Sri Lanka. I think the former Tamil Nadu actress and her cohorts don't have a brain even in the size of peanuts to understand that the trade ties between India and Sri Lanka is hugely in favor of India. What Sri Lanka is getting is mere peanuts. The sheer scale of automobile export to Sri Lanka from India itself speaks it volumes. Every road in Sri Lanka is full of Indian vehicles, you name it!-Three Wheelers, Buses, Lories, trucks, mortar bikes, scooters, tractors, cars etc, etc. The newest addition has been the Nano- cars. Sri Lanka has literally become India's scrap yard. And it is the state of Tamil Nadu that claims to have been the biggest automobile manufacturer among other states of India. So don't these jokers have brains to understand who would affect in the event of cutting the trades ties between the two countries?
The biggest joker of all is the poor Eelam looser Vaiko! (For some strange reason he is apparently not from Tamil cinema. Is he also Tamil Film actor? I don't know). Just the other day this fool was left with egg on his face suggesting the idea of economic embargoes to Man Mohan Singh. Singh is not a fool like Viko. One of the most ridicules things I heard coming out from a mouth of an Indian lately is that this nit wit Viko's suggestion to Sing that Sri Lanka Navy was getting support from China to attack Tamil Nadu fishermen. Thanks to these jokers' horribly lost Eelam project Sri Lankan armed forces became one of the most formidable counter terrorism forces in the world. Sri Lanka navy is unique in this sense. So suggesting SL Navy getting support from China to attack an unarmed bunch of civilians in boats is well enough to understand what a nit wit this Eelam looser is!
The latest news is that the Buddhist pilgrims from Sri Lanka who were in Chennai have been harassed by the Eelam looser's goons. The pilgrims have been asked to remove their cloths which had Sinhala letters and the cloths have been burnt. What a heroic deed indeed by the brave soldiers of the Sun God!
Take for instance of its Chief Minister herself (She is also a film star from the Tamil screen). There is hardly a day passes that she does not spit venom against Sri Lankan government supposedly concerned by the suffering of her Tamil 'brethren' in Sri Lanka. But these outbursts have turned out to be just empty rhetoric as there has so far never been any genuine effort made to alleviate the alleged suffering of her 'brethren' here. Why can't this former actress volunteer to build at least a few houses for the IDPs, If she is so genuine in her feelings for her 'brethren'? Instead, the only means of livelihoods of her 'brethren' is mercilessly denied by allowing Tamil Nadu fishermen to poach in Sri Lankan waters. She may not be unaware of the fact that her beloved 'brethren' here got the opportunity to engage in their only livelihood after gap of thirty years.
Another biggest joke scene in display is the demand for an Indian economic embargo against Sri Lanka. I think the former Tamil Nadu actress and her cohorts don't have a brain even in the size of peanuts to understand that the trade ties between India and Sri Lanka is hugely in favor of India. What Sri Lanka is getting is mere peanuts. The sheer scale of automobile export to Sri Lanka from India itself speaks it volumes. Every road in Sri Lanka is full of Indian vehicles, you name it!-Three Wheelers, Buses, Lories, trucks, mortar bikes, scooters, tractors, cars etc, etc. The newest addition has been the Nano- cars. Sri Lanka has literally become India's scrap yard. And it is the state of Tamil Nadu that claims to have been the biggest automobile manufacturer among other states of India. So don't these jokers have brains to understand who would affect in the event of cutting the trades ties between the two countries?
The biggest joker of all is the poor Eelam looser Vaiko! (For some strange reason he is apparently not from Tamil cinema. Is he also Tamil Film actor? I don't know). Just the other day this fool was left with egg on his face suggesting the idea of economic embargoes to Man Mohan Singh. Singh is not a fool like Viko. One of the most ridicules things I heard coming out from a mouth of an Indian lately is that this nit wit Viko's suggestion to Sing that Sri Lanka Navy was getting support from China to attack Tamil Nadu fishermen. Thanks to these jokers' horribly lost Eelam project Sri Lankan armed forces became one of the most formidable counter terrorism forces in the world. Sri Lanka navy is unique in this sense. So suggesting SL Navy getting support from China to attack an unarmed bunch of civilians in boats is well enough to understand what a nit wit this Eelam looser is!
The latest news is that the Buddhist pilgrims from Sri Lanka who were in Chennai have been harassed by the Eelam looser's goons. The pilgrims have been asked to remove their cloths which had Sinhala letters and the cloths have been burnt. What a heroic deed indeed by the brave soldiers of the Sun God!
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
The need of erasing the fabricated Tamil history from the minds of Tamil people in Sri Lanka as Europe did to rid the Nazi ideology from its societies at the end of WW-11
Dr. Susantha Gunathilake in an insightful article published in yesterday's Daily Mirror highlights the need of stringent measures that should to be taken to erase the fictional Tamil History and 'Homeland theory' implanted in minds of Tamil people in Sri Lanka, which has been created in order to meet the political aspirations of Vellala Tamil elite from Jaffna. Brainwashed and poisoned for years by this fabricated history Tamils in Sri Lanka are reluctant to shed the false concept of mono ethnic exclusively Tamil enclave in Sri Lanka. This idea is well reflected by the results of the recently concluded Local Government Election which gave the LTTE's proxy, TNA a victory in the majority of the local government bodies despite the fact that the unprecedented development efforts taken by the government in the "Northern Province giving its the highest rate of growth in the country with infrastructure reconstruction on a massive scale". The fiercely conceived fabricated history in the minds of the people makes it's easy to Tamil racist elements here and abroad to exploit them to furtherance their political aspirations. Dr. Gunathilke eloquently points out how the authorities took stupendous measures to erase the fascist Nazi ideology implanted in the minds of the people at the conclusion of the World War -11 in Europe though it took some time to completely erase it. The authorities went on to even banning 30,000 books on Nazi Ideology and "those who collaborated ideologically were removed from positions of influence".
Challenged and made helpless by the hard evidences in the form of archeological remains found length and breath of north east which are corroborated by the chronicles of their existences, the Eelamist have gone to the extent of resorting to claim an existence of a Tamil Buddhist culture in Sri Lanka. Case in point is Kadurugoda Viharaya Tamilnized as Kanthrodai
I quote some of the paragraphs of his very enlightening article
"The parallels between the LTTE and Nazi ideology are also revealing. Examples: a false exclusive mono-ethnic traditional homelands, ethnic cleansing, indoctrination of the gullible by raw racist propaganda, undisputed rule by one man, brainwashing of the young through a fictional history.
The Nazis were in power for its propaganda only for a period of 12 years from 1933 to 1945 compared with the nearly 35 years of propaganda the separatist forces carried out among Tamils in Sri Lanka. This propaganda extended to a massive invention of history. For example, the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) findings of Sinhala Buddhist remains at Kandarodai in Jaffna in 1917 by Paul Pieris and Rasanayagam, the author of Ancient Jaffna were changed by Jaffna academics during the LTTE control to be "Tamil Buddhist" unconnected with the rest of Sri Lanka. A total new fictional history indirectly justifying separatism was created and fed to the Northern population for several decades."
"The lessons learnt from Germany are very clear. Decades long, brainwashing does not vanish after a military victory. The problem is not with the Diaspora, it is here among the brainwashed. Concerted efforts should be made to clear the virus. In our case, it is to remove teaching a false invented history with fictional traditional homelands. All those who subscribe to this should be removed from government and university employment. Indian Tamil separatism was stopped after the 1962 China war through its 16th Amendment banning separatism."
I also take this as an opportunity to quote a few Tamilinized names of original Sinhala place names in north and east as I did in one of my previous articles as well. They were taken from 'Traditional Sinhala Place names of cities in Sri Lanka', a comprehensive work on the Sinhalese place names in the North and East, which have later been Tamilinized.
ATTANAVAEVA, අත්තනවැව- Achchankulam
Mannarama [Mannar district)
Meaning: There is no "achchan" listed in the usual Tamil dictionaries and Lexicons; however, close forms like 'accan' may be listed. 'Achchan' means "brother", (also father etc.) in Malayalam, and may be the source of the sinhala slang word "machang". However, there is no contextually useful meaning in it for a place-name. On the other hand, the sinhala word "Attana" refers to a plant species (Latin Dathura Alba, or Datura metal, Tamil "Umaththai"). Its occurrence in Sinhala place names is well established. The plant and seeds contain the alkaloids Hyoscine, hyoscyamine, norhyoscyanine and atropine. The plant as a whole is a narcotic, and the Tamil name "Ummaththai" is probably derived from the Sanskrit/Pali word which means (causing) "madness", or "ummmada" in Sinhala. It is poisonous. Its use in Ayurveda is well established.
ATHURUELIYA, අතුරුඑලිය- Achchelu
Jaffana (Yapanaya)
This is a common sinhala place name. "Athuru" mean "nearby" in the present context (also, it may in other contexts mean "supplementary", or "inter-mediating"). "Eliya" implies an "open place", a "cleared place", or a region held as a "common". In other contexts it may mean "a source of light". hist: Ancient Buddhist shrine and Dagoba, referred to by de Queyroz
ATHURUVAELLA- අතුරුවැල්ල -Achchuveli, Achuvely
Jaffna-(Yapanaya)
The etymology of this place-name is similar to that given in preceding discussions. "Vaella" means "shore", or a "sandy place". This name is often found in southern maritime areas in SL. This is a location of ancient Buddhist ruins; de Queyroz, discussing the fall of Jaffna says "It remained under the Portugezen sway for upwards of 40 years, wrested from the Emperor by Philippo d'Olivero when he defeated the Cingalezen forces near Achiavelli (Achuvely) by the great pagoda".
HADUGALA -හඩුගල- Adaichakal
Madakalapuwa[Batticaloa]
'Adai, Adicha, or related stubs do not occur in the Tamil Lexicons. There is a small Tank here;
HADUGALMOTTE- හඩුගල්- මොටේ- Adaikkalamoddai
Adaikkalmottai, Adukkalmoddai
Mannarama district [Mannar]
'Motte ← Modde ← Made' signifies a muddy, swampy place. The Latin word for 'marsh' is 'madeo', while Skrt. 'manda' means slime. In Tamil, Ala, Alaru Alakkar, Ceru etc., are used for mud.
AADAMPANA or AETTAMPANA or RAAMAPAENNA- ආදම්පන, ඇටිටංපන
රාම පැන්න රාමසේතු -Adampan -Adampanai, அடம்பன்
Mannarama District
Meaning. Tamil "Pan" by itself seems to have no immediate meaning, however, "pampan", and the sinhala "paalama" (පාලම) both means 'bridge'. This name may have been inspired by "Adam's bridge" near by, across the Falk straits. However, the name Adampan is found in several places which are far away from "Adam's bridge", e.g., in the North Vanni, and in the Trincomalee district (near Gomarankadavala), and hence it cannot be positively connected with Adam's bridge. Note that the old names "Rama bridge" (irāma;-cētu; இராமசேது in Tamil consistent with the Tolkkappiam rules), or Ramasethu, was replaced by "Adam's bridge" in 1804 by the British surveyor James Rennel. He was the first Surveyor General of British India. 'Siripada', (or 'Adams peak'), known also as 'Vishnupada' in the Mahabharata was also renamed "Adam's peak" by Rennel. "Setu" means bridge in Sanskrit and other source languages.
It has sometimes been claimed in some Internet blogs, without much foundation, that the Tamil word "Adampu" has been used for "bin-thambura", a creeper which grows by the sea shore, and found almost every where in the costal regions of SL. The well-known Tamil name for "bin thambura" is "attukkal". The placename "adampana" is not found in any early records, but came in during the British era. All these suggest that the place-name is unlikely to have originated from the construed name "Adampu". We believe that the old name is "aettampana". "Aettanpana', or "Aththampana" where "attana" or "Aththana" (Bot: Datura alaba)is well known. The word "aththana" occurs in plant names like Rukattana (bot:Alstonia scholaris), "Kaulaththana etc., and are well recognized plant species.
AETTAMPANA-ඇටිටංපන-Adampan
Giranikke-[Killinochchi]
See previous discussion under "adampana" in mannar
AETTAMPANTALA-AADAMPANTHALAVA, AADAMPANTHALAVA, RAAMANTALAVA- ඇටිටංපන්තල ආදම්පන්තලාව රාමන්තලාව-Adampantalavu
Mannarama
Read the discussion under "Adampan"
ATHTHANAMADE- අත්තනමඩ- Adampanmodddai
Giranikke-[Killinochchi]
Read the discussion under "Adampan", regarding the plant "aththana", and the etymology of the word "mada", "moddei" and the english "mud" under the entry "Athimottai".
ADDARAHENA –ATTAALAHENA- අද්දරහේන- Addalaichenai, Addalachenai, ApdalacChena
Ampare
Meaning: In Tamil "Addalai" has no immediate contextual meaning; it may have originated from the sinhala "addara" = "near by" , or "attaala" = "scaffolding". The sinhala, word ``attaala'' is related to the Sanskrit and Pali words for "scaffolding". It may mean a raised hut usually made of wooden beams, bamboo etc. But the common tamil usage for the latter is `Paran', and "addalai" may be a form which is not current. However, the word order is incorrect as "attaala" or "addala" is not used as an adjective. Thus "Addarahena", a common place name, is the most judicious choice for the origin of this name, while "attaalahena" is not prevalent and etymologically unlikely.
