Proposals for the Expedited Amendment for the Constitution - Establishing a Stable Government

Proposals for the Expedited Amendment for the Constitution - Establishing a Stable Government

The proposed constitutional amendment shall aim at, completely depoliticization of the governing system through establishing /revitalizing the following commissions with wider powers, to deal with political interference from any level of hierarchy – i.e., all these commission shall be of totally independent of interferences and have powers to deal with those interfering and or hindering, through judicial process,    

1.     The Election Commission, The Public Service Commission, The Audit Service Commission, The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, The Finance Commission, The Delimitation Commission, The National Procurement Commission, The University Grants Commission

2.     The Parliament shall assume the Executive power, and the Executive Presidential system be abolished with immediate effect, whereas, the Prime Minister, as the head of the Government and the Cabinet of Ministers is accountable to Parliament.

3.     Parliament shall establish the Constitutional Council and appoint the chairmen, secretaries and the members in a prudent manner for the independent commissions above mentioned in 1- other than Judicial Service Commission

4.     The Constitutional Council members and its activities will be similar to that of found in 19^th Amendment of 2015, but except for  

a.      President will not appoint a member, instead the parliament will appoint two members, as described below

b.      Two persons nominated by agreement of the majority of the Members of Parliament belonging to political parties or independent groups, other than the respective political parties or independent groups to which the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition belong.

c.      Five persons appointed by the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, the speaker and the *National Judicial Service Commission- described below (4) from State recognized Professional bodies, who may or may not be a Parliament Member.

d.      The Constitutional Council will not appoint Attorney General, The National Police Commission (NPC), The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABC)

 

5.     *Though The Judicial Service Commission will continue as an independent professional body, shall be elevated as The National Judicial Service Commission (NJSC) and be further strengthened and established to bring the Attorney General’s (AG) Department, The National Police Commission (NPC), The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABC) and The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) under its purview in order to be free of the menace meddling by drug king-pins, wealthy criminals, selfish politicians etc. As such the respective chairpersons of The NPC and The CIABC and the CID shall be appointed by The NJSC itself to begin with. Law enforcement should be independently handled by Department of Police headed by Inspector General Police who is answerable and responsible only to NPC, AG and hence to The NJSC and to the entire Judiciary system. IGP shall be appointed by the NJSC on the recommendation of the NPC within the purview of NJSC shall handle the all the transfers required for the optimum effectiveness of the law enforcement by the Police Department. As such Ministry of Law and Order shall be incorporated into the Ministry of Justice.

The objectives of this proposal are to prevent governing system affiliating to any political party either ruling or non-ruling or opposition, impartiality of the law enforcement ensuring the Sovereignty of the People and continuity of dispensing justice even on change of government - and to prevent judicial jurisdiction being encroached by political greediness and political whims of revenge on each other.

 

6.     An additional independent Commission be established, by the Constitutional Council of Parliament for Poverty Alleviation (NPAC) and its activities shall be decentralized provincially, The National Poverty Alleviation Commission will monitor the progress of the poverty alleviation in respect of number and progress of self-reliance, number of participants to be reduced each year for each province. The NPAC also involve Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and monitor the activities of the NGOs in a wider spectrum.     

 

7.     The Constitutional Council shall as well under take the,

        I.          the appointments of the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and the Monetary Board should also be done with the approval of the Constitutional Council;

      II.           The appointments of the Secretaries to the Ministries, Governors, Ambassadors and Heads of Missions to be done on the advice of the Prime Minister in consultation with the Cabinet of Ministers;

     III.                      III. Selecting the Presidential Candidate through Parliament, once the amendment is enacted.

   

 

8.     The President shall be only of ceremonial and decorative and shall be the Chief of Tri-Forces and be elected by the Parliament, shall not hold any cabinet portfolios.

 

9.     Once the amendment is enacted in Parliament, incumbent president, unless he resigns, shall continue until the end of his first term, shall not affiliate himself to any political party.  

 

10.  President on completion of the 1^st term of 5 years, Parliament will hold the discretion to reelect the incumbent president, or to elect a new president on the recommendations of the religious leaders of any sect and societies of all religions and any other civic societies compulsorily not affiliating to any political party. The Constitutional Council of Parliament will scrutinize the recommendations forwarded by the civics through key performance Index and political affiliation. Simple majority in the parliament enable the select to the Highest Office, if two or more candidates selected by PCC as suitable,  

 

11.  Any candidate for presidential office selected by Parliament Constitutional Council to be elected by the Parliament, found to be canvassing among the Parliament members for disqualifies automatically to be in the contest or to hold the Presidential office.

 

12.  A non-Citizen or a Dual Citizen can neither hold nor be appointed to any office within Sri Lanka, nor be allowed to represent Sri Lanka outside Sri Lanka

 

13.  Any elected body or any person shall not entertain a request for Pardoning of convicts, pardoning shall only by process done by National Judicial Service Commission, on the recommendation by Parliamentary Constitutional Council.  

 

14.   Department of Prisons and the Commissioner general of Prisons, as well shall come under the purview of National Judicial Service Commission, in the context of there have been numerous occasions Commissioner General of Prisons and the prisoners have been used for Political vandalism at the disposal of politically starved politicians.  

 

15.   a. Rescind the Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry appointed by Gazette (Extraordinary) No. 2212/53 of 29 January 2021 to implement the recommendations and decisions made by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry appointed to Investigate Allegations of Political Victimization during the Period Commencing 8 January 2015 and ending 16 November 2019 appointed by Gazette (Extraordinary) No. 2157/44 of 9 January 2020. 

  b. Refrain from implementing the recommendations of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry appointed to Investigate Allegations of Political Victimization during the Period Commencing 8 January 2015 and ending 16 November 2019 appointed by Gazette (Extraordinary) No. 2157/44 of 9 January 2020.

