Sri Lanka

1Mike1

Remembering the Americans and Christians that were killed while trying to enjoy life a little.

Justacommeman

Horrible. I’ve never been but my wife loved it there. So horrible

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Dave99B

Brutal, shameful acts of sub-humans. I’m beyond sad for those who have been lost. Horrible indeed.

Dave

ricko

This is a horrible disaster - carried out by a hateful, warped, despicable group of religious zealots. When will the world wake up and make a concerted effort to eliminate this mental cancer of humanity. RickO

Hemispherical

So sad.

They have caught some. Now to find the ring-leaders. Sri Lanka does have capital punishment.

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By Dharisha Bastians, Jeffrey Gettleman and Kai Schultz
April 21, 2019

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The clock hands on the steeple of St. Anthony’s Shrine were stuck at 8:45 a.m., the exact moment when the first suicide bomber’s explosion ripped through the wooden pews as Easter Sunday worshipers were praying.

Minutes later a second suicide blast shattered the Sunday brunch tranquillity at the Shangri-La Hotel’s Table One Restaurant, a favorite of foreign tourists.

Within a few hours on Sunday, suicide bombings hit three Catholic churches and three upscale hotels in the Indian Ocean island nation of Sri Lanka, still recovering from a quarter-century civil war in which the suicide bomb was pioneered.

The death toll in the attacks rose to 290, with about 500 people wounded, a police spokesman, Ruwan Gunasekera, said, although he would not give a breakdown of where the fatalities occurred. The finance minister, Mangala Samaraweera, called the attacks “a well-coordinated attempt to create murder, mayhem and anarchy.”

By day’s end, the police said at least 13 people had been arrested in connection with the attacks in the capital, Colombo, and the cities of Negombo and Batticaloa. Seven of them were seized at a hide-out after one suspect blew himself up, killing three officers.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/world/asia/sri-lanka-bombings.html

Hydrant

@ricko said:
This is a horrible disaster - carried out by a hateful, warped, despicable group of religious zealots. When will the world wake up and make a concerted effort to eliminate this mental cancer of humanity. RickO

When will the world wake up? When the "WORLD" powers that be summon the courage to truthfully and accurately identify who the "religious zealots" actually are and who their victims are. By that time, if it ever happens, it could be too late. From the reports that I have read from around the "WORLD," the killers are " militants" and the dead are "Easter worshippers." Simply put; how does the WORLD eliminate that which it will not even acknowledge to exist?

asheland

Saddened indeed to hear this.

Timbuk3

Terrible chain of events !!!