(18 Aug 2006)
1. Various wide shots of peace march in Colombo
2. Various of women holding banner reading "Mothers and Daughters of Lanka" and shouting anti-war slogans
3. Mid of chanting men
4. Various of Christian nuns and priests taking part in the march
5. Buddhist monks in the demonstration
6. Various of protest
7. Wide of people, including Buddhist monks on stage
8. Mid of Buddhist monks sitting on the stage
9. Muslim participants on stage
10. Hindu priests sitting on stage
11. Wide of Buddhist monks holding banners coming to the stage to protest
12. Monks arguing with organisers asking them to stop organising peace marches
13. Argument getting more heated
14. Scuffles between monks and organisers with man hitting a monk and trying to removing his robe
15. Various of scuffle
16. Monks' banner burning on the ground
17. Man chanting on stage amid smoke and confusion
18. Various of monks being pushed out of venue, with police escort
STORYLINE:
A scuffle broke out on Thursday between monks from a right-wing Buddhist faction and anti-war demonstrators at peace rally in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo.
Around a thousand people, including Buddhist monks as well as members of the other major religions marched in a peace demonstration and gathered for a multifaith rally.
A member of Sri Lanka's parliament was addressing the crowd when about six or seven monks from a right-wing Buddhist faction stormed the stage shouting pro-war slogans.
The monks unfurled banners reading "Take your protest to Kilinochchi," referring to the de-facto rebel capital in northern Sri Lanka where hundreds
have been killed in the last week.
Angry protesters then pulled the monks from the stage and burned their banners.
There were no reported injuries.
Sri Lanka has been engulfed in more than two decades of civil war as rebel Tamil Tigers battle government forces for an independent homeland in the north and east.
At least 65,000 people are known to have died before a cease-fire in 2002, many of them civilians.
The ceasefire has done little to stem the bloodshed in the north and east, and a blast Monday in Colombo that killed seven people has stoked fears
that the capital would once again be drawn into the cross-fire.
The rally was organised by the National Anti War Front and backed by several dozen religious, political and other high-profile personalities in the arts and entertainment world.
They called on the Tamil Tigers and the government to adhere to the cease-fire and return immediately to the negotiating table.

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