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in other news, sinopec has beat some 22 other contestants to operate the oil bunkering facility at hambantota.

pro sinic factions of the SL elite may be ok with such a situation where SL is in financial distress and forced into debt trap.

we should encourage the SL non-sinic pasand elite to tear up such contracts on national security grounds and tell cheen to take a hike. addiction to cheen loans is like addiction to sugar and corrupts the countries elite.
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Any truth to this report

https://www.timesnownews.com/india/arti ... ion/404500
The JDS leaders being reported as missing are, Shivanna, Puttaraju, Muniyappa, Lakshmi Narayana, Maregowda and two others.
Politically we may differ with them but it is really sad if this happenned
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only 3 indians confirmed KIA so far by MEA.

why were these JDS leaders in colombo when half of karnataka (north) is slated to vote tomorrow?
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Dont know why they were there but here is another report

https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/b ... cks-100468
Two men from Bengaluru are among those confirmed dead in the serial blasts that hit Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. The deceased have been identified as KG Hanumantharayappa and M Rangappa, both of whom are JD(S) workers.

Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy stated that the duo were part of a seven-member team of JD(S) workers visiting Colombo.

"I am shocked to hear that a seven member team of JDS workers from Karnataka who were touring Colombo has gone missing aftermath the bomb blasts in #Colombo. Two of them are feared killed in the terror strike. I am in constant touch with the Indian High Commission on the where abouts of the missing". Kumaraswamy said in a statement.
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Chowkidar Sushma Swaraj

@SushmaSwaraj
15h15 hours ago
Indian High Commission in Colombo has conveyed that National Hospital has informed them about the death of three Indian nationals. Their names are Lokashini, Narayan Chandrashekhar and Ramesh. We are ascertaining further details. /3
===

later first name corrected to Lakshmi

== 2 more today ==
India in Sri Lanka
@IndiainSL
4h4 hours ago
More
@SushmaSwaraj
We sadly confirm the deaths of the following two individuals in the blasts yesterday:
- K G Hanumantharayappa
-M Rangappa.

===
400+ people are in hospital. some of the critically wounded may lose lives ..... could be more indians ....
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the other 5 may be critically wounded and unable to identify themselves. stands to reason they would have gone to eat breakfast together when the jihadi pig joined the queue.
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Zahran Hashim-----What can srilankan muslims do for Dr. Zakir Naik?
https://www.jpost.com/International/Who ... cks-587544
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Intelligence Report Circulated forewarning SL attacks.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/breaking_news ... 108-165676

The report seems fairly, detailed.....but no action taken.
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from firstpost


Sri Lanka blasts LIVE updates: Govt forensic analyst says six church, hotel bombings were carried out by 7 suicide bombers

11:44 (IST)

Update: Govt officials say six blasts were carried out by 7 suicide bombers

The Associated Press quoted a Sri Lankan government forensic analyst as saying that six of the explosions that occurred in three churches, and three hotels on Easter Sunday were carried out by seven suicide bombers.
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death toll is gone up to 290

https://mobile.twitter.com/ANI/status/1 ... 9344258049

short term this will lead to a flood of western money and evangelization in the region

long term people will get fatigue from the constant drumbeat of supremacist religions and rediscover value of older faiths
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Hope this is not connected to the blast

https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1120164985424891905
Tamil Nadu: Indian Coast Guard apprehended 4 Indian fishermen at the 4th islet in Rama Setu near Dhanushkodi in Rameswaram Island. Interrogation underway at the Mandapam Coast Guard station.
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Just a couple of points:
-Why are SL authorities so reluctant to give out the names of the identified bombers and arrested suspects?
Refer this statement of State Minister of Defence : “Don’t give extremists a voice. Don’t help to make them martyrs,” State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene told reporters when asked for details of those in custody.
Police officials privately said the suspects were all from the minority Muslim community.
- As reported here:
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world ... 762052.htm
This point about denying publicity and martyrs status etc is just fluff, especially in the context of today's electronic and social media.
- Point to note is that Defence and Law & Order are under President Sirisena - who is not exactly inclined towards India. The intelligence warning by India would have been brought to his attention. Is this an effort to control the narrative by Sirisena or even give it an anti-India twist?

