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EVIDENCE AGAINST ASOKA BRIAN


SENEWIRATNE
©2018 Dr Romesh Senewiratne-Alagaratnam Arya Chakravarti

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Me and my father – an analysis of two


mad medicos.
@2016 Romesh Senewiratne-Alagaratnam

It’s not always a bad thing to be mad. It depends what you’re mad about. One
can be mad – as in angry – about various evils, which is a good thing. It’s good
to be mad at exploiters, enslavers, rapists and killers. Being mad has become
fashionable – saying something is “mad” means it’s really good in the
millennial lexicon.

There is also bad madness. In the Buddhist tradition these are greed, hatred
and delusions. I have regarded greed, hatred and delusions as forms of
madness since 1995, when I underwent a paradigm change in my world-view,
under the influence of Buddhism, Daoism, New Age and New Science readings.
This paradigm change motivated me to regard communication, curiosity and
play as instincts which could be used to stave off depression and dementia,
and that aesthetic development developed with experience along various
parameters or facets (such as harmony, tone melody and rhythm in hearing
and line, form, colour and composition in vision). I declared to my hostile
brother-in-law who was studying psychiatry that, in my opinion, Buddhism
provided a better model for psychotherapy than psychiatry does. I also
explored the theory that the pineal organ is magneto-sensory and responds, in
addition the earth’s magnetic field, to the magnetic fields created by the
electricity in the central nervous system. I was acutely aware of my paradigm
shift and wrote notes and recorded my theories on audiotape, discussing them
with my friends and family.

Most of my friends were enthusiastic about my ideas, but these were not
doctors – the doctors were in my family. My father, Brian Senewiratne was a
medical doctor in Brisbane, where he worked in private practice and the public
hospital system until he retired from most of his positions at the age of 84 (in
July 2016). My older sister, Shireen is a plastic surgeon who was at the time
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living with her boyfriend, Robert Purssey, who was studying to become a
psychiatrist and was employed by the Melbourne public hospital system. I had
moved down to Melbourne from Brisbane in 1988 to pursue my girlfriend Sue
Ellis and opportunities to develop my musical career as a guitarist and
songwriter.

I ended up working in solo general practice at the grandly titled Willow Lodge
Medical Centre, which was a small clinic built in the complex of the Willow
Lodge Mobile Home Village, a small village of about 1000 people who lived in
variously-sized mobile homes on little blocks of land that they rented at an
exorbitant price from a Queensland businessman, who also owned another
mobile home village in Queensland’s Gold Coast. He understandably chose to
spend more time in Queensland’s sunny climes. The Willow Lodge Village was,
I discovered, built on what was a caravan park established on a refilled toxic
dump.

When I was a child my sister would say that I was mad about butterflies. I was,
indeed, obsessed about one aspect of butterflies over all others – catching new
species of Sri Lankan butterfly to add to the collection I had begun in 1970,
when I was ten. I didn’t have mad beliefs about butterflies, but my sense of
values was disturbed – I wanted to catch rare specimens, which I would kill and
pin out carefully on sheets of polystyrene, keeping their wings open with strips
of cellophane. My family had learned this technique of preserving butterflies in
a museum style from my father’s long-time secretary Joyce Achong, a Chinese
laboratory technician from Trinidad in the West Indies who trained in London
with my father and later worked for him both in Sri Lanka and Australia. She
continues to be his secretary (which he spells with a capital S) and typist, as
well as the organizer of his patients and his schedule. It is Joyce who has the
Diary. The appointment diary. This has been the case since she moved to
Brisbane in the 1980s and became his receptionist and secretary. She is also
the mother of his third child and second daughter, Naomi – my father and
Joyce have been having a clandestine relationship since the 1960s, when he
was training in tropical medicine and she was a lab technician in London.

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Joyce lived in our house with my mother, sister, father and servant man from
1970 to 1972, working at the laboratory my father built, with British funding
and support adjacent to “his” ward in the Kandy Hospital. That was how he
referred to it and thought of it – his ward. He treated it as if he owned it and
not the people of Kandy and Sri Lanka.

Brian’s Propaganda
I have just finished reading my father’s current propaganda book after several
decades of observation of his development and flaws as a propagandist.
Overall, father has not been a successful propagandist – his side lost the war.
Since the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in May 2009, my father has tried to
reinvent himself, distancing himself from the Tigers and denying that he
supported them; but then, he was denying that he was “for or against the
Tigers” even in 2006 and 2008, when he was actively lobbying, around the
world, for the terrorist organization to be de-banned, arguing that the example
of Northern Ireland and the IRA showed that banning a “militant organization”
and branding them as terrorists was counterproductive (“and bombs went off
in Fleet Street and all over the place”).

In 2006, shortly after the Rajapaksa family came to power and resumed what
was to be the final war to defeat the Tamil Tigers, my father was invited by the
Tamil expatriates in Toronto to give a sympathetic interview for Tamil cable TV
to an Indian presenter named Vijay Thamil Priyan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrzLF3Z-SQs

This YouTube video, posted in 2006 is essential viewing to understand my


father’s current presentation of himself, since his book Sexual Violence of
Tamils by the Armed Forces of Sri Lanka is a self-publication. He has been trying
to get a publisher for previous editions of this book since 2014, and took
several copies with him when he went to the USA for the “parliament” of the
Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) of which organization he is a
“senator” (unelected) and the “sole Sinhala senator” at that.

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The TGTE Senators’ Mutual Fan Club


From Colombo Telegraph (editor Uvindu Kurukulasuriya)

‘Lifetime Commitment Award’ To


Dr Brian Senewiratne
May 25, 2016 | Filed under: Colombo Telegraph,MORE OPINION,Opinion | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH

By Usha S Sri-Skanda-Rajah –

Usha S Sri-Skanda-Rajah

On May 15, 2016, the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE)


at the Fifth Sitting of the Second Parliament presented TGTE’s
prestigious, ‘Lifetime Commitment Award‘ to a Sinhalese, Dr Brian
Senewiratne – an 84 year old Senator in the TGTE. It was in recognition
of, “his lifelong commitment and invaluable and dedicated contribution
rendered to the Eelam Tamil Nation in educating the Sinhala Nation and
the international community – in furthering the cause of human rights,
human dignity, and gender justice and of the liberation of Tamil Eelam.”
The award was presented to Dr Brian Senewiratne by TGTE’s Prime
Minister, Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran in the presence of Speaker,
Nagalingam Balachandran, Deputy Prime Minister, Ambalavaner
Thavendra Rajah, Senators, Members of Parliament and many
distinguished guests.
As a fellow Senator of the TGTE, I had the, “high honour” of introducing
Dr Senewiratne at the award ceremony. Referring to him, as I have
always done, as “Our Sinhala Hero”, I had to go back 68 years to be
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able to only scratch the surface of this larger than life personality that the
TGTE was honouring:
Dr Senewiratne’s commitment has not only been lifelong but remarkable:
In 1948 as a 16 year old schoolboy he protested at the
disenfranchisement and decitizenisation of nearly a million Plantation
“Indian” Tamils in one of the first Acts of the newly independent country,
Ceylon; in 1956, as an undergraduate in Cambridge University, he
refused to meet his uncle, Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike in
London who had changed the Official Language from English to Sinhala
Only because he felt strongly that it was discriminatory, unjust and
undemocratic; in 1971 he also strongly opposed the so-called
“Standardisation of university entrance marks” introduced for admissions
to the universities, obviously directed against Tamil-medium students
where Tamil students had to obtain a higher mark than the Sinhalese to
enter the University, stating that this was blatant discrimination in
education; in 1972 as a Senior Lecturer in Medicine at the Peradeniya
University in Kandy, he took up the cause of the Plantation Tamils again
when his aunt, Prime Minister Sirima Bandaranaike took no action when
her Sinhalese goons hounded out Plantation Tamils from their miserable
shacks and were dying on the streets of Kandy; in 1977, then in
Australia, he continued to challenge the Sri Lankan government under J
R Jayewardene accusing him of devaluing Parliament and setting up a
Presidential dictatorship and for circumventing the constitutional
safeguards that had been designed to protect the Tamils against the
“tyranny of the majority”; in 1983, after the massacre of Tamils in the
July 1983 pogrom, he published a book: “The 1983 Massacre –
Unanswered Questions” in which he held that the Jayawardena
government was responsible for this crime; in 1984, his publication:

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“Human Rights Violations in Sri Lanka” was banned in Sri Lanka.

