Sri Lanka Sentences Ex-Officials to Death Over 2019 Easter Bombings
Sri Lanka has sentenced the former police chief and former defense secretary to death for their failure to prevent the 2019 Easter Sunday terrorist attacks. The bombings killed 269 people across the country.
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Sri Lanka’s ex-police chief sentenced to death over 2019 Easter bombings
A Sri Lanka court sentenced former police chief Pujith Jayasundara to death on Friday for failing to prevent the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, which killed 279 people including 45 foreigners. In a majority decision, a three-judge bench ruled that the former inspector general had failed in his duties to stop the deadly attacks, blamed on a home-grown Islamist extremist group. Jayasundara, 66, can appeal against his sentence in the Supreme Court. Sri Lanka has not carried out the death sentence...
By Agence France-Presse
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Jayasundara, 66, and Fernando, 76, can appeal against the sentence in the Supreme Court, but have been remanded to judicial custody until granted bail.
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The court ruled that former police chief Pujith Jayasundara and ex-defence secretary Hemasiri Fernando failed to act despite receiving warnings about a possible attack.
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