Population control, Securing Buddhist heritage & foreign investments

     Preservation of true Sri Lankan Buddhist character is as paramount as securing much-needed-foreign-investments by post-Covid-19 government.  Actors in the jungle of Sri Lankan politics seem to include mainly political parties, regional blocks, religious and ethnic sects, environmentalists and individual politics of each legislators in macro level. From national policy making to road paving in a distant village is understood within these actors’ horizontal and vertical engagements. However, identifying the main actors in Sri Lankan politics are to benefit recognizing national threats, national policy making process and securement of foreign investments in post-Covid-19. Largest minority groups, Tamils, Muslims and Christians and their affiliations to investing nations needed to go through a nuanced assessments. Legislative actions to limit whole population growth and to preserve the true Sri Lankan Buddhist characters within it is paramount in post-LTTE and post-Covid-19 era. The whole world is forced to rethink about its old production module by Covid-19.

        No nation is prepared to give up her true nature for the sake of minority interests. No nation should ever do that. Since, WW II addressing the least disadvantaged individuals within a developing nation has been the way of international realists furthered their own political ends. None of those international actors are dared to reveal the true nature of their own historical discrimination of their own minority, most of the times native, populations. Dis-proportionally dying African Americans in America related to Covid-19 is itself an enough examples. However, the glocalisation has come to a point that everyone can now see this largely hypocritical nature of liberal nations and the work load delivered by their appendages like UN and her organs to their own ends. Our legislators, and in general all developing nations, as a consequence, needed to be smarter to outcome these traditional agendas in coming protectionist international economics.

 

        When our Muslim political actors are proactive in domestic politics, their Arabic investments seems to come with palm-trees-lined-up roads, Sharia law schools and street names in Arabic. When Tamil politicians are proactive in domestic politics, their investments seems to further the historical South Indian narratives of the Island and they are most likely to have entangled with bygone separatist LTTE’s diaspora. When the western liberal nations invest in the Island, so far, the Lutheran Christian interests, individual human rights, is pushed forward, disrupting sustainable growth of the nation. 

            Are we in any position to let these extremists to dwarf the true nature of our Mother land? Our nation is an unmistakably majority Sinhala Buddhist nation. From the legends of Ravana to modern day history, through out all political upheavals, Mother Sri Lanka has trumped as a Buddhist nation. Our duty is to preserve these true historical traits for millenniums to come.

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          Today’s investment-seeking legislators needed to reassure the preservation of interests of largest Buddhist majority in the Island. No foreign investment is sustainable if it violates the foundation of our history, culture and character. This is regardless whether the investments are coming from Middle East, Europe, India or China. 

         To this end and further envisioning the long term identity of our nation, a niche number of population, in which this small landmass can comfortably accommodate in, and its largest share for the native Buddhist population, needed to be secured by the constitution. That will preserve the true minority rights also within this Island.

Author - A.V. Anuradha Samapth

MA in International Security and Law & BA Hon in International Politics.
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