They will raise their head again. Prior to ⦠Since that day, Kothalawala has not gone to a shop or business owned by a Muslim. Sri Lankans will vote in November 16 presidential election with security and economy at the top of their minds. In 2009, the countryâs decades-long civil war ended with the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Other/None. 0.80% Sri Lanka gained independence from Britain in 1948. “Right now, Muslim people live here like they are guests,” Rathana told Al Jazeera at his office in a Buddhist community centre in the capital Colombo. “So many friends in my contacts,” the 54-year-old explained, gesturing to his mobile phone, “they are non-Muslims, and we have been living like brothers. 2019 April - Jihadist suicide bombers attack churches and hotels on Easter Sunday, killing more than 350 people. “Now our lives are almost over. Why? The next largest religious groups are Hindu and Muslim. Like other groups in Sri Lanka, the NTJ were quietly arming themselves in preparation for the imminent next round of Buddhist-Muslim clashes. Muhammad Iftikhar, 54, runs a car spare parts business in Negombo, and believes Muslims are now watched “with doubt when we walk anywhere”. The Easter bombings in Sri Lanka last month were a massive human tragedy for a country that has already experienced too much violence. 2019 November - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the younger brother of ⦠The allegations remain unproven, although a court case is pending. Worshippers fill the pews for Sunday service and spill out into a grey-bricked courtyard lined with palm trees. “I bent down to get the bag, and on the bench behind me, I looked back and saw lying on the bench a severed head.”. As Sri Lanka gears up for a presidential election, in which national security has become a core campaign issue, the tensions in Negombo illustrate growing divisions between religious communities as a result of the April attacks and subsequent retaliations. Athuraliye Rathana, a member of parliament and prominent Buddhist monk, has been a part of that campaign, calling for Muslim universities and certain mosques to be shut down, and for Muslim politicians to be investigated for ties to armed groups. 12 Nov 2019 When a woman of any religion marries a Muslim, she must convert to Islam and is identified as Muslim. 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Iftikhar, the car parts salesman, said he is voting for Premadasa, but not necessarily because he supports all of his policies. Other Christians in Negombo told Al Jazeera that they, too, were refusing to patronise businesses owned by Muslims because of the attacks, although some explained that they had recently begun to ease the boycott. “At many places, there were weapons found out, so obviously one can ask ‘OK, did they all know this, were they planning for something like that, for another ethnic conflict?’,” said Jayalath as he sat at his desk in a terracotta-roofed building adjacent to the church. Friends and relatives pray as they mourn Shaini, 13, who died as bomb blasts ripped through churches and luxury hotels on Easter, in Negombo, Sri Lanka,on April 22, 2019. “There was a loud ‘dhoom’ sound inside,” she said, standing under the shade of a tree beside the church. I asked our cameraman. I focussed the filming around Buddhism — the predominant religion in this country of 22 million people — and followed a Sri Lankan-Australian family, Namali, Bandula and Tiara De Silva, who were visiting the Maligawa during their holidays. Soon after the attacks, the authorities said the National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ), a local armed group that has ties to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS), was responsible. The wealthy Nigerians buying citizenship overseas, Iran executes dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam: State TV, Iran protests to Turkey over ‘meddling’ poem recited by Erdogan, Secretive Switzerland-China immigration deal fuels concern, US top court refuses to take up latest Trump election challenge, Al Jazeera Centre for Public Liberties & Human Rights. The law recognizes four religions: Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity. He was later forced to resign from his Pivithuru Hela Urumaya political party after Rajapaksa’s SLPP complained. Iftikhar said it is not the prejudice he faces that worries him, but what his children may face in the future. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. Sri Lanka is a majority Buddhist country. “The Muslims who went to help those people, they were chased back and told not to come.”. Los atentados de Pascua de Sri Lanka fueron una serie de ataques con explosivos en tres templos cristianos y cinco hoteles de lujo en varias ciudades de ese país asiático el 21 de abril de 2019 durante el domingo de Pascua, los cuales dejaron más de 300 personas fallecidas y 500 heridas. Police said Zahran Hashim, a “radical” Sri Lankan Muslim preacher from the island’s eastern region, had masterminded the bombings. “[They] give priority to social divisions, differences from other humans.”. 70.19%. Amid a crackdown on ‘separatism’, how do French Muslims feel? [But] we can’t talk to them now, to ask how they are doing, because we have lost that connection.”. The next most popular religion is Christianity, especially among the Burgher population. Countries are one thing, but what is business doing to bring down carbon emissions. Since 2011, Buddhist nationalist groups have held several protests and rallies – some of which devolved into riots and attacks on Muslims – calling for a Sinhalese-dominated form of government, according to the ICG report. In Sri Lanka, still reeling from a devastating series of bombings on Easter Sunday that left more than 250 people dead and at least 500 wounded, the answer is surely a resounding yes. Buddhism has been considered the state religion in Sri Lanka as 70.2% of the general population believe in Buddhism. “They do not mix with the Sri Lankan culture.”, “There are so many valuable teachings in Quran, but [they] don’t care about that,” he added, forcefully. So we were stuck in the middle: we can’t even go and help them, but also we can’t even defend ourselves.”. My program was not supposed to be a current affairs story — it was for the television program Compass, home of religious reporting, ethical discussion, philosophical discovery and inspiring stories of faith. Their fervent hope is that global forces of religious fundamentalism will leave them alone to sort out their differences. Her 26-year-old daughter had to drag her outside. Über Jahrzehnte herrschte in Sri Lanka ein Bürgerkrieg zwischen Singhalesen und Tamilen. A few kilometres away from Negombo’s main mosque, St Sebastian’s Church gleams in the winter sun, now almost completely rebuilt after the attack. I'd hoped to find out whether the amicable teachings of Buddhism and Islam were helping to re-establish peaceful coexistence between the two communities. A relative of a blast victim grieves outside a morgue in Colombo. And this is why Christian churches and hotels full of foreigners suddenly became a target. He will make things very difficult for us … because he is backed by [people who are anti-Muslim].”. 9.70%. In the 16th century, wars erupted with the arri⦠“[I am voting for Premadasa] because I don’t want Gotabaya to win. Negombo, Sri Lanka – Sitting in the tiled courtyard of a silver-domed mosque in the western Sri Lankan coastal town of Negombo, Aslam Ghafoor said he fears that his neighbours no longer trust him. “[Fear] was an easy product to sell. “I don’t think the future for Muslims will be better. The attacks targeting Sri Lanka’s Muslim minority following the Easter bombings were not, however, the first time the Muslim community has been in the crosshairs in recent years. 6 May - 16 May - 2019 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka; 19 May - 2019 cyberattacks on Sri Lanka; June. The claim sent shockwaves through Sri Lanka, where a Muslim minority of about 10 percent of the country’s 21.8 million population had largely been living in peace. Outside, she said she could smell “meat and blood”, but was still unable to process what had happened. (AP: Eranga Jayawardena). Terrorangrebene i Sri Lanka 21. april 2019 Fra Wikipedia, den frie encyklopædi Terrorangrebene i Sri Lanka 21. april 2019 var en række koordinerede bombeangreb i Sri Lanka. People in Sri Lanka were blindsided by these attacks. More than 60,000 died during the ethnic conflict which devastated the country from 1983 to 2009. Sajith Premadasa, the ruling United National Party (UNP) candidate, has also distanced himself from the government on certain issues, and promised to address widespread failures of the state’s security and intelligence apparatus identified by a parliamentary investigation report released last month. Shortly after, she walked back into the church to find a plastic bag with her belongings in it. Since Easter Sunday, I have spoken to many Sri Lankans of different faiths, from all walks of life, and they feel that the nation is capable of shrugging off this latest tragedy and moving forward. “There were people screaming outside, there were people bleeding. Angrebene var koordinerede bombninger på forskellige steder såsom: 3 internationale hoteller, 2 katolske kirker, 1 evangelisk kirke, 1 zoologisk have og et hus. Our Sri Lankan cameraman told me they were an Islamist militant group that had sprung up in response to the intermittent Buddhist-Muslim skirmishes of the past two years. Hours later, the reprisals began. “[We were told by Christian friends] that Muslims, you shouldn’t come here, even to the hospital,” said Salim Siraj, 37, a local Muslim community leader, who explained that many Muslims rushed to the hospital or attack site to try to help. Hinduism . But according to experts, like political analyst Rohan Gunaratne, members of the depleted IS knew of the NTJ's possession of explosive material and persuaded them to unleash their lethal resources on "Western" symbols. I returned to Sydney but my story plan had to change when on Easter Sunday this year, Muslim extremists targeted Christian worshippers and holidaymakers, killing 258 people and injuring more than 500. ISSN 1546-0878 “We had no idea what has happened and who is behind it, but already it was framed that it was done by the Muslim community. Despite my connection to Sri Lanka and awareness of socio-political tensions, I couldn't figure out how a tiny organisation like the NTJ, which was vandalising Buddhist statues in the country, had managed to execute meticulously planned suicide attacks on Christian churches and luxury hotels. Sri Lanka Religion, Economy and Politics The Sinhalese are predominantly Buddhist, and thus it is the major religion in the country, followed by Hinduism, which is actively practiced by the Tamils. Everybody is in fear now,” said Siraj, the Muslim community leader. What I think is that ‘bad’ is better than ‘worse’.”