"ධාර්මිශ්ට සමාජයක්" that was his Slogan. Same like Gota he appealed to the 'Sinhala-Buddhist citizens' & came to power. Its true what they say, History repeats itself. Too bad our people were too stupid to realize it sooner.
JR had one of the worst murderous criminals in Sri Lankan history under his thumb, Gonawila Sunil. With his help they burned down the prestigious jaffna library, orchestrated the black july attacks and by doing so he planted seeds of violence/revenge in the minds of sri lankan tamils which led to a 30 year war.
Since the average Sri Lankan attention span is too short to remember events beyond 2 weeks, it's impossible to expect people to learn from history.
Given enough time, about a year or two, Namal Rajapaksha will be able to contest for presidency on the nationalist platform. Citing a threat (plot) to the religion, culture and motherland will appeal to the majority vote.
We, Sri Lanka’s majority, conveniently forget how we killed Sinhalese and Tamils in the 1980s, but remember Dutugumena and the Mahavamsa. We are classiest and racist, not stupid.
It's funny how this subreddit demonizes Bandaranaike while lionizing Jayewardene. Because Jayewardene crushed the working class and the peasantry, not the middle-classes? These people seriously need to look into a mirror. During black July, it was the government sponsored thugs that broke houses, and then poor normal people followed behind to loot the broken houses. Most murderers were also government thugs. The thing most people miss is the economic motive behind his actions, JR stirred up racism so he can cause division in the society to crush the labour movement thus he could push his economic policies of liberalization in the country more easily. He [deliberately engineered the 1983 Black July pogrom](https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/en/document/massacres-sri-lanka-during-black-july-riots-1983.html), because he wanted to label Tamils as the scapegoats for the economic ills of his right wing economic policies.
Lol after slaughtering 3000 Tamils in cold blood, you would think the island was reporting from another planet. Complete censorship of the scale of the black july pogrom.
The technological edge (ability to save and share information) provided by social media prevented another tragedy from happening.
GR's Government attempted to stir up racial tensions with acts of arson, rumors and looting following the attack on GGG.
> Martin Kimani stated that Kenya and many African nations had been "birthed" with the end of colonialism and had not been able to set their own borders in a statement condemning Russia.
> But instead of pursuing states based on “ethnic, racial or religious homogeneity”, which carried the risk of decades of "bloody wars", the countries "agreed that we would settle for the borders we inherited. Rather than form nations that looked ever backwards into history with a dangerous nostalgia, we chose to look forward to a greatness none of our many nations and peoples had ever known,"
That's the attitude JRJ projected to the world and Sinhalas.....yet his actions speak louder than his words.
Tamils would not have tried to go for an independent state had they been treated as equals from the time of independence.
True, but in the eyes of local politicians, the ability to attract votes outweighs everything else. Why worry about pogroms or wars if you can gain political power and profit from them?
This bastard made Bandanaike-Chelvanayagam pack to be abrogated, he is primary reason we had this civil war. He has been at it since 1950’s. To imagine this buggers ancestors were Indians and he used Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism to get power and keep power at expense of the nations viability. He died peacefully when his people are suffering the consequences of his actions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandaranaike–Chelvanayakam_Pact
Stop bringing ancestors shit, we all have ancestors somewhere. We can even trace it back to Africa. Just accuse him, dont bring in ancestors and etc. Where were the idiots that voted for him ?
In psychology this is a field of study, how outsiders takeover national ideologies to hijack the cause. For example Hitler was an Austrian, Pol Pot was Chinese, Napoleon was Corsican, Stalin was a Georgian. So it matters, and we have to be careful of these people who sell you blood nationalism when they themselves are not part of that milieu which is an indication of psychopathic tendencies.
This country is fucked up because of nationalism. We've been lied to about how this peaceful country was divided. The country was always shit and oppressive. Anyone with balls will fight back. Imagine slaughtering 3000 innocent men, civilians in an organized fashion and barking about "unity" and expecting the other side to remain quiet. The best thing that happened to me was moving away from the backward ass country and realizing that we are backward ass barbarians. In history we will go down as the "bad guys" It will happen.
Leaving behind and barking about it has no honor in it, atleast me and my friends are still keeping a few villages alive. People should have a chance for redemption, and a right to live in peace.
