Sri Lanka’s top court orders former president to compensate 2023 Easter bombings victims
david waker
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Sri Lanka’s top court orders former president to compensate 2023 Easter bombings victims
Sri Lanka`s Supreme Court on Thursday determined the country`s former President Maithripala Sirisena and 4 different senior authorities officers liable for failing to save you the 2019 Easter bombings that killed at the least 290 human beings and injured hundreds.
A seven-choose bench dominated Sirisena became negligent due to the fact he didn’t save you the tragedy notwithstanding being in ownership of credible intelligence caution of the attacks.
The courtroom docket ordered Sirisena to pay $273,three hundred from his private price range to own circle of relatives contributors of the victims.
The different officers had been ordered to pay a complete of $574,000. The courtroom docket additionally ordered that a victims` fund be mounted on the Office of Reparation to “look into the alleged underpayment or nonpayment” of compensation.
It additionally directed the authorities to “take suitable disciplinary action” towards former State Intelligence Service Chief Nilantha Jayawardena for his “lapses and failures.”
The verdict comes extra than 3 years after a chain of bombs ripped via church buildings and resorts in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Several of these bombs exploded interior church buildings all through Easter offerings in 3 cities. Christians in Sri Lanka account for much less than 10% of the country`s population.
Shortly after the attacks, the Sri Lankan authorities admitted it had didn’t act on a couple of warnings from intelligence agencies, consisting of from India and the United States.
