Sinhala GA officially orders Buddhist construction at Thirukkeatheesvaram[TamilNet, Sunday, 06 May 2012, 00:59 GMT]Occupying Sri Lanka’s Sinhala Government Agent of the Mannaar district of the country of Eezham Tamils, AK Sarath Savindra on Saturday sent official orders to the divisional secretary of Maanthai West to permit the construction of a Buddhist temple at the Saiva sacred centre Thirukkeatheesvaram, where no Sinhala-Buddhists live. A Buddha statue was already placed there by the occupying Sinhala military, at 200 metres near the Saiva temple in a forcefully confiscated private land. Meanwhile, the entire Mannaar district has been brought under the Anuradhapura administrative circle of genocidal Sri Lanka’s Archaeology Department. While existing Muslim and Hindu places of worship are demolished and removed from Dambulla, claimed to be a Buddhist centre, the Sinhala government encroaches a pivotal Saiva sacred centre in the country of Tamils. The local population of the Mannaar district is entirely of Tamil speakers, comprising of Christians, Muslims and Hindus. The Sinhala GA now spearheads a movement to bring in the Sinhala Buddhists, as part of genocidal Sri Lanka’s agenda specified in the LLRC recommendations, to make no territory in the island as belonging to the nation of Tamil speakers. The Sinhala-Buddhists have to occupy the entire island to justify the claim that the island belongs to the Sinhala-Buddhists only, is the thrust of the LLRC recommendations and the recommendations envisage to achieve it by 2020. By upholding the LLRC recommendations at the Geneva level, both the USA and India, and the others tagged behind one or the other power, have deprived the nation of Eezham Tamils from raising any voices against the structural genocide. Even though both these adamant international abetters of the Sinhala state say that they stand only for the ‘positive’ recommendations of the LLRC, what the genocidal state implements are going to be ‘positive’ only for its agenda. The Sinhala GA has recently founded a Buddhist association for the Mannaar district. In January this year, a ‘request’ was made to the GA for him to permit the construction of a Buddhist temple at Thirukeatheesvaram Saiva sacred precincts. The permit he issues now not only legalises the placement of the Buddha statue near the Saiva temple but also allows for the construction of a stupa, Buddhist temple and a vihara in the location. Using the Indian money allotted for the development of Thirukkeatheesvaram, already a ‘Buddhist pilgrim centre’ has been constructed at Thirukkeatheevaram with the sole aim laying foundations for the Sinhalicisation of the site. In the pretext of celebrating 2600 year of Buddha, the entire Mannaar district is decorated and the day was chosen to give official permission for the construction of the Buddhist temple at Thirukeatheesvaram, and a large number of Sinhala-Buddhists are visiting Thirukkeatheesvaram on Saturday, news sources in Mannaar said. Jaffna and Mannaar were the two major cities of the Tamil-Saivaite Kingdom of Jaffna at the time of the advent of Portuguese colonialism in the 16th century. Mannaar for a long time, until it became a separate administrative district in the Northern Province, was directly under the administration of Jaffna. The act of Sri Lanka’s Archaeology Department to bring Mannaar under its Anuradhapura circle is a major conspiracy to culturally delink Mannaar from Jaffna and to alienate the Tamils of the district, social activists of the north said. Mannaar is also the closest landmass to Tamil Nadu. Culturally linking it with Anuradhapura is a significant move of structural genocide, they pointed out. In the last few decades, whatever archaeological finds were discovered in the Mannaar district were taken to Anuradhapura, and thereafter Eezham Tamils never get a chance to see their heritage in their land. Significant finds related to the heritage of Eezham Tamils usually go ‘missing’. The genocidal Sinhala Army and the Archaeology Department of the Sinhala state working in tandem has been pointed out by many in recent times. Many things happen in the island due to genocidal Sri Lanka’s ability to ‘purchase’ politicians, bureaucrats, intelligence officials, media persons and academics in India, including in Tamil Nadu, and due to the inability in Tamil Nadu to bring in the right kind of public pressure to squeeze out righteous results from the corrupt lot in India collaborating with Colombo, political observers in Chennai said. Tamil Nadu Muslims mobilised a demonstration in front of genocidal Sri Lanka’s diplomatic mission in Chennai protesting the demolition of a mosque at Dambulla. A Tamil-Saiva temple complex of key importance in the country of Eezham Tamils is neither of ‘Dravidian’ interest, nor of Marxist interest, and nor of Brahmanical Hindutva interest, commented Saiva religious circles in Jaffna. Meanwhile, Prof John Carswell, who excavated the Maanthai archaeological site where Thirukkeatheescaram is located is said to be shortly bringing out a monograph on Maanthai, co-edited by Sinhala archaeologist Siran Deraniyagala, after 28 years of the excavations. Prof Carswell recently went on record saying that Maanthai “was never the prerogative of any ethnic or religious group.” “It was a city built on a collaboration of commercial and political interests, coming from east and west, north and south,” Carswell said, adding that ancient cities like Maanthai were “windows on a large, complex, and above all ‘dynamic’ system.” His ‘cosmopolitan’ projection of Maanthai may be in tune with those who try to rediscover the unity of the island through Colombo-centric Cosmopolitanism and with those powers and corporates that invest more and more towards the same. But it doesn’t serve the people of the land whose productive capacity generated and sustained civilisation at Maanthai and who now face structural genocide by a state that habitually misinterprets history and archaeology, commented Eezham Tamil academic circles in the UK that had listened to Carswell’s brief video speech at a recent book release function in London. Chronology: |