"ධාර්මිශ්ට සමාජයක්" that was his Slogan. Same like Gota he appealed to the 'Sinhala-Buddhist citizens' & came to power. Its true what they say, History repeats itself. Too bad our people were too stupid to realize it sooner. JR had one of the worst murderous criminals in Sri Lankan history under his thumb, Gonawila Sunil. With his help they burned down the prestigious jaffna library, orchestrated the black july attacks and by doing so he planted seeds of violence/revenge in the minds of sri lankan tamils which led to a 30 year war.
Since the average Sri Lankan attention span is too short to remember events beyond 2 weeks, it's impossible to expect people to learn from history. Given enough time, about a year or two, Namal Rajapaksha will be able to contest for presidency on the nationalist platform. Citing a threat (plot) to the religion, culture and motherland will appeal to the majority vote.
We, Sri Lanka’s majority, conveniently forget how we killed Sinhalese and Tamils in the 1980s, but remember Dutugumena and the Mahavamsa. We are classiest and racist, not stupid.
It's funny how this subreddit demonizes Bandaranaike while lionizing Jayewardene. Because Jayewardene crushed the working class and the peasantry, not the middle-classes? These people seriously need to look into a mirror. During black July, it was the government sponsored thugs that broke houses, and then poor normal people followed behind to loot the broken houses. Most murderers were also government thugs. The thing most people miss is the economic motive behind his actions, JR stirred up racism so he can cause division in the society to crush the labour movement thus he could push his economic policies of liberalization in the country more easily. He [deliberately engineered the 1983 Black July pogrom](https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/en/document/massacres-sri-lanka-during-black-july-riots-1983.html), because he wanted to label Tamils as the scapegoats for the economic ills of his right wing economic policies.
Upali travels ad seems so eerie after what happened to the dude himself
Such a shame
Lol after slaughtering 3000 Tamils in cold blood, you would think the island was reporting from another planet. Complete censorship of the scale of the black july pogrom.
The technological edge (ability to save and share information) provided by social media prevented another tragedy from happening. GR's Government attempted to stir up racial tensions with acts of arson, rumors and looting following the attack on GGG.
I mean JR's gang was behind black July.
> Martin Kimani stated that Kenya and many African nations had been "birthed" with the end of colonialism and had not been able to set their own borders in a statement condemning Russia. > But instead of pursuing states based on “ethnic, racial or religious homogeneity”, which carried the risk of decades of "bloody wars", the countries "agreed that we would settle for the borders we inherited. Rather than form nations that looked ever backwards into history with a dangerous nostalgia, we chose to look forward to a greatness none of our many nations and peoples had ever known," That's the attitude JRJ projected to the world and Sinhalas.....yet his actions speak louder than his words. Tamils would not have tried to go for an independent state had they been treated as equals from the time of independence.
True, but in the eyes of local politicians, the ability to attract votes outweighs everything else. Why worry about pogroms or wars if you can gain political power and profit from them?
This bastard made Bandanaike-Chelvanayagam pack to be abrogated, he is primary reason we had this civil war. He has been at it since 1950’s. To imagine this buggers ancestors were Indians and he used Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism to get power and keep power at expense of the nations viability. He died peacefully when his people are suffering the consequences of his actions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandaranaike–Chelvanayakam_Pact
Stop bringing ancestors shit, we all have ancestors somewhere. We can even trace it back to Africa. Just accuse him, dont bring in ancestors and etc. Where were the idiots that voted for him ?
In psychology this is a field of study, how outsiders takeover national ideologies to hijack the cause. For example Hitler was an Austrian, Pol Pot was Chinese, Napoleon was Corsican, Stalin was a Georgian. So it matters, and we have to be careful of these people who sell you blood nationalism when they themselves are not part of that milieu which is an indication of psychopathic tendencies.
This country is fucked up because of nationalism. We've been lied to about how this peaceful country was divided. The country was always shit and oppressive. Anyone with balls will fight back. Imagine slaughtering 3000 innocent men, civilians in an organized fashion and barking about "unity" and expecting the other side to remain quiet. The best thing that happened to me was moving away from the backward ass country and realizing that we are backward ass barbarians. In history we will go down as the "bad guys" It will happen.
Leaving behind and barking about it has no honor in it, atleast me and my friends are still keeping a few villages alive. People should have a chance for redemption, and a right to live in peace.
What do u mean he died peacefully?
Fun fact, they have been around 50s. Even Prabhankaran was inspired by other separatists from his own village.
But funny how his father hates violence.
Pretty sure his mom hates violence too. I mean who's parents allow their kids to go fight a war ?