Sri Lankan hardline Buddhists say Facebook accounts blocked after violence


  • World
  • Friday, 27 Jun 2014

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Buddhist activists accused of involvement in violence against Sri Lanka's minority Muslims said on Friday that accounts of their group's members on social media site Facebook had been blocked.

Clashes erupted on June 15 in Aluthgama and Beruwela, two towns with large Muslim populations on the island's southern coast, during a protest march led by the hardline group Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), or "Buddhist Power Force".

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