By Mayantha Dissanayake M.P. | Sunday Observer

By Mayantha Dissanayake M.P.

I was just a toddler when a little-known militant group, the LTTE, issued a communique on April 25, 1978, boasting of having assassinated nearly a dozen predominantly Tamil political leaders and police officers, including the Jaffna Mayor Alfred Duraiappah. As sectarian violence in the North continued to escalate, President Jayewardene and his Cabinet, in which my father...
24 February, 2019
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