{"id":45924,"date":"2015-07-19T22:57:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T04:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=45924"},"modified":"2015-07-19T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T22:45:39","slug":"if-the-unp-wins-the-country-will-be-divided-and-elam-will-be-established","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/19\/if-the-unp-wins-the-country-will-be-divided-and-elam-will-be-established\/","title":{"rendered":"If the UNP wins, the country will be divided and Elam will be established."},"content":{"rendered":"

Daya M from Australia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

If you intend to vote for the UNP, please remember that the country will be divided and Elam will be established or a federal government will be established in the North and East.<\/p>\n

According to the Sunday Times, a Tamil National Alliance (TNA) member, Mr Adaikalanathan has said in a TV interview in England that:<\/p>\n

The TNA will be the deciding power in the next government.
\nWe will not support Mahinda Rajapaksa; but we will give conditional support to any other party that forms the next government.
\nWithdrawing the armed forces and finding a political solution based on a federal system will be two of the conditions for our support.\u201d<\/p>\n

Furthermore, we will urge the international community to conduct a referendum to divide this country into two. We will also be able to justify such a referendum. This is going to be the last chance. If our political problem is not solved and if the South deceives us again, we will have to go on our separate way from this country, with the help of the international community.\u201d<\/p>\n

To prevent the country being divided by the TNA and UNP, it is important for the UPFA to obtain a 2\/3rd<\/sup> majority in the next parliament and this can be done by including in its election manifesto the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Promise to amend the constitution to bring in a Bill of Rights which guarantees equal rights to every citizen of Sri Lanka irrespective of religion, race, caste or gender.<\/p>\n

Promise to bring in anti-discrimination legislation criminalising discrimination based on religion, race, caste or gender. Then the Tamil politicians can\u2019t cry discrimination and the UN, western countries and human rights advocates will become powerless to criticise Sri Lanka and think of carving out a separate state called Tamil Elam.<\/p>\n

Promise to get rid of the 13th<\/sup> amendment and abolish the Provincial Council system, which then becomes superfluous. <\/strong>Some people will say that Provincial Councillors are the foot soldiers of UPFA and it is not good to antagonise them. The best of them are contesting this election and the rest can get jobs in the District Development Councils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daya M from Australia If you intend to vote for the UNP, please remember that the country will be divided and Elam will be established or a federal government will be established in the North and East. According to the Sunday Times, a Tamil National Alliance (TNA) member, Mr Adaikalanathan has said in a TV […]<\/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-45924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45924","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=45924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}