Comments on: Modern Dictatorships through the Mirror: Time for us to be Conscious

By: ram

ram — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:23:05 +0000

In reply to Ravana.

Well, Ravana, if you are a type of person who lives up to his name then you must be a sick perv’ who will travel thousand of miles to grab someone else’s woman. nevertheless, we all know what really happened to ravan and his brothers.

talking of singapore, true Lee family plays a pivotal role, yet, the President is a tamil minority, the deputy prime minister is of sri lankan tamil origin who was previously the finance minister.

you want to learn from singapore and try singapore method, then we will all love you for it.

but will you ever?
No. Because you are a ‘ravana’ remember?

By: wijayapala

wijayapala — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:04:20 +0000

In reply to silva. Dear silva, MR still has to win elections without the term limits. The biggest loser from the 18th Amendment was not democracy but Basil Rajapaksha.

By: sabbe laban

sabbe laban — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:05:10 +0000

NATO’s military intervention in Libya is said to be due to,”…Gadhafi is killing his own people”. Why don’t they interfere is Syria when the Syrian dictator too goes on killing his own people in hundreds daily? Is it because he is in good books of the “policeman”?

By: Srilankan

Srilankan — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:30:40 +0000

This is a very good article. This is what happens to a country when the majority of the population cannot think for themselves. In one of the past elections, Paba received more votes than a veteran politician like KJ. This is the kind of people we have in SL. MR is using the same tactics used by our invaders. Few hundreds of Europeans were able to control a country for years with the support of greedy Sri Lankans. No one is willing to criticize MR because they don’t want to loose what they get from him. Even though general public has the power to send these people home, we only see green and blue when it comes to elections. After all our government represent who we are. I really feel sorry for those Sri Lankans who want to see a better SL. I believe that one day SL will be a like Brazil or Venezuela.

By: PresiDunce Bean

PresiDunce Bean — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:12:14 +0000

In reply to Patta Pal. @Patta Pal It all depends on the "Budhimath Janathaawa" of this country whether Mr.U No Hoo and his family rule for 42 or 84 years.

By: Patta Pal

Patta Pal — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:39:14 +0000

Let us sincerely hope we do not have to wait for 42 years before we can reclaim the space for real freedom in Sri Lanka

By: silva

silva — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:22:29 +0000

In reply to wijayapala.

Very mild dictatorship?

‘’ The 18th Amendment to the Constitution which was recently passed by Parliament with a two thirds majority has removed restrictions on the term limits of the President and has also strengthened his hands by replacing the Constitutional Council by a Parliamentary Council consisting of five members. This Amendment has virtually made the incumbent President the equivalent of a monarch or more precisely an all powerful sovereign head of state. …. Having received a nearly two thirds mandate the incumbent President opted to further consolidate power in the Presidency as one of the first steps after receiving the mandate. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, they say. The incumbent President’s stand to continue the presidency despite his repeated pledges to the nation to abolish it is a gross betrayal of a nation which held him in high esteem’’ – 18th Amendment to the Constitution -A Critique, Prof Ashley Perera, 11October 2011, http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2010/10/18th-amendment-to-constitution-critique.html

By: lankamitra

lankamitra — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:09:52 +0000

In reply to Ravana. isn't it better manupilated by a local leader rather than by a foreign companies?

By: Ravana

Ravana — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:07:49 +0000

In reply to PresiDunce Bean. Well said.

By: Tissa Wije

Tissa Wije — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:12:59 +0000

This articleis somewhatconfusing.

WE know that the war in Iraq was conducted to eliminate weapons of mass destruction. Before and after the event there weremany who questioned thishypothesis. The war was conductedby democratically elected mostpowerful countries. Despite the deaths of hundreds of thousands that resulted no country faced sanctions; no decision maker faced criminal charges of Nuremberg sort.

By the writers definition is not the whole world under onder various forms of Dictatorships.