CFA: The historic betrayal
An insight to the blackest episode in
Post-Independence Sri Lanka:
On this day exactly eight years ago the country
witnessed one of the most appalling acts of treachery when the
sovereignty of the nation was bartered away by the Prime Minister of
the country to a ruthless band of terrorists whose avowed goal was
to wrest one thirds of the country’s land mass and two third of its
maritime border under its control.
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February 22, 2010: Two versions
What happened in Sri Lanka eight years ago, do
you remember, ladies and gentlemen? Do you remember the colour of
the sky that morning? Do you remember how that day was heralded as
the launching of peace and prosperity for all time and a day or two
more to boot? Do you remember when there were white doves set free,
trees planted to mark the historic moment? Do you know that on that
occasion, a Prime Minister called all editors of newspapers and
nicely told them not to criticize the Government or that process
towards peace he had launched?
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Tapping the best resources
Centenary celebration of the Rubber Research
Institute (RRI) of Sri Lanka, the oldest rubber research institute
in the world, falls this month. Research on rubber in Sri Lanka was
started by British planters as far back as 1909, in the field of
coagulation of rubber latex obtained from the Hevea tree.
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