T b ilangaratne biography of barack

  • TB Ilangaratne, a family man, a novelist, poet, union leader and politician, born on the 27th of February , passed away peacefully on the.
  • On the 23rd Chu Teh congratulated King Juan Carlos on his proclamation as king (FE/ and ).
  • People on the life and the works of the late T. B.. Ilangaratne and the invaluable services rendered by him to the people;.

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    T B Ilangaratne – A Sri Lankan par Excellence

    21st May, marked the 29th death anniversary of this unassuming colossus who perhaps had done more for the people of Sri Lanka than many others before him and after him.

     

    By Raj Gonsalkorale

    &#;The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing – Edmund Burke

    Edmund Burke was an influential Anglo-Irish politician, orator and political thinker, known for publicly expressing his opposition to the French Revolution. Born in Dublin in , Burke went to London to study law, but soon gave this up and pursued a literary and political career. He became a member of parliament in and had a year career as a political theorist and philosopher. Later praised by both conservatives and liberals, Burke believed that the government should be a cooperative relationship between rulers and subjects. He also said that most men in a nation are not qualified to govern it, stating that those who are elected to represent the

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    History of Sri Lanka (–present)

    The history of Sri Lanka from to the present is marked bygd the independence of the country through to Dominion and becoming a Republic.

    Overview

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    Periodization of Sri Lanka history:

    Dominion (–)

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    Further information: Dominion of Ceylon

    Dominion status followed on 4 February with military treaties with Britain, as the upper ranks of the armed forces were initially British, and British air and sea bases remained intact. This was later raised to independence itself and Senanayake became the first Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. In , with the concurrence of the leaders of the Ceylon Tamils, the UNP government disenfranchised the Indian Tamil plantation workers.[1][2] This was the price that Senanayake had to pay to obtain the support of the Kandyan Sinhalese, who felt threatened by the demographics of the tea estates where the inclusion of the "Indian Tamils" would have meant electoral defeat for the Kandyan leade

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    Foreign Relations of the United States, –, Volume E–8, Documents on South Asia, –

    Airgram A–97 From the Embassy in Sri Lanka to the Department of State12

    Colombo, November 23,

    Tamils in Sri Lanka: Separatism or Compromise?

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    INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY

    There are now kvartet roughly-differentiated categories of politically-involved Ceylon Tamils. They are divided bygd their approach to the future of the Tamil minority within (or without) the nation of Sri Lanka. On a rough continuum from the radicals to those satisfied with the ställning eller tillstånd quo, they range as follows:

    (A)
    The independence fighters. The only formal organization of which we are aware is the Kela Viduthalai Por Eyakam (EVPE—translated variously as the Tamil Youth Revolutionary Front or the Ceylon Independence struggle Front). To this group is attributed responsibility for the assassination in July of Jaffna mayor Alfred Duraiyappah and the subsequent murder of at least one village-level government supporter in