As lawmakers in Sri Lanka celebrate the 70th anniversary of the country’s parliamentary democracy, minorities including Tamils, Christians and Muslims remain in the minority of the country. Even with some representation in Parliament, the minorities complain they have been sidelined by the majority Buddhist Sinhalese. The Sinhalese-controlled legislature has done little to help the people. From the quarter of a century civil war that ended back in 2009. They still refuses to acknowledge or investigate allegations. With tensions rising, including the prime minister has even questioned whether Sri Lanka has been successful in its seven-decade state-building process. Others say that, while democracy, based on the majority rule, has surprisingly helped Sri Lanka on many fronts. It has also caused much harm. Locals still argue that the political system has increased divisions in the tropical island nation. When they’ve pushed so hard for their statehood, which is supposed to be a positive thing, it’s just turned around and now is still causing the same problems. With that said, within the past few years, the first post-independence Parliament stripped hundreds of thousands of mostly The Tamil tea plantation workers of the Indian origin of their citizenship and their right to vote. Their parliament gave the reason that the tea plantation ‘demanded’ a form of self government which caused the parliament to take such action. With that said, the Tamil tea company has given many peaceful protests to try and gain at least their right to vote back. Thats just one example of the many people they have taken the right to vote from and haven’t let them give a say in what ideas they have to help improve everyones way of life. I don’t believe its right to strip somebody of their citizenship just because they have different view points. Everybody has a different opinion., and I believe everybody should have their right to be heard.
