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LankaWeb – HONORING RECENTLY DEPARTED COLLEAGUES

LankaWeb – HONORING RECENTLY DEPARTED COLLEAGUES
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Honouring recently departed colleagues

By Prof. Asoka Bandarage Alas, many outstanding Sri Lankan scholars, journalists and social change activists have passed away in recent months. Here, I would like to honour a few of them personally known to me, some known more closely than others. While I am not able to do justice to the breadth and depth of […]

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LankaWeb – Douglas Wickramaratne: The Perpetual Patriot is no more!

LankaWeb – Douglas Wickramaratne: The Perpetual Patriot is no more!
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LankaWeb – One Country One Law

LankaWeb – One Country One Law
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Douglas Wickramaratne – the warrior who defended SL amidst LTTE threats to his life

by Sujeeva Nivunhella in London There was a time Douglas Wickramaratne, President of the Sinhala Association in the UK, had to be given protection by Scotland Yard after he came under threat for exposing the blatant falsehoods propagated by the LTTE to win the support of the international community. Despite the machinations of the powerful pro-LTTE lobby at the time, the warrior that he was, Wickramaratne held his ground and pushed ahead with his concerted campaign to lay bare the atrocities of the terrorists and expose to the world the campaign of brutal terror perpetrated by the Tigers. Many were the times he traveled to Geneva to attend the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions to help safeguard the interests of Sri Lanka in the face of Tamil diaspora inspired allegations leveled against the government.

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