By Ananda-USA
July 21, 2014
MAYBE, just maybe, that India REFUSING A VISA to the UN team probing Sri Lanka augurs that the tide is beginning to turn in Sri Lanka's favor in Indo-Lanka relations.
I had hoped and prayed for this ever since Narendra Modi appeared on the scene as a Presidential candidate, based on his character, experience, nationalist posture, and effectiveness as a leader. I argued for receiving him warmly his acsension to his new role, as President Mahind Rajapaksa has WISELY done.
Many PATRIOTS of Lanka, myself included, have LONG RECOMMENDED that India be totally EXCLUDED from any involvement in Sri Lanka's internal matters, including its economy.
There is NO NATION in South Asia whose majority community is OVERWHELMINGLY in favor of good relations with ALL PEOPLES OF INDIA than the Sinhala Buddhist majority of Sri Lanka, which genuinely regrets the destruction of that relationship by successive myopic and egotistic Indian governments that interfered in the internal affairs of our Motherland.
Because of INDIA's actions in FOMENTING Tamil Terrorism in Sri Lanka, invading our nation militarily, and dictating how we should govern ourselves, we have drifted away from our historically close and amicable relationship with our Indian cousins.
Perhaps this DENIAL OF VISAS to Western Neocolonialist troublemakers inciting Regime Change under various PRETEXTS in Sri Lanka is a signal that India truly wants to mend Indo-Sri Lanka relations, and open a new chapter reminiscent of the Asokan Age of its hallowed past.
We Patriots of Lanka WELCOME WITH OPEN ARMS these new developments under President Narendra Modi's leadership, and await better things to come in the years and decades ahead!
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India refuses visa to UN team probing Sri Lanka
ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
July 21, Colombo: India has refused to grant visas to the United Nations team appointed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay to probe the alleged human rights violations during the last seven years of three-decades long conflict in Sri Lanka.
India and four other South Asian countries have united in expressing objection to the UN probe mandated by a resolution adopted at the 25th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva in March 2014.
Commissioner of the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, Dr. Prathiba Mahanamahewa has said that India has rejected to provide visa to the investigations committee to enter that country to conduct the probe, national news agency Lankapuvath reported.
Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Maldives have expressed their objection to the international investigation into Sri Lanka.
The investigation team appointed by Pillay to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the alleged war crimes committed by Sri Lanka's security forces and the Tamil terrorists comprises 13 members and three experts.
While conducting investigations from Western countries, the team has sought to conduct the investigations in a country close to Sri Lanka since Sri Lanka has refused to cooperate with the investigation.
"India is an important country in this regard, but India has rejected entry. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Maldives are in a similar stance, they are not willing to provide support for a suggestion brought on an individual country. They will want to conduct investigations in a country that is close to Sri Lanka, since they cannot enter Sri Lanka," Dr. Mahanamahewa has said.
The human rights official has noted that even Afghanistan has shown their objection towards the probe. "The SAARC countries have united for the first time in this manner," Dr. Mahanamahewa added.
"The UNHRC Committee will have to conduct the investigation from outside South Asia. They will have to contact witnesses in Sri Lanka through Skype and teleconferencing," he has said.
He said refusal of visas is a very significant gesture from the part of the Indian leadership.
Pillay last month appointed Nobel Laureate Martti Ahtisaari, international judge Dame Silvia Cartwright of New Zealand, and Ms Asma Jahangir, former President of Pakistan's Supreme Court Bar Association as experts to the investigative team which will be coordinated by senior human rights official Ms. Sandra Beidas.
Earlier this month India reiterated that it is against sending the UN team to Sri Lanka to probe human rights violations allegedly committed by the Sri Lankan security forces during the decades-long war.
India's External Affairs Ministry, recalling that India abstained on the Resolution and also voted against the specific paragraph that wanted to send a team to the island, has said that the international bodies need to address human rights through a cooperative framework, not a punitive approach.
Meanwhile, the committee appointed by Navi Pillay will initiate its investigations from three different locations worldwide. Centers established in New York, Bangkok and Geneva will initiate the investigations connecting via Skype, and Satellite, the agency reported.
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Ranil Wickremasinghe has just returned after a new brainwashing session in the USA, steeped upto his gills in the Western Neo-Colonialist mantra on "human rights", "democrazy", and "good governance", that was so well deployed to undermine and sow chaos in vast areas of the world under Billary Clinton's Machiavellian guidance. He is the point man of the West chosen to supervise this task in Sri Lanka.
