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The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign 2nd leg clash between Sri Lanka and Macau was unable to take part as the Macanese squad refused to travel to Sri Lanka amidst the concern after the Easter bombings. [274] FIFA subsequently declared the match forfeited, and awarded a 3–0 win to Sri Lanka, thus qualifying the team for the second round ...
2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings: Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa: 253 NTJ / ISIS [b] On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, a series of explosions occurred at three Christian churches and three hotels across Sri Lanka. Later that day, smaller explosions occurred at a housing complex and a motel, killing mainly police investigating the situation ...
Surviving statue of Risen Jesus with blast marks and human blood after the Easter attack. On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, the church was one in a series of targets of a string of bomb blasts across Sri Lanka. [2] Media reported at least 93 people killed at the church, [3] UNICEF reported that 27 children died and 10 children were injured. [4]
Sri Lanka Armed Forces [36] Attack on Tamil passengers on the Jaffna-Colombo train: 5 June 1983: Vavuniya: Civilians assaulted. Air Force [37] Attacks on Tamils in Trincomalee: 3-30 June 1983: Trincomalee: 19: 100+ injured, 214 houses bombed and burnt, 21 shops destroyed, 8 Hindu temples burnt: Armed Forces [38] [37] [39] 1983 anti-Tamil pogrom ...
The Sri Lankan anti-Muslim riots were a series of religiously motivated riots targeting Muslims in Sri Lanka. The riots originated as isolated incidents in the aftermath of the Easter bombings in the nation, [ 2 ] beginning in Chilaw and subsequently spreading to much of the Northwestern Province .
The Prevention of Terrorism Act of 1978 is a law in Sri Lanka. It provides the police with broad powers to search, arrest, and detain suspects. It was first enacted as a temporary law in 1979 under J. R. Jayewardene presidency, then made permanent in 1982. [1]
The St. Sebastian's Church, Negombo, also known as St. Sebastian's Church, Wellaweediya, is a Roman Catholic church in Negombo, in Sri Lanka. [1] It is architecturally based on the Reims Cathedral in France and is built in Gothic Revival style. [2] Saint Sebastian is the patron saint of the city of Negombo.
In 2022, as protests began growing in Sri Lanka, Jaliya Wickramasuriya, former Sri Lankan ambassador to the United States and Mexico, and a cousin of the Rajapaksa brothers, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for defrauding $332,027 from the Sri Lankan government during the purchase of a new embassy building in 2013.