Sri Lanka bans local Islamist extremist outfits linked to ISIS
(VOVWORLD) - Sri Lanka on Saturday banned local Islamist extremist outfit National Thawheed Jammath (NTJ) and a splinter group, which are linked to the ISIS that has claimed the responsibility for the Easter bombings that left 253 people dead and several hundreds injured.
Security personnel stand guard outside a mosque in Colombo, Sri Lanka
(Photo: AFP/ VNA)
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President Maithripala Sirisena used emergency powers to ban the NTJ and a splinter group identified as Jamathei Millathu Ibraheem (JMI), a statement said. The move to ban the outfits came after the Lankan Parliament adopted a newly-enforced emergency regulation on Wednesday following a series of eight coordinated blasts, which ripped through three churches and three high-end hotels frequented by tourists on April 19 in the country’s deadliest violence since the devastating civil war ended in 2009.