Colvin R. de Silva
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Colvin Reginald de Silva was a Sri Lankan Cabinet Minister of Plantation Industries and Constitutional Affairs, prominent member of parliament, Trotskyist leader and lawyer in Sri Lanka. He was one of
Colvin R. de Silva in the cloak of an advocate
Bogambara Prison
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Bogambara Prison was a maximum security prison and the second largest prison in the country after Welikada Prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka. After operating for 138 years, the prison was closed on 1 Janua
Colvin R. de Silva
…Leslie Goonewardene, Philip Gunawardena and Robert Gunawardena. An active Trotskyist, during the Second World War he fled to India, after escaping from Bogambara Prison, where he had been imprisoned on charges of sedition for anti-war activities. In India he became part of the leading nucleus of the Bolshevik-Leninist…
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Gallows of the Prison