Chief of police at Sri Lanka warned of suicide attack

"The chief of police of Sri Lanka warned for the suicide attack"

"the Chief of police in Sri Lanka sent out a national warning ten days before the morning's terrorist attacks."

"In the warning, he wrote that suicide bombers planned to strike at ”the great churches” writes AFP."

"this Information came from a foreign intelligence agency."

"On easter morning were explosions at three churches and three luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. Over a hundred people have been reported dead."

"the Warning was sent out by the chief of police Pujuth Jayasundara to high-ranking police officers on 11 april, writes the AFP news agency."

"”A foreign intelligence agency has reported that the NTJ (National Thowheeth Jama'ath) are planning to carry out suicide attacks against prominent churches, as well as the indian embassy in Colombo”, was the warning, according to AFP."

"NTJ is a radical muslim group in Sri Lanka last year, have ravaged buddhist statues, writes AFP."

"Prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe condemned the ”cowardly attacks” against the people of Sri Lanka. He calls on all Sri the sri lankans to stay united and strong in this tragic time, and avoid spreading propaganda and speculation. The government handles the situation continuously."

"Sri Lanka consists of the main island of Ceylon, and some additional smaller islands. According to the latest census, amounts to the population to 21.7 million. A majority of the lankeserna (60 per cent) are buddhists, but the inhabitants profess also to hinduism (20%), islam (10 per cent) and christianity (10 percent)."

"The last few years, the country has experienced violence with religious overtones. Last year was attacked several mosques and businesses belonging to muslims. The escalation of violence led to the government imposed curfew on one of the affected towns. People from the buddhist majority was behind the violence on the country's muslims, who were accused of wanting to tvångsansluta people to islam."

"the Country has long been characterized by a conflict between ethnic groups tamils and the sinhalese. The tamils demanded already in the 1970s, autonomy and a state of their own in the country's eastern and northern parts. An armed radical group, the LTTE), was formed to achieve tamil autonomy. The conflict was dropped up in the 1980s after the LTTE killed several sinhala soldiers."

"Decades of alternately peace and war succeeded war. After a regeringsoffensiv 2009 was declared the LTTE defeated."

"the Country has a strong presidentmakt but the handlebars are elected directly by the people in a general election. At the same time, several scandals with the ingredients as the abuse of power, corruption and electoral fraud succeeded each other through the years. The President is ago 2015 Maithripala Sirisena from the United national party (UNP)."

"Source: TT: NE, Foreign policy institutetu002FLandguiden"