COLOMBO: An investigation into anti-Muslim riots that spread in central Sri Lanka prompting the authorities to declare a nationwide state of emergency was announced Saturday … Sri Lanka’s Muslim minority held their Friday prayers under military protection across the island amid fears of fresh attacks.
That conflict with Tamil separatists ended in 2009, but a fault line has emerged in Sri Lanka once again. This time it is along a religious divide, between Sinhalese Buddhists who make up about 75 percent of the Indian Ocean’s 21 million population and the Muslim minority, who make up about 9 percent.
Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka (L) celebrates with his teammates after he dismissed Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan during the opening Twenty20 international cricket match between Sri Lanka and India of the Nidahas Trophy tri-nation Twenty20…
The anti-Muslim riots that rocked several towns in central Sri Lanka in the first week of March were swiftly put down by the army, deployed under a state of emergency clamped on March 6. But by then, scores of Muslim businesses had been burnt or heavil…
Sri Lanka’s prime minister says recent anti-Muslim violence has damaged the island’s reputation as a tourism destination. Rioting in the central district of Kandy has left three dead and destroyed or damaged more than 200 Muslim-owned businesses and homes. A curfew has also been reimposed, after …
Central Sri Lanka was gripped by tension on Thursday as a fresh wave of anti-Muslim attacks swept through the Buddhist holy city of Kandy and the surrounding hillside, with the growing boldness of Sinhala-Buddhist mobs drawing comparisons to the 1983 start of the country’s decades-long civil war.
Despite a state of emergency and a curfew to curtail violence that broke out last weekend between Muslims and Buddhists in the central district of Kandy, concerns abound that attacks will continue in Sri Lanka. "I am living in fear and could not s…
March is an excellent month to visit Sri Lanka, since the weather is sunny and dry. The tropical island welcomes around 200,000 British tourists each year; the UK is behind only China and India in the number of visitors it sends to Sri Lanka. But in 20…
Mohamad Ismail, of the Leicester Sri Lankan Muslim Society, said most of the demonstrators had family in Sri Lanka and were worried out their safety. He said: “We have all been watching the footage with great concern. “I have had three sleepless night….
A Sri Lankan police officer investigates a burnt shop in Digana on the out skirts of Kandy, Sri Lanka, Thursday, March 8, 2018. Local residents say Buddhist mobs have swept through Muslim neighborhoods in Sri Lanka’s central hills, destroying stores and restaurants despite a curfew, a state of …