Once upon a time there was a beautiful island with wonderful people and it was called the “Pearl of the Indian Ocean “. The island is still beautiful and the people are still wonderful except for a few who consistently engage in a diabolical attempt to make it “Ugly “.

This is my response to the article published in the Daily Mirror of March 21^st titled “Mother Lanka as Sri Lanka Thaye “ written by DBS Jeyaraj. He says that the Tamil version of the National Anthem too salutes Mother Lanka and not an “Eelam”, and it was his hope and prayer that patriotic Tamils would be able to hail “Mother Lanka “as “Sri Lanka Thaye” in their “Thaai Mozhi” ( Mother Tongue).

නැවතත් උතුරේ රාජ්‍ය විරෝධී කල්ලි ක්‍රියාත්මක වීමට පටන්ගෙන ඇත. 2009 කොටි (දෙමළ) ත්‍රස්තවාදය පරාජය කිරීමෙන් පසු අවුරුදු පහකට වැඩි කාලයක් තිස්සේ උතුරේ රාජ්‍ය විරෝධී කල්ලි ක්‍රියාත්මක නො වී ය. එයින් කියැවෙන්නේ එකල උතුරේ දෙමළ ජාතිවාදයක් නොතිබූ බව නො වේ. දෙමළ ජාතිවාදය මතු නොව දෙමළ බෙදුම්වාදය ද උතුරේ තිබිණි. ඒ මතවාද එහි නැති නොවිණි. ඒ මතවාද විශේෂයෙන් ම ඊනියා උගත් දෙමළ ජනයා අතර විය. ඔවුන්ට බටහිරයන්ගේ ද ඉන්දීයයන්ගේ ද විසිරුණු දෙමළ ජනයාගේ ද අනුගයහය හා ආධාරය ලැබිණි. එහෙත් ඒ දෙමළ ත්‍රස්තවාදයක් කරා නැවත වර්ධනය නො විණි. එයට ප්‍රධාන හේතුව හමුදාව එහි පවත්වා ගෙන යෑම ය.

UNITED AUSTRALIANS OF SRI LANKAN ORGANISATIONS

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17 May 2015

Commemorating the sixth anniversary of Sri Lanka’s Hard Won Peace

On 19 May 2015, we commemorate the sixth anniversary of Sri Lanka’s triumph over the LTTE separatist terrorism.  This great victory preserved the territorial integrity and unitary status of Sri Lanka which has continued to be indivisible for well over 2500 years.   The resulting peace has also encouraged economic development, opened up the nation to the outside world and brought greater stability to the South Asian region and the Indian Ocean Rim.

We gratefully remember the supreme sacrifices made by the men and women of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces, the Civil Defence Force and the Police, their families as well as numerous civilians in the three decade long struggle against this terrorist outfit.  We also acknowledge the political leadership of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse as well as the military skill and commitment of the Service Commanders Sarath Fonseka, Wasantha Karannagoda & Roshan Gunetileke who guided the Sri Lankan armed forces.

The Sri Lankan people were at the receiving end of the brutal terrorism of the fascist LTTE during this dark period when thousands of civilians of all ethnic backgrounds were killed by the LTTE using every violent method including cutting up with machetes & daggers, exploding bombs in buses, trains, public buildings, public roads and using land mines.  Untold damage was also caused to the infrastructure of the country.