Tensions were high in the Palamunai Mullimalai area under the Adalaichenai Pradeshiya Sabha in the Ampara district over a protest by a group of monks who were trying to set up a shrine on land owned by a Muslim.
Local Buddhist monks and some Sinhala youths have staged a protest against the installation of a Buddha statue on private land, falsely claiming to be land with ancient symbols.
According to the locals, some of the Sinhala youths who had been visiting the area for the past few days had been making arrangements for the installation of the statue.
Former Eastern Provincial Council Minister M.S. Udumaleppa, a former member of the Eastern Provincial Council A.L. Former Chairman of the Adalaichenai Pradeshiya Sabha M.A. Ansil, Adalaichenai Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman A. Following protests by Amanullah, Adalasena Pradeshiya Sabha members, and many locals, the government has decided to resolve the issue with the intervention of the concerned police and security forces and all have been evacuated and security forces are on security duty.
In this case, the Buddhist monks and their entourage withdrew, after the dignitaries and the public expressed their strong opposition, showing the documents to the Buddhist monks who had come there to show that the place where the action was being taken to set up the shrine was privately owned and that the Buddhist shrine could not be set up at the site.
