Muslim voters attacked as Sri Lanka elects president 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy the Associated PressCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka— Muslim voters traveling by bus to polling stations in northern Sri Lanka were attacked by gunfire and stones and blocked by burning tires hours before polls opened in presidential elections Saturday, in what a member of the Elections Commission called a coordinated effort to disenfranchise the minority group. The Rajapaksa brothers are revered by Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese Buddhist majority for defeating the Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009. “There is a concerted effort to keep the Muslims away from the ballot box,” Ratnajeevan Hoole, a member of the Elections Commission, told The Associated Press while heading to northwest Sri Lanka to speak with the Muslim voters who came under attack. “People of Sri Lanka will get a better future under me, under my presidency,” he said.

Source: Manila Bulletin November 16, 2019 06:56 UTC