The remaining part of the name contains 'Chennai'. It is from the Sinhala "hena", i.e., 'slash-burn' cultivation plots. In Tamil 'Chenai' may mean 'army' and does not fit into the context here
AETAAPAENNAVEVA- ඇතා පැන්නවැව- Adappankulum
Mannarama-Mannar
This literarily means, in Sinhala,"The Tank into which the elephant jumped". "Aetapan" may also be a type of grass or reed (but not identified)
More names will follow with coming posts.
Challenged and made helpless by the hard evidences in the form of archeological remains found length and breath of north east which are corroborated by the chronicles of their existences, the Eelamist have gone to the extent of resorting to claim an existence of a Tamil Buddhist culture in Sri Lanka. Case in point is Kadurugoda Viharaya Tamilnized as Kanthrodai
I quote some of the paragraphs of his very enlightening article
"The parallels between the LTTE and Nazi ideology are also revealing. Examples: a false exclusive mono-ethnic traditional homelands, ethnic cleansing, indoctrination of the gullible by raw racist propaganda, undisputed rule by one man, brainwashing of the young through a fictional history.
The Nazis were in power for its propaganda only for a period of 12 years from 1933 to 1945 compared with the nearly 35 years of propaganda the separatist forces carried out among Tamils in Sri Lanka. This propaganda extended to a massive invention of history. For example, the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) findings of Sinhala Buddhist remains at Kandarodai in Jaffna in 1917 by Paul Pieris and Rasanayagam, the author of Ancient Jaffna were changed by Jaffna academics during the LTTE control to be "Tamil Buddhist" unconnected with the rest of Sri Lanka. A total new fictional history indirectly justifying separatism was created and fed to the Northern population for several decades."
"The lessons learnt from Germany are very clear. Decades long, brainwashing does not vanish after a military victory. The problem is not with the Diaspora, it is here among the brainwashed. Concerted efforts should be made to clear the virus. In our case, it is to remove teaching a false invented history with fictional traditional homelands. All those who subscribe to this should be removed from government and university employment. Indian Tamil separatism was stopped after the 1962 China war through its 16th Amendment banning separatism."
I also take this as an opportunity to quote a few Tamilinized names of original Sinhala place names in north and east as I did in one of my previous articles as well. They were taken from 'Traditional Sinhala Place names of cities in Sri Lanka', a comprehensive work on the Sinhalese place names in the North and East, which have later been Tamilinized.
ATTANAVAEVA, අත්තනවැව- Achchankulam
Mannarama [Mannar district)
Meaning: There is no "achchan" listed in the usual Tamil dictionaries and Lexicons; however, close forms like 'accan' may be listed. 'Achchan' means "brother", (also father etc.) in Malayalam, and may be the source of the sinhala slang word "machang". However, there is no contextually useful meaning in it for a place-name. On the other hand, the sinhala word "Attana" refers to a plant species (Latin Dathura Alba, or Datura metal, Tamil "Umaththai"). Its occurrence in Sinhala place names is well established. The plant and seeds contain the alkaloids Hyoscine, hyoscyamine, norhyoscyanine and atropine. The plant as a whole is a narcotic, and the Tamil name "Ummaththai" is probably derived from the Sanskrit/Pali word which means (causing) "madness", or "ummmada" in Sinhala. It is poisonous. Its use in Ayurveda is well established.
ATHURUELIYA, අතුරුඑලිය- Achchelu
Jaffana (Yapanaya)
This is a common sinhala place name. "Athuru" mean "nearby" in the present context (also, it may in other contexts mean "supplementary", or "inter-mediating"). "Eliya" implies an "open place", a "cleared place", or a region held as a "common". In other contexts it may mean "a source of light". hist: Ancient Buddhist shrine and Dagoba, referred to by de Queyroz
ATHURUVAELLA- අතුරුවැල්ල -Achchuveli, Achuvely
Jaffna-(Yapanaya)
The etymology of this place-name is similar to that given in preceding discussions. "Vaella" means "shore", or a "sandy place". This name is often found in southern maritime areas in SL. This is a location of ancient Buddhist ruins; de Queyroz, discussing the fall of Jaffna says "It remained under the Portugezen sway for upwards of 40 years, wrested from the Emperor by Philippo d'Olivero when he defeated the Cingalezen forces near Achiavelli (Achuvely) by the great pagoda".
HADUGALA -හඩුගල- Adaichakal
Madakalapuwa[Batticaloa]
'Adai, Adicha, or related stubs do not occur in the Tamil Lexicons. There is a small Tank here;
HADUGALMOTTE- හඩුගල්- මොටේ- Adaikkalamoddai
Adaikkalmottai, Adukkalmoddai
Mannarama district [Mannar]
'Motte ← Modde ← Made' signifies a muddy, swampy place. The Latin word for 'marsh' is 'madeo', while Skrt. 'manda' means slime. In Tamil, Ala, Alaru Alakkar, Ceru etc., are used for mud.
AADAMPANA or AETTAMPANA or RAAMAPAENNA- ආදම්පන, ඇටිටංපන
රාම පැන්න රාමසේතු -Adampan -Adampanai, அடம்பன்
Mannarama District
Meaning. Tamil "Pan" by itself seems to have no immediate meaning, however, "pampan", and the sinhala "paalama" (පාලම) both means 'bridge'. This name may have been inspired by "Adam's bridge" near by, across the Falk straits. However, the name Adampan is found in several places which are far away from "Adam's bridge", e.g., in the North Vanni, and in the Trincomalee district (near Gomarankadavala), and hence it cannot be positively connected with Adam's bridge. Note that the old names "Rama bridge" (irāma;-cētu; இராமசேது in Tamil consistent with the Tolkkappiam rules), or Ramasethu, was replaced by "Adam's bridge" in 1804 by the British surveyor James Rennel. He was the first Surveyor General of British India. 'Siripada', (or 'Adams peak'), known also as 'Vishnupada' in the Mahabharata was also renamed "Adam's peak" by Rennel. "Setu" means bridge in Sanskrit and other source languages.
It has sometimes been claimed in some Internet blogs, without much foundation, that the Tamil word "Adampu" has been used for "bin-thambura", a creeper which grows by the sea shore, and found almost every where in the costal regions of SL. The well-known Tamil name for "bin thambura" is "attukkal". The placename "adampana" is not found in any early records, but came in during the British era. All these suggest that the place-name is unlikely to have originated from the construed name "Adampu". We believe that the old name is "aettampana". "Aettanpana', or "Aththampana" where "attana" or "Aththana" (Bot: Datura alaba)is well known. The word "aththana" occurs in plant names like Rukattana (bot:Alstonia scholaris), "Kaulaththana etc., and are well recognized plant species.
AETTAMPANA-ඇටිටංපන-Adampan
Giranikke-[Killinochchi]
See previous discussion under "adampana" in mannar
AETTAMPANTALA-AADAMPANTHALAVA, AADAMPANTHALAVA, RAAMANTALAVA- ඇටිටංපන්තල ආදම්පන්තලාව රාමන්තලාව-Adampantalavu
Mannarama
Read the discussion under "Adampan"
ATHTHANAMADE- අත්තනමඩ- Adampanmodddai
Giranikke-[Killinochchi]
Read the discussion under "Adampan", regarding the plant "aththana", and the etymology of the word "mada", "moddei" and the english "mud" under the entry "Athimottai".
ADDARAHENA –ATTAALAHENA- අද්දරහේන- Addalaichenai, Addalachenai, ApdalacChena
Ampare
Meaning: In Tamil "Addalai" has no immediate contextual meaning; it may have originated from the sinhala "addara" = "near by" , or "attaala" = "scaffolding". The sinhala, word ``attaala'' is related to the Sanskrit and Pali words for "scaffolding". It may mean a raised hut usually made of wooden beams, bamboo etc. But the common tamil usage for the latter is `Paran', and "addalai" may be a form which is not current. However, the word order is incorrect as "attaala" or "addala" is not used as an adjective. Thus "Addarahena", a common place name, is the most judicious choice for the origin of this name, while "attaalahena" is not prevalent and etymologically unlikely.
The remaining part of the name contains 'Chennai'. It is from the Sinhala "hena", i.e., 'slash-burn' cultivation plots. In Tamil 'Chenai' may mean 'army' and does not fit into the context here
AETAAPAENNAVEVA- ඇතා පැන්නවැව- Adappankulum
Mannarama-Mannar
This literarily means, in Sinhala,"The Tank into which the elephant jumped". "Aetapan" may also be a type of grass or reed (but not identified)
More names will follow with coming posts.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Vandalism of Sinhalese Buddhist monuments in the East by fundamentalists intensified!
Destruction of Buddhist temples and monuments in the North and East is not a new phenomenon. This has been going for quite a sometime with the beginning of declination of the Sinhalese Buddhist civilization from the regions with Sinhalese population shifting to other parts of the country mainly caused by the South Indian invasions. With the extremism and fundamentalism taking root among the Tamils and Muslims the scale of destruction took a new turn with severity of destruction taking renewed vigor. The severity of vandalism in the northern districts have been such that hundreds of such places that exited in the region until early decades of the 20th century have vanished from the face of earth for ever except a few places .
However, sizable number of such places still exists in the eastern districts though they are also being subjected to a severe type of destruction at every passing day. Due to efforts made by some vigilant residents in the areas led by some Buddhists monks we were able to get a glimpse of scale of vandalism being perpetrated in the places such as Deegavapi, Muhudu Maha Viharaya and some other places in the Digamadulla District. As it is well known the biggest causes for such destructions among others have been the ever growing Muslim fundamentalism and the Muslim population explosion in the districts. The land grabbing of Buddhist temples, destruction of monuments and making use of pieces of them for construction purposes have been among the most common mode of destruction. Threatening, intimidations, doing physical harms to the resident Buddhist monks who reside in the places with great difficulties have also been most common mode of getting rid of Sinhalese Buddhist heritage from North and East.
Yet another similar attempt is reported by our fellow blogger on Kottu- Sinhala Buddhist. This time around a non- Buddhist with fundamentalist ideas Assistant Forest Officer has joined the ever growing cliché of enemies of Sinhalese Buddhism hell bent to destroy the legacy of Buddhism in the region. As mentioned earlier this instance too the particular perpetrator has resorted to threaten and intimidate the resident Buddhist Monk in the temple Venerable Gonawala Sudassilankara who lives there with great difficulties even without proper meals. He has done it several times by destroying Buddhist decorations and the name boards put up by the Department of Archeology. In order to conceal his fundamentalist intentions he makes use of his position at the department of forest to deny the Buddhists Henanegala Raja Maha Viharaya, a vast complex of mediation monastery with many Buddhist monuments and ruins strewn around.
Preserving the Sinhalese Buddhist heritage from the ever growing fundamentalism has been a stupendous challenge in monumental propositions. Those who dare to do that face unimaginable proportion of challenges including threats to their very lives. Case in point is the Deegavapi . (Contrary to what we are told, the most of the lands belonging to Deegavapi have been grabbed by Muslims with the ruins completely destroyed.). It would, therefore, be a great injustice if we don't mention some of other personalities too who have taken a great deal of their efforts to preserve the Buddhist heritage in the region. The resident chief monk of Budhdhangala Raja Maha Viharaya some time ago was ex- Brigadier Ananda Weerasekara who was well known in JVP insurgency times in late 80s as the Director General of Rehabilitation of insurgents. He did a yeomen service and was held in high esteem by the JVPs and general public alike. During he was serving in Ampara area he has done a great deal of work to preserve ruined Buddhist temples and monasteries, the most prominent examples being Samangala and Rassagala, the former being a meditating cave complex cum Sangha monastery and the latter being a monasterial complex with number of temples covering more than 100 acres.
He is also the brother of Vice-Admiral Sarath Weerasekara, the ex- Director General of Civil Defense Force during Eelam War IV time. Vice -Admiral Sarath Weerasekara made those rustic village lads and lasses to a force to be reckoned with uplifting the force's standard and their moral with better training, facilities and recognition. He is now an elected MP for Ampara district. This has been a long-felt need for poor Sinhalese in the district. His service in the capacity of an elected MP is much needed in this post-war period for poverty stricken and marginalized Sinhalese in the district who are in the danger of getting dislodged from their villages and their places of worship due to huge population expansion of Muslims. This ever increasing danger has long been ignored by our leaders due to political advantages.
However, sizable number of such places still exists in the eastern districts though they are also being subjected to a severe type of destruction at every passing day. Due to efforts made by some vigilant residents in the areas led by some Buddhists monks we were able to get a glimpse of scale of vandalism being perpetrated in the places such as Deegavapi, Muhudu Maha Viharaya and some other places in the Digamadulla District. As it is well known the biggest causes for such destructions among others have been the ever growing Muslim fundamentalism and the Muslim population explosion in the districts. The land grabbing of Buddhist temples, destruction of monuments and making use of pieces of them for construction purposes have been among the most common mode of destruction. Threatening, intimidations, doing physical harms to the resident Buddhist monks who reside in the places with great difficulties have also been most common mode of getting rid of Sinhalese Buddhist heritage from North and East.
