Sri Lanka - News and Discussion- Post PM appointment crisis

Tuan · Post by **Tuan** » 15 Aug 2021 05:26

Sri Lanka files charges against 25 Easter Sunday bombing suspects
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/1 ... g-suspects

Attorney general asks chief justice to appoint a special three-member high court bench to hear the cases speedily.

Sri Lanka has filed 23,270 charges against 25 people in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks on churches and hotels that killed 269 people, according to the president’s office.

The charges filed on Tuesday under the country’s anti-terror law include conspiring to murder, aiding and abetting, collecting arms and ammunition and attempted murder, it said on Wednesday.

The attorney general also asked the chief justice to appoint a special three-member high court bench to hear the cases speedily, it said in a statement.

Two local Muslim groups that allegedly pledged allegiance to the ISIL (ISIS) group were blamed for the six near-simultaneous suicide bomb attacks which hit three churches and three hotels on April 21, 2019.

Another suicide bomber who had entered a fourth hotel left without setting off his bomb but later died by suicide after detonating his explosives at a different location.

Friction and a communication breakdown between then-President Maithripala Sirisena and then-Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe were blamed for the government’s failure to act on near-specific foreign intelligence warnings ahead of the attacks.

That led to the election of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa later in 2019 on a platform of national security.

Rajapaksa was a former army officer and a defence official who had played a decisive role in defeating the Tamil Tiger rebels and ending a 26-year civil war.

The head of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, has repeatedly charged that the investigation into the blasts was not being conducted properly.

He said he believes the real conspirators are still at large and has accused authorities of trying to shield the masterminds.

Ranjith wrote a strong letter to Rajapaksa last month, stating there are allegations that some members of the state intelligence services knew and met with the attacker who initially did not explode his bomb and asked the authorities to investigate.

Citing speeches in parliament by the legislators, Ranjith said intelligence personnel also allegedly had a suspect released from police custody.

The president’s office said presidential legal affairs director Harigupta Rohanadeera had sent a detailed reply to Ranjith, but did not release the letter.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 15 Aug 2021 05:52

This news is a few months old news, but it confirms the cross border implications of the jehadi connections of the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings.

I am sure that other thread(s) of these tentacles leads out of KER and into the middle east

IB to probe Kerala links of Lankan MP held in Easter Day bombings

Ajay Kanth
30 April 2021

KOCHI: Intelligence Bureau and Kerala Police have started to dig into Kerala connections of All Ceylon Makkal Congress leader and parliamentarian Rishad Bathiudeen after he was arrested by Sri Lankan Police on April 24 in connection with April 2019 Easter Sunday attacks that killed 279 people and injured hundreds.

While the specifics of the links which Bathiudeen had in Kerala are yet to be revealed, the agencies will be looking into the inputs on his visit to Kasaragod in 2009 and also his acquaintance with a few religious leaders in Kerala, who had met him in Sri Lanka and also when he toured India especially Chennai when he was Sri Lanka’s Minister for Industry and Commerce in 2013.

As per intelligence officials, Rishad’s father hailed from Padna in Kasaragod and he was in touch with a few persons in the region. Already, Intelligence Bureau and National Investigation Agency (NIA) are coordinating with Sri Lankan government in the probe and the NIA even busted an IS module in Tamil Nadu by arresting a person in June 2019 for being touch with Sri Lankan ISIS leader Zahran Hashim and his accomplices over social media. Hashmi is one of the suicide bombers who executed the Easter Day bombings in the island nation.“Kerala police will be looking into the links of arrested Sri Lankan political leader in Kerala to confirm the reports,” said Kerala State Police Chief Loknath Behera.

