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Men and women of all faiths joined hands and observed two minutes of silence on Friday, 21 April, giving voice to their support for the Catholic Church’s quest for truth and justice over the attacks that killed over 370 people and injured at least 500 on Easter Sunday 2019.
On the eve of the anniversary, he told Vatican Radio the human chain would symbolically unite St. Anthony’s church in Colombo and St. Sebastian’s church in Negombo where the attacks wreaked most death and destruction. But, the Cardinal continued, there is evidence and we have indications that the attacks were carried out by some fundamentalist extremists who were “facilitated by government sources and political parties in order to create Islamophobia in this country.” The idea, he explained was to make use of this [Islamophobia] in their push for power by gaining the votes of the majority Sinhalese community, by fuelling anger against the Muslims.
Meanwhile, it is clear the authorities are unhappy about the human chain, he said and have done their best to try and stop the initiative by creating diversions “by saying that some Muslim mosques are under threat from attack and so on.”
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