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The address of President Mahinda Rajapakse, at the ceremonial commemoration of the 58th Anniversary of Independence.

What we first intend doing by conducting this event with such grandeur is to pay a tribute to our revered motherland that was freed from the shackles of colonialism with the dawn of Independence on February 4, 1948. We next wish to pay our tribute to those national heroes who struggled for our Independence in many diverse ways.
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