Justice delayed, justice denied and a mockery of justice

In the morn of Easter Sunday 21 April 2019, suicide bombers exploded their deadly payloads of explosives in three Churches and three luxury hotels in the country killing over two-hundred civilians and injuring over five-hundred others.

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A particular Christian Member of Parliament -in the aftermath of the bombings admitted his father had warned him not to attend service that day.

Our then President was out of the country. The then premier was out of Colombo. Yet, the intelligence services reportedly had received information on the possibility of an attack taking place. Yet, did nothing to prevent the attack.

The attack was given a political twist to make it appear that the security of the country was endangered. The then government of President Maithripala Sirisena was not keen to make any progress regarding the mass killing. At the presidential election of 16 November 2019, we the gullible electors, voted into power Gotabaya Rakapaksa who promised to unveil the hand behind the killings.

Gotabaya made no serious effort to expose the killers but successfully roused anti-Islamic sentiments.

Following Gotabaya’s overthrow as President of the country, Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected President by parliament after President Gotabaya fled the country. Unfortunately Wickremesinghe has been accused of dilly-dallying and doing little to identify the “hidden hand’ behind the Easter Sunday killings.