Sudath Gunasekara 2017.5.24.

I want all patriotic Sinhala readers to go through these statement by the big wigs of the Yahapalanaya Government carefully and thereafter find answers to the few simple queries I have posed to the four statements by the most important men in order of protocol on this subject, the President, Prime Minister, Leader of the House and the Cabinet Spokesman, Land and Parliamentary Reforms Minister Gayantha Karunathilaka

1 Sri Lanka president orders stern action against racial attacks

Source: Xinhua| 2017-05-23 19:32:33|Editor: xuxin

COLOMBO, May 23 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena on Tuesday ordered his Law and Order Minister to thoroughly probe incidents related to racism in the island country and take stern action against those involved.

Minister of National Co-Existence and Dialogue Mano Ganeshan told Xinhua that during a cabinet meeting held on Tuesday, he had informed the president that there had been incidents of racial attacks against the minority Tamils and Muslims in the recent weeks.

Ganeshan said that the president also instructed his cabinet that he would not tolerate any acts of racism and if any such attacks take place, then stern action would be taken against those responsible.

“Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe also said that if such attacks occur, then the area police officers will be held responsible. The government will not tolerate any acts of racism,” Ganeshan said.

He further said that the recent attack on a mosque in Kurunegala in northwestern Sri Lanka and the attack on shops owned by minority Tamils and Muslims on Tuesday morning were all part of a conspiracy to topple the government.

He added that the Police Chief would also be informed of the decision taken at the cabinet meeting.

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2 Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe

Prime Minister Wickremesinghe said certain factions are behaving in a manner that disrupts the reconciliation process by inciting violence and racism.

The Prime Minister said the public should voice their objections against such factions.

Premier Wickremesinghe said those who cannot instigate separatism within the country are now attempting to create issues in the name of religion within the country, he then questioned as to how can religious based issues can be allowed to flourish within this country.

The Premier said individuals must vehemently condemn any movement that would bring about religious or racial hatred adding that this country cannot be divided.

The Premier added religion is something that unites people, not something that divides people.

Prime Minister Wickremesinghe said if anyone is looking to create racial and religious issues within the country, the need to be stopped as all citizens have the duty of protecting peace within the country.

The Premier said citizens must act against racial and religious hate within the country and work against its promotion.

3 Lakshman Kiriella speaking

The government says action will be taken against any individual engaged in extremist activities. Leader of the House Minister Lakshman Kiriella speaking in Parliament reiterated the government’s stance.

The Minister was responding to a statement by United People’s Freedom Alliance Parliamentarian Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena who claimed certain groups and organisations are attempting to destabilise the country by engaging in such misconduct.

Minister Lakshman Kiriella added the government will not tolerate actions such as that reported in Aluthgama and Beruwela in the past.

The Minister said the government clearly instructed that those engaged in extremist actions should be arrested following an investigation.

He added the government would not tie people to trees; nor kidnap people in white vans.

He questioned as to what took place during the Aluthgama and Beruwala incidents.

Minister Kiriella added such was why the good governance government laid out clear instructions to take action against such individuals regardless of their rank.

Strict action against inciting communal tension: Govt.

2017-05-23 21:16

Minister Gayantha Karunatilaka

Strict action against inciting communal tension: Govt.

2017-05-23 21:16:3

The Cabinet today decided to take strict action according to the law against elements that attempt to create communal tension and disharmony in the country, the Government said today.

The Government accordingly will instruct all Police stations to be vigilant on those who attempt to create tension among communities and apply law strictly on them.

Cabinet Spokesman, Land and Parliamentary Reforms Minister Gayantha Karunathilaka told a hastilyconvened news briefing in the Parliament Complex last afternoon that the Cabinet that met after the mini Cabinet reshuffle on Monday was concerned about the statements made by certain groups and individuals that had contributed to heightened the communal feelings.

There are extremists in all parts of the country among all communities and they wait for opportunities to create ethnic unrest. They use the freedom given to them by this Government for their ulterior motives. But the Government is committed to ensure each and every citizen new freedom without hindrance from any party or group,” Minister Karunathilaka said.