From 1984 onwards, Dr Senewiratne has recorded and distributed a


number of DVDs to draw attention to the humanitarian tragedy in Sri
Lanka and has lobbied and addressed Parliamentarians and Human
Rights groups in Australia, Canada, UK, US, France, Germany, India,
New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, South Africa, Switzerland and the
European Members of Parliament; in 2008, he met with Nobel Laureate
Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Cape Town, and other ANC leaders in
South Africa to present the deteriorating human rights situation in Sri
Lanka; again in 2008, he addressed several Canadian universities,
including the University of York and the University of Toronto to motivate
the youth and take a courageous and determined stand against violation
of human rights and the abuse of democracy; he has addressed
meetings and rallies organised by the Refuge Action Collective in
support of asylum seekers; he has delivered countless lectures, radio
and TV interviews, and written numerous articles and some books – the
most recent being a 210-page comprehensive account of “Sri Lanka:
Sexual Violence of Tamils by the Armed Forces”; he has been invited by
Peter Arndt, Head of the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane, Peace and
Justice Section” to join a select group to campaign for peace and justice
in Sri Lanka; in 2015, he addressed members of his own community in a
much need publication, “What the majority Sinhalese must know”; as a
Senator of the TGTE he has contributed to drafting the “Road Map to
Tamil Eelam”; he has been honoured in the US, UK, Canada, Malaysia,
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New Zealand and Australia; in March 2009, Canadians for Genocide


Education (an umbrella organisation of some 48 multiracial, multicultural
and religious organisations) selected him to deliver the annual Genocide
Education Lecture at the University of Toronto and receive the
prestigious ‘Educators Award for 2009 in recognition of his outstanding
contribution to genocide education and prevention where he spoke on:
“Peace with Justice in Sri Lanka. Genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils. Its
causes and Solution”.
It’s now 68 long years since the young 16 year old, showed incredible
courage to stand up and protest an unjust and repugnant piece of
legislation. But the veteran human rights activist has not relented in his
determination to fight for the underdog. The Consultant Physician, now
in Brisbane, Australia, continues his long struggle to bring peace with
justice to the Tamil people in the North and East of Sri Lanka, where
according to him, the plight of the Tamils and Muslims is no better;
despite a change in the government from the murderous Rajapaksa
regime to that of Maitripala Sirisena (President) and Ranil
Wickremasinghe (Prime Minister). Dr Senewiratne maintains where the
Tamils and Muslims in the North and East are concerned, 8 January
2005 has only been a name-change from Rajapaksa to Sirisena. Dr
Senewiratne’s recently released book: ’Sri Lanka: Sexual Violence of
Tamils by the Armed Forces’, sets this out in full.
At the presentation, many of the Senators, Members of Parliament and
guests paid their tributes to Dr. Senewiratne. Of particular importance
was a comment by Professor Nadarajah Sriskandarajah (Sweden) who
was a student in the Peradeniya University. He was not a medical
student. He referred to the work done by Dr Senewiratne trying to
address the medical problems faced by the Plantation Tamils – people
who seemed to be of no concern to the authorities (or anyone else): He
spoke of how Dr Senewiratne set up a clinic in the grounds of the
Anglican Church in the Peradeniya campus which was in a remote
corner of the Campus, right next door to where the Plantation Tamils in
the Hantana tea estate lived; and of how scores of patients attended the
clinic which was run by medical students, students who did other
subjects, volunteer doctors and, of course, Dr Senewiratne; and of how
despite the fact the clinic was in full swing delivering a much needed
service, the authorities ordered that the clinic be closed because they
claimed that, ‘politics were being introduced into the Church’!
In my tribute to Dr. Senewiratne, I recalled the article I wrote in the
Colombo Telegraph “Dr. Brian Senewiratne Our Hero Amongst The
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Sinhalese“: where I called him, “a living legend”: “Dr. Senewiratne’s


international advocacy work and activism illustrates his dedicated and
exemplary service to the cause of human rights, human dignity and
social justice. His life’s work, both as a health professional caring for the
sick and as a human rights advocate, championing the rights of the
underdog, acting with the courage of his convictions, is a testament to
what a true consummate humanitarian he is. Undoubtedly he is a living
legend and we salute him.”
I wasn’t wrong then, I am not wrong now, when the TGTE itself and
Prime Minister Rudrakumaran have seen it fit to accord him the
recognition he so richly deserves.

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Romesh Senewiratne-Alagaratnam · 2:01:49 Brian Senewiratne's "books"
were not published in Europe and Australia as Usha claims. He prints runs of 5
to 10 books himself, using his local printer Bosco Ng who also manufactures his
propahganda DVDs in small runs.

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Manicka Vasagar · 2:00:35 Congratulation Dr Brian S

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Romesh Senewiratne-Alagaratnam · 2:00:18 Brian Senewiratne was not a
professor at Peradeniya University. He was a senior lecturer and was refused the
professorship when he applied for it. This is one reason he came to Australia.
He has never been a full professor in Australia, either - he was an associate
professor at the University of Queensland but was stripped of the title in 2001.
The list of countries Usha mentions are the nations he lobbied for the LTTE in.
He has also never met Nelson Mandela, though the LTTE tried to arrange a
meeting. He did have a brief meeting with Desmond Tutu in 2008.
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Romesh Senewiratne-Alagaratnam · 1:58:35 Brian Senewiratne has never


met Nelson Mandela and was lying in his speech. He is also an unrepentant
human rights abuser. and lobbyist for the LTTE (which trampled on the rights
of Tamil people). The 'award' is bad joke.
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Romesh Senewiratne-Alagaratnam · 1:57:31 By the way, Brian Senewiratne
has never met Nelson Mandela.
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Romesh Senewiratne-Alagaratnam · 1:56:16Hilarious!
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Sundhar Subramanian · 1:54:55 Good morning
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Niranjan Paul · 1:47:24 Prof, Raja 🌴 great soul
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WAS BRIAN SENEWIRATNE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 'BLACK


JULY' POGROM IN SRI LANKA?
I have long held suspicions that my father, Brian Senewiratne, was responsible
for the 'Black July' events in Sri Lanka. This suspicion is based on several
factors.
1. Before 1983 he was complaining about “Colombo 7 Tamils” and "sleeping
Tamils" who were not interested in involving themselves in his separatist war.
2. The research work he did in Sri Lanka from 1969 to 1975 when he ran a
British-funded (by the Nuffiield Foundation) laboratory adjacent to "his" ward
at the Kandy Hospital. Details have been published over the past 2 years on the
Holistic University of Jaffna and HUB Forensics Facebook pages.
3. The fact that he left Sri Lanka in 1976 (the beginning of the war) and only
returned once - a brief visit in 1983 immediately before the violence erupted.
4. His first self-published "book" that launched his career as a propagandist for
the LTTE was titled "The July 1983 Massacre - Unanswered Questions" (which
had a foreword by one of the adademic bosses of the LTTE, Professor C Eliezer
in Melbourne)
5. His history as a supporter of violence by the JVP while he was at the
Peradeniya University and access to guns (he was a "shooter")
6. An article on his own "blog", written in 2003, and published on the "Brian
Senewiratne pages" blog (which is maintained by the LTTE in London)
This is the article in full:
"JULY 1983 MASSACRE - UNANSWERED QUESTIONS"
"Two years ago, in a comprehensive article, ‘Sri Lanka’s Week of Shame - July
1983 massacre – long-term consequences”, I dealt with this blot on Sri Lanka
which set the stage for the division of Sri Lanka. This is still on the web
(www.tamilcanadian.com/pageview.php?ID=4260&SID=145)
(www.org/taraki/articles/2006/07-28_Consequences.php?uid=1866)
(www.tamilnation.org/form/brian/060723blackjuly.htm)
This year I will simply offer the Tamil people an Apology for what was done to
them in 1983, and even more so, for the increasing violations of their basic
human rights in the quarter of a century that has followed.

