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Bombings at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka killed nearly 300 people on Easter Sunday. The attacks were a grisly reminder that the religious tensions that fueled the country’s civil war are still lingering—and a sign that the relative peace in the decade since the war ended has been tenuous. After the attack, the Sri Lankan government took an unusual step: It shut down social media. That move was intended to tamp down any retaliatory killings, but Graeme Wood argues that information blackouts nearly always turn into authoritarian tools, whether they started that way or not.
+ The photo editor Alan Taylor compiled these photographs of the devastation and mourning in Sri Lanka.
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