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In the News (Tue 14 Feb 12)

  
  The Jathika Hela Urumaya: A Political Party And A Movement
By citing the Sihala Urumaya to be promoting terrorism, these irresponsible American organizations and their informants, the racist Tamil terrorists and their local and foreign henchmen, have stooped to the lowest levels possible to disrepute a chivalrous and wholesome movement.
The primary goal of the Bhikkhus who courageously came forward as the Jathika Hela Urumaya was to defeat the stooges of the racist terrorists who are hell-bent on the division of the country on racist grounds.
The monks in the forefront of the Jathika Hela Urumaya are well aware of the fact that the field of politics in Sri Lanka is not a right place for Buddhist monks as it has been corrupted by selfishness, fraud, bribery and corruption.
www.lankaeverything.com /vinews/politics/20060512125528.php   (4133 words)

  
  Jathika Hela Urumaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Jathika Hela Urumaya (often approximated in English as National Heritage Party) is a political party in Sri Lanka which is led by Buddhist monks.
The JHU was launched in February, 2004 by the lay-based, secular Sinhala nationalist political party Sihala Urumaya.
Jathika Hela Urumaya successfully appealed the supreme court to cut President Chandrika Kumaratunga's term short.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jaathika_Hela_Urumaya   (636 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Jathika Hela Urumaya
It was launched in February, 2004 by the lay-based, Sinhala nationalist political party Sinhala Urumaya.
The Jathika Hela Urumaya its first parliamentary elections on April 2, 2004, which were Sri Lanka's most recent elections.
Interview with leading members of the Jathika Hela Urumaya.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Jathika_Hela_Urumaya   (250 words)

  
 Jathika Hela Urumaya Profile - JHU
JHU monk`s Oh what a tangled web they are trapped in
MR FEEDING STARCHY, CHUNKY, STALE AND BANANA FLAVORED PUNNAKU TO JVP, JHU AND HIS VOTERS.
JHU compared with KuKlux and other extreme racist organisations in the world.
www.lankanewspapers.com /news/profiles/jhu.jsp   (141 words)

  
 Sri Lanka: the JHU-Rajapakse deal and the reactionary role of Buddhist supremacism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The JHU was formed prior to last year’s general election by transforming the existing right-wing Sihala Urumaya (SU) into a political vehicle for a section of the Buddhist hierarchy.
The JHU speaks for elements of the state apparatus, the armed forces and business whose interests are bound up with the maintenance of the continuing dominance of the Sinhala ruling elites over their Tamil and Muslim counterparts.
The JHU was in the forefront of the vicious communal campaign against the agreement under which the LTTE and government agreed to temporarily work together to distribute tsunami aid.
www.wsws.org /articles/2005/sep2005/sril-s21_prn.shtml   (2001 words)

  
 OneWorld South Asia Home / In depth / Human rights / Religion - Sri Lanka's Newly Elected Monks in Parliamentary Storm
When the results were announced, government members of Parliament started hooting and shouting at the JHU monks, and when one of them began congratulating the new speaker, ruling party members hurled files and books at him.
In another instance of violence, six supporters of the JHU were brutally attacked in the suburbs of Colombo while they were pasting posters for a party conference.
Ever since the JHU entered the political fray in February, it has been targeted by the JVP because it is eating into the latter's vote bank.
southasia.oneworld.net /article/view/84897/1/69   (1957 words)

  
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The JHU is presently trying to get around the legal complications of sacking the two renegade monks at the earliest opportunity.
The JHU claims the JVP is leading efforts to intimidate the monks using "terror" tactics, for which the JVP is well known in the past.
The JHU is the brainchild of a small, far-right group of Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalists known as the Sinhala Urumaya (Sinhala Heritage).
www.tamilcanadian.com /tools/print.php?id=2357   (670 words)

  
 hela - The HelpFox tells all he knows about hela.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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It has been estimated that the total mass of HeLa cells today far exceeds that of the rest of Henrietta Lacks' body.
hela.helpfox.com /?t=hela   (430 words)

