In the shadow of an executioner’s chair, to free a nation - DailyNews

The rifle volley that killed innocent Edward Henry Pedris on July 7, 1915, echoed through Welikada Prison like thunder. In a nearby cell, a 32-year-old Cambrian barrister, Frederick Richard Senanayake and his brothers heard every shot. What FR witnessed next would set him on a collision course with the British Empir…

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