Two Islamic State men linked to Sri Lanka Easter blasts
5 years, 8 months ago

Two Islamic State men linked to Sri Lanka Easter blasts

The Hindu  

Two suspects involved in the deadly Easter attacks in Sri Lanka are Islamic State returnees from Syria and Iraq, investigators have found. So far Sri Lanka’s investigating agencies have identified 139 persons as members of the NTJ and associated groups and “traced all of them”, an official Colombo-based source said. “It is believed that not all of them are militant, but details of their possible role in the attacks are still emerging.” Meanwhile, Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department has also established that nine suicide bombers, including a woman, were part of the team that executed the deadly serial blasts. Briefing Colombo-based diplomats recently, President Maithripala Sirisena described them as “very powerful countries” with “extensive technological and military knowledge,” a diplomatic source said, requesting anonymity. Prior intelligence Further, President Sirisena spoke of Sri Lanka having received prior intelligence on the attacks from “a friendly country.” Early April, India had alerted Sri Lanka on the imminent threat, but both President Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said they were personally unaware of the warning, though their intelligence officials had the input.

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Sri Lanka Reopens Probe into 2019 Easter Bombings, Ten Years Later
3 months ago

Sri Lanka Reopens Probe into 2019 Easter Bombings, Ten Years Later

The Hindu  

Sri Lanka's new government announces a probe into the 2019 Easter bombings that killed 279 people. The previous investigations failed to identify other culprits responsible for the attack. The government wants to find out why there were irregularities in the previous investigations, take a fresh look at the incident, expose the culprits, and bring them to justice.

As Sri Lanka marks five years since horrific Easter bombings, UN calls for justice for victims
8 months, 2 weeks ago

As Sri Lanka marks five years since horrific Easter bombings, UN calls for justice for victims

Firstpost  

Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church has claimed that military intelligence personnel collaborated with the Islamists who carried out the assault, which aided the political ambitions of retired army general Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was running on security. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the leader of Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church, said that Rajapaksa had consistently safeguarded individuals responsible for the bombings since his win The …

Sri Lanka's president will appoint a committee to probe allegations of complicity in 2019 bombings
1 year, 3 months ago

Sri Lanka's president will appoint a committee to probe allegations of complicity in 2019 bombings

The Hindu  

Sri Lanka’s president said Sunday he will appoint a committee chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge to investigate allegations made in a British television report that the South Asian country’s intelligence was complicit in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people. President Ranil Wickremesinghe's decision to appoint a committee headed by a judge to investigate claims that …

Sri Lanka defends intelligence chief over Easter Sunday attacks allegations by UK channel
1 year, 4 months ago

Sri Lanka defends intelligence chief over Easter Sunday attacks allegations by UK channel

The Hindu  

Sri Lanka's Defence Ministry on Saturday defended the country's intelligence chief after he was accused by a British television channel as the plotter of the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombings which killed 270 people, including 11 Indians. UK’s Channel 4 television station on Tuesday aired a documentary titled ‘Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings – Dispatches’ alleging the involvement and complicity of …

Sri Lanka will investigate allegations of intelligence complicity in 2019 Easter bombings
1 year, 4 months ago

Sri Lanka will investigate allegations of intelligence complicity in 2019 Easter bombings

The Hindu  

Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that Sri Lankan intelligence had complicity in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people. A man interviewed in the Channel 4 videos released on Tuesday said he arranged a meeting between a local Islamic State-inspired group and a top state intelligence …

Sri Lanka will investigate allegations of intelligence complicity in 2019 Easter bombings
1 year, 4 months ago

Sri Lanka will investigate allegations of intelligence complicity in 2019 Easter bombings

Associated Press  

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that officials with the South Asian country’s intelligence had complicity in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people, including 42 foreigners from 14 countries. Channel 4 interviewed a man interviewed who said he arranged a meeting between …

Sri Lanka to probe allegation of intelligence complicity in 2019 bombings
1 year, 4 months ago

Sri Lanka to probe allegation of intelligence complicity in 2019 bombings

Al Jazeera  

British TV report alleges a top Sri Lankan intelligence official hatched the deadly Easter Sunday bombings plot to help Rajapaksa win the election. Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that Sri Lankan intelligence had complicity in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people. A man interviewed in …

Sri Lanka to investigate allegations of official complicity in 2019 Easter bombings
1 year, 4 months ago

Sri Lanka to investigate allegations of official complicity in 2019 Easter bombings

LA Times  

Six near-simultaneous suicide bombings in churches and tourist hotels in Sri Lanka in April 2019 killed 269 people. Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that Sri Lankan intelligence was complicit in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people. A man interviewed in videos aired by Britain’s Channel …

Sri Lanka marks 4th anniversary of Easter Sunday terror attacks
1 year, 8 months ago

Sri Lanka marks 4th anniversary of Easter Sunday terror attacks

The Hindu  

COLOMBO Sri Lanka on April 21 marked the 4th anniversary of the Easter Sunday terror bombings that shook the island nation on April 21, 2019, even as families of victims marched, and many gathered outside churches, demanding truth and justice. Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church, especially the Archbishop of Colombo Archdiocese Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, has been raising concern over authorities’ “slow-paced” …

Sri Lanka's ex-President Sirisena apologises for 2019 Easter Sunday bombings
1 year, 11 months ago

Sri Lanka's ex-President Sirisena apologises for 2019 Easter Sunday bombings

The Hindu  

Sri Lanka’s former President Maithripala Sirisena on January 31 extended an apology to the country's minority Catholic community for the devastating 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed over 270 people, including 11 Indians. Nine suicide bombers belonging to the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat linked to ISIS carried out a series of blasts that tore through three Catholic …

Sri Lanka’s former President ordered to pay compensation for failing to prevent 2019 Easter bombings
1 year, 11 months ago

Sri Lanka’s former President ordered to pay compensation for failing to prevent 2019 Easter bombings

The Hindu  

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered former President Maithripala Sirisena to pay a compensation of LKR 100 million to victims of the April 2019 Easter Sunday terror blasts, while pointing to a “reckless” intelligence failure on the part of the Executive. Sri Lanka’s Catholic church has been flagging the lack of progress in the probe, and the Archbishop of …

Sri Lanka Easter attacks | Ex-President Maithripala Sirisena named suspect
2 years, 3 months ago

Sri Lanka Easter attacks | Ex-President Maithripala Sirisena named suspect

The Hindu  

A Sri Lankan court on Friday named former President Maithripala Sirisena a suspect in a case pertaining to the 2019 Easter terror bombings and directed him to appear in court this October. ‘Grand political plot’ In March, Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith told the UN Human Rights Council that the incident was a “grand political plot”. A parliamentary select …

Pope asks Sri Lanka to reveal identity of Easter Sunday attackers
2 years, 8 months ago

Pope asks Sri Lanka to reveal identity of Easter Sunday attackers

Al Jazeera  

Pope Francis urges the island nation to name the bombers behind series of attacks in 2019 that the Catholic Church suspects was a conspiracy. Pope Francis has urged Sri Lankan authorities to reveal who was behind the country’s 2019 Easter Sunday bombings in an attack the island’s Catholics suspect was a plot to propel President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to power. The …

Pressure mounts on Sri Lanka leader to quit as crisis grows
2 years, 9 months ago

Pressure mounts on Sri Lanka leader to quit as crisis grows

Associated Press  

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Thousands of Sri Lankans rallied in the country’s main business district and Christian clergy marched in the capital to observe a day of protest on Saturday calling on the debt-ridden nation’s president to resign, as anxiety and anger over shortages simmered. Jayasinghe said she voted for Rajapaksa believing he was the best candidate to restore national …

Sri Lanka cardinal seeks UN probe into 2019 Easter bombings
2 years, 10 months ago

Sri Lanka cardinal seeks UN probe into 2019 Easter bombings

Al Jazeera  

Head of the country’s Roman Catholic Church tells UNHCR the massacre now appears to be ‘a grand political plot’. The head of Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church has urged the United Nations to investigate the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people, calling the massacre a “political plot”. “However, subsequent investigations indicate that this massacre was part of a …

Sri Lanka clears police, defence chiefs over Easter bombings
2 years, 10 months ago

Sri Lanka clears police, defence chiefs over Easter bombings

The Hindu  

Sri Lanka's High Court on Friday acquitted two top officials accused of "crimes against humanity" for failing to prevent the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people. The state had indicted the two men in November for failing to act on early warnings from an Indian intelligence agency that local jihadists were planning a string of suicide bombings in …

Sri Lanka indicts ISIL ‘mastermind’ over Easter Sunday bombings
3 years, 3 months ago

Sri Lanka indicts ISIL ‘mastermind’ over Easter Sunday bombings

Al Jazeera  

Prosecutors indict alleged mastermind of the 2019 suicide bombings along with 24 men they say are co-conspirators. Sri Lankan prosecutors have indicted the alleged mastermind of the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombings along with 24 men they say are co-conspirators in the island’s worst single “terror” attack. Nearly 300 people including dozens of foreign nationals were killed in the April …

Church: Talks on Sri Lankan blasts require gov’t credibility
3 years, 4 months ago

Church: Talks on Sri Lankan blasts require gov’t credibility

Associated Press  

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A Sri Lankan Roman Catholic leader has said the government must win back the confidence of the church before the two sides can hold talks on the church’s criticisms of inquiries into 2019 Easter Sunday bomb blasts that killed 269 people. The Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that the Vatican’s ambassador to Sri Lanka, Archbishop Brian Udaigwe, …

Sri Lanka files charges against 25 Easter Sunday bombing suspects
3 years, 4 months ago

Sri Lanka files charges against 25 Easter Sunday bombing suspects

Al Jazeera  

Sri Lanka has filed 23,270 charges against 25 people in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks on churches and hotels that killed 269 people, according to the president’s office. Two local Muslim groups that allegedly pledged allegiance to the ISIL group were blamed for the six near-simultaneous suicide bomb attacks which hit three churches and three hotels …

Easter bombings: Sri Lanka probes charges against spy agencies
3 years, 5 months ago

Easter bombings: Sri Lanka probes charges against spy agencies

Al Jazeera  

President orders investigation into allegations that some intelligence officials knew and met with people who carried out 2019 bombings. Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ordered an investigation into allegations that some members of state intelligence agencies knew and met with people who carried out Easter Sunday bombings in 2019 that killed more than 260 people, a government official said. …

Sri Lanka Easter Attack Probe Panel Summons Former PM Ranil Wickremesinghe
4 years, 4 months ago

Sri Lanka Easter Attack Probe Panel Summons Former PM Ranil Wickremesinghe

News 18  

Sri Lanka's former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who suffered a crushing defeat in the parliamentary polls, has been summoned by a presidential probe panel on August 18 to record his statement on the deadly Easter Sunday attacks, officials said on Tuesday. Nine suicide bombers belonging to local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat linked to ISIS carried out a series …

Sri Lanka appoints 6-member team to fast track probe into Easter Sunday attack
4 years, 10 months ago

Sri Lanka appoints 6-member team to fast track probe into Easter Sunday attack

Deccan Chronicle  

Colombo: The Sri Lankan government on Sunday appointed a six-member team to help police collect authentic information and expedite an ongoing presidential probe into the devastating Easter Sunday terror attack that killed over 250 people. The 6-member task force has been appointed to help police's CID to "speed up the ongoing investigations" and will submit weekly reports to the defense …

India announces $450 million to Sri Lanka
5 years, 1 month ago

India announces $450 million to Sri Lanka

The Hindu  

India and Sri Lanka agreed to cooperate on counter-terrorism during talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting President Gotabaya Rajapaksa here on Friday. Sri Lankan police officers in major Indian institutions are already receiving the benefit of counter terrorist training,” said Prime Minister Modi. Following the Easter bombings Sri Lanka had to ‘rethink’ its national security strategy, said the …

Sri Lanka spy chief, president blamed for Easter attack lapses
5 years, 2 months ago

Sri Lanka spy chief, president blamed for Easter attack lapses

Al Jazeera  

Parliament inquiry says bitter feud between president and prime minister led to security lapses before attacks. A Sri Lankan parliamentary committee that investigated last April’s Easter suicide bombings has concluded the country’s spy chief was primarily responsible for the intelligence failure that led to the death of 259 people in the attacks. In a report released on Wednesday, the committee …

Sri Lanka President blamed for Easter attacks lapses
5 years, 2 months ago

Sri Lanka President blamed for Easter attacks lapses

The Hindu  

A parliamentary panel in Sri Lanka has accused President Maithripala Sirisena of “actively undermining” government and security systems, leading to serious lapses ahead of the Easter terror attacks. “This failure by the SIS has resulted in hundreds of deaths, many more injured and immeasurable devastation to Sri Lanka and Sri Lankans and that must not be treated lightly,” the report …

