Buddhists are most known for their pacifist spiritual lifestyle and generally regarded as the most unlikely candidates who would resort to violence in the name of religion. Yet here's another sad case of how the culture of hate manages to tear even at Buddhist hearts and turn them into bloodthirsty killers.
Until recently, most of the violence that has killed more than 2,300 people since 2004 was the work of radical Muslim groups which have penetrated many of the remote, jungle-fringed villages of the south and struck into the heart of its few urban areas. They have used Iraq-style roadside bombings, drive-by shootings and beheadings against Buddhists as well as fellow Muslims deemed traitors to their cause.
But in several recent cases of violence against Muslims, suspicion has fallen on shadowy Buddhist vigilante groups.
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