Sri Lanka Declares State of Emergency to Quell Buddhist-Muslim Violence
Muslim-owned shops are destroyed as extremist tensions flare; one person killed in fire.
Buddhists make up about 74% of Sri Lanka’s population, with Tamils at 12% and Muslims at 10% being the two largest minorities in the country’s 20 million population.
▻https://www.wsj.com/articles/sri-lanka-declares-state-of-emergency-to-quell-buddhist-muslim-violence-1520348
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