Sri Lanka will investigate allegations of intelligence complicity in 2019 Easter bombings

By KRISHAN FRANCIS
Associated Press

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that Sri Lankan intelligence had complicity in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people. Junior defense minister, Pramitha Tennakoon, told Parliament Wednesday that the Cabinet has decided to appoint a committee to probe the allegations in the British Channel 4 report, in which a man interviewed said he arranged a meeting between a local Islamic State-inspired group and a top state intelligence official to hatch a plot to create insecurity in Sri Lanka. The man interviewed said the alleged aim was to enable Gotabaya Rajapaksa to win the presidential election that year.