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Excerpted from volume two of Sarath Amunugama’s autobiography The resolution to disenfranchise Mrs. B and a few others was passed in Parliament by the use of a steamroller majority. Prime Minister Premadasa led the charge and several vituperative UNPers, like Premachandra, made a mockery of the debate by insulting the former Prime Minister. It was […]
Bao Tong, a top official turned leading critic of the Chinese Communist Party, is being mourned from afar this week by his closest friends and supporters, many of whom were barred from attending his funeral on Tuesday. "Elderly Bao," who died in Beijing on November 9 at age 90, "was essentially our spiritual leader," Gao…