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singhalar லேபிளுடன் இடுகைகளைக் காண்பிக்கிறது. அனைத்து இடுகைகளையும் காண்பி
singhalar லேபிளுடன் இடுகைகளைக் காண்பிக்கிறது. அனைத்து இடுகைகளையும் காண்பி
ஞாயிறு, 6 மே, 2012
Sinhala GA officially orders Buddhist construction at Thirukkeatheesvaram
புதன், 21 மார்ச், 2012
வரலாற்றை நினைவுபடுத்தியதால்
மீளப் பெறப்பட்ட முத்திரை
1956இல் 'விஜயனின் வருகை' என்ற தலைப்புடன் சிறப்பு தபால் தலை(முத்திரை) ஒன்றை இலங்கை அரசு வெளியிட்டது. குவேனி ஒரு மரத்தடியில் அமர்ந்திருப்பது போலவும், கப்பலில் வந்த விஜயன் அவளிடம் அடைக்கலம் கோருவது போலவும் இத் தபால் தலை அமைந்திருந்தது.தபால் தலையைப் பார்த்த பெரும்பான்மையினத் தலைவர்கள், அதற்கு எதிர்ப்புத் தெரிவித்தனர். "விஜயன் இந்தியாவில் இருந்து இலங்கைக்கு வந்தவன் என்ற கருத்து ஏற்கத்தக்கது அல்ல. தவிரவும், விஜயன் வந்தபோதே இங்கு குவேனி என்ற தமிழ்ப் பெண் இருந்திருக்கிறாள் என்று கூறினால், இலங்கையின் பூர்வீக குடிகள் தமிழர்கள் என்பதை நாமே ஒப்புக்கொண்டது போலாகி விடும். எனவே, இந்தத் தபால் தலையை வாபஸ் பெற வேண்டும்" என்று கூறினார்கள்.
இதன் காரணமாக, இந்தத் தபால் தலையை இலங்கை அரசு வாபஸ் பெற்றுக்கொண்டது. ஆனால், அதற்குள் இத் தபால் தலை உலகம் முழுவதும் பரவி விட்டது.
- பதிவு இணைய இதழ்
வியாழன், 8 டிசம்பர், 2011
Tension prevails as SLA terrorizes Tamils confronting Sinhala thugs in Vanni
Tension prevails as SLA terrorizes Tamils confronting Sinhala thugs in Vanni
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 07 December 2011, 02:44 GMT]Scores of Tamils, including women and children, were injured and terrorized by the occupying Sinhala army at Ira'naimadu junction in Ki'linochchi on Tuesday night between 8:00 and 10:30 p.m., following 4 Sinhala thugs were confronted by the local people. Four Sinhala men from South who came to a Tamil shop at Ira'naimadu junction on Tuesday night threatened the shopkeeper and attacked him. When the people of the locality retaliated, the Sinhala men escaped into an SL military camp. Around 30 Sinhala soldiers who came in support of the thugs indiscriminately attacked the people of the locality and all people passing by the junction. The attack continued for nearly two hours.
The SL police that came later chose to arrest some Tamil villagers and released them later with warning. However, the harassment continues as more than a hundred military intelligence personnel are deployed to ‘investigate’ the incident. Civilian movement was curbed to prevent the news reaching outside.
Similar incidents of SL military making Tamils to look upon the Sinhalese as ‘sacred cows’ has become a matter of routine in the country of Eezham Tamils.
Recently, when a small accident took place at Paranthan Junction between a bus that was coming from Mullaiththeevu with Tamil passengers and a bus that was taking Sinhala tourists visiting Puthumaaththa'lan, the SLA blamed the Tamil side and attacked all the passengers in the bus.
People in Vanni are enraged at the attitude and behaviour of the visiting relatives of the occupying Sinhala soldiers who flaunt an air of triumphalism.
புதன், 12 அக்டோபர், 2011
Sinhalese moving into Tamil areas: Pro-government politicians
Posted on : 11-10-2011 | By : tnn | In : eelamnews
Pro-government three Tamil politicians on Monday complained to India that the government was settling Sinhalese in Sri Lanka’s dominantly Tamil north without resolving the festering “ethnic problem”.
The submission was made to Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai when he met them at the India House as part of his interactions with political players in Sri Lanka.
The three accused the government of Mahinda Rajapaksa of trying to pit one ethnic group against another following the end of the military conflict in May 2009, “to change the demographic pattern of the (northeast)”.
They said Tamils were “highly perturbed” that the armed forces were busy building army villages, mini army camps and war memorials in the middle of Tamil settlements.
“The government has no plans for demilitarisation, contrary to which the forces are involving more and more in civil administration.”
“The people cannot (hold) any function without the participation of some Army personnel. The people are terrified over the presence of army personnel in every nook and corner of the north.”
They criticised the government’s move to have all lands re-registered as “unjustifiable”.
“Why should the government do it in areas where people have not yet properly settled, some have not yet identified their lands, and some had gone aboard?”
“Above all, a lot of people died during the war. What and what property and where these lands are, is still not known. The government must abandon the move.”
“All this mess is created due to the government’s failure to find an early solution to the ethnic problem. A solution acceptable to the minorities should be found.”
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