Sunday, December 18, 2011

Makeup – Development In A Jackboot – Democracy


By Tisaranee Gunasekara    Saturday, December 17, 2011
“….an amoral clique of corrupt lawbreakers who are deaf both to their citizens and to their enemies”.
Avraham Burg (International Herald Tribune – 6.9.2003)

Facelift for farmers and their gunny bags? (Courtesy: www.blogs.redcross.org.uk)
The ‘plastic crates saga’ is a quintessentially Rajapaksa tale.
Arbitrariness is a hallmark of the ‘Johnston Law’, decreeing plastic crates mandatory in transporting vegetables and fruits. Amidst the furore over this inane law, Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa told its maker, Minister of Cooperation and Internal Trade Johnston Fernando, “if grass roots level stakeholders are involved a lot of problems can be avoided” (Daily Mirror, December 14, 2011).
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