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* Update: PresidentA?a??E?s address to the nation: Tsunami further united Sri Lanka
Monday, December 26, 2005, 13:12 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.

Dec 26, Peraliya: President Mahinda Rajapaksa today said that Sri Lanka bravely stood up to last yearA?a??E?s tsunami disaster with people uniting without consideration of race, religion or other differences.

Speaking at the ceremony to mark the first anniversary of the tsunami this morning at Peraliya, the President said, A?A?A?On December 26 last year, the entire Sri Lankan nation was awakened. Our entire community of peoples rose up to the tragedy. They took whatever that could be of use into their hands and went in search of those who had been struck by the tragedy. When I visited Jaffna within a few hours, the people there explained to me how members of our armed services had saved the lives of Tamil people and their children under the most difficult conditions. I learnt from the soldiers how they sacrificed their own meals to ease the pangs of hunger of the Tamil people struck by this tragedy.A?A?A?

The President also said, In the East, particularly in places such as Order micronase suppository Arugam Bay Tadacip 20 best price , our soldiers had even saved the lives of members of the LTTE. The boundaries and fences put up by each other had fallen down in the face of tragedy. People of all communities lived in the same refugee centres with no differences whatever.A?A?A?