Sri Lanka's President announced his intention to establish a committee that will be tasked with investigating allegations presented in a British television report in 2019.
Sri Lanka's president will appoint a committee that will probe allegations of complicity in the 2019 bombings that killed 269 people.The statement said that a former attorney general"has made similar claims, suggesting the existence of a mastermind behind the devastating Easter bomb attack." It said that a parliamentary committee would separately investigate and"address these concerns comprehensively.
In a program broadcast Tuesday, Channel 4 interviewed a man who said had arranged a meeting between a local Islamic State-inspired group, National Thowheed Jamath, and a top state intelligence official loyal to former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to formulate a plot to create instability and enable Rajapaksa, a former senior defense official, to win the 2019 presidential election.
Rajapaksa was forced to resign in mid-2022 after mass protests over the country’s worst economic crisis., saying that the claim that"a group of Islamic extremists launched suicide attacks in order to make me president is absurd." Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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