Comments on: Democracy or Demoncracy?

by: S Uththaman

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:11:01 +0000

Dr. Narendran has indeed taken a lot of effort to draw together a multitude of little known facts into a comprehensive whole. His article is the story of mankind and that of the Sinhalese and Tamils. It highlights the oneness of mankind despite the much trumpetted differences. This oneness is more so with regard to the Sinhalese and Tamils of Sri Lanka, who are more like each other in everyway- physical and cultural- compared to others in this world. This is not a fairy tale like that of Dr.Seus. Incomprehension should not lead to simplistic and insulting comments! Arguments should be met with counter arguments and not vituperation.

As alluded to by Dr.Narendran, the communal divide created by the viciousness, short sightedness, stupidity and self centerdness of the Sinhala political leadership has been accelarated and deepened by the equally vicious, short sighted, stupid and self-centered acts of the Tamil militancy. The Tamils have paid a price that can not be compensated. It is time we learn to ‘Learn’ and bring in far sightedness and wisdom in greater measure into the affairs of Sri Lanka.

by: ilaya seran senguttuvan

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:14:24 +0000

Devinda(5) …I got news for you. There is now a Sinhala diaspora
of about 100,000. Starting from the largest in Australia, England, USA (California mainly) Italy and so on. If all goes well, there will be several thousands Sinhalese working in India (IT, Textile technology etc) Very soon we can start a Diaspora Big Match
Cricket. Using your own demented mind and language , let’s call it the Hypocrites Vs the Goodies. You decide who is who. The 1st ODI in Toronto and the return at Anuradhapura….Harida or saria?

by: Devinda Fernando

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:06:08 +0000

You Diaspora all hate Democracy because it does not compliment your Separatist Agenda in Sri Lanka. Yet you will praise it in Canada, UK, Australia, USA, or where ever you Hypocrites have converted Citizenship to and are living now.

by: Sri

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:40:43 +0000

Please delete my earlier comment,i made a mistake in the name of the auther.

Dr Rajasingam Narenthiran had made an excellent contribution for the debate on democracy in Sri Lanka.
“The government of the people, by the people, and for the people”- An excellent Definition of democracy from Abraham Lincoln
A crude definition for democracy. “The government of the majority, by the majority, and for the majority”.
This second definition is very popular among the majority in Sri Lanka because this definition justifies all discriminations and all human rights violations practiced in Sri Lanka in the name of democracy(majority?) since the independence in 1948.
They think in terms of percentages 12% and 2/3 of Sri Lankan territory. If someone protests you have to justify. They have to decide. The concept of inclusiveness is alien to their philosophy. Participatory democracy is a non existing hypothesis.
If you keep other people in chains then you yourself will be in chains.
The oppressor becomes the oppressed.
The plight of the oppressers in Sri Lanka is that they are unable even to sympathies with the protests spearheaded by Buddhist monks in Tibet or Myanmar!
This is a lesson for todays oppressed anywhere in the world, if tomorrow they become the rulers they should open a new page.
But unfortunately there is ample historical evidence that the oppressed when get an opportunity become the worst culprits putting the former to shame!

by: aratai

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:21:06 +0000

Who rules Sri Lanka, Monks or Monk(ey)s?

(I am just referring to the WashingtonPost article by Emily Wax, March 26, 2008).
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by: ilaya seran senguttuvan

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:09:39 +0000

A good narration of the post 1950s Lankan debacle. Why did not the MR Govt carry out the many vocal public assurances
(e.g. opening of the Moragahakande multibillion $ Scheme) to carry out urgent infra-structural developments in the North East province
including the due portion of the enormous Tsunami aid recieved? If visible development and refurbishment work was seen in the North East the bulk of the Tamil people would have shown their willingness to get back to the national fold - in due manner. Is the shyness because, as many academics have suggested in several fora, the higher strata of the GoSL is convinced eventual
separation cannot be avoided as the Tamil people have been pushed far too much for too long and the wounds too deep - in the eyes of India and the Int’l community. Why should anyone invest in real estate they are about to give up or lose? Could this be why
the unpredictable and abrasive PM Wickramanayake chose, of all places
the 3rd country soil of Israel, to raucously announce in the glare of attending Internal TV and media “the Indian Govt will never allow the break-up of Sri Lanka” Basic diplomatic etiquette was breached and the voice of the govt of India
hijacked to make this announcement by the protocol-ignorant S/L PM. An announcement of such import surely must come from the Indian official side - something which a raw novice in diplomatic savvy would know. One cannot resist the temptation GoSL at its highest levels has come to terms with the imminent
bifurcation in the near future.

by: Justin

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:39:39 +0000

Good terminology. Demons started ruling Sri Lanka through SWRD, Buddhist monks and the masses. Demoncracy that started then is now at it is at its peak.

The results of the local elections held recently in the East were determined by pistols. There is pistol democracy also in the East.

The government of Sri Lanka successfully hoodwinked Britain and the world with “democracy” and the demons will soon send “democracy to hell”