In a Facebook post, MIC Youth Chief C Sivarraajh said MIC will only be providing legal assistance to the suspects on humanitarian grounds to help their families.

“I would like to state very clearly that MIC Youth strongly condemns such violence on the high commissioner. It is not right.

“Attacking a monk and an ambassador is not the way to show our dissatisfaction towards former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s visit.”

He hoped there would not be a repeat of such incidents in the future.

It was recently reported that police had nabbed five suspects involved in the assault on the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Malaysia, Ibrahim Sahib Ansar on Sunday.

Prior to the assault, which was captured on video and shared on social media, Ibrahim had sent off Sri Lanka’s Primary Industries Minister Daya Gamage at KLIA.

While the motive for the attack is still unclear, it is believed that the assailants were angered by Rajapaksa’s presence in Malaysia.

Rajapaksa, who is widely blamed for the genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils at the end of the island nation’s decades-long civil war, was in Kuala Lumpur last week to attend the International Conference of Asian Political Parties.