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Fearsome and Familiar: Buddhist Majoritarianism and Anti-Muslim Attacks in Sri Lanka


June 25, 2018


Since Sri Lanka declared its war on the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam over in 2009, coordinated mass attacks by Sinhalese Buddhists on Muslims have been on the rise. Perpetrators have included monks and the police. How do these ongoing attacks flow from the historic anti-Muslim violence of 1915, the island's first reported ethnic riots? How does this new violence reflect or diverge from previous anti-Tamil riots? What do these attacks tell us about Sinhala Buddhist majoritarianism? How has the global War on Terror shaped responses to these attacks? What might this political moment in Sri Lanka teach us about the neo-Nazi rise in Canada?

Importantly: how have communities organized? How have people protected each other? What does friendship look like in moments of acute violence? Who and what is community? Would Tamil-Muslim solidarity be useful in Toronto or in Sri Lanka? What would it look like? What has it looked like?

Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Venue: St. James Town Corner
Location: 200 Wellesley Street East Toronto, ON
Website: http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/fearsome-and-familiar-buddhist-majoritarianism-and-anti-muslim-at
Categories: International

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