Former Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has paid the total compensation of 100 million Sri Lankan rupees to the victims of the Easter Sunday assaults 2019 who killed 270 folks, together with 11 Indians, throughout his tenure.
Sirisena, 72, was ordered by the Supreme Courtroom pay SLR 100 million as compensation to the victims for its negligence in stopping one of many nation’s worst terrorist assaults regardless of having credible info of an imminent assault.
Their attorneys mentioned the total fee of Rs 100 million was accomplished on August 16. 9 suicide bombers belonging to the native Islamic extremist group Nationwide Thawheed
The ISIS-linked Jamaat (NTJ) group carried out a collection of devastating explosions that ripped by three Catholic church buildings and as many luxurious accommodations on April 21, 2019, killing practically 270 folks, together with 11 Indians, and injuring greater than 500. Sirisena was additionally the defence minister on the time.
The assault sparked a political storm as then-President Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had been blamed for his or her failure to forestall the assaults regardless of advance info having been offered.
In mid-July, Sirisena knowledgeable the court docket that he had already paid SLR 58 million and requested six extra months to pay the steadiness of SLR 42 million.
A presidential inquiry panel appointed by Sirisena after the assaults satirically discovered the then president responsible of failing to forestall the assaults.