By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA

In Part I of this article, it was highlighted the extensive measures being taken by this Tamil slavish government and the Tamil separatists to impose an unwanted constitution on the behest of the foreign scoundrels and the Tamil separatists. Let us examine in this part of the article the shameless and the despicable roles being played by the accidentally born Sinhalese to get this loathsome move realised.

Father of Federalism and Secularism Ranil Wickremasinghe leads this band of pro constitution accidentally born Sinhalese gang and even on 19^th October he has flayed the statement issued by the Joint Sangha Council of the Malwathu and Asgiri Chapters of the Siam Sect and the media personnel of misleading the people propagating rubbish and has vowed to adopt the proposed new constitution disregarding any and everyone who oppose it. He is a person replete with Tamil slavishness.  For example he signed the ignominious ceasefire agreement with the megalomaniac Prabhakaran despite stern opposition, confined our gallant war heroes to the barracks, and allowed the terrorists to bring in container loads of weapons and sophisticated communication and other equipment unchecked.  It is due to political expediency he attends Buddhist functions and visits Temples and people close to him have said at various times that he is an adherent of his mother’s religion Christianity. In addition to this in order to please Tamil Hindus he frequently visits Hindu Temples in India including the Thirupathi temple which has become much venerated than Buddhagaya to Sri Lankan politicians with much publicity.  The best treatment that can be given to pseudo Bhudists like Ranil Wickremasinghe is for people to completely boycott from attending the temples when they visit temples. There is a great danger of plunging this country into a blood bath by these accidentally born Sinhalese through their rabid determination to get their new constitution dream realized.

Next comes the man named Jayampathi Wickremaratne who acts as a Co-Chairmen of the Management Committee to facilitate the work of the Steering Committee of the constitutional process along with the racist Tamil separatist Sumanthiran. Parliamentarian Mr. Wimal Weerawansa in one of his recent speeches gave a nice introduction about this man and given below is a verbatim translation of that introduction.

Who is this Jayampathi ?

When we talk about the Constitution that is being formulated on the behest of the United Nations Organization and the western powers we come across the name of a Lawyer named Jayampathi Wickremaratne who was in the Lanka Samasamaja Party previously and now in the United National Party.  This guy uses the prefix ‘Constitutional Expert’ as an adjective to his name. He is suffering from a minority complex as otherwise such a prefix will not be used before his name.  When this guy was studying in the Science Faculty of the Peradeniya University he was caught copying for the Chemistry Question paper.  Following this incident the Science Faculty imposed an examination ban for him.  He lost the Science degree holder title and left the Peradeniya University as an undergraduate.  How nice it would have been if he was not caught then copying for the Chemistry question paper? If that happened this guy would have been holding a Science degree and doing a job in that side.  For the bad luck of this country this guy who was dropped from the University entered the legal profession.  This constitution is being formulated by guys like this, dollar vultures and NGO rudiments.”

When Parliamentarian Mr. Udaya Gammanpila challenged this Jayampathi Wickremaratne for a TV debate on the Steering Committee report of the Constitution he declined to accept the challenge and said that it is more propitious to debate about it in the Parliament than having a person to person debate.

Jayampathi Wickremaratne participating in  a function held in Jaffna on 12^th June 2016 spelt out the the advantages that will be offered to the Tamil people through the proposed new Constitution.  The function was organized by the member of the Election Commission S.Ratnajeevan Hoole and the function was held under the title An evenng in Jaffna with Hon. Dt. Jayampathi Wickremaratne”.

Jayampathi starting his address equivocated on the legitimacy of the 1972 constitution. He said that in 1972 all Tamil MPs attended the initial meeting of the Constitutional Assembly and then they contributed to the lack of legitimacy by being absent at the final vote.

On the new proposals he said that this will not be the best constitution but the best in the circumstance and minoritie must ask for incremental changes. Jayampathy pointed out that if they ask for what they want, they will get nothing and if they ask for less than what they may be asked why they did not ask for it?

Jayampathy explained that the government has 163 votes, 13 more than 2/3. However in the recent no confidence motion against the Minister of Finance, the TNA abstained and the motion was defeated with only 145 votes, a simple majority. It shows the need, he said, for all to come together to grasp this unique opportunity and not foul it up like the many instances in the past.

On the constitution, he said:

1. i) The reversion to the Westminster model’s party system is coming. The President is the Head of State acting on the advice of the Prime Minister.
2. ii) A strong bill of rights is required, looking to the future with a futuristic vision.” Stronger civil and political rights

iii) Proportional representation will become if it was made with some compensatory seats.

