Seven years after coordinated suicide bombings shattered Easter Sunday across Sri Lanka, a Colombo court has delivered its formal reckoning — sentencing 15 men to between 200 and 260 years in prison for sustaining the network that killed 279 people and wounded hundreds more. The verdict closes one chapter of a nearly five-year trial involving tens of thousands of charges and thousands of witnesses, yet it does not resolve the deeper question haunting the island: how much did the state itself know, and fail to prevent. Justice, in its measured way, moves forward — but the full truth of April 21
Sri Lanka convicts 15 men in 2019 Easter bombings, sentences exceed 200 years each
The 2019 Easter bombings killed 279 people and injured 574 others in coordinated suicide attacks on three churches and three luxury hotels.