In a significant and controversial development in the long-running investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Sri Lanka arrested the former Director General of the State Intelligence Service (SIS), Suresh Sallay, on February 25.
Sri Lankan Supreme Court has ruled that Former President and the police and intelligence chiefs have violated the fundamental rights of the victims by failing to act to prevent the Easter Sunday attacks in 2019 despite receiving intelligence information.
At the special invitation of Pope Francis, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, Archbishop of Colombo, and a group of 56 others, including the bishops of Sri Lanka, left for the Vatican, April 22.
