Monk sentenced to death after 50 years
A Buddhist monk has been sentenced to death by the Tangalle Magistrate over the murder of a farmer.
Another suspect was also given the death sentence over the murder of the farmer by the Tangalle Magistrate today.
This is the first time that a monk has been sentenced to death since 1962, the Magistrate had said.
In 1962 a monk was sentenced to death over the assassination of former Prime Minister S.W.R.D Bandaranaike.
Bandaranaike’s assassin Talduwe Ratugama Rallage Weris Singho better known as Talduwe Somarama openly converted to Christianity, just weeks prior to being hanged in the Welikada gallows.
We need to wipe out this “monk” gangsters. I don’t know why the hell my tax money is being used to feed these criminals
Capital punishment is barbaric and as cruel as torture. Sri Lankan leaders must civilise themselves and bring themselves to be respected in the international forum.
Capital punishment may be barbaric, but killing innocents is worse.
This means after 40 years, a monk is reported to have killed a farmer- why not from other parts but from Tangalle – believed to be the areas where state sponsered murderous activities have now become daily agenda. Perhaps, DNA evidence can help to find whether the monk belong to a the same family.
After 50 long years! What was the courts doing all these decades? Just wearing a yellow robe does not make a person a monk. Sri Lanka show it again!
He was not a Monk at that time.