The government plans to rule the country through five zonal committees based on ethnicity, the venerable Induragare Dharmaratne Thera alleged. 

The Thera warned against such a move saying it would cause massive bloodshed.

Addressing a press conference today the Thera said, “I want to speak to you about a great problem that will befall our country. The government is preparing to bring in zonal committees. The government intends to establish five zones in Sri Lanka and rule through those five zones. What is scary is that the government is planning to divide these zones based on ethnicity.”

“By separating the country into five ethnicity based divisions, they are preparing to push Sri Lanka into worse divisions than experienced before. If the country is divided into five zones and there is also a central government, then there are six authorities in the country. This separation into units is part of the ambition to bring about a ‘federal government’, the Thera further alleged.

The Thera alleged that by separating the country into ethnicity-based divisions the government was putting Sri Lanka on the path of escalated violence and there would soon be bloodshed in the country.