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re-enacts Muslim riots: Residents raise riot act Police confirmed that they had prevented the filming, but failed to explain why they failed to take action against the NGO. According to eyewitnesses, a group of people who arrived in a vehicle opposite the Jummah Mosque Junction, Thotawatte, Panadura had told the residents they were shooting a commercial film. The group, including two foreigners, and about 20 others, some of them dressed in army type uniform, had invited Muslim youths of the area to get involved in the film promising Rs. 500 each. Some of them had accepted the offer. In the first scene two tyres were burnt at the mosque junction and the Muslim youth were asked to ‘act’ as demonstrating and then to clash with and attack the people in uniform with clubs and stones. Later they were told to march towards a Buddha statue which the NGO group had brought and attack it. However, the youth had got alarmed over the NGO group’s motive and refused to carry out the instructions while some of them had alerted the police. Keselwatta Police who arrived at the scene had stopped further shooting of the film, but residents said police had failed to investigate the NGO. They said they suspected an ulterior motive connected to last month’s communal riots in Beruwala and Aluthgama. |
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