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Pandemonium at Colombo peace rally

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Pandemonium at Colombo peace rally

[TamilNet, August 17, 2006 12:18 GMT]

There was pandemonium in the peace rally organized by the National Anti-War Front (NAWF) held Thursday evening at Viharamahadevi Park when a group of members of the National Bhikku Front (NBF) arrived at the site carrying a banner asking the organizers of the NAWF to proceed to Killinochchi to preach peace, sources said.

NBF activists thereafter climbed the stage and started shouting at the organizers of the peace rally. Mr.Mervyn Silva, Deputy Minister was on his feet when pandemonium reigned. At that time about two hundred personalities including parliamentarians, ministers and leaders of political parties were on the stage, sources said.

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. Several parliamentarians and peace activists spoke at the meeting.

NBF is a wing of all monks party-Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU).

Large number of people of all three communities and representatives of all faiths are participating in the peace in Colombo, Thursday, under the auspices of National Anti-War Front.

The peace foot march which commenced from Hyde Park in Colombo at about 2.30 p.m. arrived at Viharamahadevi Park around 3.45 p.m.

Parliamentarians Mr.Dilan Perera of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), Rajitha Senaratne United National Party (UNP), T.Maheswaran of UNP, Ravi Karunanayake of UNP, Mr.M.S.Sellasamy of Ceylon Workers Congress), P.Radhakrishnan of Western Peoples Front and Kumara Rupesinghe and several Buddhist monks led the peace march, sources said.

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=19271

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