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Minorities in Sri Lanka face growing terrorBuddhist Sinhalese terrorists have been instigating attacks against the islands minorities,particularly the Muslims

A Sri Lankan resident surveys the damage to a charred Muslim-owned home following clashes between Muslims and an etremist

Buddhist group in the town of Alutgama on !une "#, $%"&' More deadly violence flared in a Sri Lankan coastal resort where Buddhist

hardliners set shops and homes alight for a second night running in defiance of a curfew, police and residents' Amid mounting

international concern over the unrest, residents of a town which has borne the brunt said a security guard was killed in an attack outside

a Muslim-owned farm, raising the overall toll to four' (More than a do)en houses and shops have been burnt overnight,( a police source

told A*+ from the mainly Muslim town of Alutgama after another night of mob violence by followers of the etremist Buddhist *orce' A*+

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.he region is deeply engrossed in events around 5ra7 and the implication of a wider

scale sectarian conflict that may spill across several borders' Lost in the 7uagmire of

such a troubling issue is the conflict against minorities, and particularly Muslim

minorities, in several countries'

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