{"id":83006,"date":"2018-11-10T00:20:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T06:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=83006"},"modified":"2018-11-09T17:07:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T00:07:52","slug":"sri-lanka-needs-to-cancel-the-19th-amendment-to-the-constitution-and-include-an-anti-discrimination-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/11\/10\/sri-lanka-needs-to-cancel-the-19th-amendment-to-the-constitution-and-include-an-anti-discrimination-clause\/","title":{"rendered":"SRI LANKA NEEDS TO CANCEL THE 19TH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION AND INCLUDE AN ANTI DISCRIMINATION CLAUSE"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Current political crisis in Sri Lanka clearly indicates that 19th<\/sup> amendment to the constitution has led to a political crisis and it is baffled to take decisions. After the approval of the amendment, many issues emerged in relation to all segments of the state. According to the constitutional provisions, it is quite difficult to amend the various clauses of the constitution as it needs two third majority of the members of the parliament or an approval from a referendum. The writers of the 19th<\/sup> amendment is silent when problem arose.\u00a0 It also seems that there are no people to take responsibility to the amendment.<\/p>\n

In this situation, it is obvious from the current crisis that political parties need to take fresh mandate from the public at the next election to thoroughly review the constitution and to introduce a new constitution with other promises.\u00a0 Under the yahapalana Regime of 2015 promised to introduce new constitution, it has not happened. The effort was a waste of government resources.\u00a0 Political parties must educate public that with this confused amendment the country cannot be governed and cannot achieve the wishes of people.<\/p>\n

The other important thing is that there should be a wider debate over the contents of the constitution with the participation of the public because the contents of the constitution impact on different people of the society.\u00a0 The implied meaning of the clauses need be explained clearly.\u00a0 In this way it would be a strategy to reduce possible mistakes and constitutional crisis in the future.<\/p>\n

The recent statement of Mr Muralitharan also vital to concentrate as more than 75% of population of Sri Lanka are Sinhala Buddhists and any contents of the constitution must not go against the rights of Sinhala Buddhists while safeguarding the rights of Non-Buddhists and secular people.\u00a0 People of Sri Lanka needs understanding that religious people cannot discriminate secular people and secular people also cannot discriminate religious people.\u00a0 The same principle must be applied to sexuality too. The reality in Sri Lanka is that people in one sexuality attempts to discriminate people in other sexuality and the behaviour of religious and secular people also seems to be similar.\u00a0 The best option is to include an ani-discrimination clause using the right wording.<\/p>\n

People are subject to do mistakes.\u00a0 There are many problems in the world in relation to misconduct of sexual behaviour and many kids are suffered by these types of misbehaviour.\u00a0 In the same way it is needed to understand that without a sexual behaviour, human living of this world might be ceased to exist. Therefore, sexual behaviour, religions, people are important to existence of the country.\u00a0 The constitution needs to recognized that people have rights as well as responsibilities.<\/p>\n

Too much concentration on this type of issues in Sri Lanka reflects the stupidity of many people. On the other hand, many young people seem to be using religious, secular or sexual behaviour as a life style.\u00a0 The behaviour of a person is a dynamic factor that is influenced by the environment, which has a good cultural design, which means that the society of the country has rules and regulations to control the human behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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