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“After the war in 2009, society became divided into two. There was hate propaganda on the internet. Sinhalese got together and wanted to boycott Muslims shops…This religious division was used by Sahran to this advantage. He used this to turn people onto his side.”
Nilantha Jayawardana, former head of SIS (Lankadeepa – 30.7.2020).
In early November 2019, a 45 year-old man in Northwest Sri Lanka sought divine assistance to find a wife. The intermediary was a former labourer who became a godman after his body was invaded by the spirit of a dead monk. Claiming that planetary influences were impeding the supplicant’s path to marriage, he undertook to negate these via a magical ritual. .