Bathiudeen was arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). His brother Riyaaj Bathiudeen, who was arrested in April 2020 but released later due to lack of evidence, was also arrested again. According to intelligence officers, the Kasaragod connection of Bathiudeen will be explored in detail as an earlier probe into the missing of five young Muslim families from Padna, who left for Syria in 2016 to join IS, had revealed that a few in the group had been to National Thowheed Jamaath in Sri Lanka where they underwent religious training before proceeding to Syria.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 31 Aug 2021 14:03

The Rajapaksa Dynasty in Sri Lanka: Democracy in Decline

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was swept into power with 6.9 million votes in November 2019 and subsequently saw his party’s control bolstered with a two-thirds majority in Parliament in the general election of August 2020. Yet by the summer of 2021, the popularity of the Rajapaksa presidency and regime is fast eroding. Social media in particular is rife with criticism of the president and his government, and there have been strikes in the health, education, administration, electricity, railways, and plantation sectors in recent months.

Overall, in economic terms, the key issues are the repayment of debt and the foreign exchange crisis. Reserves are at an alarming low, rating agencies have downgraded the economy considerably, and payments mount. Fitch Ratings, for example, estimates that the government will need $29 billion between now and 2026 to meet debt repayments. Currently foreign currency reserves are at $4 billion, sufficient for only 2.7 months of imports. The government nevertheless is adamant about not going to the International Monetary Fund for assistance.

Amid the deepening economic gloom, the government was keen to pass the Colombo Port City Commission Bill, which sought to set up a commission to regulate activity on land reclaimed from the sea by the Chinese. A substantial proportion of this land has been handed over to the Chinese on a 99-year lease.

The Colombo Port City project developments should be viewed in the context of the Rajapaksa regime’s further turn toward China. There were already close relations between the Chinese Communist Party and the ruling Sri Lanka People’s Front (SLPP). Now, via a string of foreign policy decisions, Sri Lanka is being drawn more and more into the Chinese orbit and into opposition with the interests of the Quad countries (the United States, India, Japan, and Australia).

The confrontationist orientation of Sri Lankan foreign policy, backstopped by the Chinese, has also resulted in a severe resolution on Sri Lanka in the U.N. Human Rights Council. The office of the High Commissioner is now tasked with setting up a unit to look at accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sri Lanka.

Put it all together, and the Rajapaksas’ return to power has been a decidedly difficult time for Sri Lanka.

Chinmay · Post by **Chinmay** » 31 Aug 2021 16:30

Sri Lankan food emergency as banks run out of foreign exchange

The economy shrank by a record 3.6% in 2020 because of the pandemic and in March last year the government banned imports of vehicles and other items, including edible oils and turmeric, an essential spice in local cooking, in a bid to save foreign exchange. Importers still say they have been unable to source dollars to pay for the food and medicines they are allowed to buy.

VKumar · Post by **VKumar** » 01 Sep 2021 00:30

India can extend Rupee credit

rsingh · Post by **rsingh** » 01 Sep 2021 00:36

Chinmay wrote:Sri Lankan food emergency as banks run out of foreign exchange

The economy shrank by a record 3.6% in 2020 because of the pandemic and in March last year the government banned imports of vehicles and other items, including edible oils and turmeric, an essential spice in local cooking, in a bid to save foreign exchange. Importers still say they have been unable to source dollars to pay for the food and medicines they are allowed to buy.

They can eat Chinese noodles. Do not worry about them.

Ambar · Post by **Ambar** » 01 Sep 2021 06:24

Takes paki levels of incompetence to have a forex crunch in a world sloshing with dollars ! There is so much excess liquidity that even the crappiest of equity markets are up 30% to 50% over the last year , goes to show how badly Mahinda Rajapaksa has mismanaged the island. Why is he looking for a IMF bailout ? Why not just call his new best friend Xi to bail him out ?

Tuan · Post by **Tuan** » 01 Sep 2021 06:56

Unbelievable, once a model for Singapore now heading towards Ethiopia

Sri Lanka declares food emergency as forex crisis worsens

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/3 ... rex-crisis

yensoy · Post by **yensoy** » 01 Sep 2021 07:20

Tuan wrote:Unbelievable, once a model for Singapore now heading towards Ethiopia
Sri Lanka declares food emergency as forex crisis worsens
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/3 ... rex-crisis

Ethiopia? That's hardly an example I would use when a certain large country is busy purchasing/leasing fertile farmland there to feed its people https://www.bbc.com/news/business-13725431.