. In other towns, Sinhala Buddhist mobs also attacked Muslim communities, resulting in widespread damage and at least one death. Our time is finished, but for the next generation, it will be very difficult for them. Rohini Kothalawala, 45, a housewife who converted to Christianity from Buddhism 30 years ago, was in one of the front pews when the bomb exploded. Once a thing cracks, it’s very difficult to fix it again … the crack will remain,” he explained. “There is a crack [between people], and you can’t fix it. “I think it is obviously reasonable to ask that question.”. According to an International Crisis Group (ICG) report, Muslims have been increasingly targeted by arbitrary arrests, attacks and business boycotts. I am a Buddhist, but I went to a Catholic school in Sri Lanka and my friends from schooldays are mostly Catholic. It was December last year, and news had just come in that a little-known group, the National Thowheeth Jama'ath, had vandalised some small Buddha statues a few miles away. The annual Roman Catholic pilgrimage to Saint Anthonyâs shrine, Katchchativu, Sri Lanka. Kothalawala recalled how, for the first few moments, she stood, in shock, rooted to the spot. But it came to light that intelligence authorities were aware of about three dozen Muslim Sri Lankans, members of the NTJ, who had done a stint with Islamic State in the Middle East. “We don’t want to go those shops, because they are the ones who came into our church, where we were worshipping our Lord, and they did this to us,” she said, emphasising the word “our”. Because wherever we go, they look at us differently.”. This image posted by the Islamic State group's Aamaq news agency on Tuesday, April 23, 2019, purports to show Mohammed Zahran, a.k.a. Asked if he thought either of the frontrunners could offer a defence against anti-Muslim prejudice, Siraj laughed. Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the Secretary of Defense when his brother was president from 2005 to 2015. Since April, at least 1,800 Muslims have been arrested in connection with the bombings, the report says, with more than 300 still in custody. However, this news did not come as a surprise to me. After all, Sri Lankans are a resilient people. Local Muslims, however, said they felt they were being deliberately alienated from their friends and neighbours by those seeking to demonise the community. “Whoever is a Muslim living in Sri Lanka is coming under that category: Muslim, terrorist; Muslim, terrorist.”. Rajapaksa, brother of former two-term president Mahinda Rajapaksa and a former defence chief who oversaw the end of the civil war, announced his candidacy for president within days of the attacks. We were filming at the Temple of the Tooth Relic, or the Dalada Maligawa, the holiest Buddhist temple in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Even though most Sri Lankan Muslims are Sunni, it is a ⦠Bei einer Serie von Bombenanschlägen in Sri Lanka am Ostersonntag 2019 (21. Theravada Buddhism is Sri Lanka's biggest religious group, making up about 70.2% of the population, according to the most recent census. Proximity to the Indian subcontinent has facilitated close cultural interaction between Sri Lanka and India from ancient times. Sri Lankaâs presidential election 2019: All you need to know Sri Lankans will vote in November 16 presidential election with security and economy at the top of their minds. Hoping for Harmony goes to air on Compass on ABC TV at 6:30pm on June 23 and on iview. But I didn’t feel it as much. I have been to St Anthony's Church — the site of 93 deaths — numerous times. The constitution and other laws SRI LANKA 2019 INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT Executive Summary The constitution provides for freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, including the freedom to change religion. Sri Lankans have come back stronger from each painful experience of inter-communal violence and natural disaster. The bombings will fuel inter-communal tensions in Sri Lanka, which still struggles with the legacy of its civil war. The 2019 Sri Lanka MSI was funded by IREX; it was produced as part of the Media Empowerment for a Democratic Sri Lanka program, funded by USAID and made possible by the support of the American people. In what has been a raucous and divisive election campaign, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, of the opposition Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), has emerged as a marginal frontrunner in a race where any advantage is razor-thin. In May, Rathana undertook a hunger strike protest demanding that two provincial governors and a minister – all Muslims – resign over his allegations that they were supporting armed groups. Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 08:53 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. [7] [8] [9] [10] First, unidentified men attacked the town’s numerous Muslim-run businesses, throwing stones through shop windows or leaving pork – forbidden in Islam – outside Muslim butcher shops. In an instant, Siraj said, years of trust and harmony had evaporated. Sri Lankaâs Muslim community is spread across the country, but they make up 9.7% of the islandâs population. Within days, all three were forced to leave office, with an additional six Muslim ministers resigning in protest. About two weeks later, dozens of Christians rampaged into a Muslim neighbourhood, damaging more than 85 houses and scores of vehicles over the course of an hour and a half, as police enforced a curfew on the city, Muslim community members said. A police spokesperson was unable to confirm the figures to Al Jazeera. Sri Lankan army soldiers secure the area around St. Anthony's Shrine after a blast in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019. 3 June - After a protest led by hardline Buddhist group Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) and its leader Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara who demanded the resignations of Muslim ministers and governors. It is the religion of Sri Lanka's Sinhalese majority. The bombings rocked the country, which had not seen such violence since the conclusion of its 26-year civil war in 2009. I'm a producer with the Religion and Ethics Report on RN and part of the reason I was in Sri Lanka was to investigate the fallout from religious tensions, especially after attacks on Muslims in Kandy in March 2018. “There was like a brown smoke, so we couldn’t see anyone inside the church.”. Attacks targeting Muslims, widespread arrests following Easter bombings, and a divisive campaign deepen community fears. GENEVA / COLOMBO (13 August 2019) â The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Ahmed Shaheed, will carry out an official visit to Sri Lanka, from 15 to 26 August 2019. âI will look at how Sri Lanka promotes and protects the rights to freedom of religion or belief. I was just wiping blood and pieces of flesh off my children.”. Sri Lanka voted for a new president on November 16 â and Christians are praying that he will not usher in another wave of persecution against Christians. Father Sachitha Jayalath, a priest at St Sebastian’s, said the level of suspicion of the Muslim community, after widespread arrests and police claims that “weapons caches” had been recovered across the island following the attacks, was understandable. Police officers work at the scene at St. Sebastian Catholic Church, after bomb blasts ripped through churches and luxury hotels on Easter, in Negombo, Sri Lanka April 22, 2019. Most Muslims self-identify as a separate ethnic group, rather than as Tamil or Sinhalese. Christianity . In Negombo, located 40km (25 miles) north of the capital Colombo, the news instantly got the Muslim community worried, residents told Al Jazeera. I was in shock. Nachmittags detonierte ein Sprengsatz in einem in der Nähe des Zoo Colombo gelegen kleinem Hotel. They told me about the peaceful and harmonious faith they grew up with, and how they'd passed it on to their children since moving to Australia. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), Australian authorities still aren't budging on their timeline to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine, Farhad Bandesh is shocked to be a free man after eight years in refugee detention, How a Melbourne mathematician's COVID boredom led to cracking one of the Zodiac Killer's 50-year-old ciphers, The United States faces challenges in its mass rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. The Easter Sunday attacks cannot change this. Zeitnah wurden drei Kirchen und drei Hotels durch Selbstmordattentäter angegriffen. She later learned that it belonged to the bomber. Sri Lanka’s presidential election 2019: All you need to know, The Sri Lanka attacks: New front, old wounds, Five years on from the Paris Agreement, we are at a turning point, Activists sound alarm over African biometric ID projects. Back in Negombo, Muslim citizens say they are fearful of the results of this election, regardless of which way they go. Sri Lanka, island country lying in the Indian Ocean and separated from peninsular India by the Palk Strait. Throughout these tragedies, Catholicism was a bridging faith because its worshippers included both Tamils and Sinhalese. My Compass story is about that hope for religious harmony in Sri Lanka. Been considered the state religion in Sri Lanka, which had not seen such violence the... 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