Courtesy Adaderana Senior Officer of the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) revealed Zahran Hashim’s list of reasons for choosing Sri Lanka as the location of the attack, to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the bombings that took place on Easter Sunday 2019. Some of the reasons cited, in previously unreleased video footage of the bombers, […]

Courtesy Adaderana It was revealed before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) on the Easter Sunday attacks that the common practice of the Taj Samudra Hotel is to submit its guests’ details to the State Intelligence Service (SIS) and the President’s Security Division (PSD) on a daily basis. As such, on the day of the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks heard that Ringleader of the attacks Zahran Hashim and another bomber had engaged in a reconnaissance of the Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo two days prior to the attacks. The Commission also heard that a room was booked by one of the bombers […]

Mahinda Gunasekera 84 Tambrook Drive Agincourt, Ontario M1W 3L9 Canada Mayor Bonnie Crombie Mayor of the City of Mississauga Dear Mayor Bonnie Crombie, Your statement delivered on the day referred to as Tamil Memorial Day<https://www.facebook.com/TamilEelamMay18/videos/201602127308030/> _ I received a video statement made by you at the City Council carried in the Facebook of an organization […]

Courtesy Adaderana SP Shantha Wickremasinghe, in charge of Colombo Central District 01 at the time of Easter attacks, admitted to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry that although there were instructions given prior to the bombings to increase security at catholic churches, no action was taken believing that such warnings would have created public panic. This […]

MEDIA RELEASE Mahinda Rajapaksa Prime Minister On the 19th of May we mark the 11th anniversary of the victory against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. That was not a war against the Tamil people but against an organization designated by the FBI as the deadliest terrorists in the world. Due to the defeat of […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දෙමළ ඊළාම් විමුක්ති කොටි සංවිධානයට එරෙහි යුද ජයග්‍රහණයේ එකොළොස් වන සංවත්සරය අපි මැයි 19 වන දා සමරන්නෙමු. එය දෙමළ ජනතාවට එරෙහි යුද්ධයක් නොව ඇමරිකාවේ එෆ්.බී.අයි ආයතනය විසින් ලෝකයේ දරුණුම ත්‍රස්තවාදීන් හැටියට නම් කරනු ලැබූ සංවිධානයකට එරෙහි යුද්ධයක් විය. කොටි සංවිධානයේ පරාජය නිසා දෙමළ ජනතාවටද දැන් නිදහසේ ජීවත් වීමට ඉඩ ලැබී […]

Courtesy Hiru News DIG Chandana Athukorala, who was in charge of the Negombo division at the time of the attack</strong> DIG Chandana Athukorala, who was the SSP in charge of the Negombo division at the time of the attack, said that although the officers in the lower ranks were instructed to provide armed police protection […]

By Rohana Aryaratna Courtesy Ceylon Today It is a proven fact that LTTE terrorists led by a mentally deranged criminal changed their terror tactics by disguising themselves as saviours of the Tamils from the Sinhalese scourge. By transforming the conflict into an ethnic issue, they could easily brainwash innocent Tamil civilians into becoming a combatant […]

By A.J.A. Abeynayake  Courtesy The Island The Supreme Court, yesterday, fixed Sept 2, 3, and 4 for argument as regards the 12 petitions filed against former President Maithripala Sirisena, former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, former IGP Pujith Jayasundera and former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando for their failure to take action to prevent the Easter Sunday […]

By Norman Palihawadane Courtesy The Island A raid conducted by CID sleuths, investigating into last year’s Easter Sunday carnage, has yielded evidence which would certainly solve hitherto unknown mysteries and enable arrests of key politicians behind the terror attacks which killed 269 persons and injured over 450 others, according to highly placed sources. The new […]

Courtesy Adaderana A hotel in Palamunai in Kattankudy, which had been used by the Easter Sunday attacks ringleader Zahran Hashim to recruit Islamic women to his extremist cause, has been raided on Friday (08). The raid was carried out by the Special Task Force (STF) and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The location was uncovered […]

