Simulated Buddhists, Sinhala-Buddhist schools to accelerate colonisation, genocide
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 19 December 2012, 05:19 GMT]Following the construction of Buddhist stupas with the deployment of
‘Army and Archaeology’ where there were no practising Buddhists at all,
the genocidal Sri Lankan state occupying the country of Eezham Tamils is
now bent upon creating a Buddhist population in the North by the
conversions and simulations of a ‘Tamil Buddhist’ community and by the
construction of Sinhala-Buddhist schools to attract and facilitate a
colonising community from the South. Already achieving the demographic
genocide in the East and in the Northwest over the last several decades,
the idea of the Sinhala-Buddhist state now is to fully use the ‘once in
a millennium opportunity’ provided by militarisation and ICE-abetment,
to irrevocably complete the annihilation of the territoriality of the
nation of Eezham Tamils, as envisaged by the LLRC blueprint.
Colombo has now engaged a person,
Mr. SL Ramachandran, a native of Vara’ni in Jaffna and Mr. Ravikumar a
trader in Jaffna to organize a ‘Tamil-Buddhist’ community in Jaffna.
They are fully backed by the occupying military and the Sinhala-Buddhist
priests deployed in the North.
About Mr. Ramachandran, who
displays photos of him taken with Mahinda Rajapaksa, there are claims
that Colombo would be giving him an important political position in the
North soon. He was one of Hathurusinghe’s ‘civil society’ member invited
to discuss the Jaffna University situation with the Vice Chancellor and
Deans of the university, at the Palaali base of the occupying military
earlier this month.
Last year he opened a ‘Hindu-Buddhist
Cultural Association’ at Kantharmadam, a locality close to the Nalloor
temple, university campus and the Indian consulate in Jaffna city. The
commander of the occupying Sinhala military, Maj. Gen Hathurusinghe and
some people associated with the Jaffna University as well, attended the
event.
The organisation is now opening ‘Tamil-Buddhist’ schools
in Jaffna. Sinhala is taught in these schools. The occupying military
has helped in appropriating lands for the schools.
In the late
1970s and early 1980s Colombo was trying the Buddhist strategy in some
pockets such as Vaathara-vaththai, Raja-kiraamam, Vallipurak-ku’richchi
etc., where oppressed sections of Tamils were living. An entire school
of converted students were made to write public exams in the Sinhala
medium at Vaathara-vaththai in Puththoor in the early 1980s. The rise of
Tamil militancy stopped such exploitations.
Colombo is now reviving the project in an enhanced and accelerated way in Jaffna and Vanni.
The photos appearing in the feature are related to the opening of Ramachandran's organisation in Jaffna last year [File Photo]
In Vanni, while hundreds of
Tamil schools affected by the war are yet to be renovated and start
functioning again, a major part of the money allotted for school
constructions by Colombo goes to new Sinhala-Buddhist schools in the
recently colonized villages, media reports in Jaffna said.
Out of
the 400 million allotted for the construction or renovation of schools
in the North in November, 193 million went to 29 Sinhala-Buddhist
schools in the recent colonies, 115 million went to 12 Muslim schools,
while only a single Tamil school selected has received 11 million and a
Roman Catholic school has got 5 million, said Uthayan Daily, citing TNA
parliamentarian Shivasakthi Ananthan.
The decision was taken at the orders of the colonial governor of Colombo in the North, Maj. Gen. Chandrasri.
Out of the 29 Sinhala schools, 22 are in Vavuniyaa district and 7 are in the Mullaiththeevu district.
One such Sinhala School that received 45 lakhs has only 3 students, Uthayan said.
The
other Sinhala-Buddhist schools included one located at the former Tamil
village Kokkachchaan Ku’lam, now Sinhalicised as Kalabogas wewa, one at
an ancient Tamil village Ariya-ku’ndaan-choalai now Sinhalicised as
Æthawættu Wewa, and the Sinhala schools at Kalyani-pura and Paranagama
in the newly carved out Sinhala division Wæli-oya in the Mullaiththeevu
district.
All the newly created Sinhala schools in the
Mullaiththeevu district are going to be affiliated in their educational
administration with the newly created Sinhala division, news sources
speculate.
TamilNet has also received documentary evidence from
education department sources on the Sinhala-Buddhicisation of education
in the North.
The whole project is to attract and
facilitate Sinhala-Buddhist colonisation from the South, create a
superiority aura for the Sinhala schools and lure even Tamil students to
drop their language and to study in the Sinhala schools. All these
strategies were earlier deployed in the East for the demographic
genocide.
The latter two had been practised in the West and
Northwest provinces over a century in Sinhalicising the Tamil coastal
communities and in luring the Tamil-speaking Muslims to drop their
language in the other southern provinces.
A symbolic practice
imposed by the occupying military to imbibe a superior image in the
minds of Tamil school children about a Sinhala military official is that
no school function could take place in Vanni without inviting and
garlanding an official of the occupying military. Garlanding is
particularly insisted.
Sinhala tutories (tuition centres) are
now mushrooming in Jaffna as the tutory culture is perceived as an
effective tool in accelerating the Sinhalicisation process and in
erasing memories.
