දකුණු අප්රිකාවේ වර්ණභේදවාදය අවසන් කිරීමට සිය ජීවිතය කැප කළ නොබෙල් සාම ත්යාගලාභී අගරදගුරු ඩෙස්මන්ඩ් ටුටූ වයස අවුරුදු 90 දී අද අභාවප්රාප්ත විය.
ටූටූ යනු දෙස් විදෙස්හි රටේ ප්රසිද්ධතම චරිතයකි. ඔහු අපේ කාලයේ වීරයින් අතර වීරයෙකි.
දකුණු අප්රිකානු වර්ණභේද විරෝධී ව්යාපාරයේ පහන් තරුව වූ නෙල්සන් මැන්ඩෙලාගේ සමකාලීනයෙකු වූ ඔහු 1948 සිට 1991 දක්වා දකුණු අප්රිකාවේ කළු බහුතරයට එරෙහිව සුදු සුළුතර රජය විසින් පවත්වා ගෙන ගිය වාර්ගික වෙන්කිරීමේ සහ වෙනස් කොට සැලකීමේ ප්රතිපත්තිය අවසන් කිරීමේ ව්යාපාරය පිටුපස සිටි ගාමක බලවේගයකි.
![Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, in October 1984, South Africa](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10E96/production/_122507296_gettyimages-965987862.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu smiles after being appointed Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town in 1986, with his wife, Leah, is at his side](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/D142/production/_122507535_gettyimages-635937435.jpg)
![Tutu visiting Kagiso township, August 23 1990](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/C076/production/_122507294_gettyimages-1358027704.jpg)
![Archbishop Desmond Tutu applauds as he watches Nelson Mandela and South African President FW de Klerk receive their Nobel Peace Prize for ending Apartheid in South Africa](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/164EA/production/_122507319_gettyimages-612276650.jpg)
![The Queen with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and South African President Nelson Mandela in 1995](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/EDC6/production/_122507806_gettyimages-52107709.jpg)
![Archbishop Desmond Tutu during London Celebrates A Decade Of South African Freedom, at Trafalgar Square, UK, 2004](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/FB0E/production/_122507246_gettyimages-121412654.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu dancing at the launch of his biography, Tutu: The Authorised Portrait, the day before his 80th birthday at St George's Cathedral in Cape Town, 6 October 2011](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/2C06/production/_122507211_gettyimages-128758379.jpg)
![Tutu, a friend of Nelson Mandela for decades, became emotional while speaking at the latter's funeral in 2013](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/EB6E/production/_122507206_gettyimages-453901003.jpg)
![Then-US President Barack Obama sits with South Africa's Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu following a tour of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Centre in Cape Town, South Africa, 30 June 2013](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/16BF2/production/_122507139_gettyimages-171973603.jpg)
![Spiritual leader Dalai Lama shares his birthday cake with retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Tibetan Children's Village School in Dharmsala, India, 23 April 2015](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/A8A2/production/_122507134_gettyimages-470952066.jpg)
![Leah Tutu dances next to her husband, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, during a Eucharist church service to celebrate his 90th birthday, at St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, 7 October 2021](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10BDA/production/_122507586_hi071146431.jpg)
( ජායාරූප සහ කතාව බීබීසී අනුග්රහයෙනි)
![Desmond Tutu with fellow students in 1961](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/38A1/production/_88179441_79662586.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu in a tear gas cloud](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/12C76/production/_88181967_88181966.jpg)
![](https://sinhala.srilankabrief.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1000-5.jpeg)
අන්තර්