The UN special rapporteur on minority issues, Ms Rita Izsák, has accused the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) of igniting tensions and contributing to more than 350 violent attacks against Muslims and over 150 attacks against Christians in the past two years. In a report to the 7th session of the Forum on Minorities Issues in Geneva which meets for two days beginning today, Izsák said that the BBS along with other groups, are promoting extremist views, proclaiming the racial superiority of Sinhala Buddhists and spreading fear among the population by, for example, alleging that statues of Buddha are being bulldozed by religious minorities or that evangelical Christians are forcibly converting vulnerable people. In her report Rita Izsák noted that on 2 July 2014, she, along with other United Nations experts, called on Sri Lanka to adopt urgent measures to stop the racial and faith-based hatred and violence directed at Muslim and Christian communities by Buddhist groups with extremist views, and to bring perpetrators to justice. http://colombogazette.com/2014/11/25/rapporteur-accuses-bbs-in-report/