On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital, Colombo, were targeted in a series of coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide bombings. Nine individuals charged with supplying paraphernalia used in connection with an act of terrorism appeared in Colombo Magistrates Court on President Sirisena invoked emergency laws, providing police extensive powers the president later stated that emergency laws would be confined to dealing with the current terrorism threat and would not be used to impinge freedom of expression Islamic extremism, suspected retaliation for the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province
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