Posted on May 4th, 2021
By Rohana R. Wasala
Government
MP Dr. Wijedasa Rajapaksa, a former Justice Minister and an ex-president of
the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, stated over a month ago that the
Muslim World League (owes) families of those who had perished or
suffered injuries in the Easter Sunday terror attacks USD 5 mn.” (‘Wijedasa
takes it up with Saudi-based outfit’ by Shamindra Ferdinando, The Island, March
25, 2021). This is money that the MWL general secretary Dr. Sheikh Muhammad
Abdul Kareem Al-Issa was said to have promised on behalf of his organization
towards the relief of the surviving victims of those attacks at a so-called