Sunset over Unawatuna Bay, Sri Lanka #2
January 2018.
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POLICEMAN, ST ANTHONY’S SHRINE, KOCHCHIKADE, COLOMBO #2 — A policeman walks away from the bomb-damaged St Anthony’s Shrine in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo. On 21st April 2019, Easter Sunday, a suicide bomber blew himself up during morning mass, killing over a hundred worshippers. Simultaneous suicide bombings at three churches and three 5-star hotels, all but one in or close to Colombo, killed over 250 people and wounded more than 500. ISIS claimed credit for the terrorist attacks, carried out by an affiliated Sri Lankan extremist Islamic group, the National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ). The Sri Lankan police and military quickly cracked down on the hitherto little-known NTJ, raiding safehouses and training bases, killing scores and arresting over 75 suspects. Though the bombings targeted Sri Lanka’s small Christian minority and western visitors, it added fuel to the simmering ethnic unrest between the Sinhalese Buddhist majority and the country’s minority Muslims, which has occasionally flared up in the decade since Sri Lanka ended its civil war by defeating the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2009. This Buddhist-Muslim tension came to a head last year with weeks of violence in the hill city of Kandy in early 2018, when Buddhist mobs looted and burned Muslim homes and businesses. This time, with many in the Sri Lankan public accusing the government of inaction against Muslim extremists, ineptitude, and a lack of leadership, Buddhist mobs once more went on the rampage in towns north and northeast of the capital, forcing the police to declare curfew to stop the violence against Muslim communities. Sri Lanka, May 21st 2019. Licensed to @polarisimages . . #photojournalism #streetphoto #candidportrait #streetsofcolombo #srilankaattacks #prayforsrilanka #police #terrorism #srilanka #600D #18_200mmONCE A LION — 19th May 2019. Colombo, Sri Lanka. . . #documentaryphotography #militarybadges #militarypatches #militaryuniforms #sinharifles #sinharegiment #nirbheethawegawath #srilankaarmy #memoriesofwar #srilankanflag #srilanka #600D #50mmf18LIVING AT GROUND ZERO — Residents of Jampettah Street, in the Colombo zone of Kochchikade, walk through a Sri Lanka Navy barricade in front of St Anthony’s Shrine. April 2019. The famous Roman Catholic church, located right next to the port, and a stone’s throw from many small homes and businesses, was targeted by a National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ) suicide bomber on Easter Sunday, 21st April. The terrorist entered the church during morning mass and detonated a backpack full of explosives, killing over a hundred worshippers. The ISIS-affiliated Islamic extremist group simultaneously bombed two other churches outside Colombo, as well as three large hotels in the city, killing more than 250 people and wounding over 500. Licensed to @polarisimages . . #photojournalism #streetphoto #streetsofcolombo #eastersundayattackslk #srilankaattacks #prayforsrilanka #jampettahstreet #srilanka #600D #18_200mmMORNING PRAYERS — Muslim primary school children — boys and girls together — pray before classes in Dehiwela, Sri Lanka. Shot in October 2018, for Smart Media and Gateway College. . . #documentaryphotography #blackandwhitephoto #portraitphoto #environmentalportrait #schoolchildren #muslims #primaryschool #prayer #srilanka #5DMkIV #24_105mm_f4lMORNING MEDITATIONS #4 — High school children meditate before classes in Colombo, Sri Lanka. November, 2018. Shot for Smart Media and Gateway College. . . #documentaryphotography #commercialphotography #candidportrait #schoolchildren #everydaysrilanka #peaceofmind #calm #srilanka #5DMkIV #24_105mm_f4lJAMPETTAH STREET, KOCHCHIKADE, COLOMBO #6 — Shocked residents of Kochchikade walk beneath streamers of black and white, the traditional Sri Lankan colours of mourning, days after an Islamic suicide bomber entered the nearby St Anthony’s Shrine and killed over a hundred worshippers during morning mass on Easter Sunday, 21st April, 2019. National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ), an ISIS-affiliated Sri Lankan extremist group has been blamed for the bombings which killed more than 250 people and wounded as many as 500 in six attacks on churches and hotels in Colombo and outside the city. ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi claimed credit for the attacks in a televised appearance, more than a week after the attacks. Sri Lankan police and military raids on NTJ safe-houses killed and captured scores of suspected terrorists in the days after the bombings, but public dissatisfaction with government ineptitude, coverups, and lack of leadership has led to fresh violence, with Sinhalese mobs attacking Muslim homes, businesses, and mosques close to Colombo, as Sri Lanka’s small Muslim minority moves into the traditional month of Ramadan. Licensed to @polarisimages . . #photojournalism #streetphoto #streetsofcolombo #srilankaattacks #prayforsrilanka #eastersundayattackslk #islamicextremism #srilanka #600D #18_200mmFollow me on Twitter
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