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Ex-intelligence chief Sallay ‘directed’ 2019 Easter bombings, says Sri Lanka Minister

June 11, 2026 admin

Sri Lanka’s Opposition activists demanding the release of Suresh Sallay take part in a sit-in protest in Colombo. | Photo Credit: AFP Sri Lanka’s Public Security Minister told parliament on Wednesday (June 10, 2026) the nation’s ex-intelligence chief directed the 2019 Easter Sunday attack, in the first official statement linking him directly to the bombings…

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Sri Lankan opposition leaders launch protest in support of former intelligence chief

June 8, 2026 admin

A protest to demand justice for the April 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attack, on the third anniversary of this attack, near the Presidential Secretariat, in Colombo, Sri Lanka on April 17, 2022. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A group of Sri Lankan opposition leaders on Monday (June 8, 2026) began a protest in support of…

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Sri Lanka arrests ex-intel chief over 2019 Easter bombings

February 25, 2026 admin

Sri Lankan security personnel and police investigators look through debris outside Zion Church following an explosion in Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka on April 21, 2019. Sri Lanka’s criminal investigators arrested the country’s former intelligence chief Suresh Sallay on February 25 in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people, police said….

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Deep wounds in Sri Lanka five years since Easter bombings

April 21, 2024 admin

The New Wings activists take part in a silent protest demanding justice of the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide attack, in Colombo on April 20, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Sri Lanka marks on April 21 five years since Islamist bombers slaughtered 279 people in the island’s deadliest suicide attack, but grieving families say they are…

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No international inquiry possible into 2019 Easter bombings: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe

October 7, 2023 admin

Ranil Wickremesinghe. File | Photo Credit: AP Dismissing the possibility of an international probe into the 2019 Easter terror attacks, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has reiterated that such an investigation into the incident was not permissible under the country’s law. Responding to Sunday’s editorial in the Catholic Church’s Messenger newspaper titled “An international investigation…

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Sri Lanka defends intelligence chief over Easter Sunday attacks allegations by UK channel

September 9, 2023 admin

In this April 21, 2019, file photo, Sri Lankan police officers inspect the site of an explosion at the Shangri-la hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka. | Photo Credit: AP Sri Lanka’s Defence Ministry on Saturday defended the country’s intelligence chief after he was accused by a British television channel as the plotter of the 2019…

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