The Buddhist Terror-Extremism බෞද්ධ ත්රස්තවාදය

Sri Lanka is suffering a wave of violence between religious groups that is taking a big proportion. The country has the majority of Hindu and Budhists and suffered last months attacks against christians and some places attacked by a minority os extremist Islamists. The revenge was of the extremist Budhists attacking the Muslim communities at their core, not only the extremists, but the Islamic population, their houses, stores, temples being vandalized and the Government is acting preventing future attacks. The fear of these attacks is that the country suffered for more than 3 decades attacks of the Tamil population, by the group Tamil Tigers, claiming the country, with ethnic cleansing against other ethnicities and criminal activity of terrorism.

At this level of violence some groups that were never considered terrorists or warriors claimed the attacks, the Budhists are claiming the attacks and requesting their identity, with hate speaches agaisnt other ethnicities and supporting new attacks, inclusing armed ones, against the minorities.

The level of extremism is influenced by the Buddhist leader that raised a wave of terror and persecution in Myanmar, the Monk leader Ashin Wirathu.

The 969 Movement, ultra nationalist Buddhist group of Burma,that opposed against Islamo-christian expansion, specially the Islamist, in Burba. The 969 exposes the Symbol of the virtues of Buddha (9 stands of the Lord Buddha, 6 attributes of his Dharma and the 9 attributes of the Buddhist Sangha - Monastic Community.

Wirathu, the a Burmese Buddhist monk and the leader of the anti-Muslim movement was accused by international media of conspiring to persecute Muslims in Myanmar, promoting hate speeches, claiming to be a peaceful preacher, considering the attacks against the Muslims a symbol of peaceful nationnalism. 

Both, the movement and the religious leader are described being Islamophobic, supporting the ultra nationalist propaganda. They deny it.

The group that support this politics in Sri Lanka is the Bodu Bala Sena - Buddhist Power Force - A Sinhalese Buddhinst ultra nationalist organization based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, leadered by Venerable Galagda Aththe Gnanasara and Dilanthe Withanage. This group is born from the break of the right-wing nationalist Jathika Hela Urumaya Organization.

The group was founded by monks Kirama Wimalajothi and Galagoda Aththe Gnanasaara and teh first national convention was at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall on 28 July 2012. The convention passed five resolutions which, amongst other things, called for a ban on vasectomy and tubal ligation in government health facilities, replacement of the various legal systems used in the country with a single legal system, preferential treatment in university admission for students who attended Buddhism classes, use of monks in government schools to teach history and other classes, and the avoidance of any race- or religion-based solution for the country's ethnic problems.

The group protested at Bangladeshi high Comission in Colombo against the anti-Buddhist riots and some of the protesters started to throw stones against the commission and the security.

The group also protested against the Islamic Terrorism and the Islamist gangs that vandalized Buddhist temples and sites. 

Extremist Bodu Bala Sena invade a muti religious press

General secretary Galagoda Athethe Ganasara has accuses the majority of the English speaker language media in the country on working for foreign agendas and being Kalu Suddho (traitors) to the Sinhala Buddhist cause. They accused on the support of multiculturalism, migration to the country and support for diverse religions and ethnic universalization. The group was filmed protesting surrounded by mob of the young men threatening media and other religious groups attacking them as workign for foreign cause, having foreign parents and working for foreign conspirators and being against Sri Lanka. The group was acting violent and promoting support for attacks against the non-Buddhists.

Group received diverse criticism from politicians, human rights groups, and other Buddhist clergy, those who are pro universal pacifism and Muslims from Sri Lanka and abroad.

The International Crisis Group has stated that the extremists attacks on the Muslim community will lead to an increase in Islamic fundamentalism in the country. The Islamic fundamentalists are arming themselves with the return of some members from Iraq and Syria with the clash of Daesh, and they are intented to promote Islamist faith in country. The corruption and the gang violence is big and the police has difficult to fight these groups. In 2012 human rights report have denounced that the country has religious intollerance.

Bodu Bala Sena was accused and criticised by the international obsevers and other political leaders for aggravating the violence between Muslims and Buddhists in the country and since 2017 started a riot against the Muslim communities, with many attacks. In 2019 the groups is being accused of attacking Islamist communities after the Easter Terrorist attack, and the government is having problem on suffocate the violence.

