Sri Lankan government has condemned the action of a group of Buddhist monks and the police over the incident involving Rohingya refugees at a UN safe house in Colombo last evening. <br/><br/>Addressing the weekly press conference, cabinet spokesman Dr. Rajitha Senaratne on Wednesday said that the monks behaved in a manner which disrespected Buddhism and was unacceptable. He also questioned the police for allowing the monks to threaten the refugees. <br/><br/>Dr. Rajitha Senaratne said that cabinet will discuss the incident and look at how such incidents must be addressed in future. He asserted that Rohingya refugees have been in Sri Lanka since 2008 and yet monks were protesting only now. <br/><br/>A mob led by a group of Buddhist monks had attacked a UN safe house housing 31 Rohingya refugees forcing the authorities to take the refugees under police protection. The monks claimed the refugees are Muslim terrorists who killed Buddhist monks in Myanmar.<br/><br/>