Courtesy Adaderana Six persons have been arrested by the Kurunegala Police over connections to the Easter Day attacks and enabling terror acts, stated Police Media Spokesperson. Among the arrestees, three have been remanded after being produced at the courts and the remaining 3 are currently investigated on under the custody of the Kurunegala Police. Reportedly, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Easter Attack ringleader Zahran Hashim’s main organizer, ‘Kalmunai Siam’, has been arrested by officials of the State Intelligence Service. The officials from the Ampara division of the State Intelligence Service had arrested the called ‘Kalmunai Siam’ last evening (19), based on investigations carried out by them following the Easter attacks. Following interrogations of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Three more suspects linked to the Easter Day attacks have been arrested this evening (20), stated Police Media Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara. Reportedly, the arrest has been made at Kalmunai area in Ampara, Police Media Division stated. Security forces are carrying out further investigations on the matter.

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Defense has granted Kurunegala police permission to detain a translator at the parliament who was arrested over involvement with the National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ). Accordingly, the suspect will be detained for a period of 90 days for purpose of interrogation, stated Police Media Spokesperson. Reportedly, the official has been arrested […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island May 19, 2019, 10:04 pm  A person, whose arrest in connection with the Easter Sunday bombings prompted Industry and Commerce Minister Rishad Bathiudeen to make inquiries about him from Army Commander Lt. Gen. Mahesh Senanayake, has been handed over to the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID). Army headquarters yesterday confirmed […]

Courtesy Mail OnLine Members of the 2.5-million-strong Tamil community mourned their war dead on Saturday Sri Lanka’s president marked the 10th anniversary of the end of a protracted war with Tamil rebels Sunday by vowing to crush Islamist militants responsible for Easter bombings that killed 258 people. Maithripala Sirisena said Sri Lankan security forces and […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy Ceylon Today The Sri Lankan Government has announced the proscription of three Islamic State (IS) affiliates, namely, the National Towheed Jama’ath (NTJ),the Jamaathei MillathuIbrahimee Seylani (JIMS) and the Wilayath as Seylani (WAS). The first two were publically identified soon after the 21 April Easter Sunday suicide attacks which resulted in 253 deaths. […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today When Ranil Wickremesinghe rightly defines the Easter Sunday massacres as ‘global terrorism’ and vows to get help from the international community, Robert O Blake tells the Sri Lankan audience that Gotabaya Rajapaksa had the best model to defeat terrorism in Sri Lanka and to use it. He made these […]

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by Whitney Webb  Courtesy MPN News New evidence suggests that the government of Saudi Arabia not only had foreknowledge of the brutal bombings (and did nothing to stop them) but may have played a more active and direct role in the bloodshed COLOMBO, SRI LANKA — A leaked Saudi diplomatic memo obtained by Lebanese outlet […]

Courtesy Daily Mirror Daylight in Wayamba gives its residents the opportunity to assess the situation of their neighbourhood, following a grim and fearful start to the holy Vesak week. The Police curfew enforced early Monday (May 13) evening in the North Western  Province however, prevents them from setting about their daily work. Mob violence broke […]

By Piyumi Fonseka Courtesy Daily Mirror Inside factory where terrorists plotted the Easter Sunday attacks Wellampitiya Police OIC Gamini Senarath Hewawithana had complained to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) early this week demanding an inquiry against Colombo Magistrate Court Judge Priyantha Liyanage over the release on bail of nine employees of the copper factory in […]

By Stephen Long, Los Angeles, California Courtesy Asian Tribune My relationship with the island nation of Sri Lanka began over twenty years ago. At that time, it was engaged in a bloody 30-year civil war that eventually claimed the lives of an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 people. A deadly tsunami had devastated the country on […]

Saad Hafiz Courtesy Daily Times The Islamic State (ISIS)’s otherwise disastrous campaign to attain power can claim one indisputable success. ISIS-linked violence has created chaos, destroyed communal harmony, increased hatred, and made life miserable for people of all faiths. The bloody carnage unleashed by suicide bombers, targeting Christians on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka is […]

Courtesy DNA The software engineer suspected by authorities in Sri Lanka of providing technical and logistical support to the suicide bombers of April 21, 2019 attack, was also a suspected handler of two IS operatives arrested by Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) two years back.  Reportedly, Sri Lankan software engineer identified as Aadhil Ameez, a 24-year-old, […]