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I did not slit Tamil throats or pull out the intravenous drips and throw out Tamil
patients from hospital, But there is a collective guilt, a collective shame,, when
members of one’s ethnic group behave like savages. The only ‘crime’ that the
victims had committed was to be born Tamil. For the first time in my life, I felt
ashamed to call myself a Sinhalese. An entire ethnic group was shamed by the
behaviour of Sinhala goons led by their masters in Dictator J.R.Jayawardene’s
government, and hoodlums in yellow robes who were desecrating the Buddha,
one of the greatest teachers of Peace the world has ever known. (My mother
was a devout Buddhist and her father a teacher of Buddhism and the author of
books on Buddhism).
Some 3,000 Tamil civilians died that week and their homes and property burnt.
Many more would have died had it not been for courageous Sinhalese, ordinary
decent Sinhalese, who risked life, limb and property to hide Tamils and save
them from certain death. Thank God for some decent Sinhalese. I have no doubt
that some of them tendered an apology to the devastated and petrified Tamils,
but the best apology was the shelter they provided at considerable risk to
themselves.
The news
I was already in Australia when the massacre occurred. All I could do was to
watch the horror on television. I watched with disbelief and disgust, that a
country which calls itself “Buddhist”, had scores of absolute barbarians, both
inside and outside Government.
I had a call from London. It was from one of the finest Sri Lankans, a Sinhalese,
I have ever met – Rt Rev Lakshman Wickremasinghe, the Bishop of
Kurunegala, The ailing Bishop was in London but said he was returning home
at once to be with his (and my) people, the Tamil people. He did; I wish I had
the courage to do the same.I have regretted it ever since. He visited the
numerous refugee camps all over the island to comfort the devastated people, as
Christ would probably have done. He visited a refugee camp in Akkarayan,
Jaffna, with Dr Luther Jeyasingham and a close friend of mine, the irreplaceable
Kandiah Kandasamy of the Movement for Interracial Justice andEquality
(MIRJE). After talking with the refugees he was discovered crying in a room.
When asked, he replied that from his conversations he had found that his family
had been closely linked with the violence. (The Bishop was the uncle of Ranil
Wickremasinghe, a Minister in Jayawardene’s government at that time and a
later Prime Minister, and a kinsman of J.R.Jayawardene, the President). The
Bishop died on 23 October 1983, a broken man. He never recovered from that
trauma.
Sri Lanka has produced two saints – Bishop Lakshman Wickremasinghe (a
Sinhalese In the South) and Bishop Bastiampillai Deogupillai (a Tamil in the
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North). When Bishop Lakshman called me from London, I said that we, the
Sinhalsese had to apologise to the Tamils. He said he would and he did. I
apologised to my Tamil wife.
The apology
In his final Pastoral Letter “A cry from the Heart” (15 November 1983) before
his untimely death, this is what he wrote,
“We must be ashamed as Sinhalese because what took place was a moral crime.
We are ashamed as Sinhalese for the moral crime other Sinhalese committed.
We must not only acknowledge the shame. We must also make our apology to
those Tamils…”
In a more private way, I tendered my apology. When the full horror of what
happened in that week of shame, dawned on me, I sat up one night and wrote a
long letter. In the morning I gave it to my wife – “This is an apology from a
Sinhalese to a Tamil”. I left for work.
When I returned she said, “I have read it. What do you want me to do with it?” I
said, “If the apology is accepted, you can throw it away”. She said she would
keep it. It was this which was later expanded, and published, with a Foreword
from that doyen of Australian Tamils, Sri Lanka’s most brilliant mathematician,
Professor C.J. Eliezer who was the Dean of the Faculty of Science in Colombo
where my wife and I were students in the 1950s.
In the expanded version Sri Lanka. The July 1983 massacre. Unanswered
questions, I held President Jayawardene and his murderous Ministers
responsible for a carefully planned and executed massacre of Tamils and the
total destruction of their economic base, which had nothing to do with the
ambush of 13 Sinhalese soldiers in the North.
I believed then, and even more so now, that unless the Sinhalese apologise to
the Tamils for the outrageous violation of their basic human rights over the past
50 years, there will be no peace, and certainly no peace with friendship,
between the ethnic groups in Sri Lanka – divided or undivided.
It has to be a genuine apology – not the bogus apology of my cousin, the former
President, Chandrika Kumaratunga, or using her political name, Chandrika
Bandaranaike Kumaratunga.. At a meeting to mark the 21st Anniversary of the
1983 pogrom, she declared, “Every citizen in this country should collectively
accept the blame and make an apology to the tens of thousands who suffered. I
would like to assign to myself that task on behalf of the State of Sri Lanka, the
government, and on behalf of all of us,all citizens of Sri Lanka to extend that
apology.”
As I said in my earlier publication, that is not an apology, it is political clap-
trap.“Every citizen” (that includes the Tamils – unless, of course, she considers
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Tamils to be non-citizens ) is not to blame for the 1983 pogrom.


J.R.Jayawardene and his anti-3 Tamil Ministers were to blame.“Every citizen”
is not to blame for the wholesale massacre of Tamils that occurred in Jaffna in
1995. She, Chandrika Kumaratunga, President, Minister of Defence and
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, is to blame. Had she the courage
and integrity, she would have apologised to the Tamil people in the North for
what she did to them. The blame for the massacres of Tamils does not rest on
“every citizen” but on two elite families – of S.W.R.D Bandaranaike (his wife
and daughter), and of J.R.Jayawardene and his cronies. To this can now be
added another, more murderous than both of the others, President Rajapakse’s
and their supporters among the ranks of the so-called Marxists, and the ‘crazed
gentlemen’ clad in yellow robes.
Tracking down the criminals Nazi war criminals have been hunted down and
punished (irrespective of their age), 50 years after their crimes. There is no
reason that those responsible for the Sri Lankan crime in July 1983, should not
be hunted down and brought to justice. Many of those who were responsible,
J.R.Jayawardene and his hoodlum Minister Cyril Matthew, and his colleagues,
and their thugs, are either dead or not traceable. Others with blood-drenched
hands are very much alive and readily accessible. One is Elle Gunawanse Thero.
This yellow-robed hoodlum played a crucial role in the events of July 1983.. He
was the monk who whipped up the emotions of the crowd that had collected in
the Kanatte cemetery to bury the soldiers, and later fanned out to set fire to
Colombo in general, Tamil homes and businesses in particular.
He then led a mob down Cotta road, Borella, armed with a list of innocent
Tamils (obtained from the electoral office) who were to be wiped out. He was
later seen at the Cinnamon Gardens police station, with a pistol visibly tucked in
his yellow robe, demanding curfew passes. He was the man in the passenger
seat of a lorry (I had the photograph), with hoodlums armed with petrol and
kerosene, directing them to the Tamil homes to be burnt.
Where is he now? Exactly where he was then – opposite the BMICH on
Buller’s road (now Bauddaloka mawatte). That was crown property where he,
like many other monks, had illegally squatted, building a small structure. With
strong ties with Gamini Dissanayake, Minister for the Mahaveli, this small
structure was replaced by an impressive one, with State funds and
acknowledged his benefactor, calling it “Mahaveli Maha Seya”. It was from
here that the detailed pogrom of the Tamils was meticulously planned and
executed.
And now? On 15 January 2003, this virulently racist monk, launched the
“Organisation to Protect the Motherland” (OPM), to oppose the talks between
Ranil Wickremasinghe, then the Prime Minister, and the LTTE, for a federal
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settlement. He claimed that the North and East which had been merged under
Emergency Regulations in 1987, should be de-merged as the ‘Emergency’ had
lapsed with the peace accord signed by Wickremasinghe and the LTTE. On 1
October 2003, Elle Gunawanse launched the National Patriotic Movement,
accusing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe of trying to divide the country.
What stops his arrest and trial? Nothing, other than the lack of will of the
political establishment to do so. There he is in all his glory, right in the middle
of Colombo,with his heavily blood-soaked yellow robes and none will dare
touch him.
There are others with a case to answer. There is one, in particular, a Minister in
Jayawardene’s government, who has much to explain. Let us call him “Minister
X” There were 72 Tamil political detainees in the Welikada prison in Colombo,
held there without charge or trial. On 25 July 1983. 35 of them were massacred
by Sinhalese prisoners in the jail. President Jayawardene, in a rare act of
responsibility, wanted the rest of the Tamil detainees to be immediately sent to
Jaffna prison. However, Minister Lalith Athulathmudali and ‘Minister X’,
opposed this saying that the Sinhalese would become further infuriated over
such a decision. It was obvious that Athulathmudali and ‘Minister X ‘ did not
want the prisoners taken away to safety. Surprise! Surprise! A day later (27 July)
there was a second prison massacre, and another 18 slaughtered. Of the original
72 Tamil detainees, only 19 were left.
The Sinhalese would now not be ‘infuriated’, since the job was ¾ done. Who
was Minister “X”? Find it out for yourself. There’s a bit of home-work for you.
Action
In January 2008, I was invited to New Zealand to address a special prayer
session in the Elim Church, Auckland. Rev Prince Devanathan, a soft-spoken
Tamil priest conducting the service said, “We have been praying and praying
for Peace for more than 20 years. But the more we pray, the further we get
distanced from Peace. That is the reality”. He then came out with the finest
words I have heard for years – “Prayer without action is dead” I’d say the same
about an apology. An apology without action is dead. It is this ‘action’ that I
have been trying to deliver in the past two and a half decades. The same holds
for protests. To protest, to hold a vigil, to remember the July 1983 massacre is
fine. But protests without action is dead.
I urge you to act. To free the Tamil people to live with dignity, and safety in
their area of historical habitation – the North and East. I urge you to act; to act
to save the Tamil people from the Genocide, started in July 1983, and now
progressing at analarming rate. Like the Welikada prison massacre, it is ¾ done.
Act now. Tomorrow may be too late for the Tamils in the North and East of the
‘Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka’, as it likes to call itself."
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7. His activities as a black and grey propagandist


