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Easter Bombings in Sri Lanka: Causes and Consequences
19th June 2019 | Synergia Forum : 58
Prabha Rao
Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, Former Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of IndiaREGISTER HERE
The Easter Sunday Sri Lanka Bombings (21 April, 2019) were the largest and most devastating terrorist attacks since 9/11. With the Sri Lankan presidential poll likely to be held in late 2019 and PM Modi’s foreign policy thrust on ‘Neighbourhood First’, the attacks are a matter of considerable significance for Sri Lanka and India. Prabha Rao, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, and former Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, GOI, will help us unwrap what the Easter blasts mean for Sri Lanka, India and the global community.
Key Questions?
- Why were India’s warnings taken so lightly by the Sri Lankans?
- Was this an intelligence failure or a failure of acting on credible intelligence?
- What could be the reasons for targeting Sri Lankan Christians?
- Were the attacks perhaps a retaliation and response to President Trump’s announcement on December 19th of the end of the ISIS, immediately after which there were a series of attacks in Libya and the Maghreb region perpetrated by the ISIS to prove their continued prevalence?
- What national security measures must India take?
- What measures must India to take to guard against a similar institutional carelessness in matters of national security?