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We, Sri lankans celebrated our 62nd independence day on 4th Feb 2010. We achieved independence and self rule from the British empire 62 years ago (in 1948). This is considered as a remarkable milestone of Sri Lankan history as the country (or a part of it) was always under some foreign custody since 1505 A.D.
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1505 - Portuguese come in
1660 - Dutch take over the control
1802 - British get the Dutch controlled areas
1815 - British take the control of whole island by defeating last kingdom (Kandy) of the country
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4th Feb 1948 is the day we got the full political freedom after about three and half centuries. So no doubt it is a glorious day we should celebrate. However this time independence day celebration was very much special. Actually it was a celebration of real independence after 30 years of war(people like me who were born in the era of war, had not ever witnessed a real independence). It was the first independence day celebration after defeating Tamil tiger terrorist group (LTTE) which is responsible for 30 year war in Sri Lanka. The day the LTTE leader "Velupille Prabhakaran" was killed (18th May 2009), should be the second independence day of Sri Lanka.
Deviating from the tradition, this independence day celebration was held in Kandy, being the last sovereign kingdom of the country, seems to be the most suitable place for the purpose.
This blog is a good blog since it shows the recent threats to our nation. I think what everyone should take from this is that there will always be some group out there who will try to destroy this country, whether they popup every decade or every century, you can be sure to expect them to find and entry to create mayham. What we should understand in this independence day is that we should always use our heads straight and not to give in to emotion.
ReplyDeleteThat's true Saminda, these things happened coz our people didn't cut the thing away using the nail, but waited to use an ax. It was too late when the king or government identifies the threat.
ReplyDeletePortuguese shouldn't have been allowed to penetrate and be established in such a peaceful and easy way. Our people had to suffer more than 3 centuries coz of that mistake. Same thing happened with LTTE too.
As you said "We should always use our heads straight".
Thanks sis for article, I think now we are in top in the world. that's why NYT selected as #1
ReplyDeleteref:http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/travel/2010-places-to-go.html
thanks everyone who bring our mother land for current stage.
You are welcome...and yes we should thankful to everyone who contributed to make her better....
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