Ranil Wickremesinghe said he would appoint a committee to probe allegations made in a recent Channel 4 report.
Sri Lanka’s president has said he will appoint a committee chaired by a retired supreme court judge to investigate allegations made in a UK television report that the South Asian country’s intelligence was complicit in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s decision to appoint a committee headed by a judge to investigate claims that Sri Lankan intelligence had a hand in the bombings that were carried out by Islamic militants came under pressure from opposition lawmakers, religious leaders, activists as well as the victims’ relatives. They say that previous investigations failed to reveal the truth behind the bombings.
In a programme broadcast on Tuesday, Channel 4 interviewed a man who said he had arranged a meeting between a local so-called Islamic State-inspired group, National Thowheed Jamath, and a top state intelligence official loyal to former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to formulate a plot to create instability and enable Mr Rajapaksa, a former senior defence official, to win the 2019 presidential election.
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