Comments on: Sovereignty for Citizens: A Call to Restore the Republic! https://groundviews.org/2010/09/10/sovereignty-for-citizens-a-call-to-restore-the-republic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sovereignty-for-citizens-a-call-to-restore-the-republic Journalism for Citizens Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:13:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: kumudu https://groundviews.org/2010/09/10/sovereignty-for-citizens-a-call-to-restore-the-republic/#comment-22939 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:13:18 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=4121#comment-22939 The following obituary appeared in Ceylon Daily News, of March 22, 1974.

“O’CRACY – The death occurred under tragic circumstances of D E M O’CRACY, beloved husband of T Ruth, loving father of L I Bertie, brother of Faith and Justice. Interred on Saturday, 20th inst – Araliya Medura, Panagiyawatte, Anduruwala.”

]]> By: PresiDunce Bean https://groundviews.org/2010/09/10/sovereignty-for-citizens-a-call-to-restore-the-republic/#comment-22935 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:28:47 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=4121#comment-22935 Sri Lanka is NO LONGER a Republic!

Welcome to “The DemoCrazy TheoCrazy International Conspiracy of Jilmart.”

…where

War is Peace…
Freedom is Slavery…
Ignorance is Strength…
Good is Bad…
Bad is Good…
Heroes are Traitors…
Traitors are Heroes…
and
One Family Rule is DemoCrazy!

(with apologies to George Orwell)

]]> By: kumudu https://groundviews.org/2010/09/10/sovereignty-for-citizens-a-call-to-restore-the-republic/#comment-22933 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:48:51 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=4121#comment-22933 what we call modern republics are in fact, bourgeois, parliamentary, representative democracies, and their existence is bound with modernity and capitalism. Imagining a genuine citizenship would require us to think against modernity and capitalism.

]]> By: eeurekaa https://groundviews.org/2010/09/10/sovereignty-for-citizens-a-call-to-restore-the-republic/#comment-22932 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:33:27 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=4121#comment-22932 ”…version that resembles more closely a colonial dominion, but with one tragic difference ñ our conquerors come from within our own ranks. …”

Fourth World Colonialism, Indigenous Minorities And Tamil Separatism In Sri Lanka, Bryan Pfaffenberger (Virginia University), Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 16, 1984:
”Despite the withdrawal of colonial power from Third World countries, forms of oppression that might well be termed “colonial” still persist in many of them — the oppression wrought by nationalist Third World governments whose regimes fail to respect the rights of indigenous minorities. For ethnic and regional minorities in many Third World countries, the arrogance and injustice of these governments matches — and often exceeds — those of the departed European colonial regime. The island nation Sri Lanka presents a case in point. Little public investment appears to reach the Tamil lands….”

POWER SHARING AS PEACE STRUCTURE: THE CASE OF SRI LANKA, IICP Working Paper, No. 2, 2005, JOHAN GALTUNG, Professor of Peace Studies, Director, TRANSCEND: ‘’External Colonialism: Democracy :: Internal Colonialism: Human Rights”

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