Tuan · Post by **Tuan** » 01 Sep 2021 07:28

yensoy wrote:
Tuan wrote:Unbelievable, once a model for Singapore now heading towards Ethiopia
Sri Lanka declares food emergency as forex crisis worsens
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/3 ... rex-crisis
Ethiopia? That's hardly an example I would use when a certain large country is busy purchasing/leasing fertile farmland there to feed its people https://www.bbc.com/news/business-13725431.

Ethiopia still struggles with food security, nevertheless.

Vivek K · Post by **Vivek K** » 01 Sep 2021 07:38

VKumar wrote:India can extend Rupee credit

What would be the strategic gain in doing so? We cannot fritter away taxpayer funds into bottomless holes. What will Sri Lanka offer in return? Let China do the charity.

India should support the brutalized Tamils of Sri Lanka and extend all support to them.

Tuan · Post by **Tuan** » 01 Sep 2021 07:43

Vivek K wrote:
VKumar wrote:India can extend Rupee credit
What would be the strategic gain in doing so? We cannot fritter away taxpayer funds into bottomless holes. What will Sri Lanka offer in return? Let China do the charity.

India should support the brutalized Tamils of Sri Lanka and extend all support to them.

I think India should help coalesce Northern and Eastern provinces of SL, if not, annex the entire island, before Chinese do so.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 01 Sep 2021 13:45

Any help now will be accepted but dismissed later, Sri Lankans have been addicted to Chinese Schemes. It is better to let this play and Sri Lankan public realise the true nature of Chinese, those trade unions who were opposed Indian involvement in the Colombo Port should now rejoice as fruits of what they sown are coming to bear.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 01 Sep 2021 14:14

Aditya_V wrote:Any help now will be accepted but dismissed later, Sri Lankans have been addicted to Chinese Schemes. It is better to let this play and Sri Lankan public realise the true nature of Chinese, those trade unions who were opposed Indian involvement in the Colombo Port should now rejoice as fruits of what they sown are coming to bear.

The sinhala are the most cunning and extractive of the many illegitimate regimes in this region. They routinely ran rings around gandhy.

let them ask and specify conditions in quantifiable terms and tangible outcomes.

We don't need anymore gunslinging cowboys, a la gandhy, sacrificing Indian soldiers just because he had an itch in his jocks.

The hans will sit back and let India pick up the slack just like they did in the maldives during their water crises.

we never seem to learn the true nature of the realpolitik and how nations use it to their advantage. Our MEA is still filled with cheeni pasand wooly headed, ideologically time warped and traitorous commies actively pursuing cheeni interests at our cost.

now just wait for the dravidians to open up another very vocal front demanding that Modi jump in with both feet to help their Indian origin tamil brethren who live mostly in the central highlands.

kvraghav · Post by **kvraghav** » 01 Sep 2021 18:03

Them Sri Lankas wanted less Indian tourists and more Western tourists earlier. How does that work out for them now? They are now offering buy one-get one air ticket free.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 01 Sep 2021 18:35

kvraghav wrote:Them Sri Lankas wanted less Indian tourists and more Western tourists earlier. How does that work out for them now? They are now offering buy one-get one air ticket free.

do you have to bring your own food

kvraghav · Post by **kvraghav** » 01 Sep 2021 21:24

chetak wrote:
kvraghav wrote:Them Sri Lankas wanted less Indian tourists and more Western tourists earlier. How does that work out for them now? They are now offering buy one-get one air ticket free.
do you have to bring your own food

Thinking what about fuel for the planes. Seriously though, the Burmese and Bhutanese people are the ones who treat us equal. Rest everyone has this superiority issues with indians untill they go to the west, where they become indians by default. One momeen had been running a restaurant in Chicago claiming himself to be from Punjab. When my gora colleague pointed this out and I asked him, came to know he was from other punjab. My gora colleague was shocked to know he was pakistani

Tuan · Post by **Tuan** » 03 Sep 2021 21:51

Talks on 2019 blasts require Sri Lankan gov’t credibility: Church

Roman Catholic leader says government must win back church’s confidence before talks on probe into Easter Sunday blasts can proceed.

