Three weeks after the April 26 attacks mobs rampaged through the towns of Minuwangoda and Kuliyapitiya attacking Muslim owned houses and businesses. Following the attacks, the Police swiftly moved to arrest a few names familiar and often linked to the Sinhalese far right. If fifty thousand, sixty thousand monks of this country get on to the road, what will you do?”. But Jayangani says Weerasinghe and Namal had fallen out long ago. While the puppet- masters of the Minuwangoda and Kuliyapitiya attacks have yet to be revealed Dan Priyasad is now out on bail.

Source: Sunday Observer May 18, 2019 20:00 UTC