Sri Lankan Catholics “cannot accept” new consultations on Easter attack

COLOMBO – The appointment of new committees to investigate the deadly 2019 Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka has not satisfied the country’s Catholic Church or victims’ families, who say the investigations lack independence.

On April 21, 2019, bombs destroyed three churches and three luxury hotels, killing more than 250 people, including 42 foreigners from 14 countries. Nine suicide bombers belonging to the local Islamist extremist group National Thowheed Jama’ath (NTJ), linked to the Islamic State, were found to have carried out the attacks.