(Lanka-e-News-19.April.2012, 2.00PM) It is obvious to witness the sentiment of exaggeration is quite a usual habit of gullible Sri Lankan. From the ordinary human to the head of state is engage in overstating insignificant matters which are not greatest importance of priority. This exaggeration is more visible among the politicians when speaking about the word sovereignty of Sri Lanka. Lets us take this opportunity to describe the word sovereignty to the gullible people of Sri Lanka who fall victims to the corrupt politicians who misleads the community for the meaning of the word SOVEREIGNTY.
National sovereignty means that a nation-state (or a pluri-national state) is a political unit or community entitled to its unity and territorial integrity, and has the right to determine its own path, regulate its own affairs, without external domination, intervention or interference in its internal affairs.
People’s sovereignty means that the right to rule rests with the people, who decide who rules, how and for how long. If the rulers violate this social contract, this sacred trust, the people have the right to replace, even overthrow them. The Sri Lankan Constitution makes explicit that as a republic, sovereignty is vested in the people, who exercise it through a regularly and periodically elected Executive president and legislature.
Individual rights pertain to the sovereign individual person; to the equality of every citizen, who is inalienably possessed of a stock of rights and freedoms which must not be transgressed upon.
Self-determination refers to the right of a collective to determine its own destiny. The structural coordinates of that collective or community impose limitations upon the degree to which the right of self determination is exercised. The right to set up an independent state belongs to a nation, not a national minority. An established nation-state possesses the right of self determination. The entire nation and not one part of it, is the legitimate agency of self determination. A nation which is under colonial occupation or annexation has the right of self determination (e.g. Occupied Palestine). An ethno-national minority, on the other hand, has a structurally more limited right to self governance and self administration, which may be termed the right to autonomy.
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