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Lankan nationalist groups protest over Bodh Gaya terror attack

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Press Trust of India Colombo
Two groups of Buddhist monks-led nationalist groups today held a protest walk to the Indian mission here against a terror attack at Mahabodhi temple in Bihar.

They protested against the Sunday's terror attack at one of the holiest Buddhist sites at Bodh Gaya in which two monks were injured.

"We are shocked by the Indian intelligence failure in not being able to prevent the attack," Galadoaatte Gnanasara, the general secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) or the Forces of Buddhist power, said.

India did not do anything to prevent the attack, Ittakande Saddatissa of Ravana Balaya, another nationalist group, said.
 

As no Indian High Commission official came out to receive the communique which was meant for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Galagodaatte Gnanasara pasted it on the mission's wall.

Both groups in the recent months have led an-anti Muslim campaign against what they termed Muslim extremism in the Buddhist majority island.

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First Published: Jul 10 2013 | 8:15 PM IST

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