Gnanasara gained greater notoriety in 2014 when a minor scuffle broke out between a monk and some Muslim youths in the coastal town of Aluthgama. The boys had already been forced by the police to kneel before the offended monk who then slapped and humiliated them. But after a harangue by Gnanasara in support of the monk, Buddhist mobs surged through the town, swinging swords and chucking Molotov cocktails, screaming, “Kill the Muslims!” Three died and dozens of houses were reduced to cinders. The police treated the whole thing as a spectator sport. This was not an aberration but the...
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