{"id":7469,"date":"2019-05-13T12:34:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T12:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7469-sri-lanka-blocks-social-media-again-after-attacks-on-muslims\/"},"modified":"2019-05-13T12:34:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T12:34:50","slug":"sri-lanka-blocks-social-media-again-after-attacks-on-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7469-sri-lanka-blocks-social-media-again-after-attacks-on-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka blocks social media again after attacks on Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Sri Lanka has temporarily blocked some social media networks and messaging apps, including Facebook and WhatsApp, after a posting<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka has temporarily blocked some social media networks and messaging apps, including Facebook and WhatsApp, after a posting sparked anti-Muslim riots across several towns in the latest fallout from the Easter Sunday suicide attacks last month.<\/p>\n<p>Christian groups threw stones at mosques and Muslim-owned shops in the northwestern Christian-majority town of Chilaw on Sunday in anger at a Facebook post by a shopkeeper, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces fired shots in the air to disperse mobs, but the violence spread to nearby towns where businesses owned by Muslims were also attacked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Social media blocked again as a temporary measure to maintain peace in the country,&#8221; Nalaka Kaluwewa, director general of the government information department, told Reuters news agency on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said a night curfew, imposed on Sunday afternoon, in Chilaw and nearby areas was relaxed on Monday, but the social media ban was brought in to prevent incitement to violence.<\/p>\n<p>Muslims make up around 10 percent of Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka&#8217;s 21 million population and Christians about 7.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka has used temporary bans on social media in a bid to deter misinformation and rumours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-19173\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/images_2019_05_13_b88288184fc447709d8e8e315f5cbe98_18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/images_2019_05_13_b88288184fc447709d8e8e315f5cbe98_18.jpg 800w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/images_2019_05_13_b88288184fc447709d8e8e315f5cbe98_18-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/images_2019_05_13_b88288184fc447709d8e8e315f5cbe98_18-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka has temporarily blocked some social media networks and messaging apps, including Facebook and WhatsApp, after a posting Sri Lanka has temporarily blocked some social media networks and messaging apps, including Facebook and WhatsApp, after a posting sparked anti-Muslim riots across several towns in the latest fallout from the Easter Sunday suicide attacks last &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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