2022-03-08 Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka church seeks UN probe into Easter massacre
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[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.
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