intercommunal violence multiplying this song serves as a reminder to politicians that if they fail to bring the country together the people will take to the streets again. clean who profits from this violence and divisions politicians do especially those from the old regime who are looking at the country's instability to make themselves relevant and come back to power back in 2014 smokey was among those leading the popular uprising against brick enough monsters long time ruler. after he sought to extend his 27 year long hold on power protestors brought the parliament down forcing campari into exile in neighboring ivory coast. the parliament has been left untouched the plan is to turn this into a memorial to pay tribute to those who fought to oust. him because the government wants this to serve as a reminder that his regime is part of the distance dart chapter of history.

but after 5 years in exile of the former president now wants to return home in april he sent a letter to the current president offering his help in bringing stability to the country so far the government has refused to negotiate with armed groups a mistake says a member of parliament in the sunni region where the group islamic state in the greater zaha is active he wants to see lead negotiations you couldn't it was static the terrorists are from my region we have to fight them but also to negotiate with them when blaze was in power we didn't have any of these problems he had his channels of communication his secrets. led successful peace talks with armed groups in neighboring mali and secured the release of western hostages while he was a key mediator in the sile he stifle dissent and freedom of speech at home but some want to see him return for different reasons of course we want to see him back home so he can face justice and pay for his crimes the government has no plans to allow

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it's marking 10 years since the end of a decades long civil war that tore the country apart but why are sectarian tensions still simmering i'm really could be here in the stream today we'll take a look at the fallout from a recent wave of anti muslim violence and i might deem we'll discuss this sensitive situation explore the government's response and ask what this all means 1st future and as always we want to hear from you so tweet us at a.j. stream or join our live chat. 2 weeks ago a wave of anti muslim riots broke out across the country after the easter sunday attacks on churches and hotels while eisel claimed responsibility for the easter attack the government has blamed local armed group the national them up during the riots mobs move through towns ransacking mosques burning korans and hurling petrol

bombs at shops authorities have so far arrested more than 70 suspected rioters including some described as extremists sri lanka's muslims make up less than 10 percent of the country's 22000000 people the sinhalese who are buddhist make up around 75 percent of the population meanwhile the government has called for peace and vowed to protect all citizens and the united nations asked for a rejection of hate and since the curfew was lifted last week there has been no further violence but with old wounds reopened and lingering resentment exposed how does a move forward. well with us to discuss them are not arresting them is senior research fellow at the institute for strategic dialogue in toronto canada maillard is the human rights activist and lecturer in conflict studies at the university of exeter in the u.k. and in colombo sri lanka fernandez is a correspondent with al jazeera english and has been covering this story

extensively welcome to the stream all of you it's good to have you here though not good circumstances i want to start with you talk to us about the mood across the country from the reports that you're hearing. a couple of weeks on things basically that outbreak of violence targeted at the community following the easter sunday bombing things somewhat subdued obviously that evening show flashpoint where we sow the violence tending to spread that you know 2 other sort of pins it is which had muslim populations living side by side with other communities but having brought that kind of under control after the initial couple of days when things just out of control and phenomenally now a couple of weeks on things if we could explain it as

a sort of and i mean easy come it's not to say that everything back to normal is not obviously the tensions that kind of spilled over. simmering little bit on the. very much sort of. camp down and under control for the moment anita simmering under the surface among other want to have a look at this headline came out just yesterday on monday this from foreign policy buddhist anger could tear sri lanka apart and when i scroll down to the part that i think is most interesting about this piece the author writes the attacks should simply be viewed as a direct retaliation for the bombing so the attacks are referencing the anti muslim riots are not directly related then to the easter sunday bombings are not what do you make of that do you see a direct link there between these 2. i mean there is

a direct link in the sense that this time around the attacks were much more vicious more attacks happened more buildings were destroyed then for example in 2018 march when we had similar well it's a 2014 when we had similar events or going back you know all the way to 1000 to 15 when and when we saw the kind of person the muslim. riots happening in sri lanka so in a sense it's completely accurate to say that this is a long running tension that predates the easter attacks and a lot of the muslim community the ones i've been talking to over the last few weeks have been quite open in saying that they think feel a little different this time around to do things feel a little bit more tense they feel like the usual use of their communities for political ends to kind of speak to the base rile up the base is much more intense and visceral this time around and there and i think a lot of the community are quite scared this time around because they feel like the

attacks are so massive and so catastrophic anything could happen but you say anything could happen and whether there is a direct link or not a lot of people online talking about the rise and mistrust farai how want to read 2 quick tweets that came from prabhu saying there is an increase in the mistrust the suspicion and profiling which has led to discrimination against the muslim community especially in the aftermath of the easter attacks the next week he says is if there was clear and cohesive communication and management of the crisis by the government it would lead to mitigation of such discrimination to a greater degree the politicization of the current situation makes it worse does that in fact make it worse and what do you think is leading to this kind of sensitive situation. i quite agree to some extent i think that there are 2 dimensions to this and to muslim sentiment one is the violence at the end we've seen it before the other aspect is there's been an spread hate campaign against muslims and social media that has also existed l. for almost a decade that spreads the most ludicrous kind of thinking about muslims who are

trying to take over the country that they're trying to and will get engaged in increasing their population and that a threat to sri lanka there are large numbers of people who believe this and there are numbers of people who don't as well are conducted interviews in sort of the very deuce tired learned of sri lanka better spoken to seeing these buddhists who actually do believe this that and they have even told me that their monks told it this so there is a level of mistrust that exists and the political situation in sri lanka particularly the government's response to these attacks has not helped at all in the media as both a national mainstream media hasn't helped in that they report a kind of a day to day i would to go to college. of what they broadly constitute extremism amongst muslims are islamic by island but they don't really break it down and they don't expend the new and and they do it counter it with to explaining about what

the muslim community faces the kind of day to day discrimination their fears the violence they face so you mentioned widespread hate and i wanted to give our audience a little taste of where that might come from and where the tensions between different ethnic groups and religious groups in sri lanka lives so our colleague bernard smith was in some of the areas where anti muslim violence took place and he spoke to a few but as village leaders here is what one of them told him about the challenges of repairing relations have a look. ok we'd like to talk with muslim and muslim community leaders to have a discussion and live in a couple way to be able to live harmoniously muslims need to realize this is not arabia this is sri lankan lanka has a culture and a civilization and identity so amarnath where does that come from that idea of questioning muslims and sri lanka's train long can this. i

mean this goes back quite a while and i know there was a very interesting clip to listen to because i mean i'm myself i'm a canadian by background and i mean we've dealt with the community and in the north and east have dealt with this similar kind of majority areas and for a long time and i think there's a deep sense amongst a lot of minorities this is very structural this goes up this is very much part of what it means to be a sri lankan state that is majority area and buddhist and buddhist and single at its core and this idea that there are there is room for minorities it's not entirely clear what that would look like what integration looks like or what distillation looks like particularly because minorities feel like also hold kind of very deep ethnic and religious identities themselves and it's.