One of the very first functions of Chief Minister of Eastern province was to visit Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy. This happened to be a historic occasion in Sri Lanka history. Sri Dalada Maligawa was attacked by LTTE terrorists in 1995 killing many devotees and severely damaging the sacred place. Dalada Maligawa is the most sacred place of whole Buddhist world where tooth relic of the Buddha is placed. Sri Lankan Buddhists are privileged to have this holy asset that is respected by millions of Buddhists in the world. From ancient days the tooth relic is cared and worshipped in similar manner to worshipping the living Buddha. It is sheer cultural jealousy of LTTE terrorists that lead to attack of Sri Dalada Maligawa. Not only Dalada Maligawa, but also Jaya Siri Maha Bodhi (Bo tree) of Anuradhapura was made a blood bath by ruthless LTTE terrorists. Hundreds of devotees were brutally gun down on a poya day. There were mass murdering of Buddhist monks in Aranthalawa and many other occasions. In each of those occasions, rulers appeared in the media and tried to convince the nation that those acts were merely to agitate Sinhalese. They never dared to call those inhuman exercises as acts of hatred and terror. Our so called leaders were indirectly uttering that Sinhalese always looking for oppress Tamils and LTTE is exploiting it. But those having their foot in this mother land know that even 1983 riots was mainly sphere headed by thugs of UNP who were thrilled after lamp and pot racket in the 1982 election and burning of Jaffna library as part of election violence in Jaffna local election. After long political coma, the Sri Lankan nation took a courageous decision in the last presidential election electing a leader who can account for the nation and deal with terrorism. The government has not only succeed in defeating terrorism, but equally proved the Sri Lankan nation that terrorism is the enemy and not the Tamil community. In 88/89 period Sinhala youth rebel against the fascist rule of the government and they are now given an opportunity to fight against the system in democratic manner. This government has extended the same opportunity to the ex-rebel Karuna/Pilliyan fraction to come into democracy and solve their problems in democratic manner. When Pilliyan visited Dalada Maligawa, it was not a strange experience for those who are familiar with Buddhist literature and hold Buddhist values. There are plenty of related Jathaka stories which includes containing of ‘Angulimala’, ‘Alawaka’, ‘Nalagiri’ etc..No sooner they were restrained; they were no longer branded and cornered as dodgy, but given an opportunity to enter into mainstream society. It is those who spread ethnic hatred by burning Jaffna library, loot the innocent Tamil by way of using arrogant political power are now shading crocodile tears on Pilliyan’s visit to Dalada Maligawa. Still LTTE terrorists in North are trying to exploit hatred of burning Jaffna library by not allowing full functioning of it. Here in South the same role is played by petty opportunistic bankrupt politicians who are now throwned into the dustbin of contemporary history. We all Sri Lankans must commend the courage of Pilliyan to visit the Dalada Maligawa which once they destroyed and making a public statement on their wrong doing. We must equally praise the Maha Nayaka theroes for accepting Pilliyan as another human being who has come back to civilized path and blessing him in his new journey. We all Sinhalese and Tamil have our values deep rooted in our cultures. It is those who are molded and brought up in post colonial palaces and still serving their Anglo Christian masters in the west that is howling against advent of Pilliyan into Democracy while cuddling blood hungry LTTE terrorist leader Prabakaran!
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As I said earlier this visit should be greeted and congratulated. We Sri Lankans have a culture and tradition where we are to forgive, forget and show love and kindness to your enemy. Our greatest religion Buddhism message is very clear and we should be proud of allowing a person like Pillayan to show the world how you should treat your worse enemy. Can you imagine USA, UK or any other Western country doing this to any member of Al Quida let alone thier leaders?
Well done Sri Lankans, we all should be very proud of it and a well written article and my warmest thanks for the writer.
how about the cold blooded murder/massacre of unarmed innocent tamils in 1956,1958,1961,1977,1983,1987,and therafter and also the burning of the rich cultural heritage of the tamils - the jaffna library by low inhuman supremacist racists
numba na andang, numba na andang numbata mewwa honda paadang
why Sri Lankans cannot understand that Jews-Isrelis are behind every bomb blasts which is not brought to the notice of publice.
I know who Pillayan is because I have seen what he had done so far. But before we put things in perspective, say who burned the jaffna library and even worse, who was responsible for the black july in 1983. After more than 25 yrs, we are still trying to shake it off. The article is good but putting a known against an unknown, hmmmmmmm ......
Pilliyan has come to Democracy.Oky,I can Accept.What about Pilliyan's Heart?.What is happening in the East now?.Who is wrong with?
I admire your courage to write this article. Whenever we talk about peace, unity and forgiveness, we were stamped as unpatriotic. Whenever I talked with tamils about unity, tamils always brought up old scars (Burning library, Sinhala only act....).Sinhalese brought up LTTE's terrorist act. I think this the time we all should put behind the past. Just talk about future of our country. I do not really know how to deal with blood thirsty LTTE. Why they can't understand this is the time they should give up their terrorist act and join the democracy. I admire govermnet for making Piliyan group to beleive in democracy. I hope more tamils will beleive in democracy and reject LTTE's behavior.
Given current LTTE's continuous terrorist acts in Colombo, I am afraid whether another ethnic violence would break up in South. I hope it will not be repeated again in the future.
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