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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Extends Emergency in Surprise Move
2019-06-23
[AnNahar] A state of emergency was extended by Sri Lanka's President Saturday, going back on pledges to relax the tough laws introduced after the Easter Sunday attacks that killed 258 people.

Maithripala Sirisena said in a decree he believed there was a "public emergency" in the country, and was invoking provisions of the public security act extending the state of emergency.

The tough laws, granting sweeping powers to police and security forces to arrest and detain suspects, were due to expire on Saturday.

Just over 100 people, including 10 women, are in jug in connection with April's Easter Sunday suicide kabooms against three churches and three luxury hotels in Colombo.

In late May, Sirisena told diplomats -- from Australia, Canada, Japan, the US and Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an states -- the security situation was "99 percent back to normal" and he would allow the emergency laws to lapse by June 22.

He assured diplomats security forces had either detained or killed all those directly involved in the attacks, blamed on a local jihadi group and claimed by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

There was no immediate word from the government why Sirisena changed his mind, but security remains tight in the capital.

The emergency can be declared for a month at a time, and parliament must ratify it within 10 days.

The continuation of the emergency came as police announced criminal investigations against several top officers, including the Inspector-General, for negligence and lapses ahead of the bombings.

Sirisena himself has been criticised for failing to act on precise Indian intelligence that jihadists were about to hit Christian churches and other targets in Sri Lanka.

A parliamentary public inquiry has been told Sirisena -- who is also the minister of defence and law and order -- failed to follow proper national security protocols.

The mainly Buddhist nation of 21 million people was about to mark a decade since ending a 37-year-long Tamil separatist war when the Islamic Lions of Islam struck.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  J Imran Khan, 32, interrogated by NIA in Kochi(India), revealed information leading to another Srilankan module that has evaded arrested by SL police so far. It is a family and several symps that seem to be aiding them. The fellow had a conversation with one of the members and arranged to have money wired to them.

Last saturday another Indian agency came across a 'post-attack video' from the laptop of a jihadi in a dorm in Trivandrum , the kind jihadists post after committing an act. The video alluded to having 'shown the Sinhalese and Buddhists their place', and that they should fear their community and not target muslims and so on and so forth. Naturally, the video is alarming as no attack has taken place on the threatened communities yet.

This time Srisena was all ears.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-06-23 06:23  

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