The objectives of these above proposals for the expedited amendment for the constitution is to create a Stable Government that reflects the ability to reform towards, transparency, impartiality in law enforcement free of individual interferences and discretions, as credibility to negotiate with the IMF, other multilateral agencies, and friendly countries to help Sri Lanka get out of the economic crisis, which is also help to achieve the following in the ground situation

            1. To create political, economic and social stability in the country.

2. To create an environment to address the fundamental problems that have brought about the current crisis (and imperil the future reforms).

3. To restructure external debt and enter into appropriate programs with multi-lateral institutions including the IMF and for that purpose to appoint the financial and legal advisers and negotiate a debt standstill pending debt restructuring.

4. To obtain bridging finance. The bridging finance together with the savings arising from the debt standstill to be used to procure uninterrupted supply of essentials to the People until such time the debt restructuring, and the IMF program is in place. This will eliminate the shortages in power, fuel, gas, medicines, food, etc.

5. To create an environment to combat corruption and to ensure accountability and strengthening independent institutions. 

If these reforms proposal found to be require a referendum, despite the present crisis situation, there shall be a referendum at the earliest possible, that include broader aspects of the constitution, in addition to above proposals, both of which ensures sovereignty of the people entrusted to the people themselves directly in democratic governance as well; rather than by the elected executive and representatives both of which have changed course to autocratic rule after being elected in 2019 and 2020 respectively.  Such a referendum shall include following reforms to the Parliament as well.        

Additional Reforms Regarding Parliamentarians           

1.     The Parliament Members, since they are elected by the people to represent the people and as the parliament membership is not a profession, should not be entitled for any pension scheme, irrespective of they represent the people for five or more than five years.

 

2.     The salaries of the MPs shall be stipulated and recommended by a State Salary Commission according to their educational qualification and their sitting to sittings contributions.

 

3.     All healthcare facilities currently provided to any politicians should be abolished, except the health facilities that are relevant to the general public.

4.     The free transport, salads, electricity, water and phone facilities they are currently entitled to should be abolished.

5.     Every parliamentarian who has been charged with crimes, criminal charges, imprisoned or sentenced should be removed from his position and banned from re-election forever. The inappropriate financial accumulation they have attained should be charged from themselves, their family members and from representatives.

6.     The MPs who have not declared their assets, even after 3 months of swearing in as MP shall be disqualified as Member of Parliament.

7.     Every parliament member/minister should be subservient to the laws and rules applicable to the common citizens of the country.

8.     Neither a candidate nor a sitting MP who has not passed the G.C.E ordinary level should be allowed to continue as a Member of Parliament.

9.     Food and all other relief privileges in the parliament should be abolished

10.  Age limit should be stipulated as below 65 years to enter Parliament in order to accommodate young and fresher views in the August Sabah

11.  No parliamentarians who do not possess a minimum G.C.E A/L shall not be appointed as Ministers; a MP who possess a certified expert knowledge in particular field, shall be appointed to the relevant subject as a minister preferably.      

 

Parliament is an August Sabah, where service is an Honourable undertaking as a representative of the people and it is not a privilege to earn or right to steal people's money and property. People who elect the MPs deserved to be treated respectfully, no matter most of the people may hold different opinions of the MPs, since the younger generation and the people outside the Parliament are far more knowledgeable than within the Parliament.  

  

 

Continuing State Criminality - Sri Lanka

First of all, I extend my deepest sympathies to all the families who have lost their loved one and saviors of the family, during the violence escalated on the 9^th of May 2022; I am not prepared to isolate people’s representatives and civilians in this respect, because people’s representatives always claim that they always at the side of the people. My deepest commiserations to all who have been affected by that unfortunate vehemence.                     

I was watching the 2022 May 9^th escalation of violence since the attack on the nonviolent protestors at Temple Trees and Galle Face and the way the commotion emancipated in Nittambuwe almost live, through TV channels and Internet media. Thereafter, since 2022 May 17^th  I was also watching the live telecast of Parliamentary sessions very intensely

IGP Sri Lanka Police has sent a report to Defense or Law and Order Secretary to the effect of, out of 189 Police OICs appointed latest, 182 are political appointees, almost equally same number without facing an interview, now the question arises why the people’s representatives, who ostensibly claim that they always with the people, need OICs to be their side? When we compare these facts provided by the IGP with the intensity of violence on the 9^th of May 2022 and later, you can gather and assert the reason for the public anger and the way it was manifested. It is very clear people has been under rule of terror for 3 or 4 months smoking beneath and have been searching for means and ways to liberate their mounting anger against the terror rule some or the other way. Another fact IGP revealed was more than 50 OICs among those political appointees are connected to the Drug kingpins, and I wonder who prevents the IGP in taking legal action despite his brave decision to reveal all these information against the State Criminal Activities.  Parliamentarians of the ruling party spoke about the supremacy of the Rule of Law, when they are at the receiving end, while keeping the OICs of their areas within their pockets.

I refrained from writing about Nittambuwe Incident, until Kehelia Rambukwella, now Minister of Health spoke out in parliament, thank you very much, Honorable Minister, we all know about your capability to reveal (nokiya kiyanna) without actually telling it. He quoted about a journalist to reveal the same in the emancipation of Nittambuwe violence which went to the different level, due to the people’s representative Late Amaraweera Aththukorala  or his Late body guard or both of them  shooting at the people who were about to surround his vehicle, as a retaliatory response; people were very angry and have come to the streets when information spread through mobile phones that the,  State has criminally mobilized against nonviolent Mina Go Gama and Gotta Go Gama, as these protest areas were very popular among the whole Island public.  This same shooting incident claimed the life of at least two after critically injuring 6 civilians. It is a criminal offence to use the guns against any civilians even if you are a parliamentarian; in this case public have been already volatile for some time due to the deprivations of essential commodities and due to the inhumane attack on the peaceful protesters against the preceded reason suggested. This shooting itself by a Parliament Member and by his body guard further aggravated the volatile situation as the information spread throughout the island through the modern technology.

People were shocked that a parliament member who have been elected to serve them turning the guns against them.  As such there is no point in blaming any other political parties, because deprivations of essential commodities have affected all sectors of people including political party members other than Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, as revealed by the ransacking of many Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna members.

