{"id":144520,"date":"2024-09-29T16:32:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T23:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=144520"},"modified":"2024-09-29T16:32:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T23:32:47","slug":"can-democracy-lean-to-the-left-still-succeed-with-corruption-give-the-rajapaksa-the-credit-where-credit-is-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/09\/29\/can-democracy-lean-to-the-left-still-succeed-with-corruption-give-the-rajapaksa-the-credit-where-credit-is-due\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Democracy Lean to the Left still Succeed with Corruption? Give the Rajapaksa the Credit where Credit is Due!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Prof. Hudson McLean<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Whatever mistakes the Rajapaksa brothers did during their tenure, one must agree and give Full Credit to Mahinda &amp; Gotabhaya for eliminating the Tamil Tiger Terrorism from the Island without forgetting General Fonseka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes the Corruption was rife and a few made millions whilst the poor became poorer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Right Wing leaning towards USA &amp; EU led by the Ranil Wickramasinghe tenure, did not make the matters any better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In my opinion, Sri Lanka as an ex.British colony perrhaps may follow the example set by Singapore which gained independence in&nbsp;<\/strong>9 August 1965 whilst Ceylon gained independence in&nbsp;February 4, 1948.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you look at Singapore and Sri Lanka, a blind can see the difference between the two Islands, which are pretty obvious. Both Islands were led by the British educated Prime Ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Will the new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake make a difference during his tenure can only start with the Elimination of Bribery &amp; Corruption, as done in Singapore.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Left or Right leaning but <strong>Remove the Corrupt Practices<\/strong> by setting examples of punishing the corrupt <strong>Politicians, Civil Servants, the Police, and Public Sector with Rigorous Prison Terms.&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Name &amp; Shame the Legally judged Corrupt Rich by getting them to clean the streets!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><u>Express Your Opinion &#8211; Read What Others Say!<br>The Independent Interactive Voice of Sri Lanka on the Internet.<br><br>Please visit -: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/\">http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/<\/a><\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Hudson McLean Whatever mistakes the Rajapaksa brothers did during their tenure, one must agree and give Full Credit to Mahinda &amp; Gotabhaya for eliminating the Tamil Tiger Terrorism from the Island without forgetting General Fonseka. Yes the Corruption was rife and a few made millions whilst the poor became poorer. The Right Wing leaning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hudson-mclean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144520","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=144520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}