A Sri Lankan Roman Catholic leader has said the government must win back the confidence of the church before the two sides can hold talks on the church’s criticisms of inquiries into 2019 Easter Sunday bomb blasts that killed 269 people.

Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith made the comment in response to a letter from Foreign Minister Gamini Lakshman Peiris seeking a meeting, his spokesman, the Reverend Cyril Gamini Fernando, said on Wednesday.

Ranjith said the authorities must hold a transparent investigation and implement the recommendations of a presidential commission before any talks can begin, Fernando said.

“If the government begins a credible investigation and starts implementing the recommendations, their credibility will increase. It is only the government which is able to build that confidence,” Fernando said in a statement.

The foreign ministry on Wednesday said the Vatican’s ambassador to Sri Lanka, Archbishop Brian Udaigwe, had agreed in a meeting with Peiris to arrange talks with the bishops.

Six near-simultaneous suicide blasts at three churches and three tourist hotels on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019, killed 269 people. A man left a fourth hotel without setting off his bomb but later killed himself by detonating his explosives at a different location.

Among those killed were worshippers at Easter services and tourists having breakfast at their hotels. Two local Muslim groups that had pledged allegiance to the ISIL (ISIS) group were blamed for the attacks.

Ranjith wrote to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in July complaining that the government had not taken legal action against former President Maithripala Sirisena and several police and intelligence officials for alleged negligence as recommended by the commission.

The government said last month that it has filed 23,270 charges against 25 people in connection with the attacks, but it did not include Sirisena or others named by the commission.

A rift and communication breakdown between Sirisena and then Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was said to be the reason why officials did not act on near-specific intelligence warnings ahead of the attacks. That led to the election of Rajapaksa as president later that year on a national security platform.

The church said it believes those prosecuted are “smaller fish” and that there is a bigger conspiracy beyond religious extremism.

Ranjith in his letter asked the authorities to investigate alleged links between state intelligence officials and the attackers. He cited speeches in parliament as alleging that members of state intelligence knew and met with the man who did not initially detonate his bomb.

He said the speeches also alleged that intelligence members had a suspect released by police and contacted an intermediary to persuade ISIL to claim responsibility for the bombings.

ISIL later claimed responsibility after a video was released showing the attackers dressed in black and pledging allegiance to the group.

Special Report: Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Bombings – An Intelligence Failure? Or an Intelligence Operation?
https://projectofive.ca/2020/05/25/spec ... operation/

mappunni · Post by **mappunni** » 04 Sep 2021 02:55

chetak wrote:
Aditya_V wrote:Any help now will be accepted but dismissed later, Sri Lankans have been addicted to Chinese Schemes. It is better to let this play and Sri Lankan public realise the true nature of Chinese, those trade unions who were opposed Indian involvement in the Colombo Port should now rejoice as fruits of what they sown are coming to bear.
The sinhala are the most cunning and extractive of the many illegitimate regimes in this region. They routinely ran rings around gandhy.

let them ask and specify conditions in quantifiable terms and tangible outcomes.

We don't need anymore gunslinging cowboys, a la gandhy, sacrificing Indian soldiers just because he had an itch in his jocks.

The hans will sit back and let India pick up the slack just like they did in the maldives during their water crises.

we never seem to learn the true nature of the realpolitik and how nations use it to their advantage. Our MEA is still filled with cheeni pasand wooly headed, ideologically time warped and traitorous commies actively pursuing cheeni interests at our cost.

now just wait for the dravidians to open up another very vocal front demanding that Modi jump in with both feet to help their Indian origin tamil brethren who live mostly in the central highlands.

Agree on a lot. Would request Chetakji to visit the Skyscrapercity Srilanka forum and see the venom spouted by the Sinhala elites who prefer Cheeni maal

rsingh · Post by **rsingh** » 04 Sep 2021 05:34

I fail to understand the food shortage in Lanka. It is lush green with enough water resources. They can easily grow food and catch fish. At wester tourist say so . What wre they doing with land.same logic I apply to Kerala. I am sure kerala is self-sufficient in basic commodities.i think Lankans are hooked easy tourist dollars.

