Current Event #14 - Warnings to Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka had devastating suicide bombings the days leading up to Easter Sunday. The bombings killed at least 321 people. Security agencies had been watching the National Thoweeth Jama’ath. The National Thoweeth Jama’ath was a little-known radical Islamist organization that security officials say carried out the act of the suicide bombings. They had known that this was a dangerous group and had warned of Catholic church bombings. They had known about radical Islamist that was possibly tied to the group with stockpiled weapons and detonators back in January. An enormous question is why the security agencies failed to act upon the information before the bombings. This question has led to a feud between the prime minister and president. A history of fighting between leaders has led to security breakdowns that led to one of the worlds deadliest terrorist attacks. Many people have lashed out on President Maithripala Sirisena for not taking action on the warnings before the attacks.

This is not a light-hearted subject and when events like these occur it is astonishing. These attacks towards specific religions are nothing new as in the past there have been groups attacking religious groups and races. I believe that if the President and security agencies had known about the warnings they should’ve taken action against it to protect their people. If they had taken action 321 people wouldn’t have been killed. My question is: Did they take the threat seriously? If they were getting threats like that and didn’t take action there had to have been a misunderstanding. You can’t be a leader and be willing to let people die like that.

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