Two ancient statues of Hindu deities to be removed and a Buddha statue to be erected in that place.

(Lanka-e-News-16.March.2012, 11.50PM) Hindu prelates of the area are shocked and grieved over the preparations being made by the Army to remove two ancient statues of Hindu deities which have been there at Kokilai Hospital junction , Mulaitivu , and had been objects of worship of Hindu pilgrims for a very long time , and in that place build a Buddha statue. The two Hindu statues are of their highly respected deities , Pillayar and Vairavar. In addition to the construction of the Buddha statue , seven plots of ancestral lands of seven residents in the vicinity of the Hospital junction have been acquired for the Army. The residents say on those lands so acquired a Buddhist Vihara is to be erected .

In these districts , except the soldiers who have come there from outside , there aren’t any Buddhists. In the circumstances , there is no national religious unity being created by these atrocious and obnoxious actions. All what is being done by these atrocities is planting seeds of another war.