Atmavik · Post by **Atmavik** » 04 Sep 2021 05:47

rsingh wrote:I fail to understand the food shortage in Lanka. It is lush green with enough water resources. They can easily grow food and catch fish. At wester tourist say so . What wre they doing with land.same logic I apply to Kerala. I am sure kerala is self-sufficient in basic commodities.i think Lankans are hooked easy tourist dollars.

Looks like some man made stupidity of going fully organic. Coupta has a video on YT that describes this this + COVID + global shortages have had a compounding effect.

Lebonan is also in a mess beacuse of inflation

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 04 Sep 2021 12:02

rsingh wrote:I fail to understand the food shortage in Lanka. It is lush green with enough water resources. They can easily grow food and catch fish. At wester tourist say so . What wre they doing with land.same logic I apply to Kerala. I am sure kerala is self-sufficient in basic commodities.i think Lankans are hooked easy tourist dollars.

When you fall at the feet of China, a mess is created.

yensoy · Post by **yensoy** » 04 Sep 2021 13:50

2 lakh army for 2 crore population. Imagine that. Imagine India having a 1.3 crore or 13million large army. Taxpayers responsible for paying them. With the families included, and keeping some provision for pensions, that accounts for 7-8% of the population.

And Goat has all his brothers in the cabinet, which means no differing opinions. He will go down the Paki route.

As for the productivity of farmland, a lot of Sri Lanka is forested, which is a great thing. Arable land is in available but hilly, and the flat region (south?) is dry. They can produce great spices and tea but when it comes to staples it is probably so great. Fish, of course, is aplenty.

rsingh · Post by **rsingh** » 04 Sep 2021 14:26

Any chance uprising , people on on thestreet.?This proves my hypothesis that small sovereignty are parasites on neighboring countries. Such countries are cause of most of tension between big sovereignty
Such sovereignty thrive on competition by big countries (eg India /chinat tentions over Shri lanka Bhutan,Nepal and Maldives Small sovereignty suck economic belefit from neighbour's.Ex Luxemburg is a big problem for Germany, France and Belgium. Luxemburg keeps excise tX on tobacco and petrol so low that Germal, French and Belgians prefer to do thier shopping Luxemburg. Company laws and banking rules such up capital.
Mind you they do not spend on defense ND they have one vote at UN , just like India.
I am writing an article where I am arguing about viability small sovereigntIes and their asymmetrical influence in world. Will share it very soon.

srin · Post by **srin** » 04 Sep 2021 15:39

Atmavik wrote:
rsingh wrote:I fail to understand the food shortage in Lanka. It is lush green with enough water resources. They can easily grow food and catch fish. At wester tourist say so . What wre they doing with land.same logic I apply to Kerala. I am sure kerala is self-sufficient in basic commodities.i think Lankans are hooked easy tourist dollars.
Looks like some man made stupidity of going fully organic. Coupta has a video on YT that describes this this + COVID + global shortages have had a compounding effect.

Lebonan is also in a mess beacuse of inflation

I saw the Coupta video and I was shocked that he didn't mention Chinese debt trap at all.

srin · Post by **srin** » 04 Sep 2021 15:41

As long as they don't suck us in by playing us against the chinese, I'm fine. And as long as we start developing our own ports and reduce our dependence on Colombo transhipment, I'd be delighted.

https://www.joc.com/port-news/internati ... 00219.html

Pratyush · Post by **Pratyush** » 04 Sep 2021 17:17

I watched the SH video. He did mention the PRC debt trap. But more than that. It's the stupidity of the government that is a cause of this mess.

The crop yields for some of the cash crops such as tea, and spices is down by 50%.

Because of the push to organic farming.

Not many economies can sustain such a sudden drop. Add to it covid related lockdown, you get the current mess in Sri Lanka.

