Maturation Of Racial Politics: Tamils Were More Sinned Against Than Sinning - Colombo Telegraph

Maturation Of Racial Politics: Tamils Were More Sinned Against Than Sinning - Colombo Telegraph

By Vishwamithra – “Mislike me not for my complexion, the shadowed livery of the burnished sun.”  ~William Shakespeare – Merchant of Venice On September 25, 1959, three and a half years years after being elected Prime Minister, Bandaranaike was shot at in his own private residence, ‘Tintegel’, by Talduwe Somarama, a Buddhist Monk. In his own words, Bandaranaike was assassinated by a man in saffron robes; he didn’t utter the words, a Buddhist Monk…