Sri Lanka Bombings

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Fucking grim stuff.

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/multiple-blasts-hit-sri-lanka-churches-hotels-easter-sunday-190421050357452.html

[KMD7]

Cuntish. Those poor people.

[RedPaul]

Horrific. I have spent a little time in Sri Lanka and they were some of the nicest and most hospitable people I have ever met. It's just so sad that this happens in today's world.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Even as an atheist, I can't help thinking that there's something particularly vile about attacking people at prayer.

[VladimirIlyich]

2 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

Even as an atheist, I can't help thinking that there's something particularly vile about attacking people at prayer.

Its a very easy target and requires very little training. Its like an adult challenging an infant to a fist fight. Shameful.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

I have relatives from and of Sri Lankan heritage, mostly live in England. 

Horrible stuff. When people of any faith cannot even worship in safety.

[Anubis]

Humans being cunts to other humans. Worrying for them that the attacks seem well co-ordinated and planned.

[Dr Nowt]

Just seems to be never-ending for them, too.

 

Was in Colombo in 2008 and they’d just had bombings at the train station among others. As a result there was a strained, tense atmosphere and as you were getting in and out of major travel depots and that you were just far more on edge than normal.

 

Simply can’t imagine that short unsettling experience becoming anything like a regular way of life, let alone what the poor fuckers directly affected by this today are going through.

[Trumo]

48 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Humans being cunts to other humans.

 

In a nutshell.

[SasaS]

But this was apparently totally out of the blue for Sri Lanka, was there any organized terrorism against the Christian religious minority before? Who they say is behind the attacks?

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, SasaS said:

But this was apparently totally out of the blue for Sri Lanka, was there any organized terrorism against the Christian religious minority before? Who they say is behind the attacks?

From what I have read, no one has claimed responsibility for the bombings yet. 

[Jose Jones]

13 minutes ago, SasaS said:

But this was apparently totally out of the blue for Sri Lanka, was there any organized terrorism against the Christian religious minority before? Who they say is behind the attacks?

Yeah it is a bit weird, you sort of assume that it’s going to be Buddhists (Sinhalese) versus Hindu’s (Tamils) in Sri Lanka, as that’s the historical argie bargie.

 

There’s a fair few Christian Sri Lankan immigrants down here though - mostly older first, or second generation, so there must have been some stuff 50 years or so ago. I’m pretty ignorant of what.

[SasaS]

As far as I remember Tamils vs. Sinhalese was more ethnic ( guess who cooked it up initially) than religious, this lookes like international terrorism choosing an easy target in Sri Lankan Christians, so wouldn't be suprised its related to the New Zealand attacks. 

[aRdja]

8 minutes ago, SasaS said:

As far as I remember Tamils vs. Sinhalese was more ethnic ( guess who cooked it up initially) than religious, this lookes like international terrorism choosing an easy target in Sri Lankan Christians, so wouldn't be suprised its related to the New Zealand attacks. 

It’s pretty a far-fetched theory that bunch of far-right Aussie bogans could orchestrate this attack IMO.

[SasaS]

Yes, because that's what I meant when I linked it to the attacks on Muslims during prayer. 

[Rico1304]

Some blokes on the radio saying a Buddhist  cleric was quoted in the paper recently asking for an uprising last week. 

 

Although an Isis training camp was found there recently.  

[ZonkoVille77]

Deeply unsettling.

I'm sure we'll get large donations from French billionaires to help out the families. 

[Champ]

It’s just horrific.

I’m lost for words

[aRdja]

2 hours ago, SasaS said:

Yes, because that's what I meant when I linked it to the attacks on Muslims during prayer. 

It was an attack on Muslims from white supremacists.

[Strontium]

4 hours ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

Even as an atheist, I can't help thinking that there's something particularly vile about attacking people at prayer.

 

Don't think you need the word "Even" at the start of that sentence. Atheists are about the only group of people on the planet who would never do something like this.

[SasaS]

8 minutes ago, viRdjil said:

It was an attack on Muslims from white supremacists.

 

Yes it was. The point?

[aRdja]

7 minutes ago, SasaS said:

 

Yes it was. The point?

It’s far-fetched to think that they could orchestrate this attack.... per my original post.

[SasaS]

Who? Australian white supremacists? Why would they attack Sri Lankan Christians and other Westerners for Easter?

 

[aRdja]

49 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Who? Australian white supremacists? Why would they attack Sri Lankan Christians and other Westerners for Easter?

 

I’m not sure. You tell me.

[moof]

Just so sad.