19th Amendment: How Did It All Begin? The Monk And The Man Who Changed History
[Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera]
04/05/2015
With repeated election victories since 2005, the Rajapakse regime had shown signs of being an unstoppable force by early 2012.
Finding a leader to arrest the rapid authoritarian trend was the biggest challenge for those who fought for democracy in Sri Lanka. The regime too, by hook or by crook, successfully sidelined almost all such potential contenders and many frustrated and hopeless democracy activists either left the country or functioned in a low key manner due to safety concerns. Since the pro-peace and pro-democracy voice was suppressed, the looters and the thugs enjoyed a monopoly of governance of this country.
