COLOMBO: Sri Lanka-based Western diplomats on Thursday urged Colombo to investigate a wave of anti-Muslim violence in the Buddhist-majority island following repeated arson attacks targeting shops, mosques and a cemetery in the past month.
The European Union delegation chief Tung-Lai Margue urged the government to ensure perpetrators were prosecuted swiftly as the envoys visited a mosque in Sri Lanka’s capital to express solidarity with Muslims in the wake of the attacks.
"It is important that the government and the police ensure that there is ** impunity for hate crimes," Margue said in a statement after Thursday’s visit to the Dewatagaha mosque in Colombo.
Margue was accompanied by top diplomats from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, **rway, South Africa and Switzerland.
Rights groups have accused Sri Lankan police of failing to stop a ****** of hate crimes and **t prosecuting a controversial Buddhist monk who went into hiding last week.
06-02-2017, 11:38 AM
SL pressed over anti-Muslim hate crimes
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