Tag: Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church welcomed the convictions but said investigators must still establish who facilitated the deadly 2019 attacks

Landmark convictions bring first accountability for Easter Sunday bombings as separate probe examines alleged links to state actors

The case has exposed unresolved questions over intelligence failures, extremist networks and accountability for the 2019 Easter bombings

Sri Lanka arrests former intelligence chief over Easter bombings as Church renews call for truth and accountability

Sri Lanka’s Church leads relief as Cyclone Ditwah devastates tea highlands; regional floods push Asia’s death toll past 1,300

The new leader of Sri Lanka vowed that the reopened investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks would not be compromised, as he ordered...

Islamist extremists targeted churches and hotels in the 2019 suicide bomb attacks against Christian worshippers and foreign travelers

“Denying that opportunity to our people will only affirm the fact that we are now under a dictatorship,” said Anglican bishops

The court ruling was issued on January 12 following a lawsuit filed by 13 families and local Church leaders

It is the first time that a head of state in Sri Lanka has been held responsible for failing to prevent a terror attack