Buddhist Religious Right

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• Sri Lanka: A monk leads mob violence at Maligawatta with the connivance of the police
  6 March 2013, by siawi3

  The whole incident demonstrates how far mob violence is taking place in Sri Lanka. In this instance the monk who led the mob claimed that there are many more incidents happening in the country and that they intend to intervene in similar manner.
  If there was any enquiry to be done it should have been done by the police and not by the mob. The very fact that the police accompanied the mob shockingly indicates the connivance of the police in the mob violence.

• The enemy of my enemy is not my friend
  22 March 2007, by Marieme Helie Lucas
  6 September 2006
  (Contribution presented at the sixth Asia Europe People’s Forum, Helsinki September 3-6, 2006, (plenary of cluster 3 : Democracy and Human Rights))
  The world has changed since the first international human rights organizations  (...)
• Myanmar: The Rohingyas need the help of the Burmese government, Aung San Suu Kyi and the outside world
  6 November 2012, by siawi3

  Around 1m members of the mostly Muslim Rohingya minority remain in Myanmar’s impoverished western state of Rakhine. They are survivors of relentless rounds of persecution that have created a diaspora around the world that is perhaps twice as big. As The Economist went to press, more than 100 boat people, mostly Rohingyas, were missing in the Bay of Bengal. They were fleeing hideous peril at home in Myanmar. Members of the ethnic-Rakhine majority, who are mostly Buddhist, have seen the greater liberties the country now enjoys as the freedom to resume persecution.

• Sri Lanka: The Political Economy of Anti-Muslim Attacks
  6 March 2013, by siawi3

  The Muslim community is under attack. There have been increasing reports of attacks on mosques and shops owned by Muslims as part of a broader hate campaign against Muslims. The attack on the Dambulla Khairya Jummah mosque in April 2012 saw a decisive shift in the scale of these attacks. This act of violence was built on anti-Muslim rhetoric and a nascent campaign that had been simmering for years.Political shifts cannot be explained merely by the moves of political leaders. Rather, the manoeuvres of political actors are only possible when the political economic ground is ripe to mobilise social and political forces. Some of the most destructive manoeuvres by political actors in the story of Ceylon and Sri Lanka have mobilised communalism and nationalism.

• Sri Lanka: Mob disrupts meeting of families of disappeared: Police & Government hound participants
  8 August 2014, by siawi3

  Around 3.15pm on 4^th August, when a mother whose son had disappeared was sharing her story, a mob of about 40 persons, including about 8 in Buddhist Monk robes, forcibly stormed into the building and attempted to break into the meeting room. The mob hurled abuse and false allegations at the organizers and participants of the meeting, labeling them as LTTE (terrorist) supporters, trying to discredit the Government by way of supporting an international war crimes inquiry. Some members of the mob were taking photographs of the organizers and participants, which terrorized the participants further, as they feared reprisals for themselves and families.
  The Police refused to disperse the mob and seemed unwilling to take strong action against it, despite multiple appeals by the organizers and one of the diplomats present to do so. And now, instead of condemning and focusing on legal action against the mob, the government and the Police appears determined to shift the blame on to the organizers, participants and even diplomats present and intimidate and harass the organizers and participants.

• On Buddhist Fundamentalism in Sri Lanka
  3 June 2013, by siawi3

  The saffron-robed fanatics, led by the BBS—Bodu Bala Sena: the most active and pernicious of Buddhist fundamentalist groups that have sprouted in Sinhala strongholds throughout the island— are on the rampage again. This time the target is the relatively small Muslim minority. Muslim abattoirs have been raided, butchers shops attacked, homes targeted. Terrified kids and adults in Muslim areas are living in fear. The police stand by watching passively while the Sri Lankan TV crews film the scenes as if it were a school picnic.

• Asia’s boat people flee the Buddhist extreme right
  22 April 2016, by siawi3

  Around 6000-20,000 people have been found in ‘rickety flotillas’ in the Andaman Sea and the Strait of Malacca. Following massive persecution in Myanmar, the Rohingyas have been forced to flee to neighbouring countries like South Asia and South East Asia, from the 1970s, to seek asylum.

• Sri Lanka : Statement condemning continued attacks on places of worship of religious minorities by Buddhist extremist mobs
  26 January 2014, by siawi3

  We are outraged over the spate of violent attacks against places of worship of religious minorities, including those of Christians, Muslims and Hindus, and remain deeply concerned at the apparent State complicity and level of impunity enjoyed by certain Buddhist extremist groups.

• Three AWID documents on fundamentalisms
  9 February 2009, by siawi
• Sri Lanka: Women are not willing to go back to pre-war status quo
  24 May 2010, by siawi2
  May 22, 2010
  By Kumi Samuel and Chulani Kodikara
  ‘Women are not just victims of war, as some aspects of their experiences are empowering and can be used as a resource for healing and transformation’.
  War is a gendered process. Post war is no  (...)

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