{"id":88365,"date":"2019-05-07T14:11:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T21:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88365"},"modified":"2019-05-07T14:11:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T21:11:27","slug":"possible-mass-non-compliance-in-sri-lanka-and-role-of-clergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/07\/possible-mass-non-compliance-in-sri-lanka-and-role-of-clergy\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible Mass Non Compliance in Sri Lanka and Role of Clergy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Government invoked emergency with two intentions.One is to\ncarry out raids and inspections , not only to arrest culprits but to arrest the\nsituation of excallating violence.Secondly to keep public indoor so that\nskirmishes in the streets are minimised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happened in Negombo is a clear example, where people\nwere trying to lake the law into their hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday parents decided not to comply wither government\nruling that children should attend schools.Percentage of children attending\nschools was abmisible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was not a strike per say but ignoring requests by the\ngovernment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As per the laws in Sri Lanka it is a must that children\nartend to schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This may be just a start of Noncompliance with the rules\nand regulations because people may not be trusting what government tells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next action may be that people will refuse to obey rules\nrelated to day to day to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People may dump garbage every where.People May drive without\ncomplying  traffic rules.People may not obey judiciary and law and\norder.People may stop paying-taxes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Government should establish trust among people..So far\ngovernment has failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hats off to armed forces for controlling the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday we saw how His Emminence Cardinal visiting Negombo\nand passifying aggrieved People.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Main-idea is that People should at least listen to religious\nleaders rather than rulers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But none of the politicians like crying MPs in the area\ndared to go to the  location!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If and When  there are skirmishes in the areas of\npredominantly Buddhist ,have you ever seen any Chief Sanganayake visiting the\nareas and talk to both  parties to avoid excallations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catholics may not be trusting government but they trust\nreligious leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cardinal just preached what Jesus Christ advocated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a Buddhist I am ashamed to note that most of our Buddhist\nLeading Monks never go to people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They want people to come to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever they give TV interviews ,they talk aggressively\nleading to more and more discontent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is high time for the Government to impose Emergency Law\nin full force and gag the press so that they do not aggravate the Non\nCompliance with rules and regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the prelates leading Malwatu,Asgiri ,Rammana ,Siam\nNikaya\u2019s  etc should visit the areas in turns and preach non violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No politicians should accompany them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sure that people will abide by the rules after such\naction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If an attack happened in a Buddhist Area in Sri Lanka there\nwould have been a Killing Field\u201d like in Cambodia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Various interviews shown in TV and radio and published\nnewspapers should be stopped with social media gagging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Army with the help of clergy should visit people should take\nthe lead and let politicians sleep for few weeks\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 Government invoked emergency with two intentions.One is to carry out raids and inspections , not only to arrest culprits but to arrest the situation of excallating violence.Secondly to keep public indoor so that skirmishes in the streets are minimised. What happened in Negombo is a clear example, where people were trying to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88365","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=88365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}