Monks from Buddhist organization Bodu Bala Sena (Buddhist Power Force, BBS) listen to a speech at a BBS convention in Colombo (September 28, 2014). Credit: REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte Subscribe for ads ...

Hard-line Buddhist monks have held their first rally to form a Sinhalese government following the Easter attacks that killed 259 people and injured several hundred more. Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara ...

In Sri Lanka last September, a Sinhalese mob led by some 100 Buddhist monks demolished a Muslim shrine in the ancient city of Anuradhapura. As the crowd waved Buddhist colors, gold and red, a monk set ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Sri Lankan court on Wednesday sentenced a hard-line Buddhist monk to six years in prison for contempt ...

Sinhala-Buddhist racialists, with the backing of President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s government and the corporate media, have begun an orchestrated anti-Tamil campaign in the war-ravaged Mullaitivu ...

KANDY, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's most powerful Buddhist nationalist group rallied its hardline base on Sunday, saying they must aim to take democratic control of parliament to protect the ...

Sri Lanka’s Sinhala-Buddhist nationalists have opened a new front in their war against the island’s minorities. If for decades it was the island’s Tamils who were the focus of their hostility, it is ...

Four years after the brutal assault on the Tamil population and the killing of between 8—10,000 Tamils by the Sri Lankan army, there is trouble again. The saffron-robed fanatics, led by the BBS—Bodu ...

On Sunday, Sinhala-Buddhist mobs mobilised by the extremist Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), or Buddhist Brigade, burned down shops and houses owned by Muslims in the southern Sri Lankan town of Aluthgama, ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Sri Lankan court on Wednesday sentenced a hard-line Buddhist monk to six years in prison for contempt of court. Galagoda Atte Gnanasara was found guilty of interrupting a ...