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Sri Lanka arrests eight over riots

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The suspects are the first to be held on suspicion of sparking attacks on Muslim-owned businesses.

Riots by Sinhala Buddhist mobs targeting Muslims swept through the country's southern coastal towns last week [AP]

Sri Lankan police have arrested key suspects accused of fuelling religious riots and looting, as minority Muslims expressed fears of more unrest ahead of Ramadan, officials said.

Police said a total of eight people directly linked to the June 15 anti-Muslim riots were arrested this week and that they recovered gems and jewellery looted from two shops that were targeted during the violence.

"With the help of CCTV footage and the recently established (police) intelligence network we arrested the suspects along with the stolen goods", senior superintendent Athula Weerasinghe said on Saturday.

The violence, which erupted in the coastal resort of Alutgama, spilled over into the neighbouring international tourist resorts of Beruwala and Bentota.

Weerasinghe said jewellery worth more than $11,500 was recovered.

Officials estimate the riot damage at 200 million rupees. Four people were killed and 80 wounded in what were the worst religious riots in recent decades.

Sri Lanka's media as well as rights groups have accused the police of failing to prevent Buddhist mobs from attacking Muslims, who constitute 10 percent of the country's 20 million population.

Police, however, said investigations showed there was a strong criminal element that fuelled religious tensions. Earlier, police had arrested 55 suspects including both Buddhists as well as Muslims, but the eight arrested this week are the first to be held for looting and directly involved in attacking shops.

The announcement of the latest arrests came as the Muslim Council of Sri Lanka (MCSL), an umbrella group of 48 Muslim organisations, petitioned police chief N K Illangakoon expressing fears of more violence against their minority community during the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

"We are concerned that the root causes to the problems related to the attacks on the Muslim community and other minorities has not been addressed and appropriate action taken to enforce justice", the MCSL said.

MCSL president N M Ameen told the AFP news agency they would mark Ramadan in a low key fashion because of the fear of more hate attacks.

Facebook shutdown

Last week, Muslim-owned businesses shut down in Sri Lanka's capital to protest against deadly riots by Buddhists.

Muslims as well as a majority of moderate Buddhists have pressed for action against the Buddhist Force, or BBS, group which is seen as enjoying patronage of senior government figures.

In earlier reports on Friday, Buddhist activists accused of involvement in communal violence said that accounts of their group's members on social media site Facebook had been blocked.

"My account is blocked," Buddhist Force spokesman Dilantha Vithanage told Reuters by telephone. "I can't access my account. I last visited my account on June 25 and the accounts of others have also been blocked."

A Facebook spokesman in London declined to comment on any action taken by the company in Sri Lanka and referred Reuters to its terms of service.

Source:
Reuters And AFP

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/southasia/2014/06/sri-lanka-arrests-eight-over-riots-20146285155373739.html

 

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June 30, 2014 at 1:01 pm | lanka C news

ඇමරිකාවට ඇතුළුවීම සඳහා බොදුබල සේනා මහලේකම් පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියන්ට ලබා දී තිබූ වීසා බලපත‍්‍රය අහෝසි කර තිබේ.

ඇමරිකානු රාජ්‍ය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විසින් මෙසේ උන් වහන්සේගේ වීසා බලපත‍්‍රය තාවකාලිකව අත්හිටුවා ඇති අතර මෙරට ඇමරිකානු තානාපති කාර්යාලය විසින් ඥානසාර හිමියන්ට මේ බව දැනුම් දී ඇති බවද වාර්තා වේ.

‘මගේ ඇමරිකානු වීසා වලට ප්‍රශ්නයක් වෙලා තියෙනව. ඒකෙන්ම පේනව ඇමරිකාවේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය. සිංහල බෞද්ධය ලංකාවෙ මහ ජාතිය වුණාට ලෝකයේ සුළු ජාතියක්. එහෙම ජනතාවක් වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටින අපිට ඇමරිකාවට යාම තහනම් කරල’  යයි මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් අදහස් දක්වමින් ඤාණසාර හිමියෝ කීහ.

http://lankacnews.com/sinhala/main-news/118285/

 

 

