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Sri Lanka Declares Emergency Amid Buddhist Attacks On Minority Muslims : The Two-Way The violence, which began on Sunday, was reportedly triggered by a road-rage incident in which a Sinhalese ...
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As hardline monks rally Sri Lanka on Buddhist pride, minority Muslims fear being targeted. Associated Press. Published January 11, 2014 2:03am EST | Updated December 3, 2015 8:15am EST.
Tens of thousands of people line the streets of Sri Lanka's capital for an annual Buddhist pageant with hundreds of drummers and dancers escorted by decorated elephants. Mana Rabiee reports.
On April 20, around 1,000 people gathered outside the Masjidul Khaira mosque in Dambulla, a town in Central Province. They shouted slogans, waved Buddhist flags and demanded the mosque’s demolition.
She is Buddhist but remembers attending mass at St. Anthony's Shrine, one of the sites of the explosions. "For us in Sri Lanka, we have so many faith cultures, we are an interconnected faith ...
Sri Lankan authorities are conducting a campaign to deny Hindus and other religious minorities access to places of worship and other property and redesignate locations as Buddhist sites.