LANKA STANDARD
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka | Published on October 18, 2011Election violence and death marred polls. Duminda Silva's Wellampitiya office set on fire after Baratha Lakshman Premachandra was killed in a shoot out between the two factions on election day October 8, 2011
Is this a functioning democracy or what? The governing coalition’s sweep of the local authorities election, the UNP’s successful resistance in a tough campaign in Colombo, as well as the TNA’s impressive performance at repeated elections in the North, make nonsense of the dark pronouncements and forebodings of dictatorship. Homogenization leads to conformism, which crystallises into a monolith, which translates itself into a dictatorship of discourse and opinion, which straitjackets society and creates a de-facto dictatorship. The results of the local authorities election proves that Sri Lankan society will not allow itself to be straitjacketed into conformity. We are, in short, a democracy.
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Sunday, October 16, 2011
Impunity lies at the heart of the Kolonnawa killings “A foul, dishonourable crew….” Giaccomo Leopardi (To Angelo Mai III) By Tisaranee Gunasekara In the Rajapaksa Security State, insecurity is the common condition of the rest of us… Impunity makes jungles out of civilised societies, where the big and the powerful prey on those smaller andRead More »
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Criminal Governance » Impunity lies at the heart of the Kolonnawa killings “A…
Sunday, October 16, 2011- Impunity lies at the heart of the Kolonnawa killings
“A foul, dishonourable crew….” Giaccomo Leopardi (To Angelo Mai III)
By Tisaranee Gunasekara
Impunity lies at the heart of the Kolonnawa killings “A foul, dishonourable crew….” Giaccomo Leopardi (To Angelo Mai III) By Tisaranee Gunasekara In the Rajapaksa Security State, insecurity is the common condition of the rest of us… Impunity makes jungles out of civilised societies, where the big and the powerful prey on those smaller andRead More »