{"id":126320,"date":"2014-06-19T00:05:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T18:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=126320"},"modified":"2014-06-22T17:52:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T12:22:44","slug":"unedited-full-video-bbs-gnanasaras-pre-riots-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/unedited-full-video-bbs-gnanasaras-pre-riots-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Unedited Full Video: BBS Gnanasara’s Pre-Riots Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Galagoda Atthe Gnanasara<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in an inciteful and fear mongering speech in\u00a0Aluthgama<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on June 15, 2014,<\/a>prior to the riots said that \u201cif one marakkalaya ( Muslim) lays a hand on a Sinhalese that will be the end of all of them\u201d to a rousing and cheering crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the monk, the minorities are organizing themselves and\u00a0he urged the Sinhalese to wake up and fight back before they get\u00a0destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Gnanasara<\/a>The crowd were visibly moved and kept cheering each inciteful statement made by Gnansara prior to launching their attack on the Muslims.<\/p>\n

He threatened to destroy Muslim\u00a0businesses at Aluthgama, Beruwala and other places. He instructed his\u00a0listeners to grab any bags with Halal signs and throw them on the\u00a0ground. He asked his audience to fight against the minorities. Part of\u00a0the audience shouted back saying yes, they will do it. The monk called the President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa a brainless person and\u00a0asked whether any person with brains would appoint a Muslim to be a\u00a0Minister of Justice. He told the crowd that party politics have\u00a0destroyed Sinhalese and urged the crowd to unite and take things into\u00a0their own hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe police have turned their bayonets against us that is wrong. The Police should know what is happening in this country. We are asking the Defence establishment if the Sinhalse and the Bikkhus have ever raised a hand to one business establishment?. But this is enough. We haven\u2019t raised our hands ( against them), not because we can\u2019t\u2026 its not because we can\u2019t\u201d( crowd cheers)<\/p>\n

He also said that the BBS was \u201cracist\u201d, while telling the Police officers present that they are a part of the \u201cSinhala Police and the Sinhala Army\u201d.<\/p>\n

He also said that the name of \u201cDharga town\u201d should also be changed. “This is what these temporary\u2026. this is the gratefulness that the have shown to us like Madumadhawa said\u201d. (Jathika Hela Urumaya politician and singer Madumadhawa Aravinda had sung poetry to\u00a0the crowd, asking them to rise up)<\/p>\n