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On 23 April 2019, three Sri Lankan government and military sources told Reuters that a Syrian national had been held in custody for questioning over the attacks.<ref name=SyrianInCustody>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sri-lanka-blasts-syrian-idUSKCN1RZ0CH|title=Sri Lanka detains Syrian for questioning over attacks|date=23 April 2019|access-date=23 April 2019}}</ref>
On 23 April 2019, three Sri Lankan government and military sources told Reuters that a Syrian national had been held in custody for questioning over the attacks.<ref name=SyrianInCustody>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sri-lanka-blasts-syrian-idUSKCN1RZ0CH|title=Sri Lanka detains Syrian for questioning over attacks|date=23 April 2019|access-date=23 April 2019}}</ref>


Later on 23 April, the Sri Lankan State Defense Minister, [[Ruwan Wijewardene]], said that initial investigations have revealed that Islamic extremists "carried out the attacks in retaliation for [[Christchurch mosque shootings|a March attack on two mosques in New Zealand]]".<ref name=AboutMotive/><ref name=AboutMotive2/><ref name=AboutMotive3/><ref name=AboutMotive4/> [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]] (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attacks.<ref name="isisindependent">{{cite news |title=Sri Lanka bombings: Isis claims responsibility for deadly church and hotel attacks on Easter Sunday |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/sri-lanka-bombings-isis-terror-church-attack-easter-islamic-state-a8882231.html |work=The Independent |date=23 April 2019}}</ref>
Later on 23 April, the Sri Lankan State Defense Minister, [[Ruwan Wijewardene]], said that initial investigations have revealed that Islamic extremists "carried out the attacks in retaliation for [[Christchurch mosque shootings|a March attack on two mosques in New Zealand]]".<ref name=AboutMotive/><ref name=AboutMotive2/><ref name=AboutMotive3/><ref name=AboutMotive4/> Shortly afterwards, [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]] (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attacks.<ref name="isisindependent">{{cite news |title=Sri Lanka bombings: Isis claims responsibility for deadly church and hotel attacks on Easter Sunday |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/sri-lanka-bombings-isis-terror-church-attack-easter-islamic-state-a8882231.html |work=The Independent |date=23 April 2019}}</ref>


===Social media and messaging app blockade===
===Social media and messaging app blockade===

Revision as of 12:06, 23 April 2019

For the attack during World War II, see Easter Sunday Raid.

2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings
Part of terrorism in Sri Lanka
Four of the major targets. Clockwise from upper left: St. Anthony's Shrine, St. Sebastian's Church, Shangri-La Hotel, The Kingsbury
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Location of bombings in Colombo City
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Location of targeted cities around Sri Lanka
LocationChurches
Hotels
Housing complex
Date21 April 2019 (2019-04-21)
  • 08:00–08:45 First six explosions
  • 14:10 Tropical Inn explosion
  • 14:40 and 15:20 Explosions at Dematagoda[1]
(SLST UTC+05:30)
TargetChristians and tourists
Attack type
Suicide bombings[2]
Deaths321[3]
Injuredappr. 500[3]
Perpetrators
MotiveRetaliation for Christchurch mosque shootings[6][7][8][9]
InquiryPresident Sirisena invoked emergency laws, providing Police extensive powers; The president later stated that emergency laws would be confined to dealing with the current "terrorism threat" and would not be used to impinge freedom of expression. [10]

On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three Christian churches across Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital Colombo were targeted in a series of coordinated terrorist suicide bombings. Later that day, there were smaller explosions at a housing complex in Dematagoda and a guest house in Dehiwala. Several cities in Sri Lanka were targeted. At least 321 people were killed, including at least 39 foreign nationals[11] and three police officers, and at least 500 were injured in the bombings.[12][13][14][15][16]

The church bombings were carried out during Easter services in Negombo, Batticaloa and Colombo; the hotels bombed were the Shangri-La, Cinnamon Grand, Kingsbury and Tropical Inn hotels.[17][18][19][20]

According to government officials, all seven of the suicide bombers in the near-simultaneous attacks were Sri Lankan citizens associated with National Thowheeth Jama'ath, a local militant Islamist group with suspected foreign ties, previously known for attacks against Buddhists.[5] State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene said in parliament that initial investigations have revealed that the attack was in retaliation for the attack against Muslims in Christchurch.[6][7][8][9]