Coming back to Nittambuwe Incident, I saw a CCTV footage that showed Late MP and the Late body guard escaping from the place of shooting, one of them wielding a pistol, while on the run pistol was changed hands. The same CCTV footage didn’t show any civilians chasing the both. When I changed my TV channel to Indian News TV channels, on the same day, it reported the Late Polonnaruwa District MP’s demise as the way, Kehelia Rambukwella Honorable Minister of Health revealed in the Parliament quoting Journalist Manjula Basnayake.

Following day, the morning news of Indian Channels as well reported that the death of Polonnaruwa District MP’ due to gun short injuries after shooting at the protestors and finished the reporting, as the same way Kehelia Rambukwella Honorable Minister of Health revealed in the Parliament quoting Journalist Manjula Basnayake. This same news could have been picked up by some other International News channels in the same way as well. Kehelia Rambukwella tactfully surfaced the issue very appropriately in the August Sabah of Parliament, as this issue directly involves how the medical profession is applied to the society and the integrity of medical education within Sri Lanka, as such It is very much appropriate, he was bestowed as Honorable Minister of Health Affairs later as he was just a Parliament Member when he made that important statement. Economic crisis and civil unrest shouldn’t be a reason to slip away the criminal procedure applications, particularly by the rulers.

1.  It is a criminal offense to cover or attempting to cover the actual incident particularly when the incident culminated fatally.

2.     It is a criminal offence to fabricate a murder charge on anyone

3.     Ignoring murders when particularly gun shooting has taken place as of due of civil commotion as well a criminal offense.

4.     It is an offense of criminality to force/subject the Forensic Medical officer to change the actual reason of death, by any means and this is not new to Rajapaksha Family rulers, as has been revealed during Thajuddin Murder case during good governance government.    

5.     Government Forensic medical officer covering up the actual reason or being part of fabricating murder case is as well are criminal offenses,

6.     It is a criminal offence to randomly arrest civilians on the orders of any politicians  

7.     The real perpetrators of the attack on Gall Face nonviolent protestors that incited the 2022 May 9^th island wide violence, freely roaming despite Magisterial orders for to act with rationale.

Whenever Antare and IUSF are coming, if Police is capable of obtaining court orders on all the occasions, why did Police and Military and other intelligence agencies fail to identify the intentions of the Rajapaksha supporters and attack? What did the police and army do to prevent or pre-empt, except for accompanying the pro Government protestors carrying, manhandling weapons?

All the above questions suggest that Galle Face attack was preplanned and with the blessings of ex-Prime Minister, and his son, Johnston Fernando Sanath Nisantha, Secretary of Defense, Army Commander, IGP, senior DIG Desha Bandu Tennakoon, Intelligence Agencies and senior police officers in the area.

Conclusion- As we are all aware, it was an undemocratic, inhuman, unethical and unacceptable Government sponsored terror attack on peaceful young strugglers at Galle Face that led to all the pandemonium later.

 All these have to be summed up and compared with an incident on 17th May 2022, within the Parliament, just when Parliamentary Session about to start, in which Prof. Channa Jeyasumana MP and two other MPs Indika Anuradha and D. Weerasinghe attacked two media reporters who have been accomplishing their duty within Parliament since 1999, Prof. Jeyasumana and accompanies forcefully pushed the reporters back to the wall and confiscated their mobile phones, saying all problem are due to you all alike and abused with filth as well; what is that you all as people’s representatives wanted to hide from the public elected you all? What is the criminal activity you all are ashamed of telling to the people? Transparency is an important part of Democracy and the electors have right to hear what their representatives saying/doing in the Parliament.

Most of the SLPP MPs are decrying that their properties are damaged, but it has been revealed that, most of the SLPP members and supporters have stored abundant stocks of essential commodities when mob ransacked the houses and offices, of SLPP members. This is also a criminal activity, when majority of the population yearning for these items standing in long queues for long hours, and the people who voted for them boiling beneath, until the day came to express their fury and rage.

Following are details of essential commodities abundantly stored – illegally by SLPPA

Gas tanks, fertilizer, diesel & dhal found from SLPP politicos' houses:

Large stocks of chemical fertilizers, gas cylinders, diesel and dhal were found in bulk at the homes that were destroyed by mobs belonging to former Minister Chamal Rajapaksa, Johnston Fernando, North Central Province Governor Mahipala Herath, Kurunegala Mayor Thushara Sanjeewa and Kurunegala Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Achala Nimantha.

Around 140 gas cylinders weighing 12.5 kilograms were found in the homes of former Minister Johnston Fernando, Kurunegala Mayor Thushara Sanjeewa and Kurunegala Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Achala Nimantha which were set on fire by protesters in the Kurunegala area. It is reported that all these gas cylinders have been taken away by the people.

There were reportedly over 80 gas cylinders at former minister Johnston Fernando’s residence on lake road (Wewa Pará) in Kurunegala as well.

The protesters also stormed a house belonging to former Minister Chamal Rajapaksa in the Kirinda Magama area in Tissamaharama and had found 300 bundles of urea fertilizer, 3000 liters of diesel, 200 bundles of paddy and a stock of red dhal which was later distributed among the people of the area and had set it on fire. The house and office of this former Minister in Tissamaharama Senapura as well was attacked and severely damaged by the protesters on Tuesday night (09). All the documents that were in the office were as well destroyed.

Meanwhile, a group of angry residents of the area had set fire to a farm belonging to North Central Province Governor Mahipala Herath at Dimbulagala Bandanagala at around 3 pm yesterday (10) and caused damage to property, Siripura Police said. The warehouse on the 50-acre farm contained nearly 400 bags of urea fertilizer and another stock of chemical fertilizers, which were also seized by farmers. The protesters had also set fire to several hand tractors that were found in the farm. The Siripura Police conducting investigations said that a large stock of paddy that was stored in the farm had been destroyed by the fire.

when you serve the whole the population that is social service,  when serve only your political supporters that is selfish political activity. 

