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Title: The role of social media during the rise of postwar racial tension in Sri Lanka
Authors: Rev. Galkande Dhammananda
Buddhika Dassanayake
Issue Date: 2014
Publisher: Book of Abstracts, Annual Research Symposium 2014
Citation: Annual Research Symposium,Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka; 2014 :72p
Abstract: There are currently over 4.2 million internet users in Sri Lanka � close to 20% of the population � the highest penetration in the South Asian region1. Social Media usage has also risen, with over 1.5 million facebook profiles being accessed from Sri Lanka2. The boom of Social Media in Sri Lanka coincided with two inter-related events � The final years of the Eelam War, and the rise of Sinhalese-Buddhist supremacist groups such as the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) within the subsequent postwar period.
URI: http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4854
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