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Mastermind Of 2019 Easter Terror Attacks Identified: Sri Lankan Minister Mastermind Of 2019 Easter Terror Attacks Identified: Sri Lankan Minister Nine suicide bombers, belonging to local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) linked to ISIS, carried out coordinated blasts that tore through three churches and as many luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on the Easter Sunday in 2019. The Easter Sunday attacks in 2019 in Sri Lanka killed 270 people, including 11 Indians. (File) Colombo: A top Sri Lankan minister said on Tuesday that a radical cleric, who is now under detention, has b...

By Russel Hewawasam (Lanka-e-News -10.March.2021, 4.15AM) The current government is deliberately covering up the Easter Sunday attacks on April 21, 2019, the deadliest massacre in Sri Lanka in the last decade.  Meanwhile, both the respondents and the plaintiffs are attacking the dilemma report of the Presidential Commission appointed to investigate the Easter attack. The Presidential Commission, comprising retired judges of full powers, has been investigating the matter for 15 months and has concluded its report, recalling the popular folklore saying, "There is neither dancing nor drumming."...

By Russel Hewawasam (Lanka-e-News- 02.March.2021, 11.00PM) The Presidential Commission appointed in November 2019 to investigate the Islamic extremist attack on Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, April 21, concluded its work last January 27th. The commission examined the evidences of 450 people, including former President Maithripala Sirisena, former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and security chiefs. The Commission concluded its proceedings by applying sudden brakes. Although the report of the Presidential Commission on the Easter Attack, which ended up blaming only those who did not prevent t...

Sri Lanka Easter bombings investigation calls for former President Sirisena to be prosecuted ANI | Updated: Feb 24, 2021 21:02 IST Colombo [Sri Lanka], February 24 (ANI): An investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka has called for the country's former President as well as senior police and intelligence officials to be prosecuted. According to CNN, the commission of inquiry said on Wednesday that "criminal proceedings" should be brought against former President Maithripala Sirisena, who left office in November 2019, for "criminal liab...

Sunday, 21 February 2021 - 19:54 Lord Naseby of Britain accuses UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet of trying to make the LTTE heroic in her report on Sri Lanka. Based on the report, the UN Human Rights Council's hosting body in Sri Lanka, including the United Kingdom, will submit a resolution to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Lord Naseby, who is also chairman of the British Parliamentary Group on Sri Lanka, points out that the LTTE's atrocities were forgotten in the Human Rights Commissioner's report. In a letter to the office of UN High Commissioner for Human Ri...