Buddhist Religious Right

Articles

• Now, dividing the Sinhalese on religious lines in Sri Lanka
  11 September 2008, by siawi
  (Published earlier in: The Sunday Leader August 24, 2008)
  The mob seeking entry to the AOG church premises and (inset) Gotabaya Rajapakse, Mahinda Samarasinghe, Rajiva Wijesingha and Robert Blake
  The attacks on churches and the breach of the  (...)
• Sri Lanka: Unpeaceful Buddhists
  16 June 2014, by siawi3

  The president to take serious action against the violence against the Muslims.

• Sri Lanka: Good women and bad women of the post-war nation
  2 June 2014, by siawi3

  “The word minorities have been removed from our vocabulary†and “no longer are the Tamils, Muslims, Burghers, Malays and any others minorities.†However, five years later, it is clear that the ‘Sri Lankan identity’ that is being forged is in fact a hegemonic Sinhala-Buddhist identity premised on the victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE), the valorization of the military, the binary construction of ‘traitors’ and ‘patriots’ and the lack of tolerance for all dissent.

• Amnistie internationale et les Prisonniers en cage : Déclaration de Gita Sahgal
  14 février 2010, par siawi

  Ce matin le Sunday Times (voir ci-dessous) a publié un article sur l’association d’Amnistie internationale avec des groupes qui soutiennent les Talibans et promeuvent les idées islamiques de droite. Dans cet article, je suis citée comme soulevant des inquiétudes concernant Amnistie et ses associations très en évidence avec le détenu de Guantanamo, Moazzam Begg. J’avais l’impression que Amnistie risquait sa réputation en s’associant avec Begg qui est àla tête de l’organisation Prisonniers en cage, qui promeut activement les idées et des personnalités islamiques de droite.

• A Parable of Blasphemy: As Textured by Sinhalese-Muslim Relations in Sri Lanka
  16 May 2020, by siawi3

  The Sri Lankan Civil War, which was fought from 1983 to 2009 by the government of Sri Lanka against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers), came to an end when the Sri Lankan military defeated the Tamil Tigers in May 2009. Ever since, any minority ethnoreligious community that demanded their rights or voiced complaints about discrimination became a threat to the Sinhalese Buddhist hegemony – or at least that is what such hegemonic forces wanted to portray.

• Sri Lanka: Military, monks, militant racists – the new trinity?
  22 June 2020, by siawi3

  If Supreme Court allows an early election or clears the way for the President to rule beyond 2 June sans a parliament, Sri Lanka’s vestigial democracy will be dead in the water.

• Manifestations en Thaïlande, les jeunes femmes en première ligne
  19 novembre 2020, par siawi3

  Les organisateurs de la première heure comptaient beaucoup d’étudiantes dans leurs rangs, et les femmes étaient également majoritaires lors des manifestations plus récentes. Elles expriment des préoccupations rarement entendues sur la scène nationale, spécifiquement féminines. Mais les femmes dénoncent aussi de plus en plus le patriarcat qui régit l’armée, la monarchie et la religion bouddhiste, institutions les plus puissantes du pays.

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