Of course! How foolish of the Heshan to be even asking this! We are always giving the peoples what they are asking for! As a very responsible and powerful member of the government side I can be assuring all of you that. If you are wanting something, please be asking. But please be making sure that what you are asking for is also what we are wanting to be doing.

Prof Heshan

“Then why does the constitution say Buddhism shall have a foremost place?”

Because that is what the people want. The monks hardly make a difference.

Er,,, bhikkus don’t get our support on matters affecting one of us?

Then why does the constitution say Buddhism shall have a foremost place?

Regardless of what happened in the 1950s, the monks today do not have the same influence. Were they able to get Fonseka out of jail?

So you are saying that devolution should end up with Tamil Eelam???

Unfortunately, your nationalist comrades equate any form of devolution with separatism. Look at how the JVP was against even the 13th Amendment – the bare minimum on the devolution scale.

A pathetic attempt to distort the facts. Everyone knows the true history:

The Sinhalese and the Buddhist clergies took the campaign of tarring Pali word ‘SRI’ by the Tamils as an affront. More than one hundred strong contingents of Buddhist priests led by Mrs. Wimala Wijewardene, the cabinet ranking only woman minister in the Bandaranaike’s Government, squatted in front of the private residence of Bandaranaike, the prime minister, located at Rosemead Place, Cinnamon’s Gardens, Colombo, on April 9, 1958. They demanded the abrogation of the agreement signed with Chelvanayakam, the leader of the Federal Party.

Bandaranaiake & Chelvanayakam studied together at Wesley College, Colombo, in their early days and he was the first to send in the congratulatory message, when the latter resigned from the All Ceylon Tamil Congress and inaugurated the Federal Party in 1949. Even though Bandaranaiake, a mediocre chauvinist, wished to continue with the implementation of the agreement but things turned out differently and forced him to give in when Buddhist clergy started chanting and insisted that they shall not leave the place until the fate of the ‘pact’ is decided conclusively. Bandaranaike walked out of his house and brought the “Banda-Chelva Pact’ and tore it into pieces in front of the Buddhist clergies, who got up and chanted ‘Sadhu’ ‘Sadhu’ — peace, peace – and promptly left the place. ”

http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2010/09/19/submission-llrc-part-v-damning-cycle-anti-tamil-race-riots-civil-disobedience-campai

So, before putting the blame on the UNP, Mr.Wijayapala ought to answer whether J.R. was also chanting “sadhu sadhu” outside Banda’s residence. And also state which party this Wimala Wijewardene belonged to.

“Are you forgetting how the monks forced S.W.R.D to tear up his pact with Chelva?”

The monks didn’t force anything. SWRD was afraid that the UNP would take advantage of this. Or have you forgotten the lovable JR’s march to Kandy to protest the pact?

“What about the monks who protested against the Norwegians?”

They are a wonderful example of how protests won’t work without a political patron. Despite all the protests, nobody kicked the Norwegians out until Mahinda became President, and even he took his time.

“The outcome of the CFA would have been massive devolution – in fact, according to the Southern nationalists, it would have been Tamil Eelam itself.”

So you are saying that devolution should end up with Tamil Eelam???

“when Ranil did a 360 in 2002”

Don’t you mean a 180? 😀 A 360 would leave him heading in the same direction as before. Good golly, [Edited out] Heshan, no wonder you’re lost ha ha.

‘Let’s imagine these individuals were alive today and consider what good they could possibly have done’
In line with your argument, let us assume that they would not have done anything worthwhile to the Tamil community. Still these men and women’s right to life should not have been violated. I am shocked that you are unable to comprehend this. Your argument lacks political credibility as you consider they would not have been politically useful even if they were alive today. On the part of the Tigers they thought the opposite. They were murdered because the LTTE wanted to abolish the political opposition against them as part of their totalitarian project. Probably you are aware that the Nazis passed judgments over individuals who were ‘unfit to live’. Your argument also lacks originality as you seem to have borrowed these ideas from the Nazi ideology to justify the killings. This is very dangerous.