Jacqueline Fernandez Posts An Emotional Video About Sri Lanka Bomb Blasts: Let's Not Give Up On Humanity

By Samprita on 03 May 2019

Senior Digital Editor

Samprita Kuncolinkar holds a bachelor's degree in English Literature and has been working at GirlStyle India since its inception. She works as a Senior Lifestyle Editor who is deeply in love with all things beauty, fashion, entertainment and lifestyle. Enjoying the online version of the magazine, the genres of her articles keep varying as she loves to move and groove. Apart from her work life, she loves binge-watching Netflix and loves to eat junk food for happiness.

The terrorist attack that shook Sri Lanka on Easter, April 21, Sunday took lives of over 250 people and more than hundreds were severely injured. The entire world was heartbroken with this sad news. People from all over the world decided to stand strong in unity with Sri Lanka and pray for the people in the mass bombings.

Multiple leaders across the globe like UK Prime Minister Theresa May and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sent their condolences and assured to support the country in need at this time. Another famous face, we may talk about, who's home is none other than Sri Lanka spoke up about the attacks. Yes, we are talking about Jacqueline Fernandez who is from Sri Lanka. The 33-year-old actress uploaded a three-part video on her Instagram account speaking about how she feels.

Jacky started by saying," To be honest, I needed some time to fully comprehend what I was feeling and to fully comprehend what had happened. It was very difficult for me to understand why so many innocent lives had to be taken many of which were children."

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#uniteforsrilanka ?? link in my bio

A post shared by Jacqueline Fernandez (@jacquelinef143) on May 2, 2019 at 3:52am PDT

Through this video, she requested her fans and followers to unite and help the victims of the bomb blast attack. The motive is to help rebuild their lives through an organisation called Trail that she has joined hands with for the cause. She said" Let's put aside nationality and caste and ethnicity and religion, and come together as one. I'd like to say, let's not give up on humanity. Let's not allow fear and anger to dictate how we react and how we fell and what we're thinking."

On April 21 this year, three Christian churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in Colombo, the capital were targeted with a series of coordinated terrorist suicide bomb blasts. Later, the same day, there were smaller explosions too at a housing complex in Dematagoda and Dehiwala, making it a total of eight bomb blasts in the island. National Thowheeth Jamaath is said to be held responsible for the attacks, which is a radical Islamist group.