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Friday, December 11, 2020
Sri Lankan army seize ancient religious statues worth over a million rupees
Statues recovered from a pond near the Vaddukoddai Sanganai Odakarai Nagathambiran temple, last month.
Sri Lankan army officials have seized ancient religious statues worth 1.5 million Sri Lankan rupees, in Jaffna.
10 December 2020
A 68-year-old Lord Murugan statue and three peacock statues were among the religious statues found hidden in a pond near the Vaddukoddai Sanganai Odakarai Nagathambiran temple, last month.
Army officials arrived at the location on Sunday 8th November, allegedly from a tip off, and recovered the statues from the pond and handed them over to Manipay police, who are conducting further investigations into the statues.
Since the return of the Rajapaksa regime, the appointment of an all-Sinhala Archaeology committee, reports of modifying the Antiquities Ordinance and the construction of Buddhist structures across the North-East has raised concerns of further Sinhalisation in the region.
Earlier this month, the Sri Lanka’s Department of Archaeology registered excavations across 650 monuments in Batticaloa under the supervision of the Presidential Task Force for Archaeological Heritage Management, to further exemplify the issue of Sinhalisation in Batticaloa, in particular.
Tamils have since expressed fears of their land being appropriated by the task force, as in recent times Buddhist statues and temples have been constructed in Tamil areas, often replacing Tamil Hindu temples.