The transshipment can work only if trade is flowing. No trade no transshipment.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 04 Sep 2021 22:06

Pratyush wrote:I watched the SH video. He did mention the PRC debt trap. But more than that. It's the stupidity of the government that is a cause of this mess.

The crop yields for some of the cash crops such as tea, and spices is down by 50%.

Because of the push to organic farming.

Not many economies can sustain such a sudden drop. Add to it covid related lockdown, you get the current mess in Sri Lanka.

The transshipment can work only if trade is flowing. No trade no transshipment.

organic farming usually means that you have to keep the land fallow for a some years to prepare it for organic yield.

The chemical fertilizers previously used need to probably leach/wash out over some monsoons before the land becomes organically healthy again and viable for organic farming.

It then has to be certified after stringent chemical tests as fit for organic use

Bhutan is a big player in the organic food ecosystem because it started out with virgin land that had never been planted before, apart from natural grass and suchlike used mainly for grazing purposes

So, these great sinhala have run out of food because of foolish organic farming dreams and also been hit simultaneously with a cash flow crunch aggravated by all the interest payments made to their cheeni biraders because of the BRI obligations.

why aren't their cheeni pals helping out or are the cheeni also waiting for the foolish Hindus to supply the free food

How they must be missing the foolish Hindus, who they so effortlessly scammed and cheated over the past decades.

And how they must be missing gandhy, who so "generously dropped food from IAF aircraft" flying over lankan territory.

rsingh · Post by **rsingh** » 04 Sep 2021 22:27

Have seen videos of some GORA log explaining coffee process to tightly uniformed pYTs. They were dressed like air hostess and it was an a factory floor

. THat Gora was having time of his life. WTF Gora mybaap culture is so prevalent in Shri Lanka

Tuan · Post by **Tuan** » 22 Sep 2021 02:52

This reflective assignment is the first of the four-part series regarding my experiences during the Sri Lankan civil war.

A Scholarly Betrayal – Reflective Assignment Part I
https://projectofive.ca/2021/09/21/a-sc ... nt-part-i/

g.sarkar · Post by **g.sarkar** » 22 Sep 2021 14:23

https://worldakkam.com/sri-lankan-scien ... ms/346874/
Sri Lankan scientists warn that organic fertilizers in China will be an agricultural disaster due to harmful microorganisms
August Roberts, Colombo, September 22, 2021
Sri Lankan scientists warn that when 99,000 metric tons of organic fertilizer inventories reach $ 63 million from China, it will be an agricultural disaster due to the inclusion of harmful microorganisms. Preliminary tests conducted on samples of organic fertilizers ready to be imported into Sri Lanka have been found to be infected with Erwinia, a notorious plant pathogen that causes serious post-harvest loss of crops.
“Erwinia has been identified as a serious phytopathogen that can have a significant impact on agriculture. It also affects economically important and mass-grown root vegetables. The effects of this pathogen. Can be seen even after harvesting, “says Devikade. Professor Costa of Plant Conservation at the University of Peradeniya.
Sri Lanka suddenly stopped importing chemical fertilizers and urged farmers to switch to organic fertilizers. However, the ban was also the result of a lack of foreign exchange and a lack of dollar reserves for imports. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa recently appointed a presidential task force to prepare a roadmap for the complete transition from chemical to organic farming.
However, the start of the rice-growing Maha season in September forced the government to provide fertilizer to farmers. The Ministry of Agriculture has selected China’s Qingdao Seawin Biotech Group Co., Ltd. as a supplier of organic fertilizers, brought two samples into the country and tested them by the Sri Lankan Standards Authority and the National Plant Quarantine Commission (NPQS) and the Sri Lankan Atomic Energy Commission. it was done. They have been found to contain soils, plants, harmful microorganisms, pathogens and diseases that are harmful to humans.
Farmer rights activists have also complained that imported fertilizer samples contain harmful bacterial species. “I did not comply with any law when importing these samples. I was asked if the fertilizer had a safety certificate, President Anurada Tenakorn of the National Agricultural Unification Bureau. He also standardized in Sri Lanka. He said the lab was under pressure to change their findings.
....
Gautam
I am not sure, but are they importing human excrement and other waste from China as organic fertilizer? This will have lasting impact on Indian agriculture.
This topic is also covered by The Statesman: https://www.thestatesman.com/world/sl-s ... 10170.html

Tuan · Post by **Tuan** » 22 Sep 2021 23:25

This reflective assignment is the second of the four-part series regarding my experiences during the Sri Lankan civil war.

