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H.L.D. Mahindapala is a Sri Lankan journalist who was Editor, Sunday Observer (1990-1994), President, Sri Lanka Working Journalists’ Association (1991-1993) and Secretary-General, South Asia Media Association (1994).
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan 14 2021 (IPS) - Democracy is fragile. It is more fragile that the window panes of the Congress that were smashed by the mob unleashed by President Donald Trump. It is the ultimate symbol of the desecration of American democracy.
The world watched in horror as the misinformed, misguided, politically driven mob went berserk destroying not so much the material that stood in their way but the fundamental values of the holiest shrine of democracy that came crumbling down with not a single guardian of the law in sight to stop it.
Posted on January 11th, 2021
H. L. D. Mahindapala
Democracy
is fragile.
It is more
fragile that the window panes of the Congress that were smashed by the mob
unleashed by President Donald Trump. It is the ultimate symbol of the
desecration of American democracy. The world watched in horror as the
misinformed, misguided, politically driven mob went berserk destroying not so
much the material that stood in their way but the fundamental values of the
holiest shrine of democracy that came crumbling down with not a single guardian
of the law in sight to stop it.
It was a
sad spectacle. A delusional Trump, who refused to accept the grim realities facing