Buddhist Religious Right

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• Sri Lanka lifts Facebook ban after hate speech assurance
  16 March 2018, by siawi3

  The Facebook block was imposed across Sri Lanka during anti-Muslim riots that left three people dead. A state of emergency was declared and internet services suspended entirely in Kandy, the worst-hit central district, for several days last week as authorities sought to disrupt the riots, in which more than 200 Muslim-owned businesses and homes were destroyed.

• UK: Is faith based agenda compatible with minority women’s rights
  16 April 2010, by siawi2
  Thursday 13^th May 5.00-6.30pm,
  In collaboration with SOAS Centre for Gender Studies
  Pragna Patel, Director of Southall Black Sisters
  “Cohesion, Faith and Gender: Is the cohesion and faith based agenda compatible with gender equality for  (...)
• Sri Lanka: All 9 of Sri Lanka’s Muslim Ministers Resign, as Bombing Backlash Intensifies
  6 June 2019, by siawi3

  “As part of an attempt to target my community, racist forces have called for my resignation without any reason.” “We urge the government to expedite any inquiries so that we will be vindicated from these allegations. If any of us are found guilty, they should be punished,” said Mr. Hakeem, who also leads the largest Muslim party in Sri Lanka. “Our people fear a blood bath,” he said.

• Sri Lanka: ‘Govt. Complicit In Aluthgama Anti-Muslim Attacks’ Says Women’s Collective
  21 July 2014, by siawi3

  The Women’s Collective report states that survivors’ narratives clearly point to a well-organised attack by the extremist group Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) on the Muslims and had been preparing days ahead by stocking up knives, petrol bombs, clubs and axes in temples and had also transported bus loads of people to the areas to participate in the attacks. The report also notes that state structures including the Police, STF and even government hospitals seem complicit in this attack: “Inaccessibility of 119 numbers, ill response of fire extinguishing services, rejections by hospital staff and doctors to treat victims of the attacks and inaction by the Police and the STF during the riot. . .”

• Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi under fire as alleged military abuse follows militant attack
  4 November 2016, by siawi3

  Burma faces ethnic violence. Has Aung San Suu Kyi ignored the plight of her people? ’Nothing had changed since Suu Kyi’s historic election a year ago’. Residents described a landscape of fear in which members of the Rohingya Muslim ethnic group have allegedly been barred from going to mosques or to work. Human Rights Watch has reported that satellite data shows villages that have been burned, and Reuters and the Myanmar Times have chronicled the alleged rape of Muslim women by soldiers.

• SRI LANKA: Training session for Tamil journalists disrupted
  2 August 2014, by siawi3

  Pro-government activists have disrupted media training for Tamil journalists for the second time in two months, this time a two-day workshop on technology safety in Colombo. Such repeated interference, often accompanied by death threats, is a regular occurrence for Tamil journalists.

• India: The Rohingya are facing genocide. We cannot be bystanders
  12 November 2017, by siawi3

  We cannot allow people to be slaughtered and burnt out of their homes, while the world watches, write Salman Rushdie and dozens of others in this open letter

• Sri Lanka: Where Majoritarian Part Subsumes The Whole: The Ideological Foundation Of Sinhala Extremism
  5 August 2016, by siawi3

  It should be permissible for those who reject sub-categories (Sinhala Lankan, Tamil Lankan, Malaiyaha Lankan, Moor Lankan, Malay Lankan, Burgher Lankan, Colombo Chetty Lankan, Borah Lankan, Sindhi Lankan, Parsee Lankan, Vadda Lankan, Ahikuntaka Lankan, Mixed Lankan) on principle to denote themselves as “Lankan’ and to refuse an ethnic label. Many Sinhalese believed that the term “Ceylonese” was equivalent to the term “Sinhalese.” This slippage, this swallowing of the whole by its major part, was (is) often unconscious, implicit, taken-for-granted.

• Myanmar’s Muslim Purge Is So Awful You Can See it From Space
  20 November 2016, by siawi3

  On Myanmar’s coast the villages of the persecuted Rohingya Muslims keep going up in flames, displacing 30,000. The army has shut out aid workers and independent observers, and plans to arm a local Buddhist militia, composed of ethnic Arakanese, a “recipe for disaster,” according to the International Commission of Jurists. But the Arakan National Party (ANP), which hailed Donald Trump’s election and favors “inhuman acts” to cleanse Myanmar of Muslims, endorsed it.

• Burma/Myanmar: Massive Destruction in Rohingya Villages
  19 November 2016, by siawi3

  High-definition satellite imagery shows widespread fire-related destruction in ethnic Rohingya villages in Burma’s Rakhine State.

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