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Religious Apartheid, Ethnic Entrapment Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Two phenomena strike me as emblematic of the process carrying us from 2019 through 2020 to 2021. Firstly, the new Ministry of Public Security which has a retired Rear-Admiral as Minister, has as its Secretary, a retired Major-General, the outgoing Chief of National Intelligence, who is currently a member of the Presidential Task Force for a Virtuous Etc. Society. This symbolizes the continuing, unprecedented process of the militarization of the state; a structural change that encases the 20 th amendment and renders it something ...
Thursday, 17 December 2020 00:20 - On the one hand, we have the militarisation of public security, including the control of the Police force which is to be raised to 100,000 members, supplementing the ongoing (Chinese-style) “grid management” neighbourhood and village-level system of intelligence gathering. On the other hand, we have an insensitive policy about the dead bodies of Muslims; a policy that is not only heartless but also brainless, since the true story of the burning of the body of an infant can generate waves of shock, horror, and outrage, across the Muslim...