Sajith urges President to intervene in monks’ protest outside Presidential Secretariat
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Buddhist monks held a demonstration near the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo. The reports provide no date or further details about the protest.
Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa denounced the police response to the demonstrators, according to the Daily Mirror, Newswire and Hiru News. The outlets do not describe what police did.
The Daily Mirror reported that Premadasa asked President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to get personally involved. Hiru News said the opposition leader also called for the Buddha Sasana to be safeguarded while protecting other religious communities.
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