{"id":62451,"date":"2017-01-17T00:39:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T06:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=62451"},"modified":"2017-01-16T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T23:03:10","slug":"twelve-prerequisites-for-sustainable-and-just-reconciliation-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/01\/17\/twelve-prerequisites-for-sustainable-and-just-reconciliation-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Prerequisites for sustainable and just reconciliation in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sudath Gunasekara <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

16.Jan 2017.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Strong Government at the centre headed by a patriotic Sinhala Buddhist leader elected by all the people of the country and a council of 15 Ministers with a Rajya Mantarana Sabbha of not more than 150 members elected on an electoral basis, with recalling powers vested with the people, run by Govt Departments and Gam Sabhas and Nagara Sabhas, so that we will have a country run by a set of non-political, independent professional public servants under the direction, control and supervision of the central Government, without leaving everything in the hands of politicians allowing them the monopoly of ruining this country as they have done for the past 68 years since 1948.<\/p>\n

2 Abolish the curse that is 13th<\/sup> Amendment and Provincial Councils along with the JR-Rajiv Accord of 1987 & Abolish the 9 Provinces set up by the British first, to\u00a0 divide and rule \u2018for their convenience\u2019 and second to ruin this country and the \u2018Sinahla Bauddha\u2019 nation. If necessary, the government can make use of the Tun Rata Divisions for administrative convenience, \u00a0as it had been here from 427 BC to 1833 AD.<\/p>\n

3 Declare this Country as the Sinhala Buddhist Country (as it had been for 2500 years before), a Unitary State and One Government with 25 Districts, Divisions, Korales and Village Councils with maximum decentralization of Administrative power (all minority groups should accept this position and learn the language of the land within 10 years and integrate with the native Sinhala nation. Those who cannot do so must go back to countries of their love and choice)<\/p>\n

4 Declare Buddhism as the State religion (as it had been before for 2500 years)<\/p>\n

5 Make Sinhala the Official Language of the State of Sinhale (as it had been before for 2500 years).<\/p>\n

6 Declare Nationality of this country as Sinhala meaning the people of Sinhale (as it had been before for 2500 years)<\/p>\n

7 Have one Law for all in the country and abolish Thesavalamei and Muslim Laws (as it had been before for 2500 years).<\/p>\n

8 Everybody within this country and outside must accept this as the Sinhala Buddhist country and the inalienable right of the Sinhala people to make above claims. Those who cannot do so must go back to their dream motherlands immediately without trying to carve out separate mini-homelands on someone else\u2019s country.<\/p>\n

9 Enact a Constitution based on history, traditions, religion customs and manners of this country. This should be done by local experts in Law, Administration, History, Politics and traditions etc and not as the Western nations or India want.<\/p>\n

10 A non-political National Advisory Council. \u00a0Should be set up to decide the national policies of the country<\/p>\n

11 A new constitution as enumerated in 10 above should be enacted within Six months.<\/p>\n

12 The government of this country should be based on the Dharmasokian concept of the State and it should be guided by Dasaraja Dharma and Satara Sangraka vastu with the ultimate objective of achieving the goal of the\u00a0 \u2018Righteous Rajya\u201d for the good of the many and the happiness of the many.<\/p>\n

A national movement of all patriotic forces of this country should be immediately set up like the Eksath Bhikshu Peramuna of 1956 and prepare a detailed policy outline and get the political leaders to one central place and offer this package at a public meeting at the Sri Dalada Mligava.<\/p>\n

The group that promises to implement it to the letter and accepts this programme before the Mahanayaka Theras of the Three Nikayas as it was the custom in the ancient days, should be supported at the General Election to form a new Government<\/p>\n

(Please see my Siyapanatha published in the Lankaweb for more details or Samakami Samurdimath Dharmika Desayak Sandaha, A publication by the Mahanuwara Sinhala Bauddha Jesta Puravesiyange Sanvidhanaya (2015) Published by Maduka Printers Ganemulla,\u00a0 Gampaha WP Sri Lanka. P 24-51. Or Contact\u00a0 Dr Sudath Gunasekara\u00a0 on 081 2232744 or by e-mail gunasekarasudath@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sudath Gunasekara 16.Jan 2017. 1. Strong Government at the centre headed by a patriotic Sinhala Buddhist leader elected by all the people of the country and a council of 15 Ministers with a Rajya Mantarana Sabbha of not more than 150 members elected on an electoral basis, with recalling powers vested with the people, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sudath-gunasekara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62451","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=62451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}