105^th birth anniversary of late ‘S.W.R.D’  

[January 8, 2004 - 10.30 GMT] 

Sri Lankans today commemorate the 105^th birth anniversary of late Prime Minister, S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike. The Oxford educated legal luminary was elected Prime Minister in 1956. Bandaranaike led a peaceful but a powerful social revolution of the ordinary masses, and helped the common man achieve equality and dignity after centuries of foreign rule. He was assassinated three years into his Premiership, the first such political assassination in post independent Sri Lanka.

This year to mark this event a floral tribute will be paid to the statue of late Premier, opposite Galle Face Green, this evening.

 

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Last Updated Date: January 08, 2004  -10.30 GMT.