Sri Lanka Bombing

Sri Lanka ex-leader ordered to compensate Easter bombing victims
Supreme Court finds ex-president Sirisena and four other officials responsible for failing to prevent attacks.
Published On 12 Jan 2023
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis threatens its dollar-earning IT firms
Sri Lanka’s IT sector is trying to retain talent with dollar-linked salaries as young professionals look to exodus.
Published On 7 Jun 2022
Pope asks Sri Lanka to reveal identity of Easter Sunday attackers
Pope Francis urges country to name bombers behind 2019 attacks that the Catholic Church suspects was a conspiracy.
Published On 26 Apr 2022
‘A curse’: Three years since Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka
Protesters in Colombo demand justice on the third anniversary of devastating attacks in several churches and hotels.
Published On 21 Apr 2022

Protesters criticise a lack of progress in finding those responsible for deaths of more than 260 people in the bombings.

A spiralling economic crisis is hurting tourism, a key source of dollars that had barely revived after three bad years.

Head of the country’s Roman Catholic Church tells UNHCR the massacre now appears to be ‘a grand political plot’.

Sri Lankan court begins the first of three trials connected to bombings that killed nearly 270 people.

Prosecutors indict alleged mastermind of the 2019 suicide bombings, along with 24 men they say are co-conspirators.

Roman Catholic leader says government must win back church’s confidence before talks on probe into blasts can proceed.

Attorney general asks chief justice to appoint a special three-member high court bench to hear the cases speedily.

President orders investigation into allegations that some intelligence officials met people who carried out 2019 attack.

Rishad Bathiudeen and his brother Riyaaj were arrested in pre-dawn raids on their homes in Colombo.

Head of Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church says he was ‘deeply saddened’ by the lack of progress in the investigation.

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