Sri Lankan Independence Day

By AFP Published: Feb 04, 2021 05:53 PM

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (second right) looks at a soldier raising a national flag during Sri Lanka's 73rd Independence Day celebrations in Colombo on Thursday. Photo: AFP

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