Six Years On: A Nation Still Healing from the Scars of Easter Sunday - LNW Lanka News Web

D.P.S. Jayaraj After the local government elections were announced, a new electoral alliance emerged in the Eastern Province. The Tamil People’s Liberation Tigers Party led by Pillayan alias Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan and the Tamil Progressive Alliance led by Sadasivam Viyazhendran formed the Eastern Tamil Alliance. Within a few weeks, the new alliance was strengthened by the joining of the Tamil United Freedom Front led by Colonel Karuna ali…

Easter Attacks: Cardinal demands justice on sixth anniversary

Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, today (April 21) presented a series of requests to Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, urging that those responsible for the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks be brought to justice without further delay. Cardinal Ranjith made these appeals during the main memorial service held this morning at St. Anthony’s Shrine in Kochchikade, commemorating the victims of the Easter Sunday attacks on th…

Six Years On: A Nation Still Healing from the Scars of Easter Sunday - LNW Lanka News Web

By: Isuru Parakrama April 21, Colombo (LNW): Six years have passed since the morning of April 21, 2019, when Sri Lanka was shaken to its core by a series of coordinated bombings that tore through churches and luxury hotels, claiming the lives of over 260 innocent people and injuring over 500 more. As the country marks the sixth anniversary of the Easter Sunday attacks, memories remain painfully vivid, and the call for justice continues to echo a…

Easter Sunday carnage probe: More questions than answers • Sri Lanka Brief

The sixth anniversary of the Easter Sunday terror attacks, which claimed about 270 lives and left more than 500 persons injured, falls today. Those who have lost their near and dear ones in the tragedy are still crying out for justice. There have been four Presidents and three governments since the savage terror attacks, yet the search for the masterminds behind them is still ongoing. A few weeks ago, the incumbent NPP government had the public…