Buddhist Religious Right

Articles

• Sri Lanka : La droite hindouiste et la droite bouddhiste
  29 octobre 2016, par siawi3

  Si le Sri-Lanka est officiellement un État séculier sa constitution reconnaît le bouddhisme comme religion majoritaire et comme le soulignent les partisans sri-lankais de la laïcité, les moines bouddhistes bénéficient d’un régime de « laissez-faire » assez singulier.

• Myanmar : le Bouddhisme et la violence, au-delà des clichés...
  29 octobre 2016, par siawi3

  Les auteurs appellent à rejeter tout autant le raccourci Bouddhisme/pacifisme que d’autres « essentialisations » concernant d’autres religions, tel le fameux islam/violence.

• Thailande : Où en est la laïcité ?
  30 octobre 2016, par siawi3

  Le bouddhisme n’est pas devenu religion d’état, malgré une pression constante du clergé bouddhiste. Mais un projet de loi sur le patronage et la protection du bouddhisme prévoyait de punir le blasphème de 10 à 15 ans de prison. Le pouvoir a ouvert la voie à une militarisation des temples bouddhistes. Et des milices islamistes ont pris les armes contre ’ l’état bouddhiste’.

• Muslim survivors of Myanmar’s sectarian violence relive ordeals
  30 October 2012, by siawi3

  Muslim survivors of six days of sectarian violence in western Myanmar spoke yesterday of fleeing bullets and burning homes to escape on fishing boats after an attack by once-peaceable Rakhine neighbors.
  Barefoot Muslim men and women alighted from engine-less fishing boats and climbed the muddy embankment to Te Chaung camp carrying children and what meager possessions they had salvaged from the inferno. Myanmar’s Buddhist-majority government regards the estimated 800,000 Rohingyas in the country as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and denies them citizenship.

• ’Hundreds of Rohingyas’ killed in Myanmar crackdown
  8 February 2017, by siawi3

  Army has carried out mass killings of Muslim minority, UN rights office says, in possible ethnic cleansing. About 66,000 people have fled from Rakhine to Bangladesh since October.

• Rohingya: The ‘floating people’ of Myanmar
  10 February 2017, by siawi3

  The Rohingya ethnic religious minority group has been persecuted by the Buddhist majority in Myanmar, assailed by special forces and monk militias. " We do not have citizenship in our country. My grandfather, father, and I were all born and lived there… yet, I am considered a ‘temporary resident’.

• Burma/Myanmar: An open letter to the UN secretary general on Rohingya persecution
  5 February 2017, by siawi3

  What makes the situation today the most perilous it has ever been is the fact that in this crisis the Rohingya are likely to be targeted by all parts of Burmese society. The violence of 2012-2013 had not been initiated by the federal state. Or indeed the local state. The decades of anti-Rohingya propaganda have been absorbed by the political culture of the country, and now the biggest threat to the Rohingya is actually their ethnic Rakhine Buddhist neighbours, in their native state of Rakhine/Arakan. Civil society groups, Rakhine nationalist political parties, even prominent groups of Buddhist monks are the perpetrators of dehumanising propaganda and incitement to anti-Rohingya violence.

• Aid ship to help Rohingyas arrives in Myanmar, greeted by protest
  10 February 2017, by siawi3

  People and Buddhist monks protest while Malaysian NGO’s aid ship carrying food and emergency supplies for Rohingya Muslims arrives at the port in Yangon, Myanmar

• Survivors blame Myanmar government for clashes
  30 October 2012, by siawi3

  Survivors of ethnic clashes in western Myanmar lashed out at the government on Monday for failing to prevent violence between Muslims and Buddhists
  “Authorities are not solving the problem and soldiers are not defending us’’

• Au Sri Lanka, la radicalisation d’une partie des musulmans passée inaperçue
  3 mai 2019, par siawi3

  Le pays, qui semblait trop occupé à panser les plaies de la division ethnique entre Tamouls et Cinghalais, assistait depuis quelques années à la montée de l’extrémisme bouddhiste, la religion majoritaire. La radicalisation d’une partie des musulmans sri-lankais est passée inaperçue. Pourtant les sufis avaient pris la plume, en 2015, pour dénoncer dans les journaux du pays l’« intolérance religieuse » qui se répandait comme un « cancer dans la communauté musulmane de l’île ».

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