Presidential Task Force for Archaeological Heritage Management — Eastern Province (June 2020)

Government of Sri Lanka — Presidential Secretariat · Gazette Extraordinary No. 2178/17 (2 June 2020)

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The all-Sinhala, monk-inclusive task force established by Presidential Gazette in June 2020 with jurisdiction over Tamil-Muslim majority Eastern Province archaeological heritage — without a single Tamil or Muslim member. The institutional architecture for post-2009 archaeological reclassification of Hindu and Sufi sites.

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