Courtesy BBC When bombs planted in churches and hotels killed more than 200 people in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, few had realised that the nation had a problem with Islamist militancy. One man who did, reports the BBC’s Secunder Kermani, was Mohammad Razak Taslim. Lying on a hospital bed, Mohammad Razak Taslim’s face contorts […]

Meera Srinivasan Courtesy  The Hindu Investigations throw up troubling hints of how readily rage can court terror At first, they were nameless. Nine suicide bombers,” is all authorities would reveal. In a little over a week, the police identified each of them and their stories began coming out. Now, a month after Sri Lanka’s savage Easter […]

අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර රණවාරණ මාධ්‍ය ලේකම් ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ lanka C news පාස්කු ඉරිදා දින ප්‍රහාරයේ ‘පාපය’ මේ වන විට යහපාලකයන්ගේ ගිණුමට බැර වී අවසන් බවත් ඒ නිසා ඉන් ගැලවීමට ‘තේරීම් කාරක සභා – රියැලිටි ෂෝ’ පෙන්වීමෙන් වැඩක් නොවන බවත් ඉන් සිදු වන්නේ මේ රටේ ජාතික ආරක්‍ෂාව තවදුරටත් අනතුරට පත්වීම පමණක් බවත් ජානිපෙ නායක විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා […]

 මහින්ද නිල්වැල්ල කර්තෘට ලියුම් උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින  ‘‘අන්තවාදීන් සන්නද්ධ වීම ගැන 2016 දී බුද්ධි අංශ මා ඉදිරිපිටදී ජනපතිට වාර්තාවක් දුන්නා’’ යයි සඳහන් කරමින් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්තී‍්‍ර පූජ්‍ය අතුරලියේ රතන හිමියන් පසුගියදා කොළඹ පදනම් ආයතනයේදී ආන්දෝලනාත්මක ප‍්‍රකාශයක් සිදු කළහ. රතන හිමියන්ගේ එම ප‍්‍රකාශය රාජ්‍ය බුද්ධි අංශ කි‍්‍රයාකාරීත්වය හා රටේ ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව පිළිබඳ බපතරළ සැක සංකා මතු කරන […]

Courtesy Adaderana The complaints received by the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital regarding the conceiving complications which appeared following the caesarean sections performed by Dr. Mohamed Shafi have risen to 120. On May 26th, the Police urged the public to come forward with any complaints of Dr. Seigu Siyabdeen Mohamed Shafi having carried out illegal sterilization. 69 […]

බණ්ඩාරගම ආර්.ඒ.එස්. පේ‍්‍රමතිලකඋපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින  බණ්ඩාරගම අටුළුගම ප‍්‍රදේශයේ ඊයේ (28 වැනිදා* සිදු කළ සෝදිසි මෙහෙයුමකින් අල්ගෆ්සාලි මුස්ලිම් ප‍්‍රාථමික විදුහලේ විදුහල්පතිවරයා ඇතුළු සැකකරුවන් තිදෙනකු අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් බව බණ්ඩාරගම පොලිසිය කියයි.  විදුහල් භූමියේ තිබූ කඩු 03ක්, සිවුරු 11ක්, ස්වාමින් වහන්සේලා භාවිත කරන ගමන් මලූ 03ක් සහ කුඩයක් ද පොලිස් භාරයට ගෙන ඇත.   නිවසක මඩුවක ස`ගවා තිබූ බයිබලයක් […]

සිරිමන්ත රත්නසේකර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින මරාගෙන මැරෙන ත‍්‍රස්තවාදීන් ඇතුළු ඉස්ලාමීය ත‍්‍රස්තයන් නිර්මාණ කරන සහ ත‍්‍රස්ත සල්ලි සුදු කරන මහ මොළකරු යහපාලනය සඳහා වූ ජාතික පෙරමුණ පිහිටුවීමට මූලික වූ ආචාර්යවරයෙක් බව බොදු බල සේනා සංවිධානයේ මහලේකම් ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියෝ අනාවරණය කළහ.   උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව අනාවරණය කළේ නාවල  රාජගිරියේ පිහිටි ශ‍්‍රී සද්ධර්මරාජික විහාරස්ථානයේ ඊයේ (28 වැනිදා* විශේෂ […]

Rafiullah Kakar Courtesy The Asian Age They may not represent the Islam that moderate Muslims know and follow, but their actions are inspired by their own version or interpretation of it.  The Easter bombings in Sri Lanka once again turned a spotlight on the challenge of global jihad, terrorism and Islamophobia. (Photo:AP) The Easter bombings […]

By P.K.Balachandran Daily Mirror Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Two recent news reports, one from Kerala in the deep South, and the other from the North Eastern region, have raised concerns about the possible emergence of violent Islamic radicalism in India, particularly in the East and in the South. On May 26, the Press Trust of India reported […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The police today urged the public to inform the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) If they have any complaints against Dr. Seiugu Siyabdeen Mohamed Shafi for having carried out any illegal sterilisation. The 42-year-old doctor attached to the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital was arrested by the police on charges of earning money in […]

By P.K. Balachandran Courtesy Ceylon Today Soon after multiple suicide bomb attacks took place in Sri Lanka on 21 April, Lankan Army Commander Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayake told the BBC, that Zahran, the man who led the bomber brigade, had visited Bengaluru, Kerala, and Kashmir for some sort of training or to establish more links […]

SULOCHANA RAMIAH MOHAN Courtesy Ceylon Today The Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have arrested 89 persons who have had direct contacts with the suicide bombers involved in a multiple attack carried out by the Islamic extremists on Easter Sunday that killed over 300 people and injured over 500. By the […]

