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My Children Shall Perish For Lack of Knowledge

These are just a few sad notes and comments from real people that are around those that got the deadly vaccine:

My husband took the 2nd jab on August 19th and I’m watching his death in slow motion right before my eyes. 45 years old with only Crohn’s disease before. Now he’s very ill. I cry everyday as this is my impending doom. I’m trying to remain strong as I have 2 kids to look after.

So many of us tried to warn, so very few listened. Tyrants lie, sheep comply, people die.

My older sister took 2 doses of the vaccine and she only sits in a rocking chair now, mumbling to herself. She neglects all hygiene and we have to feed her with a spoon or a fork.

The only words she spoke which we could understand was one evening while we were finished feeding her supper and she looked at my brother and said, "You are the flesh, we are the consumers."  Nothing else since. F***ing sucks man.

I now know 5 people dead from this fucking vaccine, 0 from Covid.  Now I only support the new Nuremberg Trial and all the lawyers and doctors who are trying to bring down Davos and those responsible for this crime against humanity.
I want justice for humanity and those responsible to hang before the tribunal.

Check the obits and you'll see all the 20, 30, 40, 50 somethings just randomly dying. It's happening. It's picking up speed!

To all those already vaxxed, don't forget to get your booster shots! You might have gotten a placebo shot the first time around and we really need you getting the true mRNA vaxxed!

I more so believe the vaccinated are the ones in the hospital. The news will not tell you this.

I have confirmed 7 people in my network who have died directly from the vaxx. Many more to come.

Currently I have an employee in the hospital on the vent. I explained in no uncertain terms why the vaccine is deadly. Week after week I drilled it into his stupid head. Then he went and got it anyway and as of 2 days ago he was texting from the hospital all scared asking me to be his medical advocate.

I told him to demand hospice at home so he can escape the hospital and then I’d bring him what I could to counter the vaxx he took. But what’s it going to do? Prolong his suffering.
As of yesterday afternoon he was on 8 liters of O2 and they were giving him belly shots to fight the blood clots. No further contact since then. I suspect it will be the last I hear from him. Sayonara fool. Should have listened sooner.

I know many others who have been otherwise injured or mentally impaired by the shot. Memory loss. Easily triggered aggression. Bleeding eyes. Huge boils. Etc...same thing with my neighbor, I saw her bent over puking her guts out on the front lawn last week.

She said she has never been sick in her life until the vaccine.
She is a regional manager for Taco Bell... Im very interested in watching all my neighbors that took the jab decline just to see what is really happening to them.

It's happening in Israel something like 70% of the people in hospitals with Covid are vaxxed

I look around online at the websites and forums of small towns in the western US. More and more I'm seeing obits of 20 and 30 YOs just dropping. They are often athletes or very active and it's usually heart related

Interesting, as I KEEP hearing about all of the horrible deaths due to COVID - and yet not a SINGLE PERSON that I know has known anyone that died, or known anyone that has KNOWN anyone that has.

However, in my DIRECT experience, I can say that almost EVERY SINGLE PERSON that I have talked to reacted badly to the shot. No deaths that I'm aware of, but my young and healthy neighbors were both down for over a week sicker than I have ever seen them, and that's repeated OVER and OVER again.

And that's just IMMEDIATE effects - there's NO DATA on long term effects because the long term study is being done on people like YOU. I truly hope you continue to feel wonderful, but that's not a chance that ANYONE is forcing ME to take, thanks very much.

I know no one personally who has died from covid. But two who have had bad effects from the shots. One had to have surgery to get a huge blood clot out of her lung. Another had huge welts come up all over his body after the second shot and then got non Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Others have had headaches and memory problems. And just don’t feel good. Oh and one had her autoimmune disorder come back, another who has Bell’s palsy now.

We have a friend who's 28 and a mind drone. She had covid and still got the vaccine. A few months later she was at our house and got sick all of a sudden. She started coughing up blood in our bathroom. Totally normal for a healthy young person. She says she's OK now, but doesn't want to talk about it. Most likely will still get boosters... sad

Just today this girl was telling her mom is a doctor and she has a patient that is in an induced coma. He took THREE shots.  With the sister in law's neighbor 2nd dose, she started bleeding and didn't make it back to the hospital. dead.

Delta Airlines killed a dozen with their on site vaccinations. One died in the break room, another never returned from a second round shot. All labeled a covid death.

Doctor at the end of the street got vaxxed up a couple of months ago. He died that night.  His poor widow is having trouble selling her home now. 

