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A referendum on extending the term of parliament by six years was held in Sri Lanka on 22 December 1982. It was the first and so far only national referendum to be held in the country. [ 3 ] The referendum was called for by President J. R. Jayawardene , who had been elected to a fresh six-year term as President in October 1982.
William Roger Dean (born 31 August 1944) is an English artist, designer, and publisher. He began painting posters and album covers for musicians in the late 1960s. The groups for whom he did the most art are the English rock bands Yes and Asia. The covers often feature exotic fantasy landscapes. His work has sold more than 150 million copies ...
Paul Fernando was born on 24 November 1951 in Moratuwa, Colombo, Sri Lanka as the youngest of the family. He completed education at Prince of Wales' College, Moratuwa . [ 4 ] His father was Madawala Hewage Leon Fernando and mother was Kusumawathi Fernando.
The song was co-written by the Go-Go's guitarist Jane Wiedlin and Ron and Russell Mael of the Los Angeles band Sparks. Wiedlin and Sparks also recorded together in 1983, with Wiedlin providing vocals for two tracks on Sparks' album In Outer Space : album track "Lucky Me, Lucky You" and the band's highest charting U.S. single " Cool Places ".
Sri Lanka's security forces abducted men and women from the ethnic Tamil minority and tortured them in custody long after the end of a bloody civil war in the South Asian island nation, a human ...
David Shillingford Paynter, RA, OBE (5 March 1900 – 7 June 1975), was an internationally renowned Sri Lankan painter. [2] He was a pioneer creator of a Sri Lankan idiom in what was essentially a Western art form.
Article 365 of the Sri Lankan Penal Code, which dates from the time of colonial British Ceylon, criminalizes sexual acts deemed "against the order of nature".The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has ruled favourably for decriminalization and has agreed that any imposition of penalties are incompatible with the current times, but does not have the authority to invalidate laws, acts, or governmental ...