Many of the Muslims in Pakistan are Ahmadi and fled Pakistan years ago, they are on the run again after backlash from the Easter bombings.
NEGOMBO: As mourners buried the remains of Christian worshippers killed by the Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks in Sri Lanka, hundreds of Muslim refugees fled Negombo on the country’s west coast where communal tensions have flared in recent days.
“Because of the bomb blasts and explosions that have taken place here, the local Sri Lankan people have attacked our houses,” Adnan Ali, a Pakistani Muslim, told Reuters as he prepared to board a bus. “Right now we don’t know where we will go.” Police have detained an unspecified number of people were detained in western Sri Lanka, the scene of anti-Muslim riots in 2014, in the wake of the attacks, and raids were carried out in neighbourhoods around St Sebastian’s Church.
“All the Pakistanis have been sent to safe houses,” he said. “Only they will decide when they come back.” “I felt like committing suicide when I heard that they had died,” he told Reuters by the open graves. “I have nothing now.”
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