Mangala Moonesinghe is a Sri Lanka

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n lawyer, politician and diplomat. He was Sri Lankan High Commissioner

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 to the United Kingdom

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 from 2000 to 2002 and Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India

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 from 1995 to 2000. Severing as a Member of Parliament in the periods of 1965-1977 and 1989-1994.
The cousin of Anil Moonesinghe

Anil Moonesinghe

Anil Moonesinghe was a Sri Lankan Trotskyist revolutionary politician and trade unionist. He became a Member of Parliament, a Cabinet Minister, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament and a Diplomat. He authored several books and edited newspapers and magazines. He was Chairperson and General Manager of...

 and the nephew of Neel Kamal Hewavitharana, he was educated at the prestigious Royal College Colombo

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. Qualifying as a Barrister he practiced law for 20 years. In 1975, he was awarded one of the Eisenhower Fellowships

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 to study space law at Western State University College of Law

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 and had been a lecturer at Ceylon Technical College in Company law during 1960-1963.

He was the head of the Parliamentary Select Committee on the ethnic conflict, the so-called Mangala Moonesinghe Committee.