Background

The main religions in Sri Lanka are Buddhist (70%), Hindu (13%), Muslim (10%) and Christian (7%), with 82% of the Christians being Roman Catholics. The remaining Christians are evenly split between the Anglican Church of Ceylon and other Protestant denominations.[21]

During the 2010s, a low but persisting number of attacks and threats were made against Christian congregations and individuals, as well as other religious minorities.[22][23] Anglican Bishop of Colombo Dhiloraj Canagasabey called for constitutional rights on religion to be protected.[24] In 2018, the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (NCEASL) reported a large increase in the number of attacks against Christians in the country that year. This coincided with a Supreme Court ruling against a Catholic organisation in August, which deemed that proselytism was not protected by the constitution (though individual freedom of religion remained protected).[25][26]

Easter Sunday is one of Christianity's holiest days and church attendance in Sri Lanka is very high on this day.[27]

The New York Times and AFP reported on a police chief warning security officials in an advisory ten days before the attacks of a threat to prominent churches from a radical Islamist group, National Thowheeth Jama’ath.[28] No information in this regard had been passed to the senior politicians of the country,[29][30] however Minister Harin Fernando then tweeted images of an internal memo and report by the police intelligence of a terror attack planned by the leader of National Thowheeth Jama’ath, Mohammed Zahran.[11]

This was the first time since 2009, the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War, that the country had experienced a major terrorist attack.[31]

Attacks

Christians were celebrating Easter Sunday services when the bombings took place, targeting churches and hotels around Sri Lanka. The sequence and coordination of the bombings were planned to cause maximum destruction, targeting Christians during mass services across the island nation, and targeting guests at the height of breakfast in luxurious beachfront hotels in the capital. All six of the first set of blasts targeting the churches and hotels were carried out by suicide bombers. [29]

The first blast took place in the Shrine of St. Anthony Church, a historic church in the capital, where more than 50 people were killed. The second blast took place in St. Sebastian's Church in the Christian-majority suburb of Negombo, to the north of Colombo and Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte.[32] St. Sebastian's is also close to Sri Lanka's main airport, Bandaranaike International Airport, where security was raised.[29]

Sri Lankan media reported at least 40 people killed in Colombo, between St. Anthony's and the hotels.[33][34]

Churches

The Catholic Shrine of St. Anthony in Kotahena, Colombo, was the first to be hit, followed by the Catholic Church of St. Sebastian in Negombo.[35] Sri Lankan news media reported at least 93 people killed at St. Sebastian's.[33][34]

The Zion Church in Batticaloa, a Protestant congregation, was also bombed.[28] Local news reported at least 27 killed in Batticaloa,[33][34] with 9 of these reported by a police official to be tourists.[17] A hospital official in the region said that more than 300 people had been admitted following the explosion.[19]

Hotels

Three 5-star hotels on the beachfront in central Colombo were attacked around the same time as the churches: the Shangri-La Hotel, the Cinnamon Grand Hotel and The Kingsbury.[12][36]

The Shangri-La bomber struck at 08:57 hours (UTC+05:30) during breakfast in the Table One Restaurant on the hotel's third floor, which was reportedly full of foreign tourists who made up the bulk of the hotel's clientele.[34]

The suicide bomber who struck at the Taprobane restaurant in the Cinnamon Grand hotel checked into the hotel with a fake name the night prior, under the false pretense of a business trip. Carrying a plate, the bomber entered the queue of the packed restaurant's breakfast buffet the next morning and detonated explosives strapped to his back as he was about to be served. One of the hotel's managers who was present welcoming guests was among those killed instantly.[37]

The reception hall of a guest house, the Tropical Inn in Dehiwala, was also attacked later in the day, with two deaths reported.[20][38][39]

Residences

More bombings occurred later in the day when police began to search suspects' houses in the suburbs of Colombo; a suicide bombing was carried out at a housing complex in Dematagoda killing three police officers: a sub-inspector and two constables.[40][41]

Aftermath

Proclamation of emergency laws.

