Attacks in Sri Lanka in 2019: United States indict three Sri Lankans

9 Jan 2021 4:57 am GMT+0000 Date Time

The three men, who were part of the ISIS group responsible for the attacks on the Christian holiday of Easter on April 21, 2019, are in detention in Sri Lanka.

Le Monde avec AFP

The US Department of Justice indicted, Friday, January 8, three Sri Lankans accused of supporting terrorism, for their participation in attacks carried out in 2019 by the Islamic State (IS) organization in Sri Lanka, which had killed 268 people.

The three men were part of the ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or Islamic State) group in Sri Lanka, responsible attacks on three churches and three luxury hotels in three cities, around the time of the Christian holiday of Easter on April 21, 2019.

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ISIS claimed responsibility for these attacks, calling them retaliation for the actions of the Western coalition against the group in Syria. Five Americans were among the dead.

US Federal Prosecutor in Los Angeles Nick Hanna said in a statement that “the United States remains confident in the ability of the Sri Lankan authorities to bring to justice the perpetrators “of these attacks, currently in detention in their country.

The three accused are: Mohamed Naufar, said the” second emir “, recruiter and trainer of the organization Islamic State in Sri Lanka, Mohamed Anwar Mohamed Riskan, who allegedly helped make the bombs used, and Ahamed Milhan Hayathu Mohamed, who killed a policeman in the attack, according to the US Department of Justice.

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