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THE LAST KING OF LANKA
I first met President Rajapaksa when I was 11 years old. I had won a national short story competition and the Ministry of Cultural Affairs had taken me and several other winners to Temple Trees to see the President.
He was a rare and skilled politician. He knew the game and he played it very well. He had a clever way of making people feel comfortable around him.
He patted our heads spoke to us for a long time; asked us about school and home. We were infatuated. He had us hooked. Me and the other kids would go home and tell our friends and family what a great man he was.
He was simple, loving, almost god-like. “He’s like a father, not a President,” the kid from Mahiyangana who was the winner of the Sinhala short story category said on our way out. Little did we know, that was all politics. Politics was all PR and propaganda; and Rajapaksa knew this very well.
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I first met President Rajapaksa when I was 11 years old. I had won a national short story competition and the Ministry of Cultural Affairs had taken me and several other winners to Temple Trees to see the President.
He was a rare and skilled politician. He knew the game and he played it very well. He had a clever way of making people feel comfortable around him.
He patted our heads spoke to us for a long time; asked us about school and home. We were infatuated. He had us hooked. Me and the other kids would go home and tell our friends and family what a great man he was.
He was simple, loving, almost god-like. “He’s like a father, not a President,” the kid from Mahiyangana who was the winner of the Sinhala short story category said on our way out. Little did we know, that was all politics. Politics was all PR and propaganda; and Rajapaksa knew this very well.
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