Now, he spouts the words implanted in his brain by his foreign paymasters, by rote, in knee-jerk fashion, without thinking. He has been promised the return to Premiership, or even the Presidency for he is very likely to forget all of his current objections to that office held by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, by his foreign paymasters.
This man of "PAMANKANDA instead of ALIMANKADA" infamy, has no shame as he servilely panders to Sri Lanka's enemies
He seeks only the realization of his DREAM of PERSONAL GRANDUER at any cost to his Motherland, and failing that, to die in office as the leader-for-life of the opposition UNP, trying in vain to prevail against the popular current of patriotic sentiment in Sri Lanka.
The more he tries, the more he earns the DISGUST of the people of Sri Lanka.
And Sri Lanka, in return, wants excellent relations with India .... subject to, and based upon, STRICT NON_INTERFERENCE in each other's INTERNAL AFFAIRS, and a MUTUAL COMMITTMENT to the security and territorial integrity of both nations.
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India wants excellent relations with Sri Lanka - BJP delegation
ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
July 21, Colombo: A group of members from India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), including the Chairman of BJP's Committee on Strategic Action and Former Union Minister Dr. Subramanian Swamy, met Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees today.
The group discussed a number of issues of bilateral and regional significance, including the functions carried out by the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) and Sri Lanka's strategic importance in relation to this work, indicating that Sri Lanka plays a pivotal role in guarding the Indian Ocean. They pledged their fullest support for a continued Sri Lankan role in this regard.
The BJP team told President Rajapaksa that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants "excellent relations with Sri Lanka."
President Rajapaksa told the team of Sri Lanka's interest in establishing a center of excellence in maritime and environmental studies.
The other BJP members who participated in the meeting with the President include Dr. Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, Dr. Chari Seshadri Ramanujan, Dr. Swapan Dasgupta and Prof. Madhav Nalapat. They also spoke about the post-war progress Sri Lanka is making after the end of the war.
"Sri Lanka is the only country that has decisively dealt with terrorism," said Dr. Ramanujan.
Pointing out that Sri Lanka's security is important to India, Dr. Swamy told the President that the end of the war has benefited Indian security as well.
In particular, they commended the Government's initiatives in the north and east toward improving infrastructure, bringing better educational opportunities to students and implementing programs to make Sri Lanka a trilingual nation.
Minister of External Affairs Prof. G.L Peiris and Presidential Advisor Dr. Sunimal Fernando also participated in the discussion.
(Photos by Udesh Gunaratna)
Bravo! Make it IMPOSSIBLE for these NGO puppets of foreign paymasters to MAKE A LIVING from UNDERMINING the Nation!
We have called for such action for a LONG TIME ... it is FINALLY HAPPENING.
The MORE TOLERANT the GoSL becomes, the MORE ARROGANT & AGGRESSIVE these NGOs become, thinking they are above the Law of the Land.
This is one of the BEST WAYS to draw their fangs and STOP them from DESTABILIZING the Nation.
The OTHER is to INVESTIGATE, ARREST, PROSECUTE, CONVICT & PUNISH these TRAITORS under the Treason Laws of Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka to prevent NGOs from receiving foreign funds - report
ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
July 21, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government had decided to prevent certain Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that are threats to the national security from receiving foreign funds, according to a local newspaper report.
The Sinhala daily Divaina quoting unnamed high level sources reported today that the government had decided to notify the Central Bank regarding the measure.
According to the repot seven Western countries were supporting six NGOs that are a threat to the national security of Sri Lanka.
Reportedly the six NGOs have received funds to launch campaigns to force the withdrawal of military from the North and bring war crime charges against the security forces.
The report further stated that the US had summoned the leaders of two of the NGOs to that country and held secret discussions.
Sri Lanka government recently issued a circular to the NGOs restricting them from conducting press conferences, workshops, training for journalists, and dissemination of press releases.
Prof Rohan Gunaratna says ...
"In the present context of Sri Lanka, the 13th Amendment itself is irrelevant."
" it was enacted to facilitate the LTTE to enter mainstream politics, adding that EPRLF, EROS, PLOT, TELO, etc all entered mainstream politics through it."
Furthermore, he says ...
"India is organized on the basis of ethno-linguistic states. Sri Lanka is too small to do that. The Sri Lankan model should be that everyone should be able to live at anyplace preserving their own cultural and ethnic identities. India's solution is good for India. It is not conducive or healthy for our country," he said.
We are happy to have the esteemed professor join now the vast majority of patriots who have been saying this for DECADES!
The ethno-linguistic organization of India will ultimately lead to its disintegration. The growing ethno-linguistic warfare between Assam and Nagaland right now is further proof of that.
