Tuesday, July 1, 2014

THE AGONY OF SRI LANKA’S MUSLIMS

A Sri Lankan Muslim gestures toward his charred home in Aluthgama. Lakruwan Wanniarachchi—AFP
A Sri Lankan Muslim gestures toward his charred home in Aluthgama. Lakruwan Wanniarachchi—AFP




BY FRANCES HARRISON-JUN 30 2014
AN EXTREMIST BUDDHIST GROUP HAS TAKEN STEPS TO EXPEL MUSLIMS FROM THE ISLAND KINGDOM, SILENCING DISSENT THROUGH PROPAGANDA AND INTIMIDATION.
After three Sri Lankan Muslims were killed and thousands more were forced to shelter in mosques and schools, many having lost everything in the worst communal violence in decades, the minister of Public Relations, Mervyn Silva, went on TV and offered to marry a Muslim woman to make up for it.