Yet another similar attempt is reported by our fellow blogger on Kottu- Sinhala Buddhist. This time around a non- Buddhist with fundamentalist ideas Assistant Forest Officer has joined the ever growing cliché of enemies of Sinhalese Buddhism hell bent to destroy the legacy of Buddhism in the region. As mentioned earlier this instance too the particular perpetrator has resorted to threaten and intimidate the resident Buddhist Monk in the temple Venerable Gonawala Sudassilankara who lives there with great difficulties even without proper meals. He has done it several times by destroying Buddhist decorations and the name boards put up by the Department of Archeology. In order to conceal his fundamentalist intentions he makes use of his position at the department of forest to deny the Buddhists Henanegala Raja Maha Viharaya, a vast complex of mediation monastery with many Buddhist monuments and ruins strewn around.
Preserving the Sinhalese Buddhist heritage from the ever growing fundamentalism has been a stupendous challenge in monumental propositions. Those who dare to do that face unimaginable proportion of challenges including threats to their very lives. Case in point is the Deegavapi . (Contrary to what we are told, the most of the lands belonging to Deegavapi have been grabbed by Muslims with the ruins completely destroyed.). It would, therefore, be a great injustice if we don't mention some of other personalities too who have taken a great deal of their efforts to preserve the Buddhist heritage in the region. The resident chief monk of Budhdhangala Raja Maha Viharaya some time ago was ex- Brigadier Ananda Weerasekara who was well known in JVP insurgency times in late 80s as the Director General of Rehabilitation of insurgents. He did a yeomen service and was held in high esteem by the JVPs and general public alike. During he was serving in Ampara area he has done a great deal of work to preserve ruined Buddhist temples and monasteries, the most prominent examples being Samangala and Rassagala, the former being a meditating cave complex cum Sangha monastery and the latter being a monasterial complex with number of temples covering more than 100 acres.
He is also the brother of Vice-Admiral Sarath Weerasekara, the ex- Director General of Civil Defense Force during Eelam War IV time. Vice -Admiral Sarath Weerasekara made those rustic village lads and lasses to a force to be reckoned with uplifting the force's standard and their moral with better training, facilities and recognition. He is now an elected MP for Ampara district. This has been a long-felt need for poor Sinhalese in the district. His service in the capacity of an elected MP is much needed in this post-war period for poverty stricken and marginalized Sinhalese in the district who are in the danger of getting dislodged from their villages and their places of worship due to huge population expansion of Muslims. This ever increasing danger has long been ignored by our leaders due to political advantages.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Villages under the Local Government Bodies won by TNA in the North were originally inhabited by Sinhalese!
After a gap of 30 years people in the north who lived at gun point was able to taste the fruit of democracy with the successful conclusion of Local Government Election held last Saturday. When the names of the Pradeshiya Sabhas started to appear in the media, I thought it was an opt moment to enlighten the readers about the true history of those villages.
Due to the sustained distortion of the factual history of Sri Lanka and the creation of a fabricated history which was fed to Tamils by the Jaffna Velala elite to meet their political aspirations the inhabitants of those villages will perhaps be horrified to know that the very same villages that they live in today had originally been inhabited by their Sinhalese brethren a little before the colonization of Portuguese, Dutch and English started. The distorted history have blinded them to the extent that they will be reluctant to accept the fact that their ancestors largely comprise of those who were brought to the island's north and east by the colonists to grow tobacco. Due to being continuously poisoned by a false history the TNA representatives elected to the local government bodies will never imagine even in their wildest dreams that the same villages that they were elected to look after used to be the flourishing villages in which the Sinhalese were the original inhabitants.
(Sinhalese fled the areas due to invasions from the South India and spread of epidemics such as Malaria.)
The lexicological evidences such as the original names of the villages would throw more light to learn about the history of the places of which existence is being corroborated by the chronicles such as Mahavamsa, Deepawamsa and Chulawamsa. Unfortunately the great bulk of the archeological evidences such as the ruins of the Buddhist temples, again corroborated by the chronicles, have long disappeared from the face of the earth due to purposeful vandalism by the Eelamists hell bent to distort the history.
Let's take a look at the names of the local bodies that represent respective villages of which original Sinhalese names have been Tamilinized.
Following descriptions are quoted from 'Traditional Sinhala Place names of cities in Sri Lanka', a comprehensive work on the Sinhalese place names in the North and East which have later been Tamilinized.
Jaffana District
Chavakachcheri Pradeshiya Sabha
Chavakachcheri, Chaavakachcheari சாவகச்சேரி (Yapanaya [Jaffna])
JAAVAKACHERAYA, Chavakachcheriya - ජාවකච්චේරිය
Sinhala meaning: Area where Javanese people lived, "Java town"
According to the Mahavamsa, Chandrabhanu, a Javanese ruler from
Tambralinga invaded SL in the 13th Century CE. His armies landed in
Gokanna(Trinco), and used blow pipes and poisoned arrows, and ruled Jaffna
for three decades. Tambralinga is in the south isthmus of Thailand, close to Malaysia.
See entry under Jaffna.
See Dutch Map, Chiavagacherij, Chavakgatzeri, Chawagacheri
see Jaffna map1
Politics. Some 500 Muslims were expelled in 1990, a part of the 85,000 muslims expelled from the North.
See Muslim expulsion
This is the birth village of Thamilselvan, spokesperson of the LTTE since
the demise of Anton Balasingham. Tamilselvan was killed in Nov 2007
V. Kumarasvamy was the first MP of this seat in the first general election, 1947.
Delft Pradeshiya Sabha
Delft (Yapanaya [Jaffna])
NEDUNDUVA - මැදුන්දූව
නැදුන්දූව
Hist. Baldaeus,1658, Nindundiva, Dutch VOC records Nedointivo
The name 'Delft' was given by the Dutch Governor (of the VOC 1678-1681), Rijckloff van Goens. The sinhalese names 'Diveldoova', and 'Maedundoova' have been applied to this island by fishermen. It is conjectured that the word `Maedun', from the Sinhala "maedha", මැද, which has the same Sanskrit/Pali roots as the English word "middle", indicated that the island (doova) is located more or less at a middle distance from the island of Rameshwaram and the Jaffna peninsula.
The Tamil name may have also come from the same roots, and in fact, the stem நடு Natu in Tamil is used in Tamil words like Naṭuttiṭṭam to indicate a "middle location".
There is a Baobab tree here, just like in the Maanthota (Mannar) area. The island, 12km by 8km, is accessed by boat from the Kurikattuvan Jetty. in Uruthota (Kayts), and has some 6000 civilians, mostly fishermen. During Portuguese times, the name "cow island" was used, and the ruins of a Portuguese fort exists. Herds of wild ponies, first introduced during Portuguese times, are still found in the island.
Mr. D. T. Devendra, during a visit to Nedundoova in the 1940s, discovered a mound which on closer examination turned out to be a Dagoba. Other ancient ruins have also been noted. Chola remains of Hindu sites ( a 12-meter long,3 meters wide temple) from the 11th century have also been found in 2010. No recent archaeological work has been done.
During the LTTE war, this was a naval base
history of the region
Karainagar Pradeshiya Sabha
Karainagar, Kaarainakar, காலரநகர் (Yapanaya [Jaffna])
KARANAGARA- කරානගර
Meaning. In S. and T., town by the sea.
Ancient Buddhist site, mentioned in the Nampotha as 'Karadivayina'. It was known even in Tamil as 'Kaaraitheevu'. The name change occurred with the construction of the Punnali causeway in the late 19th Century, and officially in 1922. Dutch records give the name 'Nieuw Amsterdam'. However, its oldest name was 'Kaaradeepa', also previously known as 'Ahideepa', as stated in the Buddhist Akitti Jaathaka, which relates the story of the Buddhist recluse Akitti who came to Kaaradeepa. Akitti lived on a diet of Kaara leaves. Hence the name may have arisen from 'Kaara', a thorny shrub. The Paali name 'Kaara' is used even in south Indian inscriptions. Thus Tamil inscriptions (Udayendiram copper plates) refer to Kaara trees, said to be Webera tetrandra. The 'bodhsathva' Akitti is also known as Agastiya in the Jaataka maala, but Malalasekera warns against confusion with the Vedic Sage Agastiya. Even today there is an ancient buddhist site known as Vearppiddi (Veherapitiya). Megalithic burial sites are found at Chaththiranthai (Chatrangana - i.e., arena for hoisting flags.)
Karainagar had a Nordic boat-building aid program since the 1980s.
The Dutch also built a small fort called Hammanhiel, used today as a
SL Naval Base
Kayts Pradeshiya Sabha
Kayts (Yapanaya [Jaffna])- ඌරුතොට
URATHOTA, URATARA, TANJADOOVA
Also 'Uraturai' and 'Urkavalthurai' were the Tamilized forms. Ancient pre-CE Buddhist site. Mentioned in the Nampotha as Tannidivayina. It was a major Naval base under Parakramabahu I (12th century CE). Military History of Sri Lanka
See also Ports of Ancient Sri Lanka, by J. Amarasekera.
Urathota is mentioned in the 'Nainathivu' inscription (written partly in Tamil), of Parakramabahu.
It is mentioned in the 'Thovila' ritual 'Kohombakankariya'. During the Portuguese period, it was known as Cais [meaning quay], giving rise to the current English name. Baldaeus, 1658, used the name Ourature'.
Ealam wars, Kobbekaduwa's death etc.
Nallur Pradeshiya Sabha
Nallur (Giranikke, [kilinochchi])
NALLURUVA, YAHAPURA- නල්ලූරුව
Nallur (Yapanaya [Jaffna])
NALLURUWA, YAHAPURA
Eastern Edge of Jaffna, on the road to Irupalai. Old "Kandaswami Kovil", re-built by Parakrmabahu's generals in the 15th century as a goodwill gesture, destroyed by the Portuguese and rebuilt in th 18th century Nallur may have been the capital of various local kings of Jaffna. and it has been claimed to be the same as Chunguinayanar (Singai City). However, see Rasanayagam, History of Jaffna. The work 'Kailayamaalai' refers to Nallur as Nallaimoodhoor, where 'Moodhoor' may be Mooduthora→Modara, i.e., Sinhala (portal to the sea), or 'Mootur', i.e, 'old city' in Tamil as well since (p)oor=pura was absorbed in to T. Bhuvanekabahu's(1470-78) viceroy Sapumal Kumara ruled from Nallur. See Giritharan for a recent discussion which is more of a nationalistic treatment going beyond empirical historiography. LTTE 'fast-unto death' human-sacrifice of Tileepan was staged here. n.b. Nallur is "good-village", or "nalla-oor" in Tamil. This is a commonly found Tamil-village name. There is also a "Nalluruwa" in Panadura, originally, "Nalapura". Pandit AM Gunesekera (1890s) had suggested that Nalluruva was originally 'Yahapura'.
President Rajapaksa visits Nallur Temple, Jan 10-2010
Point Pedro Pradeshiya Sabha
Point Pedro, Pt. Pedro (Yapanaya [Jaffna])- ප්රේරුතුඩුව
වක්තුඩුව
PEDURU THUDUVA,
This is a name introduced by Portuguese sea farers. Older names "Kapu Thutduva", "kava thuduva" and "vak-thuduva--> Vaththuduva" also seeme to have existed. "Vartha", "Vak", "kava" etc., mean circular, and may have referred to the shape of the coastline here, when the easterly extension of the shore ends and the shore line curves southwards. In Pali, 'Vartha" becomes Vatta", and in Sinhala it changes to "Vaka". A recognized transposition of phonetic elements may change "Vaka" to "kava". "Varthi" in Sanskrit also stands for "mfn. growing near the water (said of water-plants)", cf. Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dict.; or "Ocean" etc.,. In Tamil, the name Parithithurai has been used. Here again, Parithi may have come from "Vartha", the Sanskrit word for "cirum-circular", or from "ocean", Sea shells etc., accepted into old Tamil.
This is an old sea-farer town. See Valvettithurai sailors Westward Ho
G. G. Ponnambalam entered politics by winning this seat in 1934, where he defeated Sri Pathmanathan of the P. Ramanathan family. Prior to GGP, this was the "home seat of K. Balasingham, who was part of the "Jaffna boycott" of the Donoughmore commission proposals. 1931. See Jane Russell, Communal Politics under the Donoughmore Constitution, 1931-1947 (Tissara Publishers, 1982, Dehiwala, Sri Lanka). see click "map 1 Jaffna peninsula" after clicking here.<br
</br Point Pedro was the landing stage for many acts of sea piracy carried out by the Tamil Tigers:
In June 2000, LTTE destroyed the MV Mercs Uhana off Point Pedro
In September 2001, LTTE attacked the MV Pride off Point Pedro
In October 2001, LTTE attacked the MT Dunhinda off Point Pedro
In January 2007, MV Liverpooldelivering relief supplies to Jaffna was attacked off Point Pedro.
