The National Bhikku Front, an organisation of Buddhist monks, has called on members of the security forces to vote for the common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena.
The ultra-nationalist organisation reassured the military that Sirisena would never conduct an internal or international investigation into war crimes, as he said in his manifesto, which proved that soldiers were safe.
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