On Friday, a Sri Lankan court appointed former president Maithripala Sirisena a suspect in a case relating to the 2019 Easter attacks and ordered him to appear before the court in October. The district court of the Colombo Fort area gave the orders in response to a private complaint filed by the father. Cyril Gamini Fernando, member of the National Catholic Committee for Justice to the victims of Easter Sunday attack, local media reported. For more than three years now, the Catholic Church of Sri Lanka and the families of the victims of the horrible series explosions – who have killed around 280 people and made hundreds of injured – have demanded justice.
In March, the Archbishop of Cardinal Colombo Malcolm Ranjith told the United Nations Human Rights Council that the incident was a “great political plot”. Six months after the attacks, former president Gotabaya Rajapaka presented himself to the presidency promising national security and won with a majority. Members of the Catholic Church and Cardinal Ranjith supported Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the 2019 polls, but then expressed the disappointment concerning the lack of progress in the surveys. The last report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, published earlier this month, calls for the publication of “complete conclusions” of previous surveys on Easter Sunday attacks and the creation of a ” Independent and transparent follow -up survey ”with International Assistance. President Ranil Wickremesinghe said Sri Lanka would be surrounded in Yard Scotland to help his investigators.
This is not the first time that the blame for the 2019 Easter bombings has come on Mr. Sirisena, who was then president. A restricted parliamentary committee appointed in May 2019 and responsible for probe the Easter attacks, accused President Sirisena of having “actively undermined” the government and the security systems, which led to “gaps” before the attacks which Shaken Sri Lanka a decade after his civil war after his civil war after hisl war.
In February 2021, a presidential commission of inquiry recommended that Mr. Sirisena and her intelligence leaders be continued for their inability to prevent the incident, although Colombo received a contribution to India Intelligence, weeks before the Bombings which are attributed to a radical Islamist network in Sri Lanka. Mr. Sirisena denied any previous knowledge.
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