Rajapaksa regime bows to India and world community
By Our Political Editor-Sunday, July 07, 2013View(s): 4346
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Since state takeover beginning in the post 1971 insurgency period, most tea plantations have been running at colossal losses mainly due to seething corruption and mismanagement. That the industry once brought name and fame to Sri Lanka, then Ceylon, is well known. Equally well known now is how some of the men tasked to run these properties became fat cats acquiring lucrative private businesses.
Tuesday’s rally at Maharagama by the National Collective to Abolish the Provincial Councils system. Pic by Susantha Liyanawatta
