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Your chance to re-write history Mr. President! A second letter to AKD……. – By Aubrey Joachim Dear Mr. President, Your victories have been stunning to say the least. Winning the top job was good enough. Your virtual clean sweep of the legislative chamber is more than impressive. However, unprecedented is your victory in the North where for the first time in modern political history a Sinhalese Buddhist has been given a mandate by the Tamil Hindu populace. Let this be the last time that Sri Lanka and Sri Lankans have to be referred to by race or religion. You have ensured that our great country is but one nation of people who can achieve greatness. The last time that our island nation was under one ruler – except when a British Monarch held sway during colonisation – was is 1153 AD when the Great King Parakramabahu I reigned over the ...