Vadamaradchi South West Pradeshiya Sabha
Vadamarachchi,Vadamaradchi,Vedamarachchi, Vatamaracci (Yapanaya [Jaffna])
VA`DDIMURAEKIYA- වැදි මුරැකිය
hist. Baldaeus, 1658 has recorded name forms.
Disc. The name in S. could mean Watch location
(Murakiya → murachchiya)
of the Vedda folk; or 'Vaedi' simply means "arrive = vadeema".
This location controls access to the Vanni from the Yapanaya peninsula.
It is a district subdivision and not a town by itself
War: Army/navy camps, see Gatakaduwa (Kaddaikadu) and
Weralakuruna (Vettlakerni)
See Vadamarchchi debacle etc
SL military medal
Operation Liberation and Eealam war I
Velanai Pradeshiya Sabha
Velanai (Yapanaya [Jaffna])- බෙල්ලන
BELLANNA
Disc.- 'Velan' in Tamil connotes meanings related to the Velala caste, as well as to Skandha.
However, this part of the ocean and shore were connected with
Oyster fishery, and we consider that to be the origin of the name,
where "bella" is generic Sinhala word for Oysters, Clams etc.
'Muttu' or pearl fisheries were also part of the tradition here.
Near Uruthota (Kayts), Perumkulam Muttumari Amman Kovil
Giranake District
Karachchi Pradeshiya Sabha
Karachchi, (Giranikke[Killinochchi])
KARACHCHIYA- කරච්චිය
"Kara" refers to a location close to the shore. ``Rachchiya'' is derived from "(a)rajjya", which refers to an administrative center, occupied by an "Aarachchi". Thus Karachchi, or "Kara-rajji" was an old administrative center in the region, maintained mainly to collect taxes associated with the trade in the area, going across the Uttara Desha and the Vanni. Regional map
Pachchilaipalli Pradeshiya Sabha
Pachchilaipalli, Periya Pachchilai Pallai (Giranikke, [kilinochchi], Yapanaya [Jaffna])
PATHTHIRAPAHALA, PATHTHIRAPALLIYA- පත්තිරපහල
Hist. Baldeus, 1658, Patchiarapahlle
Disc.- 'Pathhira' tree is also known as "rata-goraka" tree Skrit: Pichchalabija, Malaylam, K.: Paccila, T: Pachchila. Botany: Garcinia family. 'Palli' could refer to a non-hindu (e.g, jain, buddhist) shrine or, a low-lying region, or 'back-yard, and may imply 'burial grounds'. Also, 'palli','halli, alli' mean village or place ('pala' in S.), a current usage in telugu and kannada (c.f., Thiruchirapalli, Jalahalli.) It also means a place of worship as villages usually involved a temple. In modern usage in SL, it refers to a Christian church or mosque.
Poonakary Pradeshiya Sabha
Poonakary(Giranikke[Killinochchi])
PINKARAYA, PUNYAKARAYA- පින්කරය
පුන්ය කරය
This the name of the region, near the western coast. From the Sanskrit, to "Purify", or "having merit"
C.f., also, Punaka, an old name of Pune, Maharashtra, in India.
There is a copper-plate from the Rashtrakoota period indicating that Pune,
in India was known as "Punya-Vishya" in the 10th century CE. Regional map
Mooladuwa District
Manthai East Pradeshiya Sabha
Manthai, Mantai (Mannarama [Mannar])- මාන්තේ
MAANTHÉ MAANTE, Maennava
The name "maennava" is related to "Tammmaennava", and "Manthai" is a close cognate of "Maanthota". This location has been linked with the legend of Vijaya.
Map and Army action 2008
Puthukudiyiruppu Pradeshiya Sabha
Puthukudiyiruppu,Puthukkudiyiruppu (Madakalapuwa [Batticaloa])
ALUTHKULISSA- අලුත්කුලිස්ස
n.b., this is a second entry near Batti; previous near Mulativu. Loacated 5 miles out of Batti., on the Galamuna(kalmunai) road. UTHR-J 1995 Dec. report.
Thunukkai Pradeshiya Sabha
Thunukkai, Tunukkai (Mooladoova [Mullaitivu])
DUNUKAVA, DUNUKEYYAWA- දුනුකාව
Hist.- Ancient Buddhist site. The Tunukkai inscription
in Sinhala by Kasyapa (10th CE), and by Dappula IV, are significant.
See also Vavnikulam War. Alleged location of LTTE jails
see report, April 2006
Named Dunukava in Vanni buddhist sites map
Manthota District
Manthai West Pradeshiya Sabha
Manthai, Mantai (Mannarama [Mannar])- මාන්තේ
MAANTHÉ MAANTE, Maennava
The name "maennava" is related to "Tammmaennava", and "Manthai" is a close cognate of "Maanthota". This location has been linked with the legend of Vijaya.
Musali Pradeshiya Sabha
Musali, முசலி (Mannarama [Mannar]) MUHALA, MUSALA- මෝහල, මුසල
The AGA division with the same name was created in 1981. The name is most probably from the sanskrit Musalee→Muhala (crocodile) and thus refers to a place (e.g, swamp, tank) with crocodiles, (kimbula in Sinhala); Chaanaakam in Tamil; Crocodylus Palustris in L. The name could also refer to "face, mouth, bud or flower" as in "Kehel-muha", (flower of the plantain) or in the Skrew-pine ((Pandanus odoratissimus). Note that in Skrt. "Muha" or 'Mukha" may have this meaning and exists in standard Sinhala and literary Tamil. The Muhala (Musali) village is in an area which was called "Muhala pattuva", or "Musalai pattuva", where "pattuva" is a subdivision of a ``Korale''. Note that the sinhala "Patuna" (e.g., as in Yapa Patune, c.f., Jaffna) and the corresponding sanskrit word "pattana" is used in the Mahabharata to denote a town or village, and "Dharmapattana" is a name given to the city of "Sravasti" in Pali. Enter Pattana into Univ. of Cologne dictionary
See the write up under අගස්තිමුරේ Akattimurippu.
See water management in Ancient Lanka
Nanattan Pradeshiya Sabha
Nanattan (Mannarama [Mannar])
NAVANTHANA- නවන්තැන
See Naanaaddan-නානදද්න
Due to the sustained distortion of the factual history of Sri Lanka and the creation of a fabricated history which was fed to Tamils by the Jaffna Velala elite to meet their political aspirations the inhabitants of those villages will perhaps be horrified to know that the very same villages that they live in today had originally been inhabited by their Sinhalese brethren a little before the colonization of Portuguese, Dutch and English started. The distorted history have blinded them to the extent that they will be reluctant to accept the fact that their ancestors largely comprise of those who were brought to the island's north and east by the colonists to grow tobacco. Due to being continuously poisoned by a false history the TNA representatives elected to the local government bodies will never imagine even in their wildest dreams that the same villages that they were elected to look after used to be the flourishing villages in which the Sinhalese were the original inhabitants.
(Sinhalese fled the areas due to invasions from the South India and spread of epidemics such as Malaria.)
The lexicological evidences such as the original names of the villages would throw more light to learn about the history of the places of which existence is being corroborated by the chronicles such as Mahavamsa, Deepawamsa and Chulawamsa. Unfortunately the great bulk of the archeological evidences such as the ruins of the Buddhist temples, again corroborated by the chronicles, have long disappeared from the face of the earth due to purposeful vandalism by the Eelamists hell bent to distort the history.
Let's take a look at the names of the local bodies that represent respective villages of which original Sinhalese names have been Tamilinized.
Following descriptions are quoted from 'Traditional Sinhala Place names of cities in Sri Lanka', a comprehensive work on the Sinhalese place names in the North and East which have later been Tamilinized.
Jaffana District
Chavakachcheri Pradeshiya Sabha
Chavakachcheri, Chaavakachcheari சாவகச்சேரி (Yapanaya [Jaffna])
JAAVAKACHERAYA, Chavakachcheriya - ජාවකච්චේරිය
Sinhala meaning: Area where Javanese people lived, "Java town"
According to the Mahavamsa, Chandrabhanu, a Javanese ruler from
Tambralinga invaded SL in the 13th Century CE. His armies landed in
Gokanna(Trinco), and used blow pipes and poisoned arrows, and ruled Jaffna
for three decades. Tambralinga is in the south isthmus of Thailand, close to Malaysia.
See entry under Jaffna.
See Dutch Map, Chiavagacherij, Chavakgatzeri, Chawagacheri
see Jaffna map1
Politics. Some 500 Muslims were expelled in 1990, a part of the 85,000 muslims expelled from the North.
See Muslim expulsion
This is the birth village of Thamilselvan, spokesperson of the LTTE since
the demise of Anton Balasingham. Tamilselvan was killed in Nov 2007
V. Kumarasvamy was the first MP of this seat in the first general election, 1947.
Delft Pradeshiya Sabha
Delft (Yapanaya [Jaffna])
NEDUNDUVA - මැදුන්දූව
නැදුන්දූව
Hist. Baldaeus,1658, Nindundiva, Dutch VOC records Nedointivo
The name 'Delft' was given by the Dutch Governor (of the VOC 1678-1681), Rijckloff van Goens. The sinhalese names 'Diveldoova', and 'Maedundoova' have been applied to this island by fishermen. It is conjectured that the word `Maedun', from the Sinhala "maedha", මැද, which has the same Sanskrit/Pali roots as the English word "middle", indicated that the island (doova) is located more or less at a middle distance from the island of Rameshwaram and the Jaffna peninsula.
The Tamil name may have also come from the same roots, and in fact, the stem நடு Natu in Tamil is used in Tamil words like Naṭuttiṭṭam to indicate a "middle location".
There is a Baobab tree here, just like in the Maanthota (Mannar) area. The island, 12km by 8km, is accessed by boat from the Kurikattuvan Jetty. in Uruthota (Kayts), and has some 6000 civilians, mostly fishermen. During Portuguese times, the name "cow island" was used, and the ruins of a Portuguese fort exists. Herds of wild ponies, first introduced during Portuguese times, are still found in the island.
Mr. D. T. Devendra, during a visit to Nedundoova in the 1940s, discovered a mound which on closer examination turned out to be a Dagoba. Other ancient ruins have also been noted. Chola remains of Hindu sites ( a 12-meter long,3 meters wide temple) from the 11th century have also been found in 2010. No recent archaeological work has been done.
During the LTTE war, this was a naval base
history of the region
Karainagar Pradeshiya Sabha
Karainagar, Kaarainakar, காலரநகர் (Yapanaya [Jaffna])
KARANAGARA- කරානගර
Meaning. In S. and T., town by the sea.
Ancient Buddhist site, mentioned in the Nampotha as 'Karadivayina'. It was known even in Tamil as 'Kaaraitheevu'. The name change occurred with the construction of the Punnali causeway in the late 19th Century, and officially in 1922. Dutch records give the name 'Nieuw Amsterdam'. However, its oldest name was 'Kaaradeepa', also previously known as 'Ahideepa', as stated in the Buddhist Akitti Jaathaka, which relates the story of the Buddhist recluse Akitti who came to Kaaradeepa. Akitti lived on a diet of Kaara leaves. Hence the name may have arisen from 'Kaara', a thorny shrub. The Paali name 'Kaara' is used even in south Indian inscriptions. Thus Tamil inscriptions (Udayendiram copper plates) refer to Kaara trees, said to be Webera tetrandra. The 'bodhsathva' Akitti is also known as Agastiya in the Jaataka maala, but Malalasekera warns against confusion with the Vedic Sage Agastiya. Even today there is an ancient buddhist site known as Vearppiddi (Veherapitiya). Megalithic burial sites are found at Chaththiranthai (Chatrangana - i.e., arena for hoisting flags.)
Karainagar had a Nordic boat-building aid program since the 1980s.
The Dutch also built a small fort called Hammanhiel, used today as a
SL Naval Base
Kayts Pradeshiya Sabha
Kayts (Yapanaya [Jaffna])- ඌරුතොට
URATHOTA, URATARA, TANJADOOVA
Also 'Uraturai' and 'Urkavalthurai' were the Tamilized forms. Ancient pre-CE Buddhist site. Mentioned in the Nampotha as Tannidivayina. It was a major Naval base under Parakramabahu I (12th century CE). Military History of Sri Lanka
See also Ports of Ancient Sri Lanka, by J. Amarasekera.
Urathota is mentioned in the 'Nainathivu' inscription (written partly in Tamil), of Parakramabahu.
It is mentioned in the 'Thovila' ritual 'Kohombakankariya'. During the Portuguese period, it was known as Cais [meaning quay], giving rise to the current English name. Baldaeus, 1658, used the name Ourature'.
Ealam wars, Kobbekaduwa's death etc.
