The Interrogation

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Fatima , Mohammad Razak, Taslim woman shows a photo of her husband on her cell phone

If bombs planted in churches and hotels, killing More Than 200 people in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday , a few had realized that The Nation had a problem with Islamist militancy. A man who did not, reported the BBC's Secunder Kermani, was Mohammad Razak, Taslim.

Lying on a hospital bed, Mohammad Razak, Taslim's face contorts with pain. The Left Side of his body is completely paralyzed, but he attacks with his right hand, trying to clutch at his wife and brother-in-law, worried about him.

His wife, Fatima , presses a handkerchief on his head. One side of his skull caved in. It is where he was shot in The Head in March. Always there, he was unable to speak, no longer able to walk.

the police says, Taslim was One of The First victims of Sri Lanka 's extremist network, linked to the Islamic state group, which would go on to kill More Than 250 people in a series of suicide-bomb attacks on churches and hotels, on Easter Sunday in April.

According to the officials, he was shot and killed on the orders of the leader of the attacks, Zahran Hashim.

months before the bombings, Taslim, serious 37-year-old to investigate a local politician from a Muslim-majority town in Central Sri Lanka , was at the forefront of the efforts of the extremists.

Taslim story encapsulates how the country the Muslim community is trying to stop active, is the emergence of radical elements in their midst, and The Authorities do not recognize, again, warning signs brought before the Easter attacks.

The Town of Mawanella is only a few hours ' drive East of the capital Colombo. It is characterised by a lush green landscape and the area's Buddhist and Muslim communities.

In December last year, A Number of Buddhist statues, which ravaged around the city were an attempt, the officials now, that inflame tensions, provoke and communal riots.

Taslim was a member of the Mawanella town council, and also worked as a co-ordinating Secretary for a national minister.

I met his wife, three small children and the extended family in their modest house in a village outside Mawanella. Coconuts crashing noise was on the roof and from the trees above than Fatima to me by her husband.

Taslim, often volunteering to help others in the community, She Said . He played a prominent role in the organization of support for the residents affected by floods and landslides in the past few years. So, when the Buddhist statues were desecrated, it was, of course, to help to amplify, investigate.

"He always said that people should live of different races and religions together in unity.

"He said, 'What you did is wrong, our religion does not condone such acts.... We need to help those who are responsible. '"

the police suspected A Number of arrests, but the boss, The Brothers Sadiq and Shaheed Abdul-Haq, gone.

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The pair would be on a "Most Wanted" list after the Easter Sunday bomb attacks and arrested. Their alleged role in the attacks is not clear and you are yet to go to court, but investigators believe that Sadiq ' Abdul-traveled Haq may, to Syria in the year 2014, and meets figures linked to the Islamic state group.

I met a young man in a village near The Town of Mawanella, had a part of The Brothers ' Inner Circle . He wanted to remain anonymous, but claimed they would announce that Sri Lanka "is The Land of Allah, and no One else can be worshipped. Non-Muslims have to pay to convert or jizya (an Islamic Tax ). "

The Brothers came from a deeply religious family, and her friend said they spoke regularly on the obligations of jihad, both in a spiritual and a military sense.

A soldier guarding the mosque in Colombo in the year 2018, at the time of the anti-Muslim riots in Kandy, A relative of The Brothers , was a leading figure in a Muslim student organization you were a part of, told me that he regularly argues with you to tell you that "violent and aggressive behavior is not accepted in Islam". In 2015, the organization, the two brothers distributed.

your relative said The Men were deeply affected by the communal unrest in and around the nearby city of Kandy in the year 2018, when the Buddhist mobs targeted Muslim businesses and residents.

Sadiq Abdul Haq allegedly said: "you take our lives, our properties. We need to Do Something claims to do that," the relative.

After the Abdul-Haq brothers went on the run, Taslim was involved in the efforts to track you down, and keeps you In Touch with the police investigating the case. At One point, he went with them deep into The Jungle , where it was thought to have been hiding The Brothers .

In January, detectives told him that you had received new and surprising information that had been hidden during The Interrogation of some of the statues in the suspicion of vandalising the Buddhist - a stockpile of explosives, in a remote piece of farmland, about 100 Miles Away .

Taslim went with detectives to The Site , a Coconut Grove , in the North-West of the country. There, the police discovered nearly 100 kilograms of explosives, tents, and a camera.

Taslim wife says when he came home, he was worried. "There are more explosives," he said to her. "We need to come together as a community to find those responsible and deal with them. "

should have found the volume of The explosives, alarmed attack of The Authorities on the danger of a jihadist. But while the four persons were arrested, in a country where the security forces concentrated a long time on the dangers of ethnic Tamil separatists, it seems to be the possibility of Islamist violence was not seen as a priority.

It has now been revealed that the explosives found on the arable land, some of which are directly connected, the suicide bombings, including the ringleader, Zahran Hashim.

Hashim was a preacher from The East of Sri Lanka . He was flagged as an extremist, long before the attacks.

over The Years , he had fallen out with mainstream Muslim groups, both in his native city, and in other places he visited, including a village near The Town of Mawanella.

He was known for the upload of fiery videos on Social Media . In One , the background is a picture from the 9/11 attacks.

One of Zahran Hashim videos Hilmy Ahamed, Vice-President of the Sri Lanka Muslim Council, says he and the other members of The Council were shocked by The Level of hatred in the online sermons, and concerns in The Intelligence services.

But The Authorities could not manage to, Hashim down and follow him. Ahamed that he "never dreamed" that Hashim would go to "a threat to the entire nation."

But we know now, Hashim planned to conduct a deadly attack in Sri Lanka , and after The Discovery of explosives, it seems that he was worried, Taslim was always in the way of his plans.

a senior Sri Lankan police source told me that you stood by Hashim, in close relationship with that of Hashim ordered Taslim be killed, for the act as an "informant".

In March, a month before the Easter attacks, an armed man quietly Taslim house occurred in the Early Hours of The Morning . He lay in the bed next to his wife and his Youngest Son . The Gunman shot him once in The Head .

"at first, I thought it explodes, The Phone charger, but I saw that and it was fine," Taslim wife told me. "Then I tried to Wake him up, and I was the gunpowder smell... I reached out to him and I realized he was conscious. I thought he was dead. "

Taslim was hospitalized. He survived The Attack , but it is not clear whether he will ever recover.

Sri Lanka 's army commander, Lt Senanayake Gen Mahesh, now plays a leading role in The Investigation of the Easter bomb attacks. He told me it had been confirmed that the "same network" was also statues responsible for the desecration of the Buddhist, the explosives, hidden in the Coconut Grove and The Shooting Taslim.

He admitted that the previous incidents should attack The Authorities are vigilant to the dangers of the jihadist. Instead, the warnings of the Indian security forces in The Days and hours before the bombings not further pursued, because of what the commander-in-chief of the army referred to as problems with "intelligence sharing" between the various departments.

Fatima is proud to say to your husband of the victim Taslim family, despite his injuries, he is able to understand what they say to him, and occasionally scribble answers. When he learned of the Easter attacks, his wife says, he wrote her a message and started to cry, "I said, could happen something like this. "

In The Aftermath of the bombings, it episodes of anti-were attacked-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka , with shops and killed at least One person. Claims that the municipality of terrorists houses have angered many Muslims, especially in view of the repeated attempts, the police, or concerns with The Authorities .

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Source of news: bbc.com