Wednesday, February 11, 2009

We are all Sri Lankans

(DN)The 61st Independence Anniversary was commemorated in Los Angeles, USA on February 8. Following is the speech delivered by Ven. Walpola Piyananda thera.

We are here today to celebrate Sri Lanka’s sixty-first year of independence as a sovereign nation. For over four hundred years our country was used as property by European colonial masters as a way to bring their countries wealth, and during this time we suffered greatly as a people; our culture also went into a period of decline. Full Text