{"id":40491,"date":"2015-01-01T09:10:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40491"},"modified":"2015-01-01T09:10:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:10:56","slug":"how-to-solve-the-tamil-problem-and-win-the-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/01\/how-to-solve-the-tamil-problem-and-win-the-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Solve the Tamil Problem and Win the Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Daya M, Australia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Tamils in Sri Lanka wielded disproportionate power, due to British colonial policies, until the late 1960s as they held most of the executive posts in Government Departments, Corporations and in the private sector. This power gradually diminished as SWRD Banaranayake\u2019s national language policy started kicking in. This loss of power and control over the majority race led them to cry discrimination and ask for a separate State or a Federal Government.<\/p>\n

This Tamil ethnic problem, as well as the Muslim problem, can be solved easily by adopting the following recommendations which, if promised to implement in the next term, will also ensure a resounding victory for President Rajapaksa at the coming election:<\/p>\n

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  • Bring in anti-discrimination legislation criminalising discrimination based on religion, race, caste or gender, where every citizen of Sri Lanka has equal rights. Australian anti-discrimination legislation can be copied and hence, western countries and human rights advocates will become powerless to criticise Sri Lanka (most high caste Tamils and some Tamil politicians will not like this).<\/li>\n
  • It would be important to appoint an independent and powerful commission to oversee this legislation.<\/li>\n
  • Get rid of the 13th<\/sup> amendment and abolish the Provincial Council system, which then becomes superfluous. (Indians may not like this and as such, may need good diplomacy to convince them that the Tamil problem has been solved and that the colossal waste and corruption due to provincial councils can be eliminated).<\/li>\n
  • With the money saved from abolishing the provincial councils higher salaries can be paid to public servants, including teachers.<\/li>\n
  • \u00a0Promise the voting public that a new constitution amendment will be enacted incorporating the anti-discrimination legislation and the best parts of the 17th<\/sup> and the 18th<\/sup> amendments while abolishing the 13th<\/sup> amendment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    If these recommendations are followed and forcefully communicated to the voters, President Rajapaksa will win the election. If not, from what I read and hear from my friends in Sri Lanka, there is a very good chance that the President will loose this election. He may not know the real situation as he is cocooned by some rogues and yes\u201d men. So, it is up to those people who really love him to convey this message to him. If he can promise to do these, he will win this election and be remembered as the best ruler Sri Lanka ever had after independence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    By Daya M, Australia Tamils in Sri Lanka wielded disproportionate power, due to British colonial policies, until the late 1960s as they held most of the executive posts in Government Departments, Corporations and in the private sector. This power gradually diminished as SWRD Banaranayake\u2019s national language policy started kicking in. This loss of power and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40491","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=40491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}