Interim De Jure President August 23, 2021

 

Kentucky Assembly Notice

This a De Jure Grand Jury Findings of Facts that the grievances brought before this Grand Jury on this day May 1, 2021, in a Presentment of Declaration by People assembled in Kentucky commonwealth, and find these grievances true and correct. Therefore, the Grand Jury finds that the People in Kentucky commonwealth shall assemble to re-assemble a De Jure Constitutional Republic.

Operations and Functions of the De Jure Grand Jury

The grand jury is the oldest, most respected and powerful civil institutions of the United States of American, and whereas the concept of a grand jury dates all the way back to the Magna Carta in 1215, and was included in the constitutions of the free republics of North America and the United States of America republic, cir. 1787 as a means for the people to reign-in elected government acting outside the limits of delegated power, and when a government appears to be committing criminal and un-Constitutional acts, it can hardly be relied upon to bring charges and indictments against itself. It is therefore the duty and obligation of We THE People to utilize this first form of correcting the abuse and oppression of government that has turn corrupt and greedy.

Therefore, We THE People inhabiting the land in the Kentucky commonwealth, free men and women convened under God, having been granted by the Creator dominion over all the earth, to protect and restore the blessings of liberty for ourselves and all the posterity, do hereby invoke our sacred right to peacefully assemble, as memorialized in The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, cir. 1776, and The Articles of Confederation, cir. 1777, do hereby establish this De Jure Grand Jury of the sovereign People in Kentucky commonwealth.

This De Jure Grand Jury, existing by right according to common law and lawfully assembled on the free dry land in Kentucky commonwealth, is not a part of the de facto, incorporated judicial system. It functions as an entirely separate and independent body according to rights and powers granted by the Creator and vested in We THE People by the Constitution for The United States of America, cir. 1787 as amended in 1791.

Formation, operations and functions of the Kentucky General Jural Assembly
Whereas, the assembly of We THE People being one of the principles most respected and powerful civil rights of the American People, and

Whereas, the concept of an assembly dates back to the early colonies and was included in the constitutions of the free republics of the United States of America, cir. 1787, as a means for the people to rein-in an elected government acting outside the limits of delegated power, and

Whereas, when a government appears to be committing criminal and un-Constitutional acts, it can hardly be relied upon to bring charges and indictments against itself.

Therefore, We THE People inhabiting the land in Kentucky commonwealth, free men and women convened under God, having been granted by the Creator dominion over all the earth, to protect and restore the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity, do hereby invoke our sacred right to peacefully assemble, as memorialized in The unanimous Declaration of Independence of the thirteen united States of America, cir. 1776, The Articles of Confederation, cir. 1781, and the Constitution of Kentucky, cir. 1792, and do hereby establish this Kentucky General Jural Assembly of the sovereign people in Kentucky commonwealth.

This Kentucky General Jural Assembly, being formed and existing by right according to common law and lawfully assembled on the free dry land in Kentucky commonwealth, is not a part of the de facto incorporated bodies such as Political Action Committees (PACs) and any and all political parties. It functions as an entirely separate and independent body, void of affiliation with any and all partisan connections according to rights and powers granted by the Creator and vested in the people by the Bill of Rights that secure these rights to address Constitutional usurpations for the united States of America, cir. 1787 as amended in 1791.

 http://kentuckydejure.org/Kentucky_Assembly_Notice.pdf

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De Jure Original Jurisdiction Republic 1861 circa 2010 document links

 

• Notice to trump w/redacted autographs
• From DE FACTO to de jure – the process for which you have been looking…
• Nation Assembly Conference Call Information
• National Assembly Training Website & Forum
• We THE People Interim President Dejure Republic
• OPEN LETTER From We THE People
• Contempt of Constitution
• De jure Republic's 2nd Notice of Enactment of Contempt of the Constitution
• INITIATION FOR THE ORDERS OF WE THE PEOPLE
• WE THE PEOPLE INITIATE THE ORDERS II
• Common Law Rebuttal from We THE People to the UNITED STATES CORPORATION’S public notice of the remarks on Syria
• REPUBLIC - We THE People's Orders for state Rectification
• WE THE PEOPLE ORDERS - Initiate The Will Of WE THE PEOPLE
• NOTICE & ANNOUNCEMENT Michigan a Free and Independent Nation=State Quo Warranto Board of Inquiry <<>> PART1
• NOTICE & ANNOUNCEMENT Michigan a Free and Independent Nation=State Quo Warranto Board of Inquiry <<>> PART2
• We THE People of the Michigan General Jural Assembly Order, sentence and decree, a Quo Warranto Board of Inquiry Rules for Operation and Functioning

Archie Bunker on Democrats

Horrifying! The Jesuit Fourth Vow or the Blood Oath to Rome Catholic Church Universal - Anna Von Reits Gave oath to this church

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I decided to post this to expose to all the readers the foundation of many evil doers on our land. This is evil! I believe Anna Belcher a.k.a. Anna Von Reitz also took this oath as it is too related to her words in several of her articles and fits like a key in a lock. What part of the 10 commandments is this? Notations in red.

