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When will India stops interfering with the internal affairs of Sri Lanka?

Sudath Gunasekara PhD. (S.L A. S). President Senior Citizens Movement .Mahnuwara 15.July 2010 .I reproduce below a news report by a special correspondent that appeared in the Hindu of 18th July 2010. “CHENNAI, July 16, 2010PM seeks views of Chief Minister on Sri LankaPrime Minister Manmohan Singh has sought views and advice of Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on ways to be adopted for the process…

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An Independent Afro-Asian UNO to replace the Western dictated UNO?

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara. 7.7.2010 September last year I wrote on the need for an independent Afro-Asian UNO in view of the anti Asian and anti African attitude of the UNO under its present dominanceƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  by the western powers. Now with the final appointment of a Committee by its Secretary General under the pressure from these powers…

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The 13th Amendment The Road to EELAM both here and in India.

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) 28.6.2010 The 13th amendment is the biggest political blunder ever committed by any government in the political history of this nation. At least it is so in recent history since the Kandyan Convention entered upon between this country and the British Empire on the 2nd of March 1815. Though temporally, the Kandyan Convention marked the complete subjugation of this…

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Only a Popularly Elected person should be appointed as the Prime Minister. A Point of view.

Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara 14. 4. 2010Now the elections are over the appointment of the Prime Minister appears to have come to the forefront of the political stage. The President by now might have already made his choice. In that case this note will be utterly irrelevant. Nevertheless assuming that it has not been finalized as yet the following ideas may…

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Proportional Representation System that killed Democracy in Sri Lanka

Dr Sudath Gunasekara. President, Mahanuwara Senior Citizens Movement. 4.4.2010 Proportional Representation system that has messed up and ruined the entire election system was introduced to Sri Lanka by the 1978 Constitution. Prior to that, representatives to the Parliament were elected on a simple electoral basis where one voter had one vote. Under that system elections were held by electorates…

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The Joke that is Representative Democracy in Sri Lanka

Sudath Gunasekara. President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara  12.3.2010 Why does a political cartoonist call the MP Magodistuma. Is it the best word that describes the character of a present day politician in this country? The idea of representative democracy had its origin in early Greece and Rome. They evolved it as the numbers involved in governing increased and became un-manoeureble. So…

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An open questionnaire for the joint opposition and political analysts and a note on the responsibilities of the citizens in the post-Presidential Election period.

Dr Sudath Gunasekara. President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara Ranil Wickramasinha received 4,706,336 votes in 2005. This comprised mainly the UNP block vote in the other parts of the country and the Estate votes. This time too UNF got majority of Estate votes. Then how did it come down to 4,000,00 at this election. Is it the strength of the UNP defectors who are now with the government? Or…

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Some Thoughts for Good Governance and National Development

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara President Senior Citizens Movement, Mahanuwara Many a critique has been written in recent times on the problem of good governance and development in this country in the post ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢¢”š¬…”independent period. Therefore this is only another lonely attempt to look, may be desperately, at these issues from a new perspective in order to draw the attention of those who are…

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An Open letter to all Political Parties and Politicians who wish to govern this Country in the Years to come. (Some Random Thoughts on Good Governance and Democracy in Sri Lanka)

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara President Mahanuwara Senior Citizens Movement Everybody these days is talking about “ƒ”¹…”good governance’ and “ƒ”¹…”Democracy’ although none of those who alternatively come to power, pledging for good governance and democracy is least concerned about them after assuming power. They are only empty political slogans used as catch words and baits to hook the voters. They all…

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Common Candidate a Storm in a Tea Cup? It is only another political gimmick by the dormant opposition and reactionary forces to destabilize the government

Dr Sudath Gunasekara. President Senior Citizens Movement, Mahanuwara 2.11.2009. Politically popular but utterly stale terms like political solution, devolution of power, minority aspirations and Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism and even independence of the press etc appears to have been eclipsed and temporally replaced by a newly invented political catch word; ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”Common…

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When will communal Tamil politicians of Sri Lanka give up their ultra-communal politics and learn to live in harmony with the Sinhalese and when will our politicians put the country first before self interest?

Sudath Gunasekara. President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara. 24.10.2009. I have been curiously following some of the latest developments brewing in the political field during the past two weeks. I think first it is pertinent to make few comments firstly on two important statements made by two Tamil politicians last week and secondly on the utterly irresponsible and idiotic behavior of the…

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Some serious threats to democracy arising from the Abduction of a Buddhist Monk and pouring arrack on him by a SPC member.

Sudath Gunasekara. President Senior Citizens Movement Maahnuwara 20. 10. 2009 It was reported that a Southern Provincial Council Member has been summoned to appear in court for abducting a Buddhist monk and pouring arrack on him. This high handed action on the part of this provincial councilor is unprecedented and therefore it should be taken very seriously by all concerned and should be…

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I would like to draw the serious attention of the Government of Sri Lanka to the following news Item appeared in THE HINDU National NewspaperTuesday, Oct 06, 2009

Dr.Sudath. Gunasekara. President Senior Citizens Movement. Kandy 6.10.2009. Refugees seek dual citizenship Madurai\Tirunelveli\Tiruchi, Oct. 5: While Indian Tamil descendants of the island nation living in refugee camps here rejoice over the DMKƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s proposal for permanent resident status, Sri Lankan Tamil refugees apprehensive over future demand dual citizenship. As a race we are…

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Sampanthan and Hakeem Co.-For Heaven sake Please Stop Sowing Seeds of Communal Hatred and Division any further at Least Now!

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) President Senior Citizens Movement .Mahanuwara 2.10.2009. Obscurity generates fear; darkness crushes the very inside of us; nights could be pleasing but for a very short chunk of time. This, I think, is exactly what has happened to our communal minority politicians in Sri Lanka who refuse to accept the stark reality, that this country on earth is the non-negotiable…

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Congratulations Karunanidhi!

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) 28.9.2009. It was reported that Tamilnadu Chief Minister has very correctly decided to give Indian Citizenship to all Sri Lankan refugees who are living there. I am not sure whether he could do this under the Indian Constitution, since the decision has to be finally taken by the Central government. Any way I wish him good luck and congratulate him for this bold…

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An Independent Asian UNO to replace the Western dictated UNO?

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) 27.9.2009. Going by how things are been currently manipulated at the UNO by the West and its allies and how shabbily and discriminately Asian countries like ours are treated, I fully endorse L. Jayasooriya’s proposition (Asian Tribune) that we must look for an alternative Asianš‚  (or Afro-Asian) UNO in place of the present West dominated (United Neo-colonial Outfit)…

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Trekking 830 feet in to the Interior of the Earth: Carlsbad Mystery

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Sept.5.2009. It was the 5th day of September year 2009. It was the day on which I descended 850 feet deep down in to the interior of the earth for the first time in life. Among my companions were my wife, son-in law and Nishanthi, the six year little girl, in a group of about thirty people of different ages, ranging from year old to, late seventies, who had come from…