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Sri Lanka’s independence: falsehoods and hard facts

By Janaka Perera The biggest falsehood some of our politicians and some historians have been spreading over the past 70 years is that Sri Lanka won her independence from Britain in a ‘bloodless struggle’. The hard fact is that there was no independence struggle as such after the Matale uprising of 1848 was brutally suppressed. […]

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