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Posts tagged as “survivors”

Revival of Sectarianism: An Prominent Threat to Pakistan’s Peace and Social Harmony

by Muhammad Usama Khalid in Pakistan Today, Aug 18, 2023Last week three policemen were killed in Quetta, among whom two belonged to the Hazara community, in two incidents. Both the incidents occurred in a matter of hours of each other, raising suspicions among the common citizens who, being themselves survivors, sufferers, and observers of the same precarious situation a few years back, were quick to react towards these two separate incidents as the revival of…

Sri Lanka must find out truth of 2019 Easter blasts, say survivors and families of victims

by Dimuthu Attanayake in SCMP, Apr 9, 2023Almost four years ago, Rupika Rosairo’s two daughters left the family home in Colombo in their Sunday best to attend Easter mass with their grandmother. But that evening, her 13-year-old younger daughter returned home in a coffin. Rosairo’s children were victims of Sri Lanka’s Easter bombings that killed more than 260 people and injured some 400, after eight local Islamist militants blew up three churches and hotels in…