 "Government is, By the People, for the people and for the people" 

                                                                                       - Srimavo Bandaranayke 1971

 

 

 

 

Regression to Bankruptcy by System Politicization 

 Democratic Socialistic Republic of Sri Lanka never has been a true Democracy, right from the beginning, rulers were focused on constructing a majoriticracy rule, that could ensure the majority community enjoy the independence fervently than other ethnic minorities; never a true democracy that could have adopted all ethnic groups equally and walked the economic path for prosperity.    The first violence for ethno-majoriticracy build up took place in Thampalakamam, Trincomalee where 14 Tamil farmers were shot dead while they were working in a paddy field, while the policemen were watching in 1954, first police inaction towards ethno-majoritarian rule, has been only a beginning, for many decades to follow. There has been nothing democracy or socialism in the series of communal rioting for looting to establish ethno-majoriticracy totally.  In 1956, the Satyagraha by Federal Party, headed by Late S.J.V. Selvanyagam against Sinhala only as Official Language, a simple nonviolent protest, at the same venue the Galle Face Green, the modern-day youths are protesting was met with overreaction by rulers, police and thugs were used to manhandle the Satyagrahis and remove them from the location, who were all Parliamentarians and supporting staffs voicing for reasonable use of Tamil Language. As part of the overreaction series of communal rioting was unleashed against Tamils by the rulers in 1956, 1958, 1977, 1981 and 1983 are for converting democracy into one language + one religion ruling than governing the naturally pluralistic society. It took two years for the rulers to accept the blunder of disusing Tamil and English within 24 hours as official language, and was later corrected in August 1958 to allow Tamil Language usage wherever appropriate, but it took 32 long civil commotion-full years to accept Tamil as an official Language and English as a link Language, which should have done in 1956 it self, rather than disuse of two languages within 24 hours. Therefore, the first system politicization was implementation of disuse of 2 languages within 24 hours’; time frame had been the electoral attraction for S.W.R. D. Bandaranayake, but caused uneasiness even for Sinhalese then, but permanent apprehension for non-Sinhalese speaking ethnic groups.

 All those communal rioting described above, along with the 1985 upcountry uprisals in the fervency of establishing a one language + one religion dominating rule, were only described as of eruption of majority community – never realized and totally ignored as an economic backlash for whole of Sri Lanka immediately or in the long run.  The 1983 rioting alone accounted for $300 million as immediate loss, impact loss was almost chaotic as of now, but of less debt burden;  many Sinhalese entrepreneurs were badly affected as well, as they couldn’t recover the trading obligations from Tamil entrepreneurs – whose production and trading establishments had been completely gutted and destroyed, and Sinhalese entrepreneurs also lost large number of trustworthy human resources either permanently or prolonged delay in reporting back to work. One of the Sinhalese Businessman shouted openly “Yakku Modoyo apittath keliya- ayai mulainthalama athindonae” – Devilish fools brought down us as well – we have to try and start right from the beginning.

If the rulers had realized the long-term impact, of the first communal riots 1958 itself, wouldn’t have the ordered the police and tri-forces security men for inaction on majority clan thugs including unprincipled saffron clads manhandling and looting the properties of the Tamils, and do nothing even if the thugs immolate lively Tamils to complete the loot, during the well-orchestrated subsequent communal riot inciting; all these actions to hysterically predominate one language and one religion within in a country claimed to be the triple gem blessed. An absolutely ill-conceived contradiction of the creators of ethno-majoriticracy all in the backdrop of Lord Buddha’s teaching of nonviolent Way of Life.

Vicious cycle of violence was born, as Sri Lankan Tamil youths were propelled to think that the above explained State Terrorism has to be retaliated by terrorism itself and the 1983 communal rioting in the south, was a retaliation against subversiveness of Tamil youth as rulers openly accepted as then by the rulers; JR  said in Sinhala “Yudhayanam Yudhai”, while Sinhalese mobs were vandalizing unarmed Tamils of the south – in his address to the nation in response to the situation inciting further to destroy, in English translation JR said “if it is peace it is peace”, “If it is war it is war”- if you cannot stop thuggery as state leaders, it is somebody’s turn to teach what is war and what is plain thuggery.  This had been told many a times in many forums during the war and after the war, the present-day youth who are protesting the government for lack of basic essentials to day to survival shall know, who constructed the warring situation and the war was for an ultimate pogrom, counted as of more than150000 Tamils.  This is how the majoriticracy is implemented despite constitutional guarantee for the safety of minority citizens, exists in written form only – all that to hoodwink the international community, to show that there is constitutional guarantee! When you respect and apply constitutionally guaranteed rights to living respectfully of all communities that is Governing the Nation for a successful State – when you ignore your own constitution and implement for the insinuated majoriticracy ruling on your own – that is Ruling the nation with riling power for ultimate ruination of the State; a good example for uprightly Governing the Nation is Singapore, and for the latter is Sri Lanka in shambles.

While the politicians are engaged in power grabbing through programs of unproductive and loss to state, armed youth of the ruling community itself revolted in April 5^th 1971 to topple the government, which is branded as JVP insurgency, though government managed curb them, by pogroming, detaining the arrested and banning the Janata Vimukthi Peramuna activities. Later the detention and the ban were lifted for political benefit, only to resurrect on April 1987 to December 1989 JVP insurrection with the military wing of Deshapremi Janatha Viyaparaya (DJV) which targeted Colombo popular institutions; Central Post Office and Central Bus stand, Parliament and Tri-forces camps in Colombo other Districts,  though DJV was declared a terrorist organization for its subversive actions abduction and murder in 1986 by JR government.

Economic loss mounting to more than 800 million US dollars by both of those revolts full of arson and vandalism. Many of the DJV vandalisms were attributed to LTTE by majoritarian rule mechanism  misdirecting constructive investigations; any how JVP/DJV cadres were arrested and detained; even they were pardoned and released very quickly, compared to the  releasing of LTTE cadres who were propelled into terrorism by series of state organized terror against unarmed Tamil civilians, very slow, even after 13 years since completely defeating the LTTE not yet complete, and these imprisoned cadres are political tool for some of Tamil and Sinhalese politicians alike. 

