This won’t end well..
The Straits Times reports..
COLOMBO (AFP) – A Sri Lankan Buddhist monk long accused of fanning sectarian hatred will head a new task force on legal reforms in the ethnically and religiously fractured nation, according to a government announcement.
The 13-member “Presidential Task Force for One Country, One Law” has no representatives from the Tamil ethnic minority but does contain four Muslims, the country’s second-largest minority.
There are no women on the committee.
The panel was announced in a government notification late on Tuesday (Oct 26) and given four months to compile a report so that “all citizens are treated alike in the eye of the law”.
The committee has been set up to replace special legislation around marriage and inheritance for Sri Lanka’s minorities as well as some for the majority Sinhalese and bring all communities under one blanket law.
Many of the countries special family laws are heavily patriarchal and disadvantage women.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/controversial-sri-lankan-monk-heads-legal-reforms-panel
