Anagarika Dharmapala worked relentlessly to uplift Sinhala Buddhists during the darkest era in Sri Lankan history when there was no opportunity for the people even to think about freedom, said President Mahinda Rajapaksa. “At that time there were no political parties in Sri Lanka. Also, there was not even a sign of such political groupings. Anagarika Dharmapala, living in a period in which on one side there were the colonial rulers and on the other, the people who lived with ignorance and subservience, but he succeeded in awaking Sri Lankans so that they could live with certain amount of free movement,” he said.
Speaking at the 150th birth anniversary of Anagarika Dharmapala at the Independent Square in Colombo today (September 17), he said that the great Anagarika knew the best way to freedom is the removal of the weaknesses of the nation and the nation should be raised not by disturbing another nation, but by strengthening our own nation. Read Here Full History....!

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