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This paper explains how Sri Lanka's Theravada monks have been a faction to promote the ongoing ethnic war. The paper provides an account of the role played by monks in politics and explores ethnic chauvinism and the idea of a true Sri Lankan as Sinhalese and Buddhist.

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"Sri Lanka's Buddhist monks have always had an important place in social and political life. In the ethnic war has unfolded since the anti-Tamil riots of July 1983, monks have had a strong voice in politics also, many backing the government's military `solution' to the Tamil separatist problem. In September of 2006, bikkus joined Christian nuns and priests and leaders from the Muslim and Hindu communities in a peaceful demonstration in Colombo. They were interrupted by fiery pro-war bikkus who began shouting that the pacifists should go to Sri Lanka's east coast..."

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