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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Thursday, June 22, 2017
Sri Lanka: Deteriorating Within!
The President’s decision to reduce to half the number of Provincial Councillors is a fine decision as general public well understood that Provincial Council is nothing more than white elephants who eat the public resources for nothing. But, that is a needle attack on the shark in the ocean of deteriorated system.
( June 21, 2017, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) There
was well-spread speculation in Sri Lanka, that one of the
well-established Cabinet Ministers in the current government has
instigated the extremist group Bodu Bala Sena which group’s actions
opened a path to mayhem in Aluthgama, resulting in an internationalized
disgraceful event in recent past. The petty target of such horrendous
and slatternly actions was to bend Muslim vote bank in favour of that
minister. If this whole episode is correct then the picture on the
surface differs much from the reality in the system.
Like many other places, corrupted and insufficient establishments are
flooding with rotten and useless arguments about symptoms without even
touching the surface of the real disease most of the crises. The best
example was jejune roars by the Minster of Justice over the
controversial comment made by an attorney in a recent television talk.
Is that the major problem the country is facing?
The ending of the thirty years of blood sucking conflict has given a
fearless situation, where people were facilitated to breathe freely.
But, what are we seeing in little more than eight years after ending of
the conflict? Once we sucked blood out of each other while letting our
brothers and sisters to wet the soil with their life in premature
deaths. Now, we are allowing mosquitoes to do the same operation in a
different mode. Is this is proving that the administrative system in
this country is driven by conjecture? If yes, then what would be the
best solution?
There are arguments by various concerned citizens in the country on this
very issue! Many have their own take while some of them are dreaming,
advocating and waiting for leader like Rodrigo Duterte of the
Philippines to exercise the Sri Lankan version of Walking Death or to
have yet another Immortan Joe in Mad Max: Fury Road. In other words,
today many outspoken and politically motivated people are losing hope in
the current system where the dream of populism is strengthening and
sparking among the general public.
There is the vigilant point that we have missed when it comes to
resistances of social movements’ against existence. Most of those who
drive the moment to change the existing system narrowed their social
activities into personal gains or they have deliberately forgotten how
to manage the system once they won the battle. In other words; most of
them have ignored the post-change period.
Many talk against Trump; but who talks and plan on what after Trump?
Most talked against Rajapaksa, but a few people thought what after
Rajapaksa? The missing link of most resistance movements is the lack of
concrete plan once the mission is accomplished. This has given bitter
experiences to many societies. Sri Lanka is no exception.
The pain of the price is much deeper than our imagination! 200 people
died and another 63,000 plus people were infected with dengue alone
within first six months of the year. This shows the outworn system of
the country. Minister in charge of the subject irresponsibly says,
dengue is inevitable when the country is achieving development goals.
How many innocents are dying in ill-treatments either in public or
private services? How many innocents are dying in road accidents? The
list goes on and on and on.
What else do we need to declare the emergency situation to eliminate the
germs bugging the social systems? That will be the option to finding
the way to establish the healthy and easy access public services to the
people in this country.
However, the President’s decision to reduce to half the number of
Provincial Councillors is a fine decision as general public well
understood that Provincial Council is nothing more than white elephants
who eat the public resources for nothing. But, that is a needle attack
on the shark in the ocean of deteriorated system.
As a general saying goes; it is “better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”