A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Sunday, May 6, 2018
Be The Voice For Change – Read, Share & Sign The Petition
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything” ~ Bernard Shaw
I accidently bounced into this beautiful piece of writing that
symbolizes a desired end point during a passionate discussion with
persons claiming to be the nations change agents. Passions apart; the
discussion enabled me to dig out this document and surprisingly a well
choreographed piece of work- to put it in the correct perspective – by a
person by the name of Nirmalan Dhas;
whom I have never met or known except for some cursory exchanges at
common social media platforms. It gives a broad and holistic framework,
which our political masters and policy makers may refer and keep as a
bench mark if they believe in creating a nation for us and generations
to come.
Hence, I thought of sharing this with the learned readership to read and
share and if convinced, to sign the petition in the link at the end of
the text.
My Sri Lanka
(Composed by Nirmalan Dhas)
“Change
Sri Lanka from an authoritarian Sinhala Buddhist Majoritarian mono
ethno religious state that violently marginalizes its ethnic and
religious minorities with absolute impunity and colludes with
disappearances, torture, rape murder, harassment and widespread
corruption into a law governed multi ethnic multi religious liberal
democratic cosmopolitan state free of corruption and extra judicial
actions where right is might rather that might is right.
My Sri Lanka is not a Sinhala country or a Tamil country or an English country.
It
is not a Buddhist country or a Hindu country or a Muslim country or a
Christian country or a country belonging or dedicated to any one single
religion, or ethnicity.
My
Sri Lanka is not a Sinhala Buddhist country and belongs to Sinhala
Muslims, Sinhala Christians, Sinhala Hindus and Sinhala Buddhists and to
Tamil Muslims, Tamil Christians, Tamil Hindus and Tamil Buddhists and
to English Muslims, English Christians, English Hindus and English
Buddhists as well as to all other linguistic, religious and ideological
groups with their historical and cultural backgrounds who have become
citizens of the Sri Lankan State, and who are therefore known as all
over the world as “Sri Lankans”.
My
Sri Lanka will have a constitution that ensures that no person residing
on the territories of the state shall enjoy any more privileges than
those enjoyed by any other and that the constitution of the state
ensures, protects and defends this equality and prevents and punishes
any and all infringements or threats of infringement thereof.
My
Sri Lanka will ensure that no person is above the law and that waiver
of liability conferred on the president or any other official shall be
limited only to those actions performed in official capacity and
authorized by the parliament or other relevant authority which
authorizing authority shall then assume such liabilities.
My
Sri Lanka will generate a culture of welcoming cosmopolitan
inclusiveness and tolerance based on the rule of law and democratic
process and the doctrine of human rights as set out in the universal
declaration of human rights that rejects, prevents, prosecutes and
removes violence in all its forms, including kidnapping and illegal
detention, rape, torture, murder and disappearances and leads to the
rapid generation of an island wide movement against harassment,
kidnapping, rape, torture, disappearances, murder and all forms of
violence that will bring peace through the establishment of civilized
norms of conduct and governance that give freedom for each one and all
to pursue legitimate objectives.
My
Sri Lanka will oppose the ongoing culture of impunity by ensuring that
all acts of corruption claimed to amount to a staggering 25% of the
value of the island nations Gross Domestic Product as well as the extra
judicial killings that have been allowed to occur are investigated;
especially those of Raviraj, Lasantha, Prageeth, Thajudeen; and all
those responsible prosecuted and punished.
My
Sri Lanka will embrace top down economic development that finance rapid
bottom up growth and all round social support with the capital market
as its core economic driver, along with all concomitant economic
functions appropriate to an enrepôt that will finance the establishment
and servicing of resilient and sustainable social support and species
survival systems and supply chains (R7SC) and global processes of
environmental repair regeneration rehabilitation and development
(GPE3RD)
My
Sri Lanka will bring a quick differentiation between war heroes and war
criminals and the decoration and the celebration of all war heroes
along with the investigation prosecution and punishment of war
criminals.