Sri Lanka’s president says he will appoint a committee chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge to investigate allegations made in a British television report that the South Asian country’s intelligence was complicit in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Sri Lanka’s president said Sunday he will appoint a committee chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge to investigate allegations made in a British television report that the South Asian country’s intelligence was complicit in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people. The attacks, which included simultaneous suicide […]
Sri Lanka s president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has announced the appointment of a committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that the country s intelligence was involved in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings. The committee will be chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge. The decision comes after pressure from opposition lawmakers, religious leaders, activists, and victims relatives who claim previous probes failed to reveal the truth.