Instead of taking responsibility for the 2019 Easter attacks and serving them justice, President Maithripala Senanayake avoided them. What they had was a political game. It was recognized by the intelligent people of this country at the same time. As a result of their political game, many innocent civilians died in this country.
Meanwhile, despite receiving intelligence information that a terrorist attack was going to take place on Easter Sunday in 2019, a special court verdict was announced against the relevant authorities for not taking steps to prevent it. The Supreme Court ruled that former President Maithripala Sirisena, former Defense Secretary Hemasiri Fernando, former Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara, former Chief of State Intelligence Nilantha Jayawardena, former Chief of National Intelligence Sisira Mendis have violated basic human rights.
Accordingly, former President Maithripala Sirisena will receive 100 million rupees, former Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara and former Intelligence Chief Nilantha Jayawardena will receive 75 million rupees each, former Defense Secretary Hemasiri Fernando will receive 50 million rupees, and former National Intelligence Chief Sisira Mendis will receive 75 million rupees each. 10 million rupees has also been ordered to be paid as compensation from his personal money.
The court ordered that the government should pay 1 million rupees each for one person who was killed after collecting all those money and also ordered to pay compensation of 5 lakh rupees to one person who was seriously injured.
Furthermore, the Supreme Court has ordered to take disciplinary action against the former head of the State Intelligence Service Nilantha Jayawardene within 6 months and has also ordered the Attorney General to immediately monitor the related matters and report to the court.
The court has given the order announcing the decision of 12 petitions submitted by the stakeholders saying that their basic human rights were violated by not taking steps to prevent the attack.
Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, Bhuvaneka Aluvihare, L.T.B. Dehideniya, Murdu Fernando, S. The decision has been announced by the seven-member Supreme Court bench comprising Messrs. Thureiraja, A.H.M.D. Nawaz and Shiran Gunaratne.
The 12 fundamental rights petitions were filed by Nandana Sirimanna, a father whose two children died in the bombing, Janath Vidanage, a tourist businessman, Sarath Iddamalgoda, three Catholic priests, and lawyer Moditha Ekanayake, who was injured in the Shangri-La bombing.