Amid Emergency, Sri Lanka Acting President seeks UK's help for probe into Easter Sunday Attack

Colombo, Jul 18: The Acting President of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Monday (Jul 18) that he is asking for assistance of the UK govt and their intelligence services because a proper Easter Sunday investigation has not been carried out which indicates that the issue has not been fully resolved.

 

 

 

 

The Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that he is requesting assistance owing to the incomplete nature of the Easter Sunday investigations. The island nation presently has several issues stranding in front of it that have resulted in the extremely worsened crisis in Sri Lanka. The Easter Sunday attack is one of them, in fact it is the most dominant incident that eventually caused a domino effect on the worsening Sri Lankan situation.

 

 

 

The Easter Sunday attack of Sri Lanka of 2019 created a havoc around Sri Lanka and largely impacted the tourism sector of the island nation as the terror attack lead to fear and uncertainty about safety and security among foreign tourist, who were the primary source of Sri Lankan economy. The COVID 19 pandemic and related lockdowns that followed further pushed the Sri Lankan economy into rift. Thus Ranil Wickremesinghe's decision to resume effective investigation of the Easter Sunday Terror attack during a severe ongoing political and economic crisis is a statement of political consciousness.

 

On Apr 21, 2019 three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the capital Colombo were targeted in a series of coordinated terrorist suicide bombings. Over 250 people were killed and scores suffered injuries. A local Islamic terror jihadist group called National Toweeth Jama'ath had claimed responsibility of the attack.