While
I was attending to the fish tank, wife came and showed me a
photograph of the garden created at the site of Bogambara Prison
Complex.
This
was built by the British, and I hated it from my school days and
I voiced an opinion that it should be removed forthright (a prime land
in the center of the City).
Nobody
cared to remove it for over 65 years.
It
was an eyesore.
I
visited this place with the first opportunity I had.
One
of my friends became the Prison doctor who had to certify the death
of the prisoner (he hated the job within few months- he wanted to
stay in Kandy) after execution.
If
I remember right Somarama (not sure) and Maru Sira were executed there.
It
was an appalling site to wonder around.
I
told my wife just imagine the plight of the prisoner there waiting
for execution.
Can
a true Buddhist watch an execution?
Our
current (probably future presidents,too) can do that without
revulsion.
I
will never visit this park and I do bypass this track if I have to
visit the hospital.
It
reminds me of the painful past at first site which no one can erase
with rose buds on plant beds.
Nobody
has the right to kill any living being.
It is bordering psychopathy.
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