Article: An outstanding patriot

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The Sunday Observer
Article date:
February 15, 2009
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Colombo, Feb. 15 -- In an age, when the majority of politicians of every hue, in Sri Lanka, scramble for both power and its myraid appurtenances and the forces of division are rife in this country, it seems opportune to reflect of a long forgotten patriot of the calibre of E.W. Perera who was willing, though a committed Christian, to risk his very life for his fellow Buddhists. It is especially opportune as his 56th death anniversary, falls today, Feb.15 and our Independence, from foreign rule for which he expended the better part of his life has just been celebrated with much pomp and circumstance!

Maybe a superficial comparison between patriots then and politicians now, may be a fruitful ...

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