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Buddhist monks brawl at Sri Lanka peace protest
reuters ^ | Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:53 PM BST173

Posted on 08/17/2006 6:05:40 AM PDT by rightgrafix

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Protesters calling for an end to recent violence in Sri Lanka found themselves brawling with hardline Buddhist monks on Thursday, after a rally dubbed a "peace protest" turned unexpectedly violent.

Organisers said there were around 1,000 people in a park in the capital, Colombo, listening to a range of speakers when hardline saffron-robed monks opposed to concessions to Tamil Tiger rebels mounted the stage and erected banners.

Some more moderate Buddhist monks, protesting for peace, were already on the stage when punches were thrown. Soon, monks' robes and fists were flying, although no one was badly hurt, witnesses said.

"They were saying we should go to war," said pro-peace monk Madampawe Assagee. "We like to listen to other opinions so we let them do that but then they started fighting and we couldn't control some of our people. They tried to make it a big fight but we settled it in a few minutes."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: buddhist; peaceprotest; tamiltiger
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To: rightgrafix

Round One!

FIGHT!!

MORTAL KOMBAT!!!


21 posted on 08/17/2006 7:27:13 AM PDT by TOWER
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To: rightgrafix

Why are there so many fights at peace protest.


22 posted on 08/17/2006 7:55:31 AM PDT by art_rocks
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To: Panzerfaust

No doubt they were having flashbacks.


23 posted on 08/17/2006 9:31:17 AM PDT by jimfree ("From the roof of a house a melon may roll either of two ways.")
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To: HarleyD; Alex Murphy; xzins; P-Marlowe; Dr. Eckleburg
Once again truth is stranger than fiction.

Another well known Buddhist acted up this week by putting the move on a Bollywood star:

Buddhists gone wild!

24 posted on 04/20/2007 12:16:58 PM PDT by Gamecock (Ecclesia reformata, semper reformanda secundum verbum Dei)
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