ඥානසාර හිමිට ඇමරිකාවේ දොරටු වැසේ

2014 ජුනි 30 03.45 p.m

බොදුබල සේනා සංවිධානයේ මහලේකම් පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥාණසාර හිමියන්ට අමෙරිකාවටඇතුල්වීම තහනම් කර ඇතැයි පැවසේ. තමන් වහන්සේගේඇමරිකානු වීසා වලට ප්‍රශ්නයක් ඇතිවී තිබෙන බවත් ඉන් පෙනෙනුයේ ඇමරිකාවේප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදයේ තරම බවත් ඥානසාර හිමි ගුවන්විදුලි මාධ්‍යකට පවසා තිබේ.බොදුබලසේනා සංවිධානය පිහිටුවීමට පෙර ඥානසාර හිමිට අමෙරිකාවට සහඉන්දියානා ප‍්‍රාන්තයට යාමටඅවුරුදු 5කට වීසා නිකුත් කර තිබුණ අතර එම වීසා අවසරය තවත් අවුරුදු එක හමාරකටබලපැවැත්වීමට නියමිතව තිබු බව පැවසේ. 
එහෙත් ඉකුත්
සතියේ මෙරට ඇමෙරිකානු තානාපති කාර්යාල නිලධාරියෙකු රාජ්‍ය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේතීරණය අනුව පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥාණසාර හිමිට අමෙරිකාවට ඇතුල්වීම තහනම් කරඇතැයි දැනුම් දි තිබෙන බව වාර්තා වෙයි.

http://www.lakbima.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=37780:2014-06-30-10-25-16&catid=64:2012-09-10-14-02-45&Itemid=87

   

BBS concerned over US visa cancellation

MONDAY, 30 JUNE 2014 17:16

The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) today said it would express its concern to the State Department through the US Embassy in Sri Lanka over the visa cancellation of the organization’s General Secretary Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera.

BBS Executive Committee Member and Coordinator Dilantha Withanage told the Daily Mirror that a US embassy official who contacted Gnanasara Thera on Friday had informed him over the phone, of the State Department’s decision to cancel his visa.

Withanage said they would express concern over the visa cancellation following the receipt of a written notification and would request an explanation on the decision.

“Just a phone call is not enough – the official hasn’t even explained the reasons behind visa cancellation. We acknowledge that it’s well within the rights of the US to make this decision. However, we are disappointed over the fact that they made it without any consultation with Gnanasara Thera,” Withanage said.

Meanwhile contacted by the Daily Mirror, a US embassy spokesman said, “The US government does not comment on individual visa issues as they are confidential under US law.”

According to Withanage,  Gnanasara thera had received a five-year multiple entry visa in 2011 as he had to travel to Indiana for a religious function. He had used the same visa to travel to the US once again in 2013 and Withanage said plans were underway to make another trip to the US next month to attend another religious function. (Lakna Paranamanna)

http://www.dailymirror.lk/top-story/49076-bbs-concerned-over-us-visa-cancellation.html



 

හිමිනමගේ වියෝවෙන් මුස්ලිම් ඇසට කඳුළු

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2014 ජූනි මස 30 14:03:07 | . , පුෂ්පකුමාර ජයරත්න

 

රම්බොඩගල්ල ස්වර්ණගිරි රජ මහා විහාරාධිපතිව වැඩ විසු  අඹේපුස්ස සුමංගල හිමියන්ගේ අදාහන පුජෝත්සවයේදී සිංහල මුස්ලිම් සමගියේ තරම කැපී පෙනිණි.

රම්බොඩගල්ල මැදි විදුහල්  ක්‍රිඩාංගණයේදී  ආදහනය සිදු විය.

ප්‍රදේශයට ඉමහත් සේවාවක් ඉටු කළ සුමංගල හිමියන්ගේ අපවත්වීම විහාරස්ථානයේ දායකයින්ට මෙන්ම මුස්ලිම් ප්‍රදේශවාසීන්ට දරාගත නොහැකි පාඩුවක් සේම දරාගත නොහැකි ශෝකයක් ගෙන දුන්නේය.

ඒ ශෝකය කොතෙක්ද යත් සුමංගල හිමියන් සමීපව ඇසුරු කළ  මොහොමඩ්  ෆායිස් මහතාට ද මේ වෙන්ව යාම දරාගත නොහැකි විය.ගිනි දැල්  වදිද්දීත් ඔහු හඩා වැටුණේය.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

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