  
 Open Doors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The JHU signed a deal with Rajapakse last week promising electoral support in return for a more aggressive approach to negotiations with the LTTE, a rebel group that has fought for an independent Tamil homeland since 1983.
If the JHU bill had been presented on June 8, opponents would have had only seven days to present their objections to the Supreme Court.
The JHU bill was tabled on July 21, giving opponents just seven days to formally present their concerns to the Supreme Court.
www.opendoors.org.za /newsarchivesrilanka.htm   (5994 words)

  
 21 Questions & Answers concerning the decision of Buddhist Monks to contest Parliamentary Elections
Moving away from traditional politics, the objective of JHU is to work towards safeguarding the Buddha Doctrine and consequently establish a Bauddha Rajjya.
All members of JHU be it the priests or lay have solemnly pledged to refrain from using provocative jargon against any party or candidate.
The JHU and its monks look at the minorities in a broad sense with ahimsa as means of conflict resolution.
www.shamika.50g.com /paramithaperahara/articles/21q.html   (2479 words)

  
 Amarasara - JHU News
A JHU delegation met Indian High Commissioner Alok Prasad at his office yesterday to brief him on the present situation of the ethnic conflict and highlight the need to maintain the longstanding goodwill between the two countries.
The Jathika Hela Urumaya yesterday charged that the JVP and certain Marxist groups were trying to create a chaotic situation in the plantation sector by insisting on a Rs.300 daily wage for estate workers.
JHU media secretary Nishantha Sri Warnasinghe told the Daily Mirror that since the LTTE had agreed to discuss the core issues the government had to start negotiations on certain conditions, the government should set up a proper agenda and a time frame.
www.amarasara.info /jhu-news/default.asp   (587 words)

  
 An exchange over the nature of the JHU in Sri Lanka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
JHU was formed just prior to last year’s general elections by Sihala Urumaya (SU), and a section of the Jathika Sangha Sammelanaya (JSS) or National Bikkhu Congress.
The JHU launched a campaign on December 2 demanding that the event be cancelled on the spurious grounds that it coincided with the anniversary of the death of Gangodawila Soma.
No JHU member or leader has been charged or convicted of murder, which is why for the sake of strict accuracy we have deleted “and murder” from the phrase “the JVP and JHU both have a record of violence and murder”.
www.wsws.org /articles/2005/jun2005/sril-j07_prn.shtml   (1216 words)

  
 Sangam.org - Ilankai Tamil Sangam, USA, Inc. - Sri Lanka Scene
Strengthening the Tamil Bargaining Position
The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), formerly the Sihala Urumaya, which was the first political party to file nomination papers in the Jaffna district, fielded Sinhala Buddhist priests.
The decision of the JHU to nominate the Buddhist priests to contest the election in all the 22 electoral districts of the country has generated an intense debate about its morality.
Uduwe Dhammaloka Thera, General Secretary of the Jathika Hela Urumaya, told the Buddhist Conference on Sunday their main task is to clean up the country of the vices such as corruption, indiscipline, alcoholism, violence.
www.sangam.org /articles/view?id=224   (1799 words)

  
 LankaWeb News
It is not only garment factories that Jathika Hela Urumaya is against; they want to stop people going to the Middle East where about 1 million are employed.
The same Island report continues _Part of the Jathika Hela Urumaya_s back-to-basics approach includes discouraging Sri Lankan women from going to the Middle East to work as housemaids.
He said that Hela Urumaya wants to reverse this trend of industrialization to agriculture.
www.lankaweb.com /news/items04/310304-2.html   (574 words)

  
 Sri Lanka Political News | Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse Newspapers
As pointed out by The Jathika Hela Urumaya, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (the SLFP) has breached the mandate given to it by the public for what is envisaged in the Mahinda Chinthana in 2005 as with these proposals.
The General Secretary of Jathika Hela Urumaya Dr. Omalpe Sobhitha Thera said that the proposals of the SLFP had violated the people's mandate for preserving a unitary State in as much they had breached the Dalada Consensus, reached between the President and the Jathika Hela Urumaya.
The Urumaya said in a press release that Jathika Hela Urumaya, as a party that is committed to preserve the country's unitary State and the longevity of the Buddhasasana by sacrifice of their own lives, can no way agree with the SLFP proposals in principle.
www.dailynews.lk /2007/05/08/pol03.asp   (256 words)

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