 Democracy and Supremacy of the Judiciary

 In a true democracy, Judiciary is absolutely independent – all judicial verdicts should be respected and implemented as per the court ruling. Sri Lanka is entangled with the misconception that democracy is just only the voters voting an election and counting the votes and nothing else, which utterly misleading and misguiding the Sri Lankan public and Maha Sanga. Mahinda Rajapaksha and President Gotabaya Rajapaksha took it to the new height by sealing off transparency and accountability, otherwise hallmark of Democracy. Mahinda Rajapaksha in recent address he said “I am democratically elected and I will not resign” - Hysterical claim, not realizing that both elder Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapaksha as Premier and President respectively dismantled the entire Democratic processing of governing a nation. They did this in 2010 via 18^th amendment to the constitution, in 2020 through 20^th amendment.

The senior  experienced Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksha and the younger brother Gotabaya Rajapaksha as Executive president collaboratively acted irresponsibly – to   bring down the judicial supremacy which has to be totally independent, but to their knees by ordering the release of prime guilty Sunil Ratnayake in Mirusuvil massacre which has taken 15 very long painstaking years for the judiciary system to meticulously convict this barbaric massacrer of 8 civilians including three teenagers and a five-year-old Vilvarajah Prasath; all nine people were given permission to visit their house in Thenmaradchi, where the massacre has taken place as they were displaced to Vadamaradchi,  one escaped and brought the massacre to the limelight.   It is a very obsessive-compulsive act of convict Staff Sergeant Sunil Ratnayake, ordering to bring one by one blindfolded on to a cesspit and slashing the throat of each -child - juvenile and adult victims using a kris-knife behind the lavatory of the house where nobody could see his gruesome act.  It was his compulsiveness to kill by slashing the throats of not one, but eight of that. It was a hairsplitting question for every legal-pertinent that why Staff Sergeant Sunil Ratnayake of Sri Lanka army Gajabah Regiment did not use a gun, which was easily at his disposal in a warring situation prevailed. 

The very much pertaining question here is how the brothers in Executive President and Prime Minister who claim they are they are best the defenders of the Buddha Sasana decided to pardon this gruesome slaughterer, after the prolonged very meticulous Trial-at-Bar proceedings have found him guilty of compulsive of slaughtering 8 lives half of them very juvenile, and condemned to gallows?  A hysterical propaganda tactic that has backfired on both. 

 The convict Sergeant Sunil Ratnayake is an absolute shame for the Gajabah Regiment, Utter shame to the entire Sri Lankan Army, above all by pardoning the man slaughter convict, very shameful to the entire Nation, committed by the brothers Prime Minister and President to bring the country to this predicament. Trial-at-Bar verdict should not be challenged or pardoned.  

  Another murder convict Duminda Silva’s pardoning, is not much of a hairsplitting one, pardoned the man who had financed the Rajapaksha brothers in all the electioneering through his illegally earned money as claimed by the murder victims during a local government election. For the Rajapaksha brothers illegally earned money weighed much value than a Trade Union backing up.  If President and Premier had refrained from pardoning Sunil Ratnayake and then Duminda Silva on a Posan Poya day along with PTA detainees and minor crime convicts, the nonviolent protests mounted against both of you wouldn’t have received support from legal paternity.

Accountability in democracy is initiating judicial process and completing it to know, whether one had committed a crime or unlawful, if the judicial procedure found someone not guilty it will release him, and if the judiciary find someone unlawful and is a social threat only imprisonment is imposed, when one is condemned to death by judiciary that means, entire society is endangered by those convicts living. If those criminals are politically released that is not accountability, induct others also to be unlawful or commit the same crime and become political supporters to continue the crimes and unlawful. The “maithree” to the society is dead. It is a political anarchy, inducting lawlessness and crimes.   

Therefore, no pardoning of criminal should be allowed without revisiting the court proceedings that convicted the to-be-pardoned, - no politically elected can be a pardoner, only a judicial commission shall act upon the pardoning request. 

Saffron clad are being human it is quite natural they are bound to make mistakes as well, the teaching and learning the they undergo, pave them to harness themselves from misbehaving and making mistakes, scientifically the probability of they making mistake is very less, and hence that type of monks, posses’ wide knowledge of Buddhism, Buddhist Principles and all related chronicles, they deserve the respect and veneration; These types of monks are very popular among the ethnic minorities and there is no surprise in it, apart from the majority who follows Theravada Buddhism, believe and walk the Buddhist Principles.

In contrast there are second type of saffron clad, who imagine that they are powerful because they wore saffron coloured dress, and the constitutional status of Buddha Sasana is a weapon for them. They are heavily influenced by fervently mythical Mahawamsam rather than by true Gautama Buddha’s prescription and preaching. These types of monks never believe that Gautama Buddha’s prescription are more attractive even to non-Buddhists and Buddhism will stand tall ever by those, than the few stanzas that has tendency to reject Tolerance and Inclusiveness, both of which manifest the greatness in way of life by Lord Buddha. 

It is a Karma that ruling politician bring these type monks to the political stage for the political milage despite the constitutional guarantee says, “it shall be the duty of the State to protect and foster the Buddha Sasana, while assuring to all religions the rights granted by Articles 10 and 14(1)(e)."

Appointing criminal Gnanasra Thera as head of the committee of one country one law, is unconstitutional, constitutional vandalism, bound to throw the Buddhist Principles Tolerance and Inclusiveness’ out of the window of Sasana

Majoriticracy assuming into Autocracy

 All most all the rulers of the 226 has been fraudulent and corrupt of whatever they perform, in fact any project, that has no any loophole for siphoning, pilfering and commissioning is rejected, in contrary all three looting loophole is a prerequisite laid by politicians. When incumbent government institute the inquiries against fraud and corruption of the previous rulers, they creep into the “foxhole” of Political Victimization, and when the foxhole creeps become rulers, they appoint commission to tag identify the culprits as Political Victims the escape route, not only that, eminent intelligence officers are leather hunted, for performing their duty.   This has become a menace vicious cycle and the whole episode crave into the 40% to 60% of the budgetary allocation of each project. That is why modern youth are protesting for system change to address this menace vicious cycle. Wasting the resources of government coffers and time on presidential commission for Political Victimization, should be stopped with immediate effect and all the who consider them as political victims, shall institute court cases to prove themselves as victims on their own expenditure; all intelligence officers who performed their duty to the system prevailing should be released from custody and justice should prevail on them.  

