After Easter Bombings, a Gruesome Retaliation

Mobs attack Muslim homes, shops, mosques and hack a man to death
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted May 14, 2019 12:33 AM CDT
Mobs Attack Muslim Homes, Mosques in Sri Lanka
A Muslim Sri Lankan man rides past soldiers securing a Muslim neighborhood following clashes in a village north of Colombo last week.   (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

A Sri Lankan Cabinet minister says a Muslim man was killed and dozens of shops and mosques were destroyed in communal violence in apparent retaliation for the Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people. Rauff Hakeem, leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, says that the man was hacked to death Monday in northwestern Sri Lanka when majority ethnic Sinhalese mobs attacked Muslim-owned shops and homes, the AP reports. A police curfew was imposed in the region. Communal violence has also been reported in western Sri Lanka. Muslims have been subjected to hate comments in social media since the April 21 suicide attacks on three churches and three hotels. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks, which were carried out by radicalized local Muslims. (More Sri Lanka stories.)

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