(PHOTO) Mahatma Gandhi statue beheaded in Sri Lanka
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(PHOTO) Mahatma Gandhi statue beheaded in Sri Lanka

Batticaloa : Sri Lanka | Apr 10, 2012 at 11:16 AM PDT
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Sri Lanka News Debrief - 24.05.2011

An anti-Indian and anti-western campaign vandalized the statues of Indian independence icon Mahatma Gandhi and Britain’s Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement on Friday, April 6. The incident took place at Batticaloa town, 300kms east of Colombo. Two local icons’ statues were also been destroyed.

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