In Sri Lanka, where a tapestry of religions weaves through its landscape, the promise of religious harmony at times masks a reality marked by religious intolerance and unequal protections. Despite constitutional guarantees of religious freedom, recent years have seen a continuation of discrimination, intimidation and violence against religious minorities.
A new report by the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (NCEASL) titled From Fear to Violence: Religious Attacks in Sri Lanka offers a legal analysis of religiously motivated incidents documented between November 2023 and October 2024. The report was co-authored by lawyers Malsirini de Silva and Avishka Jayaweera and draws from the published and unpublished scholarship of legal academics, including Dr. Gehan Gunatilleke who currently serves as a commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka.
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