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This refers to the article by Gamini Akmeemana (Daily Mirror, April, 23rd) on the Department of National Archives under its new Director General, Dr. Nadeera Rupesinghe. For well over a century the archives had functioned under the Chief Secretary of the colonial administration. It is easy, now, to see why that was the arrangement preferred by the Brits: a few months ago it emerged that the British Archives at Kew had, in effect, been looted by senior public servants in order to remove evidence of the atrocities on which the, ha-ha,‘British Colonial Heritage’ was founded. Consequently that office here was headed not by a ‘Director’ or, perish the thought, a ‘Director General’ but by ‘The Government Archivist’. http://bit.ly/2rzQ1oL http://bit.ly/2rzQ1oL+ -- Peterk Dallas, Tx [log in to unmask] Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org “If only there were a massive entity that I were forced to fund to tell me how I should live my life, since I’m so obviously incapable of deciding for myself.” M. Hashimoto Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra