Sri Lankan Easter bombings were in retaliation to New Zealand’s mosque attacks – State Minister

Sri Lankan State Minister said that the Sri Lankan bombings were in retaliation for New Zealand’s mosque attacks.

The Guardian reports “The Easter bombings in Sri Lanka that killed more than 300 people were a response to the recent mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, the defence minister, Ruwan Wijewardene, has said.

“The preliminary investigations have revealed that what happened in Sri Lanka was in retaliation for the attack against Muslims in Christchurch,” Wijewardene told a special sitting of parliament, referring to the terrorist attack in March in which 50 people were killed. The minister did not present any evidence for his claim.

An intelligence memo circulated to some in government in the weeks before the attack noted that one member of the terrorist group named as the perpetrator had started to update his social media accounts “with extremist content” after the New Zealand shootings.”

This is a developing story.