Senaka Weeraratna Abstract In the 1520s Machiavelli wrote: “When it is absolutely a question of the safety of one’s country, there must be no consideration of just or unjust, of merciful or cruel, of praiseworthy or disgraceful; instead, setting aside every scruple, one must follow to the utmost any plan that will save her life … Continue reading Colonial crimes in British occupied Ceylon during the freedom struggles (1796 – 1948)