{"id":142281,"date":"2015-04-04T00:27:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T18:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=142281"},"modified":"2015-04-04T15:31:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T10:01:12","slug":"police-prevents-sinhala-ravaya-attempt-to-damage-kuragala-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/police-prevents-sinhala-ravaya-attempt-to-damage-kuragala-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Prevents Sinhala Ravaya Attempt To Damage Kuragala Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sinhala+Ravaya&amp;x=4&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sinhala Ravaya<\/span><\/a> protestors who entered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Kuragala&amp;x=7&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kuragala<\/span><\/a> archaeological site a short while ago has attempted to damage the Islam Holy site located at the premises.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_87289\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Jialany-Kuragala.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87289\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-87289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Jialany-Kuragala-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"File photo- Last time Kuragala attack \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Jialany-Kuragala-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Jialany-Kuragala-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-87289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo- Last time Kuragala attack<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The protesters ignoring an enjoining order issued against the demonstration by the Balangoda Magistrate Court had entered the archaeological site by force and demanded the demolition of the Islamic Holy site. They had also brought with them, equipment including metal rods which they had attempted to deploy in order to damage the shrine that is revered by Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>However, timely intervention by the Police that used water cannons to disperse the protesters, had subverted the attempts to destroy the holy site.<\/p>\n<p>Police Spokesman ASP Ruwan Gunasekara said no arrests have been made so far but added further investigations are continuing in order to arrest those responsible for organizing the protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":87289,"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-142281","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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