Sri Lanka and its citizens are heavily heartbroken due to the recent attacks in churches and hotels this Easter, people were enjoying the Easter celebrations and were busy in holy rituals and bombings caught down on their joys, killing around 290 people from all ages and making almost a 500 injured.
The bombings are believed to be done by a terrorist based Islamic organization known as The week Jammat, a local terrorist militant group that claims to do Jihad and possesses a terrorist mindset and low morals.
Almost 7 members of these were involved in bombings and Police caught almost 13 persons with the suspect of being involved either in bombings or in connection with the groups which carried out the attack, Sri Lanka attacks.
“These attacks appear to be quite different and look as if they came right out of the ISIS, Al Qaeda, global militant jihadist playbook, as these are attacks fomenting religious hatred by attacking multiple churches on a high religious holiday,”
Anne Speckhard, the director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism, told the Times.
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