Even as a serving soldier, he ventured that "Sri Lanka is a Sinhala Buddhist country."

甚至当Fonseka还是一名在役军人的时候，他就敢放言：“斯里兰卡是僧伽罗佛教徒的国度。”

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In this deeply Buddhist country, the army usually describes the work demanded of forced labourers as a traditional merit-earning activity.

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Sri Lanka's powerful Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was guest of honour at the opening of a Buddhist Brigade training school, and referred to the monks as those who "protect our country, religion and race".

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Step in line with numerous pilgrims in Kandy's Unesco-rated Sacred City to visit the Dalada Maligawa, also known as the Temple of the Tooth and home to the country's most important Buddhist relic - allegedly a tooth of the Buddha.

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