"Before my death sentence is carried out, please remove my eyes and transplant them to a Tamil without eyesight. I will not able to see the free Tamil Eelam but, at least, let my eyes see it."

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'The Hindu' - 10th August 1983: “Selvaraja Yogachandran, popularly known as Kuttimani, a nominated member of the Sri Lankan parliament who was one of the 52 prisoners killed in the maximum security Wellikade prison in Colombo two weeks ago, was forced to kneel in his cell, (where he was under solitary confinement), by his assailants and ordered to pray to them. When he refused, his tormentors taunted him about his last wish, when he was sentenced to death. (He had willed that his eyes be donated to someone so that at least that person would see an independent Tamil Eelam.) The assailants then gouged his eyes. He was then stabbed to death and his testicles were wrenched from his body. That was confirmed by one of the doctors who had conducted the post-mortem on the first group of 35 prisoners.