Nallur Pradeshiya Sabha
Nallur (Giranikke, [kilinochchi])
NALLURUVA, YAHAPURA- නල්ලූරුව
Nallur (Yapanaya [Jaffna])
NALLURUWA, YAHAPURA
Eastern Edge of Jaffna, on the road to Irupalai. Old "Kandaswami Kovil", re-built by Parakrmabahu's generals in the 15th century as a goodwill gesture, destroyed by the Portuguese and rebuilt in th 18th century Nallur may have been the capital of various local kings of Jaffna. and it has been claimed to be the same as Chunguinayanar (Singai City). However, see Rasanayagam, History of Jaffna. The work 'Kailayamaalai' refers to Nallur as Nallaimoodhoor, where 'Moodhoor' may be Mooduthora→Modara, i.e., Sinhala (portal to the sea), or 'Mootur', i.e, 'old city' in Tamil as well since (p)oor=pura was absorbed in to T. Bhuvanekabahu's(1470-78) viceroy Sapumal Kumara ruled from Nallur. See Giritharan for a recent discussion which is more of a nationalistic treatment going beyond empirical historiography. LTTE 'fast-unto death' human-sacrifice of Tileepan was staged here. n.b. Nallur is "good-village", or "nalla-oor" in Tamil. This is a commonly found Tamil-village name. There is also a "Nalluruwa" in Panadura, originally, "Nalapura". Pandit AM Gunesekera (1890s) had suggested that Nalluruva was originally 'Yahapura'.
President Rajapaksa visits Nallur Temple, Jan 10-2010
Point Pedro Pradeshiya Sabha
Point Pedro, Pt. Pedro (Yapanaya [Jaffna])- ප්රේරුතුඩුව
වක්තුඩුව
PEDURU THUDUVA,
This is a name introduced by Portuguese sea farers. Older names "Kapu Thutduva", "kava thuduva" and "vak-thuduva--> Vaththuduva" also seeme to have existed. "Vartha", "Vak", "kava" etc., mean circular, and may have referred to the shape of the coastline here, when the easterly extension of the shore ends and the shore line curves southwards. In Pali, 'Vartha" becomes Vatta", and in Sinhala it changes to "Vaka". A recognized transposition of phonetic elements may change "Vaka" to "kava". "Varthi" in Sanskrit also stands for "mfn. growing near the water (said of water-plants)", cf. Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dict.; or "Ocean" etc.,. In Tamil, the name Parithithurai has been used. Here again, Parithi may have come from "Vartha", the Sanskrit word for "cirum-circular", or from "ocean", Sea shells etc., accepted into old Tamil.
This is an old sea-farer town. See Valvettithurai sailors Westward Ho
G. G. Ponnambalam entered politics by winning this seat in 1934, where he defeated Sri Pathmanathan of the P. Ramanathan family. Prior to GGP, this was the "home seat of K. Balasingham, who was part of the "Jaffna boycott" of the Donoughmore commission proposals. 1931. See Jane Russell, Communal Politics under the Donoughmore Constitution, 1931-1947 (Tissara Publishers, 1982, Dehiwala, Sri Lanka). see click "map 1 Jaffna peninsula" after clicking here.<br
</br Point Pedro was the landing stage for many acts of sea piracy carried out by the Tamil Tigers:
In June 2000, LTTE destroyed the MV Mercs Uhana off Point Pedro
In September 2001, LTTE attacked the MV Pride off Point Pedro
In October 2001, LTTE attacked the MT Dunhinda off Point Pedro
In January 2007, MV Liverpooldelivering relief supplies to Jaffna was attacked off Point Pedro.
Vadamaradchi South West Pradeshiya Sabha
Vadamarachchi,Vadamaradchi,Vedamarachchi, Vatamaracci (Yapanaya [Jaffna])
VA`DDIMURAEKIYA- වැදි මුරැකිය
hist. Baldaeus, 1658 has recorded name forms.
Disc. The name in S. could mean Watch location
(Murakiya → murachchiya)
of the Vedda folk; or 'Vaedi' simply means "arrive = vadeema".
This location controls access to the Vanni from the Yapanaya peninsula.
It is a district subdivision and not a town by itself
War: Army/navy camps, see Gatakaduwa (Kaddaikadu) and
Weralakuruna (Vettlakerni)
See Vadamarchchi debacle etc
SL military medal
Operation Liberation and Eealam war I
Velanai Pradeshiya Sabha
Velanai (Yapanaya [Jaffna])- බෙල්ලන
BELLANNA
Disc.- 'Velan' in Tamil connotes meanings related to the Velala caste, as well as to Skandha.
However, this part of the ocean and shore were connected with
Oyster fishery, and we consider that to be the origin of the name,
where "bella" is generic Sinhala word for Oysters, Clams etc.
'Muttu' or pearl fisheries were also part of the tradition here.
Near Uruthota (Kayts), Perumkulam Muttumari Amman Kovil
Giranake District
Karachchi Pradeshiya Sabha
Karachchi, (Giranikke[Killinochchi])
KARACHCHIYA- කරච්චිය
"Kara" refers to a location close to the shore. ``Rachchiya'' is derived from "(a)rajjya", which refers to an administrative center, occupied by an "Aarachchi". Thus Karachchi, or "Kara-rajji" was an old administrative center in the region, maintained mainly to collect taxes associated with the trade in the area, going across the Uttara Desha and the Vanni. Regional map
Pachchilaipalli Pradeshiya Sabha
Pachchilaipalli, Periya Pachchilai Pallai (Giranikke, [kilinochchi], Yapanaya [Jaffna])
PATHTHIRAPAHALA, PATHTHIRAPALLIYA- පත්තිරපහල
Hist. Baldeus, 1658, Patchiarapahlle
Disc.- 'Pathhira' tree is also known as "rata-goraka" tree Skrit: Pichchalabija, Malaylam, K.: Paccila, T: Pachchila. Botany: Garcinia family. 'Palli' could refer to a non-hindu (e.g, jain, buddhist) shrine or, a low-lying region, or 'back-yard, and may imply 'burial grounds'. Also, 'palli','halli, alli' mean village or place ('pala' in S.), a current usage in telugu and kannada (c.f., Thiruchirapalli, Jalahalli.) It also means a place of worship as villages usually involved a temple. In modern usage in SL, it refers to a Christian church or mosque.
Poonakary Pradeshiya Sabha
Poonakary(Giranikke[Killinochchi])
PINKARAYA, PUNYAKARAYA- පින්කරය
පුන්ය කරය
This the name of the region, near the western coast. From the Sanskrit, to "Purify", or "having merit"
C.f., also, Punaka, an old name of Pune, Maharashtra, in India.
There is a copper-plate from the Rashtrakoota period indicating that Pune,
in India was known as "Punya-Vishya" in the 10th century CE. Regional map
Mooladuwa District
Manthai East Pradeshiya Sabha
Manthai, Mantai (Mannarama [Mannar])- මාන්තේ
MAANTHÉ MAANTE, Maennava
The name "maennava" is related to "Tammmaennava", and "Manthai" is a close cognate of "Maanthota". This location has been linked with the legend of Vijaya.
Map and Army action 2008
Puthukudiyiruppu Pradeshiya Sabha
Puthukudiyiruppu,Puthukkudiyiruppu (Madakalapuwa [Batticaloa])
ALUTHKULISSA- අලුත්කුලිස්ස
n.b., this is a second entry near Batti; previous near Mulativu. Loacated 5 miles out of Batti., on the Galamuna(kalmunai) road. UTHR-J 1995 Dec. report.
Thunukkai Pradeshiya Sabha
Thunukkai, Tunukkai (Mooladoova [Mullaitivu])
DUNUKAVA, DUNUKEYYAWA- දුනුකාව
Hist.- Ancient Buddhist site. The Tunukkai inscription
in Sinhala by Kasyapa (10th CE), and by Dappula IV, are significant.
See also Vavnikulam War. Alleged location of LTTE jails
see report, April 2006
Named Dunukava in Vanni buddhist sites map
Manthota District
Manthai West Pradeshiya Sabha
Manthai, Mantai (Mannarama [Mannar])- මාන්තේ
MAANTHÉ MAANTE, Maennava
The name "maennava" is related to "Tammmaennava", and "Manthai" is a close cognate of "Maanthota". This location has been linked with the legend of Vijaya.
Musali Pradeshiya Sabha
Musali, முசலி (Mannarama [Mannar]) MUHALA, MUSALA- මෝහල, මුසල
The AGA division with the same name was created in 1981. The name is most probably from the sanskrit Musalee→Muhala (crocodile) and thus refers to a place (e.g, swamp, tank) with crocodiles, (kimbula in Sinhala); Chaanaakam in Tamil; Crocodylus Palustris in L. The name could also refer to "face, mouth, bud or flower" as in "Kehel-muha", (flower of the plantain) or in the Skrew-pine ((Pandanus odoratissimus). Note that in Skrt. "Muha" or 'Mukha" may have this meaning and exists in standard Sinhala and literary Tamil. The Muhala (Musali) village is in an area which was called "Muhala pattuva", or "Musalai pattuva", where "pattuva" is a subdivision of a ``Korale''. Note that the sinhala "Patuna" (e.g., as in Yapa Patune, c.f., Jaffna) and the corresponding sanskrit word "pattana" is used in the Mahabharata to denote a town or village, and "Dharmapattana" is a name given to the city of "Sravasti" in Pali. Enter Pattana into Univ. of Cologne dictionary
See the write up under අගස්තිමුරේ Akattimurippu.
See water management in Ancient Lanka
Nanattan Pradeshiya Sabha
Nanattan (Mannarama [Mannar])
NAVANTHANA- නවන්තැන
See Naanaaddan-නානදද්න
Monday, July 25, 2011
Sri Lanka should accept the lies spread by the LTTE rump for 13 million Dollars!
Yet another nasty effort by the Western diplomats doing politics in Sri Lanka to do a regime change and destabilize the country back fired. On the eve of Election Day for the local government bodies the US government's decision to halt aids to Sri Lanka was announced. The intention was clear: an attempt to discourage voters to vote for the UPFA. But what happened was entirely opposite. UPFA registered a resounding victory.
The electorate knows that it is this government that can withhold the malicious international campaign currently going on against the democratically elected government. And also it is an indication that they are fairly satisfied with the current development works going on in the country.
The latest news is that the US is going to halt the 13 million US dollars aids to Sri Lanka. In other words Sri Lanka should accept the lies spread by the LTTE rump for 13 million dollars. That's the way the US, the so called Supreme Guardian of the 'Human Rights' and the Citadel of the protector of the 'democracy' tries to spread the democracy around the world.
The electorate knows that it is this government that can withhold the malicious international campaign currently going on against the democratically elected government. And also it is an indication that they are fairly satisfied with the current development works going on in the country.
The latest news is that the US is going to halt the 13 million US dollars aids to Sri Lanka. In other words Sri Lanka should accept the lies spread by the LTTE rump for 13 million dollars. That's the way the US, the so called Supreme Guardian of the 'Human Rights' and the Citadel of the protector of the 'democracy' tries to spread the democracy around the world.
NGO vultures and Al-Jazeera!
One of the icons of the Peace- NGO Brigade in Sri Lanka Jehan Perera who is financed by the Dollars, Euros and Krones accused the government in an interview given to Al-Jazeera last Saturday that military presence on the polling day discouraged voters from visiting polling booths in the North. What Jehan Perea and his Western masters' sole intention was to ridicule the present government's effort to re-introduce to a population who was at gun point for 30 long years an elected representative governance system.
Giving armed protection to polling booths and its environs by the police and armed forces is not new thing to this country and many other countries in this part of the world. The election related malpractices and violence which started from mid 1970's compelled the successive governments to deploy members of the security forces on election days. However, the deployment of armed forces on elections days was hardly observed recently in the areas outside the North and East except in the areas likely to create trouble. (At present Government refrains from deploying even armed forces on polling days, instead STF-the elite unit of police deployed outside North and East). But in the backdrop of conducting the first ever election close on the heels of defeat of the most ruthless terrorist organization of which rump hell bent to find a way from abroad to destabilize the country, the government can't take chances. Government can't afford to allow those sinister forces to take the upper hand to mar the election.
Al-Jazeera deliberately showed a policeman constable on sentry outside a polling centre carrying a rifle which is normal thing on election days in any parts of the country. Then Al-Jazeera showed a soldier who was on sentry duty inside a guard room on the road side. It is similar to NGO brigades' and their Western masters' hue and cry some time ago over the barbed wire fences around the IDP camps. Though it is not seen in the West it is common thing in Sri Lanka that the plots of lands of households in villages are fenced with barbed wire. The problem is that the local NGO stooges of the West have never stepped out of Colombo to see these things in villages. Their world is limited to the four walls of air-conditioned rooms in Colombo and the lies spread by the Tamilnet. So it is not surprising about NGO vultures' criticism about government's effort to hold election in the North and East and give the people a chance to enjoy and live under a democratic rule. That's the last thing that they want to happen. That's because NGO Vultures need carcasses to feast!
Giving armed protection to polling booths and its environs by the police and armed forces is not new thing to this country and many other countries in this part of the world. The election related malpractices and violence which started from mid 1970's compelled the successive governments to deploy members of the security forces on election days. However, the deployment of armed forces on elections days was hardly observed recently in the areas outside the North and East except in the areas likely to create trouble. (At present Government refrains from deploying even armed forces on polling days, instead STF-the elite unit of police deployed outside North and East). But in the backdrop of conducting the first ever election close on the heels of defeat of the most ruthless terrorist organization of which rump hell bent to find a way from abroad to destabilize the country, the government can't take chances. Government can't afford to allow those sinister forces to take the upper hand to mar the election.
