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Sri Lanka: artist’s son hits at BAT

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In our last issue, we reported how CTC, local subsidiary of BAT, had been exploiting for public relations purposes a foundation named after one of the region’s most famous artists, George Keyt, who died in 1993 (see Tobacco Control 2003;12:345–6). We recently learned that Mr Keyt’s son, Sachin Keyt, has no illusions about the scale of BAT’s appropriation of his late father’s good name. We print below extracts from an interview that Sachin Keyt gave to a Sri Lankan journalist last year:

"Even when my father was living this foundation did not give him the due place. My father trusted them and after his death only I came to know that they had taken rights of my father’s paintings away. He was not a fool, but innocent and childlike. That’s the way of real creative artists... I am very displeased about the activities of this Foundation and the . . . [Full text of this article]