By Lionel Bopage – Dr. Lionel Bopage Mahinda Wijesekera has passed. The sad news arrived quietly, as such news does. Yet it carried weight — the weight of a long, complicated life, lived at the centre of Sri Lanka’s turbulent politics. I first Mahinda in 1969. It was at his parental home in Devinuwara, Matara — the home he shared with his brother, Comrade Ranjith Wijesekera. Ranjith sacrificed his life during the attacks of April 5th. Those were…
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