{"id":93559,"date":"2019-10-03T21:49:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T03:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93559"},"modified":"2019-10-03T14:42:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T21:42:19","slug":"politics-and-civil-society-activists-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/03\/politics-and-civil-society-activists-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"POLITICS AND CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVISTS IN SRI LANKA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Civil\nSociety Activists in many countries in the world appear to be working as\nindependent activists without engaging in popular politics or supporting\npolitical parties, however, in Sri Lanka civil society activists appear to be\nin a mud puddle without clearly understanding the role of them. As I reiterated\nbefore, civil society activists were in the past in Sri Lanka under the reign\nof Kings and Queens, but they did not engage in active politics because they\nunderstood the real role and limits of them.&nbsp;\nSince the 2015 presidential election, civil society activists have been\nengaged in a misguided role like politicians without understanding and\nidentifying the role of them. It is possible to assume that they were mad on\nmaking easy money misleading international NGOs.&nbsp; This situation is clearly understood by other\ncountries in the world. It can assume that other countries and international\nNGOs are observing what is going on in Sri Lanka.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another\nvital point concerning the behavior of NGO activists is whether the\ninternational NGOs which are believed to be financing for local NGO activists knew\nthat local activists were playing a game for an undue enrichment out of foreign\ntaxpayers\u2019 money. This is a serious issue that UNO or any other international\norganizations must be discussed or investigated and make justice for\ninternational donors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\nalso seems that several activists have engaged in the role of government media\nto attract support from international NGOs, which have already learned a good\nlesson from civil society activists in Sri Lanka after 2015.&nbsp; There are many issues that civil society\nactivists must be worked in, despite such requirements they have engaged in\ncomplete rubbish politics such as to take presidential candidates to courts\nrather than playing their role.&nbsp; What\nwere purposes or aims of these local NGO activists sought funds from\ninternational donors and did the organizations audit how funds were using in\nSri Lanka? If the purpose of them is to playing politics, they can go to the\nUSA and support the Democratic party to impeach President Donald Trump, but\nthey are scared to engage in such an active role.&nbsp; Some of these activists are supposed to\nparticipate in university research and teaching roles and people of Sri Lanka\nhave a question whether these activists playing the right role or a dishonest\nrole.&nbsp; Do they addicted to money coming\nfrom external sources rather than doing the owned job? Could these people trust\nis an issue for international NGOs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International\nNGOs must extremely careful when funding for local NGO activists in Sri Lanka. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Civil Society Activists in many countries in the world appear to be working as independent activists without engaging in popular politics or supporting political parties, however, in Sri Lanka civil society activists appear to be in a mud puddle without clearly understanding the role of them. As I reiterated before, civil society [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93559","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\/93559","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=93559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}