{"id":87129,"date":"2013-05-16T19:05:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T13:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=87129"},"modified":"2013-05-22T01:15:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T19:45:43","slug":"bbs-to-destroy-kuragala-islam-religious-site-alavi-mowlana-asked-mr-to-intervene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/bbs-to-destroy-kuragala-islam-religious-site-alavi-mowlana-asked-mr-to-intervene\/","title":{"rendered":"BBS To Destroy Kuragala Islam Religious Site &#8211; Alavi Mowlana Asked MR To Intervene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere has also been threats by the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Bodu+Bala+Sena&amp;x=10&amp;y=4\">Bodu Bala Sena<\/a><\/span> to bring thousands of Buddhists in vehicle parade to place a Buddha statute and destroy our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Kuragala&amp;x=7&amp;y=4\">religious site<\/a><\/span> on May 18<sup>th<\/sup> 2013.\u201d Alavi Mowlana, the Governor of the Western Province wrote to Mahinda Rajapaksa today.<\/p>\n<p>We publish below the letter in full;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/bbs-to-destroy-kuragala-islam-religious-site-alavi-mowlana-asked-mr-to-intervene\/kuragala\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87130\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-87130\" title=\"Kuragala\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Kuragala.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Kuragala.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Kuragala-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/bbs-to-destroy-kuragala-islam-religious-site-alavi-mowlana-asked-mr-to-intervene\/kuragala1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87133\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-87133\" title=\"Kuragala1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Kuragala1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Kuragala1.jpg 637w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Kuragala1-289x300.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/bbs-to-destroy-kuragala-islam-religious-site-alavi-mowlana-asked-mr-to-intervene\/alavi-mowlana\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87136\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-87136\" title=\"Alavi Mowlana\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Alavi-Mowlana.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Alavi-Mowlana.jpg 305w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Alavi-Mowlana-284x300.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":87136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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