Sri Lanka Government’s Human Rights violations – My personal experience and observations

 

Sri Lanka Government’s Human Rights violations –

My personal experience and observations

 

This enlisting has to be begun with ruling system since every aspect of Human Right Violations (HRV) emanates from thereon, either the directly or indirectly; even the later heavily relies on government policy of Majoritarian Rule, which itself has emancipated off vicious cycle of survival politics of rulers, entrenched within the ostentatious democratic system, though heavily strangulated all minorities alike the system has not let down the suffering for even the huge section of majority community. A cruel fact that has not been understood by modern day politicians, and still seek to be silkily embedded within the same ostentatious democratic system- for further push the nation into a completely dilapidated State.  

The prime Human Right Violation culprit is the Parliamentary activity processing itself; before digging into the degraded Parliamentary activities, it becomes inevitable due to prevailing situation in the country, to explain what it is actually meant by National Security of a Nation; it carries a broader sense, than illy conceived many politicians, as of just defending a religion and its community through ammunition wielding, and its’ related  infrastructural heaps – National Security involves ensuring food safety of the all civilians alike  within a nation. If a certain section of national population suffers due to its inability to consume sufficient food for mere survival that will lead to an unhealthy inhabitant and an unhealthy State. Thus, Food Safety is a strict National Security issue and rendering the population, inaccessible for safe food consumption is a huge Human Right Violation as well even it is done by an elected government which itself is very questionable claim at the moment through sequence events took place. Even worst HRV is that ruling party of the country making easy avail safe food consumption only for party supporters. This has been the major issue, since early 2020. as present government took office and it is the very reason ruling government prefers Retired Officers of Security Forces over the Administrative Civil Servants and leads to the total infringement of free-thinking voters. Security forces' main objective is to ensure civilians of the nation irrespective of their ethnicity live peacefully- undertake their livelihood- at no circumstances security forces can depend on the civilians' living and /or livelihood-property to expand security forces' comfort. It is a blatant HRV with arrogance, to order grabbing the civilian property for armed forces' comfort need without the civilian consent concerned at first hand, and without adequate compensation for their loss of civilians'  living and /or livelihood-property, because they are "just" minority community.     

Now it is very appropriate to go back to where are all HRV emanates fundamentally.  It is the unequivocal right of the voters to know how their elected members behaving within parliament and how those members workout for self-accountability and how they designate themselves towards supervising the various financial functions and institutional activities of public enterprises. Any attempt by any means to occlude or to cover-up activities towards self-accountability and institutional frauds is a HRV that infringes the unequivocal right of the voters. Any parliamentary subcommittee that consists of more than nine members, and that has not been led by an opposition party member should be deemed as scheme to cover-up the fraudulent practices of the ruling party and self-involvement in institutional fraud and corruption as well.  

Thus appointing more than 25 members mainly of the ruling party to the COPE clearly indicates that, it is a deliberate action to dilute the intensity of inquiries, waste of time frame, waste of resources even during the critical economic situation of the nation, which is also headed by a ruling party member, an attitude of “we are the powerful,  we will involve whatever corruption and fraud and we will  cover it up and self-portraying propaganda  using the Parliamentary Processing, with arrogance of overriding the principled objectives  of Parliamentary Processing  of appropriate accountability.

 All reflecting on blatant human right violation, reflects the recklessness and disregard to the voter the elector, component of the so-called democracy and if you all are not fearing the Parliamentary Subcommittee inquiries – reconstitute the all the Parliamentary Subcommittees to be maximum nine members presided by an opposition party member, it should have minimum 5 members from political parties other than ruling parties.  

“Mathana-Mutha” interpretation of Democracy – forcing the majority criteria in every sneak corner of the administrative system, have paved way for unabated massive and corruption and fraud in every sneak corner of the administration. The Parliament cannot continue to function towards becoming a convenient arm of autocratic ideology and ultimate failure of proper accountability of any activity, which has craved into the nation’s economy.  Outside the Parliament the same “Mathana-Mutha” interpretation of Democracy nationwide – has created horrendous Human Right Violations, particularly against peaceful veneration in venerating places of minorities alike. An appropriate devolution of power where minorities are concentrated, shall ensure the minorities worshiping peacefully and undertake their own cultural rituals without any hindrance off anyone.

It is very disgusting to note that most of the Parliamentarians, maintaining colossal amount of arears over very long period to the Ceylon Electricity Board and Water Supply and Drainage Board, and burdening the treasury coffers very heavily- which is an act of violating the fundamental rights of people who pay up the tariffs regularly, especially when just one delay, propel the officers to disconnect the supply to other citizens.

All Parliamentarians including the Cabinet Ministers and State Ministers shall ensure their personal use water and electricity bill are paid from their monthly salary regularly – shall not be parasites of government coffers for their every aspect of living.