| It was the great efforts of Late Gamini
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| | special person with leadership qualities.
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| Dissanayake, President of the Board of
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| | He immersed himself with the latest
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| Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka,
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| | political biographies of great political
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| President's Counsel, and Cabinet Minister
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| | leaders namely Ghandi, Mao, Martin Luther
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| in President J R Jayawardena's United
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| | King, Nehru and Charles de Gaulle. His
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| National Party (UNP) Government, that
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| | favourite political personality was John
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| made Sri Lanka gain full ICC membership
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| | F Kennedy of America. Gamini read and
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| on the 21st of July 1981. Although Sri
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| | re-read JFK's book "Profiles in Courage"
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| Lanka was knocking at the doors of ICC
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| | several times. He moulded himself on
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| for full membership for over two decades,
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| | Kennedy, good looking intelligent
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| having beaten several test playing
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| | articulate and extremely efficient and
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| countries in unofficial tests and the
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| | organised. He always wanted to be a
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| ODI's, it did not materialise until it
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| | courageous political leader.
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| was Gamini Dissanayake who convinced the
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| | He was a liberal democrat and voiced his
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| Sahibs at the Mecca of Cricket to see the
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| | opinion openly which was not taken too
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| brighter side of Sri Lanka Cricket.
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| | kindly by some people. It was at this
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| Gamini Dissanayake was cruelly
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| | time that the people of Sri Lanka saw the
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| assassinated on 23rd October 1994, now 12
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| | true leadership qualities of Gamini. With
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| years, by a suicide bomber of the world's
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| | his political career in the UNP in doubt
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| most ruthless terrorist group, while he
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| | and so many conspiracies against him he
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| was campaigning to become the Executive
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| | fought back hard. He never gave in, never
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| President of Sri Lanka. "Ga" as he was
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| | became a stooge. Gamini always believed
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| affectionately known among his friends
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| | in what he was doing. Took ridicule and
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| came from Kotmale in the Central Hills of
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| | state harassment in his stride and
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| Sri Lanka. His father was Andrew
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| | together with Lalith undertook a new
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| Dissanayake - Member of Parliament and
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| | political journey in Sri Lankan politics.
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| Minister of Transport in 1956 government.
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| | He left the UNP to form the Democratic
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| His mother was Kumarihamy Samaratunge a
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| | United National Front (DUNF). The boy who
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| lady of great humanness and kindness. Ga
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| | read "Profile in Courage" by Kennedy
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| was their eldest son. He received his
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| | thirty years ago became a Profile in
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| education at one of the prestigious
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| | Courage. When Gamini returned to the UNP
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| schools in the Central Province of Sri
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| | as the leader of the Opposition and
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| Lanka - Trinity College in Kandy.
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| | deputy leader of the UNP he became mot
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| He displayed great leadership qualities
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| | merely a politician but also a statesman.
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| even at a young age. At Trinity College
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| | He was a fifty two year old grandfather.
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| the students had to participate in
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| | He was extremely charming, had a
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| developing a common agricultural farm
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| | phenomenal memory of men and matters and
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| where the students had to mix with the
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| | was brilliant orator and extremely
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| villagers living near the farm. Ga took a
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| | efficient and ruthless political
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| very keen interest in the development of
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| | organiser. If Gamini had become the
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| the farm and thus took great pains to get
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| | President of Sri, he would have turned
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| the other students to integrate
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| | Sri Lanka around and made it a truly a
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| themselves with farm activities. He was a
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| | Paradise Isle.
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