- Perhaps its in the above context that Indian media are naming the suspects and the group with the SL authorities giving info off the record whereas officially SL appears to be to be stonewalling information.

The de-fusing of two bombs at the IHC was reported by Ramana Saab (through internal sources, no doubt). Curious that there appears to be no mention in the main-stream media.
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watever trickle of information on group resposible for terror attack is coming from non SL media. In spite of SL ministers blaming TJ group local press scared to name outfit
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... l-hundreds
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the harami suicide bomber in SL, in his own words......
https://twitter.com/BlackSheepBaah/stat ... 3040343040

what do we do with retards of the sort?
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menon s wrote:the harami suicide bomber in SL, in his own words......
https://twitter.com/BlackSheepBaah/stat ... 3040343040

what do we do with retards of the sort?
His organisation TNTJ or Thowheed Jamaat is part of PFI/ SDPI which supports UPA in various states. As long as people ignore extremists for self benefits or narrow political aims, they are bound to grow further and further.
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Hari Nair wrote:Just a couple of points:
-Why are SL authorities so reluctant to give out the names of the identified bombers and arrested suspects?
Refer this statement of State Minister of Defence : “Don’t give extremists a voice. Don’t help to make them martyrs,” State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene told reporters when asked for details of those in custody.
Police officials privately said the suspects were all from the minority Muslim community.
- As reported here:
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world ... 762052.htm
This point about denying publicity and martyrs status etc is just fluff, especially in the context of today's electronic and social media.
- Point to note is that Defence and Law & Order are under President Sirisena - who is not exactly inclined towards India. The intelligence warning by India would have been brought to his attention. Is this an effort to control the narrative by Sirisena or even give it an anti-India twist?

- Perhaps its in the above context that Indian media are naming the suspects and the group with the SL authorities giving info off the record whereas officially SL appears to be to be stonewalling information.

The de-fusing of two bombs at the IHC was reported by Ramana Saab (through internal sources, no doubt). Curious that there appears to be no mention in the main-stream media.
Social media in SL may be off the air after the attacks. The GoSL doesn't want public lynchings and mob violence in the streets. The SL muslim leaders are scared and have already appealed for calm

The news/names of the suicide bombers came before the clampdown on the social media.

Anyway, it is an internal security matter of the SLs and how they choose to play it is their business. SLs do not need any lessons from India about how to handle terrorism.

They know better than us how to break the eggs and make the omelette too.

the de-fusing of two bombs at the IHC was also on SM.
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IndraD wrote:watever trickle of information on group resposible for terror attack is coming from non SL media. In spite of SL ministers blaming TJ group local press scared to name outfit
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... l-hundreds
no one has claimed responsibility so the GoSL/press is very right in being circumspect.

moreover, the outfits to which the bombers belonged to are now widely known.
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Just in

SL president will be declaring a national emergency from
Tonight
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Decks are being cleared for sweep n arrest.

The government has decided to gazette the clauses related to prevention of terrorism to emergency regulation and gazette it by midnight," the president's media unit said in a statement.
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Indian CG ships and planes on high alert at palk straits to prevent more escaping cell members from entering
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Singha wrote:Just in

SL president will be declaring a national emergency from
Tonight
from firstpost

Sri Lanka blasts LIVE updates: National Tawheed Jamath responsible for Easter Sunday attacks, confirms Sirisena govt, all bombers were Sri Lankan nationals

15:16 (IST)
Sri Lanka police recover 87 low explosive detonators in Pettah

Sri Lanka Police recovered 87 low explosive detonators abandoned at the Bastian Mawatha private bus stand in Pettah, the police spokesperson said on Monday.

