Sinhala family in the South donates 1500 books to Jaffna library
Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma
Jaffna Library received another round of generous donation of 1500 books from new supporters, this time a Sinhala family in Nugegoda, Colombo. With sheer intention of quenching the thirst for knowledge of Jaffna students and other interested readers, a generous family in the south donated a volume of valuable books to the Jaffna Library recently.
The donation coordinated by the Security Forces Headquarters- Jaffna included 1500 books on various disciplines such as a set of encyclopedia, novels, famous story books for children and a rare collection of educational books. The latest donation by Mr. Vipula Wijeratne, Ms Nilmini Jayasinghe and Ms Menaka Jayasinghe of Nugegoda reached the Security Forces Headquarters- Jaffna as a response to the request.
On behalf of the Sri Lanka Army, Security Forces Headquarters- Jaffna, General Officer Commanding 51 Division Major General Janaka Walgama and Lieutenant Colonel Deeptha Ariyasena handed over the consignment to library authorities on Tuesday 09 July. Both the authority of the library and the Army expressed sincere thanks to the generous family for their book donation. The library authority also said “we are extremely grateful for this assistance. It is certainly a worthwhile cause”.
Donating books to a library is a worthwhile cause. Therefore the Sri Lanka Army have committed themselves to filling the shelves of the Jaffna library and requested the help of the general public to make this happen. Commander of the Security Forces- Jaffna, Major General Mahinda Hathurusinghe and staff officers of the Security Forces Headquarters – Jaffna have made requests from various persons and organizations in Sri Lanka and as well as in abroad to contribute to restore the Jaffna public library, once served as the oasis of knowledge to Jaffna intellectuals, in its former glory.
However after Security Forces Headquarters – Jaffna made the announcement of filling the shelves of the Jaffna library and donations for the refurbish of the buildings, the library literally receives hundreds of books every week from thoughtful individuals and organizations around the world.
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This Sinhalese lady from down South is misguided and generous to a fault. The diaspora Tamils are filthy rich and able to more than fill the Yalpanam new library shelves along with the help of Big Mama from TN.
Can I ask the Sinhalese down South to look after their own folk in the South and not help the ungrateful, extremist Tamils in the North and East? Having enjoyed the benefits of our generosity, the thuppai kallathonis dare to rise up against the Sinhalese to demand autonomy. If they do it again, then the final solution to the big Q is a kick up their backsides to Big Mama Land.
My dear Nicholas,
You made my day; positive comments from a comrade.
Suggest removing the “If they do it again……” caveat because they have already done it and show no signs of remorse.
Well done Nicholas; welcome aboard; a man of your stature and intellingence and experience will be a useful resource in pursuing the Kalla T Mass Expatriation Solution.
Nicholas, you are a champion.
Dear Guru
By ‘If they do it again..’ I meant renewed militancy and terrorism in our motherland, eelam 2, for autonomy.
Let Colombo be first liberated, now itself, from kallathoni extremist Tamils who have slowly and subtly migrated down South to the Capitol, in the guise of ‘refugees’. They did not flee from VP. So why should they be considered ‘refugees’? They have physically captured Colombo by ‘occupation’ over the last 30 years, on planned migration, while our Sinhalese moronic politicians were sitting idly-by, sleeping.
Isn’t it high time these buggers be kicked-out of Colombo back to Yalpanam or Baticaloa or upcountry, wherever they drifted from, on planned migration by the devious Tamil extremist politicos, to overun and inhabit/capture the capitol, Colombo? The so-called Muslim ‘refugees’ should also be re-patriated along with the Tamils to the North, East and Upcountry, as their loyalties are usually to the Tamil kallathoni extremists, and also they speak Tamil rather than Sinhala, the language of the majority.
By appointing a Muslim mayor in Colombo most of the time, he ensured over the past 30 years, that Tamils and Muslims fill-up Colombo, in mass immigration, in the guise of refugees. Now that Tamil terrorism has been totally irradicated, isn’t it high time that all these so-called Tamil and Muslim refugees be kicked back to North, East and Upcountry where they migrated from. We need the determination of a Dutugemunu who were intolerant of such devious tactics of the Tamils/Muslims.
Let us keep Colombo, the former capitol, ethnically pure Sinhalese, just as the Tamils/Muslims want to keep North, East and Upcountry ethnically pure Tamil/Muslim.
The next phase is to kick the lot of them out to Big Mama Land, as the Burmese government did in early 1960’s, with only the clothes they were wearing.
I believe that no body will burn these books again in the future.
Mohamed Shareef Asees