{"id":28963,"date":"2014-03-25T01:10:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T05:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=28963"},"modified":"2014-03-25T01:21:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T05:21:33","slug":"bodhu-bala-sena-changes-street-name-of-hassan-mawatte-to-anagarika-dharmapala-mawatte-in-mawanella-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=28963","title":{"rendered":"Bodhu Bala Sena Changes Street Name of Hassan Mawatte to Anagarika Dharmapala Mawatte in Mawanella town."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mawanella town in the Kegalle district of Sabaragamuwa province in Sri Lanka was the latest venue of the on going  anti -Muslim campaign conducted by  the island nation&#8217;s foremost ethno-religious fascist organization known as the Bodhu Bala Sena(BBS).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bodhu Bala Sena staged a mass meeting on Sunday March 23rd at Mawanella situated on the Colombo -Kandy road between Kegalle and Kadugannawa.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Several frontline leaders of the Bodhu Bala Sena addressed the meeting and unleashed a barrage of anti-Muslim rhetoric at the gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Mawanella which witnessed Sinhala &#8211; muslim violence over a decade ago has a sizable Muslim population living amidst their Sinhala Buddhist brothers and sisters.Several business establishments in the town are owned and run by Muslims<\/p>\n<p>The Bodhu Bala Sena speakers who accused the Muslims of controlling Mawanella town proclaimed that such a state of affairs would not be tolerated in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The platform orators, many of whom werre Buddhist bhikkus warned the Muslims of dire consequences in the future and declared that the BBS would usher in a transformation.<\/p>\n<p>The Bodhu Bala Sena proclaimed that a prominent street in Mawanella bearing a Muslim name would be changed immediately to reflect the Sinhala Buddhist ethos of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter the Bodhu Bala Sena Bhikku leaders led a procession that marched along the street known as Hassan Mawatte and spouted racist anti-muslim venom through megaphones. Hassan mawatte is preponderantly Muslim with several Muslim owned businesses.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Bodhu Bala Sena mob then tried to deface the letters on street sign saying Hassan Mawatte. The BBS pasted stickers on top of the earlier lettering saying &#8220;Anagarika Dharmapala mawatte&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A large contingent of Policemen deployed at Mawanella simply watched what was happening instead of trying to prevent breaches of peace and transgressions of law by the BBS.<\/p>\n<p>Having changed the name of Hassan mawatte to Anagarika Dharmapala Mawatte in a matter of minutes through &#8220;mob force&#8221; the ethno religious fascist Bodhu Bala Sena left the scene threatening to return soon to Mawanella and continue their campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The BBS was safely escorted out of town by the Police also known as guardians of law and order.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton28963\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D28963&amp;text=Bodhu%20Bala%20Sena%20Changes%20Street%20Name%20of%20Hassan%20Mawatte%20to%20Anagarika%20Dharmapala%20Mawatte%20in%20Mawanella%20town.&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mawanella town in the Kegalle district of Sabaragamuwa province in Sri Lanka was the latest venue of the on going anti -Muslim campaign conducted by the island nation&#8217;s foremost ethno-religious fascist organization known as the Bodhu Bala Sena(BBS). The Bodhu Bala Sena staged a mass meeting on Sunday March 23rd at Mawanella situated on the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=28963\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Bodhu Bala Sena Changes Street Name of Hassan Mawatte to Anagarika Dharmapala Mawatte in Mawanella town.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28988,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28963\/revisions\/28988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}