Input by Skandha Gunashekhra
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^^ Is such a massive coordinated event possible without external "ToT" ( Transfer of Tech)?
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Cancer has metastasised even taking out TSP won't help anymore .
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Aditya_V wrote:
menon s wrote:the harami suicide bomber in SL, in his own words......
https://twitter.com/BlackSheepBaah/stat ... 3040343040

what do we do with retards of the sort?
His organisation TNTJ or Thowheed Jamaat is part of PFI/ SDPI which supports UPA in various states. As long as people ignore extremists for self benefits or narrow political aims, they are bound to grow further and further.
Thowheed Jamaat was behind the Ambur riots in Tamil Nadu in 2015.
An old post of mine on it quoted below.
Lilo wrote: ... speaking of the riot in Ambur 2 years back , i know that TN police bore the brunt of it.
The TN police were chased on the highway in night by peaceful mobs and beaten on the Chennai-Bangalore National Highway.Even the SP was not spared and made to bleed on the Road.Consider the plight of the lower cadre.
TN police couldn't even protect the women police amidst them - they were grabbed by the "Tamil speaking" pissfull mob and usual things expected from a pissfull mob(taharrush) done to them.
A new Police recruit posted in that general area recounted to me the stories later.

As usual the spark was an incident of love jihad when a young married Dalit Hindu woman was seduced and disappeared for one "Tamil speaking" Shameel Basha leaving behind her 3 year old son.The guy who also happens to be a Towheed local head who through love jihad seduced the married woman away from her family, died due to an heart attack( or made into a sacrifice ?) few hours after being released after being subjected to third degree trying to find the woman's whereabouts.
So the thowheed declared Jihad in Ambur and went on a night long rampage blocking the arterial Highway.
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TN police woman being treated after being subjected to a Towheed Mob
https://twitter.com/sarpamedha/status/8 ... 9939892224

Next time when dutty naarthies are suggested to try the phamous Ambur chicken biryani(made with love and beef fat by "Tamil speaking" Muslims of Ambur) maybe someone will ask their Tamil Hindu friends further relevant questions on Ambur apart from the Biriyani.
viewtopic.php?f=24&t=5229&p=2181288&#p2181288
https://www.hindujagruti.org/news/52407.html
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negi wrote:Cancer has metastasised even taking out TSP won't help anymore .
the stress on all bombers being SL is ONLY to keep their paki friends happy and may have even been mandated by the pakis.

The SLs don't want to burn any more boats, after having massively pissed off India with their cheeni dalliance and the hambanthota drama.

Being two clever by half, the SLs dug their own grave using han supplied shovels and then fell into it all by their lonesome selves.
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I have no love lost for the pakis but the fact is cancer has spread far too deep ; 10 years ago idea of hating people to this level was limited to people within TSP borders . That hate has successfully managed to take deep roots in parts of India like WB, Kerala , TN , BD and some parts of gangetic belt too. SL case is simple outbreak of symptoms as it was a soft target .
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Hari Nair wrote: - Point to note is that Defence and Law & Order are under President Sirisena - who is not exactly inclined towards India. The intelligence warning by India would have been brought to his attention. Is this an effort to control the narrative by Sirisena or even give it an anti-India twist?

- Perhaps its in the above context that Indian media are naming the suspects and the group with the SL authorities giving info off the record whereas officially SL appears to be to be stonewalling information.

This is a very important point, if true, that most people have missed. So naming and shaming the perpetrators and leaking the memo should not really hurt the India-friendly Ranil Wickramasinghe but rather the pro-Chinese and anti-Indian Sirisena.
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Sri Lanka is a sort of a chota paki at heart in the sense that they have consciously tried to deny their own roots and carve out an artificial identity of their own just like pakis do.
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15:22 (IST)

Rajitha Senaratne says international links will be probed

Government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said that the Sri Lanka government will investigate links between the local outfit suspected to be responsible for the Easter Sunday attacks and international elements. "We don't see that only a small organisation in this country can do all that," he said.

"We are now investigating the international support for them, and their other links, how they produced the suicide bombers here, and how they produced bombs like this," he added, at a press conference.
15:01 (IST)

Sri Lanka govt seeks international assistance in probe into international links

The Sri Lankan government is seeking global assistance to investigate the possibility of the perpetrators of the crime having international links, reports said.

Documents seen by AFP show Sri Lanka's police chief issued a warning on 11 April, saying that a "foreign intelligence agency" had reported NTJ was planning attacks on churches and the Indian high commission.

