{"id":30762,"date":"2018-10-26T18:07:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30762"},"modified":"2018-10-26T18:07:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:37:17","slug":"sri-lanka-must-act-firmly-on-anti-muslim-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sri-lanka-must-act-firmly-on-anti-muslim-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka must act firmly on anti-Muslim violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/editorial\/act-firmly\/article22970903.ece\"><b>Sri Lanka must act firmly on anti-Muslim violence<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context: <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is time that the Sri Lanka\u2019s government had decisively and impartially put down anti-Muslim violence.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Background:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In recent years, Muslims have been targeted by extreme right-wing groups, which are presumably looking for new enemies after the fall of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More recently, there was hate-mongering against the community in the backdrop of some Rohingya refugees seeking shelter in Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>State of emergency:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the first time since 2011 that Colombo has had to invoke emergency provisions to bolster the security apparatus, indicating official concern that the current violence could escalate.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Reason behind the state of emergency:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Sinhalese truck driver was beaten to death by a group of Muslims for blocking their way.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was followed by attacks on Muslim houses, business establishments and mosques.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was one more death, that of a Muslim man, whose burnt body was found in a house.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sinhala groups then waded in with rumour and inflammatory social media posts, adding to the incendiary mood.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Conclusion: <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe should redouble efforts to ensure that the authorities on the ground act with decisiveness and impartiality.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka must act firmly on anti-Muslim violence Context: It is time that the Sri Lanka\u2019s government had decisively and impartially put down anti-Muslim violence. Background: In recent years, Muslims have been targeted by extreme right-wing groups, which are presumably looking for new enemies after the fall of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sri-lanka-must-act-firmly-on-anti-muslim-violence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sri Lanka must act firmly on anti-Muslim violence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704672395},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}