Al-Jazeera deliberately showed a policeman constable on sentry outside a polling centre carrying a rifle which is normal thing on election days in any parts of the country. Then Al-Jazeera showed a soldier who was on sentry duty inside a guard room on the road side. It is similar to NGO brigades' and their Western masters' hue and cry some time ago over the barbed wire fences around the IDP camps. Though it is not seen in the West it is common thing in Sri Lanka that the plots of lands of households in villages are fenced with barbed wire. The problem is that the local NGO stooges of the West have never stepped out of Colombo to see these things in villages. Their world is limited to the four walls of air-conditioned rooms in Colombo and the lies spread by the Tamilnet. So it is not surprising about NGO vultures' criticism about government's effort to hold election in the North and East and give the people a chance to enjoy and live under a democratic rule. That's the last thing that they want to happen. That's because NGO Vultures need carcasses to feast!
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Indian TATA Personal Carries donated to Sri Lanka Army by Americans! How funny eh?
It is anyway bizarre move on the part of Americans-buying Indian made military hardware and donating to Sri Lanka: a load of contradictions it seems!
As my friend pointed out there are many bizarre things in the photos. See the logos on the doors: "Partners". What a bizarre partnership it is while arm twisting Sri Lanka on alleged war crimes, Darusman report, C-04 and harboring and giving all the support to the LTTE rump in the USA. In short, how does a 'War Criminal' become a partner? And also the logo tells us that SL and USA are 'partners' today, tomorrow and yesterday. Is that true? The following quote from the today's Island's editorial speaks volumes about how the US supported Sri Lanka in the past.
"US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said, in New Delhi, that the US would fully cooperate with India to thwart terror attacks against the latter. This pledge is ironic in that about three decades ago the US just looked the other way when Sri Lanka pleaded for help to protect itself against separatist terrorism which India, a Russian ally at that time, promoted to penalise it for having crossed over to the US camp under pro-American President J. R. Jayewardene's government. Sri Lanka has received little or no military assistance from the US to fight terrorism. Former US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Jeffrey Lunstead told US Foreign Relations Committee on Feb. 24, 2009 that the US military relationship with Sri Lanka was almost nil."
I also quote below some comments made by my friend after seeing this bizarre incident. It sums up what Americans are up to and where are they now.
"Interesting! Is the US so bankrupt but yet wants to yield influence by showing they can still provide military hardware? So with shitty pocket money they are buying TATA trucks (that's all Butenis can offered to buy these days I guess) for Army to 'counter balance' support from China and with this 4 trucks they'll expect 100 trucks worth favors and influence returned for the next century at least!
But gone are the days when US used to give ship loads of 10 ton 18 cylinder MAC trucks for dime a dozen armies of the world! ah! How sad! By the way the logo says 'partners'. Partners don't accuse your partner 'war-criminal' .unless we are different level of a 'partner'. Unlike Israel..!!!"
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
SLAF makes its maiden flight to Giranike (Killinochchi)
Sri Lanka Air Force made its maiden flight to newly constructed Giranike (Killinochchi) air strip yesterday. (Giranike is the original name of Kilinochchi later Tamilinzed as has been the case with many places in the North and East of Sri Lanka). I quote below a part of one of my previous articles in which I mentioned how the original Sinhala name Giranike was coined and how it has been Tamilinized as Kilinochchi.
"The following quoted piece of description in an advertisement by the Commercial Bank in a national news paper of its opening of a new branch in the last month there says it in style.
"The parrots (Gira in Sinhala) who came in flocks perched on the Nika Trees (Vitex negundo) that grew in abundance there and it was why the place was named "Giranike".
In Tamil parrot is called "Killi" and the Nika tree is known as "Nochchi". Through the combination of these two words, the name Killi-nochchi was coined".
Archeological evidences including stone inscriptions once strewn in the area and now destroyed as well as the descriptions in chronicles including Mahavamsa and Deepavamsa say that this area was once a vast complex of a Buddhist monastery in which thousands of Arhats were residing."
"The following quoted piece of description in an advertisement by the Commercial Bank in a national news paper of its opening of a new branch in the last month there says it in style.
"The parrots (Gira in Sinhala) who came in flocks perched on the Nika Trees (Vitex negundo) that grew in abundance there and it was why the place was named "Giranike".
In Tamil parrot is called "Killi" and the Nika tree is known as "Nochchi". Through the combination of these two words, the name Killi-nochchi was coined".
Archeological evidences including stone inscriptions once strewn in the area and now destroyed as well as the descriptions in chronicles including Mahavamsa and Deepavamsa say that this area was once a vast complex of a Buddhist monastery in which thousands of Arhats were residing."
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Carving out of a separate sate in Sudan: A new fodder for Eelamists
Eelamists and their supporters in the West are still licking their wounds after utterly failing the mammoth effort they made to carve out a separate state in Sri Lanka militarily. But an unfortunate African country Sudan succumbed to the West's and the USA's nasty schemes and became a victim of it. The West's nasty schemes were well supported by the Eelmaists too in this effort though their effort in Sri Lanka never bore fruits. (Rudrakumaran , a prominent LTTE leader based in USA and an ardent supporter of carving out of Southern Sudan scheme has been invited to the independence ceremony to take place soon ).Highlighting the carving out of a separate state in Sudan has become Eelam propagandists' hot topic as D.B.S. Jeyaraj does in one of his latest posts.
Though the efforts by the Eelamists and the West failed in military means in Sri Lanka they are continued unabated in other means as witnessed by the 'Darusman's Report' and 'Chanel-04 Video'. The sustained will- power of Sri Lankan people ably supported by the correct political leadership prevented what would have been another Southern Sudan in Sri Lanka. Eelam propagandists like Jeyraj's aim is to give another boost to current efforts underway against Sri Lanka. This will catch a renowned vigor in coming days highlighting 'Southern Sudan as an example to win Eelam'.
Though the efforts by the Eelamists and the West failed in military means in Sri Lanka they are continued unabated in other means as witnessed by the 'Darusman's Report' and 'Chanel-04 Video'. The sustained will- power of Sri Lankan people ably supported by the correct political leadership prevented what would have been another Southern Sudan in Sri Lanka. Eelam propagandists like Jeyraj's aim is to give another boost to current efforts underway against Sri Lanka. This will catch a renowned vigor in coming days highlighting 'Southern Sudan as an example to win Eelam'.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Why do Americans keep on losing wars at the same time engaged in mass scale slaughtering of civilians in the soils they invade?
This article in The Telegraph speaks volumes as to why the USA, the most powerful military ever existed in the planet keep on losing wars in the countries that they invade while at the same time indiscriminately slaughtering the incent civilians in the invaded countries. As per this article the US spends £12.5 billion a year on air conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
USA armed forces' reluctance to relinquish the comfortable lifestyles which they enjoy back at home in the invaded soils too while relying on too much in technology, again as measure not to risk their lives and limbs, have cost dearly innocent civilians in the invaded countries. Numerous drone attacks that slaughter civilians in thousands in Afghanistan are case in point. The particular article in The Telegraph goes on to say that
'The US military spends about $20 billion (£12.5 billion) a year just to air-condition its bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, a retired senior officer has claimed. The Brigadier General Steve Anderson, who served as chief logistician to General David Petraeus in Iraq, said that the American department of defence (DOD) was shockingly inefficient in its energy use.
"In essence what we're doing is we're air conditioning the desert over there in Afghanistan, Iraq and other places," Brig. Gen. Anderson said. Taking into account raw fuel, transport and security, "DOD will spend about $20 billion annually to air-condition tents and temporary structures,"
he told National Public Radio. Brig. Gen. Anderson explained that the fuel used to power air conditioners in remote bases in Afghanistan is shipped into Pakistan, before being transported by land for more than two weeks. It must cross 800 miles of roads, many little more than "improved goat trails", and areas where insurgents will use roadside bombs to target troops serving the US war effort.
Brig. Gen. Anderson claims billions of dollars could be saved if the US military used simple energy-efficient techniques, such as spraying tents with common insulation foam used in domestic roofs.
In contrast a Sri Lankan armed forces' soldier defeated the most ruthless terrorist origination in the world, claimed by none other than FBI itself, with perhaps one tenth of facilities and comforts that his counterpart in the US forces' has access to. SL forces risked their lives and limbs to minimize the civilian casualties not relying on methods that harm the lives of the civilians. And also they faced a foe perhaps 10 times formidable and comprising of 100 times more suicide carders than what the US faces now. Yet SL forces saved 300,000 civilians that terrorists used as a protective shield for their survival. Would the USA have ever undertaken such a feat?
As I pointed out in one of my previous articles the spectacular success achieved by the Sri Lankan armed forces is too much to the USA and the West to digest. So Sri Lanka has to pay the price for doing what the most formidable military powers that ever existed in the world can't do.
USA armed forces' reluctance to relinquish the comfortable lifestyles which they enjoy back at home in the invaded soils too while relying on too much in technology, again as measure not to risk their lives and limbs, have cost dearly innocent civilians in the invaded countries. Numerous drone attacks that slaughter civilians in thousands in Afghanistan are case in point. The particular article in The Telegraph goes on to say that
'The US military spends about $20 billion (£12.5 billion) a year just to air-condition its bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, a retired senior officer has claimed. The Brigadier General Steve Anderson, who served as chief logistician to General David Petraeus in Iraq, said that the American department of defence (DOD) was shockingly inefficient in its energy use.
"In essence what we're doing is we're air conditioning the desert over there in Afghanistan, Iraq and other places," Brig. Gen. Anderson said. Taking into account raw fuel, transport and security, "DOD will spend about $20 billion annually to air-condition tents and temporary structures,"
he told National Public Radio. Brig. Gen. Anderson explained that the fuel used to power air conditioners in remote bases in Afghanistan is shipped into Pakistan, before being transported by land for more than two weeks. It must cross 800 miles of roads, many little more than "improved goat trails", and areas where insurgents will use roadside bombs to target troops serving the US war effort.
Brig. Gen. Anderson claims billions of dollars could be saved if the US military used simple energy-efficient techniques, such as spraying tents with common insulation foam used in domestic roofs.
In contrast a Sri Lankan armed forces' soldier defeated the most ruthless terrorist origination in the world, claimed by none other than FBI itself, with perhaps one tenth of facilities and comforts that his counterpart in the US forces' has access to. SL forces risked their lives and limbs to minimize the civilian casualties not relying on methods that harm the lives of the civilians. And also they faced a foe perhaps 10 times formidable and comprising of 100 times more suicide carders than what the US faces now. Yet SL forces saved 300,000 civilians that terrorists used as a protective shield for their survival. Would the USA have ever undertaken such a feat?
As I pointed out in one of my previous articles the spectacular success achieved by the Sri Lankan armed forces is too much to the USA and the West to digest. So Sri Lanka has to pay the price for doing what the most formidable military powers that ever existed in the world can't do.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
D.B.S. Jayaraj: a top Eelam Propagandist!
D.B.S. Jeyaraj popularly known as DBSJ stands out as a prominent figure among the Eelam propagandists. (Daily Mirror of Sri Lanka still carries Jeyaraj's articles though his rabid Tamil racism is well exposed.) Born in Kurunagala, educated in St. Thomas Collage in Colombo he is now domiciled in Canada and had been working in The Island in Upali Newspapers and Virakeshari of Express newspapers in 1980s.( He claims that the threats from the both then SL government and LTTE forced him to flee for Canada)
The mythical Tamil history in Sri Lanka and bogus Tamil Homeland theory are incessantly perpetuated to for the furtherance of the Eelam project with the intention of carving out an exclusive Tamil enclave in the Northern and Eastern parts of the country. In order to achieve this goal non-Tamils were ethnically cleansed from the North and East of Sri Lanka employing mass scale slaughter campaigns. So the Eelamists such as Jeyaraj dearly clings on to the this exclusive Tamil character of the North and East though the majority of Tamils in Sri Lanka live outside North and East among other communities. (Though Jeyaraj himself being born and bred in Kurunagala and educated in Colombo). On the top of all the so called Tamil History in Sri Lanka, rewritten to perpetuate Eelam project, is a monumental myth to claim an exclusive Tamil enclave in Sri Lanka.