8. His track record as an agent provocateur.
9. The way the "Black July" massacre/pogrom/riot has been used by Brian
Senewiratne and the LTTE propaganda machine, year after year, repeating his
original claims.
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BRIAN SENEWIRATNE COLLECTING WAR PORN


I just confronted my father with collecting war porn.
I rang my parents’ home, where my father, Brian Senewiratne, has just returned
after being been awarded the second "Nelson Mandela Memorial Prize" by the
TGTE in Toronto, Canada. The first time it was awarded (last year) it was given
to the South African lawyer Yasmin Sooka, who Brian Senewiratne quotes
extensively in his propaganda. He has also urged the employment of Sooka by
the TGTE in a YouTube presentation he posted on his own YouTube channel in
2015.
I addressed my father before he could hang up the phone:
"I remember now. You were collecting atrocity photos on your computer during
the war."
"Oh, bugger off". he grunted and hung up the phone.

This was the second time I have rung my parents' house this morning. The first
time I asked "Hello Amma?" and my father, who had picked up the phone but
not answered it shouted to my mother, Kamalini:
"Camel, it's that bugger again. Do you want to speak to him?"
My mother came to the phone and I told her I wanted to discuss Winston
Panchacharam's book (titled Genocide in Sri Lanka) that my father made a big
show of "presenting" to Professor Ramu Manivannan at the TGTE's awards
night on Saturday 15 April. I watched it on the internet and was shocked by
what I saw. Since then, things have been falling into place and I realised that my
father has been collecting "war porn", short for "war pornography".
I saw some of his collection of photos when I accessed one of his computers in
2007, but didn't look at them in detail. They were graphic and disturbing photos
of dead people and I wasn't interested in looking at them. I had been asked to
use the computer to access my mother's emails for her, and didn't realise the
significance of the photos. Now I do.

I asked my mother yesterday to ask my father, who refused to speak to me on


the phone (or in person) about Winston Panchacharam's book after watching
him explaining that he had all five copies of the book in existence and was
"presenting" them, whenever he himself received "awards" from the TGTE to
the TGTE's inner circle - namely Usha Sri Skandarajah and Visuvanathan
Rudrakumaran, who he describes as "close friends" of his. They are also among
the last remaining supporters of the LTTE.

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My mother said she had "heard of" Panchacharam but pretended not to know
anything about the book that her husband had made a show of presenting to
Manivannan on Saturday. She is lying to protect him and I told her so. I told her
he had claimed on Saturday to have met Nelson Mandela, which she and I know
to be one of his many lies. "Maybe he did, I don't know". She does. She knows
that if he met Nelson Mandela he would have been boasting about it, rather than
boasting about meeting Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

I am sorry to people of Sri Lanka and also the Tamil community in Canada and
around the world for my father's behaviour, and not realising the full extent of
his crimes earlier. I am still discovering more and will keep you posted.
I have also contacted Ramu Manivannan, Usha Sri Skandarajah and
Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran asking that the copies of Dr Panchacharam's book
Brian Senewiratne gave them be forwarded to the University of Colombo, the
Peradeniya University and University of Jaffna for forensic study, which I am
prepared to be involved in.

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Regarding Dr Winston Panchacharam's book

I would like to know how Dr Winston Panchacharam died, who his doctors
were and what sort of fatal disease he had. I would also like to know the source
of the photos in the book and how it was that Brian Senewiratne had all 5 copies,
if the book was intended for world leaders to act with urgency to save the Tamil
people from genocide. The text is likely to be disinformation if it is based on
what Brian Senewiratne told Panchacharam, but the photos are important
forensic evidence regarding the war in Sri Lanka.
It is outrageous and very suspicious that Brian Senewiratne has acquired control
of this material (the atrocity photos in the book) and is keeping it within his
close circle within the LTTE-supporting TGTE. I believe that it should be in the
hands of Sri Lankan police and forensics experts, and is important evidence
regarding war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Tamil Tigers.
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Brian Senewiratne, the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) and Dr


Panchacharam’s Book

On 15 May 2018 my father, Brian Senewiratne, was awarded the second


ever “Nelson Mandela Memorial Award” by the leadership of the bogus
Transnational ‘Government’ of Tamil Eelam (TGTE). The TGTE is a front
for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), better known as the
Tamil Tiger terrorist organization.
The award is the brainchild of Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran who
assumes the title of “Prime Minister” of the TGTE and was previously
one of the USA-based lawyers for the LTTE. The other was Karen
Parker, an American woman who calls herself a “humanitarian lawyer”
but acted as the legal adviser to the terrorist organization since the
1980s. Brian Senewiratne has described both Karen Parker and
Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran as “close friends”.

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Two years ago Rudrakumaran awarded his friend Brian with a “Lifetime
Achievement Award” for which he travelled to the USA. He was awarded
a plaque signed by Rudrakumaran praising him for his “life-long
commitment and invaluable and dedicated contribution rendered to the
Eelam Tamil Nation in educating the Sinhala Nation and the international
community – in furthering the cause of human rights, human dignity,
gender justice and of the liberation of Tamil Eelam”. In return Brian
Senewiratne “awarded” Usha Sriskandarajah, who presented the TGTE
award back, with a copy of Winston Panchacharam’s book, titled
“Genocide in Sri Lanka”. He told Sriskandarajah that it was one of only
three copies of the book in existence.

Last year Rudrakumaran thought of making the most of President


Mandela’s name, fame and reputation and awarded the inaugural
“Nelson Mandela Memorial Award” to the South African Tamil lawyer
Yasmin Sooka. Sooka had criticised the Sri Lankan government of war
crimes and crimes against humanity in the so-called Darusman Report,
of which she was one of three authors. Later she wrote a report from her
own organization detailing reports of torture and sexual violations by Sri
Lankan Tamil asylum seekers in Britain, who had been captured during
and after the war. She admits in the report that these reports may have
been compromised by desire to prove persecution in support of their
asylum claims. This is the source of the information about alleged rape
and sexual violence in Sri Lanka that Brian Senewiratne has repeated,
misrepresented and further exaggerated in a self-published propaganda
book that he took with him to Canada. He claimed, for example that the
reports were from Tamils who had returned to the island and then been
tortured and sexually abused, which he knows to be false. The book
quotes Yasmin Sooka’s report selecting the most disturbing details, and
twisting what she has written to allege that there is an “epidemic of rape
by the armed forces” in northern Sri Lanka.

Last weekend, in his “acceptance speech”, he promoted what he called


the “second edition” of his book, shouting to the Tamil Canadian
audience that while they were sitting down to dinner Tamil girls are being
raped in Kilinochchi (the LTTE’s previous “capital”, a small town in the
north of Sri Lanka). He claimed that it was for these raped women that
he had “produced” the book.

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He printed a few copies of this book after failing to find even an


unreputable publisher for it. The “first edition”, 130 pages long, was self-
published in 2014. Since then he has had it reprinted with minor
variations, including changes in the title and cover. He gets them printed
by his local printer Bosco Ng in small runs of 5-10 books. After he
received his “award” from his friend and biggest fan, Usha
Sriskandarajah, Brian Senewiratne used his “acceptance speech” to
promote his “12 DVDs” to the obvious dismay of the frowning MC, who
had asked the awardees to be brief in their speeches since they were
running late and it was already past 9.30 pm. He said that the DVDs
were free and invited the audience to contact him in the “next day or two”
and tell him if they want “1,2,3,4,5 or the whole ruddy lot”. He stressed
that he was not trying to make a “fast buck”, and the videos were free
(previously he complained that he wasn’t being paid enough for them
and that the Tamils were “the stingiest race on earth”). He then
brandished his book (which he has been flogging with updated versions
since 2014) alleging an epidemic of rape by the armed forces and urging
that the United Nations invoke the R2P provisions and send troops to Sri
Lanka to stop “ongoing genocide of the Tamils of the North and East”.

