Easter Sunday Probe outcome should not be predetermined

There is no denying that justice must be meted out to the victims of the Easter Sunday attacks that took place six years ago.

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Yet, what does it mean? Also there is no denying that lives lost in the macabre terrorist attacks would not return, or that nobody is capable of breathing life to those approximately 270 people killed in the bombings.

Only thing the authorities can do is to bring those who have planned and executed the carnage before the law and punish them in proportion to the dastardly crime. The inevitable question then arises is “who are they?” Was it the National Thawheed Jama’ath (NTJ), to which the suicide bombers belonged to, or were there any other individuals or organisations behind the crime?

The issue has been so politicised that the ruling parties that were in power before the current National People’s Power (NPP) alliance seem to want to see the books closed on the matter, putting the whole blame on one of the dead terrorists or one who is in custody. The NPP and some others including the Catholic Church as well as the majority of the Catholic community seem to prefer to see a mastermind who had planned, guided and executed the barbaric killings of three hundred people in three tourist hotels and three churches.