Tamil Migrant Ship Case – Reflective Assignment Part II
https://projectofive.ca/2021/09/22/tami ... t-part-ii/

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 23 Sep 2021 13:21

g.sarkar wrote:https://worldakkam.com/sri-lankan-scien ... ms/346874/

This topic is also covered by The Statesman: https://www.thestatesman.com/world/sl-s ... 10170.html

Anyway this experiment can be tried in Pakistan also , if the crop fails due high lifestock, Pakistan can become the world's largest Slaughterhouse.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 23 Sep 2021 14:30

Aditya_V wrote:
g.sarkar wrote:https://worldakkam.com/sri-lankan-scien ... ms/346874/

This topic is also covered by The Statesman: https://www.thestatesman.com/world/sl-s ... 10170.html
Anyway this experiment can be tried in Pakistan also , if the crop fails due high lifestock, Pakistan can become the world's largest Slaughterhouse.

the sinhala are the most crooked and cunning politicians you can ever find anywhere.

They ran rings round rhajeev ghandhy and made a fool of the the Indian babooze, especially the diplomutts and others from the MoD and intelligence.

they seem to have met their match in the form of the most unscrupulous of money lenders and repo agents, the cheenis.

they have been reduced to accepting literally any schitt (pun intended) shovelled by their yellow masters

how they must be missing their gullible Hindu neighbors

Tuan · Post by **Tuan** » 23 Sep 2021 22:22

This reflective assignment is the third of the four-part series regarding my experiences during the Sri Lankan civil war.

Alien Smuggling: Reflective Assignment Part III
https://projectofive.ca/2021/09/23/alie ... -part-iii/

Tuan · Post by **Tuan** » 24 Sep 2021 21:44

This reflective assignment is the last of the four-part series regarding my experiences during the Sri Lankan civil war.

A Refugee In Canada: Reflective Assignment Part IV
https://projectofive.ca/2021/09/24/a-re ... t-part-iv/

Tuan · Post by **Tuan** » 26 Sep 2021 08:58

In U.S., Gotabaya promises to engage Tamil diaspora
https://www.thehindu.com/news/internati ... 619813.ece

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s recent statement in New York that he would invite the Tamil diaspora for discussions on resolving pending questions of war-time accountability and justice in the island nation has sparked more scepticism than hope among Tamils.

In a meeting on Sunday with the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the UN Headquarters, President Rajapaksa — who is attending the 76th session of the UN General Assembly — said “internal issues” of Sri Lanka should be resolved through “an internal mechanism” of the country. The Tamil diaspora would be invited for discussions in this regard, he said, according to a media release from his office.

The announcement is significant, coming from President Rajapaksa, whose government proscribed several Tamil diaspora organisations six months ago, branding their members “terrorists”. The Rajapaksa administration has repeatedly referred to diaspora groups as “pro-LTTE” outfits, often accusing them of attempting to revive the Tigers’ separatist struggle.

‘Welcome gesture’
“President Gotabaya Rajapaksa wanting to engage with the Tamil diaspora is certainly a progressive move and we welcome it,” said Suren Surendiran, spokesman of the Global Tamil Forum (GTF), a diaspora group with members across North America, Europe, the U.K., Australia, and South Africa.

“When requests are made by democratically elected representatives of Tamil people in Sri Lanka to meet with the President, they are “deferred with flimsy excuses”, [and] now from New York, he has declared that he wants to engage with us, Tamil diaspora,” Mr. Surendiran said in a statement, questioning President Rajapaksa’s “sudden change of mind”, months after his government proscribed organisations including the GTF.

In June, Mr. Rajapaksa was scheduled to meet a delegation of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), the largest parliamentary grouping representing Tamils of the war-affected north and east.

The announcement of the meeting drew much attention, for it was the first time that the President was going to meet the TNA, led by the 88-year-old veteran leader and Trincomalee district parliamentarian R. Sampanthan, who has been demanding a political solution to the Tamil question through substantive constitutional reform. But the meeting was postponed with no announcement yet on a likely new date for talks.

Meanwhile, political observers see little reason for optimism in the President’s possible discussion with Tamil diaspora.

Describing Mr. Rajapaksa’s recent remark in New York “a diversionary tactic”, senior journalist and political commentator V. Thanabalasingham said although Tamil diaspora groups have been backing the call for a political solution to Sri Lanka’s Tamil national question, they are no cohesive political force. “You cannot consider them to be representatives of Sri Lankan Tamils, either. They left Sri Lanka and have obtained citizenship elsewhere,” he told The Hindu.

Tamils in Sri Lanka rely on diaspora groups to exert pressure on the international community, but many groups espouse “extremist positions”, he observed. “When the President seems reluctant to fulfil the demands put forward by moderate Tamil voices within the country, what is it that he [President] can talk with diaspora elements?” asked Mr. Thanabalasingham, suggesting that the diaspora be engaged on matters such as foreign investment.

While the diaspora could try garnering international support for reconciliation efforts undertaken in Sri Lanka, “they can never be the prime force in achieving a political solution”. “It is ironic that the President who underscores the need for a domestic solution wants to engage the diaspora,” he said.

“When it comes to the ethnic question, the President must first speak to elected representatives of the Tamils,” he said, adding that even elected Tamil representatives — with known disagreements over many issues — are not in a position to approach the government with a coherent view or demand. “That is our Tamil people’s misfortune.”

venkat_kv · Post by **venkat_kv** » 29 Sep 2021 07:04

g.sarkar wrote:https://worldakkam.com/sri-lankan-scien ... ms/346874/
Sri Lankan scientists warn that organic fertilizers in China will be an agricultural disaster due to harmful microorganisms
August Roberts, Colombo, September 22, 2021
Sri Lankan scientists warn that when 99,000 metric tons of organic fertilizer inventories reach $ 63 million from China, it will be an agricultural disaster due to the inclusion of harmful microorganisms. Preliminary tests conducted on samples of organic fertilizers ready to be imported into Sri Lanka have been found to be infected with Erwinia, a notorious plant pathogen that causes serious post-harvest loss of crops.
“Erwinia has been identified as a serious phytopathogen that can have a significant impact on agriculture. It also affects economically important and mass-grown root vegetables. The effects of this pathogen. Can be seen even after harvesting, “says Devikade. Professor Costa of Plant Conservation at the University of Peradeniya.
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Gautam
I am not sure, but are they importing human excrement and other waste from China as organic fertilizer? This will have lasting impact on Indian agriculture.
This topic is also covered by The Statesman: https://www.thestatesman.com/world/sl-s ... 10170.html

Gautam Ji,
How will the import of organic fertilizer/human excrement from China to Sri Lanka affect India's agriculture Saar, i went though the statemans article, but i don't see how India would be affected ?

sanjaykumar · Post by **sanjaykumar** » 29 Sep 2021 07:26

Thanks for posting your experience Tuan. I will go through the posts over time to learn more about the conflict and its consequences.

Tuan · Post by **Tuan** » 04 Oct 2021 06:16

Lanka prayer campaign, Gandhian struggle at its best
https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinio ... 66481.html

Indeed a formidable share by one of the most prominent Indian scholars in Sri Lankan affairs.

Nevertheless, British Imperialists may have well understood the Gandhian philosophy. Yet, the Sinhalese Buddhists in Sri Lanka practice extreme ethnonationalism known as the "Jaathika Chinthanaya" or "Mahavamsa Mindset," who would not understand Gandhi's language of Ahimsa or Satyagraha, I am afraid...