"Why is the independent journalist Azzam Ameen and his website Newswire keeping silent about the Pakistan attack?" reads this Sinhala-language Facebook post shared on December 5, 2021.
"We noticed he was far more active during the Digana incident to raise awareness about it in the whole world."
Screenshot of the misleading post captured on December 7, 2021
Azzam Ameen is a Muslim Sri Lankan journalist. He runs Newswire, a website that publishes news in both English and Sinhala.
There have been ongoing tensions between Muslims and the country's majority Sinhalese -- who are mostly Buddhists -- since the deadly 2019 Easter bombings carried out by local jihadists and reported by AFP here.
Ameen had been targeted online in the aftermath of the bombings, according to the rights group Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka.
The post circulated online after a Sri Lankan factory manager was beaten to death and set ablaze by a mob who accused him of blasphemy in Pakistan. AFP reported on the crime here.
The "Digana incident" mentioned in the post refers to anti-Muslim riots that erupted in Sri Lanka in 2018. Digana...
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