On 22 April 2019, the Sri Lankan government declared a state of emergency from midnight after the imposing of a new curfew and the government also further announced that it would hold the national day of mourning, the following day. Social media apps were blocked for use, restricting public communication over the internet.[42][43]

The government closed facilities for security; the Defence Ministry issued a curfew starting at 18:00 local time on the day of the attacks, and imposed a temporary social media ban,[44] whilst the Minister of Education, Akila Viraj Kariyawasam, had all schools closed for the following two days.[45] The Colombo Stock Exchange announced that its operations will be temporarily suspended following the terror attacks, not opening as planned on 22 April 2019.[46][47]

Thwarted attacks

An improvised explosive device[48] was found near the Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo and was dismantled by the Sri Lankan Air Force.[49]

On 22 April, the Special Task Force (STF), the elite counter-terorrism unit of the Sri Lanka Police, located a van belonging to the attackers near St. Anthony's Shrine, the site of one of the prior day's blasts. Upon inspection, the vehicle was found to have been rigged with 3 bombs. After the STF's bomb defusing unit evacuated the surrounding area, the bombs exploded simultaneously during an unsuccessful defusing attempt.[50] The same day, police reportedly found 87 items of bomb paraphernalia at the Bastian Mawatha Private Bus Station in Pettah.[51]

Victims

Deceased by nationality[52]
Nationality Number
 Sri Lanka 272
 India[53] 10
 United Kingdom[54] 6[a]
 Denmark[55] 3
 Australia[56] 2
 Saudi Arabia[57][58] 2
 Spain[59] 2
  Switzerland[51] 2[b]
 Turkey[60] 2
 UK/ US[52] 2
 United States[61] 2[c]
 Bangladesh[62] 1
 China[63] 1
 France[64] 1
 Japan[65] 1
 Netherlands[66] 1
 Portugal[67] 1
Unknown[11] 10
Total 321[d]

The bombings killed 321 people[3] and injured at least 500, some critically. The majority of the dead are Sri Lankans, with at least 39 foreigners among the dead.[11]

Shantha Mayadunne, a Sri Lankan TV chef, was among the dead.[68] The Danish dead were three of the four children of Anders Holch Povlsen, CEO of Danish clothing retailer Bestseller.[69] The Bangladeshi victim was the grandson of politician Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim.[70][71][72] At least eight of the foreign victims were children.[72][51][73]

On 23 April, the first mass funeral was held.[74]

Perpetrators

Local police arrested eight people residing in the Dematagoda suburb the day of the attacks.[18][28][75][76][77][78] Five more suspected attackers and accomplices were arrested at a house during the night.[11] Police confirmed the day after the bombings that 24 people were arrested.[79] However, by 23 April 2019 the number of people arrested was 40.[80] Three police officers and two civilians were killed by bombs that exploded during the captures.[81] Seven suicide bombers were involved in the attacks.[82]

Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne confirmed that all of the bombers were Sri Lankan citizens associated with National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ), a local militant radical Islamist group, but foreign links are suspected.[83] There has been no claim of responsibility. NTJ's leadership had been condemned by several Sri Lankan Muslim organisations in 2016 for advocating extreme fundamentalist indoctrination of children and for clashes with Buddhist monks,[84] and was linked in 2018 to vandalism of Buddhist statues following anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka.[85][86]

Sri Lanka's Minister of Telecommunication Harin Fernando had tweeted that Police Chief Pujuth Jayasundara sent an alert by his Deputy Inspector General Priyalal Dissanayake dated 11 April 2019 relaying an Indian intelligence report[87][88] from 4 April that suicide bombers affiliated with NTJ planned to attack prominent churches and the Indian embassy in Colombo.[89][90][91] After initial government denials of the alert's authenticity, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe stated that "information was there," about the attacks, and that his government must "look into why adequate precautions were not taken."[29] The Defense Minister had earlier requested that the media not publish the names of the attackers, and said the government believes the attacks were carried out by a single group of religious extremists.[28][92]

The bomber at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel was a guest who registered under the name of "Mohamed Azzam Mohamed" and gave a false address.[93] The Shangri-La Hotel bomber was identified by police as Insan Seelavan, a factory owner, nine of whose employees have been arrested.[94]

