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Statues of Mahatma Gandhi, others vandalised in Sri Lanka
Saturday April 07, 2012 08:10:52 PM,
IANS
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Colombo: The Sri
Lankan government has ordered an investigation into an incident in
which several statues, including that of Mahatma Gandhi, were
vandalised.
"It has been brought to the notice of the ministry that several
important statues in the Batticaloa town (in eastern Sri Lanka)
had been vandalised," Xinhua quoted the Sri Lankan foreign
ministry as saying in a statement Saturday.
"The Inspector General of Police has been instructed to carry out
an immediate and thorough investigation into these incidents to
identify motives and culprits behind these acts of vandalism," it
added.
According to police, the attackers broke off the heads of the
statues of Gandhi and Britain's Robert Baden-Powell, the founder
of the Scout movement.
Two other statues of local figures were also vandalised Thursday
in what appeared to be a coordinated crime, police said.
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