A recent article of Jeyaraj titled '165 Sinhala families settled in Tamil village Kokkachchaankulam in Vavuniya North' is a case in point to show how rabid Tamil racist Jeyaraj is. Slightest sign of re-settling of Sinhalsese who were subjected to the mass scale ethnic cleansing programme of the North and East is portrayed as 'Sinhalanization of North and East' to 'change the demographic character of Tamil Homeland'. In this particular article the name of the village is highlighted as being Sinhalanized as 'Kalabowasewa' though the actual scenario being the exact opposite. It is clear that the Eelam gang is poisoned with their beloved project into their blood to such an extent that they are totally blinded with the Eelam myth. The particular village's original name was in fact Kalabowasewa and was Tamilnaized as 'Kokkachchaankulam' as has been the case with many Tamilinized original place names in North and East. The original inhabitants of the villages were Sinhalese. (The name Vavuniya itself has been Tamilinized from the original Sinhala word Vavnimawa-meaning where the Tanks (Vav) ends).Some of my previous posts on the subject of Tamilinization of the original Sinhalese place names can be read from the following links.
http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2010/11/more-on-tamilinzed-sinhala-names-in.html
http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2009/06/jaffna-was-occupied-by-sinhalese.html
http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2010/07/latest-cabinet-meeting-held-in-giranike.html
http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2009/07/kadurugoda-kantarodai-buddhist-temple.html
http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2009/08/gokanna-viharaya-in-trincomalee.html
http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2009/07/tamilinized-sinhala-place-names-in.html
http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2009/05/introducing-true-history-of-sri-lanka.html
So what's wrong with re-settling the Sinhalese in one of their original villages? It is indeed the last thing that the Eelamists want as that type of moves deprive Tamils to have an exclusive Tamil Land in Sri Lanka.
Though Jeyaraj publicly claims that he is not an LTTE supporter and has been a victim of LTTE's excesses one wouldn't fail to notice that he has taken great pains to glorify the LTTE before and after LTTE's decimation. Case in point is the article on Balraj, a terrorist leader. He deceives the Sinhalese readers with references in his article like "A little known incident that occurred in 2003 illustrates the respect and regard with which Balraj was held by some officers in the Sri Lankan army ". He also gives much prominence to the anti-Sri Lankan campaigns going on in Tamil Nadu in the idea of threatening Sinhalese. (the sheer number of responses he receives for his posts from the LTTE supporters and his responses to them is a clear indication of how popular he has been among the LTTE supporters which betrays his identity)
I quote below a part of my previous articles to highlight the fact that Eelamists' or their backers' agenda of pushing Sinhalese to the wall have always backfired and will continue to happen due to some historically embedded truths.
"Sri Lanka is the only patch of land that Sinhalese can live in and die. They have no other land to go as Tamils and Muslims do nor do they have brothers and sisters to demonstrate on behalf of them in all over the world at the drop of the hat. The rural Sinhalese foot soldier goes to the battle- front with one thing in his mind. If he is defeated the only place left for him is the deep blue sea. So he fights until last drop of blood. In fact there will be no peace in Sri Lanka as long as Sinhalese feel insecure. The more they are being harassed by whoever else be it Tamils or Muslims or India or the West or the USA the greater their will power to fight back to win their precious right to live in their beloved mother land. Sinhalese also do have an equal right to live in anywhere in the country be it in Giranike (Killinochchi) or Mooladoowa (Mulaitheev) or Hunugama (Chunnakam) or Samapura (Sampoor) or Vavnimawa (Vavniya) or Thambalagamuwa (Thampalakamam) or Minipe (Manipai) or Kadurugoda (Kantharodai) or Vanagamua (Vankamam) as not only those areas were originally inhabited by them but they do also have a right to live those areas as Tamils and Muslims enjoy rights to live any other part of the country.
Sinhalese have survived more than 2500 years withstanding so many perils such as huge invasions from the South India and the West alike who were hell bent to wipe out them from the face of the earth. They will continue to fight however mightier their advisory would be. When Sinhalese are pushed to the wall, as it is going to happen again, they have fought back ferociously and preserved their race, their motherland and the religion."
The mythical Tamil history in Sri Lanka and bogus Tamil Homeland theory are incessantly perpetuated to for the furtherance of the Eelam project with the intention of carving out an exclusive Tamil enclave in the Northern and Eastern parts of the country. In order to achieve this goal non-Tamils were ethnically cleansed from the North and East of Sri Lanka employing mass scale slaughter campaigns. So the Eelamists such as Jeyaraj dearly clings on to the this exclusive Tamil character of the North and East though the majority of Tamils in Sri Lanka live outside North and East among other communities. (Though Jeyaraj himself being born and bred in Kurunagala and educated in Colombo). On the top of all the so called Tamil History in Sri Lanka, rewritten to perpetuate Eelam project, is a monumental myth to claim an exclusive Tamil enclave in Sri Lanka.
A recent article of Jeyaraj titled '165 Sinhala families settled in Tamil village Kokkachchaankulam in Vavuniya North' is a case in point to show how rabid Tamil racist Jeyaraj is. Slightest sign of re-settling of Sinhalsese who were subjected to the mass scale ethnic cleansing programme of the North and East is portrayed as 'Sinhalanization of North and East' to 'change the demographic character of Tamil Homeland'. In this particular article the name of the village is highlighted as being Sinhalanized as 'Kalabowasewa' though the actual scenario being the exact opposite. It is clear that the Eelam gang is poisoned with their beloved project into their blood to such an extent that they are totally blinded with the Eelam myth. The particular village's original name was in fact Kalabowasewa and was Tamilnaized as 'Kokkachchaankulam' as has been the case with many Tamilinized original place names in North and East. The original inhabitants of the villages were Sinhalese. (The name Vavuniya itself has been Tamilinized from the original Sinhala word Vavnimawa-meaning where the Tanks (Vav) ends).Some of my previous posts on the subject of Tamilinization of the original Sinhalese place names can be read from the following links.
http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2010/11/more-on-tamilinzed-sinhala-names-in.html
http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2009/06/jaffna-was-occupied-by-sinhalese.html
http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2010/07/latest-cabinet-meeting-held-in-giranike.html
http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2009/07/kadurugoda-kantarodai-buddhist-temple.html
http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2009/08/gokanna-viharaya-in-trincomalee.html
http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2009/07/tamilinized-sinhala-place-names-in.html
http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2009/05/introducing-true-history-of-sri-lanka.html
So what's wrong with re-settling the Sinhalese in one of their original villages? It is indeed the last thing that the Eelamists want as that type of moves deprive Tamils to have an exclusive Tamil Land in Sri Lanka.
Though Jeyaraj publicly claims that he is not an LTTE supporter and has been a victim of LTTE's excesses one wouldn't fail to notice that he has taken great pains to glorify the LTTE before and after LTTE's decimation. Case in point is the article on Balraj, a terrorist leader. He deceives the Sinhalese readers with references in his article like "A little known incident that occurred in 2003 illustrates the respect and regard with which Balraj was held by some officers in the Sri Lankan army ". He also gives much prominence to the anti-Sri Lankan campaigns going on in Tamil Nadu in the idea of threatening Sinhalese. (the sheer number of responses he receives for his posts from the LTTE supporters and his responses to them is a clear indication of how popular he has been among the LTTE supporters which betrays his identity)
I quote below a part of my previous articles to highlight the fact that Eelamists' or their backers' agenda of pushing Sinhalese to the wall have always backfired and will continue to happen due to some historically embedded truths.
"Sri Lanka is the only patch of land that Sinhalese can live in and die. They have no other land to go as Tamils and Muslims do nor do they have brothers and sisters to demonstrate on behalf of them in all over the world at the drop of the hat. The rural Sinhalese foot soldier goes to the battle- front with one thing in his mind. If he is defeated the only place left for him is the deep blue sea. So he fights until last drop of blood. In fact there will be no peace in Sri Lanka as long as Sinhalese feel insecure. The more they are being harassed by whoever else be it Tamils or Muslims or India or the West or the USA the greater their will power to fight back to win their precious right to live in their beloved mother land. Sinhalese also do have an equal right to live in anywhere in the country be it in Giranike (Killinochchi) or Mooladoowa (Mulaitheev) or Hunugama (Chunnakam) or Samapura (Sampoor) or Vavnimawa (Vavniya) or Thambalagamuwa (Thampalakamam) or Minipe (Manipai) or Kadurugoda (Kantharodai) or Vanagamua (Vankamam) as not only those areas were originally inhabited by them but they do also have a right to live those areas as Tamils and Muslims enjoy rights to live any other part of the country.
Sinhalese have survived more than 2500 years withstanding so many perils such as huge invasions from the South India and the West alike who were hell bent to wipe out them from the face of the earth. They will continue to fight however mightier their advisory would be. When Sinhalese are pushed to the wall, as it is going to happen again, they have fought back ferociously and preserved their race, their motherland and the religion."
Thursday, June 23, 2011
In defense of appointing military officials at Sri Lankan missions abroad …
The move taken by present regime to appoint serving and ex-military personal at our diplomatic missions was roundly criticized many an anti-Sri Lanka sections here and abroad. But the move has paid dividends with some spectacular successes scored by those officials against the propaganda juggernaut and the activities of the LTTE in the Western countries. This decision was taken at the backdrop of stupendous challenges faced by the country posed by the LTTE propaganda machine hell bent to punish Sri Lanka, angered by LTTE's destruction. The move was basically arrived at considering the fact the successful military officials are fully focused in achieving the given task however difficult their goal may be. The lethargic and opportunistic attitudes of some of the civilian officials appointed at the missions cost the country dearly leaving the LTTE propagandist a field day over the years.
Major General Shavendra Silva, Sri Lanka's Deputy Representative to the UN is a brilliant case in point. He has succeeded in educating and showing the true picture of what has really been happening in our country to the Western audience misled by the well-oiled LTTE propaganda machine. The latest achievement scored by De. Silva has been of a similar effort. Major General Silva has been able to show how fraudulent the latest Chanel-04 video named "Sri Lanka's Killing Field" has been to a section of Western audience in New York, attended by the Channel 4 Director Callum Macrae himself. (You can see Major. Genral Shavendra Silva's explanations and responses in this link). The responses and explanations by the military officer at the event attended by some NGOs comprising Crime group Society, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and some ambassadors make the Director of the Cannel-04 embarrassed and dumb funded.
He proves in his responses that
(1) Thamilvani Gnanakumar appearing in the video was in fact an ex-LTTE carder back in January in 2008. She was using three names in different places and was later serving in an LTTE hospital having come to Sri Lanka from the UK on a 06 months visa.
(2) The group of people who were shouting inside a bunker were in fact telling in Tamil not to film them while in the video clip what they said has been distorted
(3) The footage shown as taken by the UN satellites showing bombing on a jungle had in fact been taken by the Sri Lankan Air Force (SLAF) which indicated on the footage's background.
(4) The doctor who was talking in the video had been forced to do so by the LTTE. This has been revealed by this particular doctor later.
This blog site also shows that the shooting scene in the video alleged to have been carried out by SL security forces had in fact been carried out by the LTTE carders in SL army uniforms. The victims were the SL security forces persons captured by the LTTE. The original sound track was in Tamil and later had been changed in a bizarre Sinhala language.
Many other spectacular successes achieved by military officials appointed at out foreign missions recently have helped Sri Lanka to salvage the situation at least to a certain extent. Arresting of KP in Malaysia in August in 2009 was also as result of a great deal of efforts made by the then deputy high commissioner, a senior military officer of our mission in that country.
As I said earlier one of the reasons for the LTTE's propaganda machine's spectacular success over the years have been the inaction, ignorance, incompetence and the opportunistic attitudes on the part of the officials of our foreign missions. Most of those who were posted (and many still serving) in the missions were engaging merely in their personal matters leaving aside the great responsibilities they were expected to carry out on behalf of the country. Most of them have been spending their time in the foreign missions merely to educate their children. Foreign affaires of our country made a rapid downward spiral with the start of appointing political stooges to the missions from mid 1970s. This move was followed by the subsequent regimes that came to power making the matters bad to worst setting in motion a circle of disastrous consequences to the country.
Major General Shavendra Silva, Sri Lanka's Deputy Representative to the UN is a brilliant case in point. He has succeeded in educating and showing the true picture of what has really been happening in our country to the Western audience misled by the well-oiled LTTE propaganda machine. The latest achievement scored by De. Silva has been of a similar effort. Major General Silva has been able to show how fraudulent the latest Chanel-04 video named "Sri Lanka's Killing Field" has been to a section of Western audience in New York, attended by the Channel 4 Director Callum Macrae himself. (You can see Major. Genral Shavendra Silva's explanations and responses in this link). The responses and explanations by the military officer at the event attended by some NGOs comprising Crime group Society, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and some ambassadors make the Director of the Cannel-04 embarrassed and dumb funded.
He proves in his responses that
(1) Thamilvani Gnanakumar appearing in the video was in fact an ex-LTTE carder back in January in 2008. She was using three names in different places and was later serving in an LTTE hospital having come to Sri Lanka from the UK on a 06 months visa.
(2) The group of people who were shouting inside a bunker were in fact telling in Tamil not to film them while in the video clip what they said has been distorted
(3) The footage shown as taken by the UN satellites showing bombing on a jungle had in fact been taken by the Sri Lankan Air Force (SLAF) which indicated on the footage's background.
(4) The doctor who was talking in the video had been forced to do so by the LTTE. This has been revealed by this particular doctor later.
This blog site also shows that the shooting scene in the video alleged to have been carried out by SL security forces had in fact been carried out by the LTTE carders in SL army uniforms. The victims were the SL security forces persons captured by the LTTE. The original sound track was in Tamil and later had been changed in a bizarre Sinhala language.
