INNER PEACE: Cambodian monks threw petrol bombs and metal balls at each other as a two-year row over the selection of a temple committee came to blows
AP , PHNOM PENH
Sunday, Feb 29, 2004,Page 5
Pel Kosal, Battambang deputy police chief
Buddhist monks, who are sworn to shun all violence, fired metal balls from slingshots and threw burning gasoline bottles at each other as a long-simmering conflict erupted into fighting at a temple in northwestern Cambodia, officials said yesterday.
The "monks' war," which resulted in a number of injuries, broke out Thursday at Russey pagoda in the northwestern province of Battambang, said Pel Kosal, a local deputy police chief.
He said the violence followed more than two years of conflict between two temple factions over the selection of a new committee to manage the temple's affairs and funds. Each side has about 20 monks.
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