Seven years after Easter Sunday 2019, when coordinated bombings across Sri Lanka's churches and hotels claimed 279 lives, a court has convicted fifteen individuals for their roles in one of the country's darkest modern tragedies. The verdict closes one chapter of legal reckoning while leaving another conspicuously open — for alongside the guilt of those who carried out the attacks runs the unresolved question of those who were warned and did not act. Justice, it seems, has arrived for the perpetrators, but accountability for the institutions meant to prevent the carnage remains a wound that th
Sri Lanka convicts 15 over 2019 Easter bombings that killed 279
279 people were killed in coordinated bombings at churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday 2019.