{"id":89571,"date":"2019-05-29T23:21:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T05:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=89571"},"modified":"2019-05-29T15:42:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T22:42:44","slug":"three-radicals-who-pulled-back-our-growth-by-70-years-after-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/29\/three-radicals-who-pulled-back-our-growth-by-70-years-after-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Radicals who pulled back our growth by 70 years after independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>We have seen three radical persons in Sri Lanka who are from three sects of our society .All three killed majority Sinhalese .All of them are from lower cast in the society though one of sects do not have officially declared casts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>One of the Sinhalese radical was Rohana Wijeweera From Matara in the South,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Second one was a Tamil radical named Velupillai Prabhakaran who is from Jaffna in the North<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Latest radical was \u00a0Saharan of Muslim faith \u00a0from Kattankudi in th East\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does this say ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Main reason for their activities are related to inability of\nSinhala Ruling Class &nbsp;to foresee their problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we developed all the three provisions with no\ndiscrimination , the youths who have gone on a killing spree would not have\nresorted to such actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One might argue that action by Sabaran has no relationship to\nthe development in the east .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a counter argument you can say that provincial councils\nwhich were formed never integrated with the society to identify the\n&nbsp;grievances ,leading to forming radical groups .Foreign forces supported\nthem because we exported our youngsters to Middleast who were indoctrinated by\nthem .After their return they acted blindly .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their is no purpose of having army and navy camps in these\nareas on long run unless The Government intiate a rapid development program and\nalso tax structures to monitor funds movements .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In USA &nbsp;the movement of even a dollar is noticed by\nauthorities .Then they find out the purpose .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is high time that the Government spread out the society from Ghetto concept and commence rapid development in North East and south.When the youths start working for living \u00a0you will notice any irregular activity of fund movement and also uncommon activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do we do that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Put the whole country under emergency for few years and hand\nover the helm to a Benevolent Dictator and get rid of Provicial Councils .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekeea&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera We have seen three radical persons in Sri Lanka who are from three sects of our society .All three killed majority Sinhalese .All of them are from lower cast in the society though one of sects do not have officially declared casts. One of the Sinhalese radical was Rohana Wijeweera From Matara [&hellip;]<\/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-89571","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\/89571","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=89571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}