Easter Sunday bombings: International drug syndicates orchestrated attacks, says Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena
5 years, 5 months ago

Easter Sunday bombings: International drug syndicates orchestrated attacks, says Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena

Firstpost  

International drug syndicates orchestrated Sri Lanka’s deadly Easter Sunday bombings, the country’s leader claimed on Monday, despite earlier blaming the attacks on Islamists Colombo: International drug syndicates orchestrated Sri Lanka’s deadly Easter Sunday bombings, the country’s leader claimed on Monday, despite earlier blaming the attacks on Islamists. But in a statement issued by his office Monday, Sirisena said the attacks …

Sri Lanka Easter bombings: Two of nine Muslim ministers return to govt after resigning over 'anti-minority sentiments'
5 years, 6 months ago

Sri Lanka Easter bombings: Two of nine Muslim ministers return to govt after resigning over 'anti-minority sentiments'

Firstpost  

Two of the nine Sri Lankan Muslim ministers, who had resigned in the wake of growing anti-minority sentiments following the Easter Sunday bombings, returned to the government fold on Wednesday. Colombo: Two of the nine Sri Lankan Muslim ministers, who had resigned in the wake of growing anti-minority sentiments following the Easter Sunday bombings, returned to the government fold on …

Prime Minister Modi pays tribute to Easter Sunday terror attack victims at St. Anthony’s Church during his Sri Lanka visit
5 years, 7 months ago

Prime Minister Modi pays tribute to Easter Sunday terror attack victims at St. Anthony’s Church during his Sri Lanka visit

Op India  

Following his visit to the Maldives, Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his Sri Lanka visit by paying tribute to the victims of the ghastly Easter Sundar terror attack victims at St. Anthony’s Shrine, Kochchikade. Started the Sri Lanka visit by paying my respect at one of the sites of the horrific Easter Sunday Attack, St. Anthony’s Shrine, Kochchikade. pic.twitter.com/RTdmNGcDyg — …

Sri Lankan President Vows to Block Easter Attack Probe
5 years, 7 months ago

Sri Lankan President Vows to Block Easter Attack Probe

The Quint  

Just last week, Sirisena's intelligence chief Sisira Mendis exposed that the president had failed to hold regular security review meetings to assess potential threats from Islamic radicals. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Sri Lanka on Sunday. Modi’s itinerary includes meeting Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, Opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa and Tamil National Alliance leader …

NIA team in Sri Lanka to probe IS cases
5 years, 7 months ago

NIA team in Sri Lanka to probe IS cases

The Hindu  

National Investigation Agency officials are in Colombo to probe two Islamic State -related cases, which could have possible links to the April 21 Easter terror attack that killed more than 250 people. A senior government official said a two-member NIA team was in Sri Lanka in connection with the two IS-related cases, registered by the agency in 2015 and 2018. …

Sri Lanka prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says Islamic State terror will be thwarted in country
5 years, 7 months ago

Sri Lanka prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says Islamic State terror will be thwarted in country

Firstpost  

Sri Lankan prime minister Wickremesinghe said a methodology will be devised to prevent Islamic State terrorism from raise its head again in the country by safeguarding the law and order. Colombo: Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has vowed to take security measures to prevent Islamic State terrorism raising its head again in the country as he appealed people to …

Taking stock of Islamic State 2.0
5 years, 7 months ago

Taking stock of Islamic State 2.0

The Hindu  

On Easter Sunday this year, April 21, Sri Lanka witnessed a series of coordinated bomb blasts, killing over 250 people. IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi himself was to announce subsequently that the attacks in Sri Lanka were revenge for the fall of the Syrian town of Baghuz, the last IS-ruled village overrun by Syrian forces in March this year. Tactics …

India, Sri Lanka Ended up Doing a Favour to ISIS by Not Showing Joint Resolve to Fight Back - News18
5 years, 7 months ago

India, Sri Lanka Ended up Doing a Favour to ISIS by Not Showing Joint Resolve to Fight Back - News18

News 18  

The Easter weekend terror strikes, targeting hotels and churches across the island of Sri Lanka brought forth what many had feared for a while, a large scale pro-ISIS attack in the South Asian region. While the 2016 Holey Artisan Bakery act of terrorism in Bangladesh announced the arrival of the ISIS ideology in the region, the Sri Lanka attacks cemented …