The Jesuit Fourth Vow or the Blood Oath 

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DC Corporation (Act of 1871) ended on June 6th 2019

We THE People in assembly thank you Donald J. Trump for complying with the notice sent to you a month ago to end the 1871 contract. We THE People are observing. Complete the 21 Requisitions.

View the notice here:  https://forums.national-assembly.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1461&p=2601#p2601

Here are 2 of 3 videos. 3rd video coming out tomorrow.

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SerialBrain2: 2nd response to the notice sent to Donald Trump

Private organization built a half-mile border wall in El Paso, Texas

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Insurrection Act, 1807

[I]n all cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws, either of the
United States, or of any individual state or territory, where it is
lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia
for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the
laws to be duly executed, it shall be lawful for him to employ, for
the same purposes, such part of the land or naval force of the
United States, as shall be judged necessary, having first observed
all the pre-requisites of the law in that respect.
Insurrection Act of 1807, ch. 39, 2 Stat. 443, 443

Why They REMOVED The Book Of Enoch!!

Trump executive order! Americas wealth stolen Bombshell finish

Notice to Donald Trump from Texas

BREAKING – The fight for America begins: Trump to invoke Insurrection Act that authorizes National Guard, military action inside U.S. borders

Friday, May 17, 2019 by: Mike Adams
Tags: civil war, illegal immigration, insurrection act, migrants, military troops, National Guard, Open Borders, politics,President Trump, tech giants, White House

I perceive this is the Trumpster acting on behalf of the de jure Republic people...

Source:  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-05-17-trump-to-invoke-insurrection-act-that-authorizes-national-guard-illegal-immigrants.html  

(Natural News) This is bombshell breaking news. See the emergency Counterthink video update, below.

According to sources cited by The Daily Caller, President Trump is poised to invoke theInsurrection Act to fight for America’s survival against the ongoing invasion of illegals who are flooding the United States as a tactic to destroy the country from within. The Daily Caller is now reporting:

According to multiple senior administration officials, the president intends to invoke the “tremendous powers” of the act to remove illegal immigrants from the country.

The Insurrection Act, passed by Congress in 1807, allows the president to deploy National Guard and U.S. military troops to combat “rebellion” against the United States of America. The Act has been invoked by other presidents to quell violent uprisings such as the L.A. Riots.

It is clear that President Trump now recognizes the open rebellion against America being committed by the Governor of California, mayors of “sanctuary cities” and fake news “journo-terrorists” who are brainwashing Americans to hate their own country. The ongoing land invasion of the United States of America is an act of war being openly supported by Democrats and Leftists who are using illegal immigration to nullify U.S. voters and overrun the United States with anti-American militants, criminals and terrorists. (See CivilWar.news for frequent updates on the coming civil war.) As Stewart Rhodes from Oath Keepers has accurately described, the illegal immigration is designed to import terror cells who plan to carry out a “Tet Offensive” inside the United States, once activated by enemies and traitors who are literally seeking the complete destruction of America.

It has also become obvious over the past few months that the tech giants are waging a coordinated conspiracy to nullify U.S. elections and crush democracy by selectively silencing all conservative voices on the dominant online platforms. This illegal conspiracy — pursued by Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple and other tech giants — represents an online insurrection against the United States of America, which is why I have repeatedly called for the deployment of military police to arrest the CEOs of these tech companies and force the platforms to respect the First Amendment liberties of the American people.

It is time for Trump to deploy the military police to arrest Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey. And that’s just the start of what needs to happen to restore our democracy and the freedom to speak.