Ethno-Majoriticracy interpreted as democracy on its course became autocracy that demanded swelling defense budget. Now it has been 13 years since the war constructed was well and truly completely over that is well certified by the majoritarian rulers celebrating war victory year by year. The Rajapaksha brothers rode over the back of devoted sacrifices of Tri-Forces of ending the war to enforce autocracy; autocratic always prefers an expanded strength of defense personals. During 2010-2015 tenure of Rajapaksha brothers, the service allocations have not been done by sectional or divisional head, but by the Rajapaksha brothers according to their personal whims either directly or indirectly; as President, Defense minister and as Defense Secretary there were numerous misuses of tri-forces personals – kidnapping 1. Youth for ransom 2. Journalists differing/challenging the autocratic rule 3. and killing the journalist who exposed their plundering/pilfering/ siphoning the otherwise the state revenues, and that is why as soon as they came to power removed all court proceedings pertaining to above unlawful activities.     

The 2022 defense expenditure is the single largest budgetary allocation of 15% of the total expenditure after the allocation for loan settlement obligation, this is because, the island nation without any threat of war maintains force strength of 300,000 to 350,000 persons, a too high proportionate for a smaller nation of 22million population. The following table shows 14% increase in the total allocation than last year.  An exorbitant increase, that fit into the above explanation.

The Government of Sri Lanka Defense Budget Allocation 2022 in LKR & %Year  Increase from 2021
Recurrent Exp	326.3 billion			20.5%
Capital Exp		46.7 billion		26%
Total Allocation			373billion	14%
Break down	Recurrent Exp	Capital Exp
Army	188.1billion	7.4billion		11%
Navy	63.9 billion	9.2billion		04%
Air Force	56.0 billion	15.billion		8.5%
Multipurpose Development Task Force Social Welfare and Job creation an Initiation from 2020.			18.4 billion
Minister of Defense, CDS and Costal Guard			15.0 billion?

In the break down section of the table, (4thRow) an allocation of 18.4billion LKR for Multipurpose Development Task Force Social Welfare and Job creation an Initiation from 2020, absolutely politically orientated undemocratic to become an elected autocratic. Quite an absurd allocation to include even during normal situations under the Defense Ministry, but it is very worse to continue that expenditure during economic crisis situation, that fund should be diverted to revive the agricultural sector that has devasted by horrendous fertilizer policy withdrawn.

 Defense personals strength has to be reduced to one 3^rd of its present total capacity of the Tri-Forces, so that to maintain the war heroes’ immediate dependent family, the disabled due to the civil war. A high profiled intelligence service, can guide an efficient defense top brass for effective pruning of defense personals.    When similar national very inevitable requirement for budget balancing towards civilian essential services was made in a different forum – the chain of command for intelligence broke down in 2019 April 21^st and the holocaust was unleashed. The rulers must understand that when there are no proper very efficient intelligence services for defense system– there is no any purpose in carrying unproportionate number of defense personal; Rajapaksha brothers selfishly leather- hunted the all-important intelligence personal for inquiring into them as part of state requirement,  but Rajapaksha brothers wasted the human resource of intelligence, and politicized the state intelligence service, to maintain the huge number of defense personal. Their concern for service personal is limited only for election platform.

Status Qua – War Heroes

Prolonging short supply of essential commodities have badly affected all respect of civilians, and it is very sickening to see the disabled soldiers and war veterans are willfully participating in the protest against the Rajapaksha family, but it is encouraging that they have understood that Rajapaksha family only provide lip-service concern towards war heroes in order to utilize the Government coffers and for propaganda.

In order to reduce the pressure exerted by Ministry of Defense to the Treasury and to manage the defense budget and human resources effectively

1.     The Sri Lanka Coast Guard should be amalgamated with Sri Lanka Navy appropriately

2.     The Civil Security Department (CSD), which originated as an auxiliary force for support services to war-footed Tri-Forces and Police, should be dismantled totally and the man power should be redistributed to Sri Lanka police, Sri Lanka National Guard of the Sri Lanka Army, and to the Sri Lanka army active regiments as per need of those divisions.

3.     If Tri-Forces strength cannot be pruned, the Sri Lanka Coast Guard and the CSD should be dismantled with service redistribution to conventional tri-forces and police with or without of manpower redistribution.

Besides Ministry of Defense, the other government sectors and semi government sector has been carrying government sector employees as following manner for 27-year span.

Government Public service and Semi Government employees
Year	Public service	Semi Government	Total Govt. Employ
1990	421009	279583	700592
2002	587805	247845	835650
2006	626,992	226,306	853,298
2016	904,223	242,772	1,146,995.
2017	905,562	244,305	1,149,867

Public Service incudes medical, educating cadres and police, and are recruited and distributed according to the population distribution, though cannot be compromised – steady increase has to be revisited for its unproportionate, growth particularly after 2016 to 2022.      

Surely all these recommendations will be disliked by Rajapakshas, because of their crazy demonstration to become an elected autocratic and stay-put as always elected lays here; fabrication of overlapping service subdivisions and recruiting spree goes on the expense of Government Treasury, that ensure pensionable monthly salary, and trade in for to be elected autocratic. (Refer allocation breakdown table of Defense Budget above 4^rd row) 

A classic example for overlapping service allocation, is The Cabinet led by Gotabaya Rajapaksha and Premier Mahinda Rajapaksha ordering Commander of the Tri-Forces or the Commander of the Army to undertake plant and paddy farming to prove the desired success of the organic fertilizer, despite there are many scientifically stipulated government agricultural research facilities, are at their disposal. Three months into this directive, army personal involved in the fertilizer command success farming, appeared on the electronic media and unleashed their command “success stories”. This proves army personals are in very excess and are at the easiest disposal of Rajapaksha brothers with or without overtaking the chain of command, these personals are copiously used to overturn the more trustable Government Institutions that are maintained by Administrative Establishment Code and Scientific applications, using the Government Coffers. Even the tenure of 2005 – 2015 as well was not spared for these types of overrunning the legal procedures. This attitude of Rajapaksha brothers liberally extends into the private firms and semi government enterprises as well and are struggling to function smoothly, economic output by these enterprises have been in tantrum. 

