Lakshman Kadirgamar - a true Sri Lankan

Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar has been felled by a wicked assassin's bullet. This is a brief tribute to a true and noble Sri Lankan, from a humble fellow countryman who has shared with him an abiding love for our motherland.

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'Kadirgamar transcended the ethnic divide'

In the world of Diplomacy, Lakshman Kadirgamar almost single-handedly took the battle to the LTTE. "Shopping IS for sissies," said the late Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar at a press conference in Colombo in 1996. A statement by Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne that he could be the victim of a drive-in bombing while shopping in Colombo drew a stinging response from Kadirgamar.

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