Sri Lanka’s Muslims Live with Fear and Discrimination Under a Secular Democratic System that Has a Proven Legacy of Failure in Securing the Rights of Religious Minorities
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3rd June, all 9 Muslim ministers in President Maithripala Sirisena’s cabinet resigned from their posts, after accusing the Sri Lankan government of failing to ensure the safety of the country’s Muslim community from back clash attacks that followed the Easter Sunday bombings. The resignations came after thousands of people led by hardline communal Buddhist monks and groups demonstrated in the town of Kandy,
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