Important analysis in this emergency broadcast Counterthink video

Watch this emergency broadcast video, here, and read the highlights below:

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• The radical Left is about to be triggered by the treasonous, deep-state run “mainstream” media to launch an attempted communist revolution and violent coup against America.
• Trump fully realizes that a war against America has already begun, and he has decided to take decisive action to defend America using legitimate military forces and all the executive power available to the Commander in Chief.
• California is committing planned treason against America by deliberately flooding the country with illegals and granting them the right to vote, allowing illegals to out-vote Americans in national elections. This is a form of electoral fraud that also stacks the U.S. House of Representatives with California-based members of Congress who are illegitimate.
• Accordingly, California’s electoral college votes, U.S. Senators and members of the House must be nullified and barred from participating in federal legislative efforts or federal election results (such as the 2020 vote for the presidency). California should be banned from participating in all federal elections until the state enforces voter ID requirements and halts widespread, coordinated voter fraud (which is currently openly encouraged by California bureaucrats).
• California has been infiltrated by communist China and is now run by the Chinese. Virtually the entire California media is now owned and operated by communist Chinese, and California’s governor and various mayors are puppets of communist China. They have been promised prominent positions in the Chinese-run “commie California” after the Chinese invasion takes over the West Coast, using California (and the L.A. port) as a beachhead to land troops and stage a land invasion of America.
• The Governor of California must be declared an “enemy combatant” and arrested, then charged with treason against America. If found guilty, he should face the death penalty.
• The Commander in Chief may deploy the National Guard and U.S. military troops to locate and detain domestic enemies who are actively committing acts of treason against America. This does not violate posse comitatus. The military may pursue the eliminate active enemies of America during a time of war, even when they are operating on U.S. soil.
• Once Trump initiates the Insurrection Act, the lawless, deranged Left will immediately declare Trump to be a “military dictator” while calling for Leftists to take to the streets in armed rebellion against the rule of law. Leftists will open fire on Trump supporters, bomb government buildings and attempt to executive police officers and National Guard troops which are deployed to defend America. Pro-Trump Americans need to be prepared to defend themselves against the violence of the lawless Left.
• The Governor of California will almost certainly order California-based National Guard troops to disobey President Trump’s federal orders. This may initiate an actual shooting war in California as Trump asserts federal control over National Guard troops while demanding the arrest of Governor Newsom.
• Although this may not be part of Trump’s plan, technically the Insurrection Act grants the President the power to arrest the CEOs of California’s tech giants which are engaged in open acts of treason against our constitutional republic.
• California looks likely to become the “front lines” of the civil war in America as anti-America forces carrying out treason against America — including Facebook, Google, YouTube, Apple and Twitter, all of which are heavily influenced by communist Chinese infiltration — attempt to overthrow the country and destroy our constitutional republic.
• Pro-America citizens of California — especially those in rural areas — need to be prepared to find themselves on the front lines of an actual shooting war being waged across the West Coast. We urge patriots to avoid initiating violence, but be prepared to help stop it.
• I am calling for all California-based patriots to be prepared to support Trump’s efforts to defend America by supporting the rule of law and supporting the actions of National Guard or U.S. military troops who are fighting for America’s very survival by seeking to root out and eliminate the enemies of America who are operating from the liberal cities of California.
• President Trump likely needs the help of patriotic Americans to defend our borders, defend the rule of law and help authorized forces seek out and detain the treasonous enemies of America who are deliberately trying to destroy this nation from within.
• If you are located in California, be ready to defend yourself against the violence of the lunatic Left, which is planning to unleash an armed insurrection that will target patriots, Christians, conservatives, Trump supporters and white people for extreme violence and murder. (The Left will literally start murdering people based on the color of their skin.)
• If Democrats somehow manage to take the White House in 2020, they will immediately gut the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, unleashing nationwide gun confiscation, flooding the borders with millions of illegals, and arresting or executing all political dissidents (i.e. pro-America voices) in order to silence those with opposing views. We the People must not let Democrats ever seize power in America again, or they will use that power to destroy America and crush all patriots and conservatives. Under the power of Democrats, Christians would be hunted down and executed on sight. All Christian speech would be criminalized and Bibles would be outlawed, along with all civilian ownership of firearms.
• The radical Left is an authoritarian, anti-American cult that has also demonstrated its dangerous lawlessness by censoring all online speech that opposes the deranged delusions of the progressive Left. This is an indicator of their true intent: Total authoritarian rule, complete with speech police and the elimination of those with opposing views. The Left has zero intention of respecting the rule of law, the Bill of Rights or any election laws whatsoever. Every election from this day forward will be stolen or fraudulently altered by Leftists who hate America and despise all pro-American patriots.
• It is time for President Trump to deploy the military police to arrest and remove from power all those in government who are actively engaged in acts of treason, sedition and vote fraud. California’s political leaders must be arrested and prosecuted for running a massive vote fraud conspiracy that attempts to steal elections from American citizens.

