Seven years after coordinated bombings shattered Easter Sunday across Sri Lanka's churches and hotels, a high court has delivered convictions against 15 men for their role in a massacre that killed 267 and wounded nearly 6,000. The verdicts, arriving after nearly five years of trial, offer a formal reckoning — yet the Catholic church and many survivors sense that the full architecture of the crime remains unexamined. Justice, when it finally arrives, does not always arrive whole.
Sri Lanka convicts 15 in 2019 Easter bombings that killed 267
267 people killed and nearly 6,000 wounded in coordinated bombings targeting churches during Easter services and luxury hotels frequented by foreign tourists.