Some people who were nurtured by colonial rulers want to see Sri Lanka become another colony, Patriotic National Movement (PNM) President Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera said.

Speaking at an event to mark the International Mother Language Day in Colombo last week, he noted that during the last two decades, colonial forces had been doing their utmost to stage a cultural invasion and to destroy the national language.

He strongly believes that language is the vehicle of a culture and it is of great importance to protect the national language.

Amarasekera praised Bangladesh for her contribution when UNESCO named February 21 as the International Mother Language Day.

He said that the elite class wanted to promote Urdu in Bangladesh but the common Bangladeshis fought back for their language rights and protected the Bengali language.