It's time for Sangakkara's class to recall Martin Niemoller's poem over the right of free speech
The Minister has directed the Sri Lanka Cricket interim Chairman to look into if Sangakkara's criticism on the Sri Lanka cricket administration amounted breach of sports law of the country.
Stating "In Sri Lanka, cricket and politics have been synonymous", Sangakkara went on to say "After 1996 the cricket board has been controlled and administered by a handful of well-meaning individuals either personally or by proxy rotated in and out depending on appointment or election. Unfortunately to consolidate and perpetuate their power they opened the door of the administration to partisan cronies that would lead to corruption and wonton waste of cricket board finances and resources..................
Read in full in Lanka Polity
මේ ලිපියට ඔබ කැමති නම් වෙන අයත් එක්කත් බෙදා ගන්න
give us sinhala translation.
ReplyDeletePoliticization means corruption...nothing else...politicians haven't left anything which brings money...its is the politicians and their cronies not the capitalist who are exploit the surplus of industry...when Cricket became a lucrative industry they jumped on to the cricket pitch...that was the main argument in the speech...as far as I am concerned...
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