After the deadly Easter Sunday attacks on churches and posh hotels in Sri Lanka killed over 260 people, the country has witnessed a "rejuvenation of interfaith harmony", according to Lanka's diplomat.
The attack claimed by Islamic State group-linked militants on April 21, targeted Catholic churches and high-end hotels across the island, leaving 269 people dead and injured many others.
"The church was the first to say 'don't harm anybody for what happened to us.' Then Buddhist clergy came on-board," Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Ravinatha P Aryasinha official told the official Emirates News Agency, WAM during a visit to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
"The most striking thing was that we got tremendous support from the Muslim community to ensure that there was no recurrence of such incidents," he said, adding that "there has been a rejuvenation of interfaith amity."
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