Buddhist mobs threaten Sri Lanka's fragile ethnic peace

COLOMBO -- Roving mobs of Buddhist nationalists have been rampaging through two areas of Sri Lanka for days, straining the South Asian country's fragile ethnic peace and forcing the government to declare a state of emergency and deploy troops. The violence targeting the country's Muslim minority, which continued on Friday, was the latest in a series of outbreaks of ethnic and religious violence which have scarred other Asian countries.