This museum aims at imparting knowledge on agriculture to public and school children. This museum includes the instruments and methods of related to farming and agriculture.
Kandy Royal Palace Museum (Regional)
The museum has over 5,000 artifacts on display consist of weapons, jewelry, tools and other artifacts from the Kandyan era (17-19th Century) and post British Colonial era, including a copy of the 1815 agreement that handed over the Kandyan provinces to the British. In the grounds of the museum is a statue of Sir Henry Ward a former Governor of Ceylon (1855–1860), which was originally located in front of the Queen’s Hotel.
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Mawanella Riots
A series of planned attacks on the Muslim community and a mosque, by a Sinhala mob supported by a politician, took place in the town of Mawanella, on April 30 2001, while the police looked on. The Muslims retaliated by stoning the Mawanella Police Station and attacking several Sinhala shops. The police fired into the air to disperse the protestors resulting in the death of two Muslims and injuring 15 others. In the wake of this incident, Muslim protested in Colombo, Puttalam and Batticaloa by burning tyres on the road and attacking some Sinhala shops. The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress blamed the People’s Alliance government for instigating the attacks and for their harsh treatment of Muslims. It withdrew from the Alliance as a mark of protest.
Denzil Kobbekaduwa Statue, Kandy
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Major General Kobbekaduwa along with Brigadier Vijaya Wimalaratne, Commodore Mohan Jayamaha and 8 other officers were killed in a landmine explosion at Araly Point (Jaffna District) on August 8th 1992, while preparing for Operation Final Count Down. His statue in his home town of Kandy was erected after the end of the Civil War, in 2015. Several other statues of him are located in many other regions of Sri Lanka.
Gamini Dissanayake Statue and Park, Kotmale
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Commemorates the UNP Presidential candidate who was killed by a woman suicide bomber as he was giving a campaign speech at Thotalanga, Colombo on October 24th 1994.
Memorial to monks killed in Aranthalawa
A simple memorial to the slain monks is located on the roadside beside the Mahavapi Maha Vihara which is where all the monks were studying, and from where they set off on their pilgrimage, in 1987.
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Aranthalawa Memorial Complex
This memorial complex commemorates the LTTE ambushing of a bus in which 34 Buddhist monks, most of them young novices, were travelling, and killing 31 of them along with four civilians, on June 2nd 1987.
A special memorial incorporating the bus in which the monks were travelling was unveiled on March 24th 2013, by President Rajapakse.
Corporal Gamini Kularatne Statue, Hasalaka
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Corporal Gamini Kularatne, popularly known as ‘Hasalaka Gamini’ due to his home town being Hasalaka sacrificed his life to stop an LTTE tank from entering the Elephant Pass army camp on July 14 1991. He was the first recipient of the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya, the highest award for gallantry awarded by the Sri Lanka Army.
National Remembrance Park, Mailapitiya
This park, was unveiled on October 3rd 2002, during the Presidency of Chandrika Kumaranatunga. It was conceptualized as a place for the “tranquil reflection on the ravages of war”.
Mass Grave, Matale
154 skeletons were recovered from a mass grave in Matale during earth excavations to construct a new building at the Matale hospital, in November 2012. Signs of torture undergone by the skeletons led a forensic archaeologist to surmise that they were the remains of people who had been ‘disappeared’ during the second JVP uprising from 1987-1993. The government is currently awaiting more accurate dating via carbon fourteen tests being carried out in the USA.