Learning From Wanathamulla

 by Tisaranee Gunasekara

“The Defence Secretary came here….Mr. Gotabhaya told me ‘I want to speak to you’. He and I are of different status. So I asked him, ‘Is it right for me to speak to you’? He said, ‘No you can say anything’. Then I made certain criticisms….He got angry”

Sunil Samaradheera of Wanathamulla

( February 20, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) In 1940, a year before they began implementing the ‘Final Solution’, the Nazis had a trial-run. A group of German-Jews were deported and the Gestapo watched closely for the reaction of their non-Jewish neighbours.

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