Sri Lanka Declares Emergency Amid Buddhist Attacks On Minority Muslims
The violence, which began on Sunday, was reportedly triggered by a road-rage incident in which a Sinhalese Buddhist driver was beaten to death by a Muslim youth.
Mobs made up mostly of Sri Lanka's predominately Buddhist Sinhalese majority torched Muslim homes and businesses in the island-nation's central hills near Kandy, a day after the government imposed a state of emergency to quell days of violence.
As NPR's Julie McCarthy reports tensions between the two communities, which burst into
