INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A retired Senior DIG of Sri Lanka Police has shed new light on claims that the former Sri Lankan government officials may have colluded with
a terrorist group for political gain, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of people, including Australians, in the 2019 Easter Sunday
bombings, ABC News reported.The attacks by Islamic state-inspired terrorists on churches and luxury hotels killed 269 people including two
Australians and injured about 500 other people.The head of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka is now calling on the Australian government to
to help former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa win government by creating a national security crisis from the attacks.Now, the
former head of the investigation into the bombings has spoken out for the first time about what he claims was political interference which
derailed the police probe.Former senior deputy inspector general of police Ravi Seneviratne said his team was taken off the case when
than 90 people in connection with the Easter Sunday attacks, but Seneviratne told ABC that investigators hit roadblocks when they found
Investigation, which traced regular communications with the NTJ terrorists to an Internet Protocol address used by a secret military
intelligence operative, ABC reported.Seneviratne also claimed that military intelligence officers visited the house of one suicide bomber on
concealed the role of the NTJ in the murder of two constables in east Sri Lanka six months before the Easter Sunday attacks.In documents
filed in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka last year, Seneviratne alleged the Directorate of Military Intelligence and the Security
and then head of military intelligence, Suresh Salley in February 2018, 14 months before the Easter Sunday bombings.Maulana claimed to
State Roads Minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan, has accused him of concocting the allegations to bolster his claim for asylum
month, Channel 4 declined to appear before a commission of inquiry launched by current Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, citing a
need to protect confidential sources.The head of the Catholic church in Sri Lanka, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, called on the Australian
