Today is the second death anniversary of Kadirgamar, a globally-renowned erudite scholar, who headed the LTTE hit-list primarily for his efforts to get the LTTE banned as a terrorist organization in many countries including the United States and United Kingdom.
An Alms giving will be held today (12) to commemorate the second death anniversary of former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar at the Lakshman Kadirgamar International Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies.
Sri Lanka 's Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, who was assassinated in Colombo on 12th August 2005, was both a Tamil and a vociferous opponent of the LTTE terrorists.
Former Minister Kadirgamar, claimed credit for having the LTTE declared a terrorist group in the United States and elsewhere while serving as President Chandrika Kumaratunga's foreign minister from 1994 to 2001 and again since 2004.
The Oxford-educated lawyer was a native of Sri Lanka 's northern Tamil heartland of Jaffna , but he was strongly opposed to the campaign for separation led by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Minister Kadirgamar was a distinguished product of Trinity College, Kandy, Sri Lanka where he was widely acclaimed for his all round excellence as scholar, prize winner. He won Trinity's richest Prize - the coveted Dr. Andreas Nell Memorial Prize for Ceylon History and the Napier Clavering Prize for English.
Mr. Kadirgamar was offered the captaincy of the Sri Lanka contingent to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics but he declined to accept it due to pressure of his law examinations. Mr. Kadirgamar read for his LLB degree at the University of Colombo and later proceeded to Balliol College, University of Oxford where he read for a degree in Letters.
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