Brian Senewiratne makes things up, always to glorify himself. He is an


egotist. In his acceptance speech he claimed to have met Mandela (he
actually met Desmond Tutu in 2008, in a lobbying trip arranged by the
LTTE that also took him to Canada). In the speech he claims, falsely,
that he met Mandela himself and that the South African legend had
arranged for him to go to Robben Island to see the conditions he was
kept for 25 years in. This is a blatant lie as is his claim that he told
Mandela “The thing that is remarkable about you is that you are not
bitter” to which Mandela replied “If I was bitter I wouldn’t be Nelson
Mandela”.
Brian Senewiratne is a very bitter man. He is bitter about many things,
but especially so about the Sri Lankan Armed Forces and their political
leadership for defeating “his side” is the war in Sri Lanka. His side was
his own personal aggrandisement and money for the poisonous
propaganda he produced from his home in Brisbane, Australia. This
propaganda demonised his own race, the Singhalese and the Buddhist
clergy in particular as well as the Sri Lankan political and military
leadership. Brian Senewiratne calls himself a “Christian” but never reads
the bible or go to church. He claims that he prays while he’s in the toilet
and closed the door, quoting a passage from the Bible to justify this
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bizarre practice (to pray in ones “closet” rather than make a show of
public prayer).

The cardinal principles of Christianity include honesty, humility, sincerity,


truth, charity, kindness and forgiveness, but my father is a dishonest,
insincere liar who has held grudges all his life and an expert in character
assassination. He is cruel, spiteful and malicious towards those that he
doesn’t like and he dislikes anyone who opposes him. Jesus of Nazareth
had harsh words for hypocrites, and my father is a glaringly hypocritical
individual. He shouts about “human rights” in public but violates them at
home and in secret. He is also an egotist who is ruthlessly manipulative
and Machiavellian.

This short documentary is about my father’s relationship with the truth


and the mystery of Winston Panchacaram’s book, titled “Genocide in Sri
Lanka” and published by Panchacharam and unknown others at the now
non-existent International Tamil Center in New York. In 2011 Brian
Senewiratne boasted to an audience at a small human rights seminar in
Darwin, Australia (James Cook University) that the book had just been
published and that he had all the copies. He made a big show of
presenting a copy of Panchacharam’s book to the university and drew
attention to the last page which contains the rhetorical question, “IF
THIS IS NOT GENOCIDE, THEN WHAT IT?” in large red and yellow
capital letters on a stark black background. It is primitive propaganda,
but Brian Senewiratne is unaware of how obvious it is
.
Brian Senewiratne he said he had all 5 copies of this book, but it was no
longer available. He then explained where each of the five copies is
destined – to Usha Sri Skandarajah (who he claimed is the greatest
Tamil writer alive today, to brief applause from a couple of people);
Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran (boss of the TGTE); Professor Ramu
Manivannan of Madras University (who wrote another book alleging
genocide of Tamils called Hiding the Elephant); the Jaffna Library and –
this was his applause-seeker – the last copy to be put in his bank and
presented after his death to the “Library of Tamil Eelam when it is built in
Kilinochchi”. He stressed that he said “when and not if”, and received the
applause he was seeking, but it was very muted compared to the
hysterical reception he received from the Canadian Tamils when he was
the star attraction at the Tamil Pongu ceelebration in Toronto in 2008.

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Winston Panchacharam’s Book

On November 21, 2016 Usha Sriskandarajah, who presented the “award”


to my father, wrote, on the death of Winston Panchacharam:
“Author of ‘Genocide in Sri Lanka’ passes away. Today I was saddened
to hear of the demise of Dr Winston Panchacharam, President,
International Tamil Center – USA, the driving force behind the limited
edition book: ‘Genocide in Sri Lanka’, a pictorial and coffee table book,
made for private circulation, published especially for global leaders, “to
act quickly and follow through to protect the dying Tamil Race in Sri
Lanka.” Although I have never met Dr Panchacharam, I had the good
fortune of receiving from Dr. Brian Senewiratne – one of three books left
in his possession. After presenting one to me – wow – of the two copies
that he has remaining, Dr Senewiratne said he will be donating one to
the Jaffna Library and the other to the Tamil Eelam Library!”

She published, on her Facebook page, a photo of Brian Senewiratne’s


dedication to her with “with sheer admiration and gratitude from Brian”,
and a photo of him “awarding her” (on 15.5.2016) with one of his
remaining three copies of the book (On 21 November 2016) drawing
attention to Rudrakumaran applauding. However YouTube reveals that
in November 2011 he donated a copy of the book, along with 10 of his
propaganda DVDs to the James Cook University in Darwin, where he
had been invited to give a talk on “Who’s Afraid of Human Rights”.

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Eelaventhan, who is another geriatric TGTE boss (he’s 86, the same
age as Brian Senewiratne), wrote an obituary for Winston
Panchacharam on 20th November 2016, published on the Tamil
Sangam website, in which he wrote, in bad English:
“Besides he authored the book titled “GENOCIDE IN SRI LANKA” that
contains 185 pages published in the year 2010. For the point of view of
many readers the contents of the book was a masterpiece. This will be
cherished for generations to follow. In his introductory note he
addressing “ Your excellencies-Global leaders for the protection of the
vulnerable and those oppressed people by genocidal act. In his appeal
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for the global public opinion, Tamil Diaspora, and the dying race of
Tamils in Sri Lanka. He further states that the global leaders must act
quickly, and follow through, to protect the dying Tamil race in Sri Lanka.
He rightly says that “Justice delayed is Justice buried” . He further adds
that neglect of timely violence prevention is a sad legacy that has led to
genocide in several countries; from the holocaust to the massacres in
Uganda and Sudan. Millions of life has been lost. He continues in a very
appealing tone that “ smoldering genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka that
started insidiously over half a century ago culminated in several
coordinated massacres before , during and after the civil war.”
I would like to know how Winston Panchacharam died, who his doctors
were and what sort of fatal disease he had. I would also like to know the
source of the photos in the book and how it was that Brian Senewiratne
had all 5 copies, if the book was intended for world leaders to act with
urgency to save the Tamil people from genocide. The text is likely to be
disinformation if it is based on what Brian Senewiratne told
Panchacharam, but the photos are important forensic evidence
regarding the war in Sri Lanka. It is outrageous and very suspicious that
Brian Senewiratne has acquired control of this material (the atrocity
photos in the book) and is keeping it within his close circle within the
LTTE-supporting TGTE. I believe that it should be in the hands of Sri
Lankan police and forensics experts, and is important evidence
regarding war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Tamil Tigers.

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CRIMES BY THE LTTE AND TGTE·

I have added to my list of LTTE (Tamil Tiger) crimes:


The LTTE is responsible for crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Their crimes include:
1. Murder of Mayor Alfred Duraiappah (1975)
2. Murder of numerous Tamil political leaders including Amirthalingam and
Lakshman Kadirgamar (1975-2006)
3. Murder of Dr Rajini Thirinagama (1990)
4. 'Ethnic cleansing' of Muslims in Jaffna
5. Targeting and massacring Sinhalese civilians in villages, buses and trains
6. Bombing the Central Bank in Colombo
7. Bombing the Sri Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Tooth) in Kandy
8. Attacking a Buddhist shrine in Anuradhapura killing several child monks
9. Using Tamil civilians as a "human shield" in 1995 and again in 2008 and
2009
10. Torture of dissidents against LTTE rule
11. Neglect of the education, health and other needs of Tamil civilians under
their rule
12. Black and grey propaganda
13. Extortion of the expatriate Tamils
14. Persecuting opponents of the LTTE in many countries, including Australia
15. Brainwashing Tamil youth into militarism and suicide
16. Bank robberies
17. Credit card fraud
18. Gang warfare (against other Tamil youth gangs)
19. Starting a war against a Sovereign Nation (which is a war crime)
20. Conscripting child soldiers
21, Abducting children and making them fight
22. Programming youth to commit suicide with cyanide
23. Programming suicide bombers
24. Developing new suicide bomber technology ("suicide vests")
25. Drug smuggling
26. People smuggling
27. Murder of President Ranasinghe Premadasa and numerous other Sri Lankan
politicians
28. Murder of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
29. Kidnapping
30. Execution of prisoners of war
and other crimes...

