In a message dated 3/14/1999 12:52:46 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

<< Four hundred years ago Kotte was whatever it was;  but when the Parliament
building was proposed, a lot of poor people lived there who were dispossessed
by Jayawardene in order to build this (very beautiful) building. >>


"Whatever it was"? Massive cultural respect you have there.

I wager that the Portuguese "the least racist" did some dispossessing too.

Nicole

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