{"id":129331,"date":"2022-10-19T15:44:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T22:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=129331"},"modified":"2022-10-19T15:44:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T22:44:51","slug":"violation-of-buddhist-human-rights-during-the-euro-christian-era-of-colonial-rule-in-sri-lanka-and-other-pre-dominant-buddhist-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/10\/19\/violation-of-buddhist-human-rights-during-the-euro-christian-era-of-colonial-rule-in-sri-lanka-and-other-pre-dominant-buddhist-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Violation of Buddhist Human Rights during the Euro &#8211; Christian era of Colonial Rule in Sri Lanka and other pre-dominant Buddhist countries\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Senaka Weeraratna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) the premier international Buddhist organization must establish a Commission of Inquiry to investigate and report on the infringement&nbsp;of Human Rights of the Buddhist communities during the Western Colonial Rule of countries&nbsp;of Buddhist Asia. It is anticipated that there will be recommendations demanding an Apology and Reparations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The terms for Inquiry should include:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1)&nbsp; Destruction of Buddhist Temples<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2)&nbsp; Execution of Buddhist Monks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3) Prohibition of the Practice of Buddhism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4) Ban on wearing the yellow robe of a Buddhist Monk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5) Plunder of Buddhist Temples<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6) Exhibition of artifacts stolen from Buddhist Temples in European Museums<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7) Construction of Churches on top of destroyed Buddhist Temple sites<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8) Confiscation of Buddhist Temple lands to establish tea and coffee plantations and grow crops, and European&nbsp;settlement&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9) Forcible conversion of Buddhists to Christianity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10) Establishment of Missionary schools<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11) Discrimination against Buddhists in matters of employment in both the public and private sectors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12) Use of the Mass media to vilify and denigrate Buddhism and ridicule and demonize Buddhist monks and Buddhist leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13) Abuse of animals and animal sacrifice&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14) Re-writing of the narrative of Buddhist History during the colonial era from the perspective&nbsp;of Buddhist victims of foreign oppression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15) The feasibility&nbsp;of establishing a League of Buddhist Nations to be the collective voice of the Buddhists at the summit level and to function more or less similar to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is suggested that these proposals be Tabled at the ongoing 30th General Conference of the WFB in Bangkok, Thailand from October 18 &#8211; 21, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senaka Weeraratna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senaka Weeraratna The World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) the premier international Buddhist organization must establish a Commission of Inquiry to investigate and report on the infringement&nbsp;of Human Rights of the Buddhist communities during the Western Colonial Rule of countries&nbsp;of Buddhist Asia. It is anticipated that there will be recommendations demanding an Apology and Reparations. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senaka-weeraratna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}