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The TGTE, which still flies the LTTE flag and glorifies this criminal
organization, should be held accountable.
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Pls tell this to Hon.Mangala Samaraveera , We were and still working against
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AN INSULT TO PRESIDENT MANDELA


Tonight Usha Sriskandarajah gave my father, Brian Senewiratne, the
TGTE's "President Nelson Mandela Memorial Award" in Canada. This is
a bad joke.
The video of the event is unintentionally darkly comical but it's also
infuriating for someone who knows the facts about Brian Senewiratne's
violations of human rights and role in the war in Sri Lanka. He has been
awarded the TGTE's bogus "President Nelson Mandela Memorial
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Award" for "educating" about "justice, equality, peace and reconciliation"


by fellow TGTE 'senator' Usha Sriskandarajah at the TGTE's "Annual
Dinner and Award Night". They are despicably trying to exploit the
deserved fame and name of the iconic African leader. They had booked
out the Metropolitan Convention Centre in Scarborough (Toronto), but it
was a small crowd that talked through the awards, despite Usha
Sriskandarajah pleading for silence in respect for the man to be awarded.

Usha waxed lyrical about Brian Senewiratne's achievements as a


"scholar", "physician" and fearless human rights advocate. She repeated
the personal myth he has carefully created over the years by repeating
them in his writings, speeches and DVDs. These include that he is of
Singhalese ethnicity, though she didn't mention that he can't understand
Singhala and never bothered to learn Tamil, despite being married to a
bilingual Tamil woman (my mother) for 60 years. He has described my
mother, for laughs, as his "personal slave". This was written in TamilNet
some years ago when he was explaining why he was slow to mail out
the DVDs he had promised to the expatriate Tamil community. He said
that he was tardy because the only help he had to copy and mail out the
propaganda DVDs was his "personal slave", his wife. He is so
chauvinistic that he thought this would amuse his readers. It's not funny.

Brian Senewiratne took the opportunity to promote his propaganda


DVDs and books, promising a new book in one to two months, which I
have already read and commented about. He also boasted about
meeting Mandela himself, claiming that the President of South Africa
"arranged" for him to go to Robben Island to see the conditions under
which he was imprisoned for 25 years. He claims that he told President
Mandela:
"The most remarkable thing about you is that you are not bitter"
He claims that President Mandela replied:
"If I was bitter, I wouldn't be Nelson Mandela"
My father is a very bitter man. He is bitter about many things, including
not being made a professor in Sri Lanka and the defeat of his side in the
war.
I don't think my father ever met President Mandela, in fact I'm pretty sure
he didn't, though he tried to. The LTTE had planned for him to meet
Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu in 2008 encouraged by Tutu's
publicised statement that one man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter,
but he only got an hour with Tutu, which he has been boasting about
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ever since. His anecdote about Archbishop Tutu has changed with the
retelling, with him claiming that Tutu described the phenomenon of a
Sinhalese campaigning for the Tamils as
"amazing"/"wonderful"/"remarkable" and him replying, that "it is not a
Sinhalese issue or a Tamil issue but a human rights issue that should
arouse the concern of everyone who calls themselves a human being"
(again with minor variations). He implies that he is more ethical than
Tutu and tonight my father has compared himself with President Nelson
Mandela, with the claim that the difference between them is that he
hasn't been in jail for 25 years. He said not a word about Nelson
Mandela's achievements, other than that he was not bitter (which Brian
Senewiratne most certainly is).

After he received his "award" from his friend and biggest fan, Usha
Sriskandarajah, my father used his "acceptance speech" to promote his
"12 DVDs" which he said were for free and invited the audience to
contact him in the next day or two and tell him if they want "1,2,3,4,5 or
the whole bloody lot". He stressed that he was not trying to make a "fast
buck", and the videos were free (previously he complained that he
wasn't being paid enough for them and that the Tamils were "the
stingiest race on earth"). He then brandished his book (which he has
been flogging with updated versions since 2014) alleging an epidemic of
rape by the armed forces and urging that the United Nations invoke the
R2P provisions and send troops to Sri Lanka to stop "ongoing genocide
of the Tamils of the North and East".

To support his allegation of genocide he showed the last page of a book


that he has previously claimed to have all the copies of, that was written
by Winston Panchacharam who he says died a couple of months ago
(he died in November 2016 – 16 months ago. This page was an obvious
piece of propaganda - a black page with large yellow and red letters
asking "IF THIS IS NOT GENOCIDE, WHAT IS IT?"
Brian Senewiratne is much captivated by this page and has shown in to
the camera in his videos that he has posted on his YouTube channel.
Tonight he showed the page to his audience and said that he provided
"most of the discussion on Sri Lanka" and Panchacharam wrote the rest.
I have not seen the contents of the book but, from what Usha
Sriskandarajah has said, it contains lots of photos, presumably atrocity
photos provided by the LTTE.

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Brian Senewiratne he said he had all 5 copies of this book, but it was no
longer available. He then explained where each of the five copies is
destined - to Usha Sriskandarajah (who he claimed is the greatest Tamil
writer alive today, to scattered applause); Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran
(boss of the TGTE); Ramu Manivannan who wrote another book alleging
genocide of Tamils; the Jaffna Library and - this was his applause-
seeker - the last copy to be put in his bank and presented after his death
to the "Library of Tamil Eelam when it is built in Kilinochchi". He stressed
that he said "when and not if", and received the applause he was
seeking, but only a bit compared to the old days.

On November 21, 2016 Usha Sriskandarajah, who presented the


"award" to my father in 2016 and introduced him grandiloquently last
weekend wrote, on the death of Winston Panchacharam:
"Author of 'Genocide in Sri Lanka' passes away. Today I was saddened
to hear of the demise of Dr Winston Panchacharam, President,
International Tamil Center - USA, the driving force behind the limited
edition book: 'Genocide in Sri Lanka', a pictorial and coffee table book,
made for private circulation, published especially for global leaders, "to
act quickly and follow through to protect the dying Tamil Race in Sri
Lanka." Although I have never met Dr Panchacharam, I had the good
fortune of receiving from Dr. Brian Senewiratne - one of three books left
in his possession. After presenting one to me - wow - of the two copies
that he has remaining, Dr Senewiratne said he will be donating one to
the Jaffna Library and the other to the Tamil Eelam Library!"
She published, on her Facebook page, a photo of Brian Senewiratne's
dedication to her with "with sheer admiration and gratitude from Brian",
and a photo of him "awarding her" (on 15.5.2016) with one of only three
copies he then said he had of the book (On 21 November 2016).
However, he previously "donated" a copy of the book to the James Cook
University in Darwin, where he had been invited to give a talk on "Who's
Afraid of Human Rights". This was in November 2011, five years before
Dr Panchacharam’s death.
Eelaventhan, who is another TGTE boss wrote an obituary for Winston
Panchacharam on 20th November 2016, published on the Tamil
Sangam website, in which he wrote, in bad English:
"Besides he authored the book titled “GENOCIDE IN SRI LANKA” that
contains 185 pages published in the year 2010. For the point of view of
many readers the contents of the book was a masterpiece. This will be
cherished for generations to follow. In his introductory note he
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addressing “ Your excellencies-Global leaders for the protection of the


vulnerable and those oppressed people by genocidal act. In his appeal
for the global public opinion, Tamil Diaspora, and the dying race of
Tamils in Sri Lanka. He further states that the global leaders must act
quickly, and follow through, to protect the dying Tamil race in Sri Lanka.
He rightly says that “Justice delayed is Justice buried” . He further adds
that neglect of timely violence prevention is a sad legacy that has led to
genocide in several countries; from the holocaust to the massacres in
Uganda and Sudan. Millions of life has been lost. He continues in a very
appealing tone that “ smoldering genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka that
started insidiously over half a century ago culminated in several
coordinated massacres before , during and after the civil war."

I would like to know how Winston Panchacharam died, who his doctors
were and what sort of fatal disease he had. I would also like to know the
source of the photos in the book and how it was that Brian Senewiratne
had all 5 copies, if the book was intended for world leaders to act with
urgency to save the Tamil people from genocide. Of course, the only
genocide in Sri Lanka was that carried out by the LTTE.

