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| Sunday, 2 January 2005 |
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Join hands for national revival - President President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga addressing the moving "Adhishthana Pooja" ceremony held at the Henry Pedris Park Friday to commemorate all who lost their lives due to the tsunami disaster appealed to all to join hands to rise like the legendary phoenix from the ashes of destruction. The President said this land belongs to all of us, each one of us, in the same way with the same privilege to use it with care. She lamented "The tsunami has devastated our land with relentless indifference to regions, provinces, ethnicities and religions and all other man-made frontiers. We have been left in the same devastation in the West, in the South, in the East and in the North." "Nature has treated all of us equally. Why can't we also treat each other equally?" she asked. "This is not only a historic occasion. We not only mourn our dear citizens who departed us. "We have also reached a moment of national revival", she added. She assured the people that she would do everything in her power as Head of State to realise that dream. |
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