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Four of Sri Lanka's most senior hardline Buddhist monks appeared in court Monday accused of insulting the Koran, in the first such case following a spate of religious hate attacks.Read full story via http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/news/sri-lanka-buddhist-monks-in-court-accused-of-insulting-koran/842681624Since the end of the war there have been high-profile incidents such as the attack on the Mosque in Dambulla in April 2012, however other incidents, have received little or no public and media attention. This has resulted in a limited understanding of the scale and nature of these incidents.This report published on 09 March 2013 documents incidents of attacks on places of worship in Sri Lanka since the end of the war in May 2009 and discusses the broader context of such attacks.Read report here - http://www.cpalanka.org/attacks-on-places-of-religious-worship-in-post-war-sri-lanka/Download the report in Sinhala here.Download the report in Tamil here.source: http://www.cpalanka.org/attacks-on-places-of-religious-worship-in-post-war-sri-lanka/