Sri Lanka should not hoist upon its own head the same crown of thorns that India is suffering from, blessed as Sri Lanka is with a size small enough to make a federal structure of government both unnecessary and irrelevant.
The situation today is that the TNA wants the Northern Province to be an EXCLUSIVE Tamils-Only preserve, while SHARING the rest of Sri Lanka through "Sri Lankan citizenship" that they barely acknowledge and honor.
That must not be allowed. The Provincial Council system under the 13th Amendment is what will allow them to achieve it. The TNA's ULTIMATE GOAL has not veered ONE IOTA from the GOAL OF EELAM it pursued vociferously and vigorously in the days when the late unlamented Sun God ruled the Northern Province, and the TNA served him him as the LTTE proxy in Colombo.
Why are we still DEBATING this OBVIOUS issue? The 13th Amendment and the Provincial Council System is a dagger pointed at the heart of the territorial integrity and future economic progress in our Motherland.
With India itself, under the Narendra Modi's new BJP Govt, recognizing its culpability for inciting separatism within Sri Lanka (vide Dr. Subramaniam Swamy's recent remarks in Colombo) and willing to MAKE AMENDS to establish amicable relations with Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka should SEIZE the DAY and ...
REPEAL the 13th Amendment, DISSOLVE the Provincial Councils, Ethnically Integrate all of Sri Lanka, not just the South of the Country!
CARPE' DIEM, I say! Ask not for whom the bell tolls ... it tolls for our Motherland of Sri Lanka
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Prof. Rohan Gunaratne at special lecture in Parliament: Home-grown solution best for Sri Lanka
By Sandasen Marasinghe and Disna Mudalige
DailyNews.lk
August 22, 2014
In the present context of Sri Lanka, the 13th Amendment itself is irrelevant, Expert on International Terrorism Prof. Rohan Gunaratne said.
...Continued from above....
He was making a special lecture on "India under Modi: A turning point in Indo-Lanka Relations" at the Parliamentary complex yesterday. The event was organized by the Sri Lanka Parliamentary Journalists' Association with the coordination of the Department of Government Information.
Responding to a question by a journalist on the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, he said it was enacted to facilitate the LTTE to enter mainstream politics, adding that EPRLF, EROS, PLOT, TELO, etc all entered mainstream politics through it.
He said now is the best time to reflect on the suitability of 13th Amendment in the present context. Prof. Gunaratne stressed that Sri Lankan model should be a home-grown one, adding that Indian model should not be imposed on Sri Lanka.
"India is organized on the basis of ethno-linguistic states. Sri Lanka is too small to do that. The Sri Lankan model should be that everyone should be able to live at anyplace preserving their own cultural and ethnic identities. India's solution is good for India. It is not conducive or healthy for our country," he said.
He also stressed that laws should be formulated to hinder persons with terrorist links who still have terrorist ideas coming to Parliament.
Prof. Gunaratne also stressed that Sri Lanka in its foreign policy should pay attention towards not only strengthening relationship with New Delhi, but also building an equally friendly relationship with Tamil Nadu.
"We have pursued a policy of friendship to all and enmity to none. This policy should continue. But Sri Lanka should establish special relationship with India. Tamil Nadu is as important as New Delhi.
It is important to build our relationship with DMK and AIDMK, two main parties in South India. We should also engage with small political cum social movements in Tamil Nadu such as the parties of Nedumaran, Vaiko, Seeman and Thirmularan. They have a very wrong impression of Sri Lanka" he said.
"The economy of the North grew at 22 per cent, while the rest of the country at 6 percent. The first stage should be physical infrastructure, but now the NGOs, government and the private sector should play crucial roles socially, economically, politically and psychosocially to link the North with the South.
The biggest damage the LTTE did was not the killing of people or destroying the physical infrastructure, but its spread of ideology of prejudice and suspicion.
We have to rebuild the trust between communities. More than devolving power in the periphery what is important is to devolve power in the centre," he said.
Deputy Speaker Chandima Weerakkody, the Deputy Secretary General of Parliament, Serjeant-At-Alms, Chief Opposition Whip John Amaratunga and Prof. Ganganath Dissanayake also participated.
If Pakistani fishermen want to fish in India's territorial waters, would Dr. Subramaniam Swamy support it? I would say not, because each country ... especially those who have undermined each other for decades ... should keep on their own side of the maritime boundaries ... if only to prevent claims of "historical fishing rights" being created in the minds of devious people.
