Politicking on the Easter Sunday massacre at its 5th anniversary
Sri Lanka, April 25 -- At a commemoration event at St. Anthony's Shrine in Kochchikade, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjit, maintained that The Roman Catholic church- in the majority Buddhist nation- no longer trusted the authorities to expose those behind the bombings
Five years ago, on Easter Sunday, a group of local Islamists carried out coordinated suicide attacks targeting three churches and tourist hotels, killing over 270 worshipers and tourists and wounding 500 others.
The fifth anniversary of that heinous crime, which fell last Sunday (April 21), turned out to be a sordid display of politicking by the political parties, the catholic clergy and other usual culprits, who claim to campaign for justice for the victims.
The National People's ...
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