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Talduwe Somarama Thero | |
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Born | Talduwe Ratugama Rallage Weris Singho 27 August 1915 |
Died | 6 July 1962 | (aged 46)
Criminal status | Executed by hanging |
Criminal charge | Murder (assassination of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike) |
Penalty | Death by hanging |
Talduwe Ratugama Rallage Weris Singho, better known as Talduwe Somarama Thero (27 August 1915 – 6 July 1962) was a Ceylonese Buddhist priest who shot and killed S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, the fourth Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) in 1959.[1][2][3]