Sri Lanka bomb blasts: UN expresses alarm over rise in prejudice against minorities, says govt 'shouldn't tolerate' communal violence
5 years, 7 months ago

Sri Lanka bomb blasts: UN expresses alarm over rise in prejudice against minorities, says govt 'shouldn't tolerate' communal violence

Firstpost  

Sri Lanka officials added that ’the Government needs to give the example that it will not tolerate the spread of prejudice and hate. United Nations: Two top UN officials have voiced alarm over the spate of communal violence in Sri Lanka since the Easter Sunday Bombings, saying the government should ensure that spread of prejudice and hate among groups is …

600 foreigners including 200 Islamic clerics expelled from Sri Lanka, visa restrictions on religious preachers tightened
5 years, 8 months ago

600 foreigners including 200 Islamic clerics expelled from Sri Lanka, visa restrictions on religious preachers tightened

Op India  

On Sunday, a minister in Sri Lanka said that ever since the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka, the country has expelled over 600 foreign nationals from the island nation, which includes about 200 Islamic clerics. The Sri Lankan Home Affairs Minister Vajira Abeywardena said that the clerics have been fined and expelled from the country for overstaying their visa. …

More attacks feared, say Sri Lanka officials
5 years, 8 months ago

More attacks feared, say Sri Lanka officials

The Hindu  

Sri Lanka bolstered security on Friday with fears of attacks against bridges in the capital as the Prime Minister vowed to hunt down any remaining Islamic State extremists behind the deadly Easter bombings. Sri Lanka’s minority Muslims, meanwhile, held Friday prayers under tight security, condemning the jihadist attacks. The warnings came as Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said some of the …

Don’t give in to polarisation
5 years, 8 months ago

Don’t give in to polarisation

The Hindu  

As reports about those behind the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka emerge, many questions remain about the motives of the extremists. The “war on terror” in the U.S. after 2001 led to the draconian USA PATRIOT Act, the detention and surveillance of Muslims and the institution of Homeland Security, undermining the democratic and liberal structures within the U.S. With …

Opinion | Asia as the new ground zero for Islamist terror
5 years, 8 months ago

Opinion | Asia as the new ground zero for Islamist terror

Live Mint  

The Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka rank among the deadliest terrorist attacks in modern history, and underscore the metastasizing scourge of Islamist violence in Asia. By targeting international hotels and iconic churches, the Islamists behind the Sri Lankan blasts clearly intended to strike a blow against Sri Lanka’s fast-growing tourism industry, a mainstay of the country’s debt-ridden economy. Though …

Islamic State planning 'new strategy' to target smaller countries, claims Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena
5 years, 8 months ago

Islamic State planning 'new strategy' to target smaller countries, claims Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena

Firstpost  

Maithripala Sirisena said the analysis of the explosives and devices taken into custody suggested that the bombs used in the coordinated terror attacks on 21 April, which rattled several churches and high-end hotels across the country, were made locally Colombo: It is quite possible that the Islamic State has launched a “new strategy” by beginning to target smaller countries, says …

Sri Lanka receives intelligence inputs of attacks planned on Buddhist temples by female bombers posing as devotees
5 years, 8 months ago

Sri Lanka receives intelligence inputs of attacks planned on Buddhist temples by female bombers posing as devotees

Op India  

According to media reports, Sri Lanka’s Intelligence agency has received inputs of possible attacks on Buddhist temples by female bombers of the banned local terror outfit National Thawheeth Jamath posing as devotees. Sri Lankan authorities confirmed that amongst the nine bombers who executed the dastardly Easter Sunday attack, there was a female suicide bomber too. As a security measure in …

Father, two brothers of suspected Sri Lanka bombings mastermind killed in gun battle
5 years, 8 months ago

Father, two brothers of suspected Sri Lanka bombings mastermind killed in gun battle

India Today  

The father and two brothers of the suspected mastermind of Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings were killed when security forces stormed their safe house on the east coast two days ago, police and a relative said on Sunday. Niyaz Sharif, the brother-in-law of Zahran Hashim, the suspected ringleader of the wave of Easter Sunday bombings that killed over 250 people …

India had warned Sri Lanka about Easter bombings in advance on the basis of raids on ISIS modules in India
5 years, 8 months ago

India had warned Sri Lanka about Easter bombings in advance on the basis of raids on ISIS modules in India

