04-21-2019, 01:41 PM
** 21-Apr-2019 Bombings target churches and hotels in Sri Lanka
Eight bomb blasts on Sunday targeted churches and five-star hotels in
Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka. The church explosions took
place in the midst of Easter Sunday services to produce maximum
carnage.
Over 215 people were killed, including dozens of foreigners, 450
injured.
No one has claimed credit for attacks, and Sri Lankan officials are
telling the media not to speculate. So I won't speculate, but I will
list the possibilities:
The police have arrested 13 suspects, and officials say that they'll
be able to announce the perpetrators on Monday.
---- Sources:
-- LIVE: Death toll in explosions reaches 215 – Curfew declared
https://www.newsfirst.lk/2019/04/21/expl...kochikade/
(NewsFirst, Sri Lanka)
-- Multiple Blasts In Sri Lanka Kill 207, 13 Arrested Says Defence
Minister: Updates
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/multiple...es-2026245
(New Delhi TV)
---- Related
** 12-Jun-17 World View -- Sri Lanka targets radical nationalist Buddhists in Bodu Bala Sena (BBS)
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e170612
Eight bomb blasts on Sunday targeted churches and five-star hotels in
Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka. The church explosions took
place in the midst of Easter Sunday services to produce maximum
carnage.
Over 215 people were killed, including dozens of foreigners, 450
injured.
No one has claimed credit for attacks, and Sri Lankan officials are
telling the media not to speculate. So I won't speculate, but I will
list the possibilities:
- Tamil separatists. The extremely bloody Sri Lanka civil war ended
in May 2009. It was fought between the Buddhist Sinhalese ruling
majority versus the Hindu Tamil separatists.
- Muslim jihadists. They mostly sat out the civil war between the
Buddhists and Hindus, and actually benefited from it economically,
since they just did their jobs and weren't trying to kill anyone.
- Buddhist nationalists. The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS - Forces of
Buddhist Power) terror group, led by Buddhist monk Galagoda Aththe
Gnanasara, was formed in 2012 to purify Sri Lanka for the Buddhists by
exterminating the Christians, Hindus and Muslims. Gnanasara was
jailed last year for terrorist acts.
The police have arrested 13 suspects, and officials say that they'll
be able to announce the perpetrators on Monday.
---- Sources:
-- LIVE: Death toll in explosions reaches 215 – Curfew declared
https://www.newsfirst.lk/2019/04/21/expl...kochikade/
(NewsFirst, Sri Lanka)
-- Multiple Blasts In Sri Lanka Kill 207, 13 Arrested Says Defence
Minister: Updates
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/multiple...es-2026245
(New Delhi TV)
---- Related
** 12-Jun-17 World View -- Sri Lanka targets radical nationalist Buddhists in Bodu Bala Sena (BBS)
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e170612