By Norman Palihawadane Courtesy The Island Acting Inspector General of Police has ordered the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) to conduct a thorough investigation into the Non-Governmental Organisation, headed by lawyer Ejaaz Hizbullah, who is in the custody of the CID, as a suspect in connection with the Easter Sunday attacks. The investigation into the NGO was ordered since it had been largely […]

Courtesy Adaderana An individual linked to the 2019 Easter Sunday terror bombings has been arrested in Kalpitiya by the Police. The suspect has been identified to be a trustee of an organization where Zahran Hashim, alleged ringleader behind the attacks, had conducted lectures. https://youtu.be/cxdaMXC5HVA Reportedly, the two sons of Mohamed Ibrahim had also conducted lectures […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Police says that investigations into the Easter Sunday terror attacks have uncovered a location in Sampur which had been used by the terrorists to carry out weapons training while a certain organization in Puttalam linked to the attackers has also been uncovered.  Investigations pertaining to the Easter Sunday attacks are progressing […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Police headquarters said that that there was irrefutable evidence to link Attorney-at-Law, Hejaaz Hisbullah, who had been recently taken into custody by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombings. Police spokesman Attorney-at-Law SP Jaliya Senaratne denied accusations the arrest had been made […]

ගෙවිඳු කුමාරතුංග සභාපති – යුතුකම ජාතික සංවිධානය පාස්කු ඉරිදා ප‍්‍රහාරය සිදු කෙරුණේ ඇයි, ඒ සඳහා පාස්කු ඉරිදා ම තෝරාගැනුණේ ඇයි, ඒ සඳහා මූලික ව ම කතෝලික දේවස්ථාන තෝරාගැනුණේ ඇයි යන ප‍්‍රශ්නවලට නිශ්චිත පිළිතුරු ඒ ප‍්‍රහාරයන්ට වසරක් පිරෙන මේ අවස්ථාවේ දී ද අපි නොදනිමු. එහෙත් ප‍්‍රහාරකයන් යම් අවස්ථාවක දී බෞද්ධ මුහුණුවරක් ගැනීම පිණිස සිවුරු හා සිල්රෙදි […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia US offers to help fight terrorism and the Catholic church reiterates commitment to religious harmony Colombo, April 21 (newsin.asia): The Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said in his message to make the first anniversary of the Easter Sunday suicide bombings in the island nation that he will identify and bring before the law […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Government would bring all culprits who planned, financed and supported the Easter bombing carnage that killed over 270 and wounded over 500 innocent people on last year’s Easter Sunday, to book soon, Defence Secretary Major General (Retired) Kamal Gunaratne has said. Issuing a statement yesterday that marked one-year of the coordinated bomb […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka today commemorates the one-year anniversary of the coordinated terror attacks that left the country devastated on the 21st of April 2019. A two-minute silence was observed at 8.45 am in remembrance of the victims of the tragic carnage which killed over 250 including foreigners and injured at least 500 people. On […]

Courtesy Adaderana Two Habeas Corpus petitions have been filed with the Appeals Court seeking the release of the attorney-at-law who was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on suspicion of having links to the Easter Sunday terror attacks. The petitions, filed by his father and brother through, have cited the Acting Inspector General of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Investigations have revealed that a second attack had been planned following the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, said Police Media Spokesman SP Jaliya Senaratne. The Police Media Spokesman, holding a special press conference at the Department of Government Information today (19), said that according to investigations, a second-tier team had been recruited and trained […]

