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'Play by the Rules' campaignAsoka Weerasinghe Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaApril 25, 2007 Amnesty International Sri Lanka is now in the Finals and will meet the winner of the other semi-final game between Australia and South Africa. You all must be cringing with this formidable success story when all of you wanted to torpedo Sri Lanka cricketers psychologically with your ill-advised Play by the Rules Campaign in the Caribbean. When I told my eight-year old granddaughter that Seeyas (grand-dad) Sri Lanka cricket team will be playing in the final for the Cricket World Cup, she said Awesome, and immediately placed her open right palm in front of her face, placed the thumb on her nose and wiggled the other four fingers saying, Amnesty International, Na-nana-Na-naa, Na-nana-Na-naa . She knows absolutely nothing about cricket, but knows Seeya loves cricket just like her being mad about ice-hockey and roots for her local National Hockey League team the Ottawa Senators. I also explained to her about Amnesty International's Play by the Rule ball campaign during the Cricket World Cup games, and that Seeya was hopping mad about it. She was obviously biased, and she agreed with Seeya, and said, They should be asked to write this sentence 1000 times and hand them over to Sri Lankas cricket captain We will never ever try to embarrass you all again, and we are sorry. A couple of hours later she read me her adaptations of Nursery Rhymes, which I thought was a super effort and that I should pass them on to you with an advisory that you all should publish them in a Fact Sheet to be placed in your introduction file for the new Executive Committee Members in your Chapters around the world. This would bring every one of them back to kindergarten basics and ground them, inculcating some humility before they get anointed with AIs arrogance. The Title of your Fact Sheet should read - *_The Day we were taught humility by Sri Lankas national cricketers_* *_when our Play by the Rules campaign turned horribly wrong._* AIs Jack and Jill*__* Little AIs Jack Horner
Enjoy this eight-year old's wisdom, and you are welcome to make use of it. Sincerely,
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