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Controversial monk’s presidential pardon overturned by Sri Lanka’s top court

Galagodaatte Gnanasara served less than a year in prison before being pardoned by Maithripala Sirisena

The Independent UK

Morning Digest | Left candidates trounce ABVP in JNU students’ union elections; Kangana, Arun Govil in BJP fifth list, and more

The Hindu Morning Digest gives a select list of stories to start the day. Read the top news today on March 25, 2024.

The Hindu

Sri Lankan protesters demand justice for Easter 2019 attacks

Thousands of Sri Lankans are holding a protest in the capital, demanding justice for the victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attacks that killed nearly 270 people

The Independent UK

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Sri Lanka Catholic Church hails Supreme Court order for ex-president over bombings

The leader of Sri Lanka's Catholic Church on Friday praised a Supreme Court decision to order the former president and four officials to pay compensation for the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 260 people.

Reuters

Sri Lanka church seeks criminal justice for Easter bombings

Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church wants the country’s former leader to be criminally prosecuted for negligence

The Independent UK

Sri Lanka ex-president Sirisena ordered to compensate 2019 Easter bombing victims

Supreme court finds top government, police and intelligence officials were responsible for ‘failing to prevent’ bombings

The Guardian - UK

Sri Lankan court orders ex-leader to pay victims of bombings

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has ruled that inaction by the country’s former president and four others led to Easter Sunday bomb attacks in 2019 that killed nearly 270 people and ordered them to pay compensation for violating the basic rights of the victims and their families

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Sri Lankan court summons ex-president over 2019 bombings

A Sri Lankan court has issued a summons ordering an ex-president to appear in a case alleging he failed to prevent suicide bomb attacks in 2019 that killed nearly 270 people

The Independent UK

Restoration: On Sri Lanka’s return to parliamentary democracy

Sri Lanka will be well served by a return to parliamentary democracy

The Hindu

Sri Lankan power family falls from grace as economy tanks

With one brother president, another prime minister and three more family members cabinet ministers, it appeared that the Rajapaksa clan had consolidated its grip on power in Sri Lanka after decades in and out of government

The Independent UK

Ranil Wickremesinghe: Sri Lanka’s returning prime minister

Wickremesinghe returns for a sixth term as Sri Lanka PM with the country mired in political and economic crises.

Al Jazeera

Party official: Wickremesinghe to be appointed Sri Lankan PM

A party official says five-time former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will be reappointed in an effort to bring stability to the island nation, engulfed in a political and economic crisis

The Independent UK

Lawmaker: Sri Lanka president agrees to remove brother as PM

A prominent lawmaker says Sri Lanka’s president has agreed to replace his older brother as prime minister in a proposed interim government to solve a political impasse caused by the country’s economic crisis

The Independent UK

Sri Lanka president Gotabaya Rajapaksa agrees to remove brother Mahinda as PM

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s president on Friday agreed to replace his older brother as prime minister in a proposed interim government to solve a political crisis caused by the country’s worst economic crisis.

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‘A curse’: Three years since Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka

Protesters in Colombo demand justice on the third anniversary of devastating attacks in several churches and hotels.

The Guardian - AU

Federal police blame ‘oversight’ for delay in Australian review of Sri Lankan war crime allegations

AFP not aware of ‘administrative oversight’ until letter from justice groups seeking update on 2019 complaint about Jagath Jayasuriya

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