Comments on: Content digest: Full coverage of the 18th Amendment, 1 – 9 September 2010 https://groundviews.org/2010/09/09/content-digest-full-coverage-of-the-18th-amendment-1-9-september-2010/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=content-digest-full-coverage-of-the-18th-amendment-1-9-september-2010 Journalism for Citizens Sun, 12 Jun 2011 01:14:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: Groundviews https://groundviews.org/2010/09/09/content-digest-full-coverage-of-the-18th-amendment-1-9-september-2010/#comment-32876 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 01:14:30 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=4110#comment-32876 “The timeline… reflects both the genesis of the heinous 18th Amendment and also the occasions mainstream press reported that the President attended / “visited” Parliament.

It was no easy task to compile this. Only a handful ordinary citizens would have the expertise to search for this information online, or elsewhere. There is no easy record retrieval of the President’s attendance in Parliament on its official website. But what is immediately obvious when the scattered media reports are taken as a whole is that the 18th Amendment has in no way at all contributed to a more accountable Executive. ”

Excerpt from ‘Months after the 18th Amendment: Is the Executive really more accountable to Parliament?’, http://groundviews.org/2011/06/11/months-after-the-18th-amendment-is-the-executive-really-more-accountable-to-parliament/

]]> By: Burning_Issue https://groundviews.org/2010/09/09/content-digest-full-coverage-of-the-18th-amendment-1-9-september-2010/#comment-22914 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:59:43 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=4110#comment-22914 Travelling Academic,

I say here, here to your post. MR is a Sri Lankan problem; it is not an issue for me that he can contest more than two terms, but securing powers to appoint election commissioners and senior judges alarm me. This means that, elections can be rigged at will and no one can do anything about it. Even there will be no malpractices; the government/president will be stand accused of autocracy!

Certainly a cause for sadness for all Sri Lankans!

]]> By: Travelling Academic https://groundviews.org/2010/09/09/content-digest-full-coverage-of-the-18th-amendment-1-9-september-2010/#comment-22910 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:30:18 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=4110#comment-22910 @Sarwan
Your’s is a nasty comment and you are forgetting two things: (a) these ugly trends — of centralizing power so much and treating the Constitution as if it were a tax form — will affect Tamils in Sri Lanka as much as it will affect the Sinhalese; my cousins and nephews (Tamils) who want to live in Sri Lanka, see themselves primarily as Sri Lankan and enjoy living there are as worried about these developments as my Sinhala friends there; (b) When we Tamils wanted to do our political business ourselves, we didn’t exactly follow a democratic path amongst ourselves, did we? Large parts of the Tamil population did support the rise of an authoritarian leader (to put it mildly) who brutally suppressed any opposing view, wanted to be leader forever and probably thought of his offspring as next in line. If you think MR wants to be king for life, he might be taking lessons from VP who wanted to be God for life. So there isn’t much of a moral high ground for us, Tamils, to stand on and mock, like what you are doing. We are all in it together!

]]> By: sarwan https://groundviews.org/2010/09/09/content-digest-full-coverage-of-the-18th-amendment-1-9-september-2010/#comment-22896 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:58:21 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=4110#comment-22896 The Sinhalese never ever realised that MR was using Sinhala ego to get votes for his election victory and then abuse against the freedom and rights of others.

What a person sows he reaps. One does not harvest corn if he sows rice !!.

The abuse of Tamils by Sinhalese by legislation, sowed by the Sinhalese is bringing a harvest. Enjoy it !!!

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