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Its horrifying that someone would target Christian/ Catholic churches on this Easter Sunday and attack the hotels in central Colombo. But don’t spread hate to anyone. All we can do for now is pray and give our utmost help to the victims or anyone else in need.

In addition, if you’re using instant messaging apps like WhatsApp or social media like Twitter please please dont share fake news. And don’t share pictures of the incident. Only forward confirmed facts.

UPDATE -

Update - Guys thank you so much for the prayers and support. It’s heartwarming to know that you guys are there for us.

I’m sad to say that so far the death toll is 207 and more than 500 have being injured. 35 of the victims are foreigners. And I cannot deny the fact that the death toll can rise again :(

What’s scary, is that when one place is attacked, we generally seek safety in our cities and other provinces. But in this attack the attack was in the heart of our metropolitan city (Colombo), another attack further north of the Colombo district (Negombo) and another attack on Eastern province of the Island (Baticaloa). This shows the attacks could have happened anywhere in the country.

It’s pure evil that someone chose to attack people in churches on Easter Sunday, a holy day for Christians (a day that is more important than Christmas), a day that should be full of joy. To attack people in a place where people seek physical and spiritual safety. To attack people who just wanted to enjoy an Easter breakfast with their loved ones in a hotel.

Hopefully things will get better now. Our police have already captured 13 suspects and defused a number of other bombs before it blasted. Its doubtful the attackers would attack again because they would not want to attract any more attention to themselves.

I just want to add, what I love about my fellow citizens is that everyone is ever willing to help. When hospitals requested for people to donate blood, so many rushed to the hospital that the hospital had to issue an official notice telling people to stop coming because so many had donated blood already and they had more than enough donations.

Our government has set an island wide curfew to protect us. We are not allowed to step out of our houses until they lift the curfew around tomorrow. That’s a good thing because they’re ensuring our safety. Schools and universities have being closed too.

Our government has also blocked social media and instant messaging apps. This is because a lot of fake news was being spread online. It was also because people were manifesting hate speech against Muslims. Yes, its semi-confirmed that some Islam-extremists were behind this, but this does not give anyone the reason to spread Islamophobia. Our ‘multi-cultural’ country has faced so much of ethnic and religious clashes and violence ranging from a 30 year civil war to ethnic genocide to fatal riots. Unless its someone who feeds off violence, no Sri Lankan wants this to happen again. Religious extremists do not represent an entire religion or ethnicity. We want justice. We want to punish the attackers. But we don’t want any innocent people to be blamed just because they belong to the same ethnicity or religion as the terrorists.

As a Sri Lankan Christian, I just want to say please don’t use this horrible disaster to spread prejudice and racism. Instead continue to pray for our safety, for the families who lost their loved ones and for all those who were injured. Pray that no one will have to face this experience ever again.

This is so wholesome.