Posted on April 20th, 2021
Senaka Weeraratna
April 21, 2019 is destined to be marked as a date which will
live in infamy.
Paraphrasing President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he
delivered the famous infamy speech on December 08, 1941 soon after the attack
on Pearl Harbour by Japan,,
posterity may well designate April 21, 2019 as the
Blackest day and the ‘ Pearl Harbour’ moment in the contemporary history of Sri
Lanka.
A total of 267 people were killed, including at least 45
foreign nationals,three police officers, and eight bombers, and at least 500
were injured. Three churches and three luxury hotels in Colombo were
targeted in a series of coordinated Islamist terrorist bombings.
Parliament proceedings suspended for ten minutes
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Parliament to convene for four days from today
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An Australian professor who was detained and allegedly tortured in Qatar has separately been named by a Sri Lankan government probe into the deadly Easter Sunday terror bombings.
Australian citizens Lukman Thalib, 58, and his son Ismail Talib, 24, were arrested at their home in Qatar on 27 July and imprisoned for almost six months without charge before being released without warning in January this year.
No reason has even been given for the arrest of Professor Thalib and his son. Neither Professor Thalib or his son were formally charged by Qatari authorities.
In February, a Sri Lankan government inquiry finalised its report into the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks, a series of suicide bombings that killed more than 250 people in Colombo.