Courtesy Adaderana Kebithigollewa  Magistrate’s Court today granted permission for police to detain for 72 hours and question the two suspects arrested in Horowpathana over their alleged links to terrorist leader Zaharan Hashim. Noor Mohammadu Abdul Rasool and Kana Mohamed Mijam, identified as a Principal and an Acting Principal of two Muslim schools in the area, […]

Courtesy Adaderana President’s Counsel Ali Sabry says that the number of members in terrorist leader Zahran Hashim’s group grew significantly following the ethnic clashes in March last year and that this goes to show extremism feeds extremism. He said Zahran’s terrorist group had only 20-25 members in the past, but after last year’s unfortunate clashes […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Commander of Sri Lanka Army, Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayake, states that Minister Rishad Bathiudeen had called him three times over an arrest of a suspect linked to the Dehiwala bombings on Easter Sunday. The Army Commander revealed this today (16) at a press conference, answering a question raised by a journalist regarding […]

The persons responsible for the Easter Sunday attacks had been running 17 safe houses and 07 training centers for the suicide bombers, Ruwan Gunasekera, the Police Media Spokesman, said on Wednesday. Accordingly, training workshops for terrorist activities have been conducted in camps discovered in Wanathavilluwa, Hambantota, Nuwara Eliya, Kandy, Aruppola, Kattankudy, and Valaichenai areas. The […]

G Parthasarathy Courtesy The Hindu The people of Sri Lanka have shown courage, wisdom and resilience in recovering from the traumatic effects of the country’s brutal ethnic conflict between 1983 and 2010. An estimated 47,000 Tamil civilians, 27,000 LTTE members, 50,000 Sinhala civilians, 23,790 Sri Lankan soldiers and 1,500 members of the Indian Peace Keeping Force […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The police have arrested a wanted suspect who had allegedly assisted the suicide bomber at the Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo to purchase a white-coloured van, used by the bomber at St. Anthony’s Church in Kochchikade to arrive at the location. The Criminal Investigation Department had carried out extensive investigations into this van in […]

To millions of Sri Lankans the Easter Sunday tragedy must have seemed a nightmare come true, a frightening déjà vu of the rampant violence this island nation has known for thirty years of LTTE terror (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam). The horrific attacks in which estimated 253 lost their lives and many hundreds were wounded signaled that […]

by Asoka Bandarage Sri Lanka has been convulsed since the nine coordinated suicide-bomb attacks against Christian churches and five-star hotels on Easter Sunday. More than 250 people lost their lives and many others were injured on that fateful day. More terrorist suspects and vast amounts of explosives and equipment continue to be found in mosques, […]

Talk with Chatura https://youtu.be/TbCtY1uGKHQ නාරා ටී අරුණ්කාන්තන් සමස්ත ලංකා හින්දු සම්මේලනයේ සභාපතිවරයායි, අප්‍රේල් 21 වනදා බෝම්බ ප්‍රාහාරය එල්ලවීමට ප්‍රථම එම ත්‍රස්ත ක්‍රියා සම්බන්දව හින්දු ජනතාව බොහෝ තොරතුරු ලබා දී ඇත,ඔවුන්ට එහීදී තොරතුරු සන්නිවේදනය සදහා ඔවුන් කතාකරන දමිළ බස ඉවහල් වී ඇත,ඔවුන් කියන්නේ රටේ වෙනදේවල් ඇත්තටම දනගන්න දමිළ බස ඉගෙනගන්න කියායි, නැගෙනහිර පලාතේ සිදුවන අන්තවාදී ආක්‍රමණය […]

Courtesy Adaderana One of the Easter Sunday suicide bombers, who attempted to bomb the luxury Taj Samudra hotel in Sri Lanka capital Colombo, was radicalised by British-Pakistani radical preacher Anjem Choudary while he was studying at a university in London, according to a media report. Abdul Latheef Mohamed Jameel, 37, who was from a wealthy […]

Courtesy Adaderana A Sri Lankan software engineer suspected by authorities of having provided technical and logistical support to the Easter Sunday suicide bombers was monitored by Indian intelligence agencies three years ago for links with Islamic State suspects, investigators said. Four sources in Sri Lankan investigating agencies said they believed Aadhil Ameez, a 24-year-old, was […]

By Tony Cartalucci Courtesy Activist Post By 2013 the US-led proxy war on Syria had stalled. A staged chemical attack and threats of direct US military intervention were thwarted by Russian efforts to diplomatically resolve the impasse through the declaration and disposal of Syria’s entire chemical weapons arsenal. With US-backed militants having already reached the full […]

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