SRI LANKA-OUR OWN- OUR NATIVE LAND? – By Oscar E V Fernando “Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,   Who never to himself hath said,  This is my own, my native land” The above lines of Sir Walter Scott may titillate the hearts of some Sri Lankans, especially the so called minorities, who are within and without our shores! “Minorities” of different communities, with ‘souls so dead’ left our shores not many years ago and some of them still continue to leave or hope to leave-if things continue the way it does in this country: they leave disgruntled! Of the so called minorities, this writer will pen a few words on the Sinhala Catholics of this country who are dubbed a minority. The other Catholics and ethnic minorities will have their own piece to say. A religion, that originated in the East and found its way to Europe, was ...

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