State of Emergency declared in Sri Lanka
Posted by Editor on July 18, 2022 - 8:00 am
A Gazette Extraordinary has been issued declaring a state of emergency in Sri Lanka with effect from today (July 18).
The state of emergency has been declared in a proclamation by Sri lanka’s Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe in terms of Article 40 (1) (C) of the Constitution, by virtue of the powers vested in him by Section 2 of the Public Security Ordinance (Chapter 40), as amended by Act No. 8 of 1959, Law No. 6 of 1978 and Act No. 28 of 1988.
According to the gazette, the public emergency in Sri Lanka has been declared in the interests of public security, the protection of public order and the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the life of the community.
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Thanks. Have some control. Earlier, there were three months the country had no control whatsoever and we saw what it led to. Worry a bit less about human right mantra when used for convenience and with ulterior motives.
That’s fine Indra. The thing is how long it will continue for, a week, a month, or a year?
It depends on many internal as well as external factors such as NATO somehow involved in the war between Russia and Ukraine and current oil price increase by many folds or not at all available to countries like SL, and how much agitation to those events will be going on and to what extent the public will be following those agitators, thinking it all is up to the SL government, nothing will beyond the control of SL government.
Besides, there are provisions in the constitution that the Emergency condition cannot be extended beyond a certain short period without the approval of the parliament. People have appointed their representatives just 2.5 years ago. They can influence their respective parliament representatives to vote according to their wish in the vote to extend the emergency condition. If they don’t like their reps they voted for 2.5 years ago into the parliament, sorry they have to wait for the next election, because they appointed them for 5 years, The remaining time before the next election they can spend learning about right questions to ask in husting and how to scrutinise candidates’ plans to usher the voters to the prosperity, before casting the vote next time.
Hey Cleaner, why are you worried for how long it will be? By your own repeat admissions here, you are not Sri Lankan but you keep coming here and poking your nose! Surely if you have free time, cannot you take another toilet cleaning job in the west while also devoting time to learn proper English? I know as a refugee (in your case a fake refugee), you are provided all kinds of handouts from the western govts, but surely that does not mean you should waste time here.