Putin's speech: spot on! Sri Lanka sees it spot on as no other sovereign state in the world does!

Following is one of the most quoted quote of Russian president’s speech after signing the Crimean annexation recently.

“Our western partners, led by the United States of America, prefer not to be guided by international law in their practical policies, but by the rule of the gun. They have come to believe in their exclusivity and exceptionalism, that they can decide the destinies of the world, that only they can ever be right. They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle “If you are not with us, you are against us.”

So what the Russian president eloquently says fits in style for Sri Lanka which has become an unfortunate victim of the imperialist onslaught by the US and the West who are hell bent to achieve an ulterior motive which will spell devastating consequences to its people! 

The following line of his speech explains whose backs Navaneetham Pillay and Ban Ki Moon do scratch.    

“To make this aggression look legitimate, they force the necessary resolutions from international organizations, and if for some reason this does not work, they simply ignore the UN Security Council and the UN overall”.

Forceful conversion of poor rural Buddhist to Christianity is enjoying its all-time success

Under the cover of Eelam wars and Muslim expansionism another vicious force against Sinhalese Buddhists has been having a field day while in operation with impunity.    Though this hasn’t been a new phenomenon which has been in existence around us from the day European colonists set their foot in our land, above mentioned two forces have given perfect cover for the forceful conversion of poor rural Buddhists to Christianity for decades now. The attention of Buddhists was largely focused on the former for some decades and the latter lately with intermittent protests against conversations. Even the intermittent protest generated, largely by Buddhists clergy, paled into insignificance by the overwhelming attention received by the former for decades.

The alarming extent of forceful conversations in operation in Buddhist Villages     

However, the sheer degree of forceful conversion that has been in operation and the damage it caused is such that Sinhalese Buddhists and the clergy have been forced to come out in protest. It has grown to such extent that a large number of poor rural Sinhalese Buddhist villages have been witnessing so called “Prayer Houses” emerging every other day bearing varied names  such as “Jeevana Alokaya”, Foursquare Church, “Suveya Doratuwa”, “ Church of Grace”, “Assemblies of God” and  “Calvary Free Church” etc etc. The sheer multitudes of names themselves suggest the magnitude of effort being put into and its spread.  

Usual demonization of Sinhalese Buddhists as a bunch of racists  

Even a slightest protest made against conversion is used to usual vilification of Sinhalese Buddhists with popular name calling such as “Saffron terror”, “Ethno-religious fascism”, “ Buddhist Racism”, “discriminating religions of minorities”, “Saffron Robed Terrorism”, “Buddhist extremists violating the rights of minority religions” etc etc. The powerful forces behind this anti-constitutional act are connected with their overseas patrons and it is being spear-headed in Sri Lanka by a well organised and well –funded varied religious bodies, individuals and organisations.

Poverty is used as the main tool for forceful conversion

As it’s commonly known most widely used modus operandi to lure Buddhists has been by offering financial and material support and thereby baiting them to change the religion. Promotion of hatred against Buddhism by vilifying its founder is also found to have been one of the common methods used. There have been many instances where the Buddhists are forced to dash the Buddha statues on the walls and breaking them.  The notorious “Pastors” heading the above mentioned “Prayer Houses” are swamping poor Sinhalese Buddhist villages aimed at dislodging their Buddhist foundations. Thousands of foreign funded organisations operating from Colombo with dubious names, claimed to have been working on Community Development in rural areas, are also the nerve centers of a wide-spread network of “Prayer Houses” and “Churches” operating in villages 

Vilification of Sinhalese Buddhists has found the perfect timing with UNHRC round the corner

The propaganda machine of Eelamists has been and is still one of the best in its contemporary time which hardly find rival even in the West. It is supported financially, morally and expertise by powerful sections of the Tamil diaspora and even some Western governments and organisations. The anti-Sinhalese Buddhist propaganda campaign unleashed by the forces behind the forceful conversions seems only to second the Eelam propagandists.  A very effective local and international media campaign demonising Sinhalese Buddhists has been unleashed aimed at upcoming UNHRC session in Geneva in March.  The negative publicity received by Sri Lanka internationally gives an immense boost for forceful conversion to proceed unabated. This has also given a turbo boost for Eelam propagandists. The case in point is DBS Jeyraj who has been demonising Sinhalese Buddhists as being a bunch of “Ethno-religious fascists”.  As being a Christian himself Jeyraj has been vilifying Sinhalese Buddhists in his blog with his own writing and giving space to other writers hell bent to unleash anti Sinhalese Buddhist propaganda.  Interestingly, Eelam project has firm Christian foundations from its inception. 

