Sinhalese nationalist ideology frames NGOs as foreign conspirators aiding the enemy

Evidence

The belief that a conspiracy exists between NGOs and Western governments to tarnish the image of Sri Lanka and its armed forces, favor the LTTE, and thereby also undermine the island’s sovereignty is deep-seated. For instance, after the military pushed back the LTTE in early September 2006 and captured Sampur, a strategic area in the Eastern Province, a nationalist newspaper said: “It is the duty of the hurrah boys and the intellectual pimps in NGO garb drumming up support for the LTTE and the international community to prevail upon him [LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran] to come to terms with reality and depart from the path of violence” (The Island 2006b). — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 217

Categorization

• XREF: The manufactured-enemy dynamic: external actors get coded into the internal enemy taxonomy — echoes how Islamophobia discourse frames NGOs and international bodies as conspirators. — connects to: Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist ideology requires a manufactured enemy to mobilize and survive — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 303; Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist ideology frames dissenters as enemies of the state. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 36; Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist ideology casts minorities as tolerated guests in a Sinhalese island — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 35 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist ideology requires a manufactured enemy to mobilize and survive #expands (0.78) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 303
• Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism manufactures substitute enemies when its primary one is absent #expands (0.78) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 245
• Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist ideology frames dissenters as enemies of the state. #exemplifies (0.72) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 36
• Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist ideology casts minorities as tolerated guests in a Sinhalese island #exemplifies (0.72) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 35
• Neoliberal reform shrank public-sector jobs and redirected educated Dalits into NGOs #expands (0.70) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 562