Many other spectacular successes achieved by military officials appointed at out foreign missions recently have helped Sri Lanka to salvage the situation at least to a certain extent. Arresting of KP in Malaysia in August in 2009 was also as result of a great deal of efforts made by the then deputy high commissioner, a senior military officer of our mission in that country.
As I said earlier one of the reasons for the LTTE's propaganda machine's spectacular success over the years have been the inaction, ignorance, incompetence and the opportunistic attitudes on the part of the officials of our foreign missions. Most of those who were posted (and many still serving) in the missions were engaging merely in their personal matters leaving aside the great responsibilities they were expected to carry out on behalf of the country. Most of them have been spending their time in the foreign missions merely to educate their children. Foreign affaires of our country made a rapid downward spiral with the start of appointing political stooges to the missions from mid 1970s. This move was followed by the subsequent regimes that came to power making the matters bad to worst setting in motion a circle of disastrous consequences to the country.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Sri Lanka is again a ‘Failed Sate’ as per the White West!
'Human Rights' have been one of the major weapons used by the White West to punish the countries or regimes that do not dance to the whims and fancies of them while they have been the biggest violators of human rights by way of slaughtering civilians in their bombing sprees and torture camps witnessed in many countries including Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya etc.
'Failed Sates' is also one of the ridicules and absurd tools to use against some of the countries which are not ready to listen to the White West. So this time around too 'Failed Sates' tag is back in the town. As expected Sri Lanka is also a 'Failed State' while there are some of ass licking countries of the White in the region who are horribly pathetic in their affairs in many sectors than Sri Lanka. Yet Sri Lanka is a 'Failed Sate' as per the White West as it is not prepared to lick their asses.
This how Sri Lanka is described by the so called 'Failed Sate Index'.
"The government's final push against the rebels relied on the shelling of civilians and other atrocities, according to a 2010 report by the International Crisis Group. "The most recent statistics from last year indicate that some 327,000 are still displaced from the conflict". "Despite the pronounced fractures still lingering, the Sinhalese-dominated government in Colombo seems eager to forget the past,"
So we know very well what the International Crisis Group is. ICG is yet another arm used by the biggest human rights violators of our age to punish the countries like Sri Lanka which did not want to bow down to their demands to save terrorists. The fact that mentioning the figure 327,000 as war displaced still in the camps well suggests that ICG is merely quoting the figures from the LTTE propagandists. Terms like "the Sinhalese-dominated government" and "the shelling of civilians and other atrocities" have just cut and paste from the LTTE propaganda outlet Tamilnet. (Tamilnet is also one of the major sources to the recently published Darusman report which is being used by the White West to punish Sri Lanka).
I quote below yet another insightful article by Malinda Senaviratha to educate ourselves what a sick country our giant neighbour India is. In that sense India is the most failed state in the planet. Yet it tries to intervene in our own affairs and mess with them while it has its own many things to sort out.
"There's a sick man in South Asia and it is not Sri Lanka. I checked. Here are some sobering facts. There's a sick country in South Asia where 10.8% of the labour force is unemployed. In this sick country, a full quarter of the population lives below the poverty line. This country has an infant mortality rate of 47.57 deaths per 1,000 live births. Close to 40% of people over 15 years of age cannot read or write.
This is India. 'Shining,' may we add?
India: a great country; one of the biggest economies in the world; has acquired nuclear capabilities, has one of the largest standing armies in the world; aspires to become a Permanent Member of the UN Security Council; got big dreams and thinks big. When it comes to delivering and distributing, however, India comes a distant second to countries like Sri Lanka. Maybe it is the small-mindedness.
Here's some relevant data regarding Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's Per Capita GDP stands at US $ 5000 (India's is US $ 3500). Sri Lanka's unemployment rate is half that of India. Sri Lanka's inflation rate (5.6%) is half that of India. Infant mortality is at 9.7 deaths per 1000 live births. Literacy stands at 90.7%. All this, let us not forget, was obtained and maintained through two bloody insurrections (the second precipitated by Rajiv Gandhi's attempt to turn Sri Lanka into another Bhutan or Sikkim through the Indo-Lanka Accord) and a 30 year long struggle against terrorism (Indian-instigated, Indian-funded, Indian-armed and Indian-trained, let us not forget). 'Sri Lanka Shining' sounds a more believable proposition, one might say.
India is not a bunch of statistics which shows a country of vast contrasts with a privileged few exploiting and living off millions who are not. It is a country which despite all appearances of opulence and national wholesomeness, is falling apart at its many seams.
There are presently 123 independence movements in India struggling for rights of self-determination. Apart from these movements there are sort of on-going struggles for social and economic justice and they are spread over 220 districts in 20 states covering about 40% of India's total geography. Murmur names such as Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Sikhs and Nagaland and worry lines will appear on the most stoic of Indian officials and politicians. India, moreover, indulges in what is almost like a national pastime: that of engaging in faith-related pogroms that leave tens of thousands dead every 5-10 years.
Keeping India 'intact' has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and requires systemic torture, assassination and genocide (in Kashmir for instance).
How about Sri Lanka? Well, we had a problem. Yes, 'past tense'. Took us time to sort it out, but sort it out we did and no thanks to India, let me add. India exists courtesy those who invaded the subcontinent. It is a recent amalgam and one that would not have materialized had the Europeans not arrived. Indeed, the name 'India' is a convenience coined by the colonial powers and it is to the lasting shame of that country that it is yet to unshackle itself from that strong (indelible?) symbol and reminder of a violently subjugated past.
Not so Sri Lanka. We suffered 500 years of colonial rule, yes. This island, however was not a hodge-podge of petty kingdoms at war with one another or describable as glorified fiefdoms, which is what much of what is now called 'India' used to be (and still is, one might argue). India does not have a 'national' history. There was never 'national' coherence in its past, except on a few occasions when warrior kings subjugated neighbouring regions. It is diverse, yes, and that's not a bad thing. Diversity, however, is pulling India apart, i.e. into her constituent elements.
So when India wants to prescribe 'reconciliation' to Sri Lanka, it is in a sense laughable. A far better idea would be for Indians to come to Sri Lanka and learn how to be a nation, how to overcome the challenges that life and living naturally throw up including those related to identity-based anxieties. Not perfect, sure. Far less imperfect though than our neighbor.
India is THE sick country in South Asia. Perhaps it is this sickness (described above) that makes for delirious and self-satisfied ranting and raving about how her neighbours ought to sort out their little problems. It is this sickness that perhaps makes India wants to interfere and mess up her neighbours in the 'Suffer Like I Suffer' kind of logic. That's screwed-up logic when it comes to bilateral solidarities but India will not see it that way. We can put it down to delirium.
India is suffering from a terrible cancer that has struck the core of its foundational lie. It is not a 'nation' but a hastily-pieced-together something that is coming apart because the colonial glue is no longer sufficient to keep things together and coherent, never mind the fact of the horrendous citizen-anomalies that describe it. Sri Lanka had a tumour too. It was duly removed. What remains are wounds which are eminently curable with home remedies.
India does not need Sri Lankan experts to tell her how to sort things out. All India needs do is take a look at Sri Lanka, or better still, take a look at herself. India would then looks at others, especially Sri Lanka, differently."
'Failed Sates' is also one of the ridicules and absurd tools to use against some of the countries which are not ready to listen to the White West. So this time around too 'Failed Sates' tag is back in the town. As expected Sri Lanka is also a 'Failed State' while there are some of ass licking countries of the White in the region who are horribly pathetic in their affairs in many sectors than Sri Lanka. Yet Sri Lanka is a 'Failed Sate' as per the White West as it is not prepared to lick their asses.
This how Sri Lanka is described by the so called 'Failed Sate Index'.
"The government's final push against the rebels relied on the shelling of civilians and other atrocities, according to a 2010 report by the International Crisis Group. "The most recent statistics from last year indicate that some 327,000 are still displaced from the conflict". "Despite the pronounced fractures still lingering, the Sinhalese-dominated government in Colombo seems eager to forget the past,"
So we know very well what the International Crisis Group is. ICG is yet another arm used by the biggest human rights violators of our age to punish the countries like Sri Lanka which did not want to bow down to their demands to save terrorists. The fact that mentioning the figure 327,000 as war displaced still in the camps well suggests that ICG is merely quoting the figures from the LTTE propagandists. Terms like "the Sinhalese-dominated government" and "the shelling of civilians and other atrocities" have just cut and paste from the LTTE propaganda outlet Tamilnet. (Tamilnet is also one of the major sources to the recently published Darusman report which is being used by the White West to punish Sri Lanka).
I quote below yet another insightful article by Malinda Senaviratha to educate ourselves what a sick country our giant neighbour India is. In that sense India is the most failed state in the planet. Yet it tries to intervene in our own affairs and mess with them while it has its own many things to sort out.
"There's a sick man in South Asia and it is not Sri Lanka. I checked. Here are some sobering facts. There's a sick country in South Asia where 10.8% of the labour force is unemployed. In this sick country, a full quarter of the population lives below the poverty line. This country has an infant mortality rate of 47.57 deaths per 1,000 live births. Close to 40% of people over 15 years of age cannot read or write.
This is India. 'Shining,' may we add?
India: a great country; one of the biggest economies in the world; has acquired nuclear capabilities, has one of the largest standing armies in the world; aspires to become a Permanent Member of the UN Security Council; got big dreams and thinks big. When it comes to delivering and distributing, however, India comes a distant second to countries like Sri Lanka. Maybe it is the small-mindedness.
Here's some relevant data regarding Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's Per Capita GDP stands at US $ 5000 (India's is US $ 3500). Sri Lanka's unemployment rate is half that of India. Sri Lanka's inflation rate (5.6%) is half that of India. Infant mortality is at 9.7 deaths per 1000 live births. Literacy stands at 90.7%. All this, let us not forget, was obtained and maintained through two bloody insurrections (the second precipitated by Rajiv Gandhi's attempt to turn Sri Lanka into another Bhutan or Sikkim through the Indo-Lanka Accord) and a 30 year long struggle against terrorism (Indian-instigated, Indian-funded, Indian-armed and Indian-trained, let us not forget). 'Sri Lanka Shining' sounds a more believable proposition, one might say.
India is not a bunch of statistics which shows a country of vast contrasts with a privileged few exploiting and living off millions who are not. It is a country which despite all appearances of opulence and national wholesomeness, is falling apart at its many seams.
There are presently 123 independence movements in India struggling for rights of self-determination. Apart from these movements there are sort of on-going struggles for social and economic justice and they are spread over 220 districts in 20 states covering about 40% of India's total geography. Murmur names such as Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Sikhs and Nagaland and worry lines will appear on the most stoic of Indian officials and politicians. India, moreover, indulges in what is almost like a national pastime: that of engaging in faith-related pogroms that leave tens of thousands dead every 5-10 years.
Keeping India 'intact' has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and requires systemic torture, assassination and genocide (in Kashmir for instance).
How about Sri Lanka? Well, we had a problem. Yes, 'past tense'. Took us time to sort it out, but sort it out we did and no thanks to India, let me add. India exists courtesy those who invaded the subcontinent. It is a recent amalgam and one that would not have materialized had the Europeans not arrived. Indeed, the name 'India' is a convenience coined by the colonial powers and it is to the lasting shame of that country that it is yet to unshackle itself from that strong (indelible?) symbol and reminder of a violently subjugated past.
Not so Sri Lanka. We suffered 500 years of colonial rule, yes. This island, however was not a hodge-podge of petty kingdoms at war with one another or describable as glorified fiefdoms, which is what much of what is now called 'India' used to be (and still is, one might argue). India does not have a 'national' history. There was never 'national' coherence in its past, except on a few occasions when warrior kings subjugated neighbouring regions. It is diverse, yes, and that's not a bad thing. Diversity, however, is pulling India apart, i.e. into her constituent elements.
So when India wants to prescribe 'reconciliation' to Sri Lanka, it is in a sense laughable. A far better idea would be for Indians to come to Sri Lanka and learn how to be a nation, how to overcome the challenges that life and living naturally throw up including those related to identity-based anxieties. Not perfect, sure. Far less imperfect though than our neighbor.
India is THE sick country in South Asia. Perhaps it is this sickness (described above) that makes for delirious and self-satisfied ranting and raving about how her neighbours ought to sort out their little problems. It is this sickness that perhaps makes India wants to interfere and mess up her neighbours in the 'Suffer Like I Suffer' kind of logic. That's screwed-up logic when it comes to bilateral solidarities but India will not see it that way. We can put it down to delirium.
India is suffering from a terrible cancer that has struck the core of its foundational lie. It is not a 'nation' but a hastily-pieced-together something that is coming apart because the colonial glue is no longer sufficient to keep things together and coherent, never mind the fact of the horrendous citizen-anomalies that describe it. Sri Lanka had a tumour too. It was duly removed. What remains are wounds which are eminently curable with home remedies.
India does not need Sri Lankan experts to tell her how to sort things out. All India needs do is take a look at Sri Lanka, or better still, take a look at herself. India would then looks at others, especially Sri Lanka, differently."
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