On 23 April 2019, three Sri Lankan government and military sources told Reuters that a Syrian national had been held in custody for questioning over the attacks.[95]

Later on 23 April, the Sri Lankan State Defense Minister, Ruwan Wijewardene, said that initial investigations have revealed that Islamic extremists "carried out the attacks in retaliation for a March attack on two mosques in New Zealand".[6][7][8][9] Shortly afterwards, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attacks.[4]

Social media and messaging app blockade

The government temporary blocked major social media networks and messaging services Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Viber, Snapchat, and YouTube within hours of the attack. The officials said '"can't trust" Facebook and WhatsApp to filter out fake news about the Easter bombings.'[96]

Political fallout

In a speech delivered in parliament former president and current opposition leader Mahinda Rajaksa slammed the government for weakening the intelligence services over the years. He stated that in January 2015, he handed over a secure and peaceful country with a strong national security apparatus. He claimed the present government is squarely responsible for the 2019 Easter bombings, stating on an important occasion such as Easter, representatives of the government usually attend Mass, however, on this occasion, no representatives were present in or near Churches. He confirmed the intelligence briefing was sent to his security detail as well, but they were not able to inform him of the nature of the threat due to his security clearance. Slamming the government for harassing the armed forces personnel, he questioned as to how many personnel of the armed forces was persecuted, and how many commanders of the Army, Navy Airforce was hauled to the CID for questioning. He blamed the government for diluting the powers of the national security apparatus and claimed this terrorist attack would never have occurred under his administration. Additionally, the government was preparing to repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act, he questioned had they been successful having it repealed, what kind of position would the government be in today to respond to this incident.[97]

Reactions

Domestic responses

Leaders of the country condemned the attacks: President Maithripala Sirisena said "I have given instructions to take very stern action against the persons who are responsible for this conspiracy",[98] the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said "I strongly condemn the cowardly attacks on our people today,[99] Opposition Leader and former President Mahinda Rajapaksa called the attacks "absolutely barbaric" and said that the nation will stand united as one against "acts of terrorism",[100] and Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera described the attacks as a "well co-ordinated attempt to create murder, mayhem and anarchy".[17]

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Ranjith, said "It’s a very very sad day for all of us. I wish therefore to express my deepest sorrow and sympathy [...] I condemn to the utmost of my capacity this act that has caused so much death and suffering to the people."[101] Following the attack, the Archbishop's House in Colombo cancelled all Catholic Easter services planned for the evening of Easter Sunday.[102]

International responses

Numerous world leaders expressed condolences and condemnation.[e]

Religious leaders

Representatives and leaders of the main world religions responded with prayers and support for the victims.

Olav Fykse Tveit, the general secretary of the ecumenical World Council of Churches (WCC) expressed his condolences, saying "As a global fellowship of churches, we stand in special solidarity with the Christians of Sri Lanka who have been attacked in this vicious way."[131]

During his Urbi et Orbi address in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis said "I wish to express my heartfelt closeness to the Christian community [of Sri Lanka], wounded as it was gathered in prayer, and to all the victims of such cruel violence."[111]

Condolences were also offered by the leaders of the Anglican,[132] Latter-day Saints,[133] Methodist,[134] Orthodox,[135][136] and Evangelical[137] churches.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Two UK-US Dual citizenships are excluded
  2. ^ One of whom also held citizenship of another country; the Sri Lankan-national members of a Swiss-Sri Lankan family who were killed are not included.
  3. ^ Two UK-US Dual citizenships are excluded
  4. ^ Multiple citizenships above only counted once
  5. ^ World leaders giving condolences included those of Australia,[103] Bangladesh,[104] Brazil,[105] Bulgaria,[106] Canada,[107] China,[108] Denmark,[109] Finland,[110] the Holy See,[111] Hungary,[112] India,[113] Indonesia,[114] Iran,[115] Israel,[116] Italy,[117] Japan,[118] New Zealand,[119] Morocco,[120] Pakistan,[121] Palestine,[122] the Philippines,[123] Poland,[124] Saudi Arabia,[125] Serbia,[126] Singapore,[127] Slovakia,[128], the United Arab Emirates[129], and the United States.[130]

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