The intelligence chief warned on April 9 that a radical Islamist group planned a suicide attack “shortly.” On Monday, the president banned face coverings like those worn by some Muslim women.
Author: JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and DHARISHA BASTIANS
Sri Lanka’s Muslims Face an Angry Backlash After Easter Sunday Attacks
The country had little history of Christian-Muslim violence, but when Muslim extremists bombed churches on Easter Sunday, everything changed.
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The day after coordinated attacks on churches and hotels across Sri Lanka, one Catholic neighborhood mourned its dead.