Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has issued a statement over Channel 4’s new ‘Dispatches’ documentary on the 2019 Easter Sunday attack in Sri Lanka.

In an illustrious event held at Kularatne Hall, Ananda College, Colombo, under the patronage of president Ranil Wickremesinghe, the launch ceremony of two new literary works, “Tharage Agamanaya” and “Kadol Aththu” (translation) and an enchanting song titled “Ehe Kanduleli,” all authored by General Kamal Gunaratne (retired), secretary of the ministry of defence, took place yesterday (06).

Contradicting views have emerged from the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) after a documentary with shocking details on the Easter Sunday massacre in 2019 was released by the UK based Channel 4 on Tuesday (5) night.

The JVP-led National People's Power (NPP) asked the government to immediately remove Major General Suresh Sallay from his position as Director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS).

State minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan yesterday (06) responded in parliament to allegations of is involvement in the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks.

Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith has expressed his gratitude to Britain’s Channel 4 television for the interest and trouble it took to focus attention worldwide on an alleged plot behind the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings.

Only the swindlers of public money will unite to protect this murderous government, SJB MP S.M. Marikkar said today (06), adding that his party had no need whatsoever to join forces with killers.

Claiming that Channel 4 has a historical rivalry with the Rajapaksas after finishing the war in 2009, Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa today (06) questioned why the video on the Easter Sunday attacks released by Channel 4 was deleted from their website if there was any credibility when producing it.

Sri Lanka suffers from a continuing accountability deficit - be it for war crime atrocities, more recent human rights violations, corruption, or abuse of power - which must be addressed for the country to move forward, according to a UN Human Rights Office report published on Wednesday.