Courtesy Adaderana Archbishop of Colombo His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith has appealed to all Sri Lankans to observe a two-minute silence at 8.45 am on April 21, in remembrance of those who were killed in the terrorist carnage on Easter Sunday last year. In a media briefing at the Archbishop’s House in Colombo today (16), […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් රජයේ ඉහළම තනතුරු දැරූ පුද්ගලයාගෙන් පවා ප්‍රශ්න කළ යුතු බව අගරදගුරු අතිඋතුම් මැල්කම් කාදිනල් රංජිත් හිමිපාණන් පවසනවා. 73 වන කොළඹ අගරදගුරු පදවි ප්‍රාප්තිය වෙනුවෙන් රාගම – බැසිලිකා දේවස්ථානයේ පැවති ළමාදින සමරු උත්සවයකට එක්වෙමින් උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව සඳහන් කළා. උන්වහන්සේ එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් කියා සිටියේ පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයට සම්බන්ධ ඉහළ සිට […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් එවක කැබිනට් අමාත්‍යවරුන් වශයෙන් කටයුතු කළ රිෂාඩ් බදියුදින් සහ කබීර් හෂීම් යන මහත්වරුන් තුර්කියේ ෆෙටෝ ත්‍රස්ත සංවිධානයට මුදල් සැපයූ මෙරට ව්‍යාපාර හා සම්බන්ධ වී ඇති බව පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරය පිළිබඳ සොයා බලන ජනාධිපති කොමිසමේදී අද අනාවරණය වුණා. ඒ විදේශ සබඳතා අමාත්‍යංශයේ යුරෝපා හා මධ්‍යම ආසියානු කලාපය භාර අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල්වරියගෙන් සිදූකළ සාක්ෂි විමසීමේදී.

Giriraj Bhattacharjee Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management On February 22, 2020, in response to reports of an attempted terror attack, the Maldives Police raided three houses on the Naifaru island of Lhaviyani Atoll. According to the Police, the residences were of three individuals accused of planning to set off an explosive device on the island. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the Easter Sunday attacks has handed over its second interim report to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The report was handed over to the President at the Presidential Secretariat this evening (02). The first interim report of the Commission was presented to the President on 20th December 2019. The […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් පාස්කු ඉරිදා දින ප්‍රහාරයක් එල්ල වන්නේ යැයි ප්‍රහාරය එල්ල වූ දින ලැබුණු පණිවුඩයේ දින වෙනස් කිරීමට සිය ඉහළ නිලධාරියා ලෙස කටයුතු කළ කොළඹ – උතුර කොට්ඨාස භාර පොලිස් අධිකාරීවරයා බලපෑම් කළ බව එවක ග්‍රෑන්ඩ්පාස් පොලිසියේ ස්ථානාධිපතිවරයා අද අනාවරණයක් සිදුකළා. ඒ පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් සොයාබැලීමට පත්කළ ජනාධිපති පරීක්ෂණ කොමිෂන් සභාව හමුවේ සාක්ෂි […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් පාස්කු ඉරිදා ත්‍රස්ත ප්‍රහාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් පරීක්ෂණ පවත්වන ජනාධිපති කොමිසම හමුවේ දැනට හෙළි වූ කරුණු මත සැකකරුවන් ලෙස නම්කළ හැකි පුද්ගලයින්ට එරෙහිව නීතිය ක්‍රියාත්මක කළ යුතු බව පූජ්‍ය මාගල්කන්දේ සුදත්ත හිමියන් පවසනවා. උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ අද පැවති ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකදී.

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරය පිළිබඳව සඳහන් වූ ඊමේල් පණිවුඩයක් කොළඹ උතුර භාර පොලිස් අධිකාරීවරයාට කලින් ලැබී තිබුනත් ඔහු එම පණිවුඩය පොලිස් ස්ථානවලට යොමු කර ඇත්තේ ප්‍රහාරය එල්ල වූ දිනයේ පස්වරුවේ බව පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරය පිළිබඳව සොයා බලන ජනාධිපති කොමිසම හමුවේ අනාවරණය වුණා. ඒ ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොලිසියේ විද්‍යුත් තැපෑල පරීක්ෂා කළ ශ්‍රී ලංකා පරිඝණක හදිසි […]