Sri Lankan writer Nifraz Rifaz’s debut novel confronts Islamophobia after Easter bombings
On September 22, after a five-year trial, 15 men from Sri Lanka’s minority Muslim community were convicted and sentenced to 200 to 260 years in prison each for their involvement in the 2019 Easter bombings.
The coordinated suicide attacks on luxury hotels and Christian places of worship on April 21, 2019, remain one of the deadliest terror incidents in the island nation’s history, claiming more than 250 lives.
While the devastation and subsequent investigations were covered widely in the global...
