The officials believed there to be a threat, but they’d not, acted in time! From the Front Page Sections, translated…
The Strait Times reported, there were eight consecutive bombings on the 21st, around Easter, in Sri Lanka, with the fatalities of three hundred. The safety analysts believed, that the complexity, the extent of the attacks on the day, was different from the violent assault cases locally, that those involved may have been planning the matter a long time, and even if the attacks were done by the local radicals, the government isn’t ruling out that they’d received supports from outside.
The report noted, that the Conflict Management Research Department’s C.E.O. stated, that in the past decade, “We’d never seen any major scale terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, even the IS from Iraq and Syria were only able to recruit a small number of people locally.”
The Sri Lankan government’s investigations showed, that the six explosions that happened on the mornings of the 21st were done by the IS extremist group “NTJ”, with seven suicide bombers, but the officials believed, that they were funded by international terrorist groups.
Sarni believed, that the attacks that happened in synchrony, with multiple targets wouldn’t happen without any warnings, it’d needed a ton of planning, training, organizations, and attainment of the materials for the attacks.
The former military specialist from India, R. Hariharan stated, that if the locally formed terrorists were behind this attack, they may have received help from outside. He’d analyzed, “in the past there were smaller scale attacks that had only caused minor problems, but this time, the attacks were highly organizational, and it’d been planned out thoroughly.”
The deputy head of district attorney, Dasanayake mailed a letter on the eleventh to the safety government officials, warning them that the noted Catholic Church may be under attack by suicide bombers. In the letter, he’d pointed out, “you should order everybody in your office to be on high alert over this matter, and, be extremely cautious of those key individuals in your jurisdictions.”
And the letter quoted the tips from foreign agents, believed that the NTJ are planning multiple attacks. In the letter, the few members were listed, and these few members said they were going to murder the nonbelievers, to spread the Islamic religion.
Based off of New York Times, it’s unclear if the local government had done anything to prevent the attacks or not. The Sri Lankan PM, Wickremasinghe said he will first, understand why the units of government didn’t take the precautionary measures first, and he and other heads of the department were unaware of the existence of this letter of warning.
The strategic analysts from India pointed out, that these attacks had, broken the peace for almost ten years in Sri Lanka, that if a less-well-known terrorist group such as NTJ is capable of this sort of a large scale attack, then, this will be the new challenge in fighting against terrorists.
And so, perhaps, there’s, the warning signs, that were, leading up to this attack, but, nobody took a note of it, because the officials didn’t feel that it was a matter of concern, until the attacks happened, and yet, this is, all in hindsight, and, perhaps now, these countries will be, on a higher alert for these barely noticeable warning signs…
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