Advertisement A documentary on the 2019 Easter bombings, released this week by the United Kingdom’s Channel 4 but expected for a long time, has opened a political can of worms in Sri Lanka. In a nutshell, the documentary centers on the alleged complicity of the country’s former ruling family, the Rajapaksas, in the terrorist attack, … Read more
Advertisement Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that officials with the South Asian country’s intelligence were complicit in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people, including 42 foreigners from 14 countries. The attacks, which included simultaneous suicide bombings, targeted three churches – … Read more
The Pulse | Society | South Asia The report said Rajapaksa, then a powerful defense official, ordered the destruction of all police records older than five years after mass graves were discovered in the Matale district of central Sri Lanka in 2013. Advertisement Sri Lanka’s former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was accused in a report released Thursday of tampering with … Read more