Op India  

Several reports have come into the forefront which confirms that the Indian authorities had passed clear intel to Sri Lanka regarding the dastardly coordinated blasts at churches and hotels on the Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka, leaving 253 people dead and several hundred injured. On the basis of these videos, the Indian Authorities identified Hashim as the leader of National …

Sri Lanka attacks: Father, two brothers of suicide bombings' mastermind killed in Kalmunai raids, say relative, police sources
5 years, 8 months ago

Sri Lanka attacks: Father, two brothers of suicide bombings' mastermind killed in Kalmunai raids, say relative, police sources

Firstpost  

The father and two brothers of the suspected mastermind of Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombings were killed when security forces stormed their safe house two days ago, police sources and a relative of the suicide bombers told Reuters on Sunday. Colombo: The father and two brothers of the suspected mastermind of Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombings were killed when security …

How laid back Sri Lanka became a soft target for Islamist strike
5 years, 8 months ago

How laid back Sri Lanka became a soft target for Islamist strike

India Today  

A week ago, Sri Lankan tourist guide Ricky Costa was preparing for a typically easy Sunday ferrying backpackers between Colombo's tea shops and beach bars in his canary-yellow rickshaw. Since Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka won a 26-year conflict against mostly Hindu ethnic Tamil separatists, a well-resourced military has failed to adapt to shifting security threats, the sources said. "It's easy to …

Women asked to avoid burqas, kids skip playtime: Sri Lankan Muslims fear for safety
5 years, 8 months ago

Women asked to avoid burqas, kids skip playtime: Sri Lankan Muslims fear for safety

India Today  

There already have been a few incidents that have been reported of Muslims being targeted by mobs. That is the fear most Muslims in Sri Lanka are living with after one of the worst terrorist attack that the country witnessed on Easter Sunday. Razia has not sent her children out to play out of fear that they might fall victim …

Sri Lanka attacks: Thankful for information provided by India, 'unfortunate' that we could not act on it, Ranil Wickremesinghe tells DD News
5 years, 8 months ago

Sri Lanka attacks: Thankful for information provided by India, 'unfortunate' that we could not act on it, Ranil Wickremesinghe tells DD News

Firstpost  

Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in an interview to Doordarshan News said his country was thankful for the information provided by India regarding the terror strikes and it was “unfortunate” that they could not act on it. “We knew they went to Syria…But in our country, to go abroad and return or to take part in a foreign armed …

15 dead after gun battle with suspects in east Sri Lanka
5 years, 8 months ago

15 dead after gun battle with suspects in east Sri Lanka

The Hindu  

The bodies of 15 people, including six children, were found at a building in Sri Lanka’s eastern Ampara district after an “explosion” early on Saturday, according to a military spokesman. The explosion, Brigadier Sumith Atapattu said, followed an overnight gun battle between security forces and suspects linked to the Easter Day bombings at the building. The suspects opened fire, the …

Sri Lanka live updates: 15 bodies found in eastern town following “explosion”
5 years, 8 months ago

Sri Lanka live updates: 15 bodies found in eastern town following “explosion”

The Hindu  

Sri Lankan security forces exchanged fire with suspected Islamic State affiliated militants and killed at least four of them in the east of the country, according to the police and the military on Saturday. 4:00 p.m. Sri Lanka police chief refusing to quit despite president's request: sources Sri Lanka's police chief has refused a request by President Maithripala Sirisena to …

Sri Lanka: 15 dead in gun battle with bombing suspects
5 years, 8 months ago

Sri Lanka: 15 dead in gun battle with bombing suspects

Al Jazeera  

Bodies of 15 people, including six children, discovered at the site of a fierce overnight gun battle in an eastern town. The bodies of 15 people, including six children, were discovered at the site of a fierce firefight at a home on the east coast of Sri Lanka after suicide bombers targeted approaching security forces. A police spokesman on Saturday …

6 children among 15 killed in raids on IS hideouts in Sri Lanka
5 years, 8 months ago

6 children among 15 killed in raids on IS hideouts in Sri Lanka

India Today  

The bodies of 15 people, including six children, were discovered at the site of a fierce overnight gun battle on the east coast of Sri Lanka, a military spokesman said on Saturday, six days after suicide bombers killed more than 250 people. Muslims in Sri Lanka were urged to pray at home on Friday after the State Intelligence Services warned …

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