Saturday Jun 13, 2026
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From the year 2021 this page has ideated on the importance of Sri Lanka ushering in a uniform way of commemorating the end of the civil war in 2009 on 18 May.
We will be continuing this task in our upcoming editions.
Last week we travelled across Central Province searching for a bridge built 35 years ago in a remote Sinhala village. Thereafter it was about finding several rural hospitals in tea plantation areas in Central province and in villages in Uva province. The reason why? This writer was accompanying a Sri Lankan Tamil engineer from Jaffna, domiciled in Australia for the past 3 decades who had made it a priority during his visit to Sri Lanka this year to revisit structures he had been responsible for as an engineer in Sri Lanka.
One structure was the Nuwara Eliya Hospital where he had been the engineer responsible for building one unit. The bridge he had been in charge of constructing in a Sinhala village was the only bridge which had survived the floods last year, according to villagers.
His father had been part of the medical profession and had served rural village hospitals in Uva and Central province. The quest to find the two houses he lived in while working as an engineer in Nuwara Eliya failed as the structures had changed so much. We will carry this unique story next week as part of our May as a Month of Peace series run for the past 5 years, this year being the sixth.
