The Sri Lankan government Wednesday slammed a group of radical Buddhist monks who attacked Rohingya refugees on the island as “animals”, pledging action against police who failed to protect them. These monks who carried out the attacks are actually not monks, but animals,” he said. Sri Lanka’s extremist Buddhist monks have close links with their ultra-nationalist counterparts in Myanmar. “These are Rohingya terrorists who killed Buddhist monks in Myanmar,” the monk said in his live commentary, pointing to Rohingya mothers with small children in their arms. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees expressed alarm over Tuesday’s attack and urged Sri Lankans to show empathy for civilians fleeing persecution and violence.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 27, 2017 11:15 UTC