Courtesy Adaderana On a joint search operation by the Sri Lanka Army and the Police, several suspicious items were discovered at a house in Narahenpita. Accordingly, 04 headwear items of the Sri Lanka Army, 10 knives that are not permitted to be used at homes, and many communication and technical equipment were found at the […]

Courtesy Adaderana The public is urged to come forward with any complaints of Dr. Seigu Siyabdeen Mohamed Shafi having carried out illegal sterilization, stated the Police. Accordingly, if there are complaints against the relevant doctor performing illegal sterilization the public can submit them to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Seigu Siyabdeen Mohamed Shafi, 42, a […]

Courtesy AFP AFP / LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHISome 3,000 military personnel were deployed in and around the capital as well as other key towns for cordon-and-search activities Sri Lanka’s military has detained nearly 100 suspects during four days of search operations against remnants of an Islamist group blamed for the Easter attacks that killed 258, officials said […]

The Indian Coast Guard deployed its ships and maritime surveillance aircraft around the Lakshadweep and Minicoy Islands territory and borders with Sri Lanka after an intelligence report said 15 Islamic State terrorists had set off from Sri Lanka for the Lakshadweep islands on boats. Authorities in coastal areas of Kerala have been put on high alert following the […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 26 (newsin.asia): The suspected involvement of the Jamaat- ul-Mujahideen India (JMI) in the April 21 multiple suicide bombings in Sri Lanka may have made India ban the outfit last Thursday. As reported in the India Today website on April 23, the Sri Lankan State Minister of Defense, Ruwan Wijewardene, had said that the […]

Sandeep Unnithan Courtesy India Today In March 2013, an India Today team was allowed access to the secretive underground bunker used by LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran. Here is what they saw. The two-room house in a jungle in northern Sri Lanka which covered the entrance to Prabhakaran’s bunker. (Photo: India Today) On May 21, 1991, Velupillai […]

Michael Safi Courtesy  Guardian (UK) The Guardian’s South Asia correspondent describes the challenges of reporting the recent atrocities in Sri Lanka and finding the words to justify intrusion into the lives of grieving families In the immediate moments after the explosion, on a crowded street in Colombo, there was silence; the sound of thousands of […]

Courtesy Mail Online Sri Lankan security forces have arrested scores of suspects in connection with the bombings and over what appeared to be organised violence against the island’s Muslim minority Sri Lanka’s military launched a major hunt Saturday for remnants of an Islamist group which carried out the Easter suicide bombings that killed 258 people, […]

Courtesy The Indian Express In 2013, monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara was blamed for leading a major anti-Muslim riot in the Muslim-dominated town of Aluthgama in the Western Province. By PTI COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, who was controversially released from jail, has claimed that a Tamil Nadu-based Islamic organisation had inspired the local Islamist extremist group […]

Meera Srinivasan Courtesy  The Hindu Sri Lankan army soldiers during a search operation in Mattegoda, Sri Lanka, on Saturday, May 25, 2019.   | Photo Credit: REUTERSMORE-INSri Lanka Easter bombings A total of 69 key suspects have been arrested over the past four weeks. Sri Lankan authorities have nearly completed the investigation into the April 21 […]

Nimanthi Ranasinghe, Pathum Darshana and Dayarathna Embogama Courtesy The Daily Mirror It was revealed that there were funds amounting to Rs. one billion in the bank accounts belonging to the five suspects, who were arrested in Horowpathana yesterday on suspicion of having links with the National Thowheed Jama’at (NTJ) and its leader Zahran Hashim, a […]

Courtesy Adaderana Legal action should be immediately taken against governors M.L.A.M. Hizbullah and Azath Salley as well as Minister Rishad Bathiudeen for their direct involvement in the attacks, says the Chairman of ‘Sinhale Api’ National Movement Venerable Jamburewela Chandarathana Thero. Addressing a press conference held in Colombo today (24), he further commented on an attack […]

Las Asimi Lumban Gaol translated this article from Indonesian.Courtesy The Conversation Two of the nine suicide bombers in Sri Lanka who killed more than 250 people on Easter Sunday were the sons of a rich and famous spice trader in the country. One of them had studied aerospace engineering at Kingston University, England, but did not complete […]

Tarek Fatah Courtesy Toronto Sun Oscar Wilde once said, When good Americans die, they go to Paris.” Maybe that is the reason there were no Americans at last week’s Paris Summit hosted by President Emmanuel Macron of France and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand to curb online extremism.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was […]

Courtesy RT ©  Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo A month after deadly terror attacks in Sri Lanka killed over 250 Christians celebrating Easter, investigators have revealed that the bombs used in the attack show the attackers had direct contact with Islamic State terrorists. The backpack bombs detonated in three churches and three hotels across Sri Lanka on April […]

Courtesy Adaderana One of the major reasons for the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka was the collective failure of leadership, says international terrorism expert Dr. Rohan Gunaratna. Addressing an event held in Colombo yesterday (21), Dr. Gunaratna, who is a Professor of Security Studies at the S. Rajaratnam Centre for International Studies in Singapore, […]

Courtesy Adaderana One month after the Sri Lanka suicide attacks that killed more than 250 people, investigators have told AFP the bombers used Mother of Satan” explosives favoured by the ISIS group that are a new sign of foreign involvement. Detectives said the back-pack bombs used in the April 21 attacks on three churches and […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Ceylon Today Colombo, May 20: The Sri Lankan government has announced the proscription of three Islamic State (IS) affiliates, namely, the National Tawheed Jamaath (NTJ), the Jamaathei Millathu Ibrahimee Seylani (JIMS) and the Wilayath as Seylani (WAS). The first two were publically identified soon after the April 21 Easter Sunday suicide attacks which resulted […]