SL Archbishop collaborates with Gotabhaya in militarization land grab
[TamilNet, Sunday, 06 January 2013, 14:21 GMT]
Sri Lanka’s Archbishop and a Cardinal of Vatican, His Eminence Malcolm Ranjith had personally come along with genocidal Colombo’s Defence Secretary and presidential sibling Gotabhaya Rajapaksa in grabbing Mu’l’lik-ku’lam village in Mannaar district for a naval base of the occupying Sinhala military and declaring the village out of bounds for its resettling inhabitants, news sources in Mannaar said. The Sinhala Archbishop had come and the Tamil Bishop of Mannaar, Rayappu Joseph, was made to silently sit along with him at the conference called by Gotabhaya at Mu’l’likku’lam on 26 December, in coercing the largely Tamil Catholic villagers to the sulking reconciliation of accepting alternative offers of land, the news sources further said.
Sri Lanka’s Archbishop and a Cardinal of Vatican, His Eminence Malcolm Ranjith had personally come along with genocidal Colombo’s Defence Secretary and presidential sibling Gotabhaya Rajapaksa in grabbing Mu’l’lik-ku’lam village in Mannaar district for a naval base of the occupying Sinhala military and declaring the village out of bounds for its resettling inhabitants, news sources in Mannaar said. The Sinhala Archbishop had come and the Tamil Bishop of Mannaar, Rayappu Joseph, was made to silently sit along with him at the conference called by Gotabhaya at Mu’l’likku’lam on 26 December, in coercing the largely Tamil Catholic villagers to the sulking reconciliation of accepting alternative offers of land, the news sources further said.
Location of Mu'l'likku'lam [Map courtesy: Google Earth, Legend by TamilNet]
Gotabhaya
and SL military officials amused, and the Bishop of Mannaar with
fingertip on his lip, at the conference convened by Gotabhaya Rajapaksa
for the land grab and militarisation of Mu'l'likku'lam. Seated in the
centre and addressing the conference is Sri Lanka's Archbishop and
Vatican's Cardinal, Malcolm Ranjith. [Photo courtesy: SL Defence
Website]
The Tamil Catholic villagers, who were owning more than 1 acre of land per family as an average, are now given with half an acre per family 750 meters outside of the village and a ‘promise’ from Gotabhaya that a ‘state of the art’ village would be built for them having the Sinhala military of genocidal intent at their neighbourhood.
It is now learnt that the Bishop of Mannaar was pressurized and coerced by both the Sinhala Archbishop and the SL Defence Secretary to silently present himself at the militarisation cum land-grab conference.
Many villagers became silent after seeing the Bishop of Mannaar at the conference, news sources said.
The Bishop of Mannaar later admitted to journalists, “there was nothing to take place through talks.”
Gotabhaya
explains his plans for ‘state of the art’ village adjacent to SL
military base to the uprooted Tamil villagers [Photo courtesy: SL
Defence website]
Mu'l'likku'lam village and the land declared for SL naval cantonment. [Map courtesy: Google Earth, Legend by TamilNet]
Mu'l'likku'lam and other SL Navy and Army bases in the region [Map courtesy: Google Earth, Legend by TamilNet]
The Mu’l’likku’lam Sinhala Naval
base in the Musali division of Mannaar district as well as
militarization of Mannaar are particularly aimed at Sinhalicisation and
dismemberment of the Tamil homeland on one hand, and on the other hand,
wedging cum targeting the Tamil Nadu coast on the opposite side that has
a predominant population of Tamil Catholics of the same clans,
commented Catholic circles of the Western coast.
The Sinhalicized Tamil Catholics of Puththa’lam, Gampaha and Colombo districts now realize the dismemberment of their own territoriality in the island, their loss of language and loss of communication with their own clans on the opposite coast with whom they were sharing the waters throughout in history, the Catholic circles commented further.
The Sinhalicized Tamil Catholics of Puththa’lam, Gampaha and Colombo districts now realize the dismemberment of their own territoriality in the island, their loss of language and loss of communication with their own clans on the opposite coast with whom they were sharing the waters throughout in history, the Catholic circles commented further.
The
river flowing and entering the Gulf of Mannaar at Mu'l'likku'lam is the
boundary between the Northern and the North Western Provinces. The
Vilpattu reserved forest south of the boundary was scattered with a
number of Tamil villages before it was declared a reserved forest in
1903. The Tamil territory was contiguous up to Negombo in the Western
Province at that time, before the Sinhalicisation of the Tamil Catholics
of today's Puththa'lam and Gampaha districts. [Map courtesy: Google
Earth, Legend by TamilNet]
The Sinhala Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith has gone on record on several occasions for siding with the regime in Colombo and subtly shielding the regime’s genocide against Tamils.
It was the Bishop of Mannaar who boldly came forward to enlighten the world on the disappearances in the Vanni War running into a figure of 146,000.
The Bishop was also leading the civil society movement of Eezham Tamils in recent times.
Writing last month, Dr. Brian Seneviratne, Australian human rights activist of Sinhala origin steadfastly supporting Tamil rights, said the following:
Dr Brian Senewiratne
“It concerns me greatly that the
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has just sent officers to
question (intimidate) the outspoken Rt Rev Dr Rayappu Joseph, the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Mannar in the Tamil North. The next step will be that
he will ‘disappear’ in a white van – be ‘white vanned’. That is why the
world must be informed, which is what I have been trying to do.
“The Pope will have to act. After all, it is one of his flock who is under (real) threat. Will he? I doubt it. I have a photograph of the Pope clasping the blood-stained hands of Mahinda Rajapaksa - clasping it not with one hand but with both!
“Vatican diplomacy has blessed many of the tyrants and torturers of recent history, betraying Catholic idealists in Singapore to Lee Kuan Yew, and secretly exerting pressure on the British government to free ‘Torturer-in-Chief’, former General Augusto Pinochet, who was arrested in Britain and was wanted by Spain to face charges of murder and torture. The Vatican’s unfitness for any role in world affairs could hardly have been better illustrated.
“So I am not holding my breath that the Vatican will act even though Bishop Rayappu Joseph may well be the Sri Lankan version of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador who was executed by government gunmen when he raised the Chalice celebrating Holy Communion.”
Chronology:
“The Pope will have to act. After all, it is one of his flock who is under (real) threat. Will he? I doubt it. I have a photograph of the Pope clasping the blood-stained hands of Mahinda Rajapaksa - clasping it not with one hand but with both!
“Vatican diplomacy has blessed many of the tyrants and torturers of recent history, betraying Catholic idealists in Singapore to Lee Kuan Yew, and secretly exerting pressure on the British government to free ‘Torturer-in-Chief’, former General Augusto Pinochet, who was arrested in Britain and was wanted by Spain to face charges of murder and torture. The Vatican’s unfitness for any role in world affairs could hardly have been better illustrated.
“So I am not holding my breath that the Vatican will act even though Bishop Rayappu Joseph may well be the Sri Lankan version of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador who was executed by government gunmen when he raised the Chalice celebrating Holy Communion.”
Chronology:
19.06.09 Sinhalicisation insinuated in Musali
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