{"id":120436,"date":"2021-11-19T16:28:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T23:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120436"},"modified":"2021-11-19T16:28:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T23:28:28","slug":"combining-anti-discrimination-laws-in-the-proposed-new-constitution-as-a-successful-solution-to-ethnic-and-religious-problems-in-sri-lanka-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/19\/combining-anti-discrimination-laws-in-the-proposed-new-constitution-as-a-successful-solution-to-ethnic-and-religious-problems-in-sri-lanka-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"COMBINING ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS IN THE PROPOSED NEW CONSTITUTION AS A SUCCESSFUL SOLUTION TO ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS IN SRI LANKA PART 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

By EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

When\nanalyzing Sri Lanka’s ethnic problem, nobody can ignore that the problem is\nfuelled by outside elements, which might be identified as Western forces\nincluding America, Britain, and others, however, Indian and Chinese\nintelligence services may involve with it because they have an interest using\nSri Lanka for political purposes, The Western forces want to use countries like\nSri Lanka and Myanmar to control Muslim expansion in Asia and finally making\nmarkets for their products and services these countries have a contribution and\nin history, it observed that creating problems in underdeveloped Asian\ncountries is a way of tactics used. India and America want to protest against\nChinese influence in the Indian sub-continent and the best strategy is to use\nthe inherent issues. It is a part of international politics than a real problem\nof ethnic and religious unity in Sri Lanka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding\nthe recorded Kandy incident between Sinhala and the Muslim community,  the emergency law and Police curfew highly\nsupported to control the situation, and the constitutional provisions that\nmaking illegal for discrimination would further support controlling ethnic-based\nviolence. However, America, India, and the UN may want to quickly remove such\nmeasures and ordinary people of Sri Lanka doubts whether these countries wanted\nto push the problem to a serious situation. The drafting constitution should consider\nthis situation with a positive approach.     \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To\nresolve the problem now, it is needed to forget the past and introduce\nanti-discrimination laws rather than a divisive new constitution. Under the\nanti-discrimination laws, each citizen in the country is equal irrespective of\nany ethnic and religious differences. Racial verification law in Australia\napplied to every citizen in the country and nobody can even talk about race.\nSri Lanka\u2019s situation is completely different, it is allowed discriminating\nminorities by words of mouth because the constitution does not indicate it is\nillegal. Why the government cannot stop this discriminatory environment by\nencouraging a strong united Sri Lanka without differences. For the minority to\naccept Sri Lanka\u2019s government action, it needs government decisions on ethnic\nissues, which are transparent to everybody. \nIf the government plays a double game with the issue, it would not be\nsuccessful. The drafted constitution should not allow the government to play double\ngames and the government should prosecute either Buddhist monks or any other religious\nclergy to prosecute if they discriminate against others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ngovernment needs to especially address religious leaders and tell them directly\nand sincerely that they are supposed to prepare people to achieve haven or\nnirvana rather than working against achieving it through preaching for\nhate.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lord\nBuddha clearly stated that hate will not be removed by hate, but not hating and\npromoting love will remove hate. In this situation what Western countries introduced\nanti-discrimination laws will be useful to Sri Lanka.  B. F. Skinner, a famous psychologist,\nexpressed that the concept of human nature and moral society through a cultural\ndesign are the foundations of human behaviour. \nSri Lanka\u2019s ethnic problem was created by human behaviour which has been\ninfluenced by the environment that is supporting to discriminatory feelings of\nthe minority. Human beings are both controllers and controlled. When the\ngovernment creates a suitable environment through a good cultural design,\nethnic and religious problems could be eliminated forever and ever. The\nconstitution must be an instrument creating good behaviour<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politicians\nin Sri Lanka are corrupt irrespective of whether they are in government or\nopposition, whether they are socialist or capitalists. Tamil politicians are\nmore corrupt than Sinhala politicians and they discriminate against their own\nTamils based on various factors such as caste, regions, family backgrounds,\neducated place, and many other factors using. Sinha and Muslim people use\neducated schools to discriminate against using educated schools.  I had experience in Sri Lanka when I was\nworking and writing in English they discriminated against me.  When I published articles in English they\ndiscriminated against me and a chief executive threatened to sack me from the\njob if I publish articles in the English language. When the current government\nwas elected soon it wanted to introduce anti-discrimination law but it was\nwithdrawn without giving any reasons.  It\nseems that the government does not want to solve the problem but wants to\ncontinue the problem like a beggar\u2019s wound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How\nto create a good society or good environment in the country without\ndiscriminatory elements, B.F Skinner indicated that a good society could be\ncreated by a cultural design, so the society should introduce laws, rules, and\nregulations. For this purpose, the constitution of the country should provide a\nfoundation.   Controls are essential to make people more\nsensitive to the consequences of human conduct. In Sri Lanka’s society, human\nbehaviour is too open regarding sensitive matters, such as religion, race,\ncaste, and many other things. Cultural design means rules, regulations, and\nprocedures in society. Sri Lanka needs to introduce anti-discrimination laws\nand a variety of rules and regulations like in Western society to control human\nbehaviour and eliminate discrimination feelings of minority ethnic and\nreligious groups in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The division of Sri Lanka\u2019s land, creating\nethnic-based provinces would not support change the human behaviour or\ndiscriminatory feelings of people.  Sri\nLanka\u2019s political parties are still not considered a cultural design for\nuniting the country. It has already experienced that so-called ethnic solution\nunder the provincial government, but it was not successful, it has created\nserious financial problems for the country increasing spending and creating a\nhuge budget deficit and pressure to spending process of the country.  So far, we can observe that ethnic solutions\ncoming from the West are too divisive and they have in mind that a federal\nsystem would be a solution to the problem but it is a mirage, a small country\nneeds a unitary administration system with well-designed laws, rules, and\nregulations.  If any ethnic solution\nwould be a long-term economic burden to the country, such solutions would need\nrejection because the economy is the fundamental base of existing all the\ncommunities of the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many\nWestern countries, India, and Tamil politicians do not talk about cultural\ndesign for uniting Sri Lankan communities. \nThey talk and support for dividing Sri Lanka for increasing hate and\nstrategies for extravagant problems in the future.  Leaders of Sri Lanka must have a base of thinking\nthat any solution, which is a challenge to the economic progress of the country\nthat should be rejected, and the unitary status of the country should be an\nessential condition because it would help successful implementation of economic\nprojects of the central government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By EDWARD THEOPHILUS When analyzing Sri Lanka’s ethnic problem, nobody can ignore that the problem is fuelled by outside elements, which might be identified as Western forces including America, Britain, and others, however, Indian and Chinese intelligence services may involve with it because they have an interest using Sri Lanka for political purposes, The Western […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}