Bombs kill more than 200 in Sri Lankan churches, hotels on Easter Sunday
Updated: 8:30am, 22nd AprilReuters More than 200 people were killed and at least 450 injured in bomb blasts that ripped through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, the first major attack on the Indian Ocean island since the end of a civil war 10 years ago. The government declared a curfew […]
Sri Lankan groups call on Facebook to block religious hate speech
World Watch Monitor Civil society groups in Sri Lanka have asked Facebook to do more to prevent hate speech, including comments that discriminate on religious lines, following recent anti-Muslim riots. “There was a post in the Sinhala [Sri Lanka’s largest ethnic group] language on Facebook for six days, which mentioned ‘killing all Muslims, without sparing […]