taking action to reopen all of those people and ensure that we don't see any more such incidents peter mayle thank you. ok let's bring in alan keenan again out of london he is the sri lanka project director of the international crisis group on the scale dismissed the creation of this is this unprecedented here. yeah i think it is it's you know even in the darkest days of the. campaign of terror against government and sometimes civilian targets this was never there was not there anything like this so it we were in new territory unfortunately. given the length and the ferocity of the civil war conflict there i mean we had this conversation in the last think it's worth repeating at the intelligence services are well set up to say for example with these seven people that they've arrested we understand or several i should say to go into their accommodation their living space find their social media platforms find their phones find out what kind of technological footprint on the beach they left behind them. yes and i think there's no question the can police and intelligence services are extremely

get a handle on the situation of particularly amidst the fear that there might be further attacks peter maylethanks very much. i'm linda is a senior lecturer in peace studies islamic politics and conflict management at lancaster university in the u.k. he joins us now from the city of lancaster. what's your take on how the government is handling this so far. and the fact is that there are almost seventy suspected terrorists in the lewis is a great concern of the moment yes it can sort of start looking for suspected hideouts but the fact is that how do you kill a deal is it that is exactly what the silicon state is facing that is what this lincoln said isn't going to a moment but then we also have to look at the repercussions that are going to reverberate in the subsequent months and years to come the realist sense within the christians muslims under who this is that missed it apparently at the moment so can the government sort that out by just saying this terrorists or those who are in the hiding we don't now at the moment to minority religions told first thing this morning to worship in priva

authorities to find out what exactly went down and who exactly is behind this deadly coordinated attack peter mayle thank you very much. earlier we spoke to silver sri lanka's minister of economic reforms and public distribution he says the attack is something never seen before even during the civil war. this is absolutely coordinated attack something that you have not seen in this country before we run when. we roll on through to the start of court again to get back at least the first time that. people who are really doing this country have been. so we do we are hard to fight this shock to be exposed to. hang a thing we never expected. to get to the bottom of it and. not stop. before we get to get to the bottom and find out who did this and peacekeeper and we sat down face for. we we don't want to exclude going that our born one group means only one hundred prices based on sound but. you know. made up stories to prove to make the situation worse than it is. that he said he simply had that very unusual decision. to social activist mohammed hisham in colombo via skype he works with several interfait