04 July 2022
Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
04 July 2022
Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
03 July 2022
Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
I was therefore unhappy to read the article ‘Shock reason Sri
Lankan-Australians won’t send money to struggling friends and family’ at https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/shock-reason-sri-lankanaustralians-wont-send-money-to-struggling-friends-and-family/news-story/ea6912fd118d884becb8bbe60f859ef0
[Sri
Lankans living in Australia are refraining from sending desperately-needed
funds to struggling friends and family back home, fearing money will never end
up in the hands of those in need because the government will steal it.]
[Upul Chandana, 49, is the secretary of
the North Victoria Sri Lankan Welfare and Cultural Association.
He says the Sri Lankan community feels
powerless….. Mr
Chandana is also secretary of the Samadhi Buddhist Association and volunteers
for the Craigieburn SES unit]
02 July 2022
Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
[Article 44 of the Constitution is
hereby amended as follows:–
(1)
in paragraph (1) of that Article– (a) by the substitution, for the words “in consultation with the Prime Minister, where he considers
such consultation to be necessary-” of the words “on the advice of the Prime
Minister-”;
As per the Morning’s report headed ‘Health professionals’ group
seeks referendum on Constitutional changes :
[The National Movement of
Health Professionals (NMHP) has launched a public petition requesting a
referendum to introduce nine fundamental changes to the Constitution.
Speaking
to The Morning, NMHP Convener Ravi Kumudesh said that the
fundamental changes to the Constitution that are sought, include enshrining
United Nations (UN)-based human rights (HR); accepting diversity (racial,
gender, religious, disability); having an independent Judiciary, Police, civil
administration, and Election Commission (EC); limiting the maximum tenure of
all elected positions to four years; social responsibility for pregnant females
and mothers, the elderly, children, and the disabled; zero tolerance for
bribery and corruption; for the country to be a non-aligned, secular, liberal,
democracy; abolishing the Executive Presidency; establishing a common “Sri
Lankan” identity; and ensuring equal rights for all citizens.]
Many of these are already in the
Fundamental Rights section of the existing Constitution. They are Articles 10 –
17 in the current Constitution. The rest
are largely Political. This includes ‘Buddhism Foremost’ – Article 9 ‘Sinhala
Official Language’ Article 18 (1). Fundamental Rights section is about
protecting the Sovereignty of the individual and therefore the Nation. It is
also the Equal Opportunity Section of the Constitution.
I personally considered Equal Opportunity to be a fundamental right here
in Australia, where my Sri Lankan qualifications were not recognized even after
high performance was confirmed by me. Hence I took those concerned to Court and
even though the Courts dismissed me – I wrote my feelings in my book ‘Naan
Australian’. That book travelled via Congress Library to the National Library
of Australia. https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/7047419
I do not know whether it is in the ‘Fundamental Rights’ section of the
Australian Constitution. But to the extent I believe I am Australian and I
believed that the discrimination was
Race based, I exercised my rights. The rest happened naturally. That is
the way of Belief.
01 July 2022
Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
A belief based declaration needs to balance from all
angles. Genocide is true only if some external force got into the minds of the
armed soldiers. They were Sinhalese as well as Tamils. Sinhalese are known to express
fears of Indian invasion. They would have ‘seen’ Indians by boat in Tamil
civilians. Tamil soldiers led by LTTE were also bought over by Indian politicians
such as MGR. If Genocide then India caused it.
30 June 2022
Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
[There’s something eerily dystopian about cricket continuing unscathed
while a humanitarian crisis unravels outside the gates.]
[Australian
anti-apartheid activists being honoured in a new exhibition in South Africa say
it is an important reminder of the power of protest.
The most effective
of the Australians' protests against Apartheid was the boycott of all-white
South African rugby and cricket teams in the early 1970s.
As a student
activist, Meredith Burgmann jumped the fence at the Sydney Cricket Ground
during the 1971 game between the Wallabies and the racially-selected
Springboks.]
Heritages form
naturally, when we sacrifice currently
earned by us through Due Processes. Due Processes are the pathways through
which we inherit the positive heritages. Heritages have perfectly balanced
institutional structures.They are our true constitutions.
If the current action
by the Australian Cricket team in Sri Lanka is considered to be of ‘positive value’ then the above heritage has
been abandoned by Australians. Part of the reason is the way Shane Warne was
recognised in relation to Tsunami services in Sri Lanka
["I just wanted to help, I said to
Murali, 'what can I actually do?'" Shane Warne told 60 Minutes at the
time.
