Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, the head of Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church, called on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) at its 49th session in Geneva on Monday (07) to intervene in unvralling the “truth” behind the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings.
“As this is a case of a serious violation of the fundamental rights of the aggrieved victims, we earnestly call upon the UNHRC and all its member countries to support the continuation of evidence gathering initiated by the Council last year and to devise a means to ensure an impartial investigation to unravel the truth behind the Easter Sunday massacre,” the cardinal said, addressing the council via video.
Cardinal Ranjith claimed that though the attack – which killed 269 including 47 foreign nationals from 14 countries – first appeared to be the work of Islamic extremists, subsequent investigations indicated that “this massacre was part of a grand political plot.”