The promotion of Sinhala-Buddhist communalism is being advanced in order to create division, with rising working-class opposition to the Wickremesinghe government’s austerity agenda.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena met with the country’s chief Buddhist priests in Kandy last Friday to assure them no constitutional changes would be made without their consent.

On May 23 Sri Lankan newspaper Divaina, known for its nationalist stance, published a front page article alleging a Muslim doctor had secretly sterilized 4,000 Sinhala Buddhist women after ...

Buddhist monks shout slogans demanding that acting President and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe resign in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) ...

Chief Buddhist monks should take disciplinary action against such monks. All are equal before the law — no one is superior." The BBS is appealing the court's decision and Buddhist group Sinhala Ravaya ...