The Historical & Constitutional rights of Sinhalese Buddhists in Sri Lanka

 In 2015 David Cameron declared ‘Britain is still a Christian country‘, Christianity is the official religion of Britain. Germany’s Angel Merkel from the Christian Democratic Party says Germans must stand up for Christian values. There are only 58% Christians in Germany. The state religion in Norway is Protestant Christian (Evangelical-Lutheran). All Muslim majority nations have Islam as state religion. Roman Catholics are the only religion to have a country (The Vatican). In 2015 Liberia’s constitutional amendments include introducing Christianity as state religion. On what grounds is the foremost place given to Buddhism to be removed from the Constitution when over 70% of the populace are Sinhala Buddhists?

Buddhism was the chosen religion of the 180 rulers that ruled the Sinhale nation. Even Elara followed the precepts of Buddha. Buddhism was sent to Sinhale by royal invitation. It has been the endeavour of the colonial rulers and post-independent interfering nations to do their utmost to dilute the status of Buddhism because the nations they represent were either Christian or Islam with solid funding to cause mischief via NGOs, trade and other scheming mechanisms. This is a primary cause for Buddhism’s ceremonial status with these entities able to tap into the weaknesses of Sri Lanka’s post-independence politicians.

Thus with each change of government and in the present precarious case of attempting to change the constitution we see a well thought out plan to slowly remove the place of Buddhism because the enemies know that so long as Buddhism prevails the sanctity of the nation will remain and the Sinhalese would rally to save their nation and the civilizational heritage and legacy they are bound to protect. Why should individuals and organizations funded or on payroll of foreign nations be tasked with drafting a country’s constitution. These are civil society organizations working for the agenda of other nations and not in the interest of what is best for the citizens of this country.

New cultures, slogans like multiculturalism and multi-faith are attempting to enter the hinterland of the Buddhists, remove the foremost place given to Buddhism by plugging in Christian or Islamic values with a larger plan to make Sri Lanka into a South Korea or Maldives.

It is for the Sinhala Buddhist politicians who have selfishly contributed to the erosion of the space and place of Sinhala Buddhists to realize the historical mistake they are making.

It was with the Sinhale nation that the British signed the 1815 Treaty, the British should have returned the Sinhale nation in 1948 not as Ceylon. It is surprising that no political party of politician brought out this valid point.

The Sinhale Buddhists will continue to fight for their nation taken from them since 1815. It is the Sinhale Buddhists whose rights need to be restored and no one else. All other ethnic groups are not indigenous to Sri Lanka and came as migrants or traders and were allowed to stay on out of the goodwill and generosity of the Sinhale Buddhist leaders. The gratitude for that is now being shown by trying to displace the Sinhale Buddhists from the land they built over centuries where archaeological and historical evidence prevails of their existence from North to South and East to West in every inch of Sri Lanka.