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Sri Lankan Prisons Commissioner, Emil Lamahewage has been sentenced to death over the killing of 27 inmates.
The Colombo High Court convicted Lamahewage, but discharged his co-accused, police commando Moses Rangajeewa, over the killings in November 2012.
The duo was indicted in July 2019 for the killings at Sri Lanka’s main Welikada Prison in Colombo.
Police commandos were used to put down a riot at Welikada and disarm inmates who had allegedly taken weapons from the armory.