Reports also said that Sirisena was likely to declare 23 April as the national day of mourning in tribute to the victims of the explosions on Sunday.
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every country in south asia barring us is primarily identified as "not india". it is only natural that they rail against this order and try to carve their own identity. nepalis do the gadhimai festival in opposition to the peaceful hindu and cow loving nature, sl are secular exemplar except against people from the north, bds are emotionally unstable and can be identified amongst many nationalities, bhutan is blissful, myanmmar is a buddhist junta, and the pakis are pakis.
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ricky_v wrote:every country in south asia barring us is primarily identified as "not india". it is only natural that they rail against this order and try to carve their own identity. nepalis do the gadhimai festival in opposition to the peaceful hindu and cow loving nature, sl are secular exemplar except against people from the north, bds are emotionally unstable and can be identified amongst many nationalities, bhutan is blissful, myanmmar is a buddhist junta, and the pakis are pakis.
Hain?
Gadhimai is an old festival where often young unproductive(read male) Buffaloe are slaughtered to the Goddess.There is a species level difference between a Cow & a Buffaloe.
There are many places in India where Buffaloe are sacrificed to Goddess Kali & her many forms .
And this practice is millenia old starting from tribal societies.

So its hardly a festival nepalis have supposedly invented to cock a snook at the "peacefull" cow loving nature of naarthies.
Please to avoid broad generalizations especially when it leads to wedging with fellow indics.
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Yes I know about rajrappa, but only Nepal is in the news for animal slaughter, our little adventures are not recorded in public memory, which I tried to poorly portend.
also they are narthies themselves, and aside from following Indic religion in name only are anti india. I have lived amongst many to know that their attitudes are one of superiority and disdain for us.
last from me.
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Sri Lanka blasts updates: Fresh explosion in van near Colombo church
Reported at 4:12 IST

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-ne ... oeH4K.html
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ramana wrote:
IndraD wrote:Reports say the Indian High Commission in Colombo was on target. Lanka Police chief names an outfit called the Towheeth Jamaa'th that could be behind the attacks. Clampdown on internet services. Inputs on the involvement of drug cartels based in Pakistan & Afghanistan. #SriLanka
Definitely Pak hand. Recall ISI had a module in Colombo to do terror attacks? They put a bomb and as the train got delayed it blew up in Nellore.
Any confirmations of Pak Hand? I only wish for such a link to be exposed.
Is it possible for any sneak-ins from Hambantota?
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Looks like its not over yet..last night a huge pipe bum was discovered on road to airport
Just now a van went off parked outside church that was blown yesterday
and several bums being discovered on bus stations and transports
SriLanka police find 87 bomb detonators at Colombo's main bus stand https://twitter.com/abpnewstv/status/11 ... 0758646784
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There is a small irony in these, for ppl living in S. India, relevant to the ongoing events in India and Manifestos for the future. Not expanding here.
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Police said that a suspicious parcel has been found at a fort. The area has been evacuated and officers are conducting investigations.

also a van with explosives parked outside one of yesterdays attacked churches below up with disposal squad was trying to defuse the bomb.casualties among the squad if any are unknown.
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Venkarl wrote:
ramana wrote:
Definitely Pak hand. Recall ISI had a module in Colombo to do terror attacks? They put a bomb and as the train got delayed it blew up in Nellore.
Any confirmations of Pak Hand? I only wish for such a link to be exposed.
Is it possible for any sneak-ins from Hambantota?
plenty.

four Indian fishermen have been taken into custody by the CG and have been sent for interrogation. They were found loitering on some tiny island close to katchatheevu.

Individual variations of some special ayurvedic treatment may be under administration, even as we speak.

Barely hours after the bombs went off in SL, the IN and CG were placed on high alert all around the coast bordering SL and some ways beyond that.
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Singha wrote:....
also a van with explosives parked outside one of yesterdays attacked churches below up with disposal squad was trying to defuse the bomb.casualties among the squad if any are unknown.
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Looks like the surviving rear axle of the Van packed with explosives in Srilanka.
Cant imagine what is the fate of the Bomb diffusing squad :(
Edit: Ok saw few videos suspect no one died in that as it may be a "controlled explosion" by bomb disposal squad. Those taking the video are seen signalling & hiding before the explosion goes off surprised they did explosion in a public residential area though.
https://twitter.com/sotiridi/status/1120297240361361409

Another angle
The guy casually walking on the road almost got hit by the shrapnel from the exploding van
https://twitter.com/ChannelNewsAsia/sta ... 2132807680
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