The new government of Sri Lanka announced a probe into the 2019 Easter bombings that killed 279 people on Tuesday ( October 8 ), claiming that previous investigations had failed to find other perpetrators for the country’s worst-ever attack against civilians.
Authorities later claimed that a major Sri Lankan intelligence official was responsible for the murder bombings, which were carried out on three temples and three hotels.
An American intelligence agency’s warning that an attack was on the horizon was later refuted by various investigations.
” There have been several charges of investigation, but some information was suppressed”, foreign minister Vijitha Herath told reporters.
” We want to get out why there were anomalies in the previous studies, take a fresh look at the event, highlight the culprits, and bring them to justice”.
Herath’s news came weeks after President Anura Kumara Dissanayake dismissed Sri Lanka’s intelligence chief, Sandy Sallay.
Sallay had met with the planes and had been in contact with them prior to the assault, according to a report from British journalist Channel 4 from last year.
A journalist informed the media that he had authorized the attack in order to influence Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s victory in the presidential vote that year.
Rajapaksa declared his candidacy two days after the bombing, won the November election by a flood after promising to put an end to Islamist extremists.
Sallay, who has denied any involvement in the attacks, was promoted to mind Sri Lanka’s major spy firm following Rajapaksa’s succeed.