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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Monday, June 5, 2017
Sri Lanka human rights panel urges Maithripala Sirisena to tackle hate crimes against Muslims
The
commission has urged the president “to take all the necessary actions
against the instigators and perpetrators of violence and hate speech
targeting the Muslim community”.
June 2, 2017
The commission has urged the president "to take all the necessary actions against the instigators and perpetrators of violence and hate speech targeting the Muslim community".
An independent human rights watchdog has urged Sri Lanka President
Maithripala Sirisena to tackle the alleged hate crime attacks from
Buddhist extremist groups targeting the country’s minority Muslim
community. In a letter to Sirisena, the Human Rights Commission asked
the government to fully implement the rule of law to bring the
perpetrators of racial hatred to book.
The commission has urged the president “to take all the necessary
actions against the instigators and perpetrators of violence and hate
speech targeting the Muslim community”. Envoys of many countries,
including Australia and Canada, have visited a prominent mosque here to
express their solidarity with the country’s Muslims who allege that
their religious places have come under hate crime attacks from Buddhist
extremist groups.
The Muslim community has been disturbed by an escalation of attacks
against them since mid April. Several places of religious practice and
Muslim-owned businesses have been attacked, the commission said as it
also complained of police inaction in tackling the situation. The
commission said that it has been alarmed by the racial hatred and hate
speech targeting Muslims.
Police have been criticised for not arresting a Buddhist monk who heads
an extremist group, ‘Bodu Bala Sena’ or the Forces of Buddhist power.
The Muslims have lodged dozens of complaints against Rev Galagodaatte
Gnanasara for hate speech against the community. Police, despite a court
order which prevents him from fleeing the country, have failed to
arrest him so far.