What do incidents like what happened in Nindavur prove over and over again?

One of the prominent manifestations of Muslim expansionism  in the countries where the community lives as a minority or the majority has been to unleash extreme violence against non-Muslim communities and the law enforcement authorities whenever such acts are deemed by the expansionists as necessary. The resultant fear- psychosis created among the Kafirs or infidels, the way Muslims consider all non-Muslims, in turn facilitates its expansionist agenda. What we have been increasingly observing for quite some time in the Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Egypt, the West and Sri Lanka are case in point. One of the most commonly employed forms of violence has been brutally killing the victims by hacking to death. (Hacking to death or beheading the "infidels or Kaffirs" is the standard way being followed by Muslims from Islam's inception in eliminating the former and it is widely practiced in the world over irrespective of whether the Muslims are in the majority or the minority) ). The fear- psychosis crated among other communities also helps to create "No go zones" to Kafirs among the Muslim settlements which is quite common among the Muslim settlements in the UK in particular and in the West in general. In most of such incidents violent unrests are created taking the law onto their hands by the Muslim expansionists. The public properties are damaged and other normal day today affaires are disrupted creating unruly atmosphere.      
 
What we witnessed in Nindavur yesterday (and still going on) was just a latest example of series of similar acts in action. The law enforcement authorities are prevented from entering the villages by hook or by crook. If the members of the Security Forces happen to be in civics, they are accused to have entered to the Muslim Settlements to do unlawful activities such as robberies or any other nefarious acts.  The victims are caught and severely beaten or hacked to death. Series of such incidents were reported some time back in the Grease Yaka episodes. Unarmed Sgt. Navarathna Bandara of Sri Lanka police was hacked to death in Puttalam and many army personals were severely beaten in the East and other parts of the country. In yesterday's incident few STF members were beaten and were luckily rescued by a group of their colleagues before being killed.  This applies to any other person belonging to non-Muslim ethnicities. Such cases were reported in several parts of the country during, prior and after Grease Yaka incidents. These acts will continue to happen until Sri Lanka turns into some form of "............stan" which is the ultimate goal of Muslim expansionists.     

Photo: Courtesy-www.dailymirror.lk  

In defence of appointing military officials at Sri Lankan missions abroad …02

As I once noted, appointing of former and serving Military Officials in Sri Lanka's foreign missions have paid dividends with outstanding results.  In my previous post on the subject I pointed out how the appointment of Major General Shavendra Silva, Sri Lanka's Deputy Representative to the UN and Major General Udaya Perera then deputy high commissioner of Sri Lanka to Malaysia and now the Commander Security Forces Head Quarters in Kilinochchi   have yielded spectacular successes.
 
The latest case in point comes from Australia. As has been the case with above mentioned instances,  the appointment of a former Navy Commander Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe as the Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to Australia has paid its dividends. Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe's lobbying with the Australian Government   has yielded the latter's perfect understanding about the problem of the illegal immigration by Sri Lankans to Australia by sea. The success of the High Commissioner's efforts underscores the Austrian PM's pledge to support Sri Lanka in combatting this menace. It's true that illegal immigration has become a menace to Australia than it has been to Sri Lanka. Therefore, Austria has been doing its best to prevent it from happening by assisting the source country to strengthen its Navy and the Coast Guard. But lobbying by an ex-navy commander with Australian authorities, a highly successful one in that matter, is far effective than by doing it by a layman whose knowledge in the subject is limited. On the other hand Admiral Samarasinghe's command of the language is impressive and is indeed articulate.

The Eeelam propaganda machine is still deadly effective as eloquently displayed by David Cameron’s visit to Jaffna.

