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Religious Institutions damaged<br />

Loss in LKR<br />

Masjidun Noor, 93 Marikar Street 5M<br />

Pasalthota Masjid 0.15M<br />

Total loss 5.15<br />

Table of loss from damaged Mosques (2014) (sic)<br />

All Properties # LKR<br />

Total loss from businesses 38 307.64M<br />

Total loss from houses 115 315.02M<br />

Total loss from Mosques 2 5.15M<br />

Total 155 627.81M<br />

Table of Total loss from business, houses and Mosques damaged (2014)<br />

Damages by sectional Institutions in percentage<br />

Houses - 50.17%<br />

Business - 49%<br />

Masjids - 0.82%<br />

The above tables are about the summary of loss estimation of businesses and houses. 38<br />

business centres have been broken, looted and burned at Aluthgama and Dharga Town. Two<br />

out of 38 total businesses were the large scale by revenue (sic) and number of staff. The<br />

Gateway Apparel that employed 400 Sinhalese lost about 50 million LRK in the violence, as<br />

a result a complete line of machines was burned. The factory has been located in a Sinhalese<br />

village. The major crisis, the aftermath of the violence that has targeted to burn the business<br />

completely , and the business has been refused with exporting orders (sic) (Shiras, Farook<br />

2014) Only 75% of workers have turned up for duty after the violence and it is learnt that the<br />

management is struggling to pay workers’ salary at this juncture.<br />

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