Dated – Wednesday, 19th January 2022
From
Maravanpulavu K. Sachithananthan (413401569V)
Koyilaar Valalvu, Maravanpulavu, Chavakachcheri.
+94772754864, tamilnool@gmail.com
To
His Excellency President Gothabaya Rajapakse
President’s Office
Colombo.
Through
Chairperson of the Presidential Taskforce on “One Country – One Law” Venerable Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera
and
the members of the Task Force.
Your Excellency
On behalf of the 3 million Hindus of Sri Lanka, Greetings!
I
express my inability to be with Your Excellency on the 20th of
January due to my age (80 years old!) during this pandemic period. On behalf of
the Hindus in Sri Lanka and on my behalf, Dr. Chidambaram Mohan will be there
with Your Excellency on that day.
In
dismantling the remnants of the nearly 400-year colonial imprints, Your
Excellency has embarked on another historic step. We Hindus are with Your
Excellency’s efforts in this regard.
Hindus are asking Your Excellency to include the following in the
proposed “One Country – One Law” framework.
1. Provide a priority status for Hinduism, along with Buddhism,
2. Introduce a law to ban unethical conversion to Abrahamic religious
beliefs (a copy of our draft law is with the task force).
3. Introduce a law to protect and preserve the fertilizer factories and
milk factories in the island by protecting the bovines and banning beef stalls
(as already approved by Your Excellency’s Cabinet).
4. Introduce a law to prevent animal slaughtering in places of worship
(approved by the Cabinet of the previous government - a draft law was prepared
by legal experts based on my request).
5. Introduce a Naming Convention law based on UN naming convention on
spelling and transcription norms for places/villages. Additionally, all names
of places introduced during the past 400 years by Abrahamists to be removed and
replaced by the traditional format of naming conventions - naming after trees,
tanks, hills, flowers, and other natural formations, objects, flora, and fauna.
6. Introduce a law to make it mandatory for the registrar of births,
marriages, and deaths, department of registration of persons, and the
controller of passports to have an indigenous Tamil or Sinhala language name
for such registration.
7. Introduce a law applicable to all the four religionists (a) to sever
their hierarchical connections with foreign temporal heads and institutions and,
(2) to formulate their patterns of worship and rituals to suit the land and its
people while respecting the historical traditions of Sri Lanka.
8. Introduce a law giving statuary effect to the circular by Buddha
Saasana Ministry dated 16th October 2008 and reinforced by the Supreme Court in
2017 to restrict or prevent the construction of new places of worship by
Abrahamic sects.
9. Introduce a law to make it mandatory for foreign-funded projects of
non-governmental organizations to declare the name, address, phone number,
email address, amounts received, and bank details of all donors to the Central
Bank every three months. Central Bank shall set up a monitoring agency to check
on the use of these funds for any anti-national and or anti-traditional
activities.
10. Introduce a law providing for the Hindu / Buddhist students in the
International Schools and private schools to adhere to their traditional Hindu
/ Buddhist cultural attire.
10. Introduce a law to enable local councils (in areas not under UDA),
to grant business licenses to non-residents of the area only after hearing the
views of the residents, if necessary, through a limited localized referendum.
11. Repeal all enactments, statutes, laws, by-laws, and regulations of
the 400-year colonial era, drafted enacted, and implemented to perpetuate the
colonial economic exploitation and in the processes which of those infringed
into the implementation of Thesa Valamai laws, Kandyan laws, and other
laws of the historic traditional occupants/residents of this land.
Thanking you
I remain, Your Excellency
Yours sincerely
K. Sachithananthan
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