Sri Lanka Easter attacks | Ex-President Maithripala Sirisena named suspect

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The Sri Lanka Court on Friday appointed former President Maithripala Sirisena a suspect in a case related to the 2019 Easter terror bombing and directed him to perform at the October court.

The Judge Court in the Fort Colombo area gave an order in response to the personal lawsuit filed by Fr. Cyril Gamini Fernando, a member of the National Catholic Committee for Judiciary on Easter on Sunday attacking the victim, local media reported.

For more than three years now, the Catholic Church of Sri Lanka, and the families of the victims of the terrible series of explosions – which killed around 280 people and made hundreds of people injured – had demanded justice.

In March, Archbishop of Cardinal Colombo Malcolm Ranjith told the UN Human Rights Council that the incident was a “big political plot”. Six months after the attack, former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa nominated himself as a president who promised national security, and won with a majority of palpitations. Catholic and Cardinal Church members Ranjith support Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the 2019 election, but then voiced disappointment over the lack of progress in the investigation.Cardinal has since argued that the attack has a political motive or election.

The latest report from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which was released earlier this month, called for the release of “complete findings” from the previous question about the Easter Week bombing and the formation of “Independent and Transparent Investigations” with international international with international mentoring. President Ranil Wickremesinghe said Sri Lanka would bind to Scotland Yard to help his investigators.

This is not the first time a mistake for the 2019 Easter bombing has fallen to Mr. Sirisena, who was the president at the time. The parliamentary selected committee appointed in May 2019, and was assigned to investigate the Easter bombing, accused President Sirisena of “actively undermined” the government and the security system, which led to “serious deviations” ahead of the attack that shook Sri Lanka a decade after his civil war ended.

In February 2021, the Presidential Investigation Commission recommended that Mr. Sirisena and his intelligence leaders were prosecuted because of their failure to prevent the incident, although Colombo received intelligence input from India, a few weeks before the suicide bombing associated with the Islamic Radical Islamic Radical Network Radical Islamist Radical Islamist Radical Islamist Radical Islamisis in Sri Lanka. Mr. Sirisena has denied previous knowledge.