Archbishop Malcom Cardinal Ranjith making a statement at the 49th session of the Human Rights Council, today said that the Easter Sunday massacre in 2019 in Colombo and elsewhere was part of grand political plot.
The first impression was that it was the work of a few Islamic extremists he said.
The Archbishop said it claimed the lives of 269 people including 82 children and 47 foreign nationals from 14 countries and injured more than 500 people.
“Despite repeated requests and those of pursuing the truth the incumbent government of Sri Lanka failed to mete out justice to the victims. Instead of uncovering the truth behind the attack and prosecuting those responsible there are attempts to harass and intimidate those who clamour for justice. As a result nearly three years after the horrendous crime, we are still in the dark as to what happened on that Easter Sunday.
As this is case of a serious violations of the fundamental rights of the aggrieved victims, we earnestly call upon the UNHRC and all its member countries to support the continuation of evidence gathering initiated by the council last year and to devise a means to ensure an investigation to unravel the truth behind the Easter Sunday massacre”
