Sri Lanka face higher risk of terrorism: Report
November 20, 2014 03:36 pm
Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Myanmar are three of the 13 countries worldwide identified as being at higher risk for terrorism, according to the recently-released Global Terrorism Index.
The report, published by the Institute for Economic and Peace in Australia, found that 82 percent of terrorist attacks occur in just five countries - Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Syria, according to Channel news
Asia.
The next five countries seeing a significant number of terrorist attacks include Asian nations - India, the Philippines and Thailand. These nations are primarily at risk from separatist groups.
Many countries - including Singapore - have seen almost no impact from terrorism in recent years.
It is one of the reasons why experts cautioned the Global Terrorism Index underscores how terrorism is both a global phenomenon and concentrated in specific nations.
Religion is also central to the rise in terrorist violence in Iraq and Syria. The regionalisation of extremist movements has the authors of the Global Terrorism Index warning that more attention must be paid to increasing tolerance and rights as one way to reduce the risk of future attacks.
