Hundreds of Muslim refugees have been forced to flee Sri Lanka’s west coast following reprisals.
Human rights groups have warned tensions between religious communities in Sri Lanka are at breaking point in the wake of the terror attacks targeting churches and hotels on the island nation, which killed at least 359.
In the wake of the atrocities carried out on Easter Sunday the Islamic State militant group released footage of NTJ members swearing allegiance to its global terror brand. ISIS has made spectacular acts of violence, stoking ethnic and religious tensions, its calling card throughout the world. “But even before the Easter bombings, anti-Muslim sentiment was high across the country, a product partly of a seven-year campaign by radical Sinhalese groups who say they are defending Buddhism against the threat of a too powerful and dangerously radical Muslim community,” he added.
Farah Jameel, a Pakistani Ahmadi, told Reuters she had been thrown out by her landlord with nowhere to go. “She said, ‘Get out of here and go wherever you want to go, but don’t live here,’” Jameel explained, as she waited with others hounded from their homes at a nearby mosque.
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