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Rajapakse Ancestry

Sri Lanka Guardian September 16, 2013

 

(September 16, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Rajapaksa is a 'name' that the British Raj gave to people that did a good job in Negombo/ Seeduwa area, close to Katunayake.

 

The same way the British did, give fancy names to people in the Hill Country and South, that did a good job!

 

Rajapaksa is born Catholics of Malaccan origin (this explains the strong 'gob looking' Mongoloid phenotype features in all of them).

 

His father's name was Don Alwin Rajapaksa. His son (the President now) is Percy Mahinda. They 'converted' their Religious beliefs to gain political mileage.

 

This was no different to SWRD and JRJ, who were all from strict Christian backgrounds and converted to exhibit Sinhala Buddhist Extremism to gain Public Popularity. (Goes to show the basic insincerity and the manipulative methods used to gain power!)

 

The Rajapaksa family is now one of Sri Lanka's most powerful families in the land.

 

Led by President Mahinda Percy Rajapaksa, all his ‘Kith and kin' now occupy senior positions in the Sri Lankan state.

 

The family controls around 70% of the national budget.

 

The Rajapaksa family, originally from Seeduwa/ Negombo later migrated with their Malaccan Catholic ancestors to the villages of Sippukulam and Giruwapattuwa in the southern district of Hampanthottam (now known as Hambantota).

 

Their Malaccan relatives were banished by Islamic Rulers of Malacca for helping the Portuguese conquest of Malacca.

 

They were feared and known for their brutality and ruthlessness. ((nothing seems to have changed!)

 

The Malaccan family forcibly possessed fertile paddy fields and coconut lands belonging to natives, (nothing seems to have changed!) by enforcing their brutality through rape and murder. (nothing has changed!)

 

Some of the residuum of the Malaccan Catholic relatives remain in the Seeduwa/ Negombo area, such as the Lansa Family (no relation of Mario Lanza??!!) of Negombo who cousins of the Rajapaksa’s are.

 

Members of one section the of the Southern migrant Malaccan family's later converted to Islam to blend with the Muslims of Malay and Arab descent, in order to receive trade benefits and credit from Muslim traders who monopolized the southern trading ports of Galle and Hampanthottam (now known as Hambantota). (p.s. History repeats itself- this time, with the 'Chinks' as well??!!)

 

The others entered into Village politics.

 

One of its members- Don David Rajapaksa, held the feudal post of Vadamaratchi in Ithala Valikada Korale.

 

The family entered the political scene by first feigning their religious beliefs aligning more to the majority inhabitants beliefs of Theravada Buddhism!

 

Thereafter, Don David Rajapaksa's son Don Mathew Rajapaksa was elected in 1936 to represent Hambantota district in the State Council.

 

Don Mathew died in 1945 and at the resulting by-election his brother, Don Alwin Rajapaksa was elected without a contest. At the 1947 parliamentary election two members of the family were elected to represent both of the constituencies in Hambantota district.

 

Don Alwin Rajapaksa was elected MP for Belliatta and Lakshman Rajapaksa (Don Mathew's son) was elected MP for Hambantota.They yet maintained the subtlety of their staunch Catholic beliefs but appearing to be Buddhists on the outside!

 

The Rajapaksas continued to dominate politics in Hambantota district for next three decades with two other members of the family (George Rajapaksa and Mahinda Rajapaksa) also entering parliament.

 

The Rajapaksas were represented in the country's legislatures continuously from 1936 till 1977.

The family wasn't represented in parliament after the UNP landslide at the 1977 parliamentary election.

 

The Indo-Lanka Accord shed light on the Rajapaksa family to adopt a more headlined" Sinhala Buddhist" policy.

 

This helped the Rajapaksa family to re-emerge as the dominant political force, in Hambantota district, when Mahinda and his brother Chamal Rajapaksa were elected in 1989 to represent Hambantota Electoral District.

 

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[7:58 pm, 28/02/2021] Balanathan Kanthar: Thanks