{"id":95052,"date":"2013-07-11T00:02:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T18:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=95052"},"modified":"2013-07-24T14:57:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T09:27:51","slug":"religious-police-sri-lankan-buddhists-to-carry-out-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/religious-police-sri-lankan-buddhists-to-carry-out-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Police: Sri Lankan Buddhists To Carry Out The Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s growing tension between hardline buddhists and Muslims and Christians. A group of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Bodu+Bala+Sena&amp;x=14&amp;y=2\">Buddhist organizations<\/a><\/span> in Sri Lanka says they will have to take the law into their own hands to protect the Sinhala Buddhist way of life. They say authorities are not doing enough, leaving them little choice. 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