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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka church seeks UN probe into Easter massacre

2022-03-08

[Dawn] The head of Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church on Monday urged the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
to investigate the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people, calling the massacre a "political plot".

The original events transpired before our eyes here. The miscreants were associated with two ISIS-associated groups: National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) (also spelt Sri Lanka Thawheed Jamaat, Tawheed Jamaath and Thowfeek Jamaath), which had not only pledged allegiance, but had gotten training from ISIS experts, and Jamathei Millathu Ibrahim (JMI).

In an address to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith demanded a mechanism to probe the attacks, which have been blamed on local Islamic radicals.

"The first impression of this massacre was that it was purely the work of a few Islamic krazed killers," Ranjith said. "However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
subsequent investigations indicate that this massacre was part of a grand political plot."

The Church has previously suggested that the attacks, which targeted three churches and three hotels in Colombo in April 2019, helped Gotabaya Rajapaksa win the presidential elections in November the same year.

The government has not responded to the Church’s accusations.

Ranjith, who initially supported Rajapaksa’s election as president, said there were attempts by the government "to harass and intimidate those who clamour for justice".

Catholic priests have been summoned and questioned at length by the Criminal Investigations Department over statements critical of the slow progress in investigations. "Nearly three years after the horrendous crime, we are still in the dark as to what really happened on that Easter Sunday," the cardinal said.

His address to the UN Council came a week after meeting with the pope.

Sri Lanka is on the agenda of the UN’s top rights body at the moment for a separate reason.

Posted by:trailing wife

#3 Jesus warned Christians that it would be a hard road. It's not nearly as bad yet as it will get.

But Believe for your own sake. Not to be a PR node for some Earthly principality.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-08 16:39

#2 This, Cthulhu of Ryleh? All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama

Posted by: trailing wife 2022-03-08 15:52

#1 Bastards. Srilanka security forces have been hard on both islamics and Catholics and their camraderie has not gone unnoticed in the island nation. The politicians have acquired strong local support against the islamic organization ACJU, and there are cases of land grabbing and encroachment on the catholic diocese already, so first they conspire together to trick the laity into 'forgiving the muslims', then they ask for this. The UN, that prized litigator for islamics around the world. Who are they going to probe, the UN? Survivors who saw the islamic blow himself up? The police, who picked up the pieces? The islamics themselves who'll say the man was either a saint or a mentally unstable person? Is a UN investigation any more credible than a nation's own investigative agency's?

Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-08 08:30

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