{"id":13797,"date":"2022-02-03T20:48:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T20:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankadawasa.com\/?p=13797"},"modified":"2022-02-03T20:48:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T20:48:07","slug":"brilliant-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankadawasa.com?p=13797","title":{"rendered":"A BRILLIANT FIVE YEARS&#8230;&#8230;.!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Today LANAKADAWASA is FIVE YEARS OLD, can you believe it? It has been a truly amazing experience, from day ONE there were many problems, as a toddler newsletter we were crawling.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Today LANAKADAWASA is walking, walking down the road hand in hand with her readers, resource personnel and sponsors.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ LANKADAWASA. 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YOU GAVE HER THE STRENGTH TO STAND UP AND WALK.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>From a few hundred readers today we reach a mammoth THREE MILLION people around the world, mostly SRI LANKANS who aspire a better EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATURE, A JUDICIARY and A COUNTY WITH RULE OF LAW in the island nation.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Though our cause was to devoid the Sri Lanka Police from political interference, with the momentum that took place over time gave us a wider scope to write on many gray areas of the country.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>We also faced many threats of all sorts, they include intimidation, cyber attacks, Internet blocks and many more.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>YOU WERE OUR DRIVING FORCE, WE WERE COMMITTED TO GIVE YOU THE BEST POSSIBLE INFORMATION EVEN BEFORE CERTAIN HORRIFIC CRIMES WERE COMMITTED AGAINST UNARMED CITIZENS IN STATE CUSTODY.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Our platform of people include POLITICIANS, MEMBERS OF THE JUDICIARY, MEMBERS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL\u2019S DEPARTMENT, SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, MEMBERS OF CLERGY, MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND THE POLICE, CRIMINALS THEM SELVES AND THE ORDINARY CITIZEN.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN FOR THE TREMENDOUS SUPPORT EXTENDED TO ME AND MY TEAM FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS AND HOPE THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE WITH THE SAME ENTHUSIASM IN THE FUTURE TO MAKE SRI LANKA A BETTER PLEASE FOR US AND OUR CHILDREN.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><style>\n        .wpedon-container .wpedon-select,\n        .wpedon-container .wpedon-input {\n            width: 171px;\n            min-width: 171px;\n            max-width: 171px;\n        }\n    <\/style><div class='wpedon-container wpedon-align-left'><form target='_blank' action='https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr' method='post' class='wpedon-form'><input type='hidden' name='cmd' value='_donations' \/><input type='hidden' name='business' value='ajith.co.uk@gmail.com' \/><input type='hidden' name='currency_code' value='USD' \/><input type='hidden' name='notify_url' value='https:\/\/www.lankadawasa.com\/wp-admin\/admin-post.php?action=add_wpedon_button_ipn'><input type='hidden' name='lc' value='en_US'><input type='hidden' name='bn' value='WPPlugin_SP'><input type='hidden' name='return' value='' \/><input type='hidden' name='cancel_return' value='' \/><input class='wpedon_paypalbuttonimage' type='image' src='https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif' border='0' name='submit' alt='Make your payments with PayPal. 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