Pandemonium erupted at a peace rally organized by the National Anti-War Front (NAWF) held on August 17 Thursday at Viharamahadevi Park when a group of monks of the Sinhala ultra-nationalist National Bhikku Front (NBF) arrived at the site.
NBF activists thereafter climbed the stage and started shouting at the organizers of the peace rally.
Mervyn Silva, a deputy minister was on his feet with 200 other activists, politicians and religious leaders, including pro-peace Buddhist monks, on stage when NBF monks and their supporters entered the stage forcefully.
Pandemonium reigned as NBF monks attempted to seize the microphone of a speaker
Fisticuffs ensued between the volunteers of NAWF and NBF. NBF protestors were pushed out of the stage forcibly by volunteers of the peace rally.
Thereafter the rally continued peacefully, although many parliamentarians and religious leaders left the site as the peace rally turned a site of violence.
NBF is a wing of all monks party-Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU).
NBF activists thereafter climbed the stage and started shouting at the organizers of the peace rally.
Mervyn Silva, a deputy minister was on his feet with 200 other activists, politicians and religious leaders, including pro-peace Buddhist monks, on stage when NBF monks and their supporters entered the stage forcefully.
Pandemonium reigned as NBF monks attempted to seize the microphone of a speaker
Fisticuffs ensued between the volunteers of NAWF and NBF. NBF protestors were pushed out of the stage forcibly by volunteers of the peace rally.
Thereafter the rally continued peacefully, although many parliamentarians and religious leaders left the site as the peace rally turned a site of violence.
NBF is a wing of all monks party-Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU).
