{"id":97448,"date":"2020-01-07T17:57:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T00:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=97448"},"modified":"2020-01-07T17:57:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T00:57:27","slug":"essential-constitution-amendment-one-law-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/07\/essential-constitution-amendment-one-law-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Constitution Amendment: One Law for All"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s\nConstitution is far outdated. It still allows tribal personal laws of the 7<sup>th<\/sup>\ncentury and 18<sup>th<\/sup> century to discriminate against its citizens. They\ninclude Thesawalamei, Sharia, Mukkuwa and Kandyan laws. All these must be\nremoved for the progress of the nation. All individuals must have equal\nindividual rights. There is no legal concept called equal community rights\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13A also\nintroduces ethnic segregation as the Act to enact the 13A talks of areas of\ntraditional Tamil habitation. These references must be removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Constitutional\namendments are also required to make hate speech illegal. Certain political\nparties demonize fellow citizens based on ethnicity and religion. They must be\nseverely punished following a Constitutional ban on hate speech. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These basic constitutional amendments are essential to bring\nSri Lanka into the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century and put it on path to achieve great\nthings. Outdated, regressive and tribal matters must be put behind at least\nnow. It will be a boost to Sri Lanka\u2019s civil liberties and personal freedoms\nand a key component in human development index. As these improve, Sri Lanka\nwill be able to attract more investments for higher value added expert jobs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka\u2019s Constitution is far outdated. It still allows tribal personal laws of the 7th century and 18th century to discriminate against its citizens. They include Thesawalamei, Sharia, Mukkuwa and Kandyan laws. All these must be removed for the progress of the nation. All individuals must have equal individual rights. There is no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97448","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=97448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}