Apology to Motherland – Photos thanks to Roy Grafix It is well known that, when we gained nominal independence from Britain, our export income on local products exceeded a billion pounds. The imitators of the white rulers who obtained administration of Sri Lanka from the white colonialists managed to spend all the treasury reserves and since then to mortgage the Nation by holding each person in the country to a credit bond over Rs. 500.000. Our own people ruled us alternatively and accelerated the demise into a precipice, since the adaptation of 1978 Constitution and the Executive Presidency. Some significant facts we inherited from the rule of deceitful politicians either white dressed or dark suit dressed: Importing rice for local consumption by discouraging local farming communities although we exported rice overseas in the ancient times. Importing salt from India while we are surrounded by salt in abundance and having a ...