{"id":78665,"date":"2018-06-22T17:20:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T00:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=78665"},"modified":"2018-06-22T17:20:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T00:20:47","slug":"sri-lanka-will-be-destroyed-violated-and-divided-into-two-nations-under-a-hitler-like-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/06\/22\/sri-lanka-will-be-destroyed-violated-and-divided-into-two-nations-under-a-hitler-like-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Will be Destroyed, Violated and Divided into Two Nations Under a Hitler-Like Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

By 1930s Germany was in utter desperation somewhat like Sri Lanka today. However, instead of overcoming its problems the right way, voters increasingly empowered the Nazi Party lead by Adolf Hitler. Within six years the country was in total ruin. US and Soviet soldiers rampaged the country in every way imaginable. Thereafter they shared the loot among themselves \u2013 the US taking West Germany and the SU taking East Germany. If Sri Lanka elects a similar character by any comparison, Sri Lanka\u2019s fate will be no different.<\/p>\n

There are strange elements that support a local Hitler arguing that it will lead to rapid development, promotion of national interests, renew national dignity and bring social discipline. They cannot be more wrong. Sri Lanka depends on the US and the EU for over than one half of its export income. Antagonizing these two will immediately ruin Sri Lanka\u2019s economy and pit the people againt the leaders. These two blocks (despite their own shortcomings) stand for democracy and human rights. Even the election of a Hitler-like leader will pit them against Sri Lanka. Tamil Eelamists will support a local Hitler as they know such a despot will pave the way for the division of the island nation.<\/p>\n

Sri Lankans are not a lazy lot. They are doing their very best under very difficult conditions. The nation, saddled deep in debt, has very limited economic potential. This can be fixed by increasing (not decreasing) tax. Increases in tax should not target the average family, but the ultra-rich tax evading cartels. However, both major political camps are their lapdogs. They are mere servants of these crooks. As such, there will be no improvement in state tax revenue and the debt crisis will only deepen. If US and EU export income is any way affected, Sri Lanka\u2019s assets will have to be auctioned, like it or not. Over-governance is another problem. Until the economic crisis is over, local government bodies and provincial councils must be scaled down.<\/p>\n

JR and Premadasa tried the violent approach to terrorize people and force them to work under bad economic conditions. It failed to achieve any economic improvement. Instead these policies gradually reduced the GDP growth rate until the LTTE did the nation a great favour in 1993. People received the news with jubilation. Authoritarianism has no history in Sri Lanka and it certainly has no future.<\/p>\n

Those who still support a Hitler-like leader must look at countries like Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Laos, Cambodia, Yemen, Zimbabwe and Burma. They suffer stagnant economies and people grab the first opportunity to leave these hell holes. No Sri Lankan living in the island wants to end up like this.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka needs law and order. The law must be implemented equally to all. It can be done if there\u2019s the political will. However, a Hitler-like leader cannot do so as he will protect his goons over others. Only a true democrat can bring about law and order and tap the freedom-driven intellectual potential of the knowledge economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dilrook Kannangara By 1930s Germany was in utter desperation somewhat like Sri Lanka today. However, instead of overcoming its problems the right way, voters increasingly empowered the Nazi Party lead by Adolf Hitler. Within six years the country was in total ruin. US and Soviet soldiers rampaged the country in every way imaginable. Thereafter they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78665","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=78665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}