1. iv) Devolution of power must be clear-cut with no concurrent list and local authorities strengthened. . He held up Austria as a good model where the centre makes the law and the provinces implement it. In the guise of making national policy and through circulars, the centre continues here to interfere in the provinces. Therefore we must have provincial participation in making national policy to give provinces ownership of policy. After calling the late Mark Fernando a great jurist, he faulted him for declaring agrarian services as a subject for the centre which led to the centre taking over the subject. However, subsequently, the Supreme Court declared tenant cultivators as a matter for the provinces. And yet, the provinces have not come forward to take control. He faulted the provinces for this as well as not making laws in subjects under them.
2. v) As for a unitary state (where all power resides in the centre and power given to the periphery is what the centre chooses to give) he said it is incompatible with devolution. He expressed agrees with most views asking for devolution. He too similar to Sumanthiran’s assertion said that labels are irrelevant and only the content is important.

Jayampathy said that his voice is one of those of 225 MPs. He said that after 10 years of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s rule,”the minds of the Sinhalese have been corrupted.” In the proposed constitution of 2000, Chandrika Bandaranaike was presiding and driving the changes and we do not have her now. However, he said that Ranil Wickremesinghe is driving change now as seen by how he has personally pushed for the participation of women. Jayampathy also said that Mr.Sampanthan’s hard hitting” speech in Parliament last Friday (Indian Express 11.06.2016) on how Tamils are still discriminated against, shows that minorities have not gained ground since electing the new government. HYe said that Ranil must take note and rise to the challenge, showing that he too can make minorities feel fully Sri Lankan.

Asked about a secular state, Jayampathy replied that despite Buddhism having foremost place, two different supreme court judgements declared Sri Lanka a secular state. Rajan Hoole disagreed saying if they fudge the issue of secularism, they will have a situation where each group would push for more prominence for itself, and they would all carry barbs to irritate each other. Unless there is strict secularism, those who feel edged out would resort to barbs like Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran appealing to the Vishva Hindu Parishad. (Justice C.V. Wigneswaran had mentioned in India that Bharat is the motherland of Hindus, and has to take care of the suffering of Hindus everywhere. These claims appear to denude Tamils of their right to Sri Lanka as their motherland.)

Jayampathy said he has no problems with excluding a special status for Buddhism but the head of a big denomination” whom he did not wish to identify had pleaded for a non-secular state. Rajan Hoole retorted Religious leaders want to remain in business.”

Jayampathy also stated devolution should be made a national issue, not just a Tamil issue.

The above referenced speech itself is sufficient to prove how much committed and determined this man is to formulate a constitution that would fulfil all the demands and aspiration of the Tamils living in the North and East.

Similar to his attempted cheating in respect of the Chemistry paper at thr University a latest report highlights a glaring fraud mad by Jayampathy.  He has been caught with pants down for selling his duty free Land Cruiser. A report ublished by Colombo Telegraph this errkrnf (22^nd October) said that on 13^th February, 2017 Bestair Services (PVT)  Ltd., imported a Rs 95,27,562.50 ( USD 62,500.00 X 152.4410) worth a brand new Toyota Land Cruiser for this swindler using his Duty Free permit and the vehicle was registered with the Commissioner of Motor Traffic on June 14, 2017 and transferred to the name of the vehicle permit buyer Yaden International (PVT) ltd. on August 22, 2017.  According to the custom’s declaration form the total tax waived off for this vehicle vehicle is Rs 31,774,450.00.

Given below is a photocopy of the Customs Declaration Form.

Now let us examine the very much Tamil slavish and anti Sri Lankan Dr,. Wickremabaahu Karunaratne is?

Wickremabahu Karunaratne joined the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) in 1962 whilst being an undergraduate at the University of Ceylon. He was elected to the LSSP’s Central Committee in 1972 but fell out with the party’s leadership over their support for the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and its 1972 Republican Constitution. He was expelled from the LSSP.

In 1977 Karunaratne joined with some other former members of the LSSP, including Vasudeva Nanayakkara, to form the Nava Sama Samaja Party. In 1978 he was arrested in Kandy for attempting to put up protest slogans against the President prior to his visit to Kandy. He was released without charge after a few months of detention, and the University of Peradeniya which suspended him from service soon after his arrest reinstated him after a rather delayed inquiry. He was forced to leave the University after he collected his back pay, .he was reinstated by Cabinet decision in 2001 but was not allowed by the university. The human rights commission intervened and present government paid back wages and restored status. In 1983 he went into hiding following proscription of Left parties by JR and surfaced in 1985 when the proscription was lifted.