This picture eloquently tells how deadly effective Eeelam propaganda machine has been as had been during the LTTE heydays. The demise of the LTTE in Sri Lanka seems to have made no impact on it and have been strengthened in several folds. If not taken on this well oiled machine with equally deadly effectiveness, the present Sri Lankan government and the ones yet to come would succumb to the fate faced by the Sri Lankan governments during the 30 years' of Eelam War.

Imagine, the sheer scale of preparations which have gone into by carefully preserving the gun shot marks on walls of the Uthayan News-Paper Office for a considerable time even having apparently been painted the walls. The marks have clearly been left out and have been prominently marked ready to show any foreign dignitary who happen to visit Jaffna during the CHOGM. And the efforts that were put into have generously been rewarded with the foreign dignitary who happened to visit Jaffna had been none other than the British Prime Minister David Cameron. The PM visited the Uthayan Office and the rest is history!

Photo: Courtesy- http://www.dailymirror.lk/

A lot kudos for Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the UK! The right person in the right place at last!

In this video clip Dr. Chris Nonis , Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the UK giving an interview to CNN has been quite eloquent, articulate and supremely confident on what he was talking about.  It seems this has been a rare instance where a right person has been given an opportunity in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan Diplomatic Community dearly needs this type of personalities. We have been paying dearly for a long period of time for not having the personalities calibre of Dr. Nonis to deal with the country's foreign affairs. Courtesy- http://www.adaderana.lk/ 

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”-Mahatma Gandhi: time has come to bring back our country’s greatness in treating animals ( Re-posting a previous article)

Following is one of my posts written against the cruel treatment subjected to the animals in Sri Lanka especially the brutal manner in which the cattle are slaughtered in mass scale daily. I feel it's opportune to re-post my article in the backdrop of Ven. Bowatte Indrarathana Thera's passing away due to setting himself on fire against the cattle slaughter and some other anti-Buddhist activities perpetrated against the Buddhists in the country.            

How true! Treatment to animals in a civilization whose foundation had been laid by Buddhist philosophy was among many great things Sri Lanka was known for from time immemorial.  The colonial foothold in Sri Lanka was certainly beginning to make a negative impact in our civilization which treated animals as equally as humans. The slaughter of animals with unprecedented numbers and cruel methods used by non-Buddhists especially by colonists and the populations converted to their religions was widespread in the areas under colonial rule. Though the Buddhists continued to maintain their compassionate attitude towards animals by largely being as a relatively less flesh consuming community, the large scale slaughter happening around them and the widespread flesh eating practice made some impact among them.

The recent incident involving minister Mervyn Silva who rescued a large number of animals about to be slaughtered in Munneswaram and Western Province Governor Alavi Moulana threatening the minister to face grave consequences if he goes ahead of preventing large number of animals to be slaughtered on the eve of the Haj festival brings to the fore us to think twice about our stand on this matter especially as a nation whose foundations are largely laid by the Buddhist philosophy.

While I do not generally accept most of the rash and foolish actions by the minister Mervyn Silva nor him as a person I appreciate the initiative made by the minister though it was also not done proper manner. However, the attention created by the minister's action should be a stepping stone for all of us to join hands to start a campaign aimed at eradication of cruel and inhuman treatments towards animals.            

We should mainly pay our attention to the bloodcurdling, horrific and cruel manner in which the cattle are slaughtered in Sri Lanka. We should also certainly pay our attention the sheer number of cattle being slaughtered in a single day in Sri Lanka with terrifying treatment meted out. No sensible person with even an iota of kindness in the heart would ever dare to eat beef if he/she witnesses the cruel and horrific manner in which the poor animals are subjected to suffer while slaughtering.

At time Sri Lanka is in an important juncture with the dawning of peace after defeating terrorism and while celebrating 2600 years of Sambudhdha Jayanthi setting in motion to embark on a righteous society, it is very much pertinent to focus our search light how animals are treated especially when slaughtering, the number of animals being butchered and how we can eradicate this practices shameful to entire humanity. Then only Sri Lanka can boast again as a great nation which we were known for centuries.