At this time of celebration of the shared New Year of Singhalese and


Tamil people, Brian Senewiratne says that his DVDs (which he is
handing out for free now) are to "educate" the Tamil youth, who "don't
even know where the hell Jaffna is, let alone what is happening there"
and "what the fight is all about". Someone has to tell him that the fight is
over. His propaganda DVDs are divisive and full of malicious, wanton
lies. The timing of this 'award' was deliberate, but this is a day for
reconciliation and celebrating our shared Sri Lankan culture, not fighting.
And what an insult to Nelson Mandela!

“Brian Senewiratne’s Poisonous Propaganda”


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0vox1whHk4&t=1527s
“Investigating Brian Senewiratne, the LTTE and Dr Panchacharam’s Book”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUI4BAV7AQs

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Two years ago, in a comprehensive article, ‘Sri Lanka’s Week of Shame - July 1983
massacre – long-term consequences”, I dealt with this blot on Sri Lanka which set
the stage for the division of Sri Lanka. This is still on the web
(www.tamilcanadian.com/pageview.php?ID=4260&SID=145)
(www.org/taraki/articles/2006/07-28_Consequences.php?uid=1866)
(www.tamilnation.org/form/brian/060723blackjuly.htm)
This year I will simply offer the Tamil people an Apology for what was done to them
in 1983, and even more so, for the increasing violations of their basic human rights
in the quarter of a century that has followed.

I did not slit Tamil throats or pull out the intravenous drips and throw out Tamil
patients from hospital, But there is a collective guilt, a collective shame,, when
members of one’s ethnic group behave like savages. The only ‘crime’ that the victims
had committed was to be born Tamil. For the first time in my life, I felt ashamed to
call myself a Sinhalese. An entire ethnic group was shamed by the behaviour of
Sinhala goons led by their masters in Dictator J.R.Jayawardene’s government, and
hoodlums in yellow robes who were desecrating the Buddha, one of the greatest
teachers of Peace the world has ever known. (My mother was a devout Buddhist and
her father a teacher of Buddhism and the author of books on Buddhism).
Some 3,000 Tamil civilians died that week and their homes and property burnt. Many
more would have died had it not been for courageous Sinhalese, ordinary decent
Sinhalese, who risked life, limb and property to hide Tamils and save them from
certain death. Thank God for some decent Sinhalese. I have no doubt that some of
them tendered an apology to the devastated and petrified Tamils, but the best
apology was the shelter they provided at considerable risk to themselves.
The news
I was already in Australia when the massacre occurred. All I could do was to watch
the horror on television. I watched with disbelief and disgust, that a country which
calls itself “Buddhist”, had scores of absolute barbarians, both inside and outside
Government.

I had a call from London. It was from one of the finest Sri Lankans, a Sinhalese, I
have ever met – Rt Rev Lakshman Wickremasinghe, the Bishop of Kurunegala, The
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ailing Bishop was in London but said he was returning home at once to be with his
(and my) people, the Tamil people. He did; I wish I had the courage to do the same.
I have regretted it ever since.
He visited the numerous refugee camps all over the island to comfort the devastated
people, as Christ would probably have done. He visited a refugee camp in
Akkarayan, Jaffna, with Dr Luther Jeyasingham and a close friend of mine, the
irreplaceable Kandiah Kandasamy of the Movement for Interracial Justice and
Equality (MIRJE). After talking with the refugees he was discovered crying in a 2
room. When asked, he replied that from his conversations he had found that his
family had been closely linked with the violence. (The Bishop was the uncle of Ranil
Wickremasinghe, a Minister in Jayawardene’s government at that time and a later
Prime Minister, and a kinsman of J.R.Jayawardene, the President). The Bishop died
on 23 October 1983, a broken man. He never recovered from that trauma.
Sri Lanka has produced two saints – Bishop Lakshman Wickremasinghe (a
Sinhalese
in the South) and Bishop Bastiampillai Deogupillai (a Tamil in the North).
When Bishop Lakshman called me from London, I said that we, the Sinhalsese had
to
apologise to the Tamils. He said he would and he did. I apologised to my Tamil wife.
The apology
In his final Pastoral Letter “A cry from the Heart” (15 November 1983) before his
untimely death, this is what he wrote,
“We must be ashamed as Sinhalese because what took place was a moral crime.
We
are ashamed as Sinhalese for the moral crime other Sinhalese committed. We must
not only acknowledge the shame. We must also make our apology to those Tamils…”
In a more private way, I tendered my apology. When the full horror of what
happened in that week of shame, dawned on me, I sat up one night and wrote a long
letter. In the morning I gave it to my wife – “This is an apology from a Sinhalese to a
Tamil”. I left for work. When I returned she said, “I have read it. What do you want
me to do with it?” I said, “If the apology is accepted, you can throw it away”. She
said she would keep it. It was this which was later expanded, and published, with a
Foreword from that doyen of Australian Tamils, Sri Lanka’s most brilliant
mathematician, Professor C.J. Eliezer who was the Dean of the Faculty of Science in
Colombo where my wife and I were students in the 1950s. In the expanded version
Sri Lanka. The July 1983 massacre. Unanswered questions, I held President
Jayawardene and his murderous Ministers responsible for a carefully planned and
executed massacre of Tamils and the total destruction of their economic base, which
had nothing to do with the ambush of 13 Sinhalese soldiers in the North.

I believed then, and even more so now, that unless the Sinhalese apologise to the
Tamils for the outrageous violation of their basic human rights over the past 50
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years, there will be no peace, and certainly no peace with friendship, between the
ethnic groups in Sri Lanka – divided or undivided.
It has to be a genuine apology – not the bogus apology of my cousin, the former
President, Chandrika Kumaratunga, or using her political name, Chandrika
Bandaranaike Kumaratunga.. At a meeting to mark the 21st Anniversary of the 1983
pogrom, she declared,
“Every citizen in this country should collectively accept the blame and make an
apology to the tens of thousands who suffered. I would like to assign to myself that
task on behalf of the State of Sri Lanka, the government, and on behalf of all of us,
all citizens of Sri Lanka to extend that apology.”
As I said in my earlier publication, that is not an apology, it is political clap-trap.
“Every citizen” (that includes the Tamils – unless, of course, she considers Tamils to
be non-citizens ) is not to blame for the 1983 pogrom. J.R.Jayawardene and his anti-
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Tamil Ministers were to blame.
“Every citizen” is not to blame for the wholesale massacre of Tamils that occurred in
Jaffna in 1995. She, Chandrika Kumaratunga, President, Minister of Defence and
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, is to blame. Had she the courage and
integrity, she would have apologised to the Tamil people in the North for what she
did to them.
The blame for the massacres of Tamils does not rest on “every citizen” but on two
elite families – of S.W.R.D Bandaranaike (his wife and daughter), and of
J.R.Jayawardene and his cronies. To this can now be added another, more
murderous than both of the others, President Rajapakse’s and their supporters
among the ranks of the so-called Marxists, and the ‘crazed gentlemen’ clad in yellow
robes.
Tracking down the criminals
Nazi war criminals have been hunted down and punished (irrespective of their age),
50 years after their crimes. There is no reason that those responsible for the Sri
Lankan crime in July 1983, should not be hunted down and brought to justice.
Many of those who were responsible, J.R.Jayawardene and his hoodlum Minister
Cyril
Matthew, and his colleagues, and their thugs, are either dead or not traceable.
Others with blood-drenched hands are very much alive and readily accessible. One
is
Elle Gunawanse Thero.
hoodlum played a crucial role in the events of July 1983.. He was
the monk who whipped up the emotions of the crowd that had collected in the
Kanatte cemetery to bury the soldiers, and later fanned out to set fire to Colombo in
general, Tamil homes and businesses in particular.
He then led a mob down Cotta road, Borella, armed with a list of innocent Tamils
(obtained from the electoral office) who were to be wiped out. He was later seen at
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the Cinnamon Gardens police station, with a pistol visibly tucked in his yellow robe,
demanding curfew passes. He was the man in the passenger seat of a lorry (I had
the photograph), with hoodlums armed with petrol and kerosene, directing them to
the Tamil homes to be burnt.

Where is he now? Exactly where he was then – opposite the BMICH on Buller’s road
(now Bauddaloka mawatte). That was crown property where he, like many other
monks, had illegally squatted, building a small structure. With strong ties with
Gamini Dissanayake, Minister for the Mahaveli, this small structure was replaced by
an impressive one, with State funds and acknowledged his benefactor, calling it
“Mahaveli Maha Seya”. It was from here that the detailed pogrom of the Tamils was
meticulously planned and executed.

