(Lanka-e-News -23.Sep.2011, 5.00PM)In Kokilai district, Mulaitivu where there was a Hindu Kovil (temple) which was damaged during the war is being demolished and a Buddhist Temple is being erected in that place, according to reports reaching Lanka e news. Buddhist monks have arrived there and the construction has begun. Part of the land of the Hospital in Kokilai and part of the land of a post office are being used to construct this Buddhist Temple . Earlier, it was the Arasadi Pillayar Kovil that was there in that place , our correspondent reports.Prior to the war , Tamils and Sinhalese lived there , but due to the war the Sinhalese were displaced. By now those Sinhalese who were displaced have returned and are engaged in fishing activities.
Sources say , if it is the objective after the conclusion of the war to build harmony and peace between the two communities , what the officials ought to have done was built a Hindu Temple in the place where there was a Hindu temple and not a Buddhist Temple. No matter what religion the Govt. belongs to , if it gives in to extremists ,racialists and destructive forces , the end result will not be peace but eternal strife , disharmony and tension in the country.
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Laws to confiscate assets of those funding terrorists introduced: will they retroactively operate on Mahinda and Premadasa ?
Friday 23 of September 2011(Lanka-e-News -23.Sep.2011, 5.30P.M.) A draft amendment was presented in Parliament on the 21st in regard to the prohibition of supplying funds in any form for terrorists, and this was unanimously passed . Under this amendment , if it is proved that anyone has provided funds to terrorists , their assets will be liable to total confiscation by the Govt. Full story >>
