Sri Lankan Muslims Fear Speaking Out

Writing in The Diplomat , Tasnim Nazeer details Sri Lanka’s ongoing attempts to silence dissenting Muslim voices and highlights the arrest of Azath Salley, a prominent human rights advocate. Nazeer notes that Salley has been falsely accused of having “links” to the Easter Sunday attack and vandalization of Buddhist statues in Mawanella. However, Salley had repeatedly provided the government with information on the extremist suspects a year prior to the attack and has highlighted that the Rajapaksa Defence Ministry had been funding the National Thawheed Jamath (NTJ) for years prior to the...