{"id":112672,"date":"2013-11-01T00:09:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T18:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=112672"},"modified":"2013-11-01T13:35:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T08:05:01","slug":"lfd-condemns-the-attack-on-dambulla-badramman-kovil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lfd-condemns-the-attack-on-dambulla-badramman-kovil\/","title":{"rendered":"LfD Condemns The Attack On Dambulla \u2018Badramman Kovil\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018Lawyers for Democracy\u2019 condemns unreservedly the attack on \u2018Badramman Kovil\u2019 at Dambulla, said\u00a0Lal Wijenayake, the\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Convener of the Lawyers for Democracy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_111505\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/dambulla-kovil-attacked-hindu-politico-says-mosques-and-kovils-must-not-be-shifted\/bhadrakali-mata-statue\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111505\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111505\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-111505\" title=\"Bhadrakali Mata Statue\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bhadrakali-Mata-Statue-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bhadrakali-Mata-Statue-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bhadrakali-Mata-Statue-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-111505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bhadrakali Mata Statue \/File photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This Kovil which is a place of religious worship specially for Hindus has come under attack on several occasions in past and the government has failed to take any concrete steps to stop these attacks and infact as a result the whole Kovil has been razed to the ground.\u00a0 This is not an isolated incident.\u00a0 Previous incidents of attacks on Churches, mosques and Kovils and other places of religious activity of minority religions has gone unabated and unchecked by the state.\u00a0These incidents shows the level of intolerance of diversity and dissent that prevails in our society today.\u00a0 What is of most concern is the impunity with which these criminal acts are committed against religious and ethnic minorities.&#8221; the LfD further said.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"30 Year Old Dambulla Badhrakaali Amman Kovil Completely Demolished Last Night\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/30-year-old-dambulla-badhrakaali-amman-kovil-completely-demolished-last-night\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">30 Year Old Dambulla Badhrakaali Amman Kovil Completely Demolished Last Night<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/dambulla-kovil-attacked-hindu-politico-says-mosques-and-kovils-must-not-be-shifted\/\">Dambulla Kovil Attacked; Hindu Politico Says Mosques And Kovils Must Not Be Shifted<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":111505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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