During Roman imperial rule, every person other than a Roman was considered a slave. When a “run away ” slave surrendered back to his master there was joy in the house, because of the benefit from the returnee slave. Pardoning the slave is to reap the benefits only.

The entire Sinhala nation (SN) is now happy that “rebel of a rebel slave”, Mr Chandirakanthan, has returned back from “running away” from his master, the SN, and that they would benefit.

Are the Sinhalese glaad that they can now give the Tamils of North East (NE), their legitimate right to rule themselves? No, not at all. There is still no change on the existing “master-slave” attitude against the Tamils.

Some even speak of “forgiveness by Buddhists”. The opposite of forgiveness is Anger, revenge, grudge taking, vengeance, murder etc;. The Buddhist cult leaders pour out lavishly and support revenge, violence, murder and war against Tamils. How can they ever be forgiving? What we see now is pardoning for “running away”.

Buddhism in Sri Lanka (SL) violates the basic principles of; non killing and praying to idols of Buddha. They do not practice the basic principle “let all beings be happy” against the Tamils; the reason for murder, torture, disappearnces and displacement against Tamils.

Therefore, I do not accept there is Buddhism in SL. What we see in SL is a Buddhist cult and not a religion. All the major political parties UPFA, UNP and JVP are proxies of this cult.

I believe that Mr Chandirakanthan went to meet the Buddhist cult leaders of Malwatte and Asgiriya to confirm that he is also a proxy to them.

Therefore, your statement that the “East will decide prosper” is a pipe dream. A slave can never prosper under a master, even if he says so, shouting and banging on the table. Keep cool and watch.

I suppose when speaker Lokubandara (a Buddhist) has a Saraswathi pooja in his house he is “sacrificing” his Buddhist religion? I suppose when the President (Buddhist) and his wife (Catholic) pray at a Hindu temple in India they are “sacrificing their religion”? I suppose when Ranil Wickremasinghe (Buddhist) prayed at a Hindu kovil in Jaffna he “sacrificed his religion”?

With a lot of the Hindu temples down south, Sinhalese Buddhist patrons outnumber or equal their Tamil Hindu ones. Case in point - Modera Kovil, so many of their refurbishments and renovations have been funded by Sinhalese Buddhist devotees. Another case of Buddhists “betraying their religion”? All traditional Sinhalese music shows begin with paying homage to Goddess Sarasaswathi - another “betrayal” of their religion?

To be honest it’s about time Hindus in Sri Lanka showed their tolerance and acceptance of other religions and cultures for a change, instead of just preaching about it. Previously I had thought Hindus to be liberal and tolerant. Only when I read that they had to “cleanse” the Hindu temple in India because a Catholic (the president’s wife) had prayed there did I realise that there was a lot of intolerance and bigotry within that community. Reading the comments of people like Sarwan solidifies that view. Tamils Hindus love pointing fingers at Buddhists and saying “you don’t practice your religion.” But look in the mirror folks. Honestly.

It provides a comic relief to otherwise serious endevour to liberate ourselves from Sinhala opperession.

Sam’s words of wisdom are fine if meant genuinely. Instead Sam sounds like he is opportunistically using it to promote a political agenda.

Where was his religious acceptence when hindu temples were being distroyed by SL Army thugs

#Sarwan,
If you equal worshipping Buddhist monks to ‘Surrendering religion’, there could be no Buddhists in SL, since almost all Buddhists worship Hindu gods. And most SL politicians seek blessings of all religious leaders. This exposes the cause of our problem. Since Buddhists are inherently accomodative & hospitable, others misused those qualities and finally turned the guns against the friendly hosts.
It is this accomodative/forgiving nature of Buddhists that enabled Pillayan to visit the Temple of the Tooth, which was attacked by LTTE during the period he was in LTTE ranks. (It is said that the bomb lorry came from east) It is also known that the murder of Buddhist monks in Arantalawa(east) was done by the eastern caders of LTTE, some of them might be in TMVP now.

Sam Thambipillai…

Mass Rigging? 68 incidents of Election mischief… and that is from the UNP/TNA side of the Election Monitors…. other than that Nothing….

Realtively no issues…. but it does not matter because you are Terror-Coddling LTTE Schill that roots for the failure of Mahinda and the current government because for you it is Eelam and the Rule of Prabhakaran or Nothing…

You can sit on the sidelines and watch the failure of the LTTE and the success of Real Leadership. Cry all you want, throw your tantrums, it will do no good. The people of the East will decide and they will prosper. Cry like a baby all you want, you only make the rest of us laugh!

The East will soon over take the North in development and prosperity and some of the folks from the peninsula are not happy with that prospect at all. So they will do everything in their power to try and scuttle the possible advancement of the Kizhakku Thamilar.

I agree with lingam, Tamils will not get another chance like this and I hope that Pillaiyan understands that and rebuilds the broken East into the most prosperous region of Sri Lanka. The LTTE’s days of control are over and so are the days of peninsula dominance.

It is also naive to ignore the major fact that TNA, the major actor in the East boycotted the election.

What has beeen revealed in the elections is that the Sinhala nation (SN) and their political parties are still hell bent on ramming their will unilaterally on the Tamils of the East.

The SN has proved yet again that it has no “character”. It does not value truthfulness, fairness and honesty. Character is not valued much in this region. Human rights are grossly violated in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. India values money more than character !

Mahinda Rajapakse promised the position of Chief Minister to the Tamil speaking-religo group obtaining the maximum number of seats. But Hisbulla was denied that position unfairly. Promises are meant to kept, but promises are meant to be broken with Tamils !

It is wrong to list the policy of TMVP, to give a positive image, ignoring the fact that TMVP has surrendered spirit, soul and body to UPFA. A surrendered party cannot be expected at all to get any of its policy fulfilled by its master. A slave is a slave. SN never ever honoured agreements with Tamils. It is not in their culture. What we see in the list of TMVP is the usual deceptive rhetoric.

To be cynical about Eelam is to be cynical about reality. An island with two governments is being accepted and recommended as the only viable and workable solution now.

An eminent internantional ex-jurist from Australia presented a paper last week in Wales, requesting the International Community to seriously and quickly implement such a policy of two government for Sri Lanka.