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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Anti-Muslim Attacks: Maithri Passes The Buck, Blames Police
President Maithripala Sirisena who
has in the past ordered the Police to carry out impartial
investigations on various crimes, in his capacity as the Head of State,
has this time around passed the buck, evading responsibility and has
instead blamed the police for allowing anti-Muslim attacks to escalate in the country. He had blamed the police during yesterday’s SLFP Central Committee meeting.
His comments comes as yet another Muslim owned shop in Kahawatte was
torched by an unidentified group. Meanwhile, the Colombo Telegraph
learns that during the meeting presided by Sirisena yesterday, the
Muslim ministers who are SLFP members had remained mum and instead it
was several junior members of the party who had expressed their growing
concerns over the violence against their community. Several non-Muslim
members had also supported the junior Muslim members and had said that
steps must be taken to put an end to these attacks against the minority
community.
Even though Sirisena appeared to be soft peddling the issue and has
failed to take action against the hate crime culprits led by Bodu Bala
Sena’s (BBS) General Secretary Galagoda Atte Gnanasara,
Sirisena was quick to express his condolence to the people of
Manchester following today’s attack, all while his very own people were
being attacked by hardcore Buddhist groups with mosques and shops owned
by Muslims coming under increasing attack since last month. Since the
escalation of attacks against Muslims last week, neither has Sirisena or
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe issued any official statements
condemning the attacks on the Muslims.
Over the weekend, Sirisena also shot down a request by Muslim MPs who
wanted to meet him to discuss the growing attacks against their
community. Amidst rising tensions, Sirisena left for Australia today.
Meanwhile, the US Ambassador in Sri Lanka and the EU Office in Colombo
have expressed concern and have called on the Government to take prompt
action against the growing hate crimes in the country.