More than three years after the deadly Easter bombings of 2019, Sri Lanka’s tiny Christian minority is still waiting for legal justice.
Country’s Catholic Church on Friday urged the government to reveal the “larger conspiracy” behind the Islamic jihad suicide bombings that hit six crowded churches during the Easter Sunday service and three luxury hotels, killing hundreds of worshipers and tourists in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo and cities across the island nation.
Local Christian leaders believe that the masterminds behind the coordinated jihad attack have largely gone unpunished. The country’s “Catholic Church say they suspect a larger conspiracy and are demanding that the leaders be revealed,” the Associated Press reported.
Muslims, who make up nearly 10 percent of Sri Lanka’s total population, have been at odds with practically every other religious community in the island.
In 2018, the island nation witnessed large-scale clashes between Buddhists and Muslims after Buddhist groups accused Muslims of forced conversions, desecrating their ancient holy sites.
Christians, largely Roman Catholic, make up less than eight percent of the country’s population of 22 million. Despite being the smallest religious monitory, the jihadis targeted the Christians for the largest single terrorist attack in the Island’s history.
The AP reported:
Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church urged the country Friday to criminally prosecute its former leader for negligence, a day after the top court ordered him to pay compensation to the victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attacks that killed nearly 270 people. (…)
Duthika Perera, an attorney representing Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, said the church expects the attorney general to file criminal charges against former President Maithripala Sirisena and four others whom the court found to have neglected their duties to protect the people.
In its decision Thursday on a fundamental rights petition — filed by families of victims, religious leaders and well-wishers — the court said two top intelligence officials, a former secretary to the ministry of defense and Sirisena, who was also defense minister and commander in chief of the armed forces, failed to act on near-specific foreign intelligence that was received prior to the attacks. (…)
The government has prosecuted several people in connection with the attacks, but leaders of the country’s Catholic Church say they suspect a larger conspiracy and are demanding that the leaders be revealed. Ranjith on Friday called for a deeper investigation.
Weeks after the jihad suicide bombings, Sri Lanka’s government tried to enforce new emergency laws aimed at combating the threat of Islamic terrorism, including a ban on the Sharia-mandated burqa and other types of face coverings for security reasons.
The international media, however, pounced on the government, accusing it of discriminating against Muslims. “Sri Lanka’s face veil ban stokes fear of Muslims,” the Washington Post claimed, quoting “experts.”
“That needless restriction means that Muslim women whose practice leads them to cover up now won’t be able to leave home,” then-Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth complained just days after the jihad massacre.
Kalit says
Srilankan government was anxious not to jeopardise its close relationship with Islamic Pakistan by acting on specific Indian intelligence warnings, specifying the day, the time and location of the intended targets for the terrorist jihad. In their estimation, 200+ dead, devastation and grievous damage to its tourist industry was a small price to pay for keeping Pakistan in good humour. Both are now brothers suffering complete economic catastrophe.
OLD GUY says
Yes Islam the religion of love and kill at its finest. Those Christians will have to wait a long-long time for justice. Vary Sad
Walter Sieruk says
About those insidious and murderous Islamic terror affronts which occurred in Sri Lanka on an Easter Sunday 21, 2019. Those horrendous jihad murder attacks were the outcome of the Islamic doctrine from the Qu‘’ran [the Koran] of a sexual paradise with many virgins, houris , in it for the male Muslim /jihadist who dies fighting in the jihad for the cause of Islam is found in the “holy book” of Islam, the Koran, in Sura 44:54. 55: 56. 78:31. Also there is the Koranic instruction of Sura 9:111 which teaches, “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Getting back to the origin doctrine of Islam from the Koran of a sex –filled paradise with many houris for the use only by the male jihadist who dies fight for the advancement of Islam.
All this started when the founder and prophet of Islam, Muhammad manufactured Islam he put , had stolen, some of sex doctrine of Zoroastrian mythology and a yet smaller bit of Hindu mythological sex teachings along with as well as mixture pagan Arabian folklore and myth plus a heavy dose of Judaism and Christianity . Also some of it apostate “Christianity” For the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, couldn’t discern the difference between genuine Bible based Christianity and bogus “Christianity.”
Those words and teaching Muhammad gathered from many sources, including the virgins /sex place mythology. , and taught as “Divine Truth” were written down on many things then later compiled and then went into the composition of the Koran. So the hoax of the Koran is actually a mixture and fusion Judaism Christianity and mythology of other religions and now the Muslim clerics with the Koranic brainwashing of young Muslims who are thoroughly mind programmed into believing this Islamic/Koranic virgins myth.
This deception of false doctrine /myth into the thoughts of some people was predicted in the Bible along with the false teachers who engage in the indoctrination of such a myth /doctrine into the minds and hearts other people . For it is written “For the time will come when they will not stand wholesome teaching, but will follow their own fancy and gather a crown of teachers to tickle their ears. They will stop their ears to the truth and turn to mythology.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [N.E.B.]
Walter Sieruk says
In Sri Lanka those jihadists at who murdered all those people on Easter Sunday in in their horrendously murderous Islamic jihad attacks who are also now dead themselves discovered right after their death that a Qu ‘ran contains many false doctrines , including that of a paradise for a Muslim who dies fighting in the jihad for Islam.
For immediately right after those jihadist/Muslims died, they discovered the hard way, to their shock of horror, that the promises found in the Qu ‘ran about obtaining a paradise with virgin was a lie and a false teaching . For right after they died to their shock and horror, that found themselves trapped and suffering in an awful terrible place that the Bible called hell, Luke 16:22-31.
For the Bible informs its reader that a murder “will not inherit the kingdom of God” Galatians 5:21. This is further upheld in Revelation 21:8.