Commission Report on Easter attacks: to the Catholic Church
On the instructions of President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the complete report of the Presidential Commission which investigated the Easter Sunday attacks, was handed over to the Catholic Church by the Minister of Public Security Tiran Alles.
Accordingly Minister Tiran Alles handed over the report to the Chairman of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference Bishop Harold Anthony Perera the Bishop of the Diocese of Kurunegala.
The Supreme Court ruled that Sirisena, who was President and Defence Minister at the time, had failed to take action to prevent the attacks in 2019 from taking place and he was found guilty in January a case related to the Easter Sunday attacks, and was ordered to pay Rs. 100 million as compensation to the petitioners.
Former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando, former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundara, former National Intelligence Chief Sisira Mendis and former Chief of State Intelligence Nilantha Jayawardena, who were holding office at the time, were also found to have failed to take action to prevent the deadly attacks from taking place despite being warned earlier.
Suicide bombers killed over 350 people at hotels and churches in Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa on Easter Sunday in April 2019.
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