Here’s a list of the enemies of America who are committing treason in an actual war effort to destroy this nation from within

All of these traitors must be identified, detained and removed from power by authorized forces before they succeed in destroying this nation:

• Corrupt liberal judges who defy the President’s efforts to secure the U.S. border. It is time to arrest corrupt, anti-American judges and remove them from power.
• Journo-terrorists who pretend to be journalists but are actually anti-American traitors spreading lies, hatred and insanity to indoctrinate liberals and leftists, whipping them up into an attempted “cultural revolution” that has literally driven millions of Leftists to the point of mass mental illness.
• CEOs and top managers of the tech giants, which have now sold out to communist China and are using their power to selectively silence pro-America voices across all search engines, social media and online platforms. These tech giants must be occupied and either shut down or forced to respect a level playing field of online speech.
• Antifa terrorists and other radical left-wing groups that promise an armed insurrection to attempt to overthrow the United States of America.
• Deep state operatives who conspired to carry out a political coup against President Trump. (James Comey, Robert Mueller, John Brennan, etc.)
• Liberal university professors who use their positions of influence to actively recruit students into domestic terrorism organizations such as Antifa.

It is crucial that President Trump knows he has widespread support from the American people

As all of this is about to go down, it is crucial that President Trump knows he has widespread support from the American people to take the actions necessary to defend this nation from its domestic enemies.

We the People will be tasked with supporting these efforts as Trump works to clean house and root out the treasonous traitors who are conspiring to destroy this great nation.

If we all succeed, we may once again restore democracy and the rule of law to America. If we fail, America falls to the authoritarian tyrants, and the nation will be deliberately dismantled and fed to the globalists.

We are now fighting for our lives. We are blessed to have Donald J. Trump as our President as America faces off against treasonous actors, deep state traitors and authoritarian globalists who despise this nation and what it stands for.

Be ready to literally fight for our survival and the defense of our nation. The end game has arrived, and California will be the front lines in the coming war.

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Notice to trump w/redacted autographs

Notice to Donald Trump Released

Free to share as you wish. Share this notice far and wide.

Social Media, websites, print off and spread around town.

Original wet ink autographed notice is being mailed to Donald John Trump.

These are the States that on May 9, 2019 Concurred and Endorsed via roll call the notice document of the Michigan General Jural Assembly to send to President Trump:

1. Alaska
2. Arizona
3. Arkansas
4.California
5. Colorado
6. Connecticut
7. Florida
8. Idaho
9. Indiana
10. Iowa
11. Kansas
12. Michigan
13. Nebraska
14. New Mexico
15. New York
16. North Carolina
17. Texas
18. Utah
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19. Ohio abstained

Thanks,
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Destry

National Assembly Communications Secretary

 https://forums.national-assembly.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1461&p=2601#p2601

 

Smack Talking and Total Ignorance on Mrs Belcher a.k.a. Anna Von Reitz Part!

She is claiming MGJA and associated are U.S. Citizens!

I just did a review of the MGJA membership and I have not found a single member that has become a U.S. Citizen. The requirements to become a U.S. Citizen are included in Title 18 U.S.C. section 911.

Not a single assembly member as done or attempted to become a U.S. Citizen by the procedures outlined in the above mentioned U.S. code.

Mrs Belcher a.k.a. Anna Von Reitz is actually in violation of the corporate Title 18 U.S.C. section 911 by presuming the members to be U.S. Citizens. If this did make it to the corporate Federal court, she could face 10 years and $10,000 fine for claiming any of us to be U.S. Citizens!

Stupid is, stupid does. "Quote from Forrest Gump"

I created this post and included references to back claims made on my part.
Mrs. Belcher a.k.a. Anna Von Reits is incapable of including references with her publishings. The reason is she can't is because she would expose herself if she included references. For many of her claims references don't exist. She relies on the gullibility of most of her readers to just accept and follow her nonsense. Some who question her get a torrent of backlash from her. It is her habit. She is so predictable. She must respond and push the nonsense as it is her M.O. under CIA Operation Dismantle. Guaranteed to see a response from her on this post!

