We will work with the authorities to apprehend those who did this to create racial tensions and have a broader based plan to prevent such ugly incidents in the future, Deputy Foreign Minister Harsha De Silva said in a statement today.
On a post on official facebook page De Silva claimed that he had sent his staff and the local member of the council to visit the owners of the three Muslim homes whose walls and gates were vandalised by the ‘Singha Le’ group in Nugegoda.
I conveyed to them that this kind of racist behaviour will not be tolerated in my electorate where all communities live in harmony. I invite all to work with me to achieve the objective of creating a ‘Sri Lankan’ identity to unite us instead of ethnic identities that are dividing us, he added.
