its sad to see what war can do to a country to hog its development. finally the war is over. but now is a growing power struggle who will take the regins and lead sri lanka into the future.
its sad to see what war can do to a country to hog its development. finally the war is over. but now is a growing power struggle who will take the regins and lead sri lanka into the future.
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That is a miquote, Lee did not say that he wanted to model Singapore on Ceylon.
When he visited he was impressed by the public buildings, largely unscathed by war, the presence of two good local universities and a civil service staffed moctly by local officers.
A medium sized country (10m population) with good prospects was what he assessed Ceylon to be, at the point of independence.
He did learn something from Ceylon however:
"But the advantage we had was that we became independent late. In 1965, we had 20 years of examples of failed states. So, we knew what to avoid - racial conflict, linguistic strife, religious conflict. We saw Ceylon."
see excerpts from the interview here
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/29/world/asia/29iht-lee-excerpts.html?_r=1
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