Peaceful protest held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia showing solidarity with Sri Lanka Muslims.
Muslims, their homes and their properties are being targeted in the name of Buddhism, within shouting distance of the Temple of the Tooth.
The chief prelates and other leading monks are silent, no word of condemnation, no plea for sanity and peace. If Kandy-burning symbolises the failure of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, the silence of the monks indicates why that failure happened.
The chief prelates were silent in July 1983 as well.
If the government is too timorous to do so, the demand and the pressure should from come from those Sinhala-Buddhists who retain enough sanity to see the deadliness of the future that is being made
The perpetrators want to turn Sri Lanka into the next Myanmar. If we remain silent and inactive, shame and guilt will be our lot once again. The Sinhalese, fail Muslims as we failed Tamils, history will not forgive us, and will punish us with a new and a worse war.