{"id":84228,"date":"2018-12-17T22:02:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T04:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=84228"},"modified":"2018-12-17T12:37:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T19:37:03","slug":"minority-politics-with-majority-citizens-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/12\/17\/minority-politics-with-majority-citizens-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"MINORITY POLITICS WITH MAJORITY CITIZENS IN SRI LANKA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Current political crisis in Sri Lanka clearly indicates that although Sinhala community is the majority citizens in Sri Lanka, minority groups are playing politics with them in the parliament. Although the Sinhala community is the majority of Population (Nearly 80%), they cannot discriminate the minority, who have equal human rights. The operation of politics in Sri Lanka through a democratic parliament has not made justice to minority through a strong anti-discrimination legislation with a view to ensuring human rights of them like in other countries.\u00a0 The purpose of Yahapalana government was to pass essential laws to eliminate discrimination to enable the minority to practice equal human rights, it was not happened during more than three and a half years of the yahapalana regime.<\/p>\n

As soon as the Yahapalana government elected in 2015, they submitted a bill to the parliament to legislate anti-discrimination practice in the country, the bill was withdrawn by the government without explaining the reasons to public. Many academics told me that the withdrawal of anti-discrimination bill was happened as Tamil parties wanted to do it because they will have no opportunities to discriminate their own people using caste dictions with the operation of anti-discrimination legislation.\u00a0 Why UNP the majority in the Yahapalan regime agreed with minority parties in the country when the universal human rights were going to legalise for minority practice? Could UNP Justify their behaviour?<\/p>\n

If this was openly happening in the country, so-called democratic advisors of the country as well as outside forces remained silent. The civil society activists were silent on this matter.\u00a0 It clearly seems that democratic advice and practice are cheating in the country than really respecting to the human rights.\u00a0 All religions practice in Sri Lanka recognize the equality of human and the requirement of human rights in the country. Playing politics using minority and respecting human rights are different matters.\u00a0 Lord Buddha clearly preached that nobody will be a noble person or lower caste person by birth, but actions of people would be the criterion determine to it.<\/p>\n

The real experience in Sri Lanka clearly indicates that minority political parties in Sri Lanka want to play politics for individual survival, specially to obtain various benefits through parliament privileges, but not to ensure the hopes of elected people of them to the parliament.<\/p>\n

The majority citizens or Sinhala community needs understanding that they cannot discriminate minority who have equal rights like them.\u00a0 If this matter openly works in Sri Lanka there wouldn\u2019t be an opportunity to outsiders to put hands on the matters of Sri Lanka and then it will be honest politics in the country based on economic issues and matters such as corruptions to be eliminated.<\/p>\n

One of the serious matters I observed in minority politics was that they never openly talk on major corruptions such as Central Bank Bond scam and others as minority people also involved in serious wrong doing.\u00a0 As human being majority as well, minority cannot do wrong things, it doesn\u2019t mean that because of the wrong doer is a person belong to minority community, he or she should be free.\u00a0 As a human being a person belong to a majority community or minority community the wrong doer is equally responsible for the criminal works.<\/p>\n

According to my experience in Sri Lanka, I worked in a major government bank in managerial level and conducted audit work with the World Banking consulting group and found that minority people involved in serious corruption work, which led to nearly insolvent the bank and the government had to recapitalize the bank making a serious pressure to the government budget process. The people involved in this corrupt practice were same people involved in Central Bank bond scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Current political crisis in Sri Lanka clearly indicates that although Sinhala community is the majority citizens in Sri Lanka, minority groups are playing politics with them in the parliament. Although the Sinhala community is the majority of Population (Nearly 80%), they cannot discriminate the minority, who have equal human rights. The operation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84228","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=84228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}