Dear Luxmy,

Were you sober when you made the following statement?

Quote …”Was there any period in the last 63 yrs that Tamils could not have been jaundiced by successive governments and the mobs and armed forces at their beck and call?”…. unquote

For almost 200 years BEFORE 1948 Lanka’s Administration was DOMINATED by the Tamil Hindu Vellala Cast. This DOMINATION continued for at least 20 years after 1948. Those who were Jaundiced by the Vellala Tamils were not only Non Vellala Tamils but Sinhalese, Muslims and other communities as well. So neither your arithmetic nor your facts are up to the mark.

Here is a case were the Vellala Tamils SUBJUGATED and robbed the right of OTHER Tamils to practice even their Hindu Religion and THAT is just the tip of the iceberg!!!

Note the Date, It is 1971 and the Tamil Vellala, who treated even their own kind with utter inhumanity, Administered Lanka for nearly 225 years!!!

Are you a Vellala?

(http://www.lawnet.lk/docs/case_law/nlr/common/html/NLR74V457.htm)
The case even went up to the Privy Council in the UK
October 6, 1971. [Delivered by LORD WILBERFORCE]-
The appellant, by special leave, appeals against his conviction of an offence under section 2 (read with section 3 (b)) of the Prevention of Social Disabilities Act 1957 in respect of which he was sentenced to a fine of Rs. 50. His appeal from the Magistrate’s Court of Mallakam to the Supreme Court was dismissed.
The facts are that the appellant, a Hindu by religion, on 1st July 1968 prevented one Murugesu Sinniah, also a Hindu by religion but socially of a lower caste, from entering the inner courtyard of the Maviddapuram Temple for the purpose of worshipping.
The appellant, who acted with the authority of the High Priest of the Temple, used no force: the Magistrate accepted his evidence that he excluded Sinniah in order to prevent bloodshed and held that his presence prevented an ugly situation erupting with violence. He found however that the appellant prevented Sinniah from entering the inner courtyard by reason of his caste : Sinniah belonged to the Palla caste which, as the Magistrate found, worshipped from outside, this being the religious usage and custom of the people of his caste.
……. the appeal was dismissed by the Privy Council.

Dear Holmung

“1. The UPFA is riding on the fact that it won the war (HR aside!) and the majority simple/thick/lazy sinhalese will take some time to understand the realities around town!”

I totally 100% agree. Stupid Sinhalese never appreciated how great Sri Lanka was when the LTTE was there to suicide bomb and recruit child soldiers. You and I can appreciate all those wonderful killings but the Sinhalese are too thick and lazy.

I came across below link by a chance
http://www.gossip9.com/2011/09/blog-post_20.html

http://www.gossip9.com/2011/07/blog-post_01.html

I see these guys are making some serious allegations.
I don’t believe that a person like you would harbor prejudice articulated in this article.
However lies when oft repeated can become reality for some ,especially powers that be.
There may be factions within the government who want you out of the picture.
So anyway I saw some comments to the effect there cannot be any smoke without a fire
Just a friendly warning.

Guys, this is like Alice in wonderland- wheels within wheels!?

1. The UPFA is riding on the fact that it won the war (HR aside!) and the majority simple/thick/lazy sinhalese will take some time to understand the realities around town!

2. I’ve read Thisaranee’s articles over the years- simply brilliant, a beacon of light in the gloomy surroundings- where ‘media/press freedom’ is simply of academic interest. So perhaps the so-called academics as DJ may have things to say?

3. Those of us who work in the export markets and employ 30-40K staff would know that SL has indeed quite lost its standing out there in the apparent ‘civilized world’.

4. Despite all the high-flown jargon abt. if we really are a democracy and/or if we are progressing alongst the lines of the Chintanaya (despite the royal family & their cronies lining their pockets) – the incidents on election day are just the tip of the iceberg lettuce. I’m told that now even the board of J’pura hospital has been changed. What a freaking joke. We are raelly scraping the bottom of the barrel now!

Got to rush for a conference call now. But I had to say these few things- random as they may sound…

Long live the rajapassa’s and the sliva’s (both the mervyn and dumi types!)

beg to differ! as his father would’ve told him quite rightly, playing to the gallery (particularly in the SL/Asian context) does work most often than not. Eg. SWRD Banda’s “Sinhala Only” and JRJ’s “Dharmishta” slogan – got the masses on-board en-mass! And we, the next generations are paying dearly for that crap and our parents apathy.

for most in cmb. – it would’ve probably been a protest vote. Sadly though, a significant # from cmb. didnt vote! A good thing in democracy to have checks and balances in place – but the UNP has a lot to prove themselves.

is a planet away from:

‘’…. If we are wise, we should first put our own house in order before we challenge the UN…. It is not yet too late to begin. The mission needs a powerful Presidential Task Force for National Reconciliation. Such a Force can cut the ground from under the feet of the ongoing controversy and many more to be expected.’’

Dr Jayatilleke,

I have made a comment above but let me put those and similar thoughts in a different way and may be you might feel fit to respond:

1. I am not sure that to say that the CMC victory is purely a result of voting on ethnic lines may not be accurate. I say this for the reason that:

(a)The second highest to poll from the UPFA list was Azath Sally and that too not very far from Moragoda.

(b) UNP won Borella and Colombo East as well – not particularly minority areas.

2. That is just the CMC. How about the UPFA victory in Dehiwela – Mount Lavinia with a strong Muslim community. Also Kandy with Tamil and Muslim voter base?

So may be there is more to this than mere voting on communal lines although I agree that the UNP has lost its Sinhala voter base. The question is why?