The president's office announced that Sri Lanka has filed 23,270 charges against 25 people in connection with the 269 people killed on Easter Sunday bombings.
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Behind Sri Lanka s Move to Ban Burqa and Shut Down 1,000 Islamic Madrasas
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Sri Lanka s cabinet will soon decide if burqas will be banned in the country. The island public security minister Retired Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara has said he has sent the proposal to the cabinet he Cabinet paper recommending a total ban Muslim women from wearing the long garment that covers the whole body from head to feet.
Though the country s two million Muslims view the move as a discriminatory move, minister Weerasekara says burqa is a national security threat. Burqa is new to Sri Lanka. Earlier, no Muslim women used to wear burqa. Sri Lanka has had a peaceful coexistence with all religions for long. These days, some women wear burqa. It poses a grave threat to national security , Weerasekara said.
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Maithripala Sirisena, who left office last year, was found to have been negligent by an investigation he set up five months after the Islamic militant attacks on three hotels and three churches on April 21, 2019. Reuters pic
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COLOMBO, Feb 24 Sri Lanka’s ex-president and his intelligence chiefs should be prosecuted for failing to prevent suicide bombings two years ago on Easter Sunday that killed 279 people, according to an investigation released yesterday.
Maithripala Sirisena, who left office last year, was found to have been negligent by an investigation he set up five months after the Islamic militant attacks on three hotels and three churches on April 21, 2019.