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Article: A humanitarian gesture
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- The Sunday Observer
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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Colombo, March 1 -- The continent of Africa has seen many tragedies without respite with the feverish heat of Portugal and Spain with other European nations finding a sea route to India to grab the famed wealth of India brought in its train untold upheavals with reverberating effects on the entire known world at that time and even today. In rounding the African continent and the discovery of the highly advanced and rich Americas, a new dimension in every facet of human civilization is seen.
These discoveries devastated the fabric of Asia Africa and America leaving these lands in a State of annihilation and inertia. The imperialist powers built their economies and empires without serious ...