Given that there are no more devious people than the political leaders of Tamil Madu who pen poems to late unlamented SunGod, draw maps incorporating parts of Sri Lanka into a Greater Tamil Madu, and even recently called on the UN and the West to CREATE AN EELAM for Tamils in Sri Lanka, it would be a very foolish thing for Dr. Subramaniam Swamy to ask Sri Lanka to allow fishing by Indians (aka Indian Tamils) to fish in Sri Lankan waters for EVEN ONE DAY.
NO THANK YOU, dear Dr. Swamy ... we Sri Lankans recognize the THIN END OF THE WEDGE when we see it!
Indian fishermen should fish in their own waters which they have denuded of fish by overfishing, and let us poor Sri Lankans fish in our own waters in which we have wisely conserved our fish.
On the other hand, we would be willing to SELL OUR FISH to any and all Indians, Indian Tamils included, even as we BUY Bajaj 3-wheelers from India!
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Sri Lanka rejects proposal to permit Indian fishermen to fish in island waters
ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Aug 24, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government has rejected a proposal put forward by an Indian political leader to provide a temporary license for Indian fishermen to fish in Sri Lankan waters for 3 years.
Sri Lanka's Fisheries Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne turned down the proposal made by the Senior Leader of the Bharatha Janatha Party Dr. Subramanian Swamy at the Defense Seminar held last week in Colombo.
"There is no possibility of agreeing to such a request. Nobody can take an arbitrary decision on this," Sunday Times quoted the Minister as saying
The BJP leader addressing the fishermen's issue at the Defense Seminar has said that fish resources have been depleted in the Indian side of the Gulf of Mannar and good export value fish and shrimp are on the Sri Lankan side.
He has reportedly suggested granting permission for Indian fishermen to fish in Sri Lankan waters on certain days of the week until India can restore the fish stock in the Indian side, which according to Dr. Swamy may take three years.
The suggestion has brought strong opposition from fishermen's associations in Sri Lanka's north.
President of the Mannar Fisheries Federation (MFF) Justin Zoysa had complained that Tamil Nadu fishermen are using illegal fishing methods and destroying their livelihoods and asked the Fisheries Minister to take action against the poaching by the Indian fishermen.
Meanwhile, officials from the governments of Sri Lanka, India and Indian state of Tamil Nadu are to meet in New Delhi on August 29 to hold a round of official level talks to find a solution to the nagging fishermen's issue.
The two countries held ministerial level talks on the issue in January of this year. Fishermen level talks followed the ministerial level talks and representatives of the fishermen's associations in Sri Lanka and India met on two occasions - first on January 20 in Chennai and later on May 12 in Colombo - to iron out a solution among themselves to share the resources in the seas between the two countries. However, the second round of discussions ended without reaching any agreements.
Meanwhile, Rameswaram fishermen, who have been on an indefinite strike to secure their boats seized by Sri Lanka, following appeals from officials dropped their plan to lay siege to a bridge on Saturday on the premise that the talks scheduled on Friday (August 29) will be positive.
Sri Lanka recently released all 94 Indian fishermen detained for poaching but did not release their 62 boats.
I know you Kumar David from your early days at the Engineering Faculty of our alma mater, the University of Peradeniya.
Since then, I have become increasingly disappointed and disenchanted with your elitist divisive politics which seems to geared to undermining our Motherland at every turn.
Although you seem to be praying for the return of another weak unpatriotic government, under the likes of that arch-traitor Ranil, similar to those that had presided over 30 years of torture while Sri Lanka burned and treacherous NGOs brought the country to its knees, I think you have miscalculated badly now, for the common people of Sri Lanka are not with you.
The ordinary people of Sri Lanka know who defeated and eradicated terrorism in their Motherland, and freed them to return home from work in one piece, and restored their pride in their native country.
They know who is developing the nation at breakneck speed, bringing economic progress to the country, and to their own lives, and gives them a realistic hope for a brighter future in the next decade. As ordinary people go about living their lives, they see, feel, enjoy, and are living the benefits brought about by the Rajapaksa government that many successive previous governments, with all the false smarter-than-thou wisdom that you display now, failed to achieve on their behalf.
Therefore, I say that however much mud you cast at this government, and prognosticate its imminent defeat, that is merely an anti-national hope on your part.
The people of Sri Lanka will neither listen to you, nor agree with you, because they know who is throwing that mud, and on whose side you have always been, and you are even now. Your false fortunetelling will be amply exposed in the upcoming Presidential elections.
My advice to you is to crawl into the nearest deep dark hole, and plug it permanently shut behind you!
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