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Disregarding "Banda's" dying wish, a Ceylon judge last week sentenced Tal-duwe Somarama, 45, to death. But the trial had proved that Somarama had been only the triggerman; the instigator and chief plotter had been Mapitigama Buddharakitha, 41, high priest of the Kelaniya temple outside Colombo...
High Priest Buddharakitha was clearly a man who was more interested in power than religion. In 1956, when Bandaranaike was running for election, Buddharakitha organized the United Monks' Front, which went scuttling off to the hustings to recommend Banda and his Freedom Party, on the grounds that Banda promised to give Buddhism its "rightful place" in Ceylon and to make Sinhala, the tongue spoken by most Ceylonese Buddhists, the official language of the land...
...Banda's assertion that Nyasaland can be economically self-sufficient was challenged after his talk by a Boston University student from Southern Rhodesia, who charged that dissolving the federation "would cause some human beings to suffer...
...Rhodesian proposed instead that Banda use his recently acquired majority in the Nyasaland legislative council as a tool for "eliminating discrimination" throughout the whole federation...
...worried about discrimination, what we want is independence," Banda countered. He charged that the Southern Rhodesian students were not willing to fight for independence, but were only worried about "getting good jobs." They are, he explained, "like pigs and horses, only interested in full stomachs...