A Sinhala-Buddhist monk from the South
volunteering to teach Sinhala at Jaffna Hindu College has to be meekly
received. But, whether a Tamil pundit will be accommodated with the
same aura at Ananda College in Colombo is the question.
Permanent settlement of
more than 80 per cent of the genocidal state’s military, an exclusive
Sinhala military in the post-genocidal-war North; economic, political
and administrative control vested with this military; colonisation from
the south backed by this military; construction of Buddhist temples and
Sinhala-Buddhist schools in a land where there are no practising
Buddhists at all; oppression of Tamil students and abuse of Tamil women;
status of native people as subjugated subordinates; efforts to erase
memory from the younger generation and vilification of the diaspora to
prevent it from coming to help — the genocidal agenda of the Sri Lankan
state is too explicit.
The modus operandi is also too explicit to
understand that without the recognition of the sovereignty of the
affected nation and its right to self-determination, the genocide could
never be stopped.
Only those who are in complicity with the
genocide, and want to see the annihilation of Eezham Tamils as a nation
of its own territory in the island, could have the audacity to ask the
Tamils to prove the genocide.
The Colombo-centric state has
nearly 500 years of experience in practising colonialism and
agent-colonialism. Eezham Tamils who have never seen even the so-called
independence from the European colonialism now face the full brunt of
the ‘expertise’ of Colombo, inherited from the Portuguese, the Dutch and
the English.
Even the Portuguese, the Dutch or the English,
despite the destruction of temples and introduction of the Churches,
never annihilated the nation of Eezham Tamils and its territoriality.
But now, a full-fledged genocide is taking place for the first time in
the entire history of Eezham Tamils in the island.
Historically Buddhism was not alien to Tamils or to Tamil language.
The
Tamil language has the rare distinction among all the South Asian
languages in serving as a medium for various religions and shades of
philosophies that originated in South Asia as well as came from outside
in the last 2,500 years. They range from primitive religions including
the substratum of today’s Hinduism to Jainism, Buddhism, Brahmanical
religions, Islam, Christianity, folk religions and even Atheism.
Sanskrit and Prakrit were dead to Islam and Christianity and Sinhala could not go beyond Buddhism and Christianity.
If the Tamils, including the Eezham Tamils, have dropped Buddhism at a historical stage, it was their choice.
In
fact it was the lower echelons of the society, the hunters,
cattle-herders, potters, washers and the so-called untouchables, who
were the first among the Tamils to rise up through a Tamil devotional
movement, against Buddhism and Jainism that was enjoying royal and
mercantile patronage.
If Buddhism is a necessity today, Tamils may embrace it by conviction as we see with sections of Dalit in Tamil Nadu.
If
temples and mosques of the Tamil-speaking people are found in the south
of the island, they have come after non-violent settlement of the
people following the faiths, and they don’t engage in changing religious
or language identity of others.
But the Sinhala Buddhism first
brings in the military, commits a genocidal war of indelible memory,
builds temples and schools where there are no followers and then try to
bring in a demographic change of genocidal intent in the country of
Eezham Tamils.
Islam, known to Tamils from its very inception was
largely peaceful in coming to them. Christianity, especially in Tamil
Nadu, was largely people-friendly despite the colonialism and was
immensely contributory to modern Tamil identity and culture.
But
for the first time in the long history of Tamil civilization, the
Sinhala-Buddhism of Sri Lankan State thinks of challenging the Tamil
self-respect by imposing a religion and language through genocide.
The
Saivism of the Tamil devotional strand, Islam or Christianity practised
today by Eezham Tamils have their own memories embedded in the medium
of Tamil language, and the basic of all religious memory is ultimately
human self-respect.
“One who doesn't have self-respect has no religion at all,” writes Tamil poet Bharathy citing from The Koran.
Sinhala-Buddhism wouldn’t
have dared to embark on this genocidal mission, which is also suicidal
for its own self-respect, had there not been abetment and complicity in
the project from the outside, especially from the Establishments in
India and the West.
From Romila Thapar, known for her inclination
with the Congress regimes and who chose to preach on Buddhism at
Colombo immediately after the genocidal war, to Shusma Swaraj’s BJP that
chose to invite Mahinda Rajapaksa to inaugurate a Buddhist University,
have indirectly or directly made appeasement with the Buddhism of the
genocidal State.
Norwegian funding circles not only supported an
NGO of the ultra Sinhala-Buddhist party, Jathika Hela Urumaya in the
island that carries out many of the Sinhala-Buddhist projects in the
country of Eezham Tamils, but also tried to persuade diaspora Eezham
Tamils to work under it.
News sources in Jaffna say that funds
for the Buddhist activities of genocidal nature in Jaffna now come from
certain European connections, especially from Switzerland.
Those
who deliberately failed to recognize or stop the genocide and the
on-going genocide, but jumped at seeing ‘terrorism’, ultimately bear the
responsibility and continue to bear the responsibility for the
worst-ever genocide humanity has seen in recent times.
The UN
officials who were at the service of the powers and Establishments are
only small fry in getting indicted for the genocide.
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SL
education office document calling for construction tenders of mostly
Sinhala-Buddhist schools and some Muslim schools in the North. Note the
Sinhalicisation of school names and place names in the recently
Sinhalicised colonies of Vavuniyaa and Mullaiththeevu districts:
Chronology:
