Reflection on Death Squads
It started with saving our elephants from political goons that include Buddhist monks.
I am totally against parading elephants on Kandy streets.
It is inhumane.
Elephants belong to the jungle, not the temples.
When vehicles were hard to come by the elephants were the beast of burden.
Now that we have huge vehicles belonging to politicians and tuition masters, Buddhist relics could be transported and paraded by the official vehicles of the parliamentarians.
Poor wild beast can be spared.
What is called the "New Culture" is the invention of Buddhist radicals!
By the way, "Old Culture' has disappeared leaving only the remnant of its artifacts, for the archaeologists.
Easily 250 vehicles could be paraded every year in Kandy displaying Buddhist relics.
I am totally against parading elephants on Kandy streets.
It is inhumane.
Elephants belong to the jungle, not the temples.
When vehicles were hard to come by the elephants were the beast of burden.
Now that we have huge vehicles belonging to politicians and tuition masters, Buddhist relics could be transported and paraded by the official vehicles of the parliamentarians.
Poor wild beast can be spared.
What is called the "New Culture" is the invention of Buddhist radicals!
By the way, "Old Culture' has disappeared leaving only the remnant of its artifacts, for the archaeologists.
Easily 250 vehicles could be paraded every year in Kandy displaying Buddhist relics.
Now that Sirasa is almost banned what is left of
Indian Maharaja Organization can sponsor this event.
They can even sponsor some Indian Bollywood guys to chaperon the Diya Wadana Nilme, on either side, instead of elephants.
That would be an instant crowd puller.
By the way, all high priests of big temples have their own luxury vehicles (quite against, Lord Buddha's teaching) to boast about.
Monks ideally should parade streets on foot, for a single meal, but not on vehicles!
Giving a vehicle to a monk is a political bribe.
Instead of allowing sons of political heavy weights practicing road races in Kandy, poor citizens would be rejoiced to see, the politicians who did not have a push bike before entering the parliament drive their own cars, as a public display of their gratitude to the STUPID Voters who rocketed them to parliament and to sky high places.
No Sri-Lankan elephant should be gifted to any world zoo for public display.
Our hashish (ganja) growers have invaded their habitat.
Wild elephants going rampage on border villages was inevitable.
We should stop these "Elephant Death Squads".
I do not mind having "two legged" elephant death squads, come next round of elections.
This preamble is to illustrate I was against any form killing from my childhood.
Having spent few cockroaches and frogs and toads for A Level practicals, I vouched not to kill any including snakes of many kinds.
By the way, the name Anaconda is derived from a snake named Ana Konda (means broken backbone) a large species gone extinct whose attacks were vicious according to British explorers of early 1800s before eventual capture of Kandy or Senkadagala.
Kandy comes from Kanda or hill city.
Having encountered a few cobras in very close encounters, I fear cobras a lot.
In fact, I have grown a few "Spirit Plants" to deter them who come for water during the dry season.
I am not sure how effective the "Spirit Plant" is?
In a different note, I was 4th on the List of Deaths of the DJVP created by RAW of India and financed by none other than CIA.
I was in the death list for no valid reason.
I was working to save life when DJVP declared all hospitals should be closed.
I did not close our hospital run by IIMI.
I moved out of sight, secretly the day before the probable attack on me.
Family was sent home, weeks before.
By the way, I treated many DJVP guys without charge, fleeing from army cordon and search operations with barbed wire injuries on their backs.
One day, I walked 7 kilometers from Kandy city to our home, in the darkness of the night.
Having returned home from Colombo, I used to walk home nearly 2 kilometers, since all the local buses were not plying then and there were no three wheeler vehicles.
Even though, I was cautious, I never feared anybody.
That would be an instant crowd puller.
By the way, all high priests of big temples have their own luxury vehicles (quite against, Lord Buddha's teaching) to boast about.
Monks ideally should parade streets on foot, for a single meal, but not on vehicles!
Giving a vehicle to a monk is a political bribe.
Instead of allowing sons of political heavy weights practicing road races in Kandy, poor citizens would be rejoiced to see, the politicians who did not have a push bike before entering the parliament drive their own cars, as a public display of their gratitude to the STUPID Voters who rocketed them to parliament and to sky high places.
No Sri-Lankan elephant should be gifted to any world zoo for public display.
Our hashish (ganja) growers have invaded their habitat.
Wild elephants going rampage on border villages was inevitable.
We should stop these "Elephant Death Squads".
I do not mind having "two legged" elephant death squads, come next round of elections.
This preamble is to illustrate I was against any form killing from my childhood.
Having spent few cockroaches and frogs and toads for A Level practicals, I vouched not to kill any including snakes of many kinds.
By the way, the name Anaconda is derived from a snake named Ana Konda (means broken backbone) a large species gone extinct whose attacks were vicious according to British explorers of early 1800s before eventual capture of Kandy or Senkadagala.
Kandy comes from Kanda or hill city.
Having encountered a few cobras in very close encounters, I fear cobras a lot.
In fact, I have grown a few "Spirit Plants" to deter them who come for water during the dry season.
I am not sure how effective the "Spirit Plant" is?
In a different note, I was 4th on the List of Deaths of the DJVP created by RAW of India and financed by none other than CIA.
I was in the death list for no valid reason.
I was working to save life when DJVP declared all hospitals should be closed.
I did not close our hospital run by IIMI.
I moved out of sight, secretly the day before the probable attack on me.
Family was sent home, weeks before.
By the way, I treated many DJVP guys without charge, fleeing from army cordon and search operations with barbed wire injuries on their backs.
One day, I walked 7 kilometers from Kandy city to our home, in the darkness of the night.
Having returned home from Colombo, I used to walk home nearly 2 kilometers, since all the local buses were not plying then and there were no three wheeler vehicles.
Even though, I was cautious, I never feared anybody.
I never trusted police.
One day, I walked home from the Faculty of Medicine and noticed an unusual gathering near the petrol station.
I doubled down and walked quickly home.
Minutes after I returned home, I got a telephone message that an army guy protecting the petrol station was shot down by the JVP (Galkatas guy).
I was able to make a small team of civilian informers to get vital information on both sides to avoid any confrontation.
Of course. I had direct confrontation of over 80 armed DJVP guys surrounding my residence from the front entrance.
I did not know the whole village was hiding behind my residence on the same night thinking DJVP guys would not come to my house.
They told me when I inquired them the next morning.
What a coincidence?
Immediately foreign staff was sent Hotel Galadhari and our operations were halted abruptly.
I stayed behind until all the computers were transferred to Colombo safety.
One day, wife and I went to Colombo for some VISA formalities.
One day, I walked home from the Faculty of Medicine and noticed an unusual gathering near the petrol station.
I doubled down and walked quickly home.
Minutes after I returned home, I got a telephone message that an army guy protecting the petrol station was shot down by the JVP (Galkatas guy).
I was able to make a small team of civilian informers to get vital information on both sides to avoid any confrontation.
Of course. I had direct confrontation of over 80 armed DJVP guys surrounding my residence from the front entrance.
I did not know the whole village was hiding behind my residence on the same night thinking DJVP guys would not come to my house.
They told me when I inquired them the next morning.
What a coincidence?
Immediately foreign staff was sent Hotel Galadhari and our operations were halted abruptly.
I stayed behind until all the computers were transferred to Colombo safety.
One day, wife and I went to Colombo for some VISA formalities.
At
the bus stand I had the premonition that something is going to happen.
I chased a Kandy bound bus taking off and for our luck the driver slowed down for us to alright.
The driver too, wanted to get out of Colombo as soon as he could.
Minutes later LTTE bomb blasted, at Borella Junction.
We heard the bomb blast in the background, and we were minutes away from the bus stand.
I did not have any fear but traveling by any mode of vehicle was a risk, since orders were to "open shoot" any suspicious moving object.
The "Counter Death Squad" of Senior Premadasa amounted to 138 bodies (in one day) in the locality where I was posted.
I saw 15 of them scattered on a major junction for public display.
Some bodies were dumped to the Mahaweli River.
The rotten bodies were visible.
Later they dumped a few crocodiles from downstream of Mahiyanganaya to devour them.
I do not believe they came up the river for dead bodies.
One cannot raw dinghies on this stretch of the river Mahaweli.
These crocodile are man eaters.
By the way, Mahiyanganaya is the first place Buddha visited according to folklore.
These are not hearsay but real events.
During Sirima's time over 6000 undergraduates were rounded up.
I am not sure how many were killed.
If one studies, the absentee list of undergraduates in all the universities, one can have a rough estimate of the total killed.
Lionel Bopage who is now in Australia may have some revealing statistics.
Unknown to me JVP hid their explosives on the ceiling of our room 11.
They also, tipped off the army to my room.
Sure enough they came and tapped the door of our room.
They found the explosives.
Luckily for me lieutenant who lead the team was one of my colleague mates.
He wanted some names.
In private, I told him (I knew the JVP boys), I do not want to take that risk.
He understood and none from Arunachellum was rounded up.
I never met him again and I heard he retired as a brigadier.
Not only Tamil boys but Sinhala boys were taken in by the army, only on suspicion.
I lost respect for armed forces early in my life.
History repeats they say.
Black Cats, Yellow Cats and Green Cats with different NEW brand names would emerge in Ceylon, yet again.
But in Ukraine it would be All AI and no humans.
The soldiers are going to be fodder for the laser focused AI guns and artillery.
What an IRONY?
I chased a Kandy bound bus taking off and for our luck the driver slowed down for us to alright.
The driver too, wanted to get out of Colombo as soon as he could.
Minutes later LTTE bomb blasted, at Borella Junction.
We heard the bomb blast in the background, and we were minutes away from the bus stand.
I did not have any fear but traveling by any mode of vehicle was a risk, since orders were to "open shoot" any suspicious moving object.
The "Counter Death Squad" of Senior Premadasa amounted to 138 bodies (in one day) in the locality where I was posted.
I saw 15 of them scattered on a major junction for public display.
Some bodies were dumped to the Mahaweli River.
The rotten bodies were visible.
Later they dumped a few crocodiles from downstream of Mahiyanganaya to devour them.
I do not believe they came up the river for dead bodies.
One cannot raw dinghies on this stretch of the river Mahaweli.
These crocodile are man eaters.
By the way, Mahiyanganaya is the first place Buddha visited according to folklore.
These are not hearsay but real events.
During Sirima's time over 6000 undergraduates were rounded up.
I am not sure how many were killed.
If one studies, the absentee list of undergraduates in all the universities, one can have a rough estimate of the total killed.
Lionel Bopage who is now in Australia may have some revealing statistics.
Unknown to me JVP hid their explosives on the ceiling of our room 11.
They also, tipped off the army to my room.
Sure enough they came and tapped the door of our room.
They found the explosives.
Luckily for me lieutenant who lead the team was one of my colleague mates.
He wanted some names.
In private, I told him (I knew the JVP boys), I do not want to take that risk.
He understood and none from Arunachellum was rounded up.
I never met him again and I heard he retired as a brigadier.
Not only Tamil boys but Sinhala boys were taken in by the army, only on suspicion.
I lost respect for armed forces early in my life.
History repeats they say.
Black Cats, Yellow Cats and Green Cats with different NEW brand names would emerge in Ceylon, yet again.
But in Ukraine it would be All AI and no humans.
The soldiers are going to be fodder for the laser focused AI guns and artillery.
What an IRONY?
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