The law enforcement authorities will act according to the law in a more vigorous manner to arrest this negative trend and maintain law and order and inter-communal harmony, Minister Karunathilaka stressed. (Sandun A Jayasekera)

The queries I make

What do these people mean by racism and racial and religious issues in the Sri Lankan context and in to whom they are referring to as individuals engaged in extremist activities. Most probably in this context,  they must be referring to the alleged attacks on a mosque in Kurunegala in northwestern Sri Lanka and the attack on some shops owned by minority Tamils and Muslims, by Minister of National Co-Existence and Dialogue Mano Ganeshan  which he describes as a part of a conspiracy to topple the government. Their reference to religious or racial hatred   also emanating from the same representations

The government’s policy decision to take serious action against any individual engaged in extremist activities is most welcome. But when you read through what Minister Lakshman Kiriella says that the government will not tolerate actions such as that reported in Aluthgama , it becomes more than clear that they are referring to only the alleged attacks by Sinhala Buddhists against muslims. His repeated reference e to communal tension and disharmony in the country, during the Aluthgama and Beruwala incidents make it very clear what the Government is having in their mind.

None of these people who are so quick and prompt in taking Cabinet decisions and give orders to arrest Buddhist monks even open their mouths about the large scale sacrilege and vandalism carried out by Tamils and Muslims against Buddhist monuments in the North and the East. Why don’t they talk about what Vigneswaran, Sambandan or  Sivajilingam say or do against the Sinhalese, both at Home and internationally and why don’t they take action on them. How is it that they take action only against the Sinhalese and Buddhists, and remand only Buddhist monks while they never touch Tamil Catholic priests. This government only talk about minority rights. But they never talk about the Majority rights. Don’t they consider the devastation of thousands of Buddhist religious places and cutting down Bo trees by Tamils and Muslims all over the country as provocative religious crimes?

I presume that these responses are a direct sequel to representations made by two minority groups, one made by the Minister of National Co-Existence and Dialogue Mano Ganeshan and the other by a group of Muslim Ministers respectively, to the President and the PM, last week. It is not surprising that the President and all others have been so quick in responding to their requests to take action against Sinhala Buddhist leaders and monks going by the lethargic attitude displayed by them regarding all repeated representations made by Sinhala Buddhist organizations for a long time on continuing anti- Sinhala and anti-Buddhist activities of both Tamil and Muslim politicians. Isn’t it a clear proof of the yahapalanaya Government’s attitude and its policy towards the Sinhala Buddhist majority in this country and its deep commitment on the other hand to the Minority interests. I want all readers to see how quick and  prompt the Yahapalanaya has been in taking even Cabinet decisions to address minority issues as against the lethargy displayed with regard to the majority Sinhala grievances. This also once again shows how the minority rules the majority in this country.

By now this Government has taken actions against at least fifty leading Buddhist monks and many of them had been remanded. Whereas the Government has not taken any action against traitors like Vinesvaran, Sivajilingam, Richard Badurdeen and Asad Salee to name a few only  for all anti Sinhala and anti=Buddhist utterances or activities done by them. Most of them have been engaged in anti-Government and unconstitutional activities as well. But both the President and the Prime Minister have turned their ears deaf and eyes blind in the name of reconciliation for the simple reason that they have voted them in to power along with the party blind Sinhala UNP voters.

Today party politics introduced by the British to ruin the Sinhala Buddhist nation has successfully destroyed the Sinhala ness of the Sinhalese. Unlike in the olden days today we don’t have Sinhala people either. So much so you don’t have Sinhalese; their nationality as well as religion is their party. But on the other hand for both Tamils and Muslims for all intent and purpose they are either Tamils or Muslims They vote, eat, act and even sleep accordingly. That is the difference between the Sinhalese and minorities and that is why they rule us today and we are like this as a nation. The biggest tragedy is none of our Sinhala politicians understand this. They only understand value of power and money and the vote that manifest the secret of both.

Now even this evening news broadcast over the TV, I saw Ven Galabodatte Gnansara has been asked to appear in courts on the 30th of this month. That is how this Government is treating the Buddhist monks the architects of our civilizations and the guardian gods of the nation who had protected this nation for the past 2500 years.  I really do not know as to what the monks in this country are doing while this Government is taking the Sinahla nation and the Sasana openly to nemesis like this.

Just one last question I pose to all patriotic people of this country. How long are you going to have these people as the leaders of the Sinhala Buddhist State and at what cost to the nation?