Local Issues

  The Muslim Council of Sri Lanka urges the President to take decisive action by publicly condemning the hate campaign agaisnt Muslims. Sending a letter to Mahinda Rajapaksa, president of the Muslim Council of Sri Lanka N.M. Ameen urges President to instruct the police to take necessary action to stop incidents of harassment against minorities and their businesses. We publish …

  (Asiantribune.com): Bodu Bala Sena has agreed to make public announcement that – ‘Bodu Bala Sena will be in no way responsible for creating a situation of religious discrimination in this country. Mr. Dilantha Witharanage This was agreed upon by Mr. Dilantha Wirharnage, the coordinator and the only lay committee member of the Bodu Bala Sena. Chief of Bhodu Bala Sena …

  A senior census and statistics official yesterday disputed a claim being propagated in the country that the Muslim population is likely exceed that of the majority community. The Sinhala population in the country is 74.9 per cent according to the Basic Population Information Report of the Census of Population and Housing 2011. Director, Population Census and Demography Division of the …

Unless  BBS  is contained and persecution of Muslims  stopped  country  will  be heading towards a catastrophe. Muslim parliamentarians should either get their government to stop the persecution of Muslims or   leave the government if they have an iota of sell respect. Time for Jamiathul Ulema to confine to preaching and  leave the community alone.   Isn’t it time that responsible …

Bodu Bala Sena protest (File Photo) The above was the anguished and rather alarming cry that emanated a few weeks ago from Cabinet Minister and Sri Lanka Muslim Congress leader Rauff Hakeem. That a minister, of justice at that and leader of the preeminent Muslim political party had to make a plea for an end to ethno-religious hate mongering in …

A calculated propaganda stunt engineered by the Sri Lankan Ethno-Religious Fascist movement ”Bodhu Bala Sena” (BBS) in Colombo city against Muslims engaged in the meat trade ended in a fiasco on Friday March 1st 2013. The neo-fascist Bodhu Bala Sena storm troopers were compelled to call off “Operation Dematagoda” a few hours after commencing it amidst great fanfare and publicity …