https://groundviews.org/2014/06/24/from-black-july-83-to-dark-june-14-a-violent-peace-in-sri-lanka/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-black-july-83-to-dark-june-14-a-violent-peace-in-sri-lanka Journalism for Citizens Wed, 22 Apr 2015 17:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 https://groundviews.org/2014/06/24/from-black-july-83-to-dark-june-14-a-violent-peace-in-sri-lanka/#comment-59899 Wed, 22 Apr 2015 17:47:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=15904#comment-59899 The Sinhalese Buddhists as you state do glaze themselves with their unique ancient culture, tradition and one of the most peace-loving religions. The problem between the Sinhalese and Muslims should not be taken into account as to who punched whom first, but to find what caused them to get into an argument in the first place. It is not BBS or any other Buddhist hardline groups that should be given full responsibility of the inter-racial problem, for such Buddhist hard-line groups, other ethnic and religious leaders who try to plant the seeds of fundamentalism in a multi ethnic country, and the government with deaf ears share equally full blown responsibility. It is the governments responsibility to take feasible action in situations like Kuragala and Dambulla, and to carry out equal laws on all ethnicities without giving special privileges to minorities . It is the duty of non-Buddhist and non-Sinhalese leaders to discourage fundamentalism, forced conversions of buddhists, and to respect the majorities beliefs and traditions. It is the responsibility of Buddhist monks to move on to much civilized and diplomatic methods of resolving the problems that the Sinhalese Buddhists face, as you’ll have done for the past two millenniums.

]]> https://groundviews.org/2014/06/24/from-black-july-83-to-dark-june-14-a-violent-peace-in-sri-lanka/#comment-57738 Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:52:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=15904#comment-57738 Rajapaksa visiting the affected areas and speaking to the people and promising compensation and an “independent” investigation are all too familiar to those who have watched Rajapaksa’s behaviour in previous similar events. The man had the power to stop the BBS meeting before it took place and did not act despite pleading from many. Rajapaksa’s duplicitous and devious behaviour should be severely condemned. His fascist Sinhala cronies are now blaming the journalists and the Muslim victims and their political leaders for the violence and this too has become a trend for the Rajapaksa regime. I am glad that the Muslim countries are now sitting up and seeing who Rajapaksa really is – [edited out].

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