Colombo Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith writes to Sri Lanka President

COLOMBO: The head of Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church has written to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa seeking legal action against several key individuals including former President Maithripala Sirisena and then Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe over the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings.

A letter to the president dated July 13 and signed by Colombo Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, six auxiliary bishops and 27 Catholic priests, called for further investigation into the findings of the presidential commission of inquiry (PCoI) that probed the Easter attack and the implementation of its recommendations.

“It has been 26 months since the Easter Sunday bombings on April 21, 2019.

“Nearly five months have passed since the final report of the PCoI into the attack was released.

However, we would like to express our sincere concern that the perpetrators of this attack, the people who planned it, and the process of properly locating and prosecuting those responsible for preventing the massacre have so far been largely slow.” the letter said.