This NGO activist has a very long history of Tamil servility and being an active supporter of the LTTE. In early 2000 he visited Canada with UNPs Nationalist MP the well known LTTE minion Dr. Jayalath Jayawardene and addressed the Pongu Tamil” event held in Toronto.  He extensively canvassed with all sorts of lies and character assassinations for the regime change in 2015 and may be with the intention of migrating to be with his diaspora friends in Canada if there was no regime change he applied for a temporary residence  Visa for Canada which was rejected.

When Wickremabahu returned to Sri Lanka he and his supporters were attacked at the Katunayake Airport by an angry crowd.  He has visited Britain with UNP MP Dr. Jayalath Jayawardene and addressed several public meetings and he had been one of the main speakers at the Tamil remembrance day 2010 held on 27th of November. Wickremabahu and Jayalath Jayawardene were accused of organising the protests in London in collaboration with Tamil Tiger supporters.

He was a candidate of the 2010 Presidential Election and received only 7,055 votes Islandwide which was only 0.07%. The Tamil separatists fully supported his election bid. The LTTE website TamilNet on 2^nd December, 2009 supporting Wickremabhu said An amazing irony of the decades-long Tamil struggle is that for the first time left-wing Sinhala political parties rallying behind Dr. Vikramabahu Karunaratne have come out with a better proposal to Tamils than what the Tamil parties in the island are able to spell out.
It said if the Tamil political parties are unable to think of creative themes not betraying the national liberation struggle, or if they can’t find an appealing Tamil candidate to represent their cause, then it will be advisable for them to forge alliance with the left wing and support Dr. Karunaratne’s candidature in the presidential election. The Website added that it will be a novel and revolutionary step, rather than playing the good old game of collaboration politics with oppressors that has brought in only disaster to Tamils in the past.”

The Sirisena-Ranil Junta appointed Wickremabahu to the National Executive Council (NEC)—a multi-party body established to oversee the implementation of government programmes. Wickremabahu joined the 13-member NEC, which is headed by Sirisena and Ranil Wickremesinghe, on January 22. Other members include Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sarath Fonseka, and Champika Ranawaka, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and Tamil National Alliance (TNA).

Let us see now the treachery and Tamil slavishness of Gamini Viyangoda a high profiled advocate of the proposed new constitution and who has become a lapdog of the anti-Sri Lankans elements.  His treacherous pronouncements against this country run into the terrorist period which he used to gain credence among the anti-Sri Lankan scoundrels. Let us start from his harsh criticism of people in the South celebrating the death of Tamilchelvan.  Writing an article to the ‘Groundviews’ on 13^th November, 2007 he condemned the people in the South for expressing their jubilance over the air force bombing and the killing of Tamilchelvan who can be considered as the guy next to Prabhakaran responsible for decades of misery suffered by all Sri Lankans including Tamils. He says that with the assassination of Tamilchelvan who held all communication with the outside world and coordinated with other peace-loving local bodies aimed at reaching a negotiated political settlement severely curtailed.

Viyangoda has written profusely on secularism and strongly advocates that Sri Lanka should be a secular state.  He says a secular state is a state which does not give any form of preference to a particular religion and religion is a subject that does not concern to the state and that does not patronize a particular religion.  He says that there is no restriction in a secular society for a person to perform the rites of a religion he worships, including the cultural norms of his religion. For example he says that in a secular state when a person is going to lay the foundation stone for a house he is going to build he can perform the traditional rites without any restriction.

He points that in our society face many unwanted problems because States being upholders of religion.  He says there had been many wars in consequent to States patronizing particular religions, and cites wars between Christians and Protestants, between Sunnis and Shias, and between Jews and Muslims.  He says that these kinds of tension exist in country due to our country being not secular and outlines the following as examples:

The government should accord prominence to a particular religion;

Thw government should ban cartoons, books, dramas and media that deride religions;

Schools should be religious oriented

If Laws clash with religious practices priority should be given to religious practices

It should be allowed to appear for ID card photographs in Hijab

Non applicability of unauthorized building rules to Buddhist statues within the premises of government buildings.

In another article explaining who they are and their objectives Viyangoda says that their membership is open and all are welcome, religious as well as non-religious, atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, secularists, skeptics, humanists, and individuals who are questioning and searching beliefs with open mind.  He says they campaign for a Secular Sri Lanka, moving forward with an amended Secular Constitution, promoting Science and Reason as the central doctrine in democratic governance. Religion should be strictly a private matter of Sri Lanka’s citizens, and The Republic needs strict separation from religion to foster freedom for religion and freedom from religion.  He also states that they encourage and promote a much needed dialogue for a constitutional amendment to separate religion from Sri Lankan State.

(To be continued)