And now? On 15 January 2003, this virulently racist monk, launched the
“Organisation to Protect the Motherland” (OPM), to oppose the talks between Ranil
Wickremasinghe, then the Prime Minister, and the LTTE, for a federal settlement. He
claimed that the North and East which had been merged under Emergency
Regulations in 1987, should be de-merged as the ‘Emergency’ had lapsed with the
peace accord signed by Wickremasinghe and the LTTE.4
On 1 October 2003, Elle Gunawanse launched the National Patriotic Movement,
accusing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe of trying to divide the country.
What stops his arrest and trial? Nothing, other than the lack of will of the political
establishment to do so. There he is in all his glory, right in the middle of Colombo,
with his heavily blood-soaked yellow robes and none will dare touch him.

There are others with a case to answer. There is one, in particular, a Minister in
Jayawardene’s government, who has much to explain. Let us call him “Minister X”
There were 72 Tamil political detainees in the Welikada prison in Colombo, held
there without charge or trial. On 25 July 1983. 35 of them were massacred by
Sinhalese prisoners in the jail. President Jayawardene, in a rare act of responsibility,
wanted the rest of the Tamil detainees to be immediately sent to Jaffna prison.
However, Minister Lalith Athulathmudali and ‘Minister X’, opposed this saying that
the Sinhalese would become further infuriated over such a decision. It was obvious
that Athulathmudali and ‘Minister X ‘ did not want the prisoners taken away to
safety. Surprise! Surprise! A day later (27 July) there was a second prison massacre,
and another 18 slaughtered. Of the original 72 Tamil detainees, only 19 were left.
The Sinhalese would now not be ‘infuriated’, since the job was ¾ done.
Who was Minister “X”? Find it out for yourself. There’s a bit of home-work for you.

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In January 2008, I was invited to New Zealand to address a special prayer session in
the Elim Church, Auckland. Rev Prince Devanathan, a soft-spoken Tamil priest
conducting the service said, “We have been praying and praying for Peace for more
than 20 years. But the more we pray, the further we get distanced from Peace. That
is the reality”. He then came out with the finest words I have heard for years –
“Prayer without action is dead”
I’d say the same about an apology. An apology without action is dead. It is this
‘action’ that I have been trying to deliver in the past two and a half decades.
The same holds for protests. To protest, to hold a vigil, to remember the July 1983
massacre is fine. But protests without action is dead.

I urge you to act. To free the Tamil people to live with dignity, and safety in their
area of historical habitation – the North and East. I urge you to act; to act to save
the Tamil people from the Genocide, started in July 1983, and now progressing at an
alarming rate. Like the Welikada prison massacre, it is ¾ done. Act now. Tomorrow
may be too late for the Tamils in the North and East of the ‘Democratic Socialist
Republic of Sri Lanka’, as it likes to call itself.

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Minister (Nimal Vinayagamoorthy)

Hi Nimal

Thanks for the photo.

I wanted to ask what you thought of the self-published book my father gave you.

I'm also trying to find out how he came to be in possession of all 5 copies of
Winston Panchacharam's book.

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The book contains important photographic evidence, which needs to be


forensically examined.

I recommend that Usha, Rudrakumaran and Professor Manivannan forward the


books to Sri Lanka - specifically to the University of Colombo, the University
of Jaffna and the University of Peradeniya.

The books need to be analysed properly and I am concerned that my father is


trying to conceal evidence of his own war crimes. I have detailed some of these
on the HUB Forensics page:

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I would like to know how Winston Panchacharam died, who his doctors were
and what sort of fatal disease he had. I would also like to know the source of the
photos in the book and how it was that Brian Senewiratne had all 5 copies, if the
book was intended for world leaders to act with urgency to save the Tamil
people from genocide. The text is likely to be disinformation if it is based on
what Brian Senewiratne told Panchacharam, but the photos are important
forensic evidence regarding the war in Sri Lanka. It is outrageous and very
suspicious that Brian Senewiratne has acquired control of this material (the
atrocity photos in the book) and is keeping it within his close circle within the
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LTTE-supporting TGTE. I believe that it should be in the hands of Sri Lankan


police and forensics experts, and is important evidence regarding war crimes
and crimes against humanity by the Tamil Tigers.

2:16PM

Hi Nimal

i have long held suspicions that my father, Brian Senewiratne, was responsible
for the 'Black July' events in Sri Lanka. This suspicion is based on several
factors. 1. Before 1983 he was complaining about 'Colombo 7 Tamils' and
"sleeping Tamils" who were not interested in involving themselves in his
separatist war. 2. The research work he did in Sri Lanka from 1969 to 1975
when he ran a British-funded (by the Nuffiield Foundation) laboratory adjacent
to "his" ward at the Kandy Hospital. Details have been published over the past 2
years on the Holistic University of Jaffna and HUB Forensics Facebook pages.
3. The fact that he left Sri Lanka in 1976 (the beginning of the war) and only
returned once - a brief visit in 1983 immediately before the violence erupted. 4.
His first self-published "book" that launched his career as a propagandist for the
LTTE was titled "The July 1983 Massacre - Unanswered Questions" (which had
a foreword by one of the adademic bosses of the LTTE, Professor C Eliezer in
Melbourne) 5. His history as a supporter of violence by the JVP while he was at
the Peradeniya University and access to guns (he was a "shooter") 6. This article
on his own "blog", written in 2003, and published on the "Brian Senewiratne
pages" blog (which is maintained by the LTTE in London) - I have published
the piece in full on my page.

HI Nimal

I also wanted to knwo how much Brian Senewiratne and Usha Sriskandarajah
are paid to act as senators for the TGTE. I believe you are the 'finance minister'
of this organization

Hopefully you will be the next senator

Not with Rudrakumaran in charge. I am against division of Sri Lanka, and


always have been.

My father got me locked up and tortured for my views.

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My solution is trilingualism and multilingualism throughout the educational


system.

Bring a best solution without division of sri Lankan for Tamils I will support

Good. I will work on that over the next few days.

Remove the sinhala army from Tamil area. Reverse the colonization the I am
ready to find the solution with in the srilanka

What about encouraging more Tamil youths to join the Sri Lankan Armed
Forces and police and encourage patriotism for Sri Lanka, rather than be
divided by race? An identity of Sri Lankan Canadians, as well as Tamil
Canadians implies patriotism to Canada. This should be encouraged in Sri
Lankan Tamil youth in Canada. There is a difference between Sri Lankan
Australians, Tamil Australians (many of whom are Indian) and Australian
Tamils (who regard themselves as Tamil first and Australian second). I see
myself as a Sri Lankan Australian (though I was born in England) and have
lived in Australia since I was a child. I regard myself as having both Singhalese
and Tamil ancestry and heritage. I also regard Sri Lanka - all of Sri Lanka - as
my 'homeland'. My mother tongue, though, is English.

I think that the first step in "truth and reconciliation" needs to be truth and
honesty.

There is la lot that needs to be done for Tamil people and culture in Sri Lanka,
but it is better to work with the government than against it. I am learning Tamil
and Singhala myself - at the age of 57. It's never too late to start. (I did learn
some Singhala as a child, but had forgotten it, and my mother never taught me
Tamil, though she knew the language).

I have read that the British name for Lanka, 'Ceylon' was taken from the
Chinese word for the island, translated as 'Zeylan' by the Dutch. In the
Ramayana it is called "Lanka" without the honorific "Sri".

The British hated the new name because they can't say the sound "Shri". A lot
of Anglicised Tamils also resented the name and I too was affected by it to
some degree. I was used to identifying my self as a "Ceylonese", and it took me
some years to accept the identity of "Sri Lankan" rather than "Ceylonese".

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I didn't know that the Tamil political leadership objected to the car number
plates having the Singhala letter "shri" on them in 1972. I liked it, and think
they were being silly. I love all the Singhala letters for their rounded, organic
shapes and Tamil letters for their refined aesthetic and elegance. Both scripts
should be taught to all the children in Sri Lanka, and the TGTE could help with
this. Multilingualism is the enemy of the monolingual British and the best way
of countering divide and rule policies and strategies I can think of.

https://www.facebook.com/holisticuniversityofjaffna/

https://www.facebook.com/holisticuniversityofjaffna/

https://www.facebook.com/HolisticUniversityNetwork/

Id like support from the TGTE for the Holistic University of Jaffna (HUJ) and the Holistic
University Network (HUN).

I am also prepared to act as an educational consultant for your organization. But


not a "senator"!

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