There are two main reasons for these maniacal actions of Rajapaksha Family   

1.     Laundering the anarchy rule of their tenure of 2005 to 2015 – by disturbing the private business enterprises directly or through security personals or through political henchmen collect commissions – which will imply according to Rajapaksha family that they don’t know how to big way plundering /or siphoning from big projects of 2010 – 2015 tenure, but they only knew commissions enforcing now from various organizations, including cooking gas and fuel suppliers. 2019 – to date tenure shouts that we are not hiding here, during the game of hide and seek via elections.

2.         Fast tracked (“Soubhagiya-Thakkum”) - path to prosperity imaginarily found foreign exchange in colossal amount being saved on import bans, inducted the fast tracking the obligation of international loan settling, neither with structuring nor restructuring - that as well to portray that they are honest to the till of international community  (but China accuses of incomplete payment for oil-tankers only 12 of 19 tankers – supplied fuel to Sri Lanka 2021) and everything went berserk as rapidly drying out the foreign exchange reserve. Here lays the duplicity of Rajapaksha family not loyal to their own program.

3.     Using the 2. Above, for to become an elected autocratic for yet another term, very similar to 24-hour dismantling of English as Official Language in 1956.  

Rajapaksha family will never leave a stone unturned to win any election, exerting pressure on the government coffers, to double their voter base and to the extent of disfranchising certain section of voters they identify as pro-opposition, as they did in 2005 by coxing and bribing LTTE, disfranchised north-eastern voters.  Democracy is ensuring equal opportunities to all contestants during electioneering, avoiding using government system backing or supporting a political party.         

Poverty Alleviation and Politics

The Samurdhi poverty alleviation program is a big political enterprise employing more than 30,000 persons during 2002, now it has enlarged further.  The vast majority are supporters of constituent parties in the ruling party, and the employees of the program are a reserve army of political workers. Every poverty alleviation programs, such as the Janasaviya as well, were the same. In Sri Lanka, national poverty alleviation programs have always been heavily politicized and all those programs have been heavily craving into the government coffers. Poverty alleviation programs if they have lived and conducted for its name since its inception, the expenditure and the number of participants should have gone down year by year, but in contrary it has shown dreading increase in the demand for budgetary allocation every year. The longstanding welfare approach adopted by the government has led to a chronic dependency of the people on the State coffers as politicians desired keep the poor floating for votes forever.   

 Following are identified as weakness of the program for not alleviating the poverty, but maintain the poverty for political benefit;

1.     Government officials and politicians are reluctant to adopt approaches other than a welfare approach for fear of repercussion and political defeat of their master.

2.     The welfare approach destroys the capacity of families to explore other indigenous coping mechanisms to promote themselves to be independent.

3.     Despite the availability of screening criteria, they may in some cases not be enforced leading to politically motivated selection of families as well as communities.

4.     The difficulty of linking the program with other developmental activities, particularly those implemented by non-governmental organizations.

5.     In some areas there is compartmentalization of services rather than convergence.

6.     Lack of marketing facilities for products of income generating enterprises.

7.     For the ultra-poor, financial support provided by the government is barely sufficient to meet subsistence requirements and thus cannot be used for productive purposes.

The politicians must understand that Poverty alleviation is not cash donation or maintaining with welfare right at the level of it started but paving way for income generating or removing the parameters that hinder the income generation for the beneficiaries. One 3^rd of Sri Lanka’s population lives under older-poverty line, this will increase unquestionably to more than 50% due to the present economic crisis. In this context any cash welfare supplementation, never can be a viable program, that will not drag out nation from the present mess. In contrast all people should be supported for income generation – that will to lead to the prosperity people yearning for- not politicians. As such it is very appropriate to revisit the 2016 Locally originated proposal for Poverty alleviation through Socio-Economic growth that was lauded and approved by the Millennium Challenge Corporation for support, for its technicality alone. Poverty Alleviation is an expertise professional project, and not for politicians, particularly of Sri Lanka who will bungle it for bankruptcy.   As pointed out by IMF devolution of power also can help poverty alleviation than a centralized project.  All party government can stem properly piloted poverty alleviation, with strict targets to reduce the relieved participants every year.           

Stalemate of the System due to Political Instability

Rajapaksha brothers are holding on to the power even after openly accepting the blunders towards the status qua of the nation that we all love and laud to our life, maybe they are feeling that both have not yet complete accepting all the blunders and plunders of the past.

Both of you readily accepted the call to abolish the 20^th Amendment to the constitution, then why did you brought the 20th amendment at all as soon as you assumed power in 2020?

1.     You all wanted an autocratic rule, to abolish most of the court cases pertaining to your family members during anarchy rule of the past 15-year tenure. – if you both are law abiding and honest to the Nation – you would have allowed all the court cases to proceed and proved your innocence through any court for justice. But you didn’t do that, removed them from hearing to prevent ugly shameful surfacing to media of print and electronic.  Therefore, the family rule has accepted that there were cruel blunders and plunders, and now decrying that nothing has been proved and that you don’t have to resign. The hysterical part of it is that you both didn’t allow the court cases proceed to prove otherwise.

2.     The constitutional changes you all undertake only to portray that always respect the law and constitution, where as you and your family have muscled to be unlawful and scant or nil respect for constitution many a times.

3.     By agreeing to bringing back the 19^th amendment you all threw-out couple of years back   with improved version or with another numerical number, so as you always imply, you both are yet again are muscling to run over whatever put in writing and enacted, an election stunt as well.   

