It was a retaliation to Christchurch attack: Ruwan

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State Minister of Defence, Ruwan Wijewardene in parliament said that the Easter Sunday terror attacks were carried out by an Islamist terrorist group in retaliation to the Christchurch attack in New Zealand.

While admitting that there were weaknesses in the defence system, he said the government would take all necessary action to eradicate all terror groups. (Yohan Perera & Ajith Siriwardana)

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Donkey Tuesday, 23 April 2019 04:24 PM

Why this didn't happen in Singapore,Malaysia,China,Vietnam,Japan etc.

HP Tuesday, 23 April 2019 04:42 PM

Utter irresponsible statement

Rosham Tuesday, 23 April 2019 06:16 PM

Christchurch attack happened in March 2019. These terrorist rent the Panadura house to produce bombs was in Feb. so anyway these attacks were on the cards.

modaya Wednesday, 24 April 2019 12:30 PM

I really dont know whom they are trying to hoodwink. Seriously for 6 bombs to go at same time what lot of planning, dry runs, brain washing needs to be done. We have a set of irresponsible, selfish set of legislature.

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