{"id":101375,"date":"2020-04-21T13:10:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T20:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101375"},"modified":"2020-04-21T13:10:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T20:10:42","slug":"sri-lanka-commemorates-one-year-since-easter-sunday-carnage-with-two-minute-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/21\/sri-lanka-commemorates-one-year-since-easter-sunday-carnage-with-two-minute-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka commemorates one year since Easter Sunday carnage with two-minute silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka today commemorates the one-year anniversary of the coordinated terror attacks that left the country devastated on the 21st of April 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A two-minute silence was observed at 8.45 am in remembrance of the victims of the tragic carnage which killed over 250 including foreigners and injured at least 500 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/JPQgLkNz5N8\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Easter Sunday last year, in a coordinated move by a local militant group called National Thowheed Jama\u2019ath, bombs were detonated at St. Anthony\u2019s Church in Kochchikade, St. Sebastian\u2019s Church in Katuwapiriya, Zion Church in Batticaloa, Cinnamon Grand, Kingsbury and Shangri-La hotels in Colombo, a guest house in Dehiwala and at a housing complex in Dematagoda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency immediately after the bombings and the probes launched into the incident led to the arrest of many who have had links to the suicide bombers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Archbishop of Colombo, His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith recently appealed to all Sri Lankans to observe a two-minute silence at 8.45 am in remembrance of those who were victimized by the catastrophic attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his sermon at a Mass celebrated at his residence for this year\u2019s Easter Sunday, the Cardinal said Some misguided youths attacked us and we as humans could have given a human and selfish response,\u201d adding that we mediated on Christ\u2019s teachings and loved them, forgave them and had pity on them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, as Sri Lanka is currently under curfew owing to the local outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, all public congregations to commemorate the Easter Sunday attacks have been called off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The general public was, hence, requested to light a lamp and observe religious practices at homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka today commemorates the one-year anniversary of the coordinated terror attacks that left the country devastated on the 21st of April 2019. A two-minute silence was observed at 8.45 am in remembrance of the victims of the tragic carnage which killed over 250 including foreigners and injured at least 500 people. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}