Comments on: SWRD Bandaranaike: Assassination of a Prime Minister

By: shankar

shankar — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:22:37 +0000

ASilva

Just out of curiosity. The name Silva itself is not a sinhalese name. If you throw a stone in portugal or brazil it will fall on someones head called Silva. Does this mean that the abundance of people with such portuguese names in Srilanka have portugeuse ancestry, or just adopted portuguese names. And is that the reason why this Salagama caste was formed, and is it considered lower caste than Govigama. Who is numerically the most?

By: ASilva

ASilva — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:12:56 +0000

premadasa is from hinna cast who were the dhobies for salagama cast people. ie c.p. de Silva’s clan. CPDe silva had a real opertunityu to become prime Minister after Dhanayake was expelled from slfp in early 60s. he closely folowed dudly at march 60 Election and dudley govt lost the Parliment confidential vote and election was called after desolution.

CP had the real chance to become PM one from salagama cast to creaaate history. But at this juncture elite in the slfp did not want this to happened and persuaded sirima to become the leader of the party to contnue the dominance of govigama cast. sirima repeatedly declined and the elite got rev henpitigedera ganaseeha thero to get the SIrima’s consent. when REV went to Rosmead place Sirima saw hamuduruwo comming and ran to kithen to hode herself.

Rev went to kitchen and brought Sirima by draging her from her hand and convinced Sirima to accept the offer which her finally accepted there by becoming salagama CP becoming PM. BUT IN 1989 pREMADASA BEING a person from dhoby cast to salagama was able to become the President. premadasa was de Silva which he droped later acording to father abeysekera Principal of STJOSEPH where he attended night school His name is there as De Silva. Most of the low cast people droped their gay names to hide their cast identity.

By: shankar

shankar — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:30:04 +0000

to comment 119-eagleeye

that is a good question you are asking. i think it is time to bring that agreement back, this time in the form of rajapakshe-sampanthan agreement.

By: eagleye1857

eagleye1857 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:42:50 +0000

Dear DBSJ,

Could you throw some light on the Bandarnaike – Chelvanayagam agreement that was abrogated soon after the assasination for the benefit of everybody? looking forward to hearing soon

By: Raj

Raj — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:40:14 +0000

Hi DBS

Great informative article.what happened to Buddharakkita and Jayewardena

B died in prison and J was released in 1977……….DBSJ

By: shankar

shankar — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:31:11 +0000

dear keppetipola

iam not implying anything. siva is implyng that sirima poisoned banda by getting dr. anthonis to pump him full of blood containing citrus. subsequently she got sriskandarajah to cover it up. one of sivas fellow student in junior kindergarten gave him this information. why don’t you read earlier comments of siva properly.

By: Kepetipola

Kepetipola — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:33:54 +0000

Is Shankar implying that Sirima indirectly killed Banda? (cirate poison issue).

By: Siva

Siva — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:00:28 +0000

Hello Shankar,
JK is an acronym for Junior Kindergarten
Somarama did shoot SWRD,how ever SWRD died of Citrate poisoning, there-fore the primary cause of death was Citrate Poisoning and not gun shot injuries.This is a FACT.
Futhermore,even though Somarama made an initial confession no one knows if this confession was voluntary as he retracted his confessions befoe the trial.
Please read” Assassination of a Prime Minister” by Lucian G.Weeramantry who was the senior counsel for Somarama before the case was taken over by Sir.Dingle Foote.Q.C.
Cheers,
Siva.

By: Keppetipola

Keppetipola — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:41:49 +0000

Sevela Banda played a fine card. he wore full suit at home, ate kiri bath with folk and spoon, but wore redda beniyama when went outside. Good things he did – sent son to Royal not st Thomas’s, gave sinhala buddhist a place in the society. Very difficult to judge his character ‘cos his premiership lasted too short. One thing is sure his nationalisation was the beginning of the bankrupting of the nation, which was very prosperous in 1948. Sevala Banda was not against the Tamils when he introduced Sinhala Only – it was a mere vote buying thing, he signed a pact with Chelva. It was DS and Sir John who were more pro-sinhala.

By: shankar

shankar — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:55:39 +0000

to comment 110 -siva

sorry siva. got a bit annoyed when i was wracking my brain wondering what is this JK.

your contention seems to be that after the shooting he was given blood, contaminated with citrate. the fact remains thar somarama shot him , so this is maybe a medical bungle, but does not exonerate somarama in any way.

anyway dr.anthonis was a very eminent physician. you are implying that sirimavo rewarded sriskandarajah with promotions. what does she gain from all this if it was a medical bungle. it is not like as if she herself would have administered the citrus into the blood or got someone to do it, though definitely she would have liked to whenever he shouted kussiya sirima kussiya.

By: shankar

shankar — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:56:48 +0000

to comment 110 -siva

what does JK stand for?

By: shankar

shankar — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:54:08 +0000

to comment 110 -siva

what does JK stand for. are you trying to just impress others with this JK stuff that only you can understand.