BBS protesters issue death threats to Tamil chief minister

by Thusiyan
Oct 1, 2016

Photographs have emerged of Sinhala Buddhist protesters brandishing death threats to the Northern Province Chief Minister during a demonstration in Vavuniya this week.

“We all need to live in peace or you rest in peace,” threatened one placard held by a protester.

Another read “Bin Ladan. Prabakaran. Now Vignashwaram (sic)." 

“Last episode will be televised soon,” it warned.

Buddhist monks from the Sinhala nationalist group, Bodu Bala Sena led the protest against the mass Tamil rally that took place last weekend, Ezhuka Tamil.

“If Vigneswaran carries on with his campaign, we will smash the head of this racist, venomous snakes,” BBS’s general secretary Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara told a cheering crowd.

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