"He said, 'you just being here will actually help.'"
Murali was right.
Shane Warne walked around the disaster zone with his iconic blonde
goatee and he was recognised by locals in some of the most remote parts of
Sri Lanka.]
29 June 2022
Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
My search gave me the information that Dr Pethiyagoda is officially
recognised including by Australians. His analyses are structured to suit intellectuals.
The question is ‘Did these intellectuals foresee this collapse and if yes ‘what
did they do to prevent it?’ As per Wikipedia :
[On 22 June 2022, Pethiyagoda was
appointed Senior Policy Adviser to Sajith Premadasa, MP, Leader of the
Opposition of Sri Lanka]
26 June 2022
Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
Answer by Australian Tamil - Dr Nadesan to Gajalakshmi
Paramasivam carrying mad-trespasser label in NSW– ‘Now coming to Nadesalingams, the most
loved family in Australia ( of course except you), the government did not want
to be asinine instead a logical, rational, humane establishment. That is
governance. Your stubborn stand of taking revenge from this most loved family,
you claim according to law, is nothing but an asinine, robotic attitude. Unless
you give up your stubborn, obstinate attitude, you are not going to salvage
yourself from these beliefs. One can take a horse to water but cannot make it
to drink. By the way, contrary to your malicious propaganda against me, I dont
endorse any illegal immigrants into the country but yet the laws have to be
revised and applied according to situations. If Rajapakshas arrive in a boat
what will you do. I can vouch that you will be there with kiri bath to welcome
them. 😆😆🥱🥱. So my friend this debate is only
about this Nades family.’
Gandhi’s power was his
Truth. Gandhi renounced comforts of a professional life, to live with the
Indians of low status as one of them. But his mind was driven by the Absolute
power of Truth. On 01
November 2004 - the day the Waverley local Courts sent me to Prince of Wales Hospital – to
be assessed for mental illness, in relation to my Peaceful Assembly at the
reception of the Office of the Vice Chancellor of UNSW - Sri Lanka’s Daily News
published my response to Justice C.G. Weeramantry, former Vice President
of the International Court of Justice . It was headed ‘The
relevance of Ahimsa - a rejoinder’.
As
is apparent from the above response from a Tamil Medical professional – who used
it in an unprotected environment, the Sri Lankan status was made negative in
Australia – including within the Tamil Community in Australia. The
Registrar Dr Peter Vaux certified me to be mentally healthy and stated that I
was following in the footsteps of Gandhi. I learnt about the Daily News publishing
my response much later. But that is one of the strongest Indicators that
confirmed to me that I was being empowered by Gandhi. When we naturally
represent a group – we work on the basis of indicators.
[As a Tamil, Jayan says the challenges he
faced in Sri Lanka remain, heightened by the country’s worsening economic and
political crises. But there is, he says, a “mafia” in operation, exploiting the
emergency, promising safe passage overseas, and demanding up to 900,000 rupees
(A$3,500) for a place on a boat.
“Local people talk about the change in
the government this year and they ask me to join in as a boat keeper. Some
people say that a successful landing in Australia is possible, but I refuse to
get on the boat because based on my experience the people are returned back.”]
That
is from the one who is experiencing the challenge as per his assessment of his
need.
Then
there is this from a parallel of Dr Nadesan:
[“People
are suffering right now because of this economic crisis,” human rights lawyer
and Sri Lanka’s former human rights commissioner Ambika Satkunanathan says.
“For instance, for Tamils in the north
and east of the country, the sense of insecurity that already existed –
particularly after this president returned to power – is exacerbated by the
current situation.”
Satkunanathan says there appears
to be an “industry” around irregular migration, run by cartels promising
passage to Canada [by plane] or to Australia via boats, which is exploiting
people in Sri Lanka who are already economically vulnerable or facing systemic
discrimination and oppression.]
The
word ‘appears’ confirms that the former Human Rights Commissioner did not have
the ‘indicator’ that comes from belief.
The
Industry is not limited to those who transport. They are actually the media.
The driving force is from the Tamil Community in Australia who are ‘profiting’
from the war. Every person who did not suffer as much as the worst affected
person in her/his local area and who failed to share in the compensation s/he
received through migration earns the curse of all those who suffered more than
they in their respective local environments. This in turn becomes a war-gene,
when we fail to correct it within the generation that had the war experience.