World View: Sri Lanka Targets Radical Nationalist Buddhists in Bodu Bala Sena (BBS)

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/06/12/12-jun-17-world-view-sri-lanka-targets-radical-nationalist-buddhists-in-bodu-bala-sena-bbs/

Police in Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka, on Sunday arrested five people for instigating religious violence that has led to a series of violent attacks on Muslims since April. Four of the people were Buddhists instigating violence against Muslims, while the fifth was a Muslim accused of defaming Buddhism.

More than 20 hate crime attacks on Muslims have been recorded since April 17, including arson at Muslim-owned businesses and petrol-bomb attacks on mosques. The attacks are being blamed on a radical nationalist Buddhist organization, Bodu Bala Sena (BBS – Forces of Buddhist Power) that has been conducting violent attacks on Muslim targets since 2014.

However, only one of the five arrested men is connected to BBS, an unidentified 32-year-old man directly linked to at least four arson attacks in a Colombo suburb. The Colombo police are being heavily criticized because they have been unable or unwilling to arrest the BBS leader, the Buddhist monk Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara, and many people believe that the Buddhist Sinhalese government is protecting Gnanasara, despite his connection to violence against Muslims.

The violence by Buddhists against Muslims in Sri Lanka has not yet reached the level of mass slaughter, mass torture, and mass rapes being committed by Buddhists, led by Buddhist monk Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, against Muslim Rohingyas in Myanmar (Burma). Perhaps the two Buddhist monks, Gnanasara and Wirathu, are in some kind of bloody contest with each other to see who can be responsible for the most atrocities. Reuters and AFP

Brief generational history of Sri Lanka and Bodu Bala Sena (BBS)

For 30 years, Sri Lanka’s entire society has been dominated by the Sri Lankan civil war between the ethnic majority (Buddhist) Sinhalese and the ethnic minority (Hindu) Tamils. This civil war climaxed in May 2009, following reports of genocide on both sides, when the separatist Tamil Tigers surrendered and renounced further violence, ending the Sri Lanka crisis civil war.

Every generational crisis civil war follows the same general pattern. The war climaxes and ends with genocidal acts on both sides that are so horrible that the traumatized survivors vow to do everything possible to prevent it from happening again. And they succeed, and a new civil war only begins decades later when the survivors finally die off. But during those decades, younger generations, with no personal memories of the horrors of the war, come of age and begin protests that sometimes become violent.

The protests start to become widespread during the generational Awakening era, which begins about 15-18 years after the climax of the crisis war, and is characterized by protests, sometimes violent, by college students.

Although it has only been 8 years since the climax of the Sri Lanka civil war, we are beginning to see the first signs of the violence that will become widespread in a few years. However, in this case, there is a twist.

The Sri Lankan civil war was fought between the Buddhist Sinhalese and the Hindu Tamils. The small Muslim community was not really involved, and according to some reports, they thrived and prospered during the war, while the other two groups were out killing each other.

The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) or “Buddhist Power Force” group was formed in 2012 to purify Sri Lanka for the Buddhists by exterminating the Christians, Hindus, and Muslims. However, they have been particularly focusing on Muslims.

The leader of BBS is the Buddhist monk Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara. In 2014, a video showed Gnanasara delivering an explosive hate speech to large crowds of Buddhists, full of vicious rhetoric. He pointed out that the Sri Lankan police and army are Sinhalese, and therefore are on the side of the Sinhalese, and he screamed explicit threats to Muslims, including using derogatory language. To roars of approval from the crowd, he vows that if any Muslim, were to lay a hand on a Sinhalese, that would “be the end” of all of them.

Gnanasara’s speech triggered a sectarian bloodbath in the town of Aluthgama. Shortly after the speech, Buddhist mobs marched through Muslim neighborhoods, ransacking dozens of homes and shops. Three Muslim men were killed, and sixteen seriously injured in the two nights of violence that followed.

Despite his incitement to riot, Gnanasara claims that he and the BBS had nothing to do with the Aluthgama bloodbath. Now there have been at least sixteen major incidents since April 17 of this year. Once again, Gnanasara claims that he and the BBS have nothing to do with them. Nonetheless, Gnanasara remains in hiding, and the police are either unable or unwilling to arrest him. Daily Mirror (Colombo) and CNN (17-July-2014) and LankaWeb and The Island (Sri Lanka)