The two videos below are brief Dutch news reports about the Easter Day bombings in Sri Lanka. Many thanks to C for the translations, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling.

This first video is from early on, when the news was still breaking. According to the correspondent in Sri Lanka, the attacks were the Christians’ fault, who somehow provoked the Buddhists to commit the atrocities:

Later on, when it became obvious that the bombings were carried out by Islamic terrorists, the reporters managed to discuss the news without saying anything at all:

Video transcript: #1

00:00 The bombings have not been claimed yet, but 00:05 what [groups] are plausible, what kinds of tensions exist in Sri Lanka? 00:10 Well, in Sri Lanka there are tensions between Christians 00:14 and the majority of the population, the Buddhists. 00:18 In recent years there have been multiple violent incidents 00:23 in which both Christians and Muslims and other minorities… 00:28 in Sri Lanka [the perpetrators were?] Buddhist monks… 00:32 Buddhists in any case, led by monks, a quite radical group. 00:37 Mosques were vandalized; churches were vandalized; some people were killed; 00:42 heads of churches were threatened. So, those tensions exist. 00:49 Those Buddhists feel that their culture is under siege, is threatened by these minorities, 00:55 but in recent years, no such bombings [?] took place.



Video transcript: #2