Galagodaatte Gnanasara

(File) Sri Lankan General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Ven. Galagodaatte Gnanasara looks on at the Rukmalgama Temple in Rukmalgama, about 20 kms from Colombo on May 23, 2019. Photo: AFP
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10 August 2020
Firebrand Buddhist monk gets seat in Sri Lanka parliament
(File) In this file photo taken on June 14, 2018 Sri Lankan guards escort firebrand Buddhist monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara after he was sentenced to six months in jail by a magistrate in Homagama. Sri Lanka's president ignored requests on February 4, 2019 to free a jailed firebrand Buddhist monk even as 518 other convicts were released to mark the independence day. Photo: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP
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05 February 2019
Sri Lanka keeps firebrand Buddhist monk behind...
Sri Lanka's president resisted calls from the island's Buddhist hierarchy to release a...