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A senior officer in the Sri Lanka Customs Narcotics Control Unit said the seizure at Colombo's Bandaranaike Airport on 5 May was the biggest in its history.

She follows in the footsteps of just two other women - Sirimavo Bandaranaike and Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga - both of whom had family ties to politics.

However, when I wear the Sri Lankan osaree, some people recognize me correctly as being “from the country of Mrs. Bandaranaike,” the world’s first female prime minister.

Bandaranaike proudly wore our national dress on every public occasion.

But officials at the Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo stopped Basil Rajapaksa from boarding a plane out of the country.