Sri Lankan church launches a book on Easter Sunday Commission reports, as Cardinal says he has no faith in the present government to deliver justice.
“I have no faith in the present government and the Attorney General's Department,” says Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, Archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Cardinal Ranjith addressed the gathering via a video message.
On February 19, Cardinal Ranjith spoke at BMICH, Colombo, during the launch of the book "Thitha" (Full Stop) edited by a panel of scholars including Father Lal Pushpadeva OMI, the National Director of the Communications Commission of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Sri Lanka.
It is an Easter Sunday Attack Report Query. The book published in Sinhala contains an analysis of five separate Commission reports on the Easter Sunday attacks.
On April 21, 2019, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital, Colombo were attacked via suicide bombings.
“By the end of three years, we can hardly believe that justice has been done. This Government and this Attorney General concealed the evidence given by the Presidential Commission. We have sent letters asking for those hidden volumes. Both the previous government and the present government have acted to conceal the evidence without considering those requests. What is happening now is that justice is not being served due to the misconduct of the Attorney General and the Attorney General's Department,” the prelate pointed out.
Cardinal Ranjith said that “this government has not fulfilled any of the promises given to us. This has been made a joke by protecting state leaders and high officials who did not know the matter clearly and did not take action to prevent it.”
“We have a feeling that one day, without us, without the leaders in this government, by a future government, or if this justice is done to us, we will have to wait and see,” the Cardinal said.
Copies of the book were also handed over to the victims of the attack.
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