{"id":112865,"date":"2013-11-02T12:14:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T06:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=112865"},"modified":"2013-11-10T15:55:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T10:25:02","slug":"gotas-claim-on-appointing-retired-army-officers-to-civil-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gotas-claim-on-appointing-retired-army-officers-to-civil-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Gota&#8217;s Claim On Appointing Retired Army Officers To Civil Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=R.M.B+Senanayake+&amp;x=10&amp;y=7\">R.M.B Senanayake<\/a> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_72222\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/what-have-we-to-show-for-our-independence\/r-m-b-senanayake\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72222\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72222\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-72222\" title=\"R.M.B. Senanayake\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/R.M.B-Senanayake-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/R.M.B-Senanayake-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/R.M.B-Senanayake-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-72222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">R.M.B. Senanayake<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gotabaya+Rajapaksa&amp;x=15&amp;y=2\">Secretary Defence<\/a><\/span> has pointed out that the demand for the replacement of the Governor <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=G.A.+Chandrasiri&amp;x=13&amp;y=6\">Chandrasiri<\/a><\/span> was not justified merely because he is a retired Army Officer. He has pointed out that Colin Powell a retired U.S Army General was appointed as the Secretary of State in USA.<\/p>\n<p>A better comparison is perhaps General Douglas Mac Arthur who commanded the Pacific Forces that defeated the Japanese. He was appointed as the Commander of the Military Occupation and carried out extensive reforms of the structure of the Japanese State democratizing it and recognizing civil liberties and human rights. Japan was transformed into a democratic State. On April 10, 1946, an election with 78.52% voter turnout among men and 66.97% among women gave Japan its first modern prime minister, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shigeru_Yoshida\">Shigeru Yoshida<\/a><\/span>. The 1947 Constitution also enfranchised women, guaranteed fundamental human rights, strengthened the powers of Parliament and the Cabinet, and decentralized the police and local government.<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter the Military retreated to the background. Troops\u00a0 were reduced drastically and when the Korean War broke out shortly thereafter the balance U.S troops were deployed in South Korea. The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Treaty_of_San_Francisco\">San Francisco Peace Treaty<\/a><\/span> signed on September 8, 1951 marked the end of the Allied occupation, and after it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Came_into_force\">came into force<\/a><\/span> on April 28, 1952, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japan\">Japan<\/a><\/span> was once again an independent country, but with a democratic Constitution for the first time in its history.<\/p>\n<p>General Chandrasiri was the Commanding Officer I believe during the war against the\u00a0 LTTE. True that he is now a civilian but does he have the flexibility of mind to change from being a military officer who waged war to a peace time Governor who will respect the Tamil people and their representatives. Could he be committed to democratic rule and respect the rights of the NPC to govern\u00a0 according to the wishes of the Tamil people like General Douglas Mac Arthur did after the occupation of Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":48414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,6968],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editorial","category-popular-columns"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gota&#039;s Claim On Appointing Retired Army Officers To Civil Service  - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gotas-claim-on-appointing-retired-army-officers-to-civil-service\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gota&#039;s Claim On Appointing Retired Army Officers To Civil Service  - 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