‘Easter Sunday attackers must be sentenced to death’ – President
President Maithripala Sirisena says all perpetrators of the Easter Sunday attacks should be sentenced to death.
Speaking at a function yesterday the Head of State said all suspects in the Easter attacks have been arrested.
The President also stated that he does not intend on protecting any respondent in the incident and neither will he abolish the death penalty.
President Sirisena noted that the death penalty, under the penal code, is delivered for various crimes including murder, conspiring against the state and for being involved in terrorism.
The President said if the motion to abolish the death penalty is passed in Parliament, all those responsible for the Easter Sunday attacks will go unpunished, while claiming that the motion is also being brought to protect perpetrators from being punished.
President Sirisena added that there is evidence against those behind the Easter attacks, while stating that they should be issued the death sentence when they are brought before Court.
The Head of State stressed however that if the death penalty is abolished then the perpetrators behind the Easter Sunday bombings will also go unpunished.
(Source: News Radio)
Latest Headlines in Sri Lanka
- General Amnesty announced for Tri-Forces AWOL personnel, excludes Commissioned Officers April 20, 2024
- Sri Lanka and United States discuss Economic Support and Reforms April 19, 2024
- Israeli missile strikes Iran amid escalating Middle East tensions April 19, 2024
- President says he will build a Sri Lanka that the youth aspire to April 19, 2024
- NPP presents 7-point pledge on Easter Sunday Attack to Cardinal Ranjith April 18, 2024
If nagananda comes to power then the first man to be tried for the easter sunday attack will be sirisens for neglect of duty. Nagananda being a lawayers must have found evidence to hang him.
Agree that all those who committed, or aided and abetted, the heinous terrorist acts on Easter Sunday must be tried and executed. In this case “aided and abetted” should naturally include those persons who failed to stop this massacre despite repeat warnings from the Indian intelligence of this attack, warnings that came with info right down to the very terrorists’ names! The rot here runs deep I am afraid and it must be bleach-killed if we are to survive as a nation.
Excellent comment by Simon,
But Simon, those who went to Thiruupathi and then to Singapore for shopping for son’s wedding, ignoring strong intelligence reports, do you reckon they will sign their own death warrants?
Go to Philippines and live with your mate, you tyrant!