Ranil to make special statement on committees he appointed to probe Easter Sunday attacks

Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe is to make a special statement tomorrow on the two committees he had appointed to probe the Easter Sunday bomb attacks.  

Sources close to Wickremesinghe said he has decided to come up with a statement following the revelations made by former Minister Udaya Gammanpila on Monday. 

Gammanpila said two officers, Shani Abeysekera and Ravi Seneviratne, whom incumbent President Anura Kumra Dissanayake has appointed to start a fresh probe on the Easter Sunday attacks have been held responsible for ignoring prior warnings on the Easter Sunday bomb attacks, while calling for their removal. 

Gammanpila, who revealed the findings of the committee appointed by Wickremesinghe to look into the actions taken by the intelligence units on the warnings given on the Easter Sunday bomb attacks have held Abeysekera and Seneviratne responsible for neglecting prior warnings.

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith also commented on the committee, saying that he found it suspicious that Wickremesinghe appointed this committee, led by retired Judge Ms. Janaki Alwis, earlier this year, believing it to be an act of political victimization against Abeysekera and Seneviratne.