Sometimes you just can't fix stupid! "Quote from Freewill"

Easter blasts in Sri Lanka kill at least 207

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The apparently coordinated attacks were the deadliest to hit the country in the decade since the end of a bloody civil war that killed up to 100,000 people and evoked painful memories for many Sri Lankans

The apparently coordinated attacks were the deadliest to hit the country in the decade since the end of a bloody civil war that killed up to 100,000 people and evoked painful memories for many Sri Lankans (AFP Photo/STR

Negombo (Sri Lanka) (AFP) - More than 200 people are now known to have died in a series of bomb blasts that tore through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka, in the worst violence to hit the island since its devastating civil war ended a decade ago.

Eight apparently co-ordinated explosions targeted Easter worshippers and high end hotels popular with international guests.

At least 207 people were killed, among them dozens of foreigners.

An improvised bomb discovered at the main airport in Colombo was defused late Sunday, police said.

A nationwide curfew imposed on Sunday shortly after the blasts was lifted early Monday, with AFP journalists reporting a steady stream of people and tuk tuks on the streets of Negombo.

There was still a heavy security presence at the city's St Sebastien's Church, the scene of one of the devastating blasts.

Sri Lanka's small Christian minority -- just six percent of the 21 million-strong population -- has been targeted by violence in the past, but never to such brutal effect.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but police said Monday 13 people had been arrested. The government earlier said investigators would to look into whether the attackers had "overseas links".

The powerful blasts -– six in quick succession and then two more hours later -- wounded around 450 people.

At least two of the explosions involved suicide bombers, including one who lined up at a hotel breakfast buffet before unleashing carnage.

The government said the dead included three Indians, three Britons, two from Turkey and one Portuguese national. Two people holding both British and US passports were also among the fatalities.

"Additionally, while nine foreign nationals are reported missing, there are 25 unidentified bodies believed to be of foreigners," the foreign ministry said.

Japan's foreign ministry said one of its nationals was among the dead.

The churches targeted included the historic St Anthony's Shrine in Colombo, where the blast blew out much of the roof.

Bodies lay on the floor of the church, covered in patterned scarves and white sheets, some of them stained with blood.

Shattered roof tiles and shards of glass littered the floor, along with chunks of plaster blasted from the walls by the explosion.

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Documents seen by AFP show that Sri Lanka's police chief Pujuth Jayasundara issued an intelligence alert to top officers 10 days ago, warning that suicide bombers planned to hit "prominent churches".

"A foreign intelligence agency has reported that the NTJ (National Thowheeth Jama'ath) is planning to carry out suicide attacks targeting prominent churches as well as the Indian high commission in Colombo," the alert said.

The NTJ is a radical Muslim group in Sri Lanka that was linked last year to the vandalisation of Buddhist statues.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe acknowledged that "information was there" about possible attacks and that an investigation would look into "why adequate precautions were not taken".

Ethnic and religious violence has plagued Sri Lanka for decades, with a 37-year conflict with Tamil rebels followed by an upswing in recent years in clashes between the Buddhist majority and Muslims.

- 'River of blood' -

Sri Lanka's minister of economic reforms Harsha de Silva described "horrible scenes" at St Anthony's church.

"I saw many body parts strewn all over," he tweeted.

Witness N. A. Sumanapala was near the church when the blast happened.

"I ran inside to help. The priest came out and he was covered in blood," he told AFP. "It was a river of blood."

A second blast hit St Sebastian's Church during Easter Mass.

Gabriel, who declined to give his family name, said his brother was injured in the explosion, adding: "We don't want the country to go back to that dark past where we had to live in fear of suicide blasts all the time."

Soon after the first two church blasts, police confirmed that the Zion church in the east coast town of Batticaloa had been hit, along with three high-end hotels in the capital -- the Cinnamon Grand, the Shangri-La and the Kingsbury.

A manager at the Cinnamon Grand, near the prime minister's official residence in Colombo, said a suicide bomber blew himself up at the hotel's restaurant.

"He came up to the top of the queue and set off the blast," the manager said.

Later in the afternoon, two people died in a strike at a hotel in the south of Colombo, and a suicide bomber killed three police officers as they raided a house in a northern suburb of the city.

- 'Animals' -

Wickremesinghe urged people to "hold our unity as Sri Lankans" and pledged to "wipe out this menace once and for all".

The archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Ranjith, described the attackers as "animals" and called on authorities to "punish them mercilessly".

The attacks drew condemnation from around the world, including from US President Donald Trump and the pope.

Embassies in the capital warned citizens to stay inside, while there were chaotic scenes at Colombo airport as travellers formed huge lines at the only taxi counter that was open.

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