Time’s Music - Richard de Zoysa at fifty

I believe it was Richard’s death that changed all that. There was a public outcry, which was taken up internationally. The government of the time was after all the chosen instrument of the elite, that still makes decisions, that still constitutes the lens through which much of the West looks at us, and they had had no great problem with President Premadasa’s suppression of the JVP.

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