Therefore, as long as you both stay in power as President and Prime Minister whatever constitution enacted will be a waste of time, since both you have amply proved that you are capable of abusing it to bring the country to shambles, the status qua. You never trusted your own judiciary or Constitution, never loved your nation of birth, but the lust for power and the power that make the state wealth at your disposal. Loving the nation means loving the inhabitants, feeling their problems and needs, you never felt that – if you have felt those, you would have tried to solve their immediate requirements rather than trying to bend the constitution to further stay put.

President and the Prime Minister said, “I cannot leave now because, if I leave, the country will become anarchy” hilarious, when majority of public  including war disabled veterans are unable to make their ends to meet – struggling day to day, hour by hour to survive, and you both do not have any immediate solution to deliver anything resolve that struggle – you both didn’t allow the Parliament to at-least as an immediate relieve to reverse the colossal tax concession which heavily burden the Central Bank Sri Lanka (CBSL) as cash depletion – by not tabling any tangible package- motion in order to immediately relieve the burden on CBSL in the Parliament, engineered all the 225 members scratching each other’s back to seek numerical strength for you both pitching as rivalry to waste time and resources- this is chaotic- anarchy – and inaction both of you amply prove you both have not felt the precariousness of daily life of civilians and by staying put further chaos. Another anarchic time-wasting tactic, Deputy Speaker resigns for some reason, the same person contest again for the same post, then why did he resign if he wanted that post? Waste of time 3.5hours and resources, a total of SLR 4.4 million for this election only, the reelect is same person by the name Syiambalapittiya, and render his resignation again, signaling another round of wasting time tactic by the whole lot.

The free meals and beverages to the parliamentarians during the sessions should be withdrawn until further notice - until scarcity of essential commodities are alleviated and all essential commodities and medicine freely available for the civilians. This is to make you all realize that gravity of the situation in which majority of the civilians who could not afford for at least two meals per day for various reasons which is otherwise 3 comfortable in normal circumstances.  

When President and Prime Minister resigns, only, stalemate can be broken and the Constitution of the nation you both are trying to bend yet again to debacle as per your whims, presently has provisions to save the nation and its inhabitants as you both resigns.

  There will be an honest man or woman to steer this resourceful nation out of trouble among the 22 million population, and the nation is not depended on treacherous Rajapaksha family anymore, who are riding on the devoted sacrifices of the heroic soldiers that defeated the LTTE, are now left in the queues with clutches and wheel-chairs for essential commodities, and are important constituent of various Go Gama protesters.   

Electing Candidates to Govern the Nation

Parameters of Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
Public Complaints	Racial hatred Statements	Tax fraudulent	Personal Life	FBI, CIA, Interpol checks.
Police Traffic Summons	Corruption & Bribery	Public Votes	Abuse of Power	World Leaders popularity
Public Summons	Legal Court cases.	Physical fitness	Public or Media speech	Political Achievements

Recently Singapore’s ruling Peoples’ Action Party chose its 4^th nominee for Prime Minister, after 4 years of strict, tedious filtering and performance index review applied on four outstanding candidates. Finally, Mr. Lawrence Wong was chosen to take the responsibility as candidate for the 4th PM Singapore - after the next election in 2025. The ruling Peoples’ Action Party despite in power since independence in 1965 August 9^th – very meticulous in selection of its members and organizational   structure, as it uses Key Performance Indicator (KPI) of an organization to be spot on about its members towards the Nation and the political party.

In contrary In Sri Lanka when a political party win an election with huge majority, its leadership assume that their brain is added fresh cells of intelligence and believe whatever they do will be accepted by public; go for the constitutional changes, to bend the constitution according to their whims, this attitude itself proves that Sri Lankan legislators didn’t show even a scant respect to the existing constitution. Targeting the next election seeks for popular candidate irrespective how the popularity is achieved, and go for vote attractive policies irrespective how it affects the Governance within a Democratic set up.  This is an organizational failure of the political parties than the system itself and before 1980 in all general elections since independence replaced the ruling party by the opposition party, the legislators identified this a as weakness of the voters rather than look into within themselves – changed the electoral process, it has been a curse since 1981, and all 225 don’t want to change this very low probability losing system, despite numerous demands from public to change it.  Our legislators have felt that they could not cope with the existing constitution 20 times within the majoritarian rule insinuation, still not satisfied they are going to change it 21^st time by those same who changed it 18^th time and 20^th time – utter hilarious and hysterical – when insinuation is different to the enacted undertaking via constitution.

Going back to KPI organizational filtering process, applying this to all parliamentarians and president of Sri Lanka each member will notch points the equivalent to Guinness World Record of highest number of members with Highest Points since the majority of the parliamentarians are corrupted and not well socially flaunted; whereas the cut-out point is (ZERO =00).  Each KPI parameter carries one point each time e.g., legal court cases if it is 8 cases 8 points,

The Singaporean Prime Minister nominee elect Mr. Lawrence Wong scored ZERO on the above KPI filtering after he got the highest score in another KPI of Character, Performance, Integrity, Quality and Education/ Job.  This KPI should be applied to improve the Parliament consistency.

Who will tie the bell to the neck of the cat that is going to catch the 226 rats that eating into the country’s coffers if KPI is applied as a filter system with in Sri Lanka, where not a single political party will not involve a filtering of that caliber of Singapore,     Most probable and appropriate choice is a Neutral  office of  a President/Monarch which is only decorative in a newer constitution;  A Neutral office of the President who is not affiliating to any political party, encage with Election Commission and with National Judicial Service omission (NJSC) to monitor political parties and its’ members, next president elect nominee and executing the election laws for and during an election process, the office shall not assume ministerial powers or any other power vested in her /him once the proposed amendment has been enacted.

  Those who spend government coffers to get medical attention in Singapore Hospitals shall swallow this Singaporean medication as well.            

The best natural filtering is, 100% First Pass the Post system of electoral process for Governing System in which 72% for Majority community and 28% for all language and religious minorities of the population represented in the Parliament, that entrusts the sovereignty of the people to elect and dismiss a government at their will within a true Democracy in which equal rights are disposed to all ethnic minorities, through wider devolution of power.