Form a human chain on 21st April to demand justice for Easter Attacks victims - Cardinal

by Zulfick Farzan 18-04-2023 | 9:27 AM

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Head of Sri Lanka's Catholic Church His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith has invited all the people to form a people's platform to demand for the truth and justice over the 2019 April 21st Terror Attacks.

The Archbishop of Colombo was speaking to reporters in Colombo on Monday (17).

"I would like our fellow citizens to join us, irrespective of differences of racial, religious and political party affiliation to make up a human chain which will call upon all our leaders to render justice to the victims of the Easter attacks and to strengthen the hands of freedom and justice in our motherland," said his Eminence.

His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith requested the people of Sri Lanka to observe two minutes silence at 08:45 A.M. and to remain in the line to form the human chain from 08:30 AM to 09:00 AM.

His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith also noted that according to the Parliamentary Select Committee there was a political plot in play.

"It is four years now since the tragic murderof 272 innocent worshippers in churches and visitors in hotels on the fateful Easter Sunday of 2019. Yet, it has not been possible for us upto now to identify the perpetrators behind these attacks and to bring those responsible to book. We have never given up our efforts to find the truth behind these attacks and that we continue to be committed to that cause," he noted.

"We recall vividly the statement made in earlier times by the former Attorney General that behind these attacks, one of the most cruel attacks that happened in recent times, there was a grand conspiracy. It is clear to us and to man others that these attacks were a plot organized in order to gain political power. Even the Parliamentary Select Committee appointed that time by the Yahapalana government affirms so in its report in the Executive Summary, page three, it is very clearly written that there was a political plotm" stressed His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith.